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A90959	Medicaments for the poor; or, Physick for the common people Containing, excellent remedies for most common diseases, incident to mans body; made of such things as are common to be had in almost every country in the world: and are made with little art, and smal charge. This book is of admirable use for, 1. Purging medicines, for choller, flegm, melancholly, or watry humors. 2. Vomits. 3. Such things as evacuate by sweat, spittle, the pallate, nostrils, or insensibly. 4. Womens diseases. 5. Worms. 6. The stone. 7. Poysons. 8. The Head over-heat, or over-cooled. 9. The eyes. 10. The Joynts. 11. The nerves. 12. Breathing. 13. The heart. 14. The stomach. 15. The intestines. 16. And for diseases of ill conformation. 17. Or in faulty magnitude. 18. Or in number. 19. Or in scituation, and connexion. 20. Or in dissolved unity. First written in Latin, by that famous and learned doctor, John Prevotius, phylosopher, and publick professor of physick in Padua. Translated into English, and something added, By Nich. Culpeper, student in physick, and astrology.; Medicina pauperum. English	Prevost, Jean, 1585-1631.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3324A; ESTC R230757	103,568	318

Honey Water with a little Vineger These Purge Violently Dogs Cole the Juyce of it whilst it is fresh and the Herb first dried in the shade The same thing doth Scammony but it is corrected with Quinses or the Smoak of Brimstone which is a new Invention and it makes the Medicament gentle enough and void of all taste either of these being grossely poudered is spread upon a brown Paper and poudered Brimstone is cast upon the Coals underneath so that the Paper over it may receive the smoak so soon as the matter begins to Melt it is taken away and reserved for use and so may Scammony be safely given from five grains to fifteen but if it be prepared with Quinses ten grains are sufficient it may be given in some convenient Liquor or made up in Pills or Bolus Of these spoken of divers purging Medicaments may presently be provided concerning which we must generally take notice that the purgation will be made more gentle if purgatives be mixed with Lenitives of the same kind which must be understood proportionably of all other purgatives for Example A potion to purge Choller may presently be provided thus Take Raysons half an ounce sweet Prunes eight The Lesser Centaury two drams Fennel Seed half a dram Barley or common Water eight ounces make a Decoction at a soft fire til half be consumed strain it and give it to drink If you will have a Bolus Take the Roots of patience in pouder one dram the flowers of the Lesser centaury half a dram the pulp of Raysons clensed from their stones or the * what Rob is how to make it you may easily learn if you Read the Translation of my London Dispensatory under the Title Rob you shall find twelve several sorts of Rob by which with diligence and care you may make any other sort of Rob. Rob of Prunes thickned six drams Ginger six grains mingle them and make a Bolus If you meet with a Patient whose Stomach abhors all Physick then make purging Prunes or Currence or Figs if you steep the said fruit in some of these purging Decoctions that purge Choller so long that the fruit swel and then six Prunes or three or four Figs or half an ounce of Currence unto one ounce will be sufficient for a purge So you may provide these fruit to purge any other Humors only changing the matter of the Purgative Liquors that they are soaked in according to the matter of the disease whether it be Blood Melancholy or Flegm These gently Purge Flegm when it is predominant Agarick infused all night in Liquor in which Ginger is first soaked or Hysop or Time or some other like hot and sharp Herb and then it is dryed As they make Agarick in * See the way of making Thoches of any sort in my Translation of the London Dispensatory of the las● Edition Troches it is given beaten into Pouder from half a dram to one dram in Pills or Bolus or drink of Oxymel it is infused from four scruples to three drams or thereabouts especially in Honey Water Asarum of Mathiolus Purgeth every Part of it but the Root most effectual it is given in Pouder from one dram to two drams with Oxymel or Water and Honey The pulp of the Seeds of wild Saffron is given from two drams to five drams or thereabout the Emulsion of them is given in sweet Wine strong Wine or Broth it is corrected with such things as heat and corroborate the Stomach as spike wild Galingal Rosemary c. The Juyce of the Berries of Buckthorn or dying-thorn wherewith the the Book-binders do Colour the Coverings of their Books Yellow is given in substance from three drams to six drams it is corrected with sweet Herbs Seeds or Spices especially with Ginger The thicker Rind of the Elm Poudered is given from two drams to half an ounce or thereabouts in Wine or the Decoction of Hysop Radix cava or the Root of Bulbus Fumitory dryed in the shade is given in substance poudered one dram in some convenient Liquor Of the Buck-thorn there is made a pleasing Syrup two ways and to be kept for the Poor after this fashion Take the Juyce of the Berries of