and dryes moderately binds cuts strengthens the inward parts stayes the whites It is good for the Jaundise it chaseth away Worms it is good for inveterate obstructions it takes away the pains and weakness of the stomach it heals the Epilepsie drives away Melancholy resists rottenness and poysons It is used rasped in infusions and the powder is given in substance The Dose half a dram Preparat 1. Burnt Ivory called Spodium and to distinguish it from the Minerall Spodium Spodium of Ivory 2. Trochilces of Spodium vid. Dispensat N. Some commend Ivory for fruitfulness yet seeing the beast is of a small issue and slowly brings forth going with young two years it is imagined rather to conduce to barrenness and the retention of the birth then to advance conception XXI Equus the Horse WHence in Physicall use we borrow 1. The bloud 2. The runnet 3. The milk 4. The dung 5. Lichenes 6. The testicles 7. The fat of the neck 8. The hoofs 9. The hairs 10. The foam 11. The teeth 12. The stone Their vertues in particular 1. The bloud some would have it to be of Mares having been covered with the Stallion is mixed with Causticks 2. The runnet is specially good for the Celiack and Dysenterick 3. The milk is accounted good for the Epileptick Consumptive those that Cough and the Asthmatick 4. The dung outwardly restrains breaking out of blouâ— as well raw as burnt expels the dead childe and the secundine in a fume Inwardly it is taken in the Colick and suffocation of the matriz and in like manner in expelling the dead childe and afterbirth N. That is best which is of a Horse fed with Oats not gelded 5. Lichenes callous excrements growing on the legs of Horses are chiefly commended against the suffocation of the Matrix a fume made below as also against the Falling-sicknesse and the Stone the powder drunk Preparat The extract of these is made of them dryed with spirit of Wine or some other appropriate spirit The Dose from 5 grains to half a scruple N. Hartman makes the Menstruum of Balm and Wine of each three pounds which he distils by a Retort in ashes upon two ounces of Amber and Jet with a fire hot in the end then he useth the water separated from the Oyl 6. The testicles are a most present Remedy to expell the secundine made into powder they are also commended in the Colick The fat of the neck is fitly anointed on weak joynts 8. The hoof expels the dead birth in fume it drives away Lice in fume 9. The hairs restrain the flux of bloud 10. The foam of the mouth drunk three dayes cures the Cough abates the heat of the jawes N. Cold water falling out of the mouth of a stoned horse when he drinks in a river and suddenly taken in a platter helpes sterility drunk once and again 11. The teeth first growing are said to facilitate childrens toothing hung about the neck they whiten the teeth the ashes rubbed on them 12. The stone called Hippolithus found in the ventricle or bowels of some horses as it is like to the Occidental Bezoar in figure and structure so in vertues XXII Erinaceus the Hedg-hog IS a Beast set with pricks in the winter it is hid in the hollow of trees eating mice walnuts apples pears and the like Hence in use we have 1. The Hedg-hog it self 2. The liver 3. The grease 4. The ventricle Their vertues 1. The Hedge-hog boyled or made into ashes and drunk helps those that pisse against their will it is grateful to the stomach and moveth the belly and urine Outwardly annointed it helps the shedding of hair 2. The liver or the body also dryed and taken with Oxymel is a help to the disease of the Kidneys it cures the Cachexy Dropsie Convulsions and Leprosie It dryes up the fluxes of the belly 3. The grease most happily cures Ruptures 4. The inner coat of the stomach is commended against the Colick taken XXIII Homo Man and Woman HEnce we have in Medicine either from the parts of the living body of a man 1. The hairs 2. The nails 3. The spittle 4. The ear-wax 5. Sweat 6. Milk 7. The Flowers 8. The after-birth 9. The urine 10. The ordure 11. The seed 12. The bloud 13. The stones 14. The Membrane compassing the head of the Infant Or from the parts of the dead body of a man 1. The whole corps or flesh 2. The skin 3. The fat or grease 4. The bones 5. The skull 6. The mosse of the skull 7. The brain 8. The gall 9. The heart The vertues of these follow I. The hairs are commended for the growth of hairs the liquor from thence distilled and anointed with honey for the Jaundise the powder drunk for members out of joynt the ashes anointed with Sheeps suet for bleeding of wounds N. Some for a Quartain take the hair of the patient and mixing them with other hairs dispersed on the body put them into an egge and having boyled it hard cast it to be devoured of birds by which means they would have the Quartain cured Preparat It is distilled by it self in a Retort in sand with no very strong fire II. The nails move vomit taken inwardly both in powder and infusion they are said to draw away the waters of the Hydropick cut from the hands and feet and tyed to the navill N. 1. Some to cure the Fever put the parings of the hands and feet into an egge and lay it to be carryed away of the birds Others wrap the same in wax and fasten it to the gate in the morning before the rising of the sun Others binde them on the back of a living Crevise and then commit it to the river N. 2. For recovering the strength they put the hairs and nails into the root of a Cherry tree and cover the wound with dung Preparat Take the parings of the nails in powder one dram Wine one pound infuse them till they become mucilaginous then filter it and having added one ounce of spirit of Wine keep it for use The Dose from one dram to 6 or an ounce III. The spittle of a man fasting is commended against the venomous bitings of Serpents mad-dogs and the like IV. Ear-wax is accounted a most present Remedy for the Colick if taken in drink Outwardly it cures the stinging of Scorpions conglutinates wounds clefts and chaps of the skin V. Sweat is good against the Evill if mixed with the herb and root of Mullein it be wrapped in a leaf and made hot in the ashes be applyed VI. The milk refrigerates mitigates ripens and helps the redness of the eyes Preparat 1. The vitriolated water of milk Take milke and white Vitriol of each a like distill them that the Phlegme may only ascend the sharper spirits left behind The vertues It wonderfully helps the redness of the eyes and other inflamations 2. The butter It is an excellent eye-salve VII The menstruous bloud being dryed is commended inwardly
Crato mixes it with Sugar and gives it 5. The feathers are used in a fume against the rising of the womb 6. The egges are given to cure the running Gowt XXV Perdix a Partridge IS very lascivious and lives long 16 years eating the buds of Hasle and Birch grasse and green corne Whence in Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. Marrow 3. The bloud 4. The Liver 5. The gall 6. The feathers The vertues 1. The flesh eaten increaseth the seed and milk and provokes venery 2. The marrow as also the brain is said to cure the Jaundise being drunk 3. The gall is preferred before others for the diseases of the eyes 4. The bloud is anoynted upon eyes bloud-shot and newly wounded 5. The liver dryed at the fire and powdered resists the Evill and is accounted a singular Antidote against a Fever if it be often taken in water of Milfoyle 6. The feathers serve against the suffocation of the womb the fume put to the nostrils for asswaging the Colick and other pains and discussing them used by way of fomentation and with Mint and Sothernwood in a bag are a familiar remedy for Children to mitigate the pangs of the belly XXVI Pica the Pie. The vertues THis Bird is very much commended against the dimnesse rednesse and pain of the eyes eaten or made into powder and put into the eyes or any way applyed It is good for these that are mad Epileptick Melancholick the ashes used Preparat The Antepileptick water of Magpies which is thus prepared Take seeds and roots of Peony and of Pellitory of Spain of each one dram of Aristoloch the long 3 drams of Misselto of the Oak half an ounce of Castor one dram and as much of flowers of Stechas of Lilly