Catharticks and Purgatives The Belly is loosned by Physicks taken at the Mouth or cast in by Clysters or else by Suppositories Those that are taken at the Mouth are of two sorts for some of them do strongly purge the Belly and bring forth the Excrements others work more weakly which are principally to be used to keep the Belly loos that the Natural Excrements of the first Concoction may not too long be retained Strong Purgers in a Chollerick Cause Whey Clarified and so drank from three pound to eight pound within one hour space but it wil be more effectual if in the first Cup you dissolve one dram of common Salt Un-huld Barly Water drank within the time of half an hour from two pound to six pounds especially if it be boyld with Raisons and Prunes The fresh Juyce of the purple Violet from one ounce to two ounces with one cup of Barley or fountain Water The Juyce of Damask Roses drank the same way The Juyce of the Garden Gourd gently boyled with a fourth part of Hoâ—ey and a little common Salt drank from three ounces to five ounces All these must be corrected by steeping of Wormwood in them if a weak stomach chance to abound with choller The Juyce of Succory clarified from Three ounces to five or six ounces Common Oyl that is made of ripe Olives boyld with thrice as much Fountain Water til the moysture be consumed drank alone from four ounces to six ounces especially in the pain of the Heart The fresh Flowers of the Cherry Tree or the Peach Tree one smal handful eaten in a Sallet Musk Roses in number four Eaten in a Sallet especially if they be yet moyst with Dew Twelve sweet Prunes gently boyl'd in Honey Water You may also prepare from Prunes a * What Rob or Sapa is and how to mak several sorts thereof and the several uses of them you may easily learn in my last edition of the London Dispensatory in English Rob like to Sapa of smal Charge and very pleasant such as here followeth Take sweet Prunes one pound sweet Cods sliced three ounces Fountain Water or sweetish white Wine three pound boyl them at a gentle fire til the Matter grow thick then strayn it through a Hair Sive then boyl it again to the consistence of a Sapa of which for a Sufficient Purge give one ounce and half either by it self or with a smal Cup of Water or Broth. you may boyl it thicker like an Electuary for such as wil take it only in a Bolus but you must add a fourth part of Honey that it may last some time uncorrupted and you may give one ounce of it or one ounce and half Purgers in a Flegmatick Cause Take red Sugar one ounce in the broth of a Pullet or Water of Coriander Also take fine Sugar from one ounce and half to two ounces the same way Good Metheglin not boyled taken from eight ounces to about one pound But the windinss of it must be corrected with seeds of Annis Fennel or Coriander Sweet Wine with the third part of raw Honey from four ounces to nine ounces adding also the sweet Seeds that it may not stretch out the Belly The decoction of Fenugreek with a fourth part of Honey or else alone with Salt from four ounces to six ounces The Herb Mercury eaten like Pot-hearbs seasoned with Salt and Oyl So also is the Decoction of it good from four to six ounces adding Salt to it The pouder of both Hysops from two drams to four drams with Oxymel or about one measure of the Decoction of it given alone or else with Oxymel The Pouder of crude Tartar from half a dram to two drams drank in Cock-Broth or Honey and Water or in the Decoction of Hysop or Poley Rosin of the Larch Tree unwashed from three drams to five for those that are in years but give children about one dram in Bolus or Pills For this end may be provided a laxative Oxymel that is very effectual Take eared or femal Mercury two handfuls common Wormwood one handful Honey one pound Fountain Water three pound let them boyl at a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey then ad Hysop and Poley of each one handful the best Vineger half a pound boyl them again to the consistence of Oxymel and then strain them the dose is from three ounces to four ounces alone or in Broth. Also there are Pills easy to get and of smal cost Made of washt Aloes which may be given from one scruple to two drams or thereabouts And Garzias ab horto writes that if the leaves of Aloes are cut and boyled with a little Salt the Decoction drank to about eight ounces wil Loosen the Belly without any harm four or five times Purgers in a Melancholy Cause Take the pouder of Fumitory dryed in the shade about three drams in Water and Honey Or Take the fresh Juyce of the same Herb from two ounces and half to four ounces or there abouts in Clarified Whey or Broth of a Pullet So the Decoction of one handful of it is good especially with Raisons and a little Salt Tartar used as was said before The Cream of Tartar is given from one dram to three drams in Broth or some other Liquor Of Tartar and a little of the Leaves of Senna of Alexandria to stimulate it a very effectual Pouder is made and it is very pleasant It is thus made Take the best crude Tartar one dram or Cream of Tartar one dram half Leaves of Senna one scruple seeds of annis or fennel or cinnamon half a scruple fine Sugar half a dram mingle them and make a Pouder for one Dose Medicaments that Soften the Belly We must use these remedies that do not Purge strongly rather to hinder the retention of the Excrements of the first Concoction than for any other necessary and quick Evacuations and such are these Things that Molify the Belly in a Chollerick Cause These following Herbs boyld as Pot-hearbs and their Decoctions are profitable namely Sorrel Atriplex Blites Lettice al kind of Sorrel Mallows and the stalks thereof Spinach These Herbs soften more if they be boyled with Raisons in fat Broth or seasoned with Oyl and a little Salt Sweet Cherries boyled especially with their broth and sprinckled with Sugar Also Juyce of Cherries thickned with Honey from one spoonful to two spoonfuls either taken alone or with Broth. Peaches byoled and sprinkled with Sugar Sweet Apples byold Corinths without stones and al of that kind either taken alone or steeped in Clarified Whey til they swel or boyled in White Wine or Broth and sprinkled with Sugar taken one ounce or two ounces at a time Sweet Prunes raw their outward skin being pulled off or boyled in Wine and sprinkled with Sugar The Juyce of Ptisan especially made of husked Barley Barley Bread Oyle of ripe Olives eaten largely at Meals The cheif use of al these as of those that follow is at the first
Honey Water with a little Vineger These Purge Violently Dogs Cole the Juyce of it whilst it is fresh and the Herb first dried in the shade The same thing doth Scammony but it is corrected with Quinses or the Smoak of Brimstone which is a new Invention and it makes the Medicament gentle enough and void of all taste either of these being grossely poudered is spread upon a brown Paper and poudered Brimstone is cast upon the Coals underneath so that the Paper over it may receive the smoak so soon as the matter begins to Melt it is taken away and reserved for use and so may Scammony be safely given from five grains to fifteen but if it be prepared with Quinses ten grains are sufficient it may be given in some convenient Liquor or made up in Pills or Bolus Of these spoken of divers purging Medicaments may presently be provided concerning which we must generally take notice that the purgation will be made more gentle if purgatives be mixed with Lenitives of the same kind which must be understood proportionably of all other purgatives for Example A potion to purge Choller may presently be provided thus Take Raysons half an ounce sweet Prunes eight The Lesser Centaury two drams Fennel Seed half a dram Barley or common Water eight ounces make a Decoction at a soft fire til half be consumed strain it and give it to drink If you will have a Bolus Take the Roots of patience in pouder one dram the flowers of the Lesser centaury half a dram the pulp of Raysons clensed from their stones or the * what Rob is how to make it you may easily learn if you Read the Translation of my London Dispensatory under the Title Rob you shall find twelve several sorts of Rob by which with diligence and care you may make any other sort of Rob. Rob of Prunes thickned six drams Ginger six grains mingle them and make a Bolus If you meet with a Patient whose Stomach abhors all Physick then make purging Prunes or Currence or Figs if you steep the said fruit in some of these purging Decoctions that purge Choller so long that the fruit swel and then six Prunes or three or four Figs or half an ounce of Currence unto one ounce will be sufficient for a purge So you may provide these fruit to purge any other Humors only changing the matter of the Purgative Liquors that they are soaked in according to the matter of the disease whether it be Blood Melancholy or Flegm These gently Purge Flegm when it is predominant Agarick infused all night in Liquor in which Ginger is first soaked or Hysop or Time or some other like hot and sharp Herb and then it is dryed As they make Agarick in * See the way of making Thoches of any sort in my Translation of the London Dispensatory of the lasâ— Edition Troches it is given beaten into Pouder from half a dram to one dram in Pills or Bolus or drink of Oxymel it is infused from four scruples to three drams or thereabouts especially in Honey Water Asarum of Mathiolus Purgeth every Part of it but the Root most effectual it is given in Pouder from one dram to two drams with Oxymel or Water and Honey The pulp of the Seeds of wild Saffron is given from two drams to five drams or thereabout the Emulsion of them is given in sweet Wine strong Wine or Broth it is corrected with such things as heat and corroborate the Stomach as spike wild Galingal Rosemary c. The Juyce of the Berries of Buckthorn or dying-thorn wherewith the the Book-binders do Colour the Coverings of their Books Yellow is given in substance from three drams to six drams it is corrected with sweet Herbs Seeds or Spices especially with Ginger The thicker Rind of the Elm Poudered is given from two drams to half an ounce or thereabouts in Wine or the Decoction of Hysop Radix cava or the Root of Bulbus Fumitory dryed in the shade is given in substance poudered one dram in some convenient Liquor Of the Buck-thorn there is made a pleasing Syrup two ways and to be kept for the Poor after this fashion Take the Juyce of the Berries of dying Buck-thorn clarified two pound clarified Honey two pound and an half Boyle it at a soft fire to the consistence of a Syrup straind through a wide Linnen Cloth after wards whilst the strained Liquor is yet hot cast in of the best Cinnamon in Pouder three drams Ginger one dram and an half mingle them and keep it for your use Or. Take of the said Juyce strained and Boyled by it self til a fourth part be consumed one pound clarifâ—ed Honey eight ounces Boyl them together to the consistence of a Syrup when they are Boyled and taken from the fire cast in two drams of good Cinnamon Give either of these from one ounce to one ounce and an half in Wine or Broth of Flesh or in the Decoction of Hysop or Poley or Time Strong Purgatives Take the Root of Esula the greater or the less which is commonly the more effectual The Root is used first steeped in Rose Vineger or Vineger of Quinces and then dried and kept for occasion If these Vinegers be wanting common Vineger is altered with some Stomachicall Astringent as with Roses Barberies wild Pomgranatâ— Flowers or Quinces the Tendrells of Vines Flowrs of the wild Vine or Myrtle Berries it is given in Pouder from six grains to twenty grains it is Infused from one scruple to five scruples or thereabout in Wine or Metheglin The Rind of the Root Esula of Venice is of the same nature prepared and given the same way Garden-Broom which they calâ— spanish Broom the Leavs and Seeds are given in substance from one dram to two drams in Infusion or Decoction from two drams to half an ounce It is corrected with Aromatical Wine or some Odoriferous stomachical remedies Al the parts of cornerd Broom do the same effects exhibited the same way Common Hermodactils or Meddow Saffron of Dioscorides the Roots of them digged up before they flower and especially before the Leaves come forth endure no boyling or infusion the Pouder is given from two scruples to two drams in Pils or Bolus or Lozenges or alone in drink in Wine or Broth. The force of it must be sharpned with some tart thing as with Ginger Hysop or Time also it were good to ad some Antidote to correct the Windiness of it as amongst common antidotaries are Rue Goats Rue or wild Angelica Root and the purgation wil be the safer The Root of the yellow wild Daffodil is given in substance from two drams to half an ounce in Wine or Broth it is corrected with odoriferous stomach strengthners The dry Root of the black wild Vine of Mathiolus is given in Decoction from one dram and an half to three drams In substance poudred from half a dram to one dram and half or thereabouts it is corrected with the
