will never suffer it to close up till it be perfectly healed Take Galbanum Opoponax ana two ounces Ammoniac Bdellium ana one ounce Steep them in vinegar eight or fourteen days the longer the better then strein them and inspissate them to the thickness of hony Then take Litharge pulverised one pound let it boyle gently over a small fire in two pints of olive oyle moving it all the while with a little stick till it come to be of a bay colour Then remove it from the fire and by and by add of wax one pound stir it till it melt then put in the foresaid gumms and mix them well when they are all mixed add oyle of Lawrell three ounces and then mix it well together Then taking it quite from the fire add these following pouders Take of Crocus Martis munrie of the magnet majisterie of red and white coral ana half an ounce Lapis calaminaris red myrrh male Frankincence mastick and round Aristolochia ana two ounces powder all these into a most subtil powder and mix them by little and little This 〈…〉 done add of oyle of Amber which comes forth last in the distillation and is called balsome of Amber one dram then put it on again and stir it very well over agentle fire then when it is a little cool make it up into rolls for your use CHAP. XX. Instructions to put in practise the several ways of curing the French disease before rehearsed ACcording to each particular aforesaid of curing the French disease there are diverse dayly cured Yet would we not advise any to undertake the cure of this disease by any of these ways indifferently without respect had to the patients constitution age course of life and all other circumstances whatsoever After he hath observed the several ways of curing this disease which I have here set down let him satisfy himself inwardly upon what accompt each particular way is most suitable to such a particular constitution As for example for effeminate persons and those which are of a more delicate temper there is a balsome prescribed in the twelveth Chapter Now why should these be cured by this way rather then by any other The reason is because there is something or other in all the other ways of curing this disease which might prove destructive to a tender habit of body The decoction mentioned in the first Chapter would dry them too much and be apt to breed a schyrrhus in some of the inward parts as the liver the spleen the pancreas salivation which is another way of curing would presently consume them Wherefore if this safe and easy way will perform the cure why should we put the patient to the trouble and inconvenience of any other as fluxing sweating or the like To which I answer that although this way doth cure it in those that are of a tender habit yet it will not be effectual to those of a stonger constitution Thus a prune or an apple will move some persons when as others shall not be moved with an ounce of Manna or two ounces of syrrup of Roses so great is the diversity of constitutions When the practitioner is fully satisfied in reason why each particular way of cure is most conducible to such a particular temperament let him observe whether there be not a complication or mixture of symptoms in the patient that is whereas I have set down after each particular cure that such a way is proper for effeminate persons and another way proper for those that have extream paines whether the person be not only an effeminate person and troubled also with nocturnal pains with some other symptoms set down severally in other chapters and if there be let him so compound these particular ways of cure that they may be most agreeable to the complication of the patients symptoms as for example suppose I had a patient of a strong constitution having nocturnal pains both in his head and other parts and pustles in his face and outward parts I would use the decoction in the seventh chapter but yet I would borrow the pill mentioned in the fourtenth chapter which I would give him instead of that draught of the decoction which he should take every night when he goes to bed and besides that I would use unto him first the water for his pustles set down in the eight chapter If I had a patient of an indifferent hot temper who had extream pains sometimes in his head but not very often as perhaps once in fortnight or three weeks I would first flux him according to the method set down in the ninth Chapter and after his fluxing I would give him the decoctions mentioned in the seventh chapter for the space of ten days By which instances it is plain how little difficulty there is in contriving a fit remedy for this disease in each particular constitution CHAP. XXI Of the Cure of the Gonorrhea called the Running of the Reines THE simple Gonorrhea though the symptomes thereof be nothing neer so dangerous as are those of the pox yet if the patient either through negligence or bashfulness doe neglect the timely cure it will certainly in a short time turn to the pox and therefore the remedy thereof is suddainly to be sought We need not set down the symptome of this disease for it easily betrayes it self and therefore we shall proceed to the cure The method of the first way of curing this disease is as follows Take guaiacum four ounces Senna two ounces anniseeds and liquorice ana one ounce lignum neptneticum half an