fine pouder and searse them take thereof as much as will lye upon six pence with conserve of Quinces and drink after it a draught of new milk use it every morning For the Mother Take a brown tost of sour bread of the nether crust and wash it with Vinegar and put thereto black Sope like as you would butter a tost and lay it under the Navill For the Stone Take Saxifrage Pellitorie Parslie Eyebright wild Thime of each two handfuls of Raddish roots two or three steep all in a pottle of red cowes milk a night then still it make of this quantity two stillings You must take at a time nine spoonfuls as much Renish or White wine and the juice of a Lemon sweeten all with Sugar and take it fasting if your stomack be cold slice a little Ginger and put into it For a cold cough Ptissick or any defect of the Lungs Take Horehound Maiden hair Liver-wort Harts tongue Germander Hysope Agrimonie of each a handfull wash them and boil them in six pints of running water in a pipkin till four pints be consumed at least strain it and put the liquor into another clean Pipkin put thereto of the root of Enula campana in pouder and searsed one ounce of Licorice so used two ounces of pure honie eight or nine spoonfulls boyl it till it wax somewhat thick then set it to cool Take the quantity of half a nut at a time as often as you please The best time to make it is in May. For a Stitch. Take of stale Ale two pints clarifie it and boyl therein of the tops of green broom a handful then sweeten it with Sugar and give thereof to the sick warm to drink Also take Beer make it very Salt put a little Nutmeg thereto and drinke thereof bloud-warm Apply upon the grief outward Fennel seed and Cammomile made wet with Malmsie as hot as can be suffered three or four dayes together Or take a tost of Rie bread tosted on a gridiron and spread Tar thick thereon lay it hot next the skin and let it lye 9 or 10 houres and if the pain be not gone at first apply it again For a Consumption Take a Leg of Veal cut away the fat and take a red Cock scald him and wash him clean then let the Cock and Veal lye in water the space of three houres seeth them with two pottles of fair water and scum it clean as the fat riseth take it off and seeth it till half â—e consumed then put in a pottle of the best Claret wine and let it seeth together till it come to a quart clarifie it with three or four whites of Eggs let it run through a Jelly bag then set it on the fire again and put to it of Sugar a pound let it seeth a little then drinke of it warm three or four spoonfuls at a time as often as you please For the Green sickness Take an Orange cut off the top and pick out some of the meat then put therein a little Saffron rost it gently when it is rosted put it presently into a pint of white Wine keep it covered and drink thereof fasting A speciall Water for all Sores Take of running water four pints of Sage Smallage of each three handfulls of Housleek a handfull and a half seeth them together to the consumption of half then strain it take of Allum two ounces of white Copperis an ounce and a half of Camphire two drachms beat all severally into fine pouder put all into the water and let it boyle a little then put thereto of clarified Honie half a pint and let it simper a while then reserve it in a glasse close stopped Wash the sore therewith and wet a cloth therein and lay thereto if it heal too fast lay dry lint therein For the trembling of the Heart Take a spoonfull of the spirit of Tartar when you find your self troubled Or take Lignum aloes Riponticum Eupatorium red Sanders of each two ounces beat them and boyle them in six pints of fair water till two pints be consumed of the four pints that remain being strained make a Sirrup with Sugar and while it is hot put thereto of Saffron one scruple of Ginger one drachm of Musk two carets Cloves Nutmegs of each a scruple and a half keep it in a glasse close shut take thereof a drachm at a time in a little Broth or Burrage water fasting For a Flux of the Womb. Take Chalke finely scraped stir thereof in whites of Eggs till it be thick spread thereof on brown paper and lay it on a Gridiron on the fire untill it stiffen a little bind it hot upon the Navill Take Milk and set it on the fire when it seeths throw in a peice of Allum which will turn it to a Posset of the thin thereof give a Glister in the morning and at four in the afternoon A purging drink for superfluous humours for Aches in the joyntâ— sinewes and for Agues Take Sarsaperilla Sasafrass Polipodium of each a handfull Hermodactiles the third part of an ounce Licorice one ounce cut and slice the above named and put them into a new Pipkin glassed and having a cover and put thereto five quarts of spring water let all infuse four and twenty houres then put thereto of Fennell seed two ounces Raisins of the Sun stoned and picked four ounces Carduus benedictus red Sage Agrimony Maiden-hair of each a handfull put all into the Pipkin and close it with paste set it within a pan of warm water on the fire and let it boyle two houres then put thereto of Sena one ounce let it boyle again half a quarter of an hour and take it out letting it stand covered two houres then strain it without wringing and keep it in a glasse or stone bottle You must take at a time half a pint in the morning and fast one hour after it will not purge in five or six houres you may use it at any time in the year but in extream heat and in frosts A pretious Eye-water for any disease of the Eyes often proved Take of the best white Wine two little glasse fulls of white Rose water half a pint of the water of Selendine Fennell Eyebright and Rue of each two ounces of prepared Tutia six ounces of Cloves as much Sugar ro sate a drachm of Camphire and Aloes each half a drachm The Tutia is thus prepared In a Crusible such as the Goldsmiths use put your Tutia and with a charcoale fire let it be made red hot six severall times and every time quenched in Rose-water and Wine mixt together the last time cast the water away and grinde the Tutia to very fine powder You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner Put the Aloes in a clean Morter and pour upon it of the mixt waters with the Pestill grinde it too and fro and as it mixeth with the water pour it off putting more water to it till it be all
keep the clear for your own use and reserve the bottome which you may give away unto poor people for it will be good and comfortable though not so strong The way to use it is to take every morning fasting a spoonfull and after every meal at each severall time a spoonfull A sudden way to make up this excellent Cordiall ana â„¥ iiii Take of the best of Doctor Mountfords water Of very good Angelica water ana â„¥ iiii Of Clove water ana â„¥ iiii Of Rosemary water ana â„¥ iiii Of Balm water â„¥ ii Of spirit of Saffron Mingle all these together and with as much sirrup of pure Sugar as shall suffice mingled make it up and put into either of these two Medicines of Musk and Ambergrease of each a grain Both these are excellent Cordials for all the greifes before rehearsed Pills to purge flegm and Wind. Take of the best Aloes succotrina nine drachms of Rubarb Jallop and Agarick of each six drachms of Mastick four drachms of red Rose leaves three drachms let all these be beaten severally into very fine powder and searced then mix them well and beat them up into a paste with sirrup of damask Roses as much as shall suffice at the end add unto it twenty drops of oyle of Anniseeds when you have occasion to use these Pills take about two scruples thereof for one dose made up into three Pills For the Gout Take of new extracted Honey two spoonfuls a pennyworth of red Nettle seeds finely bruised mingle them well together and apply it to the Gout Let the party drink every third day for a sevennight in the morning in his bed half a pint of new Milk of a red or black Cow For the Gout My Lord Denni's Medicine Take Burdocks leaves and stalks cut them small and stamp them very small then strain them and cleanse them and when you have so done put them into glasses and put pure oyle of Olives a top of them and stop it close from the air and when you would use it for the Gout poure it into a porrenger and warm it and wet linnen clothes in it and apply it warm to the greived place warming your clothes one after another as they grow cold that are on Another very good for the Gout Take the Yest of Ale and spread it upon brown paper and apply it upon the greived place pretty warm the space of twelve houres some first warm the pickle of Olives and then bath the greived place therewith putting their feet into it and after use the former Medicine My Lord Denni's Medicine must not be taken till three dayes after the change of the Moon then after it must be taken six dayes together then six dayes before the full it must be taken twice a day To stay the Courses when they come down too violently Take half a drachm or a drachm of Diascordium dissolve it in a drachm of posset Ale wherein formerly hath been boyled half a handfull of Shepherds purse and as much knotgrasse and of the greater Comfrey and drink thereof a good draught at a time morning and evening For the Whites Take a quarter of a handfull of white Archangell Plantain Sheaphards purse and of the greater Comfrey of each half a handfull of the hearbs Horse-taile and Cats-taile of each half a handfull boyle all these in two quarts of Milk till half be consumed away then strain it and sweeten it with good white Sugar Candy finely beaten and drink of it twice a day for ten or fifteen dayes together To keep the body soluble and to purifie the bloud Take Maydenhair wild Germander wood-Sorrell and Balm of each a pugill of wild Mercury half a handfull of damask Roses two handfuls of clarified Whey six pints let it stand scalding hot for an houre stirring it sometimes after an hour is past strain it and drink it twice or thrice a day a good draught of it and if you wash your hands in Beef broth after your taking it it will take away all roughnesse and haires of the hands it may be taken safe of a woman with child For the green Sicknesse or yellow Jaundies For cure hereof first purge universally with this or the like purgation â„ž of Hiera picra four scruples of Rubarb and Trochisces of Agarick of each half a drachm of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each half a scruple of Cinnamon six graines of Saffron four graines of Diacatholicon half an ounce infuse these things in the Whey of Cows Milk or in the distilled water of Alkakengie or in Dodder water or Endive water you may adde Oxymell thereto An Electuary for the green Sicknesse Take of Diatrion santalon and Diarrhodon abbatis of each one drachm of Diacurcuma and confection of Alkermes of each half an ounce of Diamargariton frigidum and Calidum of each two drachms of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each one drachm of all these make an Electuary and give it evening and morning by it self or with Dodder or Endive water the dose is one drachm protempore uno An excellent Powder for the green Sicknesse â„ž four scruples of Gentian made into fine powder of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each two scruples make these into a fine powder and give a spoonfull thereof with white Wine or the like at once Another Medicine â„ž Three or four spoonfuls of flemish Madder boyle it in two quarts of white Wine with a peice of Sugar to the consumption of half of it strain it and let the Maid en drink thereof morning and evening a good draught warm and walk or use some exercise to heat the body but take no cold use this for eleven or twelve dayes together A singular purging Potion against the green Sicknesse and all opilations of the Liver and causeth young Maids to look fresh and fair and cherry-cheek'd and will bring down their Courses the stopping whereof causeth this greif and it is good against all manner of itch scabs breaking out and manginesse of the body purifying the blood from all corruption â„ž Of the roots of Monkes Rubarb that is red Dock and of red Madder ana half a pound of Sena four ounces of Anniseseed and Licorice of each two ounces of Scabious and Agrimony of each one handfull slice the roots of Rubarb and bruise the Anniseseed and Licorice break the hearbs small and put them all into a pot with four gallons of strong Ale and infuse them all the space of three dayes then drink of this drink for your ordinary drink for three weeks at the least the longer the better and make new as need requireth it cureth the Dropsie and yellow Jaundies also if you put in of Cammomill one handfull For the green Sicknesse or Jaundies â„ž Of white Briony root sliced half an ounce boyle it in a pint of Ale gently a quarter of an hour and drink a good draught thereof and sweat and in your sweat drink it all or as much as you can the next day make new
and drein it into another bason then take away the scum and the grounds and so doe it every 24 hours till it be clear without scum or grounds and when it is perfectly purified put it into a full pint of the best Rosewater which is white and put it into a good big glasse then set it in the Sun thirty dayes or more Afterwards take it in and wash your eyes with it three or four times in a week when you are in bed or oftner till you bee eased when you wash your eyes lye upon your back that it may the better soke into them and if it be too sharp then abate it by mingling some spring water with it The best time to make it is in Aprill or May but if need be at any time in the Summer If you take the rain-water in glasses or glased earthen pans as it falleth from heaven free from durt sand or other filth that will be much better F. For the Flux REcipe A Bason and set it forth in the rain and save the rain that falleth therein then take a few Violet leaves and boyl them in the water then boyl some Almonds but blanch them not and make Almond milk of the same water If the Flux be very sore boyle the Almond Milk and put thereto a little Cinnamon and Sugar and drink it For the Flux â„ž The nether jaw of a Pike and make it into fine powder and put it into drink or broth and it will stop the Flux For the bloudy Flux â„ž An old Cock and dresse him put into his belly of Sow-thistles M. i. and put him into a fair earthen pot and put to it five peices of Gold four Dates ten Prunes and a quart of Malmsey then close up the mouth of the pot as close as you may then put it into a brasse Pot with fair water let it boyle the space of twelve houres but take care that none of the water come into the earthen Pot and when the flesh is consumed from the bones take it up and let it run thorough a clean peice of lochram then put it up into a clean Gallypot and when it is cold it will be like jelly put two spoonfuls hereof into broth or other meat which the Patient useth to eat For the bloody Flux Seeth a good proportion of Plantain in fair water till it wax yellow and all the strength be boyled out of it then strain the water and heat a clean peice of Iron red hot and quench it in the said water doe so nine times and give it the Patient 2. Seeth a pint of Milk and when it is boyled put into it as much Allum as will make a Posset of which mane vesperi drink a good draught 3. â„ž That which is shorn from Scarlet make it to a powder and give the Patient half a spoonfull thereof in a pretty draught of Tent and use this five or six times 4. Dry the powder of an Hare and give it the Patient in red Wine and it will help him For the bloody Flux Cut Hollihock roots in small peices and boyle them in red Wine strain it well and give the Patient and if he have a Fever or Ague seeth the roots in water with some Plantain leaves and let the Patient drink it 2. â„ž Yarrow and Plantain ana p. ae strain them together and put thereto old red Wine called Hollock or Tent strain it well and let the Patient drink a good draught of it first and last for three or four dayes together 3. â„ž Plantain Ribwort and Sheapherds purse ana M. ss stamp them small in a Morter then put thereto Bole armoniack and Terrasigillata and stamp them again and lay it plaister-wise to the forehead cold 4. Mingle Mint water with sirrup of Mint drink it cold fasting this will stop both flux and vomit For the bloudy Flux 1. â„ž Hay well boyled and keep it over the fire and every time the Patient goeth to stool let a wispe thereof be put into the stoole 2. â„ž Two quarts of Milk and boyle in it of Sage four handfuls washed boyle these to a quart then put to it a little beaten Cinnamon and let the Patient take this bloud warm instead of other drink when he is thirsty 3. â„ž A Nutmeg pare a great hole in it and rost it in embers full of Sanguis draconis and eat it all up This was Colonell Hambletons Secret 4. â„ž red Bryer leaves and boyle them well in Milk and sweeten it with Sugar 5. Give Dates stones beaten to powder in warm Wine fasting â„ž Of the best Treacle one drachm in four ounces of Carduus benedictus water give the Patient hereof three mornings or nights to drink bloud warm and it will take away the fumes of the head in the disease of the Flux If the fumes of the head be not asswaged let the Patient take four ounces of Carduus water and the yolk of a new laid Egg and a little Salt mix these and drink it this is also good for an Ague An Ointment for the Flux â„ž Two pound of May Butter or a gallon of Cream if of May Butter take Lunaria sanicle Salomons Seal Mouseare Plantain Adders-tongue ana one handfull stamp these small and put them into the May Butter and boyle them half an hour with a soft fire scumming it with a feather If you use Cream boyle it till it come to an oyle which oyle as it riseth take off with a spoon and put your Hearbs into it as into the May Butter when it hath boyled strain your Hearbs thorough a thinne cloth and let it stand till it be cold after which set it over the fire again till it begin to boil then put it up in pots This is also good for burning scalding or Aches but especially for the Flux for which when you use it observe this direction Take the quantity of a Nutmeg of this Ointment and melt it by the fire and stroke down the reines of the back till it be dryed in use this for seven dayes and nights together if your Flux continue For all Fluxes of bloud and other Fluxes pains in the Back or Liver and for inward effects â„ž Cinnamon Cassia lignea Opium ana two drachms Mirrh Pepper and Galbanum ana one drachm stamp them and mix them with a little clarified Honey and make it into a lump or masse give thereof at night two round pills about the bignesse of a Pea in the pap of a roasted Apple and let not the party drink for two houres after and if his pain and greif be never so great it will ease him within one hour or two and perhaps cause him to sleep soundly you may give it two or three nights together if the Patient be strong but if they be very weak give it every other night three or four times but if he be in extream pain give it when you list If the stomack be full of meat or flegm it will work lesse effectually