of Lemmons and Citrons Butter chiefly that which is salt Antale Mother of Pearl Bean flowers husks and meal Foenugreek Bran unhulled Barley Flowers and Roots of white Lillies Leaves and Berries of Bays Dock the wild and the sharp especially the Root of it Milk and the whey of it Litharge Mallows Root of Solomons Seal Scabious al Natural Baths moderately hot Of the Herbs are made Decoctions for Lotions and Baths Of the rest are made divers Remedies to beautifie the face and take away the spots as also for Scabs and Itch. To wash the face and to make the hands white these are singular good Bitter Almonds or Peach Kernels bruised and with milk brought to the form of a Cataplasm Also Bean meal wrought with whey or milk to the consistence of a liquid Liniment Bread of Barley meal stamped with milk boyled a little and when it is hot rubbed on gently Also Lac Virginis is much commended which is made of one part of Litharge and two parts of Vineger they are mingled and shaked together and soaked for three hours afterwards the Vineger being filtered Rain water is put in or Fountain water in which a little Salt is dissolved The most excellent to beautifie the Skin is of this kind Take Antalia Mother of Pearls of each equal parts Pound them grosly then lay them bed upon bed with the Juyce of Lemmons and put them in a moist place till they dissolve and then use the Liquor as it is or else distilled through a Filter or Balneo For Itch and Scabs these are the best Unguents Take Litharge of Gold beaten and sifted three ounces Rose Water and common Oyl Oyl of Roses is better of each four ounces Drop in the water first by little and little stirring of it constantly in a Morter with a wooden Pestel till the Pouder have drank up al the water and be wel mingled with it then add the Oyl by little and little stirring them alwaies til they be wel mixed Or Take fresh Butter two drams the Root of the ditch Dock boyled and pulped through a sieve common Oyl and Juyce of Lemmons of each one ounce Bay-berries finely poudered and searced two ounces Mingle them and make a Liniment according to Art The Juyce of Lemmons may be left out and yet the Composition wil be never the worse These do moderately scour for Lotions and Baths Salt water Bath water Sea water Nitrous water Allum water the Urin of a Boy that is sound May-dew the Juyce of sour Grapes white Soap the Decoction of Agarick the Roots of Canes Ivy of the Wals Lupines the black Vine and of Oleander For Oyntments serve al the Rozins chiefly of the Larch and Turpentine Trees Mirrh the inward Rind of the Elder Tree Goats-horn burnt Cuttle-bone burnt new Tobacco the Pouder of common Salt Of these some Remedies are made proved good by Experience both for Scabs and Spots of the Face For the Scab Take the Leaves of Oleander poudred and sifted two drams common Salt one dram fresh Butter one ounce and an half Mix them for a Liniment Or Take the Leaves of Tobacco one handful Oleander and Bays of each half a handful Butter three ounces Beat them in a Mortar til they be al well mixed then Melt it over the Coals and press it out strongly Or Take Bay-berries Ashes Salt of each one dram common Oyl three ounces Wax two drams Mix them for a Liniment Or Take Rosin of the Larch or Turpentine Tree two ounces fresh Butter one ounce Oyl of Bays Juyce of Lemmons of each half a dram burnt Cuttle-bone or Ceruss or Litharge one dram common Salt two scruples Mix them for a Liniment Or Take the middle Rind of the Elder Tree Leaves of Tobacco of each half a handfull common Oyl three ounces Boyl them at a gentle fire until the Moisture be consumed a sign whereof is If the Oyl poured into the fire flame suddenly without Cracking make expression and strain it then add most fine Pouder of Mirrh two drams Yellow Wax one dram and an half Mingle them make a Liniment Also this following Stone if it be dissolved in some convenient Liquor and then wash the place affected with it it takes away both Scabs and Itch. Take Roch-Alum one ounce and an half Litharge of Gold three ounces Borax of the shops Sea Salt and white Lead of each one ounce the best Vineger one pound Rain Water half a pound the Ceruss and the Litharge must be poudered and sifted then Boyl them in an unglazed Pot to the hardness of a Stone For Spots of the face Take May dew purified by filtring two pound Juyce of Sour Grapes or Lemmons or Oranges one pound Roots of white Lillies and Solomons Seal of each two ounces Make infusion for two days in Hors-dung the Vessel being close stopt then distil them by the heat of the same Dung to make a Lotion for the Face Or Take white Soap dissolved into froth with May-Dew or Vineger two ounces Meal of Lupins half an ounce mingle them and stirr them diligently and with a soft fire Boyl them to a mean consistence after that add to them the Oyl of Peach Kernels three ounces mingle them and Boyl them at a gentle heat to the consistence of an Unguent wherewith anoint the Face and the Hands before you sleep and in the morning wash them with a Decoction of Bran. These do strongly cleanse for Baths Lotions Brim-stone Baths Barley the Decoctions of Briony Root Black-Hellebore Centaury the less Sowe wort Elecampane Root especially if you add a little Salt and Alum For an Epitheme the Water of quick Lime For Oyntments Borax of the shops Nitre Brimstone black Soap Ashes of the Vine Branches Lime washed perfectly the pulp of the Root of Elecampane Oyl of Tartar Of these remedies are compounded that are most profitable and proved by Experience For a crusty Scab and like to the Leprosy Amatus Lusitanus saith that this Unguent removes it like to an Inchantment Take Roots of Elecampane Boyled in Vineger and pulped through a Sieve two ounces Salt Butter Rosin of the Larch Tree or Turpentine Tree of each half an ounce common Salt finely poudred two scruples Brimstone one ounce Mingle them for an Unguent Or Take quick Brimstone two drams Ashes of Vine Branches common Salt poudered of each one dram Bind them in a fine Cloth and let them Boyl in common Oyle four ounces Vineger or Juyce of Lemmons one ounce Boyl them til the moisture be consumed and with this matter being hot anoint the part that is Scabby Or Take quick Brimstone half an ounce common Oyl three ounces Dissolve it then add beaten Salt and Ashes finely sifted of each one dram a little Wax mingle them for a Liniment For a Lotion Take Roch-Alum common Salt and Brimstone poudered of each one ounce Black Soap one ounce and an half Barley one handful white Vineger half a pound common water six pound Boyl them til half be consumed strain
of Herbs with sharp wine adding some Allum to them The Juyce of the fruit of Guajacum of Padua when it is half ripe pressed forth through a Linnen Cloth or received by a Spunge stayeth the most desperate flowing of the Hemorrhoids therefore it may be thickned with Allum and be kept for use Also Goats-dung beaten with Vineger and laid on stops all fluxes of Blood The Leaves of common Nettles beaten til the Juyce come forth and put into the Nostrills like a Tent stayeth bleeding at the Nose be it never so Violent But in a hot cause these bind a little Rain water steeled water water of Mineralls of Iron such as is the water of Padua of the Mountain Ortho. Vineger Posca Root of Succory Leaves of the Cypress Tree dried Strawberry Leaves Barley torrefied of which a Ptisan may be made with steeled water steeled Milk Tree Moss Mirtills Purslain the Clot Burr spotted Ars-mart Pear Tree of the Orchards four Prunes the Leaves of Sloes Pond-weed the flowers of Roses especially the red the Seed Down Cups and Root the flowers and Leaves of Willows Housleek Mullen the Leaves and Tendrells of Vines Venus Navil Of these may be provided chiefly Decoctions amonst which against inveterate defluxions the Decoction of the Roots of Roses in some of the foresaid waters is excellent Also this drink by certain experience stayeth in one day every hot excrementitious Bloody Flux of the Belly Take the Juyce of the greater housleek and spotted Ars-mart of each three ounces Boyl them to the Consumption of a third part and give it in drink Outwardly may be prepared Fomentations Baths Emplaisters Epithems and other forms of Medicaments as need requires These bind moderately the Juyce of Oranges Citrons Lemmons not ripe wilding Leaves Leaves of wild Pomegranates Barberries Sheppards purse the inward Rinds of Chestnuts Cistus Dog Tree and the fruit of it the fruit of the Cypress Tree green or not yet ripe flower of the Sun Acorns and their Cups Herb-trinity Hypocistis the flowers of the wild Vine the flowers of the purple water Willow all the Sea Lavenders the common Blood-stone sour Pomegranates Quinces Pomegranate Rinds Nose-Bleed unripe Mulberries Leaves of the Olive Tree Adders Tongue Plantain wild Pear Tree the fruit of the bastard Corinths the Leaves of Brambles unripe Mulberries Sow-wort Iron-wort Yarrow all Medicinal earths the Elm Golden Rod and all these almost may be found in most places The dry Pouders of these may be given to one dram in Bolus or drink or some convenient liquor Decoctions may be made of the Herbs but the Juyces are more effectual the Dose whereof is from one ounce to two ounces These are held for secrets to stop all fluxes of Blood the flowers of purple Loose-strife to one dram given several times in sharp Red Wine Also this Syrup Take the Water of Knot Grassor Yarrow five ounces Let the Blood-stone be so long in this Liquor til the Liquor be of a colour like Blood then add to it the Syrup of Quinces or Pomegranates one ounce mingle them for a drink or in the place of a Syrup put a little Sugar to make it Penetrate and some Juyce of Lemmons or sharp Pears or some other that is of a pleasant tast To stop the Laskes of the Belly and vomiting make a great hollow in a Quince or some sour Garden fruit Apples of an Iron colour are best and fill it with white Wax put it into a Paper and roast it in the Embers give a peice or two of this strewed with the Pouder of unripe Mulberries a little before meat For to stay Pissing of Blood Take the Decoction of Golden-Rod in Rain or steeled water four ounces the water of the whites of Eggs two ounces Juyce of Lemmons two ounces Mingle this to drink For outward Remedies Oyls are made suddenly of the Decoction of Quinces Cypress Nuts and of the Pine-tree and other Herbs adding Posca to it let them be Boyled til the moisture be consumed the use of these is for Oyntments or Unguents with which Litharge Boyled in Vineger may well be mingled Epithems may be made with Posca and whites of Eggs. Fomentations and Insessions of the Decoctions of Herbs Defensatives for wounds are made of Bole-Armoniack or any other Medicinable Earth and the common Blood-stone being mingled and stirred with the whites of Eggs to the consistence of a Liniment the Sediment of a Wâ—â—et-Stone affords matter for a Plaister to stay al fluxes Rulandus doth frequently extol a Plaister of Potters Clay burnt and Boyled with Vineger laid hot to the part to stop Blood that forcibly runs out of any part For the Stomach a Plaister is profitable made of a Quince Boyled in four Red Wine or adding some Crums of bread to it softned in Vineger These bind strongly amongst the most common Remedies Grape stones the Kernells of the Pomegranate dryed the flowers of purple flower-gentle the inward Skin of wood Nuts Chervil and the Root great Comfrey middle Comfrey or the great Daisey Horstail Galls especially unripe Rupture-wort the Root of the Yellow wild Flower-de-Luce the true Blood-stone common Hares-Foot wild Apples unripe Medlars the Rind of the Root of Mulberries money wort Verjuyce Juyce of Sloes Knot-grass the Root and Leaves of the Oak the Bark that is between the Tree and the outward Rind unripe Services Sumach male Sanicle dead Nettles Bloody-rod of Mathiolus or female Dog Tree Of these some are peculiarly commended for some fluxes though all of them may be used generally where there is need of great astriction For the overflowing of the Terms these are accounted approved the shel of the Root of the Mulberry the Root of the dead Nettle Grape stones and Pomegranate Kernells the Pouders of all these are given severally to one dram with Red Wine or some Liquor that is fit for it For Spitting of Blood the Blood-stone taken with Sugar of Roses to one dram or laid in astringent potions til it look like the colour of Blood or put into a Bag and beat into very smal Pouder and so strain Wine often through it or any other ordinary drink Against vomiting and any immoderate and inveterate fluxes of the Belly these two Electuaries are the principle The first Take of the Roots of Yellow wild Flower-de-Luce Boyled in Rain Water and passed through a Hair sive two parts Old Sugar of Roses one part Make an Electuary according to art the Dose is from half an ounce to one ounce In the palce of Sugar of Roses let the Poor take half so much Clarified Honey Boyled in rain water or steeled water wherein the youngest Leaves of the Oak have Boyled some time The other Take the Roots of great Comfrey Boyled in the Decoction of the Root of Garden Dropwort and passed through a Hair sive two parts Old Sugar of Roses one part or parts alike Mingle them make an Electuary the Dose is the same with the former If it be provided for Hepatick fluxes and
