Countrey-people Tetter-berries may with good successe be applied to them The root cleanseth the skin from the Morphew Leprosie all running Scabs and Manginesse if a Bath be made thereof or the juice applied thereunto A Pessary made of the root bringeth downe the courses in Women and bringeth forth the After-birth and dead Child A Bath made hereof cleanseth the Womb from filthinesse and uncleannesse The root hung about the Neck is good against the Falling Sicknesse and Convulsion The root bruised and boyled in Vineger being applyed to the swollen Genitalls of men helpeth the same A decoction of the leaves or roots mingled with Honey and the mouth and throat washed therewith cureth Vlcers and sorenesse thereof The distilled water of the root worketh the same effect but more weakly yet the water is used for freckles and spots in the face Against hardnesse and stopping of the Spleene Take what quantity you will of the green root of Brionie bruise it with Figs and apply it to the Spleen adding thereunto a little Oyle of Capers Or Take Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger Oyntment Dialtheae or of Marsh-mallows Plaister of Melilot of each halfe an ounce Brionie root and Orris in powder of each halfe an ounce Ducks-grease Goose grease and Hens-grease of each three drams Bdellium and Galbanum of each a dram and a halfe Oyle of Orris-root one ounce and a halfe of the Mussilage of Linseede and Fenugreeke a sufficient quantity of each dissolve the gums and boyle them gently together and add thereto of Wax four ounces of Turpintine and Rosin of each one ounce and a halfe make all into a Cerat according to art Against corrupt and fretting sores in the Legs Take the leaves or root of White Brionie bruise them with Salt and Vineger and apply it Against the Gout and Sciatica Take of Brionie-root green bruise it and apply it with Hogs-grease The hurtfull Quality with the correcting means The root of White Brionie doth much trouble the Stomach head and other parts therefore it must not be given to delicate bodies nor where the spirits are low for though it have a specifick vertue for the Diseases of the Brain before mentioned yet it offends the weak The hurtfull Quality hereof is taken away in part by adding to it Ginger Cinamon Quince or such like The same is also very dangerous for Women with Child however it be given for it causeth Abortion or miscarrying These things are made of Brionie 1. The Extract thereof 2. Faeces vel Faculae Brioniae 3. Water of Brionie 4. Oyntment of Brionie 5. Vnguentum Agrippae The Dose The Dose of the root in substance is from a scruple to a dram in infusion from two drams to halfe an ounce The juice of the root is given from a dram to two drams or more in strong bodies The faeces or dregs thereof are given from five graines to twenty Cambogia see Gutta Gummi CHAP. XII De Camphora Of Camphor or Campher CAmphor is a Gum or liquor of a Tree growing in India and other places partly distilling forth of its owne accord but chiefly by incision and commeth forth clear and white without any spot therein of a very strong sent and of thin parts so that being but a while expos'd to the air both sent and substance vanisheth away The Names It is called in Latine Camphora Caphura in English Camphire Camfire Camphor and Campher The temperament Some will have it to be cold and dry in the third degree others esteem it to be hot but of this more hereafter The best kinde The best is white shining clear as Crystall not full of spots easie to be broken and brittle also being set on fire it burneth and is not easily quenched and hath also a strong sent The Duration It will keep good many years some say forty years but it must be kept from the air and in Flax-seed or Fleawort-seed otherwise it will evaporate and consume to nothing The inward Vse It resisteth putrifaction and venome therefore it is frequently used in the Pestilence contagious diseases and in Feavers It extinguisheth venery or the lust of the body Camphora venenis strenuè resistit cardiacon est Joubert de peste f. 72 Vide Thoner observat l. 3. observat 8. fol. 187. and is good for the running of the Reins as also against the Whites in Women and for the rising of the Mother being dissolved in Balm-water and so taken It cools the heat of the Liver Backe and all hot inflamations in the body The manner of Administring it It is given in Electuaries in Powders Potions c. An Electuary against the Pestilence Take Myrrhe Saffron the bone of a Stags heart or Harts-horne in powder of each two scruples and a halfe of Dittany in powder two drams of white Ginger in powder halfe an ounce of Zedorie in powder two drams and a halfe of Tormentill-roots in powder a dram of Campher in powder or dissolved in Aqua vitae two drams Mithridate and London Treacle of each three ounces with a little Aqua vitae make an Electuary Take thereof morning and evening as much as a small Nut. A powder for the Pestilence Take of Zedoary White Dittany root Gentian-root Scordium Carduus Sorrell of each two drams make them into powder The Dose is a dram in a morning in Carduus-water or in the winter let it be given in White-wine This is a good preservative in times of infection Or Take of white Sugar-Candy a dram white Ginger two scruples Camphor halfe a scruple make them in powder and give it in two or three ounces of Scabious-water or Angelica-water Or Take Angelica-root Bay-berries of each halfe an ounce round Aristolochia or Birthwort two drams Gentian-root Nutmeg of each a dram Camphor halfe a scruple make all into powder The Dose is a dram or more in Carduus-water A Potion against the Pestilence Take of Treacle called Diatessaron a dram Angelica-root in powder halfe a dram or a dram of Rose-Vineger a dram Campher three grains Carduus-water two ounces Dissolve the Campher and the rest that is to be dissolved in the water and make a potion give it and let the party sweat after it This may be given divers times if need be Note That Campher will not be made into powder alone without a blanched Almond or some other such like unctious thing which hereby will be brought into fine powder neither will it easily dissolve in cold water but by warmth it will or with any syrupe it will soon dissolve The outward Vse It helpeth pain of the head and heat thereof if it be mixed with yellow Sanders and red Rose-water and the Temples and Forehead bath'd therewith It stoppeth blood that floweth out of the nostrills if it be smelled to and refresheth the brain It is used against Phlegmous and Erysipelas or Wilde-fire also against heat or inflamations of the eyes it is good in Wounds and Vlcers to abate the heat thereof and is of much
in powder stirring them well together till it become a fit masse for pils The Dose is from ten grains to fifteen Freitag Aur. Med. f. 337. The external use A decoction of Coloquintida made with Veniger easeth the paine of the Teeth if they be washed therewith The powder thereof with Honey applyed to the Navill killeth wormes Being infused in Vineger it cureth the Morphew Leprosie Elephansie dry scurfe and scabs if the places be often rubbed therewith A bath made of Coloquintida and the feet and other parts fomented therewith bringeth downe the Courses in Women The juyce boyled with Hogs-greese and applyed to the hip easeth the Sciatica An oyle made of Coloquintida and dropped into the ear take's away the noyse and singing thereof and is good against baldnes and falling of the hair Coloquintida is used in Glisters and Suppositories A Glister Take of the Pulpe of Coloquintida two drams Camomel flowers a handfull Anniseed Cuminseed of each halfe an ounce Make a decoction in fair water straine it and in a pint of the decoction desolve honey of Roses oyl of Camomel of each three or four ounces and make a Glister A Suppository Take of Coloquintida in powder a scruple species Hiera simplex halfe a dram Salgem halfe a scruple with a sufficient quantity of Honey make a Suppository A Ball made of Coloquintida which purgeth onely by smelling to it Take of Colocynthis and Esula or pine spurge in powder Aloes and Myrrhe in powder of each a dram with the juice of Coriander make two bals to hold in each hand one and being warmed therewith smell often to them The hurtfull quality with the correcting means Coloquintida hurts the heart liver and stomach by its strong operation it opens the mouthes of the veines whereby many times after the taking of it blood is voided both upward and downeward It also excoriats the bowels and passages of the Urine and bringeth great gripings and tearing pains Therefore it must not be given to women with child for being but applyed to the wombe it killeth the child nor to children aged persons or such as are weake neither to any that have the Plurisie Hectich Feaver or any inflamation It is not safe to give it alone but being well corrected it may be given to strong and rustick bodies It is corrected with Hepaticall Cardiacall Stomachicall and other gentle means as Tragacanth oyle of sweet Almonds Ginger or Mastich Some adde Bdellium and other astringent things But surely those things that binde make the operation of the Medicine afterwards more strong for though the binding faculty of such things may hinder the operation for a time yet it will at length bring forth and worke more violently Sagapenum is counted a good corrector of Coloquintida because of it's clammy faculty whereby it preserves the bowels from gripings The Dose The Dose in powder is from five graines to ten or fifteen These things following are made of Coloquintida First Pils of Coloquintida 2 Pilulae Alhandal 3 Extract of Coloquintida 4 Trosses of Alhandal 5 Chimicall oyle of Coloquintida 6 Oyle by infusion of Coloquintida 7 Wine and Vineger of Coloquintida CHAP. XVIII De Corallio Rubro Of red Coral REd Coral is a hard stony substance growing on the Rocks in the Sea The Names Coral is called in Latine Corallium Coralium and Coralium this Corallium rubrum in English Red Coral The temperament Red Coral is cold and dry in the second degree The best kinde The best is that which is smooth clear and red for the redder it is the better it is The Duration It will keep good ten or twenty years The inward Vse Red Coral doth dry cool and bind it strengthneth the heart stomach and liver purifieth the blood and is therefore very usefull in the Pestilence against venome and all pestilent Feavers and malignant diseases it cheares the heart and is good against Melancholy helpeth such as spit blood or that bleed at the mouth or the nose as also stoppeth the Fluxe of blood in man or woman and being taken in wine or other liquor frequâ—ntly it taketh away the hardnesse and stopping of the Spleen it stayeth the Gonorrhaea or running of the reins in men and the whites in women helpeth conception by its binding faculty and is good for the stopping of of the Urine and paines of the Stone in the bladder if the powder when it is burnt be taken in Whitewine or Posset drinke the powder taken in Wine oâ— distilled Water brings rest to such as have an Ague and is good for such as have Cramps It is much commended in the falling sicknesse or to prevent it if a Childe so soon as it is borne take ten graines thereof in black-Cherry-water or in the Mothers miâ—ke Some affirme that it causeth an easie delivery of the birth which fit doe it is by a specifick vertue for experience doth manifest it to be of a binding nature The Chymicall oyle of Coral is commended against the Falling-sicknesse in children and others as also in all Fluxes of the belly and spitting of blood The manner of administring it It is given in Electuary powder c. An Electuary against the Flux of the belly Take of red Coral in powder three drams of Marmeâ—â—â—de of Quinces two ounces and a halfe species Diamargariton frigidum two drams with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Quinces make an Electuary take of it a little before meat An Electuary against vomiting of blood by reason of a bruise or fall Take of red Coral in powder a dram conserve of red Roses conserve of Comfry of each one ounce Bâ—le Armoniack washed in Rose water and in powder Blood stone in powder of each a dram Acacia Myrtle-Berries of each a dram Suger Pellets halfe an ounce with an ounce of Suger dissolved in Rose-water make an Electuary The Dose is three drams or halfe an ounce with red Wine in the morning and before meat A Powder against Ruptures Take of Myrtle-berries Cinamon and Nutmeg of each two drams of Knot-grasse dry halfe an ounce seeds of Plantaine and Purslaine of each three drams and the seeds of Garden Cresses a dram of red Corall a dram and a halfe make all into powder adding so much Sugar as will make it sweet The Dose is from halfe a dram to a dram in red Wine every morning or second morning for a Months space if need require A Powder against the Fluxe of the belly Take of red Coral a scruple roots of Tormentil two scruples Mirrhe a scruple Gum Tragacanth a dram Plantaine-seeds halfe a dram Dragons blood a dram trosses of Spodium a dram Bole Armoniack and Harts-horne burnt of each a dram make them into powder The Dose is a dram in Plantaine-water The outward Vse It helpeth sore Gums and Ulcers in the mouth and healeth up soul hollow Ulcers in other parts and filleth with flesh and is used in medicines for the eyes to stay the Flux of Rheume and takes away the heat and rednesse thereof
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
a singular remedy for a stinking breath It doth conduce much to women to help Conception especially by removing obstructions or stoppings from the uterine parts The manner of administring it It is given in Powder in Pils in electuary and Trosses though it be rarely given alone by reason of its bitternesse To hasten the birth Take of Myrrhe in powder two scruples Give it in a little Posset-drink or make foure or five Pils thereof with a little Honey and give them drinking a draught of posset-drink after them The outward use It healeth wounds of the head and helpeth to cover bones that are bare and incarneth good flesh in deep wounds It helpeth a stinking breath if the mouth be washed with the decoction thereof and helpeth rotten gums and fastneth loose teeth being dissolved in wine and washed therewith it cleanseth also the filthinesse of the Eares Being used with Ladanum and Wine of Myrtles it stayeth the falling or shedding of the haire it helpeth watering eyes and taketh away the skin that beginneth to grow therein and darken the sight and helpeth ulcers of the eyes It is commended to beautifie the face and to make it smooth and youthfull to be made into an oile or rather liquour of Myrrhe which is made with Eggs boiled hard cut in the middle the yolkes taken forth and filled up with the powder of Myrrhe then put into a Glasse and set in a Wine-seller or moist place and with this liquor to wash the face A fumigation hereof comforts the braine and dryeth up superfluous humours It openeth and mollifieth the hardnesse of the matrix and a fumigation thereof helpeth conception and it bringeth downe the courses if a Pessarie be made thereof and used It doth facilitate or hasten the birth being used to the genitals or privities with oile of white Lillies Being used with Vineger it helpeth Tetters and Ring-wormes and freckles or used with Cassia and Honey it helpeth the Gangrene and wilde fire the stinking or chafing of the arme-holes used with oile of â—ox it doth extend and mollifie the nerves that are stiffe with cold It helpes Tenasmus or a desire often to go to stoole from a cold cause A Powder for wounds in the head Take of myrrhe half an ounce of Madder-seed of Cypresse-root of Orris-root of Sarcocole of each three drams make a powder and us it as need requireth The hurtfull quality It must not be given to women with childe for it causeth them to miscarry nor to such as have very hot and dry bodies The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to two scruples Of such things as are made of Myrrhe Trosses of Myrrhe Myrrhe depurated or cleansed Extract of Myrrhe Oile of Myrrhe CHAP. 49. De Opio of Opium OPium is the juice of black Poppie-heads being cut after they are full ripe Meconium is the juice of the heads and leaves of white or black Poppy pressed forth The names It is called in Latine Opium and in English also The Temperament Most of the Ancient writers say Opium is cold in the fourth degree others will have it partly cold and partly hot but some of the new Writers will have it to be altogether hot as Sennertus Doringius Schroderus c. Now the reasons given that it is hot are these 1. Because it is bitter now that which is bitter is hot but Opium is bitter therefore hot 2. It is sharp and biting that being put upon the tongue it bites and blisters the same and palate 3. Causeth drynesse 4. It is of a very strong smell and savour 5. It doth soone burne and flame being set on fire for the true Opium saith Plinie will burne like a Candle From whence we reason thus Omne quod citò inflammatur est calidum Opium citò inflammatur Ergo calidum That which doth soon burne and flame is hot but Opium doth soone burne and fleme therefore it is hot 6. It troubleth the minde and brings a kinde of madnesse or dotage to such as take it 7. It stirs up and provokes Venery 8. It stirs up and provokes the Itch. 9. It provokes sweat 10. It softneth hardnesse and discusseth or dissolveth swellings all which are effects of heat Now though Opium be narcoticall or stupefactive or make dull and senselesse yet this doth not proceed from its frigidity or coldnesse but this it doth by an occult or hidden quality They that desire to know more concerning the nature of Opium let them read that excellent Tract of Doringius de Opio printed 1620 and Freitagius de Opio Med. Opiat printed 1632. Also Sennertus Paralipomena fol. 347 printed 1644 and Mercurialis de morb venenosis venenis lib. 2. cap. 7. fol 59 60 61. printed 1624. The best Opium The best is that which is heavy not too thick in substance nor too thin in colour like Aloes very bitter in taste and burning of a stinking smell soporiferous like Poppie if dissolved it be yellow like Saffron 't is adulterate for it ought to be of a brownish yellowness colour being dissolved The best is called Opium Thebaicum because it comes from Thebes I much question whether we have the true Opium of the Ancient for that which we use is either adulterate or meconium It is adulterated with Glaucium which is the juice of an herb with leaves like to horned Poppy The Duration It may be kept good many years some say nine or ten years others say twenty years The inward use Opium is given to provoke sleep to ease the paine of the Iliack and Collick as also to mitigate the paine of the stone in the bladder or kidneys and to ease pain of the Gowt It cooleth inflammations agues or frensies and stayeth defluxions which cause a cough or consumption It is given in great paines of the head and to stop fluxes of the belly and womens courses It is put into Mithridate Treacle and other medicines that procure rest and ease paine The manner of administring it It is given in Pils Potions Boles Electuaries c. An Electuary against fits of the mother and paines of the wombe either with an ulcer or without an ulcer Take of the species Diamoschu amari and Diambra of each two drams Castor in powder a scruple Opium halfe a dram with syrup of Mugwort make an Electuary The dose is a dram The outward use It is used outwardly to ease the paine of the Gowt or any other paine to cause sleep and to cool inflammations being put into a hollow tooth it easeth the paine thereof Some commend it in medicines for the eares and eyes but I think it rather dulleth the sight then otherwise An oyntment to cause sleep Take of Vnguentum Populeum one ounce powder of Mandrake-root or leaves a scruple oile of Nutmeg by expression a dram oile of Violets halfe an ounce Opium a scruple make an ointment and at night anoint the temples therewith Against the Tooth-ach Take Pellitory of Spain a dram and a halfe Henbane-seed a
