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A28326	Blagrave's supplement or enlargement to Mr. Nich. Culpeppers English physitian containing a description of the form, names, place, time, coelestial government, and virtues, all such medicinal plants as grow in England, and are omitted in his book, called, The English-physitian, and supplying the additional virtues of such plants wherein he is defective : also the description, kinds, names, place, time, nature, planetary regiment, temperature, and physical virtues of all such trees, herbs, roots, flowers, fruits, excrescencies of plants, gums, ceres, and condensate juices, as are found in any part of the world, and brought to be sold in our druggist and apothecaries shops, with their dangers and corrections / by Joseph Blagrave ... ; to which is annexed, a new tract for the cure of wounds made by gun-shot or otherways, and remedies for the help of seamen troubled with the scurvy and other distempers ...	Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. English physician.	1674 (1674)	Wing B3121; ESTC R15907	274,441	310

hot and dry in the second degree and somwhat astringent the bark of the root is most used in Physick the flowers and leaves are not so strong in operation and are an excellent sawce The bark of the Caper roots is good against the hardness and stopping of the Spleen to be taken with Oxymel or mingled with oyles or oyntments for that purpose and outwardly applied upon the region of the Spleen Spleen the root hereof is good in decoction to be given in drink to such as are troubled with the Sciatica and Palsy Sciatica Palsie and to such as are hurt or bruised by falls or otherwise Bruises it mightily provokes Urine and stirrs up womens courses Termes the fruit and leaves have the like virtue as the roots but not so strong the seed of Capers boyled in Vinegar and kept warm in the Mouth asswageth the Tooth-ach Tooth-ach the juice of the leaves flowers and young fruit of Capers killeth Worms in the Eares Worms in the Eares being dropped therein the Capers which are brought into this Country preserved in pickle being eaten are meat and medicine for it stirreth up appetite fortifies the Stomack openeth obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and consumeth and wasteth cold flegm that is gathered about the Stomack Soldonella Names IT is called also in some places Sea-cawle and in Dutch Zee-wind but in shops it is known by the name of Soldonella or Brassica-marina Descript Soldonella hath many small branches somewhat red by which it spreadeth and creepeth along the ground covered here and there with little round green leaves rounder and smaller then leaves of Assarabana the flowers are red or carnation colour the seed is black and groweth in husks or round Cods the root is small and long the leaves have a saltish tast Place This herb groweth abundantly in Zealand upon the Sea-banks and in most salt grounds and Marshes which the Sea flowes over Time It floureth in June after which time it is fit to be gathered and kept to serve in medicine Government and Vertues It is hot and dry in the third degree a martial plant it purgeth very forceably down all watry humors Watry humors Liver Dropsie and opens obstructions of the Liver and is given with good successe to hydropicall people the best way to give it is boyled with the broth of fat flesh or else it may be dried and taken in powder but if it be taken in powder alone it hurteth and troubleth the Stomack the correcters of it are Anniseeds Ginger and Cynnamon and a good quantity of Sugar and so taken altogether The Carob-tree Names IT is called in shops Xylocaracta Carob and Carobs Descript This fruit groweth upon a great tree whose branches are small and covered with a red bark the leaves be long and spread abroad after the manner of Ashen leaves consisting of six or seven small leaves growing by a rib one against another of a sad dark green colour above and of a light green underneath the fruit is certain crooked cods or husks sometimes of a foot and an half long and as broad as ones thumb sweet in the husk is contained seed which is great plain and of a Chestnut colour Place This plant grows in Spain Italy and other hot Countries Government and Vertues The fruit of the Carob-tree is some what hot and dry and astringent especially when it is fresh and green somewhat subject to the influence of Saturn the fresh and green Carobs do gently loose the belly but are somewhat hard of digestion if eaten in great quantity hurtful to the Stomack but being dried they stop fluxes of the belly Fluxes provoke Urine Vrine and are not prejudicial to the Stomack being much fitter to be eaten then the Carobs which are fresh gathered or green Cassia-fistula Names IT it called Cassia in the cane but is usual known by the general name of Cassia-fistula in most Countries Descript The tree which beareth the canes hath leaves not much unlike those of the Ash-tree they be great long and spread abroad made of many leaves growing one against another along by one stem the fruit is round long black and with woodish huskes or Cods most commonly two foot long and as thick as ones thumb severed or parted in the inside into divers small cells or Chambers wherein lyeth flat and brownish seed laid together with the pulpe which is black soft and sweet and is called the flower marrow or cream of Cassia and is very useful and profitable in medicine Place It groweth in Syria Arabia and the East-Indies and in the West as Jaimaca Government Nature and Vertues The black pulpe or moist substance of Cassia is of a gentle temperature moderatly hot and moist in the first degree under the Government of Venus the inner pulpe of Cassia is a sweet and pleasant medicine and may safely be given to all weak people as women with Child and young Children It looseth the belly gently and moderatly purgeth cholerick humors Choler and slimy flegm Flegm gathered about the Guts to be taken the quantity of an ounce at a time Cassia is excellent good for those who are troubled with hot Agues Agues the Pleurisie Pleurisie Jaundies Jaundise or any inflamation of the Liver especially being mixed with waters Liver drinks or he●bs that be of a cooling nature It is good to cleanse the Reines and Kidneys Reines Kidneys it driveth forth Gravel and the Stone and is a preservative against the Stone to be drunk in the decoction of Liquorish and Parsly roots or Ciches It is good to gargle with Cassia to asswage and mitigate swellings of the Throat and to dissolve ripen and break imposthumes and Tumors Avicen writeth that Cassia being applied to the part greived with the Gout asswageth the pain Wild-Carrot Names THere is one kind that groweth not in England which is called Daucus Cretensis because it groweth in Crete or Candy or Daucus of Candy the wild Carrot which groweth here is also Daucus and often passeth in shops for the true Daucus of Crete it is also called birds-nest from the great tufts of the flowers resembling a birds-nest Descript The Daucus Cretensis is a tender herb having a stalk of a span long set with leaves a great deal smaller and more tender then the leaves of Fennel at the top of the stalk grow little spikey tufts with white flowers like unto the tops of Coriander yeelding a little long rough white seed of a good savor and sharp tast the root is of the thickness of ones finger and about a span long The Wild-Carrot or birds-nest hath leaves like Coriander but greater and not much unlike the leaves of the yellow garden Carrot the flowers be white growing upon tufts or rundells like to the tuffets of the yellow Carrots in the middle whereof there is found a little small flower or twaine of a brown red colour turning towards black the

by cutting and extenuating and digesting the grosse and tough Flegm therein all the properties before-said of the Elder the Walwort doth perform more strongly and is more effectual in opening and purging Choler Flegm Choler Flegm and Water in helping the Gout Water Gout the Piles Piles and Womens diseases coloureth the Hair black helpeth the Inflamations of the Eyes and pains in the Eares Womens courses hair Eyes ears the stinging or biting of Serpents Serpents Mad-dog Burning or a Mad-dog the Burnings or Scaldings Scaldings by Fire or Water Wind Cholick Wind Cholick and Stone and Stone the cure of all old sores and fistulous Ulcers Vlcers and all other the griefs and maladies before of the Elder specified Thus in general Terms I have given the species nature and vertues of the Elder and Dwarff-Elder with their excellent operations deducted from the Testimony of the best Authors and late admired experience I shall now lay down some more particular and late experienced medicaments composed of some parts of the Elder and appropriated to several diseases in several parts of Mans body For pain in the Head Take the Cake of the flowers of Elder left in the Still after the distillation and sprinkle upon it the Vinegar of the flowers and apply it to the Temples renewing it with sprinkling on fresh Vinegar or you may use Rose cakes be sprinkled with the Vinegar of Elder which is far better for the brain where the heat is more vehement and the brain more sensible Or Take of fresh Elder leaves two handfuls of Roses and waterlilly-flowers of each one handful being cut and pounded pour upon them of Elder Vinegar the water distilled out of the flowers of each a like quantity presse the juice out strongly and mix with it two whites of Eggs well beaten in which dip a double Linnen cloth and apply it to the Head repeating it often This decoction is excellent to dispell the Vapours of the brain and make one sleep soundly if the Legs and Arms be soundly rubbed therewith when you go to bed Take six Umbells of the Elder flowers when they are full of Annise Umbells four of Roman Camomil flowers one handful six poppy Heads with their seeds being cut together beat them in rain water and so apply them The Elder 's remedies again Hypochondriack and flatulent Melancholy In these diseases if the Patient be subject to Vomit it is expedient first of all to provoke it by the oyl of the infusion of the flowers and bark of the Elder lest by preparing and purging medecines those crude and Excrementitious humours which often are gathered in the Stomack be carried to the more principal parts of the body and augment the obstructions Or give of the syrrup made of the juice of the buds and berries an ounce with some grains of the extract of Scammony and three drops of the oyl of Elder-flowers distilled in the distilled water of the flowers thereof Or use this clyster following which will mitigate pain expell wind and loosen the belly Take of Elder leaves two handfulls of Elder flowers and Roman Cammomil-flowers of each an handful of the stones of Elder-berries dryed two drams which being cut and pounded boyl them in good Wine or Wine of the Elder till the colature come to eight ounces add the oyl of the infused flowers three ounces of Elder-honey two ounces the yolk of one egg mix them and make a clyster and inject it hot After this the Wine which is drawn out of the berries and flowers is very profitable for it opens obstructions cuts grosse humors and by degrees carries them off It doth likewise refresh the vital and animal Spirits drink a cupful thereof each morning for a Month taking before a spoonful or two of flesh broth or a soft Egg with these you may also mix once or twice a week the powder of the buds of Elder which is thus prepared Take of Elder-buds dryed in the shade half an ounce of Elder-kernels trochiscated of Sene leaves of Crystalized Elder Salt of each three dams of the extract of Scammony two drams of Galingale and Mace each half a dram being all subtilly powdered distill upon them of the oyl of Cloves and Fennel of each six drops of Cinnamon and Caraway of each three drops let them be mixed exactly in a marble Morter for a powder whose dose is from a scruple to a dram The Trochiscation or preparation of the seeds of Elder is thus Take one ounce of the lesser Esula prepared in infusion in Vinegar and pulverized grossly put it into Spanish Wine and let them macerate eight daies in the Sun or in the Winter in the Chimney-corner the mouth of the glass being well stopt after strain them through gray Paper and purifie them take the clean Arilla's of the Elder-berries dry them pulverize them and with a sufficient quantity of the powder of Esula make them in paste dry it and then sprinkle them with the same infusion and again work it into paste of which form your Troches dry them and keep them for your use The specifick cure of the Epilepsie or Falling sickness from the Elder The Cure of Children To Infants new born before you give them any thing to swallow you may give them with great profit a spoonful of the syrrup of the flowers or juice of the Elder-berries to carry off that putrid yellowish and sometimes blackish water gathered in the Stomack and parts about while the Infant is in the Mothers womb for these syrrups do not only change and evacuate but they also preserve from and resist malignities Macerate a handfull of Elder-flowers well dryed in Wine with which wash the new born babe it consumes the humors gathered about the joints and comforts the members this also is profitable Take of the powder of the buds one dram of the berries of herb Paris Numb 6. powder them very finely of which give half a scruple for 9 daies together in the water of Elder-flowers or in any other convenient Liquor In the Fit the least spoonful of the spirit of the flowers given with three or five of the seeds of Peony excorticated is much commended or of Peony-seeds excorticated of the best Water of Elder-flowers one ounce and an half of the flowers of Linden half an ounce The cure of those that are of age and grieved with the Falling-sickness In the cure of such persons first purge the body very well In the Spring time macerate the bark of the roots of Elder in the Whey of Cows milk which being sweetned with Sugar let him each morning drink an hearty draught thereof or take of the compound powder of the buds two scruples or a dram or take of the new rob of the Elder well thickned with Sugar asmuch as will make a Bolus The Spirit of the flowers and berries of the Elder in and out of the fit is very effectual but it may be made more efficacious in this