dying Buck-thorn clarified two pound clarified Honey two pound and an half Boyle it at a soft fire to the consistence of a Syrup straind through a wide Linnen Cloth after wards whilst the strained Liquor is yet hot cast in of the best Cinnamon in Pouder three drams Ginger one dram and an half mingle them and keep it for your use Or. Take of the said Juyce strained and Boyled by it self til a fourth part be consumed one pound clarif●ed Honey eight ounces Boyl them together to the consistence of a Syrup when they are Boyled and taken from the fire cast in two drams of good Cinnamon Give either of these from one ounce to one ounce and an half in Wine or Broth of Flesh or in the Decoction of Hysop or Poley or Time Strong Purgatives Take the Root of Esula the greater or the less which is commonly the more effectual The Root is used first steeped in Rose Vineger or Vineger of Quinces and then dried and kept for occasion If these Vinegers be wanting common Vineger is altered with some Stomachicall Astringent as with Roses Barberies wild Pomgranat● Flowers or Quinces the Tendrells of Vines Flowrs of the wild Vine or Myrtle Berries it is given in Pouder from six grains to twenty grains it is Infused from one scruple to five scruples or thereabout in Wine or Metheglin The Rind of the Root Esula of Venice is of the same nature prepared and given the same way Garden-Broom which they cal● spanish Broom the Leavs and Seeds are given in substance from one dram to two drams in Infusion or Decoction from two drams to half an ounce It is corrected with Aromatical Wine or some Odoriferous stomachical remedies Al the parts of cornerd Broom do the same effects exhibited the same way Common Hermodactils or Meddow Saffron of Dioscorides the Roots of them digged up before they flower and especially before the Leaves come forth endure no boyling or infusion the Pouder is given from two scruples to two drams in Pils or Bolus or Lozenges or alone in drink in Wine or Broth. The force of it must be sharpned with some tart thing as with Ginger Hysop or Time also it were good to ad some Antidote to correct the Windiness of it as amongst common antidotaries are Rue Goats Rue or wild Angelica Root and the purgation wil be the safer The Root of the yellow wild Daffodil is given in substance from two drams to half an ounce in Wine or Broth it is corrected with odoriferous stomach strengthners The dry Root of the black wild Vine of Mathiolus is given in Decoction from one dram and an half to three drams In substance poudred from half a dram to one dram and half or thereabouts it is corrected with the

of Herbs with sharp wine adding some Allum to them The Juyce of the fruit of Guajacum of Padua when it is half ripe pressed forth through a Linnen Cloth or received by a Spunge stayeth the most desperate flowing of the Hemorrhoids therefore it may be thickned with Allum and be kept for use Also Goats-dung beaten with Vineger and laid on stops all fluxes of Blood The Leaves of common Nettles beaten til the Juyce come forth and put into the Nostrills like a Tent stayeth bleeding at the Nose be it never so Violent But in a hot cause these bind a little Rain water steeled water water of Mineralls of Iron such as is the water of Padua of the Mountain Ortho. Vineger Posca Root of Succory Leaves of the Cypress Tree dried Strawberry Leaves Barley torrefied of which a Ptisan may be made with steeled water steeled Milk Tree Moss Mirtills Purslain the Clot Burr spotted Ars-mart Pear Tree of the Orchards four Prunes the Leaves of Sloes Pond-weed the flowers of Roses especially the red the Seed Down Cups and Root the flowers and Leaves of Willows Housleek Mullen the Leaves and Tendrells of Vines Venus Navil Of these may be provided chiefly Decoctions amonst which against inveterate defluxions the Decoction of the Roots of Roses in some of the foresaid waters is excellent Also this drink by certain experience stayeth in one day every hot excrementitious Bloody Flux of the Belly Take the Juyce of the greater housleek and spotted Ars-mart of each three ounces Boyl them to the Consumption of a third part and give it in drink Outwardly may be prepared Fomentations Baths Emplaisters Epithems and other forms of Medicaments as need requires These bind moderately the Juyce of Oranges Citrons Lemmons not ripe wilding Leaves Leaves of wild Pomegranates Barberries Sheppards purse the inward Rinds of Chestnuts Cistus Dog Tree and the fruit of it the fruit of the Cypress Tree green or not yet ripe flower of the Sun Acorns and their Cups Herb-trinity Hypocistis the flowers of the wild Vine the flowers of the purple water Willow all the Sea Lavenders the common Blood-stone sour Pomegranates Quinces Pomegranate Rinds Nose-Bleed unripe Mulberries Leaves of the Olive Tree Adders Tongue Plantain wild Pear Tree the fruit of the bastard Corinths the Leaves of Brambles unripe Mulberries Sow-wort Iron-wort Yarrow all Medicinal earths the Elm Golden Rod and all these almost may be found in most places The dry Pouders of these may be given to one dram in Bolus or drink or some convenient liquor Decoctions may be made of the Herbs but the Juyces are more effectual the Dose whereof is