Night-shade easeth the hot Gowt and hot Apostumes being thereunto applyed mingled with Oile of Roses and Vineger it cures hot swellings in the joynts and Apostumes behinde the Eare with Vineger or Oile of Violets it helpeth the paine of the head if it be applied to the fore-head and Temples The same laid to with Vineger is good against the going out of the Navell and burstings of young Children The water wherein the seeds have been steeped is good against St. Anthonies fire or Wilde-fire The juice with Honey put into the Eares killeth wormes and stayeth the running thereof It helpeth hot swellings or eruptions of the skin as blaines wheales and such like as also paines of the joynts and places out of joynt and the Hip-gowt The same is applyed to womens nipples and sore breasts and that with good successe laying it often thereon Being mixed with Hogs-grease and applyed to foule corrupt and filthy Ulcers and sores cleanseth and healeth them by cooling the heat and repressing the sharpnesse of the humours flowing unto them The Muccilage of the seed made in Plantaine-water whereunto the yolke of an Egge or two and a little of the oint ment called Populeon is put is a most safe and sure remedy to ease the sharpnesse prickings and paines of the Hemorrhoides or Piles if it be laid on a cloth and bound thereunto It stayeth the bleeding of the Nose applied with the juice of Shepherds-purse and Bole. The hearb boyled or the seeds with the root and the fundament bathed therewith or to sit over the hot liquor easeth the Tenesmus a disease when one is often provoked to stoole It taketh away the burning and acrimonie of Lime Euphorbium and Cautharides It taketh away the roughnesse of the haire being bathed with the mussilage thereof Flea-wort-seed keepeth Camphor very well and that by its coldnesse and moisture The hurtfull quality and correction thereof Some have judged it to be dangerous to take it inwardly that it is hurtfull to the nature of man and causeth stifnesse and coldnesse of the body which is to be no otherwise understood then of all cold herbes such as Night-shade House-leeke and such like being not taken with discretion 'T is not amisse to give it with Cynamon or Mace It is not safe for cold and moist bodies neither may it be given to such as have narraw entrals or narrow passages within The Dose The seeds of Fleabane which are to be given in infusion rather then in substance are taken from a dram to three drams or halfe an ounce Of such things as are made of Flea-wort Electuary of Psyllium the Dose of which is from half an ounce to an ounce the distilled water of Flea-wort CHAP. 53. De Rhabarbaro of Rubarbe RVbarbe is a root of a yellow colour brought chiefly from China in the East Indies The names It is called in Latine Rhabarbarum in English Rubarbe and Rewbarbe The temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree of a mixt substance partly airie thin and purging whereby it openeth the stoppings of the Liver Gall and viscerous parts and also draweth away choler partly grosse and earthy whereby it bindes and constringeth the body and doth wonderfully strengthen the stomach and entrals or inward parts The kindes There are three kindes of Rubarbe mentioned by Authours First Rhabarbarum Indicum and that is brought from China Secondly Rhabarbarum Barbarum which comes from Barbary Thirdly Rhabarum Turcicum which comes from Pontus and Bosphorus for the Turkish Merchants bring it from thence The best kinde The best Rubarbe is brought from China and is of a light purplish red or yellowish colour being chewed in the mouth it is somewhat clammy and in colour like Saffron which being rubbed on paper sheweth the colour more plainly in taste it is somewhat bitter but of a pleasing smell The duration It will keep good two or three yeers if it be kept close from the aire The usuall way to keep it is to wrap it up in Cotten-wooll The inward use Rubarbe purgeth choler flegme and watery humours and is therefore usefull in diseases of the Liver as in cholerick and long continued Feavers in the Jaundise Green-sicknesse Dropsie Stoppings of the Liver as also against the hardnesse thereof or intemperate coldnesse It is so effectuall for the Liver that 't is called the life soul heart and the Treacle of the Liver It cleanseth the bloud gently and is profitable against tumours of the Spleen putrid or rotten Feavers and in all fluxes of the belly whether bloudy or not as also in spitting of bloud and in bruises or falls The powder of Rubarbe given with Cassia and Venice Turpentine washed cleanseth the reins and strengtheneth them afterwards and is very effectuall in Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins It killeth Wormes helpeth the Hickcock and may be given to weak persons old-men children women with childe and that without any danger The manner of administring it It is given in powder in infusion in Pils Boles c. A Powder Take of Rubarbe two drams Spicknard a scruple make them into powder and give it A Potion Take of Rubarbe cut in thin slices two drams Spicknard five grains Goats-Whey or Posset-drink four ounces steep them all night and strain it then add syrup of Roses solutive one ounce and a half make a potion Pils Take of Rubarbe in powder five scruples of Spicknard in powder five grains with syrup of Roses make pils and give them A Bole to cleanse the reins Take of Cassia newly drawn an ounce of Rubarbe in powder four scruples mixe them together and make a Bole or lump Now seeing Rubarbe is of a mixt substance as before is shewed if you desire to open Obstructions then give the infusion thereof if you desire to bind and strengthen give it in substance And when you would give it more to purge then to binde make but a gentle straining thereof but if you would binde the body more then purge strain it hard that so more of the earthy substance may come forth Rubarbe by boiling loseth its purgative faculty Note that there is a kinde of contrariety or Antipathy between Rubarbe and Diagredium for being put together in one Medicine they work very churlishly yet I have observed that when Diagredium is put to an infusion of Rubarbe being lightly strained it worketh better then when Diagredium is given with the substance of Rubarbe This I conceive may be the cause why Confectio Hamech worketh so churlishly upon the stomach for if you leave out the Rubarbe and put in the more of Sene you shall finde it to work better And so in other compositions where the substance of Rubarbe is put to Diagredium you shall finde them to work churlishly Rubarbe may be cut into thin slices or pieces and so taken with Raisons of the Sun as Massaria gives counsel f. 478. The outward use Rubarbe healeth those Ulcers that come in the eyes or eye-lids being steeped in white Wine or
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
roots are effectuall in decoctions for Glisters to ease paine and griping of the Belly whereby the Stone may descend out of the Kidneys or Bladder more easily boyled in Wine and applyed they helpe Impostumes of the Throat the Kings Evill and those Kernells behinde the Eares as also inflamations or swelling in womens breasts The muccilage of the roots and of Lineseede and Fenegreek put together is much used in Pultises Oyntments and Plasters that serve to mollifie and digest all hard tumours and inflamations and to ease paines in any part of the body the seeds greene or dry mixed with Vineger cleanseth the Skin of the Morphew and all other discoloring thereof what ever The roote boyled in Vineger easeth the Tooth-Ach being holden in the mouth The leaves laid to with Oyle help burnings and scaldings and are good against the bitings of men and Dogs and against the stinging of Bees and Wasps Oyntment of Marsh mallowes doth mollifie heat and moisten and is very usefull in the Plurisie in paines of the breast and side Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water The Muccilage Syrupe of Marsh-mallowes Oyntment of Marsh-mallowes simple and compound CHAP. 72. De Ambare griseo of Ambergrise THere are divers opinions concerning Ambergrise but the most likely and probable opinion is that it is a kinde of Butumen whose springs are in the Rocks of the Sea condensate or thickned into the forme and substance usually observed having that Oylinesse which is in it from its owne Originall and being light is carryed by the Waves of the Sea unto the shores of sundry Countries and Climats Renod. Dispens lib. 2. Sect. 1. c. 10. fol. 559. Fragos Hist Med. Ind. de gum Concret cap. 2. fol. 89. Gruling Flrorileg fol. 289. The Names It is in Latine called Ambra Ambragrisea and Ambergrysea in English Ambergrese and Ambergrise The Temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree The best kinde The best is not very white but dry and grayish more or lesse sometimes with spots or veines and sometimes without Oylie especially being pricked with a pin or needle not ponderous but light and of a good sent The black is to be rejected so is that which is very white The Duration It will keepe good many yeares being kept close The outward use It warmeth resolveth and strengthneth what way soever it be taken It comforteth the braine warmeth and resolveth the cold defluxions of humours thereon and on the nerves it doth likewise comfort and strengthen the memory revive the heart and spirits helpeth barrennesse proceeding from a cold cause It is effectuall against all weaknesse of the body and joynts helpeth weaknesse of the stomach and loathing of meat It doth most conveniently agree with aged persons and moist bodies to warme comfort and strengthen their cold decayed spirits adding rigour and lustinesse to them and is accounted helpfull to stir up Venus or Lust The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Powder Electuary or Pills The outward use It easeth the paine of the head being dissolved in a warme morter and mixed with a little Oyntment of Orenge flowers the Temples and forehead being anoynted therewith It helpeth fits of the Mother being applyed to the place and abateth the fits of the Falling-sicknesse being often smelt to and also recreates the Heart and both Vitall and Animall spirits being held often to the Nostrills The hurtfull quality It is not safe for women to smell to it that have fits of the Mother or have weake braines nor is it good for very hot and dry Bodies The Dose The Dose is from two graines to foure or five in any convenient Liquor Of such things as are made thereof Species Diambrae Essence of Amber Poma Ambrae CHAP. 73. De Anetho of Dill. The Names IT is called in Latine Anethum and Anetum in English Dill and Anet The Temperament It is hot in the third degree and dry in the second especiall being greene but being dryed it is hot and dry in the third degree The Duration It will keepe good a yeare the seede longer The inward use The decoction of the hearbe and seeds provoketh urine expelleth winde easeth pains and swellings in the body stayeth vomiting and the Hickops extinguisheth Venery or Lust for it mightily expelleth winde and dryeth up the naturall sperme and is very effectuall in the Collick and griping paines It is accounted by most writers good to breed milke but truly I rather thinke it dryeth up the milke in womens brests The seeds are good to digest raw and viscous or tough humours in the Body If two drams of the seeds be boyled in White-wine and drunke it comforts the wombe helps the windinesse of the Mother provokes the courses and expells the afterbirth The seeds are most in use The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction A Decoction against winde in the Belly or Stomach Take Stachados Camomill flowers Rue and Melilot flowers of each halfe a handfull Aniseede Carraway-seede Fennell-seede Dill-seede and Bay-berries of each three drams Bruise the seeds and make a Decoction in foure pints or lesse boyle it to the Consumption of about halfe straine it and give thereof a good draught Morning and Evening with Sugar The outward use It stayeth the Hickocks being boyled in Wine and but smelled unto tyed in a cloth The Decoction helpeth the rising of the Mother if women sit therein or receive the fume thereof The seed being toasted or fryed and used in Oyles or Plasters dissolveth the Apostumes in the fundament and dryeth up all the moist Ulcers especially in the secret parts Oyle wherein Dill seede or Dill hath beene boyled procureth sleepe and is effectuall to warme to resolve humours and Impostumes or hard Tumors and to ease paine The hurtfull quality It dulleth the sight being often taken and extinguisheth Venery or Lust and is hurtfull for hot and dry bodies Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water Oyle of Dill seede Chymicall Oyle by insolation or infusion and setting in the Sunne CHAP. 74. De Angelica of Angelica The Names IT is called in Latine Angelica from the Angel-lick properties thereof in English also Angelica The Temperament It is hot and dry in the second or third degree The Duration It will keep pood a yeare the root and seeds will keep longer The inward use The rootes and leaves are most excellent against Poyson and Venome and against the infection of the Plague and Pestilence by defending the Heart the blood and Spirits and giveth heate and comfort to them If halfe a dram of the root in Powder be given in Carduus water and the party laid to sweat thereupon in their bed it is effectuall as aforesaid and provoketh sweat The stalkes or roots Candid and eaten fasting are good helps also in times of infection and at other times to be warme and comfort a cold stomach The decoction thereof being drunk before the fit of an Ague so that
Chap. 75 Armen Stone Chap. 42 Aromatick Reed Chap. 84 Assa Fetida Chap. 7 Asarabacca Chap. 8 Asure Stone Chap. 42 B BAsill Chap. 133 Baulme Chap. 124 Bastard Saffron Chap. 13 Beetes Chap. 79 Betony Chap. 80 Bezar Stone Chap. 81 Bdellium Chap. 9 Birthworth Chap. 6 Bistort Chap. 10 Bitter Vetch see Orobus Bole Armoniack Chap. 82 Borrage Chap. 83 Brimstone Chap. 164 Broome Chap. 32 Bryonie Chap. 11 Burnet Chap. 142 C CAmbogia Chap. 35 Cammocke Chap. 136 Camomill Chap. 86 Camphor Chap. 12 Carrot wild see Dancus Chap. 99 Cardamomes Chap. 89 Carduus Benedictus Chap. 90 Carthamus see Bastard Saffron Chap. 13 Castor Chap. 92 Caslia lignea Chap. 14 Cassia Fistula Chap. 15 Centory Chap. 93 Ceterach Chap. 94 Chast tree Chap. 67 China Root Chap. 95 Cinamon Chap. 14 Cinke Foile Chap. 141 Cloves Chap. 91 Coloquintida Chap. 17 Comlrey Chap. 97 Corall Chap. 18 Coralline Chap. 98 Costus Chap. 20 D DAnewort Chap. 56 Dates Chap. 24 Daucus Chap. 99 Dill Chap. 73 Dittany Chap. 25 Dodder Chap. 27 E EGrimonie Chap. 66 Elaterium Chap. 26 Elecampane Chap. 101 Elder Chap. 56 Endive Chap. 100 Epithymum Chap. 27 Eringo Roots Chap. 102 Euphoâ—bium Chap. 28 Eye bright Chap. 103 F FEnnell Chap. 105 Fenugreeke Chap. 106 Figs Chap. 104 Fleawort Chap. 52 Flower de Luce Chap. 41 French Barly Chap. 113 Fumiterrie Chap. 29 G GAlbanum Chap. 31 Galingall Chap. 30 Garlick Chap. 69 Gentian Chap. 33 Germander Chap. 96 Ginger Chap. 170 Grapes Chap. 168 Gâ—â—e Chap. 109 Gâ—omell Seed Chap. 126 Guajacum see Pockwood Chap. 110 Gutta gummi see Cambogia Chap. 35 H HArts Horne Chap. 19 Hearb of Grace see Rue Chap. 153 Hedge Hyssope Chap. 34 Hellebor white Chap. 36 Hellebor black Chap. 36 Hermodactyles Chap. 37 Honey Chap. 122 Honey Suckle Chap. 88 Hore hound Chap. 146 I JAcap Chap. 40 Ivie Chap. 111 Ivory Chap. 19 Jujubes Chap. 115 Juniper Chap. 114 K KNee-Holme Chap. 152 L LAvender Chap. 118 Lettuce Chap. 117 Licoris Chap. 108 Lignum vitae see Pockwood Chap. 110 Lungwort Chap. 147 Lupines Chap. 149 M MAce see Nutmeg Chap. 132 Madder Chap. 54 Maidenhaire Chap. 87 Mallowes Chap. 121 Manna Chap. 44 Marjerome Chap. 120 Marigolds Chap. 85 Marsh Mallows Chap. 71 Mastich Chap. 45 Mechoacan Chap. 46 Melilot Chap. 123 Milke Chap. 116 Mints Chap. 125 Misselto Chap. 166 Mugwort Chap. 78 Mummie Chap. 128 Muske Chap. 127 Mustard Chap. 161 Myrrhe Chap. 48 Myrobalans Chap. 47 N NEttles Chap. 167 Nigella or Gith Chap. 130 Nitre Chap. 131 Nutmeg and Mace Chap. 132 O OLibanum Chap. 135 Opium Chap. 49 Opopanax Chap. 50 Organy Chap. 137 Orobus Chap. 138 Orris Chap. 41 P PArmasitty or Sperma Ceti Chap. 162 Pepper Chap. 143 Piony Chap. 140 Pine Spurge Chap. 16 Plantaine Chap. 144 Pockwood Chap. 110 Polypodie Chap. 51 Purslaine Chap. 145 Q QUicksilver Chap. 77 R RAddish Chap. 148 Raisons Chap. 139 Rest Harrow see Cammooke Chap. 136 Rosemary Chap. 151 Roses Chap. 150 Rubarbe Chap. 53 Rue or Herb of Grace Chap. 153 S SAge Chap. 156 Saffron Chap. 21 Sagapenum Chap. 55 Salt Chap. 155 Sanders Chap. 57 Sarcocâ—ll Chap. 58 Sarsaparilla Chap. 158 Sassafras Chap. 157 Scammony Chap. 59 Sea bind weed Chap. 61 Sea Mosse see Coralline Chap. 98 Sebestens Chap. 160 Sene Chap. 60 Setwall Chap. 169 Sowbread Chap. 23 Spikenard Chap. 129 Saint Iohns wort Chap. 39 Spurge Garden see Pine Spurge Chap. 16 Stechado Chap. 163 Strawberries Chap. 107 Sugar Chap. 154 T TAmarinds Chap. 63 Tormentill Chap. 64 Turbith Chap. 65 Turmerick Chap. 22 Turneps Chap. 149 U VAlerian Chap. 165 Vardigrease Chap. 68 W WAllwort Chap. 56 Water Germander Chap. 159 Water Lilly Chap. 134 Wild Gourd see Coloquintida Chap. 17 Wood Aloes Chap. 43 Wormwood Chap. 1 Z ZEdoarie see Setwall Chap. 169 AN EXPLANATION OF All such hard VVords or Terms of Art that are to be found in this Treatise of Simples used in MEDICINES Whereby the Vulgar may the better understand it A ABdomen that part of the belly that covereth the Entrals or Bowels Abortion miscarrying of Women Absterfive cleansing or scouring Accesse a fit either of an Ague falling Sicknesse or the like Acrimonie sharpnesse Adjacent neare Adstrictive binding Adulterate corrupt counterfeit Adust burnt Agarick trochiscated Agarick in Trosses or small Cakes Alacrity chearfullnesse Alexipharmacall against poyson and venome Animosity courage stoutnesse Anthonies fire wild fire or the Shingles Aromaticall smelling sweet like Spice Arthritick Pains of the Joynt Arthriticall paines Pains of the Joynt Asthma shortnesse of breath Astringent binding Attenuate to make thin Attractive drawing B Bole a lump or medicine given upon the point of a knife to the quantity of a Nutmeg till the whole be taken C Cachecticall of ill constitution Cachochymie Such a body wherein there is abundance of ill humours Cacochymicall Such a body wherein there is abundance of ill humours Callous knots hard bunches Cardiack passion the passion of the heart Cardiacall proper for the heart Catarrhe Rheume Chronicall of long continuance Cicatrice to heal up into a skar Citrine yellow Coagulated thickned like curd or curdded Colature straining Collyriâ—s Medicines for the eyes in a liquid forme Condensed thickned Consolidate to knit or unite and to make sound againe that which was broken or bruised Contusions bruises Corroborate to strengthen Corroding gnawing eating Coronall futuro the seame or future on the forepart of the head Corpulent fat grosse â—orrosive fretting Crude raw Crudities rawnesse D Decocting Boyling Decoction Boyling Debility weaknesse feeblenesse Defluxions flowings down of humours Dentifrice a Medicine to make the teeth white by rubbing them Detriment hurt or damage Diaphoreticall provoking sweat Discusse to expell dissolve or breake Diureticall provoking Vrine Diuturnall of long continuance Dulcediny sweetnesse Dysentery the Bloody Flux E Ebullition boyling bubling Emulsion a Medicine like Milke Entralls Bowels Epitheme a Medicine compounded of distilled waters wine vineger and powders in which a cloath is dipped and so applied to the Liver Heart c. Evacuate to empty or cleanse Evaporate to consume away in smoake or like smoake Excoriate fretting or going of the skin Expectorate to cause flegme to be easily spit forth Expectoration the same with the former Eruginous green like Vardigrease Eruptions breakings out Extenuate to make thin or diminish F Filme a thin skin Faecula dregs Fluent flowing or abounding Fomentation when liquour is laid upon a part or member with a spunge or clout Fragrant smelling sweet Fâ—iable easie to be broken Frigitidy coldnesse Fumigation a perfume G Gargle to wash the mouth Gargarisme a water to wash the mouth and throat Genitalls the privy Members Geniture generatiâ—n conception Glutinous thick like glew Glutinative glewing together Gonorrhaea running of the reins H Hectick Consuming Feaver Hecticall Consuming Feaver Hepaticall proper for the Liver Hydromell honied water or water and honey mixed together Hydropical having the Dropsie Hypochondriack winde Melancholly winde Hystericall fits fits of the Mother I Impinguating faming or making fat Impurity