manner Take of the middle bark of the Elder of Peony-roots each 6 drams of dried Elder-leaves and buds of Linden tree-flowers of each one handful of the seeds of Rue two drams of the berries of herb Paris Number 20. of Jews-Ears numb 6. This being cut and pounded put asmuch of the Spirit of Elder-flowers thereon as will be a hand broad high above them let them stand eight days in a hot place and in a vessel close stopped distill them in glasse Vessels in Balneo Mariae till they be dry with them mix the distilled Spirits the salt drawn out of its dregs and keep it for the Anti-Epileptick Spirit of the Elder whereof you may give a spoonful to the patient in the time of his fit afterwards using it every quarter of the Moon to dissipate the Epileptick corruption by sweating or insensible transpiration and to strengthen the brain with this same in the time of the fit rub the nostrills Gums and Palate adding thereto a grain or two of Castor The Water of the flowers drawn up into the Nose prevails much against the Epilepsie and Vertigo in the same affects the Eyes and Face are to be washed often with this water in the time of the Fit anoint gently the contracted members with the oyle of the flowers of the first description the oyl of the second sort is much commended to anoint the palms of the Hands and Soles of Feet the Temples and nape of the Neck Of the Apoplexy and Palsie The salt of the Spirit of Elder is much commended as a preservative against these grievous diseases if it be mixed with a third part of the volatile Spirit of Amber and given in the time of the new Moon or full Moon in a convenient liquor in the weight of a scruple or half a dram the salt of the Elder must be first excellently crystaliz'd in the water of Sage Oximel Sambuci is likewise useful in these cold distempers of the Brain whereof give often in Sage water a little before purging for the cutting and preparing that grosse matter The Spirit likewise distilled from the Berries is excellent if once a week or at least each Quarter of the Moon a spoonfull thereof be taken mixt with crums of Wheat-bread and a little Sugar or you may prepare it new in what quantity you please Thus. Take Sage Marjoram Ivy of each two drams Cowslip-flowers Lilly of the Valley-flowers of each one dram and an half of Rocket-seeds two drams which being cut and grossely powdered infuse them in a sufficient quantity of the Spirit of Elder and after eight dayes distil them in Balneo dissolve a little Castoreum in it and strain it of this give the Patient a spoonful in the time of the Fit and with the same rub the Crown of the Head Temples Nape of the Neck and Nostrills But if the Apoplexy end in a Palsey of the sides or other Members as usually it doth or in death 't is necessary to provoke sweat which may be done with two drams of the spirit before mentioned or two drams of the Rob of the berries in Sage water or of the extract of the rob of the Elder five drams and an half of which every morning give to the patient being exactly mixed one dram in two or three ounces of the decoction of the great Burdock and keep him warm to sweat in his bed for half an hour Of Catharrs In this the Wine prepared of the flowers and berries is much commended drink a cupful in the morning after you have taken a litle broth For diseases of the Eares and Hearing For to ease and mitigate pains of the Eares use Fomentations of Elder and Camomile-flowers and anoint the place with the oyl of the infusion of the flowers of Elder To take away the tingling sounding and other noises of the Eares drop in a drop or two of the oyl of the flowers and stop the Eares with Bombace dipped therein and with the decoction of the roots and leaves of the Elder with some Originanum let the Eares be often washed therein and receive the hot sume thereof Of the defects of the Nose and Smelling Water of Elder-flowers often snuffed up into the Nose helpeth the Smelling when it is lost or diminished by any great Cold or sickness and if you wash the Face often with the distilled water of the leaves and flower of the Elder it cleanseth and dryeth up all pimples and pustules of the Face For diseases of the Throat and Mouth The expressed juice of the leaves mixed with Simple or Elder hony doth cleanse and dry very much all the Ulcers of the Gums and Throat they being gargled therewith and outwardly anoint them with the oyl of Elder-flowers by infusion For Hoarseness The new Rob of the Elder-berries which is liquid is with good successe given to Coughing and unquiet Children for older people a Lohoch of the oyl of Elder-Sugar is profitable but where there is much matter and corruption feared this medicament following is profitable Take of fresh Elder-leaves a little dryed in the shadow one handful boyl them in a quart of Fountain water to the Consumption of a third part strain it and sweeten it with Sugar-Candy or clarified hony of which every day morning and evening drink a draught warm To make the Voice clear Take of Elder-flowers dryed in the Sun and pulverized of which drink a little every morning in white Wine fasting if the Cough and Hoarseness proceed from heat in Feavers the syrrup made of the juice of Elder-berries with equal parts of the syrrup of violets is an excellent remedy Or you may make Elder-Sugar in imitation of violet Sugar-Candy Cinnamon or Rose Sugar of which in these pectorall diseases hold some still to be dissolved in your mouth that it may gradatim descend into the Wind-pipe 't is thus made Take of the best Sugar 6 pound let it dissolve and boyle in the fragrant water of the flowers till it come to a fit thickness to be made into tablets then infuse the fresh juice made from the berries well clarified or the frequent infusion of the flowers as you please to have the colour on a soft fire boyl to the consistency of a syrrup then in a glasse or earthen pot put sticks in order two fingers breadth as●under and pour the Liquor hot thereon and in a warmed shop the vessel being bound up in a thick Cotton-cloth let it stand to congeal For Swooning and Faintness The Vinegar of Elder-berries imbibed in a Sponge recovers those as it were from death that are subject to Swoonings and Faintings it excellently refresheth the vital Spirits in this also dip Linnen cloaths and apply them to the pulses of the Temples Wrists and near the Ankles Of Agues and Feavers As soon as any one finds a Feaver at first begin to approach let them take of the Rob of the Elder in the Vinegar Spirit or water of the flowers thereof and so in their beds being well covered

thereof for his ordinary drink till he be well If he chance to be burnt with Gun-powder then presently take common salt half an ounce Juice of onyons four ounces mix them together and anoynt the Patient therewith but where the skin is burnt off then use this following oyntment Take two pound of Linseed oyl one pound and a half of oyl of Roses Violet-leaves Mallows Water-Lillies of the Bark of the green Alder-tree House-leek each one handful Porks greese first well washed in waters of Roses and Nightshade as much as is sufficient Infuse all these for the space of six days then boyl them over a gentle fire till the vertue of the herbs be drawn out then strain them and add thereunto white wax as much as is sufficient to make them into an oyntment and if in the boyling you put in one pound of Shoomakers peece greese it will be the better But if the eyes chance to be burnt apply this Remedy red Rose-water four ounces Womens milk if to be had two ounces two whites of eggs and a little Sugar-candy mix them together apply it to the eye or anoynt the Eyelids with this excellent oyntment Take four ounces of Oyl of Roses one ounce of Cerus wash'd in red rose-Rose-water two whites of Eggs one ounce of white wax one dram of Camphire mix them for use But beware in any case you apply not Soap or any such like medicines to any part where the skin is off and if there follow any swelling then apply this Pultis following made of two handfuls of Mallows and two handfuls of Violet-leaves Camomile-flowers and Rose-leaves of each one handful boyl these in new milk or Barley-water till they be soft then stamp them in a Mortar and add thereto the oyntment of Roses and Unguentum Populeum or oyntment of Poplar-buds of each one ounce and a half two yolks of Eggs two ounces of Barley-meal the roots of Marsh-mallows and the seeds of Flea-bane of each half an ounce sometimes you may put in the pulps of these of each two ounces and half an ounce of oyl of Roses with the Crums of white bread You are in the mean time to have regard the Patients body be in good order either naturally or by Art if not naturally administer this Glyster or the like as often as you see occasion Take of Mallows Violet-leaves Pellitory Beets and Mercury Camomile-flowers of each one handful half an ounce of sweet Fennel-seeds two drams of Linseed boyl them in a sufficient quantity of common water to a pint in which dissolve one ounce or six drams or half an ounce according to the nature of your Patient of Diaphenicon or lenitive Electuary or Diacatholicon with butter or oyls with about a dram of common salt Bloud-letting is not to be forgotten you may likewise make the Patient a drink after this manner taking of Egrimony Mugwort Angelica St. Johns wort Mouse-ears of each two handfull Wormwood half a handful Southernwood Bettony Buglos Comfrey the greater and lesser roots and all her Avens both sorts of Plantane Sanacle Tormentil with the roots the buds of Barbery and Oak of each a handful take of all these herbs mixed together three handful boyl them in two quarts of water and a quart of white-wine gently till the third part or one half be consumed strain it and add one pound of Honey being scummed and let the Patient drink of it or you may sweeten it to make it pleasant with boyling Reasons of the Sun stoned pruans or the like with Sugar Now when you meet with any wounded in the head apply a playster of the white of an Egg Bolarmonack and Aloes next day dress it with Arceus his Lineament and lay upon it Emplastrum de Janua or else de Gratia Dei which will perfectly heal the wound But if it be deep you may apply either the above-mentioned or this medicin following which will bring the wound to run with good matter which is made with Venus Turpentine the yolk of an egg oyl of Roses and a little Saffron afterwards you must add honey of Roses and Barley-flower to the former medicine till the wound be perfectly cured But if you find the former medicines not to answer your expectation then make use of this that follows viz. Take two ounces of Venice Turpentine one ounce of Syrrup of Roses Powder of Myrrhe and Mastich of each half a dram mix them together for your use Lastly wholly to close and dry up the wound use this following powder which is made of Burnt Allum and the rindes of Pomgranates burnt of each one dram mix them apply it either alone or mixed with Unguentum desiccativum rubrum But if the wound be very large stich it up first washing the wound with some warm wine then dressing it with Venice Turpentine mixed with a little Aqua vitae dissolving therein some sanguis Draconis i. e. Dragons-bloud Mastich and Aloes let not your stiches be too streight or close together for fear of pain and Inflammations which may happen till the wound comes to maturity or suppuration but only to keep out the air and put somewhat a broad-like tent into the lowest part of the wound that the Matter may have passage forth then apply this following Cataplasm above the other dressing Take Barley and Bean-meal of each six ounces oyl of Roses three drams as much vinegar as will serve to make it a Pultis which doth cool dry repell or drive back and mitigate and asswage pain and inflammation and stayes bleeding If you suspect or fear that the Patient have a feaver let bloud forthwith according to the strength and ability of your Patient daily administring cooling glysters made of Barley-water wherein may be boyled Violet-leaves Mallows and Mercury and such like dissolving syrrup of Violets and Roses pulp of Cassia and such like therein or you may give him a gentle Purge of Electuarium Diacatholicon Electuarium lenitivum or the like an ounce more or less for a Dose according to the strength of your Patient or if he like Pills rather give him Pillulae Cochiae and Pillulae Ruffi of each half a dram mix'd well together let the Patient take three over night and three the next morning if he have a foul body and you see need you may continue them every other day for a week or more as you see cause likewise you may administer suppositories made of honey boyl'd to a due hardness with common salt But if you meet with only a bruised head without a wound then the head is to be shaved applying this following Oyl of Myrtle and the powder of the same of each one ounce the white of an Egg mix it and apply it Or this Pultis instead thereof consisting of flower of Barley and Beans with vinegar and oyl of Roses Dress it twice a day till the part comes to its former temperature if you were not at the beginning then first anoynting it with oyl of wax lay on