ounce boyl them over night in three quarts of water until half be wasted then put into it three dramms of Agarick Let the ingredients continue in the liquor all night in the morning strein away the ingredients and mix with the streined liquor four ounces of syrrup of Roses solutive keep it in a cool place for your use Let the patient drink of this Apozeme every morning five ounces fasting so long as it lasts The third day after he hath taken all his Apozeme give him this following potion Take plantain water four ounces Venice Turpentine wash'd in red rose water half an ounce and the yolk of an egg First incorporate the yolk of the egg with the turpentine in a little mortar then mix the plantain water by little and a little by degrees The third day after he hath taken this Potion take these following pills Take of Aloes Rosat half an ounce Agarick trochiscated two dramms Coloptony two scruples Mastick half a dram saffron twenty grains syrrup of damask roses as much as suffices make them into a mass according to art Let him take two scruples of this mass made into five pills every third morning for three weeks together This is most convenient for those which are of a cold constitution CHAP. XX. The second way of curing the running of the reines TAke China and Sarsaperilla ana an ounce and a half Redsage a small handfull
Senna an ounce Coriander seeds prepared three drams boyle them over night in white wine and spring water of each three pints untill half be wasted Then while it is hot put into the decoction two drams of Rhubarb sliced and let it infuse in the liquor all night with the rest of the ingredients in the morning strein away the ingredients and put to the liquor four ounces of syrrup of Cichory with Rhabarb Let the patient drink twelve spoonfulls of this Apozeme fasting so long as it shall last The next day after he hath taken all his Apozeme let him begin to take of this following electuary Take of Lenitive Electuary three ounces Cassia lately extracted in red rose water and Venice turpentine wash'd in plantain water ana an ounce and a half The powder of Senna and Anniseeds of each a dram and a half Rhubarb finely powdered a dram mix them according to art into an electuary Of this Electuary let him take the quantity of a wallnut fasting and as much at four of the clock in the afternoon so long as it shall last When he begins to take of this electuary let him take this following plaister and lay it athwart his back letting it continue on as long as will stick Take of Venice Turpentine an ounce Virgins wax half an ounce melt them together in a brass ladle or smal earthen pot over a gentle fire and when it is almost cold stir into it three dramms of white sealed Earth finely powdered spread it upon Allome leather to be apply'd as aforesaid This way of cure best agrees with those that are of a hot constitution CHAP. XXIII The third way of curing the Running of the reines FIrst give the patient this following vomit Take of the infusion of Crocus metallorum an ounce Oxymeil simplex two ounces oyle of Cinamon a drop mix them together give it him in a morning fasting with due observation according to the custome of vomiting After he hath taken this vomit two days after give half a dram of extractum rudii and twelve grains of mercurius dulcis mixt together made into four pills Two days after he hath taken the pills sweat him with this following sweating potion Take treacle water two ounces Antimonium diaphoreticum ten grains syrrup of wood sorrel an ounce and a half mix them together The next day after he hath sweat let him begin to take this following Apozeme Take China Sarsaperil Senna rootes of water Lillies of each an ounce Raisins stoned four ounces black hellebore half an ounce Caraway seeds and Cinamon of each three dramms boyle them altogether in three quarts of water over a gentle fire in an Earthen vessel close covered untill half be wasted strain away the ingredients and sweeten the liquor with six ounces of common Treacle Give him four ounces of this Apozeme at a time every morning fasting for the space of twenty days in the mean time let him swallow every night when he goes to bed five pills as big as large peas of Cyprus Turpentine This cure is most proper for those that have a violent Gonorrhea or running of the reines which may have some tincture or smatch of the French disease CHAP. XXIV The fourth way of curing the Gonorrhea TAke of Rhabarb Crema Tartar of each four ounces Cassia newly extracted and Venice Turpentine as much as will thicken it into the form of an electuary Let the patient take of this electuary in the morning fasting as much as will amount to the quantitie of a wall nut and at night also when he goes to bed the same quantity drinking after it a glass of whay or if he find any sharpness in his urine a glass of milk and water Let him doe this for a fortnight or three weeks together He may goe about his business without any disturbance only keeping a temperate dyet and abstaining from much drinking and taking tobacco If the person be of a sanguine complexion he may let blood before he begins to take his Electuary Let this cure be used only when the disease is taken in time before the venome of the disease hath proceeded two farr CHAP. XXV The fifth way of