salis Tartari gr x. Magisterium salis gr viij Mix these in Rhenish Wine or Sack and let him drink it in the morning fasting not only once but often Let his Drink be as followeth ℞ Sarsaper Guaic. an ℥ viij Gum. Guaic. ℥ j. Succ. Liquoriciae ℥ iiij Rectified Spirit of Wine lb viij mix digest twenty dayes decant and keep it for use Let him drink of this two spoonfuls in a glass of Wine at night when he turns in and a spoonful at other times this is the best drying dyet Drink in the World not only for this but the Pox or Plague or Scurvy 'T is called Liquor alexipharmicus seu scorbuticus To the part it self apply a hot fomentation or Lixivium strong Spirit of Wine applyed on with warm stuphs is excellent Then ℞ Emplast de galbano Crocato ad Tophos ana part equal To make it into a Cataplasmick consistence add unguent de althaea 'T is the most excellent as yet known for this purpose If it was an Ulcer before you saw it together with these means apply into the Ulcer ℞ Liquor vulnerarium schroderi or Liquor Salutis Let the Ulcers be well washed with these or either of them either by Syringe or otherwise Then arm your Dorsels or Tents with Balsam Vulner Salmon and dip them in one of these Liquors and put them in hot and on them the above-named Emplaister and so make decent rouling which last is a great help in the Cure of these Ulcers CHAP. XXIX Of Cancers Schirrhous Tumors Phagadenick Vlcers and Fistulaes HEre you must use the same dyet drink as in the former Chapter And either to dissolve or ripen these Tumours to the other Emplasters there mentioned add Emplastrum schirrhosum Salmonis Then have you the best resolvent or maturative of malignant and rebellious Tumours that ever was invented And if they be Ulcers Aqua Phagadaenica either of it self or mixt with Spiritus Vini is the chiefest Medicine to bathe and stuff the Ulcers with Then Balsamum Vulnerarium Salmon with Quintessence of Cloves applyed hot on Dorsels with the Emplaister over it is a powerful Medicine If the bone be foul you have Pulvis Turbith miner to apply next it to scale it But you must purge this sullen humour out of the Body or never expect the Tumours or Ulcers to heal To do this there 's no nobler a Medicine under the Sun than ℞ Panchymagogum Mineralae Quercitani gr x. in pil ex duobus gr x. misce fiant pil Give this every other Morning fasting till the body be rectified of this stubborn and poysonous humour for this will powerfully bring forth all vitious and poysonous humours But if he cannot take Pills let a spoonful or two of decoctum Colocynthidos Salmonis in a glass of wine every other morning be the medicine and look after him as is requisite in Purges You must also see to oppose powerfully all venemous quality of the humours and besides the dyet-drink give sometimes this ℞ Either Thriac Lond. nova ʒ i or Bezoarticum solare Comp. Salmon gr viij in a glass of Sack and let him sweat upon it Cancers are usually extirpated and then the place brought to digestion and healed You extirpate a Cancer with your Catling but if a Finger or Toe you extirpate it with your Chizel and Mallet CHAP. XXX Of Gravel and Strangury SOmetimes Men happen to be cruelly tormented with this disease at Sea and although they do not expect you perfectly to cure it yet they would be glad of a little ease and it would make any man pity them to see them so excruciated If it be about the Reins then do this ℞ Sal vitriolium emeticum ʒ ss Spiritum Salis gut xx in a glass of White-wine or Rhenish this certainly removes and dissolves it If in the neck of the bladder then ℞ Spiritum Nephriticum Clossei gut viij or x in syrup of Marsh-Mallowes and aqua persicaria This if you can have it is insuperable in forcing away the Gravel and Urine but if you have it not then ℞ Aqua Comminuens Calculum Horstii ʒ ij or ℥ t s at a time is excellent as to the intention If a large Gravel-stone stick in the Yard force it back with your Catheter If in the fit of the Strangury you give something to make the Body soluble and carry away the hard feces that oppress the neck of the bladder you will do well as thus ℞ Tincturam solutivam ℥ i Elix Juniperi a spoonful in a glass of Malago And in the extremity of misery that worthy Anodine Ens veneris gr x drank in a glass of Canary when the man