â„ž Rhab. elect Ê’ ii Agarici tros Ê’ i. Croci ℈ ss Aquarum scabiosae Borraginis Card. B. ana Ê’ iiii Infuse these together twelve hours in a warm place then strain them strongly and add thereto Sir ros lax Mannae Calabriae ana â„¥ i. Decoct col â„¥ ii vel â„¥ iii. Mix all these together and take it as the other before A good purgation for a weak body â„ž Fol. sennae Ê’ iii. Rhab. elect Ê’ i. Sem. anis Ê’ ss Schenanthi ℈ ss Aquae Acetosae â„¥ v. Boyle them a little then take it from the fire and let them stand infused together twelve houres then strain it out strongly and add thereto Sir ros lax â„¥ i. and then drink it as the other before Another gentle purgation â„ž Aquarum scabiosae Card. B. Aquae ad pestâ—m ana â„¥ i. Rhab elect Ê’ ii ss Cinamomi Ê’ ss Infuse them together twelve hours and strain them strongly then add to the straining Sir ros lax â„¥ i. Sir de limonibus four ounces Mix them together and so drink it as the other before you may either add or diminish of the Rubarb unto any of these potions as you list Now when you see the purgation hath done working then give the sick some Cordiall thing as hereafter followeth which he must also take the next morning following A good Cordiall to be taken after Purging â„ž Conserva Burrag Bugloss Mali Citri anaÊ’ iiii Confect AlkermisÊ’ i. Boli Veri Ê’ ss Specierum diarhod abb ℈ ii Diamarga frigid Ê’ i. Manus Christi perlati â„¥ i. Sir de Lemon Ê’ iiii Mix all these together and give the sick thereof so much as a chestnut at a time you must oftentimes eat thereof if the sick be in no great heat Another good Cordiall to be given where great heat is â„ž Conservae Borag Ê’ iiii Conservae fol. acetosae â„¥ i. Bolarm veri Ê’ i. Manus Christi cum perlis â„¥ i. Sir de Lemonibus q. v. misce You must oftentimes give of this where great heat is so much as three beanes at a time A good Cordiall potion â„ž Aquarum buglossae Acetosae ana â„¥ i. Pul. diamarga frig Ê’ ss Confectio alkermis G. ii Sir de aceto Citri vel de Lemon â„¥ i. misce All this you may take after purging as aforesaid at any time And here you must understand that if it be in a plethorick body full of ill humors it were good that you purge him again the next day CHAP. III. Sheweth what symptoms often chance and how to help them FOr that in this contagious disease there are divers dangerous symptoms which do oftentimes chance I will here shew you good meanes how to help the same For lightnesse of the head through want of sleep â„ž Hordei mundi P. i. Amigd dul depilatum â„¥ i. ss Sem. iiii Frigid ma. mund ana ℈ i. Aqua font q. 5. fiat decoctio Decoct col l. i. Sir de Lemonibus de Papa ana â„¥ i. ss Sacchari perlati â„¥ i. Boyl them together a little and then keep it to your use you must often times give two or three spoonfulls thereof to drink and anniont his temples with this ointment Oyntment to provoke sleep â„ž Vnguent popillionis Ê’ iiii Vnguent Alabastrini Ol. Nenuphariae misce ana Ê’ ii This oyntment is not onely good to provoke sleep but will also ease the pain of the head if the place grieved be annointed therewith For raveing and raging If the party rave then give him one scruple of the powder of Harts-horn burnt with half an ounce of the sirrup of Violets and Lemons and apply this sacculus following to the head A good Sacculus for raving and raging â„ž Florum Nenupharis P. i. Cort. Pap. Ê’ ii Santali albi Rub. Citri ana Ê’ i. Florum ros rub P. i. Florum Viol. P. ss Florum camomil Betonicae anaÊ’ i. Shread them all small then pound them grosly and quilt them in a bagg and apply it to the head and it will help you Aphtham to help it In this contagious disease there doth chance an ulceration of the mouth which is called Aphtham it cometh by means of the great interior heat which the sick is oppressed with in the time of his sicknesse which if it be not well looked unto in time it will greatly endanger the body for Remedy whereof use this Gargarism A good Gargarism for the mouth â„ž Clean barley one handfull wilde Daysie leaves Plantaine leaves Strawberry leaves Violet leaves of either one handfull Purslane seed one scruple Quinse seed one scruple and half Licorice bruised four drachms Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill the water be half consumed then strain it and take one pint and half thereof and add thereto Sirrup of Roses by infusion and sirrup of dried roses of either four drachms Diamoron two ounces Mix these together and gargarize and wash the mouth therewith oftentimes being warm and it helpeth Vomiting extreamly how to help it If it come in the beginning of the disease as most commonly it doth there is no better means to stay it then by giving of Cordials and by sweating by which meanes that venomous matter which is the cause thereof is expelled and breathed out but if after Cordials given and sweat it doth not stay it is a very ill and dangerous signe yet what means I have used to stay the same I will here shew you A good bag for the stomack â„ž Dried leaves of Mints Elder Origanie Wormwood Calamint Mugwort Thime Balme Pellemountaine tops of Dill of either a little handfull Seeds of Carduus Benedictus Fennell Annis of either four drachms Roots of Ciperus Calamus aromaticus of either four drachms Nutmegs Cloves Mace of either half a drachm Make all these in gross powder then put it into a linnen bag which must be made so broad and long as will cover the stomack then take Rose-water and strong Vinegar of either ten spoonfulls wherein do you dissolve one ounce of Mithridate then must you first wet the said bag in two parts of clean water and a third part of White or Claret-wine and let him soak therein a little while the liquor being first warmed on a Chafer and coales and then wet him in the Rose-water and and Vinegar being warm and so apply it to the stomack and when he waxeth cold warm him therein againe and let him remain half an hour in all and then take him away and dry the stomack with a warm cloth and then annoint it with this ointment following â„ž Chymicall oyles of Rosemary Sage of either one drachm Vinegar Mithridate of either one drachm Mix all these together and so use it and if the party be costive then were it good to give him a glister wherein dissolve two drachms of Mithridate it is also good to apply Ventoses unto the buttocks and thighes Yoxe or yexing to stay it â„ž Dill seed two scruples and half White Poppy seed Purslane seed of either one
the latter end of May. You must with a feather annoint the places grieved and as it drieth in annoint it againe and so continue it oftentimes for this will soon dry them up and keep the place from pitts and holes which remain after the Pox are gone Also if you annoint the Pox with the oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawn three or four times a day which you must begin to do so soon as the Pox are grown white and come to maturation it will cure them without pitts or spotts and easeth the pain and burning and helpeth excoriation Some do onely oftentimes wet the places with the juice of Marigolds in the summer season and in winter the juice of the roots will serve and by that onely have done well Mercuriales doth greatly commend this decoction following to be used after the Pustulaes are opened Take Barley one little handfull red Roses a handfull red Sanders white Sanders of either one ounce Saffron two scruples Salt four drachms Clean water three pound Boyle all together untill a third part be consumed you must oftentimes touch the sores therewith with a fine cloth wet therein and as it drieth in wet it againe this in a short time will dry them up I have heard of some which having not used any thing at all but suffering them to dry up and fall off themselves without any picking or scratching have done very well and not an pitts remained after it When the Pox after they come out do not grow to maturation how you shall help it Sometimes you shall find that it will be a long time before those pustulaes will come to maturation or grow white now here you must helâ— nature to bring it to passe which you may well do with this decoction Take Mallowes one handfull Figgs twelve in number Water a quart Cut the Figgs small and boyle altogether untill half and more be consumed and then wet a fine soft linnen cloth therein and touch the place therewith oftentimes which will soone bring them to maturation and also ease the paine if any be Vlceration to help it If in the declining of the Pox they chance to grow unto Ulcerations which is oftentimes seen then for the curing thereof use this order here following Take Tamarinds leaves of Lentils Mirtils budds of oaken leaves red Roses dried of either a little handfull Boyle all these in a pottle of clean water untill half be consumed then strein it and with a fine cloth wet therein do you wash and soak the place well then wipe it dry with a soft and fine linnen cloth and then cast into the place some of this powder following Take Frankincense Mastick Sarcocoll and red Roses of either two drachms Make all these into fine powder severally by themselves then mix them together and so reserve it to thy use A very good unguent for the same purpose Take oyle of Roses vi ounces white Wax one ounce Ceruse washt in Rose and plantaine-Plantaine-water one ounce and half clear Turpentine iii. drachms Camphire half a drachm You must first melt the wax in the oyle then put in the Ceruse by little and little alwaies stirring it with an iron spalter and let it boyle on a gentle fire of charcoles untill it grow black but stirr it continually in the boyling for feare least it burn then take it from the fire and add thereto the camphire and lastly the Turpentine this unguent is good both to mundifie incarnate and sigillate For extream heat and burning in the soales of the feet and palms of the hands Petrus Forestus willeth to hold the hands and feet in warm water and that will ease the pain and burning and may boldly be used without any danger For to help the sorenesse and ulceration of the mouth Sometime it chanceth in this disease that there is a great ulceration or excoriation in the mouth and jawes called Aptham which if it be not well looked unto in time will grow to be Cankers now to cure and prevent the same this gargarisme is excellent good Take Barley-water a quart red Roses dried a little handfull Sumach and Rybes of either two ounces juice of Pomegranates â„¥ iii. Boyle them altogether saving the juice of Pomegranates untill a third part be consumed then strein it and add thereto the juice of Pomegranates with this you must often wash and gargarise as also hold some thereof in the mouth a pretty while Also to prevent the same the kernel of a Pomegranate held in the mouth is very good and so it is excellent good to lick oftentimes some Diamoron or juice of a Pomegranate For inflammation and paine in the tonsils and throate Take Plantaine-water a pint Sirrup of Pomegranates two ounces Mix them together and gargarise therewith oftentimes being warm Another Taste nightshade-Nightshade-water a pint Seeds of Quinces four scruples Boyle them together a little then strein it and add thereto two ounces of the sirrup of Pomegranates and gargarise therewith oftentimes How to open the eye-lids that are fastened together with the Pox. Sometimes the eye-lids are so fastened together that you cannot open them without great pain and danger then to open them you must foment or bath them well with a decoction made of Quince seed Mallowes and water boyled together wherein wet some fine linnen clothes five or six double and apply them warm and continue it untill you may easily open them and then if you perceive any web or filme to be grown over the sight then thrice a day do you put some powder of white sugar-candy into the eye or if you list you may dissolve the sugar in Rose-water and so use it in the eye which will fret it away and preserve the sight A good Collery for a Web or Vngula in the eye Take the juice of Rue Fennell Salendine Mallowes of either two ounces Boyle them together in a vessell of glasse or peuter over a chafer with coales and scumme away the froth that doth rise thereof then add thereto the gaule of an Eel one drachm and let them boyle together a little then put thereto four scruples of white copperas and one scruple of verdigreace in fine powder boil all together a little then let it run through a fine linnen cloth and keep it in a glasse you must every morning and evening put one drop thereof into the eye provided that first due evacuation be made so well by phlebotomie as purging CHAP VI. Teacheth how to help divers accidents which chance after the Pox are cured and gone For rednesse of the face and hands after the Pox are gone how to help it TAke Barley Beanes Lupins of either one handfull bruise them all in a morter grosely and boyle them in three pints of water untill it grow thick like a jelly then straine it and annoint the face and hands therewith three or four times a day for three or four daies together and then you must wet the face and hands so oftentimes a day with
fine pouder and searse them take thereof as much as will lye upon six pence with conserve of Quinces and drink after it a draught of new milk use it every morning For the Mother Take a brown tost of sour bread of the nether crust and wash it with Vinegar and put thereto black Sope like as you would butter a tost and lay it under the Navill For the Stone Take Saxifrage Pellitorie Parslie Eyebright wild Thime of each two handfuls of Raddish roots two or three steep all in a pottle of red cowes milk a night then still it make of this quantity two stillings You must take at a time nine spoonfuls as much Renish or White wine and the juice of a Lemon sweeten all with Sugar and take it fasting if your stomack be cold slice a little Ginger and put into it For a cold cough Ptissick or any defect of the Lungs Take Horehound Maiden hair Liver-wort Harts tongue Germander Hysope Agrimonie of each a handfull wash them and boil them in six pints of running water in a pipkin till four pints be consumed at least strain it and put the liquor into another clean Pipkin put thereto of the root of Enula campana in pouder and searsed one ounce of Licorice so used two ounces of pure honie eight or nine spoonfulls boyl it till it wax somewhat thick then set it to cool Take the quantity of half a nut at a time as often as you please The best time to make it is in May. For a Stitch. Take of stale Ale two pints clarifie it and boyl therein of the tops of green broom a handful then sweeten it with Sugar and give thereof to the sick warm to drink Also take Beer make it very Salt put a little Nutmeg thereto and drinke thereof bloud-warm Apply upon the grief outward Fennel seed and Cammomile made wet with Malmsie as hot as can be suffered three or four dayes together Or take a tost of Rie bread tosted on a gridiron and spread Tar thick thereon lay it hot next the skin and let it lye 9 or 10 houres and if the pain be not gone at first apply it again For a Consumption Take a Leg of Veal cut away the fat and take a red Cock scald him and wash him clean then let the Cock and Veal lye in water the space of three houres seeth them with two pottles of fair water and scum it clean as the fat riseth take it off and seeth it till half â—e consumed then put in a pottle of the best Claret wine and let it seeth together till it come to a quart clarifie it with three or four whites of Eggs let it run through a Jelly bag then set it on the fire again and put to it of Sugar a pound let it seeth a little then drinke of it warm three or four spoonfuls at a time as often as you please For the Green sickness Take an Orange cut off the top and pick out some of the meat then put therein a little Saffron rost it gently when it is rosted put it presently into a pint of white Wine keep it covered and drink thereof fasting A speciall Water for all Sores Take of running water four pints of Sage Smallage of each three handfulls of Housleek a handfull and a half seeth them together to the consumption of half then strain it take of Allum two ounces of white Copperis an ounce and a half of Camphire two drachms beat all severally into fine pouder put all into the water and let it boyle a little then put thereto of clarified Honie half a pint and let it simper a while then reserve it in a glasse close stopped Wash the sore therewith and wet a cloth therein and lay thereto if it heal too fast lay dry lint therein For the trembling of the Heart Take a spoonfull of the spirit of Tartar when you find your self troubled Or take Lignum aloes Riponticum Eupatorium red Sanders of each two ounces beat them and boyle them in six pints of fair water till two pints be consumed of the four pints that remain being strained make a Sirrup with Sugar and while it is hot put thereto of Saffron one scruple of Ginger one drachm of Musk two carets Cloves Nutmegs of each a scruple and a half keep it in a glasse close shut take thereof a drachm at a time in a little Broth or Burrage water fasting For a Flux of the Womb. Take Chalke finely scraped stir thereof in whites of Eggs till it be thick spread thereof on brown paper and lay it on a Gridiron on the fire untill it stiffen a little bind it hot upon the Navill Take Milk and set it on the fire when it seeths throw in a peice of Allum which will turn it to a Posset of the thin thereof give a Glister in the morning and at four in the afternoon A purging drink for superfluous humours for Aches in the joyntâ— sinewes and for Agues Take Sarsaperilla Sasafrass Polipodium of each a handfull Hermodactiles the third part of an ounce Licorice one ounce cut and slice the above named and put them into a new Pipkin glassed and having a cover and put thereto five quarts of spring water let all infuse four and twenty houres then put thereto of Fennell seed two ounces Raisins of the Sun stoned and picked four ounces Carduus benedictus red Sage Agrimony Maiden-hair of each a handfull put all into the Pipkin and close it with paste set it within a pan of warm water on the fire and let it boyle two houres then put thereto of Sena one ounce let it boyle again half a quarter of an hour and take it out letting it stand covered two houres then strain it without wringing and keep it in a glasse or stone bottle You must take at a time half a pint in the morning and fast one hour after it will not purge in five or six houres you may use it at any time in the year but in extream heat and in frosts A pretious eye-Eye-water for any disease of the Eyes often proved Take of the best white Wine two little glasse fulls of white Rose water half a pint of the water of Selendine Fennell Eyebright and Rue of each two ounces of prepared Tutia six ounces of Cloves as much Sugar ro sate a drachm of Camphire and Aloes each half a drachm The Tutia is thus prepared In a Crusible such as the Goldsmiths use put your Tutia and with a charcoale fire let it be made red hot six severall times and every time quenched in Rose-water and Wine mixt together the last time cast the water away and grinde the Tutia to very fine powder You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner Put the Aloes in a clean Morter and pour upon it of the mixt waters with the Pestill grinde it too and fro and as it mixeth with the water pour it off putting more water to it till it be all
