c. 5. The way of making them is this Having bruised the Herbs or Flowers you would make your Oyl of put them in an Earthen pot and to two or three handfuls of them powr a pint of Oyl cover the pot with a paper and set it in the Sun about a Fortnight or less according as the Sun is in hotness then having warmed it very well by the fire press out the Herbs c. very hard in a press and ad as many more Herbs to the same Oyl bruised the Herbs I mean not the Oyl in like manner set them in the Sun as before the ostner you repeat this the stronger will your Oyl be at last when you conceive it strong enough boyl both Herbs and Oyl together till the Juyce be consumed which you may know by its leaving its bubling and the Herbs will be crisp then strain it whilst it is hot and keep it in a stone or Glass Vessel for your use 6. As for Chymical Oyls I have nothing to say in this Treatise 7. The General use of these Oyls is for pain in the Limbs roughness of the Skin the Itch c. as also for Oyntments and Plaisters 8. If you have occasion to use it for Wounds or Ulcers in two ounces of Oyl dissolve half an ounce of Turpentine the heat of the fire will quickly do it for Oyl it self is offensive to Wounds and the Turpentine qualifies it Chap. 6. Of Electuaries PHysitians make more a quoil than needs behalf about Electuaries I shall prescribe but one general way of making them up as for the Ingredients you may vary them as you please and according as you find occasion by the last Chapter 1. That you may make Electuaries when you need them it is requisite that you keep alwaies Herbs Roots Seeds Flowers c. ready dried in your House that so you may be in readiness to beat them into pouder when you need them 2. Your better way is to keep them whol than beaten for being beaten they are the more subject to lose their strength because the Air soon penetrates them 3. If they be not dry enough to beat into pouder when you need them dry them by a gentle fire till they are so 4. Having beaten them sift them through a fine Tiffany Searce that so there may be no great picces found in your Electuary 5. To on ounce of your Pouder ad three ounces of clarified Honey this quantity I hold to be sufficient I confess Authors differ about it If you would make more or less Electuary vary your proportions accordingly 6. Mix them well together in a Mortar and take this for a truth you cannot mix them too much 7. The way to clarifie Honey is to set it over the fire in a convenient vessel till the scum arise and when the scum is taken off it is clarified 8. The usual Dose of Cordial Electuaries is from half a dram to two drams of purging Electuaries from half an ounce to an ounce 9. The manner of keeping them is in a pot 10. The time of taking them is either in the morning fasting and fasting an hour after them or at night going to bed three or four hours after supper Chap. 7. Of Conserves 1. THe way of making Conserves is twofold one of Herbs and Flowers and the other of Fruits 2. Conserves of Herbs and Flowers are thus made If you make your Conserves of Herbs as of Scurvy-grass Wormwood Rue or the like take only the Leaves and tender tops for you may beat your heart out before you can beat the Stalks small and having beaten them waigh them and to â—â— pound of them ad three pound of Sugar beat them verie well together in a Mortar you cannot beat them too much 3. Conserves of Fruits as of Barberries Sloes and the like is thus made First scald the Fruit then rub the pulp through a thick hair Sieve made for the purpose called a pulping Sieve you may do it for a need with the back of a Spoon then take this Pulp thus drawn and ad to it its waight of Sugar and no more put it in a Peuter Vessel and over a Charcoal fire stir it up and down till the Sugar be melted and your Conserve is made 4. Thus have you the way of making Conserves the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots 5. The Dose is usually the quantity of a Nutmeg at a time morning and evening or unless they be purging when you please 6. Of Conserves some keep many yeers as Conserves of Roses others but a yeer as Conserves of Borrage Bugloss Cowslips and the like 7. Have a care of the working of some Conserves presently after they are made look to them once a day and stir them about Conserves of Borrage Bugloss and Wormwood have gotten an excellent faculty at that sport 8. You may know when your Conserves are almost spoiled by this you shall find a hard crust at top with little holes in it as though Worms had been eating there Chap. 8. Of Preserves OF Preserves are sundry sorts and the Operations of all being somthing different we will handle them all apart There are preserved with Sugar 1. Flowers 2. Fruits 3. Roots 4. Barks 1. Flowers are but very seldom preserved I never saw any that I remember save only Cowslip Flowers and that was a great fashion in Sussex when I was a boy It is thus done first take a flat Glass we call them jarr Glasses strew in a lain of fine Sugar on that a lain of Flowers on that another lain of Sugar on that another lain of Flowers do so til your Glass be full then tie it over with a paper and in a little time you shall have very excellent and pleasant Preserves There is another way of Preserving Flowers namely with Vinegar and Salt as they pickle Capers and Broom Buds but because I have little skill in it my self I cannot teach you 2. Fruits as Quinces and the like are preserved two waies First Boyl them well in Water and then pulp them through a Sieve as we shewed you before then with the like quantity of Sugar boyl the Water they were boyled in to a Syrup viz. a pound of Sugar to a pint of Liquor to every pound of this Syrup ad four ounces of the Pulp then boyl it with a very gentle fire to the right consilience which you may easily know if you diâ—p a drâ—p of it upon a Trencher if it be enough it will not stick to your fingers when it is cold Secondly Another way to preserve Fruits is this First pare off the â—ind then out them in halves and take cut the Core then boyl them in Water till they are soft It you know when Beef is boyled enough you may easily know when they are theâ—â— boyl the Water with its like waight of Sugar into a Syrup put the Syrup into a Pot and put the boyled Fruit as whol as you left it when you
Reins and the Fluxes of the Belly The Juyce of them doth purge and clens the Body from Choller and Flegm The Husks of the Roses with the Beards and Nails of the Roses are binding and cooling and the Distilled Water of either of them is good for the Heat and redness in the Eyes and to stay and dry up the Rhewms and watering of them Of the Red Roses are usually made many Compositions all serving to sundry good uses Viz. Electuary of Roses Conserve both moist and dry which is more usually called Sugar of Roses Syrup of dryed Roses and Honey of Roses The Cordial Pouder called Diarhodon Abhatis ' and Aromatica Rosarum The Distilled Water of Roses Vinegar of Roses Oyntment and Oyl of Roses and the Rose Leavs dried which although no Composition yet of very great use and effect To write at large of every one of these would make my Book swel too big it being sufficient for a Volum by it self to speak fully of them But briefly The Electuary is purging whereof two or three Drams taken by it self in some convenient Liquor is a Purge sufficient for a weak Constitution but may be encreased to six drams according to the strength of the Patient It purgeth Choller without trouble and is good in hot Feavers and pains of the Head arising from hot Chollerick Humors and heat in the Eyes the Jaundice also and Joynt Aches proceeding of hot Humors The moist Conserve is of much use both binding and Cordial for until it be about two years old it is more binding than Cordial and after that more Cordial than Binding Some of the yonger Conserve taken with Methridatum mixed together is good for those that are troubled with Distillations of Rhewm from the Brain to the Nose and Defluxions of Rhewm into the Eyes as also for Fluxes end Lasks of the Belly and being mixed with the Pouder of Mastick is very good for the Running of the Reins and for other loosness of Humors in the Body The old Conserve mixed with Aromaticum Rosarum is a very good Cordial against Faintings Swounings Weakness and Tremblings of the Heart strengthning both it and a weak Stomach helpeth digestion stayeth casting and is a very good Preservative in the time of Infection The dry Conserve which is called Sugar of Roses is a very good Cordial to strenthen the Heart and Spirits as also to stay Defluxions The Syrup of dried Red Roses strengthneth a Stomack given to casting cooleth an overheated Liver and the Blood in Agues comforreth the Heart and resisteth putresaction and infection and helpeth to stay Lasks and Fluxes Honey of Roses is much used in Gargles and Lotions to wash Sores either in the Mouth Throat or other parts both to clens and heal them and to stay the Fluxes of Humors falling upon them it is also used in Clisters both to cool and clens The Cordial Pouders called Diarhodon Abbatis and Aromaticum Rosarum do comfort and strengthen the Heart and Stomach procure an Appetite help Digestion stayeth Vomiting and is very good for those that have slippery Bowels to strengthen them and to dry up their moisture Red Rose Water is of well known and familiar use in all occasions and better than Damask Rose Water being cooling and Cordial refreshing and quickning the weak and faint Spirits used either in meats or broths to wash the Temples or to smel to at the Nose or to smel the sweet vapors therof out of a perfuming Pot or cast on a hot Fire-shovel It is also of much good use against the redness and Inflamations in the eyes to bath them therwith and the Temples of the Head also against pain and ach for which purpose also Vinegar of Roses is of much good use and to procure rest and sleep if some thereof and Rosewater together be used to smel unto or the Nose and Temples moistned therewith but more usually to moisten a piece of Red Rose Cake cut fit for the purpose and heated between a double folded Cloth with a little beaten Nutmeg and Poppy Seed strewed on the side that must lie next to the Forehead Temples so bound therto for al night The Oyntment of Roses is much used against heat Inflamations in the Head to anoint the forhead temples being mixed with Vnguenium Populeon to procure rest as also it is used for the heat of the Liver of the Back and Reins and to cool and heal Pushes Wheals and other red Pimples rising in the Face or other parts Oyl of Roses is not only used by it self to coole any hot Swellings or Inflamations and to bind and stay Fluxes of Humors unto Sores but is also put into Oyntments and Plaisters that are cooling and binding and restraining the Flux of Humors The dried Leavs of the Red. Roses are used both inward and outwardly both cooling binding and Cordial for with them are made both Aromaticum Rosarum Diarhodon Abbatis and Saccharum Rosarum each of whose Properties are before declared Rose Leavs and Mints heated and applied outwardly to the Stomach stayeth castings and very much strengthneth a weak Stomach and applyed as a Fomentation to the Region of the Liver and Heart doth much cool and temper them and also serveth instead of a Rose Cake as is said before to quiet the over hot spirits and cause rest and sleep The Syrup of Damask Roses is both Simple and Compound and made with Agrick The Simple Solutive Syrup is a familiar safe gentle and easie Medicine purging Choller taken from one ounce to three or four yet this is remarkable herein That the distilled Water of this Syrup should notably bind the Belly The Syrup with Agrick is more strong and effectual for one ounce thereof by it self will open the Body more than the other and worketh as much on Flegm as Choller The Compound Syrup is more forcible in working on Melanchollick Humors and available against the Lepry Itch Tetters c. and the French Diseas Also Honey of Roses Solutive is made of the same infusion that the Syrup is made of and therefore worketh the same effect both in opening and purging but is ostener given to Flegmatick than Chollerick persons and is more used in Clysters than in Potions as the Syrup made with Sugar is The Conserve and Preserved Leavs of these Roses are also operative in gently opening the Belly The Simple Water of the Damask Roses is chiefly used for fumes to sweeten things as the dried Leavs thereof to make sweet Pouders and fill sweet Bags and little use they are put to in Physick although they have some purging quality The wild Roses also are few or none of them used in Physick but yet are generally held to come neer the Nature of the Manured Roses The Fruit of the wild Bryar which are called Heps being throughly ripe and made into a Conserve with Sugar besides the pleasantness of the tast doth gently bind the Belly and
