them it taketh them away cleane And also if Purslane be rubbed vpon them it pulleth them vp dy the rootes Petr. Hispanus FOr the Coddes that be swolne Take the powder of Coomyn seede Barly meale and Honny of each a lyke much frye them together with a lytle Sheepe suet and bynde the same as a plaster all about the Cods and it wyll helpe it Proued THis following wyll breake a Byle Botche or a Fellon Lay fyrst thertoo some posset crudde and let it not be remoued of twelue howres and that wil gather the matter together and make it tender But if once applying of the posset crudde do it not then apply therof to it twyse or thryse then take vnquencht Lyme and cast vpon it some fayre spring water and myxe the same with blacke Sope and lay to the sore a peece thereof according to the greatnes that you woulde haue the hoale of the sore and when it is brooke then washe it with whyte Wyne a lytle heated and so heale it with Butter powder of Sugar mixed together This is a sure and approued thing A Notable secrete for all incurable aches paynes in the ioyntes where euer they be Take all the whole horne that a Buck castes off the later the better cast away the scawpe take nothing but the horne cut the same in shyuers or peeces then seethe the same in a gallon of fayre water vntyll all be comd to a pynt or some thing more then cast away the peeces of the horne and then let that in the vessell stand vntyll it be colde which then wyll be lyke a ielly And when you wyll occupy therof warme some of it in a sawcer or some other conuenient thing then annoint the grieued place therwith by the fyre morning and euening let it drynk in by the heate of the fyre and it wyl helpe and heale it throughly for euer God wylling within nyne or ten dressings This is very true and well proued which a friend of mine tolde me that helped him selfe of such an ache therwith that neyther counsell of Phisitions practise of Surgeons nor yet the long vsing of the Bathes could ease wherby he spent much money in vayne vntyll a Wenche by chaunce tolde him this excellent remedy Which as she sayde a noble man of this Realme dyd learne beyonde the Seas who hath reuealed it synce to the great commodity and helpe of many FOr swolne or sore throtes a rare and sure remedy Rubbe your hand on the bare earth or ground and then therwith rubbe the sore or swoolne throote if presently you do thus three seuerall tymes the swelling payne wyll myraculously go away This was taught me by a friende of myne that dyd knowe it to be true by proofe AN excellent remedy for a great heate pricking in the eyes Fyl an Egge she l newly emptyed with the iuyce of Syngreene set it in the hotte embers and skym of the greene baggage from it and then it wyll be a water then straine it and keepe it in a glasse and put some of it into the hotte eies fowre or fiue nights together and it wyll cease the burning and pricking therof quickly Often proued HE shall scantly or neuer dye an euyll death that hath a good Planet in his .viii. house Haly Aben. A Woonderfull drinke against brusings and it helpeth such maruelously that are brused through falling Take Egremony Bettony Sage Planten Iuy leaues Rosepearslie stampe them together and mixe Wyne therto geue the patient it often to drinke tyll he be hole A true and tried medicine I thinke that Petrus Hispanus hath the same IF you burne fowre ounces of Turpentine vpon a hotte or burning plate of Yron vntyll it maye be made in powder and then myxe two drams there of with fowre ounces of the water of Saxifrage and geue it twyse in a weeke early in a morning to thâ—m that haue the stone in theyr blather and so continew it two monthes he shall not onely be preserued from breeding of the stone in the blather but also it wyll burst and dryue forth the stone bred there already This is proued and a secrete and is to be kept well in minde Benedictus victorius Fauentinus IF Lauender be well sodde in water and then strayned and halfe a pynt therof droonke dayly fyrst and last for the space of a fortnight it wyll heale them that haue the Palsey This was founde in an olde written booke AN excellent and speedy remedy for many diseases and chiefly for the stomacke Myxe two spoonefull of Sallet oyle with two spooneful of pure Aqua vite and drynke all the same in the morning at one tyme doo so syxe or seuen morninges together It is a notable and often proued remedy FOr the Strangury a straunge medicine Take a pynt of good Aqua composita and put a good haÌ„dfull of Iuy leaues therin keepe the vessell wel stopt the Iuy leaues wyll consume therin vse to drink of the same three or fowre spoonefuls at one tyme morning and euening fyrst last fiue or sixe dayes together and you shall see a maruelous helpe therof THis following is a proued medicine for the ache in the huckle bone called the Sciatica Take a pounde of good black Sope one pint of good Aqua vite halfe a pynt of Sallet oyle and a quarter of a pynt of the iuyce of Rew seethe them and sturre them all together ouer an easie fyre vntyll it be something thycke and that it maye be made in a plaster then spreade some therof vpon a peece of lether and apply it to the ache or payned place and let it lye thereon vnremoued three dayes and three nyghts and if the payne be not then gone then applye such an other plaster thertoo and remoue it not of so long and it wyl helpe it certainly This was tolde me by one that knew it often proued THe powder of whyte harde Sugar put into a bloudshotten eye or that is some thing dymme of syght It helpes the same and mendes the syght very well Especiallye if you put afterwarde a lytle Rose water into the eye This I haue proued dyuers tymes to be true Yea and I thinke if it were vsed it woulde consume the webbe of the eye at length HAly sayth that he that begyns to set forewarde his iourney in sayling or enters to go to the Sea in the howre of Saturne he wyll be drowned or else wyll be lost by the inuasion of Pyrates or other or else the fiercenes or great raginge of the Sea wyll throw him to the land where he shal suffer shipwrack Or else into farre Ilands he shal be caryed perhaps vnknowne to him Which of trueth hath alwayes hapned to that Shyp that then sets forewarde as the booke of Natures dyd contayne which as he hath dillygently proued and read which chiefly entreates of the iudgements of howres And the sayde Haly saith further as foloweth when a certaine shyp dyd set forth
it seperateth and putteth away the watrye humors of the Splene it helpeth forwarde the flowers if it be droonke nyne dayes together in the morning purgeth the belly also it purgeth all chollor and all corrupt bloud it healeth all wounds within the belly it cleareth the sight it cureth poysoned bytings To the healing of wounds the powder of Centory ought to be put to them Lullius in his booke of waters Euonymus descrybes this which is a worthy worke PUt quicksyluer in a bladder and lay the bladder in a hotte place and it wyll skyp from place to place without handling AN excellent water for purifying or cleansyng the skyn of the face or other parts of the body which is secrete vnknowne Take syx new layd Egs half a pound of Malmsey a young Pigion not wholly fethered halfe a pounde of new Cheese comming from the presse made of vnskymmed mylke eyght Orrenges Oyle of Tartare three ounces one ounce of Ceruse made in powder gum Arabick and Mastick of eyther halfe an ounce water of Beane flowres eight ounces Ryce fowre ounces stieped fyrst a whole day and a nyght in halfe a pynt of Creame cut the Orrenges in peeces and stampe them a lytle then put all together with the Creame Ryce also And distyll the same also with an easy fyre and keepe the water dystylled therof in a cleane close stopped glasse and vse to rubbe and wette the face therwith euery euening before you go to bedde and euery morning wash it cleane with water distylled of Beane flowres Use this a fortnight or three weekes together and you shall find it a notable thing TO make a Glew to hold or ioygne thinges together as hard or fast as a stone an excellent secret Take vnslackt Lyme quench the same with wine beate the same into fine powder myxing therwith both Fygs Swynes grease and after labour them well together for this as Pliny wryteth passeth the hardnes of a stone with which ioygne broken pots or any thing together Also take greeke Pytch Rosē and the powder of lytle stones these myxe together when you wyll occupy of the same then heate it ouer the fyre worke therwith that is ioygne any thing therwith and it holdeth them together as harde as any nayle Also take of Spuma ferri one pound of tyle shardes in powder two pounde of vnslackt Lyme fowre pound of oyle of Lynne seede as much as shall suffice to prepare myxe worke them together this Glewe is maruelous strong which neyther feareth nor yeeldeth to water nor fyre This is of the natural and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated into Englysh by Thomas Hyll AN Angelike water of a maruelous vertue against blearednes of the eyes Canker and burning with fyre Take three ounces of vnslackt Lime and halfe a pounde of rayne water let them stande together in a vessell of glasse or tyn three dayes then mixe styrrre them together and let them setle againe a whole day a night in a vessell well couered afterward strayne them tenderly through a lynnen cloath vntyll it be cleare then put into it ten drams of Sal Armoniack the whytest you can get beate it finely let it be dyssolued with long standing and oft mouing in the sayd water After when it is setled strayne the cleane water that standeth aboue certaine times or else distyl it by a fylter This water healeth the spot and web in the eye if you drop three drops thryse euery day into thē continewing so vntyll the eyes be whole it taketh away also the teares of the eyes the rednes and the blearednes of the eyes And also the Canker and burning It taketh away all spots and staynes of cloath both of Sylke and Woollen if they be washed with it a lytle warmed Furnerius by the report of Euonymus Besydes I haue proued it in the lyke case therfore I am bold to say it is an excellent thing AN excellent water called the golden water a balme a blacke oyle doth follow Take of cleare Turpentine seuen ounces wash it wel with whyte wine after take good whyte Honny three pound clarify it with a lytle whyte wine ouer an easy fyre and take of the scoom styll from it then put the Turpentyne to it myxing them well together Then powre therto of Aqua vite fowre pound and myxe them well in a body of glasse luting it or stopping it well then take Buglosse Borrage Bawme Sage Lauēder of each one handfull Hysop Camamyle Yarrow red Roses of each one handfull Woormwood one dram Rosemary two handfulles Then take wood of Aloes Xilobalsamum the three Saunders of eache one dram Mace Nutmugge Cynamom Galanga Cloues Cucubes whyte and long Pepper Saffern Spyknarde Graynes of Paradise Cardamomum of each three drammes Zedoarye halfe an ounce Squynant halfe a dram the pylles or ryndes of Lymons the seedes of Lymons Scicados Arabike of eache one dram Calamus Aromaticus halfe a dram Carlinae cardopacij two ounces Bistorte two drams the roote of Flowre Deluce halfe an ounce Bay berryes Ualeryan Polypode of each half an ounce Licqueres Annes seedes of eyther halfe a dram of Radyshe two ounces of Coryander correct halfe an a◠ounce Syler mounten one dram blaunched Almondes halfe a pound small Reysens halfe a pound being washt with Wyne All these being beaten or strayned put into the sayd body of glasse to the Honny and other thinges and if there be not inough of Aqua vite put therto more and let them stande so seuen dayes well couered and stopt then after distyll the same in ashes with an easy fyre all being wel luted for the space of fowre howres least the Honny boyle and there wyll come out a cleare water Then encrease the fire and when you see the water yallow then put too another receyuer of glasse which you must lute also with the beake of the Styll and keepe the fyrst water by it selfe encrease the fyre vntyl there come no more yallowe water and when you see it come blacke then take away the receyuer and put an other thertoo and lute it lykewise and when you see a smoake come then it is inough and keepe all these three seuerally and let the Styll stande vntyll it bee colde In the fyrst water put Folij Indi fyue drams Amber halfe a dram Mosche halfe a scruple which is twelue graynes and also fyfteene leaues of Gold. If you wyl vse it for the head take one ounce of the water of Bettony and of the fyrst water one spoonefull myxe them together drinke it all fasting The vertue of this doth strengthen all the members Take one ounce of Malmsey or of other good Wyne in a lytle glasse and put one spoonefull of this fyrst whyte water thertoo myxe them together and it wyll be whyte as mylke which drynke with a fasting stomacke and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after and it wyll preserue all thy members
For a colde Lyuer take a spoonefull of the whyte water with an ounce of the water of Sage For the breast and the cough of a cold Rewme take it with the water of Isope Louathe or Fennell For the harte with the water of Buglosse Burrage or Balme For the stomacke with the water of Woormwood For the Lyghts with the water of mayden heair or Polypode For the Splen with the water of Hartstongue For the Vertigo a gyddynes of the head or the Apoplexie with the water of Pyony of Fennell or of S. Iohns Woort For the Stone with the water of Radysh or winter Cherries For the retayning or holding of the water with the water of Cresses some Pearsley or Saxifrage For the eyes with the water of Fennell or Eybright For the retayning or withholding of Menstrues with the water of Mugwoort or with water of Radysh For the too much fluxe of the Menstrues with the water of Planteyn or of Nightshade For the Matrix hurt by the mydwyle or of any colde cause whereby she doth conceyue no more let it be vsed with the water of Ualeryan or Bettony Against the spottes of the face take of the water of Pympernell fowre partes of this whyte or fyrst water one parte myxe them together and annoynt the face morning and euening and drynke it twyse or thryse in the weeke with Endyue water It cures the Cankar being annoynted therewith and the Fystula if a droppe thereof many tymes put into it It helpes a colde gowte if it be annoynted therwith For the payne of the Matryx let this water be taken with the water of Mugwoort Also it is good against the quarten and quotidian Feuers The Cytryne oyle hath many vertues as the oyle of Balme if any griefe be annoynted therwith The blacke Oyle is of great vertue in the gowte if it be annoynted therwith as the moother of Balme being whyte called the golden Water Gratarolus HEre followeth an excellent medycine that wyll heale olde rotten incurable Ulcers very quickly Take of Turpentyne three tymes washt fyrst in fayre spring or well water after in Rose or Planteyn water three ounces the yolke of an Eg Oyle of Roses an ounce a halfe Mercury sublymate made in powder halfe a dram let them all be myxed well together and make therof an oyntment washe the Ulcers or sores with whyte Wine then spreade some of that oyntment or salue vpon flaxe apply it to the sore and dresse it with new salue twise euery day but before euery dressing annoynt with this following three or fowre fyngers bredth about the sore Take of the oyle of Roses two ounces of Uineger halfe an ounce of the powder of bole Armoniack a lytle myxe them together and annoynt it as is before sayd And when all the rottē or putrified flesh is eaten out then annoynt the Ulcer with butter and you shall see a woonderfull effect Proued FOr the burning or great intollerable heat of the vryne Take of the seedes of Purslane of the seedes of Lettys of the seedes of Endiue of the seedes of white Poppy two ounces of euery of them of the seedes of Hēbane half a dram Sebasten two ounces Saffern one drā Licqueres fiue drams Pineaple kernels ten drams foūtaine or spring water six pound myx them all together let them be sod vntyll the consuming of the thyrde part of the water then let it be strayned Wherof take one ounce in the morning mixed with one ounce of Inle◠of Uyolets and the fowrth day the effect worthy of maruell wyl appeare This is proued A Notable an excellēt Balme Take of Turpētine one pound a half Galbanum two ounces Aloes cicotrin Mastick Cloues Galangale Cynamō Nutmugs Cubebs of euery one of them an ounce gum of Iuy halfe an ounce when all is well beaten myxe them together and distyl them in glasse with a slowe fyre fyrst and receyue the fyrst water by it selfe seuerally then encrease the fyre a water more reddyshe wyll come then encrease the fyre more and an oyle wyl come of a redde cullour receiue that as long as any wyll come you must chaunge the receyuer thryse This oyle hath all the vertues of true Balme for it burneth in the water and curddeth mylke by by for if one droppe of it warme be put into a pynt of mylke it wyll forthwith become curdded The fyrst lycquor is called the water of Balme the seconde oyle of Balme the thyrde Balme artificiall The fyrst is profytable against the running of the eares if two drops morning and euening be put into them dropt into the eyes it amendeth the blearednes and consumeth the teares it doth maruelously restrayne superfluous humors in any parte of the body it taketh away the tooth ache if they be washt therewith and kylleth the woormes if there be any in them The thyrd lycquor wyl suffer no venom it is an vtter enemy and destruction to Spiders and Serpents Two or three drops thereof layde vpon any venemous byting doth make it whole strayght If thou drawe a cyrcle with this lycquor and shut a venemous Beast therin it wyl dye there rather then go out of it To be short it doth all the same things that Treacle doth but all things more effectually being powred or put vpon any Impostume within nyne dayes it healeth them and lykewise a Fistula be it neuer so euyll and also Noli me tangere All diseases bred of fleame and of colde humors it healeth if a lynnen cloath dypped in it be layde vpon the place where the griefe is It putteth away vtterly the Palsey and all trembling of members it strengthneth maruelously the Sinewes it is hotter then the fyrst or the seconde If a man put a drop of it in his hande it pierceth straight without griefe To conclude it doth many other things and all diseases rysen of a colde cause it healeth if they vse it ryght Lullius in his booke of waters But this is taken out of Euonymus IF you take the gall of an Oxe mans vrine Ueriuyce and the iuyce of Nettelles of each a lyke quantity and myxe them very dillygently together and after quenche steele red hotte therin fowre or fyue tymes together the same steele wyll after become as soft as paste This is affyrmed by the Schollers of Padua in theyr natural and Artificial conclusions c. A Most present remedy for them that are infect with the plague for Carbuncles pestelenticall Puslles holy Fyre and other of that kinde Take the ripe berryes of Iuy being dryed in the shaddow then stampe them and make them in powder of which powder take half a dram in two or three ounces of the water of Planteyn and remayne styl in the bed vntyl you haue sweat very well and after you haue sweat put on a cleane shert wel ayred at the fyre and if you may conueniently let the sheetes and the cloathes of the bed be shyfted There hath bene some healed with this
sore must be first washt with whyte Wine a lyttle warmed and the iuice and the leaues must be put to it and you wyll maruel at the effect Mizaldus had this of one that proued it and I also haue tryed it to be excellent IF any wood or yron be deepe in the flesh and cannot wel be gotten out dip a tent in the iuice of Ualeryan and put it into the wound or sore as deepe as you can and tye the herbe Ualeryan stamped vpon the same with some linnen cloath that it remoue not away and by this meanes the wood yron or other thing whatsoeuer wyll not onely be drawen foorth but also the wound wyl be healed Mizaldus writes it vpō the report of an Italian Alexis also affirmes it A Barren Uine wyll beare grapes if you cast olde and sowre vrine theron or if you burie the leefe of Wine at the rootes therof but you must take heede that you cast not soot that is swept from chymneys or Lyme to the roote of the sayd barren Uine which with their burning heate kyls the Uine and makes the same to wyther before his tyme Mizaldus IN the morning if salt be holden in the mouth vnder the tongue vntyll it melt or consume into water and the teeth being rubbed therewith it wyll preserue the teeth safe and sounde and it wyll keepe them from rotting and that they shall not be worm-eaten a thing often proued true THe teeth of a Bore newly kylled are so hotte that if one then put them to heairs or brystles they wyll burne them which seemes that the Bore is so inflamed with yre against them that kyls him that hee woulde be reuenged on them with his tuskes Xenophon is the author and Myzaldus the reporter therof THere is no presenter helpe to ease the tormentes of the Gowte both in the handes and in the feete then a yong whelpe especially of one collour if the same be put to the griefe Leuinus Leminus But the whelpe ought to be cut out or clouen in two partes thorow the myds of the back and the one halfe with the inner side hotte to be layde vnto the grieued place and this I know to be an excellent thing MAny stinking things do driue away the contagious and pestiferous ayre as Castorum Galbanū Sagapenū Brimstone all which are to be had at the Apothecaries the smoke of burned Lether and of Hornes and especially the smell of Gonpowder For sayth Lemnius the whole Citie of Tornace enfected with the plague the Rulars of the Towre or Castel there caused their Gons to be layde and leuelled at the Citie charged with Gonpouder without pellets or shotte and then morning and euening in the twye lyght they shotte of the layde peeses or Gons so that through the stynking smell of the sayd smoke ▪ and the great and violent noyse of the Gons the infectious and contagious ayre was quite put awaye and the Citie delyuered from the plague COmmon Azure is made as followeth take of Salt Armoniack three ounces of Uerdigreece syxe ounces let them be made in powder and mixe them with water of Tartar so that it maye be somthing thick then put the same into a glasse and let it be well stopped that no ayre may get forth let it be layde in very hotte Horsedung for the space of eyght dayes and then when you take it out you shall finde it excellent Azure Mizaldus IT is to be marueled that a Cocke or Cockrell which doth not feare a Serpent or a Dragon is so afrayde of the shadowe of a Gleade when he is flying that sodainlie he seekes a place of refuge and hydes himselfe Mizaldus ANy kind of Aumber being sodden in the greese of a Sow that geues suck to yoūg pygs is not only therby the clearer but also much the better Mizal. IF any carye vpon him the seede of Sorrell gathered of a boye being a virgin his sparme or nature shall not go from him neyther sleeping nor waking therfore it is sayde to be good against any pollution in the night Gilbertus Anglicus A Certaine Citizen of Padua hauing Cautharides that is to saye French Flees applyed to one of his knees dyd pysse aboue fiue ounces of bloud the lyke hapned to one to whose great toe of the foote the same was applyed Bartholomeus Montegnanus a notable Phisitiō affirmes this therfore Cautharides is perillous to be taken both inwarde outwarde THe leafe of the greater Burre borne or layd on the top of the head doth draw the Matrix vpwarde But layd vnder the sole of the foote it draweth downwarde which is a notable and excellent remedie against the suffocations falling and displasing of the Matrix This Mizaldus wryteth ALe sod tyll it be thyck lyke a salue helpes all sores and aches applyed therto maruelously a thing often proued ALl kind of Docks haue this propertie that what flesh or meate is sodde therwith though they be neuer so olde harde or tough they wyl become tender and meete to be eaten herevpon it comes that they were so vsed in the olde tyme for that therby the meate was more sooner concoct and easelyer disgested and the wombe more soluble Mizaldus WHen the ascendent and the Moone are both impedyte and their Lords or Sygnifers safe then the sicknesse is in the body and not in the minde And if the Ascendent and the Moone be safe and their Lordes or sygnifiers impedite or hyndered then the sicknesse is in the minde and not in the body And if they all be impedyte then it sygnifyes both sicknesse of the body griefe of mind Likewise if an Infortunate planet beholde the Ascendent not the Moone then the disease or griefe is in the minde not in the body And if contrary then the disease is in the body not in the minde But if an Infortunate planet behold them both then the disease and griefe is in them both Iatromath Guat Ryff IF one suspect him selfe to be infect with the Pluresie let the partie holde in his breath as long as he can and then if he can let his breath go without coughing he hath not the Pluresie If not he hath the Pluresie or is in daunger therof WHosoeuer hath the Quarteyn ague shall not be troubled with the falling sicknes for if one haue the falling sycknes fyrst after shall haue the Quarteyn ague the falling sycknes wyll leaue him Hippocrates ONe may cullour Iuery or any other bones with an excellent greene cullour as followeth take strong water called Aqua Fortis wherein dyssolue asmuch copper as the sayde water is able then let the bones that you would haue culloured lye in the same all night and they wyll be lyke a Smaragdine cullour Mizaldus IF Oyle be powred vpon wine or any other lycour it makes that the same shall not waxe mustie nor be corrupted For it excludes or driues forth all ayre that maye breede corruption onely with the outward ayre of the Oyle as with