stinking things to remain in or about the same and in summer season to deck your windowes and strow your floors with sweet and wholsom hearbs floures and leaves of Mints Balme Penniroyall Lavender Time Majoram red-Roses Carnations Gelliflowers and such like for your windowes your floors to be strowed with green Rushes and Mints Oaken and Willow leaves Vine leaves and such like your windowes which stand towards the North and East do you alwaies keep open in the day time if the ayre be clear and that no infected and unsavory smell be near the same as Fogs dunghils c. and every morning before you open either your doors or windowes as also in the evening when you go to bed cause a good fire to be made in your Chamber and burn some odoriferous or sweet perfumes in the middest thereof as hereafter I will shew you or in stead thereof some Juniper Frankincense Bay leaves Rosemary Lavender Majoram or such like which you must alwaies have dried in a readinesse and so in the fume or smoke thereof to breath and perfume the clothes which you are to weare A good perfume in summer season â„ž Rose water and Vinegar of either six spoonfulls Rinds of sower Citrons and Lemons Bay-leaves of either the weight of two pence which is ℈ i. Camphire the weight of three pence which is 3. ss The hearbs and rinds must be dried and put alltogether in a perfuming pan or instead thereof a peuter dish set on a chafer of coles will serve the turn Another good perfume in winter â„ž Red-Roses Majoram and Myrtles of either a little handfull Callamint Juniper berries Iâ—audanum Benjamin Frankincense of either Ê’ i. which is the weight of seven pence The hearbs berries and Roses being dried must be made in grosse powder as also the gumms and so mixed together and when yee list cast some part there of on a chafer of coales and receive the fume thereof CHAP. V. NOw having received the fume as aforesaid before you go forth of your chamber eat some Cordial electuary or preservative as hereafter you shall find choise which I have alwais used with good and happy success after taking of the Cordial wash your face and hands with clean water wherein you must put a little Vinegar and then if you list you may break your fast with some good bread and butter and in winter season a potch'd Egg is good eaten with some Vinegar and for plethorick and melanchole bodies it were good to drink a draught of wormewood wine in the morning fasting because it resisteth putrefaction in the plethorick and purgeth bilous matter in the melancholie An excellent good preservative which I have alwaies used with good successe â„ž Conserve of Roses and Borrage floures of either two ounces Minardus Mithridate Andromachus triacle of either half an ounce Dioscordium two drachms Dialkermes one drachme Powder of the seed of Citrons pilled one drachme Sirrup of Lemons and sower Citrons of either halfe an ounce Compound all these together in the form of an opiat you may eat hereof every morning the quantity of three beanes and drink a draught of Rennish wine Beer or Ale after it but for Children and such as are of tender years so much as a bean thereof is sufficient and give them onely Beer or Ale after it the taking hereof every second or third day will suffice if you go not into any suspected company Another excellent good preservative â„ž Kernils of Wallnuts and Figs of either four ounces Leaves of Rue one ounce and half Tormentill roots four drachms Rind of sowr Citrons one drachme right Bolarmoniak six drachms fine Myrrh two scruples Saffron one scruple Salt half a drachm Sirrup of Citrons and Lemons four ounces The hearbs roots and rinds must be dried the nuts must be blanched and the bolarmoniack must be made in fine powder and then wash'd in the water of Scabios and dried againe you must pound the figgs and wallnuts in a stone morter severally by themselves very small all the rest must be made in fine powder and so mix them altogether in the morter and then add thereto sirrup by little and little and so incorporate them altogether you may give this in the same quantity and in like sort as the other before Another very good â„ž Of the confection aforesaid made with Nutts â„¥ iiii Minardus mithridate four drachms Andromachus Triacle Ê’ ii fine terra Sigillata four scruples Sirrup of Limons â„¥ i. Compound all these together in the morter as the other before you may give hereof the weight of a groat or six pence every second or third day and drink a draught of Rennish or white wine after it in Winter season but in the heat of the yeer Sorrel water is best and in the Spring Scabios or Carduus Benedictus water Also so much Triacle of Andromachus description eaten every morning as a bean with a little conserve of Roses is a very excellent good preservative Valetius doth greatly commend the taking of three or four grains of the Bezar stone every morning in a spoonfull of Scabios water I cannot here sufficiently commend the Electuarie called Dioscordium which is not onely good to resist the infection but doth also expell the venemous matter of those which are infected being taken every morning and evening the quantity of a bean and drinke a draught of Rennish or White wine after it in winter season but in Summer a draught of Beer or Ale is best In strong and rusticall bodies and such as are dayly labourers Garlick onely eaten in the morning with some Butter and Salt at breakfast drinking a cup of beer or ale after it hath been found to be very good which is greatly commended by Galen who calleth it the poor mans Triacle but in the sanguine daintie and idle bodies it may not be used because it over-heateth the bloud causeth head-ach and universally inflameth the whole body CHAP. VI. NOw when you have taken any of the foresaid Preservatives it were good and necessary to wear upon the Region of the heart some sweet Bag or quilt that hath power to resist venome and also to carry in your hand some sweet Pomander Nodule or Nosegay that will comfort the heart resist venom and recreate the vitall spirits as here following is specified and set down An excellent quilt or Bag. â„ž Arsenike cristaline â„¥ i. Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ ii Diambrae ℈ i. You must grinde the Arsenike in small powder and then with some of the infusion of Gum Dragagant in Rose water you must make a paste then spread it on a cloth which must be six inches long and five inches broad and spread it thick then cover it with another cloth and so quilt it together which being done fasten it in another bag of crimson taffetie or Sarsenet and so wear it against the heart all the day time but at night leave it off and here you must take heed that when you sweat you doe take
buttocks or thighs now when this is done either by Phlebetomy or Ventoses then within an hour or two at the most after it you must give the sick some good Cordiall Medicine which hath power to comfort the heart resist the venomous matter and also procure sweat whereof out of the following you may make choice as you list An excellent good Powder to expell the Plague which also provoketh sweat â„ž Roots of Gentian Bittanie Petasitis ana Ê’ i. Roots of Tormentill Dittander ana Ê’ iii. Red Sanders Ê’ ss Fine Pearle of both sorts ana ℈ i. Fine Bolarmoniack prepared fine Terra sigillata ana Ê’ vi Rindes of Citrons red Corrall Roots of Zedâ—iar shaving of Ebony bone of a Stags heart ana sixteen graines Fragments of the five pretious stones ana ℈ ss Shaving of a Unicorns horn Succini ana ℈ ss Leaves of Gold and Silver ana one and half in number Make all these in fine powder every one severall by himself and then mix them all together and give thereof Ê’ i. or ℈ iiii more or lesse as occasion requireth either in Sorrell Scabios or Carduus benedictus water two or three ounces whereunto you must adde a little Sirrup of Lemons or four Citrons and give it warm the Bolarmoniack must be pounded small then washed in Scabios water and so dryed Another good Powder â„ž Leaves of Dittander called Dictami cretici Roots of Tormentil Bittanie Pimpernell Gentian Zedoiar ana Ê’ i. Terra lemnia Alloes Cicatrina fine Myrrh Rinds of sour Citrons anaÊ’ i. Mastick Saffron ana half a drachm Bolarmoniack prepared as beforesaid Ê’ ii All these must be made in fine pouder and so mixt together you may give two scruples or one drachm thereof with any of the aforesaid waters A good Opiat to expell venome and provoke sweat Conserve of the floures of Burrage Bugloss Violets Bittanie ana â„¥ ii Venus Triacle â„¥ ii Red Terra sigillata Terra lemnia Mithridate ana â„¥ i. Shaving of Ebonie And Harts-horn Orient Pearls Roots of Tormentill anaÊ’ i. Shaving of Unicorns horn Root of Angelica ana half a drachm Sirrup of the Juice of small Sorrell and Bugloss ana so much as shall suffice Mix all these together in the form of an Opiat then take of the same Opiat one drachm and half Scabios water Balm water ana â„¥ ii Dissolve the Opiat in the waters and drink it warm then walk a little upon it and then goe to bed and sweat Another excellent good means to expell the venom and procure sweat Take a great white Onyon and pick out the coar or middle of him then fill the hole with good Venus Triacle or Andromachus Triacle and Aqua vitae then stop or cover the hole of the Onyon again and rost him in the hot ashes untill he be soft then strein it strongly through a cloth and give it the sick to drinke and the rest that remains pound it small and apply it to the sore and sweat upon it Now when he hath taken any of the aforesaid Cordials if he chance to vomit it up again then wash his mouth with Rosewater and Vinegar and then give him more of the same again which must be proportioned according to the quantitie vomited for if all were vomited then give so much more if lesse then according to the quantity vomited and if he vomit that also then give him more and so continue it to the third or fourth time if cause so require but if at no time he doe retain it then is there small hope of recovery I have known divers which have vomited their Cordials three or four times and at last giving the juyce of the Onyon as aforesaid hath kept that and sweat upon it and so recover their health Also Minardus Triacle or Andromachus Triacle being taken two Scruples with one Scruple of Dioscordium and dissolved in two or three ounces of this water following or Carduus benedictus Sorrell and Scabios water hath been found excellent good and available both to procure sweat and expell the venomous matter An excellent good water against the Plague and divers other diseases which is to be made in May or June Take Angelica Dragons Scabios ana three handfuls Wormwood Sage Salendine Mugwort Rue Rosemary Varvein Endive Mints ana one handfull Tormentill Pimpernell Agrimonie Bittanie ana two handfulls St. Johns wort Fetherfew and Pionie ana a little handfull You must mix all these hearbs together then bruise them in a stone morter grosly then put them into a clean vessell of glasse or earth and add thereto a pottle of White wine or three quarts a pint of Rose-water and a pint of Vinegar then mixe them well together and presse down the Hearbs close together with your hands then stop the pot close and so let it stand to infuse two dayes and two nights then distill it in a stillatorie this water hath been found excellent good both to preserve one from the Plague being drunk three or four spoonfuls of it in the morning fasting as also to expell the disease being drunk with any of the Cordials aforesaid CHAP. II. Sheweth what is to be done after taking of the Cordiall NOw so soon as the partie hath taken his Cordiall if he be able cause him to walke upon it in his chamber a prettie while then lay him into his naked bed being first warmed if it be in cold weather and so procure him to sweat but in any case have a speciall care to keep him from sleep all that day because thereby the bloud and vitall spirits are drawn to the inward parts and there doth hold in the venomous matter about the heart but if the sore appear or be perceived to present it self in any place neer the heart then to defend the malignity thereof before he sweat it were good to annoint the place betwixt the region of the heart and the sore with Triacle or with this Unguent following A good defensative Vnguent Take Triacle â„¥ ss Terra lemnia Red sanders anaÊ’ i. Mix them together with a little Rose-water and Vinegar in a morter to the form of an Unguent and so use it as aforesaid And unto the sore place apyly chickens rumps as before hath been told you and then annoint the place grieved with Oyle of Lillies and then Epithemate the heart with any one of these Epithemations following Epithemation Take the Powder of Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ i. Triasandalum Ê’ vi Ebeni Ê’ ii Saffron ℈ ss Lettice seed Ê’ i. Waters of Roses Bugloss and Sorrel ana â„¥ vi Vinegar â„¥ ii boil them altogether a little Another Take the waters of Roses Balm Bugloss Carduus benedictus and white wine ana â„¥ iiii Vinegar of Roses â„¥ ii Powder of red Roses Cinnamon Triasandalum Diamargaritum Frigidum anaÊ’ ss Mithridatum â„¥ i. Triacle â„¥ ss Boil them together a little and being bloud warm Epithemate the heart therewith which being done then procure him to sweat and after sweat and the body dryed then apply
this quickly to the heart A Quilt for the Heart Take the floures of Nenuphare Burrage Bugloss ana a little handfull Floures of Balm Rosemary anaʒ iii. Red sanders Red corall Lignum aloes Rinde of a citron ana ʒ i. Seeds of Basil Citrons anaʒ i. Leaves of Dittander Berries of Juniper ana ℈ i. Bone of a Stags heart half a scruple Saffron four grains Mixe all these in grosse powder and put them in a bag of crimson Taffetie or Lincloth and lay it to the heart and there let it remain All these things being done then procure him to sweat having a good fire in the chamber and windowes close shut and so let him sweat three or four houres more or lesse or according as the strength of the sick body can endure and then dry the body well with warm clothes taking great care that the sick catch not cold in the doing thereof and then give him some of this Julep following and apply the aforesaid quilt or bag to the heart A cordiall Julep Take Waters of Endive Purslane and Roses ana ℥ ii Sorrell water half a pint Juyce of Pomgranats and for lack thereof Vinegar ℥ iiii Camphire ʒ iii Sugar one pound Boil all these together in the form of a Julep and give three or four spoonfuls thereof at a time Another Julep Take Sirrup of Ribes Sorrell Nenuphare ana ℥ i. Juice of Limons ℥ i. Sorrell water ℥ viii Mix all these together and take two or three spoonfulls thereof oftentimes which will both comfort the heart and quench thirst And if in the time of his sweat he be very thirstie then may you give him to drink a Tysane made with water clean Barly and Licorice scrapt clean and bruised boil them together then strein it and unto a quart of the liquor add three ounces of Sirrup of Limons and give thereof at any time small beer or ale is also tolerable or you may give a spoonfull of this Julep following at any time A Julep to quench thirst ℞ sorrell-Sorrell-water four ounces burrage-Burrage-water Scabios water of either one ounce Sirrup of Lemons and sowre Citrons of either one ounce Mix all these together and so use it as occasion requireth at any time and give oftentimes a cake of Manus Christi made with Perls for him to eat But if in the time of his sweat you see the sick to faint or swoun then apply to his temples and the region of the heart this mixture following ℞ Conserve of Roses Burrage Bugloss Broom floures of either one ounce Mithridate four ounces Triacle one ounce Floures of Violets Pellamountaine Red Roses of either one drachme Roots of Ireos one drachm Musk Sivet of either eight graines Mix all these together with a quantity of Rose-Vinegar in the form of an Opiat this must be spread on Plaisters and applied to the heart and temples and to the soales of the feet apply this plaister following Take of the aforesaid Opiat ℥ ii unto the which you must put so much more of an Onyon which must have the middle part thereof taken out and the hole filled with Mithridate and Aqua vitae and so rosted in the ashes and then mix it with the Opiat and apply it to both soales of the feet Now when all this is done and that one hour is past after his sweat and body dried as aforesaid it were good you did give the sick some good comfortable broth although he vomit it up againe then let him rest two houres and then offer him more which you must do oftentimes and but little at a time And if after all this done he continue still weak and faint without any amendment then give him another Cordiall as ye did at the first and so cause him to sweat again so long as his strength can well endure it and after sweat give more of the Julep aforesaid for by this meanes you shall oftentimes see the sore which did offer it self to come forth will be clean discussed and consumed away but if it do not by this means go away then use all the means you can to bring it to suppuration and then open it with some caustick or incision as hereafter shall be shewed you at large The next day after his sweat you may tollerate him to sleep one hour or two in the forenoon whereby to prevent pain or lightnesse of the head which may chance through want thereof and if after his sleep the party be sick and faint then immediately give him some good Cordiall according as the state of his body requireth either in temperate or extream heat as before is shewed and in one hour after that give him some comfortable broth made with Veale Mutton Chicken or such like wherein some Burrage Bugloss Pimpernell and a little Hysop with some Parsley roots the inner pith being taken out must be boiled whereof he must take a little at a time three or four times a day and betwixt times in taking of his broth give him three or four spoonfulls of this Julep following which doth resist venenosity from the heart and also quench thirst A Julep to quench thirst and resist Venenosity ℞ Water of Scabios Burrage Sorrell ana ℥ ii Sirrup of Lemons sowre Citrons and the juice of Sorrell of either one ounce Mix all these together and give thereof as cause requireth Then at night he may sleep three or four houres more and the next day being the third or fourth day of his accubet you may purge him with one of the purgations here following but in any case you must take heed that you do not purge with any strong or Scammoniate medicine because it may cause an extream flux which will be most dangerous because it will overmuch weaken the body and hinder concoction for most commonly in this disease the body of it self is subject to fluxes A good Purgation in a strong body ℞ Rad. Cichoriae ʒ iiii Rad. Petasitis ʒ ss Fol. Scabiosae Card. Benedictus Pimpinellae Acetoae ana M. i. Florum Cord. P. i. Prunorum dammas no. x. Sem. Coriandri ʒ ss Aquae font ℥ ix Boyle them untill a third part be consumed then strain it ℞ Decoct col ℥ iiii Fol. Sennae ʒ iii. Rhab. elect ʒ iiii Spicae G. iii. Infuse them together twelve hours then strain it strongly and add thereto these things Sir de Cichoriae cum Rhab. ʒ vi Oxisacchari Simp. ʒ ii Mix them altogether and drink it in the morning refraining from meat drink and sleep three houres after and then eat some good broth Another in a plethorick and full body ℞ Fol. Scabiosae Buglossae Card. B. ana M. i. Florum Cord. P. i. Rad. Tormentillae ʒ iii. Rad. Fenic licho ana ʒ iiii Passularum enucleat ℥ i. Prunorum dammas no. vi Sem anis Coriandri Oxialidis ana ℈ i. Sennae Polipod q. ana ℥ i. Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill half the water be consumed then strain it and keep it
