that have the consumption of the Lungs or Ulcers in the Lungs or have coughs that come of heat The greatest Plantain is counted by some the best The decoction or powder of the roots or seed is much more binding for all the purposes aforesaid then the herbe and helpeth Agues The seed made into powder and mixed with the yolk of an Egg and some wheat-flower and made into a cake and baked doth stay any flux of the stomach and vomiting It is a singular good wound-herb The herb but especially the seed which is of more subtile parts is likewise held to be profitable against the Dropsie Falling Sickness yellow Jaundise and the stoppings of the Liver or Reins the powder of the dried leaves taken in drink killeth the Worms in the belly It must be eaten warm for certain dayes together The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder The outward use The juice or the herb stayeth the bleeding of the Nose or the bleeding of Wounds the clarified juice or the water thereof dropped into the eyes cooleth the heat thereof as also cureth the Pin and Web therein dropt into the eares easeth the pains thereof helpeth deafness the same also is very profitably applyed with juice of Housleek against all inflammations breakings out in the skin against burnings or scaldings by fire or water the juice or the decoction is good for old or hollow ulcers for Cancers sores in the mouth or privy parts of man or woman and helpeth also the pains of the Piles and Fundament the juice mixed with Oile of Roses and the temples and forehead anointed therewith easeth the pains of the head proceeding from heat and helpeth frantick and lunatick persons very much as also the bitings of Serpents or of a mad Dog the same also is profitably applyed to all hot Gowts in the hands or feet especially in the beginning to cool the heat and represse the humours it is also good to be applyed where any bone is out of joynt to hinder inflammations swellings and pains that presently rise thereupon A decoction of the leaves killeth Worms that breed in old and foul Ulcers The roots of Plantaine and Pellitory of Spain beaten together and put into hollow teeth taketh away the pains therein one part of plantaine-Plantaine-water and two parts of the brine of powdered beef boiled together and clarified is a most sure remedy to heal all spreading â—cabs and Itch in the head or body all manner of Tetters or Ring-wormes the Shingles and all other running and fretting sores The leaves are very good to heale fresh or old Wounds and Sores as also to make a water or lotion for a sore mouth or throat or for sores of the privy parts of Man or Woman A Pultis to ease the pains of the Hemorrhoides Take a handful or two of green Plantain-leaves bruise them well and with Linseed-oile make a pultis and apply it An ointment against Burnings or Scaldings with fire Water Lead Tinne c. Take of the juice of Plantain Housleeck and Comfrey the lesser of each four ounces sheeps dung dessolved in the foresaid juices two ounces sheeps suet a pound Boil them together at a gentle fire into due height then strain and reserve it The hurtfull quality It is hurtful for cold constitutions The Dose The leaves roots and seeds are given from halfe a dramme to a dramme Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Syrup of the juice CHAP. 145. De Portulaca of Purslane The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Portulaca in English Purslane and Porcelane It is cold in the third degree and moist in the second The duration It is rarely dried but used green The inward use It is good to cool any heat in the Liver Bloud Reines and Stomach and in hot Agues nothing better it stayeth also hot and cholerick fluxes of the belly as also of Womens courses the Whites and Running of the Reines the distillations from the head and the pains therein proceeding of heat want of rest or the Frensie the seed is more effectuall then the herb and singular good to cool the heat and sharpnesse of urine and the outragious lust of the body venereous dreams and the like the seed bruised and boiled in Wine and given to children that have the Worms expelleth them the juice of the herbe is held as effectuall for all the purposes aforesaid as also to stay vomitings and taken with some Sugar or Honey helpeth an old and dry cough shortnesse of breath and the Tissick and to stay an immoderate thirst taken upon extream heat The distilled water of the herb is used with Sugar and worketh to the same effect The herb is generally used in Sallets in the heat of the yeer to cool and temper the bloud and hot and fainting stomachs and is good for them to use that have the Falling Sicknesse and also for those that have their teeth on edge by eating sowre Apples or the like The juice helpeth spitting of bloud The syrup of Purslane is good for the afore-said disease The juice made into pils with the powder of Gum Tragacanth and Arabick and taken prevaileth much to help those that make a bloudy water The manner of administring it It is given in juice or the feeds in powder or in decoction The outward use The juice is singular good in the inflammations and ulcers of the secret parts in man or woman and for the Piles being applyed thereto The herb bruised and applyed to the fore-head and temples allayeth excessive heat therein causing want of rest and sleep and applyed to the eyes taketh away the rednesse and inflammations in them and those other parts where Pushes Wheals Pimples Saint Anthonies fire and the like break forth especially if a little Vineger be put to it and being laid to the neck with as much of Galls and Lindseed together taketh away the pains herein and the crick in the neck the juice also is used with Oile of Roses for the said causes or for Blastings by Lightning and for burnings by Gunpowder or otherwise as also for womens sore breasts upon the like hot causes and to allay the heat in all other sores or hurts it is said also to stay the spreading of venomous Serpents bitings and to draw forth the poyson Applyed also to the navel of children that stick forth it helpeth them it is good also for sore mouthes and sore Gums when they are swolne to fasten loose teeth The distilled Water saith Cameraius used by some took away the pain of their teeth when all other remedies failed The herb bruised and applyed easeth the hot Gowt the juice put up into the fundament with a Glister-pipe helpeth the ulcerations and flux of the guts It taketh away Warts being bruised and applyed The hurtfull quality The over-frequent use of Purslane extinguisheth the heat and vertue of natural procreation weakneth the stomach and hurteth the sight it is hurtful also
cleanseth them from VVormes clenseth the foule Ulcers and spreading Scabs of the head and taketh away all Freckles Spots and markes in the Skin being washed therewith The Decoction of great Centory taketh away the paine and danger of the bitings or stingings of venemous Creatures it helpeth to sharpen the Eye sight if it be steeped in water and dropped in to them the whole plant as well herbe as roote is very availeable in all sorts of wounds or Ulcers to dry Sodder cleanse and heale them and should be a principall ingredient in all wound drinkes and injections It helpeth the Strangury and Stone if the juyce bee injected A Decoction against Arthritcall paines or the Joynt Gout Take Centory the lesser two handfulls roote of Assarum two Ounces spring water ten pints Boyle them to halfe The Dose is about half a pint in bed for divers mornings together An injection against Wormes in the Eares Take of Centory the lesser VVormwood Harehound and Calamint of each an Ounce Boyle them in a sufficient quantity of water to halfe add unto a pint of the strayning half a pound of Hony or lesse and keep it for your use The Dose The Dose in powder is from halfe a dram to a dram and a halfe The juyce to halfe an Ounce Of such things as are made thereof Centory-water Extract of Centory Salt of Centory CHAP. 94. De Ceterach of Ceterach The Names IT is called in Latine Ceterach Asplenum and Splenium because it helps the Spleene also Scolopendrium and Scolopendria from the likenesse of a VVorme so called in the English Spleene wort Milt-wast and Scale-ferne The temperament It is hot and dry in the first degree or second of subtile parts and somewhat drying The Duration It will keepe a yeare or two The inward use It is generally used for the infiâ—mities of the Spleene and some report the Swine in Candy by feeding on it are found without spleenes It helpeth the Strangury and Stone in the Bladder the yellow Jandes and the Hicket Matthiolus saith that if a dram of the dust that is on the back of the Leaves be mixed with halfe a dram of Amber in powder and taken with the juyce of Purslâ—w or Plantine it will helpe the running of the reines speedily and that the hearbe and root being boyled and taken helpeth all melancholy Diseases and those also which rise from the French disease The distilled water is good against the Stone both in the Reines and Bladder and the Lye made of the ashes thereof being drunke for some time together helpeth Splenetick persons The manner of administring it It is given in powder and in Decoction but it must not be boyled long for then the strength doth evaporate The outward use It is used in outward remedies for the same purpose as is before mentioned The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull for Women that desire Children for it hindereth conception The Dose It is given in powder from halfe a dram to a dram in Decoction from two drams to half an Ounce Of such Medicines as are made thereof Syrup of Ceterach The distilled water CHAP. 95. De Chinae radice of China Root The Names IT is called in Latine China China radix and Chinaea radix in English China Root and Chine The Temperament It is moderately hot and dry The Duration This Roote will keepe good many yeares The inward Vse It is much commended for the French Disease and is profitable in Agues whether quotidian or intermittent or pestilentiall and also Hectickes and Consumptions to rectifie the evill disposition of the Liver the inveterate paines in the Head and Stomack and strengtheneth it and to dry up rheumes to help the Jandise and Ruptures in children or others by drying up the humours which is the cause thereof It helpeth also the Palsy and all other diseases of the Joynts and Bladder the Goute Sciatica and the Rodes also and Ulcers of the Yard Scabs and Leprosy Scirrous and watery tumours and is good in all cold and melancholy griefes and very usefull in the Dropsy and Green-sicknesse Some say it provokes lust The manner of administring it It is given in Decoction and some boyle it in broth with a chicken tyed up in thin slices in a Linnen-cloath A decoction of China Roote Take of China Roote cut in thin slices one Ounce and a halfe put it into a gallon of faire water and let it stand covered a night and day then boyle it gently till about halfe the water be consumed straine it and give about foure Ounces thereof in bed for diverse mornings together if need be The hurtfull quality It is not to be used in very hot and dry bodies The Dose The Dose in broth is from two drams to foure drams according to the quantity of water you provide CHAP. 96. De Chamedry of Germander The Names IT is called in Latine Chamaedrys that is a small or low Oke from the likenesse of the Leaves thereof though lesser therefore some call it Aevercula minor in English Germander or English Treacle The temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree and of thin parts The duration It will keepe good being dry a yeare The inward Vse Some say it purgeth choller It is good for coughs taken with Hony for those whose spleene is become hard for those that can hardly make water and helpeth those that are falling into a Dropsey in the beginning of the disease especially if a decoction be made thereof when it is greene and drunke It brings downe the termes helps to expell the dead childe and taken with Vineger doth wast or consume the Spleene It is effectuall against any poyson paines of the side and cureth both Quartaine and Tertian Ague as also the Cramp if the Decoction thereof be taken for some dayes together it is good against the Diseases of the Braine as paines of the Head Falling-sicknesse Melancholly Lethargy Palsie Gout and for those that are Sottish through the dulnesse of the spirits a dram of the seed taken in powder doth purge Choller by Urine and is thereby good for the yellow Jaundise and killeth wormes so will the tops of them when they are in flower steeped a day and a night in a draught of White-wine and drunke in the morning It is commended against the Plague and Pestilence The manner of Administring it It is given in powder and Decoction you may make the Decoction as of Mugwort The outward use It is good against venome and stinging of venemous Creatures being bruised and applyed used with Hony it cleanseth old and foule Ulcers and the juyce mixed with Hony and put into the eyes taketh their dimnesse and moistnesse the juyce also dropped into the eares killeth wormes therein The decoction thereof stayeth the whites in women if they sit therein while it is warme and likewise easeth the passions of the Mother being boyled in Vineger and applyed to the Stomach with a little Leaven stayeth vomitings that rise not from hot causes
to aged persons and to cold and flegmatick persons The Dose The seed is given from half a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water syrup both simple and compound CHAP. 146. De Prassio of Horehound The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Prassium Marrubium in English Horehound It is hot in the second degree and dry in the third The duration It will keep good a yeer being dryed The inward use A decoction of the dried herbe with the seed or the juice of the green herb taken with Honey is a remedy for those that are pursie and short-winded for those that have a Cough and for such as by long sicknesse or thin distillations of Rheume upon the Lungs are wasted and faln into a Consumption it helpeth to bring away tough flegme from the chest being taken with the dried root of Orris It is given to women to bring down their courses and to expel the after-birth as also to them that have sore and long travels and is good also against poison or stinging of venomous beasts it helpeth the pains of the side openeth the stoppings both of Liver and Spleene kils Wormes and is good for such as have the Itch Scab or running sores The syrup of Horehound is used for old Coughs to bring away tough flegme as also for old men and others whose Lungs are oppressed with thin and cold Rheume and for those that are short-winded The manner of administring it It is chiefly given in decoction see the first Chapter The outward use The leaves used with Honey do purge foule ulcers stay running sores and the growing of the flesh over the nails the juice thereof with Wine and Honey helpeth to cleer the eye-sight and snuffed up into the nostrils helpeth to purge away the yellow Jaundise and either of it self or with a little Oile of Roses being dropped into the eares easeth the pains of them the green leaves bruised and boiled with old Hogs Lard into an ointment healeth the bitings of Dogs abateth the swellings of womens breasts and taketh away the swelling and pains that come by any pricking of thorns or any such like thing Used with Vineger it cleanseth and healeth Tetters the decoction thereof is a singular help for women that are troubled with the Whites if they sit over it while it is warm the same also healeth any Scabs whether dry or moist if the places be bathed therewith The hurtfull quality It hurteth the Bladder and the Reins and must not be used in hot and dry bodies if Raisons and Licorish be used therewith it is lesse hurtful The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to thirty grains Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water thereof Syrup of Horehound Species Diaprassii CHAP. 147. De Pulmonaria of Lung-wort The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Pulmonaria of the likenesse of the form which it hath with Lungs or Lights and also Lichen arborum in English Lung-wort and Wood Liver-wort It is cold and dry The inward use It is used against the diseases of the Lungs for Coughs Wheesings and shortnesse of breath also against spitting of bloud and pissing of bloud it stayeth the Reds in Women and stoppeth the fluxes of the belly and stayeth vomiting The shepherds do give it to their sheep with Salt that be troubled with the Cough and be broken-winded and they give it also to other cattel for the same purpose The manner of administring it It is given in powder or in decoction The outward use It is commended for bloudy and green wounds and is very profitably put into Lotions that are made to stay the moist humours that flow to Ulcers and hinder their healing as also to wash all other Ulcers in the secret parts of man or woman The Dose The Dose of the powder is from half a dram to a dram CHAP. 148. De Raphano of Radish The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Raphanus in English Radish and Reddish Garden Radish is hot in the third degree and dry in the second the Horse Radish is hot and dry in the third degree The duration Radish-roots especially Horse Radish may be kept a yeer or two The inward use The Garden and horse-Radish are in use but chiefly the latter and is excellent against the paines of the Reines Bladder and Stone provoketh much Urine and helpeth to separate the gravell from the stone and to expell it being boiled with Honey and Vineger into an electuary it is also a good remedy in strong bodies both for the Cough the Tissick and other diseases of the Lungs as also to provoke womens courses The same steeped in Oxymel three dayes causeth vomit and is commended against the quarta ne Ague the juice given in drink is held to be very effectuall for the Scurvey it killeth Wormes helpeth the Collick and Jaundise and bringeth away the after-birth The distilled water of the herb and roots is often taken with a little Sugar for all the purposes aforesaid The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder The outward use The roots bruised and applyed to the belly of Children killeth wormes the same also laid to the place grieved with the Sciatica Joynt-ach or the hard swellings of the Spleen and Liver doth wonderfully help them all the root stamped with the meale of Darnell and a little White Wine-Vineger taketh away all blew and black spots of the face being thereto applied The hurtfull quality Radish hurteth the Braine causeth sharp and soure belchings oppresseth the stomach ingenders raw humours and much winde raiseth up noisome fumes which are hurtful to the Eyes and head Being often eaten it wasteth the teeth The dose The root in powder is given from a scruple to thirty graines Medicines made thereof The distilled water Syrup of Radish CHAP. 149. De Rapis of Turneps The names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Rapum Rapa in English Turnep and Rape They are hot in the second degree and moist in the first The inward use Turneps well boiled and eaten moderately nourish meetly well increase milk in womens breasts and naturall seed provoke Urine and sharpen the sight A decoction of Turneps being taken is good against the Cough Consumption and hoarsenesse being taken morning and evening with Sugar or clarified Honey but especially if the liquor be made into a syrup and so taken morning and evening The seeds of Turnep resisteth poyson therefore are used in Antidotes provoke Venerie and expell out the malignity of the small Pox and Measels The oile of the seeds is given to women against their after-paines and to children against the worms The manner of administring them They are used in decoction Syrup or eaten with Butter and Vineger The outward use Oile of Roses put into a Turnep made hollow for the purpose and then rosted in Embers healeth the kibed-heels being thereto applied the decoction also of
Urine flowing to stop chap 10 64 69 134 Urine sharp chap 100 107 108 116 117 134 145 160 Urine to provoke chap 2 4 5 8 9 11 14 18 20 21 23 27 30 31 32 33 37 39 41 44 45 46 50 54 55 56 62 67 69 73 74 76 78 79 84 86 87 89 90 91 96 99 100 101 102 105 107 109 111 112 113 114 118 126 128 129 130 132 133 136 137 138 148 149 152 153 157 165 167 Urine stinking ch 152 Vrine bloody chap 66 97 144 145 146 Vterine parts to cleanse chap 1 6 3â— Vvula swollen ch 62 Vvula fallen ch 25 56 161 167 W WArts to take away chap 16 37 66 139 145 153 Waspes to kill chap 36 130 Waspes stinging thereof chap 90 125 Water to purge chap 11 13 16 23 26 28 32 34 35 41 46 53 55 56 59 61 65 Water yellow to purge ch 17 Water running between the flesh and the skin ch 1 63 Wearinesse after travail chap 33 66 67 Wens to take away châ—p 24 78 123 124 Wheales and blanes chap 52 59 63 79 107 112 150 Wheesing chap 80 105 147 160 167 Whit-flaes chap 7 11 19 Whites in women chap 18 19 57 62 64 82 96 97 125 142 145 146 Wilde fire chap 8 12 13 21 48 52 56 63 69 90 121 141 144 145 Winde to expell chap 1 6 7 20 30 33 43 56 69 73 76 84 91 92 101 112 114 123 126 128 130 132 143 151 165 169 Winde in the belly chap 33 50 86 157 160 169 Wine to take away the smell thereof chap 169 Wombe diseases thereof chap 6 7 Wombe to cleanse chap 1 11 20 23 152 Wombe cold diseases thereof chap 30 31 43 151 Wombe windy chap 5 76 120 Wombe stopped chap 11 14 22 23 48 56 Womb impurity thereof chap 6 11 20 23 104 Wombe moist chap 9 10 19 141 157 Wombe hard tumours thereof chap 48 56 Wombe pained chap 46 Women newly delivered to help chap 5 105 Women not sufficiently cleansed after Child-birth to help chap 140 Wormes to kill chap 1 3 5 6 7 10 11 17 19 20 23 25 29 31 33 34 39 41 43 48 53 56 61 64 66 69 77 80 81 85 89 90 93 96 98 101 106 109 111 114 119 125 130 144 145 146 148 153 159 160 167 Wormes called Ascarides to kill chap 4 Wounds to cure chap 14 23 25 28 39 54 67 93 144 Wounds bleeding to stop chap 10 58 75 82 128 135 141 144 147 156. Wounds heat thereof chap 12 134 Wounds green chap 3 32 33 34 39 80 93 97 109 111 112 123 142 147 158 165 Wounds to incarnate chap 135 Wounds inward chap 112 Wounds of the head chap 6 48 80 Wounds to cleanse chap. 3 8 31 34 38 64 152 Wounds of the Testicles and Privities chap. 3. Wounds moist chap. 20 Wounds dead flesh therein to take away chap 3 4 See more in dead flesh in Wounds Wounds to inlarge chap. 33 Wounds inward to cure chap. 10 97 142 Wounds to close up Y YOuth to preserve chap. 47. An Alphabeticall TABLE of those Diseases for which the Compound Medicines are prescribed in this TREATISE A ABortion or miscarrying to hinder an Ointment chap. 10. a Powder 64 a Plaister 64. After-birth to expel a Potion chap. 6 Pils 6 Ague a drink chap. 1 8 Ague tertian a Potion chap 35 Ague quartane a Potion chap 1. a Powder 7. Pils 55 Ague quotidian a decoction 16 Arthritical paines a Powder chap. 6. 32 a Potion 29. 35. 93. a Poultis 49. a Fomentation chap 78 B BElly winde therein see winde in the stomach and belly Birth to bring away Pils chap 6. 14 a Potion 14 21. a Powder 14. 21. 25 Bladder ulcerated a water chap. 154 Bloud to purge a Potion chap. 29 Bloud-vomiting an Electuary chap. 18 Bloud-spitting a Potion chap. 39. an Electuary 45. a Lâ—hoch 49 Breast to clease a Potion chap. 2 Breath short a Potion chap. 2. Pils 4. 6. a Potion 21. a Syrup 11 Bruises a Cataplasme chap. 56. a Powder 128 Burning to cure an Oyntment chap. 112 144 C CHaps of the hands and lips an Oyntment chap. 45 Choler to purge a Bole chap. 2. 15 Pils 3. a Potion 53 Collick an Electuary chap. 69. 28. a Potion 44. 76. Pils 31 Cough Pils chap. 6. 55. a Decoction 24 an Electuary 122 Courses in women overflowing Pils chap. 9 Courses to provoke a Potion chap. 6. Pils 6 8. an Electuary 10. a Decoction 54. a Pessary 93 D DEad childe to bring away a Potion chap. 6 Dog mad biting thereof a Drink chap. 33 Dropsie a Potion chap. 34 41 46. a Powder 46. Pils 17. 46. a Bole 42. 46. 56. a Plaister 17. Pils 16. 55. a Potion 16. 29 32. a Powder 16. 56. 61 E EAres wormes therein chap. 37 Eares swoln a poultis chap. 146 Eyes red a water chap. 12. 21. 103. 154 Eyes spots therein a water chap. 12 F FAce spots thereof chap 5. 17 Falling Sicknesse a powder chap. 6 Pils 6. an Oyntment 6. a Syrup 11 a potion 49. A Quilt 140 Fig in the fundament chap. 2 Feaver an Epitheme chap. 57 Fistula chap. 2 Flegme to purge Pils chap. 2. a potion 2 Flesh to produce in ulcers an Oile chap. 6 a Cerot 50. a powder 48 58 Flux of the belly a Decoction chap. 45. a potion 47. 53. an Electuary 14. 18. 19 Flux bloudy a Glister chap. 116 Frensie a Fomentation chap. 117 G GReen sicknesse a potion chap. 8 Gowt a poultis chap. 38. a Liniment 15. a plaister 50. a powder 32. a Cerot 49 H HEads of children sore a Fomentation chap. 153 Head-ach chap. 21. Pils 49 a Liniment 120. a Quilt 132. an Epitheme 152 Heart faint a potion chap. 42. 30. 74 Heart-beating a Quilt chap. 124 Hemorrhoides pils chap. 9. a poultis 144 Hickop pils chap. 49 Hip-gowt see Sciatica I JAundise a decoction chap. 1 66 39. a Bole 35. a potion 13. 29. 53. 55. a powder 19 Iliack passion pils chap. 17 Joynt-ach a decoction chap. 101 Incarnate see flesh to procure Itch an oyntment chap. 77. See Scab K KIdneys hot an emulsion chap. 5 Knots and tumours to dissolve a Cerot chap. 4. a plaister 9 L LEannesse to help a Marchpane chap. 5 Legs fretting sores thereof chap. 11 Leprosie a potion chap. 29 Liver stopt pils 4 6 Liver hor chap. 12 Lungs to cleanse an emulsion chap. 5 Lust to abate an Electuary chap. 67 M MEasels to expel chap. 21 Melancholy a potion chap. 1. 27 29 Pils 42. a Syrup 51. a decoction 47 Miscarrying see Abortion Mother-rising pils chap. 31. 50. a plaister 31 N NErves to strengthen a Lotion chap. 118. Nodes see Knots Nose bleeding a poultis chap. 18. 83. 150 P PAlsie pils chap. 6. 50. an oile 6. a Liniment 28 Pestilence a potion chap. 11. 12. 64. 74 an electuary 10. 12. a powder 12. 57. 64 Piles see Hemorrhoides R RHeume a potion chap. 21. an Elect. uary 45. 150. Pils 49 Ring-wormes or Tetters a Lotion chap. 131 Rupture a powder chap. 18 S SCab and Itch a potion chap 29. a Bath 113. a water 141 Sciatica or Hip-gowt Pils chap 4. a Plaister 31. a Bath 114 Scurf of the head chap 37 Scurvie a Potion chap. 29 Senses to strengthen a Lotion chap 118 Side pained a Potion chap. 6. a Bag 123 Sight to preserve chap 103. a water 103 Sleep to procure a Bole chap 49. a Lotion 86 Spleen hardnesse thereof a Plaister chap 4 a Potion 6 31 a Cerot 11â— a Linimenâ— 31 an Oyntment 56 Stomach weak a decoction chap. 30. Pils 49 an Electuary 150 Stomach pained Pils chap 3. a Potion 6 an Electuary 62. a Quilt 125 150 Stone and Gravel chap 5. Pils 50. a decoction Sweat to provoke a Potion chap 56 T TErms to provoke see Courses Temples pained an oyntment chap 45 Testicles swoln a Plaister 31 Teeth to white a Poult's chap 45. a Powder 18 Tooth ach chap. 2. 10 144 Tumours hard to dissolve a Cerot chap 4. a Plaister 9 V VEnome an Electuary chap 25. 153 Vlcers of the Privities a water and oyntment chap 68 Vlcers heat thereof a Plaister chap 62 Vlcers to dry a powder chap 58. a water â—1 Vomiting to stay Pils chap. 49 Vlcers in the mouth a water 97 Vrine stopt see Stone and Gravel Vrine sharp an emulsion chap. 5 W WAtery humours to purge a drink chap. 38 Weak to strengthen a Jelly chap 19 Winde in the stomach a decoction chap 1 30. an Electuary 69. a potion 6 74 a Fomentation 121. a powder 152 Whites in women an Electuary 57 Wombe impure a potion chap. 6 Wormes a plaister chap. 1 3 4. a potion 2 31. a powder 19 98 Wormes in the eare an injâ—ction chap 93 Wounds an oile chap 39. a water 88 Wounds in the head a powder chap. 58. a Cerot 80 Wounds hollow a Powder chap 48 Wounds to dry an oyntment chap 142.