Emplastrum Cuminum or the plaister of Cummin-seed But if after all this there remain a tumor or swelling apply Emplastrum de Betonica or plaister of Betony or de Minio or the Red-lead Plaister or take two ounces of Emplastrum de Mucilaginibus or Emplaister of the Muscilages Oxicroceum Emplastrum Meleloti or the Melilot plaister of each one ounce oyl of Camomile and Dill of each two ounces of these make a Cerat or Cerecloath as they call it Or this Three pintes of red-wine commonly such as loches are wash'd with a quart twenty cypress nuts and Myrtle-berries both bruised one ounce of red rose leaves Wormwood Sage-leaves Sweet Mariorum Camomile and Melilot-flowers of each half a handful make a water of them being boyled together dipping flannel cloaths in it wrung hot out and applyed then apply one of the plaisters above The Melilot plaister alone hath been found of admirable effect in Contusions or bruisings If these remove not the tumor then you must see to ripen it as●oon as you can which may be done by this medicine made of two parts of water one of oyl with as much wheat-flower as will make it to a Pultis of a good body adding thereto the yolk of an egg Now having brought it to matter it must be opened in the most declining part then if the skul be found dress it with this Syrup of dryed Roses and Wormwood of each an ounce half an ounce of Turpentine Orrice-roots Aloes Myrrhe Mastich and Bean-flower of each one dram mix them according to art If the skul be foul then smooth it with an Instrument called a Raspatory made for that purpose apply this powder thereto Take of Orrice-root Gentian round Birthwort Dittany Barley-flower of each half an ounce Aloes Draggons bloud Myrrhe Mastich Sarcocol of each two drams make a powder for your use After the bone is scaled cure it as ordinary wounds if from a Bruise or Contusion a gangreen should follow which you may know by the hardness of the part when it looks black then you are to Scarrifie or cut the flesh with your Incision-knife or Rasor and apply Cupping-glasses dressing it with Aegyptiacum Spirit of wine and such like till you have secured it from going further then cure it as in other wounds If a wound happen upon the muscles of the Temple either by pricking or thrusting over thwart ways or long ways the two first if deep are dangerous being accompanied with vomi ing convulsion and deep sleeping if it be by a thrust the hair being shaven away dress it with oyl of St. Johns wort compound oyl and Earth-worms upon that apply Paracelsus plaister if over thwart ways stich it dressing it with Arceus his Liniament upon that Paracelsus plaister if the wound be long ways stay the bloud and stich it and apply the foresaid Lineament of Arceus with plaister of Paracelsus If the membranes of the brain be hurt with the brain which seldom falls out without the skul be broken the first Membran being wounded cal'd Piamater the bloud flows with much pain the next to that call'd Dura mater cleavs close to the brain which is under it that they always suffer together There follows foaming at the mouth darkness of sight loss of Reason and Palsey and flux of bloud To stay bleeding use the powders before mentioned and to swage pain use Oil of Roses warm till matter be procured after use equal parts of honey of Roses and Spirit of wine or oyl of Roses till it be digested then to procure new flesh use Syrrup of dryed Roses if there happen an Inflamation joyned with the swelling then open a vein use slender dyet and bathe the part with the decoction of Marsh mallows Linseed Fenugreek Violet leaves and such like after apply oyl of Roses Myrtles or Quinces if the tumor increase open the passage wider in the skul if it come to be fully ripe then open it warily that you touch not the brain after apply honey of Roses and Syrrup of dry Roses if this swelling come from a bruise then use oyl of Roses Honey of Roses or oyl of eggs with Aqua vitae and powder of Orrice root Gentian round Birthwort and the like if congealed bloud be the cause use this Aqua vitae two ounces and a half Saffron in powder one scruple Honey of Roses two ounces and a half Sarcocol three drams mix them over a gentle fire and so use it till blackness be gone if from improper medicines applyed cure it as in a Bruise if from Putrefaction or rottenness which is known by the ill scent of the matter use this medicine Take an ounce and half of Aqua vitae Syrrup of Wormwood and honey of Roses of each two drams oyntment of Aegyptiacum one dram and half Sarcocol myrrhe and Alloes of each one dram White wine one ounce and half boyl all together gently strain them and keep them for your use or take Plantane water one ounce and a half Egyptian oyntment one dram and a half Mercury precipitated one scruple mix them and apply it warm If you shall imagine that the skul of any Patient is broken not touching the membrane of the brain which you shall gather either by sense or reason the first is found out either by the finger of Probe by both which you will feel it rugged only have a care that the Sutures in the head do not deceive you The rational signs are taken diversly as if he fell from on high the person strong or the weapon great that caused the wound its probable the skul is broken if they bleed at nose ears or mouth if they swoon or vomit if he often touch the wound if he raves or falter in his speech be dull weak of judgment and understanding all these are signs of a broken skul If a Feaver happen to the Patient before the thirteenth day in Winter and seventh in Summer it will go ill with him If the skul be blackish most commonly deadly but if the flesh be red the membran called dura mater be of its right colour and he move well his neck and jaws there is hope of his Recovery If the Patient be old if the fracture be upon the fore part of the head called Sinciput or the Temples or Sutures then the case is doubtful Then the first thing you are to do having prepared your Patients body by blood-letting Suppositers glysters and gentle Purges as you shal see cause and your judgment shall direct you is to shave the head an Incision being made after the maner of a cross or letter X take up all to the skul either with a Chisel or your fingers but make not your Incision on the Temporal muscles that done keep it open with pledgets armed with the astringent powders then roll it up the next day if a flux of blood be not feared or upon the skul about the fourth day after wounding if ill symptoms hinder not then upon the

eye-lids if they be made overthwart-ways are to be stitched up and this following powder strewed upon them which hath a virtue to heal them speedily Take of Bolearmonack and sealed earth called terra sigillata of each two drams of Dragons bloud called sanguis Draconis and Sarcocol of each one dram mix them for your use or else use Arceus's Liniment or artificial Balsom Purging and bleeding must not be forgot if the wound be great wounds of the eyes are carefully to be handled if the eye and eye-lid be both wounded keep them from growing together and apply defensatives to the forehead and temples to hinder Inflamations and pain and so dress it with oyl of St. Johns wort compound Arceus's Liniment and the like with Paracelsus his plaister over the eye-lids But to cleanse the eyes from any filth use this medicine following Take Syrrup of dryed Roses one ounce the waters of Fennel and Rue of each two drams Aloes wash'd Olibanum the gum of each half an ounce mix them for your use or this Take one ounce of Barley-water three drams of clarified honey Aloes well wash'd in plantane-Plantane-water and Sugar Candy of each half an ounce mix them for use also this ensuing is good Take of the pulp called Muscilages of Olibanum Gum-Arabick Gum-dragant and Sarcocol of each three drams the pulp or muscilages must be drawn in Barley-water one dram of Aloes being thrice washed in rose-Rose-water Cerus wash'd and prepared Tutty of each half a dram mix them for your use you may if you find occasion make use of Rhasis his white troches called Trochisci albi Rhasis cum vel sine Opio being made with or without Opium likewise at any time you may use those Troches dissolved in Plantane or Barly-water instead of Breast-milk Wounds in the Ears if altogether cut off are cured by applying the Powders of Gentian Orrice Dittany Aloes myrrhe Mastich Barley-flower Sarcocol of each equal quantities and the oyntment of red Lead laying over them Paracelsus plaister if they be divided and must be stitched take hold of the skin onely and dress them with Arceus his Linement if the division be but small then you may use the dry stitch to keep them joyned together the dry stitch is when peeces of cloath are dipt in such and the like glutinating oyntments Take Mastich Myrrhe Dragons bloud powder of Red Roses Gum-Dragon of each two drams powder them all very finely that done put to them the white of an egg and as much Rose-water as will make them of a glewy substance standing so all night The next day if the medicine be too thick put more Rose-water and Plantane-water to make it of a fit thickness the peeces of cloath are to be indented and applyed on each side the wound four hours before you stitch them this is done without pain and therefore may be used where-ever you can without stitching or needles Wounds in the nose if in the soft part only may be cured by dry stitch as before observing the same method if in the hard part it is either the bone or gristle otherwise called Cartilage if in the former broken restore it by putting up some Instrument or fit stick wrapt about with a soft linnen rag then with Pledgets dipt in this astringent medicine made of the white of an egg Boll Armanack and Dragons bloud applyed to the sides of the nose you shall endeavour to confirm the restored bones then put up small Pipes into the nostrils not exactly round but something flattish put them not up too high so fasten them with strings to a Cap lest they fall out by this means the bones will be kept in their place and you will make a passage both for the matter and breathing Remember the wound is to be brought together either by dry stitch or needle and Bol Armanack Mastich Dragons bloud Burnt-Allum mixt with the white of an egg is to be applyed using convenient binding which may not press the bones too much lest the nose become flat If in the gristle or Cartilage in stitching take hold only of the skin and to prevent the growing of proud flesh within use tents according to art In wounds of the Cheeks use the dry stitch with the aforesaid medicines The other manner of using the dry stitch is thus having spread the glutinative oyntment or Plaister set down before in wounds of the ears upon peeces of strong cloath or the cloath dipt in the glutinating oyntment apply on each side of the wound one peece of the same a singers breadth distance asunder or so let it ly on till it be well dryed to the skin then draw the edges of the cloaths together with your needle and thred and the flesh will follow and so come to joyn together If the wound be large use two or three needles as in manner of curing the Hair-lip shall presently be shown which you may fortifie with the dry stitch i. e. use the dry stitch upon the other Wounds of the lips are to be cured as other common wounds if they pierce not through but if they do they are to be cured as in the hair lip which is done by piercing through the lips of the wound with a needle or two if occasion be putting a thin piece of lead on both sides Lastly snip off the ends of the needle and cast the silk about the ends thereof as Taylors do when they fasten them to the skirt or sleeves this must be done in the middle but at the ends an ordinary stitch will serve especially in children the wound is to be dressed with Arceus his Linement if the inward part of the lips be wounded as happens by falls and the like then use within Honey of Roses Syrrup of dryed Roses c. Wounds of the tongue happen several manner of ways as by falls when it is bitten by the teeth c. If the wound of the tongue be great and deep then you must stitch it deep to hold it the stronger and surer cutting the thread close to the knot Then make use of this gargle called a Gargarism following Take of the leaves and flowers of Privet Plantane-leaves and red-Rose leaves of each one handful of the rindes and flowers of Pomgranates of each half an ounce boyl them in a quart of Smiths water or water wherein Gads of Steel have been often quenched let them boyl till the third part thereof be consumed then strain them and dissolve in the liquor two drams of Acacia or the juice of Sloes and two ounces of the syrrup of dryed Roses with which let the Patients often wash their tongues Moreover you must have and hold constantly almost in your mouth either Marmolet of Quinces preserved Cherries Rasberries or the syrrup of dryed Roses or syrrup of Quinces The Patient is to feed on liquid things as broath Almond-milks c. Or a Poatch'd egg at most c. Now the manner of stitching up wounds of the tongue whether long-ways or athwart when