the yellow Jaundice and the Head-ach and with some Honey or Sugar put therunto clenseth the Breast of Flegm and the Chest of much clammy Humors gathered therin The Decoction of the Roots drunk and a Pultis made of the Berries and Leavs being applied are effectual in knitting and consolidating broken Bones and Parts out of Joynt It is called Bruscus in some places and in Sussex Kneeholly and Knecholm The common way of using it is to boyl the Roots of it and Parsly and Fennel and Smallage in white Wine and drink the Decoction adding the like quantity of Grass Roots to them the more of the Roots you boyl the stronger will the Decoction be it works no ill effects yet I hope you have wit enough to give the strongest Decoction to the strongest Bodies Broom Broomrape ♂ TO spend time in writing a Description herof is altogether needless it being so generally used by all the good Huswifes almost through this Land to sweep their Houses with and therfore very wel known to all sorts of people The Broomrape springeth up in many places from the Roots of the Broom but more often in fields by Hedg sides and on Heaths The Stalk wherof is of the bignels of a Finger or Thumb above two Foot high having a show of Leavs on them and many Flowers at the top of a deadish yellow colour as also the Stalks and Leavs are Place They grow in many places of this Land commonly and as commonly spoyl all the Land they grow in Time And Flower in the Summer Months and give their Seed before Winter Vertues and Use. The Juyce or Decoction of the yong Branches or Seed or the Pouder of the Seed taken in Drink purgeth downwards and draweth Flegmatick and watery humors from the Joynts wherby it helpeth the Dropsie Gout Sciatica and the pains in the Hips and Joynts It also provoketh strong Vomits and helpeth the pains of the Sides and swellings of the Spleen clenfeth also the Reins or Kidnies and Bladder of the Stone provoketh Urin abundantly and hindreth the growing again of the Stone in the Body The continual use of the Pouder of the Leaves and Seed doth cure the Black Jaundice The distilled Water of the Flowers is profitable for al the same purposes it also helpeth Sursets and altereth the Fits of Agues if three or four ounces therof with as much of the Water of the lesser Centaury and a little Sugar put therin be taken a little before the fit cometh and the party be laid down to sweat in their Bed The Oyl or Water that is drawn from the ends of the green sticks heated in the fire helpeth the Toothach The Juyce of the yong Branches made into an Oyment of old Hogs Greas and anointed Or the yong Branches bruised and heated in Oyl or Hogs Greas and laid to the Sides pained by wind as in Stitches or the Spleen easeth them in once or twice using it The same boyled in Oyl is the safest and surest Medicine to kil Lice in the Head or Body of any and is an especial Remedy for Joynt aches and swoln Knees that come by the falling down of Humors The Broomrape also is not without his Vertues The Decoction therof in Wine is thought to be as effectual to avoid the Stone in the Kidnies and Bladder and to provoke Urin as the Broom it self The Juyce therof is a singular good help to cure as wel green Wounds as old and filthy Sores and malignant Ulcers The insolate Oyl wherin there hath been three or four Repetitions of Insusion of the top stalks with Flowers strained and cleered clenseth the Skin of al manner of Spots Marks and Freckles that arise either by the heat of the Sun or the Malignity of humors As for the Broom for as yet I know not what to say to Broomrape in the business but as for Broom Mars owns it and it is exceeding prejudicial to the Liver I suppose by Râ—sâ—n of the Antipathy between Jupiter and Mars therfore if the Liver be disaffected administer none of it Bucks-horn Plantane ♄ Description THis being sown of Seed riseth up at the first with smal long narrow hairy dark green Leavs like grass without any division or gash in them but those that follow are gashed in on both sides the Leavs into three or four gashes and pointed at the ends resembling the Knags of a Bucks Horn wherof it took the name and being well grown round about the Root upon the ground in order one by another therby resembling the form of a Star from among which rise up divers hairy Stalks about a hand breadth high bearing every one a smal long spiky Head like to those of the common Plantane having such like Bloomings and Seed after them The Root is single long and smal with divers strings at it Place They grow in dry Sandy grounds as in Tuttle-Fields by Westminster and divers other places of this Land Time They Flower and Seed in May June and July end their green Leavs do in a manner abide fresh al the Winter Vertues and Use. This boyled in Wine and drunk and some of the Leavs applied to the hurt place is an excellent remedy for the biting of the Viper or Adder which I take to be one and the same The same being also drunk helpeth those that are troubled with the Stone in the Veins or Kidnies by cooling the heat of the parts afflicted strengthning them as also weak Stomachs that cannot retain but cast up their Meat It stayeth al bleedings at Mouth and Nose bloody Urin or the Bloody Flux and stoppeth the Lask of the Belly and Bowels The Leavs herof bruised and laid to their sides that have an Ague suddenly easeth the Fit and the Leavs and Roots beaten with some Bay Salt and applied to the Wrists worketh the same effects The Herb boyled in Ale or Wine and given for some mornings and evenings together staieth the distillations of hot and sharp Rhowms falling into the Eyes from the Head and helpeth al sorts of sore Eyes Venus challengeth the Dominion of this Herb. ♀ ♎ Description THis hath larger Leavs than those of the selfheal but els of the same fashion or rather a little longer in some green on the upper side and in others more brownish dented about the edges somwhat hairy as the square Stalk is also which riseth up to be half a yard high somtimes with the Leavs set by couples from the middle almost whereof upwards stand the Flowers together with many smaler and browner Leaves than the rest on this stalk below set at distances and the stalk bare between them among which Flowers are also smal ones of a bluish and somtimes of an Ash colour fashioned like the Flowers of the Ground-Ivy after which come small round blackish Seed The Root is composed of many strings and spreadeth upon the ground in divers parts round about The White-flowered Bugle differeth not in form or greatness
upward stored with a number of pale yellow Flowers of a strong unpleasant scent with deeper yellow mouths and blackish flat Seeds in round Heads The Root is somwhat woody and white especially the main downright one with many fibres abiding many yeers shooting forth Roots every way round about and new Branches every yeer Place This groweth throughout this Land both by the way sides in Meadows as also by Hedg sides and upon the sides of Banks and Borders of Fields Time It Flowreth in Summer and the Seed is ripe usually before the end of August Vertues and use This is frequently used to provoke Urine being stopped and to spend the abundance of those watery Humors by Urine which caus the Dropsie The Decoction of the Herb both Leavs and Flowers in Wine taken and drunk doth somwhat move the Belly downwards openeth Obstructions of the Liver and helpeth the yellow Jaundice expelleth Poyson provoketh Womens Courses driveth forth the dead Child and Afterbirth The Distilled water of the Herb and Flowers is effectual for all the same purposes especially being drunk with a dram of the Pouder of the Seeds or Bark of the Root of Walwort and a little Cinnamon for certain daies together is held a singular Remedy for the Dropsie The Juyce of the Herb or the distilled Water dropped into the Eyes is a certain Remedy for all heat Inflamations and redness in them The Juyce or water put into foul Ulcers whither they be Cancrous or Fistulous with tents rouled therin or the parts washed or injected therwith clenseth them throughly from the bottom and healeth them up safely The same Juyce or Water also clenseth the Skin wonderfully of all sorts of deformity thereof as Lepry Morphew Scurff Wheals Pimples or any other Spots or Marks in the Skin applied of it self or used with some Pouder of Lupines Mars owns the Herb in Sussex we call it Gall-wort and lay it in our Chickens water to cure them of the Gall I think I am sure it releevs them when they are drooping Fleawort Description THe ordinary Fleawort riseth up with a Stalk two Foot high or more full of Joynts and Branches on every side up to the top and at every Joynt two small long and narrow whitish green Leavs somwhat hairy At the tops of every Branch stand divers small short scaly or chaffy Heads out of which come forth small whitish yellow threds like to those of the Plantane Herbs which are the Bloomings or Flowers The Seed inclosed in those Heads is smal and shining while it is Fresh very like unto Fleas both for colour and bigness but turning black when it groweth old The Root is not long but white hard and woody perishing every yeer and rising again of its own Seed for divers yeers if it be suffred to shed The whol Plant is somwhat whitish and hairy smelling somwhat like Rozin There is another sort hereof differing not from the former in the manner of growing but only that his Stalk and Branches being somwhat greater do a little more bow down to the ground The Leavs are somwhat larger the Heads somwhat lesser the Seed alike and the Root and Leavs abide all the Winter and perish not as the former Place The first groweth only in Gardens the second plentifully in Fields that are neer the Sea Time They Flower in July or thereabouts Vertues and use The Seed fried and so taken staieth the Flux or Lask of the Belly and the corrosions that come by reason of hot Chollerick Sharp and malignant Humors or by the too much purging of any violent Medicine as Scammony or the like The Muccilage of the Seed made with Rose Water and a little Sugar Candy put therto is very good in all hot Agues and burning Feavers and other Inflamations to cool the thirst and lenify the dryness and roughness of the Tongue and Throat It helpeth also hoarsness of the voice and Diseases of the Breast and Lungs caused by heat or sharp salt humors and the Pluresie also The Muccilage of the Seed made in Plantane Water whereunto the Yolk of an Egg or two and a little Populeon is put is a most safe and sure Remedy to eas the sharpness prickings and pains of the Hemorrhoids or Piles if it be laid on a cloath and bound therto It helpeth also all Inflamations in any parts of the Body and the pains that come thereby as the Head-ach and Megrim and all hot Imposthumes or Swellings or breakings out of the Skin as Blains Wheals Pushes Purples and the likes as also the pains of the Joynts and of those that are out of joynt the pains of the Gout and Sciatica the Bursting of yong Children and the swelling of the Navel applied with Oyl of Roses and Vinegar It is also very good to heal the Nipples and Sore Breasts of Women being often applied thereunto The Juyce of the Herb with a little Honey put into the Ears helpeth the running of them and the Worms breeding in them The same also mixed with Hogs Greas and applied to corrupt and filthy Ulcers and Sores clenseth and healeth them The Herb is cold and dry Saturnine I suppose it obtained the name Fleawort becaus the Seeds are so like Fleas Flixweed Description THis riseth up with a round upright hard Stalk four or five Foot high spread into sundry Branches wheron grow many grayish green Leavs very finely cut and severed into a number of short and almost round parts The Flowers are very smal and yellow growing Spike fashion after which come very smal long Pods with very smal yellowish Seed in them The Root is long and woody perishing every yeer There is another sort differing in nothing save only it hath somwhat broader Leaves They have a strong evil savor being smelt unto and are of a drying tast Place They grow wild in the Fields by Hedg-sides and High-waies and among rubbish and in many other place Time They Flower and Seed quickly after namely in June and July Vertues and use Both the Herb and Seed of Flixweed is of excellent use to stay the Flux or Lask of the Besly being drunk in Water wherein gads of Steel heated have been often quenched and is no less effectual for the said purpose than Plantane or Comfry and to restrain any other Flux of Blood in man or Woman as also to consolidate Bones broken or out of Joynt The Juyce therof drunk in Wine or the Decoction of the Herb drunk doth kill the Worms in the Stomach or Belly or the Worms that grow in putrid and filthy Ulcers And made into a Salve doth quickly heal all old sores how foul or Malignant soever they be The distilled water of the Herb worketh the same effects although somwhat weaker yet is a fair Medicine and more acceptable to be taken It is called Flixweed becaus it cures the Flux and for its uniting broken Bones c. Paracelsus extols it to the Skies It is fitting Syrups
blindness so as the Christaline humor be not perished or hurt and this hath been sufficiently proved true by the experience of a man of judgment who kept it long to himself as a great sccret It also cleareth the Eyes of dust or any other thing gotten into them and preserveth the Sight It is also very much available against Wounds and Thrusts being made into an Oyntment on this manner To every ounce of the Water ad two drams of May Butter without Salt and of Sugar and Wax of each as much also let them boyl gently all together Let Tents be dipped in the Liquor that remaineth after it is cold and put into the Wounds and the place covered with a Linnen cloth doubled and anointed with the Oyntment and this is also an approved Medicine It likewise clenseth and healeth all foul Ulcers and Sores wheresoever and staieth their Inflamations by washing them with the Water and laying on them a green Leaf or two in the Summer or dry Leaves in the Winter This Water gargled warm in the Mouth and somtimes drunk also doth cure the Quinsie or Kings Evil in the Throat The said Water applied warm taketh away all Spots Marks and Scars in the Skin And a little of it drunk quencheth thirst when it is extraordinary The Herb is an Herb of the Moon and under the Sign Cancer neither do I know a better Preserver of the Sight when 't is well nor a better Curer of sore Eyes than Eyebright taken inwardly and this used outwardly 't is cold in quality ☉ ☿ Lovage Description THis hath many long and great Stalks of large winged Leavs devided into many parts like Smallage but much larger and greater every Leaf being cut about the edges broadest forwards and smallest at the Stalk of a sad green colour smooth and shining from among which rise up sundry strong hollow green Stalks five or six foot yea somtimes seven or eight foot high full of Joynts but lesser Leavs set at them than grow below and with them toward the tops come forth long Branches hearing at their tops large Umbels of yellow Flowers and after them flat brownish Seed The Root groweth thick great and deep spreading much and enduring long of a brownish colour on the outside and whitish within The whol Plant and every part of it smelleth strong and Aromatically and is of an hot sharp biting tast Place It is usually planted in Gardens where if it be suffered it groweth huge and great Time It Flowreth in the end of July and seedeth in August Vertues and Use. It openeth cutteth and digesteth Humors and mightily provoketh Womens Courses and Urine Half a dram at a time of the dried Root in Pouder taken in Wine doth wonderfully warm a cold Stomach helping digestion and consuming all raw superfluous moisture therein easeth al inward gripings and pains dissolveth wind and resisteth Poyson and infection It is a known and much practised Remedy to drink the Decoction of the Herb for any sort of Ague and to help the pains and Torments of the Body and Bowels coming of cold The Seed is effectual to al the purposes aforesaid except the last and worketh more powerfully The distilled water of the Herb helpeth the Quinsie in the Throat if the Mouth and Throat be gargled and washed therewith and helpeth the Pluresie being drunk three or four times Being dropped into the Eyes it taketh away the redness or dimness of them it likewise taketh away Spots or Freckles in the Face The Leavs bruised and fried with a little Hogs Lard laid hot to any Botch or