the Church in a shadow by R. Cudworth D. D. now Master of Clare-Hall in Cambridge The Christian Conflict shewing the difficulties and duties of the Christian Warfare with the Armour and graces of Christian Souldiers partially applied to Magistrates and Ministers Husbands and Wives Together with the case of Vsury Depopulation and the errours of Antinomonists occasionally discussed by John Bentham A Remonstrance of the holy life and happy death of John Bruen Esquire exhibiting vanity of memorialls and exemplary passages usefull to all sorts of people as a path and president of piety and charity written by W. Hinde late of Bunbury in Cheshire THE NATURE OF Simple Medicines CHAP. I. De Absynthio Of Wormwood COmmon Wormwood is so well known that it needeth no description The Names It is called in Latine Absynthium because of its bitternesse Beasts will not feed on it neither doe most like the tast of it The Temperament It is hot in the second degree and dry in the third very bitter and cleansing yet binding and strengthening The Duration It will keep good a yeare The Inward Vse Wormwood draweth from the Tunicles of the Stomach and Intestines first choller then flegme and also doth strengthen the Stomach like Alois It purgeth choller likewise from the Reines and Liver and purgeth by Urin. It doth much prevaile in the Green-sicknesse Jaundise and Dropsie It helpeth such as have obstructed Livers and Stomachs the Collicke and gripings in the Belly cleanseth the womb and uterine parts help Crudities dryveth away the Hicket stayeth vomiting brings a good appetite expelleth winde and prevailes in intermittent Agues and obstructions of the Entralls It preserveth the bloud from putrifaction and is usefull in the Pestilence It prevents and resists Drunkennesse vomiting at Sea and killeth worms The Vineger wherein Wormwood is boiled helpeth a stinking breath that commeth from the teeth or gums or from the corruption in the Stomach It provokes the termes in women The wine made hereof is good for all the forementioned purposes except in such as have Feavers The Seeds of Wormwood helpe the Bloudy Flux and other Fluxes of the Belly Wormwood being steeped in Vineger and drunken helpeth such as have taken Mushromes or Toâ—d stooles The manner of administring it It is given in powder in decoction or the juice is taken by it selfe it is also infused in wine Against an Ague Take of Wormwood in pouder two drams Give it in White-wine or Posset-drink one hour or two before the fit commeth Against a Quartaine Ague Take of the juice of Wormwood half an ounce Venice Treacle halfe a dram Treacle water a spoonfull mingle them together Give this before the fit commeth Doe this for three or four fits together and it will prevaile especially at the beginning the body being first well purged A Decoction of Wormwood against Melancholy winde in the Stomach c. Take Wormwood Fumiterry of each a handfull Raisons of the Sun two ounces make an infusion and a gentle decoction in three Pints of Posset drinke to two Pints or two and a halfe strain it and drink every morning a good draught thereof It is good against Melancholly a cold Stomach as also to expell winde and to take away obstructions or stopping Wormwood-Wine Take of dry Wormwood a handfull put it into a gallon of wine stop the vessel close and let it stand to infuse This helpeth cold and crude stomachs expelleth winde easeth the Collick comming of winde strengthneth the stomach avails in the Jandise and killeth wormes Wormwood-Wine purging Water Take Wormwood a handfull and a halfe Cardus one handfull Agrimony a handfull Spleenwort Vervaine of each halfe a handfull Oris-root one ounce and a halfe Fennell-root one ounce Parsly-root halfe an ounce Capar barke Asarum Polypodium roots of Succory of each halfe an ounce or take one ounce and a halfe of Succory roots Fennell-seed Smallage-seed Parsly-seed and Anni-seed of each one dram Calamus Aromaticus Cinamon of each two drams Sene one ounce and a halfe Soldanella or Sea binde weed three handfulls Cut and bruise those things that are to be cut and bruised then put to them sixteen or eighteen pints of White-wine wherein Steel hath been quenched let them stand together after a week drink of it a good draught in the morning or about ten of the clock in the forenoone every day or every second day You may make but halfe the receipt The juice of Wormwood is commended against Melancholly if two or three drams thereof be taken in a morning Heurn Meth. ad prax cap. 9. f. 200. Against the Jandise Take the flowers of Wormwood or the tops thereof Rosemary and Black-thorne of each a like quantity of Saffron half so much boyle them gently in Renish-wine let it be given after the body is prepared by purging The externall or outward Vse Wormwood being outwardly applied killeth worms in the belly or stomach the juice with Honey helpeth dim eyes and mingled with Niter it helpeth the Quinsie being anointed therewith It taketh away black and blew spots in the skin that come after falls or bruises if it be mingled with Honey and anointed It helpeth soare and running ears and ceaseth the pain of them if the hot vapours of the decoction be taken in thereat by a Funnell or otherwise It easeth the tooth-ach Being bruised and applyed with Rose-water to the stomach it gives much ease and comfort to such as have been long sick It avails against the hardnesse of the Spleen or where there is a hot sharp water running between the flesh and the skin if it be used with Figs Vineger and Mâ—ale of Darnell A decoction thereof being made and the Temples bathed therewith it helpeth the paines of the head that come of a cold cause Also being boyled in Vineger and the mouth washed therewith it helpeth a stinking breath Being put into Chests or Presses where Cloaths are it preserveth from worms Moths If the skin be rubbed with the juice or with the oyle it drives away Fleas or Gnats If Children before they be three moneths old be bathed with a decoction thereof or their temples feet and hands be nointed with the juice thereof and well rubbed in they shall not be troubled nor molested with heat or cold all their life time It is so commended being used as before that the body shall not be infected with Scab Leprosie French Disease Lice or such like malady Nisi Deus eos velit punire except God will punish such for sin Joan. Rudolp Camerar Memorabil med mirab Nat. arcan cent 3. partic 70. fol. 189. Against the Wormes Take Wormwood Horehound and Lupines of each a handfull boyle them in water or honey or strong wine apply it hot to the Navell A Plaster against the Wormes Take of Mithridate two drams Aloes in powder a dram with the juice of Wormwood make a Plaister and lay it to the belly The hurtfull Quality The juice offends the Stomach being too much used and also
a dram in infusion from two drams to halfe an ounce Brassica Marina see Soldanella or Sea bind weed CHAP. IX De Bdellio Of Gum Bdellium BDellium is a Gum flowing from a tree growing in Arabia in India and Media but it chiefly groweth in Arabia The Names It is called in Latine Bdellium The Temperament Bdellium is hot in the second degree and moist in the first of a mollifying and discussing nature The best kinde The best say Authours is clear like glew fat on the inside easily melting or dissolving pure or clear from drosse sweet in the burning and bitter in tast but that we have is not to be found so for we find little bitternesse in any and lesse sweetnesse in the burning of it but strong and unpleasant rather neither is it easie to be dissolved without warmth and ours is of a sad brown colour somwhat like Glew and much like unto Myrrhe in colour insomuch that some erroneously judge the purer part of this Gum to be Bdellium and the grosser to be Myrrhe The Duration It will keep good ten or twelve years The inward Vse It provokes Urine and the courses in Women breaks the Stone it is good for those that have the Cough and are bitten by Serpents or venomous Beasts It helpeth to discusse the windinesse of the Spleen and pains of the side it helpeth Ruptures mollifieth the hardnesse of the Mother and dryeth up the moysture thereof and draweth forth the dead Child It provokes sweat stoppeth the overflowing of the menses or courses in Women and also of the womb as some affirm which if it doe both surely 't is by its Arcanum or hidden property It is given against a super-purgation after the taking of a sharp Medicine that is when a Purge worketh more then is meet The manner of administring it It is chiefly used in Pills but it may be dissolved in wine or any other liquour and so taken Pills of Bdellium that are good against the Hemroids or Piles and the overflowing of the courses Take of Bdellium one ounce and a halfe Myrobalans Chebuls Black Myrobalans Bellericks and Emblicks Concha Venerea burnt which is a Sea-shell of each two drams and a halfe Ammios-seed three drams Amber two drams and a halfe make those things in powder that are to be powdered then macerate and dissolve the Bdellium in juice of Leeks and with a sufficient quantity of syrupe made of the juice of Leeks make it into a masse or lump for Pills The Dose is from halfe a dram to four scruples Pills against the Hemroids Take of the former Pills two drams of Sene Rubarbe Agarick trochiscated in powder of each a dram with a sufficient quantity of syrupe of Roses make a masse for Pills of which take a dram at a time in the morning for divers dayes together if need require Riverius observat med cent 3. fol. 236. The Externall Vse It is outwardly used against Convulsions and Ruptures against swellings of the Throat it dissolveth hard tumours and nodes of the Joynts it openeth obstructions of the Womb mollifieth the hardnesse thereof and dryeth up its moistnesse either applied or a fume thereof received the same is good against swellings and apostumes of the genitalls or privy members A Plaister dissolving hard tumours Take of Bdellium one ounce of Sagapenum four ounces of Ammoniacum three ounces Galbanum Euphorbium of each two drams Dissolve the Gums in Sacke then add thereto Oyle of white Lillies and Oyle of sweet Almonds of each an ounce Propolis which is found in Bee hives four ounces and a halfe make them into a Plaister A Plaister against Nodes and glandulous tumours Take of Bdellium and Lupines of each two drams of Cow-dung two ounces of Colewort-root Capar bark Sea Onion pulp of Figs of each halfe an ounce make those in powder that are to be powdered dissolve the Bdellium in Wine and with a sufficient quantity of Honey Vineger Hogs-greace and Old Oyle make a Plaister apply it as need requireth The Hurtfull Quality It is not to be given to Women with Child The Dose The Dose is from a dram to two drams These following are made of Bdellium 1. Pills of Bdellium 2. Oyntment of Bdellium 3. Vnguentum Apostolorum CHAP. X. De Bistorta Of Bistort-root BIstort is a thick short knobbed root blackish without and somewhat reddish within a little crooked or turned together of a harsh or binding tast with divers blackish fibres or hairie threds growing thereat and hath leaves like Dock's but smaller The Names It is called in Latine Bistorta because the root is writhed in the likenesse of a Serpent in English Bistort or Snake-weede The Temperament It doth coole and dry in the third degree and is very astringent or binding The Duration It will keep good a year or two The inward Vse Bistort-root is excellent to resist all poyson and venom A dram of it in powder taken in Wine or Angelica-water expelleth the venome of the Plague or Pestilence the Small Pox Measles Purples or any other infectious Disease the same in powder or the decoction in Wine being drunk stayeth all manner of inward bleeding or spitting of blood as also any Fluxes of the body and moreover such as are troubled with vomiting The powder or the decoction being drunk helpeth Ruptures and is available against all bruises or falls and dissolveth the congealed bloud and easeth the paines that happen thereupon the same helpeth the Jaundise and hindereth Abortion or miscarrying in Women killeth Worms and is profitable for such as cannot hold their water especially if the juice of Plantaine be added thereto A dram of the powder taken in the water thereof wherein some Iron or Steel being red hot hath been quenched is an admirable help in the Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins so that the body be first purged It is very usefull in decoctions for Wounds being taken into the body the same stayeth the flowing of the courses in Women The manner of administring it It is given in powder in electuary and in decoction An Electuary against Womens Flux or the overflowing of their Courses Take of old Conserve of red Roses one ounce and a halfe Bole Armenick in powder two scruples red Corall in powder a scruple Bistort root in powder a dram with a sufficient quantity of syrupe of Mirtles or syrupe of Quinces make an Electuary Take often of it especially a little before meat the quantity of a Nutmeg and after meat as much An Electuary against the Pestilence Take of LONDON Treacle halfe an ounce Mithridate 3. drams Angelica root and Bistort root in powder of each halfe a scruple Cardamoms five grains Camphor four grains Cinamon in powder halfe a scruple Let the Camphor be dissolved in a little syrupe of Lemons and the rest being in powder make it into an Electuary The Dose is a dram or more morning and evening by it selfe or in Carduus-water In Decoction Take of Bistort root bruised two drams boyle it in
and fatty not ranced being put into water if it swim it is to be cast away The Duration The seeds will keep good three years The inward use The seeds purge Flegme and watery humors by vomit and siege It is a specifick remedy against the Collick It helpeth also the diseases of the breast and hypoconders openeth the obstructions of the viscerous parts and avails in the Dropsie and Jaundies Being made into a Loloch or licking Electuary with Sugar and Honey a few Almonds and Pine Kernels it cleanseth the lungs of Flegme sticking therein wonderfully causing it to be easily spit forth it also cleareth the voice and increaseth sperme by the often use of it With Honey it is excellent against the Cough Being bruised and strained into Milke it makes it to curdle and is usefull to open and loosen the belly Parrots doe eat of this seed yet it doth not loosen them at all The manner of administring it It is given in Emulsions in Tabulats in Electuaries in Pulpe c. An Emulsion or milke purging safely and gently Take of Mechoaehan white Turbith of each one ounce Anni-seed Fennel-seed Cinamon of each a dram bruise them and make a Decoction thereof Take of this Decoction eleven ounces of sweet Almonds blanched half an ounce of Cinamon-water half an ounce or five drams make it into an Emulsion or milkie substance Tabulats purging or square Cakes Take of Diagredium Turbith of each one ounce of the Pulpe of Carthamus-seed half a dram Cinamon Ginger species of Diatragacanthum frigidum of each two drams Citron Pill the Pulpe of preserved Quinces of each a dram of Sugar nine ounces of white Sugar-candy one ounce Powder what is to be powdered and make Tabulats or Cakes thereof and dry them The Dose is from a dram and a halfe to three drams Freitag Aur. med fol. 282. Against the Jaundies Take of the Pulpe of Carthamus seeds a dram Syrup of Worm-wood an ounce of Succory water an ounce mixe them together and give it For the same Take of the flowers of Carthamus in powder a dram give it in Hydromel or Water and Honey or in Barley water The outward use The water of Carthamus is commended against wilde-fire if clouts be dipped therein and applyed The hurtfull quality There are two hurtfull properties in Carthamus the one that it offends the stomack and provokes to vomit to help this it must be given with Anni-seed Fennel-seed Galingal Cinamon Ginger Mastick or such like The other is that it works but slowly and stirreth up the humors to help this it may be given with Cardamoms Salgem and such like The Dose The Dose of the Pulpe is from a dram to two drams though it be rarely given by it selfe because of its viscosity or sliminesse In infusion from three drams to six drams or more Of those Medicines that are made of Carthamus First extract of Carthamus 2 Syrup of Carthamus 3 Electuary Diacarthamum 4 Species of Carthamus 5 The distilled water 6 Olium e enico expressum which being taken with Muskadel is excellent against the Collick 7 Oyle of the seed of Carthamus three drams of which being taken with powder of Anniseed and Cinamon doth purge flegm as saith Brassarolus CHAP. XIV De Cassia lignea Cinamomo Of Cassia Lignea and Cinamon BEcause these are so little differing from each other I shall joyne them together yet speake severally of their vertues They are both barks of trees brought to us from the East-Indies The Names Cinamon is called in Latine Cinnamomum Cinamomum in English Cinnamome and Cinamon I know no other names in use for the other but Cassia Lignea The Temperament Cinamon is hot and dry in the third degree or hot in the third-degree and dry in the second Cassia lignea is hot and dry in the third degree The best sort The best Cinamon is that which is of a reddish colour smelling fragrantly and of a sharp and biting tast usually the thin barks or rindes are the best The difference between Cassia lignea and Cinamon The Cinamon rinde is much bigger the Cassia lignea is in very small rindes or barkes besides there is a manifest difference in the tast for the Cinamon hath a rough tast but the Cassia lignea is very slippery upon the tongue The Duration They will keep good eight or ten years as some report which I somewhat doubt of especially of Cinamon The inward Vse Cinamon is of subtill parts and very Aromaticall it comforteth the heart and vitall parts corroborateth and strengthneth the stomack braine nerves and other cold parts of the body it easeth the pains of the Wind Collick provokes the Courses and Vrine hastneth the birth it preventeth and correcteth putrifaction of humours resisteth poyson stayeth vomiting and helpeth nauseousnesse of the stomach it is frequently used in Cardiack passions or passions of the heart faintings of the spirits and in trembling of the heart it causeth sweetnesse of the breath and brings a good colour in the face it strengthneth the retentive faculty of all the parts by drying up and consuming the moisture thereof It is used in the Dropsie and Cough proceeding from moisture In brief it avails in all cold diseases of the head stomack and womb and is most convenient for cold and moist bodies and is much used in Lasks or Loosnesse of the body Note That Cinamon is most fragrant about the full of the Moon and hath the best taste and is then fittest for any medicine especially for oyle Cassia lignea comforteth the Stomack Liver and all the principall parts openeth obstructions or stoppings disperseth grosse humour repelleth winde provokes urine brings downe the menses or termes in women and doth much facilitate or hasten the birth The Vse of Oyle and Water of Cinamon There is a Chymicall Oyle drawne from Cinamon which is most excellent for these Diseases It comforteth the Stomach Brain Heart and all the principall parts it helpeth a stinking Breath resisteth putrifaction provokes the menses and helpeth Women in hard labours easeth the Cough arising from cold and all cold pains of the head it is a singular help in fainting of the spirits and stayeth too much vomiting after the taking of Antimony if two or three drops thereof be taken in Mint-water Good Cinamon-water hath the same vertues The manner of administring them They are given in Powder in Potions Electuaries and in Pills A Powder to hasten the Birth Take of Cinamon a dram Saffron halfe a dram Cassia lignea two scruples make them all in powder Or Take Cinamon Saffron of each a scruple of Borax four scruples make them in powder and give it in a little Mugwort-water A Potion to hasten the Birth Take of Cassia lignea in powder a dram Saffron in powder a scruple syrupe of Mugwort halfe an ounce Savin-water three ounces mingle them together and give it Pills to hasten the Birth Take of Cassia lignea or Cinamon a dram Castor six grains Storax calamita
not so dangerous as some Authors fabulously report for Women to stride over or but to touch it It is not to be given without correcting helpe Now the correcting meanes are Mel Passulatum or Honey of Raisons Manna Mastick Syrup of Quinces or with species Diarrhodon Abbatis or with Oxymel and Hydromel or in powder it may be given with Chicken broth or Veale broth The Dose The Dose in substance is from a dram to a dram and a halfe The juyce is given from a dram to two drams or three drams Of such Medicines as are made of Sowbread First Vnguentum de Arthanita majus 2Vng de Arthanita minus CHAP. XXIV De Dactylis Of Dates DAtes are long and round fruits growing in the East and West Indies and in other places from whence we have them They abound in Indiae Syria Aegypt Arabia and such hot places The Names They are called in English Dates The best are called Cariotae and Phaenicobalanis which were also called Regiae because they were fittest for the dyet of Kings The Temperament Dates are hot and dry almost in the second degree and astringent or binding especially when they are not through ripe being through ripe they are hot and moist in the second degree some say hot and moist in the first degree The best sort The best Dates are such as are Yellowish in colour sweet ripe within new uncorrupt not worme-eaten and having their caps on therefore called Cap Dates for if the Caps fall off they soon decay The Duration Dates will not keep good long especially in the Summer time some will keep halfe a year or longer The inward Vse Dates yeeld a grosse and clammy and fatty or impingnating nourishment therefore they are used against Consumptions and wasting of the body they helpe the hoarsenesse and roughnesse of the throat the sharpe Cough by reason of sharpe rheume falling on the breast and lungs The decoction of them taken alayeth the force of hot Agues and stayeth spitting of blood the paine in the stomach and bowels by reason of a Flux and boyled in water and honey and taken doth refresh the spirits they somewhat provoke to Venery the decoction helpeth the weaknesse and paines in the back and bladder they strengthen the weaknesse of the Liver and Spleen being mixed with other convenient medicines They are used in broth 's against Consumptions and pining diseases and are counted restorative especially the sweet ones Dry Dates being eaten doe stop the belly and stay vomiting of women with childe and helpe against miscarying they stay womens courses and the bleeding and falling downe of the Fundament and Piles being taken in red Wine The manner of administring them They are given in brothes Decoctions and Electuaries A decoction against the Cough shortnesse of breath and the Plurisie Take of Dates six in number Figs four French Barley an ounce Raisons of the Sun stoned an ounce Sebesten and Jujubes of each fifteen Licoris halfe an ounce Maiden-haire Hysop Scabious Colts-foot of each halfe a handfull Cut the herbs and fruits and bruise the Licoris then boyle them in three pints of spring water to a quart straine it and drink of the clearest morning and evening seven or eight spoonfulls warme The outward Vse Dates made into a Poultis alone or with other things and applied to the stomack and belly stayeth the vomiting of Women with child The Decoction of Dates or the leaves of the Date-tree maketh the haireblack being often used and stayeth fretting Vlcers Being mixed with Wax and Saffron they helpe the black and blew marks remaining after stripes or blowes and reduceth the skin to its naturall colour Date stones being burnt and washed serve instead of Spodium to binde and restraine the fluent humours into the eyes and to consume the Pin and Web in them and to dry up Pushes being used with Spikenard it it stayeth the falling of the hair from the eye brows being mingled with wine and used it helpeth any Excressences of the flesh as Wens and such like and bringeth foul Vlcers to Cicatrising and stayeth the spreading of Vlcers A Poultis made of them and applyed helpeth any luxation or joynts out of place and they are used in astringent Cataplasmes or Pultises The hurtfull quality They breed ill and grosse humours and thick blood in the body and are hard of concoction especially in such as are of a hot constitution bring the head-ach obstruct the Liver and breed winde therefore they are not to be used by such as are troubled with the head-ach Collick or hot Livers These Medicines following are made of Dates First the Electuary Diaphoenicon mesuae 2 Diaphoenicon solidum 3 Electuarium resumptivum 4 Lohoch e Pino 5 Lohoch sanum experium Diagredium seu Scammonium CHAP. XXV De Dictamno Cretico Of Dittany of Creete or Candy DIttany of Crete is an hearb much like unto Penny-royal but hath greater leaves and hoary covered over with a soft downe and white woollen Cotten growing in Candy The Names It is called in Latine Dictamum and Dictamus or Dictamnum creticum also Dictamnus creticus and it is so called a dicte promontorio Cretae because plenty of it grows there in that mount in English Dittanie and Dittanie of Candy The temperament Dittany is hot and dry in the third degree of a biting nature especially being green The best kind The best is that which is newest white and not too full of strings The Duration It will keep a year or longer The inward Vse Dittany provokes the Courses hasteneth the birth and bringeth away the dead child and after birth It profits those that have the Dropsie Spleen swollen The juice drunken with wine is a present remedy for those that are bitten or stung by any venemous creature nay the herbe is so effectuall against the poyson of all beasts that are venemous that the very smell drives them away or if they do but touch the herbe The powder being mixed with hony and taken easeth the Cough an killeth Wormes and a decoction thereof taken is profitable in the Jaundies The distilled water is commended against the Pestilence if three ounces be drank morning and evening and sixe ounces thereof against Venome also three ounces thereof taken in a morning is profitable against the Stone The manner of administring it It is given in powder Electuary c. Powder to bring away the dead Childe Take of Dittany of Crete a dram of Saffron five grains make them in powder and give it in wine An Electuary against Venome Take Dittany of Candy round Birth-worth in powder of each halfe an ounce with six ounces of honey make an Electuary The Dose is from a scruple to a dram in wine or Carduus water The outward Vse A Pessarie made of the juice and the powder bringeth away the dead child and after birth being applyed A Bath or decoction made thereof and used all over cures the Jaundies The juice mixed with the powder help 's the