The Kindes Constantinus Affricanus mentioneth three kindes of Aloes one reddish which groweth in an Island called Scheta another sort which is black and is found in Persia a third kinde yellow which is found in Arabia Constant Affric de grad fol. 355. Schroderus saith there are four sorts in use now First A blackish sort called Aloe caballina because it is fit only for Horses Secondly Another sort more purer in colour like the Liver called Aloe Hepatica Thirdly A sort called Aloe succotrina because the powder thereof is of a citrine or yellow colour or because there is great plenty of it in the Island Socotra Fourthly The fourth kinde is the purest part of the juice and is called Aloe lucida because being held up against the beams of the Sun it sheweth very clear like a kinde of red glasse Schroder Parmac med Chym. l. 4. fol. 240. The best is that which is most clear and transparent of a reddish or yellow colour being easie to break and very bitter The Duration It will keep good nine or ten years being kept dry and from the wind and Sun The Inward Vse Aloes purgeth first Choller then Flegme not from all parts but chiefly from the stomach and belly therefore saith Gallen Est eustomachicum plus omnibus catharticis Gal. Alter de dinamid fol. 76. It is more proper for the Stomach then all other purging Medicines And by its adstrictive faculty it strengthneth the stomach It much helpeth a crude moist and nauseous stomach It is profitable in these Diseases in the Head-ach when vapours arise from the stomach in the Night-Mare in the Scorbute or Scurvy in the Falling sicknesse in Rheumes It resisteth putrifaction killeth worms of all sorts whether in the belly or stomach nay it is a speciall Antidote against Worms It preventeth Arthriticall paines or paines of the Joynts it quickneth the senses by purging obnoxious humours from the braine It provoketh womens courses and the Hemrods or Piles The use of Aloes doth preserve the body from many dangerous Diseases it helpeth those that have a pale colour and is used against the Jaundise Aloe doth hardly draw humours from any part above the Liver Fernel Meth. medend fol. 112. The manner of administring it and the time Aloes is given in powder in the pap of an Apple which is very frequent or in pils It is most convenient for Flegmatick persons and may be given before meat or after meat and in the morning fasting It is better to give it before meat then after meat Aloe is the basis of most pils for there are but few purgative pils which have it not as one chiefe ingredient Pils excellent for the Stomach Take of Aloes three ounces of Rubarbe in powder three drams mix them and infuse or steep them in a sufficient quantity of Endive-water let it stand a night and a day then straine it out and boyle away the crudity of it and make a masse for Pills The Dose is halfe a dram or two scruples Pills to purge Choller Take of Rubarbe in powder one scruple Aloes and Mastich of each halfe a scruple Diagnieium six graines Spikneard and Nutmeg of each three graines with syrupe of Roses Laxative make Pills and take them all in a morning fasting with Physicall observation that is fasting and then to take some warm Broth and to keep your selfe warm but you must fast two or three hours first De Aloe Lota Rosata Aloes being washed looseth part of its purgative faculty and doth more strengthen then purge Gallen saith it may be given in Feavers so that the Feaver be gentle as in a Quotidian Feaver Gal. de compos pharmac fol. 710. Aloe Rosata is a Medicine very safe and gentle it may be given to all sorts of persons before or after meat It purgeth the stomach of Choller and other offensive humours openeth stoppings is good in the Jaundise and strengthneth the stomach and is thus made Take of pure Aloes in powder four ounces of the juice of Damuske Roses clarified one pound mix them together and digest in the Sun or in a Bath till all the moisture be exhaled or taken away then infuse it again in so much more of the juice and evaporate away the juice again doe thus four times then keep the masse or lump for your use The 〈◊〉 â—all Vse Aloes being outwardly applied hath a consolidating faculty to heal green Wounds and drieth as also mundifieth or cleanseth and takes away all putrifaction in Wounds It healeth Wounds of the Testicles and Privities it cures the rednesse of the eyes and consumes spots growing therein It is good in inflamations of the Eyes and Apostumes of the Lips Nose and Eyes It healeth Vlcers that are hardly brought to cicatrize and especially those in the Fundament and privy members Being mixed with Oxe-Gall or the juice of Wormwood it killeth Wormes If it be dissolved with wine and used it helpeth the falling or shedding of the hair Being made in powder and put on the Hemroids it stayeth the bleeding thereof mixed with honey and used it takes away blacknesse and spots Aloes in powder being mixed with Myrrhe and Dragons bloud and cast into putrified Wounds or Vlcers eateth out spungious flesh without pain A Plaister for Wormes Take of Aloes in fine powder a dram and a halfe of Mithridate three drams Oyle of Savin or Oyle of Wormwood two or three drams mix them together make a Plaister lay it on the Belly The Hurtfull Quality The daily and too frequent use of Aloes is much forbidden for being much and often taken it doth fret and excoriat the stomach and bowells Constant Affric de grad fol. 355. Aloes is hurtfull to old men Gal. de sanitat tuend fol. 365. Massaria fol. 72. Freitag aur med fol. 215. Fernel meth med fol. 112. Aloe openeth the Orifices or mouths of the Vaines therefore it is hurtfull to such as have the Hemroids or Piles Flux of the Womb Belly or any other Bloudy Flux as also to Women with Child to those that have the Hectick Feaver Burning Feaver and to all hot and dry and macerated or lean bodies It is very hurtfull to those that have hot Livers especially given in a large quantity which though some deny yet experience makes it good And Scaliger Exercitat 160. Sect. 3. saith they which deny Aloe to offend the Liver Experientiae scutica digni sunt hoc per annos quadraginta compertum habemus 'T is not to be given often to Children especially such as are of a hot and dry Constitution When the season is extream hot or very cold 't is not so safe to give Aloes for then it will cause one to void bloud Antonius Musa saith that after the taking of Aloes in the depth of Winter he was so troubled that he could not sit for the space of a week A. Musa exam simpl med 4o. 355. Wecher Antid spec 4o. 222. Cinamon Mace Nutmeg Cloves Mastich and Gum Tragacanth are the best
reason of the Gout and draweth forth Thornes Splinter or the like if it be dissolved with Vineger but it is more effectuall if it be mixed with Honey Birthworth and Saffron It consumes Strumas or swellings called the Kings Evill and ripeneth all kind of Imposthumes being applyed on Wool that is not greasie Being applyed to tumours of the Breast of Women it dissolveth them and brings them to maturity or ripenesse and mixed with Vineger it decreaseth the Milk and keepeth it from coagulating or curdling in the Breast being thereunto applied Being mixed with Honey and applied to the Throat it helpeth the Quinsie and swelling in the Neck or Throat It taketh away spots of the eyes being mixed with Womans Milk and it cleanseth the sight being mixed in Medicines for the eyes Ammoniacum and Frankinsence dissolved in Vineger and applied helpeth Ringwormes A Plaister for the hardnesse of the Spleene Take of Gum Ammoniacum one ounce Myrrhe Frankinsence Bdellium of each halfe an ounce dissolve them in Vineger of Rue and adde thereunto of the flowers of Camomill in powder a dram make a Plaister thereof and lay it warme to the Spleene Weichardus Thes pharmacent fol. 243. Or Take Garden mints Rue and Melilot in powder of each halfe an ounce Niter Salgem of each three drams Ammoniacum dissolved in wine one ounce with a little Wax and Oyle of Capers make a Plaster Or Take of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger halfe an ounce Vnguenium dialtheae compositum or Oyntment of Marsh-mallowes compound two ounces with a sufficient quantity of Wax make a Plaister Heurnius doth much commend this Plaister following against hardnesse of the Spleene Take of Hemlocke foure handfulls of Ammoniacum halfe a pound infuse them together eight dayes adding thereto three or foure ounces of strong Wine Vineger or more the Hemlocke also must be bruised Then having stood eight dayes dissolve the Gum by boyling it gently strain it forth boyle the strained liqour againe till the moysture be well consumed then with some Wax and Oyle of sweet Almonds make a Plaister or Oyntment A Cerot to dissolve all manner of hard knots and ganglious tumours Take of Ammoniacum six ounces Marsh mallow-roote and white Bryonie-root in powder of each an ounce of Turbith minerall halfe an ounce of fresh Butter one ounce and a halfe dissolve the Gums in Vineger and mix them all together and with one ounce of Wax make a Cerot Against Wormes Take of Ammoniacum one ounce dissolve it in Vineger and adde of the juice of Wormwood halfe an ounce boyle them a little and make a Plaister thereof warm it and lap it to the Navill The hurtfull quality Ammoniacum may not safely be given to pregnant Women or Women with Child for it will cause them to miscarry And though it provoke Urin yet if too great a quantity thereof be given it will cause one to pisse bloud These things following are made of Ammoniacum 1. Pills of Ammoniacum 2. Syrupe of Ammoniacum 3. Extract of Ammoniacum 4. Chymicall Oyle of Ammoniacum 5. A Plaster of Ammoniacum 6. Emplast ex cicuta cum Ammoniaco 7. Ceratum ex Ammoniaco The Dose The Dose is from a dram to four scruples CHAP. V. De Amygdalis Of Almonds ALmonds are of two sorts bitter and sweet of sweet some are bigger called Jordan Almonds others lesse called Valence Almonds and Barbary Almonds The Names The Almond-tree saith Plinie is the first that blossometh in the moneth of January and by March the Almond is ripe Plinie Nat. Hist lib. 16. cap. 25. In Latine Amygdalum and Amygdala The Temperament Sweet Almonds are hot and moist in the first degree but the bitter are hot and dry in the second degree The best sort The best are such as are yellow full and sound not broken nor rotten but hard and dry white within of a good smell and taste The Duration They will keep good two or three years The inward Vse The sweet Almonds are most pleasing to the tast and they yield good and plentifull nourishment to the body therefore they are good for weak and macerated persons or such as are leane They open and cleanse the breast provoke spitting and are good in the Pleurisy and shortnesse of breath they open the passages of Urin cleanse the Kidneyes and provoke sleep They increase geniture or seed both in men and women open the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen and help the sight Being blanched and dryed that they may be made into powder and so taken by it self or with other things stayeth the loosnesse of the belly The Oyle of sweet Almonds cleanseth the Reins and is good for such as are troubled with the Stone easeth the pain by opening and making slippery the passages thereof it is good for Women that are newly delivered for it helpeth throwes and after pains Being mingled with Sugar-candy and taken it helps the Cough and Hoarsnesse If you give two or three drams of it to Children that are newly borne that are troubled with Gripings and mingle Sugar Pellets or white candy therewith it will much prevaile Bitter Almonds open the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene cleanse the Lungs from grosse and tough flegme cleanse the Kidneyes and provoke Urine They take away flatulent or windy humours in the body and provoke the courses in Women Being taken with Amylum or Starch and Mints they are good against spitting of bloud and taken with water they are good for paines in the back and the inflamation of the Lungs They preserve from Drunkennesse if five or six be eaten in a morning fasting The Oyle of bitter Almonds being taken killeth Wormes helpeth the paines suffocations and tortions of the womb Being drunken with wine it mittigateth the Cough and brings away the stone or gravell in the Kidneyes It is reported that if bitter Almonds be given to a Fox he dieth thereof The manner of administring them Almonds are eaten alone or made into milk or emulsion lohoch or March panes An Emulsion for the Diseases of the Breast or Lungs Take of sweet Almonds one ounce of Pine-kernell halfe an ounce of the seeds of Citrull Gourds Melon and Bombar-seed or Cotten-tree of each a dram blanch the Almonds and prepare the Seeds Beat them in a Morter with a pound of the decoction of Jujubes and Raisons of the Sun beating them first and putting the water in by degrees then add four ounces of Sugar make an emulsion for four or five Doses Renodaeus dispens med fol 226. An Emulsion to extinguish the heat of the Reines and to help the sharpnesse of the Vrin Take Gourd Citrull Melon and Cucumer-seeds of each halfe an ounce Lettice and white Poppy-seed of each two drams Beat them in a Morter with a pint of Violet-water then add syrupe of Water-Lillies three ounces make an Emulsion for three Doses or three times taking Almond-Milk much in use by Practitioners and others Take of sweet Almonds blanched which is soon done by casting them into warm water two
of Birthwort root a dram Myrrhe in powder ten graines make the other in powder and with water of Honey or Carduus water make a Potion and give it Against the swelling of the Spleene Take of round Birthwort in powder a dram or of the Extract of round Birthwort halfe a dram Give it with Oxymel Acoratum or Carduus water Against the impurity of the Womb to provoke the courses expell the After-Birth and to bring away the dead Child Take of round Birthwort in powder a dram Myrrhe in powder twenty graines white Pepper in powder ten graines mix them together and give them in Savine water In Decoction Take of round Birthwort bruised two drams boyle it in Posset-drink and being strained give it Against Botium gulae or strumous swellings about the Throat Take round Birthwort Radish-root and stinking Gladwin of each a dram Pimpinell or Burnet Mouseare Rue of each two drams Figwort Droppewort of each halfe an ounce Anni seede two drams Ginger a dram Turbith and Sene of each three drams make them all into a fine powder and add thereto of white Sugar four ounces The Dose is one spoonfull every morning in White-wine or Broom-water The outward Vse It is used in old rotten and maligne Vlcers and Fistulaes especially being mixed with Oris powder and Honey for thus used it cleanseth and incarneth It cures Vlcers of the secret parts if you wash them with the decoction thereof The powder hereof doth cleanse the teeth and make them white being rubbed therewith It easeth the Gout being mingled with Honey and Salt and applied It draweth forth Thorns and Splinters of bones that are broken being applyed with Terpintine It helpeth the biting of venomous Beasts being boyled in Wine and laid on or let the powder thereof be mixed with the juice of Rue and so applyed to the Wound Being mingled with the powder of Aloes Lime or Chalke and Honey into an Oyntment adding a little Wine it cures the Cancer in the Nose and Polypus if tents be made thereof and put up and make an Oyntment for the said purpose with the powder of round Birthwort Cypresse and Honey and use it as the former The powder thereof tempered with Honey cures the Vlcers of the mouth and gums A Pessary made hereof and with Myrrhe provokes the terms in Women It healeth all Wounds in the Head the fume thereof or the powder in a quilted Cap stayeth all Fluxes and distillations of thin Rheume from the head An Oyntment to procure flesh in Vlcers Take the powder of round Birthwort and Oris of each a dram roots of Reeds and Peucedanum or Hoggs Fennell in powder of each a dram and a halfe Francumsence Mastich and Myrrhe in powder of each two drams of the Oyntment called Vnguentum Comitissae three ounces Honey of Roses so much as is sufficent make all into an Oyntment An Oyle usefull in the Palsie and Epilepsie or Falling Sicknesse Take of round Birthworth two ounces bruise it Euphorbium and Castor of each a dram and a halfe boyle these in Oyle Olive twelve ounces strain it and anoint the spina dorsi from the Neck to the Buttocks or shutting of the Hips do thus for the space of a fortnight or three weeks The hurtfull Quality It is not to be given to Women with Child because it brings Abortion or causeth miscarrying Of such things as are made of Birthwort long and round 1. The Distilled Water Usefull against creeping Vlcers and Pustules of the Genitalls both in men and women being therewith washed or linnen cloaths dipt in the same and laid on the place all night 2. Pils of Aristolochia Fernel 3. Extract thereof 4. Diatessaron or Theriaca Diatessaron The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to a dram In decoction from a dram to two drams or three drams CHAP. VII De Assa Foetida Of Assa Fetida ASsa Fetida is a Gum comming from the Plant called Laser or Sylphyum growing in Media Libia and Syria and not of Laserpitium of Diascorides the juice of which is unknown to Modern Writers Johan Schroder pharmac med chym lib. 4. fol. 180. Others will have it to come from Laserpitium The Names In Latine Laser medicum foetidum and Assa Foetida or Asa foetida It is so ill sented that the Germans call it Teuffelz drech that is Diaboli stercus Devils durt or dung The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree The best sort The best is that which is clear smelling somwhat like Garlicke tough and not dry or foul with sticks in colour like the best Myrrhe The Duration It will keep good many years It is adulterated by mixing Meal Bran and the Gum Sagapenum together The Inward use It is profitable for Women that are troubled with the rising of the Mother and Diseases of the Womb It bringeth downe the courses in Women and expells the secundine or After-Birth being taken with Pepper and Myrrhe It is usefull in Diseases of the Breast Nerves and Brain and being taken in an Egge that is soft it helps Hoarsnesse and given with Oxymel it helpeth the Cough Jaundise and Dropsie Given with Vineger of Squills or Mulsa that is Wine and Honey boyled together it helps the Falling Sicknesse Being given in Wine or Angelica water it helpeth against Venome and Poyson of venomous Beasts where any are stung therewith It cures the Quartaine Ague and Feavers of long continuance Taken with Oxymel it dissolveth coagulated milk in the breast it killeth Worms and expelleth wind it is used also to take away the loathing of the stomach to meat by the Indians and to strengthen the weaknesse of it also and is much in use by them to provoke unto Venery The manner of administring it It is given in Pils or in powder but hardly made into powder because of its moistnesse or it is given in wine or other liquor being first dissolved in the same A powder against the Quartaine Ague Take Assa Fetida Rue long Pepper of each two drams make them into powder and mix it with a little Honey Give a dram or a dram and a halfe of it in any convenient liquor before the fit commeth Wecher syntax fol. 248. 348. Note here that except the Assa Fetida be very dry you cannot make it into powder therefore you may dissolve it in honey or wine and so take it There is an Electuary made of Assa Fetida Pepper Ginger Rue Salniter and Honey which is commended against the Quartaine Ague and Chronicall Feavers or Agues of long continuance It is so much commended against wind that Mr Parkinson in his Herball tells a Story from Gartias of a Portugall that tried it upon a Horse whom the King of Bisnager would have bought but that he was over subject to break wind but after the Portugall had cured him thereof the King bought him and asking how he cured him he answered with Assa Fetida given in his Provender no marvaile said the King if he
