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A66951	The surgeons mate or Military & domestique surgery Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise as namely: wounds, apos fumes, ulcers, fistula's, fractures, dislocations, with ye most easie & safest wayes of amputation or dismembring. The cures of the scuruey, of ye fluxes of ye belly, of ye collicke and iliaca passio, of tenasmus and exitus ani, and of the calenture, with A treatise of ye cure of ye plague. Published for the service of his Ma. tie and of the com:wealth. By John Woodall Mr. in chyrurgerie.; Surgions mate, or A treatise discouering faithfully and plainely the due contents of the surgions chest	Woodall, John, 1556?-1643.; Woodall, John, 1556?-1643. Treatise faithfully and plainly declaring the way of preventing, preserving from, and curing of that most fearful and contagious disease called the plague.; Woodall, John, 1556?-1643. Treatise of gangrena, and sphacelos.	1617 (1617)	Wing W3421; ESTC R221201	349,679	432

at the cost The Rec●i● of it TAke the roots of China cut into small slices ℥ 3. infuse them 12 hours at the least in five quarts of fair water adding of Burrage and Buglosse of each half a handful of Cloves in number three with a like weight of Cynamon and Mace boyl these gently till one third part be consumed and if you please adde one spoonfull of Rosewater and some little Sugar to make it grateful in taste and also three spoonfuls of juyce of Lemons and in want of juyce of Lemons so much good Wine Vineger you may give the Patient at one time to a quarter of a pinte and he may take of this decoction four The Dose sundry times in a day safely at the least and oftnet if he like it Also remembring that the sick have some other Cordial prepared for him if need be to provoke him to sweat the second or third time and some odoriferous thing in his hand or near at hand by him often to smell unto such as are elsewhere set down or some other of the like nature And in want of China roots take the double part of Sarsaparilla and in want of that a large crust of the best bread of Wheat for the poorer sort this also is good to contemperate the blood after sweating and further it is of ancient Writers esteemed as a very good Cordial medicine to give the party the quantity of a drach or ʒ i. s of the finest Bolus Armen in a cup of white Wine with half a spoonful of Rose-water and a little Sugar if you please and in want thereof give it in posset drink Moreover if you see occasion and can have them in your posset drinks or distilled water that you use as vehicles or liquors in which you give your medicines you may put the quantity of one or two ounces of syrup of Citrons or of Lemons or of Sorrel or Wood-sorrel or of sour Pomegranates also it is very good in every sweat-provoking Cordial drink that you adde oyl of Vitriol three or four drops to a dose but no more for offending yea in all Julips a few drops thereof are both cordial and warrantable and in want thereof in a cooling Julip may be added Sal Prunellae so that the quantity exceed not ʒ ij per haustum unum Another Julip for the Diseased of the Plague The Receit TAke French Barley or in want thereof English Barley about one good handfull fair conduit water or spring water three quarts boyl the Barley about half an hour in the water and then cast away the water then take about three quarts of water again and of Mace and Cloves of each half a scruple or 20 grains which is a scruple and boyl the said Barley and the rest one hour or more till one third part of the liquor or thereabouts be consumed then clear of this Barley water into a glasse and to each quart of water if it may be had adde of Syrup of Wood-sorrel of Citrons of Limons of Violets or of any one of these ℥ 3. of Rose water one spoonfull of Wine Vineger two spoonfuls of oyl of Vitriol ten drops and if you can get no syrups at hand use Sugar to make it pleasant of taste and in want of oyl of Vitriol use two more spoonfuls of Wine Vineger A caution in using oyl of Vitriol and note that whensoever you put oyl of Vitriol into any liquor and that you would give it the Patient that you shake the glasse ever when you put our any for the Oyl will fall to the bottom and the last draught will be very dangerous and too sharp to be drunk Against Thirstinesse Divers qualifications of Thirst WAter and Vineger mixed and often held in the mouth and put out again is good juyce of Lemons and water so used letting some part down is also very good also preserved cherries and stew'd Prunes are good to hold in the mouth and to be taken in Quinces or conserve of Barberries or Tamarinds from the East-Indies or it were good the Patient had by him often to suck from a liquorish stick some cordial syrup in a glasse as of Wood-sorrel of Citrons Limons of Violets or syrup of Vineger or of some such like also as is repeated Sal Prunellaeʒ ij and some 3 ounces of Plantain or Strawberry water doth well cool thirst and is cordial Against faintings and swounings which happen in the sicknesse Medicines against swounings LEt the sick have something to smell unto that hath Rose-Vineger with a few drops of Rose water in it also give the sick either some Treacle water or some good Bezar or Cynamon water Angelica water or Mint water distilled with wine or a little good Aqua-vitae or a little good claret wine mul'd with a few Cloves Rosemary and Sugar therein any of these are good Cordials or let him hold a Lemon stuck with Cloves as is said in his hand or have some cordial Pomander in his hand and to wet his temples and forehead with Wine Vineger and a little Rosewater mixed where it may be had A good Posset-Drink in the sicknesse if the Disease begin hot MAke an ordinary posset with Ale and Milk purifie it from the curd and boyl gently therein if you desire to have it cooling Sorrel Strawberry leaves Plantain leaves Violet leaves or some of them adding a little Wine vineger and some Sugar and a little Rosewater if you please and this will be a good drink for the Patient to continue with in the time of his sicknesse Also the juyce of Lemons or Oranges wrung into the posset drink is likewise very good and the best of all to make it tart and not over sour therewith is a little oyl of Vitriol for that no medicine is so Oyl of Vitriol precious against the pestilential Feaver as the oyl of Vitriol it being warily administred Another good Posset-Drink to give a sweating Medicine in if the parties sicknesse begin cold MAke a Posset first with Ale and Milk in an ordinary manner unto which adde Marigolds Burrage Buglosse or some of them and gently boyl them in the Drink and to a quart thereof adde of good Sack a quarter of a pint and to a draught of this drink put any cordial medicine to provoke sweat and give it warm if the disease begin cold as is said but if it begin hot leave out the Sack for as I in this book have oft repeated I hold Wine better and safer to give a cordial with Wine the best for preparing a Cordial with in the Plague then any simple water distilled although it were distilled either from Angelica Dragon Centory or Carduus Benedictus A good Cordial Medicine for the poorer sort though it were to women with Child for they may take it softly The Receit TAke Bayberries cleanse the husks and dry them untill they will be made into powder then powder them or for a need grate

