a certaine couering Notwithstanding all styrpes or Plants whereon Oyle is powred or effused do putrifie As Plynie reportes THe Coales of a Byrch tree made in powder put into a wounde or great sore healeth it perfectly without any other thing It was crediblie tolde me that the Muscouits vse it much esteemes it greatly A Robbyn read breast fynding the dead body of a Man or Woman wyll couer the face of the same with Mosse And as some holdes opinion he wyll couer also the whole body AN Italian through the ofte smelling of an herbe called Basyll had a Scorpion bred in his braine ▪ which dyd not onely a long tyme grieue him but also at the last kylled him Iacobus Hollerius a learned Phisition affirmes it for trueth Take heede therefore ye smellers of Basyll IF the Nauell string of a chylde after it is cut doeth chaunce to touche the grounde before it be burned the same childe wyll not be able to keepe or holde his or her water neyther night nor daye A thing verie true and well knowne A Flayne Mouse rosted or made in powder drunk at one tyme doeth perfectly helpe such as can not holde or keepe their water especially if it be vsed three dayes in this order This is verie true and often proued IT was credibly reported to me for a verie trueth that a certaine Inkeeper in Ware dyed which had a Dogge that loued him so well that certaine dayes after he mourned and sought for his sayde Maister without eating of any thing And when he could not finde his sayde Maister he layd himselfe among the hotte coales in a chymney who though he was pulled out of the fire yet he went in againe burned him selfe to death A rare straunge thing as hath bene heard of I thinke it is harde to finde a seruant so louing to his Lord as this Dog was to his Maister ASsoone as a child is borne especially a boy their ought to bee great heede taken in the cutting of the Nauell string for the member of generatiō doth followe the proporcion of the Nauell string and if it be tyed to short in a Wenche it maye be a hynderaunce to her in bringing forth her chylde Therfore it is meete that Mydwiues haue a great regarde therein This is gathered out of Mathias Cornace an excellent Phisition FOr the helping of the Coddes or Stones that bee swolne or pained The auncient learned did graue in a plate of copper the fygure of a Scorpion in the howre of Saturne the thirde face of Aquary then ascēding or rysing with Saturne and for the Gowte the Seale of Pisces and also for the helping or bettering of memory they made a Ring of pure golde wherein was closed a Diamonde vnder the coniunction of Saturne and Iupiter in Aries Hermes EGidius Herthoge wrytes a straunge maruell of a woman which caryed a dead chyld in her wombe thirtene yeares which was perceyued of many that handled her bellye but he wrytes not what successe she had therwith for whyles he wrote the same the woman was well and dyd her busynes with her husbande abrode and also at home DYtany drunke with water or wine doth cause a woman to be easily and speedily be delyuered yea though the chylde be dead or if it be turned contrary to a ryght course also it bringes forth the after burthen the lyke effect hath Peniryall as some affirmes And it hath bene proued as sayth Myzaldus PYgeons do so loue the Castrell that if one enclose young Castrels in a potte and stop and couer the same close and shall hang them in fowre corners of the Doouehouse it wyll procure such a loue to the Pygions of that place that for the desyre of them being so inclosed in the sayde Pottes they wyll neuer chaunge that place so much they loue the Castrelles their friendes after their death Columella reports this as Mizaldus affirmes THe Woort leafe layde on the crowne of the heade draweth vp the Vuula or the flap in the throate M. Cato by the report of Mizaldus IF a peece of fine golde or the leaues of pure golde be put into the iuyce of Lymons and taken out of it after it haue leyne therein a whole daye and the same iuice then geuen to one that is sicke of the plague with a lytle Wine and the powder of the roote of Angelica or of the decoction of the same roote it is maruayle to bee tolde what helpe it bringes them yea though they be past all hope or thought past recouerie This Mizaldus wrytes as proued IF a Man be the first that a Woman meetes after she comes out of the Church when she is newlye Churched it sygnifies that her next chylde wyll be a boye If she meete a Woman then a wench is lyke to be her next chyld This was credibly reported to me to be true But prayse it as it proues A Lytle baye Salt stamped small myxt with the yolke of an egge and applyed to a Fellon and so vsed diuerse tymes doth not only perfectly heale the same with speede but also drawes out all the payne out of the arme and ceases the swelling therof if any such be by the meanes of the same This is perfectly proued CHildren are not alwayes lyke vnto their Parēts as it maye appeare in Helides which dyd begette a Daughter of an Ethiopian which Daughter was not of the cullour of her Mother but after the sayde Daughter had a Sonne which was blacke and lyke to his grandmother So Niceus the Poet dyd degenerate in cullour from his Father and his Mother and was lyke his grandfather being an Ethyopian Which thing ought well to be considered of such that suspectes their Wiues when they bring forth chyldren vnlyke to eyther of them for it happens many tymes that the chylde is lyke to the Grandfather or great Grandfather and neyther lyke the father nor mother Mizaldus A Tode stone called Crapandina touching any part be venomed hurte or stung with Ratte Spider Waspe or any other venemous Beast ceases the paine or swelling thereof Lemnius THe iuyce of Broome myxt with the oyle of Radish or of Mustarde is a very safe remedy for the kylling or destroying of Lyse IF a Woman annoint often her Dugges or Pappes with the iuyce of Succorie it wyll make them litle round and hard For if they be hanging or flagging it wyl draw them together wherby they shal seeme as the Dugges of a mayde Mizaldus IF you shall enclose within a peece of thinne Sylke Galbanum made sofe and shall laye it to the mouth of the Matrix all a night the head of that woman hauing then no fowle nor stinking cloathes vpon it but onely couered with a Caule and a cleane or thyn Keyrchyffe without any kinde of Odors in the morning when the same are losed from her heade if the crowne of her head smell of Galbanum it is a sure token that that woman is apt to haue chyldren Hyppocrates IF
