the poor as well as the rich Physicians thus qualified may so gain the hearts of the Souldiers that these will love and honour them as if they were their Parents Likewise the Chirurgions ought to be learn'd discreet and affable such as have been long vers'd and experienc'd in all the operations of Chirurgery that can distinguish well of Diseases and with prudence make their judgments thereon They ought also to be diligent and careful of those committed to their charge and very knowing in all manner of outward applications as Unguents Plasters Pulments Lenitives Stiptiques Attractives Digestives Causticks Escharotiques as also their Mollifying Dissipating Repelling Suppurating and Mundifying c. Medicines They ought to be skilful in discerning them and withal in knowing well the cases and times where and when to use them They are to be very careful in observing the beginning middle and end of Ulcers Wounds c. since it often may be impertinent and even hurtful too to use that in the beginning that may be pertinent and beneficial in the midst of the cure and the like An able and dextrous Chirurgion is a great Treasure in an Army and cannot be enough valued especially if he consult in all dangerous cases with an understanding Physitian These two Physitians and Chirurgions are to be intimate friends together assisting one another without envy and pride for the better relief and the greater safety of their Patients 'T is very necessary both these should go abroad and travel before they undertake to practise thereby to acquire experience and to learn also to converse with the more discretion and gentleness with all sorts of humors And when they come to practise the Chirurgions ought to advise with Physitians who are but lame Doctors if they be not skilled in Chirurgery since this is the third part of Physick from which it can and ought not to be separated being an integral part thereof It is recorded in history that above 2000 years since Podalyrius and Machaon Sons to Aesculapius went both with Agamemnon in the Expedition for Troja and there purchased great honour by their practise not so much of Physick as Chirurgery CHAP. IV. Of Fevers Hungarian Distempers Spotted Fevers and other Pestilential Diseases as also of Hereditary Maladies together with their Remedies 'T Is known seldom to fail that in an Army there reigneth some Disease or other according to the nature and constitution of the Country Air and Diet. The reasons are First that amongst so great a number of Men raised from so many different places there are to be found Men of very different tempers and constitutions sound and unsound and amongst the latter some that are scabby others scorbutical others labouring under venereal Diseases many inclined to dangerous and infectious Fevers c. all which a Physitian must have a watchful eye upon and endeavour to prevent their spreading Secondly that Souldiers in an Army want conveniences wherewith to take due care of their health but are often constrain'd to expose themselves and sleep in the open Air on moist ground the vapours whereof penetrate into their bodies and they are careless or want opportunities of expelling them out again by sweat Whence is caused an inward putrefaction in the blood and humors which sometimes proceeds so far as to assume a venomous nature and to break out into spots tumors bubo's carbuncles c. Thirdly that Souldiers commonly keep an irregular diet Sometimes they have plenty and do super-abound at other times they have nothing and then being very hungry when they come again to a place of plenty they over-feed and surfet whence are bred crudities in the stomach and corruption which causeth malignant Fevers in abundance Besides they often feed upon meat that is unwholesome as stinking Venison rotten cheese musty bread c. which cannot but occasion many Diseases And when they come to places where Fruit abounds as Apples Pears Plums Melons Cherries Grapes c. they over-eat themselves and thereby cause Gripings in the Guts Diarrhaea's c. Lastly sometimes the Air is corrupted especially after a great battel and slaughter of Men that remain unburied whereby the Air being tainted infects the living that take it in Which is often made worse by the exhalations of low and moorish ground and by thick fogs These are the general Causes of the common Distempers reigning in Armies against which thou art to arm thy self accordingly First then be careful in thy Diet eat not greedily and indiscreetly every thing that comes to hand and though it be good yet eat and drink not too plentifully of it but restrain thy appetite considering how destructive every excess may be to thy health If thou canst and hast no aversion from it drink every morning of thy own Urine which prevents corruption in the Stomach opens obstructions in the Liver Spleen Mesaraic Veins which if not removed there will follow Fevers the yellow Jaundice Swellings and Difficulty of breathing If thou art averse from doing so eat some bread and butter with rue on it or if it be not hot weather take in the morning the quantity of a hasel-nut of Mithridate or Treacle or infuse in brandy or rather in Spirit of Juniper-berries some Zedoary Angelica and a little Citron-peels and drink a spoonful of it in the morning When the Air is corrupted and there be at hand a Goat rub thy self at him and let not the strong smell keep thee from it Also put Quicksilver in an empty hasel-nut closed up with Spanish Wax and hang it about thy neck or the Zenechton prepared of Arsenic after the manner by and by to be described sowed up in thin leather for if it should touch the bare skin it would cause blisters and do harm This Zenechton is a plaister out of which are cut pieces of the bigness of a dollar which are carried about the neck and hang down near the heart keeping good a whole year And when the infection is past this Zenechton being reduced to powder will yet serve to kill rats and mice with It is to be thus prepar'd Take of yellow and white Arsenic of each an ounce or ◠4 of an ounce of gummi Tragacanth ½ an ounce put this gummi in rose-Rose-water or in common water over night and it will yield a slimy water Then beat thy Arsenic in a mortar and put so much of this gummed water to it as is necessary to reduce it to a paste having the consistence of dough work it well and round it and then cut off a slice of the bigness of a dollar somewhat thicker let this slice dry in the Air and sow it in a piece of thin leather well-dressed dog-skin is the best for this purpose carry this about thy neck so as to let it hang down upon and to touch the place of thy heart Some mix with it a proportion of the powder of dried toads which I have done my self it being esteem'd more powerful Some carry about their necks
Vine-leaves or fresh Cabbage-leaves and if you have no Alablaster-salve take two parts of Vinegar and one part of Oyl of Olives the Sea-blossoms Oyl and Elder-Vinegar were better dip long rags of linnen therein and having well squeez'd them again lay them luke-warm over the face and temples Even Vinegar alone is good Of such Applications you may make many of Acetum of Roses Elder-blossoms and the like with a little Camphir The expressed Milk of Peaches is also very effectual in this case If at the going off of this Distemper a hot defluxion should fall into the Eyes take Camphir and infuse it in water and often moisten the Eyes therewith and if it should be cold and windy weather you will do well to keep your self out of the open Air and not to let this water dry up in your Eyes in the cold wind In case of having lost thy hearing take of thy own Urine and with it wash thy Ears within but withall dry them very well because that moisture is very noxious to the Ears And it often happens that after the Hungarian Sickness People grow deaf or hard of hearing Others put the water of Carduus-benedictus distilled with Wine into the Ears or the Oyl of bitter Almonds If thy Throat swell or the Palate of thy Mouth be fallen down gargarize thy Throat with warm Milk wherein Figgs have been boil'd or sweetned with Sugar The Flowers of Phyllirea or Mock-privet which grows in the hedges boiled and used for a gargarism heals also a sore Throat The same doth the middle