â„ž Rhab. elect Ê’ ii Agarici tros Ê’ i. Croci ℈ ss Aquarum scabiosae Borraginis Card. B. ana Ê’ iiii Infuse these together twelve hours in a warm place then strain them strongly and add thereto Sir ros lax Mannae Calabriae ana â„¥ i. Decoct col â„¥ ii vel â„¥ iii. Mix all these together and take it as the other before A good purgation for a weak body â„ž Fol. sennae Ê’ iii. Rhab. elect Ê’ i. Sem. anis Ê’ ss Schenanthi ℈ ss Aquae Acetosae â„¥ v. Boyle them a little then take it from the fire and let them stand infused together twelve houres then strain it out strongly and add thereto Sir ros lax â„¥ i. and then drink it as the other before Another gentle purgation â„ž Aquarum scabiosae Card. B. Aquae ad pestâ—m ana â„¥ i. Rhab elect Ê’ ii ss Cinamomi Ê’ ss Infuse them together twelve hours and strain them strongly then add to the straining Sir ros lax â„¥ i. Sir de limonibus four ounces Mix them together and so drink it as the other before you may either add or diminish of the Rubarb unto any of these potions as you list Now when you see the purgation hath done working then give the sick some Cordiall thing as hereafter followeth which he must also take the next morning following A good Cordiall to be taken after Purging â„ž Conserva Burrag Bugloss Mali Citri anaÊ’ iiii Confect AlkermisÊ’ i. Boli Veri Ê’ ss Specierum diarhod abb ℈ ii Diamarga frigid Ê’ i. Manus Christi perlati â„¥ i. Sir de Lemon Ê’ iiii Mix all these together and give the sick thereof so much as a chestnut at a time you must oftentimes eat thereof if the sick be in no great heat Another good Cordiall to be given where great heat is â„ž Conservae Borag Ê’ iiii Conservae fol. acetosae â„¥ i. Bolarm veri Ê’ i. Manus Christi cum perlis â„¥ i. Sir de Lemonibus q. v. misce You must oftentimes give of this where great heat is so much as three beanes at a time A good Cordiall potion â„ž Aquarum buglossae Acetosae ana â„¥ i. Pul. diamarga frig Ê’ ss Confectio alkermis G. ii Sir de aceto Citri vel de Lemon â„¥ i. misce All this you may take after purging as aforesaid at any time And here you must understand that if it be in a plethorick body full of ill humors it were good that you purge him again the next day CHAP. III. Sheweth what symptoms often chance and how to help them FOr that in this contagious disease there are divers dangerous symptoms which do oftentimes chance I will here shew you good meanes how to help the same For lightnesse of the head through want of sleep â„ž Hordei mundi P. i. Amigd dul depilatum â„¥ i. ss Sem. iiii Frigid ma. mund ana ℈ i. Aqua font q. 5. fiat decoctio Decoct col l. i. Sir de Lemonibus de Papa ana â„¥ i. ss Sacchari perlati â„¥ i. Boyl them together a little and then keep it to your use you must often times give two or three spoonfulls thereof to drink and anniont his temples with this ointment Oyntment to provoke sleep â„ž Vnguent popillionis Ê’ iiii Vnguent Alabastrini Ol. Nenuphariae misce ana Ê’ ii This oyntment is not onely good to provoke sleep but will also ease the pain of the head if the place grieved be annointed therewith For raveing and raging If the party rave then give him one scruple of the powder of Harts-horn burnt with half an ounce of the sirrup of Violets and Lemons and apply this sacculus following to the head A good Sacculus for raving and raging â„ž Florum Nenupharis P. i. Cort. Pap. Ê’ ii Santali albi Rub. Citri ana Ê’ i. Florum ros rub P. i. Florum Viol. P. ss Florum camomil Betonicae anaÊ’ i. Shread them all small then pound them grosly and quilt them in a bagg and apply it to the head and it will help you Aphtham to help it In this contagious disease there doth chance an ulceration of the mouth which is called Aphtham it cometh by means of the great interior heat which the sick is oppressed with in the time of his sicknesse which if it be not well looked unto in time it will greatly endanger the body for Remedy whereof use this Gargarism A good Gargarism for the mouth â„ž Clean barley one handfull wilde Daysie leaves Plantaine leaves Strawberry leaves Violet leaves of either one handfull Purslane seed one scruple Quinse seed one scruple and half Licorice bruised four drachms Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill the water be half consumed then strain it and take one pint and half thereof and add thereto Sirrup of Roses by infusion and sirrup of dried roses of either four drachms Diamoron two ounces Mix these together and gargarize and wash the mouth therewith oftentimes being warm and it helpeth Vomiting extreamly how to help it If it come in the beginning of the disease as most commonly it doth there is no better means to stay it then by giving of Cordials and by sweating by which meanes that venomous matter which is the cause thereof is expelled and breathed out but if after Cordials given and sweat it doth not stay it is a very ill and dangerous signe yet what means I have used to stay the same I will here shew you A good bag for the stomack â„ž Dried leaves of Mints Elder Origanie Wormwood Calamint Mugwort Thime Balme Pellemountaine tops of Dill of either a little handfull Seeds of Carduus Benedictus Fennell Annis of either four drachms Roots of Ciperus Calamus aromaticus of either four drachms Nutmegs Cloves Mace of either half a drachm Make all these in gross powder then put it into a linnen bag which must be made so broad and long as will cover the stomack then take Rose-water and strong Vinegar of either ten spoonfulls wherein do you dissolve one ounce of Mithridate then must you first wet the said bag in two parts of clean water and a third part of White or Claret-wine and let him soak therein a little while the liquor being first warmed on a Chafer and coales and then wet him in the Rose-water and and Vinegar being warm and so apply it to the stomack and when he waxeth cold warm him therein againe and let him remain half an hour in all and then take him away and dry the stomack with a warm cloth and then annoint it with this ointment following â„ž Chymicall oyles of Rosemary Sage of either one drachm Vinegar Mithridate of either one drachm Mix all these together and so use it and if the party be costive then were it good to give him a glister wherein dissolve two drachms of Mithridate it is also good to apply Ventoses unto the buttocks and thighes Yoxe or yexing to stay it â„ž Dill seed two scruples and half White Poppy seed Purslane seed of either one
the latter end of May. You must with a feather annoint the places grieved and as it drieth in annoint it againe and so continue it oftentimes for this will soon dry them up and keep the place from pitts and holes which remain after the Pox are gone Also if you annoint the Pox with the oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawn three or four times a day which you must begin to do so soon as the Pox are grown white and come to maturation it will cure them without pitts or spotts and easeth the pain and burning and helpeth excoriation Some do onely oftentimes wet the places with the juice of Marigolds in the summer season and in winter the juice of the roots will serve and by that onely have done well Mercuriales doth greatly commend this decoction following to be used after the Pustulaes are opened Take Barley one little handfull red Roses a handfull red Sanders white Sanders of either one ounce Saffron two scruples Salt four drachms Clean water three pound Boyle all together untill a third part be consumed you must oftentimes touch the sores therewith with a fine cloth wet therein and as it drieth in wet it againe this in a short time will dry them up I have heard of some which having not used any thing at all but suffering them to dry up and fall off themselves without any picking or scratching have done very well and not an pitts remained after it When the Pox after they come out do not grow to maturation how you shall help it Sometimes you shall find that it will be a long time before those pustulaes will come to maturation or grow white now here you must helâ— nature to bring it to passe which you may well do with this decoction Take Mallowes one handfull Figgs twelve in number Water a quart Cut the Figgs small and boyle altogether untill half and more be consumed and then wet a fine soft linnen cloth therein and touch the place therewith oftentimes which will soone bring them to maturation and also ease the paine if any be Vlceration to help it If in the declining of the Pox they chance to grow unto Ulcerations which is oftentimes seen then for the curing thereof use this order here following Take Tamarinds leaves of Lentils Mirtils budds of oaken leaves red Roses dried of either a little handfull Boyle all these in a pottle of clean water untill half be consumed then strein it and with a fine cloth wet therein do you wash and soak the place well then wipe it dry with a soft and fine linnen cloth and then cast into the place some of this powder following Take Frankincense Mastick Sarcocoll and red Roses of either two drachms Make all these into fine powder severally by themselves then mix them together and so reserve it to thy use A very good unguent for the same purpose Take oyle of Roses vi ounces white Wax one ounce Ceruse washt in Rose and plantaine-Plantaine-water one ounce and half clear Turpentine iii. drachms Camphire half a drachm You must first melt the wax in the oyle then put in the Ceruse by little and little alwaies stirring it with an iron spalter and let it boyle on a gentle fire of charcoles untill it grow black but stirr it continually in the boyling for feare least it burn then take it from the fire and add thereto the camphire and lastly the Turpentine this unguent is good both to mundifie incarnate and sigillate For extream heat and burning in the soales of the feet and palms of the hands Petrus Forestus willeth to hold the hands and feet in warm water and that will ease the pain and burning and may boldly be used without any danger For to help the sorenesse and ulceration of the mouth Sometime it chanceth in this disease that there is a great ulceration or excoriation in the mouth and jawes called Aptham which if it be not well looked unto in time will grow to be Cankers now to cure and prevent the same this gargarisme is excellent good Take Barley-water a quart red Roses dried a little handfull Sumach and Rybes of either two ounces juice of Pomegranates â„¥ iii. Boyle them altogether saving the juice of Pomegranates untill a third part be consumed then strein it and add thereto the juice of Pomegranates with this you must often wash and gargarise as also hold some thereof in the mouth a pretty while Also to prevent the same the kernel of a Pomegranate held in the mouth is very good and so it is excellent good to lick oftentimes some Diamoron or juice of a Pomegranate For inflammation and paine in the tonsils and throate Take plantaine-Plantaine-water a pint Sirrup of Pomegranates two ounces Mix them together and gargarise therewith oftentimes being warm Another Taste nightshade-Nightshade-water a pint Seeds of Quinces four scruples Boyle them together a little then strein it and add thereto two ounces of the sirrup of Pomegranates and gargarise therewith oftentimes How to open the eye-lids that are fastened together with the Pox. Sometimes the eye-lids are so fastened together that you cannot open them without great pain and danger then to open them you must foment or bath them well with a decoction made of Quince seed Mallowes and water boyled together wherein wet some fine linnen clothes five or six double and apply them warm and continue it untill you may easily open them and then if you perceive any web or filme to be grown over the sight then thrice a day do you put some powder of white sugar-candy into the eye or if you list you may dissolve the sugar in Rose-water and so use it in the eye which will fret it away and preserve the sight A good Collery for a Web or Vngula in the eye Take the juice of Rue Fennell Salendine Mallowes of either two ounces Boyle them together in a vessell of glasse or peuter over a chafer with coales and scumme away the froth that doth rise thereof then add thereto the gaule of an Eel one drachm and let them boyle together a little then put thereto four scruples of white copperas and one scruple of verdigreace in fine powder boil all together a little then let it run through a fine linnen cloth and keep it in a glasse you must every morning and evening put one drop thereof into the eye provided that first due evacuation be made so well by phlebotomie as purging CHAP VI. Teacheth how to help divers accidents which chance after the Pox are cured and gone For rednesse of the face and hands after the Pox are gone how to help it TAke Barley Beanes Lupins of either one handfull bruise them all in a morter grosely and boyle them in three pints of water untill it grow thick like a jelly then straine it and annoint the face and hands therewith three or four times a day for three or four daies together and then you must wet the face and hands so oftentimes a day with
it will be a fine heat for old bruises swellings and Mormales Unguentum nigrum for wounds heating and burning Take a quart of oyle of Olive and boil it well then cast in a quart of red lead and stir it well with a slice and boil it till it be black and then let it cool and keep it for drawing and healing Vnguentum Rubrum Take a pint of honey half a pint of Vinegar and a portion of Verdigrease boil them together and it is good for all manner of sores Contra vomitum 1. â„ž Rosewater pouder of Cloves and Mastick and drinke it hot 2. Take Mints thre ounces Roses half an ounce Mastick one ounce Barlie meal and a crust of bread tosted and this manner of Plaister apply to the stomack 3. Rutâ—e cochleare i. bibe cum vino vel cerevisia multum valet 4. Pouder of Gilliflowers strewed on his meats stancheth immediately Note He must eat no meat whilst he casteth ut virtus maneat Fluxus sanguinis narium 1. Hens feathers burnt and the smoke thereof applyed to the nostrils stinteth it 2. A pigs turd burnt and made into pouder blown into the nostrils 3. The juyce of Smallage drunk restraineth bleeding Probat 4. Succus menthae rutae mixtus curat fluxum narium Contra Sciaticam Stercora leporis temperata et calido vino applica forma emplastri dolori Freckens of the face 1. Grease your face with oyle of Almonds bibe succuâ—â— plantaginis 2. Annoint your visage well and often with Hares bloud To know if a man be a Leper or no. Let him bleed and put the bloud into water and if the bloud swim above he is a Leper and if it descend he is clean For ache in the loins Take Waybread and Sanicle stamp them and put thereto Bores grease forma emplastri calide dolori applica For a scald Head 1. Wash thy head with Vinegar and Cammomil stampt and mingled together there is no better thing for the Scall Probat 2. Grinde white Hellebor grinde it with Swines grease applica capiti 3. Take Culver dung with Salt and a little Vinegar and stirre them well together and therewith wash thy head sanabit capitis faeditates Ad ornatum faciei Take fresh Bores grease and the white of an Egg and stamp them together with a little pouder of Bayes and therewith annoint the visage and it shall clear the skin and make it white If the Liver rot Eat raw Parsely 9. dayes and 6. dayes after eat Sage and that will cleanse that the Parsely hath wrought Note All Hearbs whose roots be medicinable are best in Aprill For stopping of the Pipes â„ž Leaves and tender stocks of Horehound stamp them and seeth them well in Butter then wring it through a cloth cool it and adde to that pouder of Liquorice and of Hysop mixe them together and keep it in a Box and when thou wilt take a spoonfull and temper it with hot wine and use it when thou goest to bed Aliud â„ž A good quantity of Hysop seeth it in half a gallon of good wine till half bee sodden away and let the sick use it first and last at evening hot and at morning cold Probat Aliud â„ž The juyce of Cinquefoil stamped and drinke a sup thereof with wine orale and it shall clear thee of much flegm above and beneath The Plague Water TAke a handfull of Sage and a handful of rue and boil them in three pints of Malmsie or Muscadine untill one pint be wasted then take it off the fire and strain the wine from the hearbs then put into the wine two penniworth of long Pepper half an ounce of Ginger and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmeg all grosly bruised and let it boil a little again This done take it off the fire and dissolve it in half an ounce of good Venice Triacle and a quarter of an ounce of Mithridate and put to it a quarter of a pint of strong Angelica water so keep it in a glasse close stopped for your use For preservation you shall take every morning a spoonfull warm and lay you down to sweat upon it and so continue to take it twice a day untill you perfectly recover This water likewise cureth the small Pox the Measels Surfets and Pestilentiall Fevers A Cordiall Water good for the Plague Pox Measels all kind of Convulsions Fevers and all pain of the Stomack Take Sage Rosemary Rue Celandine Scabios Agrimonie Mugwort Woormwood Pimpernel Dragon Carduus benedictus Rosa solis Betonie Marigold leaves and flowers Centurie Polipodium Scurvie grasse of each a handfull wash them and swing them in a clean cloth till they be dry then shred them small and take the roots of Zedoarie Tormentill Enula campana Angelica Licorice of each half an ounce scraped and sliced then take of the best white wine eight pints put them all into an earthen pot well leaded let them stand two dayes close covered and stirre them once in the day then still them in a Limbeck with a temperate fire it will be two dayes and a night in the still keep the first pint by it self of which you may take a spoonful at a time of the next quart take twice so much of the next pint you may give to little children a spoonful at a time Lute the still well that no aire come forth and keep it in close glasses For a Child that hath the Ague Take the Hearb called Hartshorn stamp it then mingle it with bay Salt and three or four houres before the fit come apply it spread upon a linnen cloth to the Childs wrists and when the fit is past apply a fresh one before the next fit and in a few fits God willing she shall be cured For a burning Fever Take red mints two handfull boyle them in a quart of running water to the consumption of half strain it and put thereto four or five spoonfuls of white Wine Vinegar and as much Honey boyle it to the height of a Sirrup Take of Endive two handfuls boyle it in a quart of water to the consumption of half take two spoonfulls of this and one of the Sirrup in the morning fasting and at any other time you please For the Jaundies black or yellow Take of White Wine one pint steep therein of the root of Caelidon the weight of twelve pence of Saffron one penny-worth a rase of Turmarick bruise all and bind them in a fine peece of Laun and let it infuse in the Wine a night drink a part thereof in the morning one other part at noon and the rest at night To bring down the Flowers Take of Alligant or Muskadine or Clarret a pint burn it and sweeten it well with Sugar put thereto two spoonfulls of Sallet oyle then take a good Bead of Amber in pouder in a spoon with some of the wine after it take it evening and morning To stay the Flowers Take Amber Corrall Pearl Jeat of each alike grind them to a