Boyl wil quickly break it It is an Herb of the Sun under the Sign Taurus if Saturn offend the Throat as he alwaies doth if he be occasioner of the Malady and in Taurus in the Genesis this is your cure Lungwort Description THis is a kind of Moss that groweth on sundry sorts of Trees especially Oaks and Beeches with broad grayish tough Leavs diversly folded crumpled and gashed in on the edges and somtimes spotted also with many smal spots on the upper side It was never seen to bear any Stalk or Flower at any time Vertues and Use. This is of great use with many Phystians to help the Diseases of the Lungs and for Coughs Wheesings and shortness of breath which it cureth both in Man and Beast It is very profitably put into Lotions that are taken to stay the moist Humors that flow to Ulcers and hinder their healing as also to wash all other Ulcers in the privy parts of Man or Woman It is an excellent Remedy boyled in Beer for broken-winded Horses Iuâ—â— seems to own the Herb. Madder Description THe Garden Madder shooteth forth many very long weak four square reddish Stalks trailing on the Ground a great way very rough or hairy and full of Joynts At every of those Joynts come forth divers long and somwhat narrow Leavs standing like a Star about the Stalks rough also and hairy toward the tops whereof come forth many smal pale yellow Flowers after which come smal round Heads green at first and reddish afterwards but black when they are ripe wherin is contained the Seed The Root is not very great but exceeding long running down half a mans length into the grouund red and very clear while it is fresh spreading divers waies Place It is only manured in Gardens or larger Fields for the profit that is made thereof Time It Flowreth towards the end of Summer and the Seed is ripe quickly after Vertues and Use. It hath an opening quality and afterwards to bind and strengthen It is an assured Remedy for the yellow Jaundice by opening the Obstructions of the Liver and Gall and clensing those parts It openeth also the Obstructions of the Spleen and diminisheth the Melanchollick humor It is available for the Palsey and Sciatica and effectual for Bruises inward or outward and is therfore much used in Vulnerary Drinks The Root for all those aforesaid purposes is to be boyled in Wine or Water as the caus requireth and some Honey or Sugar put therunto afterwards The Seed herof taken with Vinegar and Honey helpeth the Swellings and Hardness of the Spleen The Decoction of the Leaves and Branches is a good Fomentation for Women to sit over thar have not their Courses The Leavs and Roots beaten and applied to any part that is discoloured with Freckles Morphew the white Scurf or any such deformity of the Skin clenseth them throughly and taketh them away Maidenhair Description OUr common Maidenhair doth from a number of hard black Fibres send forth a great many blackish shining brittle Stalks hardly a span long in many not half so long on each side set very thick with smal round dark green Leavs and spotted on the back of them like other Ferns Place It groweth much upon old Stone Wals in in the West parts and Wales in Kent and divers other places of this Land It joyeth
be put together in Clisters to expel Wind to eas pains also into Pultices for the same purpose and to asswage Swellings or Tumors in the Spleen or other parts helpeth Inflamations in any part of the Body The Juyce dropped into the Eyes is a singular good Medicine to take away any Film or Skin that cloudeth or dimmeth the Eyesight The Head often washed with the distilled Water of the Herb and Flowers or a Ly made therwith is effectual for those that have suddenly lost their senses as also to strengthen the Memory to comfort the Head and Brains and to preserve them from pains and the Apoplexie French and Dogs Mercury Description THis riseth up with a square green stalk full of Joynts two foot high or ther abouts with two Leaves at every Joynt and branches likewise from â—oth sides of the stalk set with fresh green Leaves somwhat broad and long about the bigness of the Leaves of Bassell finely dented about the edges towards the topps of the stalks and branches come forth at every Joynt in the Male Mercury two small round green heads standing together upon a short footstalk which growing ripe are the seeds not having any Flower In the female The stalk is longer spike fashion set round about with smal green husks which are the Flowers made like smal branches of Grapes which give no seed but abide long upon the stalks without shedding The Root is composed of many smal Fibres which perisheth every year at the first approach of winter and riseth again of its own sowing and where it once is suffered to sow it self the ground will never want it afterwards even both sorts of it Dogs Mercury Discription HAving described unto you that which is called French Mercury I come now to shew you in a Description this kind also This is likewise of two kinds Male and Female having many stalks slenderer lower than Mercury and without any branches at all upon them The Male is set with two Leavs at every Joynt somwhat greater than the Female but more pointed and full of Veins and somwhat harder in handling of a darker green colour and less dented or snip'd about the edges At the Joynts with the Leavs come forth longer Stalks than the former with two hairy round Seeds upon them twice as big as those of the former Mercury The tast hereof is Herby and the smel somwhat strong and Virulent The Female hath much harder Leavs standing upon longer Foot-stalks and the stalks are also longer From the Joynts come forth Spikes of Flowers like the French Female Mercury The Roots of them both are many and full of smal Fibres which run under ground and mat themselves very much not perishing as the former Mercuries do but abiding the Winter and shoot forth new Branches every yeer for the old die down to the ground Place The Male and Female French Mercury are found wild in divers places of this Land as by a Village called Brookland in Rumney Marsh in Kent The Dogs Mercury in sundry places of Kent also and elswhere but the Female more seldom than the Male. Time They flourish in the Summer months and therein give their Seed Vertues and Use. The Decoction of the Leavs of Mercury or the Juyce thereof in Broth or Drunk with a little Sugar put to it purgeth Chollerick and waterish Humors Hippocrates commendeth it wonderfully for Womens Diseases and applied it to the secret parts to eas the pains of the Mother and used the Decoction of it both to procure Womens Courses and to expel the Afterbirth And gave the Decoction thereof with Mirrh or Pepper or used to apply the Leavs outwardly against the Strangury and Diseases of the Reins and Bladder He used it also for sore and watering Eyes and for the Deafness and pain in the Ears by dropping the Juyce therof into them and bathing them afterwards in white Wine The Decoction thereof made with Water and a Cock Chicken is a most safe Medicine against the hot fits of Agues It also clenseth the Breast and Lungs of Flegm but a little offendeth the Stomach The Juyce or distilled Water snuffed up into the Nostrils purgeth the Head and Eyes of Catarrhes and Rhewms Some use to drink two or three ounces of the distilled water with a little Sugar put to it in the morning fasting to open and purge the Body of gross viscuous and Melancholly Humors It is wonderful if it be not Fabulous that Dioscorides and Theophrastus do relate of it Viz. That if Women use these herbs either inwardly or outwardly for three daies together after Conception and their Courses be past they shal bring forth Male or Female Children according to that kind of Herb they use Mathiolus saith That the Seed of both the Male and Female Mercury boyled with Wormwood and drunk cureth the yellow Jaundice in a speedy manner The Leavs or the Juyce rubbed upon Warts taketh them away The Juyce mingled with some Vinegar helpeth all running Scabs Tetters Ringworms and the Itch. Galen saith that being applied in manner of a Pultis to any Swelling or Inflamation it digesteth the Swelling and allayeth the Inflamation and is therfore given in Clysters to evacuate the Belly from offensive Humors The Dogs Mercury although it be less used yet may serve in the same manner to the same purpose to purge waterish and Melanchollick Humors Mercury they say owns this Herb but I rather think ' t is Venus and am partly confident of it too for I never read that Mercury ever minded Womens businesses so much I beleev he minds his study more Mint Description OF all the kinds of Mints the Spear-Mint or Heart-Mint being most useful I shal only describe it as followeth Spear-Mint hath divers round Stalks and long but narrowish Leavs set thereon of a a dark green colour The Flowers stand in Spiked Heads at the tops of the Branches being of a pale blush colour The smel or scent hereof is somwhat neer unto Bassilâ— It encreaseth by the Root under ground as all the others do Place It is an usual Inhabitant in Gardens And becaus it seldom giveth any good Seed the defect is recompensed by the plentiful encreas of the Root which being once planted in a Garden will hardly beâ—rid out again Time It Flowreth not until the beginning of August for the most part Vertues and Use. Dioscorides saith It hath an heating binding and drying quality and therefore the Juyce taken with Vinegar staieth Bleeding It stirreth up Venery or Bodily lust Two or three Branches thereof taken with the Juyce of sowr Pomegranates stayeth the Hiccough Vomiting and allayeth Choller It dissolveth Impostumes being laid too with Barley Meal It is good to repress the Milk in Womens Breasts and for such as have swollen flagging or great Breasts applied with Salt it helpeth the biting of a Mad Dog with Mead or Honeyed Water it easeth the pains of the Ears and taketh away the roughness of the Tongue
of Serpents and for those that have taken Aconite The Leavs beaten with Vinegar is good to lay on any place that is burnt with fire A Decoction made of the Bark and Leavs is good to wash the Mouth and Teeth when they ach If the Root be a little slit or cut and a smal hole made in the ground next thereunto in the Harvest time it will give out a certain Juyce which being hardned the next day is of good use to help the Toothach to dissolve Knots and purge the Belly The Leavs of Mulberries are said to stay bleeding at Mouth or Nose or the Bleeding of the Piles or of a Wound being bound unto the places A Branch of the Tree taken when the Moon is at the full and bound to the Wrist of a Womans Arm whose Courses come down too much doth stay them in a short space Mercury rules the Tree therefore are its effects variable as his are Mullein Description THe common white Mullein hath many fair large woolly white Leavs lying next the ground somwhat longer than broad pointed at the ends and as it were dented about the edges The Stalk riseth up to be four or five Foot high covered over with such like Leavs but lesser so that no Stalk can be seen for the multitude of Leavs thereon up to the Flowers which come forth on all sides of the Stalk without any Branches for the most part and are many set together in a long spike in some of a gold yellow colour in others more pale consisting of five round pointed Leavs which afterwards give smal round Heads wherein is smal brownish Seed contained The Root is long white and Woody perishing after it hath born Seed Place It groweth by the way sides and in Lanes in many places of this Land Time It Flowreth in July or thereabouts Vertues and use A smal quantity of the Root given in Wine is commended by Dioscorides against Lasks and Fluxes of the Belly The Decoction thereof drunk is profitable for those that are Bursten and for Cramps and Convulsions and for those that are troubled with an old Cough The Decoction thereof gargled caseth the pains of the Toothach An Oyl made by the often Infusion of the Flowers is of very good effect for the Piles The Decoction of the Root in Red Wine or in Water if there be an Ague wherein red hot Steel hath been often quenched doth stay the Bloody Flux The same also openeth Obstructions of the Bladder and Reins when one cannot make water A Decoction of the Leavs hereof and of Sage Marjetom and Camomil Flowers and the places bathed therewith that have Sinews stark with cold or Cramps doth bring them much eas and comfort Three ounces of the distilled water of the Flowers drunk morning and evening for some daies together is said to be the most excellent Remedy for the hot Gout The Juyce of the Leavs and Flowers being laid upon rough Warts as also the Pouder of the dried Roots rubbed on doth easily take them away but doth no good to smooth Warts The Pouder of the dried Flowers is an especial Remedy for those that are troubled with belly-aches or the pains of the Chollick The Decoction of the Root and so likewise of the Leavs is of great effect to dissolve the Tumors Swellings or Inflamation of the Throat The Seed and Leavs boyled in Wine and applied draweth forth speedily Thorns or Splinters gotten into the Flesh easeth the pains and healeth them also The Leavs bruised and wrapped in double papers and covered with hot Ashes and Embers to bake a while and then taken forth and laid warm on any Botch or Boyl hapning in the Groyn or share doth dissolve and heal them The Seed bruised and boyled in Wine and laid on any Member that hath been out of Joynt and is newly set again taketh away all Swellings and pains thereof Mustard Description THe common Mustard hath large and broad rough Leavs very much jagged with uneven and unorderly gashes somwhat like Turnip Leavs but lesser and rougher The Stalk riseth to be more than a foot high and somtimes two foot high being round rough and branched at the top bearing such like Leavs thereon as grow below but lesser and less devided and divers yellow Flowers one above another at the tops after which come smal rough pods with smal lank flat ends wherein is contained round yellowish Seed sharp hot and biting upon the Tongue The Root is smal long and woody when it beareth Stalks and perisheth every yeer Place This groweth with us in Gardens only and other manured places Time It is an annual Plant Flowring in July and their Seed is ripe in August Vertues and use Mustard Seed hath the Vertue of Heating discussing rarefying and drawing out Splinters of Bones and other things out of the Flesh. It is of good effect to bring down Womens Courses for the Falling sickness or Lethargy drousie forgetful evil to use it both inwardly and outwardly to rub the Nostrils Forehead and Temples to warm and quicken the Spirits for by the fierce sharpness it purgeth the Brain by sneezing and drawing down Rhewm and other Viscuous Humors which by their Distillations upon the Lungs and Chest procure coughing and therefore with some Honey added thereto doth much good therein The Decoction of the Seed made in Wine and drunk provoketh Urine resisteth the force of Poyson the Malignity of Mushroms and the Venom of Scorpions or other Venemous Creatures if it be taken in time and taketh before the cold fits of Agues altereth lesseneth and cureth them The Seed taken either by it self or with other things either in an Electuary or Drink doth mightily stir up Bodily lust and helpeth the Spleen and pains in the sides and gnawing in the Bowels And used as a Gargle draweth up the Pallat of the Mouth being fallen down and also it dissolveth the Swellings abouâ— the Throat if it be outwardly applied Being chewed in the Mouth it oftentimes helpeth the Toothach The outward application hereof upon the pained place of the Sciatica discusseth the Humors and easeth the pains as also of the Gout and other Joynt aches And is much and often used to eas pains in the sides or loyns the shoulders or other parts of the Body upon the applying thereof to rais Blisters and cureth the Diseas by drawing it to the outward part of the Body It is also used to help the falling of the Hair The Seed bruised mixed with Honey and applied or made up with Wax taketh away the Marks and black and blue spots of Bruises or the like the roughness or Scabbedness of the Skin as also the Leprosie and lowsie evil it helpeth also the crick in the Neck The distilled Water of the Herb when it is in Flower is much used to drink inwardly to help in any the Diseases aforesaid or to wash the Mouth when the Pallat is down and for the Diseases of the Throat