turns in does not only give immediate ease and comfort but likewise dissolves the Tartarous Muscleage or concreted substance CHAP. XXXI How to Cure a Clap. THere is yet another Distemper which Seamen meet sometimes with by going a shore and that is a Clap. Now for as much as this is not got by the Ships work so it is not cured on the Ships account but the Man pays you for it But it is a Chyrurgical Cure and you are desired by the Man to cure him We commonly call that a Clap and not the Pox although a chip of the same block when the venemous humour lyeth about the Genitals or Seed-Vessels and hath not yet infected the mass of blood nor got into the bones A Clap appears either in a Gonorrhea Tumour of the Yard Shankers pricking in the Urinary passage or Bubo in the Groin Whatever way it appears bleed not at all for that were the way to bring it into the body The first thing you must do is to purge out the Poysonous Vapour The accustomary way and indeed a very good way is this ℞ Pil rudii ℈ j resina Jalupi Calomelos ana gr x f. pilulae If he cannot take Pills then ℞ Electu pro morb Gal. Salmon ℈ ij Or if a Bolus will not down with him then ℞ Decoctum Colocynthidos Salmon two spoonfuls in a glass of Wine If he can take any of these you may interchange them as you see fit because the too often taking of the same thing cloys the patient They must be taken in the Morning fasting and he must be ordered as to purge when he has purged sufficiently for four or five days the running will cease only some small gleeting 't is possible will remain To Cure which ℞ Tereb Cypr. ℥ j open it with the Vitel. ovorum mix it with aqua plantag strain it and let him drink it every night for three or four times Or ℞ Icthyocolla decocted either in water if you are on board or in Milk if a shoar an Ounce at a time and drank whilst it is warm Either of these will effectually stop the gleeting If there is a pricking in the Yard when the Man makes water Inject Troches alba enassis mixt in aqua plantag And if little Ulcers Shankers Pustules c. be on the Glans or between
not too hard to fill up the Nostril but wet so as he may snuff the water at the end of the dorcel and so let the dorcel stay there And in the mean time let him blood to make revulsion and by this means it will stop But for the better security let him drink this following ℞ Aqua Papaveris syr mirtinorum ana ℥ ij aqua stiptica Vitrioli gut xx Tinctura papaveris Hyosciami balsam Phylosophorum ana gut vj. fiat potus Any one of these afore-named Medicines especially the aqua stiptica vitrioli in Poppy-water is very powerful of it self to stop the bleeding if you have not them all you may give of it per se to xxx drops A Bolus of Thriac Lond. Novaʒj with Sanguis symphiti ℈ j is likewise approved Some apply this acollemata to the Frons and Temples ℞ Bol ver sang drac Calx thus Mastich ana parts equal decoct them Then add farina Ovab q. s to make it into a Catap. in fine beat Vitel Ov. Cum Ol. myrtinor misce Spread this thick and apply it it powerfully stops blood not only at Nose but likewise any other part and dissolves blood and dryes it up that is gathered into any part by a Fall or Bruise CHAP. XVII How to Cure a Rheumatisme THis Distemper called a Rheumatisme I have often observed Seamen to be afflicted with in ships that I have been in 'T is like the Gout but not the Gout it siezeth about the Joynts of the Feet or Hands or both and if a flatulent vapour be stird up with it it shifts out of one joynt to another and is called the running Gout There is sometimes a light readness with small Tumour and swoln Veins about the Joynts that it siezeth He that hath it hath lamentable pain and misery especially in the night It never is seen to break although I believe by ill handling it would for I saw the Gout broke under a Gentlemans foot by the application of Cataplasms and together with the virulent matter there came forth like white seeds in abundance harder than the matter by which a man may see what a prodigious humour the Gout is of I could never find that Purging or Sweating would do any good in this disease but rather exasperate it and drinking of Wine is an Enemy to it for most of them that I have seen have it have got it by drinking over much raw Wine and then lying