is held hitherto by Physitians to be incurable without Chirurgery yet use that is the best master of things and Judg of Remedies hath taught us not long since that the Ruptures of men of years and that very great ones and of long continuance have grown together by the use of Medicaments only and a convenient course of diet and that within threescore daies at the longest in manly and in Old Age but in forty daies in Yong men and at mans stature by the help of which Remedies Boys are cured within twenty daies unless the falling of the Intestins into the Cods be very great and all most grown Habitual And these Remedies may be Ranked amongst those that are easie to be prepared since they are compounded of a few things and those not fetcht from forrein Countries only one excepted The first is this Take one dram of the Herb Two-blade in half a Cup of red Wine Boyled with the Leaves of the same Plant every morning five hours before dinner And let the place affected be dayly anoynted with Oyl of four Olives wherein a whole land Hedg-Hog that is Old hath been Boyled with his Skin and al til the flesh be consumed The second Take for threescore daies one Cup of strong red Wine altered with one ounce of Rupture-wort the whole Herb with the Roots must be taken and the tendrest can be got first bruised and during the said time a Spunge must be laid to the place affected that is first dipped into the same red Wine and then pressed out The third Take one dram of Pouder of equal portions of Rupture wort Wall-Rue and Asparagus and Horse-Tail in half a Cup of strong Red Wine for the time spoken of before and let the place be anointed twice every day with common Oyl or Oyl of St. Johns-wort wherein live Lizards by long standing of it in the Sun are consumed The fourth Let a Cerate be laid on made of equal parts of Bdellium and poudered Aloes with the white of an Egg and the same time let the sick take one dram of the Pouder following in half a Cup of the best Red Wine five hours before Dinner Take Roots of great Comfrey Herb Bennet common Hedg-Hysop the less Two-Blade Horse-Tayl Coriander prepared Juyce of Roses steel prepared with Rose water of each one ounce and an half Mingle them and make a fine Pouder of them all The preparing of the steel is this That the filings of Steel or Iron be quenched in Rose Water and then dryed in the shade and then again be set on fire and quenched a-fresh in the same Water until it can be poudered very fine But in the use of these Medicaments this rule is generally to be observed that a Truss be constantly worn and the sick must take care he hold not his breath nor use strong exercise nor eat or drink meats or drinks that are windy Remedies for Tumors that proceed from Humors are manifest by what hath been said since they must be directed to the taking away of the cause which must be repulsed at the first but in the augmentation they must partly repel and partly digest in the state they must digest or if it can be bring to suppuration but a Tumor that is very hard must first be acurately softned then digested and dissolved Therefore some few things shall here be only annexed that are found to be proved for some Tumors and are Remedies easie to come by For an Erisipulas of any part whatsoever Take fine Wheat flower so much as you please put it into a bag of thin Weaving and lay it to the part at any time of the Defluxion For kibes that are Ulcerated this is a most excellent Unguent Take Leaves of green Tobacco the inward Rind of the Elder of each one handful Roots of the Male Daffodil sliced one ounce common Oyl one pound Boyl all at a gentle fire til all the moisture be consumed then press all out strongly and add Frankinsence finely poudered half an ounce Yellow Wax six drams Mingle them for a Liniment and anoint the part affected within then for Fingers that are pained let it be rubbed strongly on them til they grow very red and hot This is also good for fowlness of the Skin and for Morphews Against the swelling of the Feet from weariness long Disease or contusion Take the Meal of whole Wheat that is not sifted half a pound pouder of wormwood half an ounce Roses one ounce sharp Red Wine what may be sufficient Make a Cataplasm at a soft fire adding about the end compleat Oyl of Roses one ounce and an half Marke an Unguent Lay it on twice a day For hard swellings not Ulcerated a singular Remedy 〈…〉 purging of the Body give for four daies together one dram of the Pouder of common Gladiol which groweth most frequently amongst Corn and take it in Broth altered with the Root of Pilewort four hours before meat And lay upon the part a Plaister of bruised new Wax not yet purified from the Bees and the Honey but if you cannot have it then lay this Cerate Take the Pouder of Lizards dried in an Oven one dram and an half Juyce of Tobacco Yellow Wax and Burgundy â—itch of each half an ounce Mingle them and make a Cerate in the place of Burgundy Pitch which is rare in Italy take Colophonia For a Cancer not Ulcerated that is not yet come to any notable Magnitude nothing is better than the long using of the Plaister of Aquapendente after a sufficient purging of the Body Take Meal of Millet one pound Oyl of Râ—ses worked in a Morter of Lead with a Leaden Pestle til it become of the colour of Lead sive ounces sweet Wine four ounces Make them to a Plaister with a sufficient quantity of the Decoction of Garden Night-shade Sowthistle and Golden-Rod of each alike made in pure Water For watery and windy Tumors Remedies propounded amongst things that discuss are proper An Impostume with a little bag is not cured by Physical means only but the whole Bag must be drawn forth or if that cannot be done after the Tumor is opened it is to be consumed partly with putrefying Remedies partly with eating Causticks of which we have Spoken already Remedies for Diseases in Number Since that a Disease in number Wanting is made to be according to the defect of something belonging to the complement of the Living a Disease in number Augmented must properly be considered according to the addition of some natural thing that is Redundant in number Yet by use and abuse of names Stones Worms a Pin and Web are referred also to Diseases in number Remedies for Worms and Stones are to be found amongst these things which respect the cause from the whole substance For a Pin and Web these amongst Remedies easie to come by are the most convenient being applyed Warm to the Eye but especially by the help of an Ocular Cupping Glass that the Remedy may work
them and keep them for use For spots of the Skin Take Black Soap dissolved in a strong Ly two ounces Borax two drams boyl them til they be thick Then add the husks of beans finely poudered half an ounce Oyl of Peach Kernels three ounces Mix them diligently til they be wel united and make a kind of Soap In the place of the said Oyl you may use common Oyl two ounces Oyl of Tartar one ounce Mingle them and anoint the place morning and evening and wash the Skin with some of the said Decoctions Of this kind is the Sope that the Venetian Women use to deck their faces Hair and Hands The composition is this Take damask Sope four ounces dissolve it in Juyce of Lemmons what is sufficient Then add Oyl of sweet Almonds and of Tartar of each two ounces let them stand in the Sun and be stirred every day until they grow as thick as an Unguent The part is anointed with this and then it is washed with the Decoction of Barley or Bran. Old spots Morphew are taken off with the water of Quick-Lime made with Whey wherewith the discoloured place must be often touched in them when the Skin comes off restore it again with Unguent of Litharge described amongst weak scouring remedies A man of great fame used this remedy for a high Secret and so picked great store of Money out of the Pockets of great Ladies Remedies to soften hard things Though the hardned Humor may seem to be corrected by softening only yet every hardness requires not Remedies of the same force For cold and dry Humors that are hardened by congealing are melted with Heaters only without any notable drivers which things are properly called Softeners Yet Milk and Blood when they are Clotterd and congealed seing they fal to that by want of their proper heat they require things that heat exceedingly or such as attenuate and cut Lastly Milk made like Cheese requires cold and moist things with some Thinners of parts because strong heat seperating the Whey from the thicker part turneth it into Cheese Emollients and proper remedies to Melt are of two sorts Some are fit for Scirrhous Humors which are somewhat stronger and discuss the melted matter Some are gentler and are fit for hardned Humors without any singular stuffing or plenty of matter the use thereof must also precede in Scirrhous affects before strong Emollients that what is congeled may be the more easely melted and more safely discussed The gentle Emollients are marsh-Mallows Borrage Bugloss Brank-Ursine Fenugreek Liquoris Lin-Seed white Lillies Mallows Melilot Raysins Of these may be made Decoctions Syrups Electuaries for inward uses Also they serve to make outward Fomentations Unguents and Cataplasms which are chiefly prepared with Butter fresh Tallow but especially of Mans Fat and of the new Wax the Marrow of four-footed Beasts the Grease of Sheeps Wool common Oyl of Olives wel ripe Suet and the Mucilages of Marsh-mallows Mallows Foenugreek Lin-seed For Fomentations serve particularly moist wool that is properly the washing of wool and water and oyl warm Compounds that are easie to provide are of this kind For an Oyntment Take Roots of white Lillies Mallows Marsh-mallows of each one ounce Chamomel or Dill of each one handful white Wine four ounces common Oyl that comes of ripe Olives eight ounces Boyl them till the moisture be consumed then press and strain them Or Take the mucilage of Lin-Seed and Roots of marsh-mallows of each one ounce Ox marrow and fresh Butter of each one ounce common Oyl three ounces new Wax three drams mingle them for an Unguent For a Cataplasm Take Roots of white Lillies one ounce Leaves of mallows one handful Boyl them gently then melt two ounces of Butter with them and make a Cataplasm Or Take Roots of marsh-mallows Boyled pulped through a Sieve two ounces meal of Lin-seed and Melilot of each one ounce and an half Roots of white Lillies half an ounce Ox marrow one ounce common Oyl three ounces Decoction of mallows what will be sufficient make a Cataplasm These are stronger that follow for they are all used outwardly except the Saffron and the Root of sharp Bind-Weed which it may be Agreeth with Judian Sarsa both in kind and vertue the rest are seldome given alone but mixt with more gentle Emollients For Fomentations therefore add Roots of bryony Sow-bread wild Cucumber and Flower-de-Luce fresh with the Decoction of these an effectual Fumigation may be prepared by quenching a Fire-stone or a peice of a Milstone in it Bitumenous waters of Baths serve of themselues for Baths and Fomentations For to anoint Goose fat and Deers suet are good so is Oyl pressed out of Nuts the Lees of Oyl and Oyl of Peter For Plaisters take the roots of Jacinths Daffodil fresh Leaves of Tobacco and the flowers of Flower-de-Luce By themselves these serve instead of a Plaister Bitumenous Dirt Ox Dung chiefly mixed with Lees of Oyl and Old Cheese Kneaded with Broth of Salt flesh These Cerats they add dry pith Rosin Colophonia Bitumen Jet Ammoniacum which makes a Plaister it self if it be dissolved in sharp Vineger Of these may divers medicaments be presently compounded that are effectual against Schirous Tumors For example For an Oyntment Take Sowbread and wild Cucumber of each half an ounce white Lillies one ounce Chamomel and green Tobacco of each one handful Leaves of Spurge Laurel half a handful common Oyl one pound white Wine four ounces Vineger two ounces Boyl them at a soft fire til half be consumed then press them out A Cataplasm Take a whole Onion Boyled in Vineger one ounce flowers of Blew flower-de-luce steeped in white Wine one Pugil Goose grease half an ounce beat them altogether and make a Cataplasm Some make a Cerate of white Pitch only which they cal Burgundy Pitch which they hold for a secret and prefer it before Amoniacum These dissolve and hinder clotted Blood Vineger Posca Oxymel simple the Decoction of Round Aristolochia Calamints Savory Time the shels of green Nuts Yet the Decoctions are made stronger with Posca as the runnet of a hare drank to one dram with Water and Vineger A present and excellent remedy is made of a Ly of Vineger Salt and Honey after this fashion Take of Ly three ounces Vineger two ounces clarified Honey half an ounce common Salt one scruple mingle these at a soft fire for to drink Also if Oxymel be prepared boyling Honey with the first Wine that comes forth without pressing til al the scum be taken off it will be a pleasant and effectual remedy For curded Milk gentle softners are convenient mixt in Fomentations with Garden Smallage mountain Smallage cummin fresh Mint and Rue adding a little quantity of Vineger In Cataplasmes Bean Meal Lintels with Oxymel or Mulsa for Vineger This following Fomentation is approved Take Leaves of Mallows Roots of Marsh-mallows Herbs Garden Smallage Mountain Smallage Roots of Fennel of each one handful Leaves of Bays Flowers of