mean the common kind that it needeth no Description There is a greater kind than the ordinary sort found wild with us which so abideth being brought into Gardens and differeth not from it but only in the largeness of the Leavs and Stalks in rising higher and not creeping upon the ground so much The Flowers whereof are Purple growing in Rundles about the Stalk like the other Place The first which is common in Gardens groweth also in many moist and watery places of this Land The second is sound wild in Essex in divers places by the High-way from London â—to Colechester and thereabouts more abundantly than in other Countries and is also planted in their Gardens in Essex Time They Flower in the latter end of Summer about August Vertues and Use. Dioscorides saith That Peny-royal maketh thin tough Flegm warmeth the coldness of any part whereto it is apylied and digesteth raw or corrupt matter Being boyled drunk it provoketh Womens Courses and expelleth the dead Child and afterbirth and staieth the disposition to Vomit being taken in Water and Vinegar mingled together And being mingled with Honey and Salt it avoideth Flegm out of the Lungs and purgeth Melancholly by the Stool Drunk with Wine it helpeth such as are bitten or stung with Venemous Beasts and applied to the Nostrils with Vinegar reviveth those that are fainting and swouning Being dried and burnt it strengtheneth the Gums It is helpful to those that are troubled with the Gout being applied of it self to the place until it wax red and applied in a Plaister it taketh away spots or marks in the Face Applied with Salt it profiteth those that are Splenetick or Liver-grown The Decoction doth help the Itch if washed therwith Being put into Baths for Women to sit therein it helpeth the Swelling and hardness of the Mother The green Herb bruised and put into Vinegar clenseth foul Ulcers and taketh away the marks and bruises of blows about the Eyes and all discolourings of the Face by fire yea and the Leprosie being drunk and outwardly applied Boyled in Wine with Honey and Salt it helpeth the Toothach It helpeth the cold Griefs of the Joynts taking away the pains and warming the cold parts being fast bound to the place after a bathing or sweating in an hot hous Pliny addeth that Penny-royal and Mints together help faintings or swounings being put into Vinegar and put to the Nostrils to be smelled unto or a little thereof put into the Mouth It easeth the Headach and the pains of the Breast and Belly stayeth the gnawing of the Stomach and inward pains of the Bowels being drunk in Wine it provoketh Womens Courfes and expelleth the dead child and afterbirth Being given in Wine it helpeth the Falling-sickness Put into unwholsom or stinking Water that men must drink as at Sea and where other cannot be had it maketh them the less hurtful It helpeth Cramps or Convulsions of the Sinews being applied with Honey Salt and Vinegar It is very effectual for the Cough being boyled in Milk and drunk and for Ulcers or Sores in the Mouth Mathiolus saith The Decoction thereof being drunk helpeth heâ—Jaundice and Dropsie and all pains of the Head and Sinews that come of a cold caus and that it helpeth to clearâ— and quicken the Eye-sight Applied to the Nostrils of those that have the Falling-sicknessâ— or the Lethargy or put into the Mouth it helpeth them much being bruised and with Vinegar applied And applied with Barley Meal it helpeth Burnings by fire and put into the Ears easeth the pains of them The Herb is under Venus Peony Mas. Femina Description THe Male Peony riseth up with many brownish Stalks whereon grow many fair green and somtimes reddish Leavs one set against another upon a Stalk without any particular devision in the Leaf at all The Flowers stand at the tops of the Stalks consisting of five or six broad Leavs of a fair purplish red colour with many yellow threds in the middle standing about the Head which after riseth to be the Seed Vessels devided into two three or four rough crooked Pods like Horns which being ful ripe open and turn themselves down one edge to another backward shewing within them divers round black shining Seed having also many red or Crimson grains intermixed with the black whereby it maketh a very pretty shew The Roots are great thick and long spreading and running down reasonable deep in the Ground The ordinary Female Peony hath many Stalks and more Leavs on them than the Male the Leavs not so large but nicked diversly on the edges some with great and deep others with smaller cuts and devisions of a dark or dead green colour The Flowers are of a strong heady scent most usually smaller and of a more purple colour than the Male with yellow thrums about the Head as the Male hath The Seed Vessels are like Horns as in the Male but smaller the Seed also is black but less shining The Roots consist of many thick and short tuberous clogs fastned at the ends of long strings and all from the Head of the Root which is thick and short and of the like scent with the Male. Place and Time They grow in Gardens and Flower usually about May. Vertues and Use. The Root of the Male Peony fresh gathered hath been found by experience to cure the Falling-sickness but the surest way is besides hanging it about the Neck by which Children have been cured to take the Root of the Male Peony washed clean and stamped somwhat smal and lay it to infuse in Sack for twenty four Hours at the least after strain it and take first and last morning and evening a good draught for sundry daies together before and after a full Moon and this will also cure older persons if the Disease be not grown too old and past cure especially if there be a due and orderly preparation of the Body with Posset drink made of Betony c. The Root is also effectual for Women that are not sufficiently clensed after Childbirth and such as are troubled with the Mother for which likewise the black Seed beaten to Pouder and given in Wine is also available The black Seed also taken before bed time and in the morning is very effectual for such as in their sleep are troubled with the Diseas called Ephialtes or Incubus but we do commonly cal it the Night-Mare a diseas which Melancholly persons are subject unto It is also good against Melanchollick Dreams The Distilled water or Syrup made of the Flowers worketh the same effects that the Root and the Seed do although more weakly The Female is often used for the purposes aforesaid by reason the Male is so scarce a Plant that it is possessed by few and those great Lovers of Rarities in this kind It is an Herb of the Sun and under the Lyon Physitians say Male Peony Roots are best but Dr. Reason told me male Peony was best for men and
also is profitably applied to all hot Gouts in the Feet or Hands especially in the beginning It is also good to be applied where any Bone is out of Joynt to hinder Inflamations Swellings and Pains that presently rise thereupon The Pouder of the dried Leavs taken in drink killeth Worms of the Belly and boyled in Wine killeth Worms that breed in old and foul Ulcers One part of Plantane Water and two parts of the brine of pouder'd Beef boyled together and clarified is a most sure Remedy to heal all spreading Scabs and Itch in the Head or Body all manner of Tetters Ringworms the Shingles and all other running and fretting Sores Briefly the Plantanes are singular good Wound Herbs to heal fresh or old Wounds and Sores either inward or outward It s true Myzaldus and others yea almost all Astrologo-Physitians hold this to be an Herb of Mars and they give a verisimile of a truth for it too Viz. becaus it cures diseases of the Head and privities which are under the Houses of Mars Aries and Scorpio All Diseases of the Head comming of heat are caused by Mars for Venus is made of no such hot mettle or at least deals in inferior parts The truth is it is under the command of Venus and cures the Head by Antipathy to Mars and the Privities by Sympathy to Venus neither is there hardly a Martial Diseas but it cures If I were to fortisie my Body against a Martial Diseas I would do it by this Herb as soon as by any and may do it it may be when time shal serve Plums THese are so well known that they need no Description Vertues and Use. As there is great diversity of the kinds so is there in the operations of Plums for some that are sweet moisten the Stomach and make the Belly soluble those that are sowr quench thirst more and bind the Belly the moist and waterish do soonest corrupt in the Stomach but the firm do nourish more and offend less The dried Fruit sold by the Grocers under the name of Damask Prunes do somwhat loosen the Belly and being stewed are often used both in health and sickness to rellish the Mouth and Stomach to procure Appetite and a little to open the Body allay Choller and cool the Stomach Plum-tree Leavs boyled in Wine is good to wash and gargle the Mouth and Throat to dry the Flux of Rhewm coming to the Pallat Gums or Almonds of the Ears The Gum of the Trees is good to break the Stone The Gum or Leavs boyled in Vinegar and applied killeth Tetters and Ring-worms Mathiolus saith The Oyl pressed out of the Kernels of the Stones as Oyl of Almonds is made is good against the inflamed Piles the Tumors or Swellings of Ulcers Hoarsness of the voice roughness of the Tongue and Throat and likewise the pains in the Ears And that five ounces of the said Oyl taken with one ounce of Muscadine driveth forth the Stone and helpeth the Chollick All Plums are under Venus and are like Women some better some worse Pollipody of the Oak Description THis is a smal Herb consisting of nothing but Roots and Leavs bearing neither Stalk Flower nor Seed as it is thought If hath three or four Leavs rising from the Root every one singly by it self of about a hand length which are winged consisting of many smal narrow Leavs cut into the middle rib standing on each side of the Stalk large below and smaller up to the top not dented or notched on the edges at all as the Male Fern hath of a sad green colour and smooth on the upper side but on the underside somwhat rough by reason of certain yellowith spots set thereon The Root is smaller than ones little finger lying aslope or creeping along under the upper drust of the earth brownish on the outside and greenish within of a sweetish harshness in tast set with certain rough Knags on each side thereof having also much Mossiness or yellow hairiness upon it and some Fibres underneath it whereby it is nourished Place It groweth as well upon old rotten stumps or trunks of Trees as Oak Beech Hazel Willow or any other as in the Woods under them and upon old Mud Wals as also in Mossie Stony and gravelly places neer unto Woods That which groweth upon Oaks is accounted the best but the quantity thereof is scarce sufficient for the common use Time It being alwaies green may be gathered for use at any time Vertues and Use. Mesues who is called the Physitians Evangelist for the certainty of his Medicines and the truth of his Opinions saith That it drieth up thin Humors digesteth thick and tough and purgeth burnt Choller and especially tough and thick Flegm and thin Flegm also even from the Joynts and is therfore good for those that are troubled with Melancholly or Quartan Agues especially if it be taken in Whey or Honeyed Water or in Barley water or the Broth of a Chicken with Epithimum or with Beets and Mallows It is also good for the hardness of the Spleen and for prickings or Stitches in the sides as also for the Chollick some use to put to it some Fennel Seeds or Annis Seeds or Ginger to correct that loathing it bringeth to the Stomach which is more than needeth it being a safe and gentle Medicine fit for al persons at al seasons which daily experience confirmith And an ounce of it may be given at a time in a Decoction if there be not Saena or some other strong purger put with it Adram or two of the Pouder of the dried Roots taken fasting in a cup of Honeyed water worketh gently and for the purposes aforesaid The distilled water both of Roots and Leavs is much commended for the Quartan Ague to be taken for many daies together as also against Melancholly or fearful or troublesom sleeps or Dreams and with some Sugar Candy dissolved therein is good against the Cough shortness of breath and Wheesings and those distillations of thin Rhewin upon the Lungs which caus Phtisicks and oftentimes Consumptions The fresh Roots beaten smal or the Pouder of the dried Roots mixed with Honey and applied to any Member that is out of Joynt doth much help it Applied also to the Nose cureth the Diseas called Polipus which is a piece of Flesh growing therein which in time stoppeth the passage of breath through that Nostril And it helpeth those clefts or Chops that come between the fingers or Toes And why I pray must Pollipodium of the Oak only be used Gentle Colledg of Physitians can you give me but a glimps of a reason for it is it only becaus it is dearest will you never leave your coverousness till your lives leave you The Truth is that which grows upon the Earth is best 't is an Herb of Saturn and he seldom climbs trees to purge Melancholly if the humor be otherwise chuse your Pollipodium accordingly The Poplar-Tree Description THere are two sorts of
