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 araÊ’ 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 anaÊ’ iii. Red sanders Red corall Lignum aloes Rinde of a citron ana Ê’ i. Seeds of Basil Citrons anaÊ’ 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 â„¥ ii Sorrell water half a pint Juyce of Pomgranats and for lack thereof Vinegar â„¥ iiii Camphire Ê’ 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 â„¥ i. Juice of Limons â„¥ i. Sorrell water â„¥ 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 â„ž 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 â„ž 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 â„¥ 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 therâ— use all the means you câ—n 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 of 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 â—urrage Bugloss Pimpernell and a little
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 cancrâ—rum 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 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 Take of the best of Doctor Mountfords water ana â„¥ iiii Of very good Angelica water ana â„¥ iiii Of Clove water ana â„¥ iiii Of Rosemary water ana â„¥ iiii Of Balm water ana â„¥ iiii Of spirit of Saffron â„¥ ii 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 sevenninght 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
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 intoleâ—able 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 R. 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 sixpence 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 after dinner for seven or eight dayes For a Consumption â„ž Three sheeps hearts slit them and take out
Enula campana Angelâ—â—a Licorice of each half an ounce scraped and sliced therâ—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 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 be 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 fix 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
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-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-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 naviil 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 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 of each two pugils 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 Bgg 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 linne clothes dipped in distilled water of Acorns be put upon them But this I onely advise them which cannot nurse their own children And if swelling in their 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
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 ponder 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 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 Terra sigillata 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
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 Annise seeds 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 Sirrup then take hereof the quantity of a big Filbert mane vesperi and after as often as the Cough tickles you 2. Take Virgin Honey and old Conserve of red Roses ana p. ae mingle them well together and take at morning and night three Pills as big as a Nutmeg and keep warm after it A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs â„ž A pottle of spring water put into it of Oak leaves M. ss of Colts foot of Butter burr roots and leaves ana M. i. of S. Johns wort Mousear Maiden hair ana p. i. 3 or 4 Harts tongue leaves a little Liverwort 6 branches of Maiden Hysop 3 or 4 branches of Rosemary pick and wash all these clean 16 Figs slit in two Set this over the fire and let it boyl softly till half be consumed then take it off the fire and strein it and put into it of loaf Sugar lb ss and when it is melted put unto it six of seven drops of oyle of Sulphur and put it into a glasse and shake it well and drinke every morning eight spoonfulls which you must drink leasurably that it may the better fall on the Lungs about four of the clock in the afternoon you must take as much this will both cleanse and heal the Lungs and stop the coughing M A cooling Almond Milk TAke Lettice Spinage Succory Violets langde Beefe Endive and red Fennel ana half a handful three spoonful of Anniseseeds five whole Maces and one Nutmeg cut into peices seeth all these in a pottle of running water to a quart then blanch your skins and beat them with the cold seeds and so draw it with this decoction and put into it Sugar and Manus Christi to sweeten it N A Water to restore Nature TAke of good new Milk three pound of red Wine-one pound the yolkes of four and twenty new laid Eggs having their whites taken out beat the Eggs well with the Wine and Milk and put thereto as much fine Manchet as will almost suck up the liquour distil this with a soft fire take two or three spoonfuls of this usually in your broth two or three times a day this is rather to be used in Hectick Fevers then in other diseases because they are alwayes hot in the palmes of their hands and in the soles of their feet both after sleep and after