or other place or rowme wyl geue such a light in the darke as the Moone doth when she shines in a bright night Iohannes Baptist. A Peece of a chyldes Nauell string borne in a ring is good against the falling sicknes the paynes of the head and of the collyck Mizaldus BAptista Fulgosus reports that nie to Sirminū a Citie of Pamony sometymes there hath bene Tendrals of Gold found in the Uines wherof there hath bene money coynd Which many haue seene sayth Gandeut Meruba in his tyme And Alexander Neapolitanus sayth that he hath founde in Germany within Daunby Uines that dyd beare lytle nayles and leaues of pure golde which was geuen for presentes to Kings and Dukes Mizaldus IF any doeth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astronomie whether that place where he dwelles is better for him then that to which hee meanes to go beholde and if thou dost finde the Moone seperate from Infortunes that is from an euyll Planette or from an Infortunate Planette tell him that his going is better then his tarying But if you finde the Moone seperate from a good or fortunate Planet then it is better for him to tarry there styl then to go from thēce to dwel And to be briefe if one shall aske thee saying thus I must needes doo a certaine thing or I haue certayne busynesse to doo whether maye I doo it or not then marke thou the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone and if thou finde them seperate from euyll Planets or euyll fortunes applying to good or fortunate Planets byd him do that that he is determined to do and spare not But if thou finde them seperate from good Planets or fortunate and applying to euyll Planets byd him that he doo it not neyther take it in hande Haly Abenragell THat Woman is lyke to be barreyn in whose Natiuitye the Moone and Venus being in barreyne signes are Infortunate of Mars and Saturne Or if Saturne be in the seuenth or tenth house Infortunating 〈◊〉 and the Moone or if Venus be with Saturne and the Moone then in the syxt or twelfth house Infortunate Iatromath Guat Ryff THe seedes of Roses with Mustarde seede and the foote of a Wesell all together tyde in some thing hangde among the bowes or branches of a tree that beares but lytle fruite It is sayde that it wyll make that tree to beare well and to be maruelous fruitfull Mizaldus PAre the nailes of one that hath the quarteyn ague which being put into a lynnen cloath and so tyed about the necke of a quicke Eele and the same Eele put into the water thereby the ague wyll be dryuen away Geber et Alb. IF any lyst to sleepe and laye by him the braunches of moyst Hempe Gnats wyll not trouble him nor come neare him Myzaldus IF the Lorde of the twelfth house be in the twelfth house many debates and enemities wyll happen vpon the day belonging to that Planet to the childe then borne Taisnier COoluer dunge stampt and vsed for a plaster with strong Uineger and applyed to the Nauell byndeth incontinent all Fluxes of the belly Macer THe roote of a Goorde tyed to the reynes of the backe of Women that is in labour or trauell of chylde doth cause speedy delyueraunce thereof But let it be taken away as soone as the chyld doth come foorth least the Matrix go out after the chylde Trotula de passionibus mulierum HEre foloweth an Electuary of a wonderfull vertue in the tyme of Pestilence this Electuary is of so great a vertue in them that do receyue it once in .xxiiii. howres that they may be sure from all euyl infections of corrupt and contagious ayres all the daye after But in them that are infect already and are taken with the Pestilence if they drinke of it but one spoonefull as shall be sayde hereafter especially after letting of bloud if it be conuenient to the patient and laye him downe and sweate vpon the same if the venyme hath not vtterlie ouercome the hart he shall vndoubtedlie recouer It hath bene lately proued that after drynking of the same medicine when the patient made his water in an vrinall the glasse hath burst in peeces by reason of the venime that it purged out This is the making of the sayde Electuary Take Cynamom elect one ounce Terra sigillata sixe drams fyue Myrre three drams Unycornes horne one dram the seede rynde of Cytron rootes of Dyptanny Burnet Turmentyl Zedoary red Currall of each two drams yellow Saunders fowre scruples red Saunders two scruples whyte Been and red flowres of Marygooldes of each one dram Yuery rased Scabius Veroincitunici seede of Basyll the bone of a Stags harte Saffron of each two scruples make a syne powder and ad vnto it of bole Armoniacke preparate two ounces whyte sugar three pound and with a syrrup of Acetositate citri make a goodly Electuary and keepe it in a glasse If the Pestilence commeth with great excesse of heate drinke it in Rose water Uineger but if you feele it colde take it in a draught of Wine and couer you with cloathes so that you maye sweate as long as is possible for without doubt it is a present remedy as I my selfe haue nowe of late proued Thus much Thomas Phayre in his Treatyse of the Pestylence THe teethe of a mad Dogge that hath bytten a man or woman tyed in leather and then hangde at the shoulder doeth preserue and keepe the partye that beares it from being bytten of any madde Dogge Diascorides by the report of Mizaldus THe Seedes of Carduus Benedictus stamped and drunke doth helpe the griefe paynes prickings and stitches of the syde and the gryping in the guts and the lower parte of the belly This is proued for trueth IF any doth sprinckle his head with the powder of the skinne that a Snake doth cast off gotten or gathered when the Moone is in the ful being also in the fyrst part of Aries the Ram he shall see terryble and fearefull dreames And if he shall haue it vnder the plant of his foote he shal be acceptable before Magistrates and Princes Cardanus WHosoeuer beginnes theyr iourney in the howre of Venus he shall haue good and profyte on the behalfe of Women or some such lyke thing Haly Abenragell IF Woormes gnawe vpon or hurt the mouth of the stomacke put Honny combes into the mouth fasting and holde them there and the Woormes wyll draw vnto the Honny and so voyde by the mouth It hath bene proued IN the fyrst beginning of any sycknes or at the time of any question for the sycke if the Moone be Orientall nye to the Sunne within twelue degrees it is sygne of death and the nearer to the Sun and in Combusyon the woorse Iohannes Ganiuetus WIth this Secrete following Benedictus victorius had alwayes good successe in passions and griefes of the harte Take of the iuyce of Buglosse cleansed or putrified at the fyre two ounces of white Sugar two drams myxe them
it seperateth and putteth away the watrye humors of the Splene it helpeth forwarde the flowers if it be droonke nyne dayes together in the morning purgeth the belly also it purgeth all chollor and all corrupt bloud it healeth all wounds within the belly it cleareth the sight it cureth poysoned bytings To the healing of wounds the powder of Centory ought to be put to them Lullius in his booke of waters Euonymus descrybes this which is a worthy worke PUt quicksyluer in a bladder and lay the bladder in a hotte place and it wyll skyp from place to place without handling AN excellent water for purifying or cleansyng the skyn of the face or other parts of the body which is secrete vnknowne Take syx new layd Egs half a pound of Malmsey a young Pigion not wholly fethered halfe a pounde of new Cheese comming from the presse made of vnskymmed mylke eyght Orrenges Oyle of Tartare three ounces one ounce of Ceruse made in powder gum Arabick and Mastick of eyther halfe an ounce water of Beane flowres eight ounces Ryce fowre ounces stieped fyrst a whole day and a nyght in halfe a pynt of Creame cut the Orrenges in peeces and stampe them a lytle then put all together with the Creame Ryce also And distyll the same also with an easy fyre and keepe the water dystylled therof in a cleane close stopped glasse and vse to rubbe and wette the face therwith euery euening before you go to bedde and euery morning wash it cleane with water distylled of Beane flowres Use this a fortnight or three weekes together and you shall find it a notable thing TO make a Glew to hold or ioygne thinges together as hard or fast as a stone an excellent secret Take vnslackt Lyme quench the same with wine beate the same into fine powder myxing therwith both Fygs Swynes grease and after labour them well together for this as Pliny wryteth passeth the hardnes of a stone with which ioygne broken pots or any thing together Also take greeke Pytch Rosē and the powder of lytle stones these myxe together when you wyll occupy of the same then heate it ouer the fyre worke therwith that is ioygne any thing therwith and it holdeth them together as harde as any nayle Also take of Spuma ferri one pound of tyle shardes in powder two pounde of vnslackt Lyme fowre pound of oyle of Lynne seede as much as shall suffice to prepare myxe worke them together this Glewe is maruelous strong which neyther feareth nor yeeldeth to water nor fyre This is of the natural and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated into Englysh by Thomas Hyll AN Angelike water of a maruelous vertue against blearednes of the eyes Canker and burning with fyre Take three ounces of vnslackt Lime and halfe a pounde of rayne water let them stande together in a vessell of glasse or tyn three dayes then mixe styrrre them together and let them setle againe a whole day a night in a vessell well couered afterward strayne them tenderly through a lynnen cloath vntyll it be cleare then put into it ten drams of Sal Armoniack the whytest you can get beate it finely let it be dyssolued with long standing and oft mouing in the sayd water After when it is setled strayne the cleane water that standeth aboue certaine times or else distyl it by a fylter This water healeth the spot and web in the eye if you drop three drops thryse euery day into thē continewing so vntyll the eyes be whole it taketh away also the teares of the eyes the rednes and the blearednes of the eyes And also the Canker and burning It taketh away all spots and staynes of cloath both of Sylke and Woollen if they be washed with it a lytle warmed Furnerius by the report of Euonymus Besydes I haue proued it in the lyke case therfore I am bold to say it is an excellent thing AN excellent water called the golden water a balme a blacke oyle doth follow Take of cleare Turpentine seuen ounces wash it wel with whyte wine after take good whyte Honny three pound clarify it with a lytle whyte wine ouer an easy fyre and take of the scoom styll from it then put the Turpentyne to it myxing them well together Then powre therto of Aqua vite fowre pound and myxe them well in a body of glasse luting it or stopping it well then take Buglosse Borrage Bawme Sage Lauēder of each one handfull Hysop Camamyle Yarrow red Roses of each one handfull Woormwood one dram Rosemary two handfulles Then take wood of Aloes Xilobalsamum the three Saunders of eache one dram Mace Nutmugge Cynamom Galanga Cloues Cucubes whyte and long Pepper Saffern Spyknarde Graynes of Paradise Cardamomum of each three drammes Zedoarye halfe an ounce Squynant halfe a dram the pylles or ryndes of Lymons the seedes of Lymons Scicados Arabike of eache one dram Calamus Aromaticus halfe a dram Carlinae cardopacij two ounces Bistorte two drams the roote of Flowre Deluce halfe an ounce Bay berryes Ualeryan Polypode of each half an ounce Licqueres Annes seedes of eyther halfe a dram of Radyshe two ounces of Coryander correct halfe an a◠ounce Syler mounten one dram blaunched Almondes halfe a pound small Reysens halfe a pound being washt with Wyne All these being beaten or strayned put into the sayd body of glasse to the Honny and other thinges and if there be not inough of Aqua vite put therto more and let them stande so seuen dayes well couered and stopt then after distyll the same in ashes with an easy fyre all being wel luted for the space of fowre howres least the Honny boyle and there wyll come out a cleare water Then encrease the fire and when you see the water yallow then put too another receyuer of glasse which you must lute also with the beake of the Styll and keepe the fyrst water by it selfe encrease the fyre vntyl there come no more yallowe water and when you see it come blacke then take away the receyuer and put an other thertoo and lute it lykewise and when you see a smoake come then it is inough and keepe all these three seuerally and let the Styll stande vntyll it bee colde In the fyrst water put Folij Indi fyue drams Amber halfe a dram Mosche halfe a scruple which is twelue graynes and also fyfteene leaues of Gold. If you wyl vse it for the head take one ounce of the water of Bettony and of the fyrst water one spoonefull myxe them together drinke it all fasting The vertue of this doth strengthen all the members Take one ounce of Malmsey or of other good Wyne in a lytle glasse and put one spoonefull of this fyrst whyte water thertoo myxe them together and it wyll be whyte as mylke which drynke with a fasting stomacke and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after and it wyll preserue all thy members
sore must be first washt with whyte Wine a lyttle warmed and the iuice and the leaues must be put to it and you wyll maruel at the effect Mizaldus had this of one that proued it and I also haue tryed it to be excellent IF any wood or yron be deepe in the flesh and cannot wel be gotten out dip a tent in the iuice of Ualeryan and put it into the wound or sore as deepe as you can and tye the herbe Ualeryan stamped vpon the same with some linnen cloath that it remoue not away and by this meanes the wood yron or other thing whatsoeuer wyll not onely be drawen foorth but also the wound wyl be healed Mizaldus writes it vpō the report of an Italian Alexis also affirmes it A Barren Uine wyll beare grapes if you cast olde and sowre vrine theron or if you burie the leefe of Wine at the rootes therof but you must take heede that you cast not soot that is swept from chymneys or Lyme to the roote of the sayd barren Uine which with their burning heate kyls the Uine and makes the same to wyther before his tyme Mizaldus IN the morning if salt be holden in the mouth vnder the tongue vntyll it melt or consume into water and the teeth being rubbed therewith it wyll preserue the teeth safe and sounde and it wyll keepe them from rotting and that they shall not be worm-eaten a thing often proued true THe teeth of a Bore newly kylled are so hotte that if one then put them to heairs or brystles they wyll burne them which seemes that the Bore is so inflamed with yre against them that kyls him that hee woulde be reuenged on them with his tuskes Xenophon is the author and Myzaldus the reporter therof THere is no presenter helpe to ease the tormentes of the Gowte both in the handes and in the feete then a yong whelpe especially of one collour if the same be put to the griefe Leuinus Leminus But the whelpe ought to be cut out or clouen in two partes thorow the myds of the back and the one halfe with the inner side hotte to be layde vnto the grieued place and this I know to be an excellent thing MAny stinking things do driue away the contagious and pestiferous ayre as Castorum Galbanū Sagapenū Brimstone all which are to be had at the Apothecaries the smoke of burned Lether and of Hornes and especially the smell of Gonpowder For sayth Lemnius the whole Citie of Tornace enfected with the plague the Rulars of the Towre or Castel there caused their Gons to be layde and leuelled at the Citie charged with Gonpouder without pellets or shotte and then morning and euening in the twye lyght they shotte of the layde peeses or Gons so that through the stynking smell of the sayd smoke ▪ and the great and violent noyse of the Gons the infectious and contagious ayre was quite put awaye and the Citie delyuered from the plague COmmon Azure is made as followeth take of Salt Armoniack three ounces of Uerdigreece syxe ounces let them be made in powder and mixe them with water of Tartar so that it maye be somthing thick then put the same into a glasse and let it be well stopped that no ayre may get forth let it be layde in very hotte Horsedung for the space of eyght dayes and then when you take it out you shall finde it excellent Azure Mizaldus IT is to be marueled that a Cocke or Cockrell which doth not feare a Serpent or a Dragon is so afrayde of the shadowe of a Gleade when he is flying that sodainlie he seekes a place of refuge and hydes himselfe Mizaldus ANy kind of Aumber being sodden in the greese of a Sow that geues suck to yoūg pygs is not only therby the clearer but also much the better Mizal. IF any carye vpon him the seede of Sorrell gathered of a boye being a virgin his sparme or nature shall not go from him neyther sleeping nor waking therfore it is sayde to be good against any pollution in the night Gilbertus Anglicus A Certaine Citizen of Padua hauing Cautharides that is to saye French Flees applyed to one of his knees dyd pysse aboue fiue ounces of bloud the lyke hapned to one to whose great toe of the foote the same was applyed Bartholomeus Montegnanus a notable Phisitiō affirmes this therfore Cautharides is perillous to be taken both inwarde outwarde THe leafe of the greater Burre borne or layd on the top of the head doth draw the Matrix vpwarde But layd vnder the sole of the foote it draweth downwarde which is a notable and excellent remedie against the suffocations falling and displasing of the Matrix This Mizaldus wryteth ALe sod tyll it be thyck lyke a salue helpes all sores and aches applyed therto maruelously a thing often proued ALl kind of Docks haue this propertie that what flesh or meate is sodde therwith though they be neuer so olde harde or tough they wyl become tender and meete to be eaten herevpon it comes that they were so vsed in the olde tyme for that therby the meate was more sooner concoct and easelyer disgested and the wombe more soluble Mizaldus WHen the ascendent and the Moone are both impedyte and their Lords or Sygnifers safe then the sicknesse is in the body and not in the minde And if the Ascendent and the Moone be safe and their Lordes or sygnifiers impedite or hyndered then the sicknesse is in the minde and not in the body And if they all be impedyte then it sygnifyes both sicknesse of the body griefe of mind Likewise if an Infortunate planet beholde the Ascendent not the Moone then the disease or griefe is in the minde not in the body And if contrary then the disease is in the body not in the minde But if an Infortunate planet behold them both then the disease and griefe is in them both Iatromath Guat Ryff IF one suspect him selfe to be infect with the Pluresie let the partie holde in his breath as long as he can and then if he can let his breath go without coughing he hath not the Pluresie If not he hath the Pluresie or is in daunger therof WHosoeuer hath the Quarteyn ague shall not be troubled with the falling sicknes for if one haue the falling sycknes fyrst after shall haue the Quarteyn ague the falling sycknes wyll leaue him Hippocrates ONe may cullour Iuery or any other bones with an excellent greene cullour as followeth take strong water called Aqua Fortis wherein dyssolue asmuch copper as the sayde water is able then let the bones that you would haue culloured lye in the same all night and they wyll be lyke a Smaragdine cullour Mizaldus IF Oyle be powred vpon wine or any other lycour it makes that the same shall not waxe mustie nor be corrupted For it excludes or driues forth all ayre that maye breede corruption onely with the outward ayre of the Oyle as with
