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A80404	Supplementum chirurgiæ or The supplement to the marrow of chyrurgerie. Wherein is contained fevers, simple and componnd [sic], pestilential, and not, rickets, small pox and measles, with their definitions, causes, signes, prognosticks, and cures, both general, and particular. As also the military chest, containing all necessary medicaments, fit for sea, or land-service, whether simples, or compounds, such as purge, and those that do not; with their several vertues, doses, note of goodness, &c as also instruments. Amongst which are many approved receipts for several diseases. / By James Cooke, practitioner in physick, and chirurgery.	Cooke, James, 1614-1694.; Cooke, James, 1614-1694. Mellificium chirurgiæ.	1655 (1655)	Wing C6017; Thomason E1516_1; ESTC R208558	134,119	445

with these are oft to be mixed sharp medicines as juice of Citrons Limons Spir. vitrioli or Sulphur for they excellently resist putrefaction and the venomous quality so that some have been recovered only by the use of Citrons infused in ordinary drink or juleps The two foresaid spirits are gallant for there 's no putrifaction whose strength they break not nor infection which they overcome not nor no ill humour which they amend not To the said juleps may be added sal prunella which powerfully cooles and extinguisheth the Feaverish heat and hath some force to procure sweat upon which account it s very profitable in maligne Fevers In place of juleps to those of dainty palats use medicated broths wherein is boiled the leaves of Borage Sorrel Pimpinel and other herbes of a more grateful taste with the pairings of Peare-mains pulpe of Citrons the meat being a pullet to them Sometimes adde Sal Prunella to cool the more Emulsions prepared of Almonds and the foure cold-seeds with the decoctions of the juleps is excellent to which may be added the seeds of Citrons Napi and Carduus bened which oppose the maligne quality as also the foresaid Syrups Through the whole Cure use Alexipharmacons not only in juleps broths and emulsions but also in other formes And because they are not to be used promiscuously nor at any time of the disease therefore they are divided into foure Classes the first containing those which as by a specifick quality resist venome so being cold dry and a little astringent resist putrifaction strengthen the heart and bridle the venenosity lest it be too easily poured out into the whole body and resists by a certain compressure the dissolution of the parts Such are bol armen terr sig coral rad pentaph tormentil The second containes them which by their coldnesse and thin substance resist putrefaction and binde up malignity such are juice of Limons spir vitriol sulphur as also all sharp things The third Classis containes those that are hot and diaphoretick which expels venomous humours and vapours from the heart or the Centre to the Circumference Such are Angelica zedoaria dictamn meadsweeet scordium Card. bened Scabious Theriac Mithrid aq Theriacal The fourth contains those which are specifick without any excesse in the first quality these oppose the venomous quality as lap bezoar c. c. monocerot troch viperin c. The first second and fourth Classes are more proper in the beginning and increase the third in the declination and these are to be varied according to the several degrees of the malignity and putrifaction and intensenesse or remissenesse of the Fever temperament of the sick sexe age and other circumstances which wholly depends upon the judgement of the Physician only observe where the Fever vehemently burnes adde here to cool and sharp things shunning hot and diaphoreticks which yet are proper where the Fever is remisse and maligne quality intense Of these may be compounded various medicaments of which this may be a patterne ℞ rad acetos buglos torment an ℥ j fol. endiv. cichorii acetos pimpinel an Mi tamarind ℥ j. coq in lb j. aq in colatur dissolv syr de Limon granata an ℥ js f. julep pro tribus dosibus bis in die sumendis addend unicuique dos confec de Hyacinth ʒ 1. lap bezoar gr vi This may serve in principio if the Fever be very intense and in a bilious body adde to every dose sal prunel ʒ j. vel spir vitriol aut sulphur ad moderatam aciditutem In Fevers remisse there may be added to the decoction rad carlinae pentaphyl fol. scord scabiosae ℞ amygd dul exortic ʒ j. sem melon cucurbit napi card bened an ʒ ij contund in mortario marmor sensim affundend decocti julep praedict lb js syr limon ℥ iij. sal prunel ʒ iij. f. Emuls pro tribus dosibus bis aut ter in die sumendis Through the whole cure use broth in which is dissolved confect de hyacinth or ℞ Coral praep margarit praep rasur Ehoris c. c. usti lap bezoar an ℈ j. f. pul of which give 10 gra in every messe of broth where the maligne quality is very strong Alexipharm is to be given in all the broths juleps and ordinary drinks that are taken Bezoar gra vi or vii with meadsweet water or of vipers grasse card ben c. doth not only oppose the malign quality but causeth sweat but being that which is true is hard to come by contraherva is rather to be confid●d in performing the said intentions surely and speedily the root it self given in a fit vehicle to ʒ j. is good ℞ sacc cand ʒ iij. zinzib ʒ ij camphor ʒ j. fiat pul dos 〈◊〉 If there be great paine in the head or stomach this is warily to be used because of the Camphire ℞ bezoar mineral ʒ iij. sal prunel ʒ ij Camphor ʒ j. mis dos ʒ j. in aq card bened or ℞ smaragd p. p. lap bezoar an gr vj. hyacinth p. p. gr iij. mis f. pul pro una dos This is excellent and given in Marmalade hath cured desperate fluxes dos gr xij Troch viper in cum aq Cordial vel julep is admirable The third Classis of Alexipharm are only to be exhibited in the state and declination which is to be understood of simple malign Fevers and spotted For in the true plague they may be used from the beginning that so the venomous quality ready suddenly to strangle the Patient may be powerfully opposed and the maligne vapours discussed yea they may also be given in simple maligne Fevers if the maligne quality abound more then the putrefaction from the beginning but in smaller doses especially those lesse hot or mixed w●●● cooling medicaments Of these sweating medicaments there are several degrees for some are more hot as angelic zedoar dictam theriac mithrid aq theriacal These are to be given when the Fever is remiss and malignity more intense Others are less hot as Card. bened scabios scordi meadsweet these give when the Fever is strong and the malignity is remiss Take the waters of meadsweet and carduus bened of each two ounces juice of Limons one ounce old treakle a dragme or two scruples as heat is more or less feared mixe them and make a potion giving it warm and cover the body little more then ordinary this is excellent If the Symptomes be great and vehement theriac rec is more fit the opium therein temperating the fierceness of the Symptomes and hinders the boyling of the humours Sometimes when theriac is not fit as in the beginning and increase lauda opiat may be profitably given being mixed with Alexipharm for it 's narcotick quality doth not only congeale the hot spirits which vehemently infest the heart but also stay the morbifick matter whilest it's in a most pernicious flux so that it remaines almost immoveable Aq. theriac is to be preferred before theriac it self for it being thin and spirituous

portulac plantag drinking the broth and eating the flesh for twenty dayes they may be made up in paste and gently baked as ℞ carnis testudin in aq hord elixat ℥ iiij amygdal infus in aq ros ℥ vj. pinearum eodem modo infus ℥ ij 4. sem frigid maj ana ℥ j. anisi non pulver sed in furno leviter coct ʒ j s. cinam ʒ ij sacchar in aq ros dissolut ad pondus omnium fiant morsuli instead of the snailes use the pulp of capons or partridges as ℞ pulp capon perdicaelixatae a. ℥ iij. amygdal in aq ros macerat ℥ iiij pinear. ℥ j s. sem papav alb ʒ ij gum Arabic Tragacanth ʒ j s. manus christ perlat ℥ ij cum pauca aq ros f. pasta regalis auro obducta to those whose stomacks are more weak give gellies or strong brothes as ℞ capon elect poplit vituli vel femor veruec pedes vituli N. ij aut veruecin N. vj. coq in aq fontan ad sufficient consumptionē jusculum colat per expressionem pinguedin remotam in colat dissol sacchar alb lb j. alb ovor N. vj. croci vel cinam parùm agitentur simul posteà bulliant leviter ac transmittantur per manicam Hippocrat bis aut ter tandemque jusculum accipiatur vasculis ubi concrescit in gelatinam If the taste of the Saffron or Cynamon displease or if you would have it cooler adde instead of them the juice of one Limon or Citron For a broth use this Take a good Capon pull'd gutted and chopt to pieces from which take the fat and skin adding if you please Mutton or Veal so ordered put them in a glassed pot in the middle of which let there be a grate of wood or other matter upon which so place the pieces that the bottom of the pot may be empty after cover the pot luting it well with paste then boyle it in B. M. for 5 houres there will be in the bottom a clear broth of which take with broth or of it selfe 2 or 3 spoonfuls 3 or 4 times a day these distillations being made per descensum strengthen and nourish the solid parts more Their drink is to be barly-water alone or mixt cum syr acetos vel granat or water wherein is boyled bread adding a little Sugar yet in case the stomack be very infirme use thin wine much diluted which helps concoction and distribution Gal. gave cold water and by it glories he preserved many from marasmus Yet in the giving thereof there is to be great caution for where the body is much wasted there it 's in danger to destroy the languishing heat It may help where a Hectick is threatened or in beginning in those that are accustomed to drink it or where as yet blood abounds The Aire is to be temperately cold if not it 's to be corrected in Summer-time the sick is to inhabit under the earth which is cold especially windy and opens to the West This alone hath cured in a Moneth those extremely macerated if the aire be hot in the vault cast cold water upon the pavement or poure it from a vessel the noise of which provokes sleep and then sprinkling the pavement with water will serve and oft strewing cool hearbs Much company is to be forbidden unlesse the Aire be very cold it 's true cold aire may condensate the skin and so hinder transpiration yet the profit gained by receiving it in by inspiration is greater then that discommodity which may be helped if the sick be well clothed In case with the Hectick there bee an ulcer of the lungs then the Aire is to be temperately warm and dry Motion is not fit unlesse gentle if strength will permit a little before meat or in place thereof soft frictions but not much especially presently after sleep beginning at the lower parts rubbing onely till a light rednesse beginnes to appear this calls out the