or other place or rowme wyl geue such a light in the darke as the Moone doth when she shines in a bright night Iohannes Baptist. A Peece of a chyldes Nauell string borne in a ring is good against the falling sicknes the paynes of the head and of the collyck Mizaldus BAptista Fulgosus reports that nie to Sirminū a Citie of Pamony sometymes there hath bene Tendrals of Gold found in the Uines wherof there hath bene money coynd Which many haue seene sayth Gandeut Meruba in his tyme And Alexander Neapolitanus sayth that he hath founde in Germany within Daunby Uines that dyd beare lytle nayles and leaues of pure golde which was geuen for presentes to Kings and Dukes Mizaldus IF any doeth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astronomie whether that place where he dwelles is better for him then that to which hee meanes to go beholde and if thou dost finde the Moone seperate from Infortunes that is from an euyll Planette or from an Infortunate Planette tell him that his going is better then his tarying But if you finde the Moone seperate from a good or fortunate Planet then it is better for him to tarry there styl then to go from thēce to dwel And to be briefe if one shall aske thee saying thus I must needes doo a certaine thing or I haue certayne busynesse to doo whether maye I doo it or not then marke thou the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone and if thou finde them seperate from euyll Planets or euyll fortunes applying to good or fortunate Planets byd him do that that he is determined to do and spare not But if thou finde them seperate from good Planets or fortunate and applying to euyll Planets byd him that he doo it not neyther take it in hande Haly Abenragell THat Woman is lyke to be barreyn in whose Natiuitye the Moone and Venus being in barreyne signes are Infortunate of Mars and Saturne Or if Saturne be in the seuenth or tenth house Infortunating 〈◊〉 and the Moone or if Venus be with Saturne and the Moone then in the syxt or twelfth house Infortunate Iatromath Guat Ryff THe seedes of Roses with Mustarde seede and the foote of a Wesell all together tyde in some thing hangde among the bowes or branches of a tree that beares but lytle fruite It is sayde that it wyll make that tree to beare well and to be maruelous fruitfull Mizaldus PAre the nailes of one that hath the quarteyn ague which being put into a lynnen cloath and so tyed about the necke of a quicke Eele and the same Eele put into the water thereby the ague wyll be dryuen away Geber et Alb. IF any lyst to sleepe and laye by him the braunches of moyst Hempe Gnats wyll not trouble him nor come neare him Myzaldus IF the Lorde of the twelfth house be in the twelfth house many debates and enemities wyll happen vpon the day belonging to that Planet to the childe then borne Taisnier COoluer dunge stampt and vsed for a plaster with strong Uineger and applyed to the Nauell byndeth incontinent all Fluxes of the belly Macer THe roote of a Goorde tyed to the reynes of the backe of Women that is in labour or trauell of chylde doth cause speedy delyueraunce thereof But let it be taken away as soone as the chyld doth come foorth least the Matrix go out after the chylde Trotula de passionibus mulierum HEre foloweth an Electuary of a wonderfull vertue in the tyme of Pestilence this Electuary is of so great a vertue in them that do receyue it once in .xxiiii. howres that they may be sure from all euyl infections of corrupt and contagious ayres all the daye after But in them that are infect already and are taken with the Pestilence if they drinke of it but one spoonefull as shall be sayde hereafter especially after letting of bloud if it be conuenient to the patient and laye him downe and sweate vpon the same if the venyme hath not vtterlie ouercome the hart he shall vndoubtedlie recouer It hath bene lately proued that after drynking of the same medicine when the patient made his water in an vrinall the glasse hath burst in peeces by reason of the venime that it purged out This is the making of the sayde Electuary Take Cynamom elect one ounce Terra sigillata sixe drams fyue Myrre three drams Unycornes horne one dram the seede rynde of Cytron rootes of Dyptanny Burnet Turmentyl Zedoary red Currall of each two drams yellow Saunders fowre scruples red Saunders two scruples whyte Been and red flowres of Marygooldes of each one dram Yuery rased Scabius Veroincitunici seede of Basyll the bone of a Stags harte Saffron of each two scruples make a syne powder and ad vnto it of bole Armoniacke preparate two ounces whyte sugar three pound and with a syrrup of Acetositate citri make a goodly Electuary and keepe it in a glasse If the Pestilence commeth with great excesse of heate drinke it in Rose water Uineger but if you feele it colde take it in a draught of Wine and couer you with cloathes so that you maye sweate as long as is possible for without doubt it is a present remedy as I