Sarcacol of each halfe an ounce the gall of a Capon Chickin or Cocke two drams Nutmegs Cloues and Saffern of eache one dram Sugar candie syxe drams Put all into a Lymbeck of glasse and dystyll it and put of this water into your eies once in the day two or three drops at a tyme And there can not be a more precious thing for the eyes then this I knowe it by proofe and therefore I am the bolder both to prayse it and publysh it abroade to the great comfort of other THe three score thyrde yeare of ones age is counted to be a daungerous and peryllous tyme for that it doth passe seldome without daunger of lyfe or without some other great mysfortune As it is obserued in many examples Hereof Augustus Caesar as Gellius reporteth was maruellous glad that he had escaped that yeare of his age The cause may be that the seuenth yeare and the nynthe yeare being Anni climacterici et critici which are Iudicial yeares multyplyed together makes the sayde number of .63 This Mizaldus describes SEethe Iuie berryes in vineger or in whyte wine and when they be well sodde suppe of the same hotte lyccour and when it is colde spytte it out and suppe more therof Whosoeuer doth thus it helpeth the toothe ache THey in whose Natiuitie Venus is impedite or Infortunate of Saturne Are lyke to haue paynes or griefes in theyr stones especially if she be in the Ascendent And lykewise if Venus be with Mars in the eyght house or if the Moone Venus and Mars be coniunct or in the euyll aspect of Saturne Iatromath Guat Ryff WHosoeuer is lame and can neyther go nor styrre their ioynts Let them take of good Aqua coÌ„posita and oyle of Roses of eyther a lyke much myxe them both together and annoynt the grieued place therewith morning and euening vntyll he be well Which wyll be within a whyle after but rubbe the place with warme cloathes well before A thing often proued WHosoeuer hath Mars in the Horoscope or the Ascendent at the tyme of his byrth certainly he wyll haue a speciall scarre or marke in his face Pro. Which I haue tryed in many and yet neuer haue founde it false THe cyrcles of cart wheeles emptie cartes and the combe on a Cocks head do maruelouslie feare a Lyon being a most hardy or fierce beast but of all things he feares fyres torches lyght or fyrebrands Plynius Aelianus et alij THat Pygions be not hunted or kylled of Cats at the windowes euery passage and at euery Pygions hole hang or put lytle braunches of Rew for Rew hath a maruellous strength agaynst wylde Beasts As Didimus doth saye IF the tayle of a Woolfe be hanged in a house no Woolfe wyll enter therein neyther any Flyes wyll flye into the same Rasis et Alb. IF a mad man vse to laughe it is a laudible sygne but if he be verie sadde it it is peryllous Aphor. Hippocratis THis medicine folowing wyll procure a good stomacke to meate Take three drams of good Synamon one dram of Mastick one dram of the parings of Pomegranets and halfe a dram of Galingale and stampe all these together and temper it with claryfied Honny and then vse to eate as much of thereof as a Nut euery day during ten dayes fasting and it wyll procure a good stomacke and also preserue and keepe the same from any euil humors to breede therin This is an excellent medicine and often proued and easie to be made IF you marke where your right foote doth stand at the fyrst tyme that you do heare the Cuckoo and then graue or take vp the earth vnder the same whersoeuer the same is sprinckled about there wyll no fleas breede Plynie by Mizaldus report And I knowe that it hath bene proued true TO make the counterfeat Mandrag which hath bene sold by deceyuers for much money Do thus as foloweth Take the great double roote of Bryonie newly taken out of the grounde and with a fyne sharpe knife frame the shape of a Man or Woman of the same with his stones and cods and other members therto And when it is cleane done pricke all these places with a sharpe steele as the head the eye browes the chyn and the priuities and put into the sayde holes the seedes of Myllet or any other that bringes foorth lytle small rootes that doo resemble heayrs which leeke seedes wyll do very well or els baâ—ly after this put it in the ground and let it be couered with earth vntyl it haue gotten vpon it a certayne lytle skyn and then thou shalt see a monstruous Idoll and heairie which wyll become the parts well if it be workmanlie or cunningly made or figured Mizaldus Another trym waye for the lyke is in the naturall and artificiall conclusions Englished by Thomas Hyll WHosoeuer annoynts his feete or hands with the grease of a Woolfe he shall not be hurt with any colde of his handes or feete so annointed Mizaldus FIue leaued grasse through Iupiters force doth resyst venym or poyson Wherof if one leafe twyse euery daye morning and euening be drunken with wine It is sayde to put away the Quotidian â—gue Three leaues the Tercian ague And fowre leaues the Quarten ague Marcilius Ficinus IF in the beginning of the sicknesse or at the tyme of asking of the question for the sicke the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone be in the fowrth or eight house Combust or Cadent or conuinct with the Lord of the eyght house they geue a certaine testimony of death And if one of them onely that is the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Moone be so it is a testimony of death as is before sayde Iohan. Ganiuet VArueyn stampt and streyned with wine water or vineger and then geuen to a woman that trauels or is in her labour and can not be delyuered it causeth speedy delyueraunce Trotula de passionibus mulierum And Gysbertus affyrmes the lyke if it be drunke with water A Straunge medicine and a rare secrete for consuming the webbe in the eye oftentymes proued Take nyne lytle woormes with many feete of some called Swyne lyse if they be touched they become rounde as a button they are to be founde betwene the barke and the woodde of olde tymber or trees stampe them with a lytle iuyce of Woodbynde or Betony then streyne the same well and let the partie that hath the webbe in his eye drinke it in a morning something warmed Do thus three mornings together and it wyl cure it perfectly God wylling This was tolde me for a very trueth by one that had proued it dyuers tymes THis that followeth is a speciall medicine for them that swoonds or are faint at the hart Take Rosemarie Sage Betony and Margerom of â—ache one handfull and seethe them in a gallon or more of fayre water tyll halfe the water be consumed then take awaye the hearbes and put to the sayde water a good pynt of Honny and then skymme
it well and then put thereto an ounce of Stycados tyde in a fayre lynnen cloath and let it seethe a lytle whyle and then take it out of the sayde water and then put thereto one ounce of Synamon three quarters of an ounce of Nutmegges and as much of Gynger in powder And vse to drinke a good draught thereof twyse euery day something warme fyrst and last for the space of syxe or seuen dayes And then it helpes perfectlie THat Chylde wyll be deaffe that is borne when Mercurie is Lorde of the syxt house and Infortunate by an euyll aspect with Saturne chiefly if he be in the syxt house Lykewise they wyll haue great impediment in their hearing in whose Natiuitie Iupiter and Saturne be both impedite or Infortunate aboue the earth That is if they be Retrograde or Combust in euyll places Iatro THey that haue any paynes or swelling in the throate let them take a Iewes eare which is to be had at the Apothecaries lay it to stiepe in Ale a whole night and let the party drinke a good draught therof euery daye once or twyse vntyll they perceyue them selues amended A proued thing A Straunge matter and a thing followeth worthy of memorye Whosoeuer hath the Kinges Euyll and lookes vpon a certaine Byrde called Galgulus of a maruelous shape and quicke sight by and by the same byrde doth drawe to her the yallow vapors of choller heales the party perfectly through a certaine great benefite of nature But where as through a secrete gyfte of Nature she doth perceyue or smell the diseased party to come towarde her shee wyl close her eyes hyde her head vnder her wings not that she doth enuie the parties health or lothe to helpe him of his disease But because she doth greatly feare the sharpnes of the humor which the nearer the party infected comes to her the more it wyl pain her he the more eased Therfore they were wont to sel this Byrd to such as had this disease in some close thing or couered least the party should be healed for nothing The Authors hereof are Hilodorus Plutarchus Aelianus Suidas and Plynie with other And Kirannides and after him Albertus reportes that if this Byrde refuse to looke vpon the diseased party it is a token that he shall dye thereof But if he looke euen vpon him she drawes the disease to her self and then by and by or soone after she flying against the Sunne doth vomit it out of her And thus she doth both cure the sycke party and delyuer her selfe from the same through a certaine maruelous benefite of Nature But learned men do much dyscent in taking of this Byrde Plynie contends that it is Icterus some do thinke that it is Chloreus or Chlorio which the French men calles Lorion and Loriot The best part of the Phisitions defends that it is Charadrius some affyrmes that it is Oriolus others say that it is Galbulus or Galbula or Chloris which Gesner lykes not And Mizaldus leaues it to the iudgement of the Doctors or learned vntyll experience shal trye the trueth thâ—râ—of Mizaldus in 〈◊〉 Mirabilibus seu arcanis ORpheus and Archelaus 〈◊〉 by the report of Plynie that if the 〈◊〉 of them be smeared with mans bloud that are fallen of the falling sycknes by by they wyll be delyuered from the traunce or â—yt or if their great todes be then next pulled or pincht THe mydle rynde of a Cherie tree stamped streyned the sayde iuyce put into a lytle whyte wyne warmed and then geuen to drinke to them that haue the stone or can not make water it auoydes the grauell or stone and makes them to make water preseÌ„tlye Use it three or fowre tymes ONe may make beyond sea Azure as followeth counterfeyt it very well Take common Azure and beate or stampe it well with Uineger annoynt therewith a thyn plate of pure syluer and put the same ouer a vessell full of vrine which set ouer hotte ashes and coales and let it be moued sturred vntyll it be lyke beyond sea Azure This is the best way Mizaldus affyrmes that he had this out of an olde written booke IF you do put quick syluer into a potte amongst seething or hotte pease the pease wyll leape out of the potte except the brym or mouth of the potte be to hyghe or the fyre to small Mizaldus sayth that this is proued BArly halfe sodde geueÌ„ to Hens to be eaten makes them laye often and their egs to be greater This is affyrmed for trueth IF any doubt or feare any thing whatsoeuer it bee and asketh thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie thereof marke and consider the Lorde or Almuten of the Ascendent whom if thou dost finde pure and safe from infortunes and he be holding the Ascendent the feare is needeles For no harme shall happen according to the feare Haly Abenragel SAuery beaten and sodden in vineger and layde in manner of a plaster to the hynder part of the head doeth merrelye awaken those that are heauy with sleepe HEre followeth the making of a pleasaunt oyle of Cloues Take of Cloues one pound which beate to powder in a brasen morter then adde thereto three pounde of Almondes scraped and beaten in a morter and when they be well myxed together â–ª sprinkle theron fowre ounces of the best white wine letting it so lye in a masse for the spare of eight dayes at the least â–ª after that stampe the whole ouer againe then put it into a new earthen panne which heate ouer the fyre so long that you caÌ„ not suffer your hand in it then put it vp into square bagges and wring the same harde in a presse vntyll all the whole substaunce of the oyle become TAke a Frogge and cutte her through the myddes of the backe with a knife and take out the Lyuer and foulde it in a Colewoort leafe and burne it in a newe earthen potte well closed and geue the ashes thereof vnto him or her that hath the falling sycknesse to drinke with Wyne and it wyll helpe him And if the partye be not healed at once then do so by another Frogge and so doo styll and without doubte it wyll heale him if he vse it This was tolde me for a sure experiment And it is also affyrmed by Petrus Hispanus A Wonderfull thyng passing all credite chaunced in the Byshopricke or Dyoces of they of Eistettence in Germany but that it was seene of dyuers credyble wytnesses A certaine husbandman there called Vlricke Neucesser being tormented with cruell paynes in one of his sydes soddainly tooke holde of a nayle that was vnder the skynne vnhurt which cutte by a Surgion he tooke out the nayle yet for all that the paynes dyd not cease Wherefore the myserable man suspectinge that there was no remedye to bee had for his payne but by death hee tooke a knyfe and cutte his throate And the thyrde daye after he being â—arryed to burying there was three present one
ounces of Aqua Mulsa which is made with water and Honny that is of one pounde of Honny and eyght pounde of water sodden and skimmed ouer an easie fyre vntyll the fowrth parte be consumed This excellent Antidote dyd King Necomedes vse when any dyd byd him to banket or any other cheare that he dyd suspect If there be no poyson taken before it it wyll remayne quietly in the stomacke but if there be any poyson it wyll procure vomyt so that thereby the poyson and medicine wyll both come forth Myzaldus A Notable thing to cause one to sleepe immediatly Take of the iuyce of Henbane of Lettes of Planteyn of Poppie of the leaues of Mandrag of Iuie leaues of Mulbery leaues and of Humlocke of each one dram of Opium and of Iuie berries of eather as much stampe the Iuie berryes and the Opium together and myxe the iuyces them well together then dyp a spunge into the same and let it drinke it all vp and then laye the same spunge in the Sun to drye after laye the sayde spunge to the parties nose whome you woulde haue to sleepe and he wyll sleepe quicklie And when you wyll awake him dyppe another spunge in Uinegar and holde it to his nose and hee wyll awake within a whyle after This is an excellent thing and true BEware that nothing bynde thy body harde when thou bleedes and then holde thy handfull of shepheards Purse and stâ—dfastlie looke vp to the Sunne and the bleeding wyll cease This is proued TO make a powder that wyll drawe out a toothe without any instrument Take Spurge Pellyter of Spaine Smalledge the dunge of a Rauen or of a Crowe Galbanum the brayne of Partreches and also a Frogge of each a lyke much burne all these together in a newe earthen potte all to powder and with a lytle of the same powder touch the tooth that you woulde haue fall out and doubtles within a quarter of an howre it wyll fall out But you must take heede that you touche none other teeth therewith This I had out of an old written booke wherin was many excellent true things SEethe Mallowes and redde Nettles together in fayre water and let the partie that is costyffe or can not go to the stoole sytte close ouer the same and receyue the fume thereof vp into his fundement and it wyll helpe him certaynlie and spedely God wylling A thing often proued FINIS Lib. 3. ⧠The fowrth Booke of Notable things MAke Dwale as followeth which makes one to sleepe whyles he be cutte or burned by Cawterizing as followeth Take the gall of a Barrowe swyne or the gall of a Bore the iuyce of Humlocks three spoonefull of the iuyce of wylde Neppe three spoonefull of the iuyce of Lettys of the iuyce of Poppie of the iuyce of Henbane and Asell of each three spoonefull myxe them all together and boyle them well and doo them in a glasen vessell well stopped and put three spoonefulles therof in a quart of good wine or Ale and mixe them well together And let him that shal be cut or Cawterized syt against a good fyre and geue him drynke thereof tyll he fall a sleepe This I had also out of an olde wrytten booke Use it warely and proue it aduisedly if you begyn with a lytle quantitie â–ª you maye encrease it when you wyll but if you geue too much at once you can not dyminish it when you lyst THey wyll be hyndered in their smell or wyll haue diseases or griefes in theyr noses In whose Natiuity Mars and Venus are impedite aboue the earth Iatromath DRye the rootes of 〈◊〉 â—â—â—tles and make them in powder 〈…〉 of the powder therof in a draught of whyte Wine somthing warme and it wyll breake the stone though it be neuer so great that with speede Use it euery daye vntyll the stone and grauell be all broken and consumed A thing of small pryce and great vertue A Combe made of the ryght horne of a Ram doth take away the head ache being on the right syde of the head if the pained head be combed therewith If the paine be on the left side of the head then a combe made of the left horne of a Ram doth take it awaye if the pained head be combed therwith This I had out of an olde booke THebit the Philosopher doth teach that to get the vertue of any Starre you must make a ryng wheÌ„ the Moone doth behold happily by a Tryne or Sextyle aspect the same Starre placed in the myddes of the Heauens or in the Ascendent but the matter or substaunce of the Ryng must be made of that mettal that belongs to that Starre and lyke wise an hearb ascribed to the sayde Starre must be included or put vnder that Ryng DYppe a sylken thread in the bloud of a Mowse and then let the patient swallow it that hath the Squynancie or swellinges or paines in the throate and it wyll helpe him THis folowing is a notable medicine for the gowt Take the roote of wylde Neppe and the roote of the wylde Docke fyrst sodden by them selues then pare of the skyns and cut them into peeces stampe them both together as smal as can be then put therto a quantity of soote of a chymney and temper them with the mylke of a Cowe that hath the heair of one cullour then take vrine of a man that is fasting and make a plaster therof boile al together and as hot as the partie can suffer it laye it to the place payned or grieued and a daye a night without remouing and then lay another plaster of the same to it and let it lye therto as long as the other And do thus nine tymes and it wyll helpe him on warrantyes God wylling Proued IF yron that is made cleane or polished be tyncted or rubbed ouer with Aqua fortis wherein the fylinges or scrapings of brasse is dyssolued That yron wyll haue the cullour of brasse Bap. Porta A Horse that castes or holdes his cares backward for the most part is deaffe And that Horse that doth not ney in the company of a great number of other Horsses is doom Simoneta Cardinalis THe best thing of all other to keepe Harnes or any other thing made of yron or steele from rustines is this Stampe the fyling or dust of lead finely in a leaden or yron mortar putting thereto a lytle oyle of Spyke which besydes makes it smell trymlie and therwith rubbe ouer the Harnes or any other thing as is beforesayde made of yron or steele By this meanes you may carry your Harnes or other things so rubbed therewith in watery places and in moyst ayres safe from rusting Mizaldus had this of a cunning Armaror IF one come to geue thee counsayle and thou would knowe whether hee meane well or be a deceauer Mark the tenth house and if a good fortunate planet be found there his couÌ„sayle is good and true But if there be an euyl