internal humors if more it dries the body coiture is to be rejected as greatly resolving the body sleep not too long for it drawes in the heat and heats the bowels not too short for it dries too much therefore rather the first being sleep moistens which is good in this feaver It 's to be in a soft wool bed changing oft the linnen which is first to be besprinkled with Rose-water Bathes are very beneficial which are to be moderately hot using them in the morning after the excrements of the body are cast out either by nature or art taking two or three houres after broth or milk or yolk of egges Let the sick continue in them so long till he wax warm and after be cold but if he cannot stay so long cold water is to be poured in at pleasure yet so as that there may be in the Bath a threefold quality The sick is to stay in the hot a little in the warm lesse and in the cold least of all though these by the Ancients were only of simple water yet it 's more profitable and humects more if made of a decoction of mollifying and humecting hearbs as Malualthaea violar c. or of Barly and Almonds used especially in Summer-time because those made of hearbs sooner corrupt after cleanse him gently with warm linnen which done anoint cum ol viol amygd d. vel butyro insulso ung Zacuti c. If the sick cannot endure bathing then use Epithemes as ℞ aq ros nymph portulac an ℥ iij. succ granat ℥ j. diamargar frigid ʒ ij oss de cord cervi ℈ j. camphor g. iiij f. epith cord admovendum ℞ aq endiv. lactuc. cichor an ℥ iij. acet ros ℥ j. trisantal ℈ ij spod ex ebore ℈ j. f. epith hepati admovendum to which may be used ung ros vel cerat santal but sparingly because they may increase the feaver whilst the former medicaments are using strengthen the bowels with fit opiats as ℞ conser flor borag bugl viol ana ℥ j. conser flor de Nymph ℈ iiij spec diamarg frigid ℈ iiij rasur ebor oss de cord cervi a. ʒ s. margar pp. coral pp. a. ℈ j. fol. auri N. iij. cum Syr. de pomis fiat opiat This is to be observed in great extenuations Nutritive glisters are oft to be cast in made of the broths of Chicken Sheeps-heads with sugar and egges the quantity is to be but little otherwise they presse the bowels and stirre up expulsion The chiefest symptome that follows the disease is a flux of the belly which oft brings death to bridle which for ordinary drink use the decoct of barley tosted Syr. Cydonior ros sic lact chalybeat oriz. coct in lacte similia Frogs are excellent in a hectick SECT II. Preface PVtrid feavers are divided into severall kindes as continuall and intermitting now the first is subdivided into those that are either primary essential or symptomatical the essential is when putrefaction is inflammed in the common veins without the private parts the

to be cold and moist for being drawn in it contemperates the heat of the heart yet it is naught to lay naked the body to its encounter for it may hinder evaporation by keeping in the sweat and vapours yet they are onely to be covered with light and soft things here wool-beds or quilts are better then fetherbeds and if the feverish heat be much it is fit they be covered with leather the bed is to be large that therein the sick may change places The linnen and other cloathes are oft to be changed so that they be not newly washed smell of washing or shifted at time of Crisis in which nothing is to be removed lest the motion of nature be disturbed The Rayes of the Sunne are to be shut out and much company shunned Poure water oft from one vessel to another besprinkle the pavement with water and vineger or rose-water or cold herbs and flowers as violets willow-leaves water-lilies and roses changing them oft in a day for being dry they heat If there be too much coldnesse as in winter it 's to be temperated with a little fire without smoak In fevers from phlegme the Aire ought to be meanly hot and dry For Aliments in acute fevers they ought to be thin the diligence of the Ancients was much in this appointing it as the greatest part of the cure and if the fever of the sick be most acute they commended the diet most thin nourish the sick only with barley Ptisans as the most fit which cooles humects and together attenuates opens and hinders no evacuation These Ptisans are double one called simple not strained the other is and is called Cremor Hord. the barley is to be boyled in water But now what through the obstinacy of the patient and the indulgency of the Physician in what fever soever though never so acute leave is given to take broths made of chickens capons mutton and that every third or fourth hour in these are boyled cooling herbs as Lettice Endive Purslain Sorrel the broth may be also mixed with juice of limons oranges or citrons if the feverish heat be great and the putrifaction be intense In fevers lesse acute Panatello's may be given 2 or three a day made of bread and broth also Hordeats with broth and sugar or without broth adding sweet Almonds but that often troubling the stomack it is better to use simple broths and Panatella's yet it is very profitable to boyle flesh adding barley and so prepare broths In long fevers a fuller diet may be admitted as the flesh of pullets veale hens capons partridges and mutton or any of them contused and boyled into jelly is fit but observe they must not be given in the fit but when the fever is remitted yet if the fit be long they may be permitted in the declining thereof in all continual fevers a Ptisan of barley and licorish is good to which if the fever be hot adde lettice sorrel Tamarinds c. and to these is wont oft to be added rad gram vel acetos In long fevers adde rad foenicul petroselini sem Anisi coriand aut cinam If the stomack be weak and offended ℞ ptisan vulg ex Hord. liquirit lb ij spir sulph q. s ad gratam aciditatem C. C. usti ℥ j. utatur pro potu ordinario vas usûs tempore agitando or aq panata alone or sweetened with sugar or mixt with a little vineger or water alone boyled that the crudities thereof may be removed with which mixe sometimes sugar as also the juice or Syrup of limons pomegranates barberries cherries or Spir. vitriol aut sulphur q. s ad gratam aciditatem or Sal prunellae a little if you would cool more powerfully also water wherein are infused Tamarinds barberries or prunes the decoction of prunes or boyl barley with Tamarinds and towards the end add Santal citri cinam which drink doth not only quench thirst but looseth the belly and strengtheneth and cooleth the liver ℞ Sacchar fin ℥ viij Sal. prunel ℥ j. f. pul permiscendus ptisan pro potu to which if thirst be great adde spir vitriol This is to be observed ☜ that Spir. vitriol sulphuris is to be much used in putrid fevers both of them having a notable force in cooling opening resisting putrefaction prohibits humour from inflaming and quencheth thirst but yet in Pleuritis peripneumonia haemoptoe phthisis and the rest of the affects of the lungs unlesse the vessels thereof obstructed have risen from crasse phlegm inflammation of the stomack Dysenteria sangu mict the ulcers of the reines and bladder hurt much and therefore in such cases to be forborne In fevers from bile very thin and hot or joyned with a thin and sharp distillation sharp things are not fit but rather those which gently incrassate as Syr. viol rof sicc cum aq Hord. vel panata vel cocta simpliciter permixtus when tough and thick humours abound Syr. acetosus in the place of the foresaid will be most profitable Sometimes may be used conser viol buglos c. boyled in water and drawne through a bag adding some drops of Spir. vitriol Or prepare a Tincture of roses for in colour and taste it is most pleasant as ℞ ros rub sicc ℥ j. aq tepi lb. iij. spirit sulph ʒ j s. aut vitriol infund per 3. vel 4. hor. frigidae colatur add sacch alb ℥ iiij aq ros lb. s. f. julep clarum pro potu ordinario in the same manner may other tincture of flowers be made Julep Alexandr is not a little profitable and most pleasant as ℞ aq fontan lb. j. aq ros succ limon sacc alb ana ℥ iiij coq lento igne dum despumaverint Sleep is very profitable watching hurtful yet too much sleep overwhelmes the native heat and hinders the evacuation of excrements Rest is necessary in acute fevers but in longer light exercise is profitable and oft to be used lest that which according to nature ought to be expelled be retained although all immoderate evacuations which exhaust the strength are to be stayed and all vehement perturbations of the minde are to be shunned CHAP. II. De Symptomat Febrium SYmptomes accompanying fevers are divers but they are ordinarily more powerful and vehement in putrids and therefore they require the next place to be handled The remedies prescribed accommodating the disease may remove some but others must come under peculiar consideration such as oft more molest then the disease it selfe Pain of the head watching and light-headednesse are cured almost with one and the same remedies i. e. with revellers repellers derivers resolvers and anodyns For to revell or draw back use glisters emollient and loosing gentle purging bleeding cups and washings of the feet To beat back use frontals oxyrrhod unguents or liniments To derive open the veines of the forehead and use vesicatories And to resolve use oiles and Animals the which also are anodyns with these are to be exhibited proper Juleps

ij pippins number twelve raisins of the Sun ston'd ℥ ij boile them in a quart of water to lb j. in the decoction infuse all night best sena ℥ js rubarb ʒ ij pulp of Cassia new drawn ℥ s tamarinds ℥ j. liquorish anise-seeds and coriander-seed eachʒ js the next morning straine it through a linnen cloth and to ℥ viij of the straining addc ℥ vj of white sugar boile it a little after adde to it manna dissolv'd in syrup of roses of each ℥ ij and make a lenitive syrup dos ℥ j. in succory water Or of pellitory of the wall with ʒ j. of the juice of lemons For a pill your aloe rosata in a candid cherry the skin pull'd off is excellent It 's to be exhibited at sleeping time In the morning give of syrup of roses solutive ℥ j. in posset-drink These and such like are to clear the first passages from impurities or excrementitious humours collected and compacted there which do not only if not removed infect the nourishment inward but dull or otherwise hinder the appropriate medicines From these we passe to the Preparatories which relate partly to the preparation of the humours partly to the wayes thorough which they are to be expell'd and partly to the passages themselves wherein they are contained and this is required most of all before purging medicines seldome before vomits the medicines are to be moderately hot unlesse a Fever be present also thinning opening and cutting as also have a peculiar respect to the parts affected as lungs liver head c. with which is to be mix't such things as are appropriate to the affect The simples are the capillaries especially wal-rue roots of osmond royal buds of male fearn-brake newly sprung up polypody