If against the malignity of the blood or any pestilential contagion be feared then in such a case the Patient may take as followeth R. Diatessar two drams Mithrid one dram Elect. de ovo one scruple dissolve or mixe them together and take it in white wine claret or sack or in Carduus or fair water for need of any the aforesaid to the quantity of foure ounces and sweat thereupon and if the contagion be fierce the Patient may reiterate such sweating medicine each eight houres safely for three times or Aurum vitae gr 8 These or any of these other Cordials may be given in other waters and other mixtures according to the discretion of the Surgeon the time place and different occasion considered and for need the aforesaid Cordials or any of them may be taken in a Bolus or lumpe Likewise Mithridate or Audromaches Treacle a dram or two drams of either of them in white wine in Carduus water or in beere or water for a need may safely be taken for a Cordial or in a Bolus if the Patient like it so For tortions or gripings of the stomach or bowels Also Therica Diatessaro● three drams for a dose may be taken either as it is in a Bolus or lump to be swallowed down and even so taken it is an excellent Cordial to provoke sweat to remove tortions stitches or gripings of the stomach or lower belly or against any paines therein also it resisteth all putrefactions and pestilential vapors and is the most antient Treacle of all others my selfe have had very much true and good experience of it and would trust my life upon it though not before the two aforesaid Alexifarmiks and London Treacle in like manner is to be used and is a very good Cordiall Elect. de Ovo is also of it selfe a sure good Cordial a scruple I meane twenty graines thereof in a Bolus or lump or in wine given it resisteth pestilential venome and refresheth the spirits and either A Cordial alone or as a foresaid mixed with other Cordials Aurum vitae as also a true Cordial for it comforteth the heart provoketh sweat and by the pores of the skin expelleth poysonous vapors I have had good proof thereof upon my one body when I was strucken with the Plague Conser Rosarum is used to refresh and strengthen the stomach either alone or if you intend to coole and contemperate the blood A contemperative Cordial to purpose adde a few drops of oyle of Vitriol to a little thereof and i● to warme the stomach mixe a little Methridate or Treacle one part and Conserve of Roses two parts and give it so in a Bolus Of cooling Juleps Conser Barberies may be profitably kept either to mixe with cooling Barley waters or Juleps to refresh the appetite and the feebled spirits in feavers or sometimes to give little of it in a Bolus or lumpe or to give a relish to the mouth to cause appetite in Feavers and to expel nauseous distempers There is also in the chest Oxymel simplex which I use in the Surgeons chest in want of sirrop Diamor as being nothing inferior thereunto for Lotions in the mouth and throat orderly used it ceaseth inflamations as also for the other vertues it hath exceded Diameron as namely in the swaging of tumours and paines this is a singular medicine and Cure of Hernia humeralis also in Hernia humeralis being tumours of the testicles and scrotum it excelleth them if it be mixt with a Cataplasme of Beane-meale boyled in beere with a little oyle of Elders or Roses and a little wax so that the whole quantity of the Cataplasme being by guesse two pound if so then put about six or seven or eight ounces of Oximel thereunto and boyl it to a body and it is an admirable good medicine for it discusseth and safely repelleth such tumours in their increase with the helpe of Phlebotomy and a vomit where the patient is strong which tumours by the patient his delaying of time or by ●rrour of the Surgeon will otherwise come to suppuration and prove fistulaes incurable but hee that will cure such tumours must have an artificial sacke-trusse and be sure that the griefe be truely and easily borne up at all times of the whole cure and Oximel inwardly administred purgeth the stomach and intrals openeth obstructions and yet without any manifest signe of heat and thereby helpeth much in feavers ingendred of grosse phlegme Of Lotions generally used in the Surgeons Chest the most common is of Sanative hearbs made in the Summer with water or wine or both and honey but at Sea if a laxative or washing lotion in need be Lotion at Sea for a need required faire water with as much Allum therein as will make it tart and so much honey as will give it a grateful tast and there is a lotion for a shift or if in the diseases of the Scurvy a lotion be required then use Copperas instead of Allum or sometimes Vnguent Egyptiacum which is a most fit medicine for Ulcers of the mouth or throat the grieved part being touched very hot therewith and being applied with a Probe armed with Lint And to wash and cool the mouth in feavers I often take fair water foure ounces of Rose water halfe a spoonefull a little sirrup of Violets or Mel for a need and a few drops of Wine Vinegar or Oximel or Oyle of Vitriol a few drops onely to make the Medicine tart I mean the Lotion I have bin taxed that my proportion hath not sufficient medicines contained therein for wounds of Gunshot but if any please to look into the particulars and well consider them he will find that the whole scope of the Surgeons Chest is of purpose contrived to that end and that there is not any one Medicine therein A true Idescription of a wound with Gun shot at the first view but upon the main or upon the by tendeth that way for a wound of Gunshot at the first view representeth a wound an ulcer a Fistula yea and sometimes a fracture and a dislocation and by accidents calleth unto it a feaver an Apostume a Gangren quid non yea without Gods Mercy joyned and the great care of the discreet Surgeon death followeth Judge then if ought be in the Surgeons Chest which in such a wound upon some occasion may not be found useful And for an instance the Chest containeth for the first intention curative of burnings with Gun-powder Vng. populeon Album triapharm●c Dipomphol Mel. Saponis Oleum Lini Cerusa Meldep●ra● being all directly fitting for the first intention namely for taking out of the fire and yet the Chest hath divers other helps as for an example a linament may be made of Minium Diacal●itheos and Oyles either of Linseed or Roses very profitable for that use And for all the rest as is said of wounds of Gun-shot so I say of Ulcers made by Gun-shot the whole scope of

the party be not strong except it be in case of a Pleurisie or some like urgent cause I take lesse For in that work except my reason give me good satisfaction to do the contrary I will rather offeud in too little then in too much Too little rather then too much blood is to be taken away taking of blood away for I have seen much hurt to have ensued by great quantity of blood taken away at one time 7. or 8. ounces I hold a strong body may bear to lose having good nourishment to recover it again and that without harm but if you grow to ten ounces you may many wayes do harm in the body except your warrant be good I speak not this to discourage young Surgeons from a work so behovefull but admonish them to warinesse in a point so dangerous Of the Dyet Pot. The use THe Dyet Pot is not alone to be used in cases of dyet drink seething for the pox and not otherwise for as a learned Doctor upon occasion lately reasoned there is difference betwixt the Dyet and a Dyet though in both kinds there is even Quot homines tot sententiae so many men so many minds Wherefore concerning descriptions of several Dyet drinks for the pox I will refer the Surgeons Mate to other Authors for in truth I must defer that point till fitter oppertunity I mean till I write touching the cure of that disease And yet methinks to speak somewhat A docoction for the Calenture of a drink is the case of the Calenture or any other unnatural hot fever to be made at Sea to qualifie the heat of the blood were not amisse which may be done as followeth ℞ French barley ℥ iiij Fresh water 2. gallons Licorice ℥ i. Cloves n o. 12. In want of Licorice tak juice of Licorice half an ounce In want of french barley take other barley or for a need wheat flower boyle this gently to 4. or 5. quarts then clear it and if it may be keep it not in How to keep it The composition of this drink if the heat be over great causeth head-ach The colour and taste of the drink is to be observed the brasse pot but in some earthen or glasse vessel and if the party his heat be great and have pain in his head add thereto so many drops of oyl or spirit of Vitriol as will a little change the tast and make it sowerish but not too tart in any wise and if into all his drink you put of rose-Rose-water of wine-vinegar or Rose vinegar and Cinamon-water of each onely one spoonful if you have it it will do well to mend the tast if not the matter is not great let the Patient drink often hereof Further you The drink composed for a Laske may if you think good add surrupe or