panne somewhat which after let stande close couered for fowreteene dayes or twelue at the least At the ende of which tyme heate the whole againe sufficiently that is vntyll it be very hotte then put it into a bagge and wryng out the oyle in a presse vntyll the whole Cynamom remayne through drye in the bagges and then that which is come foorth wyll be of the cullour sauour and taste of the Cynamom A Secrete and knowne to fewe to bee wrought in thys order THe powder of Pellyter of Spaine mixt with the mylke of Wartwoort or Spurge and Galbanum and a lyttle thereof applyed to any rotten or aking tooth wyl breake it or plucke it out and so the paine thereof wyll cease This I had out of an olde wrytten booke IF you wyll knowe whether one shall escape or not that is infected with the plague hauing the plague Sore geue the partie some excellent Treacle with whyte Wyne so that hee be not troubled with an ague for then geue the Treacle with Scabyus or Planten water and also annoynt the plague Sore with the lyke Treacle and if the same be dryed or burned and remayne fyxed the partie thereby not relieued or eased it is a verie euyll sygne but contrarie if the partie be eased it is a great sygne that the party shall escape Arnoldus IN the common place where the Censors of Uenys syttes there neuer enters any Flyes Gandeut Merula And in the fleshe Shamble of Toledo a Cittie in Spayne is not seene but one Flye in all the whole yeare As Leo Paptist sayeth And in Westminster Hall in the Tymber worke there is not to bee founde one Spyder nor a Spyder webbe Because as it is thought the Tymber wherewith the rooffe is buylded was brought out of Irelande and dyd growe there In all which Countrey of Irelande I haue not onely hearde it credibly tolde that there is neyther Spyder Tode nor any other venemous thing but also that some of the earth of that country hath bene brought hether wheron a Tode being layd she hath dyed presently Though this be maruelous strange yet it is true IT is proued sayth Taisnier if Iupiter be in the fift or the twelfth house whether hee be Orientall or Occidentall of the Sunne or whether hee be in a Masculine sygne or Femynine sygne the fyrst chylde of him or her then borne wyll be a boye THe iuyce of ground Iuie snuft vp into the nose out of a spoone or a sawcer purgeth the head maruelouslie and takes away the greatest and eldest paine therof that is This medicine is worth gold though it be very cheape I haue knowne them that haue had maruelous payne in their head almost intollerable for the space of a dosen yeares and this hath helpt them presently and neuer had the paine synce they tooke this medicine THis medicine following wyll kyll woormes in the bellie Take the gall of an Oxe or of a Cowe and so much of the flowre of Lupynes which are to be had at the Apothecaries as wyll thycken the same myxe them well together and laye it on wooll and so plaster it to his bellie where the griefe is and about the nauell and after twelue howres lay theron another plaster Do thus fowre or fiue dayes and it wyll helpe him HOw greatly is the sicke party to be feared or iudged not to escape iâ— in the tyme of the question or the fyrst beginning of the sycknesse both the Lumynaryes are vnder the earth c. Iatromath M. Guat H. Ryff argent IF hotte burning golde be quenched in pure Wine the same Wine being drunke it procures strength to the chiefe members and to the vytall partes And it makes strong the natural faculties and doth helpe the diseased parte with strength and vytall spyrite And this lycquour is thought to be very good in the tyme of Plague And if the same be mixed with a lytle Tarter it doth quyte put away from any part of the body all spots though they be neuer so fowle Yea it helps a leprous face a red nose and any other deformity of the same If the place infected be washt and rubbed often tymes therwith Lemnius THe water that drops out of the Uine or the goom that is founde there being drunke with whyte Wyne doth breake expell the stones in the reynes maruelously And also being rubbed vpon Ryngwoormes Tetters and leprous places it doth cure them But they must be rubbed before with Niter This was tolde to Mizaldus as a proued thing IF his spyttle which hath a consumption being cast vpon the coales doth styncke and the heair fall from his head It is sygne of death Hippocrates in Aphor. THere is a certayne Electuary of lyfe of Arnoldus de villa noua in a lytle booke of his of the putting back of olde age described of the fiue kindes of Myrabolanes made for the conceruing or keeping of health and prolonging of lyfe And it is a perfyt approued thing For it doth not onely comfort but also it doth purge superfluous humors remaining of nutriment past And the vse thereof doth let or hynder graye heairs and it makes one come to the last olde age It strengthneth the stomacke and the vse therof maketh a good cullour in all the body And this is the description therof Take of great Reysons cleansed of their stones and stalkes two pounde Lycquerys made cleane and beaten one ounce Let these be put into two pounde and a halfe of fayre water and let them seethe well and let them then be strayned well And in that that is streined let there be put of Mirabolanes Kebule Citrine and Indy beaten in a Morter their stones taken away of each two ounces of Embelyck Bellerick of either of them two drams Let them be sodde streined pressed or wel wroong then put therto whyte sugar one pounde and seethe altogether to the thycknes of a Syrup and in the ende adde therto of good Cynamom halfe an ounce Cloues Galengaye of each two drams two Nutmugs Maratrum and Annes seede of eyther one ounce and make therof a Lectuary and keepe it in a pure vessell In this Electuary be medicines of the principall members that is to say of the hart head stomacke Lyuer Speâ—n And of the generatiue members and it is fyrst hotte after moyst then cold and the last drie Iohannes Ganiuetus lykewise describes it CErtaine woormes that shines in the night called Glo woorms being wel stopped in a glasse couered within hootte horse dung staÌ„ding there a certaine time wyll be resolued into a lycquor which being mixt with lyke porcion of quicksyluer first clensed purged which wylbe with halfe a dosen times washing in pure vineger myxt with bay salt which after euery washing rubbing must be cast away and then hotte water put to the quicksyluer therewith washed and then put closed in a fayre bright and pure glasse and so hanged vp in the myddes of a house
together and let the pacient or diseased party drinke it euery night going to bed and there wyll not ten dayes passe but the patient wyll be cured of the passion or griefe of the harte THis following is a notable tryed medicine for the gowte and for the swelling of ioynts for knobs or knots comming of the French pocks Take May butter a quarter of a pound halfe a pound of coomyn seede beaten in fyne powder a quarter of a pound of blacke Sope one handfull of Hearbe grace halfe a handfull of clarifyed sheepe suet stampe all these together in a morter then take the gall of an Oxe and a spoonefull of bay Salt and frye them all together tyll it be thycke then laye it on a woollen cloath and so apply it to the ache as hotte as it maye be suffred and let it lye vnremoued a whole weeke and then laye another plaster thereof to it and let it lye vnremoued as long then lay the thyrd plaster therto and let it lye therto as long as the other which wyll be in the whole three weekes and without doubt it wyll helpe him I haue seene it proued This I had out of a verie olde booke THere be and truly with proued successe that doo hang the rootes of Sorrell at theyr neckes for the Swyne pockes and also in lyke case of Planten Mizaldus WHosoeuer hath the bloudy Flyxe be it neuer so great nor greeuous let them drinke the wine wherin the rootes of Hollyocks cut in peeces is sodden and streined if the party haue an ague for then let the rootes be sodde in water with some Planten leaues and so streyned which is an approued sure medicine for that disease whether the party haue an ague or not A Ring made of an Oxe or Cowes horne worne or carryed vpon them that haue the crampe It puts the same away This is proued to be true of many And Mizaldus affyrmes it IF the Lorde of the seuenth house be in the thyrd or nynth house and any euyll Planet beholde him he that is then borne wyll fall from some buylding or else hee wyll dye of some thing that shall fall vppon him Ptolomeus IF you seethe Bryonie in water and vse to drinke the same It helpes and cureth them that haue the Dropsie Proued MAruelous and notable vertues of the Eybright do followe Let the leaues stalkes and flowres with the whole substaunce be distylled when it beareth flowres the water wherof stylled dropped and streaked about the eyes causeth cleare eyes sharpneth the syght and seaseth the paynes of the eyes The water dropped into the eyes an howre before night and stryked about them and drunke to the quantitie of three ounces at one tyme comforteth strengthneth and preserueth the syght especially in aged persons and in stematick complections The hearbe dried and brought to powder eaten euery day in a poâ—ched Egrere for a certain time together restoreth sight lost the water mixed with half a dram of the powder and drunk euery euening for a month or forty dayes together recouereth a weake syght THis precious medicine folowing wyll bring forth a Cankaâ— and plucke it vp by the rootes out of any sore where 〈◊〉 bee eyther in man or woman Take Bosâ—alger and make powder therof then take Bâ—rrowes or Hogges grease that is new and fresh fyrst melted and aâ—ter colde then myâ—e the powder there with very well then put therof vpon a peece of whyte lether which may couer the â—ore theÌ„ sprinckle on the sayd plaster fyne flowre of pure wheete then vpon the same spreade Honny and then put vpon the sayd Honny womans mylke and whâ—n all this is done put the sayde plaster vpon the sore where the canker is and put the neather crust of a new whyte loaâ—e vpon the sayde plaster and tye it fast vpon the same that it remoue â—â—t And in the morning thou shall finde the cankar dead on the said plaster this is most true This I coppyed out of an olde wrytten Booke LEt a woman make water in an Urinall that is â—ayre and cleane or rather newe vppon certaine cornes of Barly and set the same in a colde place for the space of eighte dayes and if tâ—e sayde Barlye cornes wyll growe agayne or bring foorth newe corne then the fault is not in the woman that shee conceaues not but rather in the man Yf otherwyse then the lette of conception is in her STampe Crystall in a stone Morter of Marble and make thereof a very fyne powder then put thereto so much of the white of an egge that you may write therewith mixte them well together with a little goome or goome water then write therewith in paper what you wyll then rubbe the same Letters with what mettall you wyll and the wrytynge wyll bee of the coullour of that mettall wherewith you rubbed them This I had out of an olde booke and Mizaldus affyrmes it withoute the Goome water THe iuyce of Lylly Rootes and Uynegar of eyther lyke much mixed togeather and the sawse fâ—eame or redde pympled face annoynted therewyth euerye euenyng for the space of nyne or tenne dayes dooth helpe it perfectly YOu shall knowe whether the dropsye be hotte or colde by this that followeth Yf the swellynge beginne fyrst at the feete and go vpwarde then it comes of a hotte cause If the swellynge begynne fyrst in the face and goe downewarde then it comes of a colde cause This lykewise I had out of an olde wrytten Booke wherein were many things credyble CAst the water of any sicke person newly made at night on red nettels if the nettels be withered or dead in the morning after then the sicke party is lyke to dye of that disease if they be greene styll then he is lyke to lyue A Certayne wicked fellowe that kylled his Father dyd syt in coÌ„pany with his companions eating drinking ouer whose heads there was a swalowes nest with young swallowes in the same at which time the sayd swallowes made a great noyse chittering when suddenly the sayd wicked fellow got a long powle brust the swallowes nest wherby the swallowes fel down he trode on them and crushed them in peeces Being asked of one of them why he dyd so I haue good cause so to doo sayde he for dyd you not heare sayde he how they tolde that I kylled my Father Whervpon he was suspected examined and so confessed and therfore executed Plutarchus DRye a Gotes Sheeps or Neates blather make powder therof let them drinke therof with Uineger or water wheÌ„ they go to bed that cannot hold their water and it wyll helpe them Galen affyrmes this IF the Sun the Moone the Alumten or the Lorde of the Ascendent be all safe and not with the Lord of the eyght house or in his aspect without doubt the sicke person shal be ryd of his diseases and recouer the same If two of them be so he is like to escape lykewise If contrary
together Which I know to be excellent the lyke vnto this is affyrmde to be most true and proued by Anth. Beneuenius IT is a great token of health when the stones or coddes begyns to ytche though the other parts of the body be weake But then take heede of Uenerius actes least you pay for your pleasure This out of Mizaldus COryander seede made in powder and mixt with Honny and unplastred vpō a Carbuncle or other grieuous byles destroyes the same quite Arnold de villa noua THe black Sea coale mixed with oyle wyl be made soft Wherwith if one annoynt Uines it wyll destroye the woormes which destroyes or eates the buddes of the Uines Seuerinus Gebelius THe goom of a Chery tree dissolued in white wine and so geuen to them that are grieued with the stone it wyll helpe them maruelously Mizaldus affyrmes that it is certainly proued IT was credibly told me for a very truth that there was a very poore woman being brought to bed of a chylde hauing many chyldren before to whome a syster of hers being rytch and that neuer as yet had any childe came to see her who sayd vnto her as followeth Ah syster syster here are many mouthes and lytle meate To whom her poore syster answered cōtent your selfe syster God neuer sends mouth but he sendeth meate After it chaunst the rytch syster to be with chylde which when it was borne had neuer a mouth So that ther was much meate no mouth A worthy rare example to make al couetous greedy carefull worldlinges to cast their whole care on the lord And not so to depend on their own prouision or worldly wealth If it were not for the great goodnes of God we should haue no more meate for our mouthes then this womans chyld had a mouth for meate But if we haue both mouthes and meate and lacke good stomacks for the same what are we the neare So that both mouth meate and stomack are not in our wylles to haue when welyst but are Gods gyfts to bestowe as he wyll HErmes sayth if in the Natiuitie of the Husband Venus be Combust the wyfe shall dye before the husbande If in the Natiuity of the wyfe Mars be Combust the husband shall dye before the wife WAter or wine wherin Walwoort is sodde if a good draught thereof be drunke euery day fyrst and last for the space of twentye dayes at the most doth perfectly helpe them that haue the dropsy It is an excellent medicine for the same CAst or instyl certaine drops of Baulme into cleare water and then with a stick labour well the water and if the water then be troubled the baulme is not perfect But if the water abyde cleare then the same is good and perfect baulme For the good and true baulme doth gather it selfe alwayes into one place And thus you may trye a true good baulme from a false and sofysticate baulme IF the roote of Pyony especialy of the male Pyony be hangde at the necke of a chylde or a boye that hath the falling sycknes it doth helpe very much Lykewise doth Pellyter and the heaire of a Dogge that is all blacke Lemnius FINIS Lib. 4. ⧠The fyfth Booke of Notable thinges A Mare wyl bring forth a Fole of diuers cullours if she be couered with a cloth of dyuers cullours whyles she is taking the Horse For such cullours as be before the eyes of of the Horse whyles he doth horse her without doubt the Fole wyll be of the same cullours The same may be proued with Dogs and other Beasts Mizaldus THe berryes of Halicacabus called wynter Cherries being stampt and the iuyce prest or wroong out of the same and then dryed in the shaddow the same if it be geuen to such as haue the stone or cannot make water and also to them that haue the Dropsie it wyll prouoke vrine or dryue forth the water and also expell the Hydropycall humors Mizaldus HOrus Apollo doth saye that a Woolfe doth feare greatly stones therfore when he is constrayned to go by stony places he treades very demurely or softly For being hurt with a very lytle stroke of a stone it breedes woormes wherof at length he is consumed or brought to his death Therfore he doth flye from a trauellor that layes wayte to stryke him with stones IF the Moone and Venus be ioyned together and both be Combust He that is then borne shall lacke a wyfe or neuer marrie Ptolomeus IF the leaues of Elderne fyrst made hotte between two Tyle stones and then applyed hotte to the forehead and the temples if any painelye there It helpeth the ache of the head maruelously This is very good and well proued HEre followeth a maruellous water to prouoke sleepe Take of Opium thebaicum and Garlicke heads pylled of each two ounces beate the Garlicke heads in a morter with a woodden pestel put therto the Opium grinded incorporate these well together that it maye be lyke a Sawce Distyll this in a Retorte with a most soft slowe fyre in ashes With this water distilled when neede shal require annoint the temples the forehead and pulses of the wrestes And beware you mynister nor vse this but vppon a great necessity as in franticke persons as you shall thinke it good THe iuyce of the buddes leaues inner rynde or of the young braunches of Elderne something warme put into the eare doth not onely breake the impostume thereof within sowre or fiue tymes but also doth maruelously helpe the deafnes This was tolde me for a great secrete and I haue tryed it to be an excellent thing in such a case TO see Moonks in ones dreame doth portēd death or calamity to see fatte Oxen betokens plenty of thinges to loose an eye or a toothe sygnifies the death of a friende or of a kynseman or some other euyll lucke to dreame to be dumme foreshewes speedie gladnes to see Oxen plowe betokens gaine to enter into waters betokens euyll Artemidorus THis following makes a soft beard and doth beautifie the chynne with a fyne heaire Take butter witstout salt the iuyce of a redde Onion the grease of a Gray or a Badger the roote of Bryony of Beetes of Radysh and of whyte Lyllies whereof make a Lynyment and annoint the chyn often therewith being shauen Mizaldus PUt vp an olde Gander into a house and let him be there three dayes without meate then cast vnto him peeces of an Eele newlie kylled then gather the dunge that comes from him after he hath eaten the peeces of the Eele which dung being layde to any impostume or swelling Is a present remedy therfore HE that sleepeth in a sheepes skynne shall see true dreames or dreame of things that be true Mizaldus THe brayne of a Wesell dryed and drunke with Uinegar doth helpe them that haue the falling sicknes Mizaldus IVpiter and Venus or the one of them in the eyght house not Combust nor Retrograde doth sygnifie the chyld then borne shall dye a naturall