Lead be searsed very fine and shred the Sope small The Vertues of this Sear-cloth are Being laid to the Stomack it doth provoke appetite and taketh away any pain in the stomack being laid to the Belly it is a present remedie for the Collick Being laid to the back it is a present remedie for the Flux and running of the Reins heat of the Kidnies and weakness of the Back It helpeth all swellings and bruises and taketh away Aches It breaketh Felons and other imposthumes and healeth them It draweth out any running humour and helpeth him without breaking of the skin and being applyed to the Fundament helpeth any disease there It helpeth all old Sores and will be made in six houres For the Stone â„ž The Clawes of a brown Pionie root and the root and Jet Beads ana p. ae dry the clawes and roots and pouder them and the jet also very finely then mingle them and in Ale or White wine drinke a little of the pouder 2. Peel a red Onyon slice him and put him into a pint of good white Wine let him lye six houres then strein it and drinke of it twice in a fit and it will expell the stone For Stone Strangurie and Collick Take the inner rinde of the young branches of a Hasell tree boyle them in small Ale till half be consumed and let him that hath the Strangurie drink half of it at a draught let the Patient drink a draught of it first and last for nine dayes together for it never fails For the Stone in the Bladder â„ž Of Turpentine â„¥ iiii and burn it to pouder then mix two drachms thereof with four ounces of Saxifrage water and give it twice a week in the morning to the Patient and this will not onely preserve him from the stone but drive it out if any use this but two moneths Probat 2. Stamp two Bees in Beer and drinke it and it will cause Urine to come To break and drive out the Stone â„ž The juyce or water strained out of Raddish roots mixe it with White wine and the pouder of Turpentine dryed in the Sun and so drinke This is an excellent Medicine to drive out the stone To cause Vrine and break the Stone Take Parsely and stamp it in White wine then strain it well and drinke a good draught thereof and this will cause you to make water and break the stone but you must use this five or six times Probat â„ž Pouder of Brionie berries and drink it in water wherein Water-cresses have been boyled and it will both help you and give you ease For the Stone â„ž The bloud of two Hares as much Sheeps or Goats milk mingle them well together and boil them in a new pot to a coal beat it to pouder and searce it finely and give the Patient hereof a good quantity in a little fountain water luke-warm this will break the stone to dust and make it come away To try this put the stone into it with a little water bloud-warm and in half an hour it will dissolve it into peeces 2. Take five Cloves of Garlick and stamp and strain them in a draught of Rhennish wine and so drink it This being taken three times together is a sure Remedie For the Stone in Reins and Bladder 1. Scrape Sea-horse pissle to pouder and drinke thereof every morning with white wine and a little oyle of Almonds and this will cure the stone of the Kidnies and Bladder being given four ounces at a draught 2. Pouder of Manati which is a stone growing in a Sea-cows head being exhibited in the aforesaid manner will doe the like The white for the man and the yellow for the woman 3. â„ž Spikenard Carraway Fennel Annise and Cummin-seeds Cinnamon and Galingale ana â„¥ ss Gromwell seed and Liquorice ana â„¥ i. beat them all into pouder and take half a spoonful of this pouder in Ale or Beer warmed and after walk an hour before you eat or drinke doe this four or five times and you shall finde a notable operation A Posset for the Stone Make a Posset very thinne and clear with a quart of Milk and put into it eight or ten roots of Althea and two Parsly roots having their pithes taken out and two Asparagus roots picked and washed clean so that no durt be on it and let them boyle well in the Milk-Posset then strain it clean and let the Patient drink a good draught put into it as much Sal prunellae as will make it somewhat Brackish this is a safe and admirable Medicine 2. â„ž The braines of a Magpy newly killed and put it into a wine Glasse of white Wine and stir it well till it be throughly mixed and then drink it and this will presently cause Urine and ease the pain For the Spleen Seeth the rindes and keyes of an Ash tree very tender and well in white Wine and drink a good draught thereof for six or seven mornings together it doth much ease the Patient when you drink this annoint the Spleen with Dialthea every morning and evening applying Emplastrum de Meliloto pro Splene to the place Probat Another Put of oyle of Gold one drachm into half a pound of Annise seed-water shake it well together every time you take of it and take a spoonful at a time and it will help you Probat Heat a pair of Tongs six times red hot and quench them in white Wine drink this nine mornings together and this will help the Spleen For Swelling of Armes Legs and Feet â„ž Linseed Wheat Bran Brooklime Chickweed and Groundsel ana one handful seeth them in a pottle of white Wine altogether till it be thick then lay a plaister thereof to the swollen place as hot as you can suffer it and it will help it with three or four plaisters For Sinewes and Nerves cut asunder â„ž Of Earth-wormes one handful put them in a cloth and cleanse them well from the earth that done take Sack half a pound and of Sallade oyle half a pound mix them together and infuse the Wormes in this untill they be suffocated then stop the pot very close and lute it well and set the pot in hot horse-dung for eight and forty houres till the Wormes be rotten then take them out and presse them and adde thereto of common Oyle half an ounce of Venice Turpentine two drachms then relute your pot and set it on a soft fire for three or four houres For Bruises or streined Sinewes 1. Annoint the place greived with Aqua composita and Neat-foot oyle luke-warm laying hot clothes thereon 2. Stamp live Earth-wormes and apply them to Sinewes cut For shrinking of Sinewes â„ž Two Swallowes nests that are ready to fly of Lavender Cotton the tops of young Thyme the strings that run out of Strawberries Cammomil and Hollihock leaves ana one handful stamp the Swallowes quick and the Hearbs together till no feathers be seen then put thereto of May Butter one pound or two and stamp it again
buttocks or thighs now when this is done either by Phlebetomy or Ventoses then within an hour or two at the most after it you must give the sick some good Cordiall Medicine which hath power to comfort the heart resist the venomous matter and also procure sweat whereof out of the following you may make choice as you list An excellent good Powder to expell the Plague which also provoketh sweat â„ž Roots of Gentian Bittanie Petasitis ana Ê’ i. Roots of Tormentill Dittander ana Ê’ iii. Red Sanders Ê’ ss Fine Pearle of both sorts ana ℈ i. Fine Bolarmoniack prepared fine Terra sigillata ana Ê’ vi Rindes of Citrons red Corrall Roots of Zedâ—iar shaving of Ebony bone of a Stags heart ana sixteen graines Fragments of the five pretious stones ana ℈ ss Shaving of a Unicorns horn Succini ana ℈ ss Leaves of Gold and Silver ana one and half in number Make all these in fine powder every one severall by himself and then mix them all together and give thereof Ê’ i. or ℈ iiii more or lesse as occasion requireth either in Sorrell Scabios or Carduus benedictus water two or three ounces whereunto you must adde a little Sirrup of Lemons or four Citrons and give it warm the Bolarmoniack must be pounded small then washed in Scabios water and so dryed Another good Powder â„ž Leaves of Dittander called Dictami cretici Roots of Tormentil Bittanie Pimpernell Gentian Zedoiar ana Ê’ i. Terra lemnia Alloes Cicatrina fine Myrrh Rinds of sour Citrons anaÊ’ i. Mastick Saffron ana half a drachm Bolarmoniack prepared as beforesaid Ê’ ii All these must be made in fine pouder and so mixt together you may give two scruples or one drachm thereof with any of the aforesaid waters A good Opiat to expell venome and provoke sweat Conserve of the floures of Burrage Bugloss Violets Bittanie ana â„¥ ii Venus Triacle â„¥ ii Red Terra sigillata Terra lemnia Mithridate ana â„¥ i. Shaving of Ebonie And Harts-horn Orient Pearls Roots of Tormentill anaÊ’ i. Shaving of Unicorns horn Root of Angelica ana half a drachm Sirrup of the Juice of small Sorrell and Bugloss ana so much as shall suffice Mix all these together in the form of an Opiat then take of the same Opiat one drachm and half Scabios water Balm water ana â„¥ ii Dissolve the Opiat in the waters and drink it warm then walk a little upon it and then goe to bed and sweat Another excellent good means to expell the venom and procure sweat Take a great white Onyon and pick out the coar or middle of him then fill the hole with good Venus Triacle or Andromachus Triacle and Aqua vitae then stop or cover the hole of the Onyon again and rost him in the hot ashes untill he be soft then strein it strongly through a cloth and give it the sick to drinke and the rest that remains pound it small and apply it to the sore and sweat upon it Now when he hath taken any of the aforesaid Cordials if he chance to vomit it up again then wash his mouth with Rosewater and Vinegar and then give him more of the same again which must be proportioned according to the quantitie vomited for if all were vomited then give so much more if lesse then according to the quantity vomited and if he vomit that also then give him more and so continue it to the third or fourth time if cause so require but if at no time he doe retain it then is there small hope of recovery I have known divers which have vomited their Cordials three or four times and at last giving the juyce of the Onyon as aforesaid hath kept that and sweat upon it and so recover their health Also Minardus Triacle or Andromachus Triacle being taken two Scruples with one Scruple of Dioscordium and dissolved in two or three ounces of this water following or Carduus benedictus Sorrell and Scabios water hath been found excellent good and available both to procure sweat and expell the venomous matter An excellent good water against the Plague and divers other diseases which is to be made in May or June Take Angelica Dragons Scabios ana three handfuls Wormwood Sage Salendine Mugwort Rue Rosemary Varvein Endive Mints ana one handfull Tormentill Pimpernell Agrimonie Bittanie ana two handfulls St. Johns wort Fetherfew and Pionie ana a little handfull You must mix all these hearbs together then bruise them in a stone morter grosly then put them into a clean vessell of glasse or earth and add thereto a pottle of White wine or three quarts a pint of rose-Rose-water and a pint of Vinegar then mixe them well together and presse down the Hearbs close together with your hands then stop the pot close and so let it stand to infuse two dayes and two nights then distill it in a stillatorie this water hath been found excellent good both to preserve one from the Plague being drunk three or four spoonfuls of it in the morning fasting as also to expell the disease being drunk with any of the Cordials aforesaid CHAP. II. Sheweth what is to be done after taking of the Cordiall NOw so soon as the partie hath taken his Cordiall if he be able cause him to walke upon it in his chamber a prettie while then lay him into his naked bed being first warmed if it be in cold weather and so procure him to sweat but in any case have a speciall care to keep him from sleep all that day because thereby the bloud and vitall spirits are drawn to the inward parts and there doth hold in the venomous matter about the heart but if the sore appear or be perceived to present it self in any place neer the heart then to defend the malignity thereof before he sweat it were good to annoint the place betwixt the region of the heart and the sore with Triacle or with this Unguent following A good defensative Vnguent Take Triacle â„¥ ss Terra lemnia Red sanders anaÊ’ i. Mix them together with a little rose-Rose-water and Vinegar in a morter to the form of an Unguent and so use it as aforesaid And unto the sore place apyly chickens rumps as before hath been told you and then annoint the place grieved with Oyle of Lillies and then Epithemate the heart with any one of these Epithemations following Epithemation Take the Powder of Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ i. Triasandalum Ê’ vi Ebeni Ê’ ii Saffron ℈ ss Lettice seed Ê’ i. Waters of Roses Bugloss and Sorrel ana â„¥ vi Vinegar â„¥ ii boil them altogether a little Another Take the waters of Roses Balm Bugloss Carduus benedictus and white wine ana â„¥ iiii Vinegar of Roses â„¥ ii Powder of red Roses Cinnamon Triasandalum Diamargaritum Frigidum anaÊ’ ss Mithridatum â„¥ i. Triacle â„¥ ss Boil them together a little and being bloud warm Epithemate the heart therewith which being done then procure him to sweat and after sweat and the body dryed then apply