and upon the Lungs causing a continual Cough the Fore-runner of a Consumption It helpeth also Hoarsness of the Throat and when one hath lost their voice which the Oyl of the Seed doth likewise The black Seed boyled in Wine and drunk is said also to stay the Flux of the Belly and Womens Courses The empty thels of the Poppy Heads are usually boyled in water and given to procure rest and sleep so do the Leavs in the same manner as also if the Head and Temples be bathed with the Decoction warm or with the Oyl of Poppies the green Leaves or Heads bruised and applied with a little Vinegar or made into a Pultis with Barley Meal or Hogs Greas it cooleth and tempereth al Inflamations as also the Diseas called St. Anthonies Fire It is generally used in Treacle and Methridate and in all other Medicines that are made to procure rest and sleep and to eas pains in the Head as well as in other parts It is also used to cool Inflamations Agues or Phrensies and to stay Defluxions which caus a Cough or Consumption and also other Fluxes of the Belly or Womens Courses It is also put into hollow Teeth to eas the pain and hath been found by experience to eas the pain of the Gout The Wild Poppy or Corn Rose as Mathiolus saith is good to prevent the Falling-sickness The Syrup made with the Flowers is with good effect given to those that have the Pluresie and the dried Flowers also either boyled in water or made into Pouder and drunk either in the Distilled Water of them or in some other Drink worketh the like effect The Distilled Water of the Flowers is held to be of much good use against Surfets being drunk evening and morning It is also more cooling than any of the other Poppies and therefore cannot but be as effectual in hot Agues Phrensies and other Inflamations either inward or outward the Syrup or Water to be used therein or the green Leavs used outwardly either in an Oyntment as it is in Populeon a cooling Oyntment or any other wales applied Galen saith the Seed is dangerous to be used inwardly The Herb is Lunar and of the Juyce of it is made Opium only for lucre of Money they cheat you and tell you 't is a kind of Tear or some such like thing that drops from Poppies when they weep and that is some where beyond the Sea I know not where beyond the Moon Purslane THe Garden Purslane being used as a Sallet Herb is so well known that it needeth no Description I shal therefore only speak of its Vertues as followeth Vertues and use It is good to cool any heat in the Liver Blood Reins and Stomach and in hot Agues nothing better It stayeth hot and Chollerick Fluxes of the Belly Womens Courses the Whites and Gonorrhea or running of the Reins the Distillations from the Head and pains therein proceeding of heat want of sleep or the Phrensie The Seed is more effectual than the Herb and is of singular good use to cool the heat and sharpness of Urine and the outragious Lust of the Body Venerious Dreams and the like insomuch that the overfrequent use hereof exinguisheth the Heat and Vertue of Natural Procreation The Seed bruised and boyled in Wine and given to Children expelleth the Worms The Juyce of the Herb is held as effectual to all the purposes aforesaid as also to stay Vomitings and taken with some Sugar or Honey helpeth an old and dry Cough shortness of Breath and the Phtisick and stayeth immoderate Thirst. The Distilled water of the Herb is used by many as the more pleasing with a little Sugar to work the same effects The Juyce also is singular good in the Inflamations and Ulcers of the secret parts in man or woman as â—â— of the Bowels and Hemorrhoids â—hen they are Ulcerous or Excoriations in them The Herb bruised and applied to the Forehead and Temples allayeth excessive heat therein hindring rest and sleep and applied to the Eyes taketh away the redness and Inflamation in them and those other parts where Pushes Wheals Pimples St. Anthonies Fire and the like break forth especially if a little Vinegar be put to it And being laid to the Neck with as much of Galls and Linseed together taketh away the pains therein and the Crick in the Neck The Juyce is used with Oyl of Roses for the said causes or for Blastings by Lightning and Burnings by Gun-Pouder or for Womens sore Breastss and to allay the heat in all other Sores or Hurts applied also to the Navels of Children that stick forth it helpeth them It is also good for sore Mouths and Gums that are swollen to fasten loos Teeth Camerarius saith That the distilled water used by some took away the pain of their Teeth when all other Remedies failed and that the thickned Juyce made in Pills with the Pouder of Gum Tragacanth and Arabick being taken prevaileth much to help those that make a bloody water Applied to the Gout it easeth pains thereof and helpeth the hardness of Sinews if it come not of the Cramp or a cold caus 'T is an Herb of the Moon See Lettice Primroses THese are so well known that they need no Description Of the Leavs of Primroses is made as fine a Salve to heal green Wounds as any is that I know you shall be taught to make Salves of any Herb at the latter end of the Book make this as you are taught there and do not you that have any Ingenuity in you see your poor Neighbors go with wounded Limbs when a Halfpenny cost will heal them Privet Description OUr common Privet is carried up with many slender Branches to a reasonable height and breadth to cover Arbours Bowrs and Banquetting Houses and brought wrought and cut into many forms of Men Horses Birds c. which though at first supported groweth afterwards strong of it self It beareth long and narrow green Leavs by couples and sweet smelling white Flowers in tufts at the ends of the Branches which turn into smal black Berries that have a Purplish Juyce within them and some Seeds that are flat on the one side with a hole or dent therein Place It groweth in this Land in divers Woods Time Our Privet Flowreth in June and July The Berries are ripe in August and September Vertues and Use. It is little used in Physick with us in these times more than in Lotions to wash Sores and Sore Mouths and to cool Inflamations and dry up Fluxes Yet Mathiolus saith it serveth to all the uses for which Ciprus or the East Privet is appointed by Dioscorides and Galen He further saith That the Oyl that is made of the Flowers of Privet infused therin and set in the Sun is singular good for the Inflamations of Wounds and for the Headach coming of an hot caus There is a sweet water also distilled from the Flowers that is good for all those Diseases
doth purge the Body of Chollerick Humors and asswageth the heat being taken in a draught of Wine or any other Drink The Pouder of the purple Leaves of the Flowers only pick'd and dried and drunk in Water is said to help the Quinsie and the Falling-sickness in Children especially in the beginning of the Disease The Flowers of the White Violets ripeneth and dissolveth Swellings The Herb or Flowers while they are fresh or the Flowers when they are dry are effectual in the Plurisie and all Diseases of Lungs to lenesie the sharpness of hot Rhewms and the Hoarsness of the Throat the heat also and sharpness of Urine and all pains of the Back or Reins and the Bladder It is good also for the Liver and the Jaundice and in al hot Agues to cool the Heat and quench the Thirst But the Syrup of Violets is of most use and of better effect being taken in some convenient Liquor and if a little of the Juyce or Syrup of Lemmons be put to it or a few drops of the Oyl of Vitriol it is made thereby the more powerful to cool the heat and to quench the Thirst and giveth to the drink a Clarret Wine colour and a fine tart â—ellish pleasing the tast Violets taken or made up with Honey doth more clense than cool and with Sugar contrary-wise The dryed Flowers of Violets are accounted among the Cordial Drinks Pouders and other Medicines especially where cooling Cordials are necessary The green Leaves are used with other Herbs to make Plaisters and Pultisces for Inflamations and Swellings and to ease pains wheresoever arising of heat and for the Piles also being fried with Yolks of Eggs and applied thereto Pansies or Heartsease are like unto Violets in all their operations but somwhat hotter and dryer yet very temperate and by viscuous Juyce therein doth somwhat mollifie yet less than Mallows It is conducing in like manner as Violets to the hot Diseases of the Chest and Lungs for Agues Convulsions and Falling-sickness in Children The Decoction helpeth Itch and Scabs being bathed therwith It is said also to soder green Wounds and to help old Sores the Juyce or distilled Water thereof being drunk Vipers Buglofs Description THis hath many long rough Leaves lying on the ground from among which rise up diverse hard round Stalks very rough as if they were thick set w th prickles or hairs wherin are set such like long rough hairy or prickly sad green Leavs somwhat narrow the middle Rib for the most part being white The Flowers stand at the tops of the Stalks branched forth into many long spiked Leaves of Flowers bowing or turning like the Turnsole all of them opening for the most part on the one side which are long and hollow turning up the Brims a little of a Purplish Violet colour in them that are fully blown but more reddish while they are in the Bud as also upon their decay and withering but in some places of a paler purple colour with a long pointel in the middle feathered or parted at the top After the Flowers are fallen the Seeds growing to be ripe are blackish cornered and pointed somwhat like unto the Head of a Viper The Root is somwhat great and blackish and woolly when it groweth toward Seed time and perisheth in the Winter There is another sort little differing from the former only in that it beareth white Flowers Place The first groweth wild almost every where That with white Flowers about the Castle Walls of Lewes in Sussex Time They Flower in Summer and their Seed is ripe quickly after Vertues and Use. It is an especial Remedy against the biting of the Viper and of all other Venemous Beasts or Serpents as also against poyson and poysonful Heâ—â—s Dioscorides and others say That whosoever shall take of the Herb or Root before they be bitten shall not be hurt by the poyson of any Serpent The Roots or Seeds are thought to be most effectual to comfort the Heart and expel Sadness or cause less Melancholly it tempers the Blood and allayeth the hot Fits of Agues The Seed drunk in Wine procureth abundance of Milk in Womens Brests The same also being taken caseth the pains in the Loyns Back and Kidneys The distilled Water of the Herb when it is in Flower or his chiefest strength is excellent to be applied either inwardly or outwardly for all the Griefs aforesaid There is a Syrup made hereof very effectual for the comforting of the Heart and expelling Sadness and Melancholly VVall-Flowers or Winter Gilly-flowers THe Garden kinds are so wel known that they need no Description Description The common single Wall-Flowers which grow wild abroad hath sundry smal long narrow and dark green Leaves set without order upon smal round whitish wooddy Stalks which bear at the tops diverse single yellow Flowers one above another every one having four Leaves apiece and of a very sweet scent after which come long Pods containing reddish Seed The Root is white hard and threddy Place It groweth upon old Church Walls and old Walls of many Houses and on the other stone Walls in diverse places The other sorts in Gardens only Time All the single kinds do Flower many times in the end of Autumn and if the Winter be mild all the Winter long but especially in the Months of February March and April and until the heat of the Spring do spend them But the double kinds continue not Flowring in that manner all the yeer along although they Flower very early somtimes and in some places very late Vertues and Use. Galen in his seventh Book of Simple Medicines saith That the yellow Wall-flowers worketh more powerfully than any of the other kinds and is therefore of more use in Physick It clenseth the Blood and freeth the Liver and Reins from Obstructions provoketh Womens Courses expelleth the Secondine and dead Child helpeth the hardness and pains of the Mother and of the Spleen also stayeth Inflamations and Swellings comforteth and strengthneth any weak part or out of Joynt helpeth to clense the Eyes from mistiness and Films on them and to clense foul and filthy Ulcers in the Mouth or any other part and is a singular Remedy for the Gout and all Aches and Pains in the Joynts and Sinews A Conserve made of the Flowers is used for a Remedy both for the Apoplexie and Palsey The VValnut-Tree THis is so well known that it needeth no Description Time It Blossometh early before the Leaves come forth and the Fruit is ripe in September Vertues and Use. The Bark of the Tree doth bind and dry very much and the Leaves are much of the same temperature but the Leaves when they are older are heating and drying the Second Degree and harder of digestion than when they are fresh which by reason of their sweetness are more pleasing and better digesting in the Stomach and taken with sweet Wine they move the Belly downwards but being old they grieve the
