which is vlcered made after this forme Recipe Carabis ossis sepiae and drag 6 Salsaeparillae recentis Corticâ— Gaiaci Ligni Rhodij Santali Citrini Ligni Aloes ana drag 2 inedulae 4 seminum maior frigidor sem Carthami an drag 1 Rhubarb drag 2 sem Cinamâ—mi Macis Flor. Cordialium an scr 2 Hidrarg Despumati drag sem Pul. Dianisi Diambrae Ras Eboris cornu cerui non vsti an drag 2. farinae hordei Biscoctae drag 6 terebent q. s fiat Massa Pilular Capiat drag 1 singulis matutinis per 3 horas ante iusculum So hee shall continue to the perfect curation Moreouer for the same purpose he may vse 20 or 30 graines of the powder Arabica taking of it foure times sixe graines euery time As for the topicall remedies we must vse no repercussiue for such cause as you haue heard Vse onely such remedies as haue the vertue to dull the malice of y e humor wherof iniections shall be made as this that followeth Recipe Buglossi Borrag Scabiosae Rosar an M. 1 rasurie medul ligni sancti vnc 1 macerentur per 24 horas in decoct herbar predictar Hidrargiri bene extincti cum theriaca dissoliti drag 2 Distillr in balneo M. vsui seruentur If this causeth paine or heate you may vse in the beginning such things as haue the vertue to obtund the dolor like as these Muscilages that followe Recipe Muscilag sem maluae Lactucae Psillij Cydonior Lini extractae in aquis Bismaluae Rosar vnc 3. If the temperature be cold applie the Emplaister of Vigo cum Mercurio on the Perineum and rub those parts as also the Scrotum with the Rosat Mâ—sues wherewith shall be incorporat a little of Fugitiue The dose shall be according vnto vnc 2 of Fugitiue in the pound of the rest If the temperature be hote and bilious vse Ceratum Sendalinum on those parts to hinder the inflamation But because by communication the kidneyes be somtime inflamed and in that we do annoynt these parts with Oxirhodinum or Ceratum Refrigerans Galeni and also this liniment which followeth Recipe Axungiâ— Galiinae recentis sexies lotae in aquae Rosatij Aquae Violariae vnc 2 vel 3 olei de papauare Muscilag sem Psillij extractae in aqua Lactucae an vnc 1 succi vmbilici veneris semperuini minoris vel maiorit ana vnc sem Camphorae drag sem cere q. s siat linimentum For the same purpose in broad plattine or blade of Lead being rubbed with Quicksiluer applyed to the loines Then after we haue vsed these remedies a certaine space to obtund the vehemencie of the venim we come to iniections detersiues which shall be made of the water aboue written so that you mingle with it a little of syrop of Roses or Hony or Absint vsing alwayes the liniment on the region of the kidneyes and perineum If this iniection doth not cleanse sufficiently you shall add to fiue ounces of it two dragmes of Egiptiack so being mundified you shal passe to remedies desiccatiues Cicatrisents composed of decoction of Plantine Solanum Bursapastoris of each a little and boyle them in Smiths water thereafter straine it throgh a cloth put to it a little of Terrasigil or Vitrioli Albi or Albi Rasis w t a little of syrop of Absint Somtimes the kidneyes are offended the which if so be they remaine so without any curing These be for the most part the simptoms that happen to this disease the which are both maligns cacoethick and difficult to heale Yet the generall sicknes doth not alwayes follow There happeneth oftentimes vehement dolor in the parts affected for the which euacuat the body and vse liniments anodius of Axungia humana Auseris Galline ana vnc 1 ss Hidrarg preparati drag 3 fiat linimentuÌ„ Also a Cataplasme of Medulla Panis Tritici in Lacte cocti and diuers others of lyke vertue after the method composed as yee shall heare more at large in my fore-named Chirurgerie Teatise of Remedies for the same The fift Chapter Of the carnositie or exerescence of flesh that happeneth in the wand or yeard THIS which wee call carnositie is an excrescence of the flesh which groweth in the conduit of vrine or channell of the wand or yeard the which happeneth by reason of some vlcers or excoriation in those parts caused by acrimonie of humor and vrine the which corrodeth and vlcereth the passage of vrine in men the necke of the matrixe in women of the which come most grieuous sicknesses and oftentimes death if that the learned and skilfull Chirurgian giue not the better order for the curation hereof which shall consist in remedies vniuersall and particuler as also medicaments Cathareticks which be most propper for the consumption of the flesh Yet in the applying of the same there must be good iudgement vsed by reason that the parts about it be soft and delicat and so easie to excoriat also very sensible and dolorous For this cause first of all we must well consider if the Caruncle be olde or recent for beeing old oftentimes it happeneth that they be so hard that the medicaments cannot worke effectually Then must the body be prepared by vniuersall remedies as yee haue heard in the former Treatise because the bodie being full of humors the vsing of hote medicaments such as are the Cathereticks make easily new fluxions on the part affected Next we must soften the carnositie inwardly with iniections which haue the vertue to soften as this following Take rootes of Althea leaues of Mallowes wilde Mallowes Parietarie Mercuriall and such like Make a decoction in water or milke of the which make iniections in the yeard Outwardly we make fomentations with the same decoction adding to it fat Figgs sem lini et Fenugreci with a little of Spodium Also in stead of the fomentation make a Semicupium wherein ye shall bathe those parts a certaine space and dry them well afterward Yee shall make an embrocation or linement of Axungia humana Gallinacea Ceruina Vaccina Vitulina cum Gummis Galbani Ammoniaci et Bilelij et olei Lumbriâ—â—â— Camomille et Amygdalar dulcium That beeing done apply the Emplaister of Vigo sine Mercurio in oleo Liliaceo et irino dissolutum or in place of that Ceratum Philippi Philaggrij or Dyalthea so continue with these and such like till such time the carnositie be softened and brought to the quality of the recent the which beeing done you shall haue a wax-candle for the purpose rub it with a little of rosat Mesues or syrrop of dry Roses and minge therewith a little of the powder of Sabine If that the candle may not passe we vse an instrument of Lead made in the same forme which may be put in more rudelie alwaies being rubbed with Quicksiluer cheefely in the part of the carnositie In people that be robust I haue vsed for the consumption of the flesh rosat