it The Names In Latine 'tis called Fumaria and Fumus terrae in English Fumittery The temperament It is hot in the first degree and dry in the second and not cold as the Vulgar conceive for its bitternesse sheweth it to be hot The duration The Hearb will keep good a year and the juice may be kept a year with Oyle of Olives powred on it The inward use Fumiterry purgeth gently Melancholly and salt humours it is opening cleansing and strengthening it purgeth the impurity of the blood and is usefull in obstructions and stoppings of the Liver Spleen and Entrals and doth corrobate or strengthen those parts It purgeth Chollerick humours by Urine and avails in the Itch Scab Leprosie Cancer Fistulaes and foule Diseases of the skin arising from adust humours as also in the French Disease It is profitable in Feavers arising from choller both yellow and black in the Jaundise Quartaine Ague Scorbute or Scurvie killeth Worms and prevails in Chronicall Diseases arising from stoppings of the viscerous parts and in affects of the Hypochonders The powder saith Brasavola of the dryed Hearb given for some time together hath cured a Melancholly person The distilled water cures the yellow Jaundise if three or four ounces be drunk morning and evening for certaine dayes together and avails against the Scab Itch and such like Diseases and being constantly taken it preserveth from the Leprosie Being taken with London Treacle and Bole Armoniack it is good in the Pestilence as a dram or two of Treacle and a scruple of Bole Armoniack mixed in two ounces of the water and so taken Also it dissolveth congealed blood and tumours and provoketh the Termes or Courses in Women The manner of administring it It is given in Potion Decoction in juice and in Powder A Potion against Melancholly and Choller Take of Sene two drams Fumiterry and Wormwood of each as much as you can hold between two or three fingers of Cinamon bruised a dram infuse them in Succory-water and a little Wine for a night strain it and in the strained liquour infuse or steep of Rubarbe cut in thin slices halfe a dram or a dram five or six hours then strain it again and add to it of the Electuary called Diacatholicon halfe an ounce make a Potion A Potion against Melancholly Take of Fumiterry tops of Hops of each halfe a handfull Raisons of the sun stoned halfe an ounce Polypodium of the Oak green bruised halfe an ounce Dodder Epithymum of each three drams Anniseed and Licoris bruised of each halfe a dram Make a decoction in a sufficient quantity of water strain it and infuse or steep therein of Sene two or three drams strain it and dissolve in it Diacatholicon an ounce and as much syrupe of Violets A Potion against the Dropsie Take of the juice of Fumiterry two or three ounces of the powder of the root of Esula prepared eight or ten grains Elder-water an ounce with a little Suger make a Potion A delicate Potion to purge the blood Take of the decoction of Fumiterry made with Whey or Posset-drink five ounces steep therein on hot embers a whole night of Sene halfe an ounce Rubarbe a dram strain it and dissolve in it of syrupe of Roses Laxative or of Manna an ounce make a Potion Against the Scorbute or Scurvy Take the juice of Fumiterry and Scurvygrasse of each two ounces give it in the Spring time in Goats Whey A decoction of Fumiterry made with Posset-drink and four or five ounces thereof taken morning and evening in the Spring time doth much purifie and cleanse the blood Against the Jaundise Take Fumiterry Wormwood of each a handfull boyle it in Posset-drink or Whey and being strained drink of it four ounces morning and evening Or Take two or three ounces of the juice of Fumiterry and give it in two ounces of Ceterach-water Against the Joynt-Gout Take of the juice of Fumiterry three ounces of Hermodactilles in powder two scruples mingle them together and give it in a morning fasting Against the Scab Itch and Leprosie Take of the juice of Fumiterry two ounces and a halfe or three ounces warm it over the fire and scum it then add a little sugar and half a dram of Fennellseed to it and give it in a morning The outward use The juice dropped into the eyes doth clear the eyes and quicken the sight but at the first it will cause the eyes to water the juice also mingled with Gum Arabicke and applied to the lids will cause that the haire that hath once been pulled off shall not grow again A decoction thereof made and the feet bathed therewith cures the Gout or boyled in Wine and so applyed doth the like the juice mixed with the juice of Docks and Oxymel or Vineger cureth the Morphew being anointed therewith Also a Bath made of the same with Mallowes Violets and Dock roots with Barly Bran and Nep cureth the Scab and Itch. The juice mingled with Oyle of Nuts and Vineger cures maligne Scabs and the Leprosie being noynted therewith The distilled water helpeth sores and Ulcers of the mouth being therewith washed and gargled especially if you take four ounces of the water adding thereto one ounce of honey of Roses and wash the mouth therewith The hurtfull quality It is somwhat flatulent or windy therefore 't is good to mix with the juice or decoction some Anniseed or Fennelseed and infused in Whey or given with infusion of Sene it doth work the better The Dose The juice is given from halfe an ounce to two or three ounces The Powder from two drams to foure drams The decoction from three ounces to five or six ounces Of such things as are made thereof The Water The Juice The Conserve The Syrupe both simple and compound Pills of Fumiterry and the Oyle distilled from the dry hearb CHAP. XXX De Galanga Of Galingall GAlingale is a small root of a reddish colour both within and without and smelleth somwhat sweet and groweth in China The Names It is called in Latine Galanga in English Galingall The temperament It is hot and dry in the second or third degree The sorts or kinds There are two sorts the greater and the lesser but the lesser is most in use The best kinde The best is that which is of a reddish colour or brownish within and without heavy and aromaticall or smelling sweet especially being bruised of a hot tast and full of smal holes The Duration It will keep good three or four years The inward Vse Galingal is profitable in all cold diseases of the stomach braine and wombe help 's concoction expels winde and crudities and strengthens the stomach being boyled in wine and taken morning and evening It strengthneth especially a moist brain helps the Vertigo or swimming of the head and avails against the palpitation or beating of the heart and is very usefull in the gnawing of the stomach and easeth the Collick which proceedeth of winde and in the diseases of the Mother
helpeth the pains in the sides and swellings of the Spleen cleanseth also the reins kidneys and bladder of the gravel and stone ingendred therein and hindreth the matter from growing and increasing to be a stone againe and provokes Urine aboundantly The constant use of the powder of the leaves and seeds doth cure the black Jaundies being taken in Wine The seeds purgelike Hellebor say the ancient but sure it is meant of Spartium of Diascorides or of Spanish-broom for our ordinary Brâ—om doth not work so nay we pickle the flowers and seeds in Vinegar calling them Broom-Capers and eat them with meat finding no ill quality in them but are excellent to stir up appetite to meat and helpe obstructions of the Spleen and to provoke Urine as also opens the Uritory parts The seeds and flowers being any way taken doe much preserve from the Gout and Stone The flowers being made into a conserve or preserve with Honey or Sugar and eaten off doe much consume the Kings evill The distilled water of the flowers is profitable for the aforesaid purposes and helpeth Surfets also altereth the fits of Agues being taken before the fit with some Centory water It is most excellent for to help the Kings evil if one ounce of the water be taken morning and evening for a months space or longer if need require The manner of administring it It is given in powder and decoction c. Against the Gout and Arthriticall pains Take of Broom-seeds a dram and a halfe of Mastick Roses and Cinnamon of each a scruple make them into powder and take it in broth this will draw flegmatick humours from remote parts and cause them to be voided both up and downe Or Take of Broom-seeds three drams Roses and Mastich of each a scruple make them into powder and give a dram thereof in broth or in Water and Honey The outward Vse The tops or flowers of Broome bruised and mixed with Hogs-grease cure the ach or pains of the knee as also the Gout or bruise or any swelling by reason of humours falling downe The flowers also bruised and mixed with Honey and Roses or the white of an Egge beaten together and applied consume the hard swelling of the Kings evil The juice of the young branches made into an ointment with Hogs-grease and anointed or the young branches bruised or flowers and heated in oyle or Swines-grease and laid to the sides that are pained either by the winde as in stitches and the like or in the Spleen easeth them in once or twice using it The same boyled in oyle is a safe and sure medicine to kill Lice and other vermine breeding in the head or body The juice boyled with oyle and applyed helpeth the Sciatica or Hip-gout The juice alone or mixed with Honey and applyed cures green wounds and putrified Ulcers The flowers and tops being bruised and applyed help the biting of Serpents and venemous creatures The Oyl distilled from the root and seeds is very usefull to take away spots freckles and deformities of the skin being applyed A decoction of the tops of Broom easeth the Tooth-ach being washed therewith Note that the flowers will not endure any long decocting or boyling The hurtfull quality and corrective means Because it doth offend the stomach and heart let it be given with Roses Mastich Anniseed Fennel-seed or with Honey of Roses The Dose The seeds are given from a dram to a dram and a halfe or two drams The juice of the flowers from a dram to two drams or three drams The powder of the dry flowers from a dram to two drams The powder of the dry root from two drams to halfe an ounce in broth or such like The juice of the root from a dram to halfe an ounce with Hydromel or water and honey Of those things that are made of Broom The distilled water of the branches and flowers Conserve of the flowers Salt of Broom The flowers preserved with Sugar CHAP. 33. De Gentianae radice of Gentian Root GEntian hath leaves like with ribs like Plantain but bigger and more like the leaves of white Hellebore the stalks are full of joynts and hollow the leaves grow by couples at every joynt the flowers are yellow the root is long and thick of the colour of earth without and yellowish within The names It is called in Latine Gentiana and 't is so called from Gentius King of the Illyrians who brought it first into use and credit in English 't is called Gentian and Felwort The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree or hot in the third degree and dry in the second The best sort The best is that which is yellow within sound without holes bitter and not easie to be broken The best saith Pliny is that which is found in Illyricum or Sclavonia The duration It will keep good a yeer or two The inward use The root is chiefly in use It is alexipharmacall opening and attenuating and avails in the Pestilence and contageous diseases against the stinging of venemous beasts and against the biting of mad dogs and preserves from putrefaction also in stoppings of the liver and spleen or for such as are liver-grown as they call it in the Dropsie and suffocation of the Mother and against Convulsions Falling Sicknesse Ruptures pains of the side bruises Wormes and debility or weaknesse of the stomack dissolveth congealed bloud and provokes the courses It brings away the birth after-birth and dead childe it is useful in the cough shortnesse of breath and gripings of the stomack and belly Being steeped in wine and drunk it refresheth those that are over wearied with travel and are by cold and ill lodging abroad grown lame in their joynts It is good against all Agues a decoction thereof being taken or the powder thereof also the decoction thereof helpeth the Stone and stopping of Urine It repelleth winde very much in the body and is profitable in all cold diseases for could we but like this and other bitter things it would effect very much in curing of many desperate diseases The Italians not undeservedly do call the Croswort Gentian Petimborsa quasi mettere in bursa put it in your purse either as Matthiolus saith that it was to be gathered wheresoever it was found and fit to be kept in our purse as ready to be used upon all occasions or that it did by curing of diseases get store of crowns to be put into the purse The distilled water of the leaves flowers and roots hath neer the same vertue and is excellent to cure Agues that proceed from obstructions of humours or bloud and killeth Wormes consumes all viscuous humours in the stomack provokes the courses in women and helpeth a stinking breath you may give two or three spoonfuls of the water morning and evening but before the fit of an Ague you may give two or three ounces thereof The manner of administring it It is given in decoction powder c. Against the biting of a mad
for then it would burn and heat more in the mouth then it doth nor is it likely to be made of Rubarbe for it hath neither the taste nor qualities of Rubarbe besides Rubarbe is a stranger in those places from whence this is brought There are many other opinions about it which I will not trouble the Reader with It is brought unto us here in England from the East-Indies and some say from China The names Among all simples minerals or vegetables I have not observed many to have more names given it then this It is called Cambochia Cambogia Cambugio Gummi de Goa Gummi gutta Gummi Gith Gemon Gummi Indicum Gummi ad Podagram Gummi Peruanum Gutta Geman Gemu Gutta Gamandra Gutta Munda Chattajemon Ghittajemon Ghittajaman Catta Ganma Succus Gambici Succus Crambici crocuspurgans The Temperament It is hot and dry in the first degree The best kinde The best sort is that which looks yellow being pure without any filth or mixture and being wet with water or spittle lookes of a yellow colour and makes the water or spittle very yellow The Duration It will keep good many yeers The inward use It purgeth chiefly water and ferous humours and that without any great violence therefore it is useful in the Dropsy and any kinde of Gout as also in the yellow Jaundise and obstructions of the liver and spleen Many time it provokes to vomit sometimes it workes up and down It is used also against scab itch and such like The manner of administring it It is given in divers formes as in Pils Potions Powders Boles c. Pils Take of Gutta Gummi fifteen grains Species Diambrae three grains oile of Fennell three drops with a little Syrupe of Roses make six or seven Pils Pils against the Jaundise Take of the best Rubarbe in powder a dram of Cambogia six grains with syrup of Succory make Pils A Potion against the tertian Ague Take of Cambogia eight grains syrup of Roses solutive one ounce and a half Endive-water two or three ounces make a Potion and give it before the third fit with physicall observation A Powder against Arthriticall paines Take of creame of Tartar two scruples and a half or a dramme Gutta Gummi foure graines Galingall and Cynamon of each four graines make all into powder and give it in any convenient liquour A Bole usefull in the Yellow Jaundise Take of Gutta gummi ten or twelve graines Conserve of Red Roses two drams make a Bole and give it in a morning fasting drinking a draught of posset-drink after it This I have used with good successe Tabulats or Rolls Take of Gutta gummi seven grains Trosses Ahandale four grains Oil of Anise-seeds two drops with Sugar dissolved in Cynamon-water make Rolls or little Cakes It may be given in broth or other convenient liquour As Take of Cambogia twelve or sixteen grains Creame of Tartar a scruple give it in broth with a little Sugar Against shortnesse of Breath in a Childe Take of Gutta gummi three or four grains Oxymel of Squils half an ounce or an ounce mingle them together and give it If you mix it with salt of Wormwood or with black salt of Ash and give it in the Dropsie you will finde it to work effectually The externall use It was in use with Painters and Picture-drawers before Physicians used it It is useful in Ointments and liniment for the Dropsie The hurtful qualities with the meanes to help it It worketh many times very churlishly and doth much trouble the stomack therefore it is given with Oile of Mace Chymicall or with Oile of Cynamon with species Diambrae with Conserve of Roses c. Also you may give it with Cream of Tartar or Tartar vitriolated in broth as is declared above It must be given with caution in hot and cholerick bodies These things are made of Gutta gummi Extract or Magister of gum Gutta Ghitta Jemu corrected by spirit of Vitriol or Tartar Minderi The Dose The Dose is from five grains to twelve or to a scruple CHAP. 36. De Helleboro albo of white Hellebore WHite Hellebore hath broad leaves with ribs or sinews like unto great Plantain leaves or Gentian the root being dry is black without and white within some as long as ones finger and some shorter The Names It is called in Arabick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Charic from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Charac rupit corrupit and well it may for it is a tearing Medicine and soon breaks the veins in a mans body In Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Copā quòd esu perimat In Latine Helleborus albus Helleborum veratrum album now it is called veratrum à verando unde veratores veraculi and because such Prophets were counted mad and out of their wits therefore it was so called for that it cureth such or quòd mentem vertat Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 25. c. 5. f. 218 In English 't is called white Hellebore or Neese-wort The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree The best kinde The best is the whitest not too hot and biting in tast nor provoking spittle for such doth sooner suffocate and being broken it seemes to smoak or send dust from it the best part is that which is towards the nether end for the uppermost part of the root which is thickest and bulbous like to an Onion-head is good only for Dogs The duration It will keep good many yeers some say thirty yeers The inward use The roots are only in use They are usefull against madnesse and melancholy also against the swimming of the head Falling Sickness Leprosie Cancer Elephancie and foule diseases of the skin as also the quartan Ague It brings down the courses and kils the childe in the wombe it helps the old Cough Dropsie Sciatica Gowt Cramp pains of the joynts and sinews It killeth Mice or Rats being boyled in milke or mingled with flower and Honey or Butter or boyled in milk and set where Flyes Wasps Gnats c. do much resort it kils as many as touch it The manner of administring it It is given in decoction in infusion and in substance take one example in substance Take of white Hellebore in powder a scruple give it in broth milk or Grewell but you were better let it alone Heurnius mentions an Electuary made of white Hellebore which you may finde in his Praxis Medicin f. 242. The outward use It is used to provoke sneesing being put into the nostrils and purgeth the head of superfluous humours and is good in the Lethargie and such like sleepy diseases especially if Marjoram be put to it and made in powder and so snuffed up into the nose it cures the Leprosie Scab Itch and such like foul diseases of the skin being used with Hogs-grease or mixed in oyntments The juice of the root dropped into the eares helps the noise and singing thereof and the root mixed with other things helps the dimnesse of the sight Being boiled