the best Mirrh of each half a dram Broth of Red Chiches three ounces Juyce of Lemmons one ounce Mingle them to drink Or Take the Blood of a Fox taken from him when he is alive and white Wine of each equal parts Boyl them at a gentle fire in a Glased Pot to the form of a Furmenty give five ounces of it for eight days together Or Take Sows-Lice prepared one dram Aqua vitae half an ounce Decoction of red Chiches nine ounces Pour the Aqua vitae into the Broth whilst it is hot and take this warm six hours before meat for nine days together Or Take Borax of the shops one dram the Broth of Red Chiches four ounces Aqua vitae two drams Mingle them to drink Or Take Seeds of Blew Violets half an ounce the Decoction or the Water of Veronica or Golden Rod six ounces Make an Emulsion to be given for seven days Also Take the Juyce of Caltrops chiefly that on the land six ounces Drink it warm by it self or with Juyce of Lemmons so the Juyce of Golden Rod drunk for some dayes is held most effectual Remedies that move Corruption Although these do not immediately Root out matter that is preternatural by the whole kind but do rather yeeld assistance to Nature that labours to concoct it yet when the matter is concocted that it may be more soon and safely purged out they do mediately concur also to this work Those things do by themselves move corruption that do maintain the heat of the part either by the likeness of their temper or by the influence of their heat hindering the stopping up of the pores Those things do move corruption by accident which Repress the exceeding of the matter and make the Blood that is mingled so pliable that it is overcome by innate heat For the parts and Constitutions that are over-hot Boyled Onions fat Figs Saffron Fenugreek Lin-Seed the Root of white Lillies Frank insence are convenient And outwardly Goose Grease Goats Tallow Leaven and all kinds of Rosins Plaisters may be presently made thus Take dry Pitch melted in Oyl what may suffice make a Plaister Or Take any kind of Rosin Yellow Wax of each equal parts Mix them for a Cerat to which you may add a fourth part of Goose Grease and so make an Unguent Or Take Roots of white Lillies Boyled and stamped two ounces Meal of Lin-Seed and Fenugreek of each one ounce Saffron one scruple common Oyl one ounce and an half the Decoction of white Lilly Roots what is sufficient make a Cataplasm Leaven by it self kneaded with Goats Grease is most effectual For parts and constitutions that are temperate these are fit Marsh-mallows Mallows sweet Almonds Butter Yolks of Eggs to which in outward Medicaments may be added mans fat Cocks fat fat of Wool Whey Yellow Wax Bees-glew Wine Wheat Meal purged from the Bran common Oyl of ripe Grapes that is not too Old Some living creatures serve for Plaisters chiefly yong Whelps Of the rest Plaisters may be made suddenly thus Take Wheat Meal or Crums of Bread moderately Leavened two ounces common Oyl one ounce hot Water what is sufficient Make a Cataplasm Or Take Leaves of Mallows one handful Butter one ounce Fry them together in a frying Pan then beat them for a Cataplasm Or Take Roots of Marsh-mallows Boyled and passed through a hair sieve two ounces Meal of Fenugreek or Wheat one ounce two Yolks of Eggs common Oyl one ounce and an half mingle them and make a Cataplasm This is an excellent Unguent to ripen corruption and to break an Impostume Take the sharpest Leaven and Yolks of Eggs of each equal parts common Oyl and Saffron of each a little make an Unguent and lay it on with a Colewort Leaf For parts and constitutions that are cold these are convenient hot water powred on water and Oyl Milk Barley Meal quinces Boyled in Milk Leaves of Blew Violets and Bird-Lime of Apple-trees A common Plaister is prepared of crums of bread with Milk and common Oyl or Oyl of Roses or Take Leaves of Mallows and Violets of each one handful boyl them and bruise them adding Barley Meal and common Oyl or Oyl of Roses of each one ounce mingle them and make a Cataplasm If it fal out in respect of ill matter that causeth the tumor that there is need of such things as move corruption by accident that is of such things that must equal the excess of the peccant matter which otherwise were convenient for hotter constitutions they wil be convenient for colder tumors because they attenuate and heat the cold thick matter and such as are convenient to colder constitutions will be convenient for hotter constitutions because they restrain the heat of the matter Whence it is clear that those temperate remedies set down wil be most fit for al occasions sometimes mixt with hot and sometimes with cold ingredients as the affect that wants suppuration inclines most to heat or cold Remedies contrary to Poysons Such are properly Antidotes that by the property of their substance or by their whole temperament do oppose the force of Poysons Those Medicaments are called so improperly which do vanquish Poysons by some apparent exceeding quality such are contemperating Medicaments that are opposite of Poysons in excess Coolers that are opposite to Poysons that inflame and heating cordials that are contrary to Stupefying Poysons that extinguish heat Though there are proper Antidotes fit to be given for all Poysons yet what is truly a kind of Poyson can be known by no proper signs whence it comes to pass that we are alwaies Ignorant of al Antidotes that are contrary to al Poysons the knowledg whereof may therefore seem sufficient both for the prevention and cure of Poysons To make the matter more clear there may be assigned three ranks of Antidotes against Poysons some are chiefly opposite to Poysons that are bred in us either from some extraordinary putrefaction or some other vnspeakable corruption and those are especially useful in Malignant Feavers and the Plague others afford help when we have taken Poyson others do cure us when we are Poysoned by Bitings by wounds or by sight Antidotes for Malignant Feavers and the plague those that are hot are convenient for a cold Time and a cold constitution but cold and temperate are best in hot Time and for a hot constitution The hotter kinds are holy Thistle Star Thistle the Pills and Seeds of Citrons the Root of white Dictamni Mirrh great Chervil Scordium Divels-bit Goats-Rue Scorzonera great Valerian the Root of Swallow-wort The temperate are the whole Citron the Juyce of it as of Oranges also and Lemmons Borrage and Bugloss Bistort Bole-armoniack both Blew-bottles Harts-horn common Pimpernel Cinkfoil Scabious Tormentil Terra Sigillata Of these some Medicaments may be made cheap enough that are not inferiour to the most precious Bezoarticks brought from Forrain Lands First this Syrup is most profitable made of the whole Citron which is temperate enough and
made impregnable against al poysons for many days This pouder is prepared three waies and first thus Take the Heart the Liver and the three first back bones of a Viper or wood Snake dry all in an Oven beat them into Pouder add the root of Maister-wort an equal part and mingle them Secondly Vipers flesh the entrals being taken out except the Heart and the Liver must be cut and seasoned eight days with Salt then put al into a Sive that is wel guarded on every side and underneath rayse a sweet perfume four or five times a day constantly casting on fire coles the pouder of Myrrh Bay-berries grains of Juniper and Cloves and when the flesh is found to smel very wel put it into a glased pot wel covered with a cover of clay and put it into a Bakers oven and let it stay there until al the substance of the flesh with the bones can be brought into a most fine pouder the new Physitians ascribe more vertue to this pouder than to the antient confections of Theriac or Mithridate Thirdly Vipers flesh being excellent wel washed in white Wine saving the Heart and the Liver must be gently dried that it may be beaten to pouder and so used by it self Besides these the poyson of mad Creatures hath certain Antidotes with which being taken for forty days together the wound in the mean while being kept open madness and fear of water is quite driven away These are Madwort the ashes of river Crabs the root of the wild rose and common Pimpernel They are given alone or mingled from one dram to two drams in white Wine they are mingled profitably with the root of Gentian Galen provides his Antidote of one part of Frankinsence Gentian five parts and ten parts of river Crabs burnt Also some report that this pouder is proved by experience to cure the fear of water given in white Wine from half a dram to two drams dayly three hours before meat Take Leaves of Polypode Rue Vervin Sage Plantain with narrow Leaves Leaves of common Wormwood Mints Mugwort betony Balm St. Johns-wort Centaury the less of each equal parts dry them in a paper and beat them to Pouder Thus far concerning remedies that oppose the principal cause of the disease from the taking away whereof the cure of material diseases must begin unless there be somthing else that is urgent and so draws the cure to it for that must be presenly taken care for neglecting the cause and the disease for a time if that urgent thing gives no delay but threatens the patient with sudden death Now these things are said to urge immediately and by it self principally the weakners of the vital spirits in all faintings and swounings but mediately and secondly all vehement pains continual watchings all immediate Evacuations from whence there is fear of the dissolutions of the spirits These things urging such remedies as strengthen the spirits must be set against them such as ease pain procure rest stay fluxes if the disease or the principal cause by reason of its violence and the weakness of the sick do sometime come to be urgent as feverish heat in an Old man and the thickness and clamminess of flegm in an exquisite quotidian Feaver they require no other remedies than such as are of themselves contrary concerning which we have partly spoken and we shall speak something afterwards in the number of remedies that alter diseases Remedies for Symptoms that are Vrgent Those remedies that strengthen the spirits do refresh them also either by accident taking away the causes whereby they are dispersed whereof we shall not now speak or of themselves by affording matter out of which the spirits may be soon ingendered and by Corroborating the inbred heat of the heart The heart is strengthened with Cordials concerning which we shall speak when we speak of Medicaments that are opposite to the disease in distemper They afford fit matter to be turned into spirits as also Nutriments that are of good Juyce and thin substance amongst which are pleasant Wine and sweet smels because they yield thin vapours next to spirits unto the heart In a hot cause cold or temperate sents must be prepared such as are made of Vineger Roses Camphir Violets Mirtils the Pills of sweet Apples and Quinses that are grown Yellow Vineger altered with these ingredients is the best making infusion for some hours or gently Boyling them also to alter the Ayr water must be sprinkled in the Chambers that is mingled with Vineger and it is good for sents to put to the Nose In a cold cause smels must be made of the flowers of Citrons Oranges Lemmons the Clove-gelli-flowers Jesamin Lillies of the Valleys Roots of Angelica Ciperus Carden setwal Leaves of Calamint of the Mountain Marjoram Balm Mint Rosemary Spik Lavender Time Citron Pills Bay-berries Juniper berries and all kind of Spices The best is made of