a swolne Face that is hurt by reason of some strange Scorching TAke the Juyce of Barba Jovis in English Singreene and rub your face with it twice or thrice a day You may doe the like with â—he Juyce of Purflaine but if your Face 〈…〉 â—oo much marred or hurt take forty or 〈◊〉 yolks of Egges and put them in a frying 〈…〉 upon a great fire and get some Oyle out of them wherewith you shall annoynt your â—â—â—e To make an aking Tooth fall out of himselfe TAke wheate flower and mixe it with the milke of the hearb called in Latine Herba Lactaria in French Tintamaille or Herbe Alerte in English Spurge that hath milke in it in Greeke Tithimales which is an Hearbe well enough knowne and thereof make as it were a paste or dow with the which you shall fill the hole of the Tooth and leave it in a certaine time and the tooth will fall out of it selfe And if you wash your mouth every moneth once with Wine wherein the roote of the said hearbe hath beene sodden you shall never have paine in your Teeth Also the decoction or powder of the flowers of a Pomegranate Tree being put in your mouth and betweene your Gums fasteneth Teeth To kill Lice and Nits in the Head TAke the powder or scraping of Harts horne and make the Patient to drinke it and there will no Lice nor Nits breed in his head but if you will straw the said powder upon his head all the Lice and Nits will dye To remedy or to helpe Blood-shotten eyes comming by any Rheume Fluxion or such other like cause TAke the tops or ends of Worme-wood which is an hearb well enough knowne and stampe it mixing it with the wâ—ite of an Egge and rose-Rose-water and make thereof as it were a Plaister and spred it upon a linnen cloth which you may lay upon the eye wâ—ere the blood is or else upon both and doe this at night when you goe to bed and the next morning take it off and you shall see that tâ—is Plaister shall have drawne to it selfe all the bloud and all the rednesse that was in your Eyes and so you shall be quit of it For the Tooth-ache TAke the Rootes and Leaves of Chickweede and boyle them in water with the which you shall wash your mouth well and hold it in your mouth a certaine space and it will take away your paine To take away the Tooth-ache TAke Hysope and make thereof a decoction with Vineger and it being hot wash your mouth withall and the paine of the Teeth shall goe away The Hysope also being stampt and incorporated with Honey and a little Nitrina killeth the Wormes in a mans body Against the Crampe TAke and beat Brimstone and Vervine together and so binde it to your Arme or other place grieved and it shall helpe it for having the paine againe A Medicine to purge the Head TAke Masticke Peritory of Spaine tame Cressis Seede Cockle-seede Stavisacre both the kindes of neesing powder white and blacke Ginger Sinamond of each halfe a dram in fine-powder and mixed together and put it in a little bagge of fine linnen cloth and let the Patient hold one of these bagges in his mouth a good space but these bagges must first lye in Fuse a pretty while in Vineger and it will draw out Rheumes from the head wonderfully and when he hath done he must wash his mouth well with Wine or Ale A Medicine for a scald Head TAke Daysie Rootes and Ale and stampe them with as much May-butter as needs and annoynt the sore head therewith For the Head-Ache TAke a good handfull of Red-Rose leaves dryed and a good quantity of Cummin grossely bruised and a good handfull of Camomill grossely shred and a quantity of browne leavened Bread then mixe them and put it into a Linnen cloth then quilt it and set it into a hot Dish upon a Chafingdish and sprinckle the bagge with rose-Rose-water and Vineger and turne it in the dish till it be as hot as may be suffered to be laid to the noddle of the Necke and let it be cold and so use another and keepe his head so hot as he may sweate For paine of the Head TAke Marjorom and presse out the Juyce of it and let the Patient take of it in his Nose For deafenesse in the Eares TAke the Juyce of Coleworts and mixe it with warme water and droppe it into thine Eares and it will helpe To make Honey of Roses called Mel Rosarum TAke foure pound foure ounces of Honey clarified and two pound of the Juyce of Red Roses and let them boyle together till it be like a Sirrope Another making thereof TAke a pottle and halfe a pinte of Honey well clarified with a pottle of white or red Wine two pound of Red-Rose leaves Boyle the Rose Leaves and Wine till halfe be wasted and then put in your Hony and let it boyle till it bee somewhat thicke and in colour like a Syrrope For the Pockes TAke the Juyce of Peny-Roiall and young Tansie and give the sicke party to drinke A true Medicine for the Jaundies TAke a handfull of Chery Leaves seeth them in a pinte of Milke and let them boyle well Then straine it and drinke a good draught thereof to Bedwards and in the morning fasting and the Jandies shall avoyd from you by siege or else drinke in the morning this following Take the wood of Bayberries pill the upper shell with the leaves from it and take the second shell that is yellow put thereof as much as a Walnut into a cloth and seeth it with a pinte of water let it be well boyled and let it coole and then driuke it this hath beene experimented For the Liver that is corrupted and wasted TAke a good quantity of Liverwort and bruise it a little and then seethe it in good strong Wort with a quantity of Ruberb and use this medicine and thou shalt be whole For heate in the Liver TAke the Juyce of sower Apples and sweet Apples of each a pound or more as much as you thinke best and two pounds of Sugar mingle these things together and let them boyle on a simple fire till it be thicke as a Syrrope and vse this course every day fasting with luke-warme water Remedies for the Collicke TAke Parcely Water-cresses Pellitory of the Wall unset Time of each a handfull a dish of sweet Butter let the Herbes be cleane washed and seethe them in a quart of running water let your water bee taken up against the streame and let them seethe till you make a Plaister thereof then temper them together with a handfull of Wheat branne and let the plaister bee layd to the Patients belly beneath the Navill and let him put in his pottage some Pellatory of the wall and when the Patient makes water straine it thorow a faire cloath and thereby ye shall know and perceive whether it doth him good or not and let him use this three or
