begin of womens termes and flowers Of the Termes or Flowers of women in generall §. 1. THat these Termes of women be called the Flowers is for this cause viz. when it is séene that a trée bloweth then is it esteemed meete and conuenient to beare fruite and contrariwise the trée vnfruitfull which bloweth not except the Fig trée So is it likewise with women that all they that haue their Termes are fit and commodious to conceiue and beare children the which they that haue not their flowers or termes can neuer more accomplish Secondly the Latinists do cal these flowers Menstrua of the moneth and thus for they euery moneth or thirty dayes returne and come againe or for that they according to the course of the Moone that is because they appeare the first quarter of the Moone in young girles the second quarter in them that be somewhat bigger the third quarter in the middle sort the last quarter in aged women Whereby all expert Phisitions do obserue in each time that each age is to haue them to wit the yong people in the new and increasing Moone the old folkes in the decrease of the Moone in fine the health of all women dependeth especially in this necessary menstruall fluxe yea all her chastitie fruitfulnesse and welfare To the contrary if they do not at all auoid do flow too much vnorderly or be lothsome of colour then do they cause all miseries inclination to venery and many kind of sicknesses like as hereafter shall be taught Wherewith it is to be estéemed for no smal work of wonder that amongst all creatures that do liue and are of the female kind except certaine Apes only women are subiect vnto this fluxe and therefore haue the Philosophers many kinds of disputations which be here too long and néedlesse to be rehearsed But of the fountaine and matter of this blood it is with one consent concluded that it is a cold vndigested and grosse matter and the blood of the whole bodie the which through the foresaid veines is gathered together in the womb and is afterwards expelled in due time as a matter hurtfull and of no vse That this matter is also cold is by this perceiued that when it passeth away the woman féeleth a great cold ouer the whole bodie this happeneth after many fashions Of the Termes that be auoided ouer and aboue their naturall custome shall be hereafter spoken of with all their appertenances The women whose Termes auoide in two or thrée dayes are ridde of them with small trouble but if they endure long then will they be thereby very féeble The first auoidance of their Termes is commonly about the fouretéenth yéere the which signifieth that then their naturall séede beginneth to ripen that the haire and breasts beginneth to grow and they that be hote of nature do then get desire of the man for that the womans Termes be none other but a naturall séede which is not yet throughly ripe and that through his superfluitie of nature desireth to be expelled This course of the Termes or Flowers abateth about the age of fortie or two and fortie yeares or endureth sometimes vntill the fiftith yéere but very seldome vntill the sixtith yéere in which time women be still méete and fit for generation yet do these Flowers or Termes of women come sometimes sooner and sometimes later according to that the nature and complexion of the bodie is full of blood strong suffereth much labour is quiet and feeble It is also a common rule with all them that haue experience in naturall things that a woman which getteth not her flowers like as some which be hot drie by nature is barren and vnfruitfull and that for those causes that are discouered in the seuenth Chapter of the barrennesse of men and women although that it chanceth neuerthelesse but very seldome that such women do conceiue and beare This is also the natural custome that when a woman hath conceiued that then her termes do tary away for this blood is prepared for a sustenance vnto the child in the mothers womb like as also after childbirth the same to that end is turned into milke notwithstanding that it oftentimes happeneth that women with child auoide their Flowers or Termes after the old custome vntil the very day of birth as we shall hereafter somewhat intreate thereof but these women do bring small spare weake and not liuing children into the world because they haue bene depriued of the most part of their nourishment It is also contrary to the opinion of many women that she shall open a veine when she is halfe gone with child in case she be not full of blood and the veines not great therefore is not the same very vnaduisedly to be done Item in this flowing or course of womens termes there is another wonderfull nature and propertie to wit that so harmefull and venimous a matter in mans bodie without any hinderance yea for a great preferment of health may be retained and expelled The common experience bringeth with it and all learned do testifie the same that these womens termes do bring innumerable sicknesses with them and haue many infectious properties namely where the same happeneth to fall there groweth no fruite spoileth the vines the Must will be vineger the herbes wither the trées drie away iron rusteth and all mettals do darken and waxe dim the same