of the valley one scruple and half of Cowflips of Peony of each six drams of Lavander and Rosemary of each 5 drams Sage Marjoram Bettony Hysop of each half an ounce Cinamon Clouds Graines Nutmeg Cubebs of each one dram and half When they are all severally beaten into a grosse powder and cut let them be infused in 3 pounds of the water of Lilly convall a pound and half of the water of the flowers of Luiden one pound of water of Primroses then adde thereto young Pies in number 12. which must be bruised the greater feathers cast away and added to the said infusion after steeping let distillation be made in B. M. The vertues It is a notable Cephalick and Antepileptick water The Dose one or two spoonfuls XXVII Struthio an Ostrich IS a Bird very great forain famous for its chylifick quality In Physicall use are 1. The tunicle of the ventricle 2. The fat The vertues 1. The inner coat of the ventricle strengthens the stomach and wonderfully breaks the Stone 2. The fat is good for nervous parts mollifies the hardnesse of the milt asswages the Nephritick pains anoynted XXIII Turtur the Turtle IN use are 1. The whole Turtle 2. The fat The vertues 1. The Turtle agrees with the Pigeon in vertues but yet is specially commended in the Dysentery and chiefly in staying the flux of the terms Whether the ashes of a burnt Turtle or the extract thereof be given the Dose 4 or 6 grains or the Turtle deplumed and bowelled be roasted with Mastick in its belly and rose Vinegar sprinkled upon it while it is in roasting in lieu of Butter and afterward be dryed in a close pot and be made into powder and one spoonfull given every morning 2. The fat gathered from it while it is in roasting is anoynted on the kidneys belly breast groyn c. N. Some that are Gowty perswade themselves that the fits are driven away and the Gowt prevented if they nourish Turtles in their Chambers XXIX Upupa the Lapwing IS a melancholick Bird most nasty living on Wormes found in dung-hils In Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. The feathers The vertues 1. The flesh and its decoction helpes the Colick by a propriety of its own taken 2. The feathers are said to asswage the Head-ach applyed XXX Vultur a Vultur IS a Bird excelling in the animal faculties chiefly in smelling In Physicall use are 1. The flesh 2. The fat The vertues 1. The flesh is judged to be good for the diseases of the head Epilepsie Hemicrany and the like The decoction is accounted to cure the diseases of the skin 2. The fat is good for the sinews 3. The brain helps the weaknesse of the head anoynted or put into the nostrils 4. The gall is said to take away the Epilepsie taken with wine 5. Of the feathers they fable that if they be put under the feet they powerfully provoke the birth 6. The dung provokes the birth by its stench The End of the Second Classis The Third Classis OF FISHES I. Anguilla an Eele IN medicinal use from this we borrow 1. The fat 2. The head 3. The bloud 1. The fat is good for wounds begets hairs anoynted in the disease Alopecia restores hearing dropped into the ear asswages the Hemroids 2. They say that the head of an Eele cures warts if the bloudy head wherewith the warts are touched be buryed in the earth that it may putrefie 3. The bloud as yet warm is said to mitigate the pain of the Colick taken with Wine N. Some say that the Wine wherein Eeles are suffocated makes men abstemious if the Wine be drunk II. Barbo a Barble IS a fish very commendable in Kitchens It is not in Physical use except the egges are taken of some countrey people to provoke vomit and stool which they do very violently III. Blatta Bizantia IS the shell or covering of a fish called Conchylium smelling like Castoreum N. 1. Conchylium is the species of long Shell-fishes which breeding in lakes where Nard doth grow feed on it whence the shell smells like Castor N. 2. Some confound the Conchylium and the Purple fish but absurdly for that is of the kinde of long shell-fishes this of the round The vertues Inwardly taken it loosens the belly softens the milt and discusses vitious humors Outwardly by fume it stirs up women oppressed with the suffocation of the womb and Falling-sicknesse In other things it performs what other shells of Shell-fishes do IV. Cancer a Crab. IN use are 1. The whole meat of the Crab. 2. The eyes 3. The shell The vertues 1 Crabs cool moysten asswage pain fix the raging spirits Therefore are they of chief use in the heat and pain of the head and reyns bruised and applyed in form of a Pultise in the Quinsie a Gargarism is made of the juyce of Crabs and also inwardly the juyce may be given In an Atrophy inwardly the juyce is used with water or juyce of Celandine outwardly a playster may be made of Crabs bruised the liver of a Calf Oyl Olive and Oyl of Bay They draw darts out of the body bruised and applyed they are good in St. Anthony's fire and burnings 2. Crabs eyes cool dry cleanse discusse waste
vertues Honey is accounted hot and dry in the second degree the white is thought lesse hot It nourisheth cleanseth openeth is good for the lungs moves Urine cures the Cough resists putrefaction Outwardly it discusseth the dimnesse of the eyes and helps other diseases of them A caution 1. Because honey is easily turned into Choler it is not so profitable for the liver or hot bodies 1. Crude honey puffes up the belly provokes Cough and causeth nauseousnesse N. Honey according to Galen is the juyce of heavenly dew gathered of Bees according to Paracelsus it is a certain rosinous thing of the earth transplanted into a vegetable kinde by the vertue of the Planets and heavenly influences and gathered from hence of Bees and further digested Hence it varyeth 1. For the variety of Plants in which respect that is accounted best of Bees living among Roses or Lillies 2. For the diversity of the influence So honey is best which is made in the Spring and Summer the year being clear and wholesome It is called of Quercetan dew or heavenly Mâ—nna and from hence he prepares his Philosophicall Vinegars Preparat 1. Clarified honey Take honey as much as thou wilt powre a quantity of water thereon as much as the honey or twice as much or thrice as much if it be very impure or if free from impurity without adding any thing boyl it and skim it with a spoon N. If by this means it be not sufficiently purified it may be done with whites of egges to every pound one white N. 2. Conrad Kunrath disallowes the aforesaid clarifying of honey because by it the better spirits wherewith it is very much impregnated vanish into aire therefore he appoints this Take Virgin honey not set to the fire together with the Combes put it into Hippocrates his sleeve and hang it in a warme place of the Sun or in a stove made hot with watery vapors that the honey may flow thorough 2. Distilled honey Whence 1. Water of honey Spirit and Oyl Take one pound of honey adde thereto salt or flints bruised or sand three ounces others adde chips of Juniper wood distill it by a Retort by degrees and there goes out a white water then a yellow with Oyl as also a spirit which may be rectified divers times Others draw out first a water in a gourd by B. M. to the honey remaining in the gourd they add sand or calcined flints broken in pieces and distill by a Retort a yellow water with Oyl these they digest divers times 5 or 6 dayes then they distill them and at length separate the oyl swimming about from the water N. 1. Some think but not rightly that this yellow water is the Menstruum of Franc. Auton N. 2. Sand is added or flints or glasse that the fervency to which honey is most inclinable may be prevented which others do by putting in little bags full of sand N. 3. Some powre the water first drawn upon new Honey and rectifie it The vertues Both the white and the yellow water heal Cataracks and white spots of the eyes they are good for making hair grow They serve for drawing out the tincture of Coralâ— Inwardly they unlock obstructions moves urine wasts the stone The Oyl which burnes like Aqua vitae hath admirable vertues chiefly if it be circulated some dayes with spirit of Wine for that spirit of Wine separated again there remains a sweet Oyl and of a