dissolved To bring the Camphire to powder In a clean Morter beat one Almond then put in the Camphire and beat it to a fine powder without which it will not come to a powder Likewise be at all the Cloves to a fine powder then mix all together in a strong glasse stop it close and lute it that no air enter and let it stand forty dayes and nights abroad in the hottest time of summer and shake it well thrice a day The use Drop a drop of the water into the eye thrice a day with a black Hens Feather the infirm lying on their back and stirring the eye up and down If there be any thing grow upon the eye Take four drops of oyle of Amber rectified and mix with half an ounce of the water dresse the eye as before For any Ague Take a quarter of a pint of Canary Sack put into it a penny-worth of oyle of Spike a pennyworth of Sirrup of Poppyes and one grain of Bezar mingle these together and let them stand infused all night and exhibite it next morning to the Patient fasting For an Ague Boyle two ounces of Roch in a Pipkin in a pint of Ale about a quarter of an hour or better then give the party grieved to drink of it pretty warm some two houres before the fit cometh about half of it and what the party cannot drink at the first draught let it be warmed against the second fit and give it as before after two houres be past let the party drink as much posset drink as he can Another Take the quantity of a Wallnut of black Sope and three times as much crown Sope mix them together then shred a pretty quantity of Rue and half a spoonfull of Pepper finely beaten and a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth whereof make two plaisters and lay to each wrist one and sow them fast on for nine dayes this must be applied as the cold fitt beginneth to come upon them To make Pills to cleanse the backe Boyle Venice Turpentine in Plantain water then take the Turpentine and bray it in a Morter to very fine powder take the powder and mingle it with powder of white Amber powder of Oculorum cancrorum and powder of Nutmeg of each half a drachm mix them up into Pills and take three of them in a morning A Bath Take Mallow leaves Violet leaves Endive Motherwort Mugwort Rose leaves Lettice Cammomill Bay leaves boyle of all these one handfull in a sufficient quantity of pure running water and set in the Bath about an hour then goe into a warm bed and sweat awhile and when you come out of your sweat and are pretty cool eat Strawberries and Sugar this will clear the body and purifie the blood For the Cough of the Lungs and defluxions You may take sometimes of Sirrup magistrall of Scabious and of Oxymell Jutianizans of each one ounce and of Diacodium half an ounce and of Sirrup of Diasereos half an ounce Mingle these all well together and mingle with it also a drachm of pure flower of Sulphur finely searced and take of this the quantity of a large Nutmeg three or four times in a day at morning an hour before dinner an hour before supper and last at night it will cut the flegm and carry it gently away without any perturbation or violent trouble of coughing and cause quiet rest To cause a woman to have her Flowers Take of Gladwin Roots about a handful boyle them in Vinegar or in white Wine till they be very tender and after put this into a Vessel on the ground in a close stool so that the woman may sit over it very close stopped so that the heat may strike up into her body This Medicine is reported never to fail but to bring them down But you must have a speciall care that no woman being with child have this Medicine administred to her For the Cough of the Lungs Take of Coltsfoot two handfuls of Hysop and the tops of red Nettles of each one handful of Horehound and Maiden-hair of each half a handfull of Raisins of the sun having their stones taken out three ounces of Liquorice sliced half an ounce and of Elecampane roots sliced one ounce of Annise-seeds half an ounce grosly bruised boil all these together in a gallon of water in an earthen Pipkin with a gentle fire till the third part be boyled away then strein it and take a quart of the decoction and put to it two ounces of Sugar-Candie beaten and let it boil a little over the fire again till the Sugar Candie be melted then take it off the fire and put it up into a glasse close stopped and drinke of it three or four spoonfuls morning and evening so long as it lasteth a little warmed For Cramp or Numnesse Take a penniworth of Saffron put it into a little bag then put it into three ounces of Rosewater and stir it well in the rose-Rosewater then take four penniworth of Camphire and infuse that in the Rosewater and being so infused and mixed chafe the place with it warm and smell to it as he bathes the place For a Cough Winde and a cold Stomack Take four ounces of good Annise-seed water mingle it with one ounce of spirit of Mint and dissolve it with two ounces of pure white Sugar candie beaten into very fine pouder set it upon a chafingdish of coals in a peuter dish and when it beginneth to walm burn it with a paper as you doe wine stirring it well together with a spoon then take it off the fire and evening and morning take a good spoonful of it first and last It will comfort the stomack and is good against cough and winde For a Cough and Consumption Take of Lungwort Liverwort Hysop Violet and Strawbrrie leaves of each one handful Licorice sliced and scraped Annise-seeds and Fennel-seeds of each one penniworth a little bruised a Parsly and a Fennel root clean scraped pithed and cut into small peeces twelve figs sliced four ounces of good great Raisins having their stones taken out boyl all these together in a pottle of clear running water till it come to three pints then put into it two ounces of pure white hard Sugar dissolve it upon the fire with the other decoction then take it off strein it and drink thrice a day of it that is in the morning about four in the afternoon and last at night three or four ounces of it at a time and it will asswage the driness and thirst and open the obstructions and stoppings of the Liver and Spleen and cause your Flegm to com away with more ease For a Cold Dropsie Take Olibanum and rost it in a Fig and apply it to their great Toe But if they be swelled in their face or head then take a new layd Egg roasted hard take out the yolk aend put into
the hole so much Cummin Seed as will fill it and apply it as hot as it may be endured to the nape of the neck For the Dropsie Take a pottle of White or Rhenish Wine an ounce of Cinnamon and a pint of green Broom ashes put them together in an earthen pot eight and forty houres the Cinnamon being first bruised stirre them all often and then put them up into a white Cotten bag and let the liquor drain out of them put it up again twice upon the lees and then use four times a day of it drink it cold in the morning one hour before dinner one hour before supper and when you goe to bed at each time drink a quarter of a pint if the greif be not fully removed use a second or third pottle so made up but with most persons one pottle sufficeth For an Ague Take as much black Sope as a Wallnut and three times as much crown Sope and mingle them together then shred about a pugill of Rue and put thereto half a spoonfull of Pepper very finely beaten and with a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour or as much as shall suffice mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth and make it up into two plaisters and apply to each wrist one and keep them fast on for nine dayes together you must apply the plaisters just as the cold fit beginneth to come upon them Sweat is held by all experienced Phisitians to be very good to cure an Ague but they must be put into their sweat before the cold fit come upon them you must use this twice or thrice before the Ague will be quite cured and let them drink no other drink during their sweat but Aqua vitae and small Beer mingled together but you must not make it too strong of the Aqua vitae To comfort and strengthen the Joynts and Sinewes â„ž Of the flowers and seeeds of Saint Johns Wort three ounces steep them three dayes in sufficient Wine and then seeth them in a brazen Vessell till the Wine be consumed then strain them and put to the straining as much of fresh Saint Johns Wort stamped and steep it again three dayes and afterward add thereunto of Turpentine three ounces of old Oyle eight ounces of Saffron one scruple of Mastick Ê’ ss of Myrrh of Frankincense ana Ê’ ii ss afterward put in the straining the space of a moneth of the flowers and seed of Saint Johns Wort one handfull and half of Madder brayed of fine grain wherewith Scarlet is died ana three drachms of the Juyce of Yarrow two ounces seeth them to the consumption of the Juyce with earth Wormes washed with Wine two ounces and a little Wine odoriferous For obstructions of Liver and Spleen â„ž Flowers of Burrage Buglosse Marigolds Violets Endive of each a handfull Dates stoned three ounces of the best blew Currans two ounces sweet Fennell-seed half an ounce Graines and Coriander of each one drachm whole brown Watercresses nine leaves Hysop stripped downwards nine little branches of french Barly three ounces boyl all these together in a pottle of spring water till a third part be consumed then strain it and when it is strained adde of the conserve of Barberries three ounces Sirrup of Lemons and of Quinces of each three ounces this is to be taken morning and evening nine spoonfuls at a time The Flowers are to be had at the Apothecaries dry all the year For the Palsie in the head For the Palsie in the head take of the oyles of Amber Fox and Beaver and mingle them together and annoint the nape of the neck with them evening and morning chafe it in with a warm hand and chafingdish of hot coales And take of the oyle of Amber alone and with your finger put some of it every morning into your nose and take two or three drops of it and rub it into your head upon the mould thereof And take two or three drops of the same Oyle and put it into your Beer or Ale for your mornings draught especially at the change or full of the Moon for four or five dayes together Be sure to keep warm and avoid going abroad in rain misty or moist weather Oyle of Saint Johns Wort for ache and pain Take a quart of Sallet oyle put thereto a quart of flowers of Saint Johns Wort well picked let them lie therein all the summer untill the seeds of that hearb be ripe the glasse must be kept warm either in the Sun or in water all the summer untill the seeds be ripe then put in a quart of Saint Johns Wort seeds whole and so let it stand twelve houres the glasse being kept open then you must seeth the oyle eight houres the water in the pot full as high as the oyle in the glasse when it is cold strain it that the seed remain not in it and so keep it for your use For the knitting together and strenthening of bones Give inwardly Knotgrasse Plantain or Ribwort water with Sirrup of the greater Comfrey to three spoonfuls of the water exhibit one of the sirrup so often as they use it There are also vulnerary Potions prescribed for this purpose in the Dispensatories For the Courses When you give Oculos cancrorum truly called Lapides cancrorum to provoke a womans Courses you must give her almost a spoonfull of it mixed with some water of Motherwort called Artemisia causing her to drink a good glass-full of the water immediately after it the best time to exhibite it is to give it hot in the morning by four of the clock and let her sleep after it you must give it about those times she ordinarily expecteth her Courses if you cannot get Morherwort water you may use in stead of it Penniroyall water You may dissolve your powder of Lapidum cancrorum either with juyce of Lemons or with distilled Vinegar and spirit of Vitrioll If you put a greater proportion of Vitrioll then of the other it will sooner dissolve you need but cover it with the juyce or spirits and after some few houres poure off the spirits from the powder A Cordiall excellent good for melancholy panting and trembling of the heart swounding fainting coldnesse and rawnesse of the stomack and also for many other greifs arising from a cold and moist complexion often proved with happy successe Take of Saffron half an ounce of Angelica roots finely sliced one ounce of Cloves six drachms Balm two handfuls Rosemary tops four handfuls shread the hearbs and roots and beat the spices grosly then put them with half a pound of Sugar into three pints of small Cinnamon water or of small Aqua vitae and let them stand infused three or four dayes together after boyle them and let the Aqua vitae burn stirring them well together till near a pint thereof be consumed away then strain it and when it is settled poure off the clear from the bottome
watching mourning sadnesse anger and all other perturbations of the mind Her familiar freinds must present no unwholsome thing to her nor so much as name it least she should desire it and not be able to get it and so minister her an occasion of abortment or the Child carry with it some foule impressions But if she desire chalk clay or coales let beanes boyled with sugar be given unto her or if she cannot get her longing let her presently drink a large draught of pure cold water CHAP. II. Order for the third Moneth BEfore the fourth moneth be ended she must neither be let bloud nor have her body evacuated with any purgative medicine But if too much bloud abound or some incident disease happen which may require evacuation you shall use cupping-glasses with scarification and a little may be drawn from the shoulders and arme especially if she have been formerly accustomed to them CHAP. III. From the fourth Moneth VVHen now the fourth moneth is past bloud-letting and physick is permitted especially if it be gentle and milde such as best may agree with women with child and tender or delicate persons And by Hyppocrates precept may be conceded even untill the seventh moneth CHAP. IIII. From the fifth sixth and seventh Moneth FRom that time forward none of the before mentioned remedies is wont or ought from thence to be used because the Babe being now become greater standeth in need of greater nourishment and bloud and also can bear no commotion of physick Although sometimes I have met with women which have so much abounded with bloud that unlesse they had been let bloud in the second moneth they would have aborted in the third others again unlesse they should attempt the same in the seventh or eight moneth they could not carry their great belly so long or else would be delivered of a dead issue But since these things happen but to few they may not be granted to all but we must provide for every one according to their nature and constitution And this is to be prohibited to all which are with child that they give not way to take any bloud from the ancle bone of the foot during the whole time of the womans going but in stead thereof if the disease so require an ounce of Manna in the broth of a Cock or so much Cassiafistula or of Sirrups made of Damask-roses infused in May dew about the quantity of an ounce with a little water of Cinnamon may safely be taken a little before meat But if the belly be bound onely without any apparent disease the broth of a Chicken or of Veal sodden with Oil or with the decoction of Mallowes or marsh-Mallowes Mercury and Linseed put up in a glister by the lower parts will not be amisse yet in a lesser measure then is wont to be given in other Children to wit of the decoction five ounces of common Oil three ounces of Sugar two ounces of Cassia fistula one ounce But sharper Purgations as also Suppositories made of Honey and Salt are altogether hurtfull to great bellyed women or such as lie in childbed But of fat Pork which they call Lard or the yolks of Eggs without salt Purgations and Glysters are commended But if she will not take a Glyster either for modesty or otherwise because she was not accustomed to take it one or two yolks of new laid Eggs or a few Pease pottage warm with a little salt and sugar supped up a little before meat will be very convenient But if the belly shall be sometimes distended and stretched out with wind a little Fennelseed and Anniseeds reduced into powder and mingled with Honey or with Sugar made after the manner of an Electuary will doe very well But if the thighs and feet swell let them be annointed with Oxphrodinum which is a liquid Medicine made with Vinegar and Rose-water mingled with a little Salt CHAP. V. The eighth Moneth IN the eighth moneth which is usually perillous the better diets rather than plentiest will be most commodious But as they must abate their diet so their bodily exercise must increase And because then women with child by reason of the sharp humours alter the belly are accustomed to weaken both their spirits and strength they may well take before meat an Electuary of Diarrhodon or Aromaticum Rosatum or Diamargariton in the morning before meat and sometimes they may lick a little Honey even as they which loath and nauseate their meat may take green Ginger condited with Sugar or the rindes of Citrons and Oranges condited as also it is usuall sometimes to take specificall Sirrups Moreover let the woman with child often use Honey for the strengthning of the Infant When she is not farre from her labour or bringing forth she shall eat daily seven tosted Figs before meat least the seconds may be bound up but if they shall be restrained and stay firme they may be resolved But the woman with child may not eat salt and powdered meats least the child be born without nails CHAP. VI. In the ninth Moneth IN the ninth moneth being near their time they must not be idle neither sit much nor stoop much nor lie on their sides so that the child may not well turn it self but ought to lie with her face upward neither shall she bend her self much lest the child be infolded and wrapped up in the umbilical ligaments and bonds by which meanes it oftentimes perisheth but she must walk and stirre often and exercise her self rather by going upward than downward Let her use light and easie meats of digestion as damask-Prunes with Sugar or Figs and Raisins before meat and also the yolks of Eggs flesh and broth of Chicken Birds Patridges and Pheasants and Fish living in stony places with good broth And such meats shall not onely be convenient for this moneth but also for the two succeeding moneths that the natural parts by them may be dilated Also astringent meats and roasted meats and also Rise hard Eggs Millet and others of that kind will be very profitable Baths of sweet water with emollient hearbs used with intermission is meet But the hot house which they call a stow is hurtful After the bath let the belly be annointed with oyle of Roses and Violets but the natural parts with the fat of Hens Geese Ducks with oyle of Lillies and the decoction of Linseed and Faenugreek boyled with oyl of Linseed marsh-Mallows grains of Quinces or with this which followeth A Liniment both of them cut and fliced of each one ounce Take of Mallowes Of marsh-Mallowes Of Linseed also one ounce Let them be boiled from twenty ounces of water to ten let them take three ounces of the boiled broth of oyle of Flour-deluce and of Almonds of each one ounce three ounces of Deer suet Bath this from the rest and annoint her with it warm Also they may use for fourteen dayes before the birth morning and evening to bath and moisten the belly with Muscadine