the best Vineger or Wine altered with the foresaid ingredients Also the smel of rosted meat is excellent stuck with Cloves and Cinnamon as also Bread that is hot and sprinkled with Malligo or some principal Wine For the same purpose may Oyls be provided with no great labour from Spices and very cheap to anoint the Nostrils the heart if there be made with clear common Oyl without dregs and the Pouder of Cinnamon or Cloves a matter like to Liquid Pitch which must stand some days in a close Vessel and then be put into a Press and pressed forth Such as ease pain are threefold namely such as cure by taking away the cause of pain proper Anodynes which letting the cause alone yet asswage the sense of the part and stupefactives that wholy take away the feeling of it or else cast the sick into a sleep Those that cure belong not to this place for they are as large in extent as diseases and the causes of them by which the continuity of the part may be dissolved Proper Anodynes are Marsh-mallows sweet Almonds warm water Dill green Chamomel Fenugreek Linseed Mallows Melilot Yolks of Eggs fat Broth. Besides these for Fomentations outwardly are convenient living creatures their entrals being taken out whilst they are hot the Lungs and the kel of living creatures water and Oyl greasy Wooll Sheeps Milk and Cows Milk hot wheaten Bread moderately baked and yet hot For Unguents Hogs fat Hens fat Calfs fat Mans fat Butter Suet Mucilage of Lin-seed Mallows Marsh-Mallows Fenugreek and Oyls made of the said Herbs and Seeds Boyled in them But beside common anodines there are some others that do properly belong to some certain parts which therefore may be called specifical anodines For the pain of the Head from what cause soever this Oyl is most effectual Take the Juyce of Vervain very well purified two pound simple Oyl of Roses one pound Distil it at a gentle fire of Embers let the distilled Liquor be poured on again and distilled again and so do three times for the Juyce will mingle with the
Oyl inseparably and in that being warm dip in a Linnen Clout to lay to the Forehead and anoint the Sutures For pain of the Teeth The Oyl of Box distilled by desent is extolled For the pain of the Chollick a sure remedy is one dram of a Mans Skull prepared and taken with one scruple of Armis Seeds in a cold cause but with Coriander Seed if the cause be hot Also the pouder of the Testicles of a gelded Horse taken to one dram after the same fashion This Oyl is exceeding good for the pain of the Hemorroids Take Fig-wort four ounces great Celondine two ounces the Sponges that grow on the sweet Eglantine in number four Seed of Agnus Castus two drams common Oyl two pound Cut the Roots bruise the rest grossly set them in the Sun for a month and keep them for use Or infuse them for eight days in a hot place then Boyl them til the moisture be consumed and make expression and after that strain them For pain of the Breast the Oyl of Lin-seed drank two or three ounces is singular For pain of the Joynts this Fomentation is approved Take Leaves of Mallows Dwarf-Elder and Plantain of each one handful Smiths Water two pound Boyl them to the Consumption of a third part press them out and strain them and dissolve in the Liquor Salt-peeter purged with Brimstone which they cal Salt of Prunella half an ounce and dip a Linnen Cloth in it and lay it hot to the part Narcoticks indeed laid to the part do stupefie but being taken or smelt to or applyed to the head they cause sleep They differ in the intension of their quality from properly called sleeping Medicaments because these by their moderate coldness and moisture procure sleep but those by the excess of both qualities bring out deep sleep and if they be used too largely they cause Carus and Apoplexy Yet there is some degrees of these Narcoticks for some are more gentle the use thereof is not so dangerous some are more violent which must not be used but upon very urgent pains and watchings The more gentle to be used inwardly are white Poppy Seed to about one dram but outwardly in Lotions the Leaves of Garden Night-shade and Poppy The more violent are Hemlock white Henbane Mandragora Opium round Stramonium Black Henbane and long Stramonium are best to be let alone by reason of the great hurt they do to the Bowels Of others are made fit sents and Lotious for the Feet and the Head but inwardly only Opium and round Stramonium may be used The Seed of Stramonium is given in substance from half a scruple to one scruple or thereabouts but infused from one scruple to two scruples it is corrected with good Wine Opium is given from two grains to five corrected with Saffron or Popper and so made into a Pill or infused in the best Wine Oriental Opium is somthing stronger than Opium of our Country but because outlandish Opium is often brought to us Sophisticated and sometimes is sold very deer it were better to make it pure of our own Country Poppy after the way that Quercitanus hath taught us Take what quantity you please of Garden Poppy Heads that carrieth a red flower so soon as the first flowers appear displaied bruise them in a Stone Morter with a woodden Pestle put the matter into a spacious Glass and pour on so much of the best white Wine Vineger til the matter be very wel wet the Vineger swim above al two fingers breadth let them digest for about fifteen daies and when the Vineger grows red intensively put the matter into a Linnen Bag and press it out strongly what is expressed let it Evaporate at a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey and whilst it is yet hot cast it into cold water that it may Coagulate then take it out and wipe off the moisture But of compounds there are two that are the best and easiest to be provided of all that are found in shops The first is of Guajnerus for outward use Take Opium Juyce of Henbane Juyce of Mandragora of unripe Mulberries Lettice and of Ivy Tree of each one ounce Dissolve the Opium in the Juyces when that is dissolved wet a Sponge in it and dry it again at the Sun for fifteen daies when you would use it dip your Sponge in warm water and put it to the Nose of the Patient this Sponge will keep its vertue for some years The other serves for internal uses namely Laudanum which in two daies time may be made Thus Take the extract of Saffron one scruple the extract of the species of Diamoschu two scruples extract of Opium prepared four scruples Mingle them and with three drops of distilled Oyl of Cloves soften it The Saffron and species are extracted with Aqua vitae but the Opium with distilled Vineger Opium also is prepared if it be cut thin and dried at a gentle heat so long until it will fume no longer and being rubbed between the Fingers will crumble to Pouder the Dose of this is from about one grain and an half to five grains it easeth pains stops long Watchings and staies immoderate and sharp Fluxes Also Narcoticks provoke sleep but far more vehemently than true sleeping remedies do by so much as deep sleep requires stronger means than sleep doth whence it is that when true sleeping Medicaments will not prevail we are forced to use Narcoticks or heavy sleeping remedies now mentioned True sleeping Remedies are sweet Almonds and the Emulsions of them all sorts of Milk Garden Lettice fresh Moss of Trees Water Lillies great Housleek Blew Violets Venus Navel and smal Wine mixed well with pure Water the Exhibition of these is several Flesh Broths are altered with Lettice and Violets An Emulsion of sweet Almonds is made with the Decoction of Lettice Lettice is eaten Boyled seasoned with the Juyce of Oranges or Pome-citrons or Lemmons Decoctions are made of Herbs for Lotions of the Head and Feet Also an unguent may be made to anoint the Nostrils and the temples suddenly with Oyl thus Take these Herbs Lettice Water Lillies great Housleek Garden Night-shade of each one handful common Oyl eight ounces Boyl them at a gentle fire til the moisture be consumed press them out and strain them The Oyl of Violets and Water Lillies of the shops serve for the same use All those things serve to stop Fluxes which stay the matter that is moved with an ill motion by repelling it pulling it back intercepting it and binds up the passages therefore they belong not to this place Those things that are most proper to stay Fluxes shall be mentioned in the Catalogue of astringents There remains therefore to number up those Medicaments that drive away Diseases the use whereof is most fit after the causes that are urgent are taken away now of Diseases there are three general Heads Distemper ill Conformation and Unity dissolved Medicaments that alter a Sick distemper of the whole
Medicaments two are excellent the first is the use of Turpentine for about fifteen daies mingled with Groundpine and made up into Polus Thus Take Ground pine two drams Turpentine two drams Mingle these and make a Bolus to take at once If the Body be over moist it will do well to mingle with them half a scruple of Troches of Vipers or some of the Pouders of Vipers Described these Boles are given alone or about half an hour before the taking of some convenient Decoction Another Decoction is made of the Wood of the Mastick Tree to be taken for many daies with a slender Diet as necessity shall require as for Example Take Mastick Wood two ounces Juniper or Misleto of the Oke one ounce Fountain Water six pound Cut the Ingredients and infuse them for a natural day then add Leaves of Betony Herb Jvy Rosemary of each one handful Boyl them at a soft fire til a third part be consumed then strain it the Dose is seven ounces at a time Outwardly are convenient Baths and mud of hot Baths of Brimstone and Alum Also Fomentations of the best Red Wine altered with Herb Jvy Dwarf-Elder Rosemary Tobacco and the Leaves of Mirtils adding a little Salt and Alum Anointings also with Fox Grease Then to strengthen the Joynts the Mother of the Wine being hot and rubbing of them with Old Oyl and a fourth part of Salt is approved The Turks with good succes do Burn their Joynts but it is with a gentle fire not too troublesome for they dip a Linnen Cloath in Aqua vitae which they set on fire and lay it to the Joynt and so extinguish it It is approved that the pains of the Joynts though they be Old are either cured altogether by the use of the following Aqua vitae or else are made far more gentle and less frequent Take the tops and Flowers of Rosemary two parts Aqua vitae rectified three parts Make infusion in a Vessel very wel stopt for fifty hours then distil it in Balneo the Vessels being fast luted on all sides Take one dram of this Water or one spoonful once every week and every morning wash your face with it and the Joynt affected For the Joynts that are over hot these are convenient inwardly Mens Bones Burnt mingled with other coolers to about one dram Also the Decoction of the Wood of Mastick Tree with Roses and Mirtil Leaves added to it Outwardly Posca is good chiefly with Rose Vineger and rain water Steeled or with Smiths Water altered with Roses Vine Leaves and Mirtils to which with profit may be added to discuss the Humor a part of the stone Prunella For to anoint the Oyl of Roses Mirtils and of Frogs is useful Also Remedies are presently made by Decoction of the same Ingredients Such a Liniment will be very profitable to asswage pain proceeding from a hot and sharp defluxion Take Oyl of Roses and Mirtils of each one ounce the Mucilage of the Seed of Quinses Flea-seed and Mallows of each two drams Wax washed often in Fountain Water half an ounce Mingle them and make a Liniment Remedies for the Nerves For the Nerves over cooled especially these are profitable Germander Castoreum the Brain of a Hare rosted lesser Centory Root of St. Johns-wort Lavender Mirrh Pine Kernels Dog Fennel Primrose Italian Spik Sage and Pitch-smelling-Trefoly Of these things some are compounded most effectual but especially a Decoction such as is that described for the Joynts adding to it Germander and Primroses Also a Bolus of Turpentine with about one dram of the roasted Brains of a Hare and about one scruple of Castoreum Outwardly these have singular use Baths and Mud of hot Baths that are Bitumenous and of Brimstone Also Fomentations of strong Wine altered with the said Herbs adding a little Aqua vitae For Oyntments Oyls are made of the Decoctions of the said Herbs wherein some quantity of Earth-Worms washed in white Wine hath been Boyled Two singular Liniments are made for the cold affects of the sinews whereof the one is excellent for the Cramp that comes of Repletion the other for the Palsey astonishment and trembling The first is made of Stellions Thus. Take Stellions five in number or in the room of them green Lizards infuse them alive in Oyl of Chamomel eight ounces and when they are dead let them Boyl in it til their