being taken make a man madde and chiefly the dogges the Bées leaue their hiues if they be annointed therewith women when they haue the same then do they darken through their breath all bright looking glasses the aire wil be poisoned with them and children as it is said bewitched Now doest thou sée thou stout high minded man what a precious matter it is that thou hast in the beginning of thy birth and what the matter is that hath thee nourished This hath caused the auncient Poets to assimulate this fluxe vnto the warres saying that Mars is no son of the god Iupiter but of Iuno onely meaning by Iuno this menstruall fluxe And truly if this hurtfull propertie be likened to the warres then is it an expert and true similitude for what doth more spoile fruites vineyards Must herbes and trées than the warres what is there which taketh away and wasteth more iron how many bright harnesses be thereby darkened where beareth madnes more mastery where are men more like to mad dogs than in the wars how can the aire be more venimed than through the stinking dead bodies Here is now sufficiently spoken of this matter now we will procéede with our medicines How to preferre and moue the Termes or Flowers in women §. 2. FOr the first we will speake of the causes whereby the termes be detained the which be outward and inward The outward causes be sore labour hunger care great satnesse agues dropsies consumptions and some disease of the wombe The inward causes be a bad complexion of heate cold dryth or of moisture whereby the vertue expulsiue
there be any veine broken within the vlcer then temper somewhat of these things following with it as Dragon blood Myrrhe Frankinsence fine Bolus Saffron Hartwort with Rose water or with Plantaine water A bath for the raines is very necessary for this purpose whereto you may prepare this following Take Valerian rootes Mew and rootes of Smallage of each foure handfuls Mirrha and Opopanacum of each one quarter of an ounce the rootes of Yarrow foure handfuls séeth them all in sufficient water and sit therein to the nauell Besides all this there is another bath highly commended wherin the roots of wild Cucumbers be decocted For this is also very good that which is described in the 12. § beginning thus Take oyle of Centory 6. ounces c. But in case this ensuing matter remaine stinking and that there be heate with it then vse the other pessaries made of cotton and Roses that are there discouered but the vlcers must be cleansed before by the iniection of Hony water Lastly if so be that the hardnesse do continue which may be perceiued by féeling as also by the pricking by the paine and by issuing out of the matter then is one to beware that there be no sharpe medicines vsed for it for that thereby the malady will be much the rather augmented for all which is discouered in the fifth Chapter and second § of the iniection of the muscilage of Fleawort and iuice of Housléeke for that is also the liuer veine to be opened and the salue of Ceruse to be vsed This person must also beware of all which augmenteth melancholy whereof you may find a sufficient discourse in the eleuenth Chapter and 8. § Of an vnnaturall birth called Mola §. 14. IT chanceth also sometimes that in certaine women which haue no company with a man yet their belly swelleth vp no otherwise than as though they were with child and all the signes of being with child agree also with it for that their Termes be absent and stayed they féele also some stirring in the Matrix their breasts will be hard the appetite of meate leaueth them their naturall colour will be pale all which signes are common to women with child notwithstanding they beare no child which beare this Mola This Mola groweth after two sorts in the wombe the one will grow to a péece of flesh without any figure halfe putrified and is also no right flesh but rather a spongeous masse of wind of water and of some other superfluous bloud which through the accustomed termes cannot be expelled and the same then being mixed with the naturall seed groweth otherwhiles to such a hardnesse that the same cannot be cleft asunder with any hatchet Secondly it may also be ingendred of the said bloud and the concourse of certaine tough humors and so make a false shew like women with child Neuerthelesse the expert Phisitions do distinguish thrée seuerall signes whereby bearing women and they that be burthened with this vnnaturall masse are to be knowne for that first the mouing of this Mola or vnnaturall masse is not like that of a child because it is a thing which hath no life Secondly the belly of women which beare Mola is much harder and not so moueable from one place to another as theirs is that be with child Thirdly this masse falleth from the one side to the other Fourthly if a woman be burthened with Mola then be her hands and feete very féeble and limber and it séemeth also that her fingers be shorter all which cannot be perceiued in bearing women Fiftly the woman that beareth Mola is not so merry as one that is with child Sixtly a woman with child is commonly after nine moneths deliuered but in the Mola is no certaine time for that it is found that women therewith haue gone two yeares foure