juice of Limons ʒ 4. If it be for one which is loose in his belly you may infuse of your succus Acatiae herein some 2. or 3. ʒ and being cleared let him drink of the drink plentifully as he hath thirst but you must cut your Acatiae first and dissolve it in a little of the drink warmed and so put it into the rest Also in want of Acatia if you put therein Galls in powder a little it will do well Of other necessaries THe next instruments in order to be remembred are these following viz. Skillet Chafing dish Glister pot Funnel Cups to give potions in One Board knife to spread plasters Morter and pe●tel Weights and Scales Sives Searces Strayners Splents Junks Tape Towe Spunges Clouts Rowlers Gray paper White paper Empty pots and glasses Thred and Needles Wax Candles Lanthorne Tinder box furnished Inke and quills One close-stoole One bed pan One brasse paile 20 Well burned bricks Pipkins Empty baggs I shall not need to spend much time to set down the uses of all these necessary implements only two or three of the most needful to be noted I will remember and then to the uses of the medicines within the Chest Of Weight and Scales VVEights and Scales are necessary things often times lightly regarded and yet how many mens lives hang in the ballance it is plain enough For Sea-Surgeons familiarly give Stibium by the grain The use is divers namely from 4. to 8. grains yea and to 12. grains by your leave when in truth few of them have waights and Scales which can weigh one grain A great fault in weights and scales It is a dangerous thing for a Surgeon at Sea to be unprovided of neat weights and Scales which will turn with half a grain for how can they give either Laudanum Paracelsi Stibium or other Chimical medicines safely or almost any medicine inward without small weights and Scales Wherefore two pair of weights and Scales are very needful for the Surgeons Chest namely one for ounces and another for grains for larger Scales the ship is furnished It is also to be understood here for instruction of children in Art that xvi ounces make a A direction i● weights pound each ounce 8. drams each dram 3. scruples each scruple 20. grains for the grain a full barley corne will well serve or a good wheat corne though a large wheat corne be somewhat too big an ordinary pepper corn will also serve for a grain Of the Close-stoole with the Paile of Brasse and the Bricks ALthough I know before hand that I am to undergo many witty and Eloquent flouts from young gallants of my own profession for mentioning so base an instrument to belong to the Surgeons charge as this last mentioned Close-stoole with his appurtenances yet let them Mean things sometimes are of great moment know that neither can my book blush neither shall my self I hope have cause for I nothing doubt to yeeld each honest young Artist a sufficient reason for to satisfie him herein and in a word my reason for appointing to each ship bound for the East-Indies at the least one of these is because the bloody or other flixes are so dangerous diseases and so deadly amongst our men that I hold it my duty to advise even the good None worthy to be reputed ●rtists who disdain the meanest office of their profession use of a Close-stoole and I have caused the stoole to have one door on the one side that thereby either things to foment fumigate or otherwise to comfort the weak part might be the better applied the Patient sitting at his ease thereon The use of the Close-stool The need of it is great Also one especial reason why I have appointed it is that a poor weak man in his extremities should not continually go to the shrouds or beak-head to ease himself nor by noysome to his fellowes but might by the help of his Mate through this mean instrument find comfort in his most pitiful distresse whose miseries I heartily compassionate Wherefore I admonish the Surgeons Mate in general in the fear of God

themselves and let them avoid slothfulnesse avarice envie fear pride or what else may hinder these duties that God may give a blessing to their labours and then the praise and comfort shall return to themselves which God grant And for the elder sort of grave Artists I crave their charitable censures of my weake or undigested instructions which I no way mean to them but to babes in Chirurgery and so I conclude to the honour of the Almightie concerning the Scurvie for this time Concerning the Fluxes of the Belly THe principal Fluxes of the belly by a common consent of divers ancient Writers are chiefly referred to three kinds namely Leienteria Diarrhoea Dysenteria What Leienteria is Leientaria is distinguished to be that Fluxe which either passeth the sustenance taken wholly digested and that without any blood at all and without great pain or as it were half digested The true causes of Leienteria proceed chiefly through imbecillitie and weaknesse of The causes of Leienteria the stomack which may be occasioned many wayes whereby the vertue retentive is weakned yea and sometimes the stomack by some Crudity a cause Apostumation is either wholly weakned and cold or broken or otherwise by crude humidities is oppressed and must be strengthned both inwardly and outwardly by things that corroborate and warm the same as is Syrupe de absinthio or olean● absinthii Chimice 3 or 4 drops thereof in wine or beere for need and I have found it good to a strong body at first namely in the beginning of the disease to give him a vomit of the infusion of stibium or rather of A vomit at first Salvitrioli ten grains if it may be had or of Aquila vitae four grains or of Cambogia twelve grains and so the medicine having done working To corroborate let him presently sleep fasting if he can if not give him a little Cinamon-water or a little sanguis prunellorum if you have it or a draught of good Aligant or conserve of Sloes or Quinces and shortly after namely three houres if he cannot take his rest give him An opiate three grains of Laudanum in a pill and so appoint him to rest but if you conceive or feare the disease to proceed of Apostumation in the stomack then beware of giving any vomit before perfect suppuration of the same for it is deanly but outwardly you may apply then Stomack comforted to the stomack a bag with Worm-wood Mints or sweet Majoram nd warm being sprinkled with Rose water and Vineger or else a Bisket bedued well with Rose water and Vineger being steeped must Pecteral unguent be applied to the stomack or anoint the stomack with unguentum pectorale or with oyl of Nutmegs made by expression also Theriaca andromachi or theriaca Londiniʒi ss is very good given him upon the Co●●●als point of a knife or Marmalad of Quinces is also good Mithridate is very fit and approved or grated Nutmegs is very good and Cinamon in powder taken in meats or drinks is good likewise if these things answer not thy desire thou maist proceed to medicines more astringent Astringent medicines such as follow in the cure of Dysenterie one verie familiar and good Medicine is sanguis prunellorum aforesaid the dose is ℥ j. or ℥ ij with Mint or Worm-wood or Carduus water taken going to rest or taken of it self But your mentioned Laudanum in all Fluxes judiciously Cordial water administred is the onely sure help neverthelesse in this grief trie other good things first all Aromatized strong waters are convenient in this case moderately used as well to avoid further fluxes as also in these fluxes to comfort the stomack stiptike wines serve well for it likewise Theriace diatesseron ℥ j. now and then also electuarium diatrion piperion ℥ ss on a knifes point given is very good for it mightily Diatrion piperion warmeth and strengthneth the stomack But sometimes it happeneth that not onely the meat passeth away by stoole but also other undigested matter with it in which case Petrus Bayrus in his Veni mecum folio 273. adviseth to use things sowre with meat as Verjuice or the juice of sowre Pomgranats and the like in want whereof the juice of Lemmons is good or rather syrup of Lemmons or syrup de Agrestis or oyle or spirit of Vitriol taken in some fitting drink as Card●us water or fair water wine or Barly water the oyle of Vitriol 3. Syrupe of Lemons Oyl of Vitriol drops taken with conserve of