as Pompholix Cerat Galien ressat Mesue oyle Rosat and apply it on the vlcer it shall presently be healed like as any other simple vlcers being vsed after the same sort If the vlcer be ioyned with some other euill affection or intemperie the cure must begin at the taking away of the same But by reason the euill temperie may be cold hote dry or moist we must diuersifie the remedies according to the intemperie of the humor And if the intemperie be hote you shall vse cold things like as fomentation of iuice of Plantin or water of the same Nightshade Knotgrasse Pastorspurse These or eyther of them shall be applyed on the part and about the part a cloth wet of Oxicrat or Emplaister of Dyapalma malaxed with oyle Rosat cerat Galien Nutritum de bolo and diuers others of like quality If the temperie be cold vse things contrarie like as fomentation of Claret wine in the which shall be sodden Sage Origanum Time Calaminte Mariorum Fenell Melilot and such like If the intemperie be very cold add to it a little of Aquae-vitae The dry intemperie is cured by fomenting the part with hote water continuing till it groweth red which shall humect it If the intemperature be humid it must be dryed as much as it aboundeth in moist For therebe some parts that be humid of them selues these must be more dryed then other parts which be lesse moist As for example the Balanus must be more dryed then the prepuce that couereth it by reason it is more humid The intemperie being taken away we come to the curation of the vlcer for the which we diuersifie the remedie according to the nature of the sayd vlcer Then first you shall perceaue if it be virulent which is lesse suspected then the sordid The vlcers virulent and corrosiues doe proceede of corrupted bilious humor the which taketh the origine from the vlcers which are in the conduits of women being irrited eyther by great confrication or else by some venim in the capacitie of the matrix which newlie hath beene receaued by some man infected with Gonorrhea Virulent or vlcer in the yeard the which humor being rendered more maligne and adherent sticketh presently to the porosities of the yeard and there-vpon falleth a great heat and dolor pricking and corrodent which vlcereth the part the cullour whereof is yellow towards the midst the borders be pale or red the figures vnequalls For the curation of the which first you shall order good regime purgations letting of blood obseruing alwayes such cautions as you haue heard auoyding to vse no medicine that be of sacultie repercussiue for in these we must take heede that we should not chase the humors to the noble parts or to any other part for nature sending that way if you put it backe with repercussiue medicaments vndoubtedly the Spanish siâ—knes will followe Therfore you shall hold from the part affected as also from other parts neere to it remedies repercussiues for such reasons as you haue heard In the beginning vse such as haue the force to dull the arcimonie of the humor like as to touch it with water of Sublimat or strong water or the blew water which is commonly vsed or pouder of Mercury or a little of my pouder set downe in The Poore mans guide called Puluis Neapolitanus most excellent for diuers vlcers That being done you shall prouoke the fall of the Escare the which shall be done by the application of these remedies like as Vnguent Basilicon Butter Muscilages of the seede of both Mallowes and of Line and such like Yet beware that the ouer great vsage of these remedies should not render the vlcers filthie and rotten Also haue care of the body for if it be plethorick or cacochimick the acrimonie of these remedies may irrit the vlcers and so cause them to degenerat in Vlcers Maligns Gangrens and Carcinomes Therefore if you perceaue the vlcers irrited by the venenositie of the humor so that there be no remedie make a particuler rubbing on the adiacent parts composed of things that haue the vertue to resolue heate and consume but alwayes you must mingle with it a little of Mercure well prepared For the same effect you may vse particuler persumes and suffumigations such as is set downe in the Chapter of perfumes Then the malice being corrected and the virulent humor digered and become white and thicke which are signes of good nature mundifie the vlcer and dry it with proper medicaments as with pouder of Aloe Thus Sarcocolle Mirth burnt Lead Pompholix the which you may vse alone or mingled with some oyntment as Pompholix Album Rasis Desiccatinum Rubenum or this Recipe battature eris eris combusti vnc 1 terre sigillate vnc 3 olei Mastic et Cidon vnc 2 fiat Vnguentum If by the vsage of these remedies the vicers heale not be assured that the body is ouer-charged with humors and that the generall disease will followe Therefore when you perceaue such things cause the sicke to vse of my confection the space of 15 dayes with a decoction of Salsparill or Chine according vnto the temperature VVhen the vlcer is betweene y e Prepuce and Balanus it causeth somtime such inflamation and tumor in the Prepuce that hardly or not at all the Glande can be discouered to see those vlcers and then in stead of Emplaisters and Vnguents we vse distilled waters collires decoctions whereof we make iniections with siringuâ—s or other wayes Neuerthelesse those things must be composed according to the disposition of the malady eyther to cleanse resolue soften or drie The iniections being so composed you shall vse refrenants like as iuices of hearbs Oxicrat Cerat Gallien Vnguentum Nutritum Afterward clense the vlcers with scouring waters like as Plantine Eupatory Wormewood mingled with Syrrop of Absint or of Roses or of Honny or a little of Egiptiac Other-wayes this that followeth which is both cleansing drying Recipe vini albi lib. 1 Aquar Ros Plantag an quartam vnam Auripigm drag 2 Virid aris drag 1 Aloes Mirrhae ser 2 terrantur subtilissime fiat Collirium So by the vsage of these remedies the vlcers shall be cleansed and dryed The 3 Chap. sheweth the way to cure the Venerean Bubons which are commonly called Pullains THE body being oppressed by this venim and chiefely the Liuer nature doth force it selfe by the vertue expultrice of the sayd Liuer to cast out that which is hurtfull on the parts most weake of our body which are y e little glandes betwixt the thigh and the body whereof certaine byles and apostumes doe proceede commonlie called Pullains or Bubons the which for the moste parte are colde tumors of a matter thicke and vitious and are long in opening There be other that proceede of humor hote and sharpe in these parts which doth make great tumor with great inflamation accompanied with extreame paine These doe open sooner Now of these tumors some appeare neere