scruples of Saffron in powder two yolks of eggs mix them and make a Poultis or else this following Barley and Bean-flower of each two ounces Camomile and Melilot-flowers of each two pugils one pinte of common washing-lee Elder-vinegar four ounces boyl them to the thickness of a Poultis to which add oyntment of Poplar-buds called Unguentum Populeum Oyl of Roses and Myrtles of each one ounce mix them and when you use them apply it warm having first as you see need anoynted the part with this Linement following Take an ounce of oyl of Roses Oyl of Earthworms Oyl of sweet Almonds Oyl of the yolks of Eggs Mans greese of each half an ounce with a scruple of Saffron finely powdered mix them together and anoynt the part therewith If the Nerve be only pricked which happens sometimes pour in oyl of Turpentine a little Aquavitae upon the part apply Linnen cloaths three or four double dipt in water and vinegar If the Patient continue in pain make cross Incision into the skin and apply this hot which is made of Oyl of Turpentine Earth-worms the yolk of an Egg of each three drams or some other artificial Balsome If the Nerve be cut then it is either long-ways or overthwart if the first use oyntments for asswaging pain as before and upon them Diapalma-plaister moistned with oyl of worms if the latter it is wholly divided and then sense and motion are quite taken away and the Patient feels no pain or in part only and then there follows great pain and the symptoms as when the Nerve is prick'd for cure of which use the method and medicines as before which if they prove not successful then divide the nerve and dress it with oyntments before mentioned that have an anodine virtue that is to asswage pain and so bind it up If the nerve be bruised Use only Oyl of Rue and Camomile if strainned at first apply that plaister laid down in the cure of wounds of the eye and eye-lids afterwards Paracelsus plaister or this following may be profitable Take three ounces of Gum-galbanum being dissolved in vinegar Melilot and Diachylon plaisters both simple of each one ounce and half one ounce of yellow wax half an ounce of Turpentine with three drams of Saffron make a plaister according to art and if there be any hardness if this do not soften and dissolve it apply this Take two ounces of the plaister of Hemlock an ounce of oyl of Lillies two drams of liquid storax mix them together for use Here note that wounds of the nerves are to be considered several ways in the manner of cure for those medicines which you apply to the nerves that are pricked only and not wholly laid open to view ought to be more sharp and drying yet without biting than those which are bare from the flesh and joyning parts which require medicines onely drying If wounds of the Back-bone pierce not to the Marrow but are only in the Muscles dress them as fleshy wounds if in the bones dress them as in wounds of the head if it be in part divided then first pouring in this medicine warm which is made of the oyls of St. Johns-wort compound and the oyl of the yolks of eggs of each one ounce oyl of Turpentine half an ounce with a scruple of Saffron finely powdered and mixt together then let the whole back-bone be anoynted with this following Take of the oyl of Swallows Oyl of Foxes Earth-worms of each one ounce Oyl of Mastich and Castor of each half an ounce mix them for your use and embrocate the head with an ounce of Oyl of Camomile and half an ounce of oyl of Earthworms and such like always applying them warm If the part be much bruised then take of Barley and Bean-flower of each one ounce Fenugreek half an ounce Camomile-flowers Wormwood and Cummin of each two drams the roots of the greater and lesser Comfrey of each one ounce and a half boyling the roots first till they be soft then beat them into fine pulp afterwards put them to the other things and so make a Poultis according to art Wounds of the breast either pierce into the cavity and so wound some of the parts within the same as the heart lungs midriff and the vessels as the vena cava i. e. the hollow vein and the ascending Arterie c. or not if they pierce which is known if you hold a Candle to the part stopping the Patients mouth and nose his breath will come forth with a noise and the flame of Candle will be moved as in a small wind and sometimes quite blown out and if other parts be wounded in piercing they are known by their proper signs as if there gush out much bloud there follow a general trembling over the whole body swooning and cold sweats a very weak and small pulse and if the limbs grow cold the heart is wounded and death is not far off If bloud issue out foamie and froathy the Patient be troubled with a Cough and hath a great difficulty in breathing and a pain in his side which he had not before if he feel a pain on the wounded side yet lyes more at ease when he lyes upon that side and sometimes lying so he speaks in more ease and freedome but turn to the contrary side he presently cannot speak or with great pain and difficulty all these are signs that the lungs are wounded and they are very difficult to be cured If the Patient be taken with raving called delirium Cough and sharp pain with difficulty of breathing and a Feaver trouble the Patient and at some times through vehemency of breathing the stomach and guts are drawn through the wound into the Cavity of the breast all these are signs that the Midriff is deadly wounded If you perceive or understand bloud to be poured forth into the Cavity or hollowness of the breast and breathing difficult Feaver increasing through difficulty of breathing Vomiting bloud at the mouth and afterward the breath stinks and fainting as also the Patient cannot lye upon his back and has des●re to vomit and now and then to rise and sit up and thereupon often falls into a sound all these shew that the vessels are wounded and death will ensue Now to assist your Patient as much as you can by art in these wounds of the breast lay your Patient naked in Bed with the wound downwards that the matter may be discharged by his coughing and holding his breath if he feel no weight in the lower part of his breast or be not troubled with spitting of bloud use no tents but drop in Arceus his Linement with Oyl of St. Johns wort compound or some artificial Balsome and upon them apply the Diapalma-plaister But if there was much bloud in the cavity and if it be cast out then use a Flamula dipt in the white of an Egg the greater part hanging out of the wound afterwards use this Injection Take four ounces of