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
halfe a pint of Posset-drink till about halfe be consumed strain it and give the clearest in a morning against the Diseases forementioned The outward Vse Being used in Fumigations it dryeth up Rheumes and stayeth Womens Fluxes or the bleeding of Wounds the fibres or fungous substance of the root doth wonderfully stop the bleeding of Wounds or bleeding of the Nose A decoction thereof helpeth sore mouths and inflamations of the Almonds and Throat if they be washed therewith the decoction of the roots in water whereunto some Pomegranet pills or flowers are added serveth for an injection into the matrice as well to stay the accesse or flowing of humours and to cure Vlcers thereof as also to bring it to the place being fallen downe and to help stay the abundance of their courses The water distilled from both leaves and roots is a good remedy to wash any place bitten or stung by any venomous creature and is very good to wash any running sores or Vlcers as also Cancers in the Nose and Polypus which is a Disease in the Nose if the powder of the root be applied afterwards A decoction of the root fastneth the loose teeth and helpeth the sorenesse of the Gums being washed therewith The powder of the root strewed upon any cut or bleeding Wound stayeth the bleeding thereof The powder mixed with a little Oyle of Roses and Wax helpeth the running of the Reins if the back be noynted therewith An Oyntment to hinder Abortion or miscarrying of Women Take Oyle of Roses Oyle of Quinces of each three ounces Cerusse washed in Rose-water halfe an ounce Bistort root and red Corall of each two drams Barbery-seeds a dram of white Wax a sufficient quantity powder those things that are to be powdered and make hereof an Oyntment with which annoynt the back warm morning and evening laying a warm cloth thereon Rondelet meth cur morb cap. 63. fol. 168. Against the Tooth-ach Take Bistort root in powder Pellitory of Spaine burnt Allum in powder of each two drams make it into a paist with Honey Put a little piece thereof into a hollow Tooth or between the Teeth and it will ease the paine thereof and draw away much offensive matter from the head and parts adjacent The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to a dram in decoction from a dram to two drams or three drams Of such things as are made of Bistort 1. The distilled water thereof 2. Diascordium 3. Emplastrum Coe saris 4. Emp. Hystericum Nic. CHAP. XI De Bryonia alba Of White Brionie WHite Brionie is somewhat like unto the common Vine in his leaves and branches but something rougher and whiter The root is sometimes very great long and bitter The Names In Latine Vitis alba Bryonia and Bryonia alba in English Brionie and Tetterberries The Temperament Briony is hot in the second degree and dry in the third The Duration The Root will keep good a year or more if it be gathered in a dry season and carefully dryed The inward use The root of White Briony purgeth strongly Choller Flegme and Water from the Brain Nerves Womb and Joynts it openeth obstructions or stoppings of the Liver Spleen and Womb therefore it avails much in Hystericall fits or fits of the Mother in the Falling Sicknesse Palsie Apoplexie and Vertigo or swimming of the head as also in the Gout or Shortnesse of breath It provokes the courses in Women and cleanseth the Womb provokes Urine and is excellent in the Dropsie for it draweth away water abundantly both by vomit and stoole It dissolveth congealed blood in the body by reason of falls or bruises The root is good against the biting of Vipers or Adders and killeth Worms in the body It is good in the Kings Evill the juice being taken with equall parts of Wine and Honey The foecula or dregs thereof are used for the aforesaid Diseases you may give five or ten grains of it The manner of administring it The root of White Brionie is given in powder in juice in decoction in syrupe and in electuary though every way not pleasing to the palate An Electuary of white Brionie purging the body Take of White Brionie root four ounces Turbith three ounces Agaricke cut in thin slices one ounce Ginger in powder Mastich Lonage seed bruised of each three drams macerate or steep them three dayes in two pints of Aquavitae then boyle them to the consumption of one pint straine it to which add clarified Honey the pulp of Prunes of each a pound Sugar a pound and a halfe Boyle them to the thicknesse of Honey then being cold let these things following be put in Gum Gutta in powder one ounce Diagredium six drams Anni-seed Fennell-seed in powder of each two drams Cloves in powder halfe an ounce mix them well together and make an Electuary The Dose is from halfe an ounce to six drams in white Wine or Posset drink This Electuary is excellent in the Dropsie and Gout Syrupe of Brionie simple Take of the juice of White Brionie-root in May a pound of pure Honey clarified two pound boyle them gently to the thicknesse of a syrupe by often scumming it The Compound Syrupe of Brionie Take of the juice of White Brionie-root five ounces Vineger of Squills a pound of the decoction made with Origanum dry Hyssope Lonage Seseleos Cardamomes Stoechados halfe a pound of good Honey two pound boyle them gently to the thicknesse of a syrupe Freitag aur med fol. 355 356. Both these foregoing syrupes are good in the Falling-Sicknesse Swimming of the Head and for Shortnesse of breath An Electuary for an old Cough and shortnesse of breath Take of White Brionie root in powder a dram of clarified Honey three ounces of the Lohoch or Electuary of Fox-Lungs halfe an ounce Spirit of Sulpher eight drops make all into an Electuary Take of it chiefly in the morning and evening as much as a small Nutmeg Against the Pestilence Take of White Brionie-root in powder a dram Diagredium one graine take it in the juice of Celandine and let the party sweat upon it Theod. Dorsten Botanic fol. 52. For such as have broken a Bone Take of the juice of White Brionie-root two drams or three drams of Comfry-water three ounces mingle them together and give it Continue it for a weeks space if need require The externall Vse A decoction of the root or the juice thereof taketh away Freckles or Sun-burning and all kind of Spots and Scarres So doth the Oyle wherein the roots of Brionie hath been boyled It dissolveth black Bloud and blew Marks by reason of bruises or falls and dissolveth new swellings It bringeth to maturity and breaks old Imposthumes It draweth forth splinters and broken bones and helpeth filthy Ulcers and white Flaes that grow up about the roots of the Nailes The leaves fruit and roots doe cleanse old and filthy sores and are good against fretting and running Cankers Gangrenes and Tetters therefore the beâ—ries are usually called by the
by cooling and drying up the moisture thereof it fastneth loose teeth and maketh them white and helps to breed teeth in Children the gums being rubbed therewith and some hang it about their neck of such as have the Falling-sicknesse A Powder to white the Teeth Take red Coral Brick of each half an ounce make them into powder and take some of it lay it on a course linnen cloath and rub your teeth therewith For bleeding at the Nose Take of red Coral in powder half an ounce of Bole Arminick in powder an ounce with the juice of Sheapherds purse and lint or tow make Tents and put them up into the nostrils The hurtfull quality It must not be given too often where the body is very costive or hound Of those things that are made of red Corall First Estence of Tincture of Corall 2 Chymicall oyle or liquor of Coral 3 Flores Coralliorum 4 Olium Coralliorum succinatum good in the Falling-sicknesse and Apoplexie if three or four drops be given in any convenient liquor 5 Syrup of Coral simple and compound 6 Magister of Coral 7. Salt of Coral 8 Diacorallion The Dose The Dose is from a scruple to a dram CHAP. XIX De Cornu cervin et Ebore Of Harts-horne and Ivory THese being of some affinity I shall speake of them in one Chapter Ivory is the Elephants tooth Harts-horn is generally known The Names Harts-horne is called in Latine Cornu-eervi or Cornucervinum Ivory is called in Latine Ebor Ebur The Temperament They are cold and dry in the first degree The best kinde The best sort is the whitest The Duration They will keep good many years The inward use Harts-horn resisteth putrifaction provoketh sweat and is very cordiall It is chiefly used in the small Pox Measles putrid and Malignant Feavers and in such like diseases where sweating is needfull It is good in Fluxes of the belly spitting of blood Jaundies and paine of the bladder taken with Gum Tragacanth it stayeth the flowing of the wombe Burnt Harts-horne killeth wormes resisteth putrifaction helpeth the Collick stoppeth the Flux of the belly and provoketh sweat Ivory doth strengthen the vicerous parts stayeth the Whites in Women is usefull in the Jaundies driveth away Wormes easeth paines of the Stomack and doth wonderfully open obstructions or stoppings Some commend it against barrennesse and say it maketh Women fruitfull but it rather hinders fecundity and conception then helps it The manner of administring them They are given in Powder in Electuary in Decoction c. A Powder against the Jaundies Take Parsley-seed Nettle-seed Nutmeg shavings of Ivory Harts-horne burnt of each halfe a dram make all into powder Give halfe a dram of it at a time in White-wine or Posset drink for a week or more if need be A Powder to expell wormes Take of Worm-seed an ounce Lupines halfe an ounce Worme-wood dry two drams Harts horne burnt a dram and a halfe Make them into powder and give it from a Scruple to a dram Take of Purslane-seed and Lettuce-seed of each two drams Sene three drams and a halfe Harts horne burnt halfe an ounce of Dittany five drams make a powder thereof The Dose is from halfe a dram to a dram Note that the Sene is to be infused in strong Wine Vineger one night and afterwards to be dryed An Electuary against the Flux of the Belly Take of conserve of red Roses two ounces species of Aromaticum Rosatum a dram Bole Armonack in powder and red Corall in powder of each a dram Harts horne burnt in powder two scruples with syrupe of Quinces make an Electuary Give of it as much as a small Nut in the morning before dinner and at night An Electuary against the Pestilence Take shavings of Harts-horne Bole Armoniacke Sorrell-seeds of each two drams yellow Sanders halfe a dram Saffron in powder a scruple Conserve of red Roses Conserve of Wood-Sorrell of each two ounces Conserve of Borage and Sage-flowers of each six drams with Syrupe of Wood-sorrell make a moist Electuary and take so much as a Chesnut at a time once or twice a day if need be A Gellie to strengthen such as are weake Take Harts-horne and Ivory of each one ounce boyle them in a quart of water till it come to a jelly which you may soon know by setting some to coole then strein it and add Sugar Rose-water and a little juice of Lymonds and boyle it gently a while then keep it for your use Take often seaven or eight spoonfulls of it warm The outward use Harts-horne burnt and mixed in Plantaine water is a good Medicine for Vlcers of the eyes and to stay defluxions thereof It makes the Teeth white being rubbed therewith The shavings of Harts-horne being burnt the smell thereof driveth away Serpents and venomous Creatures Being made warm in Vineger and the Gums washed therewith it easeth Children that breed Teeth The ashes of Harts-horne burnt applied to the head with Wine is good against the Scurfe and Dandruffe of the head among the hairs as Plinie saith Nat. hist lib. 28. fol. 324. The shavings of Ivory in powder being mixed with Honey taketh away the duskish spots that appear in the Visage if the face be therewith anoynted Also the dust thereof which the File or Saw doth make in Filing or Sawing doth cure the white Flawes or Impostumations breeding at the root of the Nails Plin. Nat. Hist fol. 130 The Dose Burnt Harts-horne is given from five grainâ— to twenty Magister of Harts-horne is given from halfe a scruple in any convenient liquor Ivory is given from halfe a scruple to a scruple or to a scruple and a halfe Of such things as are made of them Of Harts-horne are made 1. Magister Which is an excellent Diaphoretick for it expelleth all obnoxious and filthy humours by the pores Grulingius Florileg fol. 209. and is usefull in Feavers Pestilence Scab Dysenterie or Bloody Flux Dropsie and Stone 2. Distilled Water 3. Liquor or Spirit 4. Oyle 5. Salt 6. Burnt Harts-horne 7. Extract thereof Of Ivory 1. Ivory Burnt 2. Magister of Ivory CHAP. XX. De Costo Of Costus-root COstus is a root brought from India and Arabia as Authors say of a brownish colour having a rind on the outside The Names It is called in Latine Costus and in English Costus The temperament Costus is hot and dry in the third degree The Kinds Some make three sorts others two sorts bitter and sweet but we have but one sort that I have seen of late The best sort The best is that which hath a good sent whitish light bitter and aromatick having a rind like Cinamon but thicker not old nor worm-eaten The Duration It will keep good five or six years The inward Vse It heaâ—s the body potently expelleth wind helpeth slow concoction hinders corruption of the meat easeth the Collick comming of Wind and Flegme killeth broad Worms of the belly provoketh the Courses and Urine helps to cleanse the womb from impurity and helpeth
Vvula fallen being nointed therewith also the juyce mixed with womans milk taketh away the pain of the ears being put therein The root of Dittany and Acorus root in powder being snuffed up into the nostrils purgeth the brain The powder of Ditanie and Castor mixed with the juice of Rue and put up into the nose is good for those that have the falling-sicknes If a weak member be rubbed with the juice thereof it strengthneth the same It draweth forth thorns or splintes out of the feet or other parts being applyed It is reported that the wild Goats in Candy being wounded by the hunters with arrows doe by eating this herb drive them forth The juice is a present remedy for all wounds made with iron beeng put therein it doth mundifie and cleanse the same especially 't is commended for wounds made with venemous weapons The juice hath a purging faculty being anointed or applyed with Barley meal The hurtfull quality Beware of giving it to Women with child for it will soon cause them to miscarry 't is not for hot chollerick and dry bodies nor to be much used in hot seasons The Dose The powder is given from a scruple to a dram Of such things as are made of Dittanie First Distilled water of Dittanie 2. Diadictamnum Ebor seu cornu cervinum Ebulus seu Sambucus CHAP. XXVI De Elaterio Of Elaterium or the juice of wilde Cucumber ELaterium is the juice of wilde Cucumber dryed The Names It is called in Latine Elaterium and Elacterium The Temperament Elaterium is hot and dry in the second degree or as some hold in the third The best kinde The best Elaterium is that which is whitish 〈◊〉 gray light and bitter in tast The Duration Threophrastus lib. 9. cap. 14. saith that a Physician kept some Elaterium that was two hundred years old which notwithstanding was of much vertue I have kept some seven years and longer and I conceive that if it be well prepared and kept close from the aire it may keep ten years The inward use Elaterium purgeth Flegme Choller but chiefly water from the Abdomen or belly from the braine joynts nerves and veines It is profitable therefore in the Dropsie Green-sicknesse and joynt Gout in the head-ach whether Hemicrania or Cephalaea in the Falling-sicknesse Gout Shortnesse of breath Jaundies obstructions of the Liver and Spleen stoppings of the Courses and Hemrods as also in the Palsey and Quinsey The manner of administring it It is given in Pils Powder in Boles and in Potions Pils against the Dropsie Take of Pils called Alephanginae a scruple Elaterium three graines or four in a very strong body Mixe them together and make Pils Give them with Physicall observation Massaria fol. 481. Or Take of Pils of Rubarbe two scruples Pils Aggregative a scruple and a halfe Elaterium three graines with the juice of Ireos make pils Or Take Pils of Rubarbe Agarick trochiscated and in powder of each a scruple Rubarbe in powder halfe a scruple Elaterium three graines with the juice of Wormwood make Pils and take them as before Pils purging water and flegme from the joynts Take Pils Alephanginae halfe a scruple Pils Aggregative and Pils of Hermodactyls of each a scruple of Elaterium two or three grains with a little extract of Wormwood make pils thereof give these only to strong bodies A Powder against the Dropsie Take of Mechoachan in powder two scruples and a halfe speciâ— of Diaturbith 〈◊〉 â—ubarbe halfe a scruple Elaterium two or three grains Aâ—â—â—â—â—â— five grains Mastick three grains make a Powder hereof Or Take of Elaterium 6 grains of Soldanella or Sea-bindweed Ginger of each a scruple Galangal Cloves and Cinamon of each ten grains make a powder hereof for two Doses give it in any convenient liquor A Bole. Take of Elaterium two graines Diagredium two graines with a little conserve of Roses make a Bole. A Potion Take of Sene two drams Polypodium of the Oake three drams Damaask Prunes fix Anniseed sweet Fennel-seed Licoris bruised of each a dram bruise the Polypodium and make an infusion in strong Beer straine it and adde of Syrup of Roses laxative one one ounce of Elaterium two gaines make a Potion The externall use Elaterium boyled with Barley-meal and the yolke of an Egge or Eggs being applyed to Imposthumes ripeneth them and bringeth them to maturity and applyed with Terpentine it breaks them Also being mingled with Honey and Goats dung it dissolveth white swellings struma'es and other hard tumours if it be applyed thereunto Being mingled with Beane-flower and the juice of Fumitory it takes away spots and freckles of the face Elaterium boyled with the oyle of Lillies and Linseed-oyle cureth the Hemorrhoides that are much swollen An oyle made thereof is profitable for the nerves Palsey and trembling of the hands and being put into the ears it cures deafnesse It bringeth down Womens Courses that are stayed and killeth th the birth if it be applyed to the secret parts A Plaister against the Dropsie Take of the root of wilde Cucumbers bruised a pound macerate or steep it in a sufficient quantity of Vineger of Squils for the space of four and twenty hours then adde of Honey clarified two pound boyl them to the thicknesse of a Cerote then adde of Cummin-seed in fine powder four ounces make a Plaister and apply it to the belly warme An Oyntment for the Dropsie Take of the juice of wild Cucumber and of the juice of Walwort of each three ounces oyl of Sesanum seeds oyle of Orris of each two ounces Wax an ounce and two drams make an oyntment according to art with which annoynt the belly morning and evening warme The hurtful quality with the correcting means Elaterium hurts the inward parts provokes to vomit opens the mouths of the veins brings great gripings and torments in the belly killeth the birth though but outwardly applyed to the secret parts therefore it must not be given to women with child weak persons nor to such as have any inward inflammation or Ulcer in the bowels The best correctors of it are things that mitigate and allay the sharpenesse and acrimony of it and not such as are astringent but such as are a little cooling and moistning as Gum iragacanth Amylum and water of Honey sweet milk or Creame or conserve of Roses Violets juice of Licoris and with posset drink or with some cordiall spices It is not fafe to give it alone nor to any but such as have very strong and able bodies Of such things as are made of the juice of wilde Cucumber First an extract thereof 2 Syrup of the root of wild Cucumber Freitag aur med f. 343. 3 Oyle 4 Vnguentum Agrippae 5. Vnguentum Aregon The Dose The Dose is from two graines to four graines or five at the most CHAP. XXVII De Epithimo Cuscutha Of Dodder of Time and Dodder EPithymum and Dodder are plants like unto threads very much snarled or wrapped together confusedly winding