est Remedies to provoke Menstruum Mulieris TAke powder of Peeter Bittony Yarrowseed in white Wine and drinke it Another Take Mugwort Selondine Marigold Verven Nippe of each nine crops three dayes before the change and three dayes before the full of the Moone Another Take Germander and the rootes of red Madder and seethe it in Ale and give it her to drinke or else take Radishes Et semen pionae red Sanders and Suger and use it as aforesaid Another Take Cotula Fetuda the which is like Camomill but it stinketh and make a fomentation thereof Another Take the Juyce of Mercury and Honey and flower of Cockle as much as will incorporate it and make thereof little balls and give her one or two of them and she shall have Menstruum also it shall after dispose her to conceive for it hath seldome failed and is well proved Another Take the blacke seed of Pionie and bruise them one by one to the number of nine and picke of the blacke huskes and in a Morter breake them to powder eate and drink the said powder at times afore said in the second Medicine Pro eadem Another Take the rootes of Gladion and Arsmart and seethe them in good white Wine or Vineger and when they be well sodden take them from the fire and let the woman sit over it so that the ayre may strike up and none goe away for this is proved Another Take Bittonie Puliall Royall Centory of each a handfull seethe them with Wine or water till the two parts be wasted and then clense it thorow a cloth and drinke it Another Take Balme Margerom Isope and Marigolds a handfull seethe them from a pottle to a quart upon a soft fire and so take it and drinke it every morning fasting and if it be bitter put thereto Suger and use it Remedies to stop Menstruum Mulieris TAke the blackest holly-hocks that yee can get and take the flowers thereof and make them in powder and drinke them and wash the place with the water of Lovage Another Take the water of Oake leaves distilled halfe a pinte of Rose-water and Syrrupe of Quinces sixe ounces and let her drinke thereof first and last Another Take Horse-dung and seethe it in good Vineger and put it into little bagges of linnen cloth and lay the one upon the Reines of the backe and the other betweene the Navill and the privie place as warme as shee may suffer it and let her drinke it every Morning and Evening with a little Synamon till shee be whole Another Take the rootes of Gladium and seeth them well in Wine or water and receive the fume thereof It never failed To stop white Menstruum and red TAke the Juyce of Planten and of Bursa Pastoris and two whites of Egges well beaten among the Juyce and put thereto Bole-armoniack one ounce and of Terra sigillata one ounce and a portion of Beane flower and make it thicke upon the fire and draw thereof a Plaister upon thin cloth and lay it to her Backe and Navill Another for the white TAke the inner rinde of the Sloe tree Sumatch Balestianes the rinde of the Pomegranate Planten Knot-grasse the inner rinde of the red Bryer and a little French-Bolearmoniack and boyle all these in red Wine till halfe be consumed and let her drinke it fasting Et restringet fluxum Menstruum Another Take the foote and Legge of a Hare and bake it to powder haire and all and drinke it and it restraineth the same The vertue of Fearne THe Root is good to be drunke and laid to Plaister-wise for the Wounds that are made with Reedes and in like manner the roote of the Reede drunke and laid Plaister-wise to the sore where Fearne sticketh The Powder is good to be strowed upon moyst Sores which are hard to be covered with skin and ill to be healed the Juyce pressed out of the Fearne roote laid to with Rose-water or other cold water is good for all manner of burning or scalding perfectly and sure To take away heate and inflamation of a Member TAke the waters of Planten and Purslaine of each two ounces and the water of a little hearbe called Verniculaâ—is two ounces Litarge and Ceruse in fine powder of each foure drams and Camphere three graines mixe all these together and so use them A Locion for a sore Mouth TAke running water a pinte Vineger halfe a pinte Honey foure ounces Bay leaves one ounce Galingale one dram Let all these be decocted to the forme of a Syrope A preparative TAke Syrope of Violets Endiffe and of Femitory of each two ounces and of common Decoction foure ounces To make Vergent milke by D. Yaxley TAke Litarge of Leade one pound with Vineger a pinte laid in fuse three dayes and then drawne with woollen shreds and so keepe it in a Viall by it selfe close then take foure ounces of Conduit-water and one ounce of Allome and one dram of Camphere and melt all over the Fire and keepe the water by it selfe in another Viall and when you will use it put both these waters together of each a like quantity and it will be like milke It taketh away the spottes and Freckles in the Face if it be often applyed thereto A comfortable Powder for the Heart TAke Synamon Ginger of each three ounces graines of Paradice long Pepper of each two drams Saffron one dram Suger foure ounces and so make your Powder A Remedy that breaketh the Stone TAke a pound of Grâ—mmell a pound of Saxifrage seed and a pound of Coriander with a quarter of a pound of Soras white and red and grinde all these in a Morter very small and so keepe it using to eate thereof in your Pottage every day a spoonefull Another Take Time Damsons Beane-Cods Pellitory of the wall Saxifrage a like quantities and sleepe them one night in white Wine then distill them and use to drinke thereof Another remedy for the Stone and to cause the voydance of Vrine TAke Pellitorie of the Wall Sothernwood and seeth them in Water or white Wine with a quantity of Sheepes Suet till it bee tender then put the hearbes and tallow in a linnen bag and lay it warme to the bottome of the belly using this you shall finde remedy A proved Medicine to avoid the Vrine that hath beene long stopped TAke Radish rootes one if it be of bignesse and strong is sufficient and scrape it very cleane and lay it in white Wine a night in steepe then straine the Wine and give the Patient to drinke and he shall voyd water A very good water for the stone proved THe water of Strawberries with the leaves distilled and so used by draughts as other drinke To breake the Stone DRy the stones of a Cock a yeare old and â—eate them into fine powder and give the diseased thereof to drinke in white Wine but if he have the Charward then give it to drink with good water Doctor Argentines Medicine for the Stone TAke the
in this order following with these Medicines Quintessence of Wine Balsamo Magno Licore Quintessentia and Spice Imperiall and as for the order to use them is thus When any hath a Feaver or Flux then presently when the Disease beginneth let him Blood in one of the two veynes underneath the Tongue cutting it overthwart and this thou shalt doe in the Evening then the next morning take a Doze of your Imperiall powder mixt with Wine and this you may doe without any Dyet or strict order that being done give him three mornings together halfe an ounce of our Quintessence solutive with Broath but if it bee a Fluxe and that the Patient is not cured let him stand in a cold Bath of salt-Salt-water of the Sea three or foure houres or more and he shall be perfectly hoâ—pe Then as concerning Wounds as well as Cuts as thrusts and as well Galling with Arrowes as Harquebush shot and other sorts thou shalt cure them thus The first thing that thou shalt doe to them is to wash them very cleane with Wine and then dry them well then put thereinto Quintessence of Wine and presently joyne the parts together and sowe or stitch them close then put thereupon five or sixe drops of our Balsamo and upon the wound lay a cloth wet in our Magno Licore as hote as yee may suffer it and this yee shall do the first day then the next day follow this order First put thereon our Quintessence and a little of our Balsamo and then our Magno Licore very hote and never change that medicine And this done the wound shall be whole with great speed and in a quarter of the time that the common Chirurgions is able to doe it by the grace of God A rare secret the which this Author did send to