and no violent death Taisnier TAke a lytle sticke and tye about the ende thereof olde Oken leaues then cutte them something rounde and holde the same leaues in your mouth as deepe and as farre in as you may suffer it well holding the stycke betweene your teethe so hold your mouth ouer a porrenger or a dysh and there wyll great aboundaunce of humors auoyde out of your mouth and within a whyle washe in fayre water the sayde leaues on the stycke and then holde it in your mouth so againe Doo thus for the space of halfe an howre and vse this three or fowre tymes a daye for three or fowre dayes together or vntyll you haue auoyded as much waterie humors as you thinke good This is the best and the presentest remedy for helping of the rewme that euer I knewe or hearde of I had it of a Gentleman that esteemed it as a Treasure And whosoeuer proues it shall fynde it an excellent thyng MIrabolanes chebuli preserued with his syrruppe vsed daylye and eaten preserueth youth excellently well THis followinge is an excellent Gargarisme to purge the head and the brest Take of Stauesacre three drams Pellyter of Spaine and mustard seede of eyther two drams long Pepper Gynger and Aâ—lomgem of each one dram Make powder of them that are to be powdred and stampe the rest myxe all well together and put as much therof as a beane in a little lynnen cloath and tye the same fast with a threde that it may be rounde then houlde the same in your mouth champe it softly betweene your teeth and it wil bring forth water and fleame aboundantly Use this dayly vntill you thinke your head be wel purged YF the Lord of the Ascendent be in the eight house receyued of the Lord of the eight house so that he receyue not the Lorde of the eight house It sygnifies that the sycke party shall escape without all hope Iatromath Guat Ryff EArth woormes slyt and cleansed and washt from their slymye and earthye matter halfe a dosen of them at the least and cut in peeces or chopped and a good messe of pottage made thereof with otemeale and water and so much euerye daye eaten by them that haue the black Iaundies for the space of twelue dayes or longer no doubt it will perfectly cure them therof though it be neuer so long rooted or thought to be past cure Or else a spoonefull of the powder made of them in March or any other time when you can get theÌ„ taken euery day so long in a litle draught of any drinke doth likewise perfectly cure the same This is very true and hath bene often tymes proued It hath helpt some in fowre or fyue dayes OLâ—banum which is a kinde of Frankencence in powder mixte with as much of Swines grease and boyled together wherewith if childrens heades that are full of Lyce or that are geuen to breede lyce be annoynted they shall afterwardes be free from Lyce This is better and more safe then to vse oyntments mixt with quicksyluer which is very daungerous therefore let Mothers or Nursses rather vse this WHereas euery Beast the act of generation ended or done is woont to be sadde onely the Cock reioyseth for he sheweth his gladnes then by crowing IF Mars be in the eyght house in a humaine signe or in the seconde face of Taurus or in the first face of Leo It doth shew the child then borne shall dye of yron Taisnier IT is proued by experience that to vse customablie in the dynner and immediatly before the Supper halfe an ounce of the flowre of Cassia newly drawne doth forbyd the engendring of the impostumation of the stomacke Truly I saye vnto thee that who doth vse such taking of Cassia shal be preserued from euery euyll affection of the stomacke Emperica bened WIne of the decoction of Tormentyll drunke daylye without any other drinke and the hearbe thereof sodden and euery euening plastred ouer the eyes the space of three or fowre monthes or more restoreth the syght yea to those that haue their eyes as though they dyd see and yet are blinde and sees nothing at all Petrus Hispanus ANdreas Mattheolus knewe a Woman that euery daye for a whole yeares space was greeuously troubled with the paynes of the moother which was helped verye well of that disease by drinking once a weeke at her going to bed oâ— white Wine wherein an ounce of the roote of Bryony was heated and she vsing this medicine a whole yeare in such sort she felt no more harme therof IF you wyll destroye or put away Warts cut of the head of a quyck Eele and rubbe the Warts all ouer well with the same bloud then as it runnes from the Eele then bury the head of the sayd Eele deepe in the ground and when the head is rotten then they wyll fall away I thinke the Author hereof is Iohannes Baptista Porta Mizaldus ABout the rysing of the lytle Dogge being in the Sommer an olde Cock doth lay an Egge round speckled and of dyuers cullours where of many doo thinke that the Basylike or Cockatryse doth come which is a most pernicious and venemous serpent especially if that egge be syt vpon and hatched by a Tode Which whether it be a fable or not let other iudge Mizaldus MArs in the eyght house with the head of the Dragon betokens that the chylde then borne shal die of a roape or be hangd Taisnier THe iuyce of Colewoorts put or snuft into the nosthrylles doth purge the head maruelous well and helps the auncient payne of the head Often proued BLacke sieges lyke to fylthy bloud are wonderfull euyll Whether they be with an ague or without an ague And the darker cullour they haue the woorse they bee but if these sygnes come through a Purgation they be more laudable And although they be of dyuers cullours they be not euyll Hippocrates THis following is an excellent and often proued thing for the Collycke Strangurie and the stone Take the seedes of Careaway Fennell seede Spicknarde Annes seede Coomyn seede Cynamom and Galyngale of eache halfe an ounce Gromell seede and Lycores of eyther of them an ounce and beate them all to powder and drinke halfe a spoonefull of the same powder in Ale a lytle warmed and walke vppe and downe one howre after before you eate or drinke any other thing Doo thus fiue or sixe dayes together at the least and you shall finde it of a notable operation This was taken out of a learned practysers booke besydes synce it hath bene many tymes proued YOung Chyldren whose gummes are annoynted with the brayne of an Hare doo breede their teeth easylie Mizaldus And it hath bene proued with the brayne of a Conie A Walnutte put fast into a Chycken that it fall not out in the roastyng thereof It makes that the same Chycken wyll be the sooner roasted Mizaldus IF a rounde large vessell with one hole in the toppe thereof be fylled full with
quicke Lyme and Brimstone of both equall porcions and then the hole well stopt that no ayre nor any thing may go out and so put into some standing water or a litle pit of water or into some cesterne full of water it wyll keepe the sayd water hotte a long tyme or for many daies Proued of many sayth Mizaldus And I founde the same also in an olde written booke HEns dunge mixt with meate that is geuen to be eaten of madde Dogs wyl take away their madnes from them As it is thought Mizaldus IF a Woorme that is founde in the grasse before it touch the grounde be hanged alyue at a womans necke that is with childe it is thought she shal keepe the chylde vntyll the due tyme of the byrth Plinius As Mizaldus sayth IF one geue any thing for Warts to them that haue them be it neuer so small a thing as three or fowre heayrs a rag of a lynnen cloath or some other thinge of no value the sooner it wyll rotte so much the better and let the party that would be ryd of the warts wrappe the same in some thing and put it into the ground and couer the same with earth againe truly as the same thing doth rotte in the earth so wyll the warts weare and consume away This is perfectly proued IF Mars be in Gemini and the Sunne in Pisces in a quartyle aspect in the daye tyme or the Moone in the night tyme it doth sygnify that the chylde then borne wyll be hangde Taisnier THey that vse to receyue three Pyls made of Aloes De succo citrino made in powder which is to bee had at the Apothecaries and mixt with the iuyce of Colewoorts of the bygnes of a beane shall neuer be troubled with paine in the head Petr. Hisp. A Straunge medicine for the gowte Take a good handfull of Arsemart and wrap and tye the same in a Burre leafe and laye it first in olde ashes then compasse the same with hotte embers coales so rost the same wel thē apply the same rosted Arsmart to the grieued place and do thus euening and morning for two or three dayes and thou shalt fynde a present helpe thereof This was tolde me for a great secrete and as a proued thing IF you put or stop fast within a Nutte quicke brimstone Saltpeter and Quicksyluer the same being put into a loafe of bread and then the same loafe of bread put into some hotte place where it may heate as soone as it waxeth hot you shal see the loafe of bread so leape that it wyll bee a very pretye sport to them that sees it Mizaldus had this of one that proued it A Most excellēt oyle of Saint Iohns Woort is made as followeth Infuse or stiepe for the space of three dayes the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort in pure and excellent Wine then in a double vessel let them 〈◊〉 easily ouer the fire and then straine them easily then agayne put as many of the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort in that strayned lycquor as you had before and let them stiepe therin three dayes three nights as before then heate strayne them as before then adde thereto three ounces of Turpentine and syxe ounces of olde Oyle and of Safferue the weyght of xxiiii Barly cornes myxe all together and then seeth all together in a double vessell vntyll the wyne be consumed and that that remaynes put it into a glased or leaded vessel keepe it safely for your vse This Oyle is of a maruelous vertue and propertie as wel chieflye against venemous Ulcers as many other diseases and colde griefes Well knowne to many women Mizaldus IF you rubbe sleyghtly any kinde of Beastes or Cattell with the iuyce of goordes in hotte wether no kinde of Flyes wyll then hurt or molest them nor yet come nye them A thing desyred of many and very necessary for such as rydes in the hotte wether Mizaldus IF Mars be opposite to Iupiter and the one of them bee the Lorde of the eyght house it is lyke the chylde then borne shall dye by the commaundement of the Iudge Taisnier THe leaues of wylde Iuie sodde in wine and layde vpon any Cankar doeth kyll and heale the same Trotula THis water following is very precious for frantick and madde men proued very often Take of the flowres of Rosemarie of Burrage and of the rootes of Buglosse of each halfe a pounde of Saffern two drams of Quinces fowre ounces of the best whyte Wine two pintes mixe them all together and then let them stande so the space of a naturall daye after that bury the glasse body wherein all the same is in horse dung for fifteene daies and then take it out and distyll a water therof according to arte two or three times ouer Keepe this water as the Aple of your eye for it is very precious and well proued in all Melancholy sicknesses very effectuously and in the paine and trembling of the harte the quantity to be geuen at one time is a dram Which is the weyght of .lxxii. barly cornes If you proue it you wyll prayse it And this is in the new Iuell of Health with many other mo excellent thinges THey are not lyke to lose their senses nor their vnderstanding in whose Natiuity the Moone doth apply to Mercury eyther by coniunction or by aspect Iatromath Guat Ryff Argent SEt a rounde glasse full of water against the hotte Sunne that it maye stande fast and then holde something that is very drie and wyll take fyre easely nye to the same glasse betweene the glasse and the Sunne and it wyll set the same thing there holden on fyre Which is very straunge to beholde And the rather because fyre a hotte and drye element is procured out of water a colde and moyst element Iohan. Baptist. Porta DIdimus wrytes that Sheepe are woont to follow them that stoppes their eares with their wooll IF any doth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie what he dyd see in his dreame marke the Ascendent when the question is made And if thou doest finde Saturne in the Ascendent or fyrst house tell him that he dyd see in his dreame Religious persons as Fryers Heremytes or such lyke or places of Prayer c. But if thou finde Mars in the Ascendent saye that he saw in his dreame Captaines Knights Murtherers Theeues Harnes or Battelles or such lyke If the Sunne be in his first house he dyd see Gardins Trees with fruites Golde or a king If Venus be in the Ascendent he dyd see a fayre Uirgin or some eating or drinking or one lying with a Woman or that haue things wherin they are delighted or else to playe or to walke abroade or whyte or red garmentes If Mercury be in the first house then he dyd see handsome eloquent men reasoning or Pallaces decked with Curtens and rytch hanginges or cloathes bookes or wrytings of salutation or of accoumpts If the Moone be in the first house he dyd
of Seamewes seeming to be dead which were ioynde together with theyr bylles or nebbes in anothers tayle or fundament and being warmed with theyr guttes were founde a lyue Garuas Tibellesius THe leaues of Dockes do lowse the belly makes one laxatiue But the seedes being taken do binde and are restryctiue Galen IF Wyne haue gotten any tartnes or sowrenes take a potte fylled with good water and let it be well couered then set the same potte with water in the vessell with Wyne so that the potte stande vnder or within the Wyne and at the three dayes ende if the Wyne haue gotten his former strength the water wyll smell and then the Wyne wyll lyke thee Tarentinus A Peece of raw Beefe not too thyck nor too thin being layde or stieped all the nyght before in good Aqua Composita and applyed to the temples or the foreheade without remouing all the nyght and thus doing three or fowre nyghtes doth helpe the watring and paynes of the eyes and all distyllations and rewmes that comes from the heade or brayne One tolde mee this which had often proued it to be most true as a great secrete WHen Mercury is in the tenth house not impedyte the chylde then borne wyll be mighty wyse and a great Philosopher Celi enarrant ANnoint young Swallowes with saffern soone after the old Swallowes wyll bring a stone vnto them wherwith the Dropsie wyll be cured This I had out of a booke of Secretes AN Egge layde on a Thursdaye and emptied and fylled with Salt and lo set in the fyre remayning there vntyll it maye be made in powder and then cankred teethe rubbed with the powder thereof it both kylles the cankar and the woormes that eates the teethe and destroyes them Proued for trueth THis following wyll destroy Ringwoormes Tetters and Scales in the hands Take whyte Coprose the quantity of two beanes put it into a pynt of cleare water tyll it be resolued or melted and with that water washe the place or handes tyll they be whole Proued STampe Pearceley in whyte Wine then streyne it well and drinke a good draught therof and it wyll cause thee to make water and breake the stone vse it fyue or syxe tymes This hath bene well proued THe wyse and learned men in olde tyme dyd think that a Tode put into a new earthen potte and set within the ground and so couered with earth in the myddes of a fyelde wyll dryue away Crowes or Byrds from Corne that t s sowne there But about Haruest tyme they wyll that it be dygged vp and to be cast forth of the lymmyts of the same fyelds least the Corne be bytter therby Plin. A Lytle peece of the Nauell string of a Chylde that is newly borne enclosed in a Ryng and so borne that it maye touch the flesh or bare skynne is a most sure helpe and remedy against the great paynes and tormentes of the collycke Mizaldus THey whose heaire of the eye browes doo touch or meete together of all other are the woorst They doo shewe that he or she is a wicked personne and an intyser of seruauntes and geuen to vnlawfull and naughty artes which Iohannes Indagnies sayth hee hath obserued in olde Women being Wytches which were ledde to be burned whose eye browes were such As Thaddeus Hageccius hath also noted SAturne in the nynth house doth sygnifye feares in iourneyes but more in the Sea chiefly in a waterye sygne and in Cancer the house of the Moone Taisnier FINIS Lib. 6. ⧠The seuenth Booke of Notable thinges THe water wherein the leaues of Planten that growes close to the grounde and neare the roote is sodde being droonke twyse euery day morning and euening fyrst last halfe a pynt at a tyme for the space of fowre or fiue dayes helpes perfectly all griefes and diseases of the bladder A true medicine and often proued A Notable water for breaking of the stone Take of the iuyce of Saxifrage two pound of the iuyce of Gromell and of the iuyce of Pearslye of eyther one pounde of the iuyce of Bettony of the iuyce of Nettelles and of the iuyce of Ramsens of each halfe a pound of strong whyte Uinegar ten ounces of the flowres and seedes of Broome and of the rootes of Radish of each two handfulles stampe the last rehearsed well then myxe the same with all the iuyces before mencioned and therof destyll a water with a gentle fyre of which water geue to them that haue the stone one ounce at one tyme with Oxinell Diuretycke which you may haue at the Apothecaries vsing the same nyne or ten dayes if neede be and it wyll breake auoyde the stone wonderfully There can not be a better medicine for the stone proue it when you wyll IN the Ilandes of Irelande and Orcades in certayne places there there be certaine Trees there much lyke vnto Wyllowe trees out of which coms forth certayne lytle heayres encreasing by lytle and lytle into Byrdes hauing shape of Duckes hanging vpon the bowes by theyr nebs or bylles and when they are comd to full perfectnesse they flye away of themselues and falles into the next Seas which Byrds we call Barnacles This is related by the people that dwell there Mizaldus YF one be bewytched of any put quycksyluer into a quyll and stoppe it or els into a hollowe Nut shel enclosed fast with waxe and laye the same vnder the pyllowe of the partye bewytched or vnder the threshold of the doore where he enters into the house or Chamber Iohannes Weckerus HE that shall delyuer a summe of Money in the howre of the Moone he shall haue much a doo to get it againe And at last he shall mystrust of the recouering therof but at the length he shall recouer it but not all Abablez filius Zaed BEttony stampt and made in a plaster and layde to the eye healeth a strype in the eye And if the eyes be washed wyth the water wherein Bettony is sodden they wyll be hole without dymnesse or other blemysh And if you drynke a dramme of the powder of Betony with the water of Betony it wyll brynge downe and heale the clowdynesse and blouddynesse of the eyes And if Betony be eaten it dryeth vp the teares of the eyes All this and more hath bene proued of Betony MArke on what day any doth fall sycke and number the dayes from the syxt Calendes of Iuly which is the .xxvi. day of Iune vntyll the day when the party dyd fyrst beginne to be sycke and deuyde that whole number by three and then if at the last one remayne he wyll quickly escape if two remayne he wyll be long sicke if one remayne then it is to be feared he wyll dye of that sycknes This I had out of a booke of Secretes A Maruelous cure of a Woman that was swolne done by one Iohn Ardern whose wordes thereof were these I Iohn Ardern dyd see a certaine Woman at Newarke whose whole body was suddenlye