most pleasant tast very good for wounds by gunshot and running sores It is also singular for mitigating Podagricall aches it discusses the blemishes of the face with Oyl of Camphire 2. The Compound Oyl of Honey Take Honey 2 pounds Vitrioll Calcined one pound spirit of Wine rectified half a pound Tartar one pound distill it by a Retort first there comes forth phlegm then the spirit Force it 20 hours The vertues It asswages the ach of the Gowt if the place affected be therewith anoynted 3. Vinegar of honey Take of the best honey one part River water 8 parts boyl them to the half afterward hang therein the seed of Rocket in a cloth and set it in a hot place or the Sun till they be hot It becomes by little and little very sharpe Vinegar which may be distilled The vertues Besides other uses it dissolves flints and other stones even without any precedent calcination 4. Tincture of Honey Beguinus extracts the tincture out of raw honey pasted with sand and gives it to the consumptive for nourishment 5. The Quintessence of honey Take Honey with the Combes as much as thou wilt draw a water in B. M. then let there remain the water in a boyling B. M. 5 dayes then secondly pour water thereon and extract according to art the Tincture and being decanted purifie it by digestion and setling at length distill the Tincture in B. M. to drynesse the distilled is called the element of air the remaining essence fire Thirdly out of the feces burnt to ashes the Oyl first taken out by descent or a Retort if it seem good extract the salt with common water after the usuall manner and purifie it very well it is called the element of earth Fourthly now joyn all together and distill them in ashes by an Alembeck cohobating them so often untill all be volatile and transcend the Alembeck so thou hast the Quintessence of honey The vertues It may be in lieu of a Panacea The Dose 3 4 5 grains c. 6. The Elixir of Honey Take Honey purified through Hippocrates his sleeve draw the Water Oyl and Salt The Salt drawen moisten by course with its own water then with the Oyl untill it hath drunk up all and there be a coagulation The vertues It hath the same vertues with the Quintessence of Honey 6. There are sundry Medicines in Shops which own Honey both as the basis as the kinds of Hydromels and also a means of preservation as many syrups c. 3. Wax holds in a manner a mean betwixt heating cooling moistning and drying yet so that it inclines to heat It is of parts in some respect thick and emplastick and therefore digests ripens c. N. It is so usuall in shops that scarce thou canst finde an Emplaster of which it doth not afford the consistence Preparat 1. Oyl of Wax is distilled out of a gourd or a glasse Retort by ashes or sand mixed either with bricks made into powder or with calcined flints or with ashes or sand that the Oyl may more easily ascend The vertues It is diuretick and is given inwardly The Dose 3 4 or 5 drops Oyl of Wax of a good odor and colour Is made if it be rectified upon fresh pieces of wax by a fire of ashes Of it is made 2. A vulnerary Balsome By a menstrual infusion of the flowers of St. Johns Wort and the rose of Comfrey 3. The Magistery of Wax Is made of it being dissolved in spirit of Wine and filtered that it remain in the paperlike Butter which being sweetned
the animall drooping spirits resisteth poyson provoketh sneezing it is anodyne and moves Womens courses from hence it is profitable in the Lethargy Apoplexie Epilepsie Palsie Vertigo trembling of the members defluxions to the joynts suffocation of the matrix the Colick both inwardly and outwardly used Moreover it helpeth the noise of the ears and difficulty of hearing put into the ear and the tooth-ach N. 1. In the suffocation it is used divers wayes it is applyed to the nostrils tyed under the arme pits put into the Navill N. 2. It correcteth the malignity of Opium N. 3. The skin helpeth the Gowty and Paralytick prepared and worn Preparat 1. The Oyl of Bever infused Vide Disp August Norimberg 2. The distilled Oyl Take Castoreum as much as thou wilt dissolve it in Vinegar or infuse it in Wine or its spirit then distill it with a gentle fire in a glasse Retort N. 1. Rectifie it with Vinegar N. 2. The same proceeding may be in this as in the Philosophers Oyl imbibing red hot bricks c. N. 3. The Electuary called Diacastoreum Vide Dispenstor 4. The extract is made after the common manner with spirit of wine rectified N. Others extract it with Vinegar which being again abstracted they do it again with spirit of Wine Quercetan useth a convenient distilled water as of Balm Marygolds Piony and like Antepileptick and Cephalick herbs and infuseth it in B. M. 4. or 5. dayes The Dose from 5. grains to 12. XV. Catus Domesticus the House Cat IS a lustful Animal quick of sight Whence we have in use 1. The grease 2. The bloud 3. The head 4. The dung 5. The skin 6. The secondine The vertues 1. The grease of a lib'd Cat heateth mollifyeth discusseth and wonderfully helpeth the griefs of the joynts N. The grease of a wilde Cat is best 2. Three drops of the bloud out of the vein of a male Cat under the tail cure the Falling sickness drunk also the bloud drawn from the ear anoynted upon the Shingles is not without successe 3. The head of a black Cat burnt to powder is a most excellent remedy for the diseases of the eyes pin web specks c. if it be blown thereinto three times a day as writeth Misaldus N. The poyson which is attributed to Cats remains in the head alone and brain in no other part of the body as that which is made meat of many 4. The dung with as much mustard and anoynted with Vinegar cures the shedding of the hair and helps the Gowt 5. The skin is worne to warm the stomach and contracted joynts 6. They hang the secundine about the neck for the diseases of the eyes They prefer that of a Cat that first hath young and also black XVI Catus Zibethinus the Civet Cat IS a strange beast brought to our Coasts and is of some nourished for delight and pleasure Civet which is his excrement or sweat concrete together betwixt the testicles is wrapped in a bladder out of which being cut is the Civet taken The vertues It is hot moist and anodyne it is used frequently in the Colick anointed upon the navil in the belly-ach of Infants in the suffocation of the matrix applyed to the matrix or the hollownesse of the navil XVII Cervus the Hart IS a beast of a very long life living 100 years most swift in running casting his horns yearly in April goeth to rut in August and September and the female brings forth young the eighth moneth after From him we borrow for Physical practise 1. The horn 2. The skin 3. Bone of the heart 4. Pisle 5. The testicles 6. The bloud 7. The teares 8. The marrow 9. The tallow 10. The huckle bone 11. The stone Their vertues in particular 1. The crude horn and unprepared resisteth putrefaction correcteth malignity provoketh sweat strengtheneth mans Balsome whereupon the use of it is profitable in the Measels Small Pocks putrid and malignant Feavers and other diseases where there is need of sweating it may be boyled in Decoctions or infused in Infusions because given in substance it is in a manner cast out crude or unchanged N. That is commended which is gathered betwixt the two Lady days viz. betwixt the 15. of August and the 8. of September Preparation of the horn 1. Harts horn burnt till after blacknesse it become white 2. Harts horn prepared is made of the burnt which is made smooth and small with some cordial water according to Art The vertues By its drying force it resists putrefaction it stayes fluxes of the belly kills Worms moves sweat and it is a medicine very fit for Infants The Dose from a scruple to a dram and more 3. Harts horn Philosophically calcined thus The horns are hanged or put in the head or upper part of a Bladder which is filled with some quantity of water then is there a fire put under that the vapour being lift up by the force of the fire piercing the horns may by little and little make them friable and white N. It is a work almost of three days It moves sweat and helps malignant diseases The Dose to half a dram 4. A Magistery The rasped horns are dissolved in Vinegar