harts-tongue liverwort ceterach agrimony doddar scabious betony leaves and barks of tamarisk bark of eaper roots roots of succory endive grasse sparagus myrobalons liquorish raisins prunes damascens Seeds of annise sweet fennel coriander caraway syrup of maiden-hair betony simple and compound syrup Byzantinus succory with rubarb eupatory five roots staechadis and harts-tongue Observe none of the simples have all the qualities necessary therefore compounds are necessary the barks of ash tamarisk and capers infused in midling beer and used is excellent five little buds of male fernbrake boil'd in lb s. of milk to ℥ iij. drink it on an empty stomack in a morning This may be used to those used to milke One handful of the said buds male betony Harts-tongue liverwort of each Ms. Tamarisk flowers p. 1. corants ℥ js with these and a chicken and oatmeal make some broth of which give to the childe ℥ iiij in the morning and so much at foure a clock afternoon adding cream of tartar ℈ s. If you would have one effectual against pertinacious obstructions in the Mesenterie liver c. ℞ Maidenhaire liverwort agrimony doddor each Ms. roots of ma●e fernbrake grass sparagus each ℥ s. Cream tartar ʒ j. liquorish ʒs mace ℈ j. boyle them in lb ij of fountain water to lb j. of the decoction addeʒ iij. of white or renish wine syrup of Harts-tongue ℥ js mixe them let the Patient take a draught of it as before If there be obstructions in the lungs ℞ Colts-foot maiden-hair harts-tongue liverwort each Ms. roots of sweet chervil and sparagus each ℥ s. Spanish liquorish ℥ js mace ℈ j. Raisins of the Sun ston'd ℥ j. jujubes number 6. sebestens 8. two figs cut in pieces boyle them in lb ij of barley-water to a pound to which being strain'd adde syrup of maidenhair ℥ js mixe them use it as before Or ℞ sweet wort lb ij liverwort maidenhaire harts-tongue scabious colts-foot feather-few each M. j. blew figs raisins of the Sun each lbs. cut in pieces liquorish anise-seeds eachʒ ij boyle them over a gentle fire nine houres strain it and keep it for use It 's good for the former If there be suspicion of the scurvy or french pox complicated ℞ zarzaperilla cut and well beaten ℥ iij China harts-horn shavings ivory each ℥ j. leaves of male betony liverwort scabious each M. iij. buds of fernbrake and osmond royal each ℥ ij boyle them in foure gallons and a pottle of new ale for foure or five houres over a gentle fire then after some houres respite strain it thorough an hair sieve after put in of the juices of scurvy-grass and brooklime each lbs. barm it up after a due time draw forth for ordinary drink The next comes Elective purging remedies the matter having been prepared to expel it Now these concern partly the humours and partly the parts wherein they are lodged in each due regard is to be had to the spirits The most violent are rather to be relinquished or duly corrected or diminished in the dose It s safer to exhibit a little too little then the least measure too much therefore purging by degrees is better then to remove it at once They are to be suited according to the humours as also to the parrs affected and if there be not peculiar simple purging remedies to supplie to the parts then mixe such ingredients as are familiar to those parts Be sure you make choic of such purgers as are directly opposite to the essence of the disease amongst which rubarb is chief the former lenitives which may qualifie the violence of the stronger as Scammony agarick seeds of bastard saffron mechoachan jalap turbith Merc. dulc senna syrup of roses with agarick magistral against melancholy of apples diabalremer diacatholic confectio hamech benedicta laxativa Of these may be fram'd others answering every constitution c. as if choler abound ℞ rubarb poudered gr viij syrup of cichory with double quantity of rubarb ʒ vj. syrup of roses solutiveʒ ij fernbrake water ʒ vj. mixe them and make a potion For melancholy ℞ senny polypody epithymum eachʒ j. rubarb ℈ j. creame of tartar fennel seeds each ℈ j infuse all in a sufficient quantity of fumitory water to the strain'd infusion adde syrup magistral ʒvj cynamon water drops 7 or aq epilept Lang. ℈ s. mixe them for a potion For flegmatick humours which are most usually offensive ℞ senny ʒ js agarick trochis ʒs fennel-seeds ʒs camomile flowers 10. boil them in a sufficient quantity of fountain water toʒ x. or ℥ js of the decoction adde ℥ s. orʒ vj. of syrup of roses solutive with agarick mannaʒ iij. make a potion To evacuate mixt humours as also those that are sharp and adust may from these medicines be fram'd suitable in case either the scurvy strumaes French-pox be complicated mercurie dulc is admirable And I had almost said in all the cases aforesaid being a panacea and if well prepar'd and discreetly given cannot be harmful onely let there be mixed with it either jalap or its Magistral or diagredium as ℞ mercurie dul gr viij diagred gr vij fol. Auri. N. j. f. pul give it in pap panadoes c. If you would have it in lozenges ℞ sweet mercuryʒj

after the purgation administer ℈ s. of diascordium boild in wine with cloves and a little cynamon mixed with a third part of corne poppy water and some syrup of clove gilly flowers to strengthen the stomack and stay the flux To procure sleep ℞ white wine posset-drink aromatized with a little saffron tied up in a rag crushing it gently between your fingers confectio Alkermes ℈ j. pouder of pomegranate pills gr vij diacodium ʒij mix them Or ladanum gr s. Magistral of coral gr xij Conserve of red roses ℈ j with sufficient quantity of syrup of quinces make a bole take at bed time If there be obstructions you may prescribe Crocus martis or salt of steele to be taken in the morning As ℞ Conserve of red roses ℥ j. preserv'd succory roots preserv'd myrabolans each ℥ s. salt of steele ℈ s. or crocus martis ℈ j. cynamon liquoris red coral each gr viij saffron gr js syrup of succory without rubarb sufficient quantity and make an electuary dos ʒ s. Every morning in its ordinary drink quench red hot iron for the same purpose If the childe be troubled with a violent flux you may give it conserve of slows mixing it with such things as the childe delights to eat being sure to please its palate For profuse sweating which wastes the spirits and retards the cure be cautious you do not rashly restrain it especialy if a Feaver feaverish fit or immoderate heat hath preceded for then it either may be critical or may bring more advantage to the body then damage to the spirits for nothing more sweetly and potently expelleth feaverish heat then sweating But if it be inordinate and causelesse arguing the body oppressed with obstructions crude juices and unprofitable superfluities it's to be corrected For which there 's nothing more fit then purging by which the superfluities are removed draws them off from their former motion and clears the way for opening medicines such as strengthen the skin and move forward concoction Amongst purgers in this also rubarb is a none such Thus it may be used ℞ rubarb sliced ʒ ij Raisins ston'd and slit ℥ j. small beer two pintes put them in a vessel stopt with corck Set it in a very cold place and stir it oft before you use it let it settle again a whole day then use the liquor for ordinary drink When the vessel 's empty fill it again with beer to the same rubarb To these may be call'd in former electuar purgations Those that are opening are French and Renish wine which are to be mix'd with borage or red rose water or temperated with rosted apples adding a little sugar and grated nutmeg let them be taken in a lesser quantity onely at meals For steele so highly commended must be cautiously used and a man of reason although vers'd in the Latin when he hath well weighed the Doctors caution it seemes he must come to them or else it cannot be regularly used which doth either proclaime the imperfection of their cautions or else that they have monopolized all others wit within their Craniums If I misse not of their meaning as it 's to be forborne where there 's a catharre cough obstructions of the lungs peripneumonia pleurisie spitting blood or pronenesse to them as also in acute Feavers so it 's not to be used but in the beginning of the disease and beginning of the increase for in the rest of the times there 's usually a considerable Oligotrophy of the parts and as to my simple observation who have seen many I seldom have observ'd superfluous sweats till there hath appear'd an evident Oligotrophy of the parts Other openers although of less note in children may be effectual or else why used in weak men successefully are roots of succory borage conserve of their flowers roots of grasse sparagus fernbrake maddar leaves of ceterach spleenwort maidenhair Among the compounds species of the three sanders diarrhodon abbatis As ℞ best sugar ℥ iij dissolve it in rose water boiling it a little beyond the consistence of a syrup adde then conserve of barberries ℥ j. diatrion santal diarrh abbat eachʒ j. pouder of saffron gr 1. mix them and make an electuary Painful breeding and aching of the teeth is the last mentioned these producing Feavers unquietnesse watchings and other evils require mitigation If paine be caused by its working through the gum without delay if not done before evacuate universally First by vomit which is a potent remedy against tooth-ach It may be mov'd by tickling the throat either with a feather or with the nurses finger or else rubbing the tooth breaking forth with a tobacco leaf wrapt about the nurses finger and a little moistened with beer or lastly by giving some vomiting draught formerly prescribed The day following use a Cathartick after use topicals as rubbing the gums with coral yea rather with the root of marsh mallows which is farre better or this ointment ℞ butter without salt ℥ iij. grease of capon and ducks eachʒ ij red poppies ʒ j. boile them in the juice of crab-fish bruised and drawn forth with water of sea-wormwood french mallow-roots eachʒ ij to the consumption of the juices after strain them adding white sugar candy ℥ iiij nutmeg ℈ j. one yolk of an egge mixe them and make a balsome You are to anoint the gums oft with it it mollifies and thins the gums easeth paine causeth the teeth to come forth easily and oft may deliver from death If universals prevaile not use opiats especially when watchings are troublesom as ℞ diascord gr vij diacodium ʒ ij white-wine posset drink tinctur'd with saffron ʒ j. give it at bed time the night following the purgation Or ℞ laudani gr s. gascoins powder ℈ s. adde conserve of clove gilli flowers ℈ j. with syrup of balme make a bole let it be swallowed at sleeping time We are at last arrived at external remedies and those whether exercises or outward applications are to follow after purgations and to be used with specificks For exercises which children that have the Rickets are extreamly averse unto especially those that are violent You are to begin with those more gentle they are to lie on their sides unlesse in case of much weakness from diseases rocking in cradles is good if very weak unlesse in time of sleep carrying about and tossings and wavings of it to and fro holding it either by the hands rather if weak under the arm-pits swinging it is very beneficiall fit rollings are good also playings tempting them to the use of their feet walking is helpful if they be strong and their joynts be knit otherwise not hanging of the body frictions are excellent this last is to go before and in the application of outward medicines beginning at the back-bone the child being laid on his belly thrusting your fingers under the short ribs and so hinder the growing of the liver a great cause of the Rickets But leaving these we come to outward applications