rind of Oxyacantha or Haw-thorn if boiled with a little Allom dissolved in the Decoction If you have the juyce of Mulberries mix a little honey of Roses with it and often take a little thereof The roots of Sloes boiled in red Wine and the Mouth often washed therewith is also very good If thou hast the Squinancy boil Scabious in Meath and drink thereof warm when strain'd Beat Turnips and fry them in Butter or Oyl and clap them in a cloth round about thy Neck If thou cast up blood take Mouse-ear Ground-ivy Cumfrey boil them in half Wine and half Water or in Meath and drink often of it But if the Plague reign not open first a Vein For a violent Cough boil white Turnips well cleansed in common water throw away this first water pour on other water and in it let the Turnips boil till they grow soft Strain this water sweeten it with Sugar or infuse in it Liquorice cut small and drink of it mornings and evenings warm Or make a Decoction of St Johns bread and drink it abstaining from all sour and salt things The bleeding at the Nose is also incident to persons infected which is no good sign though in sound persons it often frees from the Head-ach and cools the Liver If this bleeding be too violent clap Ice-cold water about the Patients Neck or let him put his Pudenda in cold Vinegar CHAP. V. Of the Inflammation of the Tongue its rise and concomitants together with the Remedies VVHen the Tongue is inflamed the whole Oesophagus or Weasand is inflamed also and this from beneath upward because the inward fire sends up its smoak all along as it were that chimney which like soot sticks to it drying and blackning the same But there is another Inflammation much more dangerous which taketh its rise about the Heart and therefore is call'd the Inflammation of the Heart which proceeds from the great inflammation of the orifice of the Stomach situate near the Heart in which is inserted the sixth pair of Nerves which maketh the said orifice very sensible of any pain This part being seized by so great an inflammation which is venomous withall it must in a manner harden and shrink and this heat is of that extent that the inner Membrane of the Stomach and that of the Tongue being one and the same what befalls the Stomach the Tongue must needs be sensible of it Whence it comes to pass that if the Gall overflows and passeth into the Stomach the Tongue presently finds the bitterness of it or if the Stomach be full of slime or foul or the like the Tongue is soon affected therewith There is another kind of Inflammation by the Latins called Prunella alba This is of the same kind with the rest but not of the same degree for 't is not of so dry a nature as the others are but commonly is moist yet overlays all the Gums the Throat and the Weasand with such a tough white slime like a kind of leather and so covers the Almonds with the same that sometimes it can hardly be removed even with Instruments The Tongue is as if it were crusted over with dough the Gums like an Oven that by the heat of fire is burnt white the Almonds cover'd as 't were with white leather and the Palate of the Mouth likewise And in this case if the Patient will speak he lalls and stutters his Tongue being burthen'd with a load of slime or if he make his Tongue wagg the slime spins out like a thred and so invades the Teeth as if they were laid over with varnish And when this varnish on the Teeth grows black as I have often observ'd it to do and drieth on them 't is a mortal sign of which Hippocrates saith Quibus in febribus livores circum dentes nascuntur his fortes fiunt febres 4. Aph. 53. These are the three sorts of Inflammation for which let us now seek out the Remedies beginning from the last the White This is not to be master'd by gargarisms alone but the hand must be employed also Take therefore Cotton-wool or Flax and wind it about a stick or rod and dip this in Vinegar and rake his Throat and Gums therewith yet taking care not to make it raw let him gargarise between and wash well his Mouth with Water and Vinegar or Mul-berry-juyce Privet that grows in the hedges or the middle rind of Hawthorn boiled in Water and a little Vinegar then strained with a little Sal-armoniack put into it is in this case an excellent gargarism but if there be blisters upon the Tongue or elsewhere then take instead of Sal-armoniack a little un-burnt Allom and mix it therewith If you can have the Juyce of Turnips or the Juyce of fresh House-leek dissolve therein also a little Sal-armoniack and use it to wet the stick wherewith thou cleansest the Throat of the Patient dipping it often therein and carrying it about the Uvula or Palate of the Mouth and you will see lumps come away as big as Pease The skin is under this Prunella alba fair and red but tender Whilst thou art cleansing the Patients Mouth let him often gargarise with the Waters above-specified and he will clear his Mouth of the loosen'd lumps If thou canst get Mulberry-juyce mixt with Honey of Roses the Mouth will heal the better for upon this sort of Inflammation there usually follows a Putrefaction of the
Mouth and in case thou perceivest any such thing take Wood-sorrel and the abovesaid rind of Hawthorn make a Decoction of it and put in it a little Allom and often gargarise with it Clean thy Teeth from the slime with Water well sharpened with Vitriol The common Inflammation of the Mouth may be cured with frequent washing of the Mouth taking a gargarism made of House-leek Lettice Night-shade or Self-heal Water mixing a little Honey of Roses and Mul-berry-juyce with it Of this gargarism the Patient is also to swallow a little thereby to moisten the Throat Some take House-leek and beat it and put to a pound of it half an ounce of Sal-armoniack mixing it well together And so they put it for some days in an earthen pot glased under ground then they distill of it a Water in Balneo or in Sand Which is excellent both to drink and to gargarise though the Sal-armoniack make it a little unpleasant But there is nothing better to allay this Inflammation than Niter which is so well known amongst Souldiers that they are wont to give one another Gunpowder to drink which Powder performs this effect not upon the account of the Coals or Brimstone but the Saltpeter For this cause Experienced Physitians and Chirurgions endeavour to purifie Niter for this use that it may have the greater effect and this they do in manner following They take of the purest Niter they can get as much as they think fit they beat it to a fine powder and melt it in a large Crucible and whilst it boils up and foameth they pour into it a little powdered Sulphur and so let it boil together till the blew Sulphur-flame ceaseth then they cast in more fresh Sulphur Which they repeat often and then pour out the Niter into an earthen vessel glased making Lozenges of it of which they put one pulverised into a quart of limpid water and so give the Patient to drink of it as much as he needs to quench his thirst Or they give of this purified Niter to their Patients labouring under this Inflammation the quantity of a ducat or half a ducat weight in Broath or in Ptisan till they find the Tongue cleared of its slime The use of Salt-peter thus prepared removeth also the Inflammation of the Heart especially if it be melted upon Lead and then proceeded with as before For Lead is a considerable cooler of which cooling quality the Niter whilst it is melting upon it taketh in not a little Let then your Lead melt and when 't is melted dissolve the Niter upon it and then to purifie it cast some Brimstone into it as was said above till it be cleansed from all impurity and then give of it to thy Patient two or three times a day according as need shall require Otherwise take live Crafishes and fresh House-leek beat them together in a mortar squeeze out the Juyce with it mix a little Sal-armoniack or a pretty deal of thy prepared Niter make a Potion of it and give of it even cold to thy Patient repeating this several times every eight or ten hours once according as you shall see occasion Or take fresh Lard if it be salted draw it through hot water to unsalt it and cut a slice of it two fingers large and of the thickness of a knives back put this into the Mouth of thy Patient it is an