and lavender-Lavender-water that the child may be the more strengthened thereby She may every day eat toasted bread that nothing may grow to the childe The naturall parts may also be gently stroaked down with this Fomentation The Fomentation Take three ounces of Linseed Of Mallowes and of marsh-Mallowes sliced of each M. i. Let them be put in a bag and boiled moderately Let the woman with child every morning and evening take the vapour of this decoction in a hollow stoole taking great heed that no wind or air come to her in any part and then let her wipe the parts so annointed with a linnen cloth that she may annoint the belly and groins as at the first Being near her time to bring forth so that she be within ten dayes thereof if the woman with child shall begin to feel difficulty and pain let her daily use this Bath The Bath Take of Mallowes Marsh-Mallowes ana M.i. Cammomil Mercury hearb Maiden-hair ana M. ss Of. Linfeed four ounces Let these be boiled in a sufficient quantity of water as may suffice to make a Bath therewith But let not the woman sit too hot on the seat nor higher than a little above her Navill nor let her sit longer on it than about half an hour least her strength languish and decay for it is better to use it often than to stay too long at once in it But if she cannot indure to sit over the water let her cherish her naturall parts with a spunge or with clothes wet in it A Laconick and sweating Bath is not convenient at that time but hurtful though we think women may use it After the Bath she shall alwayes annoint her natural parts of her loines her flankes navil sides and other parts adjoyning thereto with the ointment or fat made of the fore-prescribed thing or cherish them with the fat marrow And also fats melted sometimes and rightly put up into the natural parts with a spunge or glister-pipe if the womb be hot and dry and the party with child be of a lean and slender body Fumes also used applied to the womb conduce to facilitate delivery Suffumigations of the genitals to facilitate delivery Musk Ambergreace Gallia Moscata Aloes-wood put upon hot coales and also sweet Hearbs Mint Penniroyal Calamint Origanum Majoram are of a pleasant and grateful smell and open womens passages and draw down conception But we must beware that such sweet smells of this kind be not used to the nostrils but rather Balls of Galbanum Assa foetida Mirrh or Rue What Meat is most usefull Then Pottage of Hens Capons and such like are most in use and I should advise them then to drink thinne generous Wine allayed with water What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lye in It doth not a little avail to the happy delivery that the Chamber wherein the Child-bearing woman lyeth be temperate and be neither too cold nor too hot for that shutteth up the mouth of the womb and this disperseth and digesteth the strength In Summer time therefore if heat scorcheth the Chamber may be strowed with Willow leaves and Vine leaves and Rose-water with a little Vinegar In Winter a high or upper Chamber moderately kept warm shall be convenient which shall be kept warm with a continued fire as is accustomed to be done in Italy France and other hot Countries But this is expedient every where that the natural parts and those nearest unto them be moderately rubbed with hot clothes CHAP. VII What is to be done at the birth THe birth being at hand and paines oppressing them it shall be fit if the belly doe fall down of its own accord but if it be bound it must be provoked with a gentle Glyster for the excrements being cast out the womb and the passages thorough which the Child issueth are lesse pressed and so the birth followeth more easie These things being well prepared the child-bed woman must be put into bed if tender weak grosse and fleshly but it ought to be made ready after this manner How and wherewith the child-bed womans bed ought to be furnished A large boulster made of linnen cloth must be stuffed with straw and be spread on the ground that her upper part may lye higher than her lower on this the woman may lye so that she may seem to lean and bow rather than to lye drawing up her feet unto her that she may receive no hurt CHAP. VIII To whom the seat may agree and be fit LEt the strong and lusty women be placed in a chair which also must have the lower part not upright but stooping a little that the child-bearing woman may sit as it were bending backward clothes or close compassing garments being cast about their backs In this the belly together with the whole burthen may sooner goe down than in a bed but it often cometh to passe that the whole Babe lyeth at the mouth of the womb before that it shall get forth more loosly and openly with the adjoyning places and by that meanes is compelled to stick longer there from whence ariseth no small danger of life CHAP. IX What the Midwife shall doe in the very moment of the birth VVHen now the pangs of child-bearing women increase more and more let the Midwife inwardly annoint the secret or natural parts with oyle of Cammomil and white Lillies nor let her set the woman in the seat before she perceiveth the womb to be loosed and resolved and the humours to flow over more plentifully Moreover she may not bring her to labour and strugling before the birth shew it self to her view for they doe but labour in vain and doe violently distort and wrest away the strength of the labouring woman that afterward when she shall have need it will not be able to work it forth But she shall sit fitly over against the woman in labour and shall diligently observe on what part the birth moveth it self for if it come the right way she shall annoint and cherish the secret parts with odoriferous Oils and if it declineth to the sides she shall with both hands govern and dispose the belly that it may fall to the mouth of the womb And if the hand or feet shew it self first the Midwife with a soft and gentle hand moistened with broth of Fenugreek and Linseed shall gently reduce it into the place Certain women have the mouth of their womb so streightned that without great help scarce or never they can part with the child And that cometh to pass by reason of divers causes for either some strong heat coming from the natural parts doth two much streighten the inward parts or the Creature is to big or the child-bearing woman is to grosse and fat or the child is dead who cannot by motion be furthering and helping to nature or else cold for the most part in the winter especially in young ones who have a narrow passage of the womb doth more a stringe and bind
it up or sometimes heat in some is so dissolved that their strength faileth them in the birth Therefore when there appeareth difficulty in bringing forth the Child Jesus Christ the onely preserver and saver in danger is heartily to be called upon that with his gratious favour he would be pleased to be Assistant to the wretched party in travell CHAP. X. When the Infant is come into the world VVHen now the Child or Issue cometh into the world either with the head or feet the Mother must be incouraged that as much as in her lyeth she keep in her breath and restrain it that by that indeavour she may put forth the Child And the Midwife in the mean time must with her hand gently compresse and keep down the region of the womb which is above the navill and urge the Infant to the lower parts And although the astriction of the womb causeth the bringing forth to be more difficult the parturient woman is to be set in a Bath in which Mallowes Faenugreek Linseed and Barly are sodden and the sides hips and flank must be annointed with oyle of Roses and Violets let the thighs be well rubbed with Oxysacchar and half a drachm of Mint and as much of Wormwood be exhibited in drink to her The woman bringing forth may gently be led to her bed and they which assist her at her labour must not look or gaze in her face as such who are ashamed in their bringing forth that after it as it falleth out she strive not to bring forth her young one with sharper pain CHAP. XI If the Secondines break not readily BUt if the Skin containing the young one called the Secondine because it is brought forth after the birth be lesse easily broken but stifly resisteth the Midwife must either break it with her nails and laying hold on it with her fingers cut it with a pair of Sizzers taking care that the Child may be preserved safely in doing it On the contrary when the skins are broken or cut in peices if all the humours presently shall overflow before the child come forth and the naturall places shall be dried up let Goose greace with oyle of white Lillies melted be poured in warm or the white of an Egg with the yolk be put up What is to be done after the child is born if yet the Secondine or after-birth be retained If the Child being born the Secondines be as yet pertinaciously retained sneezing must be provoked if it come not voluntarily putting Ginger or some other sharp thing up into the nostrils or a scruple of Unicorns horn beaten into powder ought to be drunk hot in white Wine in want of Unicorns horn use good Harts horn or Bezar four graines or the juyce of Borrage exhibited in drink bringeth them down because it easily moveth vomit and they thereby are brought forth Another approved Remedy for drawing them forth Take of Sesely Cinnamon Of Mirrh and of sweet Cassia of each equall parts Let these be exhibited with Mugwort-water Another Receit Take powder of the Jet stone exhibited in Mugwort-water or else about a drachm of the powder of Mallowes seeds exhibited in hot water or the suffumigations of Horse hoofes CHAP. XII To draw forth a dead Child IF the child be dead an equall quantity of Rue of Mugwort Wormwood and black Pepper being each of them reduced into fine powder and boyled in Wine must be exhibited or Vervain boyled in Wine or Water or Vinegar or Savory bruised and tied upon the belly bringeth forth the Child whether it be yet alive or dead or Butter with Honey boyled in Wine or decoction of Hysop well dryed exhibited in hot water but if it yeildeth not nor cometh away with these let Rue Mugwort Oppoponax and Wormwood dryed with a little Oil and Sugar be laid to the groin or the navill and moreover the skin of a female Snake put about the woman in the manner of a girdle Also the stone Aetites tied unto the thigh after the Child is brought forth ought presently to be taken away least the womb after the Child be brought forth come forth also Moreover sneezing alone accellerateth delivery but it ought to be used with the mouth and nostrils close stopped and Ginger or some such thing put up into them for from hence a great force of the spirits is thrust thence unto the inward part CHAP. XIII How the bellies of child-bearing women being costive or bound may be loosned IF the belly doe not evacuate the excrements the first dayes of her being brought to bed bring a Fig cut in the middle into the form of a sharp tent fashioned like a mans Yeard and put it up into the Fundament instead of a Suppository or else put a grain of Coriander confected with Sugar up into that place or put a peice of Swines flesh powdered or Lard brought into the same form up into the same place or frame a Suppository of white Sope and apply it thereto About four or five dayes after the birth you may use a gentle Glister of half a pound of Sallade oyle with a quartern of Barly boyled in broth with two ounces of Sugar with the yolke of an Egg beaten together But if at the eighth day the belly answer not their expectation in loosenesse let three drachms of Cassia newly extracted well confected with Sugar be taken morning and at evening before supper in the manner of a bole and presently let her eat thereupon CHAP. XIV What things are to be applied to the naturall or secret parts SO soon as the Child is born let this astringent Fomentation be applied unto the naturall parts The Fomentation Take of red Roses two pugils a pugill is the quantity you may take up at once between your first three forefingers Let them be boyled to a third part in high red Wine inclining to a blackish colour with a fourth part of water put thereunto then put into the decoction a whole Egg and let it be mingled together and applied to the place with flanen rowlers and kept on for the space of two dayes Another Take of oyle of Hypericon four ounces Of rose-Rose-water two ounces Of the juyce of Solomons Seal one ounce Mingle these well together and let the rowlers dipped in them be applied to the secret parts An Ointment Let the belly be forthwith annointed with this Ointment least it become wrinkled or deformed and that it may be thereby better strengthened and may return to the old form Take two ounces of rose-Rose-water An ounce of Mirtles Half an ounce of Cats fat These things ought to be melted and mingled with the before recited Oyles A Girdle for the belly After the Unction put on a Girdle of Dog-skin well prepared by a Leather-dresser and annointed with two ounces of oyle of Mirtles and one ounce of oyle of Mastick and half an ounce of oyle of Hypericon mingled together But it must be so large as it may comprehend or compasse the whole belly
a little above the navill even unto the naturall parts and must streightly bind up the same but without pain And this will be fitly done if it be sowed together with thred on the left side and be put hot enough to the belly and be compassed with four or five double linnen clothes binding them with fit strings together that the belly may be kept warm But let linnen clothes annointed with an equall proportion of oyle of Mirtles and oyle of Hypericon be applied unto the naturall parts from the second day untill the seventh CHAP. XV. The order from the seventh day after the woman is brought to bed SIx dayes being finished or past on the seventh day let the naturall parts be fomented and cherished with this Decoction of each two pugils Take of red Roses Of Agrimony Mellilot And Cammomil of each one handfull Of the leaves of Hypericon Of the leaves of Quinces And of Mirtle Let them be boyled in red Wine thick and astringent with a little water to a third part and let the naturall parts be fomented therewith morning and at evening before sleep On the eighth day It is convenient to put to the belly a plaister made with the white of an Egg and a little Pepper and taken with flaxen rowlers or boulsters On the ninth day If this plaister please not besmear a Dogs skin again with oyle of Mirtles and Mastick and apply it unto the belly and it will avail and profit much to keep it tied with swadling clothes unto the end of her child-bed A Liniment to scatter and disperse the Milk That the Milk flowing back to the breasts may without offence be dissipated you must use this ointment Take of pure Wax two ounces Of Linseed oyle half a pound When the Wax is melted let a Liniment be made wherein linnen clothes must be dipped and according unto their largenesse be laid upon the breasts but when it shall be discussed and paineth no more let other linnen clothes dipped in distilled water of Acorns be put upon them But this Lonely advise them which cannot nurse their own children And if swelling in them which give suck doe arise from abundance of milk in their breasts seem to threaten an inflammation use the former Ointment but abstain from using the distilled water of Acorns When and what Bath they must use From the twentieth day if it be a male Child if it be a female from the five and twentieth day this Bath may be used Take of Majoram Of Penniroyall Mellilot Hypericon or Saint Johns wort Of Millefoile And of Pimpernel of each M iii. Of Bay leaves two pugils Three ounces of Pomegranades rindes Of old Bean meal five pounds Of Barly meal two pounds Of Cummin bruised and beaten into powder lb. iii Put the hearbs small chopt into a bag but the beans and Barly and Cummin one upon another severally Let them be sod altogether in a great Cauldron which may contain two parts of Water and one of Wine let them be boyled the day before she would use the Bath and be poured forth into a tub which must be well covered The next day heat the water of the Bath but they must take heed they sit not on the Bath too hot but two houres will be sufficient to sit before meat in the morning and at evening But let the child-bed woman sit on the bag wherein the bran or meale is put but not lower than the region of the mouth of the Ventricle Another Let a barrell wherein the dregs of white Wine are yet sticking be filled with river water and let it be stirred to and fro that all may be well mingled together then let the dregs settle and boyle in this water Of Bay leaves Of red Roses With both the Comferies Of Hypericon Penniroyall And Pimpernel of each p. ii Of old Bean meal lb. v. Of Barly meal lb. ii Let the child-bed woman sit on the bag in which the meales are or on another which may contain the brans of wheat CHAP. XVI Against the gripings of the belly in child-bearing women THe gripings and gnawings of the belly especially those which are contracted from the great striving and labour of the belly in bringing forth and sometimes from a chollerick matter contained therein and sometimes of wind retained Outward Remedies Exceedingly therefore are usefull Musk and Civet outwardly laid to the navill moreover oyle of Dill chafed on the belly as hot as well may be indured Inward helps in their meats In stead of meat the broth of an old Cock or Capon is best being well sodden with a little Dill and so taken A Drink For the drink a water made up with Cinnamon and Sugar which they call Hippocras which is made after this manner Put unto water boyled and hot and drawn unto â„¥ xx Of Cinnamon half an ounce Of Sugar three or two ounces Three grains of black Pepper Mingle them well and infuse them for six hours and then strain them in a bag which the Apothecaries call Hippocrates sleeve Let the child-bearing woman use this potion warm but very sparingly but if she loath this let her use thin small and clear wine unlesse a Fever shall hinder her A Potion also is made of Honey and white Wine of each two ounces to mittigate paine by reason of flatuous humours retained Some exhibite the jawes of the Pickerell with Amber and Ginger ana finely powdered to drink in white Wine CHAP. XVII The government of the Nurse LEt there be given unto the Infant new born Honey to lick after let it be nourished with the Mothers Milk which of all things best agreeth with it But if by reason of some necessity it cannot enjoy it a sound healthy Nurse is to be chosen neither younger than four and twenty yeares nor elder than five and thirty of a white and ruddy complexion which is not infected with other vices nor yet hath too lately been brought to bed nor hath not long given suck let her not have fore Dugs or Breasts nor to big but a large Breast and moderately fat Let her use choise meats of easie and light concoction engendring good bloud or juyce let her abstain from hot aromaticall Spices as Pepper Ginger Cardamome and such like also from Leeks Onions Garlick Salt austere and tart things Let her avoid strong Wines as also cold water Let her eschew immoderate eating and drinking for that corrupteth the Milk and begetteth in children lepry or scurfe and other contagious diseases Let her abstain from cares and vexations and let her take heed least she provoke her menstruous disease She must not sleep much or be given to sleep for that maketh the Milk flegmatick she likewise ought not to watch more than is meet for from hence the Milk cometh to be more hot sharp and distastfull to the Infant she ought moderately to excrcise her selfe especially her armes to wit either in sowing spinning or knitting for by this meanes evill humours are consumed