from one ounce to two ounces These are held for secrets to stop all fluxes of Blood the flowers of purple Loose-strife to one dram given several times in sharp Red Wine Also this Syrup Take the Water of Knot Grassor Yarrow five ounces Let the Blood-stone be so long in this Liquor til the Liquor be of a colour like Blood then add to it the Syrup of Quinces or Pomegranates one ounce mingle them for a drink or in the place of a Syrup put a little Sugar to make it Penetrate and some Juyce of Lemmons or sharp Pears or some other that is of a pleasant tast To stop the Laskes of the Belly and vomiting make a great hollow in a Quince or some sour Garden fruit Apples of an Iron colour are best and fill it with white Wax put it into a Paper and roast it in the Embers give a peice or two of this strewed with the Pouder of unripe Mulberries a little before meat For to stay Pissing of Blood Take the Decoction of Golden-Rod in Rain or steeled water four ounces the water of the whites of Eggs two ounces Juyce of Lemmons two ounces Mingle this to drink For outward Remedies Oyls are made suddenly of the Decoction of Quinces Cypress Nuts and of the Pine-tree and other Herbs adding Posca to it let them be Boyled til the moisture be consumed the use of these is for Oyntments or Unguents with which Litharge Boyled in Vineger may well be mingled Epithems may be made with Posca and whites of Eggs. Fomentations and Insessions of the Decoctions of Herbs Defensatives for wounds are made of Bole-Armoniack or any other Medicinable Earth and the common Blood-stone being mingled and stirred with the whites of Eggs to the consistence of a Liniment the Sediment of a W●●et-Stone affords matter for a Plaister to stay al fluxes Rulandus doth frequently extol a Plaister of Potters Clay burnt and Boyled with Vineger laid hot to the part to stop Blood that forcibly runs out of any part For the Stomach a Plaister is profitable made of a Quince Boyled in four Red Wine or adding some Crums of bread to it softned in Vineger These bind strongly amongst the most common Remedies Grape stones the Kernells of the Pomegranate dryed the flowers of purple flower-gentle the inward Skin of wood Nuts Chervil and the Root great Comfrey middle Comfrey or the great Daisey Horstail Galls especially unripe Rupture-wort the Root of the Yellow wild Flower-de-Luce the true Blood-stone common Hares-Foot wild Apples unripe Medlars the Rind of the Root of Mulberries money wort Verjuyce Juyce of Sloes Knot-grass the Root and Leaves of the Oak the Bark that is between the Tree and the outward Rind unripe Services Sumach male Sanicle dead Nettles Bloody-rod of Mathiolus or female Dog Tree Of these some are peculiarly commended for some fluxes though all of them may be used generally where there is need of great astriction For the overflowing of the Terms these are accounted approved the shel of the Root of the Mulberry the Root of the dead Nettle Grape stones and Pomegranate Kernells the Pouders of all these are given severally to one dram with Red Wine or some Liquor that is fit for it For Spitting of Blood the Blood-stone taken with Sugar of Roses to one dram or laid in astringent potions til it look like the colour of Blood or put into a Bag and beat into very smal Pouder and so strain Wine often through it or any other ordinary drink Against vomiting and any immoderate and inveterate fluxes of the Belly these two Electuaries are the principle The first Take of the Roots of Yellow wild Flower-de-Luce Boyled in Rain Water and passed through a Hair sive two parts Old Sugar of Roses one part Make an Electuary according to art the Dose is from half an ounce to one ounce In the palce of Sugar of Roses let the Poor take half so much Clarified Honey Boyled in rain water or steeled water wherein the youngest Leaves of the Oak have Boyled some time The other Take the Roots of great Comfrey Boyled in the Decoction of the Root of Garden Dropwort and passed through a Hair sive two parts Old Sugar of Roses one part or parts alike Mingle them make an Electuary the Dose is the same with the former If it be provided for Hepatick fluxes and

Hog Fennel Primroses For the Breast Figs Liquoris lungwort Colts-foot Scabious For the Heart Root of Angelica holy Thistle Caltrops Herb Bennet Ground-Ivy Lavender Pimpernel Scordium the Root of Swallow wort For the Stomach Wormwood of all kinds cheifly the common wormwood pills of Oranges and Citrons Seeds or Mints For the Liver wormwood Agrimony For the Spleen Ceterach Epithime Fumitory the rind and Root of Capparis and Tamarisk For the Matrix Mug-wort Maiden-Hair Calamint Feaverfew Pennyroyall Savin For the Reins and Bladder Smallage Sparagus Fennel Parsley Knee-holm For the whole Body Cinquefoil Tormentil Oxymel rich Metheglin Of these Syrups may be made or Decoctions in the Broth of a Pullet or sweet Wine to which it were good to add Oxymel from one ounce to two ounces Decoctions are unprofitable for the Stomach and Intestines because they pass so soon from the affected part Therefore Oxymel only is good to two ounces or a Syrup made of the foresaid Herbs To which may be added to discuss winds an Emulsion of the Seeds of Citrons or Oranges