flesh be consumed then press all out to which add the third part of the dripping of a roasted Goose that was filled with Frankinsence Lard Mirrh and a little Saffron Another is provided of Goose Grease thus Take Leaves of Germander Herb Ivy Sage Primrose Lavender St. Johns-wort of each one handful grains of Juniper half an ounce Mirrh and Frankinsence of each three drams Castoreum one dram and an half Saffron half a dram Moisten the Herbs with Aqua vitae then buise them and with all these make a stuffing to stuff the Goose full withall and stick her with smal sticks of Cinnamon then rost her on a Spit gather the dripping up and when no more will drop cut up the Goose and Boyl her in white Wine for an hour take off all the fat that swims on the top and mingle with the former dripping Some ascribe so much to Oyl of Earth Worms washed in strong Wine and then distilled in the Sand that they affirm a Palsey may be cured by this only To Sinews that are over heat the same things are convenient that were set down for the Joynts except only burnt Bones Remedies for the parts of Breathing These Remedies both hot and cold which bring forth the matter that sticks in the passages of Respiration were set downe in the Catalogue of those things that Evacuate the Breast by Spittle for the same may be fitted to correst the distempers of the Lungs but besides those some things are Peculiarly good to heat and dry the Breast The Waters of hot Baths that proceed from Brimstone Drunk Some Figs steeped in Aqua vitae until they swel Eaten when the Stomach is empty and as one goes to bed The Decoction of Enula Campanae Coltsfoot Hysop Hore Hound Lungwort Savory Time The Decoction wil be the better if it be made with an Old Cock that is stuffed with these Herbs also ful sweet Metheglin will be altered with the same very fitly for ordinary drink or else make an Oxymel with them and take two ounces every morning Also sweet Wine is excellent if it be altered with Hysop or Time But the use of Brimstone exceeds them all and of Turpentine or some kind of Rosin but chiefly of the Larch or the Firr Tree Give daily one dram of Brimstone but especially that which is prepared and brought into fine Pouder taken in a rear Egg. Rosin is given to two drams which is better if it be drank hot dissolved in two ounces of Oxymel Outwardly are convenient Brimstony Baths and to stay long about such Baths of Brimstone in an Aire that is ful of
hot Vapours and that have a drying force Or lay Cataplasms to the breast of Meal of Fenugreek Melilot Pouder of Hysop Calamint and some Brimstone mingled with Honey and with white Wine and Lin-seed Oyl in a just quantity To a Breast that is over-heat these do good besides what was set down before to expectorate Salt flegm to drink Mineral Waters that proceed from Copper and Vitriol as also from Iron and Steel Use of Milk unless some Distillation hinder and the Decoction either of Red Sanders or Rose Wood especially of the Root to be drank for many daies with a thin Diet enchning to cold chiefly of Barley and the four great cold Seeds The Decoction may be of this fashion Take REd Sanders or Rose Wood cut smal five ounces Roots of Succory and Barley of each half an ounce Fountain Water Steeled two pound Make infusion fifteen hours then let them Boyl til half be consumed strain them to drink at twice By the use of this Decoction hot bodies that are subject to a Consumption may be preserved from it as also from Spitting of Blood that is like to follow Also the frequent use of Conserve of Roses at going to bed is commended as also taken in the morning on an empty Stomach especially if some drops of tart spirits of Brimstone be put to it For outward cooling it is sufficient to anoint with Oyl or Unguent made of Violets Cordials There are many Cordialls to be made of the Antidotes that are prescribed against poysons that are taken but all that I propounded were only preservatives against Malignant Feavers and the Plague but besides these there are some that are convenient for the heart that is over cooled as Spices of al sorts Pills of Oranges sweet Angelica Mary-golds Mountain Calamint Clove-gelli-flowers the Herb Cardiaca Herb Bennet Lillies of the Valleys Ground Ivy Lavender Balm Mints all sorts of Bazil Root of Butter Burr Rosemary Spik of France and Italy Mead sweet Of these Syrups may be made Decoctions Electuaries also Pouders and Spices to be strewd on meats The best for this purpose are the Compounds set down before for Poysons taken and such as are bred in the Body and bring a Malignant Feaver Also hot Remedies to refresh the spirits that I also propounded So there may be a Physical Wine provided which is of it self a great friend to the Heart for example Take Herbs Mount Calamint Carduus Sanctus Scordium Goats Rue Lavender Balm Rosemary of each one handful Roots of Avens white Dictamni Maister-wort Orange Pills of each one ounce Mirrh Cinnamon Cloves of each half an ounce Saffron one dram Beat them a part into Pouder then put them into an Hippocras bag and poure on the Pouder the most pleasant white Wine six pound five or six times of this Wine you may give about two ounces at once if you poure on Aqua vitae so the Remedy will be more effectual and the Dose will be to one spoonful For outward Remedies prepare bags of the said Herbs and Spices to be worn on the Region of the Heart Also Fomentations of Spiced Wines altered with the same things alwaies adding some Saffron to make them penetrate the more Lastly Unctions may be made with Oyls made of the Decoctions of the same simples or Spiced Oyls made the same way and you shall find this in the Title of those things that refresh the spirits For the Heart over heat those things are convenient that are more temperate that were set down against Malignant Feavers and besides those Ivory flowers of Willows Mother of Pearl prepared Mirtils Water Lillies the Bone of a Stags Heart sweet Apples Roses Sanders Violets Of these you have some Compounds amongst the Antidotes against Pestilent Feavers Also the use of Conserves of Violets or Roses will be most profitable with one scruple of the Salt of the Mother of Pearls for one Dose The Salt is thus made dissolve the Mother of Pearl Burnt in hot Water of Borrage adding a part of Rose Vineger then distill them by filtring and lastly Coagulate them making away al the moisture by Evaporating it Externally Epithems are made of the water of flowers of Willows Roses water Lillies adding the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons or Rose Vineger to make them penetrate and if Camphire can be had readily put in four or five grains of it Instead of Water you may take the Decoctions of Borrage Bistort Blew bottles Water Lillies and Violets with the same Juyce with Rose Vineger Stomach Remedies The chief heating Stomach Remedies and easiest to be got are all sorts of Wormwood but especially the common and the Sea wormwood the Pills of Oranges and Citrons and the Seeds bitter Almonds Gentian the less Mints Origanum Rosemary and all Spices amongst which the best are Zedoary Ginger Galangal and Pepper Of Compounds easie to procure wormwood Wine and Oxymel of wormwood are approved Aqua vitae altered by steeping wormwood in it that was dried in the shade adding some Spices if you please The best Wine such as may be made being poured through Spices sweet Seeds or the foresaid simples bruised to be taken the quantity of two drams for many daies fasting with one or two grains of Pepper grosely beaten Also it is good to drink the Water of hot Baths that come from Brimstone such an Oxymel is most profitable if you give every day one spoonful or some other Take Herbs Wormwood Calamint Rosemary Mints of each one handful Pills of Oranges or Citrons one ounce Seeds of Annis and Cinnamon of each one dram Honey one pound the best white Wine half a pound Boyl all at a soft fire til the Honey be wel clarified to the strained Liquor add the best Vineger half a pound Boyl them to a Syrup when it is cold cast in Ginger finely poudered two drams Also it it singular good to take every day in a rear Egg about one dram of Mastich in Pouder with a little Ginger of Zedoary Outwardly it is profitable to drop down the Water of Baths of Brimstone which when those waters are wanting may be prepared of Wine especially the best red Wine that is altered with the said Herbs of which also may be made Fomentations The common people use to make excellent Fomentations of common wormwood Mints Origanum Calamint Lavender of each one handful tops of Rosemary half a handful common Oyl and Spiced Wine of each one pound let them Boyl at a soft fire til the moisture be consumed press them out and strain them so keep them for use For the Stomach over heat these are good the Juyce of Oranges soure Grapes Barberies sharp Cherries the fruit of Cornus Quinses the Juyce of soure Pomegranates the flowers of the wild Vine Hypocistis sharp Apples unripe Mulberries sharp Pears wild Plums and the Juyce of them bastard Corinths Roses Services the Juyce of Rhus or Sumach Sorrel Trifoly Gooseberries sharp Wine well mingled with water You may give the Juyce or
Decoctions of the said fruit and Herbs with an Emulsion of the four great cold Seeds Also it is very convenient to give Asses or Goats Milk tempered with about a fixt part of some of the said Juyces least it change into a burnt smel Moreover to drink of Bath waters that proceed from Copper or Vitriol or Iron is wel approved such waters as are in Italy are called Chalderianae Lucenses Niceranae and the Blessed Virgin in Mount Ortho. Outwardly Fomentations may be used and Epithems or the Decoction of Roses Myrtles flowers of wild Pomegranates Quinces Pomegranate Rinds Hypocistis the wild Vine adding to them some Rose vineger A most profitable Plaister may be made of the pulp of a Quince boyled in Rainwater or steeled water sprinkled with a little pouder of mastich and red Roses Instead of Quinces you may take sharp Apples Oyntments may be made of Oyl boyled with the said Herbs til the moisture be consumed alwaies adding a little wax washed somtimes in Posca that the force of the Remedy may stick the longer to the place affected For a dried Stomach where there is want of inbred heat nothing is better than milk taken for many daies about five or six hours before meat You must take it by degrees from four ounces to six ounces or thereabouts new milked and with about a fourth part of Honey that it Wax not soure Outwardly Fomentations are good made chiefly of Oyls that are not very hot or else received into moist Wool Also Pications are useful made with Pitch melted with a little Oyl of Wormwood and laid upon the part until it wax a little red in the mean time the Stomach must be cherished with a yong Puppy or your own hand or a yong Maid lying upon it all the night Remedies that alter the Intestines The same Remedies almost are good for the Intrals as are for the Stomach by reason of the Affinity of Parts and Propriety of their Substance But for the Intestines over cooled as it fals out often in the Collick especially these do profit Cummin Seed Bay-berries Rue and the Pils of Oranges the Pouder of them may be given to one dram in spiced Wine or an Emulsion of the Seed of Citrons or Oranges The most commendable is Wine that is made Physical with the long steeping of Orange Pils both to cure the pains of the Collick and to preserve one from it if it be dayly used Theriaca Diatessaron is excellent for the same as it is described amongst the Antidotes one dram of it given alone or with spiced Wine The same things may be given in Clysters in any of these forms to which you may very wel add Oyl of Nuts the Decoction of Coloquintida and Turpentine or Rozin of the Fir-tree or Larch-tree dissolved in Oyl As for Example Take the Decoction of Chamomel Bay-Leaves Colequintida bound up in a skin one pound Oyl of Bays or Oyl of Nuts three ounces Crude Honey and Turpentine of each two drams Common Salt two drams mingle them for a Clyster Outwardly Unctions of Oyl of Bays and Rue are principal good as also the mud of Baths from Brimstone For the Intestines over heat these things are profitable All things that cool the Stomach and the Liver but the chief are Bath-waters proceeding of Copper and Vitriol and Iron drank with an empty Stomach Milk added to Clysters and often bathing the middle Abdomen with Posca that is somthing cold with which Remedies the pains of the Intestines proceeding from thin and most sharp choller are easily and soon abated For the Liver over cooled these are convenient Wormwood Agrimony Germander al the Gentians Lavender the wood and berries of Juniper Poley French Spike and Italian Spike to which ad Spices and the hotter Diureticks Amongst Compounds strong Wines are most approved made