precipitated with Oyl of Tartar or Vitriol and made sweet by washing with water then being dryed are kept for use N. 1. Others dissolve them with Spirit of Niter which being again abstracted they sweeten the Magistery left in the bottom In the abstraction of the Spirit of Niter there is heed to be taken lest the flame which may easily happen bring losse therefore they proceed more warily who on four ounces of the dissolution pour one measure of Fountain water and filter it and having filtred it if need be do precipitate it by instilling Oyl of Tartar N. 2. Others dissolve them with Aqua fortis precipitate them with Spirit of Vitriol and sweeten them N. 3. The Magistery precipitated with Oyl of Tartar is yellow on the contrary with any mineral Oyl as of Vitriol is white 5. Gelly Take shavings of Harts horn digest them a while in common or some proper distilled water then boyl them and filter the liquor hot and make it into gelly 6. The liquor or Spirit which is drawn by a Retort luted with the force of fire 7. The Oyl N. See the description of the true Oyl of Harts horn in Kesler 8. The Volatile Salt Some digest the Salt of Harts horn fixed two ounces with one ounce of Spirit of Wine rectified twelve days and then abstract the Spirit of Wine to the half and keep the remainder under the notion of the tincture of the Salt of Harts horn The Dose from 5 grains to 10. The Extract of Harts horn is made by pouring upon the branches of the horns a proper water and extracting the Tincture by a Menstrual digestion 9. Water of the new horns of a Hart. Take the tender horns of a Hart having a bloudy juyce in them cut them into pieces and distil them in
highly commendeth to open the obstructions of the liver and milt to provoke urine and dissolve the stone as also to allay Inflamations and Gangrenes 5. The Magistery of Urine Take Urine putrified as already said and cleared from the dregs distil it with a gentle fire out of B. M. until all the phlegm be come forth then cease and rectifie the Spirit out of a Vial with a long neck so shalt thou have a Volatile salt which gather and the phlegm cast away Distil the remainder out of sand and there shall ascend a Volatile salt out of the Colcothar elixiviate the fixed salt and coagulate it to drynesse and being mixt with thrice as much clay and made into balls after the balls be dryed distil by a Retort as the spirit of Salt is distilled upon this spirit pour the former spirit by drops on the Volatile Salt until the crack cease then give fire of Sublimation in sand and there shall be sublimed a most excellent Salt of Urine and pleasant to the sight The vertues This Sublimate works more efficaciously then the former by cutting the Tartar of the whole body and expelling it by sweat urine or the belly it cures many diseases arising from thence or at least eases them as are Atrophy c. it preserves also from the pain of the Stone if it be taken every moneth before the new Moon The Dose 7. 8. 9. 10. grains in a convenient liquor The dayly use thereof may be continued for some time 6. The Oyl of Ludus That is to say of the tartareous matter which sticketh to the Chamber-pot is made by calcining and by dissolving in a moist place The vertues It is excellent to dissolve the Stone The Dose is one scruple X. The ordure mollifies procures matter and is Anodyne It is of notable use to mitigate dolors from Incantations applyed on the place to procure matter in Plague sores to cure the Squinsie dryed powdered and anointed on with Honey to remedy the Inflamations of wounds Moreover it is inwardly used of many in the Squinsie burnt and given to drink in Fevers to prevent the fits taken in the manner The Dose two drams in the Epilepsie which as the report is the first ordure of an Infant dryed and powdered and given for many days doth pull up by the roots Preparat 1. The distilled water is made with the Oyl with one and the same labour The vertues It is said to cure the nayl or web of the eye and other diseases of the white of the eye one or two drops instilled to procure a good colour to the face to beget hairs to cure corroding Ulcers and Fistulaes and to take away the skars of the hands It is accounted inwardly to profit those that have the Falling-sickness and the Dropsie it drives out the Stone of the reyns and bladder and helps the bitings of a mad Dog and of venomous beasts 2. The Oyl Take the ordure of a young man not a boy as much as you will let be it dryed in the air or in an Oven with an easie fire then distil it by an Alembeck first with a gentle fire so there shall come forth a phlegm and at length with the white Spirits an Oyl let both be rectified by B. M. Poterius makes it thus Take a great quantity of mans ordure let it putrifie of it self and be turned into certain little creatures and then let it passe almost into air This ordure thus prepared distil out of a Retort first with an easie fire after with a stronger so there shall come forth an Oyl and water N. The strong smell of both is taken away by repeated rectifications and cohobations The vertues It helps sores of the Head Erysipelas ulcerated Tetters anointed it easeth pains of the Gout it cures and mortifies the Cancer Inwardly it cures the Jaundise 3. The Western Civet is nothing else but ordure brought to a sweetnesse by digestion by which it resembles Civet XI The seed or sperm we finde this used of many not only to unloose the bewitched ligature of Venus but also thereof a Magnetick Mumy made by which the heat of love is procured Moreover from hence doth Paracelsus feign his homunculus or little man XII The bloud fresh and drunk hot is said to avail against the Epilepsie if being drunk there be used a more violent motion and swift pace to the breaking out of sweat It stays all bleeding drunk new or made into powder Moreover outwardly it heals the eruption of bloud especially at the nostrils the powder put up or the fresh bloud anointed on the fore-head that there it may be dryed N. 1. The drinking of the bloud requires great caution because it not only brings a Truculency to the takers but also the Epilepsie N. 2. The bloud of a child-bed woman heals the running scab being fresh and anointed once or twice with the secundine Preparat 1. The water distilled is made with one labour with the Oyl The vertues It is profitable in Consumptive and withered bodies an ounce drunk and rubbed on the members it is good in cleansing and healing Fistulaes and cooling burnt places N. There is also distilled a water of bloud and womans milk of each a like quantity and it is commended for taking away the spots of the skin 2. The Oyl distilled Take a great quantity of young mens bloud extracted in the Spring Alcohol of Wine one third part the vials wel closed digest in Horses dung 40 days then distill it in an Alembeck out of ashes and with the water there comes forth an Oyl rectifie both the water by M.B. the Oyl by a Retort out of ashes distilling it 9 or 10 times The vertues It is very much commended for rooting out the Epilepsie if half a scruple thereof be taken every day for a whole moneth beginning at the new of the Moon and afterward every new Moon once in a year a scruple for the Palsey Apoplexy Lungs ulcerated Pleurisie N. The distillation of mans bloud is not found ordered after the same manner For some distil it fresh and as yet hot and that two ways of it self and without addition and with some part of spirit of Wine rectified mixt with it Others distil it not fresh and new but either dryed or digested for some time some make the digestion of the bloud alone adding a little salt others of the bloud with spirit of Wine rectified The Anatomy of bloud affords first a water 2. A Spirit that is water rectified 3. An Oyl that is a thicker liquor 4. A Volatile Salt 5. A fixed Salt but we mention only the more usual 3. The Oyl rectified Take the bloud of a healthful young man drawn from a vein in May receive it in a Cucurbit that only a fourth part be filled then let it be kept in the vessel being shut in an indifferent heat that by the swelling of the bloud the whole Cucurbit may be filled then let the Distillation be made and first comes