Roses is also good in this disease also keep warm the region of the stomack and Liver and inwardly as is said it is good to use all good comfortable helps that warm Of Diarrhoea DIarrhoea is a flux of the belly which is either merely watrish or with humors and with slime mixed for the signes of the disease are manifest the causes too many for my leisure to note unto you concerning the cure of Diarrhoea if you see that the Patient be strong there is no great hast of stopping this disease for that it is many times a benefit of Nature whereby she avoideth superfluous or venemous or Stop not at the first otherwise vicious and offensive humours but when you shal perceive that it hath continued certain dayes and that the partie is weakned thereby then begin the cure as followeth First give him ℈ ij of Rubarb dried as they use to drie Tobacco and poudered either in wine or Carduus or fair water or the infusion thereof without the substance A purge and after the working thereof a gentle glister will doe well which may likewise leave a stiptick qualitie in the guts but not too strong such as hereafter shall be mentioned and let the partie be laid to rest very warm covered and warm clothes applied to the belly and fundament of the partie and if that helpeth not you may give him Warmth is very good within three houres three or foure grains of Laudanum and let him again incline himself to rest and by Gods help he shall be cured but if he have a Fever give him an opiate first I mean the Laudanum Good helps to the cure of this disease and all Fluxes of the belly are Laudanum these following first to refrain and resist as much as is possible the motions of going to stool not to strain or force the body being at stool not to sit long being at stool in rising to remember to put up worth the observing the fundament with a clout and that if it may be with a warm soft clout to sit as hot as the partie can namely if it may be often to sit upon an oaken board hot is very good hot trenches or pieces of boards heated and applied to the belly are very good and to take the fume of wine vineger sprinkled on a hot brick or iron and sit over it on a close stoole is approved very good and to

of Rubarb as is said in the cure of Diarrhoea or a Decoction of myrabulans and also a good Barly-water the second good help is a Glister which may be proper against sharp If the Patient want rest give him a Glister humors and after to conclude the cure with a dose of Laudanum Paracelsi but if the partie be in great weaknesse and want of rest give him some comfortable glister first next that an Opiate I mean the Landanum one dose you may begin in weak bodies first with Opiate medicines in that there is most need of ease and if you find after rest it help not use a Glister or a purge as you see cause for though the Laudanum at first cure not yet it giveth rest whereby the partie afterwards it is likely will be the stronger to indure cure by other reasosonable The oft repeating of Laudanum r●quireth this caution medicines which done if that answer not thy desire thou maist return to Laudanum again and again alwayes remembring as is said there be foure houres at the least distance betwixt each dose and if the disease proceed of heat seek to coole the bloud by a decoction of Plantane and cold hearbs or seeds if they be to be had or at Sea with such medicines as are used to quench heat and are not merely sharp and yet Oyle of Vitriol is much commended to be taken certain dayes together in any kinde of distilled waters either Plantane Sorrell Straw-berries or the like whilest the said waters are good and sweet or with Aqua Sparnolae if it be at hand also a Barley water with a little Allum or Galls in powder is singular good so is Bole but the finer the Bole is the better and Terra Sigillata Syrup of Quinces is good also in that case and so are all the medicines Laudanum laude dignum made of sloes after some due evacuation as in thy discretion thou shalt see reasonable but to conclude a dose of Laudanum Opiate is best to finish the work for that goeth before or rather exceedeth all other medicines in fluxes for that swageth all pains and causeth quiet sleep which often even alone is the true perfection of the How to restore the patient very weak by Disentery cure And further if it 〈◊〉 appear that this disease have so gotten the upper hand that the 〈◊〉 is grown very feeble his bloud being wasted appoint him 〈◊〉 that may warm and comfort the stomack namely at land if it may be had Broths of chickins or the like with some Spices therein and Egs and Sugar and a little Rose water but not Honey for that increaseth gripings and cawdles with egs wine and spices according to good discretion will do well if they may be A glister against excoriation had and give him if thou see cause a glister if there be fear of excoriations in the guts namely a decoction of Barley or Bran or of Bran onely with Deer suet ℥ ij let not your decoction be too slimy of the Bran and adde if you can get it the yolk of one egge for egges comfort much and swage pain the yolk of the egge must be well beaten with the decoction by little and little so taken very warm or if the party have gripings in his guts make this glyster following and for want of Bran take a little wheat flowre and with camomile Centaury Worm-wood St. Johns wort or some of these make a decoction adding A glyster for grip●ng through Dysentery also Anniseed Fennel Dill ●or Cummin-seeds or the like or some of these at the least adding after the boyling some two or three spoonfuls of Rosasolis or good Aqua-vitae or some strong cordial waters if you see there be cause to comfort and warm and adding also as is said Deer suet ℥ ii with wax ℥ ss Another glyster Also glysters of milk and egges onely are very good to swage gripings and pains where they may be had also as is said warm cloths to the belly and fundament applyed are very good and note still that rest procured is a principal help in curing all fluxes Another glyster For excoriations of the guts make a glyster with a decoction of dry Centaury Hipericon Worm-wood or Balm with barly adding of Deer suet ℥ ij and a little dried Galls in powder or cut in slices or succus acatiae or Cortices granatorum or dried red roses if you have them or Balausties which are flowers of Pomegranats Note what powders so ever you give in glysters let them be exceeding finely powder'd otherwise they are very dangerous fear not to administer an opiat as I have said provided that there be four or five hours distance of time twixt each dose also you may give a dose of Rubarb namely ℈ ii or ʒ ss parched and powdered fine for so it doth best taken either alone or with Sanguis prunellorum one small spoonful in wine and a little Cinamon water or in any other convenient drink as the prsent state of the sick shall cause thee or for want of wine beer or water you may give the sicke also conserve of roses or quinces after which if cause be to give rhe Laudanum again you may safely do it Furthermore in this case as also in all kind of fluxes fumigations are very good medicines namely sitting over a close stool provided the sick be very warm kept and not too hot to which purpose a well burned brick heat very hot and put under the stool laying two cold bricks under it for burning the stool and then sprinkle often the hot brick with vinegar if the disease be hot or with vinegar and Aqua vitae mixed if it be cold and for want of bricks some great pieces of old iron will serve as it is already rehearsed also a decoction of cinamon or cloves or both together or nutmegs set under the stool that the warm steam of the spices may come up into the body of the patient is very good Note further that where you fear a flux of the belly may follow that you purge not the party with Coloquintida Trochis de Alhandal Agaricum nor Diagredion And remember ever when you give Rubarb that you give cinamon or ginger or anniseeds a little there with which correcteth the flatuous diposition thereof If this disease of the flux shall shew it self to proceed of any contagiousnesse of the aire as sometimes it doth this is certainly the All diseases proceed from God most fearful of the rest for although all diseases have their original from the hand of the Almighty yet then we have all reason to call to our remembrances the words which the Prophet David speaketh God must be sought unto in the Psalmes whither shall I flie from thee O my God when therefore the aire which we are forced to receive into our bodies shall threaten us then if ever it is high time for Chirurgion and patient to cry