half an ounce Gypsum one ounce and a half two ounces of prepared frogs one ounce of the moss of a dead mans skull two drams of the Hairs of a Hare cut very small the white of an egg dryed in the Sun finely powdered and spunge being dryed or burnt and powdered of each one ounce mix them all finely powdered together Arm four great Buttons made of Tow and moistned in Vinegar and Water with these powders and apply them to the great Vessels upon which apply presently a thick bed made of Tow fit for the dismembred part covered over with the Restrictive then upon that lay on another made after the same manner but made as much larger as will reach an inch or two over round on every side over all these you must draw a bladder binding it near the top with a Ligature an inch broad lay a double linnen-cloth over all these remembring allwayes to have buttons ready to apply to the places where blood appears especially if you doe not use the bladder then bind up the member with Rowllers by which means the flux of blood will be stayed some after they have loosed the Ligature above the Incision apply onely the beds first dipt in water and vinegar after in the whites of Eggs then strowing them over very thick with powder after all apply this Desensative Take Bolarmonack Dragons-blood Mastick Gypsum of each one ounce oyl of Roses and Myrtles of each 1 ounce a half the whites of two Eggs mix all together in a mortar with as much Vinegar as will serve to make it into an Oyntment if the leg be to cut off apply it above knee if the hand then apply it to the Elbow you must remember that your Rollers be all wet in water and Vinegar they must not be stirred unless to renew the defensative till the second or third day The second dressing moysten the dressings which were applied before with stuphs of white wine that they may be removed with more ease then besprinkle the Vessels with restrictive powders laying upon them three or four pledgets dipt in the whites of Eggs armed with the powder then use to the rest of the wound this digestive unguent Take an ounce and half of wax gum Elemie and Turpentine of each one ounce half an ounce of Colophony oyle of sweet almonds oyl of Roses oyl of the yolks of Eggs of each one ounce dissolve them all over a gentle fire and strain them to the straining add a dram of Saffron finely powdered mix the yolk of an Egg with one ounce of this and as much oyl of Roses as will serve to moysten it for your use This is also good in all wounds made by Gun-shot especially as also in all wounds whether bruised or cut or else make use of this following Take three ounces of Turpentine washed in plantain-Plantain-water oyl of Roses and oyl of sweet Almonds of each one ounce half an ounce of Gum Elemy dissolved in the foresaid oyles and strained a scruple of Saffron finely powdered mix them well together to which add the yolk of one Egg for your use you must observe that you are not to dress it until the third day unless pain be much then you must remove your dressings gently if the bed next to the wound stick let it alone to the third dressing you may remove the defensitive every day and annoint the whole part with oyle of Roses or Mirtles using the former oyntments till there be perfect digestion by sprinkling the Vessels to prevent bleeding with the restrictive powders after it is deiested cleanse it with this Take three ounces of Turpentine washed in white-wine powder of the root of round Birth-wort Orrace-root Barley-flower of each half an ounce one ounce of the honey of Roses half an ounce of Aquavitae with two drams of Treacle mix them up for your use You may every dressing endeavor to draw by degrees the skin and muscles together by usesing the dry-stitch that so the bone may be covered sometimes the plaister is loosened by the much flowing of the matter for which use this remedy following Take the roots of round Birthwort hog-fennel and Orrace-root the bark of the Pine-tree and the bark of Lignum vitae of each half an ounce being all finely powdered mix them together strowing it upon the wound once or twice a day as you see occasion This will also cause the bone to scale within thirty or forty dayes if there grow proud flesh either use this following Medicine made of two drams of burnt Allom Lapis Calaminaris burnt-Lead Sereus of each one dram with half a dram of Calcined Viteral make a powder of them or else apply Vnguentum Aegyptiacum hot lay another pledget upon it and dress it up use onely dry lint the next dressing by which means the sensibleness of the wound will be taken away also afterwards siccatrize or skin the wound with red deficcative oyntment called Vnguentum desiccativum rubrum or Diapompholeges or the like if the Fingers and Toes are to be taken away it is best done with Chisels or cutting mullets so cure them up as before according to Art OF FRACTURES AND Broken-bones THus much for wounds may suffice Now I think it convenient to say something of Fractures or Broken-bones the which are known by comparing the parts together you finding them unequal and the Patient cannot move in the Members in handling the part you will hear a noise there sometimes happens that they are broken overthwart which you may know by the distance between the ends of the broken-bone and where they are broken you may perceive a hollowness more then ordinary sometimes the bones are shattered into many pieces then there follows a pricking pain and in handling of it you will hear as it were a crackling but if the part be very much thicker than ordinary then the bone is broken length-wayes Lastly somtimes it is broken obliquely in curing of all which the first thing you are to doe is to restore the bone as exactly as you can to its natural form which may be performed if the bone be broken but little by the Chirurgion himself otherwise there will be need of two for extending the member which must be done by little and little with as little pain as possibly can be so reducing it to its natural place the Mate or Assistant extending the member the Chirurgion with his fingers shall put the broken bones in its right place which being done lay a plaister upon the place about six inches or so broad as will cover more then the Fracture three fingers breadth both above and below afterwards apply your Splints being well armed with Linnen or Tow so near one another as may be the space of a Splint between every one which must not be too long lest it gaul the joints then you are to tye the splints on gently with tape not too hard which besides the Patients complaint may produce sad accidents as Gangreens and

Seamen or others is chiefly or almost the very same used to those troubled with Hypochondriack melancholy so that you are first to begin the Cure with general evacuations as Bloud-letting Purging and sutable to the nature of the disease strength and constitution of the Patient for Bloud-letting you must do it in the Liver-vein little and often that you cool not the body too much at once the next thing to be looked after is good dyet which because often wanting at Sea in long Voyages they are to carry with them some such comfortable things as may be useful as Wine Sugar c. Then you are to administer Glisters or Suppositories such as formerly has been spoken of in the Cure of Wounds and afterwards such a Bolus or Morsel as this following Take of Diacatholicon and lenitive Electuary of each half an ounce Cream of Tartar half a dram with three or four drops of Spirit of Viteral make a Bolus to be taken in the morning fasting you may if you see the Patient weak open the Hemrod-veins with Leeches you may repeat Bloud-letting in the Arm if you see occasion the gentle purges are the best often given such as common Pills of Ruffus called Pillulae Ruffi communes Pillulae Macri Mercurii dulcis one scruple two scruples or a dram are enough for a dose Barley-water is good the juice or syrrup of Lemmons to which you may if you will add some few drops of Cinnamon-water or Oyl of Viteral and Sugar then you may make use of specifical medicines which are such as have a peculiar faculty against the Scurvy such as Dutch or Sea-scurvy-grass Brook-lime and Water-Cresses Worm-wood Fumitory Turnips Lemmons juice or syrrup of Oranges Limes Tamarinds those which have not so great force against the Scurvy are these that follow viz. Agrimony Maiden-hair Betony Borrage Bugloss Ceterach Elecampane Germander Hysop Polypody of the Oak the Bark of Ash Capers and Tamarisk the flowers of Alder dodder of Time and Tamarisks but alwayes observe that if the Patient be feaverish or inclining to a Feaver you must be sparing of the hotter things and give them in a smaller quantity adding to them Endive Succory Sorrel c. with some few drops of Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol Of all which you may make several sorts of medicines as Decoctions Apozems Syrrups c. Or else this following Take the juice of Scurvey-grass and Brook-lime of each three pound two pound of powdered Sugar boyl them together till they come to the consistence of a Syrrup Or thus Take two pound of the juice of Scurvy-grass one pound and three quarters of the juice of Lemons and three-quarters of a pint of the spirit of Wine or Brandy to which adding a sufficient quantity of Sugar is made a syrup of which you may take three or four spoonfulls fasting two hours after To your juice of Lemmons alone you may add a spoonful of Aquavitae As much spirit of Vitriol as will sharpen a cup of Beer water or wine is very good also Diatrium piperium taken from a scruple to half a dram in some convenient liquor as Wine Beer or Ale first and last is good Theriaca Diatessaron from half a dram to two and Theriaca Londinensis two drams taken in the morning are good so are conserve of Roses Conserve of Wormwood with a few drops of the spirit of Viteral Likewise green Ginger Rosa-Solis and Wormwood water also it will not be amiss to sweat after purging which you may do by giving him a dram of Venice Treacle or Mithridate or half a dram of Antimonium diafreticum more or less as you find the constitution of your Patient There is commonly accompanying the Scurvy swellings and putrefaction of the gums for which you may take Bistert and Tormentil-roots boyled in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half to which add some drops of Vitriol to make it sharp or else take this following of Roman or white Viteral two ounces one pint of water and two spoonfuls of Honey being boyled to the consumption of the third part add to it half an ounce of Sal●prunella for your use To conclude when you come to any place on shore you may make use of these following Receipts Take a pint of the decoction of Barley four ounces of white-wine Horse-raddish root but thin and bruised two ounces three handfuls of Scurvy-grass leaves strain them through a Cloth mingle them and take a spoonful of this morning and evening Or else take of Wormwood and Juniper-Berries bruised of each one handful Goats-milk if to be had or in want of it Cows-milk or Sheeps-milk two quarts Boyl them till the third part be consumed strain them and to the straining put one dram of Saffron in powder let them boyle a walm or two then strain it again give of this morning noon and evening Or Take three pints of white-wine a quart of small Ale four ounces of the juice of Scabies Brook-lime and water-Cresses of each two ounces half a handfull of Rosa solis boyl them to the Consumption of one pint to which add half a pint of the juice of Scurvy-grass let them boyl a little in a pint of this steep three spoonfuls of Horse-dung let them stand all night strain them in the morning and let the Patient take half a pint thereof being sweetned with Sugar-Candy For a Beer to drink constantly of Take a pound of Scurvy-grass a little dryed Brooklime and water-Cresses of each four handfuls a handful of Sage an ounce of Saxifrage six ounces of Sarsaparilla six drams of Nutmegs Let the Herbs Roots and Spice be bruised a part then mix them hang them in a bag in four gallons of beer after it hath stood nine days the Patient may drink thereof Half a pint of this following-drink every morning for fourteen dayes hath been often tryed and approved and hath cured divers Take Scurvy-grass stamp it and strain it with posset-drink made of thin skim-milk turned with just as much white-wine Vinegar as will serve to turn it during all the time of your cure you must forbear salt meat strong-drink fruits and old Cheese drinking whey at your Meals if you can get it if not instead thereof small Ale and you must chew Brook-lime for three mornings together if your teeth be loose In Voyages at Sea there happen to Sea-men the disease Called the Callenture It is a kind of contagious Fever sometimes with fits sometimes without the Patients being often possessed with a Frenzy for they oft think the Sea to be a Meddow and so make an offer to go into it on some the fits are very violent which are hot and cold in some This Disease happens through great obstructions caused by ill dyet and intemperature of the Climate which aire being somewhat Contagious causeth an ill habit of the Body For the Cure of this Distemper you are first to begin with Cordials which strengthen and defend the faculties from the venemous quality of the