to two ounces or thereabouts in fresh Broth. Or after the Custom of the Antients Oxymel may be given wherein the tops of Wormwood have been soaked all night If Flegm be too thick and clammy we must never leave out Oxymel which must be added to Decoctions convenient wherein must be boyled some of these cutting Herbs and scouring namely Hysop Horehound Poley Savory wild Time Time Goats Marjoram If you would make an Oxymel suddenly which may be like Oxymel of Squils for its cutting and scouring Faculties it may be such a one to free the Obstructions of the Bowels Take Leaves of Bettony Agrimony Wormwood Fumitory Cink foyl of each one handfull Hysop Horehound and Time of each one handful and an half Roots of Sparagus Fennel Parsley of each one ounce Fountain Water four pound Honey two pound Let them boyl at a very soft fire til the Honey be clarified perfectly then strain them and add of the best Vineger one pound Annis Seeds two drams Cinnamon and Ginger of each one dram Boyl al at a gentle fire to a Syrup then strain al again through a wide Cloth Preparatives for Melancholly If Melancholly be not adust Borrage Bugloss Dodder stone fern Maiden-hair Liquoris Hops Balm Fumitory Harts tongue sweet Prunes are convenient and to their Decoctions Oxymel is profitably added by reason of the Vineger that cuts the thickness of the Humors If the Humor be adust things that prepare thick Choller are to be used and moreover the Juyce of sweet Apples which hath a peculiar prerogative here Also it may be mixed from one to two ounces with the Decoctions of the said Herbs Also a Syrup may be made of it taking one part of clarified Honey and two parts of Juyce of good Apples clarified and so boyl them to the consistence of a Liquid Syrup to the consumption of one third part Medicaments that allay Acrimony Those things allay Acrimony which either temper it with a pleasant moisture and water the matter or else do anoint it with an Oyly clammy substance whereof there is excellent use in cutting the pains of the heart and bloody-flux These water and temper it Fountain Water or River Water sweet Almonds Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds husked Barley Water and the Cream of Ptisan made thereof Jujubes Lettice all Milk especially of Heifers and Cows Whey Liquoris sweet Prunes and Apples Water Lillies Purslain Sow-thistles the Fruit of Winter Cherries Nightshade both Housleeks Venus Navil Of the Herbs Decoctions or Syrups are made which are made more sweet and fit to temper the Humor if you take Wine in place of Honey and boyl it with an equal part of the Juyce of the Herbs to a due consistence Of these also are compounded Medicaments that are proper for some parts For pain of the Eyes from sharp Defluxions a Cataplasm of a sweet Apple boyled in Milk is good and laid warm to the Eye For the heat of Urine the Decoction of Liquoris is singular either alone or with the Fruit of Winter Cherries taken dayly six ounces in the first repast when the Stomach is empty For the Gripings of the Guts the Decoction of great Housleek in Rain Water or two ounces of the Juyce of it in the Broth of a Chicken To these add Lead only for outward uses to anoint with Oyls being beaten in a Mortar of Lead till they become thick The white and water also of an Egg are very unctious so is white Starch in meats new Butter the fat Broth of the Entrals and the head of a Kid Calf also of the feet of Hogs and Calves old Oyl chiefly boyled with Fountain Water till the moisture be consumed Amongst Herbs are Mallows Marsh-mallows Roots of Borrage and great Consound for the Decoctions of these herbs are mucilagenous It is held for a Secret for the heat of the Urine to drink the white of an Eg with the like quantity of Juyce of Lemmons For the bloody flux the Decoction of Marsh-mallows altogether Hitherto appertains the feet of Partridg broyled the Pouder whereof given to one dram in Water of Coriander if a feaver be present or if there be no feaver in black Wine will cure an old Dysentery in three daies For painful Ulcers and Clouds that are joyned with Ophthalmia or redness of the Eyes the Balsom of Sugar dissolved in the white of an Eg that is hard boyled and it is made excellent after this fashion Put poudered Sugar into a glass that is first wel washed with strong Vineger then boyl it upon the Embers to a perfect redness after that dissolve it by Deliquium in an Egg boyled hard and the yolk taken out For outward Remedies are profitably added Goats and Deers Suet fresh Hogs Grease Kids fat whereof with Apples is made the common Pomatum the Marrow of four-footed Beasts Wax especially white Wax and the Mucilages of Lin-seed Foenugreek Flea-seed Quinces the Roots of Marsh mallows Mallows of all which there is a peculiar use in healing the choppings of the skin yet the Mucilage of flea-seeds and Quinces is given inwardly with inward Medicaments for pains of the Heart Scouring Medicaments Scouring Remedies seem to be contrary to such as allay and temper because they wipe away the clamminess and what is fast to the Parts they scour off of which kind are all salt nitrous sharp bitter things which are good for al foulness of the Skin foul Ulcers and Obstructions But because the matter of these is manifold to avoid all confusion in so great variety we shal principally lay down here such scouring Medicaments as are proper for the foulness of the Skin and others that take away Obstructions and purge Ulcers may be sought for in the Title of things that open obstructions and breed flesh in Wounds of which afterwards in the mustering up of Medicaments that respect Diseases These clense the Skin weakly Bitter Almonds Peach Kernels Juyce