for it is an enemy to thys dysease vse onely the decoction of Gaiac Salsparill or Chine according to the temperature of the diseased Vse a little exercise for rest is hurtfull except there be great payne in the ioynts or in some other part Let not the exercise be violent for it dissolueth the naturall heate sleepe not long because it fills the head with vapors VVe must also obserue the passions of the minde chiefely mellancholy Be alwaies merry for then the naturall heate doth preuaile and so helpeth much to the cure Greefe feare and anger do much hinder the operation of the Medicines We must take heed to the excrements that the vapors ascend not to the head and other principal parts So the Patient must haue often Clysters made after thys manner Recipe maluae Althea violarea et Mercurialis an ma. i. Beulliant ad lib. 1. Addendo olei Violati vnc quat Cassiae vnc i. Salis drag i. fiat Clyster Which you must vse at the least euery three dayes or euery foure dayes foure drams of my confection Next vnder the Pharmacie we shall obserue all kindes of medicins taken inwardlie namely Decoction Syrrops Aposymes Iuleps Purgations Conserues Electuaries Clysters Gargarismes Pessers and Baths which shall be made onely of running water warmwise which we call Balneum aquaedulcis yet ye may copose it according to the diuersity of the accidents and temperature of the diseases as ye shall heare at large in my surgery in the chapter of Baths Yet commonly we make them of water wherein is put Mallowes Violets Pellitory of the wall Fumitory Patience Plantine Cammomell Mellelot dry Roses of each a handfull and it shall be well done to seeth those hearbs a little before you put them in the Bath The Medicins which be applyed outwardly are comprehended vnder the Pharmacy like as oyntments playsters Serots Oyles Kataplasmes Embrocations Fomentations Epythemes Sassats Synapismes and Perfumes the which things must be vsed according to the kind of the sicknes for to take away the euill humor contayned in the body But first the body and humors must be prepared with conuenient remedies as hereafter you shall heare to the end the euacuation may be the easier surer First of all the body shall bee gently purged with Confection Hamet or some such lyke thing the next day open the vaine most apparant a reasonable widenes if there be plenitude Afterward vse the remedies set downe by Ioh. Deuigo cap. de morbo Gallico for the preparation of the humors or this that followeth Recipe Syru de fumo terrae minori vnc 1. de succo Endiuiae drag 6. Aquary Endiuiae capil ven et fumit vnc 1. The Patient shal vse of thys the space of three or foure dayes one ounce euery day two howres before meate Afterward he shall be purged with thys medicine Recip sol senae mund vnc ss sem foenic. dulcis drag 1. Bullian in s q. decocti pectora Et in col dissole diapr sol drag 2. Syr. ros sol ex agar sena vnc 1. fiat potio quam cap. 3. horis ante insculum Afterwarde hee shall bathe himselfe 3. or 4. dayes and sweat a little in the bed when he is come out of the bath These things being done he shall vse thys syrrop the space of fiue or sixe dayes Re. Fumit cicor capil ven Enula Camp Buglossi Endiuiae an m. 1. ss Pollitrei m. ss Polipod passul Sebesten an vnc 1. Prunor. dam. num 25. Pomor acetosori vnum tantum parum conquassatuâ—â— vini Granatori lib. ss Aquam Endiuiae Fumit Buglossi an lib. 1. ss Bulliant omnia secunduÌ„ artem ad consumpt tertiae partis deinde colentur Et col add Zacli q. 5. Cum vnc 2. Succi Fumit et Endiuiae De quo patiens sumet in aurora vnc 1. ss Vel vnc 2. Cum aquis capil ven et Endiuiae atque Fumiterrae The humors being so prepared the body shall bee purged after thys manner Recipe Cathol drag 10. dissol in decoct cicor Agrim Borag in quo bullierint fol. Senae drag 2. Cum sem foenic. dulcis addendo syr Ros Pallidari vnc ss fiat potio sumenda 3. horis insculum The next day hee must bee let blood in the Basilike or median dexter These things beeing well performed are very needfull for the preparation of the humors And these things must alwaies be vsed before the generall cure The Chirurgian which is the thyrd putteth in execution these thinges if hee be learned and wise as hee ought and well furnished with things belonging to his Art knowing not only the Chirurgery but also the principles of Phisick as well in the Theorick as Practick by reason that it is requisite for him to ordaine both dyet and pharmacy otherwise hee is vnperfect Gallen saith in his introduction to Phisick that Pharmacie hath neede of Diet and Chirurgerie in lyke manner Chirurgerie hath need of Diet and Pharmacie There are three other things to be obserued of the Chirurgian to wit the essence the cause and symptoms of the maladie as ye haue heard the diuesitie of the temperatures and the fit remedies for curing hereof for these things beeing vnknowne the true cure hardlie followeth but onely by hazard and not by rules of Arte as the blind man casteth his staffe For these causes wee must not meruaile at the malignitie and crueltie of thys sicknesse nor the sore torments of the sick for there are manie euill disposed persons in all Countries who endanger a great manie Patients by not vsing of fit remedies taking one medicine for all sorts of this disease which is much against reason For according to the temperature and nature of the parties diseased the remedie must bee changed as Gallen hath written at large in his bookes De locis affectis There are also many who professe to knowe secrets and diabolick charmes for curation hereof but all such things are false the Authors there of are worthie to be most greeuously punished for such things cause the sicknes to waxe more rebellious so that hardlie afterwards it obeyeth anie remedie and then the poore Patient dieth most miserably These things happen by not knowing the nature of the maladie and remedies not the varietie of the bodies and the nature of the partie infected VVee must vnderstand that strong people as Labourers Marriners and such as are vsed to sore labour endure more violent remedies stronger euacuations then those which are weaker and more delicate as women sick folks tender children Eunuches and such like for such persons the medicine must be gentler and the euacuations lesse otherwise in vsing of strong remedies ye put them in danger of death Heereby it may easilie appeare that according to the temperature we must diuersifie the remedies for in sanguine and chollerick complexions we must vse other medicins then in the phlegmatick and melancholick So that those which say they haue secrets and drinks for all sorts are rather to be