excellent remedy against this Inflammation of which I shall give the reason hereafter I have seen wonders done with it But if thy Patient do rave then fasten this slice of Lard with a thred and needle to his shirt or doublet lest he swallow it Or take fresh Butter and put it in cold water and of it give thy Patient at a time the quantity of a hasel-nut to hold it upon his Tongue and let it melt there which will keep the Tongue always moist And if thou work among this Butter some of thy prepared Niter it hath a wonderful effect though the taste be not pleasant I promised above to explain the Reason of the Cure of these Inflammations When you take a gargarism of the Waters of Night-shade Wood-sorrel Knot-grass Endive House-leek and the like mingled with Vinegar you do well but this is not enough the reason is If you wet a piece of Leather you make it indeed limber but when it comes to be dry it grows hard and shrinks except you grease it over with some fatty matter and then it will remain smooth So it is with the Tongue though it be made clean with gargarisms yet will it become again rough and untoward unless some fatness be used For which cause I have directed to use Lard or Butter mixt with Niter If the Almonds be swelled thou must abstain from all sowr things and prepare a gargarism of Figgs St. Johns Bread Mallows-flowers Liquorice Elder-canes mixing with it some Rose-honey or Juyce of Walnuts or the Rob Diamorom gargling often with it seeing that this symptom is a dangerous thing for when the Throat swells of it few Patients do escape death especially if it be a Pestilential Squinancy And in case there appear any Tumour outwardly take fine Flower Milk and Saffron making a Pulse of it and to keep it from growing hard mix with it Althea-salve or Houndstongue-salve the Oyl of blew Violets Mullein white Lillies Camomile or the like adding a little Oyl of Scorpions to it and applying this outwardly Make also a Scraper of Alder-wood if it may be had if not other wood will serve though Alder be best Throw it into cold water and let it lye there using it as often as there is need yet take heed of making thy Tongue sore or raw CHAP. VI. Of Fevers Belly-aches Tumors of the Belly Yellow Jaundise and Distempers of the Liver IN Camps there is nothing more frequent than Fevers of the Stomach arising from ill dyet which Souldiers are often put to for want of better eating what they can get Cheese Herbs Flesh half boiled stale and musty Bread and the like Hence is gather'd a morbifick matter in the Stomack which causeth putrefaction and consequently Stomack-feavers In this case thou art first to purge And for that purpose make use of the Pulvis solutivus de tribus recommended above taking the weight of a ducat or a ducat and an half in warm broath and fasting two or three hours after it Or fetch from the Apothecary of the Tabulatum Diaturbith cum Rhubarbaro or the Diaphoenicon in tabulis taking half an ounce at a time and keeping thy Chamber Or infuse Sena-leaves in Wormwood-wine and drink a small glass-full of it an hour before thy break-fast This will also serve very well especially if some Carduus benedictus have also been fermented in the Wormwood-wine If thou art troubled with Gripings or Inflation of the Belly take of Zedoar or Angelica-roots or Orange-peels cut them small and take at a time the weight of a ducat in hot broath If the Inflation be much
off the scurn When 't is boiled in put to it an ounce of Bolus Armenus an ounce and a half of Ceruse a quarter of an ounce of Camphir all finely powder'd stirring it well about lastly put it to a quart of sharp Vineger and boil all together to a stony consistence which reduce to powder and of it strew a little into the Ulcer or let some of it dissolve in a convenient liquor and wash the Ulcer therewith or dip some linnen raggs in it and lay it over the place 'T is also prepared this way Take green and white Vitriol of each a drachm of Lapis calaminaris Ceruse Bol Armeniac of each two ounces and a half of Sal Armoniac an ounce Beat them all to powder put them in an earthen pot mingle and stir them together in Vineger to be a thick pulse then put your pot upon a hot charcoal-fire to let it grow red hot so as that the matter be reduced to a stony consistence of which dissolve about half an ounce in half a pint of water dip linnen raggs into it and put it twice a day upon the Ulcer 'T is also very good for purulent Breasts I was speaking above of Lavements These you may prepare of all sorts of Wound-herbs by boiling Consound Bugle Fluellin Ground-ivy Yarrow Snake-weed Avens Arsmare you may also against putrefaction and the settling of purulent matter mix sometimes a little Myrrh or Aloes Epatica Frankincense Mastick quick Brimstone Camphir Niter Allum Vitriol or the like Nor is it need to bind your self to this or that precisely but you may take such of them as you can get I have a peculiar Ulcer-salve which I call Unguentum Decameron being made of ten sorts of Juices Of these the principal is the Juice of Persicaria Arsmart to which are added the Juices of Groundsel Tobacco Yarrow sharp-pointed Dock Cranes-bill broad and pointed Plantain Centory St. Johns-wort and Celondine These Juices must be well strained and then kept for some days in glasses or glased vessels to settle and then very gently pour off the clear from the sediment Which done boil them with fresh butter and some good Licorish newly scraped as also some Tormentil and Cumfrey adding a little red Hounds-tongue salve and Oyl of Myrrh and Deer-suet Let all be boiled together till the cracking cease and the Juice be boiled in Then strain it through a linnen cloth and add to it some Venice-Turpentine Gum Elemi and a little Bees-wax both the latter melted each a part Of the Wax there needs no more than to bring the Salve to a due consistence Then is this Unguent prepared to which may be added a little refined Verdigrease which will make it perfect It is of great efficacy in foul wounds for both cleansing and healing as experience will shew A Chirurgion in meeting with Ulcers is to observe well the purulent matter that issues since he may from thence learn the condition of the evil whether it proceed from foul blood gall corrupt phlegm or adust melancholy If the evil grow worse and the humors of the body force their way copiously thorow then beware and withall exhort the Patient to purge or to sweat with taking some Sassafrass or the like The Sanies or matter that is thick white and well digested is the best but when there runs but a sharp water out of the Ulcer this is not good and is withall painful Which to obviate you must use Litharge Cerusse and the like putting also beaten Lead upon the place and cleansing the fistulat holes with Lead-oyl qualifying its sharpness with Oyl of Eggs. This Lead-oyl is made two ways the one out of Cerusse which is green the other out of Litharge which is yellow or reddish Both are prepared with Vineger Boil Celondine in wine and with this wine you may also cleanse the Ulcer with good effect Mix afterwards a drachm of Verdigrease with about four ounces of the Juyce of Ground-Ivy use it with wiecks or raggs dipt therein for the foul Ulcer-holes Burn Oyster-shells to powder and use it for old Ulcers that need cleansing which this powder will well perform by reason of the Salt that is in those shells You may sometimes have occasion also of the Mercurius praecipitatus or the Mercurius dulcis Cosmeticus If you can prepare this you have a good Remedy As for hard Knobs and Boyls they commonly owing their rise to the Venereal Disease are not so proper for this place However you may make a plaister against such Knobs of the phlegm of Althaea or Marsh-mallows Gummi Ammoniac Galbanum Turpentine Myrrh Missel-toe of the oak mixing a little Bee-wax therewith and some Oyl of Earth-worms If you will have it stronger mix with it Gumm Elemi Tacamahaca or Carana But this can only be compassed by the rich men the poor must be content with the Melilot-plaister mixt with Saffron and the Oyl of Mullain or Dill. You may also prepare for such Patients a Salve of Fox-oyl Dill-oyl Turpentine Man-grease and the like mixing therewith some Oyl of Earth-worms and the Oyl of Mullain-flowers Camomil