in the howre of Iupiter it is for no harme but rather for good Therefore doubt it not and though it should seeme to be some harme or losse at the fyrst yet at length it wyll turne to good The oftner one tryes it the truer he shall fynde it so that he be not Retrograde or Combust OKe ferne called Polipodium stampt and plastred vpon the feete of the Woman traueling of chylde causeth the byrth of the chylde eyther a lyue or dead This was tolde me for a great secrete TAke the grease of a Swyne or a Hogge and rubbe therewith the body of any that is sycke against the harte or the soles of his feete then geue that grease to a Dogge which if he eate the partye wyll escape if not it is a token that he wyll dye thereof THis following wyll helpe them that be deaffe Take a peece of greene Elme or Ashe and laye it in the fyre and receyue the water that commeth out of the endes thereof and take also a spoonefull of the iuyce of Syngreene and a spoonefull of Aqua vite and a spoonefull of the grease of an Eele that is redde beneathe the nauell boyle all these together a lytle on the fyre and put it into a glasse and when he goeth to bedde put some thereof into his eare luke warme and in two or three dayes he wyll be hole and heare well This is proued TO drawe out a toothe without any payne Take the goom of Iuy and greene Iuy leaues of each a lyke weyght and burne them to powder in a newe earthen potte and when it is made in fyne powder myxe it together with the mylke of Spurge and put some thereof into the toothe that you woulde haue out if it be hollow if not touch the toothe therwith and it wyll fall out but beware you touch none other toothe therwith AElianus dooth report that no sycke person of the Locrenses should vpon payne of death drynke any Wyne without the consent knowledge of the Phisition or any other geue it them without the commaundement of the Phisition IF you wyll proue whether there be any water mixed with Wyne or not put an Egge into the Wyne and if the Egge synke into it there is water myxt with it if the Egge swym then it is pure Wyne IF the scull of an aged man be hanged in a Doouehouse Pygions wyll be encreased there and wyl lyue quietly Albertus as Mizaldus doth wryte THe iuyce of Baye leaues distylled into the cares doth not permytte deafnesse nor other straunge soundes to abyde in the eares Petrus Hispanus A Question was asked of the state of a certayn person being sycke of what condition the disease was and whether they should recouer therof or not c It seemed at the fyrst syght that the party was hole for whome the question was made because the Sunne was in the tenth house and the parte Fortune in the Ascendent but many other testymonies shewed the contrary And also Mars dyd corrupt Venus Lady or Alumten of the Ascendēt and Venus also was vnder the beames of the Sunne and began to be Combust distaunt from the Sun ten degrees for Venus was in the .xxviii. degree of Sagitary and the Sun in the .viii degree of Capricorne which two degrees in Sagitary dyd sygnify two monthes being a common sygne and the .viii. degrees in Capricorne being a moueable sygne dyd sygnify .viii. dayes therfore it was to be doubted of the death of the sicke personne about two monthes and .viii. daies after the questiō was made as God would ordaine and so it hapned ryght by the appoyntment of God to whome it belonges onely to cure infyrmities griefes to raise vp the dead and to moderate the earthly bodies by the heauenly bodies and to dispose inferyor thinges by meanes to whom be glory Amen Guilelmus Anglicus in suo tractatu de vrina non visa AN excellent medicine for the ache in the bones or armes or any other place of the body Annoynt the place where the payne or ache is with good and pure Aqua Composita by the fyre and let it drinke in doo thus three or fowre tymes together then at the last tyme whyle it is wette cast vpon the wette place where the ache is the powder of Olibanum which is the fairest and the whitest of the Frankensence and so laye a lynnen cloath vpon the powder and sowe it fast and so let it lye three or fowre dayes vntyll it be well and whole Which wyll be by that tyme God wylling Proued ENuches that is they that be gelded be neuer balde nor gowtye Hippocr IT is a thing worthy of memory that Lampridius wrytes of Heliogabalus the Romaine Emperour who sayth he had fowre Hartes in his Charret that carryed him and so many Dogges calling him selfe Diana and fowre Tygers calling himselfe Bacchus and fowre Lyons calling him selfe Cibel and he ioygned fowre Women to his Charret as Sesostris King of Egipt dyd with fowre Kings O prowde presumptuous Prince he might ryde a good whyle in that Charret ere it woulde bring him to heauen IT is not good to burye any too hastely especially such as haue had the Apoplexy the falling sycknes and that are suffocate with the Strangulation of the wombe called the moother For such may seeme to be deade and yet reuyue againe within three dayes for it was the fowrth daye after Lazarus dyed ere Christe dyd rayse him from death to lyfe least any should falsely report that Lazarus had had the Apoplexy or the falling sycknes or such lyke and therfore but in a traunce or not perfectly dead whereby the iust meryte of Christes maruelous myracle thereof myght be darkned This is the meaning of Lemnius in his seconde Booke of the secrete myracles of Nature Therefore it is very meete to know whether any such be perfectly dead or not which you may doo by holding a lytle burning candle at the parties nose whose mouth is open or else by setting some lytle cuppe or glasse full of water to the brymme vpon the sayde partyes belly or nauell for by the mouing of the flame of the candle or of the vessell with water you shall perceyue his secrete breathing and whether there be any lyfe in him or not Camillus AN approued medicine dooth follow for the shortnes of breath doth maruelously helpe the same for if halfe an ounce thereof be geuen to the patient thryse in a naturall daye that is three howres before dynner two howres before supper and about mydnyght continewing the same three or fowre dayes and no moe you shall see the diseased healed Take of Manna elect or chosen called Manna Granata two ounces the flowre of Cassia newly drawne halfe an ounce Penyedes three ounces oyle of sweete Almondes being new one ounce the Lyghts or Lungs of a Foxe fynely beaten and powdred two ounces make the rest in powder that are to be powdred then myxe all together and make therof a Lectuary
and the howre of Iupiter is an excellent howre to doo any thing or to take any good thing in hande A Lytle Gunpowder put into a peece of fyne lynnen cloath and the same put into the hollowe toothe or holden betweene the teethe so that it touch the aking toothe It puts away the toothe ache presently This is very true IF you distyll hearbe Iue and geue the water therof to be drunken of them that are grieued or tormented with the gowte annoynting also therewith the gowty or grieued place it wyll heale or helpe them assuredly Great warrantyse was made of this medicine where I had it A Speciall medicine for all suddayne sycknes and especiall of the stomack or breast Take a spoonefull of Aqua vite and put therein halfe a spoonefull of the powder of Lycqueres and let it remayne therin three howres drynke it fasting or at euen when you go to bedde It is a soueraigne thing for the stomacke or breast LAye Saffern on the Nauell of them that haue the yallowe Iaundyse and it wyll helpe them This was affyâ—med to me as proued THis following is an excellent medicine to purge the head of naughty humors to helpe the headache the swymming of the head and the mygrym Washe the rootes of Beetes and cutte away the vppermost backe then stampe the same and wryng out the iuyce therof then snuffe some of it out of a spoone into your nose and a maruelous effect wyll followe and a speedy remedy therof A Gentleman a friende of myne tolde mee this as a most sure and proued thing in this case COckes that eates Garlycke are made stoute to fyght therefore trauellors do often byte thereof and also such as followes warres because it encreaseth agylytie strengthneth them and makes them bolde It is geuen to Horsses with bread and Wyne at the howre of the battell or conflyct to make them more fierce lyuely and to suffer more easily theyr labour and trauayle Mizaldus THere were young Mise found with the Persians in the bellyes of Myse that had young Myse in theyr bellyes Aristoteles as Mizaldus wrytes IF the feete of a great lyuing Tode be cutte off the Moone voide of course that is aspecting none and hastens towards the coniunction of the Sunne and hangd about the necke of him or her that hath the Kings Euyll it so profytes that oftentymes it delyuers the party from the disease Hieronimus Cardan IF Iupiter be in the eleuenth house well affected and not Retrograde nor Combust nor in his fall as in Capricorne but in Cancer Sagitary or Pisces it sygnifyes the Chylde then borne shall be fortunate happy and haue a common loue in all thinges chiefly if he haue any dignity in the Ascendent or in the place of the Sunne in the Natiuity of the daye or in the place of the Moone in the Natiuitie of the night Taisnier THis maruelous Water following wyll recouer the syght againe hyndred of any cause wherwith Constantine the Emprour receyued his syght Take three drams of Tutie made in very small powder as much of Aloe Epaticum in powder two drams of fyne Sugar syxe ounces of Rosewater as much of pure whyte Wyne myxe all together and put it in some cleane vessell of glasse and being well closed and stopt set it in the Sunne a month together sturring it together once euery daye Then take of the same water fowre or fyue droppes in your eyes morning and euening and with thus continewing a certayne space it wyll cause the syght to come againe as fayre as euer it was before This I knowe is proued for an excellent water for the eyes for it cleareth them maruelously I knew one that coulde not threede a needle without spectacles which put not past two or three drops of the same into theyr eyes at nyght and the next morning the same partie dyd see well to threede a needle without spectacles TO make a lyght that neuer shall fayle Take the Woormes that shynes in the nyght called Gloowoormes stampe them and let them stande tyll the shyning matter be aboue then with a fether take of the same shyning matter and myngle it with some quycksyluer and so put it into a Uyall and hang the same in a darke place and it wyll geue lyght This I had out of an olde booke which is not much vnlike to the discription of Mizaldus IF the Lyuer of a Mowse be geuen in a Fygge to a Swyne that Swyne wyll follow the geuer therof Mizaldus THe sounde of an Eccho is thought to dryue away Bees Therefore theyr Hyues ought to be plaste where the Eccho or the voyce doth not sound againe M. Varro WHosoeuer takes his iourney in the howre of Iupiter he shall haue good gaine in his substaunce and in his busynes and he shal haue profyt and gladnes in things vnlooked for Haly. IF a Spider be put in a lynnen cloath a lytle brused and holden to the nose that bleedes but touch not the nose therwith but smell to the same by by the bloud wil stay and the nose will leaue bleeding This is very true For the venemous Spyder is so contrary and such an enemie to mans bloud that the bloud drawes backe and shunnes the Spyder presently A maruelous thing WRyte what you wyl on fayre whyte paper with the iuyce of a redde Onion well myxed and tempered with the whyte of an Egge which being drie wyll appeare as though it were onely playne paper without any wryting But if you holde it against the fyre you maye then easilye reade it or perceyue the letters TO gylde Yron or Copper Take the gall of a Bull and rubbe the Yron or Copper well therwith so that the same before be well burnished all about that you woulde haue gylded and let it after drye in the Sunne foreseeing that there come no dust therto and when it is drye gylde vpon it as you would doo vpon Syluer SEethe an Egge in strong Uinegar vntyll it be very harde then let the same Egge lye three dayes in Urine then drye it and it wyll be maruelous harde Or let an Egge lye three dayes in Uinegar then drie the same at the Sunne three dayes and it wyll be very harde CAst Brymstone into a Chafyngdysh with hotte burning coales and holde a redde Rose ouer the smoake therof and it wyll be whyte TO seperate Golde from any thing gylded Seethe pure Sulphurevyue called quicke Brymstone in water vntyll halfe the water be consumed then wette the parte gylded with that water then drye it at the fyre then stryke the same gylded place with a lytle Yron and the Golde wyll fall from it This I had out of an olde wrytten Booke but howe true it is I knowe not Therefore as you trye it so take it TO proue or finde out the euent of any that is sycke Count the daies from the beginning of his or her sycknes and take the roote of an hearbe which hath so many leaues as
the number of the same dayes be tye it or hang it vp and if the disease be curable the partye wyll be much recreated If not then the party wyl be sadde But if you can not fynde an hearbe that hath so many leaues put the rootes of diuers hearbs together the leaues whereof together doo perfectly make vp the number of the sayde dayes from the begynning of the partyes sycknes and vse them as before This Mizaldus had of a certaine Italyan which profest that it is true THe bloud of a Hare dryed dooth helpe and stay the blouddy fluxe or any other laske though it be neuer so sore or extreame So doth the bones of a Man or Woman made into fyne powder and taken in red Wyne AN easye plaster for the Gowte but not a lytle effectuall because I sayth Iohn Arderne haue often tymes applyed it as well to Women as to Men and haue taken away theyr great paynes with once applying it as well in the feete as in the knees other ioyntes But take heede it be not perceyued of the patient nor of any other but it ought to be kept more secrete and deare and let it be reuealed to none but to thy sonne or to thy wel beloued friend I do thinke it preuailes aboue all other medicines for the gowte easeth the paine sooner and it ought to lye fyue or sixe daies without any mouing of it if it can be so applyed It is made thus Take of blacke sope as much as is sufficient wherevnto adde of the yolkes of raw Egges halfe as much as the Sope and myxe them well together in a dyshe vntyll the Sope hath lost his proper cullour which done laye thereof vpon fyne flaxe and spreade it lyke a plaster and then apply it to the grieued place then take the whytes of Egs myxed with Wheate flowre and wet a lynnen cloath well in the same lay the same vpon the sayd plaster and tye it well vpon it that the plaster remoue not away of all the sayde tyme vnlesse there be some great occasion This I founde in an olde wrytten booke Which synce I haue oftentymes proued true for aches YF you seethe Barlye drye Beanes and Lycqueres cutte in peeces of each a lyke much all together in fayre water and drynke a good draught therof with some Sugar euerye morning fasting and at nyght when you go to bedde fyue or syxe dayes together or more It wyll destroye any Impostume and shall thereby auoyde or cast out the same This was taken out of a Booke of a learned man that had often practised the same to be true A medicine of smal coast and easie to be made at all tymes HE wyll be a good Phisition in whose Natiuitye Mars and Venus are corporally or by any good Aspect coniunct Euen so if Venus and Mercury be ioygned or in coniunction together Also he wyll be a perfect Phisition in whose Natiuitie Mars Venus are coniunct in the syxt house Iatromath A Uery lytle Byrde called Aegithus doth maruelously dysagree with the Asse who in thorny places doth scratche or rubbe his vlcers or sores wherby he doth destroy or breake the nestes of this Byrd wherevpon it comes that as soone as this Byrde heares the voyce of the Asse she doth not onely cast the egges out of her nest but also her young ones if she haue any do fall from the same astonyed wyth feare So that the said Byrde flyes vnto the vlcers or sores of the Asse and pryckes or thrust at them with her byll that she maye dryue him away from thence Aristotil Plin. et Oppianus IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be Combust in the fowrth house or in the eyght house it sygnifyes that he that is then borne shall dye in pryson And if he be Combust in the fyft house in a watry sygne it shewes he wyll be geuen to be droonken In the syxt house it showes that he wyll dye of a long sycknes Taisnier FINIS Lib. 8. ¶ The nynth Booke of Notable thinges FYll an Egge shell full of the iuyce of Egremony and geue it vnto the patient to drink whome you suspecte to haue droonken poyson and it wyll myghtely purge vpwarde all the poyson and with a wonder facilytie healeth the byting of Serpentes and other venemous Beastes Petrus Hispanus THis Oyle or Balme following is of a maruelous vertue against trembling and the palsey and it helpeth the memory annoynting the hynder part of the head therwith Which a most syngular Phisition kept priuie to him selfe for a tyme as a most precious secrete which in the ende reuealed it to the Author wherof the making followeth Take of Galbanum one pound in another place I haue read it half a pound of gum of Iuye three ounces these fynely beaten a parte myxe together Which after put into a glasse body with an head and distyll it in Balneo Marie After it is distylled myxe therewith one ounce of the oyle of Bayes and one pounde of good Turpentyne then let the whole be distylled and seperate the water from the oyle and keepe the oyle as a precious Balme The vse of this is that the patient vexed with the Palsey conuulcons the crampe and trembling of members be layde vpryght and the oyle temperatly hotte must be powred vpon the the belly into the hollow and bottome of the Nauell you shall see after a maruelous working that may rather be coumpted diuine then naturall and very much helpeth the palsey and strengthneth the memory vsed as before A certaine Practysioner applyed one droppe of this Oyle on the patientes forehead that had the Palsey and another on his Nauell and he incontinent arose as amased and was after one howre delyuered of the greuous payne of a wounde in a certayne place of his body and the shrunken synewes he annointed with this Oyle and the patient was suddaynly healed c. This Oyle helpeth deafenes and any sycknes proceeding of a colde cause and helpeth besydes the losse of smelling Arnoldus de villa noua I take to be the Author hereof THe Hoofe of a Beast called Alces which is a wyld Beast lyke a fallowe Deere hauing no ioyntes in his legges hath a maruelous vertue and strength against the Falling Euyll for a lytle peece therof enclosed in a Ryng and so the same Ryng put vpon the fynger next the lytle fynger so that the same peece of the Hoofe be turned towarde the palme of the hand it doth recreate them maruelous much that are fallen and immediatly makes them rise vp A lytle peece of the same bare and put in the hand by and by closed into a fyst suddainly it dryues away the disease and rayseth the party that is fallen therewith Which Lemnius sayth he proued once or twyse And Mizaldus sayth that he proued it putting in a lytle peece of the same in the left eare mouing it as scratching a lytle of one that had the falling sycknes and it had very good
or forwarde in the howre of Saturne I sayde to one of my fellowes which vnderstoode some thing in this Science all these men are geuen to be lost and within a while after they all perished Thus much sayth Haly. And in beginning of long iourneys as well by Lande as by Sea in this howre I haue knowne much harme and mischiefe to follow Which although many doo not nor wyl beleeue to be true because they know neither this excelleÌ„t Science neither the proofe of these things yet many that be wise and learned and that haue payed full dearely for the prouing thereof doth thinke this no lye But if some of them dyd know the same howre and should practise some such lyke thing therein the euent thereof would teach them I thinke not to be so incredulous I know I thanke God therfore that no harme shall happen to the chyldren of God for he wyll so guyde them that neither man nor deuil nor any other thing can destroye them though in this world they maye seeme to hurt them And as he doth preserue them from harme euen so he appoynts them theyr tymes to walke in the very beginning of theyr iourneyes Assured and am fully satisâ—yed that he by his diuine prouidence makes them auoyde that howre other euyll tymes and the wicked and vngodly haue hapned of that tyme to theyr destruction Therefore for my part I attribute nothing to the tyme but all honour to God that made the tyme whose glory and power is to be extolde that foreshewes such things to man by such howres or tyme. BLack Sheepes wooll myxt and chafed by the fyre with freshe butter and the deaffe eare stopt therewith at night and thus vsed nyne or ten nyghts together it helpeth deafnes perfectly and speedely A proued thing HEre followeth a notable and excellent Aqua vite Take Galengale Cucubarum Ginger Nutmugs Cloues Cynamom of euery one an ounce fresh sage fowre ounces water that is distilled sixe times out of pure good Wine ten ounces put them all together and let them remayne so in a close cleane vessell three dayes then distyll the same keepe that that is distylled in a cleane close vessell Whosoeuer drinkes a nutte shell ful of this water euery day it wyl preserue theyr bodyes maruelously and keepe them from many diseases and bring them to olde age It is sayde that M. Gallus Phisition to Charles the Emprour vsed this water and liued a hundreth and fowre and twenty yeares Georg. Alapide deuised this water IF you desyre to haue sweete water forthwith or by and by put two or three drops of oyle of Spyke in a good deale of pure water and chafe it together in a glasse with a narrow mouth Euonymus AN excellent oyle for colde aches Take the wood of Iuie dryed cutte the wood in lytle peeces and of the berryes and gum of Iuye of each a lyke weyght let them be put in an earthen vessell boored through in the bottome in two or three places and then let an other pot be set vnder it in the earth and ioygne the bottome of the vpper potte vnto the mouth of the nether with claye or paste the vpper potte must stand wholly aboue the ground then make a fyre on euery syde and the oyle wyll distyll blacke into the nether vessell This oyle before all oyles healeth the griefes of the ioyntes of a colde cause This is proued to be a notable oyle in this case Rogerius seemes to be the Author hereof As appeares in Euonymus IF you put out the whyte of a Hens egge and fyll vp the same egge with the iuyce of Flowre deluce and myxe the yolke and it well together then warming it a lytle in the hotte ashes and so geue it in the morning to them that haue the dropsie it wyll auoyde downward the dropsie water aboue measure This is proued to be true Much lyke vnto this Benedictus victorius Fauentinus wrytes for the same cause but he appoynts the iuyce to be geuen with Mellicrate A Proper practyse to make a Capon to bring vp young Chickens Take a Capon and pull his belly bare of fethers after rubbe the naked place with Nettels then setting young Chyckens vnder him he wyl maruelously cherish them then and bring them kyndly vp And the rather if you vse him thus for a time for by that meanes he is moued the more wyllingly to cherysh bring vp and feede yea to loue them as the Hen would do naturally And the reasoÌ„ therof is for that by the pricking of the nettels he is the rather desyrous to coutch on the softe downe fethers of the young Chickins sytting vnder him This I had out of the natural and Artificial coÌ„clusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated into English by Th. Hyl. ONe Aeschilus was foretolde by an Astronomer that he should be kylled by some ruyne or something that should fal vpon him vpoÌ„ a certaine day or tyme who to preueÌ„t the same did walk abroade a certain space about the warned time would by no meanes come into any house thinking therby to auoyde that daunger vnles the heauens should chauÌ„ce to fal but marke how hard it is to auoyde Fate or Gods determined appointment about the same tyme foretold by the Astronomer an Eagle dyd flye ouer his head froÌ„ whome a stone dyd fal vpon Aeschilus head kylled him Wherby we may not onely see the mans wisdome and pollicy is not able to frustrate Gods prouidence but also that there is a maruelous certenty in the Astrological foreshewing of euents especially by directions which Ciprianus Leouitius seemes to affirme by this other notable examples And sure I am by many proofes tryals that the euents wyl assuredly happen at the time promised by dyrections that is when the Signifyer coms to the very place minute of the Promissor accouÌ„pting for euery degree betweene theÌ„ one yeere euery minute about six daies if the Signifyer be to be dyrected by the dyrect Ascencions but if the Signifier be to be directed by the obliquâ— AsceÌ„cions or els Intermixtim which is not very easily or soone done then they sygnify sometimes more sometymes lesse according to their swift or slow asceÌ„ding Which dyrectioÌ„s to be infallible the learned expert herein cannot chuse but affirme For that they are found as perfect by proofe as true by tryal as the breake of the day doth assure vs of the rysing of the Sunne IN Lamberge a Towne of Schlesia as IohaÌ„nes Langius wrytes a certaine Woman great with chylde did folow a Priest that had newly washed or bathed his feete who being taken with such a loÌ„ging or lust with the sudden sight of his bare feete that she priuely behynde his backe dyd holde his legge with her hands and out of the same pluckt a peece of flesh with her teethe Nothing regarding the crye of the poore Priest which cryed out both of God and man. IF