them and keep them for use For spots of the Skin Take Black Soap dissolved in a strong Ly two ounces Borax two drams boyl them til they be thick Then add the husks of beans finely poudered half an ounce Oyl of Peach Kernels three ounces Mix them diligently til they be wel united and make a kind of Soap In the place of the said Oyl you may use common Oyl two ounces Oyl of Tartar one ounce Mingle them and anoint the place morning and evening and wash the Skin with some of the said Decoctions Of this kind is the Sope that the Venetian Women use to deck their faces Hair and Hands The composition is this Take damask Sope four ounces dissolve it in Juyce of Lemmons what is sufficient Then add Oyl of sweet Almonds and of Tartar of each two ounces let them stand in the Sun and be stirred every day until they grow as thick as an Unguent The part is anointed with this and then it is washed with the Decoction of Barley or Bran. Old spots Morphew are taken off with the water of Quick-Lime made with Whey wherewith the discoloured place must be often touched in them when the Skin comes off restore it again with Unguent of Litharge described amongst weak scouring remedies A man of great fame used this remedy for a high Secret and so picked great store of Money out of the Pockets of great Ladies Remedies to soften hard things Though the hardned Humor may seem to be corrected by softening only yet every hardness requires not Remedies of the same force For cold and dry Humors that are hardened by congealing are melted with Heaters only without any notable drivers which things are properly called Softeners Yet Milk and Blood when they are Clotterd and congealed seing they fal to that by want of their proper heat they require things that heat exceedingly or such as attenuate and cut Lastly Milk made like Cheese requires cold and moist things with some Thinners of parts because strong heat seperating the Whey from the thicker part turneth it into Cheese Emollients and proper remedies to Melt are of two sorts Some are fit for Scirrhous Humors which are somewhat stronger and discuss the melted matter Some are gentler and are fit for hardned Humors without any singular stuffing or plenty of matter the use thereof must also precede in Scirrhous affects before strong Emollients that what is congeled may be the more easely melted and more safely discussed The gentle Emollients are marsh-Mallows Borrage Bugloss Brank-Ursine Fenugreek Liquoris Lin-Seed white Lillies Mallows Melilot Raysins Of these may be made Decoctions Syrups Electuaries for inward uses Also they serve to make outward Fomentations Unguents and Cataplasms which are chiefly prepared with Butter fresh Tallow but especially of Mans Fat and of the new Wax the Marrow of four-footed Beasts the Grease of Sheeps Wool common Oyl of Olives wel ripe Suet and the Mucilages of Marsh-mallows Mallows Foenugreek Lin-seed For Fomentations serve particularly moist wool that is properly the washing of wool and water and oyl warm Compounds that are easie to provide are of this kind For an Oyntment Take Roots of white Lillies Mallows Marsh-mallows of each one ounce Chamomel or Dill of each one handful white Wine four ounces common Oyl that comes of ripe Olives eight ounces Boyl them till the moisture be consumed then press and strain them Or Take the mucilage of Lin-Seed and Roots of marsh-mallows of each one ounce Ox marrow and fresh Butter of each one ounce common Oyl three ounces new Wax three drams mingle them for an Unguent For a Cataplasm Take Roots of white Lillies one ounce Leaves of mallows one handful Boyl them gently then melt two ounces of Butter with them and make a Cataplasm Or Take Roots of marsh-mallows Boyled pulped through a Sieve two ounces meal of Lin-seed and Melilot of each one ounce and an half Roots of white Lillies half an ounce Ox marrow one ounce common Oyl three ounces Decoction of mallows what will be sufficient make a Cataplasm These are stronger that follow for they are all used outwardly except the Saffron and the Root of sharp Bind-Weed which it may be Agreeth with Judian Sarsa both in kind and vertue the rest are seldome given alone but mixt with more gentle Emollients For Fomentations therefore add Roots of bryony Sow-bread wild Cucumber and Flower-de-Luce fresh with the Decoction of these an effectual Fumigation may be prepared by quenching a Fire-stone or a peice of a Milstone in it Bitumenous waters of Baths serve of themselues for Baths and Fomentations For to anoint Goose fat and Deers suet are good so is Oyl pressed out of Nuts the Lees of Oyl and Oyl of Peter For Plaisters take the roots of Jacinths Daffodil fresh Leaves of Tobacco and the flowers of Flower-de-Luce