meat which shew the consumption of the solid and fleshy parts of the body To restore Nature consumed Steep the yolkes of two new laid Eggs in six ounces of Vinegar six houres then take them out and with four Dates and a pint of Muskadine or Alicant make a Cawdle therewith as followeth Take of Rosewater one pound a pint of Muskadine boyle therein a dishful of the Pithes of an Oxe back clean pickt a large sawcer full of good Currans clean washt four yolkes of Eggs six Dates a stick of Cinnamon and a good Nutmeg make a Cawdle of this with Sugar and having so done strain it and drink thereof at morning fasting and at four in the afternoon it is singular good for a weak back and decaying of nature P For the French Pox. REcipe Of Lignum vitae lb i. of Sarsaparilla â„¥ v. of Sena Alexandrina â„¥ iv of Sassafras â„¥ iv of Bole Armon â„¥ i. of Chalk â„¥ i. of Hermodactilis â„¥ ii of French Barlie â„¥ ii bruised of long Pepper a half penniworth of Saffron one penniworth of London Triacle â„¥ i. Boil all these in four gallons of spring water till half be consumed when it is to be boyled put in the long Pepper Saffron London Triacle Bole Armoniack and the Hermodactilis What is to be pounded pound and what to be bruised bruise let it boil a good while after those Ingredients are put into the pot close stopped Then strain it and with the dregs you may make a smaller drinke for the Patient to drinke at meat or when he is dry but of the fomer drinke he must drinke â„¥ iiii thrice a day Viz. at eight of the clock in the morning at noon and at 10 at night He must eat dryed Bisket and great Raisins and his meat must be mutton dry roasted without Salt The party must also take this ensuing Purge twice before he drinke the drinke viz. six penniworth of Pulvis Sanctus with â„¥ i. of Sirrup of Roses solutive well mixed in lb ss of white Wine drinke it blood warm fasting two houres and then take some warm broth Another Two or three doses of Doctor Vanhocks Rosa
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 anniseseed-Anniseseed-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 plaister 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 to a salve and let it stand again close for seven dayes then seeth it the space of two houres with a quick fire stirring it still then strain it thorough a course cloth and annoint the joynts therewith or any other place where the Sinewes are shrunk and use often to stretch out the joynts and splint For Sinewes shrunk and to supple impotent Limbs â„ž Rosemary Thyme Parsly Hysop Bayes Sage Lavender Spike Lavender Cotton Balm Cammomil Roman Wormwood Brooklime Smallage Yarrow red Nettles Lovage Hearb Robert Plantain Rag-wort Vervain Adders-tongue Daises Nightshade Comfry Orpine Strawberry strings Violet leaves Walwort Amber leaves Southernwood Knot-grasse Vine tops Valerian Honisuckle leaves Polipodium of the Oak Dill Mallowes Perwinckle Rue of these one handful slice them a little and stamp them very small in a Morter with powder of Cloves bruised small put thereto oyle Olive and Neats-foot oyle so much that they may swim mixing them together set it on the fire till all the strength of the Hearbs be boyled out and take heed it doe not burn then strain out the Hearbs and clarifie it over the fire then put to it a little Wax to harden it withall this Ointment should be made between May and Bartholomewtide Probat To cure an old Sore â„ž Of fresh Butter one pound put it into a pot in the moneth of Aprill then take of Violets of Rosemary red Sage Buglosse Wormwood Broom Hysop Pennygrasse Vervain Selfeheal Hypericon and Speedwell ana one handful gather them as they be ready and put them into the pot with the Butter and set them into the Sun until Michaelmas then take it out of the pot and beat it in a Morter then make it up plaister-wise and reserve it for your use For the Scurvy Chop small the knotted place of a Pine Tree and boyle it well in Aâ—e or â—eer that the steem may come out and drink of it and it will cure the Scurvy This was Colonel Hamiltons Secret To cool the Skin and heal a Sore â„ž Of oyle Olive one pound and a half Wax six ounces of Minium two ounces Litharge of Gold two ounces Ceruse one ounce and a half Camphire one ounce and a half first boyle your Oyle and Wax till it be melted then take it from the fire and put in all the aforesaid things being beaten very small and searced and stir them together till they be cold and as occasion serveth annoint the sore place To help paines in the Stomack â„ž Four graines of Mastick Swallow them every night to bedwards this preserveth the Stomack from all paines and cureth the same An Ointment for the Stomack â„ž Capons Grease five pound Origanum Wormwood the tops of Rosemary Stomack Mints ana M. i. and a few Buds of red Roses pickt chop the â—earbs very small and pownd them in a stone Morter afterward boyle them in the Capons Grease till you see the goodness of the Hearbs boyled out then strain them and put so many more Hearbs as aforesaid and let them lye all night then boyle them all again till the vertue of the Hearbs be boyled out then strain them and take of Cloves