dead being layde in warme Ashes but they must not be burning or verye hotte the same Flye wyll recouer and lyue againe This is very true IF you do gather Roses when they be fully ripe and immediatly cut away the new springes tops and the vppermost branches of that yeere you shall haue new fresh Roses grow againe out of the same the same yeere about Mighelmas I know this to be true and for trueth I haue published it abroade THe Indians do vse the Tabaco a notable hearbe for to suffer the dreyth also for to suffer hungar and to passe dayes without hauing neede eyther to eate or drinke by any desart or dyspeopled countrey where they shal find neyther water nor meate They do vse of these litle balles which they do make of this Tabaco they take the leaues of it and do chew it and as they go chewing of them they myngle with them certaine powder made of the shelles of Cockles burned and they myngle it in their mouth all together vntyll they make it lyke to dowe of the which they make certaine lytle balles lytle greater then Peason and they put them to drye in the shadowe and after they keepe them vse them for the auoyding of hunger thyrst in theyr trauell without any meate and drinke for the space of three or fowre dayes This Doctor Monardus hath wrytten with many other woonders and notable vertues therof in his booke before mencioned intituled Ioyfull Newes out of the new found Worlde This Tabaco is a maruelous woonderfull hearbe growing in the west Indyas called the new Spaine and through the brynging of the seedes therof from thence it growes nowe both in Spayne and Fraunce WOormes and other venemous Beasts are dryueÌ„ away from any place with the smoake or fume of other Beasts of the same kinde as Rasis wrytes QUick syluer kylled burned Leade the scales of Yron or black Hellebor mixed with some pleasaunt meate that Mice loues if any Mice eate therof it wyll kyll them Mizaldus THere is a certaine Goom is brought from the firme â—â—nde of the Peru which helpes the gowte with purging the cause therof if you put of it as much as a Nut in distylled water which water ought to be the quantity of two ounces and geue the same to the patient the same partye forbearing meate vntyll the myddest of the day This Monardus affyrmes to be proued manifesting the same at large in his sayde booke called the Ioyfull Newes out of the new fouÌ„d World. The name of the Goom he names not THe rootes of Roses or their slips with their knots remoued and set amongst broome wyl bring forth yallow Roses Iohan. Bap. Por. THat Cheese that is made with cheslep or rennet wherein a lytle of the brayne of a Wesell is put or myxt wyll not putrifye neyther be eaten of Myce. Pictorius THere is a certaine Tree growing in Peru a boowe wherof if one doth hold fast in his left hand a good whyle that would knowe whether one that is sycke shall lyue or dye of that disease or at that tyme if the sycke shall lyue and escape the party that holdes the same shall shewe much gladnes If the sycke shall dye then the party that holdes the same shall be verye sad Monardus wrytes of this Tree in his sayd booke and shewes that the same was proued true by a Gentlewoman that was maruelous sad whiles shee dyd holde the same whose husbande dyed soone after accordingly A Rare and straunge kynde of fruite as great as a Nutte with maruelous rounde and harde bâ—â—cke stones in them is brought out of the new Spaine by the report of the sayde worthy Doctor Monardus whereof two or three with hotte water doth more effect for to wash and to make cleane cloathes then one pound of Sope doth wherof as well as of many other straunge and most excellent thinges you maye reade discrybed at large in his sayde booke called the Ioyfull Newes out of the new founde Worlde A Booke no doubte worthy of great estymation and commendation IF a handfull of Fygs be stampt tyll the kernelles be broken then tempered with a lytle fresh grease and so a plaster therof layde to a Womans breast that is sore as hotte as she may suffer the same it wyll take away the swelling and paine therof and if it be ready to breake it wyll breake it or else not This is an excellent and a sure tryed thing TAke two ounces of Sulphur vyue called quycke Brimstone beate it in powder and mixe the same well with as much of blacke Sope that is of the most stinking smel and tye the same in a lynnen cloath and let it hang in a pynt of strong Wyne Uinegar for the space of nyne dayes and then vse to wash any kinde of skuruynes or morphew therwith though neuer so olde or rooted being eyther on the face or on any other parte of the body with a lynnen cloath dypt or wet therin and so let the same Uinegar drye in of it selfe and do thus as long as the sayd Uinegar lastes and therwith the deformity or morphew wyl be perfectly healed And whosoeuer vses to drynke the water of Strawberyes distylled it wyll certaynly kyll the roote of any morphew that is within the body All this is well proued AN excellent preseruatiue against the Plague which was proued and vsed in the great Plague in Englande in the yeare of our Lorde 1548. For euery one that vsed it then escaped Take Aloes Hepatick pure Cynamom Myrre of each three drammes Cloues Mace wood of Aloes called Lignum Aloes Mastick Bole Armoniacke of each halfe an ounce myxe them all together and make thereof a very fyne powder wherof take early in the morning with whyte Wine myxt with a lytle water and by the grace of God you shall be preserued safe from the Plague VVeckerus IF you burne the shelles of Snailes with Styracks and then sprinckle therof vpon an Antes hyll therby they wyll be driuen forth of the grounde or place where they are TAke of English Saffern beateÌ„ in fyne powder and as much of pure good blacke Sope which when they be well myngled together spreade it vpon the fleshie syde of a peece of Leather then laye it vppon the Nauell of them whose vryne or water is stopte and it wyll procure the water to come forth and therby they shall make water within one howre This was tolde mee for a true and tryed secrete whereof I dare make no warrantyze but fauour it as you fynde it MAke lute or claye with the dregges or moother of Oyle and myxe therewith a lytle chaffe then let it lye so two or three dayes then dawbe with the sayde thycke lute or claye your Garner or rowme where you wyll laye your Corne then sprynckle the dregges or moother of Oyle al ouer where you haue dawbed and when it is drye laye Wheate therein and there shal neyther Weuell nor Myce hurt touch or
into the fyre Lemnius wrytes this SNayles without their shelles or otherwyse with their shels stamped myxed somtimes with Chesleppe or Rennet do drawe out thornes or any other thing out of the fleshe though neuer so deepe if they be applyed to the place And also being layde to the bellye of them that haue the Dropsie they sucke out the water But the same must not bee lowsed from the bellye vntyll all the humour or water bee sweat foorth or else the same plaster of Snayles doth fall away of him selfe Iacob Hollerius FINIS Lib. 1. ⧠The seconde Booke of Notable things WHen the Moone is in coniunction with the Sunne or in any euyll aspecte with him and in any Angle and beholden of euyl planets with an euyll aspect in any bodyes Natiuitie It sygnifies that the Childe that is then borne shal haue inseperable diseases or griefes in the eyes Iatromath Guat H. Ryff Argent IT is manifest by experieÌ„ce that the seuenth Male Chyld by iust order neuer a Gyrle or Wench being borne betweene doth heale onely with touching through a naturall gyft the Kings Euyll which is a speciall gyft of God geuen to Kings or Queenes As daylye experience doth witnesse Mizaldus ERastratus a Phisition dyd perceyue by the feeling of the pulse that Antiochus the soÌ„ne of king Seleucus dyd so pyne for the loue of Stratonices his mother in lawe that vnlesse he might haue his desyre with the good wyll or pardon of his Father he woulde dye These are Authors thereof Valerius Maximus and Galenus Which also by the lyke did know that Iusta the Wyfe of Boetius a councellor of Rome dyd languish for the loue of one Pilas daunsing in the Theatre Mizaldus CElendine with the harte of a Woont or a Mould-warpe layde vnder the head of one that is grieuouslye sicke if he be in daunger of death Immediatly he wyll crye with a lowde voyce or syng if not he wyll weepe Mizaldus THe iuyce of Henbane mixte with the bloud of a Hare and sodde within the skynne of a Hare it is sayd that all the Hares wyll gather together which be within that tract where it is buryed As the Matrix of a Bytche wyll gather Dogges together This was affirmed for trueth to Mizaldus MAny women with childe of the sodaine or vnlooked for meeting or sodaine seeing of an Hare or for the desyre or longing to eate of the same do bring forth chyldren with a clouen ouerlyppe and forkedwyse called a Hare lyppe Daylie experience confyrmes it Mizaldus THat disease or sicknesse wyll be great which takes one when the Moone is in that signe wherin an euil Planet was in the time of his byrth eyther in a quarryle or opposite aspect and if an euyll planet doth theÌ„ beholde her it wyll be very perillous But then if the Moone be in a place where a good Planet was in the tyme of the birth that sicknes wyl be without any dauÌ„ger Hermes Trismegistus Ptolomeus Claudius Galenus Authors AN Egge layde in strong Uineger three dayes or a lytle longer it makes the shell thereof so tender and soft that one may draw it through a Ring Cast the same into a warme water and let it lye therein and it wyll be harde againe Mizaldus A Flynt stone lying in Uineger the space of seuen dayes maye be resolued into powder by rubbing betweene the fyngers Therefore it is no maruayle though Annybal dyd dissolue the stones of the Alpes with vineger Mizaldus WAter wherin the leaues and seedes of Hâ—mpe is sodden being cast or sprinckled on the earth wyl make the woormes to come out of the ground if any be there Mizaldus THe oyle of Tartar made of the leese of excellent Wine doth take the spottes from yron the yron being clensâ—d from all rustinesse and doth make him of an excellent bryghtnes if the yron be rubbed therwith Mizaldus THe roote oâ— Henbane stampt and applyed warme to the payne of the Gowte of the feete or Sciatica It is sayde that it helpes maruelouslie because this herbe belonges to Iupiter which is onely Lorde of Sagitarie which gouernes the huckle bone And of Pisces which chalâ—ngeth the feete Mizaldus had this out of an olde booke of secreetes IF some droppes of Aqua vite be myxt with wryting ynke the same ynke wyl neuer be frosen Proued WHosoeuer is apt to any thing hath certaynlie the Starre or Planet by whom that thing is sygnified very strong in his byrth Myzaldus As thus for exaÌ„ple I may say by the way He that is apt to Martial feates or Warlyke affayres hath vndoubtedly Mars strong in his byrth And whosoeuer is apt or enclined to planting drawing wryting syphering or to the science of Arithmatike or to any wyttie or notable inuencions without all doubte hath Mercurie verie strong in his byrth Which by dayly proofe is infallyble And so you may know of the rest THe woodde of the Sicamore tree is neuer drye in the ayre or hye grounde and in the bankes of ryuers and where waters runne ouer it dryes verye quicklie Mizaldus THe soles of the feete annoynted with the fatte of a Dormouse doth procure sleepe As Actius doth saye THey wyl haue paines in the stomack or be weake stomackt in whose Natiuities Mars and Saturne are in the sixt house or in the twelfth house infortunating the Moone or the Lord of the Ascendent Especially if the sygne of the syxt house be Cancer Iatromath Guat Ryff THis following is an excellent remedie for them that be broken bellyed or brusten Take nine redde Snayles and put them betwene two tyle stones so that they slyde not away drye them in an Ouen so that you make them in powder then geue to the diseased the powder of one of them in whyte wine euerie other daye in the morning tyll all be done which wyll be in .xviii. dayes The partie must take it fasting and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after And if the disease be so loÌ„g rooted that these nine times wyl not suffice then begin immediatly againe with other nine Snayles do as before is declared in all points I had this out of an old Booke wherin was many excellent Secretes I heard one affirme it to be a true and tryed thing HEmpe seede geuen to Hens in wynter wyll make them laye egges a pace Cardanus THe oyle of Tartare doth take awaye cleane all spottes freckles and fylthy wheales of the face chyn or forehead with his cleansing strength This is well proued WHen thou wylt driue away Flyes froÌ„ any place that there shal none be seene there againe make the image of a Flye in the stone of a Ring or as my booke sayth Mizaldus in a plate of brasse or copper or of Tyn make the image of a Flye of a Spyder of a Serpent the second face of Pisces then ascending And whyles you are making or grauing of them saye This is the Image which doth cleane ryd all Flyes for euer Then
swalowed downe Euax. et Alb. THe people of Astomores as Plynie reportes haue no mouth and are clad with a woolly mosse growing in India and lyues onely with smelling of Odours at their nose of Rootes ▪ and of Flowres and of Aples that growes in the woods which they carrie with them in their long iourneys to susteyne and nourish them withall least they should want wherof to smell THe powder of Stone pitch dronke in small drinke once euerie daye for the space of fowre or fiue dayes is a very good remedie for them that are brused through falling or otherwayes WHen the Sun in the day tyme and the Moone in the night in an Natiuitie is corporally conuinct with any euyll Planet the chylde that is then borne wyl be blinde And if this be in an Angle or if the Lorde of the Ascendent be with them then they wyl be blinde in their youth And if the sayd lyght so Infortunate be not in an Angle nor with the Lorde of the Ascendent then such wyll be blinde in their age Iatromath Guat Ryff THree Nayles made in the vigyll of the Natiuitie of Saint Iohn Baptist called Midsomer Eue and driuen in so deepe that they can not be seene in the place where the party doth fall that hath the Falling sycknes and naming the sayde parties name whyle it is a doing doth dryue awaye the disease quyte Which Mizaldus wrytes of the reporte of one that proued it IF you wyl presently turne Wine into Uineger cast therein salt with pepper mixt with sowre leuen and it wyll performe it quickly Mizaldus THe roote of Uaruayn hanged at the necke of such as haue the Kings Euyll it brings a maruelous and an vnhoped helpe Which is Venus herbe that hath power of the necke because of Taurus the Bull being her house Mizaldus WHosoeuer falles sicke in that yere wherein there is an Eclipse and the Signifiers of the sayd Eclipse be in the Ascendent of the Natiuity of him that so falles sicke or in the Ascendent of his Reuolucion or in the place of his Hilech or of the Signifyer of his Lyfe That disease then taken wyl be very perillous and deathly Mizaldus cum alijs GEese Ducks and other water fowles helps their diseases with wall Sage Hens with Withwind Geese with Haryth the Cranes with Sqynant the Panther with Mans dunge the Boores with Iuie the Hartes with Arthechokes the Dogges with Grasse Also Plynie sayth that the linell of Crabbes wyll kyll Bees especially if one seethe them nye vnto their Hiues For they abhorre stinking smels Therfore they followe them fiercely that smelles of stynking oyntmentes IF chyldren eate Rasins fasting that haue woorms without any other meate it wyll kyll and auoyde the woormes For as bytter things are noysom vnto them euen so is sweete thinges For with the ofte eating of sweete thinges it makes them to swel and brust IF the tender hornes of young Bucks that is couered with a thyn heayrie skyn be cut in peeces and then put into a newe potte well couered and set in an ouen or other place that is hotte whereby the same maye be made in powder and some of the same geuen with Pepper Myrre to them that are tormented with the Collick in good wine it wyll helpe them maruelouslie of the same disease Scribonius Largus PElletory of the Wall stamped and so layde to the Coddes vnder the Nauell And so vsed fowre or fiue tymes helpes the collicke and the paines of the bladder and coddes A thing often proued THey wyl be diseased in the Splene in whose Natiuitie the Moone is Lady of the sixt house being Infortunate of Saturne Or if the Lord of the Ascendent be Infortunate in the seuēth house or if Saturne be Lorde of the Ascendent and Infortunate of Mars or if Saturne bee Infortunate by any meanes vnder the earth Iatromath Guat Ryff GOordes Peares Aples Quinses Cytrins Wardens or such lyke fruite whereon you desyre to haue some pretie or other forme on the outsyde If when they haue cast the flowers begyns to haue any forme or proportion enclose them within some wood or other thing of stone or of any other thing within of what forme you lyst and tye the same fast about the sayd fruite But make not the sayd instrument on the insyde bygger then the fruite wyll be within it And when you thinke that the fruite is ful rype take the same with the fruit in it from the tree and the fruite wyll be of that fashion forme as you desyre Mizaldus IT is sayde that Alphons King of Castile gaue to certaine Mathematicians a hūdreth thousand peeces of golde which were called or sent for out of Araby Affricke and other places for the making framing of the Astronomical Tables which shewes the continuall course and place of the Starres Planets which worke is to be had euery where through his great lyberality to his perpetuall praise GAlbanum made softer and spread vpon a lynnen cloath and so applyed layde vpon a plague sore if the disease be curable it wyll so sticke and cleaue to the same that it cannot be pluckt away vnlesse it bring away the roote of the sore with it But if the disease be incurable it wyl cleaue to it Arnold de villa noua THe lytle Sparowe hath a strength vertue worthy of great maruaile For if the Sparow be condyte or well powdered with salt and eaten rawe it doth expel and driue forth the stone by the vrine and cures the disease so perfectly that the same shall neuer breede againe The Sparowes may be condite very wel if when their fethers be pluckt off that thē they be powdred couered wel with salt and so dryed eaten if you haue many sparowes they may be sodden as other byrds be And also they may be burned in a pot close couered with the fethers all and the powder of one of thē so burned with a lyttle pepper Sinamon may be geuen to them that are grieued with the stone There be which do condite them their fethers being pluckt off a lyue with Salt which is better Some do eate them rosted whole so that they cast nothing away of them but their fethers They that wyll know more hereof let them take counsayle of Actius and Paulus Egeneta Mizaldus IF any wyll make theyr handes whyte let them myxe the dunge of Sparowes in warme water and wash them therwith or let them seeth the roots of nettels in that water and therewith washe theyr handes Proued AElianus wrytes that the quylles or pennes of an Eagle myxt with the quylles or pennes of other fowles or byrdes doth consume or waste them with theyr odour smell or ayre THe rootes of Lyllies sodden in water doth take awaye the rednesse of the face if certayne mornings and euenings the same be washt and rubbed therwith This hath bene often proued BEastes that be stubborne or wylde and also Horses that wyll wynce