my selfe haue nowe of late proued Thus much Thomas Phayre in his Treatyse of the Pestylence THe teethe of a mad Dogge that hath bytten a man or woman tyed in leather and then hangde at the shoulder doeth preserue and keepe the partye that beares it from being bytten of any madde Dogge Diascorides by the report of Mizaldus THe Seedes of Carduus Benedictus stamped and drunke doth helpe the griefe paynes prickings and stitches of the syde and the gryping in the guts and the lower parte of the belly This is proued for trueth IF any doth sprinckle his head with the powder of the skinne that a Snake doth cast off gotten or gathered when the Moone is in the ful being also in the fyrst part of Aries the Ram he shall see terryble and fearefull dreames And if he shall haue it vnder the plant of his foote he shal be acceptable before Magistrates and Princes Cardanus WHosoeuer beginnes theyr iourney in the howre of Venus he shall haue good and profyte on the behalfe of Women or some such lyke thing Haly Abenragell IF Woormes gnawe vpon or hurt the mouth of the stomacke put Honny combes into the mouth fasting and holde them there and the Woormes wyll draw vnto the Honny and so voyde by the mouth It hath bene proued IN the fyrst beginning of any sycknes or at the time of any question for the sycke if the Moone be Orientall nye to the Sunne within twelue degrees it is sygne of death and the nearer to the Sun and in Combusyon the woorse Iohannes Ganiuetus WIth this Secrete following Benedictus victorius had alwayes good successe in passions and griefes of the harte Take of the iuyce of Buglosse cleansed or putrified at the fyre two ounces of white Sugar two drams myxe them
back emroddes therewith it is maruelous good for the gowte the making of the oyle is thus Take of the most purest and oldest whyte Wine one quart of the oldest oyle Olyffe three pound Carduus benedictus called the blessed Thistle Ualerian the lesser Sage with the flowres if you can get them of each a quarter of a pounde of the leaues flowres of S. Iohns Woort halfe a pounde let the hearbs and flowres be infused or stieped in the sayd Wine oyle xxiiii howres then the next day let all be put into an earthen vessell leaded or a vessell of brasse vpon an easy fyre vntyll the Wyne be consumed moouing it styl being ouer the fire then being taken from the fire streyned put therto of Uenys Turpentine a pound and a halfe then let all boyle together a quarter of an howre then put therto Olibanū fiue ounces Myrre three ounces Sanguis Draconis one ounce and let all boyle vntyl the Myrre be dyssolued then put it into a vessell of glasse stopped let it stand in the hotte Sun ten daies before you vse this oyle you must wash the sores or woūds with whyte Wine wherin must be the powder of Olibanū I haue writtē this here because I thinke thereby many shall haue knowledge of this precious Oyle which otherwyse should neuer haue heard of it A Sweete water an vnknowen wherof one part mixt with ten quartes of pure water maketh the whole most sweet Take Nutmugs Cloues Galingale Spiknard graines of Paradise Mase Cinamō of euery one an ounce pound or stamp thē all ad therto twenty graines of Musk or lesse as you delyght in the smell therof powre into them a pound a halfe of Rosewater let them so remayne together in a close vessell fowre or fyue dayes then put therto thryse as much Rosewater and distyl all the same in a potte or kettel ful of water seething as in Balneo marie keep the distylled water in a glasse wel stopt to the vse before sayd Euoni IF an Eg be painted with sundry cullors the same set vnder a Hen which syts to bring forth chickens she wyll hatche therof a Chycken hauing the lyke fethers vnto the cullors paynted on the Egge Thomas Hyll out of the naturall and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua affyrmes this IF one make a lytle rope of the guts of a Woolf and then bury the same vnder sand or earth there wyll neither Horse nor Sheepe go that way though you beate them with a staffe Albertus IT is sayd that a Hare doth lyue ten yeeres the age of a Cat is so much a Goate doth liue eight yeeres an Asse thirty yeeres a Sheepe ten yeeres but the Belwether many times doth liue .xv. yeeres a Dog. xiiii and somtymes .xx. a Bull .xv. but an Oxe because he lacks his stones doth lyue .xx. a Swine and a Peycocke .xxv. a Horse .xx. and oftentimes .xxx. there haue bene Horses that lyued fifty yeeres Pygeons lyues naturally .viii. yeeres a Turtle a Partrech .xxv. yeeres also a Ryngdooue which oftentimes lyues xl yeeres Mizal. THe body of a Byrch tree cut or scortched the spring time going before doth yeeld great plenty of water which water being droonke hath a maruelous strength to breake the stone in the raynes Matheolus vpon Dioscorides wrytes it FINIS Lib. 9. ¶ The tenth Booke of Notable things THere is an euident familiarity betweene the Oliue tree and the Myrte tree for as Andronicus reportes the branches of the Myrt tree do pleasauntly extende or spreade by the Olyue tree and the rootes of them do mutuallye embrace each other nor any other plant but the Myrt tree wyll grow well nye the Olyue tree This also Mizaldus doth affyrme THe smell of Bitumen rawe or the smoake thereof burned receyued by the nose of such as are grieuously tormented with the paynes of the moother is a present helpe or remedy It is most certainly proued Wherfore many Women which are grieued with the disease do hang it about theyr necks in wooll that they maye driue away theyr fyt by the oft smelling therof Mizaldus wrytes this And the learned Doctor Monardus affyrmes the lyke therof THe sparrowe Hawke is a fierce enemie to all Pygions but they are defended of the Castrell whose syght