and Mace ana â„¥ i. beaten very small and let it boyle a walm or two keeping it still stirring that it may not grow black then take it from the fire and put it into a pan or broad dish and stirre it till it be almost cold and put into it a pint of Aqua vitae and a quart of the distillation of Vine leaves this is good for any thing that lieth heavy upon the stomack being annointed therewith T For the pricking of a Thorn REcipe Of Violet leaves one handful of Mallow leaves one handful stamp them together and take a quantity of Bores Grease and of Wheat Bran one handful set it on the fire in clean water and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the greif To draw a Thorn or Splinter out of the flesh Moisten the tongue of a Fox and make it soft with Vinegar if it be dry put this on the thorn or any place where you would have any thing drawn out and it will doe it 2. Black Sope laid to it will also doe it For the Tooth-ach Take of OpiumÊ’ i. distill it in â„¥ ii of the best Aqua vitae and hold a spoonful of this in your mouth and it will ease you Probatum To keep Teeth White and kill the Worms Take a little Salt in the morning fasting and hold it under your tongue till it
and hearbs on the earth it sheweth the ayre to be corrupt and the Plague shortly after to follow Also by the beasts of the field we may perceive it especially sheep which will go mourning with their heads hanging down towards the ground and divers of them dying without any manifest cause known unto us Also when we see young Children flock themselves together in companies and then will faine some one of their company to be dead amongs them and so will solemnize the buriall in a mournfull sort this is a token which hath been well observed in our age to foreshew great mortality at hand Also when we see rivers of water to overflow without any manifest cause or suddenly vanish away and become dry And when clear well-springs do suddenly become foule and troubled Also when the small-Pox doth generally abound both in young and old people all these do foreshew the Plague to come CHAP. IIII. Sheweth how to prevent the Plague THere are three principall meanes how to prevent this contagious disease The first and chiefest is to acknowledge our manifold sins and wickedness unto almighty God our heavenly Father with a hearty repentance and amendment of our former sins committed against his divine majestie The second means is to fly far off from the place infected and as Rondoletius saith not over hastily to return thither again for fear of an after-clap which saying is confirmed by Valetius in these words Non enim morietur in bello qui non est in illo and the farther from it the safer shall we be yet were it a very uncharitable course that all which are of ability should do so for then how should the poor be relieved and good orders observed but for Children it were best to send them far off from the place because their bodies are most apt to receive the infection as also for that they cannot so continually use antidots and preservatives which by their great heat may indanger them almost so much as the disease it self The third meanes consisteth chiefly in three points which are these Order Diet and Physicall helps For the first you shall have a care that your houses be kept clean and sweet not suffering any foule and filthy clothes or 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 Thime 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 ℞ 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 ʒ ss The hearbs and rinds must be dried and put all together 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 ℞ Red-Roses Majoram and Myrtles of either a little handfull Callamint Juniper berries Laudanum Benjamin Frankincense of either ʒ i. which is 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 thereof 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 wirh 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 ℞ 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 ℞ 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 and 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 ℞ Of the confection aforesaid made with Nutts ℥ iiii Minardus mithridate four drachms Andromachus Triacle ʒ ii fine terra Sigillata four scruples Sirrup of Limons ℥ 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
up in height tending to suppuration for then should you hinder nature which like a diligent workman hath discharged and thrust forth that venomous matter which otherwise would have killed us And here touching Phlebotomy or bloud-letting you must have this speciall care that you draw not bloud on the opposite side as if it be on the left side the sore appear then draw not bloud on the right side if it appear in the flanke then draw not bloud in the arme but in the foot for otherwise you shall draw that venomous matter from the ignoble unto the noble parts and so kill the body And although the party complain not more in the one side then the other yet by the pulse shall you perceive on which side the venome lieth hidden for on that side where nature is opprest there shall you find