in lie and the head washed therewith it killeth Lice and helpeth the running scabs and sores thereof Boiled in vineger and the mouth washed therewith easeth the toothach the same decoction helpeth also itch and scab in the hands and cleanseth foul sores and ulcers in the legs and other parts put into Fistulaes it taketh away the hardnesse of them A Pessary made thereof and put up brings down the Courses and dead childe The hurtfull quality White Hellebore is a vehement and strangulatory medicine and induceth most terrible symptomes and causeth strong vomiting bringeth Convulsion Cramp Hicop and fainting of the spirits and ofttimes suddenly suffocateth the party therefore I advise the vulgar not to meddle with it but to leave it as a dangerous and deadly medicine But if any will venture to give it let it be with good advise and in very strong bodies Give it with Mead or honied water and sal-niter The safest way is to give it by infusion or decoction and not in substance let it be infused in juice of Quinces or given with the syrup of Quinces or give the decoction with Anise-seed and Cynamon adding a little Sugar thereto Pliny adviseth not to give it in close weather or upon a dark and cloudy day It must not be given to such as have long necks or are crooked and short-breath'd or to women with childe old persons or such as have any vein broken in their breast or lungs or spit bloud or to such as have any ulcer in their lungs If any desire to read more of white Hellebore let them consult with these following Authors Hippocrat Epist lib. de veratri usu f. 532. Oribas lib. 8. c. 2. c. 4 c. 5 6. c. Matthiolus Com. in lib. Diascor 146. fol. 754 755. Paul Aeginet lib. 7. c. 10. f. 433. Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 25 cap. 5. fol. 217 218 219. Pet. Salius divers de affect partic de Rabie c. 19. f. 370 371 372 373. Heurn Prax. med l. 2. f. 240 241 242. Valleriol Observat Med. lib. 3. Observat 9. f. 107 108 109. Marold Pract. Med. f. 378. Forst de Venenis l. XXX Observat 9. Antonius Benivenius de abditis morb causis cap. 51 52. relates of two that died after the taking of white Hellebore the one had a quartane Ague and took it who died within six houres after he was called to the party the other who was troubled with a pain of his stomack two yeers and could not be cured thereof by any Medicines at length white Hellebore was given him which cured him of all diseases for he died within a short time after the taking of it The Dose It is given in substance from ten grains to a scruple or more in decoction or infusion from a dram to two drams Of such things as are made of white Hellebore There are made thereof Oxymel Helleboratum Vomitorium Heurnii CHAP. 37. De Helleboro nigro of black Hellebore TRue black Hellebore hath sundry fair green leaves rising from the root each of them standing on a thick round stiff green stalk about an hand-breadth high from the ground divided into seven eight or nine parts or leaves and each of them dented from the middle of the leaf to the pointward on both sides abiding green all the Winter c. The roots are a number of brownish black strings which run down deep into the ground and are fastened to a thick head of the bignesse of ones finger There are other bastard kindes that are used in stead thereof The names It is called in Latine Helleborus niger veratrum nigrum also Melampodium and that because it was found by Melampos a Shepherd or Southsayer who was first thought to bring it in use and cured the daughters of Praetus therewith which were mad and foolish but by the use of this were brought to their right senses again In English 't is called Black Hellebore and Christmasse-Flower because it flourisheth about that time especially when the Winter is milde The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree The best sort The best is that which is not too new nor too old Heurnius will have it to be laid in leaven twenty dayes before it be used The duration It will keep good two or three yeeres The inward use The roots are most in use especially the barke Black Hellebore purgeth Melancholy and burnt choler as also thick and viscuous flegme from the bloud whereby that is infected and entrails and from remote parts therefore it is very usefuâ—l in pains of the head swimming giddines thereof in the Apoplexie in Melancholy Madnesse Falling Sicknesse Hypochondriack affects hardnesse of the spleen quartane Ague and erratick feavers also against the Dropsie Scab Leprosie Cancer scald Head or scurf Elephancie and such like foul diseases of the skin It is profitable against pain noyse of the eares and against stubborn and contumacious diseases It is counted as an Antidote against the Leprosie Scab Tetter c. hardnesse and swelling of the Spleen old quartane Agues pains of the joynts Aposthumes and the Kings Evil. It quickneth the brain and senses provokes urine and brings down the Courses in women It hath an excellent faculty to draw away whatsoever is mixed with the bloud and causeth it to corrupt and is profitable in a long continued Jaundise Some say it will cause the Devill to be cast out being taken by such as are possessed Thus we may say that although the Devil cannot be cast out by humane art or physicall means yet by taking black Hellebore the melancholy humour is drawn away which is Balneum sedes Diaboli the bath and seat of the Devill and so the Devill is more easily cast out from whence it may rightly say some be called fuga Daemonum But I think the white Hellebore rather deserves this name then the black It is usefull in pains of the belly in the Gowt Sciatica Cramp or Convulsion pains and aches of the joynts or sinews It killeth Wormes especially the leaves of the bastard kinde called Beares-foot Some commend it in Consumptions of the Lungs and of the whole body The extract of black Hellebore is very safe for the Diseases before mentioned The distilled water of the root saith Dorstenius purgeth Melancholy and glutinous humours out of the body if a dram thereof be given with three ounces of white wine and if half an ounce or one ounce of the water of the leaves be taken in a morning fasting it stayeth the flux of the body Dorsten Botanic fol. 111. The manner of administring it It is given in decoction in infusion or in substance In decoction Take of the bark of black Hellebore bruised two drams Anise-seed Fennell-seed of each a dram make a decoction in water straine it of which take four ounces of syrup of Roses an ounce make a Potion In infusion Take of the barke of black Hellebore two drams Anise-seed Fennell-seed of each a dram Cynamon Cloves of each
or with Posset-drink The juice may be boiled for by boiling it loseth of its strong operation and given with Sugar syrup of Violets or in an Egg to sup up but let the pure juice only be given after it hath stood a while to cleer The Dose The juice of the root is given from six drams to an ounce and a half or two ounces The powder of the root is given from a dram to two drams Note that the roots of Ireos do not all work alike for in some climate they work stronger then in another These following are made with Ireos An extract A wine Species Diaireos simpl Diaireos Solomonis Trechisci bechisi albi Oile of Orris CHAP. 42. De Lapide Lazuli Armeno of Azure-stone or Lazul-stone and of Armene-stone LApis Lazuli or Azure-stone is a stone of a skie colour with certain veins of gold or silver in it Armene-stone differs little from the other only having some greenish spots in it They are both found in the same place or digged out of the same Mine only the Lapis Lazuli is found more frequently in the Golden Mines and Lapis Armenus in the Silver Mines also the Lapis Lazuli hath more maturity then the other The names Azure-stone is called in Latine Lapis caeruleus Lapis Lazuli Lapis Cyaneus in English Azure-stone and Lazul-stone The other is called in Latine Lapis Armenius Armenus because it was brought from Armenia but now it is found in Germany in English Armeniack and Armene-stone The Temperament Lapis Lazuli is hot and dry in the third degree or hot in the second degree and dry in the third Lapis Armenus is hot and dry in the beginning of the first degree or hot in the first degree and dry in the second The difference between them Lapis Armenus is more skie-coloured and hath green spots as also sometimes black spots in it and is more brittle and sooner dissolveth Lapis Lazuli is sometimes with Golden and sometimes with Silver veins and is not easily broken The duration They will keep good many yeers without any corruption The inward use Lapis Armenius purgeth black Choler effectually from the brain and is usefull in melancholy diseases as against madnesse melancholy giddinesse of the head pains of the head Falling sicknesse Night-mare against diseases arising from fear and grief c. against the Leprosie Obstructions of the Spleen Cancer black Morphew and all melancholy diseases being twelve times washed or oftner it pureth onely downwards for otherwise it worketh upwards by vomit Lapis Lazuli is of a hot burning nature It hath a double or two-fold formall specifick vertue for by the one it purgeth melancholy and by the other it strengthneth the heart wonderfully and recreates or cheereth the spirits It avails in melancholy diseases stoppings of the Spleen quartane Ague and the Piles being taken with a decoction of Sene and Fennel-seed It cleanseth the veins and bloud from corruption and is profitable for diseases arising from fear grief and sadnesse whereby the heart is oppressed it purgeth the breast and lungs by which means it helps such as are short-breathed and stopt with flegme it drives away melancholy Fevers and preserveth from the Leprosie It brings down the courses in Women See Trallianus de Melancholia cap. 16. f. 127. Editione 1560. These are much of one nature only some hold that Lapis Armenus is the stronger in operation others say that Lapis Lazuli is the stronger in working The manner of administring them They are chiefly given in Pils and Confections Pils against Melancholy Take of Hiera picra and Epithymum of each foure scrupls Agarick and Lapis Armenus of each four scruples Scammony two scruples or a dram Cloves twenty with the juice of Citrons make a masse for Pils The Dose is two scruples or a dram Against faintnesse of the heart and sadnesse Take of Lapis Lazuli prepared two scruples of the juice of Borrage or Buglosse half an ounce of the bone of a Stags heart ten grains in powder mix them together and give it The externall use Lapis Lazuli being hung about the neck as an Amulet keeps children from fearfulnesse sharpens the sight prevents faintings in women with childe and hinders miscarrying but neer the time of their delivery it must be taken away lest it hinder the birth from comming forth It is used in medicines for to cleer the eyes and to take away the haires of the eye-lids The hurtfull quality These being taken unprepared cause vomiting and offend the stomack They are prepared by washing and by burning By washing thus bruise them and make them in fine powder wash them in fair water till the water become cleer after washing Others do thus after they are thus washed they dry them in the Sun or hot place and wash them again and so a third time or oftner if need be and last of all they wash them with Borrage Buglosse or Rose-water or infuse them in the juice of either and being dry keep them to use and when they use them they add thereto Cloves Hiera picra Sal-niter c. By burning thus take Lapis Lazuli what quantity you will burn it in a crucible then make it into powder and wash it first in common water then wash it in Rose-water or Borrage-water dry it and wash it once or twice more or oftner till the water look cleer then dry it and keep it for your use Note that being burned or washed they only work downwards The Dose The Dose being washed is from half a dram to a dram These things are made of them Lapis Lazuli washed or prepared Pils of Lapis Lazuli essence or extract of Magister Oile or liquour CHAP. 43. De Ligno Aloe of Wood-Aloes LIgnum Aloës is a wood somewhat blackish on the outside and more gray and discoloured within brought from India The names It is called in Latine Xylaloës Yyloaloës Agallochum and lignum Aloës in English Wood-Aloës or Wood of the Aloe-tree The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree astringent and a little bitter and of subtill parts The best kinde The best is that which is knobbed or in uneven pieces very brittle and breaking short somewhat black on the outside and more gray and discoloured within of a small sent until it be burned and then it yields a most fragrant odour or small also being put to the fire it will sweat out an oily moisture and that with small bubbles which soon vanish away and being put into water it will swim The Duration It will keep good many yeers The inward use It strengtheneth all the inward parts but especially the brain which it doth wonderfully corroborate and dry therefore it is useful in the Apoplexie Palsie Lethargie and losse of memory also against faintings of the spirits and cold diseases of the heart and stomack for it doth much conduce to weak livers and fainting spirits helpeth the Dysenteries or Lasks and Pleurisies It dryeth up defluxions of
Opopanax Some commend it against the dimnesse of the sight being mixed with other things Opopanax doth much help to the curing of old ulcers and Fistulaes breeds good flesh and especially where the bones are bare and naked and that by a peculiar vertue It is with profit applied to the biting of any venomous creature The hurtfull Quality It must not be given to Women with childe for it destroyes the birth nor to such as have hot diseases It is corrected with Spiknard Mastick c. The Dose The Dose is from halfe a dram to a dram or a dram and a halfe Of such compounds as are made of Opopanax Extract of Opopanax Pills of Opopanax Oile of Opopanax CHAP. 51. De Polypodio of Polypodie POlipodium is a root generally knowne growing on the roots of Trees chiefly on Okes sometimes upon houses and old walls The names It is called in Latine Polipodium also â—ilicula quasi parva filix because the leaves are like Ferne. In English Polipodie and Oke-ferne The temperament Polypodie is hot and dry in the second degree The best kinde The best rootes are those that are fairest or biggest and full of nodes which groweth on Okes and is therefore called Polypodium quercinum The duration These roots will keep good a yeare or two Note that the hotter the Region is where it growes the better it is The inward use Polypodie purgeth adust choler or melancholie and flegme though but gently Therefore it is commended against melancholy as in affects of the Hypochonders quartane Ague also in stoppings of the Liver and Spleen Jaundise Scurvy or Scorbute and in any kinde of Gowt in the Leprosie Scab and foule diseases of the skin It doth much prevaile in the Collick arising from a cold cause and that by a specifick vertue The distilled water both of rootes and leaves is much commended against the quartane Ague being taken many dayes together as also against melancholie troublesome sleep and fearefull dreames And taken with some Sugar-Candy dissolved therein it is good against all the ill affects or diseases of the Lungs Also this water helps the pale colour of the face and purgeth the blood The Salt and Oile of Polypodie are used in the Pleurisie and paines of the side The manner of administring it It is given in decoction broth or infusions for it can hardly be made into powder alone By infusion Take of Sene. Raisons of the sun stoned of each halfe an ounce Maiden-haire Polypodie white Tartar of each three drams of Fumitorie-water Carduus water Buglosse-water of each two ounces let them infuse one night in the morning boile them gently then straine it and to foure ounces of the clearest add Honey of Roses Solutive or Manna two drams or halfe an ounce mixe them together and give it it purgeth gently Freitag aur med f. 256. Against hardnesse of the spleen and melancholy winde it may be given with Epithymum and Salindum or the decoction of an old Cock with Polypodie Sene Epithymum Thyme Dodder black Hellebore Buglosse Creame of Tartar Anise-seed Fennell-seed Raisons of the sun and such like is much commended In diseases of the breast use Polypodie with Figs Raisons of the sun Elecampane Hyssop Maydenhaire Hore-hound c. In the Collick boile it with Anise-seed Fennell-seed c. In the scab arising from burnt choler boile it in Posset-drink or Whey The outward use The juice of the green root or the powder of the root snuffed up into the nose cureth the disease called Polypus A plaister made of the roots and Honey helpeth luxations or bones out of joynt Ruptures chaps of the fingers and the Piles If the root be steeped in Wine foure and twenty houres made sharp with a little spirit of sulphur and then dryed it may be used for a Dentifrice or medicine to make the teeth white and cleane being rubbed therewith The hurtfull quality It is judged by many to be windy and to offend the stomach but daily experience doth manifest the contrary and that it is a safe and gentle medicine fit for all sorts of persons and may be given in any season It is given with Anise-seed Fennel-seed Ginger c. Not because it offends the stomach or hurteth the other inward parts but to help its energie or force Let the Polypodium you use be new for if it be too old it bindes the body Heurn prax med f. 271. The Dose It is given in decoction or infusion from halfe an ounce to two ounces or more Compounds made of Polypodie Salt of Polypodium Extract of Polypodium Syrup of Polypodium Oile of Polypodium CHAP. 52. De Psyllio of Flea-wort FLea-wort is an herb that riseth up with a stalk two foot high or more full of joynts and branches on every side up to the top and at every joynt two small long and narrow whitish green leaves somewhat hairie the seeds are small and black lâ—ke to Fleas in bignesse and colour The names It is called in Latine Psyllium Pulicaria harba and â—ulicaria because it is like unto Fleas and not because it driveth away Fleas for that it will not do In English Flea-wort not Flea-bane The temperament The seeds are cold and moist in the second degree The best seeds The best are the biggest and the fairest heavy that being put into the water they sinke The duration They will keep good a yeare or two in the seeds The inward use The seeds are chiefly in use the missilage or infusion whereof being made with Rose-water or Barley-water and taken with syrups of Violets syrup of Roses or Sugar purgeth choler and thick flegme and is usefull in hot burning Feavers in great thirst and helps to â—eâ—ifie the drynesse of the mouth and throat it helpeth also the hoarsnesse of the voice and diseases of the breast and lungs caused by heat as the Pleurisie and such like It helpeth all inflammations of the head and all hot paines of the joynts The muccilage of the seed made into an Electuary with Marmalade of Quinces with Popie-seed and Sugar-pellets or Sugar-Candy and so taken doth temper the heat and roughnesse of the throat and tongue and stayeth hot fluxions or rheumes flowing downe In hot burning Agues it quencheth thirst and abates heat being taken with syrup of Violets or Barley-water and purgeth also choler gently The seeds torrified or dryed and taken with Plantaine-water stayeth the flux of the belly and helpeth the corrosions or gripings of the belly that come by reason of hot cholerick sharp and malignant humours or by the super-purgation or over-working of any violent medicine such as cammonie or the like The seeds being kept on the tongue easeth the cough and helpeth the drynesse thereof proceeding from heat It dothnso wonderfully coole that saith Fernelius being cast into hot boyling water it presently cooleth it Fernel meth med lib. 6. cap. 1. fol. 143. The outward use The seeds bruised or the herbe and mixed with the juice of House-leeke or
any other convenient liquour Being boiled in Wine and applied it taketh away the black and blew spots that come by bruises or falls or oile wherein Rubarbe hath been boiled taketh away black and blew spots The hurtfull quality with the corrective means Rubarbe is hurtful to those that have very hot and dry bodies as also to such as are hectical or troubled with the Strangury It is corrected with Spicknard Squinanthum or Cynamon especially where you desire more to strengthen then to purge If you give it to purge and open obstructions or stoppings give it in Whey Posset-drink Endive or Succory-water or in White Wine being first infused therein The Dose The Dose in substance is from a dram to two drams in infusion from two drams to half an ounce The compounds made of Rubarbe Extract of Rubarbe Trosses of Rubarbe Pils of Rubarbe Syrup of Succory with Rubarbe Syrupus Augustanus vel de Rhabarbaro Syrupus Diasereos Rhabarbarum conditum Syrupus Magistralis ad Melancholiam Oile of Rubarbe Whether Rubarbe being dried or burnt may be used in the Dysenterie or Bloudy-Flux Although many learned Physicians give counsel to dry or burne Rubarbe and so to give it in the Bloudy-Flux and the greater the Flux is the more to dry or rather to burn it because hereby it bindes the more yet surely Rubarbe being much torrified or burnt hath a sharp and biting qualiity whereby it doth rather increase the Flux then stop it Massaria f. 478. Rondel Meth. cur Morb. f. 457. Amatus lucit cur Med. Cent. 2. f. 176. Schroderus Pharm Med. Chym. lib. 4. f. 235. If you would use Rubarbe to binde chiefly it is best to cast away the first decoction or infusion then to boil it gently and to make a strong expression or straining thereof and so to give it CHAP. 54. De Rubia tinctorum of Madder MAdder hath many long four-square reddish stalkes trailing on the ground rough or hairy and full of joynts at every joynt come forth long and somewhat narrow leaves standing like a star or the rowell of a spur about the stalks rough and hairy towards the tops whereof come forth many small pale yellow flowers the root is very long and red The names It is called also Rubia tinctorum and all from the colour because it dieth Wooll or Cloth into a red colour The temperament Madder-roots are hot in the second degree and dry in the third and have an opening quality and also an astringent property The best The best are the reddest and fairest roots not too old The duration The roots will keep good two or three yeers The inward use Madder bringeth down the courses in women and provoketh urine bringeth away the birth and after-birth cureth the Jaundise openeth the stoppings of the Speen Liver and Gall and diminisheth the Melancholy humour Some have reported that it provokes urine so much that it causeth bloud to come forth with it but this is only the colour of the root which being taken into the body doth cause the urine to look like bloud as Rubarbe doth make it look yellow The same taken in decoction or powder dissolveth congealed bloud in the body and is good for such as have falne or are bruised and is much used in vulnerary or wound-drinks It is good for such as have the Dropsie Palsie Sciatica or Hip-gowt The seeds of Madder taken with Vineger and Honey helpeth the swelling and hardness of the Spleen It is used also to amend or help the ill colour of the face and it helpeth Ulcers of the mouth if to the decoction be added a little Alome and Honey of Roses The juice of the root or decoction thereof is given to such as are hurt with venomous beasts and preserveth the body from putrefaction It is very good for such as have the Itch or Scab The manner of administring it It is given in decoction and in powder A decoction to provoke the Courses Take of Madder-roots bruised two ounces of Licoris bruised an ounce of Mugwort two handfuls of Rue half a handful boil these in three pintes of White Wine till a pinte or more be consumed then strain it and sweeten it with Sugar Give a good draught thereof warm morning and evening A powder against falls or bruises Take of Madder-roots two drams Mumme a dram Rubarbe half an ounce make them into powder and give a dram for a Dose in Wine The outward use Madder-roots bruised especially green and applyed to any part that is discoloured with Freckles Morphew the White-scurfe or such like deformities of the skin cleanseth them throughly and taketh them away especially if Vineger be mixed therewith or the powder of the root mixed with a little juice of Garlick Oile and a little Honey cureth any Itch Scab or foulness of the skin being anointed therewith The juice of the root dropped into the eares mitigates the pain thereof The roots applyed as a Pessary or the powder of the root made up with Oile of Savin and applied brings away the birth and after-birth The leaves of Madder have a speciall property to colour the haire of the head Dyers use it much saith Plinie Nat. Hist lib. 24. c. 11. fol. 192. to colour their Wooll and Woollen-cloth so do Curriers about their skins and Leathers The hurtfull qualities It must not be given to Women with childe nor often to such as have hot and dry bodies The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to two scruples or more in decoction from tvvo drams to half an ounce CHAP. 55. De Sagapeno of Gum Sagapenum THe Gum Sagapenum is the juice of a kinde of Ferula growing in Media The names It is called in Latine Sagapenum and Serapinum The temperament It is hot in the third degree and dry in the second The best kinde The best is that which doth smell like Garlick or between Laser and Galbanum bright and cleer of a yellowish colour without but white within and will soon dissolve in water or Vineger also sharp in taste The duration It will keep good four or five yeers The inward use Sagapenum purgeth thick grosse and tough humours as also watery from the stomach belly wombe reins brain nerves joynts and lungs Therefore it is profitable in the Dropsie old cough shortnesse of breath pain of the head as in the Megrim Falling-Sicknesse Palsie Cramp or Convulsion trembling of the joynts in stoppings and tumours of the Spleen in the quartane Ague Collick in the stopping of the Urine and in suppression of the Courses in Women It is useful in suffocation or rising of the Mother and against the stinging of venomous beasts or poyson taken into the body The manner of administring it It is chiefly given in Pils Pils against the Dropsie Take of Sagapenum moistned or dissolved in the juice of Elecampane two scruples Trosses of Alhandal a scruple Diagredium five grains with syrup of Roses make a masse or lump for two Doses The externall use Being dissolved in Wine