this quickly to the heart A Quilt for the Heart Take the floures of Nenuphare Burrage Bugloss ana a little handfull Floures of Balm Rosemary anaʒ iii. Red sanders Red corall Lignum aloes Rinde of a citron ana ʒ i. Seeds of Basil Citrons anaʒ i. Leaves of Dittander Berries of Juniper ana ℈ i. Bone of a Stags heart half a scruple Saffron four grains Mixe all these in grosse powder and put them in a bag of crimson Taffetie or Lincloth and lay it to the heart and there let it remain All these things being done then procure him to sweat having a good fire in the chamber and windowes close shut and so let him sweat three or four houres more or lesse or according as the strength of the sick body can endure and then dry the body well with warm clothes taking great care that the sick catch not cold in the doing thereof and then give him some of this Julep following and apply the aforesaid quilt or bag to the heart A cordiall Julep Take Waters of Endive Purslane and Roses ana ℥ ii Sorrell water half a pint Juyce of Pomgranats and for lack thereof Vinegar ℥ iiii Camphire ʒ iii Sugar one pound Boil all these together in the form of a Julep and give three or four spoonfuls thereof at a time Another Julep Take Sirrup of Ribes Sorrell Nenuphare ana ℥ i. Juice of Limons ℥ i. Sorrell water ℥ viii Mix all these together and take two or three spoonfulls thereof oftentimes which will both comfort the heart and quench thirst And if in the time of his sweat he be very thirstie then may you give him to drink a Tysane made with water clean Barly and Licorice scrapt clean and bruised boil them together then strein it and unto a quart of the liquor add three ounces of Sirrup of Limons and give thereof at any time small beer or ale is also tolerable or you may give a spoonfull of this Julep following at any time A Julep to quench thirst ℞ Sorrell-water four ounces Burrage-water Scabios water of either one ounce Sirrup of Lemons and sowre Citrons of either one ounce Mix all these together and so use it as occasion requireth at any time and give oftentimes a cake of Manus Christi made with Perls for him to eat But if in the time of his sweat you see the sick to faint or swoun then apply to his temples and the region of the heart this mixture following ℞ Conserve of Roses Burrage Bugloss Broom floures of either one ounce Mithridate four ounces Triacle one ounce Floures of Violets Pellamountaine Red Roses of either one drachme Roots of Ireos one drachm Musk Sivet of either eight graines Mix all these together with a quantity of Rose-Vinegar in the form of an Opiat this must be spread on Plaisters and applied to the heart and temples and to the soales of the feet apply this plaister following Take of the aforesaid Opiat ℥ ii unto the which you must put so much more of an Onyon which must have the middle part thereof taken out and the hole filled with Mithridate and Aqua vitae and so rosted in the ashes and then mix it with the Opiat and apply it to both soales of the feet Now when all this is done and that one hour is past after his sweat and body dried as aforesaid it were good you did give the sick some good comfortable broth although he vomit it up againe then let him rest two houres and then offer him more which you must do oftentimes and but little at a time And if after all this done he continue still weak and faint without any amendment then give him another Cordiall as ye did at the first and so cause him to sweat again so long as his strength can well endure it and after sweat give more of the Julep aforesaid for by this meanes you shall oftentimes see the sore which did offer it self to come forth will be clean discussed and consumed away but if it do not by this means go away then use all the means you can to bring it to suppuration and then open it with some caustick or incision as hereafter shall be shewed you at large The next day after his sweat you may tollerate him to sleep one hour or two in the forenoon whereby to prevent pain or lightnesse of the head which may chance through want thereof and if after his sleep the party be sick and faint then immediately give him some good Cordiall according as the state of his body requireth either in temperate or extream heat as before is shewed and in one hour after that give him some comfortable broth made with Veale Mutton Chicken or such like wherein some Burrage Bugloss Pimpernell and a little Hysop with some Parsley roots the inner pith being taken out must be boiled whereof he must take a little at a time three or four times a day and betwixt times in taking of his broth give him three or four spoonfulls of this Julep following which doth resist venenosity from the heart and also quench thirst A Julep to quench thirst and resist Venenosity ℞ Water of Scabios Burrage Sorrell ana ℥ ii Sirrup of Lemons sowre Citrons and the juice of Sorrell of either one ounce Mix all these together and give thereof as cause requireth Then at night he may sleep three or four houres more and the next day being the third or fourth day of his accubet you may purge him with one of the purgations here following but in any case you must take heed that you do not purge with any strong or Scammoniate medicine because it may cause an extream flux which will be most dangerous because it will overmuch weaken the body and hinder concoction for most commonly in this disease the body of it self is subject to fluxes A good Purgation in a strong body ℞ Rad. Cichoriae ʒ iiii Rad. Petasitis ʒ ss Fol. Scabiosae Card. Benedictus Pimpinellae Acetoae ana M. i. Florum Cord. P. i. Prunorum dammas no. x. Sem. Coriandri ʒ ss Aquae font ℥ ix Boyle them untill a third part be consumed then strain it ℞ Decoct col ℥ iiii Fol. Sennae ʒ iii. Rhab. elect ʒ iiii Spicae G. iii. Infuse them together twelve hours then strain it strongly and add thereto these things Sir de Cichoriae cum Rhab. ʒ vi Oxisacchari Simp. ʒ ii Mix them altogether and drink it in the morning refraining from meat drink and sleep three houres after and then eat some good broth Another in a plethorick and full body ℞ Fol. Scabiosae Buglossae Card. B. ana M. i. Florum Cord. P. i. Rad. Tormentillae ʒ iii. Rad. Fenic licho ana ʒ iiii Passularum enucleat ℥ i. Prunorum dammas no. vi Sem anis Coriandri Oxialidis ana ℈ i. Sennae Polipod q. ana ℥ i. Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill half the water be consumed then strain it and keep it
this water following Take Vine leaves two handfuls Beane-flower Dragons wilde-tansey of either one handfull Camphire three drachms two Calves feet the pulpe of three Lemons a pint of raw cream You must shred the hearbs small as also the Lemons and break and cut the Calves-feet small then mix them together and distill it in a glasse still also the water of May-dew is excellent good for any high colour or rednesse of the face For spots in the face remaining when the Pox are gone Take the juice of Lemons and mix it with a little bay-salt and touch the spots therewith oftentimes in the day for it is excellent good A good ointment for the same purpose Take oyle of sweet Almonds oyle of white Lillies of either one ounce Capons-grease Goats-tallow of either four drachms Sarcocoll half a drachm Flower of Rice and of Lupins of either one drachm Litharge of gold one drachm and half Roots of Brionie and of Ireos of either one scruple Sugar-candy white one drachm Make powder of all those that may be brought into powder and searce them through a searce then put them all in a morter together and labour them with a pestle and in the working do you put the water of Roses Beane-flower and of white Lillies ana a great spoonfull which must be put in by little and little in the working of it and so labour them altogether untill it come to an unguent You must every evening annoint the face therewith or hands and in the morning wash it away in the water wherein Barley Wheaten-bran and the seed of Mallowes hath been boyled For holes remaining when the small Pox are gone For helping of this accident I have shewed many things yet never could find any thing that did perfectly content me but the best meanes that I have tried is one day to wash the place with the distilled water of strong Vinegar and the next day with the water wherein Bran and Mallowes have been boyled and continue this order twenty daies or a moneth together Running of the eares how to help it Sometimes the eares do run very much in this disease which in any wise you may not go about to stop in the beginning but suffer it so to run and the eares to remaine open but if there be great pain in them then wet a spunge in warm water and oyle of Roses mixt together and lay it upon the eares For stopping of the nostrills to help it Sometimes the nostrills are greatly pestered by stopping them with the Pox growing in them which doth oftentimes cause ulceration in them therefore to prevent the same take red-Rose and Plantaine of either one handfull Mirrh in powder half an ounce Boyle all these in a quart of water untill half be consumed and so being warm cause the sick to draw the fume thereof into his nostrills oftentimes Also if the sick doth oftentimes smell unto Vinegar it is good For hoarsenesse remaining when the Pox are gone Take Licorice Sebesten Jujubes of either two ounces Fat-Figgs four ounces clean water four pints Boyl all these together untill half be consumed then strain it and give one spoonfull thereof to the sick oftentimes and it helpeth For filthy and moist scabs after the Pox are gone Take Lapis calaminaris Litharge of gold and of silver of either two drachms Quick brâ—mstone and Ceruse anaÊ’ ii Bring all these into fine powder and then labour them in a morter with so much Barrowes-mort or grease as shall be sufficient to make up an unguent and annoint the place therewith every morning and evening FINIS Some other few additionall observations concerning the passages in this latter Treatise PAge the eighth of this precedent Book a Quilt or Bag is commended to be very excellent it is reported to be Pope Adrians Bag which he used against infection and in the great last Sicknesse in London it was commended to many great Persons of worth by some Apothecaries who kept it as a great secret and affirmed it would prevent infection and preserve them safe in that dangerous time and thereupon sold it unto them at a very great rate But that you may not be deluded in the prescription I have set down the true receit thereof as it was delivered unto me from the hands of a very noble friend A Preservative against the infection of the air and the Plague often approved by Pope Adrian and many others of great rank and credit Take Arsenick two ounces Auripigmentum one ounce make little tablets thereof with the whites of Eggs and Gum Dragacanth and hang them about the neck against the heart I have also set down a red Cordiall water very good against infection which I had also from that noble friend Take a quart of good spirit of Wine or very good Aqua-vitae infuse it in one ounce of good Mithridate with as much good Venice Triacle let it be close stopped some few dayes in the infusion before you use it then pour the spirit clear off and reserve it for your use But to discover what opinions other Phisitians have held of that and the like I have annexed hereunto their severall judgements hereafter that amongst so many choise Medicines they may select out the best and safest for their own preservations when need shall require And to give them the better satisfaction I have annexed out of some choise Manuscripts some approved Experiments of some of our London ablest Doctors as also out of some other Authors Severall opinions against wearing of Arsenick Amulets as Preservatives against the Plague THe poysonous vapours of Arsenick being sucked or drawn into the body when they find no contrary poyson with whom to wrestle with as with an enemy for in an infected body there cannot be health but we suppose him to be well whom we desire to preserve so those vapours must needs imprint a malignant and venomous quality on the spirit and heart most adverse and pernitious to nature And by Galens own doctrine all Alexiteries doe in a manner if they be used too liberally greatly offend and weaken our bodies how can we then think that ranke Poysons and Dilaetories such us Arsenick is being applied as to penetrate into the noblest region of all other will no whit violate and wast our naturall vitall and radicall heat Galen libr. de simp cap. 18. Nor did Galen or any of the antient Fathers and Professors of Physick use to preserve from the Plague or any other poison by administring some other poison inwardly of prescribing outwardly Applications but proceeded by Antidotes and Alexiteries as will appear in libr de Theriaca ad Pis cap 16. Wherefore unlesse we will utterly disclaim or relinguish the method and prescripts of these worthy Antients and prosecute new wayes and inventions to oppose this man-yelling Monster we must attempt it not with Poysons but Antidotes And Galen defineth those to be Poysons which agree not with nature either well or ill affected at any time for though
your eyes quando removes lava cum succo Cornes Annoint thy cornes often with fasting spittle Or cleave a black Snail to it Take Woodsoure and lay to the corn and that shall gather out the Callum thereof and be whole but you must first cut it about with a knife Apostema 1. Gentian used twice or thrice in a week ad quantitatem pili destruit Apostema 2. Drinke water of Endive Petty Morrell with the pulp of Cassia Fistula 3. Take Scabios red Pimpernel Solsickle and Fumitorie make these into pouder and use a spoonful thereof in the morning especially in May. Probatum est Pro stomacho frigido 1. Oates parched and laid in a Satchell upon a cold stomack is an approved cure 2. The crust of a brown loaf made hot and sprinkled with vinegar and laid on a cold stomack Salvabit 3. A tile stone made hot and sprinkled with Vinegar Eysell or Ale wrapt in a clout and laid to the stomack is good Pro-dolore stomachi 1. Stamp Fennell and temper it with stale ale bibat tria coclearia simul Seeth Penniroyall and binde it to his Navel as hot as he may suffer it For winde or gnawing in the Belly Take Calamus Aromaticus Galingale and a little Fennel seed Cloves and Cinnamon grate or beat them together and take them in pouder or drink them with ale For the Small Pox. Take Almonds and make Almond milk and take the cream thereof and bath the face twice or thrice though all the Pocks be pulled away it shall not be Pock fret Annoint oft the Patients eyes with a linnen cloth wet in the juyce of Sengreen and it will save them from the Pox. For a stroke in the eye Juyce of Smallage and Fennel and the white of an Egg mingled together and put into the eye Bloudshed in the eye Five leaved grasse stampt with Swines grease and with a little salt bound to the eye Pro Oculo Aure. Sint calida quae aure imponuntur frigida quae in oculo For a Venomed sore Take Lavender Marigolds Sengreen and Betonie and stamp them together and lay them to the sore To make a swelling break Take pisse and Vinegar and Sage M. i. stamped and flour and boil them together and lay it hot on a cloth to the sore For the Squinsie Bray Sage Rue and Parsely Roots and lay them hot to the throat For Biting of a mad Dog Stamp Mint and clear Leeks and lay it to the sore To breake a Botch Make a Plaister of Woodbine leaves and lay to the sore For gnawings Take Hearb Bennet and Sheeps tallow and oyle Olive frie them together and lay it to the sore place To increase Milk Pouder of Annise and the juice of the bark of Fennell root drunke If milk be thick Eat mints and boil mints in wine and oyle and lay on the breasts For Botches Wounds and Sores a salve Boil black Rosin red Lead and oyle Olive together fiat emplastrum Qui bibit novem dies simul propriam urinam nec habebit epilepsiam paralysin nec colicam Venenum 1. Qui bibit propriam urinam sanabitur a sumpto veneno 2. Garlick Rue Centaury graines of Juniper valent contra venenum 3. Pouder Hempseed and mingle it with Goats milk and let them boyle a little and use this drink three dayes valet contra inflationem venenum Bubonem Felon squinanciam Pro Auribus Green Ash leaves burnt and the liquor that drops out of them impositum valet Euphorbium pounded with Oil Citron and laid hot on the eares cureth sounding of the eares tingling and Fistulaes Caput-purgium Take the juyce of Ivy and powder of Pepper mingle them together and drink it For the bloudy Flix The yellow that groweth in red Roses put into pottage and so eaten is good for the bloudy Flix Vermes Stomachi The same yellow drunk in Ale valet contra Vermes For a Felon Scabious stamped small a good quantity of Tar and greace ana temper them together and all raw lay them to the sore place For the Reines of the back Boyl your own water well scum it then take a quart of that water oyle of bayes one ounce oyle of Roses one ounce boyle all in a pot and therewith annoint well the reines in the hot sunne or against the fire Vnge renes cum nasturtio propria urina jejunus saepe juvat renes Coque mel butyrum simul unge renes coram igne Seeth Smallage and temper it with Wine and drink it fasting and you shall be healed For them that cannot goe upright for pain in their back and reines Take a fat Hen and scald her and draw her and fill her with Sene coddes 1d weight and Polipody of an Oak and of Annis 1d weight boyl her well and strain her into a vessell and take two spoonfuls thereof and give it the sick first and last For the Stitch. Take three handfuls of Mallowes seeth them in a litte raw Milk and put thereto a handfull of wheat bran and let them boyle together and then wring out the Milk and lay it hot to the Stitch apply it often Take a few leaves of Rue and Yarrow stamp them together and wring out the juyce and drink it with a little Ale For the Stitch in the side Make Balls of red Wortes sodden and burne them in a new pot and then grind them to powder and mingle them with Honey and old Greace and make a plaister and lay it thereto when it is well sodden To heal Wounds Take Ribwort Plantain Smallage ana take well nigh as much May Butter as of the juyce mingle it together that it be standing and put it in a Box that no air come thereto and make an Ointment and this is the securest Medicine for healing Wounds For swelling of Joynts Bray Mallowes and boyle them in new Milk and make it into an emplaister and apply it to the place To knit Sinews or Veins that are kickt or broke Take two Onions in summer when thou findest two Wormes knit together cut off the knots and lay them to dry against the Sun and make thereof powder and cast it in the Wounds and it will doe as aforesaid Ut virga hominis nunquam erigatur Formicas istas pulverisabis misce cum vaccinio lacte da suivis in potu c. Verrucae Porri ficus Cortix salicis combustus temperatus cum aceto appositus verrucas porros ficus tollit Portulaca fricata tollit verrucas Agrimonia trita emplastrata cum aceto verrucas tollit Stercus ovis si misceatur cum aceto fiat emplaistrum tollit variolas verrucas For Cornes Take Beanes and chew them in thy mouth and lay them to the Corn doe this at night For Warts 1. Purslane rubbed on the Warts maketh them fall away 2. The juyce of the roots of Rushes applied healeth them For a Wound that bleedeth inwardly Take Filago and temper it