and white Lillies CHAP. IX Of the Chirurgical means of staunching blood of Wound-balsoms and plaisters of Wound-drinks and remedies for Burnings THis is the most necessary Chapter of this whole Tract For although in every Camp yea in every Regiment and even in every Company there ought to be one or more Chirurgions yet because in a battle or the storming of a strong-hold there may be wounded a very great number of men who by reason of the multitude cannot all be dressed by the Chirurgions every common Souldier that is found and un-hurt is obliged to assist his fellow considering it may soon be his own case In the first place then refresh thy fellow that is wounded with wine cold water vineger or the like then place him in a right posture For if the wounds be in the head or about the breast you ought to lay him high with his head and shoulders that so the blood may sink down from the places wounded If his legg be hurt put it so that it may not hang downwards and thereby the afflux from the body be prevented which otherwise might cause a tumour If the wounds be in the middle of the body then place him so that if possible he may lye somewhat hollow with his back This done wash the wound very gently so as not to anger it with meer wine or even with pure common water only with a very little salt cast into it or with the Patients own urine and then dry it with lint of long-worn linnen without much stirring in the wound for fear of making the veins bleed again If any one do bleed so copiously that it is not easily stopp'd and the Patient is in danger then receive of his blood in an Iron pan and letting it run about therein hold it over the fire till it be dry and between your fingers friable to powder of which strew
thy mouth with it as also spirting a little of it into thy horses mouth Besides mingling it with water it will afford thee a good cooling drink If it be very cold put some of that horse-hair that is wont to be curried out of their mains and tails into thy boots I never received on such occasions more warmth from any thing especially keeping my self dry A Hares-skin is also good for this purpose making socks of it but if it grow wet 't is naught Gather of the Wheel-grease that runs out at the nave of the Wheels and would else be lost which hath taken in some of the substance of the Iron that is about the Axel-tree witness its blackness This is a good Ointment for Horses When thou comest into the field and art to lye abroad look out for some rising ground that the Rain which may possibly fall may run away from thee And avoid as much as is possible Vallies Marishes Ditches Meadows and the like low and moist places Besides observe the Air and put up thy Tent towards the East which quarter though it be cool yet 't is wholsom But lest it should be too cool order it so that thou mayst enjoy that wind which comes from between the East and South as being one of the wholsomest of all Airs and temperate the South-air qualifying the sharpness of the Eastern Beware of the Western Wind especially that which blows from between the South and West The Air of Mid-night is wholesome enough and dry but sharp and piercing Believe it a Souldier is much concern'd in the Air nor hath Hippocrates without cause written a whole Book De Aere Aquis Locis to teach how the Air Water and Places are to be discerned and chosen Moreover look about thee for good cleer Water such as grows warm and cool again sooner than other waters and observe this mark for my sake I know water that will not boyl Pease Vetches Stock-fish Flounders c. In some Springs Iron is turn'd into Brass and great care is to be had in the choice of water for drinking But if thou canst not have spring-Spring-water but art necessitated to use Pit or ditch-Ditch-water have a care not to drink it without straining least thou shouldst swallow Frog or Snake-spawn For I have known and had in my cure a Countrey-man who voided though not at once but at different times two hundred fifty and five Frogs and of them many in my own house in the presence of divers Ecclesiastical and Secular Persons and some of the biggest of them being dryed are still to be seen in the Repository of Mantua as also in that of Mr. Philip Hainhofer at Auspurg And there is a Cook in the Hospital of Wessenburg or Landsberg who as appeared by the event had drunk the Spawn of Serpents out of which were bred divers Serpents in his body some of which he voided by virtue of the Medicine he took amongst which there was one of the length of a Bavarian Ell. The Man hath been since in good health and continues in his service to this day Wherefore it will behoove you to spread your handkerchief over the Ditch-water and so drink through it or if you take any of it up unstrain'd quench first a red-hot Stone or Iron in it whereby the noxious quality will be destroyed Or if you lye still and can get any Oyl of Vitriol let some drops of that fall into it and you need not then fear any corruption or poyson in such water Otherwise if time will permit let it boil up and cool again and put a crust of bread into it and you may drink of it safely Those Waters that run out of stony hills and from under rocks are the best to which may be reckon'd those Springs that flow from high places and purge themselves in clear sand and pebles If thou meet with Beer or Wine take heed of excess and forbear drinking New beer that hath not yet done working or is not some days old because new beer causeth the Strangury And in case this should trouble thee take a handful of Hay-blossoms boyl them in water and Urine over it drawing into thy body the warm steam thereof and anointing thy Navel several times with warm suet If thou art hot and canst not forbear drinking make water first then wash thy mouth and cool the arteries on both thy temples and those of both thy wrists and then drinking will hurt thee less If you chance to drink whilst you are hot which is so dangerous a thing that some have dyed within 24 hours after it others have fallen into consumptive Coughs others been troubled with Pains in their sides and with Impostumes c. then take of the leaves of Bellis or Daisy which grows in all meadows and pasture-grounds and is green both winter and summer and wash them clean and dress them like a Salad with Oyl Vinegar and a little Salt and forthwith eat thereof and it helps immediately as I know by much Experience But this must be used presently the sooner the better I can say with truth that in all my Practice of Physick for above 20 years I have not met with any Experiment of so quick an Operation from any herb as from this But here I must note that I have always used the Red Daisy and have not tryed the other sorts though I am apt to believe the others may have the like effect You must not eat the Flowers but only the Leaves This Experiment should be put up on all posts every where for the good of Courriers Mowers and other labouring Men that are wont to drink plentifully when they are hot and thereby spoil themselves in great numbers But to proceed as thou art to beware of excess of drinking at all times so thou art especially to forbear when thou art to stand Sentinel lest thou shouldst fall a sleep whereby thou mayst lose thy life at least thy place and thy preferment for ever Neither be fond of Gaming at dice tables c. whence are occasioned quarrels mistrusts deceit swearing and what not Avoid also the company of base women lest thou shouldst be constrained to undergo the Mercurial Salivation and with it a very lean Diet of thin broth water-gruel barley-broth prunes roasted apples and such like without any flesh-meat at all CHAP. III. Concerning the Physicians and Chirurgions in an Army EVery Army ought to be well provided with one or more able Physicians such as are not only expert in the cure of inward Diseases but also understanding in outward Cases as Wounds Burnings Luxations Dislocations Erysipelas's or St. Antony's Fires c. These Physicians ought to be no Youngsters that are lately come from Schools and Universities knowing only in Controversies and Disputations but such as are expert in the Cure of Diseases especially such as are most frequent in Armies They are also to be Men of good nature great honesty and condescension willing to take pains with