and voyce the Sparhawke doth feare which the Pygions or Dooues knowes well inough for where the Castrell is from thence wyll not the Pigions go if the Sparhawke be nye through the great trust she hath in the Castrell her defendor Iohannes Baptista Porta hath written this THe leaues of a Wyllow tree as also the bark therof sodde in Wine doth helpe them that haue the gowte if they be fomēted or bathed therwith Mizal. SToflerus an excellent Astronomer knowing by his Natiuity that he should be in daunger to be hurte about a certaine day or tyme kept him self then within his own house assured that it was strong inough The same day or very nye vnto it that the euent should happe certayne of his learned friends and he as they were reasoning together dyd vary in some certayne opynion about the tryall wherof as it should seeme he reached to take downe one of his bookes being placed among dyuers other when through the lacke of a nayle the whole classe or shelfe where the booke was fell vpon his head and wounded his head very sore Which doth not onely shew the worthynes and excellencie of Astrology especially in a learned and skylfull person therin but also our folly in flying from Fate for that our wisdome doth leade vs into it whē most of all we meane for to shun it Therfore perfect prayer passeth pollecie in preuenting of peryls THree halfe penny weyght of the powder of the Adamant stone droonke with the iuyce of Fennell drawes the water from them that haue the dropsie And the same stone put to the head takes away quite all the paynes therof Iacobus Hollerus an excellent Phisition affyrmes it IT is a manifest thing and proued by dayly experience that the bodies of them that be murthred when they be founde if any of theyr kynred be then present or the party or partyes that kylled or murthered thē or was the cause therof Immediatly bloud wil burst forth suddenly either out of the wound or nose or out of some other part of theyr body I could aleadge here a great sort of examples for the verifying thereof but I omyt them for it is a thing found true by dayly experience Besydes that Lucretius Philip. Melancton Iohannes Langius and Lauinius Lemnius haue written therof PEeces of Amber being put or tyed to the hynder part of the head doth helpe the running or watrines of the eyes with a maruelous successe and hanged about the necke doth hynder distyllations that they go not downe by the throate Mizaldus Besides that it is proued to be true A Certayne Woman went with a dead Chylde in her wombe aboue fowre yeeres which by
away and then the woman by some meanes did teare or vnloose the sheete wherein she was wrapt and then she went straight home to her Husbande and called vpon him to let her into the howse whom when he harde hee thoughte it had beene a Sprite But at last through her importunate calling he receyued her into the house and thus woonderfully she recouered and lyued which Woman after that had three or fowre chyldren of whome it is sayde there is a Monument at this present in the sayde Citie of Cullen Therfore too hasâ—y or quick buryall is not to be vsed as not onely this rare example maye sufficiently teach vs But also for such causes as I haue alleadged in another place of this booke IF you graft the slyps of a Wylding or sowre Aple vpon the stock of a Hawthorne you shal haue Medlers grow therof This I haue seene proued therfore I affyrme it for trueth A Lytle Byrde called the Kings Fysher being hanged vp in the ayre by the neck his nebbe or byll wyll be alwayes dyrect or strayght against the winde This was tolde mee for a very trueth by one that knew it by proofe as he sayde WHosoeuer shall weare about theyr mydle such a gyrdle as followeth tying it fast that it fall not away they shall not neede to feare drowning though the boate they are in should myscarie whereby they may passe ouer any water safely without any dauÌ„ger though it be neuer so deepe For so long as it is about them they can not synke Take two peeces of good Neates lether well tand and drest such as foote balles be made of eyther peece being of the breadth of fyue or sixe fyngars And of such a length as wyll make a sufficient gyrdle for you let a shoomaker sew them very strongly thycke stytched and surely together and lykewise at both the endes and in the myds therof fasten a Pype lyke to a Bagpype wherewith blow the same gyrdle as ful of winde as you can possyble then vnder the nether ende of the Pype tye the lether very fast and sure that ioygnes the pype the gyrdle together with a strong packthred or with some other sure strong thing least the winde should come out of the gyrdle whereof you must take great heede Also blowe three Oxe bladders full of wind and tye them hard that the winde go not forth of the same and sew ech of them strongly and surelye within good strong Neates lether rounde lyke vnto a foote ball and make three strong lowpes vpon the sayde gyrdle one against the middes of the backe and against eyther of the sydes one and then tye fast and surely one of the sayde bladders sewed in the lether to euery of the sayde lowpes and then tye the same gyrdle about your mydle very fast and sure And then you can not synke into the water And so you maye passe safely ouer if the water be not too broade and too rough Nicholaus Michauel hath wrytten of such a lyke gyrdle in his excellent Booke of the Arte of Warres for the saueing of Souldiours and Fyshers ouer waters In which Booke there are other notable Engynes and worthy matter besyde concerning warres A Ladle made of the wood of a Fygge tree hath a maruelous propertie for if Fleshe in the seething therof be often sturred therwith or if it be in the Pot whyle it is seething it makes the