after meate taking a greater measure in the after-noone then before noone If the patient be strong and the sicknes great let the quantitie be greater and in Winter more then in Sommer and in cold folkes more then in hote folkes The forme how it shall be vsed is after this manner that he that vseth it must be in bed warme and in a hote ayre or if the weather be cold the Chamber must alwayes bâ—â—ote and verie close and the ayre rectified by odorifferous things the patient must not goe forth for it is dangerous to expose the body to the ayre the poares being open as alwayes happeneth after sweat It must be taken warme to the end it may doe the office the better as also that by the cold it hurt not the concoctrix vertue of the ventricle The quantitie you shall giue is Vnc. viij or vij or vj. Hauing so taken it the patient must be couered with clothes which must be warme and light The sweat must not be violent for by our experience we see that albeit it be not violent yet it weakeneth the body in such a sort that we are oft forced to leaue the propper cure and giue order to the accidents and the like may happen by the excessiue heate of the Chamber so that good iudgement is required in that matter Somtime for the thicknes of the skin nature doth not easilie prouoke sweat for the prouocation wherof it shall be well done to put to the feete and shoulders bottels or bladders full of the same decoction that be very warme So couer well the head as also the rest of the body in such sort that nothing be vncouered sauing onelie the mouth and nose Before that you take the potion it shall be well done to make light frictions with hote clothes chiefely on the parts most dolorous to the end the poares be the easier opened and also to prouoke sweat After he hath sweat one houre or two as hee may easily indure you shall drie him with hote clothes beginning first at the parts which be opposit to the dolours next to the parts dolents and through the rest of the body tub well the head and in time of sweating drie oft the face according as you perceaue it to be moist Being so dryed and the hote clothes taken from him hee shall refresh him selfe as before in his bed keeping him well from the cold which might cause obstruction of the poares and passages and might bee occasion to hinder the sensible and insensible transpiration Two or three houres after he be refreshed and the motion ceased he may dine vsing aliments of good iuice and according to the regiment hereafter set downe Then foure houres after meat he shall take a draught as before of this decoction vsing them as before and so continue 10 or 20 dayes according vnto the forces of the patient and nature of the disease vsing euery three dayes eyther Glisters or some potion laxatiue according vnto the nature of the humor that domaineth For often by the great sweats the belly not being loose the excrements doe-drie and so doe much offend Those that vse to cure by this way make their decoction stronger in the end to the effect it be more desiccatiffe as also the regime of life more straight and rigorous and this way they continue fiue or sixe weekes sweating euery day once or twice the space of 25. dayes the rest of the time they vse good regime and drinke no other drinke for in that time say they albeit he sweat not yet the poares that are opened shall alwayes vapour out some vapours or sprites venimous so in that time they esteeme them to be healed But the truth is as I haue oft seene that this forme doth nothing saue onely hide the sicknes and appease the dolors for a time so that it is alwayes recidiue and oft times by the long and violent vsage heereof the humors are rendred more drying maling and burned of the which come miserable simptoms as I haue often seene In this time the regime is very straight VVhereof commeth great hurt for the straightnes heereof ordayning onely so much bread with such a number of plums as is not sufficient to entertaine nature For in long sicknesses as sayth Hippocr in his 1 Booke 4 Apho. that ouer-straightnes of lyfe is alwayes dangerous speciallie in people that are accustomed to eate much For as sayeth the same Author custome is a second nature Therefore they must not be restrayned so soone nor so much from their wonted vse In like manner that straight way of lyfe with the decoction doth drie and burne the blood and other good humors and doth onely consume a part of the subtilest of the euill humor and the grossest remaineth So by this forme of proceeding the most part of the people may not nor hath not the force to endure that hard intertainment albeit it were vailable I haue seene sundry who by the great vsage of this are become altogether vncurables These faults are committed by some simple Barbers and other ignorant fellowes who although they knowe themselues to be ignorant yet beeing most arrogant not onely in this but also other sicknesses doe take vpon them to cure and heale euery disease hauing their onely recourse to the dyet by the which they ruine infinit number of people ignoring the maladie the remedies and the temperature of the patient not considering whether the sicke haue force to support that manner of traitment or no and also whether the humors be prepared or if they neede prepatation or if their dyet be propper for the disease vsing the same remedie in children and old folks Aske them the reason they will aunswer you that they haue cured many but neyther doe they speake of the reason not of those that they haue killed God defend all Christians from such a kind of Empirickes The true regime that we should vse in this sicknes must be wisely done as well for the nature of the maladie as for the malice of the accidents As for the nature of the maladie the age the region the time of the yeare with diuers other circumstances are to be considered And according vnto these things the regime of life must be obserued eyther by adding or by diminishing In like manner in these Countries that be cold the naturall heate retireth to the centre of the body so that the concoction is done the better and therfore they haue better appetite as sayeth Hippocr in his 15 Aphor. first Booke Also Gallen in his Commentarie where he sayeth In Winter and Spring-time the ventricle is naturallie hote and therfore at that time the body should be more nourished For oftentimes the lacke of nuriture doth consume the radicall humiditie by the action of the same heate therefore our nuriture must be of a reasonable quantitie and also of good iuice like as Mutton Veale Kidds Capons Chickins Fessants Partriches and little Birds commonly vsed leauing all water Fowles the