dissolved To bring the Camphire to powder In a clean Morter beat one Almond then put in the Camphire and beat it to a fine powder without which it will not come to a powder Likewise be at all the Cloves to a fine powder then mix all together in a strong glasse stop it close and lute it that no air enter and let it stand forty dayes and nights abroad in the hottest time of summer and shake it well thrice a day The use Drop a drop of the water into the eye thrice a day with a black Hens Feather the infirm lying on their back and stirring the eye up and down If there be any thing grow upon the eye Take four drops of oyle of Amber rectified and mix with half an ounce of the water dresse the eye as before For any Ague Take a quarter of a pint of Canary Sack put into it a penny-worth of oyle of Spike a pennyworth of Sirrup of Poppyes and one grain of Bezar mingle these together and let them stand infused all night and exhibite it next morning to the Patient fasting For an Ague Boyle two ounces of Roch in a Pipkin in a pint of Ale about a quarter of an hour or better then give the party grieved to drink of it pretty warm some two houres before the fit cometh about half of it and what the party cannot drink at the first draught let it be warmed against the second fit and give it as before after two houres be past let the party drink as much posset drink as he can Another Take the quantity of a Wallnut of black Sope and three times as much crown Sope mix them together then shred a pretty quantity of Rue and half a spoonfull of Pepper finely beaten and a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth whereof make two plaisters and lay to each wrist one and sow them fast on for nine dayes this must be applied as the cold fitt beginneth to come upon them To make Pills to cleanse the backe Boyle Venice Turpentine in Plantain water then take the Turpentine and bray it in a Morter to very fine powder take the powder and mingle it with powder of white Amber powder of Oculorum cancrorum and powder of Nutmeg of each half a drachm mix them up into Pills and take three of them in a morning A Bath Take Mallow leaves Violet leaves Endive Motherwort Mugwort Rose leaves Lettice Cammomill Bay leaves boyle of all these one handfull in a sufficient quantity of pure running water and set in the Bath about an hour then goe into a warm bed and sweat awhile and when you come out of your sweat and are pretty cool eat Strawberries and Sugar this will clear the body and purifie the blood For the Cough of the Lungs and defluxions You may take sometimes of Sirrup magistrall of Scabious and of Oxymell Jutianizans of each one ounce and of Diacodium half an ounce and of Sirrup of Diasereos half an ounce Mingle these all well together and mingle with it also a drachm of pure flower of Sulphur finely searced and take of this the quantity of a large Nutmeg three or four times in a day at morning an hour before dinner an hour before supper and last at night it will cut the flegm and carry it gently away without any perturbation or violent trouble of coughing and cause quiet rest To cause a woman to have her Flowers Take of Gladwin Roots about a handful boyle them in Vinegar or in white Wine till they be very tender and after put this into a Vessel on the ground in a close stool so that the woman may sit over it very close stopped so that the heat may strike up into her body This Medicine is reported never to fail but to bring them down But you must have a speciall care that no woman being with child have this Medicine administred to her For the Cough of the Lungs Take of Coltsfoot two handfuls of Hysop and the tops of red Nettles of each one handful of Horehound and Maiden-hair of each half a handfull of Raisins of the sun having their stones taken out three ounces of Liquorice sliced half an ounce and of Elecampane roots sliced one ounce of Annise-seeds half an ounce grosly bruised boil all these together in a gallon of water in an earthen Pipkin with a gentle fire till the third part be boyled away then strein it and take a quart of the decoction and put to it two ounces of Sugar-Candie beaten and let it boil a little over the fire again till the Sugar Candie be melted then take it off the fire and put it up into a glasse close stopped and drinke of it three or four spoonfuls morning and evening so long as it lasteth a little warmed For Cramp or Numnesse Take a penniworth of Saffron put it into a little bag then put it into three ounces of Rosewater and stir it well in the Rosewater then take four penniworth of Camphire and infuse that in the Rosewater and being so infused and mixed chafe the place with it warm and smell to it as he bathes the place For a Cough Winde and a cold Stomack Take four ounces of good Annise-seed water mingle it with one ounce of spirit of Mint and dissolve it with two ounces of pure white Sugar candie beaten into very fine pouder set it upon a chafingdish of coals in a peuter dish and when it beginneth to walm burn it with a paper as you doe wine stirring it well together with a spoon then take it off the fire and evening and morning take a good spoonful of it first and last It will comfort the stomack and is good against cough and winde For a Cough and Consumption Take of Lungwort Liverwort Hysop Violet and Strawbrrie leaves of each one handful Licorice sliced and scraped Annise-seeds and Fennel-seeds of each one penniworth a little bruised a Parsly and a Fennel root clean scraped pithed and cut into small peeces twelve figs sliced four ounces of good great Raisins having their stones taken out boyl all these together in a pottle of clear running water till it come to three pints then put into it two ounces of pure white hard Sugar dissolve it upon the fire with the other decoction then take it off strein it and drink thrice a day of it that is in the morning about four in the afternoon and last at night three or four ounces of it at a time and it will asswage the driness and thirst and open the obstructions and stoppings of the Liver and Spleen and cause your Flegm to com away with more ease For a Cold Dropsie Take Olibanum and rost it in a Fig and apply it to their great Toe But if they be swelled in their face or head then take a new layd Egg roasted hard take out the yolk aend put into
watching mourning sadnesse anger and all other perturbations of the mind Her familiar freinds must present no unwholsome thing to her nor so much as name it least she should desire it and not be able to get it and so minister her an occasion of abortment or the Child carry with it some foule impressions But if she desire chalk clay or coales let beanes boyled with sugar be given unto her or if she cannot get her longing let her presently drink a large draught of pure cold water CHAP. II. Order for the third Moneth BEfore the fourth moneth be ended she must neither be let bloud nor have her body evacuated with any purgative medicine But if too much bloud abound or some incident disease happen which may require evacuation you shall use cupping-glasses with scarification and a little may be drawn from the shoulders and arme especially if she have been formerly accustomed to them CHAP. III. From the fourth Moneth VVHen now the fourth moneth is past bloud-letting and physick is permitted especially if it be gentle and milde such as best may agree with women with child and tender or delicate persons And by Hyppocrates precept may be conceded even untill the seventh moneth CHAP. IIII. From the fifth sixth and seventh Moneth FRom that time forward none of the before mentioned remedies is wont or ought from thence to be used because the Babe being now become greater standeth in need of greater nourishment and bloud and also can bear no commotion of physick Although sometimes I have met with women which have so much abounded with bloud that unlesse they had been let bloud in the second moneth they would have aborted in the third others again unlesse they should attempt the same in the seventh or eight moneth they could not carry their great belly so long or else would be delivered of a dead issue But since these things happen but to few they may not be granted to all but we must provide for every one according to their nature and constitution And this is to be prohibited to all which are with child that they give not way to take any bloud from the ancle bone of the foot during the whole time of the womans going but in stead thereof if the disease so require an ounce of Manna in the broth of a Cock or so much Cassiafistula or of Sirrups made of Damask-roses infused in May dew about the quantity of an ounce with a little water of Cinnamon may safely be taken a little before meat But if the belly be bound onely without any apparent disease the broth of a Chicken or of Veal sodden with Oil or with the decoction of Mallowes or marsh-Mallowes Mercury and Linseed put up in a glister by the lower parts will not be amisse yet in a lesser measure then is wont to be given in other Children to wit of the decoction five ounces of common Oil three ounces of Sugar two ounces of Cassia fistula one ounce But sharper Purgations as also Suppositories made of Honey and Salt are altogether hurtfull to great bellyed women or such as lie in childbed But of fat Pork which they call Lard or the yolks of Eggs without salt Purgations and Glysters are commended But if she will not take a Glyster either for modesty or otherwise because she was not accustomed to take it one or two yolks of new laid Eggs or a few Pease pottage warm with a little salt and sugar supped up a little before meat will be very convenient But if the belly shall be sometimes distended and stretched out with wind a little Fennelseed and Anniseeds reduced into powder and mingled with Honey or with Sugar made after the manner of an Electuary will doe very well But if the thighs and feet swell let them be annointed with Oxphrodinum which is a liquid Medicine made with Vinegar and Rose-water mingled with a little Salt CHAP. V. The eighth Moneth IN the eighth moneth which is usually perillous the better diets rather than plentiest will be most commodious But as they must abate their diet so their bodily exercise must increase And because then women with child by reason of the sharp humours alter the belly are accustomed to weaken both their spirits and strength they may well take before meat an Electuary of Diarrhodon or Aromaticum Rosatum or Diamargariton in the morning before meat and sometimes they may lick a little Honey even as they which loath and nauseate their meat may take green Ginger condited with Sugar or the rindes of Citrons and Oranges condited as also it is usuall sometimes to take specificall Sirrups Moreover let the woman with child often use Honey for the strengthning of the Infant When she is not farre from her labour or bringing forth she shall eat daily seven tosted Figs before meat least the seconds may be bound up but if they shall be restrained and stay firme they may be resolved But the woman with child may not eat salt and powdered meats least the child be born without nails CHAP. VI. In the ninth Moneth IN the ninth moneth being near their time they must not be idle neither sit much nor stoop much nor lie on their sides so that the child may not well turn it self but ought to lie with her face upward neither shall she bend her self much lest the child be infolded and wrapped up in the umbilical ligaments and bonds by which meanes it oftentimes perisheth but she must walk and stirre often and exercise her self rather by going upward than downward Let her use light and easie meats of digestion as damask-Prunes with Sugar or Figs and Raisins before meat and also the yolks of Eggs flesh and broth of Chicken Birds Patridges and Pheasants and Fish living in stony places with good broth And such meats shall not onely be convenient for this moneth but also for the two succeeding moneths that the natural parts by them may be dilated Also astringent meats and roasted meats and also Rise hard Eggs Millet and others of that kind will be very profitable Baths of sweet water with emollient hearbs used with intermission is meet But the hot house which they call a stow is hurtful After the bath let the belly be annointed with oyle of Roses and Violets but the natural parts with the fat of Hens Geese Ducks with oyle of Lillies and the decoction of Linseed and Faenugreek boyled with oyl of Linseed marsh-Mallows grains of Quinces or with this which followeth A Liniment both of them cut and fliced of each one ounce Take of Mallowes Of marsh-Mallowes Of Linseed also one ounce Let them be boiled from twenty ounces of water to ten let them take three ounces of the boiled broth of oyle of Flour-deluce and of Almonds of each one ounce three ounces of Deer suet Bath this from the rest and annoint her with it warm Also they may use for fourteen dayes before the birth morning and evening to bath and moisten the belly with Muscadine
a little above the navill even unto the naturall parts and must streightly bind up the same but without pain And this will be fitly done if it be sowed together with thred on the left side and be put hot enough to the belly and be compassed with four or five double linnen clothes binding them with fit strings together that the belly may be kept warm But let linnen clothes annointed with an equall proportion of oyle of Mirtles and oyle of Hypericon be applied unto the naturall parts from the second day untill the seventh CHAP. XV. The order from the seventh day after the woman is brought to bed SIx dayes being finished or past on the seventh day let the naturall parts be fomented and cherished with this Decoction of each two pugils Take of red Roses Of Agrimony Mellilot And Cammomil of each one handfull Of the leaves of Hypericon Of the leaves of Quinces And of Mirtle Let them be boyled in red Wine thick and astringent with a little water to a third part and let the naturall parts be fomented therewith morning and at evening before sleep On the eighth day It is convenient to put to the belly a plaister made with the white of an Egg and a little Pepper and taken with flaxen rowlers or boulsters On the ninth day If this plaister please not besmear a Dogs skin again with oyle of Mirtles and Mastick and apply it unto the belly and it will avail and profit much to keep it tied with swadling clothes unto the end of her child-bed A Liniment to scatter and disperse the Milk That the Milk flowing back to the breasts may without offence be dissipated you must use this ointment Take of pure Wax two ounces Of Linseed oyle half a pound When the Wax is melted let a Liniment be made wherein linnen clothes must be dipped and according unto their largenesse be laid upon the breasts but when it shall be discussed and paineth no more let other linnen clothes dipped in distilled water of Acorns be put upon them But this Lonely advise them which cannot nurse their own children And if swelling in them which give suck doe arise from abundance of milk in their breasts seem to threaten an inflammation use the former Ointment but abstain from using the distilled water of Acorns When and what Bath they must use From the twentieth day if it be a male Child if it be a female from the five and twentieth day this Bath may be used Take of Majoram Of Penniroyall Mellilot Hypericon or Saint Johns wort Of Millefoile And of Pimpernel of each M iii. Of Bay leaves two pugils Three ounces of Pomegranades rindes Of old Bean meal five pounds Of Barly meal two pounds Of Cummin bruised and beaten into powder lb. iii Put the hearbs small chopt into a bag but the beans and Barly and Cummin one upon another severally Let them be sod altogether in a great Cauldron which may contain two parts of Water and one of Wine let them be boyled the day before she would use the Bath and be poured forth into a tub which must be well covered The next day heat the water of the Bath but they must take heed they sit not on the Bath too hot but two houres will be sufficient to sit before meat in the morning and at evening But let the child-bed woman sit on the bag wherein the bran or meale is put but not lower than the region of the mouth of the Ventricle Another Let a barrell wherein the dregs of white Wine are yet sticking be filled with river water and let it be stirred to and fro that all may be well mingled together then let the dregs settle and boyle in this water Of Bay leaves Of red Roses With both the Comferies Of Hypericon Penniroyall And Pimpernel of each p. ii Of old Bean meal lb. v. Of Barly meal lb. ii Let the child-bed woman sit on the bag in which the meales are or on another which may contain the brans of wheat CHAP. XVI Against the gripings of the belly in child-bearing women THe gripings and gnawings of the belly especially those which are contracted from the great striving and labour of the belly in bringing forth and sometimes from a chollerick matter contained therein and sometimes of wind retained Outward Remedies Exceedingly therefore are usefull Musk and Civet outwardly laid to the navill moreover oyle of Dill chafed on the belly as hot as well may be indured Inward helps in their meats In stead of meat the broth of an old Cock or Capon is best being well sodden with a little Dill and so taken A Drink For the drink a water made up with Cinnamon and Sugar which they call Hippocras which is made after this manner Put unto water boyled and hot and drawn unto â„¥ xx Of Cinnamon half an ounce Of Sugar three or two ounces Three grains of black Pepper Mingle them well and infuse them for six hours and then strain them in a bag which the Apothecaries call Hippocrates sleeve Let the child-bearing woman use this potion warm but very sparingly but if she loath this let her use thin small and clear wine unlesse a Fever shall hinder her A Potion also is made of Honey and white Wine of each two ounces to mittigate paine by reason of flatuous humours retained Some exhibite the jawes of the Pickerell with Amber and Ginger ana finely powdered to drink in white Wine CHAP. XVII The government of the Nurse LEt there be given unto the Infant new born Honey to lick after let it be nourished with the Mothers Milk which of all things best agreeth with it But if by reason of some necessity it cannot enjoy it a sound healthy Nurse is to be chosen neither younger than four and twenty yeares nor elder than five and thirty of a white and ruddy complexion which is not infected with other vices nor yet hath too lately been brought to bed nor hath not long given suck let her not have fore Dugs or Breasts nor to big but a large Breast and moderately fat Let her use choise meats of easie and light concoction engendring good bloud or juyce let her abstain from hot aromaticall Spices as Pepper Ginger Cardamome and such like also from Leeks Onions Garlick Salt austere and tart things Let her avoid strong Wines as also cold water Let her eschew immoderate eating and drinking for that corrupteth the Milk and begetteth in children lepry or scurfe and other contagious diseases Let her abstain from cares and vexations and let her take heed least she provoke her menstruous disease She must not sleep much or be given to sleep for that maketh the Milk flegmatick she likewise ought not to watch more than is meet for from hence the Milk cometh to be more hot sharp and distastfull to the Infant she ought moderately to excrcise her selfe especially her armes to wit either in sowing spinning or knitting for by this meanes evill humours are consumed