a very friend of his being in the Warres the which helpeth all wounds eyther by Cut Thrust galling with Arrowes or Hargubush-shot or otherwise THe first thing that yee shall doe is to wash the Wounds very cleane with Urine and then dry it very well then put therein Quintessence of Wine and presently joyne the parts close together and stitch or sow them well but in any wise sowe nothing but the Skinne for otherwise it will cause great paine Then put thereon five or sixe drops of our Balsamo and upon the Wound lay a cloth wet in our Magno Licore as hote as they can suffer it and this doe the first day Then the next day follow this order First put thereon our Quintessence and then a little of our Balsamo and then annoint it very well with our Magno Licorâ— as hot as it may be suffered Never changing this Medicine untill it be whole This is very certaine and approved Of wounds in the Head with fracture of the Bone VVOunds of the Head with fracture of the Bone of the common Physitians and Chirurgions are counted difficile to be healed because thereunto belongeth great Art or Cunning For they open the Flesh and raise the Bone with many other things of which J count it superfluous to intreat of because that many be holpen without them For alwayes when the Physitians or Chirurgions doe offend the Wound for alteration or corruption Nature it selfe will worke very well and heale it without any ayde But with our Medicines they may be holpen with much more speed because they let the alteration and defendeth them from Putrifaction and mittigateth the paine And the order to Cure those kind of wounds are thus The first thing that is to be done in those Wounds is to joyne the parts close together and dresse them upon the wound with our Oleum Benedictum and upon the Oyle lay cloathes wet in our Magno Licore as hot as you can suffer it And so with the Remedies thou shalt helpe them quickly because our Oleo Benedicto taketh away the paine and keepeth it from putrifaction and resolveth Our Magno Licore digesteth mundifieth and incarnateth and healeth And therefore this is the best Medicine that can be used in these wounds For hereof J have had an infinite of Experiences the which hath beene counted miracles and therefore J have let the world to understand thereof that they may helpe themselves if need shall serve Of Wounds in the Head where the Bone is not offended VVOunds in the Head where the Bone is not hurt are not of such importance but are easily to be holpen for you shall doe nothing but keepe it from putrifaction and defend it from inflamation which are easie to be done and so Nature will worke well with great speed To keepe the wound from putrifaction you must annoynt it round about with our Oleum Philosophorum Deterebinthina and Sera And to keepe it from inflamation you shall wash it with our Quintessence and upon the wound dresse it with our Magno Licore thus doing thy cure shall prosper happily and shall not need to take away any blood nor yet to keepe any dyet noâ— yet to keepe the house but to goe where you thinke good without any perill or danger and this order have J used a long time as divers of my friends can testifie Of Concussions or Bruises as well in the Head as any other place COncussions or Bruises in the head or any other place of the body of the antient Physitians hath beene counted dangerous to heale for they say that Concussions must be brought to putrifaction and turned into matter which opinions J doe allow for by me those Concussions or bruises is very easie to bee dissolved without maturation And that J doe with our Oleo Benedicto and Magno Licore as much of the one as of the other mixt together and made very hote as you can suffer it and then wet cloathes twice a day and in three or foure dayes at the most they shall be dissolved and this it doth because this Remedy assubtiliateth the humours and openeth the Pores and draweth forth the matter that is runne into the place offended and so by those meanes they shall be holpen with this remedy J have cured hundreds when J was in the warres of Africa in Anno. 1551. when a whole City was taken and destroyed by the Campe of Charles the fifth Emperour Of Wounds in the Necke and the order to be used in curing them VVOunds in the necke are very hard to be cured and long before they heale and this commeth because next are all the ligaments of the head as bones sinewes veynes flesh and skinne all instruments that hold the head and the body together without the which a man cannot live and therefore those wounds are so perillous to be healed seeing thereunto runneth so great a quantity of humours that they will not suffer the wound to be healed The true way therefore to helpe those wounds is to stitch them well in his place and dresse it upon the wound with cloathes wet in Oleum Benedictum one part and Magno Licore three parts mixt together as hote as you can
them luke warme For him that pisseth Blood TAke a good quantity of Rew otherwise called hearbe Grace and dry it so that you may beate it to powder and then take the powder and and drinke it with Ale and it will change the Urine For the Canker in the Mouth TAke white Wine and a penny-worth of Ginger in powder and let them seeth a walme together and wash the sore place with a feather and drinke not in one houre after and yee shall have helpe in seven dayes or warrantise A powder for the same TAke Sage Pimpernell of each a like and quantity and halfe so much Parcely as of them both shred them and stampe them small and put thereto a little burnt Allome and then take it up drie it and beate it to powder and keepe it for it never failed To know the Fester and Canker HEere you may learne whereof and of what manner the Fester commeth and also the Canker it commeth of a sore that was ill healed and breaketh out againe and if it bee in the flesh there doth come out water if it be in the sinewes there commeth out browne lie and if it be in the bone there commeth out as it were thicke blood A Fester hath a narrow hole without and within and a Fester is seldome seene but it hath more holes then one and the Canker hath alwayes but one hole For a Canker in the body TAke the rootes of Dragons and cut them in small pieces and lay them to dry and make powder thereof and take a penny weight of that powder and put it in water all Night and on the morrow powre out that water and put thereto white-wine and then seeth it well and let the Patient drinke thereof warme and in three day es he shall be whole For a Canker in a womans Pappes TAke the Dung of a white Goose and the juyce of Salendine and bray them together and lay them to the sore and it will kill the Canker and heale the Pappe A good powder for the Canker TAke Copperas and Roch Saunders and Verdigreace and Sal-armoniac and beate them to powder in a brasen Morter of each â— like quantity by weight and put the powder in a vessell and seethe it on a charcole fire till it glowe and then take it downe and let it coole and after make powder thereof and that powder shall destroy the Canker on warrantise To kill the Canker or Marmole TAke a pecke of the ashes made of Ashen-wood and ashes of Oate straw and put hot water on them and make a gallon of Lye and put thereto two handfuls of Barke-dust and let it stand a day and a night and