or kycke or otherwyse be vnrulye wyll suffer them selues to be drest or else to be shodde If you put into one of their eares a lyttle round flynt stone and then holde the eare harde with your hand and it wyl make them quiet though they be fierce But if you put into eyther eare one you shall haue them as mylde as a Sheepe Mizaldus had this as proued of one of the King of Nauarres stable ANy stones wyll easely be made softe if you laye them all night in the hotte bloud of an Oxe the fatte of a Wether and strong vineger mixt together Iohan. Baptista porta de Magia Naturali As Mizaldus wrytes APples that are frosen if they be put or cast into colde water and suffred to lye therein a whyle wyll come to their owne nature againe For thereby all their frosen congealing wyll be resolued Lemnius WHen you see the Mulberie tree begyn to budde then thinke that the chiefe colde is past Plinius as Mizaldus affyrmes TO seperate Golde from Siluer do thus Annoynt the Syluer that is guilted with the oyle of Lynseede and sprinckle thereon the powder of Roch Allom and salt Armoniacke mixt together which being well heated in the fire quenche in water and the seperate Golde wyll remaine therein Mizaldus had this of a cunning Goldsmith A Greene Iasper stone hangd at the necke doth helpe and strengthen the stomack and the mouth of the stomack very wel Which Galen affirmes by the report of Mizaldus If they behangd like a cheyne about the necke so that the same stones do touch the mouth of the stomack IF the head of a Woolfe be hangd in a Doouehouse neither Cats Wesels nor any thing that wyl hurt the Pigions wyll enter therin Rasis et Albertus THey are lyke to haue paynes or diseases in theyr Lyghts or Lungs or wyll haue the Tysick or be short breathed that haue in their Natiuitie the Moone in the Angle of the earth which is the fowrth house in coniunction with Mars or Saturne or is Infortunate by them And lyke wise if Venus be the Lady of the sixt house and Infortunate in a fiery sygne Iatromath Guat Ryff IF you stampe Hariffe a lytle and laye it in fayre spring water for the space of .xxiiii. howres and then wash any sore or scabby place therewith it wyll heale it wonderfully This hath bene often proued to be true A Precious and a proued medicine for the Stone Seethe in white wine Tyme and Parcely verye well then streyne it and into a good draught therof shaue a spoonefull of whyte sope and geue it to them that are grieued with the Stone and it wyll make them make water with speede THe great nuÌ„ber of Spyders do foreshew that the Somer folowing wyl be pestiferous and plaguie Mizaldus THere were seene two Brethren at one byrthe in Austria that if they dyd set the sydes of their bodies towards gates or doores that were lockt the lockes would then open Iohannes Langius CArduus benedictus stamped and then well sodden with snet or Swynes grease wine and wheate flowre vntyll it be lyke an oyntment is an excellent medicine for sores and vlcers whatsoeuer Yea though the bones there with be bare but you must annoynt the sores twyse euerie daye washing first the corruption from the sores with white wine Arnoldus SAint Austine reportes that he dyd heare whyles he trauelled in Italie that certayne women was transformed into young Beasts of certayne trauellors by the the eating of cheese that they might carrie their burthens TAke one handfull of Mugwoort and seethe it in sweete oyle Olyffe vntyll the thyrde parte of the oyle be consumed then annoynt there with any part that is tormented or pained with the gowte and the paine therof wyl be quickly gone or put away This is an experiment of a Kinges Surgeon against the gowte of the feete and the handes Mizaldus IT is founde by obeseruation that Rats and Dormyse wyll forsake olde and ruinous houses three monthes before they fall for they perceyue by an instinct of nature that the ioynts fastening together of the postes and tymber of the houses by lyttle and lytle wyl be lowsed and so therby that all wyll fall to the grounde Plinius et Lemnius IF one bleede on the right syde of the nose bow and presse hard the parties right lytle finger that bleedes if on the left syde then the lytle finger in lyke case for therwith the bleeding wyll cease This is a common and proued remedie Mizaldus IF you geue halfe a scruple which is the weight of xii barly cornes of pure corrall made first in fyne powder with the nurse mylke to a childe that is newly borne before it taste any other thing the same chylde shall neuer haue the falling sycknes Arnoldus de villa nouâ— ONne Baldus of Trydent Doctor of both Lawes as hee was playing with a lyttle Whelpe of his owne the same dyd byte him a lytle in the nether lyp who being ignoraunt that his sayd Dogge was infect with madnesse he himselfe within fowre monthes after became mad and at the last being past remedy dyd dye miserably Andreas Matheolus in diascoridem Which let them marke consider that haue such pleasure in lytle Puppyts Mizaldus WHosoeuer is tormented with the Sciatica or the gowte Let them take an herbe called Speregrasse and stampe it and laye a lytle therof vpon the griefe but put vpon it a cockle or a walnut shâ—ll and tye something on it that the herbe be not remoued and within sixe or eyght howres at the most it wyll make a great blyster on the same place Then laye a Clot leafe or else a Woort leafe on the same but first let the water out of the blyster with a pynne and it wyll drawe out all the water that causeth the paine or griefe This helpt one that was payned therewith twentie yeares BOetins after Oppianum doth affyrme that Belles couered with the skynne of a Woolfe do drownde the sound of other Belles that are couered with the skynne of a Lambe PUt two or mo quicke Myse in a long or deepe earthen potte and set the same nye vnto a fyre made of Ashe woodde and when the potte beginnes to waxe hotte the Myse therein wyll chyrpe or make a noyse whereat all the Myse that are nye them wyll runne towardes them and so wyll leape into the fyre as though they shoulde come to helpe their poore imprisoned friends or neyghbours The cause whereof Mizaldus ascribes to the smoke of the Ashe wood IF you seethe the dregges or mother or fome of Oyle to the halfe and therewith annoint the bottome corners and feete of any chest or presse the cloathes that you laye therein shall neuer be hurte with mothes So that it be drye before you put therein your cloathes M. Varro and Cato IF one aske the Astrologian which parte of his lyfe is lyke to be the most fortunate Let him geue the fyrst quarter of his life
ounces of Aqua Mulsa which is made with water and Honny that is of one pounde of Honny and eyght pounde of water sodden and skimmed ouer an easie fyre vntyll the fowrth parte be consumed This excellent Antidote dyd King Necomedes vse when any dyd byd him to banket or any other cheare that he dyd suspect If there be no poyson taken before it it wyll remayne quietly in the stomacke but if there be any poyson it wyll procure vomyt so that thereby the poyson and medicine wyll both come forth Myzaldus A Notable thing to cause one to sleepe immediatly Take of the iuyce of Henbane of Lettes of Planteyn of Poppie of the leaues of Mandrag of Iuie leaues of Mulbery leaues and of Humlocke of each one dram of Opium and of Iuie berries of eather as much stampe the Iuie berryes and the Opium together and myxe the iuyces them well together then dyp a spunge into the same and let it drinke it all vp and then laye the same spunge in the Sun to drye after laye the sayde spunge to the parties nose whome you woulde haue to sleepe and he wyll sleepe quicklie And when you wyll awake him dyppe another spunge in Uinegar and holde it to his nose and hee wyll awake within a whyle after This is an excellent thing and true BEware that nothing bynde thy body harde when thou bleedes and then holde thy handfull of shepheards Purse and stâ—dfastlie looke vp to the Sunne and the bleeding wyll cease This is proued TO make a powder that wyll drawe out a toothe without any instrument Take Spurge Pellyter of Spaine Smalledge the dunge of a Rauen or of a Crowe Galbanum the brayne of Partreches and also a Frogge of each a lyke much burne all these together in a newe earthen potte all to powder and with a lytle of the same powder touch the tooth that you woulde haue fall out and doubtles within a quarter of an howre it wyll fall out But you must take heede that you touche none other teeth therewith This I had out of an old written booke wherin was many excellent true things SEethe Mallowes and redde Nettles together in fayre water and let the partie that is costyffe or can not go to the stoole sytte close ouer the same and receyue the fume thereof vp into his fundement and it wyll helpe him certaynlie and spedely God wylling A thing often proued FINIS Lib. 3. ⧠The fowrth Booke of Notable things MAke Dwale as followeth which makes one to sleepe whyles he be cutte or burned by Cawterizing as followeth Take the gall of a Barrowe swyne or the gall of a Bore the iuyce of Humlocks three spoonefull of the iuyce of wylde Neppe three spoonefull of the iuyce of Lettys of the iuyce of Poppie of the iuyce of Henbane and Asell of each three spoonefull myxe them all together and boyle them well and doo them in a glasen vessell well stopped and put three spoonefulles therof in a quart of good wine or Ale and mixe them well together And let him that shal be cut or Cawterized syt against a good fyre and geue him drynke thereof tyll he fall a sleepe This I had also out of an olde wrytten booke Use it warely and proue it aduisedly if you begyn with a lytle quantitie â–ª you maye encrease it when you wyll but if you geue too much at once you can not dyminish it when you lyst THey wyll be hyndered in their smell or wyll haue diseases or griefes in theyr noses In whose Natiuity Mars and Venus are impedite aboue the earth Iatromath DRye the rootes of 〈◊〉 â—â—â—tles and make them in powder 〈…〉 of the powder therof in a draught of whyte Wine somthing warme and it wyll breake the stone though it be neuer so great that with speede Use it euery daye vntyll the stone and grauell be all broken and consumed A thing of small pryce and great vertue A Combe made of the ryght horne of a Ram doth take away the head ache being on the right syde of the head if the pained head be combed therewith If the paine be on the left side of the head then a combe made of the left horne of a Ram doth take it awaye if the pained head be combed therwith This I had out of an olde booke THebit the Philosopher doth teach that to get the vertue of any Starre you must make a ryng wheÌ„ the Moone doth behold happily by a Tryne or Sextyle aspect the same Starre placed in the myddes of the Heauens or in the Ascendent but the matter or substaunce of the Ryng must be made of that mettal that belongs to that Starre and lyke wise an hearb ascribed to the sayde Starre must be included or put vnder that Ryng DYppe a sylken thread in the bloud of a Mowse and then let the patient swallow it that hath the Squynancie or swellinges or paines in the throate and it wyll helpe him THis folowing is a notable medicine for the gowt Take the roote of wylde Neppe and the roote of the wylde Docke fyrst sodden by them selues then pare of the skyns and cut them into peeces stampe them both together as smal as can be then put therto a quantity of soote of a chymney and temper them with the mylke of a Cowe that hath the heair of one cullour then take vrine of a man that is fasting and make a plaster therof boile al together and as hot as the partie can suffer it laye it to the place payned or grieued and a daye a night without remouing and then lay another plaster of the same to it and let it lye therto as long as the other And do thus nine tymes and it wyll helpe him on warrantyes God wylling Proued IF yron that is made cleane or polished be tyncted or rubbed ouer with Aqua fortis wherein the fylinges or scrapings of brasse is dyssolued That yron wyll haue the cullour of brasse Bap. Porta A Horse that castes or holdes his cares backward for the most part is deaffe And that Horse that doth not ney in the company of a great number of other Horsses is doom Simoneta Cardinalis THe best thing of all other to keepe Harnes or any other thing made of yron or steele from rustines is this Stampe the fyling or dust of lead finely in a leaden or yron mortar putting thereto a lytle oyle of Spyke which besydes makes it smell trymlie and therwith rubbe ouer the Harnes or any other thing as is beforesayde made of yron or steele By this meanes you may carry your Harnes or other things so rubbed therewith in watery places and in moyst ayres safe from rusting Mizaldus had this of a cunning Armaror IF one come to geue thee counsayle and thou would knowe whether hee meane well or be a deceauer Mark the tenth house and if a good fortunate planet be found there his couÌ„sayle is good and true But if there be an euyl
or an vnfortunate planet ther he is a deceyuer a lyar Which I sayth Haly as one that haue proued it do confirme do say if one come to coūsayl thee the Ascendent be of cōmon signes or the Lord of the Ascendent the Moone be in common signes do say that he is then a deceiuer wyl deceiue thee Therfore hearken not to him Haly Abenragell ONe knot of the roote of a Mullen geuen to drink doth binde the losenes of the bellie Proued HE that waxeth deaffe through an ague bleedeth at the nose shall recouer his hearing Hippocrate◠in Aphor. THis medicine following is proued by experience and as a certayne diuine thing doth cure euerie plurisie and doth relieue the sicke from death which ought not to be applyed vnto the sicke partie vntyll the fowrth daye be past Take of Dealtha two ounces which is to be had at the Apothecaries the oyle of sweete Almondes halfe an ounce myxe them together with which oyntment being warme let the grieued place be annointed then sprinkle vpon the annointed place half an ounce of powder of Coomin finelie fearced which done take a Colewoort leafe made hotte vpon burning ashes and annoint it with olde butter not salted and laye it hotte vpon the annoynted powdred place tying it on with cloathes that it remoue not and a maruelous affect wyll appeare vnto you in the ceasying of the paine of the plurysie and in resoluing of the matter of the impostume This remedie wyl bring honor vnto thee and great profyte vnto the sicke person And knowe that this remedie is good in any other great payne in all the body frō the head vnder Emperica benedicti victorij And also I haue seene this proued which helped one of the plurisye without letting of bloud IF a Woman with chylde haue her smocke that she weares slyt at the neather ende or skyrt thereof or not sowed there rounde about but that one syde or seame thereof be a lytle left vnclosed or vnsowed together the same chylde that she then goeth withall shal be safe from hauing a clouen or hare lyppe Yea though she chaunce to meete suddenly a Hare or though a hare doth leape ouer her or suddenly touch her Which happens to many Chyldren by such meanes as is mencioned in an other parte of this booke This was very credibly told me for a trueth Therfore I haue placed it here as worthy the name of a notable thing WHosoeuer shall vse dayly to take in a draught of small Ale a spoonful of the powder of Matfellon or Scabius the same wyll destroye any impostume within them It hath bene often proued And Anthonius Musa doth praise it for the lyke effect IF the Lord of the sixt house be in the Ascendent or tēth house it showes that the disease is open manifest if in the seuenth or fowrth house then the disease is priuy or hyd if in the ninth or eleuenth house then it is opē manifestly knowne in the other places the disease is priuy hyd or vnknowne Iatromath Guat Gryff CLeopatra the last Queene of Egipt and Wyfe to Marcus Antonius Consull of Roome a prowde Princesse and too dainty a Dame dyd drinke one so voluptuous draught as neuer any dyd before nor I thinke wyll hereafter for she dissolued in Tarte and strong Uineger the greatest and beutifullest Pearle that euer was seene in the East parte of the worlde and drunke the same at one draught to satisfye her prowde presumptuous pleasure withall Which Pearle was woorth two hūdreth and fifty thousand crownes Plinius Macrob. And other OUt of the Figge tree there comes such a sharpe vapor that if a Hen be hanged thereon it wyll so prepare her that she wil be soone and easily rosted Plut. And the lyke wyll be if the fethers be pluckt off from Fowles or Byrds the skyns pulled off frō Beasts and then layde or couered a day or two in a heape of Wheate It is confirmed by experience sayth Mizaldus THe professors of naturall Magicke affirmes that Uarueyn being taken vp or gathered when the Sunne is in Aries the Ram and stampt with the seedes of Pyonie and streyned with whyte Wine drunke doth maruelously heale them that haue the falling sicknesse Oftentimes proued sayth Mizaldus Which he had out of a verye olde booke of the seuen hearbes of the planets written to Hermes WHen any of the three higher planets the Sun is in any of the Angles the chyld then borne being a boye shal be chiefe of his brethren Or if there be any borne before him they wyll dye and he shall holde the chiefe rule in his fathers house Taisnier SAlt dyssolued in water or brine presently with his strength doth both put away the paynes and the heate of any burning whether it be with Gunpowder or with oyle pytche scalding water burning coales burning yron or by any other meanes whatsoeuer especially if it be bathed with lynnē cloathes wet or dypt in the same and a lynnen cloath therein wet layde or applyed to the place burned Lemnius TAke Salarmoniacke Roch allom Allom plume Sal gem Tartar and Romaine Uitriall of each equall partes all which seuerally made in fine powder myxe together and dissolue it in fayre cleare water then put syluer or syluer plate therein and let it lye and set it ouer the fyre that it may be very hotte and you shal see that your siluer or plate wil be maruelous whyte and fayre Mizaldus THe roote of Zedoary but be sure it be perfect and good mixt with Reysons and a lytle Lycqueris champed with the teeth and swallowed preserues them that doo so vnhurt or without daunger of the plague if they go to any that are infected with the plague or that are constrayned to speake with them that haue the plague Mizaldus THe roote of Pyonie which is the hearbe of the Sun being pulled out of the earth on a Sonday in the howre of the Sun the Sunne then being in Leo called the Lyon and the Moone encreasing in light which is from her chaunge to the full delyuereth them of the falling sycknesse that beares it vppon them Marcilius Ficinus IF at the tyme of the fyrst falling sycke of one or at the time of the question for the sycke the Moone be in the fowrth house with Mars and good Planettes be Cadent It is sygne of death Iohannes Ganiuerus LEt the Woman that trauels of her chylde or is in her labour be gyrded with the skynne that a Serpent or Snake castes off and then she wil quicklye be delyuered Trotula A Maruelous rare Secrete to drawe out the oyle of Cynamom after an easie manner which oyle preserueth the stomacke from corruption by taking of it by the mouth and applying of it to the stomack Take of Cynamom one pounde which stampe and beate finelye then myxe and impast it with the oyle of sweete Almondes vnto the forme of an oyntment then heate the same in an earthen
panne somewhat which after let stande close couered for fowreteene dayes or twelue at the least At the ende of which tyme heate the whole againe sufficiently that is vntyll it be very hotte then put it into a bagge and wryng out the oyle in a presse vntyll the whole Cynamom remayne through drye in the bagges and then that which is come foorth wyll be of the cullour sauour and taste of the Cynamom A Secrete and knowne to fewe to bee wrought in thys order THe powder of Pellyter of Spaine mixt with the mylke of Wartwoort or Spurge and Galbanum and a lyttle thereof applyed to any rotten or aking tooth wyl breake it or plucke it out and so the paine thereof wyll cease This I had out of an olde wrytten booke IF you wyll knowe whether one shall escape or not that is infected with the plague hauing the plague Sore geue the partie some excellent Treacle with whyte Wyne so that hee be not troubled with an ague for then geue the Treacle with Scabyus or Planten water and also annoynt the plague Sore with the lyke Treacle and if the same be dryed or burned and remayne fyxed the partie thereby not relieued or eased it is a verie euyll sygne but contrarie if the partie be eased it is a great sygne that the party shall escape Arnoldus IN the common place where the Censors of Uenys syttes there neuer enters any Flyes Gandeut Merula And in the fleshe Shamble of Toledo a Cittie in Spayne is not seene but one Flye in all the whole yeare As Leo Paptist sayeth And in Westminster Hall in the Tymber worke there is not to bee founde one Spyder nor a Spyder webbe Because as it is thought the Tymber wherewith the rooffe is buylded was brought out of Irelande and dyd growe there In all which Countrey of Irelande I haue not onely hearde it credibly tolde that there is neyther Spyder Tode nor any other venemous thing but also that some of the earth of that country hath bene brought hether wheron a Tode being layd she hath dyed presently Though this be maruelous strange yet it is true IT is proued sayth Taisnier if Iupiter be in the fift or the twelfth house whether hee be Orientall or Occidentall of the Sunne or whether hee be in a Masculine sygne or Femynine sygne the fyrst chylde of him or her then borne wyll be a boye THe iuyce of ground Iuie snuft vp into the nose out of a spoone or a sawcer purgeth the head maruelouslie and takes away the greatest and eldest paine therof that is This medicine is worth gold though it be very cheape I haue knowne them that haue had maruelous payne in their head almost intollerable for the space of a dosen yeares and this hath helpt them presently and neuer had the paine synce they tooke this medicine THis medicine following wyll kyll woormes in the bellie Take the gall of an Oxe or of a Cowe and so much of the flowre of Lupynes which are to be had at the Apothecaries as wyll thycken the same myxe them well together and laye it on wooll and so plaster it to his bellie where the griefe is and about the nauell and after twelue howres lay theron another plaster Do thus fowre or fiue dayes and it wyll helpe him HOw greatly is the sicke party to be feared or iudged not to escape iâ— in the tyme of the question or the fyrst beginning of the sycknesse both the Lumynaryes are vnder the earth c. Iatromath M. Guat H. Ryff argent IF hotte burning golde be quenched in pure Wine the same Wine being drunke it procures strength to the chiefe members and to the vytall partes And it makes strong the natural faculties and doth helpe the diseased parte with strength and vytall spyrite And this lycquour is thought to be very good in the tyme of Plague And if the same be mixed with a lytle Tarter it doth quyte put away from any part of the body all spots though they be neuer so fowle Yea it helps a leprous face a red nose and any other deformity of the same If the place infected be washt and rubbed often tymes therwith Lemnius THe water that drops out of the Uine or the goom that is founde there being drunke with whyte Wyne doth breake expell the stones in the reynes maruelously And also being rubbed vpon Ryngwoormes Tetters and leprous places it doth cure them But they must be rubbed before with Niter This was tolde to Mizaldus as a proued thing IF his spyttle which hath a consumption being cast vpon the coales doth styncke and the heair fall from his head It is sygne of death Hippocrates in Aphor. THere is a certayne Electuary of lyfe of Arnoldus de villa noua in a lytle booke of his of the putting back of olde age described of the fiue kindes of Myrabolanes made for the conceruing or keeping of health and prolonging of lyfe And it is a perfyt approued thing For it doth not onely comfort but also it doth purge superfluous humors remaining of nutriment past And the vse thereof doth let or hynder graye heairs and it makes one come to the last olde age It strengthneth the stomacke and the vse therof maketh a good cullour in all the body And this is the description therof Take of great Reysons cleansed of their stones and stalkes two pounde Lycquerys made cleane and beaten one ounce Let these be put into two pounde and a halfe of fayre water and let them seethe well and let them then be strayned well And in that that is streined let there be put of Mirabolanes Kebule Citrine and Indy beaten in a Morter their stones taken away of each two ounces of Embelyck Bellerick of either of them two drams Let them be sodde streined pressed or wel wroong then put therto whyte sugar one pounde and seethe altogether to the thycknes of a Syrup and in the ende adde therto of good Cynamom halfe an ounce Cloues Galengaye of each two drams two Nutmugs Maratrum and Annes seede of eyther one ounce and make therof a Lectuary and keepe it in a pure vessell In this Electuary be medicines of the principall members that is to say of the hart head stomacke Lyuer Speâ—n And of the generatiue members and it is fyrst hotte after moyst then cold and the last drie Iohannes Ganiuetus lykewise describes it CErtaine woormes that shines in the night called Glo woorms being wel stopped in a glasse couered within hootte horse dung staÌ„ding there a certaine time wyll be resolued into a lycquor which being mixt with lyke porcion of quicksyluer first clensed purged which wylbe with halfe a dosen times washing in pure vineger myxt with bay salt which after euery washing rubbing must be cast away and then hotte water put to the quicksyluer therewith washed and then put closed in a fayre bright and pure glasse and so hanged vp in the myddes of a house