unto God for his help and mercy and yet not to mistrust but to use all artificial means referring the successe to the Almighty Wherefore in this case I hold nothing better then a good purge of Rubarb and then to take three or four grains of Laudanum Paracelsi then after The cure of a flux through the contagion of the aire there may be given him one scruple of the best Treacle or Mithridate or London Treacle or meerly Laudanum alone You may give the party also a little Cinamon water or Aqua Theriaculis or Carduus water laying him to rest It were also to be confidered whether the body standeth in need of bleeding purging or a glyster but when as the disease proceeds from contagious and venomous aire and is fierce I hold it the safest course to forbear bleeding or purging for If the flux be fierce and sudden what to be done fear of drawing back the venome to the principal parts and rather to fly to Alexipharmacons or Preservatives as Venice Treacle Mithridate Diatesseron London Treacle or the like And presently after or immediately with it as is said give a dose of Laudanum which of it self is a perfect cordial and a good preservative Many learned writers are of opinion that this disease is infectious The flix through the aire is infectious and that the breath and excrements of the sick man may easily infect a sound man affirming also that from putrified and diseased bowels infections vapours do ascend and descend and partly the rather by a kind of sympathy our bodies have each with other but lest that opinion of mine uttered may perhaps offend the courage of young Artists Infection should not daunt Chirurgions called lawsully to the cure of any disease whatsoever whom I seek by all possible means to embolden let them take this rule from me in the fear of God I hold no disease infectious to me in that I have a lawful calling and I am therefore bound to visit the diseased which who so neglecteth God will find him out with that disease or a worse Now a word or two of such medicines as are belonging to the chest found in the ship or at the utmost may be found in the East-Indies or that are likely to be found there I intend to set forth some instructions for the Chirurgions Mate and first The cure of Dysentery at sea of Lientery note I have cured many both in Dysentery and Lientery with burned Harts-horn or in want hereof I have found that onely the hard bones of Beef or Pork calcined or meerly burned till they be white for so they must be and it may easily be done in any wood or coal-fire being not a fire of sea-coal and then being powdered fine and given continually in the ordinary drinks during the time of the sicknesse it helpeth much and you may assure your self that if you take much or little of it it can do no harm to be taken and with some few drops of Cynamon water if it may be had it is the better or a little Nutmeg and Cynamon in powder therein also I have givenit sometime with Rosasolis and fair water mixed of each two spoonfuls and ʒj of the powder of bones Another secret which hath cured many of the flix ℞ Wheat flowre and thrust it veryclose together into an end ofa clout and so bind it up hard and close like a bullet and put it into boyling water and boil it three hours or more and you shall find it will be very dry and hard as chalk and powder it and give of this powder ʒij or more in any liquid substance fitting and it is a very good midicine for any flux of the belly either white or red this medicine hath been often proved and found sure at sea and land yet it helpeth the vertue of the medicine well if the vehicle or menstrum you give it in be also good namely if you give it with some liquid medicine proper to the grief also Crocus Martis ℈ i. given in red wine Aligant or French wine or with beer or water for a need adding certain drops of Cinamon water it is a very good medicine The same also is given with Venice Treacle or London Treacle or good Mithridate is likewise very good but to a weak person give it alone with Sugar it will please his tast better then with other strong medicines The cure if the disease proceed of worms But if you perceive the disease proceeds of worms as often it doth then give the patient a glyster of a decoction of Althea roots with a little worm-wood adding Coloquintidaʒij where there is no great acrimonious A glyster pains in the guts but where there is great dolour in the guts rather put some Bay-berries namely ʒ ss in your decoction which decoction you may alsomake meerly of the brain if you please and make it not too slimy I mean put not too much bran or roots therein then add if you have it of Aquilla Laxativa 12. grains Deer suet ℥ ii or three ounces and give it stirring well the powder therein The means to kill worms this Aquilla Laxativa certainly will kill any worms and give present ease also almost all bitter things kill worms as Aloes Agaricum Coloquintida Worm-wood and the like but principally Aquilla Laxativa doth it sure and is safe to be given the dose by way of glyster is to 10. grains Mr. Edwards his medicine for the flux ℞ red-rose water ij spoons full Cinamon ℥ ij Almonds of vallence ℥ iiij unblanched the Cinamon is to be bruised and boiled in iij. pounds of water till ii pounds be consumed then reserve that decoction and add three pounds more of fair water to the former Cinamon and boil it as afore reserve both the waters together then beat or rather grind well your Almonds and being well ground and beaten add thereto some little quantity of the water mentioned grinding the Almonds therewith and again beat the said Almonds and so often beat and strain them with more of the said liquor or water till all the substance of them be in the decoction which will be in the form of an Almond milk then add rose water ij spoonfuls and as much sugar as to sweeten the said drink give the Patient thereof to drink so oft as he please Gluttony a cause of the Flux Let such as fear the flix not overgorge themselves for the evercharging straining of the stomack of● bringeth this sicknesse chiefly when the body is weak as also if the food taken be crude or not well boyled or rosted and meerly fresh without any Salt Also the use of eating Tamarindes brought from Bantham if you use them overmuch by their acrimony may easily cause a flux although their vertues in preserving from the Scurvy are unreproveable and very good indeed The signs of the places aff●cted with the Flux The higher towards the stomach

contused wounds made by Gunshot and yet Over drying medicines dangerous you are to consider that as too much gleeting weeping or experience of humidity from wounds of gunshot is dangerous many wayes so too much use of drying medicaments in wounds made with Gunshot is no lesse dangerous by stopping the pores and repelling the peccant humours by reason of the contused blood collected being choaked in the wound aptly indangering a Gangrena and other deadly accidents incident thereunto Advise touching the general regiment of wounded men Now a word or two in want of the grave Physician how the young Surgion may in part demean himselfe being put to it for the more happy performance of the cures made with Gunshot which are very much regulated by the government of the Patient touching his dyet as also in the careful keeping his body in temper from much Dyet costivenesse and also to stay in ordinate fluxes thereby to prevent accidents as Feavers c. And further also to meet with an help to cure evill accidents when they happen to the effecting whereof good dyet and other fitting helps are to be wished might attend valiant men which fight for their countries honour and defence which failing much with brave Souldiers and valiant Sea-men at Campe and Ship there the Surgeons must take it as they can have it and make use in necessity of