By themselves these serve instead of a Plaister Bitumenous Dirt Ox Dung chiefly mixed with Lees of Oyl and Old Cheese Kneaded with Broth of Salt flesh These Cerats they add dry pith Rosin Colophonia Bitumen Jet Ammoniacum which makes a Plaister it self if it be dissolved in sharp Vineger Of these may divers medicaments be presently compounded that are effectual against Schirous Tumors For example For an Oyntment Take Sowbread and wild Cucumber of each half an ounce white Lillies one ounce Chamomel and green Tobacco of each one handful Leaves of Spurge Laurel half a handful common Oyl one pound white Wine four ounces Vineger two ounces Boyl them at a soft fire til half be consumed then press them out A Cataplasm Take a whole Onion Boyled in Vineger one ounce flowers of Blew flower-de-luce steeped in white Wine one Pugil Goose grease half an ounce beat them altogether and make a Cataplasm Some make a Cerate of white Pitch only which they cal Burgundy Pitch which they hold for a secret and prefer it before Amoniacum These dissolve and hinder clotted Blood Vineger Posca Oxymel simple the Decoction of Round Aristolochia Calamints Savory Time the shels of green Nuts Yet the Decoctions are made stronger with Posca as the runnet of a hare drank to one dram with Water and Vineger A present and excellent remedy is made of a Ly of Vineger Salt and Honey after this fashion Take of Ly three ounces Vineger two ounces clarified Honey half an ounce common Salt one scruple mingle these at a soft fire for to drink Also if Oxymel be prepared boyling Honey with the first Wine that comes forth without pressing til al the scum be taken off it will be a pleasant and effectual remedy For curded Milk gentle softners are convenient mixt in Fomentations with Garden Smallage mountain Smallage cummin fresh Mint and Rue adding a little quantity of Vineger In Cataplasmes Bean Meal Lintels with Oxymel or Mulsa for Vineger This following Fomentation is approved Take Leaves of Mallows Roots of Marsh-mallows Herbs Garden Smallage Mountain Smallage Roots of Fennel of each one handful Leaves of Bays Flowers of

Oyl inseparably and in that being warm dip in a Linnen Clout to lay to the Forehead and anoint the Sutures For pain of the Teeth The Oyl of Box distilled by desent is extolled For the pain of the Chollick a sure remedy is one dram of a Mans Skull prepared and taken with one scruple of Armis Seeds in a cold cause but with Coriander Seed if the cause be hot Also the pouder of the Testicles of a gelded Horse taken to one dram after the same fashion This Oyl is exceeding good for the pain of the Hemorroids Take Fig-wort four ounces great Celondine two ounces the Sponges that grow on the sweet Eglantine in number four Seed of Agnus Castus two drams common Oyl two pound Cut the Roots bruise the rest grossly set them in the Sun for a month and keep them for use Or infuse them for eight days in a hot place then Boyl them til the moisture be consumed and make expression and after that strain them For pain of the Breast the Oyl of Lin-seed drank two or three ounces is singular For pain of the Joynts this Fomentation is approved Take Leaves of Mallows Dwarf-Elder and Plantain of each one handful Smiths Water two pound Boyl them to the Consumption of a third part press them out and strain them and dissolve in the Liquor Salt-peeter purged with Brimstone which they cal Salt of Prunella half an ounce and dip a Linnen Cloth in it and lay it hot to the part Narcoticks indeed laid to the part do stupefie but being taken or smelt to or applyed to the head they cause sleep They differ in the intension of their quality from properly called sleeping Medicaments because these by their moderate coldness and moisture procure sleep but those by the excess of both qualities bring out deep sleep and if they be used too largely they cause Carus and Apoplexy Yet there is some degrees of these Narcoticks for some are more gentle the use thereof is not so dangerous some are more violent which must not be used but upon very urgent pains and watchings The more gentle to be used inwardly are white Poppy Seed to about one dram but outwardly in Lotions the Leaves of Garden Night-shade and Poppy The more violent are Hemlock white Henbane Mandragora Opium round Stramonium Black Henbane and long Stramonium are best to be let alone by reason of the great hurt they do to the Bowels Of others are made fit sents and Lotious for the Feet and the Head but inwardly only Opium and round Stramonium may be used The Seed of Stramonium is given in substance from half a scruple to one scruple or thereabouts but infused from one scruple to two scruples it is corrected with good Wine Opium is given from two grains to five corrected with Saffron or Popper and so made into a Pill or infused in the best Wine Oriental Opium is somthing stronger than Opium of our Country but because outlandish Opium is often brought to us Sophisticated and sometimes is sold very deer it were better to make it pure of our own Country Poppy after the way that Quercitanus hath taught us Take what quantity you please of Garden Poppy Heads that carrieth a red flower so soon as the first flowers appear displaied