themselves about herbs the one growing upon Time the other upon Flax or Line The Names Epithymum is called Time or laced Time Cuscutha is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Cuscutha Cussutha Cassutha and Cassytha in English Dodder The Temperament Epithymum is hot and dry in the third degree Dodder is hot in the first degree and dry in the second The best The best is that which is fresh and new not too old the tops and flowers are most effectuall The best is that which comes from Crete The Duration They will keep good a year The inward Vse Epithymum purgeth Melancholy and adust Choller as also Flegme from the braine heart spleen and hypochonders It avails against Melancholy old and inveterate pains of the head swimming of the head madnesse falling-sicknesse faintings Quartaine Ague Hypochondriack passions Scirrhues or hardnesse of the Spleen and windinesse thereof stoppings of the Kidnies and is very usefull in the Scab and Itch Leprosie Elephansie malignant Vlcers and Cancers as also the French-Pox It cleanseth the blood very much from Melancholy and adust humours Avicen commends it against the Cramp It is profitable in the Jaundies in opening stoppings of the Gall. It hath also a strengthning property besides its purging quality as in Rubarbe and a very safe Medicine for the stoppings as well of the Liver as Spleen purging the Veins of flegmatick and chollerick humours and helpeth Childrens Agues if a little Wormseed be put to it Taken with Lapis lazul it cures the Quartaine Ague Note That it will not endure any long decocting or boyling Cuscuthe or Dodder is very profitable in stoppings of the Liver Gall and Spleen cleanseth the blood from Melancholly and is usefull in the Jaundise provokes Urine and cleanseth the Veins of Chollerick and Flegmatick humours Being taken with Wormwood it purgeth Choller If halfe a pint or lesse of the decoction be taken with halfe an ounce of Sugar it cures Children of Agues Moreover it hath the same vertues as Epithymum hath though not so fully only some will have Cuscutha more proper for the Liver and Epithymum for the Spleen But the Cuscutha is more or lesse effectuall according to the vertues of those hearbs on which it groweth For that which groweth on Nettles and Broom provokes Urine that which growes on Tares which is the most common is not so good for Tares are of hard digestion and bind the belly and breed thick and Melancholly blood The seeds drunk with Wine and Sage ease the Hip-Gout The distilled water of Cuscutha taken helps the effects of the Liver and Lungs by cleansing and strengthening also cures the Jaundise expells the stone of the Bladder and easeth gripings in the belly helps to bring downe the Courses in Women and swellings about the Navill and cures Agues in Children The Dose is three or four ounces morning and evening to Children give lesse The manner of administring them They are chiefly given in Potions and Powders A Potion against Melancholly Take of Epithymum halfe an ounce of Sene one ounce and a halfe Anni-seed two drams Licoris a dram Damask Prunes ten or twelve Bruise the Licoris and Anni-seed and cut the Prunes then infuse them on hot embers five or six hours with half a pint of Posset-drink strain it and give the clearest Or Take the flowers of Balme Rosemary Borrage and Buglosse of each halfe a handfull of the outside of yellow Myrobalans half an ounce Epithymum Time Sene Polypodium of each two drams or halfe an ounce boyle them in a sufficient quantity of water till about halfe be consumed strain it and add syrupe of Roses an ounce make a Potion and give it Or Take Epithymum Cuscutha Sene Origanum or Wild Marjoram of each two drams of red Ciches a dram make a decoction in a sufficient quantity of water strain it and in the clearest infuse or steep of Agarick trochiscated a dram of Cinamon halfe a dram let them stand one night then strain it and to the strained liquor add Confectio Hamech two drams or halfe an ounce and make all into a Potion The externall use The distilled water of Cuscutha or Dodder clears the fight if it be dropped into the eyes the leaves made into a Pultis and applied to the Spleen doth ease the pain thereof also boyled with Oyle and Wine and applied to the Flanks helpeth the Strangury The hurtfull quality They are not convenient for hot and dry bodies neither is the use of them so safe in Summer as in Winter The too frequent use of them offends the stomach and causeth dry'th And because they are weak in operation use them with Salgem Ginger or black Hellebor and to mitigate the drynesse of them give them with Posset-Ale or with a decoction of Raisons Violets and Borrage The Dose The Dose in substance is from two drams to three drams or halfe an ounce in infusion or decoction from an ounce to an ounce and a halfe or two ounces and let this be in the winter time for in hot weather you must give lesse in quantity Of such things as are made of them 1. The distilled water of Epithymum and Dodder 2. Syrupe of Epithymum 3. Decoction of Epithymum 4. Syrupe of Apples Magistrall Esula minor or Tithymall see Cataputia minor CHAP. XXVIII De Euphorbio Of Gum Euphorbium EVphorbium is a Gum of a brown yellowish colour in small grains like Mastich and comes from a certain plant growing in Lybia and in Barbary The Names It is called in Latine Euphorbium from a famous Physitian whose name was Euphorbius Brother to Antonius Musa who was also Physitian to Juba King of the Mauritanians or Moors and first found out the vertue of this Gum. In English 't is called also Gum Euforbium or the Gum Thistle or the Gum of the burning thorny plant The temperament Euphorbium is hot and dry in the fourth degree The best kinde The best is the clearest of a brown yellowish colour but whiter within and without filth That which is pale is to be rejected The Duration It will keep good four or five years Some affirme that it will keep its vertue forty years The inward use Euphorbium purgeth thick and tough flegme but chiefly and more strongly watery humours from the Joynts and remote parts of the body Therefore it helpeth the Dropsie and any kind of Gout It purgeth flegme and water from the Brain and Nervous parts and also thick flegme from the stomach It is profitable in the Apoplexie Palsly Lethargie and in all soporiferous or sleepy Diseases and cold Diseases of the Brain and resolution of the Nerves in Convulsions and tremblings And because it draweth tough and thick humours from the Joynts it is used in the French Pox and by some it is counted available in the Pestilence Also it is esteemed a present help against Apostumes and painfull Nodes or Bunches of the Joynts It speedily helps the Collick proceeding from tough and glassie flegme especially when the tunicles
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
adust humours therefore it is used in the French pox Elephansie Leprosie Morphew and also in madnesse The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in substance In decoction Take of Betony a handful Turbith three drams Citron-seed Long-Pepper of each half a dram make a decoction in a sufficient quantity of water strain it and add thereunto Honey of Roses solutive one ounce and a half make a potion Massar f. 481. In substance Take of Turbith in powder a dram and a half mix it with posset-drink wherein hath been boiled Betony Ivy Anise-seed c. and give it It may be given in broth wherein hath been boiled Raisons and Figs. It will endure boiling indifferent well but especially if it be first infused it is better The externall use The powder of Turbith being mingled with honey and applyed eateth and consumeth dead flesh in ulcers and wounds and is profitable in Gangrenes The hurtfull quality with the corrective means Turbith hath three hurtfull qualities first it is slow and weak in operation so that except it be quickened with something it oftentimes draweth away thin flegme and leaves the thick behind Secondly it offends and troubleth the stomach bringing a nauseousness thereof and many times causeth vomiting according to the verse Nolo damnosum Turbith mea viscera turbet Thirdly it macerates or consumes the body and brings leannesse and Consumption It is corrected with Ginger Cynamon Anise-seed Mastick and the like Also oil of sweet Almonds is a good corrective for it especially in lean bodies it is not safe to give it to women that are with child old and weak persons or to children After the use of Turbith the eating of fish is forbidden and also you must avoid the South-winde Heurn Prax. Med. fol. 266. Tretag Auror. Med. fol. 322. Sennert Instit fol. 857. The Dose The Dose in powder is from a dram to two drams in decoction two drams to halfe an ounce The compound Medicines made of Turbith Extract of Twrbith Species Diaturbith with Rubarbe Pils of Turbith Vineger of Turbith Deo soli gloria CHAP. 66. De Agrimonia of Agrimonie The names IT is called in Latine Eupatorium from Eapator the first finder of it and Agrimonia some also call it Hepatoxium because it is a good help to the Liver In English Agrimonie and Egrimonie The Temperament It is hot and doth moderately binde and is of a temperate drinesse it cutteth and scoureth and is of subtill parts The Duration It will keep good a yeare being well dryed The inward use It openeth the stoppings of the Liver and cleanseth it it helpeth the Jaundise and strengthneth the inward parts and is good for the Bowells and healeth their inward woundings and bruises or hurts and qualifieth all inward distempers that grow therein A decoction of the herbe made with wine and drunk is good against the sting and biting of Serpents and helpeth them that have foule or troubled and Bloody Waters and is usefull in long continued Fluxes of the Liver especially in old people It is good for the Strangury and helpeth also the Collick it helpeth the Cough and clenseth the Breast It is good help to ridde a Quartaine or Tertian Ague if a draught of the Decoction be taken warme before the fit the leaves and seeds stop the the Bloody flixe being taken in wine The roots or leaves boyled in wine and drunke helpeth such as have the Palsey It is accounted a good herbe against the Spleene being stopt as also against the Pestilence and the biting of a mad Dog The distilled water helpeth the Jaundies Cough and killeth wormes if two ounces thereof be taken Morning and Evening and it is esteemed a secret experiment against the Quartaine Ague if foure ounces thereof be taken Morning and Evening for many dayes together but I rather approve of the Decoction The leaves or roots are good in the Dropsey and Green-sicknesse The manner of administring it It is chiefly given in Decoction A Decoction against the Jaundes Take of Hore-hound two handfulls Elecampane root Buglosse and Agrimony of each a dram and a halfe of Rubarbe and wood Aloes of each a dram Bruise the wood Aloes and the roots boyle them in three pints of White-wine to a quart Note that the Rubarbe must not be put in till the rest be almost boyled Take of this two ounces Morning and Evening If there be a feaver boyle it in Water The outward use It helpeth old Sores Cankers and Ulcers that are of hard Curation being stamped with old Swines grease and applyed for it cleanseth and afterwards healeth them in the same manner also applyed it draweth forth thornes or splinters of wood Nayles or such like that is gotten into the flesh and helpeth to strengthen Members that be out of joynt it helpeth also foule impostumed eares being bruised and applyed or the juyce dropped into them The leaves bruised and applyed to the biting of a mad Dog helpeth the same and the juyce mingled with Vineger taketh away warts being laid thereon The distilled water of the herbe is good for all the purposes aforesaid and to cure Ulcers and sores of the mouth and throat being gargled or washed therewith Of such Medicines as are made thereof These following are made of Agrimonie Syrup of Agrimonie Pils of Agrimonie Trosses of Agrimonie Water of Agrimonie The Dose The leaves are given in Powder from a scruple to a dram CHAP. 67. De Agno Casto of the chaste Tree The Names IT is called Castus that is chast because the Athenian matrons in their Thesmophoria did use these leaves as Sheets to lye upon thereby to preserve their chastity In Latine it is called Agnus castus and vitex also Salix Marina or Salix Amerina in English Chast tree The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree and of a very thin essence or substance sharp also and binding The Duration It will keepe good a yeare the seede will keep longer The inward use It is a singular good remedy for all such as desire to live chaste for withstandeth all filthy desires to Venery or Lust and dryeth up the seed of generation in any manner used and taken The seeds being drunke resisteth the bitings of venemous Beasts Spiders or the like and helpeth the Dropsy and those that are troubled with the Spleen it also procureth milke in womens Breasts it procureth their courses and urine stopped and helpeth the windinesse of the Stomach and Belly and is usefull in the stoppings of the Liver A dram of the seed given in Powder causeth sleepe The decoction of the herbe and seeds is good for women troubled with the paines of the Mother or inflamation thereof and is said to help an Ague if a draught thereof be taken before the fit The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction powder electuary Trosses c. An Electuary to coole and abate Lust Take conserve of Water Lillyes and conserve of mints of each one ounce
thirst he tooke a glasse of Quicksilver and drunke it up and dyed thereof and being opened his heart was found congealed as also his blood about his throat was congealed and frozen The like hapned to an Ape that had Quicksilver given him in beere Others say it is a safe Medicine may be taken inwardly without any danger In a word t is good t is bad it cures it kills according as t is used therefore I advise the vulgar not to meddle too much with it for it hath mastred mighty Giants and fool'd the best Artists See Fabric Observat Chin. Cent. 5. Observat 13. Revodaum de Mat. Med. lib. 2. cap. 15. fol 606. 607. Of such Medicines as are made thereof Vnguentum Neapolitanum Vnguentum Enulatum cum mercurio Vnguentum Catapsoras c. CHAP. 78. De Artemisia of Mugwort The Names IT is called in Latine Artemisia from the Queene Artemisia the wife of Mansolus King of Caria being good for womens Diseases in English Mugwort The Temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree The Duration It will keep good a yeare The inward use The leaves are most in use The decoction whereof made with water or wine and drunke provoketh the courses bringeth away the birth and afterbirth and helpeth the inflamation and stoppings of the Mother as also the stopping of the urine and is a good helpe against barrennesse in women It helpeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene from a cold cause and against the Jaundise being boyled with centory and taken Two or three drams of the leaves in powder taken in wine helps the Sciatica The juyce taken helpeth the bitings of a mad Dog The manner of Administring it It is given in Powder or Decoction In Decoction Take a handfull of Mugwort and boyle it in a pint and a halfe of water or White-wine to a pint Straine it adde Sugar thereto and drinke a quarter of a pint of it Morning and Evening warme The outward use A Decoction thereof being set over doth bring downe the courses expell the birth and afterbirth helps paines and stoppings of the Mother the juyce thereof made up with myrrhe and put under as a Pessary worketh the same effect and so doth the roote also being made up with Hogs grease into an oyntment it taketh away Wens and hard knots and kernells that grow about the Neck and Throat as also to ease the paines about the neck and that with more effect if some field Daisies be put with it The herbe or the juyce taken is a good remedy upon the overmuch taking of Opium A decoction thereof made with Camomill Agrimony and Sage and the place bathe therewith warme taketh away the paines of the Sinews and Crampe A Fomentation against the Arthriticall Gout Take of Git or Nigella and Mugwort of each foure handfulls boyle them in Sea water to tendernesse and let the parts affected be bathed therewith warme The hurtfull quality It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given from half a dram to two drams in powder Of such Medicines as are made thereof Syrupe of Mugwort excellent to bring downe the courses if a spoonfull thereof be taken Morning and Evening The distilled water Salt of Mugwort CHAP. 79. De Betis of Beetes The Names and kindes THere are divers kindes of Beets and but two sorts are more generally knowne the white and red Beete the white is called Beta alba and the red Beta rubra The Temperament The white are temperate in heate and moisture but the others are dry and abstersive they have also a nitrous quality whereby they provoke to stoole The inward use The white being boyled in broth doth loosen the belly and provoketh to stoole but nourisheth little or nothing The juyce of the white Beets cleanseth and provoketh urine openeth the stopping of the Liver and Spleene and is good for the Head-ach the swiming therein and is effectuall against all venemous creatures The red stayeth the Bloody-flixe womens courses and the whites and helps the yellow Jaundise The manner of Administring it It is chiefly boyled in broth or in decoction The outward use The decoction of Beets is used in Glisters to loosen the belly The juyce put up into the Nostrills doth draw forth flâ—gme purgeth the head and helpeth the noise in the Eares the same applyed upon the Temples stayeth the inflamation in the Eyes and helpeth burning being used with Sallet Oyle and if a little Allum be put into it it is good for Wilde fire the same is good for all Wheales Pushes and other Blisters and Blanes in the Skin the hearbe boyled and laid upon Chilblaines on the hands or Kibes on the heeles helpeth them it healeth the Itch if the place be bathed with the decoction of the herbe in water and some Vineger the same doth cleanse the head also of Dandraffe Scurfe and dry Scabs and doth much good for fretting and running sores Ulcers Cankers in the head leggs or other parts It is much commended against baldnesse and shedding of the haire The root anoynted with Oyle and put up as a Suppositary into the fundament doth provoke to stoole and soften the Belly The juyce of Beete killeth Lice if the place be rubbed therewith The hurtfull quality Beets offend the Stomach and breed ill humours in the body Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water The juyce CHAP. 80. De Betonica of Betony The Names IT is called in Latine Betonica and Vetonica from people in Spaine called Vettones as Pliny saith in English Betony and wood Betony Pliny Nat. Hist lib. 24. cap. 8. fol. 224. The Temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree The Duration It will keepe good a yeare The inward use It is singular against all paines of the head proceeding from cold helpeth those that have weake Stomacks and loath their meat as also the Jaundes Falling-sicknesse Palsey Convulsions or Cramps the Gout and those that are enclining to the Dropsey the powder mixed with pure Hony availes for Coughs or colds wheesing and shortnesse of breath distillations of thin Rhume from the Lungs which causeth Consumptions The decoction made with Mede and a little Pennyroyall is good for those that are troubled with rotten Agues of any kinde arising from the Stomach and to draw downe and evacuate the blood and humours that by falling into the eyes do hinder the sight the decoction thereof made in wine and taken killeth wormes in the Belly is good to open stoppings of the Liver and Spleene and for stitches or other paines in the sides or back the gripings of the bowells and the winde Chollick and with Hony helpeth to purge the belly the same helpeth to bring down womens courses and is usefull for those that are troubled with the falling downe and paines of the Mother to cause an easy speedy delivery for those that are in travaile and helpeth to break and expell the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder
it is commended against biting of venemous Serpents and mad Dogs and hinders drunkennesse being taken before hand and quickly expels it afterwards it helps such as pisse Bloud or are brused by falls and those that are bursten and have a Rupture as also for those that have the Sciatica and have any inward wounds The Roots have not the same vertue but provoke vomit being taken The manner of administring it It is given in Powder Electuary or Decoction A Decoction thereof is made as is before shewed in the Chapter of Mugwort The outward use The Decoction with Wine Gargled easeth the Tooth-ach The greene Herbe bruised or the Juice applied to any green wound in the Head or Body will soone heale it and close it up as also to any Vâ—ines or Sinewes that are cut and will also draw forth any broken Bone or any Splinter Thorne or such like gotten into the Flesh it is no lesse profitable for old filthy Sores and Vlcers yea though they be Fistulous and hollow but some do advise to put a little Salt thereto for this purpose being applied with a little Hogs-lard it helpeth a Plague Sore and other Biles and Pushes the Fumes of the Decoction while it is warme received by a Funnell into the Eares easeth the paines of them destroyeth Wormes and cureth the running Sores in them the juyce dropped into them doth the same likewise The Leaves bruised and applied cureth the bitings of mad-dogs and of venemous Creatures and stoppeth bleeding at the Mouth or Nose A cerot against wounds of the Head Take of Betony in powder an Ounce Turpintine Rosin yellow wax of each halfe an Ounce Mastick and Francumsence of each half an Ounce Mummy three drams make all into a cerot and keepe it for your use The hurtfull quality It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies the roots provoke to vomit and causeth loathing and belchings of the stomack The Dose The leaves in powder are given from halfe a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Conserve of the flowers Syrup of Betony both simple and compound Plaster of Betony Salt of Betony CHAP. 81. De lapide Bezaar of the Bezar Stone The Names and Kindes BEzar-stone is taken out of a Beast like a Hart or Goate It is called Bezar from Paser which signifieth a Goat Or it is called Belzaar from Bâ—l dominus a Lord and zaar venenum Poyson the Lord of poyson as being good against venome and poyson There are two sortes the Eâ—st and thâ— West the East is called Bezoar orientalis and the West Bezar occidentalis the East is most in use The best kinde There is much written by Authors concerning the best choyce of these stones buâ— I shall onely say thus much that the best is that which you fiâ—de by experience to be most eff ctuall for I dare say there is scarce one good stone among forty to be found The temperament They are hot in the first or second degree some say temperat others cold The duration These stones will keep many years The inward use It is usefull in the swimming of the Head Falling sicknesse Jaundes Collick Disâ—ntery or Flux of the Belly also against Wormes the Stone the Courses stopt and hard labours of Women but especially it is used against poyson and venome the P stilence and P stilentiall Feavers in the small Pox and Mâ—asells and in many other Diseases to provoke Sweate and thereby to expell ill vapours from the Heart and vitall spirits and for Swouâ—ings and against Melancholly also and the Diseases that arise from thence and to preserve strength and youth Monardus doth commend it in the Pleurisy and saith it doth much profit such as have taken Arsenick or such like corrasives Thonerus in lib. 3. obscurat 5. f. 186. 187. he cured a Maide forty years old of the Mother fits by giving her six graines of Bezar in Balme-water It doth not alwayes provoke Sweat The manner of Administring it It is chiefly given in powder The outward Vse The powder put on the place that is bitten by any venemous Creature doth free them from danger of death and likewise put into a Plague-sore that is opened it doth the like The Dose I conceive there are two chiefe causes why Bezar-stone doth not worke and effâ—ct according to expectation the one is because wee seldome get the right B zar the other is because people take too small a Dose thereof for the ordinary Dose of the Eâ—st B zar is not above five or six Graines at the most nay the vulgar rare y give above two or three Gâ—aines thereof Whereas wee may safely give of it from three graines to ten or twelve yea to twenty Zacutus Lucitanus de pr. med ad mir lib. 3. obs 86. relates of a Woman that fell into a malignant Fâ—ver with dangerous symptomes who in three dayes brought upwards three score and two Wormes having Bâ—zar given her in a small quantity but after the taking of a dram of Bâ—zar at once shee soone recovered although before shâ—e was very dangerous If any desire to reade more of the Bâ—zar-stone let them read Monardus in English of the Bezar-stone and the Hearbe Escuerconera printed 1580. Also Doctor Primrose of errors tra slated by D ctor Witty into Englâ—sh lately And Paeraeus in English booke 21. Chapter 38. Of such Medicines as are made thereof Pulvis Beroardicus Pulvis è ch lis cancrorum compositus or Gascons powder Pulvis cardiacus magistralis CHAP. 82. De bolo Armenio of Bolarmoniacke The Names and temperature IT is called in Latine Bolus Armenius and Bolus Armenia and that â—ecause the best comes from Armenia in English Bolearmoniack and Bole-armeny or red Bole. It is cold and dry in the first degree The best sort The best is firme and close without gravell or stone heavy and for the most part wholly of one colour without discolouring parts and being put to the tongue it cleaveth very fast The Duration It will keep good many yeares The inward use It is drying astringent and strengthning therefore it is usefull in any Fluxe of the belly in womens Fluxes whether white or red in Rhumes and Catarrhes in spitting of blood bleeding of the nose or any inward bleeding it thickneth humours resisteth putrefaction and is excellent in all contagious diseases of the Pestilence Small-pox Measells and against poyson and venome The manner of Administring it It is given in powder or in Electuary The outward use It stoppeth the bleeding of the nose or the bleeding of any wound helpeth Ulcers of the mouth consolidateth broken bones and is much used in binding Pultises and astringent powders Against bleeding of the nose Take Bole Armoniack in powder an ounce red Rosewater foure ounces Vineger of Roses one ounce and a halfe mixe them well together and wet clothes therein and apply it cold into the forehead The Dose The dose is from halfe a dram to a dram in Plantaine water
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
the leaves and the seed of Nigella quilted in a Cap stayeth Rhume being boyled in lye with Lupines and the head washed therewith taketh away the Dandraffe or Scurfe thereof The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull for hot and dry bodies The Dose The Leaves and seeds are given from halfe a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Conserve and Syrupe CHAP. 97. De Consolida majore of great Comfrey The Names IT is called Consolida major and Symphytum majus in English Comfrey and great Comfrey The Temperament Comfrey is cold drying and binding in great measure The Duration It will keepe good a yeare The inward use Comfrey helpeth those that spit blood or that bleed at the mouth or that make a bloody urine as also for all inward hurts bruises and wounds and helpeth the Ulcers of the Lungs the roote being boyled in water or wine the same also drunke stayeth the flowing downe of Rhume from the head upon the Lungs the fluxes of humours or blood by the belly the reds and whites in women and the running of the Reines happening by what cause soever The Syrupe made hereof is very effectuall for all those inward griefs so is the distilled water A Decoction of the roots is most effectuall Two ounces of the juyce drunke doth much good in the Lethargy saith Camerarius The manner of Administring it It is chiefly given in Decoction The outward use The roots being outwardly applyed helpeth fresh wounds or cuts immediately being bruised and laid thereto by gluing together their Lips and is especiall good for Ruptures and broken bones it is good to be applyed to womens breasts that grow sore by much milke coming into them as also to stop the overmuch bleeding of the Hemorrhoides to coole the inflamation of the parts thereabouts and to ease paine the fresh root bruised and spread upon the Leather and laid to any place troubled with the Gout doth give present ease of the paines and applyed in the same manner giveth ease to pained joynts and profiteth very much for running and moist Ulcers Gangrenes mortifications and the like The distilled water helpeth outward wounds or Sores in the fleshy or sinewy parts of the body A mouth water against Vlcers in the mouths of Children Take Comfrey great and small of each a handfull boyle them in halfe a pint of White-wine or more then add to the strayned Liquor Sal gem two drams Hony of Roses two ounces mixe them together and reserve it The hurtfull quality It must not be used too frequently in such persons as are much â—ound in their body Of such things as are made thereof Comfrey water Conserve The root Candyed Extract of Comfrey-Oyle made of the dry root CHAP. 98. De Corallina of Coralline or Sea-mosse The Names IT is called in Latine Muscus Marinus and Corallina in English Coralline and Sea-mosse The Temperament It is cold and dry and astringent or binding The Duration It will keepe good many yeares The inward use It is used altogether to kill wormes in Children or Elder persons but by what quality it worketh this effect is not yet declared by any that I have seene happily it doth it by a specifick vertue It may be used against hot Gouts and inflamations The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in powder A Powder against wormes Take Coralline Harts horne burnt and wormeseede of each two drams make them in powder The Dose is a scruple or halfe a dram according to age in Beere or Muscadine The outward use It may be put into oyntments against wormes The Dose The Dose is from a scruple to a dram CHAP. 99. De Dauco of Wilde Carrot The Names IT is called in Latine Pastinaca sylvestris and Daucus in English wilde Carrot and Birds nest The temperament The roote and seeds are hot and dry in the second degree The Duration The seeds will keepe good a yeare or two The inward use It expelleth wine and easeth Stiches in the sides it provoketh urine and womens courses and helpeth to breake and expell the Stone the seede also worketh the like effects and is good for the Dropsie and those whose bellies are swollen with winde helpeth the Chollick and Stone in the Kidneyes the rising of the Mother provoke Lust and helpeth Conception being taken in wine or boyled in wine and taken It is good against the stinging of venomous creatures The manner of Administring it It is given in Powder or in Decoction The outward Vse The leaves being applyed with Hony to running Ulcers or Sores doth cleanse them The Dose The seeds are given in Powder from halfe a dram to a dram CHAP. 100. De Endivia of Endive The Names IT is called in Latine Intibus Intubus or Intubuus and Scariola in English Endive The Temperament It is cold and dry in the second degree The Duration It will keepe a yeare being well dryed The inward use It doth coole the heate in the Liver and Stomach and is good in hot fits of Agues and all other inflamations in any part of the body to use the decoction of the leaves or the juyce or distilled water the same also helpeth to coole the heate and sharpnesse in the urine the seed is of the same property or rather more powerfull and besides is availeable for the faintings and passions of the heart opens stoppings and provoketh urine It is hurtfull for the Palsie and trembling as also for cold Stomachs The manner of Administring it It is given chiefly in Decoction The outward use Being outwarly applyed it doth temper the sharpe humours of fretting Ulcers hot tumours and swellings and Pestilentiall Sores and helpeth wonderfully the rednesse of the eyes and dimnesse of the fight it is also used to allay the paines of the Gout The Dose The seeds are given to a dram or more Of such Medicines as are made thereof Endive water Syrupe of Endive both simple and compound Syr. Bizantinus simple and compound Salt of Endive CHAP. 101. De Enula of Elecampane The Names IT is called in Latine Enula and Enula Campana also Heleninâ— and that because Hellen first found it available against the bitings and stinging of venemous beasts or from Helena an Island where the best was found to grow in English Elecampane The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree especially being dry The Duration It will keep a yeare or two I meane the root The inward use It is good against fleagme tough and clammy humours which stick in the Chest and Lungs against the Cough and shortnesse of breath provoketh Urine comforteth the Stomach and helpeth Digestion A decoction of the root is good against poyson and bitings of Serpents for such as have Ruptures Cramps or Convulsions or have any Member out of joynt and for the Hip Gout the same or the juyce taken killeth all manner of wormes in the belly or Stomach and is good for them that spit blood or have inward bruises The roots
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
Oyle The Temperament The Juniper both leaves and wood are hot and dry in the third degrees the berries hot in the third degree and dry in the first the Gum hot and dry in the first degree The Duration The Berries will keep good a yeare the wood longer The inward use The leaves young tender branches of the Juniper tree or the juice of them or of the berries or the berries themselves taken in wine are very eff ctuall against the biting of a Vipers or Adders as also against the Plague or Pestilence or any other infection or poyson the same also is profitable against the Strangury and stopping of the Urine and so powerfull against the Dropsie that as Matthiolus saith he hath knowne divers to avoid so much water by urine by taking foure or five ounces at a time of the lye made of Juniper Ashes that they have been holpen thereby it doth also provoke the courses and help the rising of the Mother and other paines thereof the berries are good for the Cough and shortnesse of breath and other diseases of the Chest an Lungs and to ease the griping paines in the Belly they are prevalent also to help Ruptures Convulsions and Cramps to procure a safe and easie delivery unto women with Childe The berries are very comfortable to the braine strengthen the memory and sight and all the senses and the heart also being either drunke in wine or the decoction of them in wine taken the same also is good against the Quartaine and dissolveth the winde in the Belly or Stomach and in generall is effectuall for all diseases proceeding from any cold cause if they take of the berryes two or three times a weeke three foure or more at a time in wine The Salt made of the Ashes of the Juniper wood is a singular remedy for the scurvey the putrified and foule Gums and generally resisting all putrefaction The chymicall oyle drawne from the berâ—ies while they are greene is as effectuall if not more to all the purposes aforesaid and the oyle drawne from the Juniper wood is good against the Chollick rising of the Mother Gout Wormes Head-ach c. if foure or five drops thereof be taken in a Morning in Broth or in Bâ—ere The Gumme of Juniper in powder taken in wine doth stay vomitings inward bleedings and spitting of blood womens courses also and all other fluxes of the belly and the Piles also killeth wormes in children The manner of Administring it The berries and wood are given in powder or in Decoction The outward use The smoake of the Juniper wood being burned besides that it yeeldeth a good sent to perfume any house it is of good use in time of infection and driveth away all noysome Serpents Flies Wasps c. the Ashes of the wood or barke made into a lye with water doth cure all Itches Scabs Pustules or other eruptions in the skin yea and the Lepry also if the places be bathed therewith The Gum is used to stay cold distillations Catarrhs that fall upon the eyes or Lungs c. the fume thereof upon the burning on coals being taken into a Cap the head also holden in the meane time over the said fumes at night to lye covered therewith or the powder thereof with other things fit for the purpose strewed upon flax and to be quilted into a Cap to be worne in the night chiefly and in the day also as neede shall require the powder thereof mixed with some oyle of Roses and Myrtles healeth the chaps of the fundament Kibes also and Chilblains on the hands and feet the powder also mixed with the white of an Egge and applyed to the forehead stayeth the bleeding at the nose the same also burned upon coals and the fumes thereof taken through a Funnell upon an aking tooth taketh away the paine it is effectuall in most Ulcers and Fistulaes and weeping running sores to dry up their moisture The Liquid Varnish is an especiall remedy against scaldings with water or burnings with fire and to help the painfull and bleeding Piles and Palsie Cramps Convulsions of the nerves and sinews The chymecall oyle of the wood is good against the Tooth-ach and for the Gout Sciatica and resolution of the nerves comming of colde A bath against the Hip-gout Take Camomill flowers and Juniper berries of each ten handfulls boyle them in a sufficient quantity of water for a Bath A quilt or bag for the same Take of Juniper berries what quantity you will bruise them and make two large quilts for the hip wet them with strong Aquavitee make them very hot and apply them one after another unto the place affected The hurtfull quality They must not be used in hot and dry bodies The Dose The berries are given in powder from sixe to twenty Of such things as are made thereof Spirit of Juniper Oyle Chymicall both of the berries and wood Salt Extract Elixer juniperinum Rob. juniperinum c. CHAP. 115. De Iujubis of Iujubes The Names THey are called in Latine Iujubae Ziziphae and Ziziphi in English Jujubes The Temperament They are temperate in heate and moisture The Duration They will keep long but soon dry away The inward use Being greene or dry say some they open the body and purge coller gently and clense the blood others deny any purging faculty in them All Authors agree that they coole the heate and sharpnesse of the blood and therefore good in hot Agues and help them that have a Cough to bring away tough fleagme and good for other Diseases of the Chest and Lungs as shortnesse of breath hot rhumes and distillations proceeding from hot humours they are also to good purpose used to clense the reines and bladder from gravell in making the passages slippery they also stay vomitings procured by sharp humours The manner of Administring them They are chiefly used in Decoctions See an Example of a Decoction of them in my first part in the Chapter of Dates The hurtfull quality They are hard of digestion nourish very little and doe not easily passe out of the Stomach they are therefore alwaies used in decoctions with other fitting ingredients Of those things that are made thereof Syrupe of Jujubes simple and compound good against the Cough shortnesse of breath thin rhumes and hot humours falling upon the Lungs c. CHAP. 116. De Lacte of Milke The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Laâ— in English Milke and is cold and moist The best Milke The best milke ought to be white in colour of equall consistence which being dropped on the naile standeth round and firme without flowing abroad And a black or brown Cowes milke is by most esteemed the best In the spring time milke is thinnest and at the fall of the leafe thickest and best according to that old saying When Fearne waxeth red then is milke good with bread The inward use Milke doth nourish the body well breeds good blood and is very usefull in Consumptions