curing the Gonorrhea FIrst purge the patient with a bolus of Cassia newly extracted causing him to drink after it a little broth without any salt in it After this let him take half a dram of Chrystallum minerale in six ounces of whey two howrs before meals morning and evening and at meals let him use this following dyet drink Take of barly grass topps of Mallows plantain leaves agrimony maidenhaire ana a good handfull liquorice as much as will suffice boyle it high and make thereof a Ptisan and to every foure pints of this Ptisan add half an ounce of Chrystallum minerale use this for fifteen or sixteen days or three weeks This with great ease stopps the gonorrhea of it self But if it be an old running after you have made use of the former prescription the due time set down take of this following mass of pills Take of Salt of Coral rectifyed twice or thrice with spirit of Guaiacum one ounce extract of Amber one ounce Terra sigillata three drams Crocus Martis astringent reverberated half an ounce Extract of tormentill Pilosell golden rod great Sanicle of each two ounces Venice Turpentine evaporated with a soft heat till the consumption of the third part Mix with the hot Turpentine first the extract of amber then the falt of coral and the terra sigillata mingled with the other extracts then the Crocus Martis stirring with a spatula till they be all exactly mixed Make a mass thereof and let the patient take thereof two scruples made into pills morning and evening till he find himself well You may also use injections into the yard made of the decoction of Tormentil golden rod pilosell and great Sanicle dissolving a dram of Saccharum Saturni in one dram of the said Liquor CHAP. XXVI The chymical way of curing a virulent Gonorrhea IN the curing of the Gonorrhea chymically green precipitate is thus made Take of mercurie three ounces and dissolve it in two ounces of aqua fortis of Venus one ounce and dissolve it in two ounces of Aqua fortis mix the two solutions together and distil them out of the sand through a retort toward the end of the distillation urging the fire more Vehemently whereby the greatest parts of the corrosive spirits may be taken away pound that which remains behind in a mortar and with vinegar digest it six days in the ashes then boyl it that the greatest part of the mercurie may be dissolved in the vinegar when it it impregnated with the vinegar take it and distil it with a soft fire till it be come very drie and there will remain in the bottome a green precipitate of this give four five six or seven grains according to the strength of the patient in conserve of roses CHAP. XXVII General observations concerning the Cure
the liver Secondly because the parts infected doe not digest and expel the excrements by way of transpiration and therefore it remains there and grows into crusts But there are besides these pustules other signs of the disease as the hanging down of the Uvula in the further part of the mouth which causeth much moisture to come into the mouth by reason wereof happens a very great hoarsness Wherefore if you hear your patient speak hoarsely open his mouth and you shall perceive the Uvula full of moisture which if the patient have no Catarrhe is a confirm'd sign of the disease The cause of the moistness of the Uvula is the change and infection of the naturall spirits which being carried with the blood throughout every vein of the whole body by reason of their infection lose their strength so that their function grows weak and feeble in the stomach which causes and engenders flegm and unnatural humours in the brains which abundance of humours falling down upon the Uvula are the cause of it's being press'd down if the blood be sharper it consumes the rootes of the hair which causeth them to fall off it exulcerates the mouth the palate and the nose Now the cause of hoarsness of the voice is humidity and excrements which stop and let the wayes of the voice There be other tumours denoting this disease as such are the tumours of the glandules in the further part of the mouth which when ere you see be out of doubt that the infection of this disease is confirmed For the infection being now sent to the head is expelled by his emunctory places which are the glandules There are in the last place certain other tumours called gummata or bumbata by reason that the matter contained in them resembleth the gum of trees which happens either because the partie is not well nourish'd but heapes up abundance of undigested excrements or else because the liver continually feeds them with the infected matter of the disease Note here that if an asthma happen upon this disease it declares the party to be past cure and therefore let never any man seek to put such a one to pain by medecines or other means for they shall never heal such a one These signs confirming the certainty of the infection care must be had that you know the time of the infection for if it be new and lately contracted it requires a shorter and easier cure if it be of a long standing it requires a longer and more artificial cure CHAP. IV. Generall observations concerning the cure of the French disease THis small Treatise which we are now about to write doth contain all both the known and secret ways of curing the French disease