Flesh to be sooner sodden Mizaldus A Partrych wyll crye alowde and will teare or breake the Cage or Coope where she is fedde if there be any deadly medcyn or poyson prepared within the same house which shee dooth feele presentlye and also hath knowledge thereof through a woonderfull speciall and rare gift of nature Actius ex pisone GEllius wrytes that the Hedgehogge makes the mouth of her hoale Cabban or Caue alwayes contrary to the winde for through a meruelous natural gyfte shee hath foreknowledge in what quarter the wynde wil be and thereupon shee chaungeth the mouth or entringe in of her hoale or caue whereby Marryners haue learned aforehand the place of the wynde The ende of the tenth and last Booke FINIS ¶ A speciall Table for the finding out of any matter in this Booke whereof the Table of the first Booke doth folowe A Straung Historie of two louers that were poysoned by eating of Sage pag. 1 â—ph 1. A 〈◊〉 Poct dyd weare leaden soles pag. 2. â—ph 2. A straunge thyng of Mullen pag 2.3 To encrease mylke in Nurses pag. 2.4 Aqua vite helpes synewes and muscles pag. 2.5 To make rough or chapped lippes smoth pag. 2.6 To knowe who shal be crooke backt or halt pag. 3.7 Earth wormes helpe deafenes pag. 3.8 A notable cure of one that had the griefe of the splene seuen yeres pag. 3.9 A rare thyng to make a horse â—all as dead and after to make him lyuely pag. 3.10 To get a precious stone out of a snake pag. 4.11 A way to keepe wine safe from thunder pag. 4.12 To knowe who shall haue the palsie pag. 4.13 To take away a Wen. pag. 4.14 To make wood of the cullour of Hebenus pag. 4.15 An excellent vertue of Mullen in helping of bruses and sores pag. 5.16 Ualerian wyl drawe out any wood or yron out of the fleshe pag. 5.17 To make a barren vine beare grapes pag. 6.18 To preserue the teeth froÌ„ rotting pag. 6.19 The teeth of a Bore newely killed wyll burne brysâ—ies or haires pag. 6.20 A present casâ— for the gowte pag. 6.21 The Citie of Tornace wâ—s marueylously deliuered from the plague by the shooting oâ—f of gunnes pag. 6.22 To make common Azure pag. 7.23 A Cocke feares not a Serpent yet he is afrayde of a glead pag. 7.24 To maâ—e amber clearer better pag. 7.25 A â—are way to staye the fluxe of spaâ—â—e pag. 8.26 Cantarides applied made one to pyssâ— blood pag. 8.27 A straunge vertue of y buâ— leafe pag. 8.28 A salue made of ale helpes sores and aches pag. 8.29 Docks makes toughe fleshe to be tender pag. 8.30 A way to knowe whether one be sicke in body or in minde or in both pag. 9.31 To know who is enfect with the pluresye pag. 9.32 They that haue the quarteyn shal not haue the falling sicknes pag. 9 33. To cullour bones with a greene cullour pag. 9.34 Oile keepes wine froÌ„ corrupting pa. 10.35 The coles of a birch tree healeth woundes pag. 10.36 A Robin red breast will couer the face of a dead body with mosse pag. 10.37 A straunge example of the heathe basyll pag. 10.38 Great heede ought to be taken of childrens nauels strings wheÌ„ they be cut pag. 10.39 To helpe them that can not holde theyr water pag. 10.40 An incredible tâ—le of a louyng dogge pag. 11.41 The member of generation dooth folow the proportion of the nauell string cutte pag. 11.42 A straung way for the helping of the cods pag. 11.43 A woman caried a dead child in her wombe thirteene yeres pag.
an easy fyre and that that shall distyll keepe in a vessell of Gold or Syluer Sylens is to be kept of the prayse of this water because it may not be bought For his vertue doth pallyfie leprous persons it heales and destroyes a pure leprie it wypes away or takes away euery spot it conserues youth it makes the eye fayre I cease to speake of the secretes of this water for because I feare least they that haue it should be puft vp with pryde Trotula de pass Mulier THis following is a proued thing for the sounding of the eares or wynde in the same Take Almonds and the kernelles of Peches and let them be cleane pylled in hotte water then stampe them and get oyle out of them and put of the same oyle with tents wet in the same into the soūding eares or otherwise grieued which tents must be made of fyne lynnen cloath and do thus with new tents euery daye once for the space of nyne or ten dayes and it wyll put away the sounding and other paines of the eares This I learned of one that came out of Spaine And I proued it to be very true FINIS Lib. 7. ⧠The eyght Booke of Notable thinges YOu shal make Vinegar by and by if you powre pure good Wine halfe sodde into a newe earthen vessell then well couered and stopte and so the same Potte set in hotte scalding water A Woolfe fyrst seeing a Man doth lyfte vp his voyce and as a vyctor doth despyse him But if he perceyue that the Man hath espyed him fyrst he laies away his fiercenes and can not run D. Ambrosius Virgil. Plato Sextus Platon And other THere is deadlye warre betweene the Hawke and the Eagle who sometymes are so fast together in theyr fyght that they are both taken or catcht therby Plynius TO take the Byrdes that eates the seedes that are sowne Seethe Garlicke that it may not growe againe for it is sayde to profyte maruelously if it be throwne vnto them for they that shall eate of it wyl be taken with your hand Mizaldus HE that takes his iourney on the Sea in the houre of Saturne he shall haue many waues and diuers wyndes which wyll cast him to vnknowen places Haly Abenragel YF you geue one of these Pylles following euerye nyght going to bed to him that hath the palsey it wyll helpe him for it is proued Take of hearbe Iue Cowslops Bettony of the flowres of Sticados arabici of each one dram let them be dryed in the shadow and make them in fyne powder then take good Turbyth one dram of the best Agarick two drams Coloquyntyda