which are to be administred with gentle frictions They are either universal respecting all parts or particular dedicated to certain regions of the body the matter of the first are the same before specifick Alterants The second are to be proportionated to the particular region to which they are to be plied the formes of both are liquours oyls liniments ointments plaisters The liquours are all kinds of wines especially muskadine aqua vitae or proper decoctions may be fram'd although seldome used unlesse mixt with oyle liniments or oyntments They must be used before a warme fire and rubbed in with a hot hand till they be dry they are fram'd of specifick alterants in wine or water and aqua vitae equal parts either by decoction or infusion For oyles they are oyle of earth-wormes chamomile marigold flowers Pauls betony neatsfoot oyle also oyle of foxes whelps swallows if simple but yet these and others are not so effectual as specificks which are such as follow ℞ camomile penny-royal ground ivy coltsfoot fetherfew each lb j. red roses M j. maceʒ j. shred them all small and mixe them with lbiiij of new butter unsalted and so let them stand for two or three days after boyle them till the juice be wasted after strain it and reserve it for use after it hath stood If any juice remaine let it out and separate the ointment from the dregs so will it keep the longer with this I have cured many Or 2. ℞ speedwel liverwort each M j. rosemary and bayes M. s. shred them and make an ointment with butter lb js and reserve it for use Or 3. ℞ camomile sage pimpernel marigold flowers and time each M. j. rosemary bayes angelica each M s. butter without salt lb ij and make an ointment as before Or 4. ℞ roots of osmond royal ℥ iiij clary lavender hysop tops of mints each M j. rosemary hartstongue marigold flowers betony each M s. flowers of sage chamomile and melilot each p. ij May butter lb iij. aq vitae and white-wine each ℥ iiij make an ointment as before strain and reserve for use most or all of these have been approved If you have a minde to the Doctors see their Tract for particular parts if the region of the belly be hard and swell'd and the Hypochondries ℞ oyle of capars wormewood elders each ℥ j. of the third prescribed ointment ℥ js mixe them and make a liniment oyle of saxafrage made by manifold infusions and after the herbs therein boil'd is excellent if mixt with the foresaid ointment You may with these mix appropriate liquors for penetration sake as ℞ the flowers of elders and red sage bay berries bruised white sanders slightly beaten to powder each ʒ ij white-wine lb ij steep them for three dayes in a cold place in a glasse vessel well stop't shake it twice a day when you use it strain as much as will serve your present occasion then stop your vessel again This mixed with the ointments and heated at the fire must be rubbed upon the abdomen especially the Hypochondries even to driness Balsom of Tolu is excellent mix●d with any ointment or plaister and so apply'd to the region of the back either in forme of an ointment or plaister to the Hypochondries may plaisters be used applying them to that side most hard For this emplast crocatum or cicut may serve to which may be added some of the foresaid ointments with some powder of sanders If the lungs be affected use some pectoral ointment as ℞ oyles ef violets and lilies ointment of orange flowers each ℥ j. mixe them rub them well on the breast till it be dry after apply a London-brown paper lin'd with wool or linnen cloth Or ℞ unguent pectoral ℥ ij simple oyntment of liquoris ℥ js oyle of violets ℥ j. mix them anduse as before The ointment of liquorish is thus made ℞ new juicy liquoris ℥ iiij new unsalted butter wash't in rose-rose-water lb j. slice the liquoris and beat it well with the butter in a stone mortar afterward fry them then strain and squeeze them repeat the same labour thrice with a new quantity of liquoris Some plaister may be prepared for the weaknesse of the back which often happeneth in this affect with any of the foresaid ointments adding bees waxe mastick olibanum myrrhe c. The following hath been oft proved ℞ of hogs grease and sheep sewet each ℥ ij oyle of mastick myrtles and irini each ℥ ij pitch wax and Burgundy pitch eachʒ vj. bole armoniack ʒ iij. white turpentine ℥ js mastick ol●banum frankincense myrrh eachʒ ij gum amoniack dissolv'd in vineger ʒ vj. of all these make an emplaister With this sometimes is mixt beere boyl'd to the consistence of a plaister it 's to be spread on leather empl palmei slot is good they are to be applied to the back-bone If the upper part of the back-bone be weakest use a longish forme stretching down to os sacrum If the lower parts then use almost a triangular forme which apply from the loynes to the utmost end of the os sacrum the broader end upward Some commend a liniment for the weaknesse of the back-bone for this you heard before balsom of Tolu added to the first general ointment will be excellent But to conclude for my own part I have cured very many and known many more cur'd by Mr. Montjoy only with an ointment appropriate drink and cuttings in the eares having before given Merc. dul cum diagred fol. auri to purge withal CHAP. II. Of the small Pox and Measles THese being contagious and killing many are fitly referr'd to maligne and pestilential Feavers The first are pustles coming to ripenesse The second are small tubercles with intense rednesse like an erysipelas which within five or seven days are discussed without maturating both these are accompanied with a continual Feaver these have their companions of which hereafter Signes Signes of their presence are needless Those that threaten are pain of the back neck and head with heaviness of the eyes itching of the nose shortnesse of breathing dry cough beating in the forehead and temples sometimes delirium trembling and convulsion beating of heart neezing often hoarsenesse heat rednesse and pricking in the whole body troublesome sleep sorrow and restlesnesse shining and itching of the eyes voluntary teares tumor of the face with a little rednesse These symptomes being often as vehement in the beginning as in the state Urine sometimes like healthful the vicious matter being thrust out to the habit of the body otherwhiles filthy from the great ebullitiof the humours Cause internal is the impurities of the mothers blood which the Infant in the womb draws in in the last moneths the purer being not sufficient this being attracted into the whole fleshie substance is then hid insensibly for some yeares yea sometime many Now when nature cannot any longer suffer these impurities it begins by ebullition to foment them like new must By that ebullition the

the pox be epidemical and partake of great malignity To expel ℞ figs ℥ vij lentils skin'dʒ iij. gum lac ʒ ijs gum tragacanth and fennel-seed eachʒ ij boyle them in fountain-water till a third part be wasted and give of it to drink some adde saffron gr xv and currantsʒ v. the saffron fortifies and opens the currants fortifie the liver c. Or ℞ roots of fennel and sorrel each ℥ j. harts-horn shaved ℥ s. leaves of scabious scordium St. Johnswort each M j. figs N. 6. gum lac ʒ iij. napeseed and of carduus benedictus eachʒ ij lentiles skin'd ℥ s. gum tragacanth ʒ js boile them in fountaine-water to lb js take of the straining ℥ iij with ℥ j. of the syrup of lemons give it twice or thrice a day Or the following which is experimented and easie ℞ clear posset-drink of Ale lb j. boyle therein marigold flowers three spoonfuls figs sliced N. iij. citron seeds bruised N. xij a little saffron tied up in a fine linen cloth but let all be boil'd a good while after strain it and so give of it to drink daily till danger be past Or ℞ seeds of watercresses and columbines eachʒ j. shavings of harts-horn ʒs red coral and pearles prepar'd each ℈ j. make them into pouder and give aʒs orʒ j. decoct ficuum Minfich or Gascons powder with bezoar are excellent If malignity be very forcible as it 's common when the pox are epidemical then appoint alexipharmacons as confectio de hyacinth bezoar c. such as are appointed in maligne fevers and you are not to omit such cordials as fortifie both inward and outward parts this is to be observed medicines expelling are not to be used in all that 's sick for so it may cause the Pox to come forth too violently and here the ebullition of the blood is to be contemperated lest it procure death To bridle which ℞ barley p. 1. roots of five leaf and tormentil each ℥ j. leaves of sorrel endive and wood sorrel each M. j. lentils skin'd ℥ s. gum tragacanth ʒ j. boile them in water lb ij to lb j. in the straining dissolve syrup of lemons or citrons ℥ iiij make a julep for foure times to be taken twice a day For ordinary drink use barley-water and sorrel-roots which continue until the heat be somewhat remitted and after that use such as expel The third work is to defend the parts which are either inward as the guts liver and spleen which are defended with the first decoction the lungs are secured with conserve of roses violets syrup of jujebs violets myrtles and of dri'd roses also this ℞ syrup of violets jujebs and dri'd roses each ℥ j. syrup of poppies ℥ s. mixe them using it oft licking it by degrees from a spoon Or ℞ lent skin'd and finely beatenʒ iij white poppy seed ℈ j. conserve of roses ℥ ij julep of roses sufficient to make a looch If a violent flux rush into the lungs and procure hoarsenesse and suffocation the foresaid remedies are not only to be used but it 's to be revell'd by cups with and without scarifications and bleeding if necessary but with mature consideration In this case for ordinary drink is to be given the decoction of barley jujebs and liquorish or this ℞ seeds of marsh-mallowes mellons gourds and white poppies eachʒ ij raisins cleansed and jujebs each N. viij boile them in lb ij of water till half be wasted in which dissolve conserve of roses and violets each ℥ s. species diatragacanth frigid ʒ iij. sugar candy and of roses each sufficient to make a licking The roof of the mouth and throat may be defended before the Pox break forth with this ℞ French barley p. 1. leaves of plantain M ij red roses p. 1. pomegranate-flowers