which shall be somtimes rosted and somtimes sodden as it shall be found expedient All things must be of light digestion and of little excrement You shall abstaine from plums for although the decoction hereof be cordiall the plumme it selfe is terrestre and melancolick Also abstaine from meate that ingender grosse humors and vitious like as fish the which is of nature pituitous and full of crudities like as salt meate Spicerie Onyons Mustard and such like which may heate and inflame the blood and lyft vp hote and sharpe vapours to the head and braines The bread must be of wheat well baked for so it remayneth longer in the ventricle It shall be well done to put with it the powder of Anniseede and Coriander for the strengthning of the stomack Some men counsaile to vse onely two or three ounces a day the which wee obserue not in our diets for this our diet is as who would say Proba victus ratio that is good nuriture and such a quantitie as agreeth with the temperature of the bodie with the nature of the sicknes and with the time of the yeere so that no man can set downe definitlie any diet vnknowning both the Patient and the disease Let him eate sodden flesh at dinner and at supper also if he be of a very hote temperature or els hee shall vse rosted at supper in little quantitie or in stead of that some reasonable quantitie of Reisons the which doe corroborate the entrals His ordinary drinke shall be of the second decoction composed as you haue heard drinking as much as he thirsteth If at any time he be weake and accustomed to drink Wine or Ale he may vse a little Wine mingled with the said decoction He must abstaine frō sleepe in the after-noone for it filleth the head with vapours and exhallations augmenteth the dolors and Catarrhs Vse reasonable exercise abstaine from all affections of the minde that troubleth or inflameth the spirits and humors It shall be well done to abstaine altogether frō the act venerian for it is a chiefe cause which hindereth the sensible and insensible transpiration and euacuation of humors vicious but reuokes them to the inward part and weakeneth much the parts neruous After thys forme sometime remaineth intemperature in the liuer which is for the most part hote in that we ordaine such things as haue the vertue to refresh and temper these parts Sometimes it happeneth that through the great sweat and much charging of clothes that the externall parts of the body be verie excrementous and in that wee bathe the Patient to clense him For the same purpose wee vse the decoction of Chine the which hath vertue to prouoke sweat in like manner and dryeth and maketh fat those that be leane In making of this decoction you must cut it in small peeces and take 2. ounces of it and steepe it in 8. pynts of warme water the space of 24 howers then seeth it in an earthen pot till the thyrd part be consumed and keepe it close and warme by the fire Vse 8 or 10 ounces of it in the morning and also in the after-noone obseruing the regime aboue specified make in like maner a second decoction of this as of y e other This is y e way y e I vse to cure by decoction The 14. Chapter sheweth the way to cure by friction which is the second way vsed by our Auncients THis way of cure which was most commonly vsed by our auncients to all men is done by frictions and vnctions the which things are conuenient for some people such things obserued as you haue heard in the generall Chapter and that the Vnguent be well composed after the forme of Ioh. Carpensis who was the first inuenter of vnction with Quicksiluer Yet was it neither thought by himselfe nor by oothers meete to be vsed at all times nor for all sorts of temperatures and dispositions For to some it weakeneth the entrals and solide parts of the body remaining sometimes in the body which causeth leanenes trembling falling of the teeth and diuers other accidents Therefore it must be vsed with great iudgment considering well first if the sick can vse any other maner of medicine and if the sicknes be inueterat ingendred of grosse humors and vitious and adherant to the solide parts the which happeneth most commonly to such as haue been oft cured afore considering also if there be Nodosities in the leggs armes vehemence of dolor in the head ioynts the which accidents render the body and vertues hereof weake by reason of the vehement and continuall dolors When such things doe happen the friction may be vsed to the inferior people that hath no great meanes to gette deerer cure yet alwaies the body and humors must be prepared as ye haue heard in the generall chapter and the frictions vsed with discrerion as ye shall heare and not to rub immoderatly as do many ignorants who doe mischiefe to the people by their vnskilfulnesse thinking to take away those humors that doe molest the body and in the meane tyme doe consume the good humors and radicall humidity of the which appeare greater accidents then before Therfore it shall be well done that no man presume to cure thys way except he know wel the temperature of the person the kinde of sicknes the time most proper the true method to do the same after this forme folowing First of all the way of life must bee ordained as you haue heard after that the Patient must be purged with medicaments proper to the humor that offendeth alwaies vsing such things as are set downe in the generall chapter for the preparation of the humors not forgetting the sections of the vaines with the baths in the which must be put such thinges as are set downe in the generall chapter or els warme water alone in the which you may put 2. or 3. gallons of Milke the which is good to appease the dolors and soften the skin Yee shal enter the first day once afterward twise euery day remaining one houre or so long as ye may wel endure obseruing alwaies before after and in the bath such things as I haue set downe in my Chirurgerie chap. of baths Thus yee shal continue 5. or 6. daies as shall be found needful If the body be dry and hote accompanied with nodosities hardnes in diuers parts retraction of the members as somtime happeneth either being inueterat or oft vnder cure before in cold weather not warmly kept In that case we ad diuers sorts of hearbs which haue vertue to soften namely Mallows Violets Pellitory Patience Fumetory Cammomell and Roses take of each a handful seeth them a little in water before ye put them in the bath afterward being gon out of the bath he shalbe dryed and put in a warme bed afterward annoynt him with such things as haue the vertue to loose and soften the hard parts like as Axungia humana Anatis Anseris