Disease and so may either be said to Preserve or Cure therefore you are to adminster them before evacuating Medicines for a Cordial take this for an example made of one scruple of Mithridate half a dram of London-Treacle or that called Diatessaron one ounce of Syrup of Lemons three ounces Of Plantane or Rose-water and six drops of Spirit of Vi●riol for one dose about three hours after give an other dose Or this following Take of Confectio Alchermes burnt Harts-horn of each two scruples syrup of Lemons one ounce as much spirit of Vitriol as will give it a sharp taste after this first administer a Suppositer or Glister of which you have several examples before then after they have done working let him blood plentifully if he be of a strong and gross body as you see occasion his dyet is to be but thin broth water-grewel ponadoes or such like two or three dayes together for purges give him about a scruple of Mercurius dulcis or else this Take six drams or an ounce of Lenitive Electuary two scruples of the Cream of Tarter and one scruple of Confectio Alchermes with Sugar make it into a boll for a dose if it should be convenient to give them a Vomit then give him six drams one ounce or ten drams more or less as you see occasion of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum if sweating be to be procured give him from a scruple to half a dram of Antimonium Di afreticum in a little London or Venice Treacle or Mithridate if he want rest give him from two grains to four of Laudanum Opiatum or else Syrup of wild Poppy six drams of Frogs-spawn and poppy-water of each one ounce and a half with three drams of Treacle make a potion and give the Patient at night to cause him to rest let his ordinary drink be either a decoction of Barley with Liquorish or else this following Take three quarts of fountain-water put an ounce of Harts-horn burnt and prepared into it let it boyl to the consumption of the third part then take it from the fire and put to it four ounces of Rose-water two ounces of syrup of Lemons as much Sugar as will serve to sweeten it and as much sp●rit of Vitriol as will make it sharp this is an excellent drink in all feavors and for all sorts of persons Remember too much purging bleeding and thin dyet is dangerous in all diseases at Sea and will bring your Patient into the Scurvy which is usually the end of most diseases at Sea and then if your Patient be too much weakned the Scurvy discharging it self by a flux is often mortal If you shall have occasion to be concerned with Armies by Land or in Garrisons there will sometimes a continual malign and contagious Fever called the Camp-Disease seize upon the Souldiers which will be seconded by a great pain in the head and his stomach will be clogged with many foul humours sometimes there will follow swooning and often faintings the Patient grows very weak without manifest cause his pulse will be sometimes weak but quick and sometimes strong there will appear oftentimes many large spots of several colours he complains of a pain in his stomach and joints little or no appetite oft-times troubled with vomiting and sometimes difficulty of breathing and singing in the ears all which proceeds from putrefaction or corruption of the humours in the veins or from contagion the corruption or putrefaction of the humours comes from ill dyet ill vapours arising from the earth corrupted naughty air dirty foul apparrel and such like for the cure if there be an inclination to vomit which you may perceive by pain and fulness of the stomach then provoke it with this made of six drams of the infusion of the glass of Antimony two ounces of Barly-water Oxymel of squils and syrup of the 5 opening-Roots of each six drams mix it and give the Patient The manner of infusing your Antimony is this Take two drams of the glass of Antimony put it into a pint of white-wine Cloves and Ginger of each one dram infuse all these together when you have occasion administer it from two drams to an ounce after that you have used all the wine you may put more to the ingredients adding to them the same quantity of fresh ingredients as before after you may bleed if the Patient be not very weak or if you see your Patient of a strong constitution you may begin with blood-letting not forgetting glysters or suppositories with cordials made of the Carduus benedictus Scabious Sorrel Angelica-waters with Venice or London Treacle and burnt Harts-horn Mithridate Dioscordium confection of Alchermes bezoar root of contrayervae as for example Take of the wild Poppies and Sorrel-water of each one ounce and a half London Treacle and burnt Harts-horn of each two scruples one scruple of Mithridate one dram of Dioscordium and three drams of Treacle-water with some syrup of Lemons and as many drops of the spirit of Vitriol as will give it a sharp taste make a potion and give it at one dose or take two scruples of Dioscordium and one scruple of burnt Harts-horn mix them and dissolve them in Mace-ale a little Sack or in Beer and Ale wherein Harts-horn and Marigold flowers have been boyled to cause him to sleep Take syrup of Dioscordium and syrup of wild-poppies of each half an ounce of Angelica and wild-poppy-wild-poppy-water of each one ounce and an half and a dram of Diascordium mix them and give it going to sleep Take notice that Cordials are to be given often For purges they must be somewhat strong as one dram of Pulvis astrictionis one ounce of syrup of Roses solutive Diaphrenicon Electuarii three drams dissolve all in three ounces of endive-Endive-water For bleeding in this Disease if the veins be full and stretching out and be burthensom to nature let it then be plentiful for the blood is corrupted in all putrid Feavers it is very safe to let blood which may be done til the fourth day and if your occasion require till the seventh day though spots appear As for vomiting that removes nauseousness pain bitterness and sadness by freeing the stomach from the abundance of naughty humors Vesicatories or blisters may be good applyed to the wrists any time but on a Critical day The form of a blister-plaister may be this Take half an ounce of Cantharides call'd Spanish-flies two drams of Turpentine Olibanum Myrrhe Mastick and Camphire of each half a dram oyl of Roses and Bees-wax as much as will be sufficient to make it to the consistence of a Plaister The Patient is to keep a spare dyet not to eat any flesh but brothes wherein is boyled the shavings of Harts-horn the opening roots with Sorrel and Borrage and Panadoes water-grewel c. And posset-drink with Harts-horn boyld in it dropping a little spirit of Vitriol into it and burnt Harts-horn boild in the Calenture is good to which you may add the syrup

dissolve one ounce of white sugar and the yolks of two eggs for a glyster After the body is sufficiently emptied then give binding Glysters such as you shall find next in the cure of the Bloudy-flux at the mouth likewise you shall there be directed If the Patient have not a feaver boyl new milk if you can get it and scum off the foam then quench red hot steel in it often drink it warm it is a present remedy Unripe Blackberries and Mulberries dryed and powdered is good to stay this Flux likewise this Opiat is excellent Take of the juice of Quinces Conserve of Roses of each one ounce Dragons bloud sealed-earth and fine Bolearmonack of each one dram Bloud-stone and the Troches of Amber of each half a dram with syrrup of comphry make an Opiat take a little often Or take one ounce of the powder of Rheubarb two drams of the Troches of Sanders mix them and give the Patient two drams thereof twice a day this purgeth away the ill humours and strengtheneth the bowels Or this Take half an ounce of the old Conserve of Roses one dram of Marmalet of Quinces a scruple of Tormentil-root in fine powder half a scruple of fine Bolearmonack with sugar make a bole for one dose which is to be given often if the Flux continue long and strength much decay give Laudanum a grain or two amongst your other medicines you may for ordinary drink use one made of three pintes of water wherein two drams of Mastich hath been boyled Plantane boyled in broth is good and for fear it turn to a Bloudy-flux give an Emulsion of Barley-water and the four cold seeds The last of the Fluxes of the belly is called Dysenteria or the Bloudy-flux which is known by the Patients voiding of bloud with tormenting pains from the ulceration of the guts by sharp and salt phlegmatick and cholerick humours which is cured by removing those sharp humours asswaging pain cleansing and consolidating the ulcer and stopping the Flux To evacuate the humours you must purge with Rubarb every second third or fourth day according to the strength of your Patient season of the year and the like the Dose from half a dram to two drams being dryed as before or made into a Potion thus Take Liquorice scraped and sliced Raisins of the Sun of each three drams Tamarinds and yellow myrobolans of each two drams boyl them in Barley and Plantane-water to three ounces in the straining infuse a dram of Rubarb thin-sliced then add an ounce of the syrrup of Roses solutive and make a potion This following is excellent in desperate fluxes Take two ounces of the bark of Guiacum bruised and beaten boyl it in a sufficient quantity of water til half be wasted then add red Rose leaves Pomgranate-flowers and Plantane-seed of each two drams let them boyl an hour then to the straining add a dram of Rubarb in powder and three drams of Catholicon for a Potion Mechoacan with Cinnamon is good If with the Dysentery there be a seaver and inflamation of the bowels let the Patient bloud according to strength sometimes vomiting is profitable to intercept those sharp salt humours that fall from the stomach to the Guts omit it not if you see a loathing and perceive the stomach stuft full of humours your vomiting may be this Take from half a dram to a dram of salt of Vitriol syrrup of Quinces and Bettony-water of each one ounce with ten drams of Cinnamon-water give it for one Dose In the mean time you must give mild and cleansing Glysters first as this made of the roots of Marsh-mallows and Butter-burr of each one handful one pugil of Camomile-flowers Fleabane-seed and Flux-seed of each two drams Boyl them in Barley-water or milk or water wherein steel or Iron hath often been quenched or mutton or sheeps-head-broath to a pinte strain it and dissolve therein the yolks of four eggs well beaten oyl of Roses and syrrup of Quinces of each one ounce and make a glyster At Sea instead of milk use the decoction of Bran boyling in it such of these following herbs as have virtue to cleanse the ulcer such as Centory Wormwood St. Johns wort to the straining of which add Turpentine dissolved in the yolk of an Egg and the chymical oyl of wax of each one dram for excoriations or fretting of the guts a glyster of the decoction of bran with Deer-suet the yolk of an egg if to be had is good you may add some Anniseed Fennel-seeds Comin-seeds and Dill-seeds when there is need of more binding then make a Glyster thus Take of the Roots of Comfrey Tormentil and Bistort of each one ounce Plantane Shepherd-Purse Knot-grass and Mouse-ear of each one handful Pumpranet-flowers Acorn-cups Cyprus-nuts of each one dram parched Rice French Barley and red Roses of each one pugil boyl them in Smiths water or water wherein Iron hath often been quenched To a pinte of the straining add of the juice of Plantane and Yarrow of each one ounce and the yolks of two roasted eggs Or instead of the juices you may use the muscilage of Gum Draganth made with Rose or Plantane-water and Goats or Deer-suet of each one dram All this while you must not forget internal remedies to stay the flux nutmegs are excellent if desperate dryed and burnt to powder Rice pottage or this Take of sealed-Earth Harts-horn prepared with Plantane and Knot-grass-water prepared Corral Crocus Martis of each one dram mix them the Dose is from a scruple to one dram in Knot-grass or plantane-Plantane-water one dram of crude Allum given in the said waters doth in a manner charm the flux Or take a pinte of syrrup of Prunes without Sugar a spoonful and half of Tormentil-root in powder boyl them a little together and drink a quarter of a pinte first and last Lastly the Body being well cleansed before make this binding Decoction to compleat the Cure Take the roots of Bistort Comfrey and Tormentil the leaves of Plantane Tarrow Shepherds purse Horse-tail Mouse-ear and Agrimony of each one handful Seeds of Sorrel Grape-stones and Sumach of each one ounce boyl them in four quarts of water till half be consumed then strain it and sweeten it with syrrup of Comfrey Quinces Mirtles dryed Roses and Corral or else make use of this following Opiat Take of Conserve of Quinces and Conserve of old Roses of each one ounce half an ounce of the Conserves of Comfrey-roots prepared Corral Dragons-bloud Bolarmenick sealed-earth Conserve of Slowes Acatia of each one dram Spodium burnt Ivory of each one scruple with as much of any of the Syrrups aforesaid as will make it to an Opiat Give thereof the quantity of a Chesnut morning noon and night Narcoticks do wonders especially if they be mixed with Strengtheners and Binders as this Take of the old Conserves of Roses and Services of each one dram half a scruple of Confectio Alkermes three granes of Laudanum make thereof a Bolus four ounces of the juice of