drink a good draught of Wormwood-wine Juniper-berry-wine Rosemary Sage or Zedoar-wine which may keep thee from many dangers But remember not to drink more of it than will chear thee up and revive thy Spirits At least drink a little Wine with Camphir and Vinegar kindling the Camphir and letting it burn in the Wine so as to let it sink into it for if it burn on the top it will there remain swimming And if the Wine be skinned over with it kindle it again till it be quite burnt out Take of Camphir for one draught the quantity of a pease but if thou be subject to the Head-ach then Camphir will not agree with thee In case that any come to be infected he is forthwith to be separated from the sound and to be laid to bed so as his head and shoulders may lye somewhat high by which means he will be less subject to faintness Then let him presently take some sudorifick Medicine to make him sweat for if the poyson be not speedily driven from the heart the Patient is lost You are also to take great care that this Distemper prevail not and to endeavour to discover it before the Patient be quite disabled For as soon as any begins to droop grows melancholy faint and feeble in his limbs so as that he is hardly able to hold up his head drawing his breath with difficulty letting his head fall to and fro losing his stomach growing yellowish about his eyes with the apples of his eyes standing out finding head-ach interrupted heats and colds as soon I say as these symptoms appear in times of the Plague Spotted Feavers Hungarian Disease c. you may then look to it by times forasmuch as such Patients that are already infected go often about until the sixth or eighth day as I have known my self until the lurking poyson of the heart has got the prevalency and then the poor Patient is quite cast down and often dyes in very few days and even in a few hours Wherefore thou art not to stay till the swellings and boils appear behind the ears under the arms c. or till the Carbuncles Bubo's and the like break out but thou art immediately to make use of the best Medicines thou canst be Master of to drive out the poyson if thou wilt save thy life I never found any thing that was considerable done in the Plague by means of Purging and Bleeding but rather on the contrary all those that had Spots if they were purged or let blood soon after died However I will prescribe nothing magisterially to any man let every one endeavour to do what he can give a good account of I have together with my Collegues treated many hundreds in our Hospitals infected with the Plague without ever opening a vein and yet we have by Gods blessing recovered near 600 persons besides those that by the same mercy we have cured in their several Houses Now to procure sweat in the very beginning take the quantity of two hasel-nuts of Treacle dissolve it in common Vinegar but if thou canst have a cordial Acetum made of Rosemary Lavender Elder-blossoms Rue Roses or Elder-berries use it much rather and give it the Patient to sweat Or take the roots of Celondine boyl them in Vinegar and dissolve some Treacle in it Or take Carduus benedictus Rue Petasites or Butter-burr a little Angelica Zedoaria or Saxifrage-roots boyl them together in half White-wine and half Vinegar or only Water dissolve a little Treacle or Mithridate in it and let the Patient take it warm to make him sweat Mithridate hath the like virtue with Treacle yet neither of them are safe to take for Women with Child old Persons and young Children You may also make use to good purpose of the Saxon-powder taking of it the weight of a Ducat in Carduus benedictus Scabius or Sorrel-water which Powder is thus to be prepared Take Valerian half an ounce Celondine or Nettel-roots of each one ounce Polypody Althaea or March-mallow wild Angelica of each two ounces of garden Angelica four ounces of the rind of Laurcola or Lowry an ounce and an half These roots are to be dug up in their best strength viz. between the middle of August and the middle of September and being cleansed they are to be cut small and then put in a glazed pot pouring a sharp Vinegar upon it so as to cover it two inches high Then lute on the cover with a lute made of whites of Eggs and Flower let all be boiled upon a gentle fire then pour off the liquor and dry the roots and reduce them to powder mixing with it some 26 berries of Herbe Paris or One-Berrie which look like Pepper-corns very good against poison and thus the powder is made This herb grows in shadowed and moderately moist places I have found of it several times in Koshinger-wood near Ingolstad It hath four leaves on one stalk and one berry on the top An herb belonging to the family of Solanum's or Night-shades whence the leaves of it do very much cool Inflammations especially those of the Eyes when laid upon them Take notice of Sorrel bruise some of it and pour Vinegar on 't the Rue-acetum is the best and strain the juice through a cloth put into it a little powder of Angelica about the weight of half a Ducat or of the root of Dictam or of Butter-burr or a little Treacle or Mithridate and give it to sweat On this occasion of mentioning Dictam I must add that in our Countrey there grows only the white Dictam which is among others an excellent Antidote but you must take of it the double quantity and weight to that of Creta You may boil of the root of half an ounce in half White-wine and half Vinegar or instead of the Wine in Carduus-benedictus water and drink of the Decoction warm and put your self to sweat or take of the powder of it a drachm and an half in warm broth with a little Vinegar for the same purpose The Dictam of Creta hath hairy leaves and purpureous blossoms and is used in the preparation of Treacle This herb by its odour drives away Serpents The wild Goats being hurt by any Arrows eat this herb and 't is said that by this means the Arrows fall out of the wound This perhaps hath no other ground than that of the Poet Virgil affirming that Venus with this herb healed her Son Aeneas when wounded in the War His words are Aeneid 12. Hîc Venus indigno nati concussa dolore Dictamnum genitrix Cretaea carpit ab Ida Puberibus caulem foliis flore comantem Purpureo non illa feris incognita Capris Gramina cùm tergo volucres haesêre sagittae About this time came in the Hungarian Infection which was a Disease that bred such a putrefaction in the bodies of Men that even when they were near death they fell a vomiting but that with such a stench that no body could endure it Here those
Medicines do well that preserve the body from putrefaction for the Plague Spotted Feavers and the Hungarian Distemper proceed all from inward corruption And of them the Plague attacks the Spirits residing in the Heart and so killeth very quickly whereas Spotted Feavers have their seat in the Blood and therefore do last twelve fourteen and sometimes twenty days before they kill But the Hungarian Disease is seated chiefly in the putrified Phlegm of the Head and Brains whence those that labour under it are tormented with great and maniacal head-ach But though these three Diseases have their rise from one and the same cause Putrefaction and are to be cured by the same remedies yet is therein required the discretion of a prudent Physitian for the ordering and prescribing of Medicines according to circumstances Take a drachm of Zedoary give it pulverised to the Patient in Acetum of Rue or Elder or Marigold-flowers or even in common Vinegar Let him sweat upon it 'T is good against all sorts of venom and causeth a sweet breath as resisting inward corruption In the Apothecary Shops you find an Electuary called Diascordium found by that famous Physitian Hieronymus Fracastorius It is like to Treacle and Mithridate only 't is red from some Ingredients giving it that colour This may be used with safety by Women with Child young Children and all sorts of Persons whereas as was said above Treacle and Mithridate may not It is made chiefly of Scordium or Water-Germander which hath the smell of Leek when bruised Galen in his first Book De Antidotis Chap. 12. writeth that when in a great battel some slain bodies chanced to fall upon this Herb they rotted not as far as they were touched by