down in the cold to sleep whence the Humours plethorick have not had that expiration through the pores of the skin as they should and the humours could not receive the third concoction for want of heat so Nature expels the raw humour to the outward or extream parts And at the Joynts the Crude humours make a stop and the blood makes not so good a circulation as it should This then is a Rheumatisme Now bleeding is the principal remedy in this grief not only once but often and a good large quantity at a time The best of Oyles or Oyntments whether hot or cold I could never find to do any good and Emplasters have signified as much as nothing Bathe the part well with Liquor antipodagricus Minsichti or aqu Arthritica Quercitani Then embrocate it with the quintissence of Colocynthidos fabri and Antimony I say with the often bathing and chasing in of these Medicines and frequent use of Phlebotomy and when pain is insufferable taking inwardly five or six grains of that excellent Nepenthae ℞ Quintessentia Papaveris Hyosciami in a little Ale or common Water There will be present ease and speedy cure so if a man hath a fit of the Gout or Sciatica on board although he doth not expect you to cure him yet he would be glad of ease if you can give it him and you have no better way than this to do it CHAP. XVIII How to Cure setled Pains in any part Old Aches from former Bruises Cramp stifness of Sinews and Cricks in the Back numbness of the Limbs and Joynts MEn often at Sea complain to you of these things especially in cold Climates and against bad Weather and will ask you for something of an Oyl or Sear-cloth to ease them If it be Cold Cramp Numbness sweat them well with Methridate or Venus Treacle Then foment the grieved part with hot Spiritus vini Communis and Oyle of Sulphur for these will certainly give relief If it be a Crick in the back or old bruises after this embrocate well with Oleum excestrence or Lumbricorum and then Emplastrum de galbano Crocato laid warm on is the best means that can be used and for stiffness of the sinews Oleum Vulpinum or Vnguent Martiatum have not their fellows Or that Liquor Antipodagricus bathed on any part or for any pain hot and a stuph wrung out of it laid often on assuredly doth your work CHAP. XIX How to Cure the Squinzie SEamen are afflicted with this Disease as well as those at Land it is an inflamation of the Muscles of the Throat with Tumour both outward and inward 'T is a distemper of Plethory and suffocates a man in a little time if not remedied Here bleeding is immediately required first under the Tongue then in the Jugulers or Arm and let it be frequently celebrated and a considerable quantity for this is a main thing in this Cure Together with bleeding either keep the Body open with Clysters As The Common Decoction and Lenitivum or Tinctura solutiva ℥ j inwardly which is an excellent Medicine for that purpose Externally bathe it well with acetum vini albi wherein Sal prunellae salarmoniacum Alumen Crudum are dissolved and some drops of Oyl of Sulphur or Vitriol are mixed Add to some of this Syrrup Diamoron and gargle it in the mouth often and it will abate the inward Tumour and Inflamation of the Tonseils and Throat then apply Emplastrum Hyrundinis to the outward Tumour 'T is this ℞ Nido Hirund alb Graecum ana ℥ j. figgs dates ana N o 3. flor Chamo pulv Lini fenug ana ʒ vj. decoct in aqu Com. then add Vnguent dealthea ℥ ij Oyl violar ℥ j. Croc. Angl. ℈ j. Vitel Ov. N o 1. f. Cataplasma This with the Gargarisme and Lotion and Phlebotomy cures the greatest Squinzy CHAP. XX. To Cure the Relaxation of the Vvula's and Amygdalas SOmetimes by cold men have their Almonds of the Ears down and their Collumella relaxed by a moist Rhume distilling on them from the Brain The best way to cure this is to sweat the man well to dry up that Rheume that descends A dram or two of Lon. Treacle in a glass of Wine is a good Medicine and let him wrap his Stockins about his neck and keep his head warm and sweat when he is turned in Some blow restringent pouder upon the Uvula with their Uvula Spoon others dip their wet Thumb in pouder of Pepper and stroak on them but the best way is to make