quicke Lyme and Brimstone of both equall porcions and then the hole well stopt that no ayre nor any thing may go out and so put into some standing water or a litle pit of water or into some cesterne full of water it wyll keepe the sayd water hotte a long tyme or for many daies Proued of many sayth Mizaldus And I founde the same also in an olde written booke HEns dunge mixt with meate that is geuen to be eaten of madde Dogs wyl take away their madnes from them As it is thought Mizaldus IF a Woorme that is founde in the grasse before it touch the grounde be hanged alyue at a womans necke that is with childe it is thought she shal keepe the chylde vntyll the due tyme of the byrth Plinius As Mizaldus sayth IF one geue any thing for Warts to them that haue them be it neuer so small a thing as three or fowre heayrs a rag of a lynnen cloath or some other thinge of no value the sooner it wyll rotte so much the better and let the party that would be ryd of the warts wrappe the same in some thing and put it into the ground and couer the same with earth againe truly as the same thing doth rotte in the earth so wyll the warts weare and consume away This is perfectly proued IF Mars be in Gemini and the Sunne in Pisces in a quartyle aspect in the daye tyme or the Moone in the night tyme it doth sygnify that the chylde then borne wyll be hangde Taisnier THey that vse to receyue three Pyls made of Aloes De succo citrino made in powder which is to bee had at the Apothecaries and mixt with the iuyce of Colewoorts of the bygnes of a beane shall neuer be troubled with paine in the head Petr. Hisp. A Straunge medicine for the gowte Take a good handfull of Arsemart and wrap and tye the same in a Burre leafe and laye it first in olde ashes then compasse the same with hotte embers coales so rost the same wel thē apply the same rosted Arsmart to the grieued place and do thus euening and morning for two or three dayes and thou shalt fynde a present helpe thereof This was tolde me for a great secrete and as a proued thing IF you put or stop fast within a Nutte quicke brimstone Saltpeter and Quicksyluer the same being put into a loafe of bread and then the same loafe of bread put into some hotte place where it may heate as soone as it waxeth hot you shal see the loafe of bread so leape that it wyll bee a very pretye sport to them that sees it Mizaldus had this of one that proued it A Most excellēt oyle of Saint Iohns Woort is made as followeth Infuse or stiepe for the space of three dayes the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort in pure and excellent Wine then in a double vessel let them 〈◊〉 easily ouer the fire and then straine them easily then agayne put as many of the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort in that strayned lycquor as you had before and let them stiepe therin three dayes three nights as before then heate strayne them as before then adde thereto three ounces of Turpentine and syxe ounces of olde Oyle and of Safferue the weyght of xxiiii Barly cornes myxe all together and then seeth all together in a double vessell vntyll the wyne be consumed and that that remaynes put it into a glased or leaded vessel keepe it safely for your vse This Oyle is of a maruelous vertue and propertie as wel chieflye against venemous Ulcers as many other diseases and colde griefes Well knowne to many women Mizaldus IF you rubbe sleyghtly any kinde of Beastes or Cattell with the iuyce of goordes in hotte wether no kinde of Flyes wyll then hurt or molest them nor yet come nye them A thing desyred of many and very necessary for such as rydes in the hotte wether Mizaldus IF Mars be opposite to Iupiter and the one of them bee the Lorde of the eyght house it is lyke the chylde then borne shall dye by the commaundement of the Iudge Taisnier THe leaues of wylde Iuie sodde in wine and layde vpon any Cankar doeth kyll and heale the same Trotula THis water following is very precious for frantick and madde men proued very often Take of the flowres of Rosemarie of Burrage and of the rootes of Buglosse of each halfe a pounde of Saffern two drams of Quinces fowre ounces of the best whyte Wine two pintes mixe them all together and then let them stande so the space of a naturall daye after that bury the glasse body wherein all the same is in horse dung for fifteene daies and then take it out and distyll a water therof according to arte two or three times ouer Keepe this water as the Aple of your eye for it is very precious and well proued in all Melancholy sicknesses very effectuously and in the paine and trembling of the harte the quantity to be geuen at one time is a dram Which is the weyght of .lxxii. barly cornes If you proue it you wyll prayse it And this is in the new Iuell of Health with many other mo excellent thinges THey are not lyke to lose their senses nor their vnderstanding in whose Natiuity the Moone doth apply to Mercury eyther by coniunction or by aspect Iatromath Guat Ryff Argent SEt a rounde glasse full of water against the hotte Sunne that it maye stande fast and then holde something that is very drie and wyll take fyre easely nye to the same glasse betweene the glasse and the Sunne and it wyll set the same thing there holden on fyre Which is very straunge to beholde And the rather because fyre a hotte and drye element is procured out of water a colde and moyst element Iohan. Baptist. Porta DIdimus wrytes that Sheepe are woont to follow them that stoppes their eares with their wooll IF any doth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie what he dyd see in his dreame marke the Ascendent when the question is made And if thou doest finde Saturne in the Ascendent or fyrst house tell him that he dyd see in his dreame Religious persons as Fryers Heremytes or such lyke or places of Prayer c. But if thou finde Mars in the Ascendent saye that he saw in his dreame Captaines Knights Murtherers Theeues Harnes or Battelles or such lyke If the Sunne be in his first house he dyd see Gardins Trees with fruites Golde or a king If Venus be in the Ascendent he dyd see a fayre Uirgin or some eating or drinking or one lying with a Woman or that haue things wherin they are delighted or else to playe or to walke abroade or whyte or red garmentes If Mercury be in the first house then he dyd see handsome eloquent men reasoning or Pallaces decked with Curtens and rytch hanginges or cloathes bookes or wrytings of salutation or of accoumpts If the Moone be in the first house he dyd
see ryuers or water or precious stones or some that dyd eate or drinke or his Mother or his Awnt or his Mothers Syster This sayth Haly Abenragel But Messahala and Alhayhat and Abrier Farsal haue sayde looke in the sygne of the ninth house from the Ascendent and if thou doest finde in the same house any of the seuen Planettes iudge that the vision or dreame was of them as is before when they are founde in the first house And adde to the sygnification of the Sunne that is if the Sun be in the ninthe house that he dyd see him selfe flying betweene heauen and earth or that he dyd see a great lyght and if there be no Planets in the ninth house then marke him that is in the first house if none be there then marke who is in the thirde house if none be there then looke in the fowrth house if none be there looke in the seuenth house if none be there then looke in the tenth house And iudge according to the sygnification of euery Planet and thou shalt be certified God wylling Haly Abenragell AGainst the quarten ague take the vrine that the partie makes at one tyme in his fytte and kneade flowre therewith and when the same is baked then geue it to a Dogge of the same house And when you haue done thus thryse the partie wyll be whole and ryd of the disease And in his steade the Dogge wil be sicke But for a man that is sicke a Dogge must be chosen If a woman a bytch must be had This was taken out of an often proued experiment of an Italian by the report of Mizaldus WHosoeuer desyres to see the Sun eclipsed without hurting their eyes Let them beholde the shadow therof in a vessel wherin oyle is put Where they may beholde and see it without daunger For a fatty humor is not easely troubled And what shapes or fourmes it doth receyue It representeth the same truely Mizaldus A Lamen or thyn plate of Gold borne on the seame of the brayne doth strengthen the brayne The same hanged against the region or place of the harte doth helpe the beating of the harte and encreaseth gladnes And if it be put vpon the reynes of the back it strengthens the reynes and cooles the same and ceaseth the paynes of the backe But Mizaldus wysheth that the same plate be beaten and made of pure and fyne Golde when the Sunne is in Leo called the Lion And Iupiter the Moone beholding each other happely Hermes Arnoldus Villa nouanus c. Alij IF the Lord of the Horoscope be in the seuenth house Combust and the Sunne hath no essentiall dygnitye in the same then he that is then borne shall perish by the handes of many which wyll ryse against him But if the Sunne haue then any power in the seuenth house he shall dye by the Kings commaundement Taisnier IT is proued and a secrete that if three graynes of Masticke be geuen to the patient to be swalowed euery night at his going to bed it doth preserue him from the paynes of the stomacke and doth cure him Emperica benedicti victorij I knowe by proofe it helpes the stomack maruelously THis water following breakes the Stone in the bladder and in the reynes Take of the iuyce of Saxisrage two pyntes of Gromell and of the iuyce of Perceley of eyther one pynt of the best Uinegar of a pleasaunt Wine eyght ounces dystyll all these together ▪ and let the lycquor distylled be kept in a glasse with a narrow mouth Of which mynister in the morning one ounce at a tyme as much at noone and as much at euening going to bed This is a proued water as sayth Fumanellus TO dreame that Eagles flyes ouer your head doth betoken euil fortune To dreame that you see your face in the water sygnifyes long lyfe To follow Bees betokens gaine or profyt To be marryed sygnifies that some of your kynsfolkes is dead To dreame that you worshyp God sygnifyes gladnes To looke in a glasse doth portende some yssewe or a chylde To haue oyle powred vpon you sygnifyes ioy Michael Scotus et Artemidorus IF you would haue Copper to melt quickly and run easely put the hooues of a Horse into the same betweene the melting and powring out therof Mizaldus had this secrete of an expert Italyan GOates wyl not stray or wander if you cut of their beards Florentinus Geoponicus and Zoroaster IF you put a Tode in a new earthen potte and the same be couered in the grounde in the myddes of a corne fyelde it is sayde there wyll be no hurtfull tempestes or stormes there As Archibius dyd wryte to Antiochus King of Siria Plinio Authore IF the Lorde of the eyght house be founde in the twelfth house with an euyll Planet or in his euyll Aspect it showes the chylde then borne wyll dye a captiue that is in pryson or as one that doth flye away Taisnier WHosoeuer annoynts their belly with this oyntment folowing it easeth the paine of the head it purgeth the stomack it comforteth the appetyte clarifieth the eyes Take of the iuice of smallach two ounces of the iuice of Mercury fowre ounces of goose grease Hens grease of either of thē a pound of Rosē two ounces of Masticke and Frankyncence of either fyue drams of Cassia Fistula two drams and put therto iuyce of Walwoort and of the inner rynde of Elderne and myxe them all well together and make therof an oyntment This if it be well made is a very good thing THe Squyncie or any other payne of the throate wyll be helpt with this following Marke where a Swine doth rubbe him and then rubbe your hand on the same woodde post or stone with which hande rubbe your sore or swolne throate And as some saye that haue proued it cut of a peece of the same wood where the Swine dyd rubbe himselfe and rubbe the swolne or grieued place therwith But the rubbing of the Swines necke is the best for the necke the legge for the legge and so that part of the Swine for the lyke part of the personne grieued or diseased This is a very true and often proued thing TAke a pynt of whyte Wine one handfull of woodbinde leaues or two or three ounces of the water of Woodbinde and a quarter of a pounde of the powder of Ginger seethe them all together vntyll they be something thycke And annoynt a red pympled face therwith fiue or sixe tymes and it wyl make it faire This is proued LVdonicus Viues doth wryte that within the memory of his Auncestors or Fathers there was a Sepulchre or Toombe pluckt vp wherin a burning Candle was founde made as was wytnessed by wryting fyue hundreth yeares before And when it was touched or handled by and by it was resolued into powder Iohannes Langius IF you woulde haue a deepe Well made it is best to dygge the same when the Sun is in the last partes of Virgo before the Autumnall equinoctiall
which is about the beginning of September or immediatly after for then through the great heate and drynes of the Sommer the earth wants rayne Mizaldus had this of one that was skylfull in such thinges Which was a maister Carpentar IF any be bytten or stricken of a Scorpion which shall eate Basyll the same daye he shall be made whole therof Aphri reports it IF any fall sicke in the howre of the Sunne he wyll haue a strong Feuer or ague And many times shall be vexed in his minde which wyll bring no small hurt vnto him Haly Abenragel THe iuyce of Coryander geuen to them that haue the falling Euyll to drinke wyll not suffer the humor to ascende into the head and it worketh great helpe to the diseased This was written in an olde booke WHosoeuer is brought weake either by some greuous sicknes or disease of long continuaunce or by woundes receyued or any other waye and thervppon haue a syege of Melancholy lyke to blacke bloud he shall doubtles dye the next daye after Hippocrates in suis Aphor. A Sausfleame or redde pympled face is helped with this medicine following Take Enula Campana fowre ounces and seethe it with vinegar tyll the vinegar be sodden in then stampe it small and then put thereto quycksyluer and brymstone of eyther fowre drams and Barrowes grease fowre ounces beate them all together and make therof a plaster and laye it to the enfected or spotted place in the face all night and on the morrowe wash it of with warme water Doo thus sixe or seuen nightes and it wyll helpe it without doubt THe fyrst seedes that the Hee or Male Pyony brings forth being round and black do maruelously recreate or helpe them that haue the fallyng sycknes If some therof be stampt and taken with Oximel scillitick which is to be had at the Apothecaries and with the syrrup of Sticados a lytle Nutmug which Lemnius doth wytnes for a very trueth WHosoeuer is stricken or hurte of any venemous woorme or other thing or else bytten of a madde Dogge Let them take heede dillygently that the same thing that dyd hurt them see them not vntyl they be perfectly whole For the Hebrew Phisitions saye that the party hurt shall then dye or els be in peryll afresh yea though they begynne to waxe whole when they see them Mizaldus ONe handful of Basyll with ten sea Crabs stampt or beaten together doth make all the Scorpions to come to that place that are nye to the same Aphri as Mizaldus sayth IF the Lorde of the eyght house be afflicted in the fowrth house it sygnifyes the chylde then borne shall dye in pryson Taisnier WIne wherin the rynde of an Ashe tree hath bene sodden drunke fasting sixe or seuen morninges together doth perfectly helpe thē that are tormented with the paines of the splene Which makes one to haue a great payne in the left syde there most griefe is after meate And if you annoynt the grieued place so long with an oyntment called Deathea euery morning and euening It is an excellent thing lykewise BEholde a syngular Oyle or Baulme drawne out of waxe and Turpentine which dryeth and mightely perseth where the same is applyed taken out of the secretes of Fallopius Take of the purest and clearest Turpentine that can be gotten one pounde and two ounces of new yellowe waxe that is odoriferous twelue ounces of Nutmugges and Cloues of eyther one ounce of common ashes syxe ounces beate all these wel together then put the same into a Retorte fenced with Lute of Wisedome and set in ashes and distyll it with a slowe fyre at the fyrst and after encrease the fyre vntyl all be distilled which gathered distyll the seconde tyme in a glasse body with an heade receauer putting vnto it before the distylling fowre ounces of the powder of brycke or Tyles Which dyllygently luted in the ioyntes maynteyne fyre vnder it vntyll no more wyll come then haue you purchased an Oyle of a rubyne cullour which worketh myracles in woundes especially where synnues be harmed This also helpeth any manner of rewme proceeded of a colde cause it helpeth besydes the cough by annointing the region of the breast therewith and it is also of great importaunce vnto many other griefes inuented and proued by the aboue sayde Author many tymes This excellent oyle I had out of that worthy Booke called the new Iewell of Health which many perhappes should neuer haue read in this my booke that neuer shall heare tell of that which makes me describe herein some notable thinges therein vttered A Notable and often proued plaster to destroy any impostume swelling and stytche in what place of the body soeuer it be is now described as followeth Take of the roote of Hollyocke cleane washed and cutte in peeces two good handfull and seethe the same in fayre water vntyll the sayde roote be something tender Then take out the sayde roote and put into the same water of Fenecreeke and Lyn seede of eyther one handfull something stamped or brused seethe them together vntyll the water be ropeing like byrdlime then stampe the sayd roote of Hollyock before sodde And put it therto with an handfull of Barly meale and frye them together with Bores grease or Barrowes grease and if neede be you maye take sheepe suet then laye a plaster thereof to the sore or grieued place as hotte as the party maye suffer it and let the same lye twelue howres vnremoued at the least and after applye another plaster of the same therto in such order and within nyne plasters it wyll worke the full effect It hath helpt dyssolued the Pluresy with the applying of three or fowre plasters A thing of smal cost and great vertue WHen the Lord of the Ascendēt is impedite or Infortunate of the Lord of the second house It sygnifies that the syck shal not be healed but with great expences of money or els dye And vniuersally marke what Planet doth Infortunate the Lord of the Ascēdent The sycke is lyke to haue harme or hynderance by such things as that house doth sygnifie whereof that Infortunating Planet is Lord or Sygnifyer Iatromath Guat Ryff EGge shelles dryed and beaten to powder and geuen in whyte Wine breaketh the stone It is a tryed medicine as one affyrmed to me SUgar especially Ualencia sugar made in pouder and put into a wound or cutte doth not onely clense all corruption from it and consumes all superfluous flesh or matter in it but also heales it maruelously If you lyst you may mixe a lytle fresh butter therewith wherby it wyll not be of the lesse vertue This is a sure excellent easye and a ready medicine who lyst to trye it shall finde it a syngular thing A Certaine Wench was borne within sixteen miles of London who within a yeare and a halfe after her byrth dyd begyn to eate earth stones bricke and grauell And so continued therin hauing all her delyght in eating of such baggage