together and let the pacient or diseased party drinke it euery night going to bed and there wyll not ten dayes passe but the patient wyll be cured of the passion or griefe of the harte THis following is a notable tryed medicine for the gowte and for the swelling of ioynts for knobs or knots comming of the French pocks Take May butter a quarter of a pound halfe a pound of coomyn seede beaten in fyne powder a quarter of a pound of blacke Sope one handfull of Hearbe grace halfe a handfull of clarifyed sheepe suet stampe all these together in a morter then take the gall of an Oxe and a spoonefull of bay Salt and frye them all together tyll it be thycke then laye it on a woollen cloath and so apply it to the ache as hotte as it maye be suffred and let it lye vnremoued a whole weeke and then laye another plaster thereof to it and let it lye vnremoued as long then lay the thyrd plaster therto and let it lye therto as long as the other which wyll be in the whole three weekes and without doubt it wyll helpe him I haue seene it proued This I had out of a verie olde booke THere be and truly with proued successe that doo hang the rootes of Sorrell at theyr neckes for the Swyne pockes and also in lyke case of Planten Mizaldus WHosoeuer hath the bloudy Flyxe be it neuer so great nor greeuous let them drinke the wine wherin the rootes of Hollyocks cut in peeces is sodden and streined if the party haue an ague for then let the rootes be sodde in water with some Planten leaues and so streyned which is an approued sure medicine for that disease whether the party haue an ague or not A Ring made of an Oxe or Cowes horne worne or carryed vpon them that haue the crampe It puts the same away This is proued to be true of many And Mizaldus affyrmes it IF the Lorde of the seuenth house be in the thyrd or nynth house and any euyll Planet beholde him he that is then borne wyll fall from some buylding or else hee wyll dye of some thing that shall fall vppon him Ptolomeus IF you seethe Bryonie in water and vse to drinke the same It helpes and cureth them that haue the Dropsie Proued MAruelous and notable vertues of the Eybright do followe Let the leaues stalkes and flowres with the whole substaunce be distylled when it beareth flowres the water wherof stylled dropped and streaked about the eyes causeth cleare eyes sharpneth the syght and seaseth the paynes of the eyes The water dropped into the eyes an howre before night and stryked about them and drunke to the quantitie of three ounces at one tyme comforteth strengthneth and preserueth the syght especially in aged persons and in stematick complections The hearbe dried and brought to powder eaten euery day in a poâ—ched Egrere for a certain time together restoreth sight lost the water mixed with half a dram of the powder and drunk euery euening for a month or forty dayes together recouereth a weake syght THis precious medicine folowing wyll bring forth a Cankaâ— and plucke it vp by the rootes out of any sore where 〈◊〉 bee eyther in man or woman Take Bosâ—alger and make powder therof then take Bâ—rrowes or Hogges grease that is new and fresh fyrst melted and aâ—ter colde then myâ—e the powder there with very well then put therof vpon a peece of whyte lether which may couer the â—ore theÌ„ sprinckle on the sayd plaster fyne flowre of pure wheete then vpon the same spreade Honny and then put vpon the sayd Honny womans mylke and whâ—n all this is done put the sayde plaster vpon the sore where the canker is and put the neather crust of a new whyte loaâ—e vpon the sayde plaster and tye it fast vpon the same that it remoue â—â—t And in the morning thou shall finde the cankar dead on the said plaster this is most true This I coppyed out of an olde wrytten Booke LEt a woman make water in an Urinall that is â—ayre and cleane or rather newe vppon certaine cornes of Barly and set the same in a colde place for the space of eighte dayes and if tâ—e sayde Barlye cornes wyll growe agayne or bring foorth newe corne then the fault is not in the woman that shee conceaues not but rather in the man Yf otherwyse then the lette of conception is in her STampe Crystall in a stone Morter of Marble and make thereof a very fyne powder then put thereto so much of the white of an egge that you may write therewith mixte them well together with a little goome or goome water then write therewith in paper what you wyll then rubbe the same Letters with what mettall you wyll and the wrytynge wyll bee of the coullour of that mettall wherewith you rubbed them This I had out of an olde booke and Mizaldus affyrmes it withoute the Goome water THe iuyce of Lylly Rootes and Uynegar of eyther lyke much mixed togeather and the sawse fâ—eame or redde pympled face annoynted therewyth euerye euenyng for the space of nyne or tenne dayes dooth helpe it perfectly YOu shall knowe whether the dropsye be hotte or colde by this that followeth Yf the swellynge beginne fyrst at the feete and go vpwarde then it comes of a hotte cause If the swellynge begynne fyrst in the face and goe downewarde then it comes of a colde cause This lykewise I had out of an olde wrytten Booke wherein were many things credyble CAst the water of any sicke person newly made at night on red nettels if the nettels be withered or dead in the morning after then the sicke party is lyke to dye of that disease if they be greene styll then he is lyke to lyue A Certayne wicked fellowe that kylled his Father dyd syt in coÌ„pany with his companions eating drinking ouer whose heads there was a swalowes nest with young swallowes in the same at which time the sayd swallowes made a great noyse chittering when suddenly the sayd wicked fellow got a long powle brust the swallowes nest wherby the swallowes fel down he trode on them and crushed them in peeces Being asked of one of them why he dyd so I haue good cause so to doo sayde he for dyd you not heare sayde he how they tolde that I kylled my Father Whervpon he was suspected examined and so confessed and therfore executed Plutarchus DRye a Gotes Sheeps or Neates blather make powder therof let them drinke therof with Uineger or water wheÌ„ they go to bed that cannot hold their water and it wyll helpe them Galen affyrmes this IF the Sun the Moone the Alumten or the Lorde of the Ascendent be all safe and not with the Lord of the eyght house or in his aspect without doubt the sicke person shal be ryd of his diseases and recouer the same If two of them be so he is like to escape lykewise If contrary
the house which he doth beholde with a good Asspect But if he be seperate from an euyll Planet and applyes also to an euyll Planet Then the vision or dreame is euyl to be feared and is of an euyl signification Which euyll harme shal be according to the nature of the Planet to whom the same applyes and according to the nature of the house wherin he is in the fygure according to the nature of that euyll Planet But if he be seperate from a good Planet and applyes to an euyll Planet saye that the vision or dreame was good and pleasaunt but he hath an euil sygnification But if he be seperate from an euyl Planet and doth apply to a good Planet say that the vision or dreame was fowle euyll but it hath a good sygnifycation and the profyt or successe thereof wyll be according to the nature of the Planet to whom he doth applye and according to the nature of the house wherein he is in the fygure As we haue sayde Therefore according to this waye and rule consyder the visions or dreames and confer one to another thou shalt be certified God wylling Haly Abenra IT is proued and a secrete that if you geue to them that haue the hyckop euery morning three howres before meate one roote of greene Gynger and immediatly after drinking two draughts of Malmesey you shall see that he wyll be soone cured Emperici benedicti victorij AS word wherwith a man is kylled the bloud being cleane wypt from it put into a hotte fyre which being taken out of the same doth manifestly shew the murther for so farre as the sword was in the wounded person so farre it wyll be of a contrary cullour to the sword It was told me that a Byshop dyd trye it to be true by one of his men IF the bloud of a Cocke be dryed and made in powder and myxt in Wyne wherin there is water it makes the water swym aboue This was of the relation of a learned Moonke Mizaldus PLanteyn hath a maruelous vertue to deliuer them of the Plague that are infected therwith geuen any manner of way Proued THe more lyuely and quick that a Horse is the more deeper he wyl thrust his nose into the water when he drynkes Plinius SWyne and Elephants doo hate whyte garments Bulles and Oxen hates maruelously garmentes that be of purple cullour which many vnder such apparel haue some tymes proued to theyr great griefe Plinius IF the Lord of the eight house be in the eyght house or beholde the same happely the chyld then borne wyll dye in his countrey or nye the same Taisnier THe white of an Egge and the iuyce of Perytory of the wall well beaten together and scummed and then one droppe of that lycquor put into the eye doth heale the webbe in the eye This is true and proued A Proued Oyle which is very good for the dropsie called Ascites if all the belly or paunche be annointed therwith Take of Turpentine one pounde of Frankynsence Mastick Myrre of each two drams Landanum one dram Nutmugs Cloues Galenga Zedoary of each one dram and a halfe of the iuyce of Walwoort and the iuyce of Cucumber called Cucumis asinimus of either one ounce Let them be poudred that are to be powdred and let theÌ„ be all myxed together put them in a Lymbeck and let an Oyle be distylled therof and it is a most secrete thing not onely to take awaye the swelling of the bellye in the dropsie called Ascites but also any flegmatyke swelling of any other member of mans body it is maruelous for the paynes of ioyntes and members of a colde cause Emperica benedicti A Certayne Butchers wyfe being with chylde as she was sturring the bloud of a Beast newlye kylled a lytle therof dyd chaunce to sprinckle or spurt on her face which she with her haÌ„d suddenly wiped off then wyped the same hande on her left thygh Who after being brought to bedde of a boy the same boy had and hath the lyke marke or bloud spot on his left thygh They that knew both the Father Mother and the chylde tolde this for a very trueth Therfore it is not good to hyt a woman suddenly being with chylde on the face or otherwyse least the chylde she is with all be so marked as is declared in other places of this booke THe sycke person can not escape when the lyght of the tyme that is the Sunne in the daye and the Moone in the nyght and the Alumten of the Ascendent are both impedyte or euyll affected of the Lord of the eyght house or of the Lord of the fowrth house Iatromath Guat Ryff IF you wyll take the heair from any place of the body and woulde haue it to growe there no more stampe Antes egges with the iuyce of Henbane and Humlockes or with the bloud of a Backe or Reremowse and annoynt the place therewith Mizaldus IF you cutte the Lyuer of a Beast in peeces and put into the same peeces the powder of Nux vomica called the Spuing Nutte which is to be had at the Apothecaryes the same peeces being strowed or layde in an open place where Rauens or Crowes maye resort thereto the Crowes or Rauens that eates thereof can not flye away whereby you maye take them easelye This I knowe to be certayne and true THe lytle Byrde called Linaria begynnes to leaue synging and also to be sycke when the Starre called the lytle Dogge doth ryse and wyll plucke off her fethers Which chaunceth about the myddes of Iuly as we haue proued by one and other sayeth Mizaldus the space of tenne yeares And therevpon haue shewed to many that then that Starre dyd surâ—ly ryse And in a Larke we haue obserued the same sayth hee in the rysing of Arcture wyth the Sunne And it is not to be doubted but that other Byrdes and lyuing thinges haue theyr peculyar Starre wherby they are mooued to syng or to hold theyr peace to sadnesse or gladnesse which I desyre the dillygent searchers of secretes to obserue Thus much Mizaldus THe Lorde of the Ascendent in the twelfth house in a humaine sygne without the beames of good Starres the Chylde then borne wyll be imprisoned This is true and often proued and also Taisnier affyrmes it THis following is a sure and proued medicine for the toothe ache Take a handfull of ground Iuy as much of Spere Mint and as much of Salt stamp them all a lytle together then put all the same into a pynt of vynegar and seethe all wel ouer the fyre then streyne it well and put the same into a close glasen vessell or bottell and when you wyll occupy it take a spoonefull thereof and put it into that syde of the mouth that aketh and holde downe your cheeke that it may descende to the rootes of the aking teeth and it wyll take the ache and payne away presently This was taught mee by a woman to whome many
resorted for helpe who vsed onely this medicine therfore AN oyntment made of the oyle of bytter Almonds Honny the rootes of Lyllies and of waxe Is an excellent thing to annoynt the face withall to get awaye wrinckles spottes and other deformyties of the face Mizaldus YOu maye take Foxes with this wyle following Annoynt the soles of your shoes with a peece of fatte Swynes fleshe as broade as your hand newly tosted or a lytle broyled at the fyre when you go out of the wood homewarde And in euery of your stâ—ppes cast a peece of the Lyuer of a Swyne rosted and dypt in honny and drawe after your backe the dead carkas of a Catte and when the Foxe folowing thee comes neare vnto the steppes be sure to haue a man nye thee with bow and shafts to shoote at him or by some other meanes to hyt him Mizaldus had this of an expert Hunter WOmen that haue double apples in theyr eyes or strales do euery where hurt with their looking Which is called of some ouerlooking Cicero BOdyes that are strucken with lyghtning doo remayne vncorrupt therfore in auncient tyme they dyd neyther burne nor burye the bodyes of such as were strucken or kylled with lyghtning whervpon it is playne to all men that the same bodyes are not corrupt as others Mizaldus IF the Lorde of the eyght house be in the thyrde or nynth house it sygnifyes the chylde then borne shall dye among Straungers or out of his natyue soyle Taisnier WOormewood newly stamped with the whyte of an Egge and layde ouer the eyes taketh awaye the bloud and readnes therof of what humor soeuer it come This hath bene often proued IF one do take this confection following fasting he shall neuer fall into the paynes of collycke nor Ilyacke Take the outwarde ryndes of Radyshes being taken or pared thycke two pounde whyte Honny fowre pound let theÌ„ boyle together vnto the consumption of halfe the Honny then put therto of the powders of Cynamom Cloues Nutmugs Mace blacke Pepper of each two drams mixe them together and let them be put vp in a cleare vessell and let the patient take eate euerye morning halfe an ounce of the sayde ryndes of the Radishes Benedictus victorius Fauentinus IF you take the powder of Brasell myngle it well with mylke but so that it be very red put therin eyther staffe wood or bone letting it lye therin eight dayes it wyll make the same wood or bone red for euer I had this out of an olde written booke TO dreame that you go ouer a broken Brydge betokens feare to haue your head cutte off for a heynous offence sygnifyes the death of friends to make cleane the handes betokens trouble to see hands fylthy or fowle doth sygnify losse and daunger to feede Lambes sygnifies griefe or payne to take flyes sygnifyes wrong or iniury Mizaldus A Garlande made of Iuy leaues and layd vpon womens paps or dugs that hangs flagging down it gathers them together and makes them rounde Iuy leaues stampt and applyed thereto workes the lyke effect Mizaldus A Tode being strucken of a Spyder or of a SerpeÌ„t doth helpe herselfe by eating of Planten Plinius For confyrmation whereof a Tode being on the ground hard by a wall a Spyder dyd suddenly strike the sayde Tode on the backe Which when the Tode felt begynning to swell dyd eate of Planten nye vnto the place Wherof being well the Spyder againe dyd poyson the Tode with her venome as before Which done the Tode preserued her selfe with the sayde Planten as before But one that chaunst to beholde the same dyd then cutte vp the sayde Planten and tooke it away from that place Which Tode the thyrde tyme being strucken or rather poysoned of the spyder as before Immediatly searching for the sayde Planten for as it shoulde seeme there was no more Planten nye to that place which when she coulde not fynde dyd swell so sore that soone after she dyd burst withall The party that dyd take away the same Planten and dyd see this straunge maruelous matter dyd tell me this for a verye trueth Whose credyte I knewe to be such that I am bolde here to place the same hauing such good occasion And I hearde that a noble man of this Realme dyd see the lyke WHosoeuer is sore grieued with the stone and can not make water let them drinke a spoonefull of the powder called Puluis duiriticus in a draught of whyte Wyne which you maye haue made at the Apothecaries and vse it three or fowre morninges together or something lesse if you lyste Geue halfe so much to a chylde and without doubt it wyll make them auoyde the stone and to make water presently I haue proued it often tymes to be a souereyne thing in this case And there was one from whom I had it that got therewith aboue an hundreth pound by the yeare If it be truely and well made You wyll praise it as wel as I haue done and because it is such a notable thing I would haue it better knowne and more vsed MAke oyle of Paper by burning fayre cleane Paper on a cleane pewter dyshe or sawcer or holde a peece of fayre Paper folded on a knyues poynt and set fyre on the nethermost ende thereof and holde the same nye vnto the sawcer and out thereof wyll come a lyttle moyst Oyle and be on the sawcer Take a lyttle thereof on a cleane fether and put it into the eye that is sore or dymme of syght and it wyll helpe the same maruellouslye It hath bene proued in many to be excellent And Euonimus doth prayse it therefore IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be in the eyght house Infortunate it sygnifyes that the sycke party wyll kyll him selfe through euyll guyding of himselfe Iatromathematica Guat Ryff A Spryte came nye vnto M. Brutus leading an army of men from Asia when Brutus asked him who he was he aunswered I am thy euyll Angell whom thou shalt see in the fieldes of Philoppis in Thessaly and there Brutus dyed in conflyct Plutarchus A Grymony sodden in redde wyne wherewith if woundes be washt it cleanseth all fylths and corruption from them And the leaues of Agremony beaten or stampte and tyed vpon woundes that bee euyll ioyned or knytte together by and by it doth open them A certayne Spanyarde tolde this to Mizaldus HE that receyues a summe of money in the howre of Venus he wyll spende the same with women in pleasures and wantonnes Haly. THe iuyce of Rew myxt with Honny that hath ben skummed a lytle therof put into the eye at once ryddeth them that vse it of an auncient dymnes of the syght Proued often IF a Woman hath not conceaued and thou wylt knowe whether she shall conceaue or not let her be well couered with cloathes and beneath let a fumygation be made of hotte thinges and odoriferous or sweete smelling for if the smell come vp through her body to the nose and mouth be
a Crosse. Which Mizaldus saw obserued in a Dog one of whose eares was almost eaten off with woormes IT is proued oftentymes by experiment that many being borne in the coniunction of the Sunne and Moone doo dye in the opposition that is in the full Moone and they that bee borne in the full of the Moone are dead in the coniunction that is in the new Moone Taisnier PUt two or three of the seedes of Oculus christi into your eye and within a whyle after you shall not feele them Whereby you wyll thinke they are not there But at the last they wyll droppe or fall out of them selues compassed about with slymye matter which hynders the syght Which if you vse thy wyll cleanse and cleare your eyes maruelously This I knowe to be very true IF one doth buye Wartes of them that haue them and geue them a pin therfore if the party that hath the Warts pricke the same pyn vpon some garment that he weares daylye or commonly the Warte or Wartes without doubte wyll demynish and weare away priuely and be cleane gone in short time This was tolde me for an often tryed and prooued thing yea and by such a one as had seene the experyence thereof Also Wartes rubbed with a peece af rawe Beefe and the same Beefe being buryed within the grounde the Wartes wyll weare and consume as the Beefe doth rotte in the ground Proued SAlt Armoniacke stampte and myxt with water doth make whyte Letters nothing dyffering from the cullour of Payer But if you holde the same Paper to the fyre the Letters wyll waxe blacke Mizaldus A Thing to be marueled at and woorthy to be remembred doth followe declared by Iouianus Pontanus A certaine Caietane Woman sayth he was marryed to a Fysher whome he dyd vse as his Wife according to the order of Marriage many yeares as Anthonius Panthormita being a friende of the same Fysher was woont to tell to the sayde Iouianus Pontanus when he was young which Woman after she had bene marryed fowreteene yeares dyd became to be a Man and suddenly there sprung out the members of a Man in the naturall place of the Woman Which being so ashamed of her condition as one that thought she shoulde be mockt or laught to scorne both of Men and Women became a Religious Woman and lyued in a Monastary where he knâ—we her the rest of her lyfe And she was buryed at Rome in the Temple of Marie to Minerua And an other Woman called Aemilia was marryed to one Anthony a Citizen of Ebula and after she was marryed twelue yeares shee was chaunged into a Man and was conuersaunt with Men vsing then the artes and trades of men in that Countreye and marryed a Wyfe This wrytes he in the tenth booke De rebus celestibus c. Mizaldus IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be Combust in the Ascendent or in the fyrst house it sygnifyes short lyfe to the chylde then borne Taisnier TAke the inner rynde of an Oake tree and seethe it well in fayre water and then bathe any sore olde or newe therewith halfe a dosen tymes together twyse euery daye and at euery tyme when it is thus bathed then annoynt it with Butter and Brymstone myxt well together and within nyne or ten dayes it wyll be whole God wylling A true and tryed medicine THis following wyll helpe the yallowe Iaundies with speede Take a Burre roote the greater the better scrape it cleane then take a potte of new Ale and put your roote therein and the Ale wyll boyle and let it be therein one daye and one nyght well stopped then lette the patient drynke a good draught two or three tymes and he wyll be whole certaynly Proued THe sycke is much to be feared if in the Ascendent or in the eyght house or with their Lordes there be euyll Starres or Planets But if good Planets be there It is safe inough Iatromath Guat Ryff ARystotle and Auycen do affyrme that of the round and short Egge the Cocke chycken doth come of the long and sharpe Egge the Henne chycken Mizaldus YF you put yallowe Amber into hotte melted waxe before well skymmed it wyll be then as softe as claye so that you may make thinges therof in what forme or fashion you wyll it wyll be so tractable and soft Mizaldus had this secrete of a certaine cunning Lapidary THere is nothing better to driue away Serpentes or Snakes then the smoake of olde Leather or olde shoes burned or else to bring them out of ones body before crept into them by sleeping open mouthed Wherof Marc. Gatinarica an excellent Phisition doth wryte that the lyke dyd happen to a certain man in his tyme to whome when many medicines were geuen in vaine the sayd man receiued the smoake of olde leather at his mouth by a funnell so that it went into his body and as soone as the venemous thing in his body felt the sayd smoake he came out at his fundament Which was a maruelous great Uyper to the great maruayle and feare of all them that were present SEethe the inner rynde of the young braunches of a Hasell tree in small Ale vntyll halfe be consumed and let them that haue the StraÌ„gury drinke a good draught thereof fyrst and last for the space of eyght or nyne dayes together and it wyll helpe them certainly for it neuer fayles Therefore proue it and prayse it IN the fyrst beginning of any sicknes or at the time of a question for the state of the sycke person if the Moone be corrupt or afflicted of Saturne in the three fyrst degrees of Scorpio it betokens death Iohannes Ganiuetus A Notable medicine for the Sciatica doth followe Take Oxe dung and Pigions dung of eyther one pounde and myxe them well together with one pottell of white Wine and let them boyle together vntyl halfe the Wyne be consumed then streyne it through a lynnen cloath then put thereto halfe a pounde of Honny and twelue yolkes of Egs and halfe a pound of melted waxe and myxe all together with as much barly meale as wyll suffice for the making of it in a plaster and put it hotte to the paynfull place This was proued by King Henry the fyft as the wryting dyd wytnes out of the which I had this Besydes it hath bene synce proued LEt the Phisition take heede of his fyrst visiting of the sycke in the howre of Saturne and Mars if he come to him in the howre of Saturne eyther the sicke wyll dye or else the Phisition shal haue great labour doubtes and slacknes in the curing of him Neyther shall he helpe him except it be euen to desperation or out of all hope And if he be sent for or go to him fyrst in the howre of Mars there wyll be â—hydinges and brawlings betwixt him and the sick party and small gayne The howres of Iupiter and Venus are much praysed The howres of the other Planets are indyfferent Iotromathematica Guat Ryff A Greene