two ounces flower of Cassia newly drawn half an ounce Penidios three ounces oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawn half an ounce the Lungs of a Fox finely beaten to powder two ounces powder what is to be powdered then mix them all together and make an Electuary with Sirrup of Hysop An Electuary for the shortnesse of Breath Take a pint of the best Honey you can get set it on the fire and scum it very clean then put into it a little Hysop bound in a bundle bruised a little let it boyle till the Honey taste well of the Hysop then take it out and wring out all the Honey and put into it the weight of sixpence of Angelica root grated or cut very small as much of Elacampane root of Ginger the weight of two pence as much of grosse Pepper of Licorice eight penny weight cut very small of Anniseeds eighteen penny weight put these altogether after the Hysop is taken out and let it boyle a walm or two on the fire stirring it a little then take it off and put it into a glasse or pot and put thereto three spoonfuls of Aqua vitae and stir it well together and take it on a tufted Licorice stick at morning about ten and at four in the afternoon and when you goe to bed letting it melt down out of your mouths For a Bruise or Squat â„ž White Dasie roots leaves floures and all pownd them and strain the juyce of them into strong March Beer or Sack and give the Patient a good draught thereof Or seeth them in Ale and make a Posset thereof and let the Patient drink thereof as of the former and let him eat the leaves if he can and let him sweat after â„ž Of Comfry M. i. when it sprouteth forth the youngest leaves wring them with your hands and put them into fresh Butter out of the Churne unwasht into a Frying-pan and hold it a good way off the fire and so let it boyle together till it be green then strain it and keep it for your use Probatum A Restorative for the Backe Take of stale Ale two pound of Germander half a handfull of unset Hysop and of unset Thyme and of Clary ana M. i. a branch of Rosemary and a good quantity of English Saffron a dish of sweet Butter and a good peice of Sugar then boyle all together till half be consumed then strain it and let the Patient drink it morning and evening For Aches in the Backe â„ž Bores grease and Nerve oyle ana p. ae and as much Turpentine boyle them a little together and annoint the greived place downward therewith For Bleeding at the Nose Take a Toad and kill him and take three Bricks put them into fire and then take out one of them and put the Toad upon it then take out another and put him again on that and when he is almost cold take off the Toad and put the Brick into the fire then take the third Brick and doe so till the Toad be consumed to ashes then take the ashes and put them into a Taffata bag and when any one bleedeth apply the bag upon the heart and it will instantly stay the bleeding either of the Nose or any Wound For Burning or Scalding â„ž A spoonfull of Sallade oyle and the white of an Egg beat them well together and annoint the burnt place with it often then take a linnen rag and wet it in the oyle and lay it over the sore and keep it still wet till you find the fire be drawn out of the Wound then take away the rag and annoint the place with a feather and put Harts-tongue leaves to it and so bind it up and dresse it thrice a day for two or three dayes and after that but once a day and this will cool it without any scarre 2. â„ž The reddest Onyon you can get and take off the rinde and beat the Onyon with Bay Salt in a wooden dish till it be made very small then put it very thick upon the burned place and renew it three or four times and this will take out the fire and then you may apply any healing Medicine to it to skin it C. For a Cough of the Lungs REcipe Of clear running water three pound of good Sugar half a pound with nine Figs sliced half a spoonfull of Anniseeds bruised a spoonfull of Licorice bruised of great Raisins having their stones taken out one handfull of Maiden-hair one penniworth boyle these together till one half be consumed away then strain it thorough a fine linnen cloth and every morning take two spoonfuls of it luke-warm and you shall finde present remedy Probatum For purging of Colds Coughs and comforting the Lungs â„ž Rubarb two drachms Sena half an ounce Anniseeds one ounce steep them in a pint of white Wine and put to it one ounce of brown Sugar-candy set it over the fire to be kept stewing all night stop the pot very close that no water come out and in the morning when it is blood-warm strain it and take a pretty quantity of it and put two drops of oyle of Sulphur into it and drink it fasting and fast two or three houres after then take a little broth and keep you warm A Julep for a Cough â„ž A pottle of Spring water and put into it ten branches of Hysop and two of Rosemary Licorice clean scraped and thinne sliced two ounces of Anniseeds bruised two ounces French Barly which hath been cleansed in one water boyle these till half the water be consumed then strain it and put to it three drops of oyle of Sulphur take two spoonfuls of this when you begin to Cough this will loosen the flegm and cause you to bring it up easily Another Boyle three sprigs of Rosemary and as much Maiden Hysop in two pound of white Wine of Mace two flakes of Nut-Neg two or three slices Saffron six or eight blades burn the Wine and after sweeten it with brown Sugar-candy and drink a good draught warm mane vesperi and two or three spoonfuls in the afternoon For Canker in the mouth Mingle the juyce of Agrimony with raw Honey and annoint the lips with it and it will heal it Probatum Richard Jones cured a young man which had the Canker both in his tongue and lips onely with good Romane Vitrioll dissolved in spring water and making it as milk warm from the Cow with a stick and a linnen cloth fastened to the end of it he washed his tongue mouth and lips herewith every morning and evening and cured him in short time But if it be in an old man let run too long that it eat still and Vitrioll Salves nor other waters will cure it there is no other way to save this man but to wash carefully his lips or mouth with a very little oyle of Vitrioll to cauterize the veins and stop the malignant humours that comes from the brain and feeds it But this course must not be taken unlesse the
Patient be in intolerable pain and in a desperate case for doe it herewith never so little yet this oyle of Vitrioll will gnaw and bite and put the Patient to great pain that was opprest with great pain before unlesse you mitigate the pain by often continual dipping of a linnen cloth kept wet in spring water after a very little time that you have annointed the cankered veines and places with very little oyle of Vitrioll upon a feather as may be and so let him indure the pain as long as he well can that this may cauterize and sear up the veines the better that so he may be cured which otherwise will corrode and eat continually although he may purge and vomit also and so this at last will kill him For a Consumption and Cough of the Lungs â„ž Coltsfoot Betony Burnet and red Rose leaves ana M. i. of Comfry roots scraped and sliced M. ii boyle all these in a gallon of Spring water till it be consumed to a pottle then strain it and set it over the fire again then take a pound of double refined Sugar and put it into it and let it boyle over a soft fire about a quarter of an hour then take it off and put it up and drink of it six spoonfuls morning and evening and at four in the afternoon 2. â„ž Of Saccharum Saturni one scruple in a quarter of a pint of Goats milk and give the Patient mane vesperi two or three weeks together and this will help them but first give the Patient some gentle diet-drink to purge them before you give the Saccharum and Milk Probatum For Collick and paines in the backe â„ž The tender tops of a Bucks horn which is Velvet headed and cut it in peices and put it into a new pot well covered and set it in an Oven where it may be dryed and made into powder of which give to the Patient with a little Pepper in good Wine a pretty draught and this will presently release the pain and give ease Probatum 2. â„ž The decoction of Hollyhockes mix it with Honey and Butter and drink thereof bloud warm Probatum For the Cramp â„ž The leaves or little sprigs of Rosemary and put them between every toe and if you are much troubled with the Cramp use it continually and this will cure it 2. Annoint the part cramped with Vnguentum Brioniae and this will help it Probatum For a Canker â„ž Burnt Salt burnt Eggshels burnt Copperas burnt Bones burnt Verdigrease Wormwood and Rue burnt ana p. ae make powder thereof and mingle them well together and strow the powder into the Canker and let no water come to it Another Take Hog-lice stamp them till they come to an oyle and annoint the place therewith For a Canker in the lips â„ž The juyce of Agrimony and mingle it with raw Honey and annoint the lips with it and it will heal them Probat A Water for a Consumption â„ž Rose-water three pound of Muscadine three pound of new Milk a pottle of grosse Pepper one ounce of Cinnamon two ounces of sliced bread a penny loafe the yolks of three new laid Eggs of Sugar one pound Distill all these as long as any water will come take of this water with a little Pepper a draught fasting and you will find much good For the Cough â„ž Of the best Flores Sulphuris one ounce and half as much white Sugar Candie finely poudered mix them together and take as much hereof as will lye upon six pence mix them well in the yolk of an egg and swallow it down then walk upon it untill you sweat and keep your self warm and use it four or five mornings together to take it and walk after it For a Cough or shortness of Breath â„ž Of Aqua vitae or Annise-seed water four ounces mix it with white Sugar Candie finely poudered two ounces boyl it in a peuter dish over a chafing-dish till it be dissolved and indifferent thick like an oyle and take a spoonful of this when you goe to bed for three or four nights together â„ž Elacampane roots cut into small peeces of Hysop Penniroyal and Liquorice ana M. ii seeth them in a gallon of pure spring water till it come to a pottle then strain it well and keep it in a clean pot or glasse close stopt and use this every day thrice First and last and one hour ofter dinner for seven or eight dayes For a Consumption â„ž Three sheeps hearts slit them and take out the strings and bloud and lay them in water to soke a night and a day then wash them clean and put them into a Pipkin lay in the bottome of the Pipkin stalks of Rosemary in the manner of a Gridiron then lay the hearts on them every heart being stuck with three cloves and half a quarter of Sugar being put into every heart Then stop up the Pipkin very close with paste and put it in an Oven with houshold bread and when you thinke it is sufficiently stewed take out the Pipkin again then every morning and evening take a spoonful of this Sirrup D For the Dropsie REcipe Half an eggshel full of the juyce of Ireos of Mellicratum four ounces with pouder of the best Rubarb half a drachm Take this hot in a morning once a week This is held for an excellent help Another â„ž A lap-full of green Juniper tops chop them small and take a great bathing tub and put them therein and set the Patient in the tub so that he may not touch the water wherein these tops were sodden but put a cricket under his feet and cover him well up to the throat let him sweat so long as he is able and when he cometh forth of the bath take care he taketh no cold but carefully put him into a warm bed E. For pains in the Eyes REcipe brown Fennel white Rose-leaves or other Rose-leaves Rue Vervain Celandine and Eyebright ana p. ae distill it and keep the water in a Violl For sore Eyes by salt Rheum Pound Housleek M i. in a morter and take the juyce strained through a linnen cloth put it in a new laid eggshel and put a quantity of white Sugar-candie to sweeten it Set the Egg over some Embers and let it stand and as the scum ariseth take it off with a feather and being clear take it off the fire and when it is cold wash your eyes herewith ever and anon Mr. Nepier commendeth Rulandi aqua opthalmica to bee the best for sore eyes Pin and Web of all waters To clear the Eye-sight â„ž Rain water of the clearest you can get one gallon let it settle and clear by it self at least one day and night and after put it into a fair bason of earth glased or of silver then put thereto of Roch Allom the bigness of a Pigeons Egg and and a quarter of as much white Coperas and let them stand 24 houres well covered then scum it clean with a feather
Probatum A powder for the Flux â„ž Half ripe Blackberries dry them and make them into powder give the Patient a draught thereof in a little Tent or old red Wine in the morning and evening for five dayes if the Flux continue A Glister â„ž A quart of new Milk from the Cow and put three or four gads of Steel into the fire red hot and quench them in the Milk till half the Milk be consumed then take the weight of eight pence of Deeres suet and stamp it into the Milk and mix it well together and put it in a boulter bag warm this you may use four or five times if need require For Morphew or Scurf of face or Skin â„ž Of Brimstone beaten into powder two ounces mix it well with as much black Sope that stinketh and tie the same in a linnen cloth and let the same hang in a pint of strong wine Vinegar or red Rose Vinegar for the space of nine dayes then wash any kind of Scurfe or Morphew either in face or body dipping a cloth in the same Vinegar and rubbing the face or body therewith and let it dry by it self also drink the water of Strawberries distilled or tincture of Strawberries it certainly killeth Morphew or Scurfe Probat To blanch the Face â„ž The meat of Lemons having taken away the kernels and a quantity of fine pure Sugar still these and keep the water to wash your face with every night To smooth the Skin Mixe Capons grease with a quantitie of Sugar let it stand for a few dayes close covered and it will turn to a cleer oyle with which annoint your face Morphew and Freckles Annoint the face with the bloud of a Hare or Bull this will take away Morphew and Freckles and smooth the skin G. For the Gout or Ache in the joynts knobs or knots in the flesh Probat REcipe Of May Butter four ounces of Cummin seed beaten into fine pouder half a pound of black sope four ounces of Rue M. i of clarified Mutton M. ss stamp these in a morter together and put to it an Oxe gall and a spoonfull of Bay salt and fry them together till it be thick then lay it on a woollen cloth and apply it hot to the ach as may be suffered and let it lye a whole week unremoved Then lay on another as long a time and so lay on a third plaister as long which will be three weeks in the whole time and this will give ease For Gout or Bone-ach Take of the best Aqua vitae one penniworth and another of oyle of Bayes mix them well together and annoint the place grieved therewith by the fire warm the ointment by the fire and then chafe the place till it be dryed in then cloth it up warm Probat For the Gout or Joynt-ach â„ž The juyce of Sage of Aqua vitae of oyle of Bayes of Vinegar and Mustard and of Oxe gall ana p. ae put altogether into a bladder and chafe it up and down with your hand for the space of an hour and half and keep it for your use and annoint the grieved place with it morning and evening For the Gout Stamp well lb iii. of Wallwort then melt ten pound of May Butter and put it thereto and let it stand nine dayes together then boyle them half an hour over a soft fire then strein it and annoint the grieved place For Gout or Bone-ach Annoint the place grieved with very good Aqua composâ—â—â— by the fire and let the same drinke in doe this three or four times and whilst it is wet cast upon it pouder of Olibanum and sow a cloth thereon and let it lye on for four dayes Probat H. Hermes Tree FIrst grinde to an Amalgame one ounce of Mercurie with one ounce of clear spring-Spring-water then put a round viall glasse half full of Rose water or cleer spring water then put therein your aforesaid Amalgame then drop therein one drop of the best Aqua fortis that can be gotten and after a quarter of an hour another drop and so every quarter of an hour one drop till you have dropt therein ten or twelve drops then with a very gentle heat on sand or hot embers vapour the water away softly and a brave tree of silver shall grow in the glasse to your admiration I. A Plaister to help any Stitch or Imposthume wheresoever REcipe The roots of Hollihocks washed clean and cut in peeces M. i. seeth them in fair water untill the roots bee tender then take out the roots and put into the water of Fenugreek and Linseed ana M. i. being first stamped or bruised and seeth them together in the water untill the water rope like birdlime then stamp the Hollihock roots before boyled and put them to the Fenugreek and Linseed with a handfull of Barlie meal and fry them together and if need be put to some Sheeps suet and lay a plaister thereof to the sore as hot as may be suffered Let it lye twelve hours at least and then lay another to it and within nine plaisters it will work the full effect It dissolveth the Plurifie also in applying of three Plaisters For an Imposthume of the Stomack Whosoever shall dayly take in a draught of Ale or Beer a spoonful of the pouder of Matfelon or Scabios it will destroy any Imposthume within him Probat A good Oyle to bring in joynts which have been out seven years to give strength to veins and sinnews and to keep them brought in in their places You must first bathe the place throughly that is out for three or four dayes with Oyle of Cammomil then against the Patient goeth to bed you must have two Neats feet or so many of them as may cover the dislocation with the peelings round about then lay the insides of the feet in thick and broad flakes to the place as hot as the party can indure it and in the morning remove them and after with it annoint the place and the flakes aforesaid with Oyle of Cammomil and then apply fresh peelings This for certain hath brought in joynt that which hath been out of joynt six years and giveth strength to the veins and sinnews and will keep the joynts in their first place and the effect will appear in three or four dressings For the Black Jaundies Spread Wheat-straw abroad upon a clean floor in a close house and put in Geese and watch them when they dung take their dung up with a knife and scrape away the white about the dung untill you have a good quantity of it then dry this in an Oven make pouder thereof and drinke of it morning and evening warmed in Ale and it will cure both the black and yellow Jaundies 2. Dry the gall of a Raven and grate it into powder and take a quantity of it in a spoon temper it with Beer or Ale and drinke this fasting three mornings together Or take nine or ten seeds of Hemp doe away the husks and bruise