a Gargle with lign Guaic. in pure white Wine and gargle often with it and put some Spirit of Guaicum in your Uvula Spoon and blow it forcibly on the Amygdals and Uvula for these will powerfully dry and constringe When this is done then stroaking them up gently with the hands outwardly is very serviceable If any bone or other thing stick in the throat and cannot be extracted with the forceps it must be thrust down with your Instrument of Whalebone with a small pellet of spunge fastned to the end of it CHAP. XXI To Cure the Tooth-Ach THE Quintessenses of Cloves and Colocynthis are great arcanums as to the Tooth-ach But Ol. Odontalgicum Salmonis is now found the best of all A small Pellit of Lint dipt therein and put into the Tooth with your Fleme It causes the Rheume to fall away and the Teeth to leave aching If it be a cold Rhume you would do well to sweat the Man with Lond. Thriac If hot a grain of laud given inwardly doth a great deal of good and let him lay down his head but hollow and rotten Teeth are best drawn out CHAP. XXII Of Opthalmias or Suffusions and Pearls on the Eyes AN Opthalmia is a Disease wherein the eyes either one or both have a Rhume descended into them of Blood and Choler whence Pin Web Film or Pearl generally comes There is Liquor Opthalmicus Aqua Opthalmica Schroderi are excellent Eye-waters But that Aqua Opthalmica Salmoniana is most approved of now It doth not only cure all manner of Rheumatick and blood-shot eyes and dry up their Sores but takes off Pearls and Filmes by washing the Eyes therewith 'T is good here to let blood if it be of Plethory but if of Cacochymia to purge the head with Pil extractum rudijÊ’ss Some help to divert the rheume by blisters behind the ears and in the Neck Others make a Seaton in the Neck Unguentum Tutiae mixt with Diapompholigos and applyed on Linnen double clothes to the Eyes all Night and washt off in the Morning with white Rose water doth greatly help to cure the Eyes CHAP. XXIII Deafness stoppage of the Ears Pain and Imposthume IF the Deafness be not Natural but come accidentally and yet there be no stoppage by ear-wax then spirit Otalgicus dropt warm into the Ears morning and evening and Muskified Cotton after it is the best of Remedies But if the Ear be stopt with hard wax then put oyl of Camomil into it two or three times a day for 2 or 3 days At last take warm White Wine and syringe it often and forcibly into the Ear and there will come forth a lump of hard Wax out of the auditory passage then stop the Ear with the Spiritus Otalgicus and Muskified Cotton as before If there be an imposthume then Balsamus Polychrestus mynsichti is of excellent use dropt into the Ear and Cotton after it giving inwardly Antimo Diaphoreticum cum Tartar gr x or xv given in Spirit of Guaicum for three or four dayes together CHAP. XXIV Of the Piles and Procedentia Ani. THE Piles is a troublesome thing and painful so that a man cannot do his labour but in misery It is a benefit of Nature and is not to be expected to be cured so as never to return especially whilst a man is in his mans estate and full of Blood The best way is to make the Body open and laxative that there may be no straining with Tinctura solutiva or Syr. rosarum solu â„¥ j or two After this either Vnguentum Hemorhoidalae or Oleum Scrophulariae are excellent Medicines but Oleum Succinum anointed on never fails you may mix it with Oleum Lini Inwardly xx or xxx drops of Aqua st ptica vitrioli in warm Wine or Poppy-water is very prevalent If the Anus be proceeded bathe it with warm Wine then strow flower of Mastick on it and return it and bind it so as it may take a habit to stay up CHAP. XXV For Boyles and Felons TO ripen these Boyles and Felons apply this Cataplasme â„ž Vnguent Basilici majoris Valentiae Scabiosae e Mucilaginibus Emplast Melilot simplex q. s f. Cataplasma Apply this warm and often till it is ready then stay not its breaking but open it Cleanse it with Liquor Vulnerarius schroderi Spiritus vini vitriolati Ana. part equal This will not only mundifie but applyed warm on Dorcels heals it to admiration You may at last use Balsamum Tereb Simp. and about it a Diachalon cum Gum. plaster Note That if it should be a Pestilential Carbuncle then add to the Cataplasma Emplast Magneticum Hartmanni for then it will not only ripen it but powerfully draw out the Venome and Elixir Pestilentiale CrollijÊ’ss