bruise them in a Stone Morter with a woodden Pestle put the matter into a spacious Glass and pour on so much of the best white Wine Vineger til the matter be very wel wet the Vineger swim above al two fingers breadth let them digest for about fifteen daies and when the Vineger grows red intensively put the matter into a Linnen Bag and press it out strongly what is expressed let it Evaporate at a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey and whilst it is yet hot cast it into cold water that it may Coagulate then take it out and wipe off the moisture But of compounds there are two that are the best and easiest to be provided of all that are found in shops The first is of Guajnerus for outward use Take Opium Juyce of Henbane Juyce of Mandragora of unripe Mulberries Lettice and of Ivy Tree of each one ounce Dissolve the Opium in the Juyces when that is dissolved wet a Sponge in it and dry it again at the Sun for fifteen daies when you would use it dip your Sponge in warm water and put it to the Nose of the Patient this Sponge will keep its vertue for some years The other serves for internal uses namely Laudanum which in two daies time may be made Thus Take the extract of Saffron one scruple the extract of the species of Diamoschu two scruples extract of Opium prepared four scruples Mingle them and with three drops of distilled Oyl of Cloves soften it The Saffron and species are extracted with Aqua vitae but the Opium with distilled Vineger Opium also is prepared if it be cut thin and dried at a gentle heat so long until it will fume no longer and being rubbed between the Fingers will crumble to Pouder the Dose of this is from about one grain and an half to five grains it easeth pains stops long Watchings and staies immoderate and sharp Fluxes Also Narcoticks provoke sleep but far more vehemently than true sleeping remedies do by so much as deep sleep requires stronger means than sleep doth whence it is that when true sleeping Medicaments will not prevail we are forced to use Narcoticks or heavy sleeping remedies now mentioned True sleeping Remedies are sweet Almonds and the Emulsions of them all sorts of Milk Garden Lettice fresh Moss of Trees Water Lillies great Housleek Blew Violets Venus Navel and smal Wine mixed well with pure Water the Exhibition of these is several Flesh Broths are altered with Lettice and Violets An Emulsion of sweet Almonds is made with the Decoction of Lettice Lettice is eaten Boyled seasoned with the Juyce of Oranges or Pome-citrons or Lemmons Decoctions are made of Herbs for Lotions of the Head and Feet Also an unguent may be made to anoint the Nostrils and the temples suddenly with Oyl thus Take these Herbs Lettice Water Lillies great Housleek Garden Night-shade of each one handful common Oyl eight ounces Boyl them at a gentle fire til the moisture be consumed press them out and strain them The Oyl of Violets and Water Lillies of the shops serve for the same use All those things serve to stop Fluxes which stay the matter that is moved with an ill motion by repelling it pulling it back intercepting it and binds up the passages therefore they belong not to this place Those things that are most proper to stay Fluxes shall be mentioned in the Catalogue of astringents There remains therefore to number up those Medicaments that drive away Diseases the use whereof is most fit after the causes that are urgent are taken away now of Diseases there are three general Heads Distemper ill Conformation and Unity dissolved Medicaments that alter a Sick distemper of the whole

it doth very happily stay them you must add a fourth part of Comfrey wormwood or a twelfth part of wormwood Mastick For the same purpose the Decoction of the Root and Yong Leaves of the Oak is excellent made with red Wine adding a little wormwood to it if it be drank daily to two ounces or thereabout five hours before meat Other Remedies may be made for other uses as every one pleaseth Outwardly Crude Gip is convenient mingled with Cerats and Plaisters Also Hogs dung and Asses dung either fresh or else in Pouder by either of these al immoderate fluxes of Blood are presently stopt if it be laid on with the white of an Egg and blown in Guainerius saith that he used Asses dung inwardly and Syrup of Sugar prepared with the moisture of the fresh dung pressed out as a chief Remedy to stop immoderate fluxes of the Terms and other extraordinary Eruptions of Blood Oyl of the Dog-Tree and the Root of the Oak made by descent exceeds all the rest by an astringent faculty Moreover of the Decoctions of Herbs are made Fomentations and Baths Cataplasms are made of unripe fruits beaten with Posca and moderately Boyled Also an Unguent may be prepared suddenly but the Unguent of Chestnuts and Comitissa may supply the place thereof Take unripe Galls Cypress Nuts the Kernells of Red Grapes Pomegranate shells the middle Rinds of Chestnuts Mastick of each half an ounce Oyl of unripe Olives or of Roses often washed in Allum Water one pound white Wax three ounces Let the dry Ingredients be beat into Pouder and steeped in the Juyce of Sloes or unripe Services or Verjuyce or the Juyce of astringent Herbs and let them be dried at a soft fire