seed of sumach eachʒij boile them in lb ij of water till the third part be wasted in the straining dissolve syrup of raspis and pomegranates each ℥ j. mixe them and make a gargarisme If children be so young as that they cannot use a gargarism then use a lambative of syrup of mulberries pomegranates or of dri'd roses either alone or mixt with rose-rose-water which use oft in a spoon If the flux from the abundance cannot be stayed and so danger of suffocation be threatened To lubrifie the passages and help excretion use this ℞ mucilage of fleawort-seeds and oile of sweet Almonds new drawn each ℥ js white sugar candy ℥ ij mixe them and make a lincture giving it every hour If through the acrimony of the flux or abundance of Pox the mouth be ulcerated it 's to be cleansed with barley-water and honey of roses or alum-alum-water Or this I have used successefully water-vineger so mixt that it offend not by its acrimony sweetening of it with sugar if these ulcers grow putrid to the former may be added mel Aegyptiacum i. e. the honey-part that flows on the top of the unguent Outward parts are especially the eyes which are chiefly to be preserved from the Pox for they being endued with a soft and humid substance the matter of the Pox is easily driven to them whence most grievous evils happen yea sometimes losse of sight it self therefore before they break forth or whilest they begin to appear moisten the eyes with the waters of plantaine and roses in which a little saffron hath been dissolv'd Or this which preserves powerfully ℞ waters of roses and plantain each ℥ js powder of the seeds of sumachʒ ij infuse them and strain them hot with many expressions to the straining adde camphor ℈ s. saffron gr v. and make a colyrium which will be more effectual if in stead of the waters the juice of plantain shepherds purse be purifi'd and mixed with the rest If the pustles do begin to arise in the eye it self doves blood is oft to be drop't in that they may speedily be dissolv'd Or ℞ rose water ℥ j. of eye-bright ℥ s. troch alb Rhasis ʒ j. tutia prepar'd ℈ j. camphire gr v. saffron gr iij. make an eye-water with which moisten the eye very often with a fine rag If the eyes be so tumifi'd that they cannot be open'd they are to be wash't oft with a decoction of the seeds of lin fenugreek quinces and mallowes or warme milk If in the eye there seem to be clouds they are to be clensed with sugar candy most finely powdered If the eye be ulcerated ℞ white lead wash't ʒ iij. sarcocol ʒ j. gum tragacanth ℈ j. opium gr ij with mucilage of gum tragacanth drawn with plantaine make troches which dissolve in womens milk or rose-water to use To preserve the nose use noduls of sanders and camphire dipt in rose-vineger or smell oft to vineger alone or make tents which dip in the colyrium made with juice of plantain and shepherds purse and put them up the nose If for all this the Pox be got into the nose that the crusts may fall quickly anoint them with oyle of sweet almonds if there happen ulcers apply

a liniment fram'd of the yolks of egges juice of plantain being mixed long in a leaden mortar To preserve the face some have used rose-rose-water and other astringents but very unfitly for great portion of the impurities being sent to the face which from the loosenesse and moistnesse of the skin is apt to receive them are by this means not only kept in but also thereby nature is hinder'd in its motion therefore when the Pox appear they may be anointed twice a day with oyle of sweet Almonds to help on their ripening and being ripe which is discerned by a spot in the middle open them with a gold or silver needle or rather let them break of themselves however the oyle is to be used till such times as the crusts fall off for it qualifies the sharpness of the choler ripens and hastens the fall of the crusts which otherwise would lodge the matter under them and so deeply ulcerate the skin oile of new nuts newly drawn without fire mixed with a like quantity of rose water and reduc'd to a liniment is most efficacious I have with good successe used oile olive ℥ ij and carduus-water ℥ js mixt together After which few scars have remain'd if through the neglect of these or the like medicines notable scars remain it 's to be help't as much as may be with the oyle of yolks of egges and sheeps sewet For filthy scars first wash the face with water of bean-flowers or water distill'd from cowes dung in May after anoint them with mans grease Or ℞ oil of sweet almonds and white lilies each ℥ i. capons grease ʒ iii. powder of the roots of piony oris and lytharg of gold each ℈ s. sugar candy ℈ i. mixe all these well together in a hot mortar and strain it hard thorow a linen cloth and anoint the places morning and night and after wash them well with the water distill'd from calves feet or in want thereof some of the foresaid waters The fourth and last businesse is to remove symptomes which are various as itch and exulceration especially in the palmes of the hands and soles of the feet by reason of the compactnesse of the skin hindering their eruption to help which hold those parts in hot water or foment them long in an emollient decoction If itch fall out in the face which causeth the sick to scratch whence followeth notable scars use this ℞ leaves of po●●itary M i. flowers of chamomile and melilot each p. s. boile them in lb j. of scabious water in the straining adde wood-binde water in this being hot moisten some cotton or fine lint often moistening the itching Pox therewith Vlcers that arise from maligne and eating Pox are to be cur'd with white ointment camphorated Or ℞ burnt lead ℥ ii litharge ℥ i. white lead wash t and vineger each ℥ s. oyle of roses ℥ iii. honey of roses ℥ i. three yolkes of egges myrrh ℥ s. waxe sufficient to make an ointment for convulsion epilepsy palsey hearing hurt inflammation of the eyes c. See in their proper chapters only if a bloody flux accompany wherein oft the Pox become deprest the following is admirable ℞ the roots of five leafe and tormentil each ℥ i. leaves of pimpernel and scordium each M i. yellow sanders and shaving of ivory eachʒ ii boile them in water to ℥ xii in ℥ iii. of the straining dissolve aq naphae and of roses each ℥ s. troch viper ℈ i. bezoar gr iiii make a potion which give to those that are greater at one draught twice a day but to such as suck give of it often in a spoon The Measles require the same cure with the Pox only observe there 's in the masse of blood a double excrement the one thick the other thin the measles is from the last which it may be is the cause of their discussion without maturation To these are referr'd first pustles of the bignesse of lupins without rednesse inflammation or fever being white and fill'd with serous humours these after three dayes break and die and are seldome dangerous there are other tubercles as some red invading with heat and dry cough other like red spots burnt c. which have nothing singular in the cure THE MILITARY CHEST WArs prophesied must be accomplished Providences are oft-times real Comments on holy Writ witnesse these times wherein the day of Gods vengeance is in his heart and the yeare of his redeemed is come I shall not dispute or question the truth of that which is so evident as that those who are most against it speak the verity of it in their actings But to passe this and come to meet with those events that occur and are the proper subjects of the discourse as wounds c. and here is not to be expected the methodical cure already elsewhere dispatch't but only as it were a Catalogue of the matter by which it 's effected with their vertues and qualities annexed Now the meanes or matter are either medicines or fit instruments fitly placed in a convenient chest The medicines are either Physical or Chirurgical The instruments are either hard or soft all which are to be fitly placed to prevent confusion and to be ready for use They are by Hildanus divided into twenty Classes whose method we shall follow taking in what he hath judiciously set down only take the liberty to adde where there is necessity requiring that so it may be full for our own Climate In the first Classis is the simple purging medicines which are with their vertues as followeth Agarick It potently purgeth phlegme from the wholebody especially the excrements of the mesentery wonderfully removes the affects of the braine purgeth the brest and the wombe healeth asthma difficulty of breathing and jaundice begets a good colour moves urin and courses is excellent in paine of the collick yet ingrate and adverse to the stomack it 's to be corrected with ginger cloves and being slow in operation may be acuated with salt gem cream of tartar c. it 's hot in the first and dry in the second dose from ʒ i. to ʒ ii in infusion from ʒ i. to five that 's the best which is white light rare brittle at the first taste is sweet but after bitter and stiptick Aloes It 's a remedy against many diseases is conveniently administred in those who are molested in their head for it drawes the vapours ascending from the stomack to the head without trouble and is therefore good in those whose pain in the head ariseth thence It 's profitable in swimming of the head inflammation of the eyes cataracts especially if they arise by consent from the stomack It 's profitable for those that are troubled with nidrous crudities it procures a good colour and removes the excrements of the belly heales the jaundice and those troubled in their sleep preserves from putrifaction and plague and therefore excellent in such seasons It sharpens the sight stayes fluxes of blood and kills wormes