then straine it thorow a canvasse then take the same dust and put it in againe and put thereto as much Allome and halfe as much of Madder crops and put them in a pot and let them boyle almost to halfe and ever stirre it that it grow not to the bottome nor run over and after clense it through a cloth and let it coole and when it is cold take a quantity thereof and wet a linnen cloth therein and lay it to the sore place For the Canker in the Mouth TAke seaven spoonefuls of Honey and clarifie it in a pewter dish then put to it one pint of white Wine Vineger and roch Allome the quantity of a Hazell nut and a spoonefull of Bay-salt and let all these boyle together a quarter of an houre and then take of dryed Rose leaves and Sage a handfull letting them seethe together for the space of a quarter of an houre and let the Patient wash his mouth therewith and lay the leaves to the sore and if the liquor bee too thicke to wash your mouth with then take running water and white wine Vineger and a spoonfull of Honey and boyle them well as before and then use it Another Take Hearbe Grace Lavender-Cotton Sage Honey-suckle leaves of each a like quantity wash them and stampe them with a little roch Allome and a little English Honey and put them into a faire Dish and when yee dresse a sore mouth therewith take as much as yee thinke will serve and take a few Sage leaves and wash thy mouth and lay it to thy Gums and if yee put thereto a little Pepper and Bay-salt it will be the better Another Take Plantane Bittony Egrimony Violets and Woodbine boyling them in Wine or water with Hysop Piony Pimpernell and greene Walnuts and therewith wash foure times in a day and hold it in your mouth pritty hot and therewith wash it To make a red Water to kill the Canker TAke three handfuls of Rew bray it in a Morter and put thereto a quart of Vineger and Madder one ounce and take halfe a penny-worth of Allome and beate it to powder and put thereto and let it so rest nine dayes or more and then take them out and so straine them through a cloth into a cleane glasse and stop the vessell close and keepe it To take away the Canker TAke Martlemasse Beefe that hangeth in the Roofe and burne it to powder and put the powder into the Sore and it will kill the Canker A powder for the Canker TAke one quarter of a pound of Roch Allome and burne it in an earthen vessell that there come no ashes thereto then take Argâ— one halfe ounce and one quarter of an ounce of Bolearmonracke and make all these in fine powder alone and then mixe them altogether and put them into a Bladder and keepe it close and when yee will minister it wash well the sore with the water and then lay on the Powder and so dresse it once in the day and it shall helpe him A good Medicine for the Canker and Sores TAke a pottle of cleane running water or white wine Sage Rosemary and Sinkfoyle of each a handfull Allome one ounce boyle all together till halfe a quarter be consumed and if it be for the Canker put in a little white Coperas and Camphere For a Canker old or new or Marmole TAke Smalledge Wormewood greene Walnuts Lillies Broome Croppes white Hazell red Nettle Sage Selfe-heale Pimpernell the roote of Floure-de-Iuce Planten ground Ivie Wall-woort Mouse-eare Celondine Mintes Bittony Egrimony Violets Charvell Colwortes and Avence stampe all these together and fry them in Barrowes grease Sheepes tallow and Honey and make thereof an oyntment with Turpentine Waxe Rozen Pitch Gum Frankensence burnt Allome and powder of Tanners barke and so use it For the Canker TAke the powder of Saven Honey and Creame and white Wine and mixe them altogether and melt them over the fire and when it is hot with a linnen cloath wash therewith thy mouth and when the Sore is well washed put thereof into the griefe with Lint as hot as may be suffered two times a day and bee whole For a Canker in a mans body and to save the man TAke the rootes of Dragons and cut them and dry them in gobbets and make powder of
quantity boyle all these together and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the griefe Another Take a lapfull of Nettles another of Neppe seethe them in Chamber-lye and put therein a handfull of Bay-salt and a quantity of blacke Soape and let them boyle well together and lay it to the griefe For Sore Eyes TAke Fennell rootes white Daisie rootes and leaves and lay it in white Wine and wash your Eyes with it To stoppe a great Laske TAke a pottle of faire water and put therein a Cony fleyed well washed and quartered and let it be well skimmed when it doth seethe then take a good handfull of Almondâ— unblanched and the stones of great Raisins and beat them in a Morter with some of the broth in the Pot and unâ—trained put them in then take halfe an ounce of whole Cinamon a handfull of Blackberry leaves a handfull of Planten with the rootes thereof the Pot being cleane skimmed put the aforesaid gredience therein and let all boyle till it come to a quart then straine the broth and let the Patient drinke thereof Morning and Evening or at other convenient times in the day Analliter if the aforesaid Broth be warmed with a gad of Steele when it is cold it is so much the better To cause one to make Water TAke Parceley and seethe it in white Wine and drinke it Morning and Evening For the Wind Collicke TAke Commin-seede or fine Cod seede and beat them to Powder and put it into Ale Beere or white Wine and drinke it and it will make one Laxative For to make a Water for the same TAke Broomeseed and beate it to Powder and drinke it with Muskadine or any other Wine For to bind on from the Laske TAke a penny-worth of Roch Allome and seeth it in a pinte of white Wine and drinke it For to skinne a sore Finger TAke Nervall Oyle or Rose Oyle or Camomill Oyle or Pompilion and annoynt your Finger or shinne with it and it will be whole For a vehement Cough in young Children TAke the Juyce of Parcely powder of Commin Womens milke and mixe them together then give the Child to drinke thereof and afterward make this Oyntment following Take the seed of Hempe or Flaxe and Fennycrick and seethe them in common water then presse out with your hands the substance of the Hearbs which you shall mingle with Butter and so annoynt the Childes brest with it as hot as may be For a broken Head TAke unwrought Waxe and a little Sugar and running Water and boyle it in a Sawcer and make a Plaister and be w ho le For Chilblaines in the Feet or Hands TAke Sheeps Suet and unwrought Wax and Rozen and boyle it in a Sawcer and make a a Salve and it will heale them To kill the Tooth-ache or a Ring worme or a Tetter TAke Oyle of Broome and annoynt the Gums at the roote of the Tooth where the paine is It must bee used after this manner Take a piece of old Broomesticke the older the better and light it and hold it downeward and it will drop that which is yellow and annoynt your Gummes with it or put it in the hollow Tooth For a Stitch. TAke Groundsill and dry it and put sweet Butter into it and put it where the paine is as hot as may be suffered Or take Oates the blackest that you can get and fry them with red Vineger and lay it as hot as may be suffered where the paine is For an Ache or a Bruise TAke oyle of Peeter it must be used after this manner Take a stoole and when that you are Rising or going to Bed sit