adding thereto before they Wax hard the Oyl and the Wax mingling all gently by stirring it If you had rather have it for a Cerate take Rosin three ounces and Wax five ounces to the said quantity of Oyl and the Pouders Streightness and Closeness of the Passages comes to pass five waies by obstruction constipation Compression cleaving together and by sinking down whence the differences of Diseases in streightness are taken which as they differ by generation and variety of their causes so are they taken away by diverse Remedies Obstruction is properly called so that streightness of the Passages that comes from things that are contained within contrary to nature not that are united and sticking to the passages such are Vapours and Humors that abound too much or that are too thick and clammy also corruption Clotts of Blood and Milk Thorns and little Bones that stay in the Throat and hinder the passage Hares Stones worms dregs that stick to the Intestines Corruption shut up in Impostumes is taken away by opening the Impostume which is done with Iron or actual fire or by a potential Cautery of which a little after That which sticks to Ulcers is taken away with Sarcoticks of which we shall speak in the cure of Ulcers That which is poured forth into other Cavities as into the sharp Artery is taken away with such things as cut and cleanse Clots of Blood are to be dissolved by Remedies that are elsewhere set down and are to be evacuated by purging the Belly also by Urin Spittle for the situation of the part affected by Purgations and Diureticks and expectorating Medicaments set down before Also such Remedies as dissolve Clotted Milk and discuss it are evident by those things that have been said Things that stick in the Gullet if they can be seen let them be drawn out with Iron Instruments if they remove the least from their place by Sternutation Coughing or vomit provoked by putting in the Finger or a Feather into the Throat also by drinking plentifully or by swallowing down some solid Gobbet not much chewed and lastly by swallowing down a spounge first dipt in Rozin that the thing may stick to it and then drawn up again by a long thred tied to it If Hairs and other things that come from without appear they must be taken out with Chirurgions Instruments if they be hid in the Stomach and Intestins they are driven out by vomit or purging as the sick is inclined Concerning such things as Purge the Belly and drive out the excrements and further concerning Remedies against stones and worms and such as discuss abundant and gross vapours we spake amongst the Remedies that take away the cause of the Disease Obstruction from fullness or abundance of Blood is taken away by a thin diet that is not of the best and much Juyce by strong exercise and much rubbing as by Medicaments that dry the whole Body and by sensible Evacuations namely opening the Veins Scarifications Cupping with scarifying Leeches Bad Humors that are many thick and clammy by which frequently the Mesenterium the Liver Spleen Matrix Reins and Veins and arteries of other parts are stopped require Medicaments first that are cutting attenuating and cleansing lastly Purging Concerning Purging medicaments we spake abundantly at the beginning those are of another kind that are set down for to prepare gross Humors but because these that unstop the passages are of larger extent than such as prepare the Humors and there is a very frequent use of them in the cure of Feavers Hypochondriacal Melancholy the cure of the Spleen Jaundice the want of the Terms it wil be worth our pains to Reckon them up more distinctly and to set them down in three ranks namely cold temperate and hot that so the choice of them may be the more easy Cold Remedies that unstop are convenient in the more acute Feavers parts that are hot and obstructed by Humors thickned by adustion amongst which the most Obvious are Sorrel Juyce of Citrons and Lemmons that are sufficiently ripe Succory Endive Straw-berries Roots of Grass Liver-wort Hawkweed the Roots of all the Docks Seeds of Melons Pompions Citruls Cucumbers gourds Sow-Thistle Garden Endive Dandelion four Trifoyl Of these are made Decoctions with water or Broth for Syrups which will be the better if you add an Emulsion of the four great cold Seeds Whey of Milk Clarified is effectual by it self but it is made most effectual by adding an Emulsion of the said Seeds or if it be altered with opening Herbs The Clarified Juyce of Herbs is mingled with Broth for a present Syrup to two or three ounces the greatest use of the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons is in meats and Medicaments as also of the Emulsions of the Seeds of Melons and Gourds as also those more Liquid Panadoes and Ptisans of Barley as they are commonly called For ordinary drink the Decoction of sour Trifoyl is pleasant enough of Sorrel Straw-berries and Grass which may be made more sharp adding a quantity of the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons But this is the thing that is most necessary which sour Roots perform to deceive the sick withall that one still calling for drink that they make the water sharp and it may be made of the colour of Red