this Herb. The said Fracastorius did compound this his Diascordium out of this Herb Scordium Tormentil Serpentaria Gentian Bole Armeniac and Terra Sigillata and such like Ingredients It is chiefly to be used in the hot Diseases of the Head which I have done many a hundred times Take of it the weight of about two ducats in common Vinegar or in Elder-water or rather in the expressed Juyce of fresh Sorrel and sweat upon it T is very good especially in the Hungarian Sickness and other venomous and infectious Diseases To young People you may give a lesser quantity and proportionably you are to lessen the dose for Women with Child or in Child-bed and little Children Besides take notice of the Powder of Doctor Hessius which hath been used with great benefit and is thus prepared Take a drachm of Sugar-candy a quarter of an ounce of pulverised Ginger and a drachm of Camphir reduce all to a fine powder give of it to the infected Patient the weight of a drachm in Vinegar mingled with the water of Marigold-flowers Scabious or Sorrel and sweat upon it If you have none of these waters then look that the Vinegar be not too sharp and to that end dilute it with some wine and water Mean time though in this case I highly value Camphir yet in stead of Ginger I would use Zedoary Saxifrage Carlina or Imperatoria or the true Petasites or Butter-burr Again Brimstone is none of the meanest remedies in these infectious cases for it preserves the body from putrefaction Wherefore take of the noble Flowers of Sulphur a quarter of an ounce being sublimed from Colcothar add to it one scruple of Camphir an ounce of the Spirit or Oyl of Cyprian or Venetian Turpentine Put all this into a Glass-head lute it well and put it upon hot sand or ashes whereby the Oyl of Turpentine will come to open the Brimstone and produce a red colour like a Ruby or at least as yellow as a high-colour'd Hyacinth Of this give some to the Patient three or four times mingled with a little Treacle or in Sorrel Cardobenedictus or Scabious-water This Balsom is excellent also in sore Breasts that are growing purulent taken in warm broth or in a good wound-drink But this must be in cases of no great heat or inflammation in which it would be dangerous Amongst all the Remedies which serve against Infectious Diseases that of Henricus Stapedius to be found in my Book de Pestilentia is an excellent one and perhaps the best for curing as well as preserving of which half a spoonful being taken fasting is able to keep a Man well for twelve hours or more But if any be already infected he must take of it at any time immediately to the quantity of a spoonful and an half or two spoonfuls for sweating Which is to be repeated every eighteen or twenty four hours to make the Patient sweat till he recover or till the Pestilential Boyls and Carbuncles break out behind the Ears under the Arms or else-where This Water though it be somewhat dear yet its vertue countervailes its price The older it grows the more vertue it hath Many have ascribed great efficacy to the Blood of Animals Thus old Democritus witness Galen prepared an Electuary of such Blood called Diathaematôn Some esteem much the Blood of Storks because they eat Toads and Snakes others value the Blood of Hens because they eat Spiders and other venomous Infects I should esteem most the Flesh or Blood of Badgers which is to be dried in the shade and that done you must mix with it Saffron Camphir and some or other of the Anti-pestilential roots as of Angelica Zedoaria or the like together with a little live Brimstone to the quantity of a ducat which is to be taken in Acetum of Rue or Marigold-flowers or Walnuts and in case of want of these in common Vinegar Upon which the Patient is to sweat If thou art a good husband have ready a good Acetum of Rue Walnut-kernels and Marigold-flowers taking the greater quantity of Rue and as you use it fill it up again with Acetum of Elder-berries The Rich do use for their Physick in the time of the Plague the red Hungarian as also the Imperial red and gray Powder Bezoar Harts-horn Antidotum Matthioli Terra Sigillata Bole Armeniack Scorzonera and Contrayerva Species de Gemmis Diamargariton de Hyacintho and other high Medicines of which I have largely discoursed in my above-cited Book De Pestilentia But I though I have used such remedies among the Rich yet I content my self commonly with the plainer and most common Medicines of which I have more knowledge and experience The Pickle of Ebulus or Walwort aliàs Dane-wort or Dwarf-elder which is of kin to Elder as also the Pickle of Juniper-berries are also of great use in this case The Physitians of Ausburg made great use in the year 1572 of the red Imperial powder the composition of which is in the Augustan Dispensatory at large as also in my Book de Peste These are the several means to provoke sweat which I esteem to be of great efficacy for that purpose upon a sudden And though Souldiers have not the conveniency of a bed for sweating when they are in a
in the wounds of the Breast Veronica or Speedwell ought to have it in those about the Kidneys the Herb Strawberry must be preferred in those near the Liver Agrimony will have the precedency and so forth Mean time the Vulnerary Herbs to be used in such occasions are these Sanicle Winter-green Ladies-mantle Speedwell Orpine Mugwort Ground-ivy Strawberry-leaves Agrimony St. Johns-wort Cinquefoil Bugle Tormentil Snakeweed Avens Woodrooff c. You may make an excellent Wound-drink of these four Ingredients viz. Winter-green Orpine Mugwort and Snakeweed boiled in half wine and water but in case there be an inflammation wine is to be forborn or very little of it to be employed If any Bone be broken into splinters do not pull them out with any violence but loosen them with a good Ointment of Eggs keeping the wound open the longer Nature herself will not suffer any splinter to remain behind Now you must be ready with some good thing for blood coagulated in case any person should have been flung down squeesed beaten or fallen from a high place The right powder for this purpose is thus made Take of Terra Sigillata or Bol Armeniac Sanguis Draconis and Mumia ana half an ounce of Sperma Ceti and Rhubarbana half a drachm reduce it to a powder of which give the Patient the weight of about a ducat in wine or chervil-chervil-water Or take a good quantity of Chervil boil it in meath or flesh-broath and let the Patient drink a good draught of it warm three times a day Or let him drink a thimble full of Sperma Ceti in beer adding a little butter to it Or take of Mumia half an ounce of Sperma Ceti two drachms of Oculi Cancrorum of which the blew ones which sometimes fall from Crafishes whilst alive are the best three drachms adding to it a little Licorish and Cinnamon and some Tormentil-roots Of this pulverised give every day to the Patient mornings and evenings the weight of about half a ducat and by this means you will expel purulent matter and blood and bony splinters and sometimes even bullets lurking in the flesh not omitting other good Wound-drinks and vulnerary Balsoms Plaisters Ointments and Fomentations Again take of the red Hounds-tongue Ointment of the bigness of a great Walnut dissolve it in warm broath it expels all coagulated blood especially if you mix some Sperma Ceti with it If you have any thorns thistles bullets small shot or the like to draw out where perhaps you cannot reach them with Instruments then burn live Crafishes in a new pipkin until they be reducible to powder but burn them not to ashes This powder mix with Hares-suet and lay it on and you will find a good effect Also take the roots of the big Reed that grows in marishes dry them to be pulverised and mix Virgin-honey with it and lay it upon the part and of the same powder give the Patient to drink twice a day the weight of half a ducat in wine or in broath or in a vulnerary potion if you have any at hand The first of this I learned of the Excellent Doctor Schleer of Constance The excrement of a Gander being applied is also powerful in drawing out Iron Again Quince-wine mingled with vineger and putting some saffron and gun powder amongst it if you give it to one that hath been shot it will do him good Otherwise they make a plaister