from thence the liver and other parts weakened by cold It s to be dissolved in cordial liquours if given inwardly Dose to ʒ ij if outwardly applied it s to be mixed in waters unguents c. Bol. Orientalis or East-bole It greatly binds dries strengthens It s use is most excellent in staying fluxes thickening humours hindering putrefaction and resisting venome in which account its diarrhea's dysenteries menstrual flux bleeding at the nose wounds c it s outwardly to be used by way of cataplasmes Dose to ʒ j. inwards Camphire It resists putrefaction and venenofity hence oft used in maligne diseases as feavers c. It dulls ♀ and if credited hinders conception ʒs of it made into a powder with ℥ s. of sal prunel and divided into four parts and given in cooling juleps every third houre is gallant as to quench violent heat in malign feavers so also to resist malignity and quench thirst its good in gonorrhea outwardly it easeth pain in the head used in frontals paine of the teeth stopp't with it agues if in a nodula smelt to and is good in gangrenes and inflammations Confectio Alkermes It heats in the end of the second degree vehemently strengthens the heart and chears it regenerates all spirits in great quantity removes maligne putrefaction and so preserves and defends all the inward parts its helpful in melancholy diseases swooning beating of the heart pestilent and maligne feavers It 's profitable against venome and against the bitings of virulent creatures and hastens birth given with cynamon-water to the quantity of ʒ j Dose to ʒ js Confectio de Hyacintho It s temperate in quality and hath a most gallant faculty to strengthen the heart after that the stomack and liver and by reason of its cardiack and alexipharmick quality it produceth spirits in great plenty and extinguisheth all venemous qualities hence it helps admirably in venemous affects especially in pestilent malignant and spotted feavers is a remedy against all bites of venemous creatures Dose is to ʒ js dissolved in cordial liquours or juleps Prepared Coral It bindes cooles dries and strengthens peculiarly the heart then the stomack and liver purifies the blood good against the plague venemous and maligne feavers stays all fluxes of the belly womb yard prevents gonorhea as also the falling sicknesse if given when new born in its mothers milk to gr x. before any thing else it fixes the spirits is good in the Rickets the tincture made of ℥ vi grossely beaten in juice of lemons in B. M. for foure dayes after separated from the faeces is admirable to cool and strengthen the liver Outwardly its good in ulcers to incarne and cicatrize and in Colyrium to recreate the sight and stop watering of the eyes Burnt harts-horne prepared It resists putrefaction stayes fluxes of the belly kills wormes moves sweat and is a very familiar medicine in Infants It s excellent in juleps for feavers in all sorts and all sorts of people It s good in jaundice paine of the bladder and flux of the wombe for a julep Take of it ℥ j. water three quarts boile them till a quart be wasted after remove it from the fire and adde syrup of lemons ℥ iij. rose-water ℥ iiij sugar to sweeten it and some drops of spirit of vitriol Creamo tartar It cuts and thins thick and tartarous humours especially those heaped up in the first region of the body therefore profitably given in obstructions of the spleen mesentery reines and hypochondries It s used as a catholick digestion and so given before catharticks yea if a gr or two of diagridium or gum gutta be mixed with it loosens the belly Dose is from ʒs to ʒj or ʒ ij Diaireos It comforts the brest is good in cold coughs and hoarsenesse you may mixe it with any pectoral syrup appropriated to the same disease and so take it with a liquorish stick Diamargariton frigid It s of a cooling quality extinguishing the heat of blood and choler hath an excellent faculty to strengthen the stomack liver brain especially the heart so restores the vital spirits in great quantity defends the noble parts from all putrefaction removes maligne feavers helps in cardiack affects is a remedy in the trembling of the heart is a restorative in Consumption helps in Hecticks coughs asthma's and restores such as have long laboured under languishing and pining diseases Dose to ʒ ij Diarrhodon Abbatis It a little heats yet dries and marvellously strengthens the liver and all the inward parts helping their concoction helpeth also in feavers from phlegme in which it hath great force although there be mixed therewith cholerick humours It s inwardly in powder dissolved in Hen-broth or cordial julep or in tablets Outwardly in epithems or unguents and so it strengthens the stomack helps concoction discusseth winde and stirs up appetite Diatragacanthum frigidum It lenifieth the winde-pipe easily procures spitting is very profitable in affects of the breast and winde-pipe helps consumptions leannesse inflammation of the sides pleurisies inflammation of the lungs stayes the flux to those parts Dose to ʒ ij in tablets Floure of brimstone It resists putrefaction dries provokes sweat hence profitable in the plague and pestilential feavers whether to cure or preserve helps in catarrhs affects of the lungs coughs consumptions asthmas c. Dose from ʒs to ʒj To preserve exceed not ℈ s. Bezoar stone It strengthens moves sweat is alexipharmick hence profitable in the plague vertigo falling sicknesse swooning beating of the heart jaundice collick bloody flux wormes stone obstruction of the courses difficulty of birth melancholy green sicknesse excellent in maligne feavers and venome Dose from gr iii. to xii or ℈ i. yea Zacutus gave ʒ j. and succeeded when the Patient was hopelesse Prepared Pearles It s cool hath a cardiack force therefore strengthens the heart and defends it and the rest of the principal parts serving to nutrition bridles the heat of blood and choler resists malignity therefore hath an admirable faculty in maligne pestiferous and burning feavers it cheares the spirit excellently Dose to ʒ iii. Mithridate It heats dries attenuates incides powerfully opens obstructed passages of the brain and strengthens admirably the rest of the inward parts moves the courses discusseth winde provokes urine heats and evacuates cold humours in the head oppressed with cold juice its helpful in fits of the falling-sicknesse the palate being anointed is happily given in the plague pestiferous and venemous diseases in paine of the collick and of the stomack from a cold cause yea also in vehement pains of the gums being therewith anointed it helps continual waterings of the stomack ulcers in the body consumptions weaknesse of the limbs provokes appetite casts out the dead birth and helps such women as cannot conceive by reason of cold is admirable in melancholy inwardly it may be taken of it self in a bole or dissolved in liquours outwardly mixed with oyle of scorpion to provoke urine and courses Dose to ʒ ii you

the hot distemper of the liver it also easeth the pleurisie and paine of the breast Oyle of Scorpions It heats humects mollifies disobstructs easeth cold pains discusseth winde provokes urine and cures the suppression thereof breaks the stone in the kidneyes and is profitable in the cold affects thereof is a remedy in cold nerves in glisters is excellent for the collick as also to provoke urine and discusse winde anointed outwardly it renders the passages more open because it loosens and mollifies the parts Oyle of Turpentine It s wondrous good in cold affects of the nerves and all diseases coming of cold and winde it corrects the cold affects of the lungs as asthma's difficulty of breathings c. it s good in the stone Outwardly it adornes the body takes away the print of scabs and the small pox chops in the skin and breasts of women and deafnesse being dropped into the eare Oyle of yolk of egges It cleanseth ●he skin from tettar ring-wormes and helps it in other affects begets haire it easeth pain is good in burnings or scalds profitable in maligne ulcers fistula's and chops in any part of the body of the same nature are oyle of Tartar oyle of Elder and of Wheat Oyle of Foxes It greatly heats attenuates and resolves cold matter especially in the brain and nerves which parts it wonderfully respects and strengthens therefore is most profitable inconvulsions from fulnesse palsey sciatica all kinde of gout strengthening the joynts of the same vertue are the oyles of saffron castory bayes euphorbium but this is more strong and therefore to be used only in small quantity and in contumacious affects Oyle of vitriol It s of most intense heat therefore not to be used inwardly alone but mixed with other medicines in small quantity viz. until they be sufferably tart it s put to the hemorrhoids when the pain is vehement after it s applied the water is to be washed with cold water it hinders the spreading of ulcers and layes a good foundation of healing inwardly it strengthens the stomack resolves and attenuates crasse humours impacted in the coats thereof helps in hiccough and collick from cold removes obstructions of the liver and spleen bridles the putrefactions of burning and malignity of pestilential fevers Oyle of brimstone It s most efficacious to waste the humidities of the gums and teeth fastening them and cleansing them from filth cureth scabs generates flesh cleanseth fistula's and ulcers of the mouth it is most admirable in the cure of gangrenes Inwardly it helps all agues given in proper vehicles a little before the fit the epilepsey if given in the decoction of piony the cough if in the decoction of nettle seed or hyssope the collick in aq flor chamomel for stoppings of the spleen and rickets in tamaris water the wormes in wormwood water for fits of the mother french pox suppression of urine in fit waters for pain of the teeth if stop't with it The Thirteenth CLASSIS OYNTMENTS Vnguent Apostolorum It is efficacious against wounds and ulcers of difficult curation as also fistulaes wastes corrupt and dead flesh and restores it where it s wanting it mollifies hardnesse Vnguent Aegyptiacum It vehemently heats powerfully cleanseth filthy ulcers and old fistulaes removes putrid flesh and so helps chiefly putrid ulcers specially those of the secret parts it removes proud flesh and is excellent in gangrenes as also in all venemous wounds and gunshot it s to be applied hot Vnguent Aegyptiacum Hildani It resists not only putrefaction but temperates and lessens the maligne vapours which perpetually arise from the part possessed with the gangrene and hurt the principal parts it s the most excellent unguent to help gangrenes separates the dead flesh from the living and good and begets an eschar It s this Take vert-de-greece ℥ iiij the best honey clarified with the juice of wormwood and scordium ℥ vvi vineger of squills ℥ vi roach allum sal ammoniack a ℥ j. juices of rue both scordiums and jack of the hedge curb ℥ iij. boile them ●o the consistence of honey after adde theriac optim mithridate each ℥ s. camphire ℥ j. Vnguent Album It s cooling and drying is good against ulcers scabs and burnes as also in itchings in wounds excoriations and inflammations about wounds and ulcers Vnguent Aureum In delicate bodies it dries concocts and generates flesh in more robust bodies it procures pus Vnguent de minio Camphor It s profitable in ill and old ulcers drawes on a cicatrice and is powerful in glutinating and generating flesh it s also good in defluxions Vnguent Dialthaea It heats resolves mollifies humects easeth paine is excellent with oyle of sweet almonds in the pleurisie ℥ s. of the oyle being mixed with ℥ j. of the unguent It also is good in stiffenesse and paines in the joints Vnguent Diapompholygos It healeth old ulcers in any part of the body specially if mixed with burnt allum yea venereal in the yard if mixed with mercurius dulcis Vnguent Nicotian It s excellent in curing tumours wounds of all sorts scabs itch all stings scaldings burnes putrid ulcers fistulaes rednesse of the face head-ach against all infirmities of the stomack collick iliack wormes hemorrhoids piles and gout Vnguent Nutritum It s good for the shingles excoriations and inflammations about wounds and ulcers for any thin humour in any part of the body also against any light scabbinesse or itching humour whence soever it proceeds it s a good defensative against hot humours flowing to any ulcer when it separates mixe it again together Vnguent Populcon It vehemently cooles and moistens is most profitable in provoking sl●ep mitigates paines easeth the heat by fire or hot water it asswageth the heat of the head and kidneys Vnguent Rosarum It strengthens the brain and stomack for it cureth the hot distemper of these parts and in a wonderful manner easeth their pains from thence its profitable in all inward inflammations from hot defluxions but espeaially of the kidneys its excellent in erysipelas In feavers its good to procure sleep and cures galling frettings c. Hildanus Oyntment for Burnes This is profitable from whatsoever matter the burn or scald comes yea most excellent specially before it blister Take onions ℥ js salt white venice sope each ℥ j. mixe them in a mortar and make an oinoment with some oyle of roses and oyle of sweet almonds Liniment Arcei This is a gallant balsome it cures wounds in all parts and of all sorts if not venemous It s good also against burnings and scaldings but most excellent in wounds of the head Vnguent Basilicon It digests and maturates ulcers and tumours breaks furuncles its good in new wounds and ulcers in the nervous parts and head It s fitly mixed with Vnguent Aegyptias or praecipitate the more easily and better to cleanse an ulcer Vnguent Martiatum Magnum It resolves heats and discusseth humours contained in cold specially in nervous parts and so easeth their pain and is very profitable in