halfe a dram Gynger Salgem of eyther ten graynes good and chosen Rewbarbe one dram and a halfe Spykenarde seuen graines the powder of Hiera simplex galeni halfe an ounce Scamony prepared one dram let them all be made in fyne powder and with the iuyce of hearbe Iue make a masse of Pylles The weyght to be geuen at one tyme is one Pyll of one scruple And marke if he that hath the palsey take this ordinary Pylle not once euerie day but twyse in the weeke at the least you shall see a sudden helpe in the palsey These Pylles maye worthely bee called gloryous Pylles in the palsey Emperica benedicti victorij fauentini A Certaine man fynding or catching a Mowse dyd hyt his wife therwith on the left cheeke being with chylde who after was delyuered of a Wench which Wench had and yet hath the marke of a Mowse on her left cheeke This was tolde by a credible womā who sayd moreouer that the name of this Wenches Father was Thomas Bucknam dwelling at the tyme in Northfolke in a certayne Towne called Dysse This affyrmes my other wryting hereof YOu may turne white Wine into redde without any hurt or detryment by and by if the powder of Honny that is fyrst sod vnto a stony substaunce and then dryed so made in powder be cast into whyte Wyne and myxing it well in the same with rowlyng it vp and downe together The rootes of any kinde of Dockes eyther new or dryed put into the Wine wyll perfourme the same with lesse busynes GArlycke being stampt with Hogs or Barrowes grease and made something thycke lyke an oyntment doth maruelously helpe them that haue the coughe and haue taken colde if theyr soles of theyr feete and theyr backe bone before the fyre be annointed therewith WHosoeuer hath any fyxed Starre of the fyrst honor or magnitude in the degree of theyr Horoscope or in the degree of theyr Cuspe of the tenthe house or in the degree of the Sunne by day or in the degree of the Moone by nyght he shall possesse great rytches and honors then his Auncestors haue done of the Nature of that fyxed Starre In deede this is true if that fyxed Starre be of a small Latitude but if it be of a great Latitude his strength wyll smallie appeare in the Natiuitie of the Chylde Thus much Taisnier THis water following is excellent good to cleare a dym syght if two or three drops therof be put into the eyes at a tyme vsyng it certayne dayes together Take of the water of Uarueyn the water of Roses and the water of Fennell of eache fowre ounces whyte strong wine three ounces Tuty preparate Sugar candy of either three drams Aloes Hepatick two drams let al them be beaten in fine powder that are to be powdred and put them into the waters Wine mixing all together and let them remaine and stand a whole day then streine them easely and keepe that lycquor in a fayre glasse vse it as is before said This is a precious thing for the syght and the eyes A Maruelous medicine for woundes sores Take a handfull of Arsmart wette in fayre water then laye it in the wounde or sore After burye the same Arsemart in some moyst ground and the said wound or sore wyll afterwarde myraculously heale as the same hearbe doth rotte and consume This I had of one that affyrmed it to be true I thinke it is written by Paracellus THe bodyes of drownd or dead men do fleete on the water with theyr faces and bellies vpward but dead Women do fleete on the water grouelyng or with theyr faces downward cōtrary to theyr procreation But they do not fleete or swym aboue the water out of whome the Lunges is taken c. Mizaldus THe water of Marygooldes doth helpe all diseases of the eyes and takes away all paines of the head And the smoake of the flowres therof taken or receyued by a Fundyble into the secrete partes of a Woman or else otherwyse taken doth bring forth easelie the after burthen This secrete Mizaldus dyd get of an olde Mydwyfe which had neede of his helpe otherwyse THe heade of a Gleade vnfeathered burned and so much thereof taken with water and droonke as you maye take vp with three fyngers helpes them that haue the gowte Galenus IF any come or send to thee
72.83 An caste way to stynche bloud pa. 72.84 A sure remedy to put away â—etters or ringwoormes pag. 73.85 Excellent Pylles that helpes the headache brings gladnes and are good for the eyesyght 〈◊〉 pag. 73.86 A Chylde borne at a certaine tyme shall be hyndred in his speech or toÌ„gue pa. 73.87 A man dyd barke lyke hounds pa. 74.88 The eyes of young Swallowes put out wyll see againe by a maruellous meanes pag 74.89 To prouoke sleepe pag. 74.90 A perfect waye to heale lame members pag. 74.91 It was a maruelous offence with the Egiptians to kyll a Cat. pag. 75.92 To keepe Harnes or Yron from rusting pag. 75.93 They shall haue ryches without labor that are borne at a certaine tyme pag. 75.94 A notable oyle for the gowte pag. 75.95 An excellent thing to keepe one safe from pâ—yson pag. 76.96 A thing to make one sleepe presently pag. 76.97 A rare secrete to cease bleeding pag. 76.98 To draw out a toothe with ease and without any instrument pag. 78.99 A sure medicine for them that bee costy 〈◊〉 pag. 78.100 The Table of the fourth booke TO make Dwale that wyll cause one to sleepe whyles they are cut whereby they shall feele no payne al the while pag. 79.1 They that be borne at a certaine tyme wyll haue griefâ—s in their noses c. pag. 79.2 A precious thing to breake the stone pag. 79.3 To make a combe that wyll helpe heade ache pag. 80.4 A Ryng procuryng the vertue of stâ—rres pag. 80.5 A straunge help for the pains of the throte pag. 80.6 An excellent thing for the gowte pa. 80.7 To make Yron of the cullour of Brasse pag. 81.8 What Horsses are deafe and doom pa. 81.9 To keepe Harnes or Yron from rusting pag. 81.10 To know whether one com