Stomach and in hot Bodies cause Choller to abound and the Headach and are an enemy to those that have the Cough But are less hurtful to those that have colder Stomachs and are said to kill the broad Worms in the Belly or Stomach If they be taken with Onions Salt and Honey they help the biting of a Mad Dog or the Venom or infectious poyson of any Beast c. Oneus Pompeius found in the Treasury of Methridates King of Pontus when he was overthrown a Scrowl of his own Hand-writing containing a Medicine against any Poyson and Infection which is this Take two dry Walnuts and as many good Figgs and twenty Leaves of Rue bruised and beaten together with two or three Corns of Salt and twenty Juniper Berries which taken every morning fasting preserveth from danger of Poyson or Infection that day it is taken The Juyce of the outer green Husks boyled up with Honey is an excellent gargle for sore Mouths the Heat and Inflamations in the Throat and Stomach The Kernels when they grow old are more Oyly and therfore not so fit to be eaten but are then used to heal the Wounds of the Sinews Gangrenes and Carbuncles The said Kernels being burned are then very astringent and will then stay Lasks and Womens Courses being taken in red Wine and stay the falling of the Hair and make it fair being anointed with Oyl and Wine The green Husks will do the like being used in the same manner The Kernels beaten with Rue and Wine being applied helpeth the Quinsie and bruised with some Honey and applied to the Ears easeth the pains and Inflamations of them A piece of the green Husk put unto a hollow Tooth easeth the pains The Catkins hereof taken before they fall off dried and given a dram thereof in Pouder with white Wine wonderfully helpeth those that are troubled with the rising of the Mother The Oyl that is pressed out of the Kernels is very profitably taken inward like Oyl of Almonds to help the Chollick and to expel wind very effectually an ounce or two thereof may be taken at a time The yong green Nuts taken before they be half ripe and preserved with Sugar are of good use for those that have weak Stomachs or Defluxions thereon The distilled water of the green Husk before they be half ripe is of excellent use to cool the heat of Agues being drunk an ounce or two at a time as also to resist the Infection of the Plague if some thereof be also applied to the Sores thereof The same also cooleth the heat of green Wounds and old Ulcers and healeth them being bathed therewith The distilled Water of the green Husks being ripe when they are shelled from the Nuts being drunk with a little Vinegar is also found by experience to be good for those that are infected with the Plague so as before the taking therof a Vein be opened The said Water is very good against the Quinsin being gargled and bathed therewith and wonderfully helpeth Deafness the Noise and other pains in the Ears The Distilled water of the yong green Leaves in the end of May performeth a singular cure on foul running Ulcers and Sores to be bathed with wet Cloathes or Spunges applied to them evening and morning VVold VVeld or Dyers VVeed Description THe common kind groweth bushing with many Leaves long narrow and flat upon the ground of a dark blewish green colour somwhat like unto Woad but nothing so large a little crumpled and as it were round pointed which do so abide the first yeer And the next Spring from among them rise diverse round Stalks two or three foot high beset with many such like Leaves thereon but smaller and shooting forth some smal Branches which with the Stalks carry many smal yellow Flowers in a long spiked Head at the tops of them where afterwards come the Seed which is small and black inclosed in Heads that are devided at the tops into four parts The Root is long white and thick abiding the Winter The whol Herb changeth to be yellow after it hath been in Flower a while Place It groweth every where by the way sides in moist grounds as well as dry in Corners of Fields and by Lanes and somtimes all over the Field in Sussex and Kent they call it Greenweed Time It is in Flower about June Vertues and Use. Mathiâ—lus saith That the Root hereof cutteth tough Flegm digesteth raw Flegm thinneth gross Humors dissolveth hard Tumors and openeth Obstructions Some do highly commend it against the bitings of Venemous Creatures to be taken inwardly and applyed outwardly to the hurt place as also for the Plague or Pestilence The People in some Countries of this Land do use to bruise the Herb and lay it to Cuts or Wounds in the Hands or Legs to heal them Wheat THe several kinds hereof are so well known unto almost all people that it is altogether needless to write any Description thereof Vertues and Use. Dioscorides saith That to eat the Corns of green Wheat is hurtful to the Stomach and breedeth Worms Pliny saith That the Corns of Wheat toasted upon an Iron Pan and eaten is a pleasant Remedy for those that are chilled with cold The Oyl pressed from Wheat between two thick Plates of Iron or Copper heated healeth all Tetters and Ring-worms being used warm and hereby Galen saith he hath known many to be cured Mathiolus commendeth the same Oyl to be put into hollow Ulcers to heal them up and it is also good for Chops in the Hands or Feet and to make a rugged Skin smooth The green Corns of Wheat being chewed and applied to the place bitten by a mad Dog healeth it Slices of Wheat Bread soaked in Red Rose-water and applied to the Eyes that are hot red and inflamed or blood-shotten helpeth them Hot Bread applyed for an hour at a time three daies together perfectly healeth the Kernels in the Throat commonly called the Kings Evil. The Flower of Wheat mixed with the Juyce of Henbane stayeth the Flux of Hurhors to the Joynts being laid theron The said Meal boyled in Vinegar helpeth the shrinking of the Sinews saith Pliny and mixed with Vinegar and Honey boyled together healeth all Freckles Spots and Pimples on the Face Wheat Flower mixed with the Yolk of an Eg Honey and Turpentine doth draw clense and heal and Boyl Plague Sore or foul Ulcer The Bran of Wheat Meal steeped in sharp Vinegar and then bound in a Linnen Cloth and rubbed on those places that have the Scurf Morphew Scabs or Leprosie wil take them away the Body being first well purged and prepared The Decoction of the Bran of Wheat or Barley is of good use to bath those places that are Bursten by a Rupture and the said Bran boyled in good Vinegar and appled to swollen Breasts helpeth them and stayeth all Inflamations it helpeth also the bitings of Vipers which I
a Soldier hath I say when Mars was free from War he called a Councel of War in his own Brain to know how he should do poor sinful man good desiring to forget his in being called an Infortune He musters up his own Forces and places them in Bâ—ttalia â—h quoth he why do I hurt a poor silly Man or Woman His Angel Answers him 'T is because they have ofâ—ended their God Look back to Adam Well saies Mars though they speak evil of me I 'le do good to them Death's cold my Herbs shall heat them They are full of ill Humors else they would never have spoken ill of me my Herb shall clense them and dry them They are poor weak Creatures my Herb shall threngthen them they are dul witted my Herb shall fortifie their Apprehensions and yet amongst Astrologers all this doth not deserve a good word â—h the Patience of Mars Faelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas Inque domus superum scandere cura fiâ—t Oh happy he that can the Knowledg gain To know th' eternal God made nought in vain To this I add I know the reason causeth such a Dearth Of Knowledg 't is becaus men love the Earth The other day Mars told me he met with Venus and he asked her what the Reason was that she accused him for abusing Women he never gave them the Pox in the Dispute they fell out and in anger parted and Mars told me that his brother Saturn told him that an Antivenerial Medicine was the best against the Pox. Once a Month he meets with the Moon Mars is quick enough of speech and the Moon not much behind hand neither are most Women The Moon looks much after Children and Children are much troubled with the Worms she desued a Medicine of him he bad her take his own Herb Wormwood He had no sooner parted with the Moon but he met with Venus and she was as drunk as a Bitch Alâ—s poot Venus quoth heâ— What thou a Fortune and be drunk I 'le give thee an Antipathetical Cure take my Herb Wormwood thou shalt never get a Surfet by drinking A poor silly Country-man hath got an Ague and cannot go about his business he wishes he had it not and so do I but I 'le tell him a Remedy whereby he may prevent it Take the Herb of Mars Wormwood and if Infortunes will do good what will Fortunes do Some say the Lungs are under Jupiter and if the Lungs then the breath and yet a man somtimes gets a stinking breath and yet Jupiter is a Fortune forsooth up comes Mars to him Come Brother Jupiter thou knowest I sent thee a couple of Trines to thy Houses last night the one from Aries and the other from Scorpio give me thy leave by Sympathy to cure the poor man by drinking a draught of Wormwood Beer every morning The Moon was weak the other day and she gave a man two terrible mischiefs a dull Brain and a weak sight Mars lâ—ies by his Sword and comes to her Sister Moon saith he This man hath anger'd thee but I beseech thee take notice he is but a Fool prithee be patient I will with my Herb Wormwood cure him of both Infirmities by Antipathy for thou knowst thou and I cannot agree with that the Moon began to quarrel Mars not delighting much in Womens Tongues went away and did it whether she would or no. He that reades this and understands what he reades he hath a Jewel more worth then a Diamond He that understands it not is as little fit to give Physick There lies a Key in these words which will unlock if it be turned by a wise hand the Cabbinet of Physick I have delivered it so plainly as I durst 't is not upon Wormwood only that I wrote but upon all Plants Trees and Herbs He that understands it not is unfit in my Opinion to give Physick This shall live when I am dead and thus I leave it to the World not caring â— Halfpenny whether they like or dislike it The Grave equals all men and therefore shall equal me with the Princes until which time the Eternal Providence is over me then the ill tongue of a praâ—ling Priest or of one who hath more Tongue than Wit or more Pride than Honesty shall never trouble me Wisdom is justified of her Children and so much for Wormwood Yarrow Description IT hath many long Leaves spread upon the ground and fine cut and devided into many smal parts Its Flowers are white but not all of a whiteness and staied in Knots upon diverse green Stalks which rise from amongst the Leaves Place It is very frequent in all Pastures Time It Flowers late even in the latter end of August Vertues and Use. An Oyntment of them cures Wounds and is most fit for such as have Inflamations it being an Herb of Dame Venus It stops the Terms in Women being boyled in white Wine and the Decoction drunk as also the Bloody Flux the Oyntment of it is not only good for green Wounds but also for Ulcers and Fistulaes especially such as abound with moisture It staies the shedding off of Hair the Head being bathed with the Decoction of it inwardly taken it helps the retentive faculty of the Stomach it helps the running of the Reins in men and the whites in women and helps such as cannot hold their water and the Leaves chewed in the Mouth ease the Toothach and these Vertues being put together shew the Herb to be drying and binding Achilles is supposed to be the first that leâ—t the Vertues of this Herb to posterity having learned them of his Master Chyron the Centaure and certainly a very profitable Herb it is in the Camp and perhaps therfore called Militaris DIRECTIONS HAving in diverse places of this Treatise promised you the way of making Syrups Conserves Oyls Oyntments c. of Herbs Roots Flowers c. whereby you may have them ready for your use at such times when otherwise they cannot be had I come now to perform what I promised and you shall find me rather better than worse than my word That this may be done Methodically I shall devide my Directions into two grand Sections and each Sections into several Chapters and then you shall see it look with such a Countenance as this is Sect. 1. Of gathering drying and keeping Simples and their Juyces Chap. 1. Of Leaves of Herbs c. Chap. 2. Of Flowers Chap. 3. Of Seeds Chap. 4. Of Roots Chap. 5. Of Barks Chap. 6. Of Juyces Sect. 2. Of making and keeping Compounds Chap. 1. Of Distilled Waters Chap. 2. Of Syrups Chap. 3. Of Juleps Chap. 4. Of Decoctions Chap. 5. Of Oyls Chap. 6. Of Electuaries Chap. 7. Of Conserves Chap. 8. Of Preserves Chap. 9. Of Lohochs Chap. 10. Of Oyntments Chap. 11. Of Plaisters Chap. 12. Of Pultisses Chap. 13. Of Troches Chap. 14. Of Pills Chap. 15. The way of fitting Medicines to Compound Diseases Of all
than such as are small yet most of them will keep a yeer 6. Such Roots as are soft it is your best way to keep them alwaies neer the fire and take this general Rule If in Winter time you find any of your Roots Herbs or Flowers begin to grow moist as many times you shall especially in the Winter time for 't is your best way to look to them once a month dry them by a very gentle fire or if you can with convenience keep them neer the fire you may save your self the labor 7. It is in vain to dry such Roots as may commonly be had as Parsly Fennel Plantane c. but gather them only for present need Chap. 5. Of Barks 1. BArks which Physitians use in Medif cines are these sorts of Fruits o Roots of Boughs 2. The Barks of Fruits is to be taken when the Fruit is full ripe as Orrenges Lemmons c. but because I have nothing to do with Exoticks here I shall pass them without any more words 3. The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring if it be of great Trees as Oaks or the like because then they come easiest off and so you may dry them if you please but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use 4. As for the Bark of Roots 't is this and thus to be gotten Take the Roots of such Herbs as have a pith in them as Parsly Fennel c. slit them in the middle and when you have taken out the pith which you may easily and quickly do that which remains is called though somthing improperly the Bark and indeed is only to be used Chap. 6. Of Juyces 1. Juyces are to be pressed out of Herbs when they are yong and tender and also out of some Stalks and tender tops of Herbs and Plants and also out of some Flowers 2. Having gathered your Herb you would preserve the Juyce of when it is very dry for otherwise your Juyce will not be worth a Button bruise it very well in a stone Mortar with a wooden Pestle then having put it into a Canvas Bag the Herb I mean not the Mortar for that will yield but little Juyce press it hard in a press then take the Juyce and clarifie it 3. The manner of clarifying of it is this put it into a Pipkin or Skillet or some such thing and set it over the fire and when the Scum riseth take it off let it stand over the fire till no more Scum rise then have you your Juyce clarified cast away the Scum as a thing of no use 4. When you have thus clarified it you have two waies to preserve it all the yeer First When it is cold put it into a Glass and put so much Oyl on it as will cover it the thickness of two fingers the Oyl will swim at top and so keep the Air from coming to it to purrifie it when you inâ—end to use it do no more but so powr out into a Porrenger a little more than you intend to use and if any Oyl come out with it as if the Glass be not full 't is a hundred to one it there do you may easily scum it off with a Spoon and put the Juyce you use not into the Glass again it will quickly sink under the Oyl This is the first way Secondly The