keep in her belly that no disruption or rupture be made in these parts CHAP. XXI For windinesse or Collick of the belly IF the secret or naturall parts receive wind in which being kept in brings forth pain a Fomentation made with the decoction of Mustard or Onions is vety good Also sometimes in others so great plenty and abundance of wind oppresseth them that they seem broken or as those troubled with the Iliack passion for whose ease a Bath made of Mallowes Pellitory of the wall and the like must be used and the belly often kept soluble But she ought to stay the longer in the Bath and when she cometh out of it a plaister of the juyce of Mullein or Turnup and Barly meal must be laid on hot and then let her use her Bath again CHAP. XXII For the Itch. IF those parts itch so that women by scratching take away the skin whereupon blysters arise which greatly molest and trouble them they ought to be annointed with the Ointment prescribed for burnings Take an Apple Bole armoniack Mastick Frankincense Oyle hot Wine Wax and Tallow and thus you may prepare it Purge the Apple from the outward rind and the core and put it in a pot to the fire with the Oyle Wax and Tallow and when it shall be hot the Mastick and Frankincense being reduced into powder must be put in and then being mingled strained through a cloth CHAP. XXIII For the Flux of bloud FOr those unto whom an immoderate Flux of bloud happeneth it shall be convenient to give the juyce of Mugwort Sage Pennyroyall and of other hearbs of that kind made up into the form of a Sirrup Also Baths made for the same disease of the said hearbs are good or by a plaister made up with Clay and Vinegar which must be applied to the right side If the Flux of bloud come from the nostrils it must be applied to the forehead and temples having a respect to the contrary side For bloud useth not to flow out of the nostrils unlesse a male Child be begotten CHAP. XXIV For the falling down of the Matrix from the birth A Bath made of Mugwort Flea-bane Juniper Camphire and Wormwood boyled in water let the child-bed woman sit in this up to the breast afterwards let her be gently put into her bed and let her lie with her feet drawn backward that the Matrix may return into its place The Womb being put into its place again put powder of Penniroyall of Galingale Spikenard Nutmegs Avence with oyle of Nutmegs and Penniroyall into a fine thinne cloth and in manner of a Ball or Pessary bind it up and put it into the Womb and shut up the orifice of the Matrix that it fall not down again But have a care that it may peirce backward toward the reins and there it is to be bound up but before that be performed a plaister of Bay berries of Mustard Frankincense and of Cinnamon of each as much as shall be sufficient being brought into powder and being heated at the fire mingled with Honey and let it be laid to the back being yet hot and bound up with a swath wherewith the Pessary put up into the Matrix is tied But let the woman brought to bed lie in her bed upward for the space of nine dayes or more if need require so that she may not move her self up and down unlesse great necessity urgeth her and such meat shall be given her which may not easily passe through her belly or may not often provoke her to make water But now going abroad after her delivery we must put on an intire garment that may keep it in least it goe out again unlesse it be when she maketh water The third day we must make ready a Bath and then least they should swell powder of Ginger Pellitory of the wall and Cinnamon of every one by equall parts mixed must be blown up CHAP. XXV For the Piles after the birth VVEe use to cure the Piles arising from the fault of the bringing forth with a Bath of Wormwood Southernwood Cinnamon rind and the bark of Cassia fistula boyled well in Wine when the woman delivered goeth forth of the Bath put Bombace or Cotton with powder of Alloes mixed with oyle of Penniroyall unto her lower parts CHAP. XXVI Against pain of the Breasts contracted by too much Milk CLay kneaded with Vinegar after the manner of a plaister is available to astringe and keep back the Milk but the place is first to be suppled with hot water CHAP. XXVII For the Imposthume of the Breasts A Plaister of marsh-Mallowes Mallowes Wormwood Mugwort and Swines greace made up according to art is very profitable when the swelling is come unto the height lay Nut kernels bruised to peices unto it And if the Imposthume break not let it be launced with a Launcet or Pen-knife and squeeze it a little least by the suddain evacuation a worse mischeevious Imposthume may come upon it and when it is broken put in a linnen cloth twice or thrice a day smeared with the yolk of an Egg and Turpentine which strengtheneth exceedingly And if the Imposthume chance to passe into a Fistula put into it a root of black Hellebor dipped in Oyle or Honey or sprinkle powder of the colt-Bur upon it for with these is every Fistula purged and destroyed so as it be not between the bones wherefore these Medicines are so long to be administred untill it dye and be dried up and afterward the Ulcer be cured Some few additionall Observations concerning the passages in ths former Treatise CHAP. XXVIII What is to be administred unto the Child after it is born for the first thing it taketh ARnoldus de villa nova a most learned Phisitian writeth that if you give unto a Child half a scruple of Corrall finely powdered with womans milk first before it taketh any other thing after it is born that it shall never be troubled with the falling Sicknesse Also I know persons of good quality in this our Country of England I presume instructed by some able Phisitians who give unto all their own children and advise all other women where they are desired to be assistant at the birth to exhibite unto the children new born the first thing they take a little Salt well mingled in a spoonfull of Saxifrage or Hysop water to prevent the trouble of frets and other diseases in children following their birth Conceiving also as they suppose they have some ground for their action from the fourth verse of the sixteenth Chapter of Ezekiel where the Lord reckoning up the Midwives duties about children at that time of their nativity thus speaketh And as for thy nativity in the day thou wast born thy navill was not cut neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee thou wast not salted at all nor swadled at all CHAP. XXIX For Infants troubled with wind and flegm MAny Midwives advise the Nurses to give them a little pure Sugar-candie
Probatum A powder for the Flux â„ž Half ripe Blackberries dry them and make them into powder give the Patient a draught thereof in a little Tent or old red Wine in the morning and evening for five dayes if the Flux continue A Glister â„ž A quart of new Milk from the Cow and put three or four gads of Steel into the fire red hot and quench them in the Milk till half the Milk be consumed then take the weight of eight pence of Deeres suet and stamp it into the Milk and mix it well together and put it in a boulter bag warm this you may use four or five times if need require For Morphew or Scurf of face or Skin â„ž Of Brimstone beaten into powder two ounces mix it well with as much black Sope that stinketh and tie the same in a linnen cloth and let the same hang in a pint of strong wine Vinegar or red Rose Vinegar for the space of nine dayes then wash any kind of Scurfe or Morphew either in face or body dipping a cloth in the same Vinegar and rubbing the face or body therewith and let it dry by it self also drink the water of Strawberries distilled or tincture of Strawberries it certainly killeth Morphew or Scurfe Probat To blanch the Face â„ž The meat of Lemons having taken away the kernels and a quantity of fine pure Sugar still these and keep the water to wash your face with every night To smooth the Skin Mixe Capons grease with a quantitie of Sugar let it stand for a few dayes close covered and it will turn to a cleer oyle with which annoint your face Morphew and Freckles Annoint the face with the bloud of a Hare or Bull this will take away Morphew and Freckles and smooth the skin G. For the Gout or Ache in the joynts knobs or knots in the flesh Probat REcipe Of May Butter four ounces of Cummin seed beaten into fine pouder half a pound of black sope four ounces of Rue M. i of clarified Mutton M. ss stamp these in a morter together and put to it an Oxe gall and a spoonfull of Bay salt and fry them together till it be thick then lay it on a woollen cloth and apply it hot to the ach as may be suffered and let it lye a whole week unremoved Then lay on another as long a time and so lay on a third plaister as long which will be three weeks in the whole time and this will give ease For Gout or Bone-ach Take of the best Aqua vitae one penniworth and another of oyle of Bayes mix them well together and annoint the place grieved therewith by the fire warm the ointment by the fire and then chafe the place till it be dryed in then cloth it up warm Probat For the Gout or Joynt-ach â„ž The juyce of Sage of Aqua vitae of oyle of Bayes of Vinegar and Mustard and of Oxe gall ana p. ae put altogether into a bladder and chafe it up and down with your hand for the space of an hour and half and keep it for your use and annoint the grieved place with it morning and evening For the Gout Stamp well lb iii. of Wallwort then melt ten pound of May Butter and put it thereto and let it stand nine dayes together then boyle them half an hour over a soft fire then strein it and annoint the grieved place For Gout or Bone-ach Annoint the place grieved with very good Aqua composâ—â—â— by the fire and let the same drinke in doe this three or four times and whilst it is wet cast upon it pouder of Olibanum and sow a cloth thereon and let it lye on for four dayes Probat H. Hermes Tree FIrst grinde to an Amalgame one ounce of Mercurie with one ounce of clear spring-Spring-water then put a round viall glasse half full of Rose water or cleer spring water then put therein your aforesaid Amalgame then drop therein one drop of the best Aqua fortis that can be gotten and after a quarter of an hour another drop and so every quarter of an hour one drop till you have dropt therein ten or twelve drops then with a very gentle heat on sand or hot embers vapour the water away softly and a brave tree of silver shall grow in the glasse to your admiration I. A Plaister to help any Stitch or Imposthume wheresoever REcipe The roots of Hollihocks washed clean and cut in peeces M. i. seeth them in fair water untill the roots bee tender then take out the roots and put into the water of Fenugreek and Linseed ana M. i. being first stamped or bruised and seeth them together in the water untill the water rope like birdlime then stamp the Hollihock roots before boyled and put them to the Fenugreek and Linseed with a handfull of Barlie meal and fry them together and if need be put to some Sheeps suet and lay a plaister thereof to the sore as hot as may be suffered Let it lye twelve hours at least and then lay another to it and within nine plaisters it will work the full effect It dissolveth the Plurifie also in applying of three Plaisters For an Imposthume of the Stomack Whosoever shall dayly take in a draught of Ale or Beer a spoonful of the pouder of Matfelon or Scabios it will destroy any Imposthume within him Probat A good Oyle to bring in joynts which have been out seven years to give strength to veins and sinnews and to keep them brought in in their places You must first bathe the place throughly that is out for three or four dayes with Oyle of Cammomil then against the Patient goeth to bed you must have two Neats feet or so many of them as may cover the dislocation with the peelings round about then lay the insides of the feet in thick and broad flakes to the place as hot as the party can indure it and in the morning remove them and after with it annoint the place and the flakes aforesaid with Oyle of Cammomil and then apply fresh peelings This for certain hath brought in joynt that which hath been out of joynt six years and giveth strength to the veins and sinnews and will keep the joynts in their first place and the effect will appear in three or four dressings For the Black Jaundies Spread Wheat-straw abroad upon a clean floor in a close house and put in Geese and watch them when they dung take their dung up with a knife and scrape away the white about the dung untill you have a good quantity of it then dry this in an Oven make pouder thereof and drinke of it morning and evening warmed in Ale and it will cure both the black and yellow Jaundies 2. Dry the gall of a Raven and grate it into powder and take a quantity of it in a spoon temper it with Beer or Ale and drinke this fasting three mornings together Or take nine or ten seeds of Hemp doe away the husks and bruise