3. Oesypus 4. Lana succida 5. Suet. 6. Lungs 7. The Caul 8. The dung 9. The piss 10. The bladder 11. Head and feet 12. Lice Their vertues 1. They say that the brain of a Ram is good in driving away immoderate sleep in Epidemick diseases they fry the brain and with fat make it into a cake adding thereto Cinamon Nutmeg and then use it It facilitates toothing annoynted with honey 2. The gall in wooll and applyed on the navill of infants looses the belly heals an outward Canker anoynted helps mattery ears dropped in with womans milk 3. Oesypus the grease of moyst wooll commonly called Isopus humida is thus made Moist greasie wooll from the neck bellies and thighes of Sheep are infused 6 7 or 8 houres in boyling water then is it again made hot and stirred with a stick untill it hath sent all its grease into the water This water the wool removed is stirred very much with a woodden stick or is powred from on high out of one vessell into another that it foam so the filth thereof sticking to the foam may be separated Let this cleansing be used till no more foam arise Let the gathered fat or grease be washed in pure water others prefer sea-water and wrought with the hands till it be white and no more infect the water and put on the tongue is lightly astringent And all these ought to be done in the hot sun The vertues It mollifies dissolves heats easeth pains it is good for those that are dislocated bruised and the like 4. The greasie wooll is gathered in summer from the neck and thighes which is soft and full of sweat The vertues It heats softens mitigates it is very good for those that are bruised beaten and dislocated applyed with Vinegar Oyl Wine Being burnt it hath an heating drying sharp biting and discussing faculty and therefore it helps moist and soft tumors and inveterate Ulcers It restrains Excrescences brings Ulcers to a skar heals Fistulas and suppurated ears put into them 5. The suet given in red wine stayes bloud cures the Diarrhea Dysentery and the tormenting pain of the belly in a Clyster 6. The lights as also the fleshy bowels of other beasts applyed unto the head mitigate the pain and heat thereof and bring to quietness the unruly spirits They are of great use in the Frensie watchings c. 7. The Caule hot cures the Colick applyed 8. The dung hath a cooling drying opening and discussing quality It is of very great use in the Jaundise taken with parsley Outwardly it is good in the swelling of the milt in great warts corns tumors of the skin c. in like manner it is confortative in burnings powdered and sprinckled 9. The urine of a black or red Sheep taken drives away the water between the skin The same it doth being distilled The Dose 5 or 6 ounces 10. The bladder as of a Goat burned and used helps those that pisse against their will 11. The head and feet of a Weather very well boyled in fountain water helps a Consumption and shrinking of sinews in a bath 12. The lice are said to do excellently in the cure of the running Gowt taken in number 9. XXXI Ranunculus Viridis the Green-frog IS a kind of an earthen Frog lesse then others very green in colour loving bushes and sharpe places In use are 1. The Frog 2. The bloud The vertues 1. It agrees in vertues with the Water-frog and its ashes sprinkled on wounds is said wonderfully to restrain bleeding 2. The bloud is especially commended for a philtre to procure love XXXII Rhinoceros IS a beast as great as a Bull like in shape to a Boar having one horn on his snout black a cubit long and spired resembling the horn of a Buffe solid without hollowness N. He is said to have another little horn on the back of the same colour with the former The vertues It is commended against poyson infection and other diseases having need of sweat and may be used for want of the Unicorns horn in stead thereof It is given in powder to half or a whole scruple XXXIII Serpens a Serpent IS a most subtle beast casting his skin every year twice viz. in the Spring and Autumn resting asleep in the Winter in the earth chiefly under the roots of trees Birch Hasle most hurtfull to man N. The name of Serpent is generall comprehending under it many species of Serpents but in this place we understand the common sort distinguished from Vipers c. N. 2. They are best which are gathered in the beginning of the Spring when they cast their skin yet not immediately after their coming forth out of their Winter dens In medicinall use are 1. The whole ones burnt 2. The fat 3. The skin 4. The gall The vertues in particular 1. The whole ones burnt viz. the flesh heart bones and liver are Alexipharmacall and have a sudorifick quality not venomous They are of especiall use outwardly in all venomous and malignant diseases as the Plague Fever Leprosie and the like Moreover Cardan brags of it as a secret that the Consumptive and those that have the French disease are holpen chiefly by the use of Vipers if the flesh boyled be eaten the broth drunken and the grease anointed on the spine and joynts Neither is there cause that thou shouldest so much fear the internall use of Serpents for thou mayest take the flesh the skin pulled off the gall tail and bowels cast away and use it in stead of meat N. 1. The head is rejected because it is very venomous the tail is cast away not because it is venomous but because it only consists of bones the bladder with the gall is rejected because it is the nearest receptacle of venomous matter which thence by two passages is carried to the sockets of the teeth in which it becomes more full of spirit and more strong in effect in so much that if any be pricked with the teeth of a Viper though dead long before he is infected with the poyson otherwise the gall with which being new Dogs do die but they eat it dryed without harm we use not the bowels or puddings because of the excrements or egges sticking thereto otherwise these being cast away they may become usefull without harm N. 2. According to some if thou keep asunder the heart and the liver thou hast gotten a most pretious medicinall treasure but thou art mistaken if thou perswade thy self to have any thing of virtue distinct from the flesh and bones in like manner thou art deceived if as the common opinion is by swallowing down the serpentine powder or of the heart newly extracted and as yet moving it self thou imagine thy self free from the stingings of Serpents 2. The Fat softens strumes cures the redness and spots of the eyes sharpens the sight asswages the pains of the Gowt 3. The skin is thought to facilitate child-bearing tyed to the belly or loynes and to asswage tooth-ach in
Vipers 3 pounds of Oyl of Sesama one Sextary and a half let them be boyled in a glased vessel with a narrow mouth well stopt lest the vapor exhale till the flesh fall from the bones then when they are cold let them be laid up N. Others by descent draw it out of Vipers without the head tayl c. The vertues It cleanseth the skin heals Tetters and other diseases of that sort 2. Theriacal Salt See August Dispensatory Quecetan 3. Trochisces of Vipers See the Dispensatory N. 1. Some have made Treacle of the blinde worm and with very good successe have given it once or twice in the time of the Plague to provoke sweat N. 2. There may also be made Vipers Wine that is in which Vipers are killed famous against the Leprosie drunk 4. Thou shalt finde another excellent powder in Poterius his Pharmacop 5. The Essence of Vipers in Myroth Fabri Salt of Vipers Volatile Oyl Spirit and Salt fixed Let dryed Vipers be cut into pieces and lightly bruised together with the heart and liver be put into a Retort armed till it be filled Distil them into a vessel with a large receiver by degrees It affords a phlegm and spirit the Volatile Salt sticks to the sides of the Receiver and the neck of the Retort and at length comes a fetid and grosse Oyl which is to be separated with a paper let the Salt taken out be purified by subliming it in a large Vial in sand with a moderate fire left any waterinesse follow the Salt which useth to happen when the fire is increased The sublimed parts of this Salt are of a more piercing odor then the rest and therefore must be kept in an Alembeck very well closed It is