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A28315	Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases and infirmities ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation ... : also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets worthy our knowledge, relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural or ... from sorcery or witchcraft, or by being possessed of an evil spirit, directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed, with sundry examples thereof / by Joseph Blagrave of Reading, Gent. ...	Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.	1671 (1671)	Wing B3112; ESTC R13219	116,672	169

the grief or infirmity out of which you must take a select number according unto their elemental qualities and virtues being rightly appropriated unto their severall planets and gathered at the right planetary hours which this Book will sufficiently instruct you dry them so that you may pound them and searce them into fine powder Then take the quantity of half a dram thereof and the like quantity of the Sympathetical powder and mix them well together in a Mortar ever after keeping the powder warm and dry and when you are minded to cure thereby you must warm the powder very well over a few coals and while its warm put a small quantity of the Patients blood into it and mix it very well together always keeping it warm and so make it up in a little bag and let the Patient wear it next their skin that so it may always be kept warm I have by virtue of this powder done many very great cures and should have still continued in this way of practice but that I found many were unsatisfied concerning the legality thereof taking it for a kind of charm by reason I ordered the patient to wear it about their necks and I believe they did the rather conceipt so in regard I did use to resolve many questions in Astrology as Thefts Strays Fugitives c. There is but one danger in this way of cure which is as followeth If the Patient happen to lose this mixture from their necks or body wheresoever worn or otherwise let it take cold the grief will be apt to return a●ain more especially if the Patient be not perfectly recovered But when the Patient is through well than they may burn it I could have inserted many cures which I have effected by vertue of this powder I shall only mention one for example as followeth about nine years ago there lived a woman in Newbery in the County of Berks she was daily troubled with fits which at the first would begin with a kind of trembling about the heart and from thence by degrees set al the arteries to work throughout her whole body after which for some hours she would be as seemingly dead and could wagg neither arm or leg for cure whereof I let her blood in the heart vein and having my powders made in readiness according unto what is before expressed I mixt some of her blood with the powder and while it was warm made it up into a little bag which I caused her to wear about her neck by vertue of which not omitting dyet-drink suitable to her condition she was in about a months space recovered notwithstanding she was near twelve moneths in this condition before she came unto me The cure being perfected her husband according unto our agreement paid me for the cure but it so chanced that within some small time after she carelesly lost this from her neck whereupon her fits began to mind her again and more and more increased insomuch that she was almost so bad as at the first for as I said before except the patient be for some time perfectly well at least a moneth the grief will be apt to return especially when the principal matter of cure is lost or neglected for it s not sufficient in any distemper whatsoever only to cure except for a time there be a perfect settlement for we daily find that relapses are very dangerous and apt to befall many who think themselves well recovered This womans husband came to me again and told me that his Wife was so bad as ever being much discontented he not knowing the reason I askt him whether she had not lost the little bag from her neck which I gave her to wear he told me he thought she had the truth is through carelessness she had lost it whereupon I once more let her blood and did as is before expressed desiring her to take care of it which she did after which she became well again and her fits left her and so hath continued well ever since as I am informed This cure being effected about eight or nine years ago The Vnguent or wonderful Oyntment for Wounds Composed of the four Elemental parts of Mans Body The Seven Planets being applyed thereunto It s making and use followeth The Ingredients The Moss of a dead Mans Scull 2. ounces Of Mans Grease 2. ounces Of Mummy ½ ounce Of Mans Blood ½ ounce Oyl of Lindseed 2. ounces Oyl of Roses 2. ounces Bolearmeniack ½ ounce The three last ingredients are the rather added unto it because it helpeth to bring it unto a subtile oyntment and without question there is also great vertue in them Elements Nature Complection Planets Water Cold and Moist Flegm Venus and Luna Fier