all paines of the joynts french pox iliack passion is good in cramps hardnesse and tumours but above all for pains if mixed with some proper chymical oyle Vnguent Ebulorum It s excellent in all dropsey tumours for if with it the belly and other parts be anointed it resolves the winde and removes the tumour It s excellent in paines of the joynts and gout arising either from a hot or cold cause Take the juice of the roots of Danewort ℥ ij boile it with ℥ viij of oyle of chamomel to the consumption of the juice and with waxe make an ointment when you anoint mixe with some a little vineger or wine Vnguent pro Scabie It kills the itch removes the scabs and pustles whether from melancholy or salt phlegme Take turpentine wash't in rose-rose-water butter wash't in plantane-water each ℥ ij oyle of roses ℥ j. juice of soure limons ℥ ij two yolks of eggs and quick-silver ʒs stir them together and make an ointment Vnguent Potabile It s excellent to consolidate the inward bowels and so profitable in falls from on high and therefore very precious Take new butter without salt lb iij. madder castory sperma ceti tormentil each ℥ j. boil them in sufficient quantity of wine till the wine be wasted and make an ointment The Fourteenth CLASSIS FAT 's Of Geese It s more hot then hogs grease therefore penetrates and resolves more It s good being cast into the fundament to hinder erosions it removes alopecia heals chaps in the lips cures sounding in the eares the cramp and roughnesse of the nerves it looseneth the belly of Infants especially put on the navil or applied to the belly Of Beefe It s good in gnawing of the guts and tenesmus helpful in the gout and schirrous aff●cts and helps chaps in the lips Of Capons and Hens The first is more excellent they have a heating humecting mollifying and easing quality is fit in paines of the eares chaps of the lips and pustles of the eye-lids as also for paines Of Deere It s good in tumours mollifies helps wounds easeth paine and is good for chilblanes and sore paps mix't with oyle of St. Johnswort Goats It discusseth most strongly helps the gout especially if mixed with saffron and put to the navil removes the strangury Mans. It strengthens discusseth easeth pain removes contractions smooths cicatrices and scars after pox and is good for those limbs that fall away Pork It lenifies easeth pain is of common use to put in cataplasmes makes ointments it is good against burns Bears It stayes the falling of the haire it heats resolves mollifies and discusseth is good in gouts parotis and other tumours and heals ulcers of the feet being mixed with bulls grease and wax in equal parts to make a plaister The fifteenth CLASSIS PLAISTERS Empl. Apostolicum It heats resolves cleanseth comforts and consolidates broken bones Empl. Basilicum It s excellent in all wounds specially of the head and nervous parts it s this Take betony plaister ℥ iij. gum elemni dissolved in oyle of r●ses ℥ j. powder of roses and myrtles each ℥ j. mastick calamus aromaticus roots of angelica and avens of each ℥ is with sufficient oyle of roses and a little wax make a plaister Empl. Betonic It s excellent in fractures of the scull after it covers the bones with flesh drawes forth ossicles as also filth from the bottome of deep ulcers restores flesh lost vehemently cleanseth and the bafilic is more powerful Emplast Diapalma It induceth a cicatrice resolves and together repercusseth profitable in contusion in the first dayes being dissolved in white-wine as also in burnes if dissolved in oyle of roses and so heals chilblanes its good in paines and heat of the back caused from the stone or gonorrhea It s a good defensative against venemous humours very proper in pestilential sores after broken its good in ruptures and fractures That set down by Hildanus is more excellent which is this Take new hogs grease ℥ xii oyle of roses the most fragrant and red lead each ℥ xx chalcitis burnt but not to rednesse burnt allum eachʒ ij Deere sewet ʒ iiij mastick and olibanum finely powdered eachʒ ij make a plaister according to Art and stirre it with spatula of palme well new got and juicie Empl. Melilot Simp. It s excellent in green wounds it brings forth a cold tumor is most excellent in kibe-heels and chilblanes and mixed with gum elemni and ol hyperic is a gallant balsom both in incised and intused wounds Empl. Melilot Comp. It heats humects mollifies resolves tough humours removes pain is profitable in pleurifies mollifies all hardnesses of the stomack liver spleen bowels and other parts excellent in windes of the sides and is good in the rickets Empl. Mucilage It ripens swellings and breaks them cleansing them when broken it heats humects and resolves tough and thick humours Oxycroceum It asswageth pain in the gout from cold causes as also from all other cold aches it drawes forth vapours by the pores of the skin and so unloadeth the part of vitious humours it dissipates cold swellings is not good in fractures unlesse at the very latter end to comfort the part Empl. ●ig●● oxye●●● Hildanus highly approves this and far before the other as having experienced it in fractures and dislocations the symptomes being removed it resolves mollifies and discusseth hardnesses smootheth scars He adviseth at the first in fractures to apply the following Take the roots of comfry of tormental of bistort each ℥ s. white bole ℥ j. pomegranate flowers ʒ j. cypresse nuts galls red roses eachʒ ij make of them all a very fine powder with which mixe ℥ vj of barley meal of which powder take as much as is needful for the broken member and make a cataplasme in a mortar or other vessel with posca one egge save the shell and a little oyle of roses renew it every third or fourth day till the symptomes be removed and not to be feared then apply either Vigoe empl or the following Take emplast diapalm Hild. ℥ vj. new wax ℥ ij colophon and gum elem each ℥ j. dissolve them at a most gentle fire after strew in the following powders of comfry root pomegranate flowers cypresse nuts roses a. ʒ j. mastic olibanum anʒij mixe them together adding sufficient of oyle of roses to make a cerate in adults and lean adde to ℥ s. of the plaister asteocolla p. p. ʒ j. as also every day three houres before meat take of the same in broth Paracelsus It easeth paine strengtheneth members good in all wounds is cautiously applied and is helpful in all cold aches and ulcers Empl. Diachylon Sim. comp cum gum The first mollifies hardn●sse of the liver schirrus of the spleen stomack and other parts yea mollifies strumaes is excellent in sore breasts and nipples The second is more effectual ripens apostemes mollifies hardnesse resolves digests cleanseth sanies cures phlegmons and generates flesh The third is most forceable to

mollifie all tumours Empl. de Minio It s a fine cooling healing plaister is good in wounds and ulcers also easeth pains and asswageth tumours Empl. de Ran. Vig. It heals ulcers in the french pox when mundified removes those pains of the joynts usual to that disease mollifies scrophulaes resolves hardnesse removes cornes specially if treble quantity of quick silver be mixed The Sixteenth CLASSIS GUMMES c. Ammoniacum It s hot in the second and dry in the first mollifies attenuates resolves digests ripens drawes moves the belly is proper for the spleen it s of special use in a●phritick pains in resolving tough humours in the lungs hence profitable in obstructions of the liver spleen wombe and stone Outwardly good in so●irrhus nodes in the joynts scrophulo●s and resolves hard tumours Dose inward● from ℈ j. to ʒ j. Benjamine Hot and dry in the second incides attenuates is proper to the lungs inwardly its special use is in affects of the lungs catarrhes coughs asthmaes outwardly in purging the brain by neezing in the tooth-ach is chewed in cleansing pimples of the face White waw and yellow Their proper use is to be mixed with plaisters cerates unguents c. Colophonia It heats and dries it s a kinde of rosin and retaines its qualities yet lesse penetrable therefore it heats and dries mollifies glutinates and is dissolved most fitly in plaisters Gum. Elemni It s temperate mollifies digests resolves ripens easeth pain is good in affects of the head and nerves as also their wounds It s profitable in bruises of the joynts and moves urine and courses Euphorbium It hath a notable quality to purge water from the whole body but yet not without violence It s good in palseys gout cramp old ulcers and is excellent in scaling bones that are foule Mastick Hot ane dry in the second mollifies strengthens the stomack is used specially in vomiting loathing and flux in the belly It dulls and corrects sharpnesse in purges it represseth exhalations ascending from the stomack to the head some grains swallowed after meat strengthen the head and nerves it helps spitting of blood and cough mends an ill breath drawes phlegme from the braine being chewed and swallowed cleanseth the stomack ℥ s. boiled in three or foure pound of water is a gallant ordinary drink in diarrhea outwardly its excellent in plaisters c. for the stomack Myrrh Hot and dry in the second opens attenuates maturates discusseth and resists putrefaction is used especially in obstructions of the wombe to expel the birth in the mucilage of the lungs and guts hence helps coughs hoarsenesse squinancy pleurisie collick wormes diarrhea dysentery as also the shaking in quartanes outwardly its profitable