a medicine very piercing driving away putrifaction resolves all Fevers and Quartanes if it be given to drink one or two hours before the fit in a proper liquor which may somewhat blunt not destroy its Acrimony as in Emulsions of seed of Melons or sweet Almonds adding a part of rose-Rose-water or Cinamon and white Sugar The Dose from 6 grains to half a scruple It is fixed as the Salt Volatile of the Microcosme except that in stead of the proper spirit of the fixed Salt which is little in Vipers and is drawn out of the dead head is taken the Spirit of common Salt The vertues Thus fixed it is an unchangeable medicine going over all the body for it resolves all excrements and cleanseth them clean like Sope in what place soever they stick not assimilated that they may easily and conveniently be repulsed from the matter either by sweat insensible transpiration or which for the most part happens by Urine Therefore in every melancholick Gowt the Stone of the reyns and bladder all obstructions of the bowels and rottennesse it is a most present remedy In decayed strength it reacheth to the parts affected it comforts nature helps by purging it and resolving the excrements contrary to nature The Dose from half to a whole scruple The Essence of Vipers Take the livers and hearts of Vipers in number 100 dryed and bruised with Spirit of Wine rectified 3 or 4 days digest and extract them according to Art The Distillations being joyned adde to one pound of the Essence one ounce of Volatile Salt half ounce of the fixed Digest them that they may be very well united one or two moneths and thou shalt have the chiefest medicine that can be expected from Vipers N. These medicines are very usual in Italy and are said to be used with good successe and applause of the people XXXVIII Vitulus a Calf WHence in medicine are 1. The Marrow 2. Dung The vertues 1. The marrow is next in goodnesse to the Harts it hath vertue to mollifie hard and schirrous bodies whether the hardnesse happen to the muscles or tendons or ligaments Moreover pessaries are made thereof softning the womb 2. The dung helps an Erysipelas new and anoynted XXXIX Unicornis the Unicorn IS said to be a Beast not unlike to an Horse in respect of his body with cloven feet having an horn in his fore-head In medicine the Horn is used which may be distinguished from Ivory by the threads or fibres which are more subtle It is also more solid and more heavy in other things it is like unto Ivory The vertues It is Sudorifick Alexipharmacal and cordial hence it is that it is commended good against poysons infectious diseases c. It is also accounted profitable in the Epilepsie of Infants The Dose from 4 grains to half a scruple sometimes a whole scruple and more XL. Ursus a Bear IS a cruel Beast catarrhous phlegmatique with a weak head most strong loyns lascivious It is at enmity with Hâ—rts Asses Lyons it sleeps certain weeks together Whence we use 1. The fat 2. Gall. 3. The Eye The vertues 1. The fat heats resolves mollifies discusses c. It is chiefly used in the shedding of the hair anoynted with a burnt Mouse it helps the aches of the Gowt the swellings behinde the ear and other tumors made into a playster with Bulls suet and Wax of each a like quantity it heals the Ulcers of the thighes and legs N. 1. In the Rupture Enterocele and the falling out of the womb it is an ordinary medicine of women anoynted on the back viz. on the os sacrum N. 2. It is fit to observe that in the external use of this fat it makes hairs white 2. The gall is inwardly commended against the Falling-sicknesse Asthma and the Jaundise Outwardly against Cancrous and creeping Ulcers anoynted against the Tooth-ach dimnesse of the Eyes c. N. In Finland where there is plenty of Bears it is ordinary for the common people to give the gall dryed as a Panacea and by sweat ensuing thereon I have heard that many diseases have been cured 3. The right eye taken out dryed and hanged about the neck of Infants is said to drive away the frighting wherewith they are vexed in sleep Some say that the eye of a Bear tyed to the left arm heals a Quartane XLI Vulpes the Fox IS a very crafty Beast in a manner partaker of the nature of the Dog In medicinal use are 1. The grease 2. The lungs 3. The liver 4. The gall 5. The milt 6. The skin 7. The bloud 8. The whole Fox 9. The dung The vertues 1. The grease helps Convulsions Contractions Tremblings c. anoynted the pain of the ears wounds of the head and shedding of hair 2. The lungs consolidate cleanse and from hence they are good against the diseases of the lungs and straitnesse of the breast dryed and taken 3. The liver helps the Hepatick and Splenetick used as the lungs 4. The gall helps the Haw of the eyes anoynted 5. The milt heals the hardnesse and swelling of the milt laid on or applyed to it 6. The hairy skin is successefully applyed on cold members and troubled with the Gowt 7. The bloud dryed and powdered heals the Stone
the Stone resolve the Tartar and clodded bloud Wherefore they are of great use in the Stone-colick Pleurisie Asthma Colick c. whether they be taken raw and powdered or burnt and prepared they serve likewise for cleansing the teeth 3. The shell hath the same vertue with the eyes Moreover it cures the scab of children arising from salt humors mixt with Oyl of Roses and anoynted It drives away the fits of intermitting Fevers N. The thin new one is best after they have yearly cast the thicker Preparat 1. The ashes of Crabs that is Crabs burnt are drying they excel by property against the biting of a mad Dog taken with root of Gentian with Honey they mollifie the chaps of the feet the knobs and Cancers of the fundament Some give burnt Crabs in a Dysentery N. Galen very highly commends this kinde of medicine which he confesseth that he learned of Aeschrion the Emperick against the biting of a mad Dog And saith that Aeschrion burnt the Crabs alive in a brazen vessel till they might be brought into a smooth powder and that about the rising of the Dog-star the Sun passing into Leo. The Dose one little spoonful for 40 days 2. The eyes of Crabs prepared are made after the common manner making them smooth with water of Fennel 3. The Magistery of Crabs eyes 4. The water of Crabs is made of Crabs distilled in B. M. or ashes The vertues It moves Urine wasts the Stone quenches thirst N. Quercetan steeps Crabs in water of housleek for a day then he distilleth them using three cohobations and applyeth it to inflamation burnings and Cancers which he saith they help much especially if the water be impregnated with the Salt elixiviated from the reliques 5. The Oyl or liquor of Crabs eyes is made after the common manner per deliquium Otherwise Take Crabs eyes 5 ounces Oyl of Tartar per deliquium 6 ounces digest them in Horse dung 13 days then coagulate and extract with the Spirit of Wine at length abstract the Spirit of Wine and there remains the Oyl The Dose from 4 grains to 6. V. Carpio the Carp IS a known fish living in mud and slyme Whence we use 1. The gall 2. The grease 3. The triangular stone 4. The long stones The vertues 1. The gall helps the dulnesse and the cloud of the eyes 2. The grease helps the hot diseaseas of the sinews 3. The triangular stone found in the head of a Carp is holden to be good against the Colick Stone and Falling-sicknesse 4. The two stones appearing above the eyes are commended against the Epilepsie VI. Cetus a Whale WHich name generally signifies huge fishes bringing forth living young yet in particular it is taken for the greatest species of them which for its vast bignesse and shape is like a four-footed Beast In use is the grease which heals the scab anoynted N. Some would have the Sperma Ceti of the shops to be taken out of this fish but falsely Others account Amber-greese as taken from hence but falsely Manati Among the kindes of Whales is reckoned a fish called Manati from the two former feet which only it represents and these the Spaniards call hands whence also they call it the handed fish The Germans for the likenesse of its head whereby it resembleth a Cow call it a Sea-cow In use is the stone of the Manati which is a crusty bone taken out of its head