them and put them in Ale and drinke this fasting for eight or nine dayes For the black Jaundies â„ž Of Hearb Ambrose Betony Mugwort ana M. i. three or four Dock roots clean pickt washt and scraped stamp all these together in a Morter till they be beaten indifferent small then take Spicknard Turmerick and Gallingal ana p. ae stamp them in a Morter likewise then put the Hearbs into a clean cloth by themselves and tie them fast with strings and hang them in a gallon or two of good Ale newly ready to be tunned up and after three or four dayes drink a good draught thereof every morning next to your heart and fast after it three houres and doe so the like when you goe to bed To make Hartshorn Jelly â„ž Two ounces of Hartshorn being small rasped and a pint of fair water one Nutmeg sliced one race of Ginger a branch of Rosemary boyle all these together in an earthen Pipkin over a soft fire till it be very clammy then strain it into a Bason and put to it Rosewater and Sugar For the yellow Jaundies â„ž Celandine English Saffron and powder of Ivory seeth them in white Wine and drink thereof eight or nine dayes mane vesperi 2. â„ž The Urine of the Patient and drink it with the juyce of Horehound 3. Seeth the juyce of Cammomill Morrell and Mouseare in white Wine twice and drink of it fasting For the yellow Jaundies â„ž The pap of a roasted Pippin and put as much powder of Saffron as will lye on a penny and twice as much Harts-horn finely scraped mingle them well together and give the Patient three mornings together the quantity of a Nutmeg and as much at going to bed 2. â„ž Of the inner rind of Barberry bark and Goose dung that feeds on grasse and wash the white of it and a little Saffron steep these in Ale and let the Patient drink it in the morning fasting 3. â„ž Of red Nettle-tops M. i. seeth them in a pint of Ale and drink the same four or five mornings together 4. â„ž Alicant or hard Spanish Sope and a little stale Ale in a Cup rub the Sope against the bottome of the Cup till the Ale be white then shave a little Ivory and let the Patient drink of this first and last till he be recovered Also take Celandine leaves and put them into your Stockings next to your feet 5. Put a good handfull of Celandine leaves into a quart of white Wine boyle them to a pint in the winter use the roots and drink thereof morning and evening 6. Cut out the core of a good big Apple put into the place some sweet Butter a little Turmerick and English Saffron cover it with the top you cut off rost it tender and let the sick eat of this three or four mornings together 7. â„ž One pennyworth of Turmerick of the middle rind of the Barberry bark M. ii of Celandine M. i. seeth the Celandine and the bark in Ale-wort putting to it a gallon of new Ale at the tunning and when it hath stood two nights draw it at the spicket and warm it with a gad of fine Steel and put to it the powder of the Turmerick and drink of it first and last 8. â„ž The juyce of Liverwort and the scrapings of Ivory and of Saffron as much as you shall think fit of French Sope as much as a Chestnut bind them all in the corner of a linnen cloth and swinge them up and down in fair water till all the vertue be gone into the water and give the Patient to drink of it L. For a lame Leg. REcipe Aqua composita and oyle of Roses ana p. a. mix them together well and annoint the greived place with it morning and evening but let the Patient first be well rub'd with a warm cloth Probatum For the same â„ž Oyle of Exeter oyle Olive and Aqua vitae and Beasts gall ana p. ae Mix them all well together and annoint the lame leg therewith twice every morning and evening for the space of a fortnight but alwayes use to rub the place first very well with warm clothes For chopt Lips Rub them with your sweat behind your eares and this will make them smooth and well coloured A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs and Consumption â„ž Of Earth-wormes two pound in a May morning those with black heads are best you may gather enough put these in white Wine for three or four houres then slit and wash them in the same Wine and in another Wine and lay them in an earthen pan on straw or sticks laid a crosse and put them into an Oven after the bread is drawn and so use them till they be so dry that you may pownd them then searce it and beat it again till it be as fine as flower then keep it for your use which you must take twice a day in the morning when you wake and at four in the afternoon as much as will lye on sixpence or eightpence take it in a spoonfull of warm Broth or mulled Sack or Mace Ale and drink a pretty draught of the Broth to wash it down if you take it in mulled Sack or Mace Ale take not above four spoonfuls use this for a moneth but be carefull of taking cold To make a Laxative Whey â„ž One pound and a half of clarified Whey Sena half an ounce four penny weight of Anniseseeds of Hops half a handfull of Borrage and Buglosse ana half a handfull Fumitory p. i. seeth all these in the clarified Whey untill half be consumed drink of it two mornings together A good Laxative for a Child â„ž Of Violets three handfuls if you cannot get them as much of the leaves seeth them in running water from a pottle to a quart then take of Almonds one pound stamp them small and temper them with the water and make an Almond Milk of it and let the child eat and drink of the Milk and also if need require of the water by it self with a little Sugar To cause Loosenesse â„ž Coloquintida and mix it with Honey and Bulls Gall then apply this plaister-wise to the belly and this will doe it Also take Wool or Silk and dip it in the juyce of Sowbread roots and Wine and use it as you use a Suppository For a costive by burnt Choller â„ž Of Mallowes Mints Wormwood and Violet leaves ana half a handfull seeth these in the water of the sick and when they are well sodden presse out the water from the Hearbs and stamp the Hearbs in a Morter and fry them in May Butter or fresh Grease and make a plaister of it and apply it warm unto the belly and change it once a day For Rheume procuring a Cough of the Lungs â„ž A quarter of a pint of good Sack of Elacampane roots half an ounce as much Licorice powder them very finely of the best refined Sugar half a pound boyle them together till they rope in nature of a
stinking things to remain in or about the same and in summer season to deck your windowes and strow your floors with sweet and wholsom hearbs floures and leaves of Mints Balme Penniroyall Lavender Time Majoram red-Roses Carnations Gelliflowers and such like for your windowes your floors to be strowed with green Rushes and Mints Oaken and Willow leaves Vine leaves and such like your windowes which stand towards the North and East do you alwaies keep open in the day time if the ayre be clear and that no infected and unsavory smell be near the same as Fogs dunghils c. and every morning before you open either your doors or windowes as also in the evening when you go to bed cause a good fire to be made in your Chamber and burn some odoriferous or sweet perfumes in the middest thereof as hereafter I will shew you or in stead thereof some Juniper Frankincense Bay leaves Rosemary Lavender Majoram or such like which you must alwaies have dried in a readinesse and so in the fume or smoke thereof to breath and perfume the clothes which you are to weare A good perfume in summer season â„ž Rose water and Vinegar of either six spoonfulls Rinds of sower Citrons and Lemons Bay-leaves of either the weight of two pence which is ℈ i. Camphire the weight of three pence which is 3. ss The hearbs and rinds must be dried and put alltogether in a perfuming pan or instead thereof a peuter dish set on a chafer of coles will serve the turn Another good perfume in winter â„ž Red-Roses Majoram and Myrtles of either a little handfull Callamint Juniper berries Iâ—audanum Benjamin Frankincense of either Ê’ i. which is the weight of seven pence The hearbs berries and Roses being dried must be made in grosse powder as also the gumms and so mixed together and when yee list cast some part there of on a chafer of coales and receive the fume thereof CHAP. V. NOw having received the fume as aforesaid before you go forth of your chamber eat some Cordial electuary or preservative as hereafter you shall find choise which I have alwais used with good and happy success after taking of the Cordial wash your face and hands with clean water wherein you must put a little Vinegar and then if you list you may break your fast with some good bread and butter and in winter season a potch'd Egg is good eaten with some Vinegar and for plethorick and melanchole bodies it were good to drink a draught of wormewood wine in the morning fasting because it resisteth putrefaction in the plethorick and purgeth bilous matter in the melancholie An excellent good preservative which I have alwaies used with good successe â„ž Conserve of Roses and Borrage floures of either two ounces Minardus Mithridate Andromachus triacle of either half an ounce Dioscordium two drachms Dialkermes one drachme Powder of the seed of Citrons pilled one drachme Sirrup of Lemons and sower Citrons of either halfe an ounce Compound all these together in the form of an opiat you may eat hereof every morning the quantity of three beanes and drink a draught of Rennish wine Beer or Ale after it but for Children and such as are of tender years so much as a bean thereof is sufficient and give them onely Beer or Ale after it the taking hereof every second or third day will suffice if you go not into any suspected company Another excellent good preservative â„ž Kernils of Wallnuts and Figs of either four ounces Leaves of Rue one ounce and half Tormentill roots four drachms Rind of sowr Citrons one drachme right Bolarmoniak six drachms fine Myrrh two scruples Saffron one scruple Salt half a drachm Sirrup of Citrons and Lemons four ounces The hearbs roots and rinds must be dried the nuts must be blanched and the bolarmoniack must be made in fine powder and then wash'd in the water of Scabios and dried againe you must pound the figgs and wallnuts in a stone morter severally by themselves very small all the rest must be made in fine powder and so mix them altogether in the morter and then add thereto sirrup by little and little and so incorporate them altogether you may give this in the same quantity and in like sort as the other before Another very good â„ž Of the confection aforesaid made with Nutts â„¥ iiii Minardus mithridate four drachms Andromachus Triacle Ê’ ii fine terra Sigillata four scruples Sirrup of Limons â„¥ i. Compound all these together in the morter as the other before you may give hereof the weight of a groat or six pence every second or third day and drink a draught of Rennish or white wine after it in Winter season but in the heat of the yeer Sorrel water is best and in the Spring Scabios or Carduus Benedictus water Also so much Triacle of Andromachus description eaten every morning as a bean with a little conserve of Roses is a very excellent good preservative Valetius doth greatly commend the taking of three or four grains of the Bezar stone every morning in a spoonfull of Scabios water I cannot here sufficiently commend the Electuarie called Dioscordium which is not onely good to resist the infection but doth also expell the venemous matter of those which are infected being taken every morning and evening the quantity of a bean and drinke a draught of Rennish or White wine after it in winter season but in Summer a draught of Beer or Ale is best In strong and rusticall bodies and such as are dayly labourers Garlick onely eaten in the morning with some Butter and Salt at breakfast drinking a cup of beer or ale after it hath been found to be very good which is greatly commended by Galen who calleth it the poor mans Triacle but in the sanguine daintie and idle bodies it may not be used because it over-heateth the bloud causeth head-ach and universally inflameth the whole body CHAP. VI. NOw when you have taken any of the foresaid Preservatives it were good and necessary to wear upon the Region of the heart some sweet Bag or quilt that hath power to resist venome and also to carry in your hand some sweet Pomander Nodule or Nosegay that will comfort the heart resist venom and recreate the vitall spirits as here following is specified and set down An excellent quilt or Bag. â„ž Arsenike cristaline â„¥ i. Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ ii Diambrae ℈ i. You must grinde the Arsenike in small powder and then with some of the infusion of Gum Dragagant in Rose water you must make a paste then spread it on a cloth which must be six inches long and five inches broad and spread it thick then cover it with another cloth and so quilt it together which being done fasten it in another bag of crimson taffetie or Sarsenet and so wear it against the heart all the day time but at night leave it off and here you must take heed that when you sweat you doe take
it away for otherwise it will cause the skin to amper a little There are some writers which doe utterly forbid the wearing of Arsenike but thus much I can say that I have given this bag unto divers to wear with most happie and good successe for never did I yet know any one that hath worn this bag and used any of the Electuaries aforesaid that hath been infected with the plague but for any inconvenience or accident that hath happened thereby I never found any hitherto other then the ampring of the skin as aforesaid Another Bag. ℞ Ireos ℥ ss Calamus aromat Ciperus ana ʒ i. ss Storax Calam. root of Angelica ana ʒ iii. Cloves Mace anaʒ i. Red roses dried ʒ iii. Pellemountain Penniroyall Calamint Elder floures ana ʒ i ss Nutmegs Cinnamon Yellow Sanders anaʒ i. Nardi Italicae ʒ i. Amber greece and Musk ana six grains You must pound all these in powder and then quilt them in a bag of Crimson Taffatie as aforesaid A Pomander good in the Summer time ℞ The rind of Citrons Red Roses Nenuphare Roses Yellow sanders anaʒ ss Storax liquid Benjamin ana ʒ i. Myrrh ℈ ii Ladanum ʒ i. ss Musk and Amber ana six grains Powder all that is to be powdered and then work them together in a hot morter with a hot pestell adding unto it in the working some of the Musselage of dragagant dissolved in sweet Rose water or rose vinegar and so make your Pomander Another good one for the winter time ℞ Storax liquid Benjamin Storax calamint Ladanum and Myrrh ana half a drachm Cloves one scruple Nutmegs Cinnamon of each half a scruple Red Roses Yellow Sanders Lignum aloes and Ireos of each half a dram Calamus aromaticus rind of a Citron ana four grains Amber greece Musk and Civet of each six grains You may make up this as the other before with some Musselage of the infusion of Gum dragagant infused in rose-Rose-water A good Nodule for the Summer season ℞ Floures of Violets red Roses and Nenuphare of each one drachm Red White and Yellow sanders of each half a drachm Camphire xii graines Cause all these to be beaten in grosse powder then knit them all together in a peece of Taffetie and when you will use it then wet it in Rose water and a little Vinegar and so smell to it Another Nodule for the Winter season ℞ The dried leaves of Mints Majoram Time Pennuiroyall Lavender Pellemountain and Balm of each a little handfull Nutmegs Cloves Cinnamon Angelica roots Lignum aloes of each one drachm Saffron two scruples Cause all these to be infused in rose-Rose-water and Vinegar one whole night then wet a spunge in the liquor thereof and knit it in a peece of Taffaty or your handkerchief whereunto you must smell oftentimes A Nosegay for the same purpose ℞ Hearb grace three branches Rosemary Majoram Mints and Thime of either one branch red-Red-Rose buds and Carnations of either three or four Make your nosegay herewith then sprinkle him over with Rose-water and some rose-Vinegar and smell often unto it Also when you suspect to go into any dangerous or infected company do you alwaies carry in your mouth a peice of the root of Angelica the rind of a Citron dried or a great Clove which must be first infused or steeped one whole night in rose-water and Vinegar CHAP. VII FOr that there is not a greater enemy to the health of our bodies then costiveness both in the time of the Plague and otherwise I have here set down how and by what meanes you may keep your self soluble which you must use once four and twenty hours if otherwise you have not the benefit of nature by custome A Suppository Take two spoonfulls of Honey and one spoonfull of Bay-Salt small pounded boyle them together untill it grow thick alwaies stirring it in the boyling then take it from the fire and if you list you may add one drachm of Ihera picra simplex unto it and so stirre them well together and when it is almost cold make up your suppositories of what length and bignesse you list and when you minister any you must first annoint it with Butter or Sallet oyle you may keep these a whole year if you put them in Barrowes mort or grease and so cover them up close therein A good Glister ℞ Mallowes Mercury Beets Violets Red-Fennell of either one handfull Seeds of Fennell Annis Coriander of either one drachm Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of Water untill half the water be consumed then straine it and keep it in a glasse close stopt untill you need for it will keep a whole week Take of the same decoction a pint ℞ Mel Rosarum or common Honey one spoonfull Oyle of Violets or oyle of Olives three ounces Salt one drachm The yolk of an Egg or two Mixe all these together in a morter and so give it warm in the morning or two hours before supper and if you add unto this one ounce of Diacatholicon it will be the better Raisins laxative how to make them ℞ White-Wine three pints and a half Senuae half a pound Fine white sugar one pound Currants two pound You must infuse the Senuae in the wine in a pot close stopt and let it stand in a warm place four and twenty hours then strein it and add to the straining the Currants being clean pickt and washt and lastly the Sugar boyle all together on an easie fire untill the wine be consumed having care that you do alwaies stirr it about in the boyling for feare of burning then take them from the fire and put them up into a clean galley pot you may eat one spoonfull or two of them a little before dinner at any time A good Oyntment to keep one Sollible The gaule of an Oxe Oyle of Violets of either one ounce Sheeps tallow six drachms Boyle them together on a soft fire untill they be incorporated then take it from the fire and adde thereto Alloes cicatrine one ounce Bay-Salt half an ounce The Alloes and Salt must be both made into fine powder before you put them into the oyle then stirr them together untill it be cold and when you are disposed to have a stoole then annoint your fundament therewith both within side and without and if you annoint your navell therewith it will work the better Good pills to keep one soluble and they do also resist the Pestilence ℞ Alloes Cicatrine one ounce Chosen Myrrh three drachms Saffron one drachm and half Amber Greece six graines Sirrup of Lemons or Citrons so much as shall be sufficient to make the masse You must grinde the Aloes Myrrhe and Saffron into small powder severally by themselves then incorporate them together with the sirrup you may give half a drachme or two scruples thereof in the evening half an hour before supper twise or thrise in a week Rases would have you to take half a drachme or two scruples of these Pills every day