some the iawes goe together so that afterward they are scarcely able to open their mouth as in Paris a Boy that had beene handled that way his teeth did all fall and his iawes growe together in such sort that nothing could enter into his mouth so was I constrained to make incision through all the gums and so I healed him yet could he not come to the perfection to eate any hard thing Some degenerat in gangrens so that diuers dye miserablie As for the corrosion of the guts which often happeneth you shall vse Clisters remollients as this Recipe maluar Violar an M. 1 fiat decoctio ad lib. 1 dissol vitellor auor duo olei viol vnc 2 butiri recentis vnc 1 ss fiat Clister which shall be vsed 2 or 3 times euery day As for the vlcers of the mouth haue recourse to the propper chap. of vlcers I haue found out an inuention for the vsage of the friction the which is both more pleasant and profitable then that which you haue heard as heere followeth In steed that some put before the fire I put them in a hote stoue being warmed with decoction of things propper to soften and rarifie the poares so by that meanes all the parts are all a like hote the which is not before the fire by reason that one side beeing warme the other is cold besides that there be some who would be ashamed to be seene naked and in the stoue they are not seene Then the patient being there hote with a cloth about his head you shall giue him a little of the vnguent by a hole made for the purpose and let him rub him selfe in such places and after the forme that you haue heard That being done put him in a hot sheete in bed and couer him as before By this means he shall haue the fluxe of the mouth as the other and in a shorter space During the time of the which fluxe the patient must be nourished with things licquid and of good iuice and light digestion like as soft Egs pottage made of yolke of Eggs consumats made of extremities of Calfes or of Fowles French barley Horge Munde of the which you shall vse little and oft washing alwayes the mouth after remembring that neyther before nor in the time of the fluxe must bee vsed any washing or drinke or any cold thing the which things all doe stay the fluxe If the patient be weary of these things you may infuse white bread in wine and mingle with it a little barley water thereafter strayning the bread that the substance remayne in the wine If in this time the patient be constipat vse somtymes Clysters Lenitiues or Suppositories The 16 Chap sheweth the way to cure by Emplasters which is the third way that our Auncients did vse THE Emplasters are thought to haue the same effect that the liniments haue if the body be prepared as you haue heard in the generall Chapter Neuerthelesse the operation is slowe and very vncertaine in many yet for those that doe vse them they must be composed not onely of things written by Iohn de Vigo but also other things mingled with them that haue the vertue to soften resolue and dry according to the nature of the humors which should be euacuated and simptoms if giuing also that there be also some Quicksiluer mingled with it prepared as you haue hearde the which hath vertue against the venim which is cause of the sicknes the Emplasters haue great vertue on the part where-vpon it is applied both by reason of the ingredients as also because they remaine alwayes adherent to the part so their actions are continuall and are ordinarily applied where the humors are grosse and vitius adherent to the part solides like as Tophes and Nodosities they also mittigate the dolors and resolue the hardnes so that they remaine a certaine time for lyke as that venim is rooted for a time in like manner time must be had for the extirpation of the same So in that they be most profitable Neuerthelesse I thinke not the Emplaster or cerot hath force to make euacuations sufficient for the extirpation of the sicknes I haue somtimes proued it and haue cured some that way others I haue beene constrayned to seeke an other way of cure I consesse in all persons being vsed it doth take away a part of the euill so it hideth the sicknes for a time I find them most propper to be vsed when the malady is recent specially in the first second or third kind in young folkes and such as be easie to moue also in shamefast people and such as will not suffer the friction To such I vse this method First preparing the body and humors as you haue heard in the generall Chapter next sweat fiue or sixe daies after that method as is set downe in the Chapter of the decoction thereafter he shall remaine in bed vsing such regime as you haue heard in the last Chapter also before the fluxe of the mouth as in the time of it Your Emplaisters shall be made after this forme Recipe Emplastri Iohannis de vigo lib. 1 de meliloto et oxicroij an lib. ss argenti viui preparati vt dictum est vnc viij olei de spica parum fiat Emplastrum the which shall be put on leather or strong cloth that shall couer the armes from the hands to the shoulders and the shoulders and about the necke on the leggs from the knees to the toes and alwayes must it be more thicke in the articles then in other parts letting them remaine till such time you perceiue nature begin to make eduction of the humors venimous If nature be long in working it shall not be euill done to make little particuler frictions in the bed once or twice to the effect the euacuation be more easie In some persons if the humors be well prepared in good season the Emplasters begin to make eduction of the humor in 3 or 4 dayes most commonly by the mouth the which somtimes is so violent that we are constrained to stay it first by taking away a part of these Emplasters and after that stay the violent fluxe by such meanes as you haue heard in the Chapter of frictions The vlcers that ensue there-vpon shall be cured after the method set downe in the Chapter of vlcers of the mouth If there happeneth prurit or blisters in the part where be the Emplasters they shal be remoued and foment these parts with hote wine in the which Camomell Roses and such like haue beene boyled the which hath the vertue to consume that which is cause of the sayd prurit afterward the place beeing dryed applie the same Emplaster againe Furthermore you shall vnderstand that by the application of these Emplasters nature doth somtimes discharge by flux of belly vrine but I neuer saw it discharge by flux of the belly saue one time neyther is it so certaine as that of the mouth I haue vsed them