of Seamewes seeming to be dead which were ioynde together with theyr bylles or nebbes in anothers tayle or fundament and being warmed with theyr guttes were founde a lyue Garuas Tibellesius THe leaues of Dockes do lowse the belly makes one laxatiue But the seedes being taken do binde and are restryctiue Galen IF Wyne haue gotten any tartnes or sowrenes take a potte fylled with good water and let it be well couered then set the same potte with water in the vessell with Wyne so that the potte stande vnder or within the Wyne and at the three dayes ende if the Wyne haue gotten his former strength the water wyll smell and then the Wyne wyll lyke thee Tarentinus A Peece of raw Beefe not too thyck nor too thin being layde or stieped all the nyght before in good Aqua Composita and applyed to the temples or the foreheade without remouing all the nyght and thus doing three or fowre nyghtes doth helpe the watring and paynes of the eyes and all distyllations and rewmes that comes from the heade or brayne One tolde mee this which had often proued it to be most true as a great secrete WHen Mercury is in the tenth house not impedyte the chylde then borne wyll be mighty wyse and a great Philosopher Celi enarrant ANnoint young Swallowes with saffern soone after the old Swallowes wyll bring a stone vnto them wherwith the Dropsie wyll be cured This I had out of a booke of Secretes AN Egge layde on a Thursdaye and emptied and fylled with Salt and lo set in the fyre remayning there vntyll it maye be made in powder and then cankred teethe rubbed with the powder thereof it both kylles the cankar and the woormes that eates the teethe and destroyes them Proued for trueth THis following wyll destroy Ringwoormes Tetters and Scales in the hands Take whyte Coprose the quantity of two beanes put it into a pynt of cleare water tyll it be resolued or melted and with that water washe the place or handes tyll they be whole Proued STampe Pearceley in whyte Wine then streyne it well and drinke a good draught therof and it wyll cause thee to make water and breake the stone vse it fyue or syxe tymes This hath bene well proued THe wyse and learned men in olde tyme dyd think that a Tode put into a new earthen potte and set within the ground and so couered with earth in the myddes of a fyelde wyll dryue away Crowes or Byrds from Corne that t s sowne there But about Haruest tyme they wyll that it be dygged vp and to be cast forth of the lymmyts of the same fyelds least the Corne be bytter therby Plin. A Lytle peece of the Nauell string of a Chylde that is newly borne enclosed in a Ryng and so borne that it maye touch the flesh or bare skynne is a most sure helpe and remedy against the great paynes and tormentes of the collycke Mizaldus THey whose heaire of the eye browes doo touch or meete together of all other are the woorst They doo shewe that he or she is a wicked personne and an intyser of seruauntes and geuen to vnlawfull and naughty artes which Iohannes Indagnies sayth hee hath obserued in olde Women being Wytches which were ledde to be burned whose eye browes were such As Thaddeus Hageccius hath also noted SAturne in the nynth house doth sygnifye feares in iourneyes but more in the Sea chiefly in a waterye sygne and in Cancer the house of the Moone Taisnier FINIS Lib. 6. ⧠The seuenth Booke of Notable thinges THe water wherein the leaues of Planten that growes close to the grounde and neare the roote is sodde being droonke twyse euery day morning and euening fyrst last halfe a pynt at a tyme for the space of fowre or fiue dayes helpes perfectly all griefes and diseases of the bladder A true medicine and often proued A Notable water for breaking of the stone Take of the iuyce of Saxifrage two pound of the iuyce of Gromell and of the iuyce of Pearslye of eyther one pounde of the iuyce of Bettony of the iuyce of Nettelles and of the iuyce of Ramsens of each halfe a pound of strong whyte Uinegar ten ounces of the flowres and seedes of Broome and of the rootes of Radish of each two handfulles stampe the last rehearsed well then myxe the same with all the iuyces before mencioned and therof destyll a water with a gentle fyre of which water geue to them that haue the stone one ounce at one tyme with Oxinell Diuretycke which you may haue at the Apothecaries vsing the same nyne or ten dayes if neede be and it wyll breake auoyde the stone wonderfully There can not be a better medicine for the stone proue it when you wyll IN the Ilandes of Irelande and Orcades in certayne places there there be certaine Trees there much lyke vnto Wyllowe trees out of which coms forth certayne lytle heayres encreasing by lytle and lytle into Byrdes hauing shape of Duckes hanging vpon the bowes by theyr nebs or bylles and when they are comd to full perfectnesse they flye away of themselues and falles into the next Seas which Byrds we call Barnacles This is related by the people that dwell there Mizaldus YF one be bewytched of any put quycksyluer into a quyll and stoppe it or els into a hollowe Nut shel enclosed fast with waxe and laye the same vnder the pyllowe of the partye bewytched or vnder the threshold of the doore where he enters into the house or Chamber Iohannes Weckerus HE that shall delyuer a summe of Money in the howre of the Moone he shall haue much a doo to get it againe And at last he shall mystrust of the recouering therof but at the length he shall recouer it but not all Abablez filius Zaed BEttony stampt and made in a plaster and layde to the eye healeth a strype in the eye And if the eyes be washed wyth the water wherein Bettony is sodden they wyll be hole without dymnesse or other blemysh And if you drynke a dramme of the powder of Betony with the water of Betony it wyll brynge downe and heale the clowdynesse and blouddynesse of the eyes And if Betony be eaten it dryeth vp the teares of the eyes All this and more hath bene proued of Betony MArke on what day any doth fall sycke and number the dayes from the syxt Calendes of Iuly which is the .xxvi. day of Iune vntyll the day when the party dyd fyrst beginne to be sycke and deuyde that whole number by three and then if at the last one remayne he wyll quickly escape if two remayne he wyll be long sicke if one remayne then it is to be feared he wyll dye of that sycknes This I had out of a booke of Secretes A Maruelous cure of a Woman that was swolne done by one Iohn Ardern whose wordes thereof were these I Iohn Ardern dyd see a certaine Woman at Newarke whose whole body was suddenlye
an easy fyre and that that shall distyll keepe in a vessell of Gold or Syluer Sylens is to be kept of the prayse of this water because it may not be bought For his vertue doth pallyfie leprous persons it heales and destroyes a pure leprie it wypes away or takes away euery spot it conserues youth it makes the eye fayre I cease to speake of the secretes of this water for because I feare least they that haue it should be puft vp with pryde Trotula de pass Mulier THis following is a proued thing for the sounding of the eares or wynde in the same Take Almonds and the kernelles of Peches and let them be cleane pylled in hotte water then stampe them and get oyle out of them and put of the same oyle with tents wet in the same into the soūding eares or otherwise grieued which tents must be made of fyne lynnen cloath and do thus with new tents euery daye once for the space of nyne or ten dayes and it wyll put away the sounding and other paines of the eares This I learned of one that came out of Spaine And I proued it to be very true FINIS Lib. 7. ⧠The eyght Booke of Notable thinges YOu shal make Vinegar by and by if you powre pure good Wine halfe sodde into a newe earthen vessell then well couered and stopte and so the same Potte set in hotte scalding water A Woolfe fyrst seeing a Man doth lyfte vp his voyce and as a vyctor doth despyse him But if he perceyue that the Man hath espyed him fyrst he laies away his fiercenes and can not run D. Ambrosius Virgil. Plato Sextus Platon And other THere is deadlye warre betweene the Hawke and the Eagle who sometymes are so fast together in theyr fyght that they are both taken or catcht therby Plynius TO take the Byrdes that eates the seedes that are sowne Seethe Garlicke that it may not growe againe for it is sayde to profyte maruelously if it be throwne vnto them for they that shall eate of it wyl be taken with your hand Mizaldus HE that takes his iourney on the Sea in the houre of Saturne he shall haue many waues and diuers wyndes which wyll cast him to vnknowen places Haly Abenragel YF you geue one of these Pylles following euerye nyght going to bed to him that hath the palsey it wyll helpe him for it is proued Take of hearbe Iue Cowslops Bettony of the flowres of Sticados arabici of each one dram let them be dryed in the shadow and make them in fyne powder then take good Turbyth one dram of the best Agarick two drams Coloquyntyda halfe a dram Gynger Salgem of eyther ten graynes good and chosen Rewbarbe one dram and a halfe Spykenarde seuen graines the powder of Hiera simplex galeni halfe an ounce Scamony prepared one dram let them all be made in fyne powder and with the iuyce of hearbe Iue make a masse of Pylles The weyght to be geuen at one tyme is one Pyll of one scruple And marke if he that hath the palsey take this ordinary Pylle not once euerie day but twyse in the weeke at the least you shall see a sudden helpe in the palsey These Pylles maye worthely bee called gloryous Pylles in the palsey Emperica benedicti victorij fauentini A Certaine man fynding or catching a Mowse dyd hyt his wife therwith on the left cheeke being with chylde who after was delyuered of a Wench which Wench had and yet hath the marke of a Mowse on her left cheeke This was tolde by a credible womā who sayd moreouer that the name of this Wenches Father was Thomas Bucknam dwelling at the tyme in Northfolke in a certayne Towne called Dysse This affyrmes my other wryting hereof YOu may turne white Wine into redde without any hurt or detryment by and by if the powder of Honny that is fyrst sod vnto a stony substaunce and then dryed so made in powder be cast into whyte Wyne and myxing it well in the same with rowlyng it vp and downe together The rootes of any kinde of Dockes eyther new or dryed put into the Wine wyll perfourme the same with lesse busynes GArlycke being stampt with Hogs or Barrowes grease and made something thycke lyke an oyntment doth maruelously helpe them that haue the coughe and haue taken colde if theyr soles of theyr feete and theyr backe bone before the fyre be annointed therewith WHosoeuer hath any fyxed Starre of the fyrst honor or magnitude in the degree of theyr Horoscope or in the degree of theyr Cuspe of the tenthe house or in the degree of the Sunne by day or in the degree of the Moone by nyght he shall possesse great rytches and honors then his Auncestors haue done of the Nature of that fyxed Starre In deede this is true if that fyxed Starre be of a small Latitude but if it be of a great Latitude his strength wyll smallie appeare in the Natiuitie of the Chylde Thus much Taisnier THis water following is excellent good to cleare a dym syght if two or three drops therof be put into the eyes at a tyme vsyng it certayne dayes together Take of the water of Uarueyn the water of Roses and the water of Fennell of eache fowre ounces whyte strong wine three ounces Tuty preparate Sugar candy of either three drams Aloes Hepatick two drams let al them be beaten in fine powder that are to be powdred and put them into the waters Wine mixing all together and let them remaine and stand a whole day then streine them easely and keepe that lycquor in a fayre glasse vse it as is before said This is a precious thing for the syght and the eyes A Maruelous medicine for woundes sores Take a handfull of Arsmart wette in fayre water then laye it in the wounde or sore After burye the same Arsemart in some moyst ground and the said wound or sore wyll afterwarde myraculously heale as the same hearbe doth rotte and consume This I had of one that affyrmed it to be true I thinke it is written by Paracellus THe bodyes of drownd or dead men do fleete on the water with theyr faces and bellies vpward but dead Women do fleete on the water grouelyng or with theyr faces downward cōtrary to theyr procreation But they do not fleete or swym aboue the water out of whome the Lunges is taken c. Mizaldus THe water of Marygooldes doth helpe all diseases of the eyes and takes away all paines of the head And the smoake of the flowres therof taken or receyued by a Fundyble into the secrete partes of a Woman or else otherwyse taken doth bring forth easelie the after burthen This secrete Mizaldus dyd get of an olde Mydwyfe which had neede of his helpe otherwyse THe heade of a Gleade vnfeathered burned and so much thereof taken with water and droonke as you maye take vp with three fyngers helpes them that haue the gowte Galenus IF any come or send to thee
Pockes and saue the sight This I had out of an olde booke WHen thou doost fynde the seuenth house and the Lorde of the same to be afflicted or Impedite in the tyme of the question for the sycke chaunge the Phisition for he shall not profyte the sicke party eyther through his owne error or through the neclygence of the sycke person or through them that be about the sycke body The house is afflicted if Saturne or Mars be therin or being beholden of theyr quartyle or opposyte Aspect and contrary if the seuenth house be well affected as if Iupiter or Venus is there take the Phisition to whome you make the questioÌ„ or whome you are determined to take for he shall profyt the syck much and he wyll quickly cure the sycke to his great prayse Therfore marke the fyrst or soddayne calling or sending for the Phisition for if at that tyme the seuenth house and the Lord therof be euyll affected the Phisition then called or sent for wyll not profyt the sicke But it followes not therefore that the sycke shall dye But the Phisition if he take him in hande shall go away without honour Therefore as soone as thou art called to go to the sycke take counsayle of thy Ephemerides and the celestiall Fygure being erected marke where the seuenth house be well or euyll affected and so thou mayst eyther refuse or take the sycke in hande Iatromath Guat Ryff PUt the powder of redde Corrall in the hoale of the toothe and it wyll fall out by the roote Petr. Hisp. AN excellent medicine and a noble restoratyue for Man or Woman that is brought very lowe with sycknes Take two pounde of Dates and washe them cleane in fayre Ale then cutte them and take out the stones and the whyte skynnes then cutte them small and beate them in a morter tyll they begynne to woorke lyke waxe then take a quarte of claryfyed Honny or Sugar and halfe an ounce of the powder of long Pepper as much of Mace of Cloaues Nutmugges and Cynamom of each one dram as much of the powder of Lignum Aloes beate all these spyces together and seethe the Dates with the Sugar or Honny with an easy fyre and let it seethe and as it seethes cast in thereto a lytle of the powder by lytle lytle and sturre it with a Splatter of wood and so do vntyll it come to an Electuary and then eate euery morning and euening therof one ounce at one tyme and it wyll renew and restore againe his complexion be he neuer so lowe brought This hath bene proued and it hath done good to many a man and woman A Noble Receyte for the blacke Iaundise Take a gallon of Ale a pynt of Honny and two handful of redde Nettelles and take a penny worth or two of Saffern and boyle it in the Ale the Ale being fyrst skymmed and then boyle the Honny and the Nettels therin altogether and strayne it well and drinke euery morning a good draught thereof for the space of a fortnight For in that space God wylling it wyll cleane and perfectly cure the black Iaundyse WHosoeuer in the fyrst nine dayes in May drinks euery morning fasting a lytle dyshe full of the iuyce of Bettony it wyll doo him maruelous much good for the gowte Which he shall perceyue the next yeare following if he lyue so long YF any that hath the Pluresie or is stuffed in the stomacke with tough or harde fleame Let him take a sâ—ruâ—le that is the weyght of .xxiiii. barlye 〈◊〉 of the powder of the seedâ—s of Nettels with the 〈◊〉 of Uyolets and swallow the same as by lycking it by litle lytle and he shal spyt out the Uyscus and tough humor easily A secrete of a Parisian Phisition GOates wyll geue much mylke if you tye Dyttany about theyr bellyes Africanus IF Saturne be in the tenth house in an earthy sygne and hath power or dygnity in the Ascendent and is Orientall of the Sunne he that is then borne wyll be a Maister Carpenter or else he wyll delyght in Carpenter shyp but if he be Occidentall he wyll be a cleanser of Welles or pyts or else a dygger Taisnier IF the griefe of the gowte or ache be too outragious Take of OpiuÌ„ one dram of Saffern three drams myngle them with fowre or fyue yolkes of Egs and plaster the same vpoÌ„ the griefe for it mightely asswageth the paines and restrayneth the corruption A Most approued medicine for the Emrods or Pyles Take two or three brycks and burne them redde hotte and put them in some pan vnder a close stoole and sprinckle them with vineger let the party grieued syt vpon the sayd stoole that the fume therof may ascend vpward to his fundament Doo thus three or fowre times if neede be and certainly it wyll helpe it IF you wyll make Byrdes drunke that you maye catch them with your hands Take such meate as they loue as Wheate or Beanes or such lyke and laye the same to stiepe in leese of Wine or in the iuyce of Humlocks and sprinckle the same in the place where the Byrdes vse to haunt and if they do eate thereof strayght wayes they wyll be so gyddy that you may take them with your handes I wrote this out of an olde wrytten booke wherein I knowe many true things was written A Present helpe for a Woman that trauelleth of chyld Take Hysop Uerueyn and Dyttany of eache one handfull stampe them small and temper them with olde Ale then straine it and wryng out the iuyce and geue a good draught therof to her that trauelleth of chyld to drinke and she wil be deliuered with speede and the chyld saued and she both so that the chyld be alyue when she drynkes it A True medicine for the gowte Take the iuyce of the flowres of Broome and the iuyce of Scali celi and Honny as much of one as of an other and seethe it all together tyll it be of the thycknes of Honny and annoynt the gowty place therwith I knew sayth the wryter hereof a good Priest in London that healed all men and women therwith for the most part that came to him And truely I wyst it neuer fayle This for the great good lykelyhood of the medicine and for the faythful affyrming I thought good to regester it among the rest IF one pound of Waxe two ounces of quicke Brymstone and as much of quicke Lyme putting therto a lytle ounce of the oyle of Nuts a Candle be made with a week of Bumbase so put into the water as soone as euer the quick Lime begins to burne it wyl moue the rest of things apt for the fyre to burne euen in the myddes of the water Mizaldus A Ram wyl not put or runne at one if his hornes be boorde through nye vnto his eares Mizaldus WHo soeuer falles sycke in the howre of Iupiter he wyll recouer his health quickly Haly Abenragel This haue I proued to be true many tymes
and the howre of Iupiter is an excellent howre to doo any thing or to take any good thing in hande A Lytle Gunpowder put into a peece of fyne lynnen cloath and the same put into the hollowe toothe or holden betweene the teethe so that it touch the aking toothe It puts away the toothe ache presently This is very true IF you distyll hearbe Iue and geue the water therof to be drunken of them that are grieued or tormented with the gowte annoynting also therewith the gowty or grieued place it wyll heale or helpe them assuredly Great warrantyse was made of this medicine where I had it A Speciall medicine for all suddayne sycknes and especiall of the stomack or breast Take a spoonefull of Aqua vite and put therein halfe a spoonefull of the powder of Lycqueres and let it remayne therin three howres drynke it fasting or at euen when you go to bedde It is a soueraigne thing for the stomacke or breast LAye Saffern on the Nauell of them that haue the yallowe Iaundyse and it wyll helpe them This was affyâ—med to me as proued THis following is an excellent medicine to purge the head of naughty humors to helpe the headache the swymming of the head and the mygrym Washe the rootes of Beetes and cutte away the vppermost backe then stampe the same and wryng out the iuyce therof then snuffe some of it out of a spoone into your nose and a maruelous effect wyll followe and a speedy remedy therof A Gentleman a friende of myne tolde mee this as a most sure and proued thing in this case COckes that eates Garlycke are made stoute to fyght therefore trauellors do often byte thereof and also such as followes warres because it encreaseth agylytie strengthneth them and makes them bolde It is geuen to Horsses with bread and Wyne at the howre of the battell or conflyct to make them more fierce lyuely and to suffer more easily theyr labour and trauayle Mizaldus THere were young Mise found with the Persians in the bellyes of Myse that had young Myse in theyr bellyes Aristoteles as Mizaldus wrytes IF the feete of a great lyuing Tode be cutte off the Moone voide of course that is aspecting none and hastens towards the coniunction of the Sunne and hangd about the necke of him or her that hath the Kings Euyll it so profytes that oftentymes it delyuers the party from the disease Hieronimus Cardan IF Iupiter be in the eleuenth house well affected and not Retrograde nor Combust nor in his fall as in Capricorne but in Cancer Sagitary or Pisces it sygnifyes the Chylde then borne shall be fortunate happy and haue a common loue in all thinges chiefly if he haue any dignity in the Ascendent or in the place of the Sunne in the Natiuity of the daye or in the place of the Moone in the Natiuitie of the night Taisnier THis maruelous Water following wyll recouer the syght againe hyndred of any cause wherwith Constantine the Emprour receyued his syght Take three drams of Tutie made in very small powder as much of Aloe Epaticum in powder two drams of fyne Sugar syxe ounces of Rosewater as much of pure whyte Wyne myxe all together and put it in some cleane vessell of glasse and being well closed and stopt set it in the Sunne a month together sturring it together once euery daye Then take of the same water fowre or fyue droppes in your eyes morning and euening and with thus continewing a certayne space it wyll cause the syght to come againe as fayre as euer it was before This I knowe is proued for an excellent water for the eyes for it cleareth them maruelously I knew one that coulde not threede a needle without spectacles which put not past two or three drops of the same into theyr eyes at nyght and the next morning the same partie dyd see well to threede a needle without spectacles TO make a lyght that neuer shall fayle Take the Woormes that shynes in the nyght called Gloowoormes stampe them and let them stande tyll the shyning matter be aboue then with a fether take of the same shyning matter and myngle it with some quycksyluer and so put it into a Uyall and hang the same in a darke place and it wyll geue lyght This I had out of an olde booke which is not much vnlike to the discription of Mizaldus IF the Lyuer of a Mowse be geuen in a Fygge to a Swyne that Swyne wyll follow the geuer therof Mizaldus THe sounde of an Eccho is thought to dryue away Bees Therefore theyr Hyues ought to be plaste where the Eccho or the voyce doth not sound againe M. Varro WHosoeuer takes his iourney in the howre of Iupiter he shall haue good gaine in his substaunce and in his busynes and he shal haue profyt and gladnes in things vnlooked for Haly. IF a Spider be put in a lynnen cloath a lytle brused and holden to the nose that bleedes but touch not the nose therwith but smell to the same by by the bloud wil stay and the nose will leaue bleeding This is very true For the venemous Spyder is so contrary and such an enemie to mans bloud that the bloud drawes backe and shunnes the Spyder presently A maruelous thing WRyte what you wyl on fayre whyte paper with the iuyce of a redde Onion well myxed and tempered with the whyte of an Egge which being drie wyll appeare as though it were onely playne paper without any wryting But if you holde it against the fyre you maye then easilye reade it or perceyue the letters TO gylde Yron or Copper Take the gall of a Bull and rubbe the Yron or Copper well therwith so that the same before be well burnished all about that you woulde haue gylded and let it after drye in the Sunne foreseeing that there come no dust therto and when it is drye gylde vpon it as you would doo vpon Syluer SEethe an Egge in strong Uinegar vntyll it be very harde then let the same Egge lye three dayes in Urine then drye it and it wyll be maruelous harde Or let an Egge lye three dayes in Uinegar then drie the same at the Sunne three dayes and it wyll be very harde CAst Brymstone into a Chafyngdysh with hotte burning coales and holde a redde Rose ouer the smoake therof and it wyll be whyte TO seperate Golde from any thing gylded Seethe pure Sulphurevyue called quicke Brymstone in water vntyll halfe the water be consumed then wette the parte gylded with that water then drye it at the fyre then stryke the same gylded place with a lytle Yron and the Golde wyll fall from it This I had out of an olde wrytten Booke but howe true it is I knowe not Therefore as you trye it so take it TO proue or finde out the euent of any that is sycke Count the daies from the beginning of his or her sycknes and take the roote of an hearbe which hath so many leaues as