you must have a speciall care to preserve the eyes eares nostrels throat and lungs that they be not hurt or offended therewith as hereafter shall be shewed you which you must use before he sweat and also in the sweat if need be Eyes how to preserve them â„ž Rose-water Plantaine-water of either two ounces Sumack two drachms Let them boyle together a little or stand infused a night then mixe therewith half a spoonfull of the oyle made of the white of an Egg then wet two clothes five or six double therein then lay them upon either eye cold which must bee alwaies kept upon the eyes untill the Pox be all come forth and as they grow dry wet them in the same liquor againe and apply them but if there be great pain and burning within the eye then must you also put a drop of this musselage following into the eye take quinse-seed half a drachm bruise it a little then let it stand infused in three ounces of Rose-water a whole night then strein it and put one drop thereof into the eye three or four times a day at least or take of this water â„ž rose-Rose-water â„¥ ii Womans milk â„¥ i. Myrrh finely powdered six graines Mixe them together and use it in the eye as before is shewed this doth ease the paine resisteth putrefication and preserveth the sight For the eares you must put a drop of oyle of Roses warm into them before he sweat For the no strels cause him oftentimes to smell to the vapour of Rose-vinegar or else Vinegar red-roses and Sanders boyled together For the throate let him alwaies hold a peice of white sugar-candy in the mouth and as it melteth swallow it down For the Lunges give the sick oftenimes some sirrup of quinses or conserve of Roses a little at a time And for his drink the decocted water of barley boyled with a little licorice is best being mixed with the juice of a Lemon Citron Pomegranate or Rybes which the sick best liketh for either of them is very good And for his diet he must refrain from all salt fat thick and sharp meats and from all sweet things either in meat or drink his meat must be of a facile and easie digestion and that hath a cooling property in it as broth wherein burrage bugloss sorrell and such like are boyled and for ordinary drink small beer or ale is best CHAP IIII. Teacheth what is to be done when the Pox or Measels are flow in coming forth NOw when you perceive the Pox or Measels are slow and slack in comming forth then must you help nature with cordials and by sweat to thrust it out from the interior and principall parts unto which purpose I have alwaies found this drink to be excellent good here following â„ž Hordei mund M. i. Lentium excort P. i. Ficuum No. x. Fol. capil v. Lactucae ana M. ss Fol. acetosae M. i. Florum cord P. i. Semen fenic Ê’ ii Semen 4. frigid ma. anaÊ’ ss Aqua font lb. iiii Boyle all these together untill a third part of the water be consumed and then strein it â„ž Decoct col lb. i. Succus granatorum vel ribes â„¥ iiii Mix all these together and give the sick four or six ounces thereof to drink every morning and evening which will provoke sweat and expell the disease and if you cannot get the juice of Pomegranats nor Rybes then you may take so much of the sirrup of either of them Another good drink to expell the Pox or Measels Take a quart of posset-ale a handfull of Fennell seed boyle them together till a third part be consumed then strein it and add thereto one drachm of Triacle and one scruple of Saffron in powder mix them together and give two three or four ounces thereof to drink every morning and evening as cause requireth But if it be for a strong and elderly body you may give any of the expelling electuaries which are used to expell the Plague as in the first Chapter for the curing of the Plague doth appear But if the sick be so weak that he cannot expell the disease in convenient time then it is good to epithemate the heart with this epithemation following Epithemation for the heart â„ž Aquarum ros Melissae Card. b. Buglos Morsus diaboli vini alb ana â„¥ iiii Aceti Ros â„¥ ii ss Pul. Ros rub Trium santal Cinamoni Elect. diamarg. frigid ana Ê’ ss Mithridati â„¥ i. Theriacae Ê’ iiii Mix all these together and let them boyle a little and so warm Epithemate the heart and when you have done it then give some expulsive drink or electuary as cause requireth and then cause him to sweat upon it for by this meanes you shall obtaine your desire by Gods permission Thirst how to quench it Now if in the expelling of the pox the sick be very thirsty and dry then give this Julep to drink morning and evening which I have found very good â„ž Sirrup of Jujubes Nenuphare and Burrage of either four drachms Water of Burrage Cichore and Bugloss of either two ounces Mix them together and give the sick one half thereof in the morning and the rest at night and cause him oftentimes to lick of this mixture following Take the conserves of Nenuphare Violets and Burrage of either six drachms Manus Christi made with Perles four drachms Sirrup of Nenuphare and Ribes of either one ounce and half Mix them together and with a Licorice stick clean scrap'd and a little bruised in the end let the sick lick thereof CHAP. V. Sheweth what is to be done when the Pox are all come out in the skinne FOr that oftentimes the face and hands which is the beauty and delight of our bodies are oftentimes disfigured thereby I will shew you what meanes I have used with good and happy successe for preventing thereof which is you may not do any thing unto them untill they grow white and that they are come to maturation which when you perceive then with a golden pinne or needle or for lack thereof a copper pinne will serve do you open every pustulae in the top and so thrust out the matter therein very softly and gently with a soft linnen cloth and if you perceive the places do fill againe then open them againe as you did first for if you do suffer the matter which is in them toremain over long then will it fret and corrode the flesh which is the cause of those pitts which remaine after the Pox are gone as Avicen witnesseth now when you have thus done then annoint the places with this oyntment following Take Elder leaves one handfull Marigolds two handfulls French Mallowes one handfull Barrowes morte or grease six ounces First bruise the hearb in a morter and then boyle them with the grease in a pewter dish on a chafer and coales untill the juice of the hearbs be consumed then strein it and keep it to your use the best time to make it is in the middle or
the same side in any case not in the arme for it will draw up the matter again But if no botch appear outwardly draw bloud out of that side where you feel greatest pain and heavinesse and out of that vein the greif of the members affected shall point thee out If you perceive the Plague invade you at meat or on a full stomack vomit speedily and when your stomack is empty take some Medicine that may resist Poyson as Mithridate or Triacle or some of these following which as choise Medicines I have inserted as being Doctor Edwards Experiments For the Plague Infuse two peices of fine pure Gold in the juyce of Lemons four and twenty hours and drink that juyce with a little Wine with powder of the Angelica root It is admirable and hath helped divers past all hope of cure Another Take two drachms of Juniper berries of Terra lumnia â—â— make both into fine powder and mix it with Honey and take of it as much as a â—â—asâ—â—â— of honeyed water made up thus Take a pint of Honey and of water eight pints seeth and scum it at an easie fire till the fourth part be wasted It is an excellent Antidote against Poyson and Plague if the Poyson be taken before it will expell it by vomit if not the Medicine will stay in the stomack Another Take Zedoary roots the best you can get great Raisins and Licorice champ it with thy teeth and swallow it if you be infected it preserveth without danger Another for botches boyls and tokens Take of ripe Ivy berries dryed in the shade as much of the powder as will lye upon a groat or more and put it into three or four ounces of white Wine and lie in bed and sweat well after your sweat is over change shirt and sheets and all the bed clothes if he may if not yet change his shirt and sheets Some have taken this powder over night and found themselves well in the morning and walked about the house fully cured One having a Plague sore under the thigh another under the left arme-pit taking this powder in the morning and again that night the sores brake of themselves by this excellent Medicine sent by Almighty God It is good for Botches Boyles Plague-sores Tokens Shingles Erisipella and such like c. Thus farre Doctor Edwards Doctor in Physick and Chirurgery Experiments tried by my selfe For the Plague TAke of Pillulae pestilentiales called Ruffi or of Pâ—â—â—y Magogon or for want of it of extraction Rudii of each half a drachm mingle these into six pills for two doses whereof take three at a time in the morning fasting for two dayes together Another excellent approved Remedy Take eight or nine grains of Aurum vitae either in Triaâ—le water or made up in Diascordium fasting Another excellent sweating powder for the Plague Take of the powder e Chelis Cancrorum of Aromaticum rosatum and of Cerusa Antimonii of each half a scruple mingle these up together in a diaphoretick powder and take it in four spoonfuls of Triacle water well mingled together The Cure of Diseases in Remote Regions The Calenture HAppeneth to our Nation in intemperate Climates by Inflammation of bloud and proceedeth often of immoderate drinking of wine and eating of pleasant fruits which are such nourishers thereof as they prevent the meanes used in curing the same To know the Calenture At the first apprehension it afflicts the Patient with great pain in the head and heat in the body which is continuall or increasing and doth not diminish and angment as other Fevers doe and is oft an Introduction to the Taberdilla or Pestilence but then the body will seem very yellow To cure the Calenture So soon as you perceive the Patient possest of the Calenture except the Chirurgion for danger of the sign defer it I have seen the time of the day not respected open the Median vein of the right arm and take such quantity of bloud as agreeth with the ability of the bodie but if it asswage not the heat by the next day open the same vein in the left arme and take so much more like quantity of bloud at his discretion and if the body be costive as commonly they are give him some meet purgation and suffer him to drink no other then water cold wherein Barley and Annise-seeds have been boyled with bruised Liquorice And if within 4. dayes the partie amend not or being recovered take it again open the vein Cephalick in one or both hands bathing them in warm water untill there come so much more bloud as cause requires Suffer not the Patient to drinke seven dayes after he is perfectly recovered any other drinke then such water as is before herein directed The Taberdilla IS a disease so called by the Spaniards by the Mexicans Cocalista and by other Indians is named Taberdet and is so exceeding pestilent and infectious that whole Kingdomes in both the India's have been depopulated by it for want of knowledge to redresse themselves of it To know the Taberdilla It first assaults the Patient vehemently with pain in the head and back and the body seeming yellow is some sign thereof and within 24 hours it is so torturous that the possest thereof cannot rest or sleep turning himself on either side back or belly burning in his back most extreamly And when it growes to perfection there will appear red and blue spots upon the Patients breast and wrists And such persons as have not presently requisite means applyed to them to prevent it will be by the vehement torment thereof deprived of their wits and many to cease their pain by losse of their lives have despairingly slain and drowned themselves The Cure of the Taberdilla When you perceive it afflict the Patient permit him not to lie very warm nor upon feathers for of what quality soever he bee in Spain having this sickness he is laid upon wheat-straw Then immediatly open the Median Vein first in one arm and the next day in the other taking a good quantity of bloud Let him have water cold wherein Barlie and Annise-seeds have been sodden without Liquorice for the Spanish Physitians hold Liquorice to bee hurtfull unto them so much as he will desire which will be every moment but no other drink nor any raw fruits Assoon as the spots appear give him some Cordiall potion and laying him upon his belly set six Ventoses together on his back between and beneath the shoulders and scarifying them draw out if it be a body of strong constitution 18 ounces of bloud After which and that he hath slept he will find ease within twenty four hours and such alteration in himself as he will thinke he is delivered of a most strange torment Then give him moderately nourishing meats for he will desire to eat much the fourth day give him some convenient Purgations And if in the mean while he is costive provoke him every day by Clisters and warn him to forbear 15 dayes
the hole so much Cummin Seed as will fill it and apply it as hot as it may be endured to the nape of the neck For the Dropsie Take a pottle of White or Rhenish Wine an ounce of Cinnamon and a pint of green Broom ashes put them together in an earthen pot eight and forty houres the Cinnamon being first bruised stirre them all often and then put them up into a white Cotten bag and let the liquor drain out of them put it up again twice upon the lees and then use four times a day of it drink it cold in the morning one hour before dinner one hour before supper and when you goe to bed at each time drink a quarter of a pint if the greif be not fully removed use a second or third pottle so made up but with most persons one pottle sufficeth For an Ague Take as much black Sope as a Wallnut and three times as much crown Sope and mingle them together then shred about a pugill of Rue and put thereto half a spoonfull of Pepper very finely beaten and with a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour or as much as shall suffice mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth and make it up into two plaisters and apply to each wrist one and keep them fast on for nine dayes together you must apply the plaisters just as the cold fit beginneth to come upon them Sweat is held by all experienced Phisitians to be very good to cure an Ague but they must be put into their sweat before the cold fit come upon them you must use this twice or thrice before the Ague will be quite cured and let them drink no other drink during their sweat but Aqua vitae and small Beer mingled together but you must not make it too strong of the Aqua vitae To comfort and strengthen the Joynts and Sinewes â„ž Of the flowers and seeeds of Saint Johns Wort three ounces steep them three dayes in sufficient Wine and then seeth them in a brazen Vessell till the Wine be consumed then strain them and put to the straining as much of fresh Saint Johns Wort stamped and steep it again three dayes and afterward add thereunto of Turpentine three ounces of old Oyle eight ounces of Saffron one scruple of Mastick Ê’ ss of Myrrh of Frankincense ana Ê’ ii ss afterward put in the straining the space of a moneth of the flowers and seed of Saint Johns Wort one handfull and half of Madder brayed of fine grain wherewith Scarlet is died ana three drachms of the Juyce of Yarrow two ounces seeth them to the consumption of the Juyce with earth Wormes washed with Wine two ounces and a little Wine odoriferous For obstructions of Liver and Spleen â„ž Flowers of Burrage Buglosse Marigolds Violets Endive of each a handfull Dates stoned three ounces of the best blew Currans two ounces sweet Fennell-seed half an ounce Graines and Coriander of each one drachm whole brown Watercresses nine leaves Hysop stripped downwards nine little branches of french Barly three ounces boyl all these together in a pottle of spring water till a third part be consumed then strain it and when it is strained adde of the conserve of Barberries three ounces Sirrup of Lemons and of Quinces of each three ounces this is to be taken morning and evening nine spoonfuls at a time The Flowers are to be had at the Apothecaries dry all the year For the Palsie in the head For the Palsie in the head take of the oyles of Amber Fox and Beaver and mingle them together and annoint the nape of the neck with them evening and morning chafe it in with a warm hand and chafingdish of hot coales And take of the oyle of Amber