them and put them in Ale and drinke this fasting for eight or nine dayes For the black Jaundies â„ž Of Hearb Ambrose Betony Mugwort ana M. i. three or four Dock roots clean pickt washt and scraped stamp all these together in a Morter till they be beaten indifferent small then take Spicknard Turmerick and Gallingal ana p. ae stamp them in a Morter likewise then put the Hearbs into a clean cloth by themselves and tie them fast with strings and hang them in a gallon or two of good Ale newly ready to be tunned up and after three or four dayes drink a good draught thereof every morning next to your heart and fast after it three houres and doe so the like when you goe to bed To make Hartshorn Jelly â„ž Two ounces of Hartshorn being small rasped and a pint of fair water one Nutmeg sliced one race of Ginger a branch of Rosemary boyle all these together in an earthen Pipkin over a soft fire till it be very clammy then strain it into a Bason and put to it Rosewater and Sugar For the yellow Jaundies â„ž Celandine English Saffron and powder of Ivory seeth them in white Wine and drink thereof eight or nine dayes mane vesperi 2. â„ž The Urine of the Patient and drink it with the juyce of Horehound 3. Seeth the juyce of Cammomill Morrell and Mouseare in white Wine twice and drink of it fasting For the yellow Jaundies â„ž The pap of a roasted Pippin and put as much powder of Saffron as will lye on a penny and twice as much Harts-horn finely scraped mingle them well together and give the Patient three mornings together the quantity of a Nutmeg and as much at going to bed 2. â„ž Of the inner rind of Barberry bark and Goose dung that feeds on grasse and wash the white of it and a little Saffron steep these in Ale and let the Patient drink it in the morning fasting 3. â„ž Of red Nettle-tops M. i. seeth them in a pint of Ale and drink the same four or five mornings together 4. â„ž Alicant or hard Spanish Sope and a little stale Ale in a Cup rub the Sope against the bottome of the Cup till the Ale be white then shave a little Ivory and let the Patient drink of this first and last till he be recovered Also take Celandine leaves and put them into your Stockings next to your feet 5. Put a good handfull of Celandine leaves into a quart of white Wine boyle them to a pint in the winter use the roots and drink thereof morning and evening 6. Cut out the core of a good big Apple put into the place some sweet Butter a little Turmerick and English Saffron cover it with the top you cut off rost it tender and let the sick eat of this three or four mornings together 7. â„ž One pennyworth of Turmerick of the middle rind of the Barberry bark M. ii of Celandine M. i. seeth the Celandine and the bark in Ale-wort putting to it a gallon of new Ale at the tunning and when it hath stood two nights draw it at the spicket and warm it with a gad of fine Steel and put to it the powder of the Turmerick and drink of it first and last 8. â„ž The juyce of Liverwort and the scrapings of Ivory and of Saffron as much as you shall think fit of French Sope as much as a Chestnut bind them all in the corner of a linnen cloth and swinge them up and down in fair water till all the vertue be gone into the water and give the Patient to drink of it L. For a lame Leg. REcipe Aqua composita and oyle of Roses ana p. a. mix them together well and annoint the greived place with it morning and evening but let the Patient first be well rub'd with a warm cloth Probatum For the same â„ž Oyle of Exeter oyle Olive and Aqua vitae and Beasts gall ana p. ae Mix them all well together and annoint the lame leg therewith twice every morning and evening for the space of a fortnight but alwayes use to rub the place first very well with warm clothes For chopt Lips Rub them with your sweat behind your eares and this will make them smooth and well coloured A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs and Consumption â„ž Of Earth-wormes two pound in a May morning those with black heads are best you may gather enough put these in white Wine for three or four houres then slit and wash them in the same Wine and in another Wine and lay them in an earthen pan on straw or sticks laid a crosse and put them into an Oven after the bread is drawn and so use them till they be so dry that you may pownd them then searce it and beat it again till it be as fine as flower then keep it for your use which you must take twice a day in the morning when you wake and at four in the afternoon as much as will lye on sixpence or eightpence take it in a spoonfull of warm Broth or mulled Sack or Mace Ale and drink a pretty draught of the Broth to wash it down if you take it in mulled Sack or Mace Ale take not above four spoonfuls use this for a moneth but be carefull of taking cold To make a Laxative Whey â„ž One pound and a half of clarified Whey Sena half an ounce four penny weight of Anniseseeds of Hops half a handfull of Borrage and Buglosse ana half a handfull Fumitory p. i. seeth all these in the clarified Whey untill half be consumed drink of it two mornings together A good Laxative for a Child â„ž Of Violets three handfuls if you cannot get them as much of the leaves seeth them in running water from a pottle to a quart then take of Almonds one pound stamp them small and temper them with the water and make an Almond Milk of it and let the child eat and drink of the Milk and also if need require of the water by it self with a little Sugar To cause Loosenesse â„ž Coloquintida and mix it with Honey and Bulls Gall then apply this plaister-wise to the belly and this will doe it Also take Wool or Silk and dip it in the juyce of Sowbread roots and Wine and use it as you use a Suppository For a costive by burnt Choller â„ž Of Mallowes Mints Wormwood and Violet leaves ana half a handfull seeth these in the water of the sick and when they are well sodden presse out the water from the Hearbs and stamp the Hearbs in a Morter and fry them in May Butter or fresh Grease and make a plaister of it and apply it warm unto the belly and change it once a day For Rheume procuring a Cough of the Lungs â„ž A quarter of a pint of good Sack of Elacampane roots half an ounce as much Licorice powder them very finely of the best refined Sugar half a pound boyle them together till they rope in nature of a
to of Ginger â„¥ ss of Nutmegs thirty two a penniworth of long Pepper grossely bruised into the Wine and let it boil one walm then take it off and strein it then put into it a penniworth of Mithridate two penniworth of London Triacle and a quarter of a pint of Angelica water drinke one spoonfull of this every morning fasting one hour after but if the partie be infected then let him drinke two spoonfuls and sweat upon it For the shaking Palsie Take of Cloves two or three ounces as much of Nutmegs pouder them small and mixe them with oyle of Lavender to make them fit for a plaister spread it on Leather and lay it to the nape of the neck and wrists of the hands Or as I have proved Take three penniworth of London Triacle a pennie pot of Neat oyle a pennie pot of Sherrie Sack mix these three things together well and eat a spoonfull or two every morning fasting and at any time of the day after this once or twice a day if you please take a spoonfull or eat it upon new white bread This will help the shaking Palsie and trembling of the heart and make a man cheerfull and merrie Probatum I had the shaking Palsie by working in Mercurie no man more and this in fourteen dayes cured me God be praised Another Steep Mugwort in Rosewater wash the hands therewith and it will cure their shaking and trembling To restore lost Speech Lay a thin peece of raw Beef to the forehead of them that have lost their voice and let it lye one all night To restore speech to an Apoplectick Beat the Kernels of Peach stones together into pouder and give the Patient a good draught thereof in Rennish Wine A Restorative Electuary Take of great Raisins cleansed from their stones lb ii of Licorice scraped and bruised â„¥ i. put these in lb ii ss of cleer water seeth them well and strein them and put into their streining of Mirabolans Hebal Citrine and Indic cleered from their stones ana â„¥ ii of Emblick and Bellerick anaÊ’ ii boyl them presse and strain them then put thereto of pure Sugar lb i. and when they are boyled up to the thickness of a Sirrup adde in the end of choice Cinnamon â„¥ ss Cloves and Galingal anaÊ’ ii of Nutmegs num ii of Fennel and Annise-seed anaÊ’ i. Make it into an Electuarie and put it up into a clean Box agreeable to the complexion of the Patient that shall use it as for the spleen in a Tamarisk or Ash boxe or Juniper for flegmatick persons and so accordingly of others In this Electuary are Medicines for principal Members viz. the Heart the Head Stomack Liver Spleen and Generative parts It is first hot then moist after cold and last dry This Medicine was invented by Arnoldus de villa nova for hindering old age conservation of health prolongation of life it not onely comforteth but purgeth superfluities remaining from the nourishment past keepeth back gray haires strengthneth the stomack and giveth a good colour to the whole body A Restorative good in all diseases Take Elder flours the Eve of S. John Baptist at Midsummer according to the Planet which is Jupiter or according to the Sun diall at twelve a clock Dry these in the East stamp and pouder them then take Borage water and put into it seven or nine grains of the Pissle of a Deer dryed and grated to pouder with a spoonfull of the pouder of the flouers aforesaid Infuse them for 12 houres in three or four ounces of the water for the Patient to drinke for 15. dayes together It restoreth old age and strengthneth the back In fine this is miraculous for all diseases For the Rickets Take of cream two pound and boil it to an oyle or take of unsalted Butter lb ii take three or four good handfulls of Cammomil mince it small and put it into the oyle or Butter and let it boil on a soft fire till the hearbs become crispe and that it be very bitter then strein it and annoint the childs sides downwards and the bottome of the belly and thighes morning and evening Also to give the child thrice a day half a dosen spoonfuls of Harts-tongue water in which you have steped seven or eight Cloves and some brown Sugar Candie to sweeten it If the child mend not with this â„ž Of shoomakers shreds two or three M. boil them in fair water and take off the oyle and annoint the child as before prescribed If the child be not weaned you must wean it otherwise no Medicine will recover it Also you must carry it as little as you can in your armes but when you doe be stirring it and make it try to use the legs if it be of that bignesse Doctor Vanhecks Rosa Vitae â„ž Mercurie sublimate sublimed with â„¥ iv of Roman or Danisk Vittriol Antimonie crude â„¥ ii grinde them well together an hour and half retort these with sand half way up the body of the glasse with a gentle fire five houres and then increase the fire by degrees till with a good fire red begins to come into an Urinal half full of water which precipitates that which is distilled out into a snow white pouder which pouder wash three or four times with fair water till the sharpness be gone Then make an extract of Zedoarie Cinnamon and Galingale ana Ê’ i. and red Sanders Ê’ ii with spirit of Wine â„¥ vi mingle this Extract with â„¥ i. of the foresaid white pouder and grinde them together well and it will dry it self into a red pouder It is given for the French Pox about four grains in the pap of an Apple with butter this will give some five or six vomits It also helpeth Agues and Fevers Dropsie and divers other diseases and is constantly sold for three shillings four pence the dose Probat per me T. S. S A Sear-cloth for divers causes REcipe Of Oyle olive lb i. ss red Lead lb i ss of white Lead lb i. Castile Sope â„¥ iiii Oyle of Bayes â„¥ ii Put your Oyle olive in a Pipkin and put thereto your Oyle of Bayes and the Castile Sope. Seeth these over a gentle fire of Embers till it be well mingled and melted together then strew a little red lead and white being mingled together in pouder still stirring it with a great spatter of wood and so strew in more of your Lead by little and little till all be in stirring it still by the bottome to keep it from burning for an hour and half together then make the fire somewhat bigger till the redness be turned into a gray colour But you must not leave stirring it till the matter be turned into a perfect black colour as Pitch then drop a little upon a wooden trencher and if it cleave not to the trencher nor your finger it is enough Then take long linnen clothes and dip them therein and make your Sear-cloths thereof they will keep 20 yeares let your pouder of your
Lead be searsed very fine and shred the Sope small The Vertues of this Sear-cloth are Being laid to the Stomack it doth provoke appetite and taketh away any pain in the stomack being laid to the Belly it is a present remedie for the Collick Being laid to the back it is a present remedie for the Flux and running of the Reins heat of the Kidnies and weakness of the Back It helpeth all swellings and bruises and taketh away Aches It breaketh Felons and other imposthumes and healeth them It draweth out any running humour and helpeth him without breaking of the skin and being applyed to the Fundament helpeth any disease there It helpeth all old Sores and will be made in six houres For the Stone â„ž The Clawes of a brown Pionie root and the root and Jet Beads ana p. ae dry the clawes and roots and pouder them and the jet also very finely then mingle them and in Ale or White wine drinke a little of the pouder 2. Peel a red Onyon slice him and put him into a pint of good white Wine let him lye six houres then strein it and drinke of it twice in a fit and it will expell the stone For Stone Strangurie and Collick Take the inner rinde of the young branches of a Hasell tree boyle them in small Ale till half be consumed and let him that hath the Strangurie drink half of it at a draught let the Patient drink a draught of it first and last for nine dayes together for it never fails For the Stone in the Bladder â„ž Of Turpentine â„¥ iiii and burn it to pouder then mix two drachms thereof with four ounces of Saxifrage water and give it twice a week in the morning to the Patient and this will not onely preserve him from the stone but drive it out if any use this but two moneths Probat 2. Stamp two Bees in Beer and drinke it and it will cause Urine to come To break and drive out the Stone â„ž The juyce or water strained out of Raddish roots mixe it with White wine and the pouder of Turpentine dryed in the Sun and so drinke This is an excellent Medicine to drive out the stone To cause Vrine and break the Stone Take Parsely and stamp it in White wine then strain it well and drinke a good draught thereof and this will cause you to make water and break the stone but you must use this five or six times Probat â„ž Pouder of Brionie berries and drink it in water wherein Water-cresses have been boyled and it will both help you and give you ease For the Stone â„ž The bloud of two Hares as much Sheeps or Goats milk mingle them well together and boil them in a new pot to a coal beat it to pouder and searce it finely and give the Patient hereof a good quantity in a little fountain water luke-warm this will break the stone to dust and make it come away To try this put the stone into it with a little water bloud-warm and in half an hour it will dissolve it into peeces 2. Take five Cloves of Garlick and stamp and strain them in a draught of Rhennish wine and so drink it This being taken three times together is a sure Remedie For the Stone in Reins and Bladder 1. Scrape Sea-horse pissle to pouder and drinke thereof every morning with white wine and a little oyle of Almonds and this will cure the stone of the Kidnies and Bladder being given four ounces at a draught 2. Pouder of Manati which is a stone growing in a Sea-cows head being exhibited in the aforesaid manner will doe the like The white for the man and the yellow for the woman 3. â„ž Spikenard Carraway Fennel Annise and Cummin-seeds Cinnamon and Galingale ana â„¥ ss Gromwell seed and Liquorice ana â„¥ i. beat them all into pouder and take half a spoonful of this pouder in Ale or Beer warmed and after walk an hour before you eat or drinke doe this four or five times and you shall finde a notable operation A Posset for the Stone Make a Posset very thinne and clear with a quart of Milk and put into it eight or ten roots of Althea and two Parsly roots having their pithes taken out and two Asparagus roots picked and washed clean so that no durt be on it and let them boyle well in the Milk-Posset then strain it clean and let the Patient drink a good draught put into it as much Sal prunellae as will make it somewhat Brackish this is a safe and admirable Medicine 2. â„ž The braines of a Magpy newly killed and put it into a wine Glasse of white Wine and stir it well till it be throughly mixed and then drink it and this will presently cause Urine and ease the pain For the Spleen Seeth the rindes and keyes of an Ash tree very tender and well in white Wine and drink a good draught thereof for six or seven mornings together it doth much ease the Patient when you drink this annoint the Spleen with Dialthea every morning and evening applying Emplastrum de Meliloto pro Splene to the place Probat Another Put of oyle of Gold one drachm into half a pound of Annise seed-water shake it well together every time you take of it and take a spoonful at a time and it will help you Probat Heat a pair of Tongs six times red hot and quench them in white Wine drink this nine mornings together and this will help the Spleen For Swelling of Armes Legs and Feet â„ž Linseed Wheat Bran Brooklime Chickweed and Groundsel ana one handful seeth them in a pottle of white Wine altogether till it be thick then lay a plaister thereof to the swollen place as hot as you can suffer it and it will help it with three or four plaisters For Sinewes and Nerves cut asunder â„ž Of Earth-wormes one handful put them in a cloth and cleanse them well from the earth that done take Sack half a pound and of Sallade oyle half a pound mix them together and infuse the Wormes in this untill they be suffocated then stop the pot very close and lute it well and set the pot in hot horse-dung for eight and forty houres till the Wormes be rotten then take them out and presse them and adde thereto of common Oyle half an ounce of Venice Turpentine two drachms then relute your pot and set it on a soft fire for three or four houres For Bruises or streined Sinewes 1. Annoint the place greived with Aqua composita and Neat-foot oyle luke-warm laying hot clothes thereon 2. Stamp live Earth-wormes and apply them to Sinewes cut For shrinking of Sinewes â„ž Two Swallowes nests that are ready to fly of Lavender Cotton the tops of young Thyme the strings that run out of Strawberries Cammomil and Hollihock leaves ana one handful stamp the Swallowes quick and the Hearbs together till no feathers be seen then put thereto of May Butter one pound or two and stamp it again