with your Backe towards the fire you must have a great fire and where the paine is you must rub it with some of the Oyle all downewards and they that doe dresse you must dry their hands well against the fire and chafe it To make white Teeth TAke Lemmons and make stild water of them and wash your Teeth with it for it is a soveraigne thing Or if you will not make the water take the Liquor of them which is also good for the same purpose but the water is better because it is finer so that in the Stilling it lose not his force A Medicine for a swelling in the Cheekâ— TAke a pinte of white Wine and halfe a handfull of Camomill flowers and seethe them in the white Wine and wash your cheeke both within and without as hote as you can suffer it To make a Perfume suddenly in a Chamber where a sicke man lyeth TAke a little Earthen Pot and put into it a Nutmeg two scruples of the sticke of Cloves and two of the sticke of Cinamon and foure of storax Calamint Rose-water or water of Spike or some other sweet water and seethe it then put it into a pot-shard with a few hot Ashes and coales under it and set it in the Chamber and the smoake thereof shall give a sweet amiable and hearty savour To make a cleere voyce TAke Elder-berries and dry them in the Sunne but take heed they take no moysture then make powder of them and drinke it every Morning fasting with white Wine A Medicine for the Mother TAke a pinte of Malmsie a little quantity of Commin-seede and Coriander-seed and a Nutmegge beate these together and then seethe them to halfe a piâ—te with a little white Suger-candie you must take a spoonefull at a time A Medicine for a Stitch or Bruise TAke three quarts of small Ale and one penny-worth of Figs and one pennyworth of great Reisons and cut the stones out of them and one penny-worth of Licorice of Isope of Violet leaves and of Lettice of each one handfull and seethe them from three quarts to three pints and straine it and so let the person drinke it and after make this Plaister following Take a quantity of horse dung and a quantity of Tarre fry it and put a little Butter and Vineger into it and make a Plaister and lay it to the side For the bloody Fluxe TAke of Suger rosset made of dry Roses of Trissendall of each one ounce and a half mixe these together and eate it with meat or drinke it with drinkes but the best remedy J could find is to take three handfuls of St. Johns woort as much Planten and as much Cressis and seethe these in a gallon of Raine water or red Wine to a pottle and straine it then put to it two ounces of Sinamon beaten and drinke thereof often Also take a Spunge and seethe it in a pint of Muskadine and wring it and let the Patient sit over it close as hot as they can suffer it and cover them warme Remedies for the Itch. TAke of Salt-water a gallon and seethe it with three handfuls of wheaten bread crums that is leavened and wash your body with the water Or wash your body in the Sea two or three times Or else take the bran made of Cockle-seeds three handfuls and of the powder of
Falling sicknesse For Remedy if the Disease be of salt Flegme give things sweet hot and dry thus saith Soramis And thus much for Remedies against the distemperance of each humour Notwithstanding where there is abundance of cold Flegme not mixt with Choller there things very sharpe and hot bee most convenient as tart Vineger with hot Roses and seeds or Wines strong and rough Honey being boyled in the one and in the other Or where Choller is mixt with Flegme sirrop made with Vineger and Suger boyled sometimes with Seeds Herbes and Rootes which may dissolve Flegme and digest it is very good Certaine Observations for Women WHen Womens brests diminish being with Child is a token the child is dead If a woman with Child bee sodainly taken with any grievous sicknesse her life is in great danger If a woman with Child be let Blood it killeth the child the nearer the birth the greater is the danger It is perilous for a Woman with Child to have a great Lax or loosenesse A woman having a Convultion in temperate times of her termes is perilous The Câ—alx of Egge-shels ministred in broth asswageth the paine and griping in a woman after her deliverance of child OF URINES A briefe Treatise of Urines aswell of Mans urine as of Womans to judge by the Colour which betokeneth Health and which betokeneth Weaknesse and also Death PART III. Of Bubbles resident in Vrine IT is shewed that in the fore-parts of the Body dwelleth Sicknesse and Health That is in the Wombe in the Head in the Liver and in the Bladder in what manner thou maist know their properties and thereof mayest learne to judge the better When Bubbles doe swim on the top of Urine they proceed of windy matter included in viscous humidity and signifie rawnesse and indigestion in the Head Belly Sides Reynes and parts thereabouts for in these especially huâ—ours are multiplied and doe ascend to make paine in the Head Reâ—ident Bubbles doth signifie ventositie in the Body or else a Sicknesse that hath continued long and will continue unlesse remedy be found but Bubbles not Resident but doth breake quickly signifieth Debility or Weaknesse Bubbles cleaving to the Urinall signifieth the body to be repleat with evill humours Bubbles doth also signifie the Stone in the Reynes of the Backe A Circle which is greene of colour of Urine doth signifie wavering in the Head and burning in the stomacke This colour in a Feaver doth signifie paine in the Head comming of Choller And if it continue it will cause an Impostume the which will ingender the Frenziâ— A blacke circle in Urine signifieth Mortification If any filthy matter doe appeare in the Urine it commeth from the Lungs and sometimes from the Liver and it may come from breaking of some Impostume but for the most part it commeth from the Vlcers of the Bladder or the Reynes or from the passages of the Urine then the urine is troubled in the bottome and stinketh he hath a paine in his lower parts and especially in the parts aforesaid when he maketh water and chiefly in the end of the yard and commonly there is with this the Strangurie which is hardly to be cured unlesse it be in the beginning If it come from the Reynes there is paine in the Loynes the Backe and the Flanke If from the Liver the paine is onely in the right side If in the Lungs the paine is from the Brest with a cough and the breath stinketh If from the Bladder the paine is about the share If a mans urine be white at morning and red before meate and white after meate he is whole and if it be fat and thicke it is not good And if the Vrine be meanly thicke it is not good to like and if it be thicke as spice it betokeneth Head ache Vrine that is two dayes red and at the tenth day white betokeneth very good health Vrine that is fat white and moyst betokeneth the Fever Quartaine Vrine that is bloody betokeneth that the Bladder is hurt by some rotting that is within A little Vrine all Fleshie betokeneth wasting of the Reynes and who pisseth Bloud without sicknesse he hath some Veyne broken in his Reynes Urine that is ponderous betokeneth that the bladder is hurt Urine that is bloody in sicknesse betokeneth great evill in the Body and namely in the bladder Urine that falleth by drops above as it were great boules betokeneth great sicknesse and long If