Hot and Dry. Choller Sol and Mars Earth Cold and Dry. Melancholy Saturn Mercury Ayr. Hot and Moist Sanguine Jupiter ALL these things before mentioned must be mixt together and beaten well in a morter until it become an oyntment then keep it in a close thing from ayr for your use The way to use this Unguent whereby to cure is as followeth Take the blood or matter of the Wound upon the Weapon or Instrument which made the Wound or otherwise dry it upon a piece of wood then put the wood into the oyntment or else anoint the blood being kept dry upon the wood with the oyntment and keep it from air you must every day wet a fresh linnen rag with the Urine of the Patient and so bind up the wound do it early every morning Also you must be very careful that the oyntment which is applyed to the blood take no cold with this Unguent wonderful things may be done if it be rightly managed according unto the directions aforesaid I shall quote one example concerning the tryal of this Unguent as followeth One day being at dinner with Sir Humphrey Forrester of Aldermaston in the County of Berks. The Gentlewoman who usually waited on his Lady was extreamly tormented with the tooth-ach we caused her to prick her teeth with a tooth pick and to blood it immediately we put the tooth-pick into the ointment and the Gentlewoman had present ease after some short time we took forth the tooth-pick and put it into vinegar whereupon she was presently in extream pain We took the tooth-pick forth of the vinegar and applyed it to the unguent and she was immediately well and so continued I could have inserted many great cures done by virtue of this unguent which for brevities sake onely I am willing to omit Concerning Witchcraft and Sorcery with the cure thereof as followeth THe way to know whether the patient be bewitched or not I have already set down elsewhere in this Book I find by experience that those who are taken in the snare of witchcraft are usually afflicted in some outward limb or member of the body caused by an image made in the likeness of man or beast and through the subtilty of the Devil made at such hours and times

Patient thereof three times a day viz morning afternoon and at night and every morning about an hour after they have taken the diet drink you must give the Patient water grewel or broath made with either the same herbs or other herbs which are suitable to the Cure according ●nto their virtues and numbers How to extract the Spirits of Plants and Herbs If the Patient be weak and must take smal quantities then you must do as followeth having collected the herbs together suitable to the cure shred them small with the addition according as in the decoction aforesaid and put them into a limbeck still and put into it a quantity of bear or ale with some white-wine muskadel and brandy to make it proportionable unto the quantity of liquor and herbs before expressed viz. a good handful of herbs with the additions unto two quarts or better of liquor this will keep a long time There is yet another way to extract the Spirit as followeth Take the herbs with the additions being shread small and bruised put them into warm water and put some berm unto it let it work three dayes as doth bear and then distil it in a limbeck still if you desire to have it strong you may put brandy or Spirit of Wine unto it and put fresh herbs to it and still it over again The way to make Syrups Take the Roses herbs or flowers and bruise them put them into a convenient quantity of fair water my usual dose is about three pints of water to a pound of flowers roses or herbs let the water be hot and let it stand with the herbs or flowers in it about twelve hours then strain it and infuse more of the same herbs or flowers and heat more water and put unto it you must sometimes infuse the roses herbs or flowers whole without bruising to make it have the smell of the plant The more of the roses herbs or flowers you do infuse into the liquor the stronger it will be and the oftner you do infuse the better The last infusions I usually boil and then gently strain it and to every pint of liquor add a pound of the best Sugar at the least you must cimber it over the fire until it be a Syrup you may know when 't is enough by cooling some in a spoon when 't is made you must keep it in glasses or stone pots bound over onely with paper or such like you must not stop it close with cork least it break the glass Concerning Lohochs or Lambatives the making and use Having made your election of such herbs which are of virtue to cure such inward defects required shread and boil them by way of decoction and when you have strain'd it put twice its wait of honey or suger and so boil it to a Lohoch which is somewhat thicker than a Syrup if the grief be of flegme then honey is best These lambetives are usually taken with a liquorish stick And are most usually taken for inflamations and ●ulcers in the lungs Coughs Asthmaes and difficulty of breath and such like infirmities Concerning Pils their making and use All kinds of Pils are made onely by beating the substantial matter