in wilde-fire gangrenes tumours in old and new wounds especially of the head and french pox Dofe from ℈ s. to ℈ ij Olibanum Hot and dry in the first used especially inwardly in affects of the head and breast as also in fluxes of belly and wombc for the cough swallowed at night vomiting spitting of blood diarrhea and dysenteria outwardly in a sume with amber to strengthen the brain to dry catarrhs It fills ulcers with flesh and produceth a cicatrice glutinates wounds in the head heales chilblanes and kibes mixed with hogs grease It mitigates the paines of ulcers in any part if beaten with milk into a liniment specially if in the anus Helps opthalmiaes and rednesse of the eyes with rose-rose-water and womens milk and is good in the beginning of warts and ring-wormes being mixed with pitch aod vineger ʒ i. rosted in an apple and with the apple eaten with sugar-candy and drink ℥ iv carduus-carduus-water after it it being well covered in bed cures the pleurisie Pitch It s good in inward bruises it heats discusseth mollifies digests and is anodyne Turpentine Inwardly it profits in coughs and affects of the lungs with honey it moves urine and stool is proper for the liver spleen reines bladder and helps expectoration and helps a consumption in the beginning drawes forth the stone is gallant in the gout frees the wombe from ill humours is good in running of the reines outwardly it moves pus maturates and helps scabs Styrax Calamit It heats dries mollifies concocts is proper for the head and nerves helps a cough hoarsenesse catarrhs is excellent in hardnesse of the wombe either used inwardly or outwardly It s mixed with cardiacks It also moves the belly if formed into pills with turpentine Gum. ●ragacanth It s temperate lenifies obstructs the pores mitigates sharpnesse and thickens is used specially in inveterate coughs roughnesse of the winde pipe hoarsenesse and all distillations mixed with honey is profitable in pains and erosions of the kidneys and dysentery in broth outwardly its good in glisters for the bloody flux for rednesse and sharp rheumes in the eyes dissolved in milk or rose-rose-water as also for the roughness of the eye-lids The Seventeenth CLASSIS METALS c. Crude Antimony It astringeth dries obstructs the pores of the body wastes proud flesh procures a cicatrite cleanserh the filth of ulcers and is good in ulcers of the eyes in collyriums Arsenick It s used as a caustick and mixed with other medicines in gangrenes and to cauterize up the vessels after amputation Allum crude and burnt The first is used properly outwardly yet sometimes and oft by empiricks to remove agues both tertian and quartane its good in the squinsey loosenesse of the palate putrefaction of the gums and phlegmatick tumors in the feet The second is good for removing proud flesh either in wounds or ulcers and to hinder putrefaction as also to procure a cicatrice Cerusse It cooleth bindeth drieth is good in childrens gallings keepeth down spungious flesh mixed with plantane water is good in excoriations of the yard within the passage Calx lota It dries without bitings therefore good in contumacious ulcers from the french pox also in burnes and other ulcers that do not easily admit cure Crocus Martis It s gallant in dysenteries lienteria gonorrhea and the like and outwardly it dries wounds and ulcers Dose from ℈ s. to ℈ j. Gypsum It s restrictive without burning is very profitably used in unguents to cicatrice as also in powders to stay outward fluxes of blood Lapis Calaminaris It dries gently cleanseth bindes fills ulcers with flesh drawes on a cicatrice excellent in the eyes and excoriations in children Lapis Causticus It s used properly in opening tumours and to make issues withal Lapis medicamentosus Crollii It removes all defluxions heales ulcers and wounds although inveterate cures erysipelas scabs tinea and ring-wormes is good in ophthalmiaes cancers burns and ficus one ounce of it is to be dissolved in raine or river-water lb j. after filtrated and used Lapis sabulosus pp. It s good in agglutinating of broken bones both given inwardly and used in emplaisters and cataplasmes outwardly It 's prepared thus Take of the stone and grinde it very fine in a marble-mortar with comfry water Doseʒ j. in broth

of the body have scabs wheals pimples or itch come after this affect hopeful They who attaine to the consistence of the disease escape the danger if carefully lookt to The declination of the symptomes promiseth good If the disease continue long it easily procures a Phthisick unlesse some other affect or grievous symptome do intervene as convulsion loud cough swelling of the lungs vulgarly call'd the rising of the lights a continual Feaver Pleurisie and so kill Infants who have had red-haired women to their nurses have been most obnoxious to this affect This disease chiefly invades the cradles of the gentry especially those who live at ease and fare deliciously They whose thigh shankbones are much encreased rather according to latitude thickness then according to longitude for the most part become dwarfs Whosoever are not perfectly cured before the first five yeares of their age be spun out they afterward for the most part live miserable and fickly and being either Asthmatical Cachectical or Phthisical they die before they arrive to the consistence of their age or else they grow deform'd crooked and dwarfish Cure Diet is to be good and easy of concoction Although the essential parts of this disease be various yet may they all be met with by medicines temperately hot and dry And although the spirits prohibit all extreme hot things yet they allow of moderate Being the disease is great and the spirits admit not a suitable remedy it must be divided and given by turnes that is purge by degrees For the Chirurgical Cure The most used and effectual is to divide the ridge that crosseth over the eare a little above the hole stopping the hole with lint It 's to be done in both eares twice or thrice reiterated Some say in a week I have done it succesfully once a moneth it 's to be done with a blunt knife that the nerve usually burnt for paine in the teeth may be divided This I have known succesful when all other means have been fruitlesse This particularly evacuates the head by which the blood is corrected and hereby in some measure the astonishment of the parts is driven away Remember universals are to precede Some highly commend issues If the disease cannot be conquered by other meanes it 's to be made in the neck by incision yet I have known some after by reason of the paine have been lesse gamesome If with the Rickets an acute disease be complicated vesicatories are to be used in the neck moderate ligatures may be used swathing of some parts with boulsters are to be used as ankles knees c. For the Physical Cure be sure let the first wayes be first wash't from their impurities which is done either by 1. Glisters 2. Vomits or 3. Lenitive purgers The first is required chiefly when the belly is costive and excrements hardened when windie humours torment the guts or some vehement paine in the bowels afflict the Patient In these cases they are not only to be injected before preparation but also before a vomit or a lenitive purge They are frequently fram'd of gentle purgers sometimes only of such things as have a faculty only to make the wayes slippery and to expel the winde Never of strong Catharticks They are to be injected warme or luke-warme After long abstinence from meat take some formes ℞ new milke warm'd ℥ iij. foure five or six Coriander-seeds bruised ℈ s. course sugar ℥ j. syr viol ʒ vj. mixe them and make a glister This I have experimented in case of winde excellent as also in old the quantity being increased The Doctors in stead of the Coriander use Anise-seed ℈ s. This I know the powder of new anise-seeds being very fine and mix'd with pap c. and given by the mouth to a childe a day or two or more after it 's borne purgeth gallantly removing a green matter impacted in the intestines which torments the childe A sufficient quantity of the emollient decoction with lenitive electuary ℥ s. syr of roses solutive and syrup of violets eachʒvj oyl of Camomile ℥ j. mixt will serve Or ℞ Althea-roots beaten ℥ s. melilot-flowers ʒij mallow-flowers as also of mullin eachʒ j. bayle them in whey sufficient quantity to ℥ iiij or five straine it adde red sugar ℥ s man calab ʒ iij. oyle of Camomile ℥ s. mingle them and make a glister But to passe to Emeticks these are excellent and procure many advantages if considerately administred and the dose fitly proportioned otherwise dangerous they are to be forborne unlesse the humours incline upward of their owne accord and the children are either naturally or customarily apt to vomit or can easily endure it Also if they spit blood use to bleeding at the nose or any internal opening of the veins tyssick and consumption if the vomits be vehement therefore they are either to be gentle in their own nature or if vehement be corrected and given in a lesse dose I have known given to children white copperas of it self which hath wrought well and securely the salt of it is excellent from five to ten grains dissolv'd in convenient liquour Your juice of Asarabacca is more churlish so is infusion of glasse of Antimony more crabbed then that of crocus metallorum the last may be infused either in sack or white-wine made in a cold place and well purified Dose from ʒ j. toʒ ij to which adde syrup of five roots ʒ j. dissolving them in posset-drink to which adde cynamon-water ten drops or if you feare Convulsion fits aq ante pilepti Lang. drink it warme Or ℞ the tops of groundsel Ms. raisins ℥ j. ale a pinte boil them together till the halfe be wasted to ℥ iij. of the strained liquor adde syrup of vineger simple ℥ s. mixe them and drink them luke-warm Some administer vineger of squills with some oxymel of the same from half a spoonful to two spoonfuls Lenitives work without tumult and therefore require not such care as vomits or strong purgers only let them not be nauseous to the stomach lest they procure loathing of all other medicines nor oppresse the stomach by their too great quantity and lest they vomit them up presently let the mouth be moistened with pleasant liquour or use sugar candid cherries preserv'd barberries or the juice of oranges c. The Lenitives are either simple as manna cassia fistula aloes succotrina tamarinds oake-foarn roo●s jujubes sebestens sweat prunes and damascens figs dates pap of rosted apple whey c. These are to be mix't with other catharticks otherwise they wil not satisfie or Compound as Cassia drawn either with or without sena diacassia lenitive electuary electuary of raisins common purging decoction syrup and honey of violets syrup of roses solutive c. Or ℞ best mannaʒ vj. cream of tartar gr 6. dissolve them in posset-ale in which a few anise-seeds have been boil'd ℥ js mixe them and give them in the morning Or ℞ polypody of the oak ℥ ij cream of tartar ʒ