swolne and also the face necke and legges who dyd lye as though she were halfe dead to whome I gaue the rootes of Daffadyll stampt and myxt with water and saffern which being drunke she was quickly hole I wrote this â—ut of an olde written booke TAke heede in letting of bloud or geuing of Purgacions or strong medicines that the Lorde of the eyght house be not with the Moone or with the Lorde of the Ascendent Lykewise that the Moone nor the Lorde of the Ascendent be in the fowrth or eyght house nor that the Lord of the eyght house be in any Angle and it is not good that the Moone be in the Ascendent Iatromathematica Guat Ryff A Winde rysing in the North in the begynning of the nyght or in the twye lyght by and by he ceaseth and leaueth his place Therfore it is that the Shypmen or Marryners hauing iust tryall therof wyll not set forth in that wynde vnlesse it hath continued three dayes The South winde is contrary which if it ryse or begyn in the beginning of the day it bringes hope to the Marryners that it wyll continew and not quickly depart out of that place Mizaldus THe skynne of the ryght heele of a Uultar layde to the ryght foote and of the lefte heele to the lefte foote of them that are payned with the gowte It is sayde that it doth mytygate the griefe and ease the paynes Mizaldus LUte stringes or Harpe strynges cutte in lytle peeces and cast vpon flesh newly sodden or rosted wyl seeme to be woormes Whereby they that knowes not thereof wyll refuse the same meate Mizaldus IF the Yarde doth swell and be grieuously payned myngle Waxe Oyle and the iuyce of Purslane together and apply it to the swolne Yarde and it wyll helpe it It is often proued IOhannes Ganiuetus wrytes that in the yeare of the Lorde .1431 the seuenth daye of August being Tewsday about seuen of the clocke in the morning one Maister Henricus Amici a Doctor of Phisicke borne at Bruxelles in Brabant dyd aske him for the Lord Deane of Viennens then being sycke whether he should dye or recouer of that sycknes In the fygure of which question he founde that the Moone was going in coniunction to the Sunne vnder the beames of the Sun which was a testimony of death With dyuers other lykelyhoods of the same But espying Mercury beginning to be Retrograde within one degree of the Ascendent corrupting the degree ascending dyd iudge that he woulde shortly fall into a frensye at the furthest within a naturall daye although he was a very wyse man And so it came to passe For within lesse then a naturall daye he became franticke And so dyed within two dayes after TAke cloues of Garlycke and burne them in a potte all to powder and if you vse to eate of that powder in your pottage doubtles it wyll procure you to make water if you are troubled with the stone This I had out of a very olde booke IF you put the powder of Allom in water whatsoeuer you wryte therwith the wryting or Letters wyl not appeare vnlesse you put the same paper in water and then you shall reade it perfectly Bapt. porta THis that followeth is a most excellent true sure proued medicine for a great and olde griefe and payne of the head Take of bay Salt stamped by it selfe as much of Coomyn seede stamped lykewyse by it selfe as much browne Fennell and then stampe or beate them all together then with as much pure vynegar also a lytle Rosewater mixe sturre them all together in a dyshe ouer a 〈◊〉 dyshe with hotte coales and then laye some of the same hotte vpon a cloath and apply it so to the hynder part of the heade at nyght and tye it fast thereto that it fall not away And also laye an other plaster therof hotte therto the next nyght and so do nyne nyghts together one after another and it wyll not onely helpe the same perhaps within three or fowre tymes so doing but also it wyll cleare the syght and draw the humors cleane away that runnes out of the head into the eyes and drye vp the same This medicine neuer fayles Therfore it is a precious thing and worthy to be estemed A Good waye to get the stone called Craupaudina out of the Tode Put a great or ouergrowne Tode fyrst brused in dyuers places into an earthen potte and put the same in an Antes hyllocke couer the same with earth which Tode at length the Antes wyll eate So that the bones of the Tode and stone wyll be left in the potte Which Mizaldus and many other as he sayth haue often tymes proued IT is sayde that the female Uyper doth open her mouth to receyue the generatyue sparme of the male Uyper which he doth by putting his mouth into her mouth which receyued she doth byte off his head This is the maner of the froward generating of Uipers And after that the young Uipers the springs of the same do eate or gnaw a sunder theyr mothers belly therby 〈◊〉 or bursting forth And so they being reuengers of theyr Fathers iniurye do kyll theyr owne mother Galen de Theriaca ad Piâ—onem You may see they were a towardly kynde of people that Christ called the â—eneration of Uypers SEethe Sage and drinke it eyther stampe it and lay it to the Matrix for both wayes it prouoketh the flowres and after burthens Petrus Hispanus THe gyrdle worne of a Chylde being vnder seuen yeares of age some sayes twelue yeares of age taken and tyde about the mydle of one that hath the fallyng sycknes and then presently taken from the sayde party and cutte in nyne peeces and euery peece throwne nyne seuerall wayes is a present and perfect remedy to heale and helpe the same party therof without saying of any wordes They that tolde it to me did see it proued a thing no doubt very straunge and almost incredyble Some thinkes that this wyll not preuayle but at the fyrst falling of the party THe tongue of a Dogge layde vnder the great toe within the shoe doth cease the barking of Dogs at the party that so weares the same Mizaldus THe skyn of an Asse being tande and shooes made of that part of the hyde wheron the burthens dyd lye that the Asse caryed they wyll neuer teare nor be worne No although you go continually among stones and thornes and with the oldnes therof they wyll waxe so harde that one can not suffer to weare them as Cardanus hath written TO stoppe the bleeding of the nose take nine or ten fresh new Leekes and put a threede thorowe the myds of them but cut of the toppes of the leaues then hang them about the parties neck that bleedes so that the leaues be vpward to the nose the heads of them downward It is good also to smell to Camphere dyssolued in vynegar and also to put the roote of Pyony vnder the tongue Iacobus Holleriâ—s IF you
Olyffe and put it into colde water and sturre it well together tyll it be well myxed then annoint the burned place therwith and laye a woort leafe vpon it and it wyll helpe it speedely Proued STampe Mallowes and Garlycke together and myngle it well with whyte Wyne then streyne it well and drynke a good draught therof nyne tymes and it wyll make thee make water of what occasion soeuer the same is stopte Thys is affyrmed for trueth IF you wyll bring forth or hatch Egges without a Hen couer your Egges in hotte Horse dung so that the bygger part of the Egge be vpwarde but euery fyft or syxt daye shyfte them with newe Horse dung with a temperate heate as the heate of a Hen. But remember that the Egs must be turned and about the tyme of the hatching or when they shoulde come forth of the shell put them vnder a Hen. Mizaldus ALthough the fruite of a Medler tree by nature be restryctiue or bynding neuerthelesse the powder of him doth vehementlye breake the Stones in the reynes and dryues them forth Which Anthonius Musa an excellent Phisition doth wytnesse that hee hath proued with most happy successe on him selfe Mizaldus THe bloud of an Hare dryed made in powder and throwne vpō flesh newly roasted or sodden makes the same flesh seeme to be blouddy and corrupt So that they that be present and sees the same vnlesse such as knowes the secrete therof wyll loath to eate therof Mizaldus THe auncient Wyse men haue sayde that he that is taken prisoner in the howre of the Sun shal escape within the space of one month and in the howre of Venus he shall escape at the ende of forty dayes and in the howre of Mercury he shal haue long imprisonment and he that is taken prisoner in the howre of the Moone his busines state shal be changed according to the applicatiōs which the moone hath with fortunate and Infortunate Planets whereby the easynes and slownes of his delyuering shall be esteemed Also he that is taken prisoner in the howre of Saturne he shal endure long imprisonment and he that is taken prysoner in the howre of Iupiter he shall be delyuered quickly And they that be taken prysoner in the howre of Mars many sorrowes and troubles shall happen to them during theyr imprisonment For he shall be put in setters and shall be beaten and he shall suffer great sorrowes and labours Haly Abenragel THis medicine following wyll surely heale a scalde heade Take oyle Olyffe and put it into a dyshe with fayre water and beate or sturre them well together as you woulde make butter then take it vp and put it into a vessell and put powder of Brimstone and May Butter thereto make an oyntment therof wherwith annoynt the sore head and doubtles it wyll heale it WOodbinde leaues stampt and layd vpon Warts vsing the same halfe a dosen tymes wyll quyte destroye them FRaunces Marques of Mantua did so instruct or teach a Dogge that he vsed him as a very good seruant in calling of such of the Court as he would Blondus A Benzoar an excellent Phisition among the Arabians declares that once there was such a famyne in his countrey that the people was dryuen to pluck out the dead bodyes out of theyr graues dyd sucke the marrowe of theyr bones A thing horrible to be heard but more horryble to be done from which neede or hunger I beseech God keepe vs. IF the seedes that are founde in the round knobs of the lesser Burre leafe be made in very fyne powder and so geuen with a lytle good and pure whyte Wyne it purgeth the sande maruelous effectually from the reynes but more speedely if it be droonke with Aqua vite Mizaldus had this of one that proued it IF you seethe Mugwoort in water and plaster it hotte vpon the Nauell and thyghes of a Woman labouring with chylde it causeth both chylde byrth and the after burthen also but if it tarry long there it wyll cause the Matrix to follow Rogerius FOr scalding and burning that it be not seen Take sheepes suet and sheepes dung and the inner rinde of Elderne and boyle them all together then streyne them through a course canuas cloath and so keepe it in some cleane vessell which when you do occupy you must melt it in a sawcer or some other thing and laye it on the burned place with a fether proued TO drawe out a toothe fyll an earthen potte with Emets or Ants and theyr Egs and set the same potte in hotte embers so long vntyll all be burned in to ashes and when any toothe doth ake which you would drawe forth without paine then take of the same Ants and theyr egs made in fyne powder and touch the tooth therwith and it wyll fall out ANnoint the freckled face with the bloud of a Hare or of a Bull and it wyll do them away and make the skyn fayre Proued THis following wyll helpe the hardnes of the syde called the Elfe cake Take the roote of Gladen and make powder therof and geue the diseased party halfe a spoonefull therof to drynke in white Wine and let him eate so much thereof in his Pottage at one tyme it wyll helpe him within a whyle This was tolde me for a very trueth MUgwoort stieped in Rose water doth helpe trēbling or shaking hands if they be washt therwith Mizaldus YOu shall knowe whether the Tode stone called Crapaudina be the ryght and perfect stone or not Holde the stone before a Tode so that he maye see it and if it be a ryght true stone the Tode wyll leape towarde it and make as though he woulde snatch it from you He enuieth so much that man should haue that stone This was credibly tolde Mizaldus for trueth by one of the French Kings Phisitiōs which affyrmed that he dyd see the tryall therof GArlycke being sowne when the Moone is vnder the earth and pluckt vp when the Moone is aboue the earth it is sayde that then his stynking smell wyll be gone Sotion Grecus And Palladius reports that Garlicke wyll be made the sweeter if in the planting therrof you do set the stones of Olyues round about it Or els if you set the Garlicke brused LAye a Spunge vpon any ache or gowte dypte in warme wyne of the decoction of Coomyn and it wyll drawe out the hurtfull humors It hath bene proued Petrus Hisp. IF in the degree of the Ascendent or nye vnto it within two degrees there is an euyll Planet It is an argument of the death of the party that dyd fal sycke at that tyme or for whome the question is then asked for the state of his sycknesse And if it be in a moueable sygne it betokens that the sycke shall dye within so many dayes as the sayde euyll Planette is degrees from the degree of the Ascendent if in a fyxed signe then it sygnifyes a long tyme that is as I haue tryed euerye
degree a month if in a common signe it signifyes a meane time betweene both that is as I haue founde euerye degree a weeke Iohannes Ganiuetus But you must beware if the sayde Planet be dyrect that he doth apply to the degree ascending IF you take the outward rynde of the Radish roote and the hearbe Marcury of eyther one ounce of Saffern three graynes of Cassia Lignea fynely powdred one dram the iuyce of Sauine two drammes and then myxe them and let them all be beaten together and then tye the same in a fyne lynnen cloath that is thynne and then ioyne it to the necke of the Matryx of a Woman that is in her trauell and in the howre of the byrth which els should bring forth her chylde with dyffycultie by and by shee wyll be brought to bedde It is a secrete Benedictus victorius fauent HE in whose Natiuity Venus is coniunct or ioynd with Mercury and they both being vnder the beames of the Sun shal be gelded Iotromath Guat Ryff YF you plucke out one of the eyes of a blacke Dog whyles he is lyuing and wyll carrye it with you it wyll make that no Dogs shall barke at you yea though you walke among them But it wyl be more sure if you put therto a lytle of the harte of a Woolfe Sextus Platonicus and Albertus THe iuyce of Knotgrasse drunke with the powder of seuē Pepper cornes before the fytte doth quite put away the quarten ague But it is sayde that the hearbe must be gathered vpon a Thursday and the iuyce then lykewise there of must be gotten and streyned the Moone discreasing which is betweene the ful Moone and the change Mizaldus had this out of an olde booke of Secretes wrytten with the hande of one called Ianus or Faunus A Bathe wherein Emets or Antes and theyr Egs being stampt haue bene sodden doth quycklye heale an olde and almost incurable ioynt sycknesse Proued YF they that haue the fallyng sicknesse do vse to receyue twyse or thryse in the weeke at theyr going to bedde one of these lytle pylles following without doubt they wyll be hole thereof howsoeuer it coms Take of the best Castoreum Assafetida of eyther halfe a dram ▪ of the roote of Pyony fynely powdred one dram Aromaticum Rosatum two drams myxe them together with the syrrup of Mynts and make therof seuen pylles you may haue al this at the Apothecaries This is a proued secrete Emperica benedicti AN excellent oyntment for the gowte Take three pound of Walwoort and stampe it well then melt one pound of May butter put therto and let them stande so nyne dayes together then boyle the same halfe an howre on the fyre then streyne it through a canuas and so annoynt the payned place therewith It is a notable and proued thing not much vnlyke to one in this booke to that effect discribed by Mizald. THis medicine following wyll destroy the ytche in any part of the body Take of oyle Debay one ounce and one ounce of quicksyluer fyrst kylled with fasting spettle which must be a kylling therein with sturring of them together halfe an howre Then therwith annoint the palmes of your hands and the soles of the feete and within three or fowre tymes so doing it wyll kyll the ytch Proued IF you wyl make a Candle that wyl not be put out Fyll a Cane with the powder of brimstone with lynnen cloath broken in very lytle peeces then couer the same with waxe and so set it on fyre and then it wyl not be put out neyther with bellowes nor wind OYle wherin Frogges be sodden vntyll the flesh be gone from the bones doth maruelously helpe all affectes of the synewes and the ioynts and also all parts of the body that is colde or benumd If the places affected be annoynted therwith being fyrst made warme This is gotten out of the secretes of Ianus IF you wyll bring into one place or else kylle all Woormes and Beastes that are hurtfull in a garden Take the bellye or paunch of a Wether newly kylled with all the fylth or dung that is in it and bury the same in the place where they be and couer it a lytle with earth and then within two dayes thou shalt see all the Woorms and vermyne gathered thether if you do thus twyse or thryse you shall make all the hurtfull Woormes and thinges to gather together there And then you maye cast earth vpon them or else kyll them as you lyst Mizaldus dyd vnderstand that this was proued AN euyll Planet in Leo doth shewe or betoken short lyfe of the Father of that Chyld then borne Taisnier THe iuyce of Bettony put into the eare something hotte or lew warme wyll both put away paynes and the draffnes of the eares if there be any and also other impedymentes of the same I haue proued this diuers tymes and founde it excellent good in this case THis water folowing is both proued precious against Fistulaes and also it so hardneth yron that you maye cutte an other peece of yron therewith as easely as if the same were wood Take of earth woormes and draw of them a water by distyllation and lykewise drawe water of Radishe rootes both which waters myxed together then put therein an edged yron knyfe made redde hotte the same thus heated and quenched for three or fowre tymes by an equall quantity vsed at each tyme and the knife tempred with an edge then dyp it redde hotte againe into the sayd water and then after you may cutte any yron safely and easely therewith and this water is also maruelous in Fystulaes IT is sayd that if Horsses be shodde with that yron wherewith any hath bene before kylled it makes the same Horsses very lyuely and quicke And if of the same you make a bytte or a snaffle that Horse that hath it in his mouth wyl be made tame easy to be handled yea though he be neuer so wylde stubborne or geuen to byting Rasis et Albertus IF a Horse can not stale or pysse or else doth the same hardely or with much griefe or payne beate his body all aboutes easely myldly or gently with the bowes of Elderne full of leaues then after couer his head neck and all the body with the same leaues and it wyll helpe him very much Simoneta Cardinalis A Water whereby the Phisicion doth maruelles and is reputed as a Prophet Take the fylinges of Syluer of Brasse of Yron of Leade of Steele of Golde of Spume of Syluer and Golde of Storax according to the rytches and pouerty of the patient fyrst of all let them bee put in the vryne of a Boy that is a virgin the second day in warme white Wyne the thyrde daye in the iuyce of Fennell the fowrth daye in the whytes of Egges the fyft daye in Womans mylke that geues sucke to a boye the syxt daye in redde Wyne the seuenth daye in seuen whytes of Egs and put that onely into a Styll at