Mesues incorpored with a little of Sublimat of the which I haue founde good successe also thys that followeth Take a little of Orpiment the shells of Eggs burned the shells of Muscles put into very small powder and mingle it with rosat Mesues Cerat Galien or a little of Oyle of sweet Almonds This remedy folowing is very good for tender people Take Pompholix well washed with water of Plantine mingle with the same a little of the powder of Sabine and put on the little waxe-candle If for the vsage of these remedies dolor or inflamation doe happen or if the carnositie be consumed yee shall vse this water following which is most excellent both for the appeasing of all dolors and also for drying Roc. Album onâ—r q. s Agitentur diu deinde excipiatur illa aqua qua remanet posea mitte aquaÌ„ Plantag et ros bis tantum quantum ex ouis Camphora par Viridis eris parum These beeing so incorporat altogether it shall be passed three or foure times through a cloth and then put it vp in Glasses for your vse It is excellent for diuers things but chiefely for the ciâ—atriring of these vlcers which come of carnosities In the end of the cure it shall be requisite to purge the body to the end it may be well clensed of all the venim that may happen So by dealing these waies thou shalt haue good successe In the meane time you may doe well to vse of my consection some sixe or eight dayes for it is most excellent and necessary for thys purpose as I haue often proued The sixt Chapter Of the swelling of the bones which are called Tophes and Nodosities IN thys place I shall speake of certaine tumors which doe occupy the bones commonlie called Tophes or swelling of the bones These swellings for the most part be engendred of an humor petuitous thicke tardiue and viscous soked in not onelie in the parts neere the bones but also in the proper substance of it selfe sometime on the Periost which is the membran that couereth the bone Sometimes the bone dooth rotte and then the cure is more difficult and long Neuerthelesse whether there be corruption or not you shall heare the true cure in few words First and formost if you find tumor without corruption in the bone and done by maladie yee shall cure it after the generall method and by the application of the emplaisters of Iohn de Vigo cum duplici aut triplici Mercurio If it come by deposition and the tumor very great it shall bee cured after this forme following Rec. Radicum Altheae Brioinae Cucumeris agrestis tenuiter inscisar at mundatar an vnc 1 sem Folior maluae bismaluae Pariecarie Mercurialis et Enulae Campanae an m. 1. Flor. et Folior Cammomillae et Meleloti Rosar et Anethi an vnc 2 Seminis Altheae lini et foenugreci an vnc sem fiat omnium decoctio in s q. aquae quae seruitur pro fotu cum spongis vel filtro ad ruberem vsque After the fomentation vse thys that followeth Rec. vnguenti ros Mesues vnc 3. Fugitiui exticti et preparati vt decet drag 6 Agitentur simul et fiat linementum That being done vse the emplaister of Ioh. de Vigo vnc 1 sem Emplastri filij Zacchari vnc 1. Argenti viui drag 3. fiat emplastrum extensum super aluten It shall be well done to mingle with it a little of Ireatum as counsaileth Francantianus Thus by the vsage of these remedies with a iust forme of diet the sicke shall be healed perfectly Nowe if there bee corruption in the bone notwithstanding the vniuersall cure which shall proceede wee must come to another forme of cure particuler whether it be in the legges or armes in the crane in y e nose or in the roofe of the mouth Take good heede to the corruption which happeneth in the nose or mouth by reason that those bones are spongious of themselues by that meanes doth easily corrupt and fall and then the sicke shall feele dolor and speake alwaies in the nose Also that which he taketh by the mouth for the most part doth come forth by the nose specially things that be licquid Then for the curation of these corruptions we must first discouer the bone eyther by Rasor or medicament Caustick Afterward touch it with the Cautere actuall or hote yron or with oyle of Vitrioll or of Sulfur but alwaies the Cautere actuall is the most sure It worketh suddainly corroborateth the part and consumeth the maligne humor and doth in short space prouoke the seperation and falling of the bone putrified therefore for thys purpose wee must haue Cauteres of diuers sorts as some round some incisiues some long some pointed some triangles according to the figure of the bone The first must be incisiue called Culteller the next round or long as ye shall finde expedient and being made red hote yee shall rub the bone till such time as ye perceiue the most part of the humiditie and purrefaction to be consumed This being done you must apply medicaments anodines and such as haue vertue to prouoke the fall of the scarre as things vnctuous like as is Butter yolkes of Egges mingled with oyle of Roses or Violets or some vnguent suppuratiue The scarre beeing fallen it must be mundified with this remedie Recipe Therebint Venetae lotae vnc 4. Farinae hordei Orobi an drag 2. syr de Absitio Mel ros an drag 1 Myrrhe et Ireos Florent an drag 1 misceantur The part being clensed yee shall apply dry medicaments the which dryeth without byting and vse of this powder that followeth the which is of great force Recip Aristol Myrrhe Cerusae Plombini vsti saepiens in Aqua vitae loti an dragme 2. Pul. Ostreor combustor vnc sem Terant tenuissime Thys powder is excellent being put on the sore It causeth to seperate the rotten bones froÌ„ the whole yet is it not the best way to pull the rotten bone by force from the whole like as we doe in those which are rotten because externe but rather let it fall of it selfe notwithstanding forget not sometime to shake the same for by that meanes it will fall away the sooner You shall know when it will seperate by the comming â—ooâ—th of the blood Nature before it doth seperate the corrupted from the whole engendereth a certaine flesh vpon the whole bone to the end that when the corrupted dooth fall the ayre shall not alter the whole the which is a great prouidence of nature If it be long in separating it shall be well done to bore the rotten bone in diuers places till such time as yee see the blood to come forth at â—hose holes Nature doth helpe by the transpiration to engender that flesh which causeth it to seperate the sooner For the generation of that which is lost the foresaid powders be very good if there be mingled with them syrrop of Roses or of Absint and