to deceyue thee or meane well or not pag. 82.11 To loose the belly pag. 82.12 The good effect of deafenes in an ague and bleeding at the nose pag. 82.13 A diuine medicine for the pluresie pa. 82.14 A straunge waye to keepe a woman from hauing a chyld with a Hare lyp pa. 83.15 To destroy any Impostuâ—e pag. 83.16 To knowe Astrologicallye where any disease is eyther in the body or in the minde pag. 83.17 A Queenâ— droonke at one draught the value of two hundreth and fyftie thousande pounde pag. 84.18 The straunge propertye of a Fygge tree pag. 84.19 The excellent vertue of Uarueyne in helping the falling sycknes pa. 84.20 A Chylde borne in a certayne constellation wyll be chiefe of his brethren pag. 84.21 A notable waye to put away the paynes of sâ—aldng or burning with gunne powder pag. 85.22 To make syluer Plate fayre and whyte pag. 85.23 A sure preseruatiue from the Plague pag. 85.24 A notable vertue of Pyony in curing the falling sycknes pag. 86.25 Astrologicalles tokens of death of the sick pag. 86.26 A rare waye to make a woman be spedilye delyuered pag. 86.27 To drawe out the Oyle of Cynamom pag. 86.28 To plucke out a rotten or aking tooth with ease pag. 87.29 An excellent proofe whether one that hath the plague shall escape or not pag. 87.30 The place where the Censors of Uenys sytâ— is free from flyes c. pag. 87.31 The first Chylde borne at a certayne tyme wyll be a boye pag. 88.32 A sure medicine to take away the greatest eldest paine of the head that is pag. 88.33 A perfect medicine to kyll woormes in the belly pag. 88.34 A daungerous tyme for the syck pa. 88.35 The excellent vertue of golde pag. 89.36 The nature of the water or goomme of the vine pag. 89.37 The sygnes of death of such as haue a consumption pag. 89.38 An excellent Electuary preseruing lyfe and hindring olde age pag. 89.39 A Lampe without fyre to geue lyght in the nyght pag. 90.40 Excellent vertues of the Nauell stryng pag. 91.41 Golde found in vines pag. 91.42 To knowe what place is best to dwell in pag. 91.43 Women lyke to be barren that are borne at a certaine tyme pag. 92.44 To make barren trees fruitful pag. 92.45 A straunge waye to put awaye the quarten ague pag. 92.46 That Gnaâ—tes shall not trouble them that sleepes pag. 93.47 Troubles and debates what day they shall happen pag. 93.48 An excellent waye to staye the Fluxe pag. 93.49 To cause a woman bee spedilye delyuered pag. 93.50 A woonderfull medicine in the tyme of pestilence pag. 93.51 To keepe one from being bytten with a mad dog pag. 94.52 To helpe the griefes or stitches in the side pag. 95.53 To see terrible and fearefull Dreames pag. 95.54 The howre of Uenus good to take iourney in pag. 95.55 To draw out woormes out of the stomack pag. 95.56 A great token of death when the Moone is nye the Sunne c. pag. 95.57 An excelleÌ„t medicine for paines of the hart pag. 96.58 For the gowte and swellings of the ioynts pag. 96.59 A straunge helping of the Swyne pockes pag. 96.60 A perfecte medicine for the bloody fluxe pag. 97.61 A rare helpe for the crâ—mpe pag. 97.62 They that are borne at a certayne tyme shal fall from some hye place c. pag. 97.63 To cure the Dropsie pag. 97.64 The great vertues of Eybright pag. 97.65 To pluck vp a Cankar by the rootes pag. 98.66 To knowe whether a woman be barren or not pag. 98.67 To make Letters of the cullour of what mettal you rub the same withal pa. 99.68 To helpe the red pympled face pa. 99.69 To knowe whether the dropsie be hotte or colde pag. 99.70 To knowe whether the sycke shall dye of that sicknesse or not pag. 99.71 An horible murder bewrayed by young Swallowes pag. 100.72 For them that can not holde theyr water pag. 100.73 A sygne of recouery or health pag. 100.74 Significations of dreames pag. 100.75 To make a Swoorde haue a sharpe edge pag. 101.76 To make that Antes go not vp on trees pag. 101.77 A chylde borne at a certaine tyme is lyke to be blinde pag. 101.78 To helpe the Reâ—â—me pag. 101.79 To conserue youth pag. 102.80 Thinges prospers not after the woordes of some pag. 102.81 To cease the Hyckop pag. 102.82 Chyldren borne in the earthquake What followes pag. 102.83 The nature of Sperma ceti pag. 103.84 They that are borne in a certayne constellation shal haue impedunâ—e in their tongue pag. 103.85 To cure the dropsie pag. 103.86 Signes when a woman with two childreÌ„ is lyke to lose one pag. 103.87 To helpe or ease a hotte or colde gowte pag. 103.88 The making of the flowre of oyntmentes pag. 104.89 Signes of death by Astrology pa. 105.90 A perfect way to cure the Splen pa. 105.91 Tokens of health in a sick body pa. 105.92 To destroy a Carbuncle pag. 105.93 To make y blacâ— sea coale soft pa. 106.94 To helpe the stone pag. 106.95 A straunge example of a chylde borne without a mouth pag. 106.96 The Wyfe shall dye before the Husbande pag. 107.97 To helpe the Dropsie pag. 107.98 To know perfect Balâ—e pa.