in the morning fasting CHAP. XXVI A Phlegmonous Tumour SOmetimes from Plethory there ariseth a Sanguine Tumour in some part If it be in the emunctory or any part where Nature is designed to exonerate it self of its too great a quantity of Blood apply no repellents only let blood plentifully at first and apply a discussive and emollient Cataplasme â„ž As Emplast Emolliens Vnguâ—nâ— de althaea q. s fiat Cataplasma The Emollient Emplaster is thus made â„ž Oxicroc â„¥ ij diach simp Composit Melilot an â„¥ j. cum Ol. Camom Misce If you see it inclines to suppuration and will out your way is to apply a supperating Cataplasm as this â„ž Vnguent Basil majoris unguent Scabiosae valentiae e Mucilaginibus Melilot Symp. Comp. f. Cataplasma This will bring it to speedy suppuration being applyed very warm and often When it has run well absterge and heal it with Spirit Vini Vitriolati for that applyed hot either with Syringe or on Pledgits or Dorcels certainly heals it from the bottom or Balsum Tereb simplex and all over let be an Emplaster of Diachalon Magnum If there is any thing of malignancy in the Tumour then mix your maturative with Emplast Magneticum Hartmanni as in the last Chap. and inwardly give him of Elixir Pestilentiale CrollijÊ’s in the morning fasting CHAP. XXVII Of an Erysipelas and Cholerick pushes SOmetimes there are sudden inflations bubling Cholerick pushes and erisipelas Ulcers as Ignis sacer or Wild-fire a sharp inflamation here Oleum Rosaceum Omphacinum is of excellent use more especially if Liquor Tutiae Mynsichti be first bathed well on the place and if the Cholerick Ulcers are yet more deep mix with your Omph. ros Oleum unguent diapompholigos and apply it Let Blood and purge Choler As â„ž Syr. ros solut â„¥ j. quintessentia Coloc â„¥ j. give it in any proper vehicle 'T is an excellent purpose to the intention and so is Cariostinum Electu â„¥ s in the morning fasting CHAP. XXVIII Of Phlegmatick Tumours and Vlcers A Phlegmatick Tumour is long arising and not very painful such are Struma's and Scrophula's in the Limbs it pitts First purge Phlegm and watry humours As â„ž Quintessentia Turpethum Ê’ j. Tinctura
Panchymagogum ʒ j in a glass of wine this effectually Cures opens Obstructions and roots out the seeds of stubborn diseases working with a great deal of safety and pleasantness if followed for several days Now when the Scurvy is thus Complicated with these other distempers there is usually generated a certain malign or venomous quallity which is little better then catching in a Ship therefore you ought to have an eye to this So that now and then ʒs or a ʒj of Quintessentia vitrioli drank in a glass of Sack is the best medicament that the world can afford in this and such like cases If you have not this Theriac Lond. novaʒj or ij in a glass of Wine is excellent and let the man sweat on it Let him drink half a spoonful of tinctura gumi Guaic. in all his drink if it be the moist Scurvy but if the dry Scurvy then Elixir Vitrioli Mynsichti ℈ s CHAP. II. Of Fluxes FLuxes are very frequent at Sea especially when the victuals grow bad or when we come in Countries where we get abundance of bad Wine and beverage or are reduced to drink stinking water sometimes when our English victualling is done and we change to some other Country victuals I have known Fluxes come all these ways Come how they will our way to Cure them is first to purge with Rhubarb and 't is best thus ℞ Rubarb ℥ j Cinnamon ʒ j infuse it all night in Wine in the morning strain it and add to a quarter of a pint thereof Syr. of Myrtles ℥ j f. potus let him drink this in the morning fasting In this disease let him forbear crude Wine and Fruits such as the Scurvy requires are here Enemies at night give him a drachm of Diascordium when he goes to try to rest Next morning have ready a dose of the same infusion of Rubarb as before adding only fresh Cinnamon to it and this second infusion has if not altogether almost lost its Cathartick quallity and now is mostly restrictive The night following give him a good drink of burnt Wine with a branch of Rosemary and some Cinnamon in it and sweetned with white Sugar This method stops most white Fluxes CHAP. III. Of a Dysentery or Bloody Flux A Bloody Flux hath most frequently the same primary