and applyed it easeth paines of the side the cough and shortnesse of breath and is commended against the Pleurisy but I question whether it be not too hot except in a bastard Pleurisy If it be dissolved in Vineger and the juice of Rue and applyed it helpeth Contusions and bruises and used with Oile of Rue to the back it driveth away cold paines thereof Being dissolved with Vineger of Squills and applyed it dissolveth the hardnesse of the spleene as also the Kings evill or Scrophulaes bred under the eares and neare the throat and those hard nodes that arise in the joints after the Gowt with the juice of Rue or Fennell it cleareth the sight and takes away all spots therein Dissolved with Oile and applyed it strengtheneth those members that are out of joint or the strained members and joynts It draweth forth Thornes or splinters and breaketh any Botch or Boile Being put into Glysters it easeth the Collick and a Pessary made thereof and put up bringeth downe the after-birth and the courses A fumigation thereof with the horne of a Goat is commended against the Lethargie The hurtfull quality with the corrective meanes It hurts the Liver and Stomach therefore it is corrected with the third part of Mastick Cynamon Ginger Spicknard c. It must not be given to women with Childe for it kills the birth The best way to prepare it for the diseases of the braine nerves breast joynts and cold diseases of the Wombe is to dissolve it in Wine and with Aqualangii c. to draw forth its vertue in the manner of an extract The dose The dose is from halfe a dram to a dram The compounds made of Sagapenum Pils of Sagapenum extract of Sagapenum oile thereof CHAP. 56. De Sambuco Ebulo of Elder and Wall-wort or Dane-wort THe Elder and Dane-wort being of such affinity I shall joyne hem together in this Chapter The Dane-wort is very like Elder but much lower in growth The names Elder is called in Latine Sambucus from Sambix the first finder of it Dane-wort is called Low-Elder in Latine Ebulus in English Wall-wort Dane-wort or Dwarfe-Elder The temperament They are hot and dry in the second or third degree and the Wall-wort is somewhat hotter then Elder The duration They will keep good a yeere The inward use There is in use the flowers leaves inward barke or rinde the Seeds Berries and the spongie substance They are profitable in the Dropsie joynt-Gowt Agues stopping and swellings of the spleen stone of the Kidneys affects of the Wombe and St. Anthonies fire They purge tough flegme water and thin choler chiefly from the belly and joynts They are good in the Scorbute or Scurvy and kill wormes in the stomach or belly The first shoots or young leaves of the Elder boiled in Broth or Posset-drink draweth forth strongly choler and tough flegme the tender leaves eaten with Oile and Salt do the same The inner bark boiled in water and given to drink worketh much more violently and the berries also green or dry expell the same humour and is often given with good successe to help the Dropsie by evacuating great plenty of waterish humours the bark of the root also boiled in Wine or the juice thereof drunk worketh the same effect but more effectually then either leaves or fruit do the juice of the root taken provoketh vomit mightily and purgeth the watery humours of the Dropsie The decoction of the root cureth the biting of the Adder as also of a mad Dogge and bringeth downe the courses of women The decoction of the Berries in Wine being drunk provoketh Urine The powder of the seeds first prepared in Vineger and then taken in Wine halfe a dram at a time for certaine dayes together is a meanes to abate and consume the fat flesh of a corpulent body and to keep it leane The Berries so prepared and as much with Tartar and a few Anise-seeds put to them a dram of this powder given in Wine cureth the Dropsie by purging very gently The dry flowers are often used in decoction for Glisters to expell winde and easeth the Collick for they lose their purging quality which they have being green and reteine an attenuating The flowers in Ale or Beere are very good for such as have the Dropsie being put into a bag The flowers of both provoke sweat The Vineger made of the flowers of Elder by Ma ceration and setting in the Sunne is much more used in France then any where else and is gratefull to the stomach and effectuall to quicken the appetite and helpeth to cut grosse and tough flegme in the breast The distilled water of the inner bark of the Tree or of the root is very powerfull to purge the waterie humours of the Dropsie or Tympany taking it fasting and two hours before supper The dose is two ounces in the morning and as much before supper or take foure ounces in the morning The water of the flowers also is good in the Dropsie and openeth the stoppings of the Liver Spleen and Reines it driveth away the tertian Ague and is good against melancholy and strengthneth the stomach The dose is three or foure ounces fasting The Mushromes of the Elder called Jewes-eares are much used being dryed and boiled with Ale or milke with Columbine-leaves for sore throats and with a little Pepper and Pellitory of Spain in powder to put up the Uvula or palate of the mouth when it is fallen downe The young and tender branches of Dane-wort and leaves thereof taken with Wine helpeth those that are troubled with the stone and gravell The juice of the root is a strong purger of watery humours and excellent for the Dropsie The leaves boiled in water and given to drink helpeth the dry Cough and the Quinsie The dryed Berries or Seeds beaten to powder and taken in Wine fasting worketh the same effect as the juice of the root doth The powder of the seeds taken in the decoction of Ground-pine and a little Cynamon to the quantity of a dram at a time is an approved remedy both for the Gowt joint-aches and Sciatica as also for the French disease for it easeth the paines by withdrawing the humours from the places affected and by drawing forth those humours that are fluent peccant and offensive the powder of the root worketh the same effect The root steeped in Wine all night and a draught thereof given before the fit of an Ague doth much prevaile to abate the fit or to take it quite away especially taken the second or third time if need be In a word what hath been said of Elder may be said of Dane-wort only Dane-wort is more forceable or powerfull then Elder The manner of administring them They are given in powder Boles and decoction A Powder against the Hip-gowt and joynt-gowt Take Dane-wort-seed Turbith Hermodactyles Sene Tartar of each a dram of Cynamon two drams make all into fine powder The dose is foure scruples in any convenient liquor A
hurtfull to the stomach and liver that is hot as also bringeth gripings weakneth the body let them be given with Anise-seed Carraway-seed Cynamon Mace c. Wal-wort is not to be given but to such as have strong bodies The dose The juice of the leaves or rinde is given from halfe an ounce to an ounce or two ounces The juice of the berries from two drams to six drams The seeds from halfe a dram to a dram The distilled water from two ounces to four ounces The powder of the bark or rinde from halfe a dram to a dram Of such things as are made of them From the flowers of Elder are made these following The distilled water both of the flowers and leaves Spirit of Elder-flowers Wine of Elder-flowers Syrupus acetosus Sambucinus Honey of Elder Conserve of Elder Oile both by infusion and distillation From the berries Rob-Sambuci or Pulp of the berries Tincture Extract Wine Spirit water distilled Oile From the tender branches Conserve From the leaves middle rinde roots and Jewes-eares Distilled water Syrup Oile From Dane-wort are made the distilled water the spirit from the flowers Rob-Ebuli or the pulp of the berries Tincture or essence CHAP. 57. De Santalis of Sanders THese are woods that are brought to us from the Indies The names and kindes There are three sorts of Sanders white red and yellow The white is called in Latine Santalum and Sandalum album the red Santalum rubrum the yellow Santalum citrinum or flavum Difference betweene Brasill-wood and red Sanders They differ thus 1 They grow farre one from the other 2 Sanders is neither sweet in taste nor giveth any dye as the Brasil doth 3 Red-Sanders is more ponderous and weighty then Brasil and vvill sink in vvater 4 It is a harder and shorter grained vvood and more brittle in breaking short The temperament They are cold and dry in the second or third degree Some say they are hot the red is more cooling and binding The yellow is the best the next is the vvhite the red is least of use The duration They vvill keep good three or foure yeares or longer The inward use They are Cephalicall Hepaticall and Cardiacall that is good for the Head Liver and Heart to open the obstructions of the Liver and to coole the heat thereof and to ease the paine of the head especially the white and the yellovv They are good for faintings of the heart and paâ—pitation o beating thereof also for weak and faint stomackes which comes through heat good against melancholy and procureth mirth and alacrity They are used to stay and binde the spermaticall flux in men and women for which purpose either the powder taken in a reare Egge or mixed with other things for the purpose or steeped in red Wine and kept in a hot Balneo or in hot Embers close stopped all night and strained forth and drunk in the morning and evening both stay the Gonorrhea or running of the Reines in men and the whites in women They are good in hot diseases as in burning Fevers inflammations of the Liver and such like The Indians saith Gerarde do use the decoction made in water against hot burning Agues and the overflowing of the courses Erisipelas the Gowt and all inflammations especially if it be mixed with the juice of Night-shade House-leek or Purslane They are put in Collises and Jellies and all delicate meats which are good to strengthen and revive the spirits The red Sanders have an astrictive and strengthning faculty but are not cordiall as the other two they are used in divers Medicines and meats both for their faculty and pleasing red colour which they give to them as in savvces Pies c. The red is often used to stay defluxions of thin rheume from the head and to coole hot inflammations hot Gowts and to temper the heat of hot Agues The manner of administring them They are given in Powder Electuary and Pils A powder against the Pestilence Take of the three Sanders of each two drams Cloves and Cynamon of each a dram Harts-horn two drams make them into a fine powder and take thereof morning and evening half a dram in Carduus-Water An Electuary against the Whites in Women Take of old Conserve of Red-Roses four ounces White and Red Sanders in powder a dram and a half with syrup of Water-lillies make an Electuary and take of it morning and evening as much as a Nutmeg The outward use It is used outwardly in Catarrhes or Rheumes pains of the head against vomiting and in Epithemes and Fomentations against the intemperate heat of the Liver They are used against the Gowt and hot inflammations with the juice of Purslane and Plantain or Housleek Applied with Rose-water to the temples it giveth ease to the head-ach and keepeth back the flowing of humours to the eyes Being applyed to the breasts of Maids or Women mixed with the juice of Purslane abateth their greatnesse and hindereth their over-much growing The Dose The Dose is from a scruple to two scruples Of such things as are made of Sanders Extractum gummosum Species Diatrion santalon Trosses of Sanders Ointment of Sanders Cerote of Sanders CHAP. 58. De Sarcocolla of Sarcocoll SArcocolla is a Gum of a plant growing in Persia bitter in taste and in very small pieces and powder like the small pieces of Frankincense and little bigger then Poppy-seed The names In Latine Sarcocolla in English Sarcocoll The temperament It is hot and dry in the first degree or hot in the second degree and dry almost in the same The best kinde The best is that which is new inclining to white for being old it waxeth reddish or of a pale colour bitter in taste of a porous substance viscous and easie to be dissolved in water The duration It will keep good five or six yeers The inward use It purgeth flegme both crude and tough chiefly from the brain eyes nerves joynts breast and lungs therefore it profits and avails in coughs and shortnesse of breath especially in old persons that are flegmatick also in all pains of the joynts It is thought by some to fatten the body and to increase sperm or seed The manner of administring it It is given in powder or in pils The externall use It is used outwardly against inflammations of the eyes with milk and the white of an Egg and to stay Rheumes and Catarrhes Defluxions and Rednesse thereof also against all spots in the Eyes It cleanseth corrupt Ulcers and incarnateth or breedeth good flesh also closeth up Wounds and Ulcers A fume made thereof is profitable aganist Tenesmus a disease when one is often provoked to go to stool Being mixed with Saffron and Honey it heals Scrophulaes or hard swellings called the Kings Evill in the neck after they are sufficiently drawn It is used against bleeding of the Nose or to stay the bleeding of Wounds and healeth Ulcers in the Eares being mixed with Hydromel or Water and Honey and instilled therein A powder for
accord when it is broken gathered and dried and afterwards relented or made soft and laid as a plaister to the bottom of the belly draweth forth watery humours by siege The hurtfull quality and the corrective meanes Diascorides and some of the Ancient write that it is an enemy to the stomach and sharp in taste and therefore adviseth that it be boiled in broth of fat meat to hinder the strength of its working and they say it must be given only to strong bodies And happily it might operate so with them by reason of the climate where it did grow But that which we use now is a most safe medicine and may be given to children and weak persons as daily experience doth manifest It may be given with Cynamon Ginger Anise-seed Mastich or Sugar also with Rubarbe and Cubebs for Rubarbe is counted an excellent consort for it In decoction it is given with Raisons and Anise-seed The Dose In powder it is given from halfe a dram to a dram and a halfe or two drams In decoction from halfe an ounce to an ounce and a halfe The juice is given from two drams to halfe an ounce Of such things as are made thereof Extract of Seabinde-weed Succus inspissatus CHAP. 62. De Succino of Amber PLinie saith Amber issueth forth from trees like as Gum in Cherrie-trees and Rosin in Pines Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 37. Cap. 3. f. 607. But it is generally taken for a kinde of liquid Butimen whose springs and fountaines are in the Germane Seas and running into pieces some greater and lesser then others and is taken up with Iron-hooks being soft under water but hardning in the Aire like Corall The names In Latine Electrum Chrysolectrum Glessum Resina terrae but the usuall Latine names are Succum Carabe Charabe and Karabe in English 't is called Amber The temperament Amber is hot in the first degree and dry in the second The best kinde Although Authors mention three sorts yet there are but two sorts in shops the white and the yellow the best is the whitest and that which is most cleare and being rubb'd will draw straws unto it and gives a sent like Bitumen The duration It will keep good many yeares The inward use Amber strengtheneth the heart and stomach stayeth vomiting dryeth up moist humours in the stomach and hinders the breeding thereof and stayeth the flux of the belly It is usefull in cardiack passions and palpitations or beatings of the heart It recreates or refresheth the braine and is profitable in Rheumes or Catarrhes in the Falling Sicknesse Apoplexie Lethargie Swiming of the head suffocation and inflation or windinesse of the Mother It stayeth the flowing of blood and seed provokes the termes in women and causeth a speedy delivery It helpeth women that have the whites and men that have the running of the Reines for it stoppeth the flux and strengthneth the parts very much Being taken in Saxifrage-water it is a sure remedy for such as have their urine stopped It is very good for old coughs and those that are falling into a Consumption being mixed with conserve of Red Roses and so taken morning and evening and is profitable for joynt-aches and the running Gowt if it be taken vvith tvvo or three ounces of the decoction of Lignum vitae The chymicall oile of Amber taken inwardly availeth against the Pestilence and contagious aire if three or foure drops be taken for divers mornings together in Carduus or Angelica-water It helpeth the biting of a mad Dog and is excellent to preserve from the Apoplexie Falling Sicknesse svviming of the head and Night-mare taken in Piony-water Betony-vvater Lavender Rosemary black-Cherry-vvater or in Lily Convally-vvater or Sage-vvater or taken in Wine especially if it be taken about the nevv of the Moone in the morning fasting for this oile is a singular secret to comfort the animall vitall and naturall spirits If five or six drops be taken in Sage-water it restoreth the speech lost It dryeth up Rheumes and sharpneth the sight being taken in Fennel-water or Eye-bright-vvater It helpeth trembling of the heart and faintings of the spirits shortnesse of breath taken vvith Horehound-vvater and the Pleurisie vvith vvater of Sage of Jerusalem It helpeth spitting of blood taken vvith Tornentill-vvater It helpeth a cold stomach and vomiting being taken vvith Mint-vvater It helpeth the intemperate frigidity or coldnesse of the Liver and Spleene taken in Spleenwort-water or Wormwood-water and helpeth such as are melancholy if it be taken in Borrage or Buglosse-water Given in Endive-water or a few drops thereof taken in the pap of a roasted Apple with a leafe of Gold cureth the Jaundise It doth wonderfully ease the stone and urine stopt in the Kidneys or Bladder if a few drops be given in Saxifrage or Parsley-water It stirs up to Venery taken with Diasatyrion in Wine It helpeth the Running of the Reins taken with water or syrup of Purslan It easeth the Collick taken with Cynamon-water or Aqua-vitae It cureth the Dysentery or bloudy Flux taken in Tormentil-water It killeth Wormes taken in tansey-Tansey-water It helpeth the joynt-Gowt and Sciatica or Hip-Gowt taken with the decoction or Lignum sanctum as also trembling and the cramp It much helpeth the affects of the wombe as the suffocation and precipitation or â—aâ—ling down thereof as also barrennesse taken in Minch or Penny-royall-water or Anise-seed-water and easeth paines in travell bringeth away the childe and after-birth provoketh the termes and bringeth avvay the dead childe given in Savin-vvater especially if five or six drops thereof be given and then as much more vvithin halfe an hour if need require The manner of administring it It is given in povvder in Electuaries c. A powder to hasten the birth Take of Cynamon halfe a dram or a dram Cassia lignea tvvo scruples Saffron half 〈◊〉 dram of white Amber a scruple make all into powder and gâ—eâ— in Savin-water An Electuary against the pain and heat of the stomach c. Take of conserve of red Roses two ounces Marmelate of Quinces an ounce Mastick in powder two drams red Corall in powder a dram a half oile of Amber a scruple with syrup of Quinces make an Electuary Take of it morning and evening before meat and after meat It is excellent also to stay vomiting and the flux of the belly Doring de ol succinii viribus f. 73. The outward use Amber being burned on hot coals and the fume thereof received to the head doth help moist distillations thereof falling on the eyes teeth nose or stomach The fume thereof saith Doringius cured an old man of the Apoplexie that was judged to be certainly dead Doring de ol Succinii viribus f. 71. Being worn about the neck it cures Agues and helpeth swellings of the throat and almonds and is good in times of infection especially used with salt and hinders defluxions A fume thereof doth much help to cure the Falling Sicknesse and is good in the Pestilence made into powder and mixed with Honey