the counsayle of learned Phisitions and expert Surgeons was drawne from her peecemeale and the mother dyd not onely lyue but also conceaued an other Chylde as Mathy Cornace a notable learned PhisicioÌ„ hath affyrmed who was present when the sayd Woman was cutte for the getting out of the sayde dead Chylde Mizaldus reports this IF Eeles be suffocated in wyne whosoeuer shall drynke of that wyne though they haue bene very much geuen to wyne before could scantly abstayne from the same they wyl loothe wyne and not be desyrous to drinke wine after The greene Frogges which vse or leapes about sprynges if they be suffocated in wyne workes the lyke effect Mizaldus IF Musaraneus called a Shrew I take it to be the blinde Mowse doth chaunce to go ouer any part of any Beast that part of the Beast wyll after be lame This is knowne to be true WHo so would haue a very whyte delycate skyn Let them boyle or heate Lytarge of Syluer in vinegar distylled and wash therewith theyr skynne which they desyre to haue fayre trym and whyte This I tooke out of Mizaldus IN the tyme of Traiane the Emprour a certayne man hauing a disease called the Dissury dyd pysse with much a doo a knotted Barly straw Anthonius Mizaldus hath written this And I knew a Gentleman that after his death being opened had a Pygions fether stycking in his harte which fether was shewed me by the Surgeon that dyd cutte and open him OTes sodden and the hotte fume therof close receyued on any lame members eyther armes legs or any other and then the sayde members put holden a good whyle in the same sodden Otes when they may be suffred therin and the same order vsed fowre or fyue tymes if neede be doth helpe them perfectly that be lame This was tolde me for a very trueth by them that knew it and saw it tryed THe toothe of a man hanged at the necke of the partye that is tormented with toothe ache doth take away the payne therof especially if a Beane be put thereto wherin there is a hoale bored and a lowse put therin and the same beane wrapt in a peece of sylk and then hanged about the parties neck as is before sayde Anthonius Mizaldus THe most whytest Frankensense made in very fyne powder and droonke with Wine if it be in colde wether or in wynter or in water wherin Reysens are sodde if it be hotte wether or in Sommer in the encreasing of the Moone at the rysing of the Sun at noone at the setting of the Sun doth maruelously helpe and encrease the memory And is very profytable for the brayne and the stomack Rasis is the Author hereof by the report of Mizaldus ANy parte or a peece of the bone of a Mans arme with the hyghest parte or ende of a Goose wyng being carryed or borne of them that haue the quarten ague doth cure the same Mizaldus fathers this of Geber IF one that hath the Dropsy or the Iaundise shal drink theyr owne vryne for certayne dayes together it wyl helpe maruelously Thus Hermes sayth But Benedictus victorius Fauentinus in his practises affirms for trueth and sayth it is certaynly proued that fyue ounces of the vryne of a Boye not polluted and of a sanguyne complection myxt with halâ—e an ounce of good whyte Sugar being droonke euery morning early â—asting for the space of ten daies doth helpe certaynly the Iaundyse and also so much droonk at once a month together in such order doth helpe the Dropsye perfectly STiepe a threede in oyle brimstone myxt together and compasse a glasse with that threede in the place where you would haue it broken euen or parted and after kyndle the same threede with fyre and do thus so often vntyll that place of the glasse be hotte and after compasse the same with a threede wet in cold water and it wyll part so cleane a sunder as though it had bene cut with a sharpe poynted Diamonde IF they that be swolne and are full of the Dropsy do lye three dayes and nyghts in theyr beds wel couered rounde about in sodden Barley it helpes cures them perfectly This was proued by them that came vexy swolne from Gynny And one of them that was helpt therwith reuealed it vnto me which I am content to publysh to the common commodity of many THe earnest searchers of naturall things saye and set forth that certayne woormes are bredde in the vowels or guts of the Harte they are destroyed by the eating of Serpents which the Harte doth allure with the breath of his nose to come out of theyr heale or denne and least the poyson of them should hurte him he goes a pace to some fayre Spryng of water and whyles all his whole body is therein vnto the lyppes lytle drops or teares distylles out of his eyes which at length encreaseth to a thyng as bygge as a Walnutte and are in manner of a stone and when he perceyues he hath therby auoyded all the poyson and being comd forth of the water with the rubbing of his eyes at a tree the same lumpe or Stone being a hynderaunce to his syght he gets away Which matter or Stone is a thing most effectuall against any venome or poyson Many Phisitions of great aucthority and antiquitie are witnesses herof Iulius Scaliger and Amatus Lucitanus do boast that they saw such a thing and they affyrme that it maye be geueÌ„ effectually with a lytle wine to them that are infected with the plague for by the strength and help therof so much sweate wyl come forth of the body that you would thinke the whole body wyll turne or consume into moysture with which once geuing all the poyson or venom is thrust out of the body The Arabyan PhisitioÌ„s calles this Stone Besoard And therof Alexipharmaca a remedy against venoms Bezoardica This Anthonius Mizaldus wryteth These Besaar stones being of a most excellent notable and precious vertue are now gotten in Peru in the west Indyans and found about ten yeares past in certayne kynd of Beasts that goeth in the mountaines of that Countrey which are much lyke to Sheepe or Kyds that are in the Portingal Indyas by a worthy Spanish Gentleman called Peter de Osma who killed som of those Beastes purposely for the sayd Besaar stones which he thought to finde in them but although he looked and searched therfore in the belly and in other places of one of the eldest and greatest of them yet he could find none of them neither would the Indyans tel him in what place of the Beast they were saying they knew no such Stones being loath he should know that secrete But at the last an Indian Boy of twelue yeares of age tolde him where to finde them Wherfore the other Indyans would haue kylled the Boy because the Indyans do much esteeme those Stones for they doo offer theÌ„ vnto their Gods or before their Idols as one of the most precious