causes as the other however there are sharp corroding Chollerick humours fretting and ulcerating the Intestines 'T is requisite here to let blood in the first place I have found that to do a great deal of good Purge him likewise with the first and then endeavour to bind with the second infusion of Rubarb as before But withal there is too often in this as in the Scurvy a secret malignity poysonous and infectious and it causes others to fall sick if it be the ruining distemper in the ship This venomous quallity proceeds from the corruption of humours therefore it is to be powerfully opposed Thriac Lond. nova ʒj in a glass of Wine is very powerful and will destroy the very essence of venome give it not only once but often And to heal the Ulcers of the Bowels give him healing Clysters ℞ White-wine ℥ viij Quintessence of Aristolcchiae ʒ ij Quintessentia Myrrhae ℈ ij shake it together This is the best of all Clysters to heal the Bowels if it be injected warm And to ease pain and bind after due purging the best that I know is this ℞ Syrup Diamor ℥ j electu diacorallinum ℈ ij Tinctura Mart. pro deliquio ℈ j Quintessentia papaveris hyosciami gut iij this in a small glass of cinnamon-Cinnamon-water drank is excellent And then good Cordials are of great use for men in a little time grow extream faint ℞ Quintessentia Cymamoy gut iiij Tinctura Corallinum gut x. in a spoonful of Tinctura vitae is an excellent Cordial CHAP. IV. Of a Cholera A Cholera is a violent vomiting and sometimes a loosness with it from Cholerick humours in the Stomach and first passages The best way is first to cleanse away these vitious humours ℞ Spir. vitae Rulandi ʒ j Tinctura flor reguli antimon gr iiij give it in a glass of Wine These will not only carry away the humours both ways but throughly rectifies the distemper of the Stomach and first passages When this has done working burn him half a pint of Sack with a branch of Rosemary and a blade or two of Mace and sweeten it with ℥ j. of Syr. of Mirtles or dryed Roses and let him drink it hot Or ℞ Aqu. Aromatica ʒ j. quintessentia Cynamo Menthae an gut x. Syrup Dyamor or Mel ros Colat ℥ j. in a glass of choice Canary Or Elixir Vitrioli ℈ j. in Spiritu Menthae These are inferiour to no stomachicals in the whole World And let the region of his stomach be anointed with Oyl of Mace CHAP. V. Of a Surfeit SUrfeits at Sea generally come by over drinking although indeed they may come by over-eating or from the vitions quality of what is eaten it is so that nature refuseth to digest the great quantity that a man has drank As a man that hath a burden too heavy doth not so much as lift at it Some nature is so propitious to them that when they are too full of drink they vomit but some do not but are extream sick at stomach and the head achs as it would split Now if such had given them a draught of warm Water with some ℥ ij Oxymel of Squils in it they would vomit and prevent a Surfeit especially if after their vomiting they had a pint of Wine burnt with a sprig of Mint and a blade of Mace and sweetned with fine Sugar and so drank hot But if it hath passed the Stomach before the man speaks to you and the Liver doth not digest it but lets it lye in the first passages then there is worser pains and heat Now Vomiting of it self will do no good But ℞ Spirit vitae Rulandi ʒ j Tinctura a florreguli antimo gut iiij Oxim Scil. ℥ j. This in a glass of Wine will work pleasantly both wayes and free both Stomach and intestines of the superfluous humour that Nature is charged withal Some in this case use a Clyster Electum Cariocost ℥ j in moderately hot Wine injected excellently draws down the excrement and noxious fumes and evacuates it to the Patients great ease and comfort The Body thus cleansed let him then drink the burnt Wine hot and add to it a scruple of Elixir vitrioli mynsichti and then it is a powerful stomachical and will cause digestion But sometimes it has past the Liver and hath not been well concocted there but is sent as it were half digested into the Veins and so there is no third concoction it doth not make blood fit to nourish and now it is a confirm'd Surfeit and 't is like the Surfeit spots come out and there 's a Feaver and loathing of Food but a great thirst and desire of more cold drink Now