the foote or leg of an Oxe Cow or horse be swoln by chaunce marke the ground where the same swoln leg or foote doth stand take or graue vp with a knyfe or dagger a turfe or peece of earth in the same place where the same foote dyd stand hang the same turfe or peece of earth vpon the bough of a white thorn or of som other tree if it be fayre or dry wether if not theÌ„ hang it in some chimney where fire is made and after as the turfe or earth doth drie so wil the swelling cease and the payne go away This I haue proued to be true dyuers tymes And it is practised of many especially for Oxen or Kyne But the suddaine swelling griefe of my horse legge hath bene helpt therwith within two or three dayes by none other meanes Who lystes to proue it shall finde it true although it be farre vnlykely THe water wherin Lauender is sod doth quite put away any spotte or steyning in any cloath Cap or Hat if the steyned place or spotted be washed or rubbed therwith It is very true proue it who wyll TO make any fowle of what condition the same be to haue the fethers all whyte Take the Egges of what Byrde or fowle you wyll rowle them in the iuyce of the hearbe called Mowse eare or in the iuyce of Housleeke or otherwyse in oyle after the minde of Cardanus and after put the Egs againe in the nest for after the hatching the fethers wyll grow whyte This is taken out of the naturall and artificial Conclucations of the Schollers of Padua Translated in Englysh by Thomas Hyll YF the figure of a Lyon be graued in a thyn plate of Golde when the Sunne is in Leone that is the sygne called the Lyon So that the Moone beholde not then the syxt house nor the Lord of the Ascendent behold Saturne or Mars and the Moone then seperate or rather free from them it doth put away the intollerable paynes and tormentes of the backe if it hang at the raynes of the backe or touch the same And if 〈◊〉 be made of the powder of pure OlibanuÌ„ and Goates bloud and after sealed with the same Lyon and after dryed and then being dyssolued in whyte Wyne and droonke fasting it workes a maruelous effect against the stone of the reynes of the blather Andreas Cordubensis to Gregory the Bishop of Rome THis confection following is a most excellent medicine and remedy for many inward effectes especially for all fluxes of bloud from whence soeuer they flowe and also other fluxes moreouer for them that haue great paynes in theyr backs and also paynes in theyr Lyuer or whose Lyuer is not all together wel And Galen the Author hereof sayth belyke for the excellencie therof geue not this before thou hast receyued a rewarde therfore the making wherof doth followe Take of Cynamom Cassialignea opium of each two drams Myrre both Peppers Galbanum of each one dram let them be stamped then myxed with a lytle clarifyed Honny and made in a lumpe or masse geue therof at night two round pyls somthing bygger then peason in the soft of a roasted apple and let not the party drinke of two howres after and if his griefe and paines be neuer so great he wyll be in maruelous ease and quietnes within an howre or two after so remaine the most part of all the night yea and perhaps sleepe soundly and well You maye geue it two or three nightes together if the party be strong but if he be very weake geue it euery other nyght three or fowre tymes and if the party be in extreame payne then geue it when you lyst But if the stomacke be full of meate or fleame it wyll shew the lesse effect Who euer shal proue it shal fynd it a worthy thing I haue proued it aboue a hundreth tymes A Fine way to make Corral by art which foloweth Make the hornes of Goates first shauen or scraped into powder and let the same stiepe in strong Lee made of the Ashes of the wood of an Ashe fyâ—teene dayes together afterwarde take it out of the sayde Lee and mixe it with Cinabrium dyssolued in water and hang it ouer an easie fyre vntyll it be thycke and if it haue then the cullour of right Corrall make it in the forme or fashion you thinke good drye it and polysh it according to arte This doth Mizaldus discribe THe iuyce gotteÌ„ out of a red Onion three or fowre drops therof put into the deaffe eare colde three or fowre nyghts when the party goes to bed helpeth the deafnes be it neuer so great or auncient Feare not though it put you to some paine at the fyrst time for at the seconde tyme it wyll be more easie This was taught mee by one that knewe it by proofe TO make a Woman that hath a dead chyld within her immediatly to be delyuered therof Take the quantity of an Alâ—on of a Bulles gall myxe it with two spoonefull of Wine and let her drinke it and she shall auoyde it strayght Iac. Veckerus DEuyde an Aple in the myddes and in the one halfe of the Aple in the myds of it make a round hoale by cutting a peece out of it then into the same hoale put a blacke Betle and so laye the flatte syde on the table and the Aple wyll moue by the meanes of the Betle to the maruaile of them that behold it TAke an Aple of Coloquintida and laye the same to stiepe in water a whole night and after boyle woormwood in that water which water being cast about the chamber kylleth all the fleas therin Also annoint a staffe with the grease of a Hedghogge and laye the same in the myddes of the chamber and all the fleas there wyll come and cleaue to that staffe A Certaine young Gentlewoman or Lady trymming and dressing her selfe holding then in her mouth a few pyns was suddenly priuily strucken between the shoulders by a certaine Rular or Prince being her Louer wherewith she was so suddenly feared amased that she swallowed the pyns which she did hold in her mouth which pyns she auoyded in her vrine within two dayes after without an harm Ioh. Langius a learned Phisition is the reporter herof IF Roses Lyllyes be sowne nye together or that they touch one another the flowers of them wyll smell the more pleasauntly wyll grow the better Mizal. ONe Apisius got much money with this most excellent Oyle following and was maruelously esteemed therfore after whose death the King of Spaine dyd geue vnto his wife fiue hundreth Crowns for the vttering disclosing the making therof as is manifest in a booke made of the same at large by one George Baker in the English tongue which hath manifestly shewed his honest hart natural loue to his CouÌ„try The same Apisius in his life time his wife after his death did helpe all wounds old vlcers aches paines of the
back emroddes therewith it is maruelous good for the gowte the making of the oyle is thus Take of the most purest and oldest whyte Wine one quart of the oldest oyle Olyffe three pound Carduus benedictus called the blessed Thistle Ualerian the lesser Sage with the flowres if you can get them of each a quarter of a pounde of the leaues flowres of S. Iohns Woort halfe a pounde let the hearbs and flowres be infused or stieped in the sayd Wine oyle xxiiii howres then the next day let all be put into an earthen vessell leaded or a vessell of brasse vpon an easy fyre vntyll the Wyne be consumed moouing it styl being ouer the fire then being taken from the fire streyned put therto of Uenys Turpentine a pound and a halfe then let all boyle together a quarter of an howre then put therto Olibanū fiue ounces Myrre three ounces Sanguis Draconis one ounce and let all boyle vntyl the Myrre be dyssolued then put it into a vessell of glasse stopped let it stand in the hotte Sun ten daies before you vse this oyle you must wash the sores or woūds with whyte Wine wherin must be the powder of Olibanū I haue writtē this here because I thinke thereby many shall haue knowledge of this precious Oyle which otherwyse should neuer haue heard of it A Sweete water an vnknowen wherof one part mixt with ten quartes of pure water maketh the whole most sweet Take Nutmugs Cloues Galingale Spiknard graines of Paradise Mase Cinamō of euery one an ounce pound or stamp thē all ad therto twenty graines of Musk or lesse as you delyght in the smell therof powre into them a pound a halfe of Rosewater let them so remayne together in a close vessell fowre or fyue dayes then put therto thryse as much Rosewater and distyl all the same in a potte or kettel ful of water seething as in Balneo marie keep the distylled water in a glasse wel stopt to the vse before sayd Euoni IF an Eg be painted with sundry cullors the same set vnder a Hen which syts to bring forth chickens she wyll hatche therof a Chycken hauing the lyke fethers vnto the cullors paynted on the Egge Thomas Hyll out of the naturall and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua affyrmes this IF one make a lytle rope of the guts of a Woolf and then bury the same vnder sand or earth there wyll neither Horse nor Sheepe go that way though you beate them with a staffe Albertus IT is sayd that a Hare doth lyue ten yeeres the age of a Cat is so much a Goate doth liue eight yeeres an Asse thirty yeeres a Sheepe ten yeeres but the Belwether many times doth liue .xv. yeeres a Dog. xiiii and somtymes .xx. a Bull .xv. but an Oxe because he lacks his stones doth lyue .xx. a Swine and a Peycocke .xxv. a Horse .xx. and oftentimes .xxx. there haue bene Horses that lyued fifty yeeres Pygeons lyues naturally .viii. yeeres a Turtle a Partrech .xxv. yeeres also a Ryngdooue which oftentimes lyues xl yeeres Mizal. THe body of a Byrch tree cut or scortched the spring time going before doth yeeld great plenty of water which water being droonke hath a maruelous strength to breake the stone in the raynes Matheolus vpon Dioscorides wrytes it FINIS Lib. 9. ¶ The tenth Booke of Notable things THere is an euident familiarity betweene the Oliue tree and the Myrte tree for as Andronicus reportes the branches of the Myrt tree do pleasauntly extende or spreade by the Olyue tree and the rootes of them do mutuallye embrace each other nor any other plant but the Myrt tree wyll grow well nye the Olyue tree This also Mizaldus doth affyrme THe smell of Bitumen rawe or the smoake thereof burned receyued by the nose of such as are grieuously tormented with the paynes of the moother is a present helpe or remedy It is most certainly proued Wherfore many Women which are grieued with the disease do hang it about theyr necks in wooll that they maye driue away theyr fyt by the oft smelling therof Mizaldus wrytes this And the learned Doctor Monardus affyrmes the lyke therof THe sparrowe Hawke is a fierce enemie to all Pygions but they are defended of the Castrell whose syght and voyce the Sparhawke doth feare which the Pygions or Dooues knowes well inough for where the Castrell is from thence wyll not the Pigions go if the Sparhawke be nye through the great trust she hath in the Castrell her defendor Iohannes Baptista Porta hath written this THe leaues of a Wyllow tree as also the bark therof sodde in Wine doth helpe them that haue the gowte if they be fomēted or bathed therwith Mizal. SToflerus an excellent Astronomer knowing by his Natiuity that he should be in daunger to be hurte about a certaine day or tyme kept him self then within his own house assured that it was strong inough The same day or very nye vnto it that the euent should happe certayne of his learned friends and he as they were reasoning together dyd vary in some certayne opynion about the tryall wherof as it should seeme he reached to take downe one of his bookes being placed among dyuers other when through the lacke of a nayle the whole classe or shelfe where the booke was fell vpon his head and wounded his head very sore Which doth not onely shew the worthynes and excellencie of Astrology especially in a learned and skylfull person therin but also our folly in flying from Fate for that our wisdome doth leade vs into it whē most of all we meane for to shun it Therfore perfect prayer passeth pollecie in preuenting of peryls THree halfe penny weyght of the powder of the Adamant stone droonke with the iuyce of Fennell drawes the water from them that haue the dropsie And the same stone put to the head takes away quite all the paynes therof Iacobus Hollerus an excellent Phisition affyrmes it IT is a manifest thing and proued by dayly experience that the bodies of them that be murthred when they be founde if any of theyr kynred be then present or the party or partyes that kylled or murthered thē or was the cause therof Immediatly bloud wil burst forth suddenly either out of the wound or nose or out of some other part of theyr body I could aleadge here a great sort of examples for the verifying thereof but I omyt them for it is a thing found true by dayly experience Besydes that Lucretius Philip. Melancton Iohannes Langius and Lauinius Lemnius haue written therof PEeces of Amber being put or tyed to the hynder part of the head doth helpe the running or watrines of the eyes with a maruelous successe and hanged about the necke doth hynder distyllations that they go not downe by the throate Mizaldus Besides that it is proued to be true A Certayne Woman went with a dead Chylde in her wombe aboue fowre yeeres which by
come neere that Wheate This I had out of an olde Booke And Iacobus VVeckerus also affyrmes the same WHen you first see the Cuckoo marke well where your right foote doth stande for you shall fynde there an heair Which if it be black it sygnifyes that you shall haue very euyll lucke all that yeare after If it be whyte then very good lucke But if it be graye then indyfferent It is sure that such a heair hath bene founde accordingly but what euent dyd follow therof I am yet vncertayne But this was affyrmed to mee for a very trueth It was also credibly reported vnto mee that the lyke heair wyll be founde vnder the ryght foote at the fyrst seeing of the Swallowe after they are comd at the spring tyme so that you looke after the sayde Swallowe as long as you can see her A Quantitie of Hempe seede stampt and strayned through a cloath when it is wel sodden with running water and a good draught thereof droonk last going to bed and so vsed wyll make one laxatiue and loose bellyed This is a proued thing therfore THe great Alexander being desirous that the long lyfe of Hartes might be knowne to his posterity caused golden Chaynes to be made fast vnto many Harts about theyr neckes I thinke the tyme when the same was done being exprest or marked in the same and they which were taken of the same Harts an hundreth yeares after dyd not yet seeme to be of the age of olde Hartes Mizaldus wrytes this who affyrmes that Pliny is the Author therof QUicke Lyme mixt with olde Cheese and well beaten together wyll fasten and glew strongly together broken stone vessels and also broken glasses This was very credibly tolde me for a very great secrete by one that proued it many tymes as he sayde WHosoeuer hath an extreame heate or sore burning Feuer let them vse to drinke fowre or fyue tymes in one day a good draught of the distylled water of wylde Poppy that is Papauer erraticum which growes among Corne with a red flowre much lyke the leafe of a Rose it is called of some red corne Rose This haue I tryed to be true THey in whose Natiuitie Saturne is Lord of the seuenth house are not lyke to marry before they be thyrty yeares of age or else vntyll Saturne from that tyme hath compassed the whole Zodiack which differs not much This is proued true by long experience I haue seene many whose seuenth house is Capricorne or Aquary the houses of Saturne and yet I neuer knew any of them but either dyed vnmaried or else married after they were thyrtie yeares of age And as I remember Cardanus agrees herein IF the bottom of a seething potte with meate newly taken from the fyre may be touched or felt without harme or daunger of burning then certaynly the same meate is boyled inough But if it be hotte and not sufferable then it is not sufficiently sodde This I know to be true for I haue seene the tryall thereof LAy a greene Iuy leafe in a dyshe or other vessell of fayre water eyther for your selfe or for any other on Newyeares euen at night and couer the water in the sayd vessel and set it in a sure or safe place vntyl Twelfe euen next after which wyll be the fyft day of Ianuary and then take the sayd Iuy leafe out of the sayd water and marke well if the sayde leafe be fayre and greene as it was before for then you or the party for whom you layd it into the water wyl be whole and sound and safe from any sicknes all the next yeare following But if you fynde any black spots theron then you or the party for whome you layde it into the water wyll be sicke that same yeare following And if the spots be on the vpper part of the leafe towards the stalke then the sycknes or paine wyll be in the head or in the neck or there about And if it be spotted nye the myds of the leafe then the sycknes wyll be about the stomack or hart And lykewise iudge that the disease or griefe wyll be in that part of the body according as you see the black spots vnder the same in the leafe Accoumpting the spots in the nether or sharpe end of the leafe to sygnify of the paynes or diseases in the feete And if the leafe be spotted all ouer then it signifies that you or the partie shall dye that yeare following You may prooue this for many or fewe at one time by putting in the water for euery one a leafe of greene Iuy so that euery leafe be noted or marked to whom it doth belong This was crediblye tolde me to be very certaine who affyrmed to me faithfully that it was diuers times proued for a verye trueth But because I neuer tryed it therefore I refer euery one that shall reade it to the tryall thereof BRusonious wryghtes and Georgius Fabricus affyrmes the same that the bones of Hens myxed with melted Golde doo consume the same Golde in to themselfe THe water distilled of Honny makes faire and comly cullored Heyre if it be often moystned or spunged therewith This is prooued THe rootes of Hollyockes stampt and myxt with the Grease of an olde Hogge and plastred to the Gowte healpeth it in three dayes Petrus Hispanus VEriuyce sodde vntill it be very hot and then put into a tâ—â—nen Bottell with a narrow mouth and then holden too or in the eare that the fume thereof may enter into the head it will helpe the head ache meruelously and the sounding of the eares And if there be any quick thinges in the head it wyll bringe them forthwith great speede A Gentleman taught this to a woman that was sore tormented in her head esteeming it as a precious secret but I neuer tryed it therefore as it prooues so prayse it IF one be wounded that hath the dropsye it is hard to heale him Hippocrates Therefore this is worth the marking YOu shall knowe how many dayes old the Moone is if you do as followeth especially shee being in the fyrst quarter holde before your eyes a peece of fyne Lawne and looke through it straight vpon the Moone and so many dayes old as the Moone is so many Moones shall you see or at the least they wyll seeme so many in your sight Assoone as you try it you wyll saye it is true For I haue seene the proofe thereof I Hard it tolde for a very truth by diuers persons that in a plague time in the Citty of Cullen there was a certaine woman dyed and was buryed with a Ring of golde on her fynger for the greedines whereof a couetous fellow within a whyle after she was buryed digged her Graue and opened the coffyn wherein shee did lye thinking thereby to take away the Ringe from her fynger but immediatly the sayd woman did soddainly sturre and mooue and began to syt vp which when the sayd fellow sawe with great feare he did runne
fowre Angles strong well affected doth shew that the chylde then borne shall be hye minded strong and famed for his strength lyberallity and shewes also that he shal be an Astronomer For Mercurie Occidental in Leo is woont to make Astronomers And Mercurie Orientall of the Sun and strong doth shew great knowledge wisedome of handy workes chiefly if hee be with the Moone or in the house of the Moone that is Cancer and if he be in a moueable sygne it sygnifies inconstantnesse both of deede and minde But in a fyxed sygne inconstancie Taisnier PRymrose leaues stampt and layd in the place that bleedeth stancheth the bloud This hath bene proued TAke black Sope and almost as much of Ginger in powder and mixe them well together then annoynt therwith any Tetter or Ringwoorme euerie day for the space of fowre or fiue daies together and it wyll heale it certaynly Proued TAke Aloes EpatcuÌ„ fowre drams Briony Mastick Myrre Asarrabaccha Scamony of each a dram myxe the same made in powder with the iuyce of FeÌ„nel and a lytle clarifyed Honny to preserue them Take a dram therof which is the weyght of .lxxii. barly cornes at the most earlie in the morning neyther eate nor drink of three or fowre howres after If they be geueÌ„ nine dayes together they help maruelously and they are very excellent for all maner of head ache approued though neuer so loÌ„g rooted They purge al humors they bring gladnesse they are good for the eye syght they preserue the mind letting or hyndring the horenes of heayrs they helpe the swymming of the head and the migrim and heales the sounding of the eares But to the weaker persons â–ª geue the lesser quantitie Make it in fiue or sixe lytle round pyls or bals and swallowe them one after another at one tyme They are proued to be very good I founde this in a very olde written booke IF Mercurie be impedite of Saturne in a chylds Natiuitie it doth hynder the tongue But it is woorse wheÌ„ they be corporally coniunct together especially in the Ascendent or in the seuenth house and in the same sygne with the Sun Mercury being then occidentall or if Mercury be aboue the earth corporally coniunct with Saturne or els in an euyll aspect of Saturne and in a dum sygne called Signum mutum and also is Infortunate that is to saye in an euyll place Retrograde or combust and peregrene That party then borne wil haue great impediment in his toÌ„gue or else wyll be dum and cannot speake Iatromath Guat Ryff IOhannes Langius an excellent Phisition sayth that he hearde it reported of certayne Horsemen of the countrey Palentine that they dyd see in Austria a man which with barking and with swyft running contended and stryued with Dogs and was hunted of them vnhurt in the woods THe eyes of young Swallowes being in the nest prickt with an needle or a pynne so made blinde within fowre or fiue dayes after they wyl see again Which is very true for I haue proued it But howe they recouer their syght I knowe not But dyuers wryte if their eyes be hurt the olde Swallowes restores their sight againe with the iuyce of Celendin WHite Poppie and Henbane seede a litle stamped and tempered with the whyte of an egge layd to the foreheade prouoketh sleepe This hath bene often proued THis following wyll heale lame members See the Rew Rosemary of each two handful with common Oile Malmesey of either one quart together for the space of halfe an howre Then let the lame members be washt and bathed therewith but before the sayde member or geieued place must be well chafed with a hotte cloath then when it is well bathed which wyll be within halfe an howre wrappe keepe the member or place so bathed with a lambe skynne the wooll syde inwarde and do thus euerie night before or at his going to bedde three weekes at the least and he wyll be hole and sounde thereof Doctor Owen helpt one herewith and with none other thing that could neyther stand nor go but was very lame They that sawe the proofe therof tolde it to mee which was and is a man of good credite IT was a heynous offence with the Egiptians eyther wyllingly or by chaunce to kyll a Catte And Diodorus telles a pretie story therof least it might be thought to be a fable In the time of Ptolomie a league or amity being begun betwene him the Romains A certaine Romaine then against his wyl had killed a Cat whervpon the Egiptians gathered together and dyd beset the house where he was requyring to haue him to be executed for his great offeÌ„ce no whit regarding the power of the Romaines nor yet their lague or friendshippe with them When had not the King and Rulars bene they would haue drawn him out of the house and kylled him Diodorus TO keepe Harnes or any other thing made of yron or steele from rusting Let the same be rubd ouer with Vineger mixt with Ceruse or the marrowe of a Hart which is farre better then Oyle and it wyl keepe them fayre and bright IF the Lord of the second house be in the first house Fortunate the chyld then borne shal possesse Ryches without labour And by the nature of the Planet thou maist know wherby the ryches wyl come As if it be the Sunne it wyll come to him by power that is the rytches wyll happen by helpe or fauour of great men if Mars then by warres or by theft if Saturne of the enheritaunce of the dead if Iupiter of fayth relygion or of Masters of fayth or of the lawe and such lyke appertayning to Iupiter if Venus by women if Mercury by learning wisedome or marchandize if the Moone by the workes of hands or by iournyes â–ª but if the Lorde of the seconde house so placed be not fortunate and an euyll planet beholding him he shal lose all his goodes Taisnier A Notable oyle or medicine for the Gowte ioynt aches very true and often proued Take the iuyce of Sage of Aqua vite of oyle Debaye of Uineger Mustarde and of a Beasts gall of each a lyke much put them all together into a great blather and chafe it well vp and downe with your hands for the space of an howre and a halfe and keepe it then to your vse and annoynt the grieued place therwith euery morning and euening and you shall finde your selfe healed within a short tyme This is a sure and often proued thing THis precious medicine following doth preserue keepe them that takes it safe from poyson or plague Take of Iumper berryes two drams of Earth of Lemnie called of the Phisitions Terre Lemnie as much and one scruple more which iâ— the weyght of xxiiii barly cornes When you haue made them in fine powder mixe them with Honny and keepe it â—o your vse in a cleane vessell geue as much thereof at one tyme as a Hasell nutte in three