what the Surgeons chest affordeth viz. If the patient before his wound had not a loose body let the Surgeon give him a Suppository or Glyster and if he seem disposed to a fever though he hath bled by his wound yet if his strength be answerable open a veine on the contrary side of Supposi●ory or Glyster his griefe but purge him not being wounded without very just cause rather keepe him by gentle meanes to have the benefit of nature either by Glyster or Suppository if once in two dayes hee have not a stoole and further if he be distempered with heat make him a Fresh water oft wanting at Sea Barly-water viz. Water two gallons Barly 6. ounces Liquorish one ounce or juice of Liquorish two dram's boyl it gently a little then cast away the first waters if water be plentiful else not and boyl it in fresh water till one third part be spent and being boyled and clarified to the said decoction add some few drops of oyl Vitriol to make it some what sower in tast but not too much but if to this 6. graines of Confectio Alkermes with one spoonful of Rose-water were added the drinke would be much the more grateful in tast and more profitable I conceive it will be needlesse to urge a course for a sparing dyet for Souldiers or Sea-men at Sea for I feare gluttony will not be their sinne But if fulnesse of body be a hindrance the Surgeon hath meanes to evacuate as for a vomit by Stibium the infusion of 4 graines if such a medicine be thought fitting as in able bodyes may be borne or by laxatives as Confectio Hamech six drams for a dose Diaphenicon or Diacatholicon the dose to an able body is a full ounce Pills The Pills in the Invoyce in this Surgeons chest upon their several occasions one dram is a dose of any sort of them Also of Pulvis Sanctus may be giuen two drams or Pulvis Arthriti●ns one dram and if Cordials be required the Surgeon hath in his chest to provoke rest iu Feavers several ones as more particular there is Diascordium which he may give to the ful of two drams for a dose to a strong body either in wine or water as he please or in a Bolus or lump of it self Vse of Laudanum Also he hath Laudanum which he may give safely 3. or 4. graines to asswage pain in painful wounds to give rest in Feavers to stay fluxes and in divers other cases being used with judgment and provided that the party which taketh it be not costive Likewise in fluxes of the belly accompanied with crude nauseousnesse of the stomach as also against venemous or pestilential infection of the blood there is in the chest Phylonium Persicum of which the Patient may take from one scruple to halfe a dram and to one dram safely in a reasonable body and this is a safe medicine which causeth rest and corroborateth the stomach and mightily prevaileth to stay a flux of the belly and doth also correct venemous and maligne humors and is therefore very fit to be used in fluxes that be contagious or pestilential after some fitting evacuation if occasion be What I here write it is of mine owne practice you may take it on my word for truth for you shall find it to be so if with due caution you make use of them These three Cordials as is said asswage pain viz. Diascordium Laudanum and Phylonium or either of them also they serve well to coole or contemperate the blood Cordials to swage pain Of Cordials in general The Surgeons chest containeth also divers other Cordial medicines which may be profitably administred each upon due occasion viz. Confectio Alkermes either given alone or to aromatize any purgative or Cordial medicine from 4. graines to a scruple for a dose Aqua Caelestis and Cinamon water to refresh the spirits halfe a spooneful or a spooneful for a dose and so of Spirit of wine and also Aqua vitae made of wine which so much as containeth of the spirit of wine is quasi spiritus vitae Also the Surgeons chest hath against contagion and the Plague Mithridate Ther. Londinens Diatessar Elect. de Ovo as also Diascord Aurum vitae and Laudanum mentioned all these being proper for pestilential occasions the uses and vertues of which I desire to touch though but in a word And for example if the Surgeon desire a Cordial to be made to cause rest it is made either of L●udanum to three graines or to 4 grains as it is said or Diascordium 2 drams or Phylonium to one dram mentioned And note that Laudanum is best to be taken in a Pill because No●e of his ungrateful tast and Phylonium in a Bolus or lump for the like reason and so also may Diascod be used well and especially in warre where neither the advice of the learned Physitian nor the helpe of the expert Apothecary is at hand but if the Surgeon be occasioned and that he would have Diascor to be given in a potion then let him take of Diascor 1 dram of white wine or fair water 3 ounces or foure of Sirrup of Violets halfe an ounce Confect Alkermes eight graines Oleum Vitrioli gutt quatuor and let the Patient drinke that potion and incline himselfe to rest Cordials comfortive And if a Cordial to comfort the spirits be required then the aforesaid Cinamon water Aqua caelestis or Aqua vitae of wine is at hand without mixture or addition or with some addition halfe a spooneful or a spooneful for a dose

more of that for whereas Bees may suck Honey even there Spiders will convert a plain stile into Poyson and Gall. Non omnibus dormio A ready defensative powder to be applyed where Iust cause is for a defensative either for wounds with Gun-shot or other Wounds which I have made use of and will impart the secret to young practitioners and is as followeth R. Terra sigillat Alumin Vitriol Tartar Cerus ana 1 li. Bol. Armen 2 li. Aquae 1 li. ss Take a new earthen pot of almost a Gallon and a half put the water into the pot and thereunto put the Allom and the Copperas then powder the tartar and put that in also and then have ready the other ingrediences in powder put them in by little and little stirring them very well until all be incorporated and without seething keepe the Medicine on the fire till it be hard and if you cannot make it hard enough in that manner so that being cold it will powder then put it into some dreppin Pan or the like and into an oven when the bread is drawn and it will be hard then being cold powder it and keep it to your use for it will not decay nor alter his Vertue in many years And when you would use it for a defensative take of this powder about halfe an ounce of Posca I meane water and Vinegar mixed foure ounces put the powder therein which will almost melt then dip clouts therein and apply them This medicine with moderation used is a true and excellent defensative and a very anodine Also it healeth all itchings smartings gaulings or any Erisipelas or other excoriations speedily and safely and dryeth it mightily preventeth from accidents either in great wounds or fractures and being in small quantity used with faire water to ulcers it cleanseth them well and healeth them And if you have whites of egges mixed with a Posca it were the better or in fractures with yolkes and whites together it is very good onely let the care of the Surgeon be that he apply it in his true nature namely as a defensative in fit time and touching the rest of the uses thereof he may presume he hath a very good Medicine and so for this time I take my leave Vale in Christo Jesu A Description of the Trafine and the necessary uses thereof especially for Military occasions for young Surgeons HAving had sufficient tryals of the facility and of the Trafine I have thought fit to commend it and the use thereof for the future to the younger Artist upon some of their requests not detracting ought from the worthinesse and due commendations of the Author of the Trapan concerning that excellent invention yet by way of addition to my former Edition I thought fit here to describe the Trafine it being an Instrument of my own composing which experience will shew is more compendious and of more facility in the use thereof for young practicioners in Surgery then is the Trapan the which Instrument although it may be said to be derivative or Epitomy of or from the Trapan yet well observed it performeth as much as the Trapan in every degree and more and for that it was so fashioned and first practised by