of the roots of Cumfrey Aron Polypody Juniper and dried Radishes all reduced to powder and mix it with Hares-suet and grey Diachylum making a thick Ointment of it and spreading it over a piece of Hare-skin and so laying it on This is greatly praised especially when seconded with good Wound-drinks of which Masterwort is one of the Ingredients But if you have not this at hand take a Beet and boil it in wine and lay it warm on the wound Likewise young Swallows not yet fledge burnt to powder and this powder made by acetum of Roses into a pulse and laid on does the same You ought also to be provided for the Synovia And if you proceed aright with my Wound-balsom above described and keep the wound warm you may therewith do much good Mix with it ex abundanti the red Earth of Vitriol above discours'd of This Synovia is a dangerous thing and often causeth almost intollerable pain if it be not well handled the Herb of Straw-berries and its Juyce have great vertue in this case Some make use of the White of Eggs Bol Armeniac and the like The Magistery of Allum also belongs hither for Allum mixed with vineger and clapp'd on very warm allays it also Elder-blossoms likewise used every way are effectual in the same case Employ also diligently such Defensive-plaisters as are not fatty because fat lays no hold on water To proceed to Burnings I know almost no better Salve for burning than this Take a Tench or any common Pond-fish fry one or more of them with good butter pour the fatness upon cold water in a broad earthen part and you have an excellent Ointment against Burnings When some years since a Powder-mill was blown up and the Attendants upon the work so miserably burnt that they looked as if they had been rosted they were healed with this Ointment only a little finely powder'd Sage being mixt with it Cream and Linseed-oyl mingled together and raggs moisten'd therein put upon the burnt part healeth though the burning were made with Aquafortis for to my knowledge a certain Chymist that had thus burnt all his arm was thereby restored Or take Oyl of Elder or stale Oyl that hath been long in a burning lamp beat half as much as you take of that of the Whites of Eggs amongst it and anoint the burnt part therewith If you can get no Oyl of Elder take any other cooling Oyl as of Nymphaea Water-lillies Poppy-seeds Violets or Roses or the Oyl of Poplar-buds or of Marâ—h-marigold Flowers If you can have Quince-wine it marvailously extinguishes the burning of any shot dipping a linnen pledget in it and drawing it through the wound or left in it repeating this every twelfth hour The Juyce or Wine of Quinces must be used as it comes from the fruit without any mixture of Sugar This I learn'd from a Nobleman a great Souldier of long experience in the Wars of France the Low Countries and Hungary The Unguentum Jovis made of Henbane Vervain and Butter is also very useful for this purpose Likewise the Ointment of Calx viva which is first six or seven times to be slaked and dulcified with pure water pouring every twelve or sixteen hours fresh water upon it and decanting the former so as to leave always the Calx at the bottom which is then to be mixed with Oyl of Roses or some other cooling Oyl for an Ointment If you be well acquainted with Elder and know how to use it you may obtain out of it one of the best Cures of Burnings especially out of its
middle rinds Again Yolks of Eggs and Linseed-oyl equal quantities mixt together and spread over the burning is also very good Egg-oyl likewise used by it self and Vernice employed by Joyners do well also but the latter of these two if it be mixed with Oyl of Spicanard or Petroleum is to be mingled amongst Linseed-oyl Spread fresh Butter upon Cabbage-leaves having first fryed the Butter with some blossoms or the middle rind of Elder and so lay them to the burning Elder being a great resister of Inflammations and therefore very good to allay St. Antonies fire if you pull its mild green rinds from the stem and lay them on without moistening them Else they use against the said Fire Flower mixed with the powder of Licorice to be clapt on with a ragg done over with red Saunders My way is to take the shavings of some fresh and juycy Licorice and to fry them in new Butter then to strain the Butter from it and to fry the like fresh Licorice therein and to strain the Butter from that again repeating this five or six times Among this strained Butter I stir some pure and fine Cerusse Whites of Eggs and a little Camphire And with this Ointment I have by the assistance of God done much good in the said inflammation of St. Antonies fire and the common people do to this very day call this Ointment by no other name than that of Doctor Minderer's Licorice-ointment But to return to the quenching of Burnings If you can have Milk-cream mingle it with Cow-dung freshly made and so clap it on though fresh Cow-dung alone allays burning Crafishes pounded alive and fryed in fresh Butter or in common Suet the Butter strained herefrom is also a good Ointment against burnings Unsalted Lard melted by a Wax-candle or an hot Iron and dropp'd upon fresh cold water and then gather'd up from the water and carefully rubbed from the same hath the like operation Take one of the cooling Oyls above-named and fresh Butter boil the middle rind of Elder in it and with a sufficient quantity of Wax make of it a Salve and this also will cure burning You ought also to be provided with a fit apparatus Lints Swathing-clouts c. and to take Deer-suet Oyl of Roses or Elder and white Wax and melt them over the fire yet so as that you melt the Wax by it self and add of it no more to the rest than to make it a thin plaister Into this compound you must dip some fine lint and you 'l find it very useful for any angry part as also when one limb presses or otherwise incommodes another as happens in hydropical and other swollen people whose belly so sinks down that the thighs suffer by it in which case such lints are to be put between the parts to keep them from immediately touching and pressing one another A Gangrene is cured with Sal-armoniac boiled in Urine especially in that of the Patient and clapping such Urine upon the part affected The quantity of the Sal-armoniac may be six drachms For frozen Feet take Gander-suet and Deer-suet dissolve them together and pour them into a white excavated Turnip and expose this for a while to the Air Rain Wind Hoar-frost Snow according as the season shall be Then mince the Turnip and fry it in the same Suet which you had poured into it that done squeese it out and let the fat fall upon cold water and being there brought to consistence take it off and bring it over the helm from burned Wine and decant this carefully from it again and 't is duely prepared You may also recover frozen Feet with white rotten Turnips beaten with Butter or Tallow and so clapt on CHAP. X. Of several promiscuous Medical Practises for the Service of the honest Souldier THis Chapter I have annexed to the former as an Appendix for the ease and good of Souldiers wherein some things will occurr not inferiour to those that have preceded But herein I have kept no order but set them down promiscuously yet faithfully to supply what may have been omitted before If you be troubled with the Tooth-ach coming from the cold in winter take the root of Pyrethrum Pellitory of Spain and boil it in Vineger and hold this Vineger warm in your mouth and it will draw out the phlegm that causes the pain Or take the root of Elder boil it in half Wine and half Water and hold it warm upon the Teeth But what you take of this Decoction must be often spit out and other fresh taken into your mouth of which I have found wonderful Effects The root of Heath boiled together with the same herb in wine and laid on is esteem'd to be powerful in drawing out thorns and splinters You may make a good Ointment against the Itch and Scabbs of Savin stale Fat Brimstone and Juniper-berries Oyl If your Limbs after a long sickness be weak boil Valerian-roots in Camomil-oyl and anoint such Limbs therewith Also the Oyl of Lillies in the valley and that of yellow Violets is good for the same purpose For worms in the Fingers bruise Persicaria Arsmart and lay it on or take of a Piggs