poyson and is good to cure wounds The herbe root and water are in use It is much used in the pestilence and other malignant diseases as small pox measles spotted feavers and purples driving forth by sweat any contagion especially if a flux of the belly be joyned with these diseases It is usefull in Catarrhes to dry up rheumes and in the French disease It cureth the bloody flux and all other fluxes of the belly and stoppeth the spitting of blood pissing of blood vomiting and the over-flowing of womens courses The powder of the root or the decoction thereof is very available against Ruptures bruises or fals and dissolveth congealed blood and easeth the paines that happen thereupon It helpeth also the stoppings and hurts of the lungs and liver and is good against the Jaundise and cureth the tertian Ague The decoction of the root in wine being drunk hindereth abortion or miscarrying in women with childe the leaves killeth wormes in children and it is a great help to such as cannot keep their water if they put thereto some juyce of Plantain A dram of rhe root in powder taken in water wherein red hot iron or steel hath been quenched is a good remedy for such as have the running of the reines especially the body being first well purged The leaves seeds or roots are good to put in decoctions for wound-drinks In a word it is most excellent in â—he time of the plague or pestilence The distilled water of Tormentill taken in a morning fasting is lent against venome or any contagion and is a good preservative in times of infection The dose is two or three ounces The same taken morning and evening cures all inward ulcers in the body stayeth the flux of the belly especially the Dysentery or bloudy flix It doth comfort the brain heart stomach liver and spleen as also the whole body and cureth most Agues The best way to still the water is to steep the herb all night in wine and then distil it Balneo Mariae The manner of administring it It is given in Powder Electuary Potions and Decoctions A powder against the Pestilence Take Tormentil root Dyttany of each a dram Sorrel and Citron-seed of each a dram and a half Ginger Cynamon Saffron white and red Sanders of each half a scruple Bole Armoniack and terra sigillata or sealed earth of each four scruples Make all into powder and give half a dram thereof or more in Carduus-water and let them sweat after it An Electuary against the Pestilence Take of Tormentil-root in powder two drams of the three kindes of Sanders in powder of each a scruple Wood-Aloes in powder half of a scruple Angelica-root in powder a dram conserve of Red Roses and of Rosemary of each two ounces and a half with syrup of Gillowflowers make an Electuary Give of it morning and evening about a dram A Potion against Infection Take of Tormentil-root in powder half a dram London-Treacle a Dram Carduus-water an ounce and a halfe mix them together and give it warm let the party sweat after it The outward use The decoction of the root is good to cleanse sores and wounds and to dry them up the root or the juice may be put into ointments for Wounds and Ulcers The root of Tormentil and Pellitory of Spain and burnt Allome of each a like quantity made up into a paste and put into a hollow tooth doth not only asswage the pain but stayeth the flux of humours which was the cause thereof The decoction thereof helpeth rotten Sores and Ulcers of the mouth or secret parts It dissolveth all Knots Kernels and Hardnesse about the Eares Throat Jawes and the Kings Evill if the leaves and roots be bruised and laid thereunto The same also easeth the pains of the Hip-gowt by restraining the sharp humours that flow thereunto The juice of the leaves and roots used with a little vineger is a speciall remedy against the running sores in the head or other parts scabs also and the itch or any such eruptions in the skin proceeding of salt and sharp humours the same is effectual for the Hemorrhoides or Piles if they be washed and bathed therewith or with the distilled water of the herb and roots It dryeth up sharp Rheumes that fall from the head to the eyes and cause rednesse pain and watering itchings or the like if a little prepared Tutia or white Amber be used with the distilled water hereof The powder of the root doth wonderfully stay the bleeding of the nose or any wound or vomiting The same mixed with Vineger Oile of Roses and a little Wax being made into a plaister and laid to the back doth prevent Abortion in Women or miscarrying If women sit over the decoction thereof it is a good help to prevent miscarrying especially if after the use thereof they make a plaister with the powder and Honey laying it to the navel and back The distilled water being injected doth much help to cure the Whites or Reds in Women The powder of the root mixed with Oil of Camomile easeth the pains of the joynts The distilled water doth cleanse Wounds Fistulaes Cankers and Sores being washed therewith and doth much help to the speedy cure of them and the water also alone doth cleer the sight and stay the flux of Rheume being washed therewith A Plaister to prevent miscarrying in Women Take of the plaister called Emplastrum contra rupturam two ounces the root of Tormentill in powder two drams Oile of Roses or Quinces half an ounce make a plaister thereof and lay it to the back warm The hurtfull quality It must not be given in very dry bodies nor to such as are much bound in their bodies The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to a dram in decoction from a dram to three drams Of such things as are made thereof The distilled Water Dioscorâ—ium c. CHAP. 65. De Turpetho of Turbith TVrbith is the root of a certain plant brought us from beyond the Sea neither have any set down certainly what it is The names It is called in Latine Turpethum Turpetum Turbitum Turbith in English also Turbith quasi turbatorium because it troubleth the stomach The temperament It is hot in the third degree and dry in the second or hot and dry in the second degree The best kinde The best is that which is white within and hollow like a Cane or Reed Gummy with an ash-coloured bark or out-side smooth and not rugged easie to be broken fresh not worm-eaten and not very great or thick which is not so good The duration It will keep good three or four yeers The inward use Turbith purgeth thick viscid and flegmatick humours from the stomach veins joynts nerves and breast moreover it draweth away water in the Dropsie It is profitable in the Gowt in long continued Agues comming from grosse and tough humours and in all diseases arising of thick flegm Some say it purgeth first and primarily flegm and then somewhat
of Lettice stalkes candyed sixe drams of the seeds of Agnus Castus a dram and a halfe of Rue seede halfe a dram of Corall a dram of Crystall halfe a dram of Camphor a scruple make those things in powder that are to be powdered and with syrupe of Purslane make an electuary Take often of it as much as a nut The outward use It helpeth hardnesse stoppings Apostumations and Ulcers of the Matrix if women sit in the Decoction thereof or receive the hot fume thereof The leaves with butter dissolve the swelling of the Cods being applyed applied to the head it easeth the paine thereof and is good in the Lethargy being boyled in salt water with Sage and Smallage and the hinder part of the head washed therewith the same used to the limbs taketh away wearinesse upon travaile or labour the leaves are good for wounds The seeds used with Barly meale doth mollifie hard swellings and break Impostumes and with Niter and Vineger it helpeth freckles of the face used with Hony it helpeth the sores in the mouth and throat With Vineger and Oyle it is good for the Frensy and Lethargy The Leaves used in a fume and also strowed drive away Serpents and being laid on cure their bitings Also strowed in the bed or carried about neere the skin it causeth chastnesse The seeds laid on with water doth heale the clifts of the fundament The hurtfull quality It troubleth the head and bringeth paine thereof especially when it is greene The Dose The seede is given from a scruple to a dram Medicines made thereof Syrupe of Agnus Castus Trosses of Agnus Castus CHAP. 68. De Erugine of Verdigrease VErdigrease is the rust of Copper or Brasse of a greene colour The Names It is called in Latine Aerugo Aes viride and Flos aeris in English Verdigrease The Temperament It is hot and dry in the fourth degree The best kinde The best is that which is greenest and cleane from drosse The Duration It will keepe good many years The outward use It is of a sharp corroding quality stoppeth freting spreading soars taketh away superfluous flesh in any Ulcer or Fistula and eateth out the callous or hard flesh thereof and is good in Ulcers sores of the Eyes mixed with Hony and used it consumes the fleshinesse in the nose called Polypus and helps the Disease in the fundament called a Fig. It cures Cankers and sores in the mouth being used with Hony and Plantaine water for a Gargarisme It is thought Achilles first used this Medicine in the cure of Telephus and therefore Achilles is commonly painted scraping off the rust of his Spheare head with his Sword into the wound of the said Telephus It is a drying astringent and corrosive Medicine It cures Kibes in cattell being mixed with Soap or Hogs-greace Pliny Nat. Hist lib. 25. cap. 5. fo 216. A water against Vlcers of the Privities Take of Raine water foure pints of white Candy halfe a pound Boyle them a little then adde of Verdy-grease in powder two ounces and keep it to use An Oyntment for the same Take of white Camphor oyntment foure ounces of Aloes an ounce burnt Allum a dram and a halfe Verdigrease a dram Oyle of Roses one ounce Tutty three drams Camphon sixe graines let those things that are to be powdered be made in powder and make all into an Oyntment The hurtfull quality It is a sharp corroding and burning Medicine therefore there must be care in the use of it Of such Medicines as are made thereof Vnguentum viride Vnguentum Apostolorum Vnguentum Aegyptiacum Greene Treat Tinctura viridis c. CHAP. 69. De Allio of Garlick The Names IT is called in Latine Allium in Egnlish Garlicke and poore mans Treacle The Temperament It is hot and dry in the fourth degree and raiseth Blisters being applyed to the Skinne The Duration It will keep a yeare or longer being taken up dry The inward use Garlick being eaten heateth the Body maketh thin thick and grosse humours cutteth such as are tough and clammie digesteth and consumeth them also openeth obstructions or stoppings and is an enemy to cold poysons and to the biting of venemous Beasts and therefore is by Gallen and others rightly called The Country-mans Treacle It taketh away the roughnesse of the throat helpeth an old Chugh provoketh Urine killeth Wormes expelleth Winde helpeth the Collick cures the Dropsy proceeding from a cold cause provoketh the courses in women and stirreth up Venus or Lust but dryeth the seed of Generation and is most excellent for a cold and moist stomach and to stir up naturall heate Zacutus Lucitanus de Prax. Med. Admir lib. 2. Obser 11. relates of an old man who in the winter season lying in the cold some time had the innate or naturall heate of his stomach almost gon and his appetite even lost and decayed who after many hot Medicines used yet all in vaine at length he was cured with Garlick and Hony It is a good Preservative against the contagious and pestilent ayre A Decoction thereof made with Origan and Wine being drunke killeth Wormes Lice and Nits It is profitable against the biting of a mad Dog and for such as are inclined to the Palsey for shortnesse of breath and to dry up Rhume and also for the cold Head-ach It is commended against the Consumption of the Lungs pissing of blood and for such as cannot hold their water The distilled water is good for the same Diseases and for the Quinsey The milke wherein Garlick hath been boyled is good for wormes in Children Give two ounces of the water Morning and Evening for a week if need be The outward use The Decoction thereof used for a Bath or Fume to sit over brings downe the flowers and after-birth It cureth the bitings of mad Dogs or the biting of any other venimous creature being bruised with Rue and applyed It taketh away the Morphew Tetters and cures scabbed heads in Children Dandraffe and Scurfe tempered with Hony and the parts anoynted therewith The juyce killeth Lice and Nits if the head be noynted therewith The ashes of Garlick being strowed in Ulcers cureth them The smell of Garlick driveth away venimous creatures and applyed with Figs and Cummin it cures the bitings of the Mouse called a Shrew A clove of Garlick put into a hollow tooth that aketh easeth the paine thereof or stamp it with Safforn and Pepper and hold it between the teeth being bruised and applyed to the throat it helpeth the Quinsie and swelling thereof it helpeth the Gout being stamped with House-leeke and applyed The juyce mixed with Safforn and Goose-grease cures the noyse of the eares being put therein Garlicke burned and the ashes mingled with Hony and laid to black and blew markes after bruises taketh them away and helpeth wilde fire and Scabs being bruised and applyed They usually cure the Pip in poultery with Garlicke Against the Cough in Children Take one ounce of Hogs grease and halfe an ounce of Garlick bruise it and
or such like Of Medicines made thereof Bole Armony washed or prepared Vnguentum Ophthalmicum Vnguentum rubrum siccativum c. CHAP. 83. De Borragine of Borrage The Names IT is called in Latine Borrago and Borago in English Borrage and Borage The Temperament It is hot and moist in the first degree The inward use The Leaves Flowers and Seeds all of them or any of them are very cordiall and helpe to expell sadnesse and melancholly arising without manifest cause whereof came the saying Ego Borrago gaudia semper ago I Borrage bring alwaies Courage It is good in Pestilentiall Feavers and to resist any venome and poyson as also to clarifie the blood and to mitigate the heate in Feavers The Flowers or Seeds breed and increase milke in Nurses The syrupe prevaileth for all the purposes aforesaid and is put with other cooling opening and cleansing hearbs to open stoppings and to helpe the yellow Jaundise to coole and cleanse the blood and temper the heate and sharpnesse thereof especially with Fumitry and thereby to helpe the Itch Ringwormes or other spreading Scabs or Sores that arise from a dust and sharpe humours The conserve is used to comfort the heart and Spirits and for such as are weake and in a Consumption The distilled water is good for the aforesaid Diseases Borrage must be used while it is greene for it will not keep dry The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in decoction juyce and syrup The outward use The leaves or ashes boyled in water and hony is available against Inflamations and Ulcers in the mouth or throat The distilled water being applyed with a linnen cloth dipt therein helpeth the venome of a Spider or Waspe Of such Medicines as are made thereof Borrage water Conserve Syrupe of Borrage The juyce CHAP. 84. De Calamo Aromatico of Aromaticall reed The Names IT is called in Latine Calamus Aromaticus and Acorus in English Aromaticall reed and the sweet smelling flagge The Temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree and of thin parts The Duration Is will keep good two or three yeares The inward use A decoction of this root availes to provoke urine to ease the paine of the side to bring downe womens courses to open the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen and Breast and helpeth Convulsions gripings burstings bruises and such as pisse by drops It prevailes in the Dropsie and against Poison and is put into Electuaries for such as have raw and cold humours in their Lungs or chest Halfe a scâ—uple thereof in powder taken in a little beer doth help the Collick and expell winde It helpeth the Palsie and swimming of the head The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction Electuary and in powder The outward use The juice mixed with a little Hony and used helpeth drynesse The root boyled in wine stamped and applyed into the Cods abates the swelling thereof and helpeth all hardnesse and collections of humours in any place The fume thereof used provokes the courses The fume thâ—reof also taken by the mouth in a pipe alone or with dryed Turpentine helpeth Coughs It maketh a sweet breath being chewed in the Mouth and is used in perfumes The Dose The Dose in powder is halfe a dram to a dram in decoction from a dram to three drams Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distelled water of the root steeped fi st in wine The root preserved The Extract A scruple of which being taken helpeth the Collick El. Diacorum Oâ— e. CHAP. 85. De Calendula of Marigolds The Names IT is called in Latine Calendula Caliha Chrysanthemum and that from the golden Colour of the flowers in English Marigolds The Temperament The flowers are hot in the second degree The Duration The flowers will keep good being dry a yeare or two The inward use The flowers comfort and strengthen the heart provoke sweat and the courses and expelleth the afterbirth withstandeth poyson and venery good in Pestilent and contagious Fevers as also in the Jaundise The conserve made of the flowers taken Morning and Evening helpeth the trembling of the heart and is usefull in time of the Plague or Pestilence and corruption of the ayre The distilled water is good for the aforesaid purposes The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in decoction As Take a small handfull of Marigold flowers and boyle them in a pint and a halfe of cleare Posset drinke to a pint straine it and drink off the clearest The outward use The juyce helpeth the Toothach being washed therewith and if warts be rubbed therewith it taketh them away A fume of the decoction used hot helpeth to expell the secondine or afterbirth The juyce dropped into the eares killeth wormes The water helpeth red and watery eyes being washed therewith Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water Vineger of the flowers conserve CHAP. 86. De Chamomilla of Camomill The Names IT is called in Latine Chamomilla Camomilla and Chamaemelum in English Camomill and Cammomill and that because the flowers have the smell of an Apple or Quince The Temperament It is hot and dry in the first or second degree and is of thin parts The Duration The herbe will keep good a yeare and the flowers longer The inward use The decoction of Camomill made and drunke helpeth all paines and Stiches in the side the Chollick Stone and winde in the Belly or Stomach and expelleth tough and clammy flegme as also cold humours provoketh swâ—at brings downe the courses in women and provokes urine It is very profitable for Agues that come of flegme or melancholly or from an inflamation of the bowells and for the Hypochonders that is the sides and that part where the Liver and Spleene lye It moderately comforteth all parts that have need of warmth and digesteth and dissolveth whatsoever hath need thereof by a wonderfull speedy property The flowers boyled in Posset drinke provoketh sweat and helpeth to expell cold Aches and paines wheresoever A syrup made of the juyce with the flowers and White-wine is a good remedy against the Jaundes and Dropsie that comets by the evill disposition of the Spleene A decoction made with White-wine and taken expelleth the dead Childe and brings away the afterbirth speedily and cleanseth those parts The manner of administring it It is used chiefly in decoctions The outward use It is used in decoctions for Glisters against winde and the Collick A decoction thereof being used taketh away wearinesse and easeth the paines to what part of the body soever it be applyed and comforteth the sinews that are overstrained mollifieth all swellings and those that are not over hard and rarefieth or maketh thin those that are bound together The flowers boyled in lye is good to wash the head and to comfort both it and the braine It helpeth paines in the side and Stiches as also the Chollick being applyed and wasteth away raw and undigested humours The Oyle made of the flowers is used
or in Decoction as in the Chapter of Mugwort The outward use The greene herbe bruised and applyed is good against hot swellings as Wilde-fire Plague-sores Botches and it is good also to be laid upon the bitings of mad Dogs Serpents Spiders Bees or Wasps or any other venemous creature The powder stoppeth blood at the nose being applyed The juyce thereof cleareth the sight being put in and taketh away the rednesse thereof so doth the water Being bruised with a little Hogs grease and a little wheate flower mixed therewith It cures stubborne and rebellious Ulcers if it be applyed thereto It is used against the Gangreene also The Dose It is given in powder from halfe a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof Carduus water Spirit Extract Syrupe Oyle and Conserve CHAP. 91. De Caryophyllis of Cloves The Names THey are called in Latine Caryophylli and Garyophylli in English Cloves The Temperament They are hot and dry in the second or third degree The Duration They will keepe good many yeares The inward use Cloves comfort the Head Heart Stomach and Liver help the Memory the eye sight and concoction and strengthen nature they break winde provoke urine and if halfe a dram thereof be taken in milke they stir up Venery or bodily Lust They are good against fainting sounding as also against the Plague and any infectious Disease against all Fluxes of the belly proceeding of cold humours strengthen the retentive faculty and make the breath sweet they stay also vomiting They are much used in the Kitchin both for sauces and sticking of meate The chymicall Oyle of Cloves is good in a Quartaine Ague in long weaknesse and debility of the Stomach for it doth take away crudity and expell winde in Fluxes of the belly and very usefull for the aforesaid Diseases if two or three drops be given in beere or wine The manner of Administring it It is given in powder and in Electuary The outward use Cloves in powder being put into the Eyes taketh away the web therein and cleareth the sight so doth the chymicall Oyle and also cleanseth filthy Ulcers especially such as are moist being put therein A few drops thereof put into a hollow Tooth that aketh with a little Lint doth ease the paine thereof They are used in sweet powders and sweet waters c. The hurtfull quality They are hurtfull for young people and cholerick complexions they are profitable for old persons and phlegmatick and such as are rheumetick and that in the winter season The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to two scruples Of such Medicines as are made thereof Oyle of Cloves Extract Salt Aromaticum Caryophyllatum CHAP. 92. De Castorio Of Castor The Names IT is called in Latine Castorium and Castoreum in English Castor and Bever-cod The temperament It is hot in the third degree and dry in the second The duration It will keepe good two or three years The inward Vse It openeth discusseth winde strengthneth the Head and Nervous parts quickneth the animall spirits resisteth poyson and provoketh the Courses in Women It is most excellent in the Lethargy Apoplexy Falling Sickness Palsy Swimming of the Head in trembling of the joynts and in defluxions of the humours to the joynts in fits of the Mother and in the Collick It helps to bring away the birth and after-Birth The spirit of Castor is good for the aforesaid Diseases The manner of Administring it It is given in powder or Electuary The outward use Being smelt to it availes in the fits of the Mother and put up into the Nostrills it provokes sneesing and helps the cold effects thereof If a piece bee put into a hollow aking Tooth it easeth the paine thereof and helpeth deafnesse or Noyse in the Eares comming from colde being mixed with a little Oyle of bitter Almonds and put therein Oyle of Castor helpes all cold effects of the Braines and Nerves as the Palsie Cramps Convulsions Lethargy and such like It prevents the strong shaking of Agues if the spine of the backe be therewith anoynted before the fit come A Pessary to provoke the Courses Take of Castor in powder halfe a dram Sage in powder two drams Myrrhe and Nigella Seede in powder of each three drams with the juyce of Mercury or a little Hony make a Pessary The hurtfull quality It must not be used to very hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given from halfe a scruple to a scruple Of such Medicines as are made thereof Spirit of Castor Oyle by Distillation Extract Electuary of Castor CHAP. 93. De Centaurio of Centory The Names and Kindes THere are two sorts of Centory chiefly in use the great and the small the great is called in Latine Centaurium magnum and Centaurium majus vulgare in English great Centory the small is called Centaurium parvum and Centaurium minus in English small Centory little or common Centaury The Temperament The great Centory is hot and dry in the third degree the lesser is hot and dry in the second degree and very bitter The Duration They will keepe good a yeare The inward use The lesser Centory purgeth Flegme and Choller and provokes sweate It is usefull in the Sciatica in Agues for it openeth the stoppings of the Liver Gall and Spleene helping the Jaundies and easing the paines in the side making thin both the bloud and humours by the cleansing and bitter qualities therein it helpeth those that have the Dropsy or Greenesicknesse It killeth Wormes and dryeth up rheumes A Decoction thereof also is good against the Collick and to bring downe Womens Courses helpeth to avoid the dead Birth and easeth the paines of the Mother and is very effectuall in all paines of the joynts as the Gout Cramp or Convulsions A dram of the powder taken in Wine is a good helpe against the biting or poyson of Adder or Viper The tops of the stalkes with the flowers are most in use The great Centory roots being steeped in VVine or the powder thereof given in VVine is good for such as have the Dropsy or Jaundes or are troubled with the stoppings of the Liver two drams of the root in powder taken in VVine or water helpeth those that spit Bloud or that bleed much at the mouth It is also used for Ruptures Cramps and Pleurises and for an old Cough shortnesse of Breath Gripings in the belly and paines of the Mother It helpeth the Strangury and Stone The manner of Administring them They are given in Decoction or in powder The outward use The Juyce of the lesser Centory mixed with a little Hony is good to cleare the Eyes from dimnesse mistes or cloudes that hinder the sight and is singular good for greene or fresh wounds and also for old Vlcers and Sores to close up the one and clense the other and perfectly to cure them both although they be Fistulous and Hollow the greene herbe especially being bruised and laid to the Decoction dropped into the Eares