the number of the same dayes be tye it or hang it vp and if the disease be curable the partye wyll be much recreated If not then the party wyl be sadde But if you can not fynde an hearbe that hath so many leaues put the rootes of diuers hearbs together the leaues whereof together doo perfectly make vp the number of the sayde dayes from the begynning of the partyes sycknes and vse them as before This Mizaldus had of a certaine Italyan which profest that it is true THe bloud of a Hare dryed dooth helpe and stay the blouddy fluxe or any other laske though it be neuer so sore or extreame So doth the bones of a Man or Woman made into fyne powder and taken in red Wyne AN easye plaster for the Gowte but not a lytle effectuall because I sayth Iohn Arderne haue often tymes applyed it as well to Women as to Men and haue taken away theyr great paynes with once applying it as well in the feete as in the knees other ioyntes But take heede it be not perceyued of the patient nor of any other but it ought to be kept more secrete and deare and let it be reuealed to none but to thy sonne or to thy wel beloued friend I do thinke it preuailes aboue all other medicines for the gowte easeth the paine sooner and it ought to lye fyue or sixe daies without any mouing of it if it can be so applyed It is made thus Take of blacke sope as much as is sufficient wherevnto adde of the yolkes of raw Egges halfe as much as the Sope and myxe them well together in a dyshe vntyll the Sope hath lost his proper cullour which done laye thereof vpon fyne flaxe and spreade it lyke a plaster and then apply it to the grieued place then take the whytes of Egs myxed with Wheate flowre and wet a lynnen cloath well in the same lay the same vpon the sayd plaster and tye it well vpon it that the plaster remoue not away of all the sayde tyme vnlesse there be some great occasion This I founde in an olde wrytten booke Which synce I haue oftentymes proued true for aches YF you seethe Barlye drye Beanes and Lycqueres cutte in peeces of each a lyke much all together in fayre water and drynke a good draught therof with some Sugar euerye morning fasting and at nyght when you go to bedde fyue or syxe dayes together or more It wyll destroye any Impostume and shall thereby auoyde or cast out the same This was taken out of a Booke of a learned man that had often practised the same to be true A medicine of smal coast and easie to be made at all tymes HE wyll be a good Phisition in whose Natiuitye Mars and Venus are corporally or by any good Aspect coniunct Euen so if Venus and Mercury be ioygned or in coniunction together Also he wyll be a perfect Phisition in whose Natiuitie Mars Venus are coniunct in the syxt house Iatromath A Uery lytle Byrde called Aegithus doth maruelously dysagree with the Asse who in thorny places doth scratche or rubbe his vlcers or sores wherby he doth destroy or breake the nestes of this Byrd wherevpon it comes that as soone as this Byrde heares the voyce of the Asse she doth not onely cast the egges out of her nest but also her young ones if she haue any do fall from the same astonyed wyth feare So that the said Byrde flyes vnto the vlcers or sores of the Asse and pryckes or thrust at them with her byll that she maye dryue him away from thence Aristotil Plin. et Oppianus IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be Combust in the fowrth house or in the eyght house it sygnifyes that he that is then borne shall dye in pryson And if he be Combust in the fyft house in a watry sygne it shewes he wyll be geuen to be droonken In the syxt house it showes that he wyll dye of a long sycknes Taisnier FINIS Lib. 8. ¶ The nynth Booke of Notable thinges FYll an Egge shell full of the iuyce of Egremony and geue it vnto the patient to drink whome you suspecte to haue droonken poyson and it wyll myghtely purge vpwarde all the poyson and with a wonder facilytie healeth the byting of Serpentes and other venemous Beastes Petrus Hispanus THis Oyle or Balme following is of a maruelous vertue against trembling and the palsey and it helpeth the memory annoynting the hynder part of the head therwith Which a most syngular Phisition kept priuie to him selfe for a tyme as a most precious secrete which in the ende reuealed it to the Author wherof the making followeth Take of Galbanum one pound in another place I haue read it half a pound of gum of Iuye three ounces these fynely beaten a parte myxe together Which after put into a glasse body with an head and distyll it in Balneo Marie After it is distylled myxe therewith one ounce of the oyle of Bayes and one pounde of good Turpentyne then let the whole be distylled and seperate the water from the oyle and keepe the oyle as a precious Balme The vse of this is that the patient vexed with the Palsey conuulcons the crampe and trembling of members be layde vpryght and the oyle temperatly hotte must be powred vpon the the belly into the hollow and bottome of the Nauell you shall see after a maruelous working that may rather be coumpted diuine then naturall and very much helpeth the palsey and strengthneth the memory vsed as before A certaine Practysioner applyed one droppe of this Oyle on the patientes forehead that had the Palsey and another on his Nauell and he incontinent arose as amased and was after one howre delyuered of the greuous payne of a wounde in a certayne place of his body and the shrunken synewes he annointed with this Oyle and the patient was suddaynly healed c. This Oyle helpeth deafenes and any sycknes proceeding of a colde cause and helpeth besydes the losse of smelling Arnoldus de villa noua I take to be the Author hereof THe Hoofe of a Beast called Alces which is a wyld Beast lyke a fallowe Deere hauing no ioyntes in his legges hath a maruelous vertue and strength against the Falling Euyll for a lytle peece therof enclosed in a Ryng and so the same Ryng put vpon the fynger next the lytle fynger so that the same peece of the Hoofe be turned towarde the palme of the hand it doth recreate them maruelous much that are fallen and immediatly makes them rise vp A lytle peece of the same bare and put in the hand by and by closed into a fyst suddainly it dryues away the disease and rayseth the party that is fallen therewith Which Lemnius sayth he proued once or twyse And Mizaldus sayth that he proued it putting in a lytle peece of the same in the left eare mouing it as scratching a lytle of one that had the falling sycknes and it had very good
them it taketh them away cleane And also if Purslane be rubbed vpon them it pulleth them vp dy the rootes Petr. Hispanus FOr the Coddes that be swolne Take the powder of Coomyn seede Barly meale and Honny of each a lyke much frye them together with a lytle Sheepe suet and bynde the same as a plaster all about the Cods and it wyll helpe it Proued THis following wyll breake a Byle Botche or a Fellon Lay fyrst thertoo some posset crudde and let it not be remoued of twelue howres and that wil gather the matter together and make it tender But if once applying of the posset crudde do it not then apply therof to it twyse or thryse then take vnquencht Lyme and cast vpon it some fayre spring water and myxe the same with blacke Sope and lay to the sore a peece thereof according to the greatnes that you woulde haue the hoale of the sore and when it is brooke then washe it with whyte Wyne a lytle heated and so heale it with Butter powder of Sugar mixed together This is a sure and approued thing A Notable secrete for all incurable aches paynes in the ioyntes where euer they be Take all the whole horne that a Buck castes off the later the better cast away the scawpe take nothing but the horne cut the same in shyuers or peeces then seethe the same in a gallon of fayre water vntyll all be comd to a pynt or some thing more then cast away the peeces of the horne and then let that in the vessell stand vntyll it be colde which then wyll be lyke a ielly And when you wyll occupy therof warme some of it in a sawcer or some other conuenient thing then annoint the grieued place therwith by the fyre morning and euening let it drynk in by the heate of the fyre and it wyl helpe and heale it throughly for euer God wylling within nyne or ten dressings This is very true and well proued which a friend of mine tolde me that helped him selfe of such an ache therwith that neyther counsell of Phisitions practise of Surgeons nor yet the long vsing of the Bathes could ease wherby he spent much money in vayne vntyll a Wenche by chaunce tolde him this excellent remedy Which as she sayde a noble man of this Realme dyd learne beyonde the Seas who hath reuealed it synce to the great commodity and helpe of many FOr swolne or sore throtes a rare and sure remedy Rubbe your hand on the bare earth or ground and then therwith rubbe the sore or swoolne throote if presently you do thus three seuerall tymes the swelling payne wyll myraculously go away This was taught me by a friende of myne that dyd knowe it to be true by proofe AN excellent remedy for a great heate pricking in the eyes Fyl an Egge she l newly emptyed with the iuyce of Syngreene set it in the hotte embers and skym of the greene baggage from it and then it wyll be a water then straine it and keepe it in a glasse and put some of it into the hotte eies fowre or fiue nights together and it wyll cease the burning and pricking therof quickly Often proued HE shall scantly or neuer dye an euyll death that hath a good Planet in his .viii. house Haly Aben. A Woonderfull drinke against brusings and it helpeth such maruelously that are brused through falling Take Egremony Bettony Sage Planten Iuy leaues Rosepearslie stampe them together and mixe Wyne therto geue the patient it often to drinke tyll he be hole A true and tried medicine I thinke that Petrus Hispanus hath the same IF you burne fowre ounces of Turpentine vpon a hotte or burning plate of Yron vntyll it maye be made in powder and then myxe two drams there of with fowre ounces of the water of Saxifrage and geue it twyse in a weeke early in a morning to thâ—m that haue the stone in theyr blather and so continew it two monthes he shall not onely be preserued from breeding of the stone in the blather but also it wyll burst and dryue forth the stone bred there already This is proued and a secrete and is to be kept well in minde Benedictus victorius Fauentinus IF Lauender be well sodde in water and then strayned and halfe a pynt therof droonke dayly fyrst and last for the space of a fortnight it wyll heale them that haue the Palsey This was founde in an olde written booke AN excellent and speedy remedy for many diseases and chiefly for the stomacke Myxe two spoonefull of Sallet oyle with two spooneful of pure Aqua vite and drynke all the same in the morning at one tyme doo so syxe or seuen morninges together It is a notable and often proued remedy FOr the Strangury a straunge medicine Take a pynt of good Aqua composita and put a good haÌ„dfull of Iuy leaues therin keepe the vessell wel stopt the Iuy leaues wyll consume therin vse to drink of the same three or fowre spoonefuls at one tyme morning and euening fyrst last fiue or sixe dayes together and you shall see a maruelous helpe therof THis following is a proued medicine for the ache in the huckle bone called the Sciatica Take a pounde of good black Sope one pint of good Aqua vite halfe a pynt of Sallet oyle and a quarter of a pynt of the iuyce of Rew seethe them and sturre them all together ouer an easie fyre vntyll it be something thycke and that it maye be made in a plaster then spreade some therof vpon a peece of lether and apply it to the ache or payned place and let it lye thereon vnremoued three dayes and three nyghts and if the payne be not then gone then applye such an other plaster thertoo and remoue it not of so long and it wyl helpe it certainly This was tolde me by one that knew it often proued THe powder of whyte harde Sugar put into a bloudshotten eye or that is some thing dymme of syght It helpes the same and mendes the syght very well Especiallye if you put afterwarde a lytle Rose water into the eye This I haue proued dyuers tymes to be true Yea and I thinke if it were vsed it woulde consume the webbe of the eye at length HAly sayth that he that begyns to set forewarde his iourney in sayling or enters to go to the Sea in the howre of Saturne he wyll be drowned or else wyll be lost by the inuasion of Pyrates or other or else the fiercenes or great raginge of the Sea wyll throw him to the land where he shal suffer shipwrack Or else into farre Ilands he shal be caryed perhaps vnknowne to him Which of trueth hath alwayes hapned to that Shyp that then sets forewarde as the booke of Natures dyd contayne which as he hath dillygently proued and read which chiefly entreates of the iudgements of howres And the sayde Haly saith further as foloweth when a certaine shyp dyd set forth
or forwarde in the howre of Saturne I sayde to one of my fellowes which vnderstoode some thing in this Science all these men are geuen to be lost and within a while after they all perished Thus much sayth Haly. And in beginning of long iourneys as well by Lande as by Sea in this howre I haue knowne much harme and mischiefe to follow Which although many doo not nor wyl beleeue to be true because they know neither this excelleÌ„t Science neither the proofe of these things yet many that be wise and learned and that haue payed full dearely for the prouing thereof doth thinke this no lye But if some of them dyd know the same howre and should practise some such lyke thing therein the euent thereof would teach them I thinke not to be so incredulous I know I thanke God therfore that no harme shall happen to the chyldren of God for he wyll so guyde them that neither man nor deuil nor any other thing can destroye them though in this world they maye seeme to hurt them And as he doth preserue them from harme euen so he appoynts them theyr tymes to walke in the very beginning of theyr iourneyes Assured and am fully satisâ—yed that he by his diuine prouidence makes them auoyde that howre other euyll tymes and the wicked and vngodly haue hapned of that tyme to theyr destruction Therefore for my part I attribute nothing to the tyme but all honour to God that made the tyme whose glory and power is to be extolde that foreshewes such things to man by such howres or tyme. BLack Sheepes wooll myxt and chafed by the fyre with freshe butter and the deaffe eare stopt therewith at night and thus vsed nyne or ten nyghts together it helpeth deafnes perfectly and speedely A proued thing HEre followeth a notable and excellent Aqua vite Take Galengale Cucubarum Ginger Nutmugs Cloues Cynamom of euery one an ounce fresh sage fowre ounces water that is distilled sixe times out of pure good Wine ten ounces put them all together and let them remayne so in a close cleane vessell three dayes then distyll the same keepe that that is distylled in a cleane close vessell Whosoeuer drinkes a nutte shell ful of this water euery day it wyl preserue theyr bodyes maruelously and keepe them from many diseases and bring them to olde age It is sayde that M. Gallus Phisition to Charles the Emprour vsed this water and liued a hundreth and fowre and twenty yeares Georg. Alapide deuised this water IF you desyre to haue sweete water forthwith or by and by put two or three drops of oyle of Spyke in a good deale of pure water and chafe it together in a glasse with a narrow mouth Euonymus AN excellent oyle for colde aches Take the wood of Iuie dryed cutte the wood in lytle peeces and of the berryes and gum of Iuye of each a lyke weyght let them be put in an earthen vessell boored through in the bottome in two or three places and then let an other pot be set vnder it in the earth and ioygne the bottome of the vpper potte vnto the mouth of the nether with claye or paste the vpper potte must stand wholly aboue the ground then make a fyre on euery syde and the oyle wyll distyll blacke into the nether vessell This oyle before all oyles healeth the griefes of the ioyntes of a colde cause This is proued to be a notable oyle in this case Rogerius seemes to be the Author hereof As appeares in Euonymus IF you put out the whyte of a Hens egge and fyll vp the same egge with the iuyce of Flowre deluce and myxe the yolke and it well together then warming it a lytle in the hotte ashes and so geue it in the morning to them that haue the dropsie it wyll auoyde downward the dropsie water aboue measure This is proued to be true Much lyke vnto this Benedictus victorius Fauentinus wrytes for the same cause but he appoynts the iuyce to be geuen with Mellicrate A Proper practyse to make a Capon to bring vp young Chickens Take a Capon and pull his belly bare of fethers after rubbe the naked place with Nettels then setting young Chyckens vnder him he wyl maruelously cherish them then and bring them kyndly vp And the rather if you vse him thus for a time for by that meanes he is moued the more wyllingly to cherysh bring vp and feede yea to loue them as the Hen would do naturally And the reasoÌ„ therof is for that by the pricking of the nettels he is the rather desyrous to coutch on the softe downe fethers of the young Chickins sytting vnder him This I had out of the natural and Artificial coÌ„clusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated into English by Th. Hyl. ONe Aeschilus was foretolde by an Astronomer that he should be kylled by some ruyne or something that should fal vpon him vpoÌ„ a certaine day or tyme who to preueÌ„t the same did walk abroade a certain space about the warned time would by no meanes come into any house thinking therby to auoyde that daunger vnles the heauens should chauÌ„ce to fal but marke how hard it is to auoyde Fate or Gods determined appointment about the same tyme foretold by the Astronomer an Eagle dyd flye ouer his head froÌ„ whome a stone dyd fal vpon Aeschilus head kylled him Wherby we may not onely see the mans wisdome and pollicy is not able to frustrate Gods prouidence but also that there is a maruelous certenty in the Astrological foreshewing of euents especially by directions which Ciprianus Leouitius seemes to affirme by this other notable examples And sure I am by many proofes tryals that the euents wyl assuredly happen at the time promised by dyrections that is when the Signifyer coms to the very place minute of the Promissor accouÌ„pting for euery degree betweene theÌ„ one yeere euery minute about six daies if the Signifyer be to be dyrected by the dyrect Ascencions but if the Signifier be to be directed by the obliquâ— AsceÌ„cions or els Intermixtim which is not very easily or soone done then they sygnify sometimes more sometymes lesse according to their swift or slow asceÌ„ding Which dyrectioÌ„s to be infallible the learned expert herein cannot chuse but affirme For that they are found as perfect by proofe as true by tryal as the breake of the day doth assure vs of the rysing of the Sunne IN Lamberge a Towne of Schlesia as IohaÌ„nes Langius wrytes a certaine Woman great with chylde did folow a Priest that had newly washed or bathed his feete who being taken with such a loÌ„ging or lust with the sudden sight of his bare feete that she priuely behynde his backe dyd holde his legge with her hands and out of the same pluckt a peece of flesh with her teethe Nothing regarding the crye of the poore Priest which cryed out both of God and man. IF