Bladder of Gall and put it on the affected Finger like a Thimble If you have any coagulated or congealed blood in your Breast make a Decoction of Scabious Chervil and Germander in two parts of wine and one part of water strain it and drink of it mornings and evenings Against the putrefaction of the Mouth make a Decoction of Privet in water adding afterwards a little Allum to it and use it for a gargarism Also a Decoction of the middle rind of Hawthorn with a little Allum is of great effect in the same case Cabbage and Colewort-leaves burnt to ashes and a Lixivium made of it and clapp'd on cureth a Gangrene and the wild Fire especially if you mingle a little Oyl of Elder therewith If you can have no Elder-blossoms for this Oyl take the green middle rind of Elder and boil it in Oyl Olive and then strain the Oyl which done take fresh rind of Elder and proceed with it as before repeating it three or four times to make the Oyl the stronger You may add a little wine to it whilst 't is boiling but that must all boil away and so long till the Oyl cracks no more in the fire Southern-wood stamped with grease and laid on draweth out splinters If you have the Itch or are scabby and can light upon some water standing in the hollowness of a Beech-tree wash your self with it Or make a Decoction of the brown rind of Alder which is under the gray in Butter and anoint your self with it mixing if you will a little Brimstone therewith If you be troubled with the Ring-worm or any running Scab infuse Litharge in Vineger and let it stand a night infused or make a Decoction of the same in Vineger But your pan or vessel must be of brass This Vineger mingle with Oyl of Elder or of Roses
or the like and it will become a fine gray Salve curing such running Scabs as aforesaid and cooling also Inflammations If your Body be bound take Sage pulverised and mix it with grease and anoint your Navil with the quantity of a hasel-nut of it This I have with very good success advised to women in childbed that were thus bound and obstructed If you will have it stronger mix with it the Gall of a Fish or of any Animal whatsoever but then you must not give it to a woman in childbed Gromel by the Latins call'd Milium Solis pulverised and the weight of half a ducat of it taken in wine or broath provoketh urine yet must the belly be open'd first The same doth Linaria or Toad-flax boiled in wine or broath Likewise distilled water of Radishes repeating the distillation several times from other fresh Radishes Which will have the better effect if the Patient bath his lower parts in a bath made of Marsh-mallows Melilot and the like Gromel above-mention'd taken in warm broath expels the birth And so do the blossoms or buds of Walnut-trees Crabs-eyes also pulverised and taken in warm broath likewise Issop boiled in wine and drank warm This I have inserted for the sake of poor Souldiers-wives who amongst us often follow the Camp If they have any great After-pains let them bath their lower parts in a Bath made of Dill and Camomil-flowers And the yolks of hard Eggs beaten together with some convenient Oyl Nut-oyl is the best and a Plaister made of it and laid to the belly is also very good If they have too great a profusion of blood let them take a drachm of burnt Harts-horn and burnt Ivory in a convenient Vehicle In case of a mortal wound take of pure Turpentine four ounces wash it with fresh limpid water and then dissolve it over a mild fire which done mix with it two ounces or two ounces and an half of white Wax dissolved apart To this add about three ounces of Womans-milk which is sucked by a Boy The Turpentine and Wax being somewhat cooled together must be well stirr'd and then powred on cold Vineger whence when 't is brought to a consistence it is to be taken off and made into a Plaister and so laid on Horse-tail in Latin Equisetum heals the wounds in the urinary parts the powder of it being taken in broath or Speedwel-water or the Decoction thereof being drank Gummi Ammoniac is a good discutient of hard Tumors and Knobs Tacamahaca appeaseth pain proceeding from cold being laid on the part affected To make the pellets used to be put in wounds that are to be kept open which here in Germany we call Quell-maissel take a Spunge of the finest sort put it in Whites of Eggs well beaten and mixed with Rose-water to make the said Spunge imbibe this moisture Which done bind it close together with thred and let it well dry in the Air and so convey of it into the wound that is to be kept open where it will swell again and so distend the wound If you be troubled with the Gonorrhoea take House-leek growing on old walls call'd by the Latins Semper vivum minus put it into your shoes and go bare-foot upon it anoint your loyns and privy parts with Henbane-oyl and take mornings the quantity of two big hasel-nuts of well washed Turpentine for some days together avoiding all aromatic hard and salt meat An old Experimenter hath noted That whosoever shall wash his head twice a week with a Lixivium made of Juniper-ashes his sight shall never fail him but remain good to his end nor shall that person be troubled with any vermin upon his head nor with any head-ach nor suffer any change of his hair For my part I never tryed it but it being a very plain and safe thing I thought good here to insert it Against the biting of a Mad-dog lay Assa fatida with Garlick upon the bite it will draw out the venom To free your self from the Gravel make a Decoction of Ash-wood in wine and drink of it warm once or twice a day upon an empty stomach using withall good baths Vervin also the leaves and roots beaten together and drank is very good in this case If you have a strong breath proceeding from a foul stomach infuse Wormwood and Carduus benedictus together with some Citron-peels in wine and let them boil a little therein and then drink a good draught of it mornings Chew also and swallow sometimes a little Myrrh and take now and then three or four Aloes-pills I could add many other things if my leisure would permit These which I have set down you will take in good part and though I have not tryed them all my self yet you may rest assured that such as have not been experimented by my self have been tryed by my honoured Collegues and other honest persons and approv'd FINIS INDEX A. AIr what to be observed of it in the Campy 9. Preservatives against the corruption of the Air 21 c. Animals their blood of what efficacy 45. Antonies fire how to be allayed 140 141. B. BElly the cure of the Aches and Tumors and Gripings thereof 65 66. Beer new beer causes the Strangury 12. Blood how to cure casting up of blood 54. And the bleeding of the Nose ibid. Blood coagulated how to be helped 133 145. Boyls pestilential and their cure 92 seq Brick well burnt good against a Tenasmus 87. Brimstone a good Medicine in infectious cases 41. Bread wheaten-bred coming hot out of the oven and dipt in red wine very good against Fluxes 75. The same duely prepared good in pestilential Sores 94. Bones broken how to be order'd 131. Bran good for wrenching of Limbs 131. Burning how to be healed 137. C. CArbuncles pestilential and their cure 92. Carlina good against faintness 6. Chirurgions of an Army and their qualities 14. Cold Nights how to provide against 8. Corns of the Feet how to be cured 4. Cough and its cure 54. Crafishes burnt alive good against the Bloody-flux 80. Crafishes after a certain way prepared of great use for drawing out of the body thorns small-shot c. 135. The same fried in fresh butter allays burning 141. Crocus Martis a high Remedy against the Bloody-flux 81. Clysters and their use in the field 83. Chearfulness good in pestilential times 31. D. DAisie and its excellency 13. Diseases in an Army and their cure 18 c. Diet to be well observed in the Camp 20. Drinks how to provide in the field 7. The excess of it to be avoided 12. The danger of drinking whilst one is hot and the care to be taken in that case 12 13. Drinks in cold weather 25. Drawing out of thorns splinters c. how to be effected 135. 145. Dropsie and its cure 72. Drought how to be remedied 85. E. EGg-oyl good for Burnings 140. Elder-flowers good in the plague 24. 48. Elder-vineger good to apply to the Heart in the plague 48. Elder-roots