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
bawme made in wine and drunke is good against venome and poyson helpeth the griping paines of the belly and is good for them that cannot take their breath unlesse they hold their necks upright being taken in a lohock or licking electuary The syrupe of Bawme is a good cordiall strengthneth the heart and stomach resisteth Melancholly and is very profitable in burning and contagious Feavers A Candle made with Eggs and the juyce thereof while it is young putting some Sugar and Rosewater to it is often given to womin in Childbed when the afterbirth is not throughly avoyded and for their faintings upon or after their sore travells The manner of Administring it It is used chiefly in Decoction See the Chapter of Mugwort The outward use The herbe bruised and boyled in a little wine and oyle and laid warme on a Bile will ripen and breake it used with salt it taketh away Wens Kernells or hard swellings in the flesh or throat it cleanseth foule sores and easeth the paines of the Gout the juyce thereof used with a little Hony is a good remedy for the dimnesse of the sight and to take away the mistinesse of the eyes It is used in Bathes among other warme herbs to comfort the joynts and sinews It is a good remedy against the sting of Scorpions or other venemous creatures and against the stinging of Bees as also against the bitings of Dogs The decoction thereof is good for women to bath or sit in to procure their courses and for those that have the bloody Flix as also to wash the teeth therewith when they are full of paine It is very often put into oyles or salves to heale greene wounds A quilt or bag against the beating of the heart Take of Bawme dry foure handfulls of Roses Violet Borrage and Rosemary flowers of each halfe a small handfull make them in grosse powder and adde of Camphor two scruples then with red Silke and Bombace make a quilted bag and apply it to the region of the heart The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull in hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given in powder from a scruple to two scruples Of those Medicines that are made thereof The distilled water Extract Conserve of the flowers Syrupe both simple and compound CHAP. 125. De Menthis of Garden or Spearemints The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Mentha Mentha hortensis and Mentha acuta It is hot and dry in the beginning of the third degree of thin parts bitter and binding The Duration It will keepe good a yeare being dry The inward use Speare-mints are good against vomiting weaknesse and rawnesse of the Stomach the Hickop and allayeth choller expelleth winde easeth gripings of the belly helpeth stoppings of the Liver and is good in any cold paine or giddinesse of the head being taken in powder or a decoction thereof made and taken The juyce taken with Vineger stayeth bleeding Mints stir up Venery or bodily lust killeth wormes stayeth the courses in women and helpeth the whites keepeth the milke from curdling in the breasts as also in the stomach It is profitable against the poyson of venimous creatures It is good for women in their hard and sore travailes in Child-bearing and against the gravell and Stone in the Kidneys and Strangury and helpeth a stinking breath The distilled water is much used against vomitings gripings in the belly c. It warmeth and strengthneth the stomach and dryeth up moist humours therein and causeth good Digestion The manner of administring it It is given in powder or in Decoction The outward use Being outwardly applyed it stayeth vomiting and easeth gripings of the Stomach and belly it dissolveth Impostumes being laid to with Barly meale it is good to represse the milke in womens breasts when they are swollen therewith and keepeth them from growing great applyed with salt it helpeth the biting of a mad Dog with Water and Hony it easeth the paines of the Eares Applyed to the Forehead or Temples it easeth the paines thereof and it is good also to wash the heads of young Children therewith against all manner of breaking out therein whether Sores or Scabs and healeth the chaps of the fundament It helpeth the stinging of Bees or Wasps being applyed A quilt against weaknesse and paines of the Stomach Take Wormewood and Mints dry of each two drams of Citron pill dry an ounce of Galingall Cyperus root and Cloves of each halfe an ounce of red Roses two drams make them all into powder and let a quilt be made for the Stomach The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull for hot and dry bodies and for chollerick persons The Dose The Dose in powder is from halfe a scruple to two scruples Of those Medicines that are made thereof The distilled water Syrupe Conserve Chymicall Oyle Oyle by infusion Balsam Salt CHAP. 126. De Mili osolis of Gromell The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Milium solis and Lithospermum from the hardnesse of the seede in English Gromell and Pearle plant It is hot and dry in the second degree The Duration The seeds will keepe good a yeare or two some say ten yeares The inward use The seeds are counted singular good to breake the Stone and gravell in the Reines or Bladder as also to provoke Urine to expell Winde and to helpe the Chollick The same taken is effectuall to procure a speedy delivery to women in travaile The seedes being taken in Posset-drinke before divers fits cureth the Quartaine Ague The manner of Administring it It is given in powder or in decoction The outward use The decoction or bath thereof being sit in helpeth the Stone and Strangury the Chollick and winde c. The hurtfull quality It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies The Dose The seede is given from a dram to two drams Of those things that are made thereof The distilled water of the leaves Holland powder c. CHAP. 127. De Moscho of Muske The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Moschus and Moscus in English Muske It is hot in the second degree and dry in the third The best Muske The best Muske is very odoriferous or sweet of a darke liver colour or yellowish The Duration It will keep good a yeare or two being kept close The inward use It comforteth the heart and fainting spirits and taketh away the passions and trembling thereof maketh it merry and joyfull and helpeth to expell sadnesse it comforteth warmeth and refresheth the braine and senses quickning the dulnesse thereof and is a helpe unto Venery It is put in many cordiall powders It is commended in the Chollick and maketh the breath sweet The manner of Administring it It is given chiefly in powder The outward use It helpeth moist and rheumatick eyes and ease cold paines of the head being mixed with Populean oyntment and the temples therewith anoynted It is much used for all sorts of perfumes and fits of the Mother to the lower parts It helpeth deafnesse
being put into the Cotten wool The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull to weake braines and hot Livers for the often use thereof burneth up the blood and maketh the face pale it is counted bad for such as have fits of the Mother yet Horstius doth commend it in such fits if it be taken in a small quantity Greg. Horst Observat lib. 1. part 2. Observat 24. fol. 49 50. The Dose The Dose is from two graines to five or sixe in any convenient Liquor Of such Medicines as are made thereof Species Diamoschu dulcis amari Oleum Moschellinum Muske powder CHAP. 128. De Mumia of Mummie The Names and Temperament MVmmie is the body of a man or woman embalmed and brought chiefly from Aegypt or Syria adjoyning It is called in Latine Mumia in English Mummie It is hot and dry in the second degree The Duration It will keepe good many yeares The inward use It easeth the paine of the head coming of cold and moisture and is good in Palsie and Crampe Falling sicknesse swiming of the head it is cordiall for the heart and preventeth the danger of poison or the venome of the Scorpion and other Serpents dissolveth winde both in the Stomach spleen and bowells stayeth the Hickop and inward Bleedings or Fluxes of Bloud dissolveth the congealed Bloud of bruises by falls or otherwise and helpeth the Ulcers of the Bladder and stopping of Urine being taken in Goats Milke and is good against the Cough The manner of Administring it It is given chiefly in powder A Powder against Bruises or Falls Take Bole Armoniack or sealed Earth Dragons bloud and Mumme of each two Drams of Parmacitty a Dram Rubarbe halfe a Dram make them in powder and give halfe a Dram or more thereof The outward use It stayeth Bleeding of the Nose or the Bleeding of Wounds and is good to consolidate or close up Wounds it is used also against Cramps and Distentions of the Mouth the hardnesse and shrinking of the Sinewes and Lamenesse in the Feet through cold and wet The Dose It is given from a Dram to two Drams Of those Medicines that are made of Mumme Tincture or extract of Mumme Powder against Bruises Sympatheticall Oyntment CHAP. 129. De Nardo of Spikenard The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Nardus Indica Spica Indica and Spica Nardi in English Spicknard It is hot in the first degree and dry in the second The Duration It will keepe good many years The inward Vse It provoketh Urine and brings downe the Courses as some say other will have it to stop all Fluxes both of Men and Women and to stay the loosenesse of the Belly and thin watery humours being Drunke with cold Water it is profitable to those that have a loathing of their Meate or having swellings or gnawings at their Stomacks as also for them that are Liver-growne that have the Yellow Jandise or the Stone in the Kidneyes it dryeth up the Flux of humours both in the Head and Brest and is put into Antidotes against venome and poyson It is very convenient for the Liver and Stomack The manner of Administring it It is given in powder or in Decoction The outward use It stayeth any Flux of the Belly being applied and helpeth Watering Eyes by staying the humours and thickning it also The Decoction used as a Bath for Women to sit in or over it taketh away the inflammation of the Mother It is good to cause Haire to grow on the Eye-Lids of such as want it and dryeth up superfluous moisture in any part of the Body being strewed thereon Oyle made thereof is good for all Cold Griefes and Windinesse of the Head Stomack Liver Spleene Reines and Bladder and of the Mother The hurtfull quality It causeth vomitings and therefore is left out in many cordiall Medicines it is hurtfull for hot and dry Bodies and must not be given to Women with Childe without great caution because it procureth them much disquiet and may force their Courses beyond either their time or conveniency The Dose The Dose is from a Scruple to thirty Graines Medicines made thereof Oyle of Nardus Simple and Compound CHAP. 130. De Nigella of Gith or Nigella The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Melanthium and Nigella from the black colour of the Seede in English Gith Nigella and Fennell-flower The Seeds are hot and dry in the third degree The Duration The Seeds will keepe good a yeare or two The inward use The Seede drunken with Wine is a good remedy against Shortnesse of Breath expelleth Winde provoketh Urine and the Termes in Women increaseth Milke in the Breasts of Nurses killeth Wormes and is very good against poyson and the biting of venemous Beasts as also against the Quartaine and Quotian Ague if a Dram thereof be taken in Wine or Posset before the fit It is an excellent remedy where there is neede of cleansing drying and heating The manner of Administring it Is is given in powder or in Decoction The outward use It Killeth Wormes being laid to the Navell with the juyce of Wormewood Being dryed and put into Linnen or Sarfenet and so quilted in and laid to the Head it cureth Catarrhes or Rhemes dryeth the Braine and restoreth the smelling being lost It taketh away Freckles Scurfe and Hard Swellings being mixed with Vineger and applied The Smoke or Fume thereof driveth away venemous Creatures and Killeth Flies Bees and Waspes The same mingled with Oyle of Ireos and laid to the forehead cureth the Head-ach comming from cold The hurtfull quality If too much thereof be taken t is dangerous and bringeth Death The Dose The Dose is from halfe a Dram to a Dram. Medicines made thereof The distilied water Oyle thereof CHAP 131. De Nitro of Nitre The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Nitrum and Sal nitri in English Niter and Salt of Niter It is hot of temperature saith Pliny in Nat. Hist Booke 310. Chap. 10. and doth extenuate or make thin others say it is cold The duration It will keepe good many years being kept dry The inward use It is profitable in burning Feavers as also in putried and malignant Feavers in the Calenture at Sea for it resisteth putrifaction and cooleth the boyling of the blood it is usefull also in the Pleurisy inflammation of the Lungs in the Stone of the Kidneyes and Bladder in the stoppings of the Liver and Entralls It stayeth the bleeding of a Veine or of the Nose The manner of Administring it It is chiefly dissolved in some convenient Liquor and so given as if to stop bleeding give it in Plantaine water The outward Vse It is used in Lotions against the inflations of the mouth and throat in the Quinsie against the Gout and in burnings and scaldings as also against spots in the Eyes being mixed with Honey and put therein Being boyled with Wine and Pepper and the Mouth washed therewith it easeth the Tooth-ach and cleanseth the Gums The powder
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-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
make some of it stiffe and put up into the Nose The hurtfull quality It is not safe to give the juice of Damask Roses to women with childe because it provokes their courses and the water also thereof is hurtfull to such as are troubled with the head-ach The dose The leaves and seeds are given from a scruple to two scruples The juice is given from one ounce to two ounces Syrup of Roses laxative is given from one ounce to 3. or 4 ounces The electuary of the juice of Roses is given from two drams to six drams Of those Medicines that are made of Roses The distilled water of Damask red and white Roses Conserve both of Damask and red Roses Sugar of Roses or Sugar-roset Oile chymicall and spirit of Roses Species Aromaticum Rosatum Diarrhodon Abbatis Rosata novella Syrup of Roses solutive Syrup of the juice of Roses Syrup of Roses with Agarick Syrup of Roses solutive with Hellebore Syrup of Roses solutive with Sene. Syrup of red Roses dry Honey of Roses Tincture of Roses Oile of Roses by infusion Ointment of Roses Vineger of Roses Balsam c. CHAP. 151. De Rosmarino of Rosemary The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Rosmarinus Rosmarinum quasi Rosa marina English Rosemary It is hot and dry in the second degree and also of an astringent or binding quality yet of subtil or thin parts it is best for cold and moist seasons for the age flegmatick and rheumatick The duration It will keep good a yeare or two being dryed The inward use It helpeth all cold diseases of the head stomach Liver belly and wombe A decoction thereof in Wine helpeth the cold distillations of the braine into the eyes and the giddinesse or swimming of the braine drowsinesse or dulnesse of the minde and senses like a stupidnesse the dumbe Palsie or losse of speech the Lethargie Apoplexie and Falling Sicknesse it helpeth the paines in the Gums and teeth by rheume falling into them or by putrefaction causing an evill smell from them or a stinking breath it helpeth a weak memory by heating and drying up the cold moistures of the brain and quikening the senses It is a good remedy for windinesse in the stomach or bowels as also the Hypochondriack passion and winde in the spleen It helpeth those that are Liver-growne by opening the stoppings thereof by warming the coldnesse making thin the grossenesse and afterwards binding and strengthening the weaknesse thereof it helpeth dim Eyes and to quicken the sight as also the yellow Jandise and the whites in women and the rising of the Mother if the flowers or leaves be daily taken in decoction or in powder The dried leaves shred small and taken in a Pipe as Tobacco is taken help the Cough or Tissick and Consumption by warming and drying the thin rheum which causeth those diseases The Chymicall oile is good for the aforesaid diseases if two or three drops thereof be taken in Beere or other Liquor The flowers and the conserve made thereof doth comfort the braine and heart and is good to expel the contagion of the pestilence If you steep or infuse a few Cloves Mace and Anise-seed in the distilled water of the flowers for certaine dayes and take morning and evening thereof it helpeth a stinking breath and mouth The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder The outward use It helpeth the cold diseases of the head if a decoction thereof be made and the temples and neck bathed therewith The leaves are much used in bathings and made into Ointments or Oiles is singular good to help cold benummed joints sinews or members the herb burned in houses and chambers in time of infection is good to correct the aire in them The Herb is much used in powders and quilts to dry up rheume and to strengthen the wombe The Chymical oil is good for the cold diseases of the braines if the temples nostrils and nape of the neck be anointed therewith An Epitheme for the cold head-ach Take Rose-mary Sage Camomil Melilot Betony and Bryonie-root of each a handfull Boile them in water and with a spnge or soft linen clothes made wet therein apply it hot to the forehead The hurtfull quality It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies The Dose It is gven in powder from a scruple to two scruples Of such Medi ines as are made thereof The distilled water Chymical Oile Conserve of the flowers Species Dianthos Balsame CHAP. 152. De Rusco of Knee-holme The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ruscus Ruscum and Bruscus in English Butchers Broom and Knee-holme It is hot in the second degree and dry in the first with some tenuity or thinnesse of parts It is one of the five opening roots The duration The roots will keep good a yeer or two The inward use A decoction of the roots made in Wine and taken openeth stoppings provoketh urine and amendeth the strong smell thereof helpeth to expel gravel and the Stone Strangury and Womens courses the same also helpeth the yellow Jaundise and the Head-ach and with some Sugar or Honey put thereunto helpeth to bring away flegme and to cleanse the chest of much clammy humours gathered therein The juice of the leaves taken with Sugar helpeth spitting of bloud and cleanseth the wombe The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder A Powder against Winde and gripings of the belly Take the roots of Knee-holme Anise-seed and Fennel-seed of each half an ounce make them in powder and mix therewith half an ounce of Sugar take every morning thereof as much as will lye on a shilling in White Wine or Posset-drink The outward use The juice thereof taketh away the stink of the mouth and Gums being washed therewith and the powder of the root cleanseth Wounds and preventeth a Gangrene being strewed therein The Dose It may be given from half a dram to a dram CHAP. 153. De Ruta of Rue The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ruta and Ruta hortensis in English Rue and Herb-grace or Herb of Grace it is hot and dry in the third degree The duration It will keep good a yeer The inward use Rue provoketh urine and womens courses expelleth all venome and poyson and is most excellent in time of the Plague or sicknesse the seed also taken in Wine is an Antidote or Counterpoison against all dangerous Medicines or deadly poisons A decoction made thereof with some dried Dil-leaves and flowers easeth all pains and gripeings in the body The same being drunk helpeth the pains both of the chest and sides as also Coughs hardnesse or difficulty of breathing the inflammations of the Lungs as also the shaking of Agues to take a draught before the fit come It killeth Wormes being boiled in Wine and Honey and taken The juice taken with Wine purgeth women after their deliverance bringeth away the dead childe and after-birth It dryeth up the milk and the