Physical with wormwood and Spices such as were set down for the Stomach Also the Decoction of Juniper wood is excellent adding the tops of wormwood which wil be more pleasant if you add a quantity of clarified Honey chiefly if it be boyled with the best wine to the consistence of a Syrup for by this means divers Decoctions may be made of hot Diureticks and Spices alwaies adding wormwood to them Outwardly Fomentations will be good made of spiced wine altered with the foresaid Ingredients Also the mud of Baths that come from Brimstone Oyntments are made with Oyls compounded of the same Simples by Decoction such as were described for the Stomach Lastly Little bags made of the same things put into a fine cloth and worn upon the Region of the Liver But for the Liver over heat these are the best amongst Simples Sorrel Succory the pulp and seeds of Gourds Citruls Endive Liver-wort Hawk-weed Barley al sorts of Docks Lettice Milk if there be no obstructions nor a Feaver chiefly that which is four pulp and seeds of Apples Purslain wild Endive Sow-thistle Dandelyon Sorrel Trefoyl whey of milk alone or with an Emulsion of the four great cold Seeds Decoctions are made of Herbs in water or broth or the Juyces are pressed out which are kept til winter both clarified and thickened they are mingled from one ounce to two with broth in winter time but these from one or two drams are either mingled or made up into Bolus or else are dissolved in some Liquor Also Herbs are eaten boyled after the manner of Pot herbs in water or flesh-broth A Prisan is made of Barley which is made the more pleasant made white with the Seed of Melones or Gourds the use whereof is good also in a Panatella To al these Natural Mineral waters may be added that proceed from Copper Vitriol or Iron that were mentioned to temper the heat of the Stomach for there is nothing better to cool the Liver than the orderly drinking of these waters Outwardly Epithems are convenient of Juyces and the Decoctions especially of Cichory and Sow-thistle with an eight part of Rose Vineger or common Vineger in which a little wormwood and Roses have boyled Also an Oyl to anoint with may be prepared of Violets and Roses which would be more effectual made with the Decoction of the Herbs mentioned with common Oyl til the moisture be consumed But a bath of sweet water is better than any Remedy used for the whol body after due Evacuations unless a Feaver hinder For the Spleen over cooled these are proper Remedies Seed of Agnus Castus borrage bugloss roots and rinds of Cappars stone-fern Dodder root of Fern seed and bark of Ash-tree Fumitory the ripe berries of Ivy of the wal Harts-tongue the flower and root of Hops root of water fern Tamarisk Time Teucrium The Pouder of these may be drank to one dram for forty dayes in wormwood wine or steeled wine or Smiths water Of these may be made Decoctions suddenly Physick wines and Electuaries The Decoctions of Ash wood are excellent and Tamarisk Mountain Teucrium and Germander especially made with water wherein new steel hath been
quenched or with Smiths water elâ—rified Some make these Decoctions with Vineger but chiefly wherein Raisins have been steeped to diminish the Spleen that is grown too great if Vineger of Squils be at hand it were good to mix it with the Decoctions to half a spoonful Wines are prepared by the infusion of the same Herbs and they wil be better if you add steel that is prepared with Brimstone which preparation may be made suddenly as for example Take Leaves of Germander Dodder wall Ferne Fumitory Buglos of each one handful Seeds of Ash berries of Ivy of the Wall of each two drams Time and Wormwood of each one pugil Steel prepared one ounce the best white Wine three pound Make infusion in the Sun or some hot place for eight daies stirring the matter alwaies once and again then strain the Wine and take every day four ounces four hours before meat and before ordinary exercise Electuaries may be made of the same herbs adding prepared Steel to them or Ammoniacum and four times so much Clarified Honey Some there are that ascribe a wonderful effect to Ivy berries poudered and mingled with honey to an Electuary or drank in Wine or Broth of Chich Pease to one dram for forty daies Outwardly are convenient Fomentations of the Decoctions of Emollient Herbs adding thereto the Roots of Briony and Sowbread Ivy Leaves and Tobacco dwarf Elder and wormwood to corroborate the parts with some quantity of white wine and vineger in the end of the Decoction to make the better penetration The Fume of this Decoction received is good by quenching in it a piece of a sire-stone or a mil-stone Also Fomentations made of Hemp Yarn boyled in a strong Lixivium and being laid hot and moist to the part are exceeding profitable Also the mud of â—itumenous Baths used for fifteen or twenty daies is commended After Fomentations let the parts be anointed with Oyls made suddenly by boyling together or else apart Sowbread Priony Cappars flowers of Broom Tobacco Ivy Leaves Coloquintida in common Oyl with white wine and vineger til the moisture be consumed adding some wormwood or bitter Almonds to preserve the strength of the part After convenient use of Fomentations and Oyntments apply a Cerate to the part as that which is usual made of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger of Squils or provide somthing of the same faculty of the pouders of the said Simples adding some little of the foresaid Oyl to a sufficient quantity of the Pine-tree Rozin or white Pitch and new Wax Also Bee-glew is commended that is yet swelling with Honey bruised by it self to the form of a Plaister adding a little Mastich to help the strength of the part To this place appertains a little bag that is stuffed with equal parts of wild Cucumer pulp of Coloquintida and wormwood laid to the Spleen These cool the Spleen that is over-hot the same that were propounded for the Liver but there must be some temperate Attenuatives added to them by reason of the thick Juyce the Spleen is nourished with Such are Strawberries Maidenhair Hops Sparagus Trichomanes vineger Smiths water clarified with which Decoctions are altered Fomentations and Epithems not forgeting to add some wormwood to outward Remedies to strengthen the part The same things belong to the Reins and the Bladder by reason of the community of their office and nearness of the parts Therefore for these overcooled all those hot Diureticks laid down in their proper place are profitable Also Betony Chamomel the Root of long Cyperus added to the Decoctions and Electuaries But these are judged to be better to heat the Urinary passages water Baths that proceed from Brimstone drank for many days together fasting to some pound weights putting in some smal quantity of Annis Seed or Fennel or the like Diuretick in Pouder for the first Cupp or some Rosin of the Larch or Firr Tree to about two drams taken in Bolus either by it self or with some little Pouder of some of the hotter Diureticks Also white Wine of the best altered with some of the hotter Diureticks is most convenient for this business Outwardly to sit in waters of Baths that proceed from sulphur is an approved Remedy Fomentations of the Decoction of hot Diureticks with hot white Wine Oyntments with Oyl of Bays or some such like prepared presently you have an example of it amongst the Diureticks Cataplasms are commended made of Onions and Garlick Boyled with white Wine and bruised and laid on by themselves or sprinkled with the Pouder of Cummin Seed or the like Clysters made with the foresaid Oyl are often to be given hot and with Wine altered with Chamomel Bay Leaves Penniroyal wild Time and such like heaters that cause Urin. Add to all these strong Motion by riding running Walking whereby the Region of the Loyns is heated But for the Reins over-heat these things profit inwardly Decoctions of the fruit of Alkekengi Marsh-mallows Sorrel Barley Lettice Mallows water Lillies Purslain Grass Roots of Sowthistles with the Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds or the Juyce of Lemmons Moreover Clarified Whey with the Emulsion of the four cold Seeds Also steeled Milk unless some obstruction of the Reins hinder it Drinking of sharp Mineral waters of Copper Vitriol or Iron such are in Italy the Lucenses Noceranae Chalderianae and at Padua of the blessed Virgin Also to eat Strawberries Lemmons Melons Citruls Gourds Barley Lettice Outwardly doth profit a Bath to sit in of sweet waters chiefly altered with Violets Pellitory of the wal-Lettice Mallows the Decoctions whereof are also profitably given in Clysters In the place of Baths Epithems are good of warm Milk either alone or with the Decoction of Mallows or of the foresaid Herbs adding Juyce of Lemmons to them to make them penetrate When heat is urgent add the Leaves of Housleek Garden night-shade and Alkekengi and sometime of white Henbane to the Decoction The most effectual is the Juyce pressed out of the inward scrapings of the gourd either alone or laid on with other things Also sudden Oyntments may be prepared of Oyls wherein are Boyled the slowers or Leaves of water Lillies Blew Violets Damask Roses green Frogs Upon urgent necessity which falls out in an exquisite Diabetes the Seeds of white Poppy and white Henbane out of which also Oyls are made by expression very effectual for the purpose Apply to the Reins and the parts about fresh Leaves of water Lillies when the party goeth to bed and let him wear in the day time in the place of them a thin plate of Lead or a simple Cerate made of Yellow Wax often washed in Rose water or the said Decoctions and Oyls which must be often taken off least growing hot by the Cloaths upon it it may foster the heat of the Reins Remedies for the Matrix No cold things of themselves are kindly to the Matrix because it is the place of generation yet if it shall stand in need of them when it is over heat they
are necessary for to help it which are set sown to help the Reins and the Liver only with this caution that to outward Remedies some things must be added that cherish the natural heat of it and foster its peculiar property But when it is over-cooled these principally are convenient amongst common things Mugwort Angelica Calamint the Root of long Cyprus Daucus white Dictamny Nip Leaves and Berries of bays Lavender Fetherfew Marjoram Balm Garden Mints and wild Mints and Greek Mints Origanum Poly Penniroyal Rosemary Rue Savory Sage wild Time French and Italian Spik sweet Tansey Time and all Spices amongst which the best are Cinnamon Saffron Galanga Mirrh Mace and Nutmeg The Pouder of these may be given to one dram in Spiced Wine or Broth or else Electuaries may be made of them adding thrice as much of Clarified Honey To this end serve all kind of Aromatical Spices that may be had at cheap rates of which take one dram in Wine But Decoctions and Physical Wines are preferred before other Medicaments because by reason of their moisture they can more easily be conveyed to the Matrix The best Decoctions are made of Pidgeon Broth the Belly of the Pidgeon being stuft with the said simples as for Example Take Herbs Calamint Penniroyal Balm Mints of each one handful tops of Rosemary and Lavender of each one pugil Bay-berries Nutmeg and Galanga of each one dram Cut the Herbs and bruise the rest grossly and put them together within the belly of a Pidgeon then boyl them in water sufficient at a very soft fire until the flesh be perfectly boyled then press all out strongly and strain it give two ounces of it or thereabouts daily for many daies Physick Wines are made by the Infusion of the said Ingredients or by thrice pouring the wine upon the said pouders put into a long bag Women use to provide Wines by Decoction and that presently but they are not so effectual because the thinner parts are evaporated Also to drink the water of Baths from Brimstone seasonably doth wonderfully maintain and correct the heat of the Matrix Outwardly do profit Insessions Bath waters from Brimstone or Baths altered with the said Herbs putting into the Matrix a hollow Pipe that by that the force of the Medicament may come to it The same Liquors as also Physical Wines are conveniently used conveied by injections to the secrets Also Fumigations of Spices and sweet Herbs are good Pessaries are commended such as may be presently provided Thus. Take the Pouder of Bay-berries and Rue of each one dram Mirrh half a dram Juyce of Fetherfew or Peniroyal or Spiced Wine one ounce Mingle them and with carded Wooll or Cotton make a pessary Or Take the best Honey one ounce Juyce of Mugwort half an ounce Boyl them to a fit consistence then add Pouder of Galanga or the Spices of vulgar Aromaticks one dram mingle them for a pessary Also Fomentations must be applyed to the lower part of the Belly