canded or the conserve taken doth warme a cold and windy stomach and helpeth the pricking and stitches therein or in the sides caused by the Spleene and to help the Cough shortnesse of breath and wheesing in the Lungs the dryed roots made into powder mixed with Sugar and taken serve to the same purposes and is also good for those that are troubled with the Mother and in the Plague and putrified Feavers very usefull The roots and leaves bruised and put into Ale or Beere and daily drunke cleareth strengthneth and quickneth the sight of the eyes wonderfully In the root lyeth the chiefe vertue The manner of administring it It is given in powder or decoction A Decoction against Aches in the joynts Take Elecampane roote and Avers of each a handfull Boyle them in a pint or a pint and a halfe of sweet wine when it is neere boyled put in halfe a dram of Safforn and boyle it againe gently straine it and adde Hony and Sugar of each foure ounces warme it on the fire or gently boyle it the Dose is foure ounces in a Morning and to sweat after it The outward use The root bruised and applyed helpeth Gouts Cramps or Convulsions loosenesse and paines in the joynts or those Members that are out of joynt by cold or moisture happening to them The roots boyled well in Vineger beat afterwards and made into an oyntment with Hogs grease and a little Salt with powder and Vineger added thereto is an excellent remedy for Scabs or Itch in young or old Seâ— my helpe for the pore Pag. 21. The place also bathed or washâ—d in the Decoction doth the some and helpeth all sorts of old putrid or filthy Sores or Cankers wheresoever The hurtfull quality It must not be given to hot and dry bodies The Dose The root in powder may be given from twenty graines to thirty Of such Medicines as are made thereof Water from the root and leaves Conserve of the root The root Candyed Extract from the root Wine of Elecampane CHAP. 102. De Eryngiâ— of Sea hâ—lly The Names IT is called in Latine Eringus Eryngium and Iringus in English Sea Holly and Sea Hulver The Temperament It is temperate in heate somewhat drying and cleansing The Duration The roote will keepe good being dry a yeare or two The inward use The decoctirn of the root in wine being drunke is very effectuall to open the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene and helpeth the yellow Jaundise the Dropsie and the paines in the Loynes and Winde-collick in the Bowells provoketh Urine expelleth the Stone and procureth womens courses It is usually taken to stir Lust and to help venerous actions especially the root Canded as also against the biting of any venemous Creatures or any poysonous herbes and is good against the French Disease and the Kings evill The continued use of the decoction for fifteen dayes taken fasting and next to bedwards doth helpe the Strangury the stopping of the Urine and the Stone and all defects of the Reines and Kidneyes and if the same be continued longer it is said perfectly to cure them that are troubled with the Stone The distilled water of the young Leaves and Stalkes being drunke is profitable for all the purposes aforesaid and doth help melancholly the Quartaine and Quotidian Ague and the Cramp of the neck The manner of Administring it It is given in Powder or in Decoction In Decoction Take of Eringo roots dry one ounce or an ounce and a halfe bruise them and boyle them in a pint and a halfe of White wine to the wasting of the third part straine it and drinke a good draught thereof Morning and Evening The outward use The roors bruised and applyed helpeth the Kings Evill and also the Sting or biting of any Serpent Applyed also with old Hogs grease or salted Lard being first bruised and boyled therein to broken bones thornes c. remaining in the fl sh doth not onely draw them forth but healeth up the place againe gathering new flesh where it was consumed or almost fallen away the juyce of the leaves dropped into the eares helpeth Apostumes therein The Dose The root in Powder is given from halfe a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water The roots Canded CHAP. 103. De Euphrasia of Eye-bright The Names IT is called in Latine Euphrasia Eufragia and Eufrasia in English Eye-bright The Temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree The Duration It will keepe good being dry a yeare The inward use It is chiefly used for all diseases of the eyes that cause dimnesse of the sight for either the greene herb or the dry the juyce or the distilled water is very effectuall for the said purpose to be taken in wine or broth so is the conserve made of the flowers being taken Morning and Evening It helpeth also a weake braine or m mory and restoreth them being decayed in a short time Wine or Ale made with Eye-bright and taken is very good for the same purpose The powder of the dryed herbe mixed with Mace and Fennell seede is good for the weake sight and memory being drunke or eaten in broth The manner of Administring it It is chiefly given in Powder A powder to preserve the sight Take Eye-bright Betony of each a handfull Mace and Fennell seede of each two drams make them into powder and give halfe a dram thereof Morning and Evening in Broth or Beere The outward use The juyce of the Eye-bright or the water dropped into the eyes cleareth the sight and taketh away the dimnesse thereof The Dose It is given in powder from halfe a dram to a dram in the water thereof or any other convenient L quor Of such Medicines as are made thereof Water of Eye-bright Conserve of the flowers Wine of Eye-bright A water to cleare the sight Take Rosewater Eye bright water Celandine water of each one ounce of Tutia or Tutty in powder a dram m xe them together and keep it to wash the eyes with CHAP. 104. De Ficubus of Figgs The Names IN Latine it is called Ficus and Carica in English Figs. The Temperament Figs are hot and moist especially being greene but dry they are hot and dry in the second or almost in the third degree The Duration They will keepe good halfe a yeare The inward use A decoction of Figs is good for the Cough Lungs and throat as also against shortnesse of breath especially if they be boyled in Hyssop and Licorish They are good for the Reynes and bladder and to regaine a good colour to them that by long sicknesse have lost it and usefull also in the Dropsie Falling Sicknesse Quinsie and for the infirmities of the wombe where cleansing is required they expell also superfluous humours from the inward parts to the circumference usefull therefore to expell Poxe Measells and such like venemous matter to the skin Figs stampâ—d with Salt Rue and the kernells of Nuts withstand all poison and
The Leaves boyled in Vineger and applied warme to the side helpâ—s the Spleene Ache or Stich in the sides the same applied with Rose-water and Oyle of Roses to the fore-head and Temples doth ease the Head-ach although of long continuance the fresh Leaves boyled in wine and used doth clense old filthy Sores and Ulcers and is effectuall for greene wounds to heale them quickly and foder up the L ps thereof the same healeth scaldings of water and burnings by Fire or blisterings in the body The juyce of the Leaves or berries snuffed up into the Nose purgeth the Head and Braine of thin rheume and cureth the Ulcers and stench therein and dropped into the Eares doth helpe the old and running Sores of them the Berries or Leaves used causeth the Haire to grow blacke The greene Leaves are commonly used to be laid upon Issues in the Armes Legs or elsewhere The gum of Ivy is used being dissolved to take away superfluous haire in any place and to destroy Nits and Lice in any place the same dissolved in Vineger and put into hollow aking Teeth doth ease the same and being often used will cause them to fall out Some use it as a bait with other things to Kill Fâ—sh The fume of Ivy branches being burned driveth away Gnats Battes and all other hurtfull and noysome creatures The hurtfull quality It bringeth barrennesse in Man or Woman being too often used and brings weaknesse to the braine and senses It is an enemy to the nerves and sinewes being taken inwardly but helpefull to them applied outwardly The Dose The flowers and berries are given from half a dram to two scruples Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Oyl of the berries good against all cold infirmities of the joynts provokes the termes breakes and expells the Stone in the Reines clenseth and health foule Ulcers CHAP. 112. De Hedera terrestri of Ground-Ivie or Alehoofe The Names IT is called in Latine Hedera terrestris and Corona terrae because it spreadeth and is like a Garland upon the ground in English Alehoofe Ground Ivy Gill creepe by the ground Cats-foote Haymaids and Tunnehoof because the Country people use it much in their Ale The Temperament It is hot and dry sharp and bitter in taste it openeth also clenseth and rarefieth or maketh thin The inward use It is a good wound herb for all inward wounds as also for Ulcerated lungs oâ— other parts either by it selfe or with other the like herbes boyled together and being drunk by them that have any griping paines of windy or chollerick humours in the Stomach Spleene or Belly doth ease them in a short space it helpeth likewise the yellow Jaundes by opening the stoppings of the Gall Liver and Spleene it expelleth venome or poyson and the Plague also it provoketh urine and womens courses but doth not stay them as some have thought but the Decoction of the herbe in wine being drunke for some time together helpeth them that have the Sciatica or Hip-gout as also the Gout in the Hands Knees or Feet helpeth to dissolve disperse the peccant humours and to procure ease The syrupe of Alehoofe is usefull in Ulcers of the Lungs and Consumptions as also in â—humes flowing downe to the Stomach Boyled in broth and taken it provoketh sleepe and expelleth ill humours out of the body Being steeped in Aquavitee and taken it doth bring away the gravell and Stone The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction See the Decoction of Mugwort The outward use A decoction thereof is good to gargle any sore throat or mouth putting thereto some Hony and a little burnt Allum as also to wash the Sores and Ulcers of the privy parts in man or woman it speedily healeth greene wounds being bound thereto and the juyce boyled with a little Hony and Vardigrease doth wonderfully cleanse Fistulas and hollow Ulcers and stayeth the malignity of spreading and eating Cankers and Ulcers it helpeth also the Itch Scabs Wheales and other breakings forth in the skin in any part of the Body the juyce of Celandine field Daisies and ground Ivie clarified and a little fine Sugar dissolved therein dropped into the eyes is a soveraigne remedy for all the paines rednesse and watering of the eyes the Pin and Web skins or Filmes growing over the sight or whatsoever might offend them the same helpeth beasts as well as men the juyce droped into the eares doth help the noyse and singing of them and helpeth also deafnesse The leaves are used in Bathes and Glisters to dissolve the Stone An oyntment to heale burnings Take ground Ivie foure handfulls Plantaine leaves a handfull Burnet halfe a handfull Bruise all these together and let them stand eight dayes then adde to them a handfull of Goose dung and one ounce of wax boyle them together till the herbes have almost lost their colour then straine and reserve it Or you may boyle them presently after they are bruised Of such things as are made thereof The distilled Water Conserve of the flowers Syrupe both simple and compound CHAP. 113. De Hordeo Gallico of French barly The Temperament IT is colde and dry in the first degree or cold and moist of a clensing faculty The inward use It is much used in pectorall diseases or diseases of the brest helpeth the sharpnesse of the throat and increaseth milke especially boyled with Fennell It provoketh urine and is very profitable in chollerick Feavers The manner of Administring it It is used onely in Decoction As thus Take two ounces of French-barly boyle it in two fresh waters then boyle it againe in a quart of water adding halfe an ounce of Licorish and a handfull of Violet leaves and as many strawberry leaves to a pint or a pint and a halfe strayne it and put thereto of syrupe of Violets two ounces or for the poorer sort you may sweeten it with a little Sugar This is good in a burning Feaver The outward use It is used outwardly to soften hard swellings and is good for inflamations and sorenesse of the throat being boyled alone or with other fitting Herbes and the mouth and throat washed therewith A bath good against the Scab Itch c. Take Mallowes Violet Beets black Hellebor Fumitory of each three handfulls of French barly sixe handfulls boyle them in a sufficient quantity of water for a bath The hurtfull quality It is bad for cold and windy bodies We have had of late yeares a Barly called Pearl'd Barly and is much in use for the forementioned Diseases CHAP. 114. De Junipero of the Iuniper-tree The Names THe Juniper tree is called in Latine Juniperus the berries are called Grana Juniperi or Baccae Juniperi the Gum that runneth from the tree being cut is callâ—d Lachrima Juniperi vernix or vernia quasi veris ros issuing forth in the spring as also Sandaracha and Sandarax of the Arabians but not of the Greeks Yet some will have Vernix to be made of Amber and Linseed
one Ounce red Roses and Lavender flowers a handfull Boyle them in water and make a Lotion for the head The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull for hot and dry complexions and where the body is repleate or aboundeth with blood and humours Of those things that are made thereof The distilled water Conserve of the flowers Chymicall Oyle Lignum Vitae see Guajacum CHAP. 119. De Lupinis of Lupines The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Lupinum and Lupinus in English Lupines oâ— flat Beane It is hot and dry and very bitter The Duration They will keepe good a yeare or two or longer The inward use By reason of their bitternesse they open digest dissolve and clense being steeped in water and afterwards dryed beaten and taken with some Vineger taketh away the loathing of the stomack to Meate and provoketh the appetite the Decoction or Infusion of Lupines taken with Hony and Vinegar killeth Wormes in the belly but if you mixe Rue and Pepper thereto it will the more effectuall the Meale or Powder taken with Honey and Vineger or in Drinke doth the same the said Decoction taken openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene provoketh Urine and Womens Courses If it bee taken with Myrrhe it expelleth the dead Childe The manner of administring it It is used in Decoction or in powder The outward use A Decoction or Lye made of Lupines with Wormewood Centory and bay-salt added thereto stayeth the running and spreading of a Gangrene being applied thereto very hot with stupes of Cloth or Tow A Decoction of them clenseth all Scabs Morphew Cancers Tetters and creeping or running Ulcers and Sores and boyled in Lie it cleanseth the head from Ulcers Scurfe c. breeding therein it also cleanseth the Face and taketh away the markes that the Pox does leave after their healing and all other markes and black and blew spots in the skin the meale thereof being boyled in Vineger and applied taketh away Pimples and scattereth the Rodes or Kernells that rise in the body and breaketh Carbuncles and Impostumes the burning of the huskes driveth away Gnats Flies c. whatsoever The powder mixed with Oyle of Sarin and applied to the belly killeth Wormes The hurtfull quality Being steeped some dayes in water untill they have lost their bitternesse they may be eaten but they breed grosse and crude humours are very hard to digest and slowly passe through the body Mace see Nutmeg CHAP. 120. De Majorana of Marjerome IT is called in Latine Majorana Amaracus Sampsuchum and Sampsuchus in English Marjerome and sweete Marjerome It is hot and dry in the second or as some in the third degree and of thin parts The Duration It will keepe good a Yeare The inward use Sweete Marjerome is comfortable in cold Diseases of the Head Stomack Sinewes and other parts it digesteth attenuateth openeth and strengthneth the Decoction thereof being drunke helpeth all the Diseases of the chest which hinder the freenesse of breathing it is likewise profitable for the stoppings of the Liver Spleene for it not onely cleareth them of those humours that did stuffe them but strengthneth the inward parts it helpeth the cold griefs of the Wombe and the windinesse thereof or in any other inward part the Decoction thereof helpeth such as entring into the Dropsy and such as cannot make water and provoketh the Courses in VVomen The Leaves in powder mingled with Honey and taken dissolveth congealed bloud in the body after falls or bruises it is used also against poyson A Decoction thereof made with Pelletory of Spaine and long Pepper or with Origanum or Acorus being taken helpeth the losse of speech by the resolution of the Tongue The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or in powder The outward use The powder of the Leaves snuffed up into the nostrills provoketh sneesing draweth forth flegme and is very usefull in the Apoplexy Palsy and cold diseases of the braine it easeth the tooth-ach being chewed in the mouth the powder mixed with Honey and applied taketh away the black markes of blowes or bruises It is much used in sweet waters powders c. It is put into Oyntments and Salves that are made to warme and comfort the outward parts or members the joynts also and sinewes The Oyle made thereof is good against Cramps Convulsions and all aches proceeding from a colde cause A Liniment that easeth the Head-Ach caused by a Bruise Take the juyce of Marjerome and the juyce of Sage of each halfe an Ounce of Sack three drams make all into a Liniment with the yolke of an Egge and apply it to the part affected The hurtfull quality It must not be used in hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given in powder from a halfe a dram to a dram Of those Medicines that are made thereof The distilled water Oyle chymicall excellent in the Apoplexy Falling sicknesse losse of speech c. Oyle by infusion and boyling Conserve Balsame CHAP. 121. De Malvis of Mallowes The Names and temperament THe wild or common Mallow is called in Latine Malva and that quasi molva because it softneth the belly in English Mallow They are temperate in heate and moisture of a digestive and softning Nature The inward Vse The Leaves and the Roots boyled in VVine or in VVater or in broth with Parsly or Fennell-roots doth helpe to open the Body and is good in hot Agues and other distemperatures of the body for by the mollifying quality it not onely voideth hot cholerick and other offensive humours but easeth the paines and torments that come by stoppings of the belly the same used by Nurses increaseth Milke in their Breasts the Decoction of the Seeds made in VVine Milke or Posset drinke doth marvellously helpe all the Diseases of the Chest and Lungs that proceeds of hot causes as Excorations Pâ—isicke Pleurisy and the like if it bee continued for some time together the Leaves and the Rootes worke the same effects they helpe much also in the frettings of the Guts and harnesse of the Mother and in all hot and sharpe Diseases thereof the juyce drunke in VVine or the Decoction made in VVine doth helpe VVomen to a speedy and easy delivery They are counted also good against poyson or venome so as the poyson be presently voided by vomit The manner of administring it It is used chiefly in Decoction The outward Vse Mallowes are often used in mollifying Glysters The Leaves bruised and laid to the Eyes with a little Honey taketh away the impostumations of them the Leaves bruised or rubbed upon any place stung with Bees Waspes or the like taketh away the paines rednesse and swelling thereof A Pultis made of the Leaves of Mallowes boyled and bruised whereunto some Beane or Barly-flower and Oyle of Roses is put is an especiall remedy against all hard tumours and inflammations of impostumes and swellings of the Cods and other parts and easeth the paines of them as also against the hardnesse of the