alone and with your finger put some of it every morning into your nose and take two or three drops of it and rub it into your head upon the mould thereof And take two or three drops of the same Oyle and put it into your Beer or Ale for your mornings draught especially at the change or full of the Moon for four or five dayes together Be sure to keep warm and avoid going abroad in rain misty or moist weather Oyle of Saint Johns Wort for ache and pain Take a quart of Sallet oyle put thereto a quart of flowers of Saint Johns Wort well picked let them lie therein all the summer untill the seeds of that hearb be ripe the glasse must be kept warm either in the Sun or in water all the summer untill the seeds be ripe then put in a quart of Saint Johns Wort seeds whole and so let it stand twelve houres the glasse being kept open then you must seeth the oyle eight houres the water in the pot full as high as the oyle in the glasse when it is cold strain it that the seed remain not in it and so keep it for your use For the knitting together and strenthening of bones Give inwardly Knotgrasse Plantain or Ribwort water with Sirrup of the greater Comfrey to three spoonfuls of the water exhibit one of the sirrup so often as they use it There are also vulnerary Potions prescribed for this purpose in the Dispensatories For the Courses When you give Oculos cancrorum truly called Lapides cancrorum to provoke a womans Courses you must give her almost a spoonfull of it mixed with some water of Motherwort called Artemisia causing her to drink a good glass-full of the water immediately after it the best time to exhibite it is to give it hot in the morning by four of the clock and let her sleep after it you must give it about those times she ordinarily expecteth her Courses if you cannot get Morherwort water you may use in stead of it Penniroyall water You may dissolve your powder of Lapidum cancrorum either with juyce of Lemons or with distilled Vinegar and spirit of Vitrioll If you put a greater proportion of Vitrioll then of the other it will sooner dissolve you need but cover it with the juyce or spirits and after some few houres poure off the spirits from the powder A Cordiall excellent good for melancholy panting and trembling of the heart swounding fainting coldnesse and rawnesse of the stomack and also for many other greifs arising from a cold and moist complexion often proved with happy successe Take of Saffron half an ounce of Angelica roots finely sliced one ounce of Cloves six drachms Balm two handfuls Rosemary tops four handfuls shread the hearbs and roots and beat the spices grosly then put them with half a pound of Sugar into three pints of small Cinnamon water or of small Aqua vitae and let them stand infused three or four dayes together after boyle them and let the Aqua vitae burn stirring them well together till near a pint thereof be consumed away then strain it and when it is settled poure off the clear from the bottome
and drink again but without sweating and use some exercise to keep the body warm use this last order twelve dayes together use good Cordials and Restoratives with sirrup and conserve of Fumitory For the green Sicknesse and Jaundies Boyle of Rue and Sage of each a bundle in a quart or three pints of Ale with one scruple of Saffron To cure this disease the Electuary of Steel is excellent if the body be first purged for it doth open all obstructions but the Patient must use some exercise after the taking it to stirre up naturall heat the better the dose is half an ounce at a time to take of it The Steel for the Electuary is thus prepared â„ž Of the filings of the best Iron or Steel as much as you please grinde it subtilly and finely upon a Porphiry or red Marble stone with Vinegar then dry it at the Sun or at the fire and grinde it again with Vinegar as at the first and doe thus seven times one after another and thus you have the Steel prepared fit for you The Electuary of Steel is made up thus â„ž Of the filings of Steel so prepared half an ounce Cinnamon Nutmegs condited of each three drachms of chosen Rubarb two drachms of the species of Aromaticum rosatum half a drachm of chosen Honey and of fine white Sugar of each one pound and one ounce mingle these all together over a soft fire and make it up into an Electuary After the taking of this Electuary let the Patient in all cases use some bodily exercises being first universally purged for this Electuary is most excellent against all obstructions of the Liver Spleen or other disease and for the green Sicknesse For the green Sicknesse or green Jaundies The green Sicknesse or Jaundies cometh of yellow choller mixed with corrupt or putrified flegm and corruption of bloud debility of nature and faintnesse of heart it happeneth also when the Liver is weakened that it cannot convert the nourishment into bloud but the digestion is raw and crude so that the whole body is filled with water and flegm instead of good bloud it is cheifly found in young Maidens who desire to abate their fresh colours and as they conceive to be fine and fair and foolishly feed upon trash which altereth the colour and state of their bodies as of unripe Apples Peares Plums Cherries and raw Fruits and Hearbs or Meale Wheat Barly raw Milk Chalk Lime and the like and they that have this disease are very pale and greenish if they chance to cut their finger no bloud but water will follow they feele great pain in their head with continuall beating are faint short-breathed and their naturall Flowers are stopped and stayed to the prevention and cure whereof the body must first be well and orderly purged as by the Medicines before prescribed The Table for the Child-Bearers Cabinet WHat things are to be taken heed of in the two first Moneths page 1. Orders for the third moneth 2. From the fourth moneth 3. From the fifth sixth and seventh moneth ibid. In the eighth moneth 4. In the ninth moneth 5. A Liniment 6. The Fomentation ibid. The Bath 7. Suffumigations of the Genitals to facilitate delivery ibid. What meat is most usefull 8. What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lye in ibid. What is to be done at the Birth ibid. How and wherewith the child-bed womans bed ought to be furnished 9. To whom the seat may agree and be fit ibid. What the Midwife shall doe in the very moment of the Birth ibid. What to be done when the Infant is come into the world 10. If the Secondines break not readily 11. What is to be done after the child is born if yet the Secondine or after-Birth be retained ibid. Another approved Remedie for drawing them forth 12. Another Receipt ibid. To draw forth a dead child ibid. How the bellies of Child-bearing women being costive or bound may be loosned 13. What things are to be applyed to the naturall or Secret Parts ibid. The Fomentation ibid. Another 14. An Ointment ibid. A Girdle for the Belly ibid. The order from the seventh day after the woman is brought to bed 15. On the eighth day ibid. On the ninth day ibid. A Liniment to scatter and disperse the Milk ibid. When and whath Bath they must use 16. Another 17. Against the gripings of the belly in Children ibid. Outward Remedies for the same ibid. Inward helps in their meats ibid. A Drink ibid. The government of the Nurse 18. The Care of the Infant 19. A Bath of sweet water very profitable for Children as by whose meanes they may grow up and increase 20. The diseases of Infants 21. The diseases and symptomes proceeding from the birth in women with child ibid. Against the Rupture of the Cods and perinaeum and the part between the rising of the Yeard and the Fundament which proceedeth from difficulty of bringing forth 22. For windinesse or Collick of the Belly 23. For the Itch. ibid. For the Flux of the bloud 24. For falling down of the Matrix from the birth ibid. For the Piles after the birth 25. Against pain of the Breasts contracted by too much Milk ibid. For the Imposthume of the Breasts ibid. What is to be administred to the Child after it is born for the first thing it taketh 27. For Infants troubled with wind and flegm 28. A most excellent Medicine to cause Children to teeth easily ibid. For Agues in Children ibid. For Wormes in Children ibid. For Heart-Wormes 29. The Cure ibid. To cause a young Child to goe to stool ibid. Another certain Experiment .. ibid. The Table of the Cures for severall Diseases FOr Ach in the bones 33. For all Aches and lame Members ibid. An Ointment for all Aches which come from cold causes shrunken Sinewes straines in man or beast it is incomparable and will keep forty yeares but it must be made onely in May. 34. To counterfeit beyond-Sea Azure ibid. To know good Azure and pure 35. For an Ague ibid. For a Tertian or a double Tertian Ague ibid. For a short Breath ibid. An Electuary for the shortnesse of Breath .. 36. For a Bruise or Squat ibid. A Restorative for the back 37. For Aches in the Back ibid. For bleeding at the Nose ibid. For burning or Scalding ibid. For a Cough of the Lungs 38. For purging of Colds Coughs and Comforting the Lungs ibid. A Julep for a Cough 39. Another ibid. For a Canker in the Mouth ibid. For a Consumption and Cough of the Lungs 40. For Collick and paines in the Back ibid. For the Cramp 41. For a Canker ibid. Another ibid. For a Canker in the Lips ibid. A water for a Consumption ibid. For the Cough 42. For a Cough or shortness of Breath ibid. For a Consumption ibid. For the Dropsie 43. Another ibid. For pains in the Eyes ibid. For sore Eyes by salt Rheum ibid. To cleer the Eye-sight 44. For the Flux ibid. Another
ill signs in the disease 52. How to know of what humours this disease cometh 53. How to cure the Measels or small Pox. 54. A Clyster 55. How to preserve the eyes ibid. What is to be done when the Pox or Measels are slow in coming forth 57. Another good drink to expell the Pox or Measels ibid. Epithemation for the heart 58. How to quench the thirst ibid. What is to be done when all the Pox are come out ibid. When the Pox after they be come out doe not grow to maturation how you shall help it 60. How to help ulceration ibid. A very good Vnguent for the same purpose 61. For extream heat and burnings in the soles of the feet and palms of the hands ibid. For to help the sorenesse and ulceration of the mouth ibid. For inflammation and pain in the tonsils and throat 62. Another ibid. How to open the eye-lids that are fastened together with the Pox. ibid. A good Collary for a Web or Ungula in the eye ibid. How to help divers accidents which chance after the Pox are cured and gone 63. For rednesse of the face and hands after the Pox are gone ibid. For spots in the face remaining when the Pox are gone ibid. A good Ointment for the same purpose 64. For holes remaining when the small Pox are gone ibid. Running of the Eares how to help it ibid. For stopping of the Nostrils to help it 65. For hoarsenesse remaining when the Pox are gone ibid. For filthy and moist Scabs after the Pox are gone ibid. The Table of the additionall Observations A Preservative against the infection of the Air and Plague often approved by Pope Adrian and many other of great rank and quality 97. A Cordiall water against the Infection ibid. Severall opinions against wearing of Arsenick Amulets as Preservatives against the Plague 98. Causes of the Plague 100. Signs of the Plague 101. How the infection of the Plague entreth into a man ibid. The cure of the Plague 102. Another 103. Another ibid. Another ibid. Another for Botches Boyles and Tokens 104. Experiments for the cure of the Plague 105. Another approved Remedy ibid. A sweating Powder ibid. The Table of the cure of Diseases in remote Regions THe Calenture 106. To know the Calenture ibid. To cure the Calenture ibid. The Taberdilla 107. To know the Taberdilla ibid. The cure of the Taberdilla ibid. The Espinlas 108. To know the Espinlas ibid. To cure the Espinlas 109. Camera de Sangre ibid. The cure of the bloudy Flux ibid. The Erisipela 110. To know the Erisipela ibid. To cure the Erisipela ibid. The Tinoso or Scurvy 111. To know the Scurvy ibid. Preservatives against the Scurvy 112. To cure the Scurvy ibid. Sennertus his Observations of the Scurvy 113. A water to make a man see within forty dayes though he have been blind seven yeares before if he be under fifty yeares of age 115. For the Web in the eye ibid. For the Wind in the side that maketh the head swim ibid. Against Deafnesse ibid. Contra lupum veniens super oculum aut pedem 116. Pro Cancro lupo ibid. Pro oculis ibid. For bleared eyes 117. Cornes ibid. Apostema ibid. For a cold Stomack ibid. For the pain of the Stomack ibid. For wind or gnawing in the belly ibid. For the small Pox. ibid. For a stroak in the eye 118. Bloudshed in the eye ibid. Pro oculo aure ibid. For a venomed Sore ibid. To make a Swelling break ibid. For the Squinsie ibid For biting of a mad Dog ibid. To break a Botch ibid. For gnawings ibid. To increase Milk ibid. If Milk be thick ibid. A Salve for Botches Wounds and Sores ibid. Venena 119. Pro auribus ibid. Caput-purgium ibid. For the bloudy Flix ibid. For Stomack-Wormes ibid. For a Felon ibid. For the Reins of the Back ibid. For them that cannot goe upright for pain in their Back and Reines 120. For the Stitch. ibid. For the Stitch in the side ibid. To heal Wounds ibid. For swelling of Joynts ibid. To knit Sinewes or Veines that are kickt or broke ibid. Ut virga hominis nunquam erigatur ibid. Verrucae Porri ficus 121. For Cornes ibid. For Warts ibid. For a Wound that bleedeth inwardly ibid. If men have any bloud within them of any hurt ibid. Aqua pro scabie tumore pruritu ibid. An vulneratus vivat vel non ibid. To destroy an Imposthume in what place soever it be ibid. For Warts 122. Oleum Nucum ibid. Unguentum Dialaehaeae optimum pro podagra ibid. For the Collick and Stone ibid. Aqua propter ulcera malum mortuum ibid. Aqua pro ulceribus ibid. Capitis dolor 123. For Bones broken in a mans Head ibid. Capitis dolor ibid. Corvi albi ibid. Ebrii ibid. Acetum ibid. Fistula ibid. Pro virga virili combusta cum muliere ibid. Contra exitum ani ibid. Contra fluxum 1â—4 Plaister of Paris ibid. An virgo corrupta ibid. Ut dens cadat ibid. Pro cumbusto cum muliere ibid. A Drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaister or Ointment or without any taint most perfectly ibid. Unguentum genistae ibid. Unguentum Augustinum is good for all sore Legs that be red and hot ibid. Unguentum viride is good pro erectione virgae and for the Mormale no Ointment worketh stronger then this 125. Unguentum nigrum for Wounds heating and burning ibid. Unguentum Rubrum ibid. Contra Vomitum ibid. Fluxus sanguinis narium ibid. Contra Sciaticam 126. Freckles of the face ibid. To know if a man be a Leper or no. ibid. For ach in the loins ibid. For a scald head ibid. Ad ornatum faciei ibid. If the Liver rot ibid. For stopping of the Pipes ibid. Two more of the same 127. The Plague Water ibid. A Cordial water good for the Plague Pox Measels all kind of Convulsions Fevers and all pain of the stomack ibid. For a child that hath the Ague 128. For a burning Fever ibid. For the Jaundies black or yellow ibid. To bring down the flowers 129. To stay the flowres ibid. For the Mother ibid. For the stone ibid. For a cold cough Ptissick or any defect of the Lungs ibid. For a Stitch. 130. For a Consumption ibid. For the green sickness ibid. A speciall water for all Sores ibid. For the trembling of the heart 131. For a Flux of the wombe ibid. A Purging drink for superfluous humours for aches in the joynts sinews and for Agues ibid. A precious eye water for any disease of the eyes often proved 132. Tutia is thus prepared ibid. You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner ibid. To bring the Camphire to pouder with the use 133. If there be any thing grown upon the eye ibid. For any Ague ibid. To make Pills to cleanse the back 134. A Bath ibid. For the cough of the Lungs and defluxions ibid. To cause a woman to have her flowers 135. For the Cough of the Lungs ibid. For Cramp or numnesse ibid. Fir a Cough Wind and a cold Stomack 136. For a Cough and a Consumption ibid. For a cold Dropsie ibid. For the Dropsie 137. For an Ague ibid. To comfort and strengthen the joynts and sinnews ibid. For obstructions of Liver and Spleen 138. For the Palsie in the head ibid. Oyle of Saint Johns-wort for ach and pain 139. For the knitting together and the strengthning of bones ibid. For the Courses ibid. A Cordial excellent good for Melancholy panting and trembling of the heart swouning fainting coldnesse and rawness of the stomack and also for many other griefs arising from a cold and moist complexion often proved with happie successe 140. A sudden way to make up this excellent Cordial ibid. Pills to purge flegm and winde 141 For the Gout ibid. My Lord Dennis his Medicine for the Gout ibid. Another for the Gout 142. To stay the Courses when they come down too violently ibid. For the whites ibid. To keep the body soluble and to purifie the bloud ibid. For the green sickness or yellow Jaunaies 143. An Electuary for the green Sickness ibid. An excellent Powder for the green Sicknesse ibid. Another 144. A singular purging Potion against the green Sickness c.. ibid. FINIS