which are at this day practised either in London Paris Venice Rome or any other part of the world yet all these would be in vain without some general of what is to be done before the cure in the cure and after the cure Before you proceed to the particular cure of this disease let the body be sufficiently cleansed otherwise that which you give to cure the disease will work upon some other superfluous humour of the body and leave the disease but half cured for though the symptoms will for the present abate and the disease seem to be wholly cured yet the next spring after the patient shall be sure to know by wofull experience that his Doctor was but an Emperick CAP. V. Of the preparation of the humours THE humours predominant in the constitution of every person are Phlegme Blood Choler or Melancholy and according to the particular abundancy of either of these humours people are said to be phlegmatick sanguine cholerick or melancholick If the patient be Phlegmatick first prepare his body and then purge him let him be prepared with this following Apozeme Take rootes of Parsley Fennel Grass butchers brome and Asparagus an ounce Maidenhaire one handful Penyroyal half a handful Cinamon and Liquorice an ounce cut slice or bruise them according to Art then boyle them all together in whitewine and spring water of each a pound and half until half be wasted strein away the ingredients and sweeten the Liquor with six ounces of Oxymel Julianizan drink of this four ounces fasting in the morning and as much to bedward so long as it shall last The next day after he hath taken his Apozeme in the morning fasting give him this following Purging potion and if need require two days after purge him again Take Senna three drams Agarick two Scruples Caraway-seeds half a dram Cinamon and Squinanth one scruple infuse them all night in four ounces of white wine strein it then added Manna and Syrrup of Roses solute half an ounce Tartarum vitriolatum ten grains The next day after proceed to the particular cure If the patient be of a sanguine constitution take from his right arm ten ounces of blood more or less according to his age strength and time of the year The next day after bleeding proceed to the particular cure If the patient be cholerick purge him with this following potion Take Senna two drams Rhubarb and Tamarinds an' a dram Coriander seeds prepared half a dram creame of Tartar a scruple infuse them in three ounces and a half of sorrel water for the space of twelve hours strain it and put to the strained liquor one ounce and a half of syrup of Roses and one drop of oyle of Cinamon If you perceive by his excrements that his body be very fowle purge him again after two days intermission and the next day after begin with his particular cure If the patient be melancholy take from his left arme nine ounces of blood more or less according to his strength age and the time of the year The next day after bleeding let him take of this following preparative Apozeme Take Borage Bugloss Maiden-hair Ceterach and Fumitory of each a small handfull the roots of grass Asparagus and liquorice an one ounce Cream of Tartar half an ounce boyle them altogether in two quarts of spring water untill half be wasted strein it and sweeten the strained liquor with six ounces of syrrup of Apples Give him four ounces of it in the morning fasting and as much at night towards bed time as long as it shall last The next day after he hath taken all his Apozeme let him purge with this following potion Take Senna three drams black Hellebore one dram Agarick half a dram Galingale and Squinanth an one scruple Spikenard ten grains Infuse them all night in four ounces and a half of Borage water in the morning put to the streyned Liquor one ounce and a half of syrup of Roses and five drops of oyle of vitriol Two days after he hath taken this potion if need require purge him again with two scruples of extractum Rudii made up into five pills The next day after he hath taken his pills take more blood from him as you shall see occasion and then proceed to
Saffron a scruple Juyce of Camomil as much as suffices make them into a mass according to art Of this following mass make a pill consisting of ten grains and let the patient take one every night when he goes to bed for forty nights together let him be composed to a good moderate sweat by laying on good store of cloathes upon him in the mean time let him drink nothing but spring water both at meals and at other times This is most agreeable to them that have extreme nocturnal pains and have scarce any other symptomes as swellings pustules c. CHAP. XV. The eight way of curing the French disease MAke the Patient an Issue in his right arm and another in his lest leg then give him five spoonfulls of this following Apozeme every morning fasting and as much at four in the afternoon so long as it shall last The Apozeme Take of the Shavings of Tin two ounces of the juice of Rue six ounces of the juice of Garleek four ounces Venice-Treacle an ounce and a half Muskadel fix pintes boyle them altogether in an earthen-vessel close cover'd over a gentle fire until half be wasted This way is most sutable for those that are much extenuated and weakened by reason of the long continuance of the disease CHAP. XVI The ninth