white gravell doth issue forth with Vrine it doth signifie that the Patient hath or shall have the Stone ingendred in the Bladder and there is paine about those parts If the gravell be red the Stone is ingendred in the Reynes of the Backe and Kidneyes and there is great paine in the small of the Backe If the gravell be blacke it is ingendred of a Melancholly humour Note that if the gravell goe away and the Patient find no ease it sheweth that the Stone is confirmed Also know yee that if the gravell goe away and the paine goe away likewise it signifieth that the Stone is broken and voydeth away Womens Vrine that is cleare and shyning in the Vrinall like silver if shee cast oft and if she have no talent to meate it betokeneth she is with Child Womens Urine that is strong and white and also stinking betokeneth sicknesse in the Reynes in her secret receipts and her chambers is full of evill humours and sicknesse of her selfe Womens Vrine that is bloody and cleere as water underneath betokeneth Head-ache Womens urine that is like to Gold cleere and mighty betokeneth that she hath lust to man Womens urine that hath colour of stable cleansing betokeneth her to have the Fever Quartaine and shee to be in danger of death Womens urine that appeareth as colour of Lead if shee bee with Child betokeneth that it is dead within her To know a Mans urine from a Womans and a womans or mans from a Beast urine First a Mans water the nearer you hold it to the eye the thicker it doth shew and when you hold it further off the thinner it doth appeare but in beasts Urines it is not so for the nearer you hold it to the sight the thinner it is and the further the sight the thicker also beast water is more salter and of a stronger savour and of a more simple Complection and smelleth more raw then the urine of a man also mixe the water of a Beast with wine and they will part a sunder Hereafter followeth all the Vrines that betokeneth Death as well the Vrine of Man as of Woman IN a hot Axes one part red another blacke another greene another blew betokeneth Death Urine in hot axes blacke and little in quantity betokeneth Death Urine coloured all over aâ— Leade betokeneth the prolonging of death Urine that shineth raw and right bright if the Skin in the bottome shine not it betokeneth death Urine that in substance having fleeting above as it were a darke Sky signifieth death Urine darkly shyning
certaine learned men which reckon that the hote breath or vapour that riseth up from the Bathe is much more mightier then the water of the bath is and it is true therefore it were well that they which have any Dropsie and especially a Tympanie should sit over such a place of the Bath that they might receive into the moyst diseased place the vapour of the bathe either by an holed stoole or by some other such like manner of thing well devised for that purpose If any poore man by the heate of the drynesse of the Bathe cannot sleepe enough let him eate Lettice or Purslaine or the seedes of Poppy called Chesbowle in some places of England or let him eate Suger and Poppy-seed together let this be done at night Hee may also if he cannot get the aforesaid things seethe Violet leaves and Mallowes and bathe the uttermost parts with that they are sodden in These are remedies for poore folke that are not able to have a Physitian with them to give them counsell Let the rich use such remedies as their Physitians shall counsell them If any poore man be vexed with any unsufferable thirst let him take a little Barley and seethe it long and put a little Suger unto it or let him take the juyce of an Orange or take a little of it with a little Suger If any poore man catch the Head-ache let him take a little Wormelade if he can get it or Coriander Comfits or if he can get none of these let him take the white of an Egge and beate it with Vineger and Rosewater or with the broath of Violets or Nightshade or with any of them and a little Vineger and lay them in a cloath unto the temples of his head and forehead If any poore man be burned too much let him take a Glister made with Mallowes Beetes and Violet leaves or let him seethe Prunes with Barley a good while and Raisins putting a way the stones and eate of them or let him use Suppositories sometimes made of rootes either of Beetes of Flower-de-Luce or of white Sope or of salt Bacon If any man sweat too much let him use colder meates than he used before with Vineger or Verjuyce and let them also eate Sheepes-feete and Calves-feete with Verjuyce or Vineger If any man have the burning of his water when he maketh it let him an houre after he is come out of the Bathe annoynt his Kidneyes with some cold Oyntment as is Infrigidus Galeni or if you cannot come by that let him seethe Violet leaves Poppy-heads Raisins Licorice and Mallowes together straine them and put some Suger in the broath and drinke of it a draught before Supper If any be troubled with the Rheume which he hath caught in the Bath let him parch or bristle at the fire Nigella Romana and hold it in a cloath to his Nose and let him set cups or boxing glasses to his shoulders without any scorching and let him drinke sodden water with Barley and with a little Suger If any man have any appetite to eate let him use the sirrups of Ribles or Barberies or the sirrup of unripe Grapes or use Verjuyce or Vineger to provoke appetite in due measure and now and then if ye can get it let him take a little Marmalade or of the sirrup of Mynts or Worm-wood Raman These have I written for poore folke Those that are rich by the advice of the Physitians may have other Remedies enough against the fore-named accidents that chance in the time of their bathing If thou be rid of thy disease by thy bathing offer unto Christ in thy pure members such offering of Thankesgiving as thou mayest spare and give him hearty thankes both in word minde and deed and sinne no more but walke in all kindnesse of life and honesty as farre as thou shalt be able to doe as long as thou shalt live hereafter But if thou be not healed the first time be patient and live vertuously till the next bathing time and then if it be to the glory of God and for the most profitable thou shalt the next bathing time be healed by the grace of God of whom commeth all health both of body and soule Some if they be not healed whilest they be in the bathing cry out both upon the Bath wâ—ich healeth many other of the same Diseases that they are sicke of and of the Physitian also that counselled them to goe to the Bathe such men must learne that they must not appoint God a time to heale them by the Bathe and that when as the Bath hath dryed up and washed by Sweating and made subtill through blowing the evill matter of the disease that it is one dayes worke or two to make good humours to occupie the place of such evill humours as have beene in them before Therefore let such be patient and for the space of a Moneth keepe the same dyet that they kept at the Bath and if God will they shall have their desire but not onely these but all others that are healed for a moneth at the least the longer the better must keepe the same dyet that they kept in the Bath as touching meate and drinke and if it be possible also from the use of all Women When as you goe homewards make but small Journeyes and beware