Vertues There is a great antipathy between this plant and the benevolent and sociable Venus Mars rules him and makes use of him to check the too much salacious entertainments of Venus Of temperature it is hot and dry in the third degree and of a very astringent quality Agnus Castus is a singular remedy for those whose nature prompts their desires to Venereal sports a procurer of chastity and singular for such who desire to live and preserve themselves in that condition it takes away and abates so much lecherous desires Lust abates as it extinguisheth the thoughts thereof the reason is it dryeth and consumeth the seed of generation in what sort soever it be taken whether in powder or in decoction or as some write the leaves alone laid upon the bed to sleep upon putteth away all unchast thoughts and desires A decoction of the seed being drunk driveth away and dissolveth all windiness in the bowels Wind stomack Stomack mother or any part of the body A dram of the seed in powder drunk in wine cureth hardness and stoppings in the Liver and spleen Liver Spleen and is good in the beginnings of Dropsies It provoketh the Termes Termes being taken by it self or with Penny-royal or used in manner of a Pessary It is profitable to be mixed amongst Oyles or oyntments to heat and mollifie stiff and benummed members Dead members and cures clift or rifts of the great Gut being applied with water Agnus Castus is good against Venemous creatures Venemous bittings it driveth away Serpents and all other Venemous beasts from the place where it is strewed or burned and healeth bitings and stingings of the same if it be laid upon the greived place and the seed therof being drunk with wine A decoction therof is good for women to sit in to help hardness stoppings apostumations and Ulcers of the matrix Vlcers Matrix A Cataplasm made with the leaves thereof and fresh butter and applied doth dissolve and asswage swellings of the Cods and Stones Cods Stones The Almond-tree Names THere are two kinds the bitter and the sweet the fruit of both is called Almonds distinguished by the Epithets sweet or bitter Descript The Almond-tree is in growth and leaves much like unto the peach tree but it groweth to bee much bigger and stronger and is of a longer lasting or continuance Time The Almond-tree floureth betimes in the Spring and the fruit is ripe in June and July Government and Vertues The sweet Almonds are under the dominion of Venus and are temperatly hot the bitter are claimed by Mars and are not only hot but also dry and of a clensing and cutting faculty Almonds eaten before meat stop fluxes of the belly Flux and nourish especially being blanched the sweet oyle new pressed out of them is of a gentle healing quality for any inward sorenesse fretting of the Guts Guts or soreness of the Reines Kidneys or sharpness of Urine Bladder and is good for them that spit bloud Spitting bloud so is the fruit Bitter Almonds do open obstructions of the Liver Liver Lungs Lungs Spleen Spleen Kidneys Kidneys and other inward parts and are good against the Cough Cough and shortnes●e of Breath Breath inflamation and exulceration of the Lungs being made into a lohoch with Turpentine and licked in as writeth Dioscorides The bitter Almonds taken with sweet wine provoke Urine Vrine and cure difficulty and pain in making water and are good for them that are troubled with Gravel and Stone Stone Five or six bitter Almonds eaten in the morning fasting preserve from Drunkenness all that day Drunkenness and being applied to the forehead with oyle of Roses and Vinegar they take away Head-ach Headach they are with great profit applied with hony upon corrupt and foul spreading sores and the bitings of mad dogs they clense the skin and face from spots and pimples Ammoniacum Name AMmoniacum is the only name it hath in shops and is generally known by Descript This is a Gum or liquor of a tree called by Dioscorides Agasyllis and of some Ferula growing in Cyrene and nigh unto the place where was the oracle Ammon in Lybia whereof it is supposed to be called Ammoniacum the best sort is that which is close firm and pure free from Gravel or drosse of a bitter tast smelling somewhat neer unto the sent of C●storeum and is almost like the true Frankincense Government and Virtues It is under the planetary influence of Mars hot and dry in the second degree the quantity of a dram thereof taken inwardly looseth the Belly Belly and purgeth away cold Slimy flegm ●legm drawing the same unto it self from remote parts of the body it is also good against Asthma Asthma shortness of breath Stoppings of the breast Breast falling sickness Gout pain of the haunch or huckle-bone called the Sciatica Sciatica against the old head-ach Head ach and diseases of the brain Brain sinews and extream parts Sinewes it may be taken in a lohoch with hony or in the decoction of French barley to mundifie and cleanse the breast Breast and ripen flegm Flegm causing the same easily to be spit out It is also good against hardness and stoppings of the Spleen Spleen it provokes Urine expells the dead child Dead Child but then must be but little of it taken at once for if it be tak●n in too great a quantity or too often it will cause one to pis●e bloud it cures swellings Swelling and hardness and abates pain of the Liver and Spleen Liver Spleen if it be steeped in Vinegar and layd upon the place being mingled with hony and pitch and applied it dis●olveth hard swellings and Tumors Tumors in the joynts and extream parts and consumes all cold Tumors and Scirrhus matter being layd thereon and is good to he put into all oyntments and plaisters that are made to warm mollifie and to asswage pain Being mixed with the oyl of Cyprus and Nitre it is good to be applied to the hip for the Sciatica or hip-gout Sciatica Hip-gout and to be laid upon any part to asswage pain and weariness It is excellent to be put into Collyries and all medecins that are made to cleer the sight and to take away dimness and the web of the eyes Eyes Amber Names IT is called Yellow Amber Ambra Citrina but in Latin more generally Succinum Descript It is of sundry colours some peeces whitish some yellow paler or deeper and some of a very deep red colour and dark all the other being cleer and transparent but much more being polished It is by some taken to be a vegetable as Corall is but more generally to be a kind of liquid Bitumen issuing from springs and fountains in the German Seas and running into peeces greater or lesser is taken up by

were with blisters in divers places with thorns thereon like a Bryar or wild-Rose the leaves are not many but small like the wild hedge-bryar or rather smaller and turning red in Summer the Roses are single and small of a deep incarnate colour more than the former Descript 4. The Virginia Bryar Rose called in Latine Rosa sylvestris Virginiensis The Virginia Rose hath divers as great stems and branches as any other Rose whose young are green and the elder greyish set with many pricks and a few great thorns among them the leaves are very green and shining small and almost round many set on a middle rib one against another somewhat like unto the single yellow-Rose the flowers stand at the tops of the branches consisting of five small leaves of a pale purple or deep Carnation-colour like unto those of the sweet Bryar Descript 5. The single sweet white Rose called in Latine Rosa Campestris flore albo odora This Rose hath woody stems about three foot high set as thick with sharp thorns as any of the other and hath the like leaves but not so green at the tops of whose branches stand usually but one flower apiece consisting of five white leaves reasonable large and of a sweet smell with divers yellow threads in the middle in their places come such like round and short heads or berries as are in other Roses but are black when they are ripe and not red with white seeds lying in flocks of Down Descript 6. The Vermilion Rose of Austria Rosa sylvestris Austriaca flore phoeniceo The younger branches of this Rose are slender and reddish the elder brownish grey set with divers thorns but not very thick great or sharp the leaves are somewhat sharper than those of the single yellow Rose else not much unlike the flowers are single and as large as those of the yellow-Rose but of an excellent Orange-tawny-colour with an eye of vermilion cast over it and of a paler-yellow on the outside after which the fruit follows Descript 7. The single dwarf red-Rose of Austria Rosa pumila rubra Austriaca This Dwarf-Rose groweth not above half a yard high with slender green stems set with few or no thorns below but having many higher having whitish green leaves upon them like the other roses and greyish underneath five or seven set on a stalk together at the top of the branches come forth very great bearded husks wherein stand large flowers made of five leaves apiece somewhat sweet red at the first but decaying with standing growing much more pale before they fail away with yellow threds in the middle after which come the fruit which are red as the others but greater somewhat more like unto a pease than the others Descript 8. The small Burnet-Rose or Pimpinel-Rose Rosa Pimpinella sive pomifera minor This small Rose seldome riseth above a foot high being of two sorts whereof the one hath but few thorns and the other full of small thorns which is most frequent set with long winged stalks of leaves being many small leaves round and greenish set one against another upon the stalk finely dented about the edges seeming like unto a Burnet leaf for the form and number set together The flowers are single small and white without any scent after which come small round heads black when they are ripe and full of seed as the other Roses Descript 9. Dwarf single white Rose Rosa pumila sylvestris alba This scarce riseth above a foot above ground being set with small thorns and leaves according to the proportion of the Plant and the wildness of the kind the flowers are white and small giving heads and seed like the rest the root creepeth about more than others Descript 10. The single Dwarf-Rose without thorns Rosa simplex pumila sine spina This Dwarf-Rose groweth also very low almost upon the ground with green stalks without any thorn thereon set with small winged leaves the flower is small and of a pale reddish colour and single in some places very sweet and in others little or nothing flowring also in some places both in the Spring and Autumn Place and Time The two first grow in the Hedges of our Land every where almost yet the second not so frequent as the first the third came from Muscovy the fourth from Virginia the fifth from Germany in sundry places the sixth and seventh from Austria the eighth is found in divers places of our own land both in barren Heathy grounds and by Woods and hedges sides the ninth on some of the hills among the Switzers and the last near unto Lyons in France upon Pilates Hill there some of these Roses flower earlier than others some in May and others not until June Government and Vertues The Roses are certainly all under the dominion of Venus I shall first set down the properties of the manured-Roses Both the white and the red are of a cooling binding quality yet the white is taken to exceed the red in both these qualities but is seldom used in any inward medicine The red hath a watry substance and a warm joyned with the other Qualities The yellow threads in the middle do binde and dry more then the Rose it self The Juice of the Roses when they are fresh purgeth Choler and watry Humours Choler watry humors but being dryed they have a stopping and astringent quality The decoction of the red-Rose in wine is very good for the Headach and pains in the Ears Eyes Throat and Gums The Fundament also the lower-bowels and the Matrix being bathed or put into them The same decoction with the Roses remaining therein is profitably applyed to the Region of the Heart to ease the inflamations therein as also St. Anthonies fire and all other diseases of the Stomack and being dryed and beaten to powder and taken in steeled wine or water they stay womens Courses Headach pains in the Ears Eyes Throat Gums Fundament Lower-Bowels and Matrix Inflamation of the Heart St. Anthonies fire stomack Womens Courses Eyes and are good for the eyes being mixed with other medicines for that purpose The yellow threads in the middle of the red Roses being powdered and drunk in the distilled water of Quinces stayeth the abundant flux of womens Courses and helps the defluxions of Rheume upon the Gums and Teeth Womens Courses Rheums Gums and Teeth-loose and preserveth them from corruption and fastneth them if they be loose if they be washed and garbled therewith and some Vinegar of squils added thereto the heads with seed being used in powder or in a decoction stayeth the Laske and the spitting of Blood Red Roses do strengthen the heart the stomack and the Liver and the retentive faculties and mitigate pains that arise of heat asswage Inflamations procure sleep and rest stay womens Courses Gonorrhaea and the fluxes of the belly The husks of the Roses with the beards and the nailes of the Roses are binding and cooling and the distilled water of