with Spounges pressed out with mineral waters or of the Decoctions of the foresaid simples chiefly in strong Wine But no Fomentation is better than the mud of hot Baths applyed to that part for some daies Anoint the same place with Oyl of Spik Bays Rue and other things made of the Decoction of the said simples as for example Take Herbs Calamint Marjoram Fetherfew Mints Lavender of each one handful Bay-berries and Galanga of each two drams Pound what must be pounded and infuse all in one pound and an half of common Oyl and half a pound of Spiced Wine for six hours then Boyl them at a soft fire till the moisture be consumed Some ascribe a peculiar vertue to strengthen the Matrix to Santoline which Mathiolus makes to be Foemale Southernwood And these are the most common and ready Remedies to alter whereby the distemper of every part and of the whole Body may be corrected Remedies of Diseases in ill Conformation Due Conformation convenient Magnitude of the Similary parts of which the Organ consists do make the Constitution of the Organ also convenient and fit number to which apt connexion is referred therefore we shall Recite four chief heads of faulty composition namely a Disease in conformation in Magnitude in number in Scituation There are four ill accidents that befal Conformation namely in figure the insensible passage being open or shut Cavity or sensible passage being enlarged or streightened and the superficies being smooth or rough A Disease in figure hath no Remedies that are proper for it but it is either cured with the help of Chirurgery or with Medicaments that respect other Diseases on which it dependeth For it is made either by faulty Conformation in the Womb or violent motion in the birth or the unskillful swathing by Midwives or walking when the Legs are weak disjoyntings and errours of the Chirurgion in curing Fractures and Luxations which want the help of Chyrurgery but of those we do not speak in this place But the part brought again to its due Conformation is strengthened outwardly with Fomentations and Cerates which are made of Astringents but chiefly those that are hot and shall be described very shortly Now if the figure be spoiled by too great Repletions or extream in any Emptines or by some inclinations of one part toward another by reason of a Palsy or Convulsion as it falls out when the Nerves or the Tendons are cut or from some hard Cicatrice or great swelling it is cured by such Remedies as empty strengthen the Nerves soften hardness of which we spak already also with such as refresh the part that is too empty and such as glew dissolved unity of which afterwards Rarity or the opening of the insensible passages which Men cal Porosities which in great Joy poured forth and Diaphoretical sweatings is often the cause of death it is cured by Coolers Astringents and Emplasticks or such as draw up the pores Such things as are most obvious to be applyed outwardly are the sprinkling with cold water and so much the more if it be cooled with Snow or Ice or first altered with cold astringents of which we will speak afterwards Anointing of the Body with Oyls that are actually cold especially of unripe Olives or altered with cold astringents as Roses Quinces and the like Also the coldest Ayr is best that with the cold of the Ayr the pores may be contracted If these things Suffice not lay on Burnt Gip with cold water as a crust upon the Body If Rarity possess the part as when by reason of rarity of the yard the spirits cannot be conteined in the hollow Nerve to cause strong erection those Astringents that shall be by and by propounded must be applyed to the place affected especially hot because so they strengthen the more For the Density or astriction of those passages if it proceed from any matter that is impacted hot detergents are most convenient and such as attenuate which shall be propounded to take away
if it cannot then it may be taken on with corroding Remedies described amongst the means of thickning the Cavity by the reason of this Impediment there do often remain incurable Fistulaes which cannot be cut nor handled fitly every way by occessary Medicaments for these the following Balsom is convenient whereby the deep Fistulaes of the Anus and the Testicles have been often cured It is thus easily prepared Take Cranes Bill or Pidgeons Foot cut two ounces Root of Flower de Luce very well washed three drams Root of Black Hellebore prepared two drams Wheat Corns one handful bruise them grossely and infuse them for one day in one pound of sharp Red Wine then add Oyl of St. Johns-wort and Mirtills of each three ounces Let them Boyl at a gentle fire til the moisture be consumed make expression and strain them then add Bitumen and Mirrh of each one dram and an half Let them stand at a soft heat til they be perfectly melted then add of Rosin of the Larch Tree and Firr Tree and if you can get it of occidental Balsam of each one ounce Mingle them at an easie fire and make a Balsom to be dropt into a Fistula and to be put in with Tents To take away Spungy Flesh that abounds in an Ulcer use the Remedies described for a Disease in constipation by Flesh and a Callous Yet to these add the following Pouder to make an Escar whereby Malignant Ulcers as Malignant Scrophalous matter and ulcerated Cancers if they be smal and new are happily cured Take the Root of great Serpentine gathered in June and cut in pieces and dried in the shade and of white Arsenick of each one ounce Pouder them and mingle them and set them in the Sun til the beginning of October in a great Bellied Glass well stopt and shake them often then keep the Pouder for this use namely wash the Ulcer often and foment it with a wet Linnen Cloth with Water of Water Lillies or the Decoction of the same the next day after strew on the Pouder making a defensative for the same parts with some Cerate least the Pouder spread further than it should the escar will fal out of its own accord in twelve daies and the cure must be accomplished with the strongest Sarcoticks The Bone that is under the Ulcer being bare must be corroborated by the strowing on of Pouders that Flesh may grow upon it And these are made of equal parts of the Root of Dog Fennel round Aristolochia Flower-de-Luce Mirrh and Frankinsence And if it have already contracted any Blackness there is need of an Iron to scrape it off and of actual fire then the Pouder must be strewed on If the Bone be Rotten it must be taken away by Instruments of Iron and an actual Cautory Yet somtimes it fals out by reason of the narrowness of the Ulcer and the windings in it that the Bone underneath cannot be touched by Iron Instruments or fire and can hardly be perceived by the probe in which case some sharp and drying Remedy must be poured in for some daies that the rottenness may be taken away of this sort easie to prepare are the Decoctions of Aristolochia gentian Wake-Robin poured upon Calcined Tartar shut up in a Bag. The Spirit of Tartar is more laborious which is chiefly commended for this purpose if it be tempered with some convenient Liquor The impediments being taken away the use of Sarcoticks wil be afterwards profitable or of such as fil up the Ulcer a Catalogue whereof now followeth For an Ulcer that is not over moist and foul and for a part that is very soft mean Sarcoticks are convenient namely Salt and Nitrons Mineral Waters Betony Gentian Root Mints flower-de-Luce Honey suckles Boyled Honey the Clot-Burr al kind of Rosins Scordium Wheat Frankinsence Of Herbs Decoctions may be made for washings and infusion also Unguents may be made suddenly making Oyl first by Decoction then adding a quantity of Wax if you please some Honey also and Rosin or Pouders which are especially provided of Roots and Frankinsence Also a simple Pouder of Herbs may be sirewed upon the Ulcer For outward Remedies add Tobacco and the Lesser Centory The form of an outward Unguent may be of this kind Take Leaves of Betony one handful Tobacco half a handful common Oyl four ounces Cut the Herbs and Boyl them in Oyl til al the moisture be consumed then add common Rosin one ounce new Wax half an ounce Pouder of the Root of Flower-de-Luce or Frankinsence two drams mingle them and make an Unguent The more forcible and such as are proper for a sordid Ulcer and a part that is more hard these are convenient round Aristolochia Roots good Henry Colus Jovis Horehound Raw Honey Mirrh Root of Dog Fennel In outward Remedies Chimney Soot Blacking of Pitch Lime very wel washed dry Pitch Liquid Pitch mingled with Honey the shels of Periwinkles and the shels of al Sea Fish Burnt and the Ashes of all Sarcotick Herbs These may be made of divers forms as in Liniments Unguents Pouders Juyces and Decoctions Also the Leaves of good Henry and Colus Jovis lightly bruised and laid on with the Back side cure al Ulcers that are hard to be cured To these belong the Balsam of Brimstone discribed which wonderfully fils up hollow Ulcers Rulandus makes an Unguent of it that is very much commended for all rebellious Ulcers As. Take the Balsam of Brimstone three ounces new Wax half an ounce Colophonia three drams Mirrh the wait of them all Let the Mirrh finely poudered be strewed in by degrees to al the rest when they are melted and wel mingled and let them be Boyled at a soft fire alwaies stirring them with a Spatula until they are singular well mixt which commonly fals out in a quarter of an hour then take it from the fire and let them cool easily Yet the Plaister of Theophrastus gives place neither to this Remedy nor to any other and it is easie to be provided whereby Old rotten stinking Ulcers that are very hollow and foul are wonderfully cured and it may be laid to all hollow Ulcers if for Ulcers that are troubled with a sharp Defluxion and very tender it be tempered with the Unguent of Elder discribed before for St. Anthonies fire adding a greater or lesser quantity as the sence of the part is more quick and the necessity of regenerating Flesh be more or less The Plaister is this Take ten Yolks of Eggs clear Turpentine half a pound Mingle them with a woodden Spatula to an oinment in the same Vessel they must be Boyled and this wil be done in half a quarter of an hour then add Honey to the weight of them al stirr them strongly and quickly that they clotter not then Boyl them at an easie Coal fire moving them constantly then increasing the fire til they become of a brownish dark colour more like to Black then Yellow or Reddish An Ulcer and a wound that is filled up to make an equal superficies with the sound part is healed with Epuloticks or such as cause it to Cicatrize whereof some are milder and more convenient for soft parts some are for parts and constitutions that are harder The more violent should they be made use of in a soft part they will make a Cicatrize but so hard and Callous that it may hinder the motion of the Joynt The meaner that are most Obvious are these Potters Earth or white Chalk Horse-Tail the flowers of both Pomegranats Ceruss Cotton burnt the Ashes of Lint Pennywort Scuttle Bone burnt Spunge flew of a Hare burnt Root of Tormentil al Medicinal Earth Litharge and al cold things that are moderately astringent also the cold Air of it self wil make a Cicatrize dry forms work more strongly than the moist do therefore Pouders applyed with Lint are good But to avoid the inequality of a Cicatrize and hardners in a conspicuous part it sufficeth to use Liniments or Unguents The most excellent is the Unguent of Elder already propounded against Herpes or the Wolf Other Remedies may suddenly be provided of Ceruss or Litharge with a fourth part of Oyl of Roses or the like and a little Wax Mingle therewith the Pouders that are more drying if need require The more Violent are all cold Remedies that dry forceably propounded elsewhere to which you may add mineral Waters of Allum and Gip such as is that of Padua of the mountain of the Sick the Calx of Antimony very well washed common Lime wel washed the Calx of Vitriol Gip the filings of Iron often sprinkled with Rose Water or Plantain or the like and dried that it may be poudered the Scales and dross of Iron washed Lead burnt alone and washed the shels of any Creatures burnt washed all which except Iron and other astrinents propounded are applyed outwardly either in the form of a Pouder or mingled with other more mild Unguents Hot Baths serve for bathings and to sit in And these are most of them Medicaments that are easie to provide with which in any part of the world and without the help of Apothecaries any kind of Disease may be cured The way where there is need to mingle these things readily without great provision of Instruments is not dark to be understood and collected out of what hath been said and is scattered here and there through the whol Book FINIS