and it is of divers shapes for some time it represents the teeth and of some is called the tooth of a Sea-cow sometime the â—ones of the ears and are called the bones of hearing Preparat 1. Preparation is made of it calcined or burn N. It is good to bedew it with some convenient water as of Fennel c. The vertues It is very much commended for breaking the Stones of the veins and bladder for asswaging the Nephritick and Colick pains The Dose 1 dram and upward N. Some ascend to an ounce 2. A Magistery may be made by dissolving it with Spirit of Salt or Niter and precipitating it with water VII Concha the Shell-fish IS a kinde of Fish wanting an head entrenched within shells whether it be a single or double shell Of this kinde are also those that have Pearl in them It comprehends under it divers species for the most part having names according to their figure and colour or distinguished by a speciall name N. 1. The Concha increaseth and decreaseth with the Moon N. 2. Amongst water Animals none is accounted to be taken with a greater desire of eating mans flesh than this In medicinal use are 1. The shells 2. The flesh 3. The Pearls The Vertues 1. The shells have the vertue to dry to move sweat to cleanse c. Hence their internal use chiefly is in Fevers which they cure by sweat Outwardly they are good in dentifrices in repressing the swellings of the fundament the ashes applyed Preparat The shells are used both powdered only and also calcined and powdered or prepared after the common manner and made smooth with water of Carduus Benedictus and the like Of the shells of the long sort is made that famous medicine of Crollius against the Fever after this manner Pour Vinegar upon the shells let it stand for a night then it extracteth the filth which being scraped off calcine the shells to whitenesse and keep the powder The vertues It moves sweat in abundance and therefore used the fit approaching chiefly in a Tertian it dissolves Fevers especially if used the second or third time The Dose from one scruple and half to a dram N. Crollius gives it in a draught of hot Ale with a little Butter 2. The flesh that is to say the eatable substance belongs chiefly to Kitchens and in meat is said to be good for Quartanes 3. Pearls are round stones found in many Shell-fishes of the same excrement where of their shells are made They are accounted twofold Oriental and Occidental the former are more bright and are preferred before the rest the latter are white and lesse bright they are found also in many places of Europe as in Scotland Silâ—sia Bohemia Frisia and other Maritine lands but they are of lesse worth In like manner the greater and those which have a hole through them are esteemed riper and more excellent than the lesse and not perforated The vertues They make a most excellent Cordial by which the Balsom of life oppressed and strength decayed are notably refreshed and comforted therefore they resist poyson the Plague and putrefaction they exhilarate the minde and for this cause they are in such repute that the last help even of those that are ready to die is usually from thence expected Preparat 1. They are prepared after the common manner by making them smooth upon a Marble now and then sprinkling them with Cordial water as of Roses Balm and the like 2. Salt of Pearls is made by dissolving them in Vinegar or in the juyce of Barberies and Limons
thickning the filtration to the remaining of Salt and being thick by washing or dissolving it again purifying it and sweetning it N. They need not be powdered because whole and without digestion they yeeld to Vinegar N. 2. Pearls washed and if you please bruised are dissolved in the juyce of Citrons poured on to the height of four fingers by digestion on the dissolution is poured May dew distilled or Balm water and the dissolution is poured off Then new juyce of Citrons is infused digested and May dew is again infused or Balm water and decanted c. And this work is often repeated till the Pearls be almost wholly dissolved a very few feces remaining At lâ—st the dissolution is made thick with a gentle fire to the remaining of the powder The Dose from 6 grains to 10. in the water of May dew distilled with Manna or in Cinamon water with Rose water N. Paâ—acalsus attributes great vertues to the Salt of Pearl as to other medicines thereof prepared the processes quoth he of these though simple yet wonderful is the operation of them yet this action of vertues is not made by Art but is in their very nature Which is hid in the grosse substance and cannot operate as a dead body but after dissolution is made its body is revived 2. Unto this is very like the Salt or Magistery of Pearls of Riverius Take Pearls most finely powdered as much as thou wilt make a paste thereof with juyce of Citrons or Oranges and let it alone for a time Then dissolve it with Vinegar distilled according to Art till the Pearls be almost altogether dissolved mingle the Vinegar with a third pâ—rt of River water distill it in sand with a gentle fire then with a stronger being distilled pour it again upon the Caput mortuum remaining and dissolve it again then filter it and evaporate it very easily and the remainder will be the Magistery of the Pearls The vertues Besides the vertues above said it is a chief Preservative against the Gowt The Dose one scruple at the most 3. The Magistery of Pearls 1. Common is made by dissolving it with Vinegar distilled and precipitating it with Oyl of Tartar 2. Butter is made as that Buttery Magistery of Coral thus Dissolve Pearls in the Spirit of May dew or in distilled Vinegar precipitate it with Oyl of Sulphur per C then sweeten and digest it for a time with Spirit of Wine which being abstracted thou hast a Magistery melting in the mouth like Butter 3. The feathery Dissolve Pearls according to art in spirit of Niter then filter it pouring distilled rain water upon it then precipitate it with Oyl of Sulphur per C. sweeten and dry it The vertues Are to be gathered out of the aforesaid The Dose from 6 grains to 15. 4. The Oyl or liquor of pearls Is made per Deliquium the manner is easie 5. The Essence Tincture Arcanum of Pearls Take Pearls as much as thou wilt dissolve them with distilled Vinegar and make a Salt purifie the salt thus made by frequent dissolutions in Vinegar and coagulations the feces always cast away until no more feces shall remain after the last dissolution and the Pearls by that freed from all uncleannesse then dissolve them with rain water or May dew and by distillation abstract the humidity and repeat this so often till the Pearls become sweet this the sweetnessse of the water last distilled sheweth This Salt so freed from the feces digest in a close vessel in M. B. 8 or 10 days with Spirit of Wine poured on to the height of two fingers so the Pearls in that time will send their Essence like thick Oyl to the top of the Spirit of Wine which warily separate and pouring on new Spirit of Wine repeat the labour as oft as thou pleasest for almost all the Salt is converted a very few feces left into an Essence This circulate a fresh with Spirit of Wine for a time afterward by gentle distillation in B. M. separate the Spirit of Wine and keep it for use The vertues Are according to the rest but stronger by far in respect of its very great subtilty The Dose from 6 grains to 14. A secret by the Spirit of Guaiacum Take of Pearls powdered very small as much as thou wilt extract according to Art a most red tincture with the Spirit of Guaiacum rectified the remaining powder calcine gently and extract again twice or thrice with new Spirit of Guaiacum Coagulate the Extracts in B. M. to the appearance of a divers coloured thin skin which is a sign that the phlegm being abstracted there remains in a coagulated form the sole secret or Essence of Pearls with the Spirit of Guaiacum N 1. This Essence and Spirit can scarse be separated asunder N. 2. The same Essence or Arcanum of Pearls is suddenly dissolved with water of Balm and the like a sufficient quantity and is turned into a red transparent colour of an excellent tast The vertues It cleansâ—th the bloud excellently and is of great vertue in the French