of surfetting and of cold and when you are at home use measurable Exercise daily and honest mirth and pastime with honest company and beware of too much study or carefulnesse And give God thankes for all his Guifts Thus much for the Bath Of Herbes and Drugs Hereafter followeth divers Medicines Remedies and Cures to heale divers Diseases curable by the grace of God as also the Nature and property of certaine Herbes Plants and Drugs belonging thereunto PART IX And first of Marte Mylletare to stop the Flux of the body DIvers times the Flux of the Body proceedeth of superfluous heat contained in the Stomacke the which maketh a continuall solution inwardly as yee may see by Experience of those that are troubled therewith for so long as the cause is not taken away all their meat doth turne into the matter the which if it be so that is true which J doe say That the Fluxes are a distemperance of the body caused of hot and corrupt humours in the Stomacke and therefore if thou wilt cure it it were necessary to extinguish the heat and so take away the corruption the which thou shalt doe with the rednesse of Marte Mylletare as is hereafter following for that is the most soveraigne remedy that can be found First yee shall take twelve graines of Petra Philosophalla with half an ounce of Mel Rosarum and then take foure mornings together one scruple of Marte Mylletare with half an ounce of Suger Rosate and therewith thou shalt worke very strange effects Also for Perbreaking and for Flux seethe Roses in Vineger or Tamarindes or Galls and while it is hot wet therein Wooll and lay it
to consume and the powder put within and without abateth swolne cheekes Oxificicentia Phenicon Dactilis Indie Tamarindus They that bee good be neither too moyst nor too hard and be somewhat blacke and somewhat sower the Rind nor the Seed must not be used in Medicines It hath vertue to purge Choller to clense the Blood and to abate unkind heat Os de cordâ— Cervi is the bone of the Harts heart on the left side it is good to purge Melancholy blood and Cardiacle and Sinicapos or Sincapos with the juyce of Borage and Os Sexi will make the Teeth white Dog-Fennell the root is good for the Strangury Oissury and stopping of the Liver and Spleene Pine apples the Kernels doe moysten and open and is good for the disease in the Brest or Cough or Eticke or Consumption and to increase good blood Damsons bee cold and moyst in the third degree gather them when they be ripe and cleave them in the Sun and spring them with Vineger above and then yee may keepe them two yeare in a vessell Their vertue is to coolâ— a man and make his Guts light and therefore they be good in Fevers against the costivenesse that commeth of drynesse or of Cholerick humours in the Guts when they be ripe to cut and when they be dry soke them in water and eate the Prune and drinke the water Psilium is cold and moyst in the third degree his vertue is to make soft and light and to coole a mans body and to draw together Purslene is good both raw and sodden to abate unkind heat in Cholerick men Pitch-liquid hath vertue to dissolve and consume Ponticum is good for the stopping of the Liver and Spleene that commeth of cold Storax hath vertue both to comfort and consume and to fasten Teeth and comfort the Gummes Squilla is a Sea-Onion and that is found by himselfe is deadly his vertue is to purge and to dissolve but the outer and inner parts must be cast away for they bee deadly and that which is in the middest may bee put in Medicines and it hath more vertue raw than sodden Seeds within the berries of Elder is good to purge Flegme Stavisacre hath vertue to dissolve consume draw and purge Flegme and Litargie and to put away heavinesse from the heart if it be taken and put in the nose Sâ—apium is good and hath vertue to dissolve consume draw and laxe and heale it is good for fallings downe of the Mother with suffumigation or supositor and for the tearmes of the secondine or dead Child Saracoll if it be right it is good it hath vertue to straine together and to sooder Drinke Calamint sodden in Wine for coldnesse of the stomack and for stopping of the Liver and Spleen the Reynes and Bladder and Illiacâ— passio Saterion his root is green and hath vertue to unloose mans nature Saligem his vertue is to dissolve and consume Scabius while hee is greene hath vertue to dissolve consume and cleanse Dragons take the roote and cleave it and dry it in the Sun yee may keepe it two yeares mingle the powder of Dragons with Sope and wet a Tent therein and put it deepe into a fester and it will clense and enlarge it and if there be a bone in it it will draw it out or else loose it that yee may take it out lightly Sene is to purge Melancholy and Epilencie and Fever quartaine and Emerodes for the Spleene and Liver take Cardiacle sodden in water and put to Sage and make a Syrope or the Juyce of Borage and Suger is very good Terra sigillata terra sarasincia terra argenta is all one manner of earth his vertue is to constraine together Turbith if it be hollow small and of an Ash-colour and gummie it is good It hath vertue to dissolve and draw humours from the uttermost part of a mans body and namely Fleame for the Gout and Illiaca and Podegra and Chiragra give him foure scruples of Turbith mingled with some other Medicine and it will doe the like Taplia or faiters Hearbe his vertue is to purge above and beneath both greene and dry for it is never given by himselfe he that stampeth it let him hide his face and eyes that he see not also keepe close his Testacles or else they will swell With this Hearbe beggers doe make themselves seeme to have the Dropsie upon them Tartar is the Lees of Wine and hath vertue to dissolve and dryeth away filth and to abate a mans fatnesse Terbentine a fugimation thereof is good for the subfumigation of the Mother Virga Pastoris or Shepheards rod hath vertue to straine together to coole and to fill that is empty and is good for the Fluxe Bryona or wild Neppe is hot and dry the roote thereof maketh a woman to have her tearmes and delivereth a dead Child or secondine Flower-de-Luce the Root of it washt and scraped cleane being dryed and finely beaten and put into a pint of new Milke made hote upon the fire and given the patient to drinke it helpeth the Greene sicknesse D. B. Ginger comforteth the heart and maketh good digestion Sugar is temperate hot and moyst his vertue is to moysten and nourish and to loose if it be mingled with cold things to coole The excellent vertues of Cardus Benedictus IT is very good for the Head-ache and the Megrim For the use of the juyce and powder of the Leaves preserveth and keepeth a man from the Head-ach and healeth it being present it quickneth the sight if the Juyce of it be layd on the Eyes The Powder stanches blood that flowes out of the Nose or commeth out of the Lungs the broath of it taken with Wine maketh an appetite It is good for any Ache in the body it strengtheneth the members of the body and fasteneth loose sinewes and weak It is also good for the Dropsie it breaketh also the Stone and breaketh an Impostume it preserveth one from the Pestilence if the powder be taken in water foure and twenty houres before a man come to the Infected place It is good for the dizzinesse of the Head It helpeth the memory It helpeth thicke hearing It is good for short winds and the diseases of the Lungs Some write that it strengtheneth the Teeth others write â—hat it bringeth down Flowers and provoketh sleepe and helpeth the Falling sicknesse It is also good for falls and bruises the Leaves provoke sleepe the Powder is good against all poyson the same put into the Guts by a Glyster It helpeth the Collicke and other diseases of the Guts and the wounds of t he same They write also that the water of Cardus Benedictus helpeth rednesse and the itching of the Eyes and the Juyce doth the same for Burnings and for Carbunckles There is nothing better for the Canker and old festering sores the Leaves are good for Fomentations and to be sitten over being sodden in water that the Vapour may come to the diseased places also it is good