whole body making persons soon look old and wrinkled as may be seen in young maidens that eat much thereof It is very hurtful for lean dry and cholerick persons Of such things as are made thereof Oile of Salt or Spirit Tincture of Salt Flowers of Salt CHAP. 156. De Salvia of Sage The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Salvia because it maketh men safe and sound in health in English Sage It is hot and dry in the second or beginning of the third degree The duration It will keep good a yeer The inward use A decoction of Sage made and drunk provoketh urine bringeth downe the courses easeth paines of the head that proceed from cold and rheumatick humours as also all paines of the joynts and therefore helpeth such as have the Falling Sicknesse the Lethargy or Drowsie Evil such as are dull and heavy of spirit and those that have the Palsey and is in much use in all distillations of thin rheum from the head and for the diseases of the breast The juice of Sage is much commended for women that have moist and slipperie wombes and not able to conceive by reason thereof if they take a quantity of the juice with a little Salt for foure dayes before they company with their Husbands and it is good to prevent miscarrying in women If three spoonfulls of the juice be taken fasting with a little Honey it doth stay the spitting or casting up of blood It stoppeth the whites and reds in women It is of excellent good use to help the memory by warming and quickening the senses and the Conserve made of the flowers is used to the same purpose as also for all the former recited diseases It is of good use in the time of the Plague and good also against the Cough hoarsenesse paines of the side and Dropsie The manner of administring it It is given in decoction in powder in Pills Potions c. A Potion against Arthriticall paines Take of Sage and Hyssop of each two ounces infuse thereein for a nights space of Agarick trochiscated two drams Rubarbe foure scruples Cynamon halfe a dram then strain it and dissolve therein of the Electuary Diacarthamum two drams Syrup of Stoâ—chodas halfe an ounce make a Potion Pills against a Comsumption Take of Spicknard and Ginger of each two drams of the seed of Sage a little dryed at the fire one ounce Long pepper twelve drams all these being made into fine powder make it up into a masse with the juice of Sage the dose is a dram every morning and evening The outward use A decoction of Sage taketh away the itching of the Cods if they be bathed therewith it stayeth the bleeding of wounds and cleanseth foule ulcers or sores The leaves of Sage and Nettles bruised together and laid upon the Impostume that riseth behinde the Ears doth asswage and help it much The leaves boiled in Wine and the place bathed therewith helpeth the Palsey Cramp cold joints paines in the side comming of winde if the grieved place be bathed warme therewith and the Herb after the boyling be laid warme also thereto Gargles for mouth-waters are made with Sage Rosemary Honey-sackles and Plaintane boyled in water or Wine with foine Allom put thereto to wash Cankers sore mouths and throats or the secret part of man or woman as need requireth It is also commended against the biting of Serpents The often chewing of Sage in the mouth is profitable for the Teeth and sinews for it strengtheneth the one and preserveth the other from putrefaction The hurtfull quality The frequent use of Sage is hurtfull to leane and dry bodies and in hot and dry seasons The dose The dose in powder is from a scruple to thirty graines Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Chymicall Oil. Conserve and Salt of Sage CHAP. 157. De Sassafras of Sassafras The names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Sassafras in English also Sassafras and Ague-tree of his vertue in healing Agues It is hot and dry in the beginning of the third degree The duration It will keep good many yeers The outward use The decoction of Sassafras is given in all cold diseases and stoppings of the Liver and Spleen as also in cold Rheumes that fall on the teeth eyes or lungs warming and drying up the moisture and strengthening the parts afterwards and therefore is available in Coughs and other cold diseases of the breast stomach and lungs and restraineth castings and helpeth digestion breaketh and expelleth winde the gravel and stone in the Kidneys and provoketh urine and Womens courses it also warmeth heateth and dryeth up the moysture of Womens Wombes which is the cause of barrennesse and causeth them to be more apt to conceive it is of good use in tertian and quotidian Agues that are of long continuance It is generally used in all diseases that come of cold and raw thin and corrupt humours the French Disease and other of the like foule nature The manner of administring it It is given chiefly in decoction as thus Take of Sassafras foure ounces steep it in a gallon and a half of water foure and twenty houres then boil it close covered till it be neer half consumed then being strained give a good draught thereof morning and evening for the diseases before mentioned The outward use It is thought to be good in the time of the Pestilence to weare some thereof continually about them that the smell of it may expel the corrupt and evil vapours of the Pestilence The hurtfull quality It is hurtful to very hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given in powder from a scruple to two scruples Medicines made thereof Extract of Sassafras Chymicall Oile CHAP. 158. De Sarsaparilla of Sarsaparilla The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Sarsaparilla Salsaparilla and Zarzaparilla it is hot and dry in the first or second degree of thin parts and provoketh sweat The duration It will keep good many yeers The inward use It is chiefly used in the French Pox in Rheumes Gowts cold diseases of the head and stomach expelleth winde both from the stomach and mother It helpeth all manner of aches in the sinews and joynts all running sores in the legs all cold Swellings Tetters or Ring-wormes and all manner of spots and foulnesse of the skin The hurtfull quality It is bad for hot Livers and cholerick persons The manner of administring it It is given chiefly in decoction see the fore-goin Chapter The Dose The Dose in powder is from half a dram to a dram CHAP. 159. De Scordio of Water-Germander The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Scordium because it smels like Garlick in English Water-Germander and Garlick-Germander It is hot and dry in the second degree bitter in taste harsh and sharp The duration It will keep good a yeer or two The inward use It is effectuall to provoke urine and Womens courses killeth Wormes in the belly or stomach is also a safe
being mixed with equal parts of Rosin and Wax doth mollifie the hardnesse of the Spleen and healeth old Ulcers and Sores being mixed with Sandarack and Orpment helpeth to draw off foul nails and if quick lime and Wine-Lees be added thereunto it worketh the stronger It helpeth strains aches or bruises being spread on leather and applyed The Dose It is given in powder from a scruple to a dram CHAP. 167. De Urticis of Nettles The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Urtica ab urendo of his burning and stinging quality in English Nettle It is moderately hot and dry in the second degree of thin and subtile parts The duration The seed will keep good a yeer The inward use The leaves boil'd in Wine and drunk are said to open the belly and make it soluble The roots or leaves boiled or the juice of either of them or both made into an Electuary with Honey or Sugar is a safe or sure Medicine to open the pipes and passages of the Lungs which causeth shortnesse of breath and helpeth to bring away tough cold flegme sticking in them or in the stomach as also to raise the impostumated pleurisie and spend it by spitting The decoction of the leaves in Wine and drunk is singular good to provoke Womens courses and to settle the strangling of the mother and all other diseases thereof also provoketh urine and expelleth gravel and the stone in the reins or bladder killeth Wormes in children and is said to ease the pains in the side and to expel winde in the body but others think it to be windy of it self and therefore not so powerful to expel winde but only to provoke Venery the juice of the leaves taken two or three dayes together stayeth bleeding at the mouth which riseth from the stomach the seed being drunk is a remedy against the stinging of venomous creatures the bitings of mad Dogs the poisonful qualities of Hemlock Henbane Nightshade Mandrake or such like that stupifie and dull the senses and helpeth them that have taken Quicksilver or those that have eaten evil Mushromes or surfet of the good A Decoction of Nettles is profitable for such as have the Gangrene and Chin-cough as also to expel the small poxe The Roman Nettle is held to be most effectual The roots are commended against the Jaundise The manner of administring it It is given in Decoction chiefly the seeds are given in powder or in Electuary The outward use They help the Almonds of the throat being swolne to gargle the mouth and throat therewith the juice also is effectuall to settle the palate of the mouth in its place and to heal and temper the inflammations and sorenesse of the mouth and throat The seeds or leaves bruised and put into the nostrils doth stanch the bleeding of them and taketh away the flesh growing in them called Polypus the juice of the leaves or the Decoction of them or of the roots is singular good to wash either old rotten and stinking sores or Fistulaes and Gangrenes and such as are fretting and eating Scabs also Maunginess and Itches in any part of the body as also green Wounds by washing them therewith or putting the juice into the sores yea although the flesh were separated from the bones the same applied to over-wearied members refresheth them or to places out of joynt after the joynt is set in its right place it strengtheneth dryeth and comforteth them as also to those places troubled with Aches and Gowts The Dose The seed is given from half a dram to a dram CHAP. 168. De Vvis of Grapes The Names and temperament THe Grape is called in Latine Uva in English Grape The sweet Grapes are hot in the first degree and moist in the second Sower Grapes are cold and moist The inward use Sower Grapes being eaten do quench thirst and mightily extinguish the overmuch heat of the Stomach and Liver represse the sharpnesse of choler and cholerick vomitings stirre up the appetite help to stay spittings of bloud and strengthen the stomach that is weakened through abundance of choler They are excellent in burning Feavers especially where choler abounds and provoke urine and Venus The juice is very profitable to coole and represse cholerick vomitings and too often going to stool so is the syrup thereof The sweet Grapes nourish most and do fatten the body but the flesh procured by that nourishment is soft and foggie and not firme and solid they make the body soluble also Grapes are best to be eaten when the stomach is empty and not after meat for so they hinder the concoction and hurt the stomach the skins and stones must not be swallowed down The outward use The juice of Grapes is used to coole all inflammations and Saint Anthonies fire or wildefire being used alone or with coole herbs The hurtfull quality Grapes immediatly used cause thirst and breed windâ— trouble the stomach and belly bring the Collick and Gripings puffe up the Spleen increase Rheume in old persons and are only profitable for the cholerick Medicines made thereof Syrup of Grapes CHAP. 169. De Zedoaria of Setwall The names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Zedoaria Zurumbet Zerumbet in English Setwall It is hot and dry in the second degree The duration It will keep good two or three yeers The inward use It is effectuall against poysons of all sorts and venomes of venomous creatures and is of much use and profit in the Pestilence and other contagious diseases as also to warm a cold stomach and to expel Winde marvellously to stay Vomitings to dry up and consume Catarrhes and defluxions or flowings down of Rheume and to dissolve the impostumes of the Matrix and to stay loosnesse of the belly and is also very powerful to stay or disperse the unsavoury belchings of those spirits that Garlick Onions c. or Wine have caused It provoketh the courses in women say some others will have it to stop them and is effectual against the rising of the Mother helpeth the Collick and the pains of the stomach killeth all sorts of Wormes and is much used in Antidotes The manner of administring it It is given in powder or in decoction The outward use It is used to chew on in times of infection The hurtfull quality It is hurtful for very hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given in powder from a scruple to two scruples Medecines made thereof The roots Candied as Ginger is Extract Chymicall Oile Balsame The distilled Water of Setwall CHAP. 170. De Zinzibere of Ginger The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Zinziber Zingiber Gingiber in English Ginger It is hot and dry in the third degree The best kinde The best Ginger is the newest and the whitest The duration It will keep good two yeers The inward use Ginger is good to help digestion and to open stoppings to cut and make thin grosse and tough flegmatick humours to discusse winde and helpe to expell it out of
41 46 51 53 54 63 64 66 78 79 80 81 83 85 86 87 93 94 95 96 102 107 111 112 129 133 136 137 140 141 144 146 148 151 152 Jaundise black chap 29 32 Iliack passion chap 16 49 Impostume see Apostume Incarnate see flesh to procure Inflammation chap 12 49 56 57 63 71 98 100 107 113 123 134 141 144 150 Joynt Gowt chap 4 6 56 57 62 110 112 141 148 153 Joynts pained chap 32 36 37 45 46 52 56 57 64 93 101 106 110 141 156 Joynts trembling chap 55 92 Joynts colde chap 41 Issue to keepâ—open chap 56 Itch to help chap 6 21 27 29 35 36 54 60 63 64 70 75 77 79 101 104 110 114 131 138 141 144 146 150 155 157 16â— K KErnels to dissolve chap 4 33 78 119 124 141 161 Kibes and Chilblanes chap. 23 70 79 104 114 149 Kidnies hot chap 14 63 117 Kidnies stopt chap 5 140 144 Kidnies ulcers thereof chap 44 144 Kidnies pained chap 45 116 Kidnies weak chap 44 Kibes in Cattel chap 68 Kings evill chap 4 11 23 26 31 32 33 37 41 46 50 55 58 64 71 102 Knee ach thereof chap 32 Knots and tumours chap 28 33 50 55 64 77 87 141 166 L LEan persons to fat chap 5 24 Legs sore chap 56 Leprosie chap 1 11 17 27 29 36 37 42 47 59 60 63 65 70 75 95 114 149 150 Lethargy chap 28 36 43 46 62 67 92 96 97 118 133 151 156 161 Lice to kill chap 1 32 36 69 70 77 79 111 118 Lips Apostume thereof chap 3 Liver stopt to open chap 1 4 5 8 11 20 21 22 23 26 27 29 33 34 35 46 51 53 54 56 57 61 63 66 67 74 75 76 78 79 80 84 87 93 102 105 109 110 112 118 120 122 125 129 136 137 139 140 141 144 146 148 151 Liver hot chap 12 14 18 57 63 100 107 145 150 Liver to strengthen chap 40 43 46 47 150 Liver colde chap 53 Loathing of meat chap 7 72 Lump of flesh in the womb see Molâ— Lungs to clense chap 5 13 138 Lungs hurt chap 64 Lungs inflamed chap 5 15 44 131 153 Lungs consumption thereof chap 2 see Consumption Lungs stopt chap 21 48 51 52 64 71 74 80 84 87 88 100 105 115 121 147 148 159 160 Lungs impostumated chap 106 Lust to provoke chap 69 76 91 95 99 102 Lust to abate chap 12 74 88 117 145 M MAdnesse chap 27 36 37 42 60 63 65 75 Maligne Feavers chap 1 Manginesse chap 11 137 Marks of the Poxs and Measels chap 119 Matrix faln chap 10 31 62 Matrix pained chap 14 21 Matrix impostume thereof chap 169 Measels and Pox to drive out Chap 10 19 64 81 82 104 149 158 Meat loathing thereof chap 129 Melancholy to purge chap 16 27 29 37 40 47 51 60 137 150 Melancholy to help chap 21 29 36 37 42 54 57 60 62 75 81 83 94 96 102 124 133 135 142 Melancholy Dreams chap 140 Memory to quicken chap 8 21 62 72 90 91 103 114 151 156 Megrim see swimming of the head Mice and Rats to kill see Rats Milk in womens breasts to dry up chap 4 8 153 Milk to increase chap 67 76 83 105 113 117 121 130 Milk curdled in the breasts chap 4 7 Miscarrying to hinder chap 10 24 42 64 Mola or lump of flesh in the Wombe chap 31 50 Morbus Gallicus see French Pox Morphew chap 11 16 17 29 41 42 54 56 65 69 71 119 131 134 153 167 Mother-fits chap 7 11 12 20 31 33 50 55 62 72 74 76 81 92 96 99 101 114 124 127 132 140 153 Mother pained chap 2 45 67 80 93 114 Mother hard chap 9 48 104 106 Mothes and Wormes to preserve from chap 1 Mother windinesse thereof chap 30 31 45 62 67 73 75 78 129 153 Mother inflamed chap 129 Mouth sore chap 6 10 14 23 29 37 64 66 67 70 107 121 122 131 141 150 152 156 Mouth bleeding chap 93 97 141 Mouth dry chap 52 Mushromes eaten chap 1 105 N NAils fleshinesse thereof to take away chap 70 146 Navel going out chap 52 145 Navel swoln chap 27 145 Neck crick thereof chap 145 Nerves cold to warm chap 7 Nerves bruised chap 6 Night-mare chap 3. 42 62 140 Nipples sore chap 52 Nits to kill chap 69 70 77 111 Nodes of the joynts chap 9 28 50 55 77 95 119 Nose bleeding chap 10 12 18 23 52 56 58 62 63 64 80 82 90 114 125 128 131 135 141 144 167 Nostrils stopt chap. 79 137 Nostrils stench thereof chap 41 111 Nostrils fleshinesse growing therein see Polypus O. OBstructions to open chap 14 19 22 69 83 Opium too much taken chap 78 137 P PAine to ease chap 49 Pale colour to help chap 2 3 47 Pallat of the mouth fallen see Uvula Palsey chap 11 16 20 26 28 39 43 47 50 54 55 56 60 66 69 75 80 84 92 95 96 114 118 120 124 128 131 141 149 151 156 159 161 163 166. Pestilence chap 1 10 12 18 21 25 29 33 34 37 62 64 66 69 74 75 81 82 85 96 111 124 142 151 153 159 157 169 Pestilent feaver see Feaver Phlegmon see Inflammation Piles see Hemorrhoides Pip in poultery to help chap 69 Pimples and wheales chap 12 15 59 63 79 119 145 Pissing blood see blood-pissing Pissing by drops chap 84 Plague chap 10 21 64 77 80 91 96 101 111 112 114 142 153 156 Plague-sore chap 7 50 81 90 100 104 165 Plurisie chap 5 14 21 39 43 44 48 51 52 55 62 71 74 81 93 121 122 131 135 Polypus chap. 6 1023 51 68 75 167 Pox and Measels to expell chap 10 19 21 64 81 82 104 149 159 Pox marks thereof to take away chap 119 Poyson chap 1 6 7 10 14 23 25 31 50 55 64 69 74 76 81 83 84 85 89 92 96 101 104 112 120 121 124 128 129 130 133 141 145 146 149 158 161 165 Privy parts inflamed chap 106 123 144 145 Purples chap 10 64 159 Pustules chap 37 80 114 145 150 Putrefaction to restist chap. 3 6 12 14 19 33 34 43 48 54 82 110 114 122 131 150 Q Quartane Ague see Ague Quinsie chap 1 4 15 26 48 56 69 76 104 122 131 141 143 R RAts and Mice to kill chap. 36 Reds in Women see Courses Reins pained chap 39 108 116 Reins cold chap 30 Reins hot chap. 14 107 117 Reins to cleanse chap 5 32 53 115 Rheume to purge chap 3 17 46 48 75 Rheume to stay chap 2 6 10 14 43 45 48 49 52 57 58 62 63 64 80 82 93 95 96 97 107 110 121 122 130 135 141 144 146 150 151 157 169 Rheume hot chap 15 115 Rheume cold chap 80 114 122 Ring-wormes see Tetters Running of the Reins chap. 10 12 15 18 45 53 57 62 63 64 94 97 117 132 134 135 137 145 150 Ruptures chap
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.