disease The Dose from 6 grains to 14. Another Tincture Take Pearls half ounce Spirit of Salt a sufficient quantity dissolve them according to Art decant abstract that it may become like pap which wash off by a distilled water circulate with Spirit of Wine 6 weeks then abstract the Spirit of Wine with a gentle heat of B. M. 5. The flowers of Pearls Pearls are dissolved with distilled Vinegar the dissolution is digested for a moneth then the Vinegar is abstracted and at length the flowers are elevated with a stronger fire 6. The Spirit of Pearls or the pearled Spirit of the earth Take of the Salt or Magistery of Pearls 6 ounces terra sigillat one pound mingle and imbibe with a sufficient quantity of Oyl of Pearls and make Balls which being dryed by a Retort as the Spirit of Salt is distilled rectifie it and keep it for use The vertues It is a very great secret in the Gowt LIII Dentalium Entalium IS a little Shell-fish somewhat long rough on the outside smooth within hollow after the manner of a reed and in one part having a chink like a Dogs tooth whence it is called Dentalium N. Not a fish but a long and slender worm is the Inhabitant of the Dentalium It grows to Rocks of the Sea and to old Shell-fishes The Entalium is a Sea Shell-fish long like a little horn right and hollow chamfered without smooth within seldom exceeding the length of ones finger N. It seems to be the Dactylus of Pliny The vertues Though both of these are hitherto little used in Medicine but only in the Citrine Unguent yet is it likely that they may be used with other kindes of shells to the like affects IX Halec the Hering IS a Sea-fish ordinary in the Baltick Sea and other Seas of Germany In medicinal use are 1. The roes 2. The hering it self 3. The brine or pickle The vertues 1. The roes in number
this sperm and dryed is kept for use others put the same sperm in a pot under the earth till it be turned into water Preparat 1. The ashes sprinkled stays the flowing of bloud of wounds and nosthrils It restrains the Bloudy flux of the womb by fume it is with liquid pitch anoynted on Alopecies Inwardly it stayes a Gonorrhea one dram taken 2. Distilled water of Frogs Is made of living Frogs taken about the end of March or beginning of April by an Alembeck 3. The distilled water of the sperm Is made by an Alembeck of the sperm gathered in March N. 2. They use to adde Salt Vertues They are manifest from the precedent besides which it is a notable medicine for the bladder ulcerated from the acrimony of humors It is also good to beat back and stay the issue of bloud and rednesse of the face it cures Tetters Erisypelas and Gangrene 4. The Oyl Is made by boyling Frogs with common Oyl or Oyl of Roses 5. The compound powder of the sperm Take good Myrrhe male Frankincense of each two ounces Saffron powdered half a dram Camphire three drams powder all and mingle them miosten this powder with the distilled water of the sperm of Frogs twenty or thirty times yet so that the former be always dryed of its own accord then keep it for use N. The sperm is to be gathered about three dâ—ys before the new Moon in March then it stinks not and is to be distilled in B. M. The vertues It is a chief remedy against bleeding of the nose throat womb because by its coldnesse it coagulates the bloud It helps also if it be dissolved with Vinegar and applyed on Erisypelas and hot Gowts It likewise stays the bleeding of wounds it kills Impostumation under the nayls The Dose 4 5 6 7 8. grains N. 1. If the bleeding arise from the corruption of the bloud it is no ill medicine because it drives away rottennesse but in the diseases of the womb for the Myrrhe and Saffron I had rather use another N. 2. When Frogs and their sperm or Snayls Worms and Crabs are to be distilled they are to be inclosed in a clean linnen cloth and hanged in the middle of the vessel otherwise the waters will partake of the stench and in the same linnens will remain the powder of the said creatures very well prepared to which for the better correcting of it instill some few drops of spirit of Wine and dry it again or extract the tincture with the said spirit of Wine N. 2. Fabricius de Gangr commends the powder as good against malign ulcers and to restrain all inflamations XVII Sepia the Cuttle IN Physical use are 1. The Cuttle bone 2. The black humor 3. The egges The vertues 1. The bone dryeth cleanseth powdered or burnt to ashes it cures the spots moles the moist scab it is good for the eyes the ashes put in with Honey it helps the swoln gums in dentrifices it is a remedy for the Asthmatick taken it stays the running of the reins it expels stones it moves urine the powder taken to the quantity of a scruple 2. The black humor found within a bladder in the body is said to move the belly taken 3. The egges cleanse the reins and ureters move the terms and urine XVIII Sturio the Sturgeon IS a fish set with pricks on the back and belly loving both fresh and salt waters of a great bignesse The vertues The bones of the Sturgeon are commended in the running Gowt used As also in discussing the pains of the Colick XIX Testudo the Tortoyse IS a creature living as well in the water as on land of the kinde of shell-fishes having a shell-buckler on his back In medicinal use are 1. The shanks 2. The bloud 3. The gall The vertues 1. The shanks are used for a most approved Amulet against the Gowt Take a male Tortoyse he is known among other things from the difference of his tail and a litttle slit under the inner shell when the Moon shall be in the wane before she be joyned with the Sun Let his shanks be cut off he being alive and being sowed in bags made of a Kids skin let them be tyed to the patients members so that the right shank of the Tortoyse answer to the right thigh of the patient and the left to the left and in like manner the right shank of the former leg be applyed to the right arm and the left to the left 2. The bloud of a Sea and Land Tortoyse in inward medicines is given for an Antidote to 2 drams The bloud of a land Tortoyse is used against the Hectick new and raw to an ounce being dryed it is commended against the Epilepsie 3. The gall is good for the eyes XX. Thymallus called Pagrus IN use is the fat or grease The vertues It cleanseth the spots and web of the eyes melted in the Sun and mixed with Honey it takes away the spots of the skin and fills up the pits remaining after the Small pocks anoynted XXI Tinca the Tench IS a slimy fish loving Fenny waters and muddy it is bred both by propagation and also of its own accord It loves the Lucy In Physical use are 1. The whole fish 2. The gall The vertues 1. The whole fish cut into two parts is laid upon the pulses of the hands and soles of the feet to mitigate the heat of Fevers or to divert the pestilential venom In like manner it is used in the pain of the head and joynts Living Tenches one after another applyed on the navel and liver until they dye are said to cure the Jaundise for they attract the yellow colour I have seen a Tench burnt to ashes especially the skin with successe given in the whites of women 2. The gall is commended against the diseases of the ears 3. In the head it hath a stone as the Carp which may be used for the same diseases that the stone of the Carp is XXII Truta the Trout IS a fish very much used in kitchens and much commended In use is the fat which is anoynted on the chaps of the fundament The End of the Third Classis The Fourth Classis OF INSETCS I. Apes the Bee IS an Insect that makes honey living both on the dew of herbs and also of the honey made of that dew In medicine we use 1. The Bee 2. The Honey 3. The wax 4. Bee-glew 1. Bees dryed and powdered restore hair on Alopecies anointed therewith 2. Honey is to be chosen yellow transparent pleasant in smell and tast neither thick in consistence nor very thin but in every part united the white is next to the yellow which is not to be contemned if the rest of the signs be not wanting which betoken its goodnesse But in the choice of honey shun the combe full of Spider webs that which is called Virgins honey is best of all that is it which young and tender Bees make being of colour white and yellow The