second way is a little more difficult and the Juyce of Fruits is usually preserved this way when you have clarified the Juyce as before boyl it over the fire till being cold it be of the thickness of Honey this is most commonly used for Diseases of the mouth and is called Râ—b and Sapa And thus much for the first Section the Second follows SECT 2. The way of making and keeping all Necessary Compounds Chap. 1. Of Distilled Waters HItherto we have spoken of Medicines which consist in their own Nature which Authors vulgarly call Simples though somthing improperly for indeed and in truth nothing is Simple but the pure Elements all things else are compounded of them We come now to treat of the Artificial Medicines in the front of which because we must begin somewhere we place distilled Waters In which consider 1. Waters are distilled out of Herbs Flowers Fruits and Roots 2. We treat not here of strong Waters but of cold as being to act Galen's Part and not Paracelsus 3. The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor and so ought the Flowers also 4. The vulgar way of Distillation which people use because they know no better is in a Peuter Still and although Distilled Waters are the weakest of all Artificial Medicines and good for little unless for mixtures of other Medicines yet this way distilled they are weaker by many degrees than they would be were they distilled in Sand If I thought it not impossible to teach you the way of distilling in Sand by writing I would attempt it 5. When you have distilled your Water put it into a Glass and having bound the top of it over with a Paper pricked full of holes that so the excrementitious and fiery vapors may exhale which indeed are they that cause that setling in distilled Waters called the Mother which corrupts the Waters and might this way be prevented cover it close and keep it for your use 6. Stopping distilled Waters with a Cork makes them musty and so will a Paper also if it do but touch the Water your best way then is to stop them with a Bladder being first wet in Water and bound over the top of the Glass Such cold Waters as are distilled in a Peuter Still if well kept will endure a yeer such as are distilled in Sand as they are twice as strong so will they endure twice as long Chap. 2. Of Syrups 1. A Syrup is a Medicine of a Liquid form composed of Infusion Decoction and Juyce and 1. for the more grateful tast 2. for the better keeping of it with a certain quantity of Honey or Sugar hereafter mentioned boiled to the thickness of new Honey 2. You see at the first view then that this Aphorism devides it self into three Branches which deserve severally to be treated of viz. 1. Syrups made by Infusion 2. Syrups made by Decoction 3. Syrups made by Juyce Of each of these for your Instruction sake kind Country men and women I speak a word or two or three apart First Syrups made by Infusion are usually made of Flowers and of such Flowers as soon lose both colour and strength by boyling as Roses Violets Peach-Flowers c. my Translation of the London Dispensatory will instruct you in the rest They are thus made having picked your Flowers clean to every pound of them ad three pound of three pints which you will for it is all one of Spring Water made boyling hot by the fire first put your Flowers in a Peuter Pot with a cover then powr the Water to them then shutting the Pot let
it stand by the fire to keep hot twelve hours then strain it out in such Syrups as pâ—â—ge as Daâ—ask Roses Peach-Flowers c. the usual and indeed the best way is to repeat this Infusion adding fresh Flowers to the same Liquor diverse rimes that so it may be the stronger having strained it out put the Infusion into a Peuter Bason or an Eartlien one well glassed and to every pint of it ad two pound of fine Sugar which being only melted over the fire without boyling and scummed will produce you the Syrup you desire Secondly Syrups made by Decoction are usually used of Compounds yet may any Simple Herb be thus converted into Syrup Take the Herb Root or Flower you would make into Syrup and bruise it a little then boyl it in a convenient quantity of Spring Water the more water you boyl it in the weaker will it be a handful of the Herb Root c. is a convenient quantity for a pint of Water boyl it till half the water be consumed then let it stand till it be almost cold and strain it being almost cold through a woollen cloth letting it run out at leisure without pressing to every pint of this Decoction ad one pound of Sugar and boyl it over the fire till it come to a Syrup which you may know if you now and then cool a little of it in a spoon scum it all the while it boyls and when it is sufficiently boyled whilst it is hot strain it again through a woollen cloth but press it not thus have you the Syrup perfected Thirdly Syrups made of Juyces are usually made of such Herbs as are full of Juyce and indeed they are better made into a Syrup this way than any other the Operation is thus having beaten the Herb in a stone Mortar with a wooden Pestle press out the Juyce and clarifie it as you were taught before in the Juyces then let the Juyce boyl away till a quarter of it or neer upon be consumed to a pint of this ad a pound of Sugar and boyl it to a Syrup alwaies scumming it and when it is boyled enough strain it through woollen cloth as we taught you before and keep it for your use 3. If you make Syrups of Roots that are any thing hard as Parsley Fennel and grass Roots c. when you have bruised them lay them in steep some time in that Water which you intend to boyl them in hot so will the Vertue the better come out 4. Keep your Syrups either in Glasses or stone Pots and stop them not with Cork nor Bladder unless you would have the Glass break and the Syrup lost â— and as many Opinions as there are in this Nation I suppose there are but few or none of this only bind a Paper about the Mouth 5. All Syrups if well made will continue a yeer with some advantage yet of all such as are made by Infusion keep the least while Chap. 3. Of Juleps 1. Juleps were first invented as I suppose in Arabia and my reason is because that word Juleb is an Arabick word 2. It signifies only a pleasant Potion and was vulgarly used by such as were sick and wanted help or such as were in health and wanted no money to quench thirst 3. Now a daies 't is commonly used 1. To prepare the Body for Piâ—gation 2. To open Obstructions and the Pores 3. To digest tough Humors 4. To qualifie hot distempers c. 4. It is thus made I mean Simple Juleps for I have nothing to say to Compounds here all Compounds have as many several Idea's as men have crotchets in their Brain I say Simple Juleps are thus made Take a pint of such distilled Water as conduceth to the cure of your distemper which this Treatise will plentifully furnish you withal to which add two ounces of Syrup conducing to the same effect I shall give you Rules for it in the last Chapter mix them together and drink a draught of it at your pleasure If you love tart things ad ten drops of Oyl of Vitriol to your pint and shake it together and it will have a fine grateful tast 5. All Juleps are made for present use and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration Chap. 4. Of Decoctions 1. ALL the difference between Decoctions and Syrups made by Decoction is this Syrups are made to keep Decoctions only for present use for you can hardly keep a Decoction a week at any time if the weather be hot not half so long 2. Decoctions are made of Leaves Roots Flowers Seeds Fruits or Barks conducing to the cure of the Disease you make them for in the same manner are they made as we shewed you in Syrups 3. Decoctions made with Wine last longer than such as are made with Water and if you take your Decoction to clense the passages of Urine or open Obstructions your best way is to make it with white Wine instead of Water because that is most penetrating 4. Decoctions are of most use in such Diseases as lie in the Passages of the Body as the Stomach Bowels Kidneys Passages of Urine and Bladder because Decoctions pass quicker to those places than any other form of Medicines 5. If you will sweeten your Decoction with Sugar or any Syrup fit for the occasion you take it for which is better you may and no harm done 6. If in a Decoction you boyl both Roots Herbs Flowers and Seeds together let the Roots boyl a good while first because they retain their Vertue longest then the next in order by the same Rule viz. 1. The Barks 2. the Herbs 3. the Seeds 4. the Flowers 5. the Spices if you put any in because their vertue comes soonest our 7. Such things as by boyling cause sliminess to a Decoction as Figs Quince Seeds Linseed c. your best way is after you have bruised them to tie them up in a linnen rag as you tie up a Calves Brains and so boyl them 8. Keep all Decoctions in a Glass close stopped and in the cooler place you keep them the longer will they last ere they be sowr Lastly The usual Dose to be given at one time is usually two three four or five ounces according to the age and strength of the Patient the season of the yeer the strength of the Medicine and the quality of the Discase Chap. 5. Of Oyles 1. OYL Olive which is commonly known by the name of Sallet Oyl I suppose because it is usually eaten with Sallets by them that love it If it be pressed out of ripe Olives according to Galen is temperate and exceeds in no one quality 2. Of Oyls some are Simple and some are Compound 3. Simple Oyls are such as are made of Fruits or Seeds by expression as Oyl of sweet and bitter Almonds Linseed and Rapeseed Oyl c. of which see my Dispensatory 4. Compound Oyls are made of Oyl of Olives and other Simples imagine Herbs Flowers Roots
cut it into it and let it so remain till you have occasion to use it 3. Roots are thus preserved First scrape them very clean and clense them from the Pith if they have any for some Roots have not as Eringo and the like boyl them in Water till they be soft as we sâ—ew you before in the Fruits then boyl the Water you boyled the Roots into a Syrup as we shewed you before then keep the Roots whol in the Syrup till you use them 4. As for Barks we have but few come to our hands to be done and those of those few that I can remember are Orrenges Lemmons Citrons and the outer Bark of Walnuts which grows without the Shell for the Shels themselves would make but scurvy Preserves there be they I can remember if there be any more put them into the number Thâ—â— of Preserving these is nor all one is Authors for some are bitter some are not such as are bitter say Authors must be soaked in warm Water often times changed till their bitter tast be fled but I like not this way and my reason is because I doubt when their bitterness is gone so is their Vertue also I shall then prescribe one common way namely the same with the former viz. First boyl them whol till they be soft then make a Syrup with Sugar and the Liquor you boyled them in and keep the Barks in the Syrup 5. They are kept in Glasses or glassed Pots 6. The preserved Flowers will keep a yeer if you can forbear eating of them the Roots and Barke much longer 7. This Art was plainly and clâ—erly as first invented for delicacy yet came afterwards to be of excellent use in Physiak For 1. First Hereby Medicines are made pleasant for sick and queazy Stomiâ—â—s which else would â—â— them 2. Hereby they are preserved from dccaying a long time Chap. 9. Of Lohochs 1. THat which the Arabians call Lohoch and the Greeks Eclegma the Latins call Linctus and in plain English signifies nothing else but a thing to be licked up 2. Their first invention was to prevent and remedy afflictions of the Breast and Lungs to clense the Lungs of Flegm and make it fit to be cast out 3. They are in Body thicker than a Syrup and not so thick as an Electuary 4. The manner of taking them is often to take a little with a Liquoris stick and let it go down at leisure 5. They are easily thus made make a Decoction of any pectoral Herbs the Treatise will furnish you with enough and when you have strained it with twise its waight of Honey or Sugar boyl it to a Lohoch If you are molested with tough Flegm Honey is better than Sugar and if you ad a little Vineger to it you will do well if not I hold Sugar to be better than Honey 6. It is kept in Pots and will a yeer and longer 7. It s use is excellent for roughness of the Windpipe Inflamations of the Lungs Ulcers in the Lungs difficultie of Breath Asthmaes Coughs and distillation of Humors Chap. 10. Of Oyntments 1. VArious are the waies of making Oyntments which Authors have left to posteritie which I shall omit and quote one which is easiest to be made and therefore most beneficial to people that are ignorant in Physick for whose sakes I write this It is thus done Bruise those Herbs Flowers or Roots you would make an Oyntment of and to two handfuls of your bruised Herbs ad a pound of Hogs Grease tryed or clensed from the skins beat them very well together in a stone Mortar with a wooden Pestle then put it in a stone Pot the Herbs and Grease I mean not the Mortar cover it with a paper and set it either in the Sun or some other warm place three four or fivs daies that it may melt then take it out and boyl it a little then whilst it is hot strain it out pressing it out very hard in a Press to this Grease ad as many more Herbs bruised as before let them stand in like manner as long then boyl them as you did the former if you think your Oyntment be not strong enough you may do it the third and fourth time yet this I tell you the fuller of Juyce your Herbs are the sooner will your Oyntment be strong the last time you boyl it boyl it so long till your Herbs be crisp and the Juyce consumed then strain it pressing it hard in a press and to every pound of Oyntment ad two ounces of Turpentine and as much Wax because Grease is offensive to Wounds as well as Oyl 2. Oyntments are vulgarly known to be kept in Pots and will last above a yeer above two yeer Chap. 11. Of Plaisters 1. THe Greeks made their Plaisters of diverse Simples and put Mettals in most of them if not in all for having reduced their Mettals into Pouder they mixed them with that fatty substance whereof the rest of the Plaister consisted whilst it was yet hot continually stirring it up and down lest it should sink to the bottom so they continually stirred it till it was stiff then they made it up in rolls which when they need for use they could melt by the fire again 2. The Arabians made up theirs with Meals Oyl and Fat which needed not so long boyling 3. The Greeks Emplasters consisted of these Ingredients Mettals Stones diverse sorts of Earths Feces Juyces Liquoris Seeds Roots Herbs Excrements of Creatures Wax Rozin Gums Chap. 12. Of Pultisses 1. PUltisses are those kind of things which the Latins call Cataplasmata and our learned Fellows that if they can read English that 's all call them Cataplasms because 't is a â—rabbed word few understand it is indeed a very fine kind of Medicine to ripen Sores 2. They are made of Herbs and Roots fitted to the Disease and Member afflicted being chopped smal and boyled in Water almost to a Jelly then by adding a little Barley Meal or Meal of Lupines and a little Oyl or rough Sheep Suer which I hold to be better spread upon a cloath and applied to the grieved place 3. Their use is to case pains to break Sores to cool Inflamations to dissolve hardness to ease the Spleen to concoct Humors to dissipate Swellings 4. I beseech you take this Caution along with you Use no Pultisses if â—â—an help it that are of a heating Nature â—â—re you have first clensed the Body beâ—â—ey are subject to draw the Humors to them from every part of the Body Chap. 13. Of Troches 1. THe Latins call them Placentulae or little Cakes and you might have seen what the Greeks call them too had not the last Edition of my London Dispensatory been so hellishly printed that 's all the Commonwealth gets by one Stationer's printing anothers Coppies viz. To plague the Country with false Prints and disgrace the Author the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are