my selfe I thought fit to put the name of a Trafine upon it a tribus finibus from the three ends thereof each being of several uses and being as it may appeare triangular or three cornered each corner there of performing the part it seemeth to undertake so that it fully supplyeth and maketh good all the uses of a Trapan with the one end and that with more facility as is said and safely then the Trapan doth or can doe and it supplyeth with the second end all the uses of a smooth Levatory and supplyeth the necessity of a Jagged or toothed Levatory with the third end the said Levatories being all necessary adjutors in helping to make and finish the Trafine or tres finis and who so shall please to make a judicial experience thereof not being prejudicated will find that it far exceedeth the Trapan in all his uses in the compendious and safe performance of the workes as well of the two Levatories as of a Trapan recited which the former can no way be said to be Secondly the Trapan cannot be well managed without both the hands of the Artist viz. the one for the work of erosion by the Artificial motion thereof in turning it ever round for the better penetrating of the Cranium the other hand must be used to keep it steddy upon the affected part and yet the upper part of the Instrument must neverthelesse as of necessity rest upon the Surgeons brest yea and the Surgeon must for that purpose order his body in a fit posture and further yet the Surgeon must have a second man for an assistant of necessity that must be imployed to stay the Patients head whereas with this Instrument I meane the Trafine the whole worke is performed by the two hands of the Surgeon onely with farre more dexterity and quicker then with the Trapan as is said yea and that with much more comfort both to the patient and to the Artist as the practice therewith will plainely shew and againe there is no such danger attending that Instrumentas doth the Trapan for the heads of the Trafine are made all taper to wit wider above then beneath and also cut both wayes and cannot therefore easily be said to offend the Dura Mater by an error to be suggested to happen in the use thereof without stupid ignorance in the Artist Thirdly the Trapan of old had ever the heads as wide above as beneath which heads were many wayes both very dangerous and uncertaine especially when the Instrument by turning round had cleane pierced through the Cranium and thereby after the same head had fully perforated the Cranium round it was very apt on the suddaine to slip downe upon the Dura Mater by error and improvidence of the Artist either upon oblivion or omission divers wayes as namely for one if the Artist did not truly equally and strongly fasten the small screw being an iron or rather a steele pin that stayeth and fasteneth the said head of the Trapan which the Artist pierceth with for the gaging thereof either by hast which though otherwise he might adjudged a careful Surgeon yet upon his eager proceeding on his work might unhappily be omitted and even that small error might cause danger to the life of the Patient and sometimes proved the irrecoverable cause of his death whereas this Instrument the Trafine hath all the heads thereof made taper as is said namely wider above then below piercing every way alike and therefore there needeth no rule or gager especially in the being performed without turning it round about but is done by the onely moving or agitating of the hand to and fro yea with the onely moving of the wrist of the hand and which is another manifest benefit thereof it

into the posset and some fitting sirrup as of Sorrel or Wood-sorrel or three or four drops of Oyl of Vitriol if it may be had be added thereunto in such a case being very Cordial and good and in want thereof plain posset drink alone reasonable warm will do well where the recited are not and for a need give it in white Wine as is said or in Beer to the poorer sort or if the party take this Medicine alone being in haste in want of means it will do well by Gods Mercy if he be not too much doubtfull And for the discreet Artist or the attenders of the sick let them take what they have ready presently and let the sick be laid down to sweat and where you can have learned counsel refuse it not as is said and delay not for by want of advice now and then able men dye to save charges which is a lamentable folly AN Approved Cordial Medicine against the Plague of the Practice of Doctor Burgis Verbatim or in the very words as be writ it in his Book with also his addition in the commendation thereof Medicine of D r. Burgis against the Plague TAke three pints of Muskadine and boyl therein a handfull of Sage ●and a handful of Rue till a pinte be wasted then strain it and set it over the fire again then put thereto a penniworth of long Pepper half an ounce of Ginger a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs all beaten together and let it boyl a little more then put thereto two penniworth of Treacle four penniworth of Mithridate and a quarter of a pint of the best angelica-Angelica-water you can get Keep this as your life above all worldly treasure take of it alwaies warm both morning and evening a spoonful or two if you be already infected and sweat thereupon if not a spoonful a day is sufficient half a spoonful in the morning and half a spoonfull at night all the Plague time under God trust to this for there was never man woman nor child that this deceived This is not onely for the common Plague which is called the Sicknesse but for the small Pox Meazles and Surfeits and divers other diseases This Medicine as you may read is praised to the full and no doubt may well deserve praise and yet were I to put my life upon a medicine I would not choose the aforesaid Medicine for many reasons First that the composition thereof is uncertain namely by penniworths and the Angelica water doubtful whether it be of it self simple or drawn of Wine the Treacle not declared whether common or no and further in my judgment take it in the best sense the composition is rude and too hot fitter rather to inflame then cure But yet I leave it for them that have tryed it or that list to try it to make it up and use it in the Name of God who giveth his blessings beyond measure to mean things A Composition of an Electuary De Ovo of mine own long experience and practice which I know to be very good and is not dear The Composition of Elect. De Ovo TAke Saffron ʒ 5. and a Scruple undryed then tease it I mean pull the parts thereof asunder then take one reasonable small new-laid Egge and make a small hole in the top of it and let the white run out then fill up the Egge with the said Saffron putting it in by little and little till it be almost full ever gently mixing the yolk with the Saffron and in that manner of doing one reasonable Egge will contain all the prescribed Saffron This done with part of the white of the Egge mix a little Wheat flower to make a paste then break another larger Egge onely for the shell which you may use as followeth First strike off the top as whole as you can to cover the hole in the top of the former mentioned smaller Egge and with the paste aforesaid paste up the hole and set it near the fire onely to dry and after that spread a fine rag with some of the said paste and again cover the hole and the piece of the shell lying thereon and dry it before the fire then put this Egge into a wider Egg-shell namely that which was emptied before and so set it up to the top in an Earthen Pot filled with Sand on a gentle fire till the sand be so hot that the Saffron in the Egge smell then for fear of burning it take the Pot or Pipkin from the fire and take the Egge out of the hot sand and put it to cool if you find it be but reasonable dry and not burned then need it not be put any more to the fire for it will easily burn without great care had then being well rosted take all that pasted away and take all the substance contained therein bear it and work it so long together untill no part of the Saffron appear but be all into one body then weigh what the whole substance weigheth which will be about one ounce Which done take of Diptam Alb. of the roots of Tormentil of