into a powder and so with syrup or little gum Tragacanth dissolved in distilled water made up into Pils They are usually taken at night If it be one●y to cause the Patient to go to stool the next day then so much alloes as will heap on a two pence for a strong body or less for a weak body mixt with a little mirrh and saffron will be enough these Pils are also good for the head and stomach There are many forts of Pil● made for several infirmities as you may find in the London Dispensatory unto which I shall refer you I confess I seldom use any Pils except what I haue mentioned for I find the Astrological way of cure by herbs doth if rightly applyed cure all distempers and griefs whatsoever loosen the body and alay any pain of the head and the like as you shall find in this book yet sometimes when the patient is bound in body and the destemper requireth a decoction made of such herbs which are commonly heating and so for the most part binding such as are palpetations convulsions palsies● apoplexies and such like Then I usually give the Patient Pils at night made as aforesaid if need require Concerning Glysters If the Patient be much afflicted in the belly and Guts or is very costive in body as sometimes it will fall out more especially when the grief requireth herbs heating and binding to work their cure then I usually apply Glisters and ointments made of such herbs which are antipathetical to the afflicting Planet But most especially such herbs which are good to comfort the heart to expell poison and cleanse the Guts Also you must be careful that the herbs be gathered at the right planetary hours not omitting their numbers which he longeth to each Planet When you have gotten the herbs together shred them small and boil them in milk together with such seeds and roots which are good to expell winds about a pint and a half of milk boiled until it be near half wasted will be enough for any reasonable man or woman after its boil'd and strain'd I usually put into it three or four spoonfuls of sallet oyle and a spoonful of hony or course sugar And so give it the Patient blood warm But my usual way is first to give the Patient a suppository made of Sal-Gem to bring them first to stool by which means I find the Glyster worketh the more effectual upon the humour offending For many times if no suppository be first given the glisters will not stay by reason the Patient cannot keep them in their body Concerning Fumes If the head and brain be disaffected by reason of superfluous moisture then fumes are proper to be used by reason they have a drying quality provided they be made antipathetical unto the afflicting planet you must shred bruise and dry those herbs plants or roots which you intend to use and so bring them into powder and when you intend to fume their heads put some of this powder upon hot coles and let the Patients hold their heads over it twice a day is enough viz. morning and evening They must be careful to keep their head and feet warm Concerning Suffumigations If the head and brain be disaffected by reason of great drought be it hot or cold drought you must make choice of such herbs according unto their vertues and numbers which are antipathetical unto the afflicting Planet shread them small and boil them either in strong bear ale or strong maulted water and while it is hot let the Patients hold their head over it and be careful they take no cold afterwards Concerning Cataplasms Cataplasmes are oft-times used to help cure Agues and sometimes to apply unto the feet to draw from the head and more especially in such infirmities and defects wherein

but also by reason the applycations are for the most part hot wherefore sometimes we give them Glisters Pills or Suppositers according unto discretion Here followeth the way Astrologically not only to discover but also to cure all sorts of Evils together with that commonly called the Kings-Evils Concerning the Evil commonly called the Kings-Evil and the Cure thereof as followeth IT 'S generally called the Kings-Evil In regard it pleased God to give the Kings of this Nation that great gift of curing these kinds of infirmities 'T is not as many foolishly do imagine called the Kings-Evil in regard of any sins by them committed and so for that cause it should fall upon the Subject for the Evil is directly from themselves occasioned by some extraordinary distemper of the brain and so from thence dispersed by the Nerves into several parts of the body sometime I have known it fall into the Eyes and at other times into the Neck and Throat with white kernels swellings and sometimes 't will be in any other parts of the body and the swelling is alwayes white Now in regard that Chyrurgions and Doctors in former times were ignorant not only of the Cause but also of the way of cure by reason it lay wholly in the Nerves for these kinds of Evils coming wholly from the Brain as aforesaid at the first beginning never toucheth upon the Flesh Brain or Blood only the Nerves are puffed up and riseth in kernels white whereupon such applications which usually cured other