back emroddes therewith it is maruelous good for the gowte the making of the oyle is thus Take of the most purest and oldest whyte Wine one quart of the oldest oyle Olyffe three pound Carduus benedictus called the blessed Thistle Ualerian the lesser Sage with the flowres if you can get them of each a quarter of a pounde of the leaues flowres of S. Iohns Woort halfe a pounde let the hearbs and flowres be infused or stieped in the sayd Wine oyle xxiiii howres then the next day let all be put into an earthen vessell leaded or a vessell of brasse vpon an easy fyre vntyll the Wyne be consumed moouing it styl being ouer the fire then being taken from the fire streyned put therto of Uenys Turpentine a pound and a halfe then let all boyle together a quarter of an howre then put therto Olibanū fiue ounces Myrre three ounces Sanguis Draconis one ounce and let all boyle vntyl the Myrre be dyssolued then put it into a vessell of glasse stopped let it stand in the hotte Sun ten daies before you vse this oyle you must wash the sores or woūds with whyte Wine wherin must be the powder of Olibanū I haue writtē this here because I thinke thereby many shall haue knowledge of this precious Oyle which otherwyse should neuer haue heard of it A Sweete water an vnknowen wherof one part mixt with ten quartes of pure water maketh the whole most sweet Take Nutmugs Cloues Galingale Spiknard graines of Paradise Mase Cinamō of euery one an ounce pound or stamp thē all ad therto twenty graines of Musk or lesse as you delyght in the smell therof powre into them a pound a halfe of Rosewater let them so remayne together in a close vessell fowre or fyue dayes then put therto thryse as much rose-Rosewater and distyl all the same in a potte or kettel ful of water seething as in Balneo marie keep the distylled water in a glasse wel stopt to the vse before sayd Euoni IF an Eg be painted with sundry cullors the same set vnder a Hen which syts to bring forth chickens she wyll hatche therof a Chycken hauing the lyke fethers vnto the cullors paynted on the Egge Thomas Hyll out of the naturall and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua affyrmes this IF one make a lytle rope of the guts of a Woolf and then bury the same vnder sand or earth there wyll neither Horse nor Sheepe go that way though you beate them with a staffe Albertus IT is sayd that a Hare doth lyue ten yeeres the age of a Cat is so much a Goate doth liue eight yeeres an Asse thirty yeeres a Sheepe ten yeeres but the Belwether many times doth liue .xv. yeeres a Dog. xiiii and somtymes .xx. a Bull .xv. but an Oxe because he lacks his stones doth lyue .xx. a Swine and a Peycocke .xxv. a Horse .xx. and oftentimes .xxx. there haue bene Horses that lyued fifty yeeres Pygeons lyues naturally .viii. yeeres a Turtle a Partrech .xxv. yeeres also a Ryngdooue which oftentimes lyues xl yeeres Mizal. THe body of a Byrch tree cut or scortched the spring time going before doth yeeld great plenty of water which water being droonke hath a maruelous strength to breake the stone in the raynes Matheolus vpon Dioscorides wrytes it FINIS Lib. 9. ¶ The tenth Booke of Notable things THere is an euident familiarity betweene the Oliue tree and the Myrte tree for as Andronicus reportes the branches of the Myrt tree do pleasauntly extende or spreade by the Olyue tree and the rootes of them do mutuallye embrace each other nor any other plant but the Myrt tree wyll grow well nye the Olyue tree This also Mizaldus doth affyrme THe smell of Bitumen rawe or the smoake thereof burned receyued by the nose of such as are grieuously tormented with the paynes of the moother is a present helpe or remedy It is most certainly proued Wherfore many Women which are grieued with the disease do hang it about theyr necks in wooll that they maye driue away theyr fyt by the oft smelling therof Mizaldus wrytes this And the learned Doctor Monardus affyrmes the lyke therof THe sparrowe Hawke is a fierce enemie to all Pygions but they are defended of the Castrell whose syght and voyce the Sparhawke doth feare which the Pygions or Dooues knowes well inough for where the Castrell is from thence wyll not the Pigions go if the Sparhawke be nye through the great trust she hath in the Castrell her defendor Iohannes Baptista Porta hath written this THe leaues of a Wyllow tree as also the bark therof sodde in Wine doth helpe them that haue the gowte if they be fomēted or bathed therwith Mizal. SToflerus an excellent Astronomer knowing by his Natiuity that he should be in daunger to be hurte about a certaine day or tyme kept him self then within his own house assured that it was strong inough The same day or very nye vnto it that the euent should happe certayne of his learned friends and he as they were reasoning together dyd vary in some certayne opynion about the tryall wherof as it should seeme he reached to take downe one of his bookes being placed among dyuers other when through the lacke of a nayle the whole classe or shelfe where the booke was fell vpon his head and wounded his head very sore Which doth not onely shew the worthynes and excellencie of Astrology especially in a learned and skylfull person therin but also our folly in flying from Fate for that our wisdome doth leade vs into it whē most of all we meane for to shun it Therfore perfect prayer passeth pollecie in preuenting of peryls THree halfe penny weyght of the powder of the Adamant stone droonke with the iuyce of Fennell drawes the water from them that haue the dropsie And the same stone put to the head takes away quite all the paynes therof Iacobus Hollerus an excellent Phisition affyrmes it IT is a manifest thing and proued by dayly experience that the bodies of them that be murthred when they be founde if any of theyr kynred be then present or the party or partyes that kylled or murthered thē or was the cause therof Immediatly bloud wil burst forth suddenly either out of the wound or nose or out of some other part of theyr body I could aleadge here a great sort of examples for the verifying thereof but I omyt them for it is a thing found true by dayly experience Besydes that Lucretius Philip. Melancton Iohannes Langius and Lauinius Lemnius haue written therof PEeces of Amber being put or tyed to the hynder part of the head doth helpe the running or watrines of the eyes with a maruelous successe and hanged about the necke doth hynder distyllations that they go not downe by the throate Mizaldus Besides that it is proued to be true A Certayne Woman went with a dead Chylde in her wombe aboue fowre yeeres which by
For a colde Lyuer take a spoonefull of the whyte water with an ounce of the water of Sage For the breast and the cough of a cold Rewme take it with the water of Isope Louathe or Fennell For the harte with the water of Buglosse Burrage or Balme For the stomacke with the water of Woormwood For the Lyghts with the water of mayden heair or Polypode For the Splen with the water of Hartstongue For the Vertigo a gyddynes of the head or the Apoplexie with the water of Pyony of Fennell or of S. Iohns Woort For the Stone with the water of Radysh or winter Cherries For the retayning or holding of the water with the water of Cresses some Pearsley or Saxifrage For the eyes with the water of Fennell or Eybright For the retayning or withholding of Menstrues with the water of Mugwoort or with water of Radysh For the too much fluxe of the Menstrues with the water of Planteyn or of Nightshade For the Matrix hurt by the mydwyle or of any colde cause whereby she doth conceyue no more let it be vsed with the water of Ualeryan or Bettony Against the spottes of the face take of the water of Pympernell fowre partes of this whyte or fyrst water one parte myxe them together and annoynt the face morning and euening and drynke it twyse or thryse in the weeke with Endyue water It cures the Cankar being annoynted therewith and the Fystula if a droppe thereof many tymes put into it It helpes a colde gowte if it be annoynted therwith For the payne of the Matryx let this water be taken with the water of Mugwoort Also it is good against the quarten and quotidian Feuers The Cytryne oyle hath many vertues as the oyle of Balme if any griefe be annoynted therwith The blacke Oyle is of great vertue in the gowte if it be annoynted therwith as the moother of Balme being whyte called the golden Water Gratarolus HEre followeth an excellent medycine that wyll heale olde rotten incurable Ulcers very quickly Take of Turpentyne three tymes washt fyrst in fayre spring or well water after in Rose or Planteyn water three ounces the yolke of an Eg Oyle of Roses an ounce a halfe Mercury sublymate made in powder halfe a dram let them all be myxed well together and make therof an oyntment washe the Ulcers or sores with whyte Wine then spreade some of that oyntment or salue vpon flaxe apply it to the sore and dresse it with new salue twise euery day but before euery dressing annoynt with this following three or fowre fyngers bredth about the sore Take of the oyle of Roses two ounces of Uineger halfe an ounce of the powder of bole Armoniack a lytle myxe them together and annoynt it as is before sayd And when all the rottē or putrified flesh is eaten out then annoynt the Ulcer with butter and you shall see a woonderfull effect Proued FOr the burning or great intollerable heat of the vryne Take of the seedes of Purslane of the seedes of Lettys of the seedes of Endiue of the seedes of white Poppy two ounces of euery of them of the seedes of Hēbane half a dram Sebasten two ounces Saffern one drā Licqueres fiue drams Pineaple kernels ten drams foūtaine or spring water six pound myx them all together let them be sod vntyll the consuming of the thyrde part of the water then let it be strayned Wherof take one ounce in the morning mixed with one ounce of Inle◠of Uyolets and the fowrth day the effect worthy of maruell wyl appeare This is proued A Notable an excellēt Balme Take of Turpētine one pound a half Galbanum two ounces Aloes cicotrin Mastick Cloues Galangale Cynamō Nutmugs Cubebs of euery one of them an ounce gum of Iuy halfe an ounce when all is well beaten myxe them together and distyl them in glasse with a slowe fyre fyrst and receyue the fyrst water by it selfe seuerally then encrease the fyre a water more reddyshe wyll come then encrease the fyre more and an oyle wyl come of a redde cullour receiue that as long as any wyll come you must chaunge the receyuer thryse This oyle hath all the vertues of true Balme for it burneth in the water and curddeth mylke by by for if one droppe of it warme be put into a pynt of mylke it wyll forthwith become curdded The fyrst lycquor is called the water of Balme the seconde oyle of Balme the thyrde Balme artificiall The fyrst is profytable against the running of the eares if two drops morning and euening be put into them dropt into the eyes it amendeth the blearednes and consumeth the teares it doth maruelously restrayne superfluous humors in any parte of the body it taketh away the tooth ache if they be washt therewith and kylleth the woormes if there be any in them The thyrd lycquor wyl suffer no venom it is an vtter enemy and destruction to Spiders and Serpents Two or three drops thereof layde vpon any venemous byting doth make it whole strayght If thou drawe a cyrcle with this lycquor and shut a venemous Beast therin it wyl dye there rather then go out of it To be short it doth all the same things that Treacle doth but all things more effectually being powred or put vpon any Impostume within nyne dayes it healeth them and lykewise a Fistula be it neuer so euyll and also Noli me tangere All diseases bred of fleame and of colde humors it healeth if a lynnen cloath dypped in it be layde vpon the place where the griefe is It putteth away vtterly the Palsey and all trembling of members it strengthneth maruelously the Sinewes it is hotter then the fyrst or the seconde If a man put a drop of it in his hande it pierceth straight without griefe To conclude it doth many other things and all diseases rysen of a colde cause it healeth if they vse it ryght Lullius in his booke of waters But this is taken out of Euonymus IF you take the gall of an Oxe mans vrine Ueriuyce and the iuyce of Nettelles of each a lyke quantity and myxe them very dillygently together and after quenche steele red hotte therin fowre or fyue tymes together the same steele wyll after become as soft as paste This is affyrmed by the Schollers of Padua in theyr natural and Artificial conclusions c. A Most present remedy for them that are infect with the plague for Carbuncles pestelenticall Puslles holy Fyre and other of that kinde Take the ripe berryes of Iuy being dryed in the shaddow then stampe them and make them in powder of which powder take half a dram in two or three ounces of the water of Planteyn and remayne styl in the bed vntyl you haue sweat very well and after you haue sweat put on a cleane shert wel ayred at the fyre and if you may conueniently let the sheetes and the cloathes of the bed be shyfted There hath bene some healed with this
dead being layde in warme Ashes but they must not be burning or verye hotte the same Flye wyll recouer and lyue againe This is very true IF you do gather Roses when they be fully ripe and immediatly cut away the new springes tops and the vppermost branches of that yeere you shall haue new fresh Roses grow againe out of the same the same yeere about Mighelmas I know this to be true and for trueth I haue published it abroade THe Indians do vse the Tabaco a notable hearbe for to suffer the dreyth also for to suffer hungar and to passe dayes without hauing neede eyther to eate or drinke by any desart or dyspeopled countrey where they shal find neyther water nor meate They do vse of these litle balles which they do make of this Tabaco they take the leaues of it and do chew it and as they go chewing of them they myngle with them certaine powder made of the shelles of Cockles burned and they myngle it in their mouth all together vntyll they make it lyke to dowe of the which they make certaine lytle balles lytle greater then Peason and they put them to drye in the shadowe and after they keepe them vse them for the auoyding of hunger thyrst in theyr trauell without any meate and drinke for the space of three or fowre dayes This Doctor Monardus hath wrytten with many other woonders and notable vertues therof in his booke before mencioned intituled Ioyfull Newes out of the new found Worlde This Tabaco is a maruelous woonderfull hearbe growing in the west Indyas called the new Spaine and through the brynging of the seedes therof from thence it growes nowe both in Spayne and Fraunce WOormes and other venemous Beasts are dryueÌ„ away from any place with the smoake or fume of other Beasts of the same kinde as Rasis wrytes QUick syluer kylled burned Leade the scales of Yron or black Hellebor mixed with some pleasaunt meate that Mice loues if any Mice eate therof it wyll kyll them Mizaldus THere is a certaine Goom is brought from the firme â—â—nde of the Peru which helpes the gowte with purging the cause therof if you put of it as much as a Nut in distylled water which water ought to be the quantity of two ounces and geue the same to the patient the same partye forbearing meate vntyll the myddest of the day This Monardus affyrmes to be proued manifesting the same at large in his sayde booke called the Ioyfull Newes out of the new fouÌ„d World. The name of the Goom he names not THe rootes of Roses or their slips with their knots remoued and set amongst broome wyl bring forth yallow Roses Iohan. Bap. Por. THat Cheese that is made with cheslep or rennet wherein a lytle of the brayne of a Wesell is put or myxt wyll not putrifye neyther be eaten of Myce. Pictorius THere is a certaine Tree growing in Peru a boowe wherof if one doth hold fast in his left hand a good whyle that would knowe whether one that is sycke shall lyue or dye of that disease or at that tyme if the sycke shall lyue and escape the party that holdes the same shall shewe much gladnes If the sycke shall dye then the party that holdes the same shall be verye sad Monardus wrytes of this Tree in his sayd booke and shewes that the same was proued true by a Gentlewoman that was maruelous sad whiles shee dyd holde the same whose husbande dyed soone after accordingly A Rare and straunge kynde of fruite as great as a Nutte with maruelous rounde and harde bâ—â—cke stones in them is brought out of the new Spaine by the report of the sayde worthy Doctor Monardus whereof two or three with hotte water doth more effect for to wash and to make cleane cloathes then one pound of Sope doth wherof as well as of many other straunge and most excellent thinges you maye reade discrybed at large in his sayde booke called the Ioyfull Newes out of the new founde Worlde A Booke no doubte worthy of great estymation and commendation IF a handfull of Fygs be stampt tyll the kernelles be broken then tempered with a lytle fresh grease and so a plaster therof layde to a Womans breast that is sore as hotte as she may suffer the same it wyll take away the swelling and paine therof and if it be ready to breake it wyll breake it or else not This is an excellent and a sure tryed thing TAke two ounces of Sulphur vyue called quycke Brimstone beate it in powder and mixe the same well with as much of blacke Sope that is of the most stinking smel and tye the same in a lynnen cloath and let it hang in a pynt of strong Wyne Uinegar for the space of nyne dayes and then vse to wash any kinde of skuruynes or morphew therwith though neuer so olde or rooted being eyther on the face or on any other parte of the body with a lynnen cloath dypt or wet therin and so let the same Uinegar drye in of it selfe and do thus as long as the sayd Uinegar lastes and therwith the deformity or morphew wyl be perfectly healed And whosoeuer vses to drynke the water of Strawberyes distylled it wyll certaynly kyll the roote of any morphew that is within the body All this is well proued AN excellent preseruatiue against the Plague which was proued and vsed in the great Plague in Englande in the yeare of our Lorde 1548. For euery one that vsed it then escaped Take Aloes Hepatick pure Cynamom Myrre of each three drammes Cloues Mace wood of Aloes called Lignum Aloes Mastick Bole Armoniacke of each halfe an ounce myxe them all together and make thereof a very fyne powder wherof take early in the morning with whyte Wine myxt with a lytle water and by the grace of God you shall be preserued safe from the Plague VVeckerus IF you burne the shelles of Snailes with Styracks and then sprinckle therof vpon an Antes hyll therby they wyll be driuen forth of the grounde or place where they are TAke of English Saffern beateÌ„ in fyne powder and as much of pure good blacke Sope which when they be well myngled together spreade it vpon the fleshie syde of a peece of Leather then laye it vppon the Nauell of them whose vryne or water is stopte and it wyll procure the water to come forth and therby they shall make water within one howre This was tolde mee for a true and tryed secrete whereof I dare make no warrantyze but fauour it as you fynde it MAke lute or claye with the dregges or moother of Oyle and myxe therewith a lytle chaffe then let it lye so two or three dayes then dawbe with the sayde thycke lute or claye your Garner or rowme where you wyll laye your Corne then sprynckle the dregges or moother of Oyle al ouer where you haue dawbed and when it is drye laye Wheate therein and there shal neyther Weuell nor Myce hurt touch or