suffice make thereof a Plaister for the Spleene Another Take the tops of Acornes Rose leaves Coriander seed and Commin seed prepared of each one ounce Strado Arabiae Galanga of each two ounces Salinter I. Saltpeeter one ounce terrified mixe them and put them in a bagge quilted or basted quadrantwise and lay it to the place grieved Another Take Camomill flowers wheat bran and a pint of white Wine boyle them all together and put them in a bag then take oyles of Violets of Linseed and of Lillies of each a penniworth annoynt therewith and put your bagge hot thereto A Drinke for the Spleene TAke the juyce of Licorice one ounce Fennell-seed Anniseed and Juniper of each an ounce pound them all in a Morter together and so drinke it in your drinke Another Take three spoonfuls of the juyce of Ivie leaves in white Wine or else of the Juyce of Egrimony and drinke of it three or foure mornings fasting and it will helpe you To dissolve the hardnesse of the Spleene AMoniacum dissolved in very sharpe Vineger and spred upon leather Plaister-wise and applyed to the Spleene will mollifie the hardnesse thereof and it may lye thereto seven weekes and never be removed A soveraigne Medicine for the Spleene and to clense the body TAke Harts-tongue wilde Hoppes Lettice and Borage with the flowers of Fumitory and Parcely rootes seethe all these in Whay and clarifie it with whites of Egges straine it and drinke it first in the morning and last at night during the space of a Moneth and by Gods helpe it will cure your Spleene and clense your blood and comfort you many wayes for your health For Ache in the Backe TAke a great Onyon or two and roast them in the embers then stampe them and straine them out of the Ju yce and mix it with as much Malmesie as Juyce and drinke thereof blood warme first and last Probatum To stay the Backe and helpe him that consumeth TAke the rootes of Parcely Fennell Camphere and of Borage Planten Bursa Pastoris and Knotgrasse and make broth with them of young Hennes Capon Mutton Rabbets and Veale and put thereto a Date or two and yee may seethe them in posset Ale made of white Wine Another Take white Archangell Cumfrey flowers white Lillies white Roses white Holly hockes Knot-grasse and Clary stampe them and take a pottle of Muskadine and a pint of Ale with the pith of an Oxe backe and three capped Dates the stones taken out and beating them in a morter small then put in some of your Muskadine and grind it with some of your Ale and stirre it and boyle the rest thereof take also the yolkes of three new layd Egges the strings taken out and beat them well together and put thereto of Sinamon two penniworth and of whole Mace one penniworth and seethe all these to a quart and so use it Another Take the pith of an Oxe backe and scald it then straine it out of the skin and shred Nippe and beat it in a Morter very small putting thereto a quart of Milke and straine it and then seethe it with five or sixe Dates and a graine of Amber-greece and the powder of Ginger and let the Patient use it very often It is proved To take away the paine of the Reynes of one that is low brought TAke three quarts of white Wine and boyl therein a red Cocke and put thereto a handfull of red Nip a quantity of Clary and the rootes of red Fennell Harts-tongue a sticke of Synamon bruised Dates great and small Raisins with a few Prunes seeth all these together till the strength of the Cocke be in the broath and put therein one ounce of Manus Christi and use this Morning and Evening luke warme For Ache in the Backe and Legges TAke the marrow of an Oxe and oyle Olive three spoonefuls and the yolkes of Egges and Butter Pepper one ounce then take the milke of a woman and mingle it together and anoynt the sicke therewith For the Bladder and the Reynes TAke the seedes of Planten beaten in a Morter and seeth them in Wine and drinke thereof alone A Plaister for the Reynes TAke Callamint Camomill Wormewood Peritory Holyhockes and bray them in a Morter with Oyle Butter or Deere and Sheeps suet and grease of a Boare or Barrow hogge with a quantity of Commin and lay it on a Plaister both behind and before For all Diseases in the Backe TAke the rootes of Daisies of Planten of Bursa pastoris of Centimodum and the Cups of Acorns a handfull and of Bole-armoniack two ounces and of Harts-horne burnt and also a Bucke Conie that is fat and let all these be sodden together in white Wine and water as much Wine as water till the Cony be consumed from the bones of the flesh then take away the flesh and the bones from the broth and so let the broth stand till it come to a jelly and when you are in your bed cause your Backe to be therewith annoynted by a Chafingdish of coales three nights together and lay thereon a warme linnen cloth and it shall helpe you by Gods grace For paine in the bladder and to make it whole for ever TAke three rootes of Smalledge and wash them faire and cleane and cut them small and seethe them in a quart of faire water till three parts of the water be consumed then straine it and take foure drams of the powder of Bittony and put thereto and drinke the said water Against running of the Reynes TAke one pound of Jordaine Almonds and blanch them and parch them and grind them very small and make Almond milke thereof with a pinte of rose-Rose-water and a pinte of Planten water and then seethe it with Suger and Sina mon and when it is cold put thereto a dramme of Masticke in fine powder and use thereof to eate and be whole Probatum est A Syrope for the Backe TAke the rootes of Ennila Compana cleane scraped and slice them thin and lay them in faire running water three dayes and shift them every day then at three dayes end take them out and put them in a gallon of faire running water with a quart of Honey of Lycorice one ounce scraped cleane and sliced and of Anniseeds one ounce cleane rubbed from the dust let all these be boyled with a soft fire and take out the rootes out of the liquour washing them one by one and when they be cut lay them on a faire dish and so let them lye 24. houres and then take the rootes and weigh them and for every pound of your rootes take a pottle of Muskadine or white Bastard and put your rootes therein and put thereto two pound of fine white Suger two or three whole Maces boyle all these to a Syrope with your rootes and then put it into a Pot and when you will use it let the Patient eate of the rootes and drinke a spoonfull of the Syrope with your rootes after it Morning and Evening Probatum