after all is well regenered as it ought you shall consolide cicatrice the vlcers like as in all other vlcers The 7 Chapter of the Warts that come on the extremitie of the yeard betwixt the prepuce and balanus THere happeneth oftentimes certaine little excressence of flesh like Warts betwixt the gland and prepuce of the which there are two sorts The one proceedeth of the venerian sicknes the other not yet neyther of them both for the most part dollorous but very much troublesome by reason of the great number of them The cause of such as are venimous is the euill indisposition of women accompanied with some infection Those which are not venimous happen by hauing to doe with women in the time of their purgations of the which happeneth not onely that but also many other greeuous diseases both to the men also the children which are conceaued at that time for eyther they become Leapors vniuersally or some particuler part which we call Elephanciasis particuler or if this happen not yet the child is alwayes sickly and of short lyfe for this and diuers other causes it was forbidden in the 18 Chapter of Leuiticus to vse the company of women at that time But to returne to our putpose for the curing of these parts whether they happen of the venerian sicknes or otherwise we must first consider whether they be recent and soft or inueterate and hard as somtime it happeneth If hard and inueterat they must be softened by such remedies as you haue heard in the Chapter of Carnositie and being softened they must be consumed with powder of Sabine and Ocre well puluerized with an Emplaister of Cerus and a little Quicksiluer being consumed vse for the cicatrizing such as you haue heard in Carnositie Our Ancients and chiefely Aetius did cure them by caustick medicaments the which are cruell and not in vse amongst vs. I haue often cutte them with the sheares afterward consumed them with powder Allumenus or water of the same if they be very great I knit them as well betwixt the perpuce and gland as also without the prepuce Touching which I will recite a rare history which happened to me in Paris in time of the last troubles A certaine Noble man of Spaine hauing on the side of the prepuce exterieure a cressence of the quantitie of a great plum and when the erection of the yeard was it waxed as bigg as a tennis ball so that hee could neuer accompany with any woman in such sort that no Chirurgian neyther in Spaine nor Italie would take it in hand at last he sent for me and after I had considered thereof I vsed remedies rosolutiues for a time but finding small profit thereby I did knit it in the presence of Mounsier Le Fort and Mounsier Pineau Doctors in Chirurgie and healed it with good successe after the same maner you may cure all such warts which happen in any part The 8 Chapter of falling of the haire OFtentimes of this sicknes commeth falling of the haire of the head beard and browes with great deformitie for which we must giue order both to take away the cause and also to bring newe haire The cause of this simptom is eyther that the aliment wherewith the haire is nourished is corrupted and consumed or that the skin is dryed and pressed together so that it may not ingender that aliment fuliginous whereby the haire is ingendred and nourished For the cure we must euacust the euill humor generally through all the bodie or at least of the parts affected which may be done two wayes to wit exterior and interior Interior by masticators to prouoke spitting as Pereter Mastick Pepper after which we vse exterior medicines to cause the head to sweat by laying many clothes on the Patient I find no remedie better for it than by a hot house or the reflex of heate which goeth from the fornis to the place where the head shall lye If after euacuation the body be infected there must be generall euacuation for that purpose herein you shall vse the decoction of Salsparill and Gaiac for the space of 15 dayes with a little of my confection euery day which is sufficient to euacuat the humor which offendeth After this prouoke newe haire where it wanteth which may be done sundry wayes yet somwhat painfull for the which I will impart vnto you a very rare secret for growing of haire and of great vallue which I haue vsed in helping of diuers great men when all their haire hath beene fallen and within a short space it grew againe by helpe of this remedie made after this manner Take the rootes leaues of Mallowes put of them in a still one bed then a bed of Honney and so forth one bed of them and an other of Honney till the still be full In the meane time you shall cut two or three Horseleaches small and mingle therewith afterward distill all with a very soft fire then distill that water againe in Balmo Marie and let it stand in the Sunne the space of 15 dayes afterward rub the parts most voide of haire with that liquor 5 or 6 times a day Also this remedie is very well set downe by Fumanellus which is Recipe apes crematas cum melleque commixtas et locum superponito Or this Vnguent Recipe apum vistarum Adianti Vsti Olei Rosati quantum sufficit et fiat Vnguentum Or this that followeth written by Marinellus Recipe cineris cicadarum vstarum cineris apum vstarum Olei Myrtini vel Axungiae quantum sufficit muste et fiat Vnguentum Or this Re. stercorum murium et apum ana vnc ss Vnguenti Populeonis vnc ss miste et fiat Vnguentum de quo vngatur locus sed prius remoueantur crines So by the vsage of these remedies the haire shall easily-come againe The 9 Chapter of Darters which happen in diuers parts of the body OFtentimes after the vniuersall cure of this sicknes there commeth in the face and palmes of the hands feete and through all the body certaine chaps and dry vlcers which oftentimes are very large and are commonly called Darters or Fissures setpiginous which somtime be dolorious other whiles not y e parts where they are be more thicke and dry than the nature of the place is and in rubbing of the part you shall perceaue white things like beaten sugar The cause of the which is a salt pituitous humor and chollerick burnt by the intemperat heat of the lyuer ioyned with some venimous humor which riseth in the part as chaunceth to them who haue vsed too hote medicines in the cure of the generall disease or else because there remayneth some little portion of the venim in the body the which is sent to the externall parts at such certaine times of the yeere as the humor raigneth For the cure heereof it is some-what hard chiefely being inueterate by reason that the liuer is affected yet for the extirpation of the