founde in the tyme of his byrth without doubte he shall escape from such sycknesse If in the place of an euyll Starre or Planet he wyll not escape Iohannes Taysnier SEethe the leaues of an Oake and the mydle rinde therof in water and wash the head that is sore or full of Pustules therewith and it wyll helpe it presently This hath bene often and well proued GAniuetus sayth that in the yeare of our Lord. 1418 the .xxiiii. daye of August before fowre a clocke at after noone in the howre of Saturne A certaine priest called Iohannes Morterius â–ª dyd aske him for a certaine brother of his which was sicke what shoulde be the ende of his disease death or health Who after he had erected the celestiall fygâ—re therefore espying Mars within one degree of the Ascendent in a moueable sygne beholding also the parte fortune of a quartyle aspect with dyuers other testymonies and euyll sygnes And also Mercurie being the Lorde of the house of the Moone in the eyght house both Retrograde and Combust Iudgde that the party woulde be madde and so dye within a daye after which the messenger dyd declare vnto his friendes and to the Maister of him that was sycke being his brother Which happened so For about fowre of the clock the next morning he was so franticke that he had lyke to haue kylled his Maister and others But they were preserued through Gods speciall gyfte And after being close in a chamber dyd breake a post and so cast him selfe headlong downe and dyed THe roote of Pelleter of Spaine chewed betwene the teeth a good whyle wyll purge the heade and gummes verie well and fasten the teeth So that it wyll helpe the head ache and toothe ache if it be vsed fowre or fiue times in a day two or three dayes together It is very true and often proued MAke that that is shorne from Scarlet into powder by drying it at the fyre or in an Ouen and then geue to the partye that hath the blouddye fluxe to drynke halfe a spoonefull thereof in redde wine Use this fiue or sixe tymes and it wyll helpe him or her shortlie and certaynlie God wylling This is well proued THe gall of a Partriche annointed once in a month on the Artyres of the temples of the heade So that it may penetrate and syncke in doth profyte verie much for the confyrming of the memory Simeon Sethi IF the tayle of a woolfe be buried or put in the grouÌ„d of any Towne or Uylledge no woolfe wyl enter in that Towne or Uylledge Rasis ALbertus makes mencion of a Well that whatsoeuer is throwne into the same is turned into a stone Whereof proofe was made by Frederick the fyrst who because he woulde not be deceyued he threw into the same one of his gloues wherto fyrst he put waxe and sealed it with his owne Ring and the one halfe of the gloue which was vnder the water became stone the other part aboue the water remayned as it was before IF one go to any body and doth aske them being learned in Astrologie whether he shall fynde him or speake with him or not Marke the Lorde of the seuenth house whome if thou finde in an Angle saye that he is at home If in a Succedent house then he is nye home And marke if betwene the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Lorde of the seuenth house there be any applycation or if there be any Planet beholding the seuenth house and carryes the lyght of the one to the other or that doth ioyne their two lyghts and it be thus then tell him that he shal finde him If not then he shall not â–ª Haly Abenragel Which is true so that the partie doth go to his Wife or to his enemie or to any other common person But according to Guido Bonatus if he go to a king or to his maister then you must take the tenth house and the Lorde thereof if to a Priest a Prelate or a Byshop then you must consider of the ninth house as Haly byddes you Do by the seuenth house if to your sonne or daughter then the first house if to your Father the fowrth house if to your brother then you must iudge as before by the thirde house And so of the rest according to the significations of euery house Wherefore the learned in Astrologie are not ignoraunt and this is a verye true rule throughly â–ª and many times obserued And if the Lord of the seuenth house or the house that the partie trauels vnto doth signifie be in a Cadent house then the partie is farre from home so that hee is not lyke to speake with him MAny haue proued that a Saphire tied to the Artyer doth put away the heat in an ague And the same stone borne against thy hart doth preserue the bearer thereof from the plague and from venemous thinges Rasis et Albertus And other IF one that hath eaten Garlyke or Coomynfeede breath on the face of a woman that is paynted the cullour wyll vanish away strayght if not then her cullour remaynes as it dyd before Lang. THe leaues of an Elme tree or of a Peach tree falling before their time doth foreshewe or betokens a murrian or death of Cattell Cardanus TYberius Caesar who was Emperour of Rome when Christe suffered when he awaked out of sleepe dyd see in the darke as Cats do Suetonius WHosoeuer eateth two Walnuts two Fygs tweÌ„tie leaues of Rew and one graine of Salt all stampt and mixt together fasting shal be safe from poyson and plague that daye Which Antidote King Mithridates had vsed so much that when he drunke poyson purposely to kyll him selfe it coulde not hurte him Plynius IF you shall enclose seedes of diuers kindes eyther in ware or in some other fast matter made something thyn or small shooting out of length that is as long as you woulde haue the same to growe and then putting the same in the grounde well dunged a marueylous hedge wyll spring therof This is the workmanshyppe and experiment of the Kings Gardyner Mizaldus THe Elephants haue sence and vnderstanding next vnto man and it seemes they knowe and keepe the course of the Starres for at the chaunge of the Moone they breake downe bowes from the trees holdes them then mouing them vp and downe and they are maruelous docible Gellius and Plynie hath left it wytnessed by Mutianus that was thryse Consull as also Plutarch that an Elephant dyd wryte the Greek Letters And Aelianus sayth that an ElephaÌ„t dyd wryte all the Latten Letters in order with other thinges incredible â–ª GRinde Mustarde with vineger and rubbe it well and harde on the plants or soles of the feete and it wyll helpe and quicken forgetfull personnes Petrus Hispanus A Most notable and proued Water to claryfie the dymnes of the eyes or syght doth followe Take the iuyce of Fennell of Celendyne of Rewe and of Eybright of each two ounces Honny one ounce and a halfe Aloes Tutie and
Hempe the leaues or seedes of Mustarde the tops of sharpe Docke red Colewoort leaues and Tansey let them all seethe in a good quātity of whyte Wine after strayne all the whole put into the streyning as much Honny as shall be thought meete geue therof vnto the patient early late vntil such tyme as the cleare pocyon or drynke come forth by the mouth of the Fystula which must alwayes be kept open with a syluer Pype put into it and keepe vppon it alwayes a redde colewoort leafe It is of a wonderfull operation Petrus Hispanus And I my selfe haue proued it and it healed in such manner as is before declared It is a precious thing DRagans bounde to the priuities of a Woman in labour causeth her to be delyuered incontynent But there must be heede taken that it be quickly remoued least it drawe forth the Matrix with all Petrus Hispanus HEre followeth an excellent Oyle which maketh a fayre cullour in the face Take of Almonds scraped ten poundes of redde Saunders in powder sixe ounces of Cloues one ounce of whyte Wyne fowre ounces of Rosewater three ounces these after they be groslye beaten together let them lye in a marble Morter close couered for eyght or nyne dayes beating the same ouer once a daye then heate it all in an earthen vessell vntyll it begynne to fume and be through hotte and after that put it into a newe square bagge of lynnen cloath then put the same bagge into a presse betweene two smoothe plates of Yron something hotte ▪ for out wyll come a redde oyle wherewith Women maye annoynt theyr faces for it causeth a comly redde and bewtyfull skynne A secrete and practysed of fewe This is in the newe Iewell of Health a Booke of muche value and small pryce THe grease of an Eele and the iuyce of Syngreene mixed together of each a lyke much boyled a lytle and a lytle therof put into the deafe eare nyne nights together wyll bring the hearing agayne as well as euer it was TAke Salt Armoniacke Allom and Salt Niter of eache a lyke quantitie with a lytle fylings of Syluer let all be myxt together then put them vnto the fyre that they maye be hotte and when they shall cease to smoake then with the same powder alone or else myxte or moystened with the spettell of your mouth let Copper or Brasse be rubbed therewith and strayght way it wyll haue the cullour of Siluer SErpentes being within a cyrcle made of Byttony they can not go out of the same But rather wyll dye with beating them selues Plinius IF the Lorde of the seconde house be in the twelfth house enemyties wyll come many tymes to him that is then borne for money or through money Taisnier PLanten stampte and the iuyce wroong out put into the hollownesse of an Ulcer with a spowte healeth the same So doth Bettony stampte and applyed to a Fystula healeth it Petrus Hispanus ▪ The iuyce of Cinquefoyle doth heale the Fistula lykewise if it be put into the same with a spowte TO seperate Golde from any thing that is gylded Take Borace and temper it in water thē boyle it ouer the fyre and with the same water annoynt the thing that is gylded cast theron a lytle of the powder of quick Brymstone after put it into the fyre that it may be made red then quench it in running water you shall finde the gold in the bottome of the vessell FOr any paynes of the eares and for them that cannot heare Take a great Onion cutte a hoale therin and set it in the embers to roast then fyll it full of oyle Olyffe and euer as it dryeth fyll it vp againe tyl it be roasted well then take away the vppermost skin therof then strayne the Onion through a cloath and keepe it in some close glasse and when you wyll occupy thereof put some of it into the hole eare and let him lye on his sore eare when he goes to bedde and if he vse this nyne nyghts at the furthest it wyll helpe him Proued FOr the fundamēt that goeth forth Take the tops of redde Nettelles and stampe them in a morter then put it into an earthen potte then put thereto a good porcion of whyte Wyne and set it ouer the fyre and let it seethe tyll halfe the lycquor be concōsumed and geue the party diseased a good draught thereof something hotte to drinke morning and euening fyrst and last for the space of ten dayes And also apply the hearbes something warme to his fundament and it wyll helpe him perfectly Proued FOr eyes that be chafed and the lyddes turned vp or bleared eyes Take Arnement Honny and the whytes of Egges of each a lyke much temper them well together then take flaxe laye the same theron then applye the same vpon the sore eyes and it wyll draw the euyll bloud out of them and perfectly heale them This medicine hath bene proued IT is sayd that a Hart doth so abhorre a Ram that he can not abyde the syght of him Aristotil Plin. And other WHen fowre or fiue Planets be cōiunct or ioygned together in the Ascendent or fyrst house of any chylde that is borne that chyld wyll not lyue long Expositor doth say the King of our Cittie dyd cal me because one of his Women had borne a Son the Ascēdent was the eyght degree of Libra the terme of Mercury and Iupiter was in the same also Venus Mars Mercury and the company of the Astrologyans dyd meete together there and euery one of them dyd tell his opinion and I heald my peace The King sayde vnto me saye what thou can why doost thou not speake To whome I aunswered geue mee respyte for three dayes for if your Sonne shall passe the thyrd daye you shall see a great myracle of him And after xxiiii howres was ended the Chylde dyd ryse vp to sytte and he spake and gaue sygnes with his hande wherof the King was greatly afrayde And I sayde that he woulde speake some Prophesie or some myracle Then the King went to the Chylde and wee with him to heare what he would saye And the Infant sayde I am the Infortunate borne Chyld and I am borne to shew the losse of the kingdome of Azdexit and the destruction of the people of Almanaz And strayght way the Chylde fell downe and dyed Haly Abenragel THis following is a Secrete and proued thing for the Palsey whereof if you geue thryse in the daye to him that hath the Palsey halfe an ounce that is in the morning three howres before meate and two howres before supper and at his going to bedde it wyll helpe him thereof Take of the new and fresh brayne of an Hare broyled or fryed one pounde the iuyces of Sage of hearbe Iue and the iuyce of the roote of Acorus of each three drams of pure Cynamom Cloaues blacke Pepper of each halfe a dram Turpentyne washt with the water of hearbe Iue three ounces Sugar
dyssolued in the water of hearb Iue as much as doth suffice And thereof make a Lectuary according to art and know that it is maruelous Emperica benedicti victorij fauentini TO helpe swolne legges Take Mallowes seethe them in water then stampe them well strayne them then put therto Barrowes grease frye them together vntyl it he something thyck lyke an oyntment lay some therof vpon a cloath and make a plaster and apply it to the sore swolne legge and lay a new plaster therto twyse euery day morning and euening three or fowre dayes together and by that tyme it wyll be asswaged and as small as the other This was tolde mee by a Woman that had tryed it many tymes ONe neuer hath the gowte vntyll he hath knowne a woman carnally Hippocrates ALexandrinus Iouianus Pontanus doth say that he saw a man was grieuously stung or stricken of a Scorpion which presently was deliuered helped therof with drynking of Frankensence wherein was sealed the sygne of Scorpij or of a Scorpion being after made in powder But it must be grauen in the stone of a Ryng Scorpio ascending the Moone then being there and plaste in the Angle and the Frankensence must be sealed with that seale when the Moone is in Scorpio and founde in an Angle And let it be geuen in powder as is before sayde eyther in water or in whyte wyne or in any other meete lycquor HEre ensueth the making of a myraculous Oyle called oyle Incombustyble Take of whyte Sope the best that maye be gotten and after you haue beaten it well and fyne put it into a great Retorte on which powre so much weyght of Aqua vite seuen tymes distylled ouer then set the Retorte into ashes fyxing a large receyuer to it and very well luted in the ioyntes this done make vnder it a soft fyre in the begynning and encrease the fyre by lytle and lytle vntyll all be yssued forth that wyll come Which together wyll be an Oyle and Water then drawe away the receyuer and seperate the Water from the Oyle which oyle is Incombustle and myraculous in sūdrie matters in the worke of Alkemy for this greatly avayleth in fyxing the medicine Uolatyle and serueth well to incorporate with all mettalles and ceasneth such as be crude and lykewise sweetneth when they beegar This also dissolueth all paynes swellings caused of grosse and clammy humors and healeth in a manner all sortes of wicked Ulcers And in this sayth the Author I conceyued a great delight as to worke such a maistrie to see so many straunge fumes and varyeties but a more pleasure I tooke in the practyse as to see how the same auayled in euery matter wherto it was applyed By which I proue this to be a diuine substaunce and an oyle worthy of eternal memory And this was the greatest secrete with which that syngular Matheus the Hungaryan dyd so many great maruels in Padua for he heald with it the gowte the quarten ague the payne of the French disease and the drye scab on the head with sundry other griefes for which whyle he remained in Padua he was highly esteemed and wondred at And at the last in his departure from Padua he reuealed it to mee that the onely medicine which he vsed to all the griefes was this oyle and none other The making of which he fully vttered vnto mee at his departing which before he would not teach to any man And the same I haue many tymes made haue also seene such straunge practises of it that to repeate them I should scantly be beleeued Hec de secretis Fallopij TO put a Shedule or lytle wryting into an Egge lay an Egge certaine dayes in strong vynegar vntyl it be soft and wryte your name or what you lyst in a lytle peece of paper and folde the paper as harde together as you can then with a Raser cut the sayd Egge in the toppe fynely and aduisedly through the which put the litle paper into the Egge cyrcumspectly and then put the Egge into cold water and immediatly the shell wyl be hard as it was before A proper secrete THe quieter Beasts haue the lesser galles the fearefuller the greater hartes the lyghter or more leaping the more Lyuer the meryar or more pleasant the greater Splene and the greater voyce the more Lyghts Much like to these verses folowing Cor ardet Pulmo loquitur Fel commouet Iras Splen ridere facit cogit amare Iecur That is The Hart doth burne the Lungs do speake the Gall to yre doth mooue The Splene or Mylt doth make vs laugh the Lyuer makes vs looue Mizaldus CAuda Draconis in the seconde house called the house of Substaunce sygnifyes the chylde then borne shall wastfully consume and spend his goodes or sygnifyes the losse therof And that he shall come to pouerty and open mysery Haly Abenragel A Grymony is of woonderfull profyte in medicines especially against hollow woundes vlcers Petr. Hispanus And Trotula saith that though the Fystula that penetrates to the eyes is incurable yet some do wytnes that such a Fystula may be cured by Agremony alone by often vsing it eyther in drynke or in powder Filipendula is good for the same and the graines o◠lytle round things that are found in the ende of the roote Gordonius alleadgeth Egremony to be the best and surest medicine for the curing of a Fystula FOr the webbe or spotte in the eye Take the great bone of the Goose wing the elder the better for though it be a yeare old it is not the woorse breake it take out the marrowe that is within it then put some of it vpon the webbe or in the spotte and it wyl breake it and saue the syght Proued THe vertues of Tormentyl This hearbe cōforteth the sight cleanseth the body of dyuers maladies the powder therof is good to clarify the syght of the eyes though one be blinde And this hearbe is drest on this manner Take the hearbe with the roote seethe i◠with whyte Wine tyl the thyrd part be sodden away and geue him that is blynde to drinke of this lycquor nine dayes in the morning colde and at night bloud warme and within that tyme he wyll recouer his syght by Gods grace But if the syght of the eye be hurte take also the hearbe and stampe it and seeth it in whyte Wyne with a lytle water put into the Wyne then laye or spreade the hearbes on a lynnen cloath bynde it vpon his eye or eyes and it brings a woonderful helpe If thou stampe this hearbe with the roote a good quantitie and put it into a lytle vessell full of Wyne and let it remaine therin three monthes Whosoeuer drinkes often of this Wyne though he hath bene blynd nyne yeares he wyll recouer his sight againe This I had out of an old written booke which doth much agree with Petrus Hispanus in this case whose minde thereof I haue mencioned in another