Butter-burre called Petacitis of Angelica and Zedoary roots of each ʒ j. of My●●he and Juniper-berries of each ʒ ij all these being made into fine powder before and ready then take of Mithridate of the best ℥ .ij. of the finest purified Honey ℥ ij make this up According to Art into a stiffe Electuary which is done by strong and stiffe beating and working of it altogether at the least three or four houres And if there want humidity to work it up into a just consistence adde Syrrup Limoniorum qua sa est The Dose of this is at the most ʒ j. se But for that it hath an unpleasing taste unto some delicate palates when I have it ready I use to take thereof ʒ se and of Ther. Diatessaron or London Treacle or good Mithridate of any one of these ʒ j. se and mixe them in white wine with also a few drops of Oyl of Vitriol namely four or five drops at most with also one ounce of some Cordial Syrrup as of Buglosse or Sorrel of Citrons or Limons or Wood-Sorrel when it is not to be appointed to delicate personsr And all that I give at once to a man or a woman and lay the party to sweat gently at the least for three hours Or in want thereof I put only a quarter of a pint of white Wine with a little Sugar to it either mixed as is said or ʒ j se of the said Electuary alone in a bole or lump to some for it needeth no other mixture for the adding vertue thereto for it is a most excellent Cordial alone And I would advise those which cannot have all the ingrediency of this composition as namely in the Country that they make ready the Egge and Saffron as is said and take only a double weight of good Mustard-seed thereto and with about one ounce of good Honey work it well into

pence weight according to their several ages and capacities and also if you can and that you have convenience it is good that you remove the sick Patient sometimes from one Bed to another where convenience means and ability is and that you use sprinkling the Rooms with Wine Vineger sometimes as is said where it may be had Of such Dyet as is fitting for the sick of the Plague to take FIrst note that a very sparing Dyet in general is the most fir if the Patients have full bodies but in this disease commonly all appetite is forgotten with the Patient yet when you find that the danger of death by the disease is over and that the Patient amendeth then good refreshing and nourishing food is best using it sparingly Fitting meats to be eaten by the sick And first for the delicate and they which may have it let them in the Name of God eat Pheasant Partridge Quail Chickens Rabbits Capons Veal Lamb or Mutton any of these are very good taken with moderation And so are all field-Birds which are used to be eaten excepting those which live upon the Water as the Swan Unfitting meats Goose Duck Plover Wigion c. Also generally the most kind of fresh-Water Fish may well be eaten of except the Eel the Tench Meats forbidden and the Salmon Playce Flounders Whitings Soles Smelts and such like are good moderately taken also Pearch Roch Stone Gudgeons Breames Trouts Fresh Beefe and Pork are excepted against and I think it fit to avoid it where there is no want of other things But on the contrary where there is scarcity let thy ability be thy guide and in the Name of God in want of others let none be so unwise to refuse Beef nor the Broth or pottage thereof for experience sufficiently approveth them good neither egges poached nor soft sodden no nor Bread and Butter when their stomachs will bear it for these all nourish well very moderately taken And remember that if your Patient begin to amend of his disease and that his appetite grow deny him not competent food in a sparing manner and let him have as neer as may be that which is of light digestion and not too much at once but give it him often For understand that after once the masse of blood hath been corrupted and that Nature by Gods mercy with the help of good meanes hath again gotten the upper hand the body will require good nourishment and often to be supplyed The use of Verjuyce is very wholesome in the disease with Meats and also in Possets where inward heat is and thirst withal but not where cold is and the use of Goose-berries of unripe grapes Preserved Cherries Prunes sowre Pomegranates and the like are very good as is else-where mentioned and no lesse good is the use of Oranges Lemons Pome-Citrons and Pomegranates The cure of Angina Mendosa or a false Squinancy being a species of a contagious touch happening when the Plague reigneth Being a pain in the Neck or lower parts of Gula or of the Muscles of the Neck and Throat in which sicknesse there is generally small or no External nor Internal appearance although there sometime is in both and therefore is called Angina Mendosa Phlebotomy needful MAny begin the disease of the Plague with the aforesaid complaint for which one good remedy is Phlebotomy at the first not under the tongue onely in that case for that if you do it sufficeth not in so fierce a disease but that you must also be forced to open a vein in the arm Wherefore let the Surgeon if he be urged thereunto take the fullest vein of the arm of that side which the pain or complaint inclineth most unto but concerning general evacuation by Phlebotomy in Pestilential Feavours never do it when any indication of a Crisis by the disease appeareth for fear of offence and if so be that one side suffer not more then another then take it on the right arm and take a reasonable good quantity of blood namely from The quantity of blood to be taken a man 6 or 8 ounces or ten ounces not more for fear of dejecting the spirits and a lesser proportion to a weaker Patient and make a reasonable large orifice which in such a case is best and if after apparent need be which seldome is open the veines under the tongue but howsoever I would begin with the arm And for a Gargarisme use Barley water with Diamoro● and a little Ordering of ●argarismes of Syrup of Vineger or a little Sal-niter is very good and for outward application take a small handful of Camomil flowers of clean ashes of wood without coales or drosse a handful and a few Rose leaves and two spoonfuls of oyl of Roses with as much of wine Vineger boyl it with small beer into a Cataplasme and very warm apply it and shift it morning and evening if the rose leaves be not to be had or the Camomil flowers use Elder leaves in place it will do well and ordinary oyl or butter for a need will serve where oyl of Roses is wanting or the old Medicine of Mel and Album Graecum with a little Vineger mixed is right good and the next morning after Phlebotomy give the patient a Diaphoretick of Aurum Vitae eight graines and appoint him to sweat four houres and no doubt but the disease will be therewith soon at an end Of the use of Phlebotomy in the aforesaid disease I have had experience oftentimes this yeere and even upon my own Son who being in a violent burning Feavour with an Angina Mendosa and being very unwilling to be let blood under the tongue first for fear of losse of time I caused to give him a suppofitory then after within ●three houres I gave him a Cordial Diaphoretick Gr. 8. of Aurum vitae which he did sweat upon for three or almost four houres very plentifully and was somewhat revived and reasonable chearful neverthelesse he still finding a great fulnesse of blood entreated me to open a vein for him in the Arm the which I did and took from him as I conceived ten ounces of blood he being of a full able body and about twenty yeeres of age and without any more medicines or time of complaint by Gods mercy he came to his perfect health again the second day from the beginning of his desease And I may truly to Gods glory affirm that in this yeere 1638 I have cured very many of Feavours with also complaints of swellings in their throats meerly by that Diaphoretick of Gold of my own practice called Aurum vitae and that with onely one dose given and no more and the parties became thereby perfectly whole the very next day without the taking any other Medicine and by the same medicine and onely by the once giving I also have healed very many of the Plague in one day whereof some had risings of tumours which by their once sweating spent without further