the Dropsie and Stone in the Kidneys in this manner Take of the Seeds of Parsley Fennel Annis and Caraways of each an ounce of the Roots of Parsley Burnet Saxifrage and Carawaies of each one ounce and an half let the Seeds be bruised and the Roots washed and cut smal Let them lie all night in sleep in a pottle of white Wine and in the morning be boyled in a close earthen Vessel until a third part or more be wasted which being strained and cleared take four ounces thereof morning and evening first and last abstaining from drink after it for three hours This openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and expelleth the Dropsie and Jaundice by Urine Parsnip THe Garden kind hereof is so well known the Root being commonly eaten that I shal not trouble you w th any Description of it But the wild kind being of more Physical use I shall in this place describe unto you Discription The wild Parsnip differeth little from the Garden kind but groweth not so fair and large nor hath so many Leavs and the Root is shorter more woody and not so fit to be eaten and therefore the more Medicinable Place The name of the first sheweth the place of its growth Viz. In Gardens The other groweth wild in divers places as in the Marshes by Rochester and elswhere and flowreth in July the Seed being ripe about the beginning of August the second yeer after the sowing for if they do flower the first yeer the Country people call them Madneps Vertues and use The Garden Parsnep nourisheth much and is good and wholsom Nourishment but a little windy whereby it is thought to procure bodily lust but it fatneth the Body much if much used It is conducible to the Stomach and Reins and provoketh Urine But the wild Parsnep hath a cutting attenuating clensing and opening quality therein It resisteth and helpeth the bitings of Serpents easeth pains and Stitches in the sides and dissolveth wind both in the Stomach and Bowels which is the Chollick and provoketh Urine The Root is often used but the Seed much more The wild being better than the tame shews Dame Nature is the best Physitian Cow-Parsnep Description THis groweth with three or four large spread winged rough Leavs lying often on the Ground or else raised a little from it with long round hairy footstalks under them parted usually into five devisions the two couples standing each against other and one at the end and each Leaf being almost round yet somwhat deeply cut in on the edges in some Leavs and not so deep in others of a whitish green colour smelling somwhat strongly among which ariseth up a round crested hairy Stalk two or three foot high with a few Joynts and Leavs thereon and branched at the top where stand large Umbels of white and somtimes reddish Flowers and after them flat whitish thin winged Seed two alwaies joyned together The Root is long and white with two or three long strings growing down into the ground smelling likewise strongly and unpleasant Place It groweth in moist Meadows and the borders and corners of Fields and neet Ditches generally through this Land Time It Flowreth in July and Seedeth in August Vertues and Use. The Seed hereof as Galen saith is of a sharp and cutting quality and is therefore a fit Medicine for the Cough and shortness of Breath the Falling-sickness and the Jaundice The Root is available to all the purposes aforesaid and is also of great use to take away the hard skin that groweth on a Fistula if it be but scraped upon it The Seed hereof being drunk clenseth the belly from tough Flegmatick matter therein easeth them that are Liver-grown and Womens passions of the Mother as well being drunk as the smoke thereof received underneath and likewise raiseth such as are fallen into a deep sleep or have the Lethargy by burning it under their Nose The Seed and Root boyled in Oyl and the Head rubbed therewith helpeth not only those that are fallen into a Frenzy but also the Lethargy or Drowsie evil and those that have been long troubled with the Headach if it be likewise used with Rue It helpeth also the running Scab and the Shingles The Juyce of the Flowers dropped into the Ears that run and are ful of matter it clenseth and healeth them The Peach-tree Description THe Peach-tree groweth not so great as the Apricock-tree yet spreadeth Branches reasonable well from whence spring smaller reddish twigs whereon are set long and narrow green Leavs dented about the edges The Blosloms are greater than the Plum and of a light Purple colour The Fruit round and somtimes as big as a reasonable Pippin others are smaller as also differing in colours and tasts as russer red or yellow waterish or firm with a frieze or Cotton all over with a cleft therein like an Apricock and a rugged surrowed great Stone within it and a bitter Kernel within the Stone It sooner waxeth old and decayeth than the Apricock by much Place They are nursed up in Gardens and Orchards through this Land Time They Flower in the Spring and Fructifie in Autumn Vertues and use The Leavs of Peaches bruised and laid on the Belly killeth Worms and so they do also being boyled in Ale and drunk and open the Belly likewise and being dried is a safe Medicine to discuss Humors The Pouder of them strewed upon fresh bleeding Wounds stayeth their bleeding and closeth them up The Flowers steeped all night in a little Wine standing warm strained forth in the morning and drunk fasting doth gently open the Belly and move it downwards A Syrup made of them as the Syrup of Roses is made worketh more forcibly than that of Roses for it provoketh Vomiting and spendeth waterish and Hydropick Humors by the continuance thereof The Flowers made into a Conserve worketh the same effect The Liquor that droppeth from the Tree being wounded is given in the Decoction of Coltsfoot to those that are troubled with the Cough or shortness of breath by adding thereto some sweet Wine and putting some Saffron also therein it is good for those that are hoarce or have lost their voice helpeth all defects of the Lungs and those that vomit or spit blood Two drams thereof given in the Juyce of Lemmons or of Radish is good for those that are troubled with the Stone The Kernels of the Stones do wonderfully eas the pains and wringings of the Belly through wind or sharp Humors and help to make an excellent Medicine for the Stone upon all occasions on this manner Take fifty Kernels of Peach Stones and one hundred of the Kernels of Cherry Stones a handful of Eldor Flowers fresh or dried and three pints of Muscadine set them in a closed pot into a bed of Horse dung for ten daies which after distill in Glass with a gentle fire and keep it for your use you may drink upon occasion three or four ounces at a time The
Milk or Cream of these Kernels being drawn forth with some Vervain Water and applied to the Forehead and Temples doth much help to procure rest and sleep to sick persons wanting it The Oyl drawn from the Kernels the Temples being therewith anointed doth the like The said Oyl put into Clysters easeth the pains of the wind Chollick and anointed on the lower part of the Belly doth the like and dropped into the Ears caseth the pains of them The Juyce of the Leavs doth the like being also anointed on the Forhead and Temples it helpeth the Megrim and all other pains in the Head If the Kernels be bruised and boyled in Vinegar until they become thick and applied to the Head it merveilously procure the Hair to grow again upon bald places or where it is too thin Lady Venus owns this Tree and by it opposeth the ill effects of Mars and indeed for Children and yong people nothing is better to purge Choller and the Jaundice than the Leavs and Flowers of this Tree being made into a Syrup or Conserve let such as delight to please their lust regard the Fruit but such as love their health and their Childrens let them regard what I say they may safely give two spoonfuls of the Syrup at a time 't is as gentle as Venus her self The Pear-tree THese are so well known that they need no Description Vertues and Use. For their Physical use they are best discerned by their tasts All the sweet or lushious sorts whether manured or wild do help to move the Belly downward more or less Those that are harsh and sowr do on the contrary bind the Belly as much and the Leavs do so also Those that are moist do in some sort cool but harsh or wild sorts much more and are very good in repelling Medicines as if the wild sorts be boyled with Mushroms it maketh them the less dangerous The said Pears boyled with a little Honey helpeth much the oppressed Stomach as al sorts of them do some more some less but the harsher sorts do most cool and bind serving well to be bound to green wounds to cool and stay the Blood and heal up the wound without further trouble or Inflamation as Galen saith he hath found by experience And wild Pears do sooner close up the Lips of green Wounds than the others Schola Salerni adviseth to drink much Wine after Pears or els they say they are as bad as poyson nay and they curs the Tree for it too but if a poor man find his Stomach oppressed by eating Pears 't is but working hard and it will do as wel as drinking Wine The Trce belongs to Venus and so doth the Apple-tree Pellitory of the Wall Description THis riseth up with many brownish red tender and weak clear and almost transparent stalks about two foot high upon which grow at the several Joynts two Leavs somwhat broad and long of a dark green colour which afterwards turn brownish smooth on the edges but rough and hairy as the Stalks are also At the Joynts with the Leavs from the middle of the stalks upwards wher it spreadeth into some branches stand many smal pale purplish Flowers in hairy rough Heads or Husks after which come smal black and rough Seed which will stick to any cloth or Garment that shall touch it The Root is somwhat long with many smal Fibres thereat of a dark reddish colour which abideth the Winter although the Stalks and Leavs perish and spring afresh every yeer Place It groweth wild generally through this Land about the borders of Fields and by the sides of Walls and among Rubbish It will endure well being brought into Gardens and planted on the shady side where it will spring of its own sowing Time It flowreth in June and July and the Seed is ripe soon after Vertues and Use. The dried Herb Pellitory made up into an Electuary with Honey or the Juyce of the Herb or the Decoction thereof made up with Sagar or Honey is a singular Remedy for any old or dry Cough the shortness of breath and Wheesing in the Throat Three ounces of the Juyce thereof taken at a time doth wonderfully help stopping of the Urine and to expel the Stone or Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladderâ— and is therfore usually put among other Herbs used in Clisters to mitigate pains in the Back Sides or Bowels proceeding of wind stopping of Urine the Gravel or Stone as aforesaid If the bruised Herb sprinkled with some Muskadine be warmed upon a Tile or in a Dish upon a few quick coals in a Chasing-dish and applied to the Belly it worketh the same effect The Decoction of the Herb being drunk easeth pains of the Mother and bringeth down Womens Courses it also easeth those griefs that arise from Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Reins The same Decoction with a little Honey added thereto is good to gargle a sore Throat The Juyce held a while in the Mouth easeth pains in the Teeth The distilled water of the Herb drunk with some Sugar worketh the same effects and clenseth the Skin from Spots Freckles Purples Wheals Sunburn Morphew c. The Juyce dropped into the Ears easeth the noise in them and taketh away the pricking and shooting pains therein The same or the distilled Water asswageth hot and swelling Impostumes Burnings and Scaldings by fire or Water as also all other hot Tumors and Inflamations or breakings out of Heat being bathed often with wet Cloathes dipped therein The said Juyce made into a Liniment with Ceruss and Oyl of Roses and anointed therewith clenseth foul rotten Ulcers and stayeth spreading or creeping Ulcers and the running Scabs or Sores in Childrens Heads and helpeth to stay falling of the Hair from off the Head The said Oyntment or the Herb applied to the Fundament openeth the Piles and easeth their pains and being mixed with Goats Tallow helpeth the Gout The Juyce is very effectual to clens Fistulaes and to heal them up safely or the Herb it self bruised and applied with a little Salt It is likewise so effectual to heal any green Wound that if it be bruised and bound thereto for three daies you shall need no other Medicine to heal it further A Pultis made hereof with Mallows and boyled in Wine with Wheat Bran and Bean Flower and some Oyl put thereto and applied warm to any bruised Sinew Tendon or Muscle doth in a very short time restore them to their strength taking away the pains of the Bruises and dissolveth the congealed Blood coming of Blows or Falls from high places The Juyce of Pellitory of Wall clarified and boyled into a Syrup with Honey and a spoonful of it drunk every morning by such as are subject to the Dropsie if continuing that cours though but once a week if ever they have the Dropsie let them come but to me and I will cure them gratis Peny-royal Description THis is so well known unto all I