way of curing the French disease TO these eight waies before rehearsed we shall adde a ninth which is called the Chimical way of curing the French disease Take powder of Mastick one scruple Mercurius dulcis three grains make thereof little tablets with Honey which the Patient is to chew in his mouth for eight hours when the flux is raised you must omit purgations and take care against the excoriation of the tongue mouth and gums which is easily avoided by a gargarism made only of salt and water with which being luke warm the mouth is often to be wash'd all this while the patient must eate nothing but thin though nourishing broths The salivation perfected Take of the red spirit of Mercurie as Hartman easily prepares it and put two drops thereof in a small draught of persicaria water of peaches This causes moderate sweats and thereby cleanses the body from any infection which the Mercury could leave behind it wholly extirpates the disease So that in three or four times taking you shall see the pustles shale of themselves the tumours asswage and if there be any faetid ulcers they presently dry up and heal There is no pox saith Hartman so obstinate but it yeilds to this medicament so that the patient have strength to endure the sweatings which he is to undergoe CHAP. XVII The second Chymicall way of curing the French disease FIrst purge with confectio Hamech or Diacarthamum after purgation if the party be plethorick let blood otherwise not This done make this following oyntment Tage of Hogs seam one pound without any salt in it and very new Mercurii vivi kill'd in juice of Limons or Turpentine water which is better with this oyntment anoynt the knees and legs of the patient before and if the disease be vehement the spine of the back also after that let him sweat gently in his bed with hot bottles if he sweat not easily after the three first dayes whereas before you anointed him only in the morning anoint him twice a day viz. in the morning and three hours after dinner when the flux is raised cease oynting and let him be kept in a warm bed while the flux lasts but if it continue above eight or nine dayes use then astringent gargarismes made of Pilosella Myrtles Centinody orange flowers and mel rosarum use the said gargarisme also when the flux ceases to clense the teeth and gums or mingle salt water with the decoction of Guiacum and wash the mouth therewith While the flux lasts let him use onely for his drink the second decoction of Guaiacum as shall be set down When the flux hath ceas'd let him eate rost meats altogether and let him twice a day take this following decoction Take of the shavings of Lignum Sanctum one pound of the bark of the same four ounces infuse them in twelve pints of water for the space of twenty four hours then boyle it to the consumption of the eight part strain it and let him take four ounces at a time Then take the residue and put to it other twelve pints of water and let it boyle gently to this you may add a little Cinamon liquorice and raisins of the sun and this is that which as we said before he must use instead of drink Every sixt day purge him with confection Hamech or Diacarthamum or confectio de Citro and be sure that all the time of the cure he abstain from salt and salt meats CHAP. XVIII Of curing the pustles coming of the French disease TAke Sage Rue nightshade and red rose leaves of each a handful Guaiacum two ounces Orpiment half an ounce Quicksilver two dramms boyle them all together in two quarts of spring water in an earthen vessel close cover'd over a gentle fire until half be wasted Streine away the ingredients and put the liquor into a stone bottle and put to it two drams of Chalcantum Romanum dawb the pustule with this liquor with a linnen cloth twice a day Another way to cure the said pustules Take Quicksilver four ounces silver two ounces dissolve them apart in aqua fortis then being dissolved mix them together and by a retort in the sand distill a water out of them That Liquor distill again in Balneo till you can perceive no more to come from the still this water keep for your use dip a small feather therein and with it wipe over the pustules one by one every day once and they will presently look black and dye if they fall nor off in four days cease to use the water and anoynt them with a little Fresh butter which will cause them to fall off When they are fallen off Take a little Saccharum Saturni and dissolve it in rose water and wet the place whence the scabbs or pustules fell off and it will take both the scar and the redness or Take of the rust of brass one part Salt peter two parts mingle them together and put them in a dish and with a peice of paper lighted set them on fire when it hath don flaming take that which remains and put it into the bladder of ahog then tye it up close and put the bladder into cold water and that within will presently dissolve then strein it through a piece of silk and keep it for the same purpose to be used as before CHAP. XIX To cure a Bubo TAke a Diaculum plaister and moisten it with vinegar and lay it on the swelling and as the swelling rises lay on another every day twice aday to soften the tumour when it is full ripe open it with a pen knif and press out the matter Then apply to it this following plaister which