Spleene or Liver to be applied to the places the juyce of Mallowes boyled in old Oyle and applied taketh away all roughnesse of the Skin as also the falling of the Haire the Scurfe Dandruffe or dry Scabs in the Head or other parts if they be anoynted therewith or washed with the Decoction the same also is effectuall against Scaldings or Burnings and to helpe wild fire and all other hot red and painfull Swellings in any part of the Body The flowers boyled in water and a little Hony added is a good Gargle for any sore mouth or throat If the feet be bathed with the Decoction of the Leaves Roots and flowers it helpeth the flowing downe of rheume from the Head which rose out of the stomack the greene Leaves beaten with niter and applied draweth out thornes or prickes in the flesh A Fomentation against winde Take of the Leaves and roots of mallowes a handfull of Camomill and Melilot flowers a handfull Linseede one Ounce Aniseede halfe an Ounce Figges in number forty Boyle them in water and fill a bladder with the hot Decoction apply it Once or twice to the side or part affected Of those things that are made thereof The distilled water The conserve of the flowers CHAP. 122. De Melle of Honey The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Mel in English Hony and is hot and dry in the second degree The Duration It wil keepe good two or three yeares The best Kinde The best Honey is very sweet pleasant in smell of a cleare yellowish colour indifferent firme and stiffe yeelding but little scum on the top when it is boyled The inward Vse Honey is profitable in many Diseases of the breast as Cough Shortnesse of Breath Pleurisy Cold Rheumes and doth cleanse the Breast and Lungs of flegmatick and Rheumatick humours it helpeth such as are costine or bound openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene strengthneth weake Parts helpeth the Bladder and Reines and is good in the Dropsey It resisteth putrifaction and as Pliny saith suffereth no dead Bodies to putrify and is very profitable for old Age and flegmatick persons The Roman Pollio being asked by Augustus the Emperour by what meanes hee had prolonged his Life to an hundred Yeares Answered that hee had used Honey within and Oyle without It is better boyled then Raw. Pliny Nat. Hist Lib. 22. Cap. 24. The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in manner of an Electuary or mixed with other things An Electuary for the Cough Take of pure Honey foure Ounces oâ— Elecampane in Powder two Drams of Licoris in Powder a Dramme mixe them together and take often of it especially Morning and Evening The outward use It is good in the Quinsie Sore Mouthes and Throates being used in Mouth-water or otherwise but if choller abound forbeare the use of it It cures Burnings and Scaldings without Scarre and healeth Ulcers of the Eares and good also to cleanse and heale other filthy Ulcers Being dropped into the Eyes it helpeth the Dimnesse of them and cureth Cornes in the Feete If it be mixed with a little Camphor and used it taketh away Spots or Pimples in the Face It is used in Supposittories The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull for hot stomacks cholerick Bodies and young persons for it inflames the Bloud increaseth Choller and hurteth such as have hot Livers And though it bee of a cleansing and opening Faculty yet being too much used it stoppeth the Body puffeth up the Stomack taketh away the appetite to Meate and must not be used in very windy Bodies Of such Medicines as are made of Honey Oxymel simple and compound Water of Honey Essence of Honey Tincture of Honey Hydromel that is Water and Honey boyled together Meade Methegline and many others CHAP. 123. De Meliloto of Melilot The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Melilotus in English Melilot Kings Claver and Hearts Claver because if it grow where Stagges and Deere resort they will greedilie feede thereon Now it is called Melilot from a Lotus that smelleth sweete like Honey It is Hot and Dry in the first Degree and hath a binding Quality besides a Wasting and Ripening Faculty The duration The Herbe and flowers will keepe good a Yeare The inward use The Herbe boyled in Wine and taken provoketh Urine breaketh the Stone and asswageth the paine of the Kidnies Bladder and Belly and ripeneth flegme The manner of administring it It is given in Decoction The outward use It mollifieth hard Tumours and Inflammations that happen in the Eyes or other parts of the Body as the Seate or Fundament and the privy Parts of Man or Woman being boyled in Wine and laid to the place and sometimes the Yolke of a roasted Egge or the powder of Fenigreeke or Linseede or fine flower or Poppy-seede or Endive is added unto it It easeth the paine of the Side or Stomack applied either fresh or boyled with any other of the aforenamed things The juyce dropped in the eyes cleareth the sight and taketh away the Web Pearle or spots therein it helpeth also the paines of the eares being dropped into them and steeped in Vineger or Rose-water it easeth the Head-ach the flowers of Melilot and Camomill are much used in Glysters to expell winde and to ease paines as also in Pultises that are made for the same purpose and to asswage swellings or tumours that happen in the Spleene or other parts It helpeth Wens being applyed after it is boyled in water and also running Ulcers of the head if it be applyed with Chalke Wine and Galls The plaster of Melilot dissolveth hard tumours and swellings of the Spleene and cureth greene wounds A quilt or bag to ease the paine of the side Take Melilot flowers Camomill Rosemary and Elder flowers of each halfe a handfull of Branne a handfull of Anisseed Fennell-seed and Carawey seed bruised of each two ounces make a quilted bag for the side sprinkle it with wine and being made hot apply it Of those things that are made thereof The distilled Water Plaster of Melilot both simple and compound CHAP. 124. De Melissa of Baulme or Bawme The Names IT is called in Latine Milissophillum and Melissa because Bees delight much in it and of the effect being good for Bees in English Bawme and Baulme from the singular effects therein in imitation of the true naturall Baulme The temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree The Duration It will keep good a yeare The inward use It is excellent against the Diseases of the Braine Stomach Heart Wombe as in Melancholly troublesome sleepe Palsie Apoplexie Falling sicknesse Swimming of the head and to revive the fainting heart falling into swimmings It is good for a cold stomach and to help digestion as also among other things for the Plague or Pestilence and the water thereof is used for the same purposes It provoketh the courses helpeth a stinking breath and good for the rising of the Mother A decoction of
thereof being burnt maketh the Teeth white being rubbled therewith It is of excellent use to kill the Itch Scab Morphew or any foule Diseases of the Skinne if it bee mixed with Fullers Earth and Vineger and the Skin anoynted therewith A Lotion for Tetters or Ringwormes Take of Nitre three Drams of common Salt a Dram of the distilled water of Dockes foure Ounces Vineger of Squills one Ounce dissolve and mixe them together moisten a Cloath or Sponge therein being warme and rub the places affected Or against the Itch dissolve Niter and Alume with distilled Vineger or with Water of Scabions and therewith wash and rub the places affected The hurtfull quality Where the Body is loose it must not bee given in any great quantity The Dose The Dose is from a Dram to a Dram and an half Medicines made thereof Spirit of Nitre Tincture of Nitre c. CHAP. 132. De Nuce Moscata Maci. Of Nutmeg and Mace The names and temperament THe Nutmeg is called in Latine Nux moschata and Nux myristica in English Nutmeg The Mace is called in Latine Macis in English Mace They are hot and dry in the second degree and somewhat astringent The best kinde The best Nutmegs are the heaviest fastest and such as are fullest of juyce which being pricked with a pin or needle yeeldeth an oyly juyce The largest Mace is the best The Duration They will keepe good many yeares The inward Vse The Nutmegs are used in all cold Diseases of the Head for Palsies shrinking of Sinewes and the Diseases of the Mother they stay the Laske cause a sweete breath expell winde in the stomack or belly helpe to quicken the sight stay vomiting comfort the spirits and strengthen the stomack They are profitable for the Liver and Spleen cause such as are leane to grow fat help venery and increase sperme they helpe to procure sleepe being applied to the Temples Being mixed with Venice Terpintine washed and taken it helpeth the running of the Reines They provoke Urine say some The Nutmeg being greene is preserved in the Indies and brought over the which is not so hot and dry as our dry Nutmegs and therefore very comfortable for the Head and Stomack eaten Morning and Evening or after meales Mace hath the same property but somewhat more warming and comforting and is good against Vomiting Fluxes and Spitting of bloud The chymicall Oyle of either is excellent for the cold Diseases of the Head and Stomack but must be cautelously and sparingly used The manner of Administring them They are given in powder Electuary c. The outward Vse They are used outwardly to stop fluxes to stay vomiting and to make the breath sweet The thick Oyle that is drawn both from Mace and Nutmegs are good for the Cough vomiting to warme a cold stomack and to dry up Rheume and cold raw humours therein A Cap or Quilt against the paine of the Head arising from superfluous moisture Take Galingall Calamus Odoratus and Cyperus Root of each three Drams Nutmeg and Cloves of each two Drams Betony and Marjerome of each an Ounce Rosemary-Flowers and Stoechados of each half an Ounce Powder them and make a Cap. The hurtfull quality They are hurtfull to hot and dry Bodies and to melancholy persons The Dose The Dose is from a Scruple to two Scruples Of those Medicines that are made thereof Oyle chymicall and oyle by expression of either Salt of Nutmegs Balsome of Nutmegs and Mace Nimphaea see the 69. Chapter CHAP. 133. De Ocimo of Bassill The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ocimum and Basilicum in English Basill and Bassill It is hot in the second degree The Duration It will keepe good a yeare The inward use It is good for those that are short winded provoketh Urine and the Termes in Women and brings a speedy deliverance to them in travile The seeds are used to helpe the trembling of the Heart and to comfort the same as also to expell melancholy or sadnesse A Decoction of the herbe made and taken is good against poyson and the sting of Scorpions and helpfull for those that are given to swownings and it provokes venery or lust The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or in powder The outward Vse Used with Oyle of Roses or Mirtles and Vineger it is good against the paines of the Head and it is pofitably applied to those that are troubled with the Lethargy the Jandise and Dropsey It is good to be put into the Eares of young Children with a little Goose-Grease to helpe them of paines thereof the juyce or seede bruised put into the Nostrills procureth neesing Mixed with Honey and used it taketh away the spots in the Face The juyce put into the Eyes taketh away the dimnesse thereof and drieth up humours that fall into them Hollerius relates of a certaine Italian that by often smelling to Basil had a Scorpion bred in his Braine who after vehement and long paines Died thereof Hollerius Lib. 1. Cap. 1. Fol. 3. The hurtfull quality It dulleth the sight troubleth a weake braine and causetth headache The Dose It is given from a Scruple to thirty or forty graines Medicines made thereof The distilled Water CHAP. 134. De Nymphaea of Water Lilly The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Nymphaea and Nenuphar in English Water-Lilly The Leaves and Flowers are cold and moist but the root and seed cold and dry The duration The dryed Flowers will keepe a yeare The inward use The Flowers boyled and taken coole inflammations and all inward heats of Agues The Seedes and Rootes are effectuall to stay Fluxes of Bloud and Seede both in Man and Woman as also the running of the Reines and the involuntary passage of Sperme in sleepe and is so powerfull that the frequent use thereof extinguisheth lustfull or venerious actions the Roote likewise is very good for those whose Urine is hot and sharpe to be boyled in Wine or Water and the Decoction drunke The Syrupe of VVater Lilly or Conserve helpeth much to procure rest and to settle the Braines of Franticke Persons for it wonderfully helpeth the distemperature of the Head arising from heate The distilled VVater of the flowers is effectuall for the Diseases aforesaid The manner of Administring it It is used in Decoction The outward Vse The Leaves and Flowers are used in Lotions and Bathes against Heate and Inflammations as in the Frensey and Feavers The greene Leaves bruised and applied to the Back helpeth the running of the Reines The Distilled VVater used taketh away Freckles Spots Sunne-burning and Morphew from the Skin in the Face or any other part of the Body The Oyle made of the flowers as oyle of Roses is made doth coole hot tumours and the inflamations of Ulcers and wounds ease the paines and help to heale the sores Of Medicines made thereof The distilled water Syrupe both simple and compound Conserve Oyle and oyntment CHAP. 135. De Olibano of Olibanum The Names
and Temperament IT is called in Latine Olibanum and Thus Masculum in English also Olibanum or white Frankumcense It is hot in the second degree and dry in the first and binding withall The Duration It will keep good many yeares The inward use It restraineth bleedings stoppeth the Laske and running of the Reines helpeth the memory sadnesse and melancholly and comforteth the heart mixed with other things for that purpose it is also very pectorall and good for the Cough for thin rhumes and distillatious and the Pluresie also mixed with conserve of Roses and taken fasting The manner of Administring it It is given in powder electuary or taken whole in the pap of a roasted Apple The outward use The fumes thereof when it is burned being taken at the mouth and nose the head being covered is very availeable both for the Cough of the Lungs and those thin distillations thereon causing it the fumes thereof taken beneath or the applycation of it in oyntment helpeth the Piles and the Tenasmus which is a disease provoking noe often to the stoole without doing any thing It is a singular good medicine for the rednesse and paines in the eyes or in the eares Mirrhe and Olibanum mixed with the white of an Egge being beaten and laid to Temples helpeth the Megroâ—es and paines in the head it stoppeth bleeding of the nose or wounds and is of especiall use and account in Balmes Salves Plasters and Oyntments for Wounds and Ulcers after their clensing to incarnate or breed flesh and heale them speedily and in Fractures of the Skull most effectually so that the Piamater which is thin Skin that compasseth the Braine bee not perished It helpeth the falling of the Fundament being strewed thereon and the Fume on Coales sit over The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull to hot and dry Bodies and to such as are Frantick The Dose The Dose is from halfe a Scruple to a Scruple Medicines made thereof Electuary Diaolibanum ung Basilicon c. CHAP. 136. De Lavendula of Lavender The Names IT is called in Latine Onomis and Anomis also Aresta Bovis Resta Bovis and Remorum aratri because the roots are so tough that the Plough cannot easily cut them but cause the Oxen to be at a stand for a time in English t is called Rest Harrow Cammock and Petty whin The temperament The roote is hot and dry in the third degree having some cleansing and cutting faculty therein also The Duration It will keepe good a yeare The inward use The Barke or Roote it selfe in Powder taken in Wine provoketh Urine breaketh the Stone and driveth it forth The Powder taken in Wine for many Dayes together Cures the fleshy Rupture for it consumeth it by little and little The Decoction thereof is effectuall to open the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene and other parts and to helpe the Jandise as also to cure the Blinde Hemorrhoides or Piles The tender sprigs or stalkes hereof before they come prickly are pickled up to be eaten as a sauce or alone and are commended against a stinking breath and to take away the smell of wine in them that have drunke too much Boyled in Oxymell to the Consumption of the one halfe it is a singular drinke for the Falling-sicknesse Plini Nat. Hist Booke 27. Chap. 4. The manner of Administring it It is given in powder or in Decoction The outward use A Decoction thereof made with Vineger and gargled in the mouth easeth the Tooth-ach especially when it commeth of rheume the powder of the roots strowed upon the hard callous brims of Ulcers or the said powder mixed with any other convenient thing and applyed doth consume the hardnesse and cause them to heale the better The hurtfull quality Hot and dry bodies must not be too busie with it The Dose It is given from a scruple to two scruples Med cines made thereof The distilled water from the whole plant CHAP. 137. De Origano of Organy or bastard Marjerome The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Origanum in English Organy or bastard Marjerom It is hot and dry in the third degree The Duration It will keep good a yeare The inward use The decoction of Organy with wine is good for those that are bitten with Serpents or venemous beasts and to be taken with sodden wine for such as have taken Hemlock or Opium It is given with Figs to those that are bursten or have a rupture Convulsions or Cramps or have the Dropsey The dryed herbe or juyce taken in honyed water purgeth downwards choller and melancholly humours It provoketh the courses and taken with Hony it helpeth those that have a Cough It provoketh those that have an Itch or are Scabbed and Mangy and those that have the Jandes are much holpen by a Decoction thereof taken when they are in a bath The Decoction thereof with a few Cloves and Sugar helpeth those that have the Hickop exceedingly it helpeth the stoppings of the Liver Spleene or wombe and all other stoppings provoketh Urine and is good for such as have soure belchings and Squamish Stomachs The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or in powder The outward use It healeth the Scab and Itch being used in a Bath and taketh away the yellow colour of the Jandise The juyce of the greene herbe healeth the swellings of the Almonds of the throat and the Ulcers of the mouth it draweth forth fleagme by the nostrills if it be infused in the oyle of Flower-de-luces It easeth the paines of the eares being used with Milke The powder thereof mixed with a little Salt-peter and Hony made into the manner of a thin electuary and therewith the teeth being rubbed often will make them white and firmer The hurtfull quality It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies The Dose The Dose is from halfe a dram to a dram Of those Medicines that are made thereof The distilled water Oyle Salt CHAP. 138. De Orobo of bitter Vetch The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Orobus because Oxen are fat therewith and Ervum in English Orobus and bitter Vetch It is hot in the first degree and dry in the second and by the bitternesse cutteth clenseth and openeth stoppings The inward use The meale or powder of Orobus mixed with Hony and taken is a good Medicine to clense the brest and Lungs of thick humours that offerd them the manner of the ancients preparation of the meale hereof was in this manner being steeped in water a good while they after fryed or parched them untill the rindes broke which then being ground and passed through a boulter they keepe this meale as of great use both to move the belly downwards and to provoke urine and to cause them that use it to be of a good colour If it be taken divers Mornings together fasting it consumes the Spleene and taken in Wine or Vineger it helpeth the bitings of Serpents and mad Dogs and Men and taken with Vineger it helpeth the
from spots and morphew helpeth bruises being applyed warm and cleereth the sight It is also used in spreading and eating Ulcers The hurtfull quality It offendeth weak stomachs and causeth an inclination to vomit if it be often taken The Dose It is given from half a dram to a dram and a half Medicines made thereof Oile of Parmasitty good against bruises spots and strains in any part Stibium see Antimonie CHAP. 163. De Staechade of Stickadove The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Staechas and Stichados from the Islands called Staechades where it groweth in English Stickadove Steckado Cassidony and French Lavender It is hot and dry in the second degree or hot in the first degree and dry in the second The duration It will keep good two or three yeers The inward use It is chiefly used in cold diseases of the brain and nerves as in the Swimming of the head Apoplexie Palsie and Lethargie It is also as ffectuall for Colds and Coughs as Hyssope and for the diseases of the breast and provoketh urine and the courses in women resisteth poyson and helpeth the affects of the Hypochondres or windy Melancholy A decoction thereof openeth the stoppings of the Liver Spleen Lungs Mother and of the other inward parts and strengtheneth them also The syrup made thereof is effectuall for the aforesaid diseases and for the quartane Ague The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder The outward use It is very useful in Baths or Lotions for all cold griefs of the head wombe and other parts It killeth Wormes and the fumes thereof taken into the nostrils open them when they are closed A Lotion against cold diseases of the Brain Take of Steckadove half a handful Sage Rosemary Organy and Calamint of each a handfull of Bay-leaves half a handful make a decoction to wash the head withall in the morning fasting and after to rub it dry The hurtfull quality It hurts those that are hot dry and cholerick offends the stomach and causeth thirst and fainting but because it worketh slowly some Sal-gem is added unto it to quicken it If it be boiled or steeped in Whey with a few Raisons of the sun it is lesse hurtful The Dose It is given in substance from half a dram to a dram and a half in infusion or decoction to half an ounce Medicines made thereof Syrup of Stechados both simple and compound CHAP. 164. De Sulphure of Brimstone The Names and temperament IT is called Latine Sulphur in English Brimstone and is hot and dry The duratihn It will keep good many yeers The inward use It resisteth putrifaction and venome therefore very useful in the Pestilence and pestilentiall Feavers as also in the Cough Defluxions of Rheume Consumption shortnesse of Breath Collick Itch and Scab and killeth Wormes it is good in the Jaundise taken in an Egg. The flower of Brimstone is much better for the aforesaid Diseases The manner of administring it It is given in powder or in Electuary The outward use It is of good use against the Itch Scab Leprosie and all foul Diseases of the skin being mixed with Vineger or Hogs-grease and used It dissolveth all hard tumors and nodes in the body and easeth the Gowt being mixed with Niter and Water and the place affected bathed therewith it helpeth also pains of the eares being mixed with Wine and Honey and dropped into the eares The fume thereof stirreth up such as have the Lethargie An Ointment against Scab or Itch. Take of quicke Brimstone and Salt of each halfe a pound in fine powder of Hogs-grease two pound make them into an Ointment Or Take of yellow Brimstone in powder foure ounces of white Ginger and Salt in powder of each two drams of the juice of three Lemons of sallet-Oile half a pound mix them well together and make an Ointment The hurtfull quality It is hurtful to such as have hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given from a dram to two drams flower of Brimstone is given from half a scruple to a dram Medicines made thereof Flower of Brimstone Milk of Brimstone Oil of Brimstone Balsame Essence af Sulphur c. CHAP. 165. De Valeriana of Valerian The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Valeriana and Phu in English Valerian and Caporis-tail It is hot and dry in the first or second degree The duration It will keep good a yeer especially the root The inward use It provoketh urine and courses in Women helpeth the Strangury easeth pains of the sides and is used in Antidotes The root boiled with Licoris Raisins and Anise-seed is singulat good for those that are short-winded and have the Cough and helpeth to open the passages and to cause flegme to be easily spit out It is given to those that are bitten or stung by any venomous creature being taken in Wine and is of special vertue against the Plague and expelleth winde in the belly It helpeth the Jaundise and stoppings of the Liver Spleen and Wombe It cleereth the sight and helpeth Ruptures or any inward wound or bruise The extract of the roots is a good medicine against the difficulty of making water and the yellow Jaundise The manner of administring it It is given in decoction as the root is given in powder The outward use The green herb bruised and applyed to the head taketh away the pains and prickings therein stayeth Rheumes and thin Distillations and being boiled in White Wine and a drop thereof put into the eye taketh away the dimnesse of the sight or any Pin Haw or Web therein It is excellent to heal as well green as other wounds and draweth any splinter or thorn out of the flesh The distilled water cleereth the eyes being washed therewith The Dose The root is given in powder from half a dram to a dram Medicines made thereof The distilled water and extract of Valerian CHAP. 166. De Visco of Misselto The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Viscum Viscus in English Misselto It is hot and dry in the second or third degree The duration It will keep good a yeer or two The inward use The Misselto of the Oke is counted the best but that is rarely to be got and therefore we use that of the White Thorn or Chesnut-tree It is chiefly used against the Falling Sicknesse Apoplexie and Giddinesse of the head but it must be used thirty or fourty dayes together The manner of administring it It is given in powder or in decoction The outward use It is hung about the neck of such as have the Falling Sicknesse to mitigate their fits and the juice of the fresh wood drawn forth and dropped into the eares that have Impostumes in them doth help and ease them within a few dayes The Bird-â—ime that is made of the Berries hereof doth mollifie hard knots tumours and impostumes ripeneth and discusseth them and draweth forth thick as well as thin humours from the remote places of the body and