running the better it will be and at length heal it up as other Ulcers are cured Now so soon as you have applyed the Vesicatory you must presently epithemate the botch with this Epithemation Epithemation Take Mallowes Violets Cammomill Dill and Mellilot ana M. i. Hollehock roots three ounces Lin-seed one ounce and a half Boile all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill halfe the water be consumed in this decoction you must wet some unwashed Wooll or Flax made clean and well beaten then being wrung out a little apply it warm to the place and renue it every hour during the time that the Vesicatory is in working and when you have opened the blister that is made thereby then onely apply this Cataplasme to the botch it self Take Mallowes Violets and Cammomill floures of either one handfull Boil them in water untill they be tender then cut them very small with a shreading knife and add thereto Oil of Cammomill and Lillies of either two ounces Barrowes mort two ounces Wax one ounce Mâ—lt the Wax in the Oiles and then put it to the Hearbs and boile them together a little then take it from the fire and adde thereto Barly and Bean flower a handfull of either of them and so mix them altogether and apply it to the greif renuing it twice a day which within three or four dayes will resolve and discusse the botch but if it doe it not by that time then use all the meanes you can to bring it to supparation as before is sufficiently shewed you CHAP. VIII Sheweth how to know a Carbunkle or blain as also the cure of the same THe Carbunkle or blain doth first begin with a little Pustula or wheal and sometime with divers Pustulaes or wheales together with a great burning and pricking pain in the place which Pustulaes are like a scalding bladder seeming to be full of water or matter yet when you open it little or nothing will come out of it and when they are broken will grow to a hard crust or scarre as if it had been burnt with a hot Iron or Caustick with a great ponderosity or heavinesse in the place In some it comes in the beginning without any Pustula at all to be perceived but with a hard black crust or a scarre sometimes it lyeth hidden in the inward parts without any outward appearance at all as if it be in the lungs then there is a difficulty of breathing with a Cough and foul spitting If it be in the Liver or Spleen then the party feeleth a great pain and pricking in the same side if in the Kidneyes or Bladder it doth chance then is there suppression or stopping of the Urine or great pain in the making of water if it be in the Brain then a delirium followeth but howsoever it chance to come the party infected therewith hath a Fever with other accidents as before in the 13. Chapter of the first Treatise is declared if it begin with a green black or blew colour or of divers colours like the Rainbow then is it a deadly signe and so is it if once it appear and then suddenly vanish away but if it be red or yellowish so it be not in any of the principall parts or emunctuaries of the body as the heart stomack armpit flanke jawes or throat then it is laudable otherwise in any of these places very desperate and dangerous to be cured but wheresoever it doth chance unlesse it may be brought to suppuration it is deadly The cure of the Carbunkle First the Universall means must not be neglected as bloud-letting cordials epithemations sweet and gentle evacuation by purging as the time and cause requireth which before in the beginning of this Treatise hath been shewed at large and the same order which is used for the cure of a Botch is also to be kept in the cure of a Carbunkle and to rectifie the ayre of the house by strewing it with vine and willow leaves red Roses and such like as also to sprinkle the floor with Rose water and Vinegar and cause the sick oftentimes to smell unto a cloth wet in Rosewater and Vinegar is very good these things being done then use all the means you can to bring it to Suppuration for which purpose this Cataplasm following is very good A Maturative Cataplasm Take Fat Figs â„¥ iiii Mustard seed â„¥ i. ss Pound the seed small by it self the Figs must first be cut very small and then pounded likewise and then adde thereto so much Oyle of Lillies as will suffice to make it in the form of a stiffe Pultis and apply it warm renuing it twice a day this must be continued untill the scar begin to grow loose and moveable and then apply this following to remove the scar Take unsalted butter the yolk of an Egg and wheat flour mix them together and apply it untill the scar doe fall away then doe you mundifie it with this mundificative Mundificative annodine Take clear Turpentine â„¥ iiii Sirrup of red Roses â„¥ i. Honie of Roses Ê’ iiii Boil them altogether a little then take it from the fire and add thereto Barlie and wheat flour of each Ê’ vi the yolk of a new laid Egg and mix them altogether and apply it three dayes and then use this following Another Mundificative Take clear Turpentine â„¥ iii. Honie of Roses â„¥ ii Juice of Smallege â„¥ ii Barlie flowre â„¥ i. ss Boil them altogether saving the Barlie untill the Juice be consumed then take it from the fire and when it is almost cold adde the Barlie thereto and mixe them together and use thereof to the grief untill it be clean mundified and then incarnate it with Vnguentum Basilicon and lastly sigillate it with Vnguentum de cerusa decocted Sometime you shall find a little pustule to appear without any elevation of the parts adjoyning or outward hardnesse Now here to bring it outwardly you must apply this Cataplasm Take Lillie roots Onyons and sour Leaven of either one ounce Boil them in water untill the water be consumed then bruise them in a morter and add thereto Mustard seed Culver-dung White Sope anaÊ’ i. ss Snails without shels vi in number Mithridate Triacle ana half a drachm Yolks of four Eggs. Mix all these together and apply it warm to the grief renuing it thrice a day this order must be continued untill you see the place elevated tending to suppuration then apply a Maturative and so proceed as next before this is shewed you and during the whole time of the cure I hold it better to use rather Poultises then plaisters because they do not so much stop the Pores but give more scope for the venemous matter to breath out When the Carbuncle doth come with great pain and inflammation how to help it You must first bath and soke the place well with this bag following and then presently apply the Cataplasm ensuing for by this means you shall not onely ease the pain and abate the
you must have a speciall care to preserve the eyes eares nostrels throat and lungs that they be not hurt or offended therewith as hereafter shall be shewed you which you must use before he sweat and also in the sweat if need be Eyes how to preserve them â„ž Rose-water Plantaine-water of either two ounces Sumack two drachms Let them boyle together a little or stand infused a night then mixe therewith half a spoonfull of the oyle made of the white of an Egg then wet two clothes five or six double therein then lay them upon either eye cold which must bee alwaies kept upon the eyes untill the Pox be all come forth and as they grow dry wet them in the same liquor againe and apply them but if there be great pain and burning within the eye then must you also put a drop of this musselage following into the eye take quinse-seed half a drachm bruise it a little then let it stand infused in three ounces of rose-Rose-water a whole night then strein it and put one drop thereof into the eye three or four times a day at least or take of this water â„ž Rose-water â„¥ ii Womans milk â„¥ i. Myrrh finely powdered six graines Mixe them together and use it in the eye as before is shewed this doth ease the paine resisteth putrefication and preserveth the sight For the eares you must put a drop of oyle of Roses warm into them before he sweat For the no strels cause him oftentimes to smell to the vapour of Rose-vinegar or else Vinegar red-roses and Sanders boyled together For the throate let him alwaies hold a peice of white sugar-candy in the mouth and as it melteth swallow it down For the Lunges give the sick oftenimes some sirrup of quinses or conserve of Roses a little at a time And for his drink the decocted water of barley boyled with a little licorice is best being mixed with the juice of a Lemon Citron Pomegranate or Rybes which the sick best liketh for either of them is very good And for his diet he must refrain from all salt fat thick and sharp meats and from all sweet things either in meat or drink his meat must be of a facile and easie digestion and that hath a cooling property in it as broth wherein burrage bugloss sorrell and such like are boyled and for ordinary drink small beer or ale is best CHAP IIII. Teacheth what is to be done when the Pox or Measels are flow in coming forth NOw when you perceive the Pox or Measels are slow and slack in comming forth then must you help nature with cordials and by sweat to thrust it out from the interior and principall parts unto which purpose I have alwaies found this drink to be excellent good here following â„ž Hordei mund M. i. Lentium excort P. i. Ficuum No. x. Fol. capil v. Lactucae ana M. ss Fol. acetosae M. i. Florum cord P. i. Semen fenic Ê’ ii Semen 4. frigid ma. anaÊ’ ss Aqua font lb. iiii Boyle all these together untill a third part of the water be consumed and then strein it â„ž Decoct col lb. i. Succus granatorum vel ribes â„¥ iiii Mix all these together and give the sick four or six ounces thereof to drink every morning and evening which will provoke sweat and expell the disease and if you cannot get the juice of Pomegranats nor Rybes then you may take so much of the sirrup of either of them Another good drink to expell the Pox or Measels Take a quart of posset-ale a handfull of Fennell seed boyle them together till a third part be consumed then strein it and add thereto one drachm of Triacle and one scruple of Saffron in powder mix them together and give two three or four ounces thereof to drink every morning and evening as cause requireth But if it be for a strong and elderly body you may give any of the expelling electuaries which are used to expell the Plague as in the first Chapter for the curing of the Plague doth appear But if the sick be so weak that he cannot expell the disease in convenient time then it is good to epithemate the heart with this epithemation following Epithemation for the heart â„ž Aquarum ros Melissae Card. b. Buglos Morsus diaboli vini alb ana â„¥ iiii Aceti Ros â„¥ ii ss Pul. Ros rub Trium santal Cinamoni Elect. diamarg. frigid ana Ê’ ss Mithridati â„¥ i. Theriacae Ê’ iiii Mix all these together and let them boyle a little and so warm Epithemate the heart and when you have done it then give some expulsive drink or electuary as cause requireth and then cause him to sweat upon it for by this meanes you shall obtaine your desire by Gods permission Thirst how to quench it Now if in the expelling of the pox the sick be very thirsty and dry then give this Julep to drink morning and evening which I have found very good â„ž Sirrup of Jujubes Nenuphare and Burrage of either four drachms Water of Burrage Cichore and Bugloss of either two ounces Mix them together and give the sick one half thereof in the morning and the rest at night and cause him oftentimes to lick of this mixture following Take the conserves of Nenuphare Violets and Burrage of either six drachms Manus Christi made with Perles four drachms Sirrup of Nenuphare and Ribes of either one ounce and half Mix them together and with a Licorice stick clean scrap'd and a little bruised in the end let the sick lick thereof CHAP. V. Sheweth what is to be done when the Pox are all come out in the skinne FOr that oftentimes the face and hands which is the beauty and delight of our bodies are oftentimes disfigured thereby I will shew you what meanes I have used with good and happy successe for preventing thereof which is you may not do any thing unto them untill they grow white and that they are come to maturation which when you perceive then with a golden pinne or needle or for lack thereof a copper pinne will serve do you open every pustulae in the top and so thrust out the matter therein very softly and gently with a soft linnen cloth and if you perceive the places do fill againe then open them againe as you did first for if you do suffer the matter which is in them toremain over long then will it fret and corrode the flesh which is the cause of those pitts which remaine after the Pox are gone as Avicen witnesseth now when you have thus done then annoint the places with this oyntment following Take Elder leaves one handfull Marigolds two handfulls French Mallowes one handfull Barrowes morte or grease six ounces First bruise the hearb in a morter and then boyle them with the grease in a pewter dish on a chafer and coales untill the juice of the hearbs be consumed then strein it and keep it to your use the best time to make it is in the middle or
this water following Take Vine leaves two handfuls Beane-flower Dragons wilde-tansey of either one handfull Camphire three drachms two Calves feet the pulpe of three Lemons a pint of raw cream You must shred the hearbs small as also the Lemons and break and cut the Calves-feet small then mix them together and distill it in a glasse still also the water of May-dew is excellent good for any high colour or rednesse of the face For spots in the face remaining when the Pox are gone Take the juice of Lemons and mix it with a little bay-salt and touch the spots therewith oftentimes in the day for it is excellent good A good ointment for the same purpose Take oyle of sweet Almonds oyle of white Lillies of either one ounce Capons-grease Goats-tallow of either four drachms Sarcocoll half a drachm Flower of Rice and of Lupins of either one drachm Litharge of gold one drachm and half Roots of Brionie and of Ireos of either one scruple Sugar-candy white one drachm Make powder of all those that may be brought into powder and searce them through a searce then put them all in a morter together and labour them with a pestle and in the working do you put the water of Roses Beane-flower and of white Lillies ana a great spoonfull which must be put in by little and little in the working of it and so labour them altogether untill it come to an unguent You must every evening annoint the face therewith or hands and in the morning wash it away in the water wherein Barley Wheaten-bran and the seed of Mallowes hath been boyled For holes remaining when the small Pox are gone For helping of this accident I have shewed many things yet never could find any thing that did perfectly content me but the best meanes that I have tried is one day to wash the place with the distilled water of strong Vinegar and the next day with the water wherein Bran and Mallowes have been boyled and continue this order twenty daies or a moneth together Running of the eares how to help it Sometimes the eares do run very much in this disease which in any wise you may not go about to stop in the beginning but suffer it so to run and the eares to remaine open but if there be great pain in them then wet a spunge in warm water and oyle of Roses mixt together and lay it upon the eares For stopping of the nostrills to help it Sometimes the nostrills are greatly pestered by stopping them with the Pox growing in them which doth oftentimes cause ulceration in them therefore to prevent the same take red-Rose and Plantaine of either one handfull Mirrh in powder half an ounce Boyle all these in a quart of water untill half be consumed and so being warm cause the sick to draw the fume thereof into his nostrills oftentimes Also if the sick doth oftentimes smell unto Vinegar it is good For hoarsenesse remaining when the Pox are gone Take Licorice Sebesten Jujubes of either two ounces Fat-Figgs four ounces clean water four pints Boyl all these together untill half be consumed then strain it and give one spoonfull thereof to the sick oftentimes and it helpeth For filthy and moist scabs after the Pox are gone Take Lapis calaminaris Litharge of gold and of silver of either two drachms Quick brâ—mstone and Ceruse anaÊ’ ii Bring all these into fine powder and then labour them in a morter with so much Barrowes-mort or grease as shall be sufficient to make up an unguent and annoint the place therewith every morning and evening FINIS Some other few additionall observations concerning the passages in this latter Treatise PAge the eighth of this precedent Book a Quilt or Bag is commended to be very excellent it is reported to be Pope Adrians Bag which he used against infection and in the great last Sicknesse in London it was commended to many great Persons of worth by some Apothecaries who kept it as a great secret and affirmed it would prevent infection and preserve them safe in that dangerous time and thereupon sold it unto them at a very great rate But that you may not be deluded in the prescription I have set down the true receit thereof as it was delivered unto me from the hands of a very noble friend A Preservative against the infection of the air and the Plague often approved by Pope Adrian and many others of great rank and credit Take Arsenick two ounces Auripigmentum one ounce make little tablets thereof with the whites of Eggs and Gum Dragacanth and hang them about the neck against the heart I have also set down a red Cordiall water very good against infection which I had also from that noble friend Take a quart of good spirit of Wine or very good Aqua-vitae infuse it in one ounce of good Mithridate with as much good Venice Triacle let it be close stopped some few dayes in the infusion before you use it then pour the spirit clear off and reserve it for your use But to discover what opinions other Phisitians have held of that and the like I have annexed hereunto their severall judgements hereafter that amongst so many choise Medicines they may select out the best and safest for their own preservations when need shall require And to give them the better satisfaction I have annexed out of some choise Manuscripts some approved Experiments of some of our London ablest Doctors as also out of some other Authors Severall opinions against wearing of Arsenick Amulets as Preservatives against the Plague THe poysonous vapours of Arsenick being sucked or drawn into the body when they find no contrary poyson with whom to wrestle with as with an enemy for in an infected body there cannot be health but we suppose him to be well whom we desire to preserve so those vapours must needs imprint a malignant and venomous quality on the spirit and heart most adverse and pernitious to nature And by Galens own doctrine all Alexiteries doe in a manner if they be used too liberally greatly offend and weaken our bodies how can we then think that ranke Poysons and Dilaetories such us Arsenick is being applied as to penetrate into the noblest region of all other will no whit violate and wast our naturall vitall and radicall heat Galen libr. de simp cap. 18. Nor did Galen or any of the antient Fathers and Professors of Physick use to preserve from the Plague or any other poison by administring some other poison inwardly of prescribing outwardly Applications but proceeded by Antidotes and Alexiteries as will appear in libr de Theriaca ad Pis cap 16. Wherefore unlesse we will utterly disclaim or relinguish the method and prescripts of these worthy Antients and prosecute new wayes and inventions to oppose this man-yelling Monster we must attempt it not with Poysons but Antidotes And Galen defineth those to be Poysons which agree not with nature either well or ill affected at any time for though