swellings were clear antipathetical unto these kinds of swellings and rather increased than any way diminished their pain I have cured many of this kind of Evil also as is well known unto many in the Country Many times it falleth out to be in the Optick-Nerves and then the Eyes are in a very sad condition About a year a go I cured the Daughter of one John Alexander living in Mortimer in the County of Berks she was taken in both Eyes they were so cloased up that she could not endure to have them opened whereby to apply any remedy she lay thus above six moneths quite blind besides what time the grief was drawing on before and the more they tampered with her the worse she was at length they were fearful that her Eyes would perish in her head as it seems one Maids did who was of their acquaintance whereupon they came to me and having agreed upon the price for the cure I did undertake and perform it in about a moneths space the manner how I did perform it I shall relate before I conclude I do find that in former ages multitudes perished through these kinds of Evils by reason as I said before that Doctors and Chyrurgeons were ignorant of the true cause of the distemper and so by consequence of the cure whereupon it pleased God to give this gift of healing first unto King Edward the 1. who for his piety was called the Confessor who was the first English King who suecceeded after the Deans wete extinguished and after him successively this great gift hath continued unto the Kings of this Nation I shall now proceed to set forth the way of cure not only of this mans Daughter in question but also how to cure it in any part of the body provided it be taken in hand in time before the Nerves Flesh and Bones are perished for in length of time if it be not cured 't will get into the Flesh Bones and Blood and then in the end commonly that Limb or Member of the Body be it arm foot legg and sometimes thigh and all is cut off The way of curing this Maides eye was as followeth In the first place I made choice of three solary herbs which are esteemed good for the Nerves viz. rosemary Angellica and bawm these herbs I cau●ed to be made close up in a linnen cloath taking a small quantity of each being all gathered at the hour of the Sun and gave it her to wear about her Neck instead of Gold for as Gold is a Metal under the Dominion of the Sun and hath a vertue to comfort the brain for the Sun hath predominancy over the brain as I have shewed elsewhere see also these herbs being under the Dominion of the Sun hath the like sympathetick vertue to comfort the brain accordingly also I made choice of a select number of solary herbs to make a Dyer-drink by way of decoction and likewise to make an oyl to annoynt th● brain But unto the Eyes I applyed only celandine-Celandine-water given in a small tincture of Roman-Vitriol but at the first beginning of the Cure I did for a few dayes apply raw-fresh meat to the powl or Neck to help dry and divert the humour from the Eyes by this means through Gods blessing she was soon recovered Now the way to cure this kind of Evil when it setleth in any other part of the body is as followeth You must in the first place make use of three Solary Herbs as aforesaid to wear about their neck also you must make a bath of Solary Herbs according unto the number before mentioned belonging unto the Sun and being gathered at the right Planetary hour also out of the same herbs you must make an oyntment and once a day you must bath the place grieved pretty hot and then immediately with this oyntment anoynt it and keep it moderately warm you must be sure to make choice of such solary herbs which are esteemed good for the brain and nerves as you will find in this Book elsewhere I shall relate one Example This year I cured a Maid who was the only daughter of Mr. Henry Bulstrode living in Warfield Parish in the County of Berks she had the evil in her ear and right side of her head being most grievously pained therewith Her Father tryed many Doctors and others to his great cost and charge but instead of mending she grew worse every day than other and the more they tampered with her the more she was afflicted the swelling was white she was in this condition about nine moneths at length finding no remedy and hearing by some of his Neighbours what great cures I had done for others her Father came unto me and having agreed with me about the charge I did undertake the cure and in about six weeks time did perfect the cure accordingly The way which I used was according to what I have already declared Viz. By Diet-drinks Baths ointments and herbs to wear about her neck as is before expressed All the herbs used were Solary and gathered at the true planetary hour agreeing with the number attributed to the Sun Note That when the Sun or any other planet whose herbs you intend to use be strong in the heavens the lesser numbers will serve but when they are weak then the greater numbers must be used A planet is said to be strong when he is in essential dignities and weak when out of dignities in the heavens the reasons I have shewed