the pulse more weak feeble and uneven greatly differing from the other side And here you shall understand that in some it hath been seen that nature of it self at the first hath thrust out that venomous matter in some place of the body with a botch appearing high and tending to suppuration or a carbunckle or spots called purples Now here if you draw bloud you doe then greatly indanger the body but in this case you must onely give Cordials and use all the meanes you can to bring it outward either by maturation or evaporation as hereafter shall be shewed you And here you shall further understand that where the age constitution nor strength of the party will permit that Phlebotomy be done yet for the better help of nature you must apply Ventoses with reasonable deep scarification unto the next place adjoyning where the party complaineth thereby the more speedily to draw the venomous matter unto the superficiall parts and there to apply the rumps of Chickens as before is taught you and so apply to the place some strong maturative and atrractive plaister or Cataplasme as hereafter shall be shewed you If the greif be in the head or throte then apply Ventoses to the neck If it be in the emunctuaries of the heart then apply them to the shoulders If in the emunctuaries of the liver then apply them to the 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 Zedoiar 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 sour 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 retaâ—n 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 Andâ—omâ—chus Triacle being taken two Scruples with one Scruple of Dioscoâ—dium and dissolved in two oâ— three ounces of this water â—â—lloâ—ing or Carduus benedictus Sorâ—ell 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
Hysop with some Parsley roots the inner pith being taken out must be bolled 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 Julip to quench thirst and resist Venenosity â„ž Water of Scabios Burrage Sorrell ana â„¥ 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 â„ž Rad. Cichoriae Ê’ iiii Rad. Petasitis Ê’ ss Fol. Scabiosae Card. Benedicâ—us Pimpinâ—llae Acetosae ana M. i. Florâ—m Cord. P. i. Prunorâ—m dummaâ— no. x. Sem Coriandri Ê’ ss Aquae font â„¥ ix Boyle them untill a third part be consumed then strain it â„ž Decoct col â„¥ iiii Fol. Senna Ê’ iii. Rhab. elect Ê’ iiii Spica G. iii. Infuse them together twelve hours then strain it strongly and add thereto these things Sir de Cichoriae cum Rhab. Ê’ vi Oxisacchari Simp. Ê’ ii Mix them altogether and drink it in the morning refraâ—â—â—ing from meat drink and sleep three houres after and then eat some good broth Another in a plethorick and full body â„ž Fol. Scabiosae Buglosae Card. B. ana M. i. Florum Cord. P. i. Rad. Tormentillae Ê’ iii. Rad. Fenic licho anaÊ’ iiii Passularum enucleat â„¥ i. Pruncrum dammas no. vi Sem anis Coriandri Oxialidis ana â„¥ i. Sennae Polipod q. ana â„¥ 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 â„¥ ss Aquarum scabiosae Borraginis Card. B. anaÊ’ 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 â„¥ 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 pestem 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 heareafter 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 Confâ—ctio alkâ—rmis G. ii Sir de accto 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 â—ften 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 mâ—ndi 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 popillieris 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 grossy 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 Planâ—aine 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
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 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 any 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 help 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 theâ—â—â—iâ— tâ—em together and so resâ—â—e 〈…〉 thy 〈◊〉 A very good unguent for the same purpose Take oyle of Roses vi ounces white Wax one ounce Ceruse washt in Rose and 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 seet 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 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 joynts 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 abovenamed 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 rosate a drachm of Camphire and Aloes each half a drachm The Tatia 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 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 beat 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 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 anew 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 quatter 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 sine 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-feed 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
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 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 sume 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 â—eruse 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