are drawn from it The branches and leaves Sarmenta Folia The leaves and branches are cooling and binding and good to be put into Lotions for sore mouths Sore mouths Feavers head-ach coming by heat Stomach Inflamations and in drinks against Feavers being bruised and with Barley-meal applyed to the temples easeth the headach coming by heat and applyed to the stomach easeth the Inflamations and heat thereof the juice of them being drunk stayeth the lask inflamations spitting of blood and womens immoderate longings Vine-ashes and the Lye of them Cineres clavellatae eorum Lixivium The Ashes of the burnt branches or pressing made into a lye and drunk is very effectual for the gravel and stone in the Kidneys Gravel Stone Kidneys warts and Inflamations of the Fundament being mixed with a little vinegar it consumeth the warts of the Fundament and inflamation thereof being bathed therewith it doth marvellously ease the pains and take away the swelling The said Lye of Vine-ashes is good to wash places out of joynt or burnt with fire Places out of joynt Burning Spleen hard tumors Fistulaes Vlcers Shrinking Sinews Falls Wens Warts and used with Rue and Vinegar is good for the swelling of the Spleen The ashes made up with axungia is good against hard tumors cleanseth Fistulaes and hollow Ulcers healeth them up afterwards helpeth the pains and shrinking of the sinews and being mixed with oyl easeth those places that are bruised by Falls or otherwise and cureth the bitings of Scorpions and dogs used with vinegar and nitre it washeth away Wens Warts and other excrescencies in the flesh The Vine-tears or bleeding Lachrymae Vitis The water that droppeth out of the grape when it is cut out of due time that is too late in the Spring when the Sap is ●un up being drunk helpeth to expell wash down ●he gravel and Stone in the kidneys And it taketh away Sun-burning and Freckles out of the face Gravel Stone Kidneys Sun-burnings Freckles being washed therewith The gum of the Vine Gummi Vitis The Gum that issueth out it self sticking to the bark being drunk in wine doth the same but that we seldome see any such in our Countrey we may safely use the water in the stead thereof and being bathed on the skin taketh away Scabs Tetters the Morphew Scabs Tetters the Morphew Leprous Scurf Hairs Warts and the leprous Scurf if the places be first washed with nitre The said Gum or the water that droppeth from the green branches when they are burned being used with a little oyl taketh away hairs and warts Grapes and Raisins Vvae Passulae The fresh Grapes being eaten do breed a little windiness which is incident unto all sorts of raw fruit but stir up the Appetite Appetite Spittings of blood Head Bladder Agues loosen the belly and are pleasant to the stomach help to stay spittings of blood but affect the head and the bladder and are forbidden in Agues being hung up and dryed a little or made into Raisins they do help to loosen the belly especially if they be taken without the kernels which are more drying and binding to be taken in Powder of themselves than any other part of the vine The Raisins of the Sun are the best for this purpose with us and for any other use in physick And herewith are made Tisane drinks to help Coughs hoarsness of the throat shortness of wind Coughs Hoarsness of the throat Shortness of breath Stomach Obstructions Liver Spleen Bladder toughness of phlegm causing it the more easily to be expectorated and do lenifie sharp and nauseous humors that offend the mouth of the stomach They serve likewise to open obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Bladder and taken by themselves they nourish much by reason of their thick sweet and temperate substance whereby they stay not long nor putrifie in the Stomach Currans Passulae Corinthiacae The small Raisins or Currans are very nourishing likewise and somewhat opening the belly especially being stewed with some other things conducible thereunto as with a decoction of Sena Rubarb and other such like things as long as occasion shall need Pssulae Damascenae or Damasco-Raisins The Damasco-Raisins have a little tartness in them whereby they are most grateful to the stomach and excell the Raisins of the Sun for all the purposes aforesaid Sapa agresta sive Omphiacum the Juice of the Grape The juice of the grape is of two sorts That is made of unripe grapes which is called varjuice or of the ripe grapes called wine The varjuice is a fine tart liquor fit to be used in broths meats or sawces to sharpen the stomach to get an Appetite and to refresh and quicken fainting spirits of this juice is made a Syrrup of especial use in the same causes the wine is of so many sundry sorts as not only the grapes but the sundry Climates and Soyls wherein they grow are The weak wines are very Rhumatick and cleanse much the strong wines are very heady and inflame the bloud very much those of a middle temper are most proper for our bodies and most wholsome for our health and most useful in physick both to boyl in drinks and to serve as the vehiculum to extract the virtues of whatsoever shall be steeped in it And is distributed into many parts for of it is made both Sapa and defrutum in English Cuite that is to say boyled wine and both made of mustum new wine the later boyled to the half the former to the third part Then there is Acetum vinegar that is sowr wine which is made by setting it in the Sun which exhaling the purer spirits and the heat causeth the other to grow acide and is of great use both in health and sickness both in meat and medicine The Sapa and defrutum differing but only in the manner of boyling they may be both comprehended under Cuite It helpeth the cough and shortness of breath Cough Shortness of breath Phlegm Chest Lungs and to expectorate tough phlegm from the Chest and Lungs It also easily passeth through the belly and maketh it soluble Vinegar contrariwise is cooling and drying as the Cuite is heating and moistning and therefore serveth to correct the heat in Feavers and to resist putrefaction it cutteth tough phlegm that is hard baked and not easily spit up and brought forth It is very sharp and penetrating and very useful in scabs Itches tetters ringworms Tough phlegm Scabs Itches Tetters Ring-worms and fretting and creeping Ulcers to correct their malignity and extirpate their corroding quality but is offensive to the sinews by its piercing and drying quality causeth them to shrink but the distilled Vinegar is of a more fiery and penetrating quality which it gaineth by the distillation thereof the manner and order in this being quite different from the distilling of wine wherein the purest and strongest spirits do first rise and come forth when as in vinegar almost two third parts

greater sort is but weaker by much nor is so strong to breed so much blood as it Place and Time The first groweth both in the East and West-Indies and from both places have been brought unto us and hath grown with us and sometimes born ripe Ears but not always and will desire a strong rich ground as the Millet doth It is sown only in the Spring and ripe in September the other is a stranger and seldome seen with us Government and Virtues The grain is certainly Saturnine of a dry quality the meat hath in it some clamminess which bindeth the bread close and giveth good nourishment to the body The sweetness also of the bread sheweth the power of nourishment in it but it breedeth thick blood and humors which cause obstructions It is properly used to be put into Cataplasmes to ripen Imposthumes Imposthumes much feeding thereon ingenders gross bloud which breedeth Itches and Scabs Itches Scabs in those that are not used to it of it is made drink also both in the Indies and in some of our English Plantations that will intoxicate assoon as our small Beer if it be made accordingly But is found to be very effectual if it be made accordingly to hinder the breeding of the stone so that none are troubled therewith that do drink thereof the leaves thereof are used also to fatten their Horses and Cattel Wormwood I Would willingly have omitted this common Wormwood and said nothing of it but that Culpepper hath so ridiculously Romanced upon it and it remains still under colour of truth Common Wormwood called Absynthium vulgare is well known to have many whitish green leaves somewhat more hoary underneath much divided or cut into parts from among which rise up divers hard and woody hoary stalks two or three foot high beset with like leaves as grow below but smaller divided at the tops into smaller branches whereon grow many small yellow buttons with pale yellow flowers in them wherein afterwards is contained small seed the root is hard and woody with many strings thereat the stalks hereof dye down every year but the root holdeth a tuft of green leaves all the winter shooting forth new again which are of a strong scent but not unpleasant and of a very bitter taste The Seriphium or Sea-wormwood is much weaker but of a pleasant bitterness Place and Time It is plentifully found in most places in England and flowers about August Government and Virtues All the sorts of Wormwoods are Martial Plants It is of a heating binding property and is said to purge Choler that cleaveth to the stomach or belly It is said also to provoke Urine help Surfets Choler Vrine Surfeits pains in the stomach Yellow Jaundise and ease pains in the stomach The decoction or the Infusion thereof taken doth take away the loathing to meat and helpeth those that have the yellow Jaundise for which purpose Camerarius in his Hortus Medicus giveth a good Receipt Take saith he of the flowers of Rosemary Wormwood and Blackthorn each a like quantity of Safron half that quantity all which being boyled in Rhenish wine let it be given after the body is prepared by purging a small draught thereof taken a few days together bringeth down womens Courses Womens Courses Heart Liver being taken with vinegar it helpeth those that are almost strangled by eating Mushrooms It helpeth the pains of the heart and Liver being beaten and mixed with Ceratum Cyprinum and applyed as also applyed to the stomach with Rosewater it giveth much comfort to those that have layn long sick It helpeth those that are troubled with the swelling and hardness of the spleen or those that have a hot sharp water running between the skin and the flesh It is often used both inwardly and outwardly for the worms the seed thereof helpeth the Bloody flux Spleen Worms Bloody-flux and all other fluxes vinegar wherein wormwood hath been boyled is good for a stinking breath that cometh from the gums or teeth or corruption of the Stomach The Conserve thereof is good against the Dropsie Stinking-breath Dropsie the Sea-wormwood worketh the same effects but weaker Thus I am sure I have set down all the true virtues of wormwood and it may be some more than will bear the Test when they are tryed if I should have written all that Authors say of wormwood I should have taken up a great deal of room stuff'd full of falsities for besides Culpeppers idle Romancing upon it others have mightily commended it for dimness of sight and to clear the eyes if they had said it is good to cause dimness of sight and put out the eyes they had been nearer the truth Another story they have of it that it preserves cloaths from moths and worms and driveth away Gnats Fleas and such noisome Insects if the skin be anoynted with the juice or oyl thereof This is utterly false as I have had the experience upon my self for being troubled and gnats lodging in the countrey near the Sea-side where gnats are very troublesome in the night to prevent which as I then believed I caused my chamber to be rubbed all over and both walls and windows with wormwood and anointed my self with the juice of it all over thinking to have a quiet night but was worse infested with fleas and Gnats than ever before so that I was forced to leave my Chamber and walk all night These are the true virtues of wormwood Yucca or Jucca Descript THis Indian Plant hath a thick tuberous root spreading in time into many tuberous heads from whence shoot forth many long hard and narrow-guttured or hollow leaves very sharp-pointed compassing one another at the bottome of a greyish green colour abiding continually or seldome falling away with sundry hard threds running in them and being withered become pliant withal to bind things From the midst whereof springeth forth a strong round stalk divided into sundry branches whereon stand divers somewhat large white flowers hanging downwards consisting of six leaves with divers veins of a weak reddish or blush-colour spread on the back of three outer leaves from the middle to the bottom not reaching to the edge of any leaf which abide not long but quickly falling away Place and Time It groweth in divers places of the West-Indies as in Virginia and New-England and flowers about the latter end of July Government and Virtues There hath no property hereof conducible to physical uses as yet been heard of but some of its vices The Natives in Virginia use for bread the roots hereof And that the raw juice is dangerous if not deadly Aldinus relateth that the wound made with the sharp point-end of one of these leaves in his own hand wrought such intolerable pains that he was almost beside himself until by applying some of his own Balsamum unto it he was thereby miraculously eased of the pain and all trouble thereof It is very probable that the Indians use to poyson the