yeares and also longer yea their whole life time that no phisicke hath holpen them And from these that be cured there auoydeth oftentimes as is sayd a lothsome peece of flesh and that with such paine as if she were deliuered of a child It auoydeth sometimes into bloud otherwhiles to wind and their belly falleth away as before This is such an accident that it ought not slightly to be regarded for that thereby it may easily be marked that the Matrix is vtterly vncleane and spoyled therefore do these women easily fall againe into the foresayd maladies or if not into an vnnaturall fluxe vlcer or impostume of the Matrix Lastly they commonly fall into the Dropsies Aseites or Tympanites or into some other perillous sicknesse whereof they die Neuerthelesse must the Phisition not doubt of the cure but as soone as he knoweth certainly that the woman be burthened with a Mola and be not rightly with child then is the woman to be commaunded that the stirre not too much and lie for the most vpon the backe and with her legs higher than the body and to constraine her selfe otherwhiles to vomit and parbrake and refraine from all cold and moist meates for which this potion following is to be made Take S. Iohns wort Sauine Rosemary field Mints and corne Mints Louage Mugwort Penniroyall and Mather of each one handfull Fennell Squinant both kindes of Parsley seede Calmus and wild Galingall of each one dragme Radish foure ounces seeth them together in a sufficient quantitie of water for a potion and vse thereof euery day thrée or foure ounces this potion melloweth that masse and expelleth the humor whereby it might be increased There is also to be tempered with this potion one of these Trociskes following Take Cinnamome Myrrhe of each two dragmes and a halfe Rue Sauine field Mints Penniroyall al together dried Mather Sagapenum and Opopanacum of each one dragme Cardamome Iuniper trée Rosemary of each one dragme and a halfe forme the Trociskes of the waight of a quarter of an ounce This afore described is so to be vsed the space of ten dayes or more Other do aduise for a thing of smaller importance to wit that the woman two moneths euery morning early should take thrée ounces of warme Feuerfew water and to fast foure houres at least after it Secondly that she euery fourth day when she drinketh of the water should take one of these pilles Take Galbanum one quarter of an ounce flowers of Mugwort Saint Iohns wort and Asarabacca of each one scruple dissolue the Gum in good Wine and make thereof sixe pilles of a dragme She is also to purge once in fouretéene dayes with thrée quarters of an ounce of Benedicta Laxatiua tempered with two ounces of Feuerfew water Or if she had rather pilles that she swallow one dragme of Pillulas Foetidas Fourthly she is alwayes to weare this plaster following vpon the belly the breadth of a finger beneath the nauell reaching vp towards the hips Take Galbanum one ounce and a halfe Galliae Muscatae one quarter of an ounce Alipta Muscata one dragme white Waxe thrée dragmes dissolue the gum in good wine and then
generall The 2. § of the vppermost paine and griping of the guts Iliaca passio the which the common man man calleth Colica ibid. The 3. § of the paine or griping in the guts which is called Colica 422 The 4. § of the difference of these paines in the guts 423 The 5. § of the paine in the guts through obstruction or binding in the body 424 The 6. § of the paine in the guts through slime and flegme ibid. The 7. § of the paine in the guts through winde 426. The 8. § for all manner of paine in the belly 428 The 9. § of the paine in the guts through any impostumes or other affections of the bowels 429. The 10. § of the paine in the bowels thorough heate and Cholera 430 The 11. § of the paine in the belly mixt with grauell 431 The 12. § of the paine in the bellies of yong children ibid. The 13. § of the Wormes in the belly 432 The 14. § of the wormes Ascarides which do keep in the arsegut 438 ¶ The sixteenth Chapter of the Kidneyes 439 The 1. § of the paine in the kidneyes thorough cold and moisture ibid. The 2. § of the paine in the Kidneyes thorough wind 441 The 3. § of the obstructed Kidneyes ibid. The 4. § of the paine in the kidneyes thorough heate and drith 442 The 5. § how to asswage the paine in the kidneies 443 The 6. § of an hard impostume in the kidneyes 444. The 7. § of impostumes and vlcers in the Kidneyes 445 The 8. § of the impostumation in the kidneyes through heate 446 The 9. § of impostumes in the kidneyes through cold 447 The 10. § of the exulceration in the Kidneyes ibid. The 11. § of pissing of bloud 448 The 12. § if any man pisse matter 449 The 13. § of the outward vlcers of the kidneyes 450. The 14. § the order of diet 451 ¶ The seuenteenth Chapter of the grauell sand or stone of the Kidneyes and of the Bladder ibid. The 1. § for to hinder and restraine the ingendering and growing of the grauell and stone 452. The 2. § to let the growing of the stone ibid. The 3. § against the paine of the grauell 454 The 4. § of those things that expell grauell and breake the stone ibid. The fifth § when one cannot holde his water 462. The 6. § of the effluxion of the vrine thorough cold ibid. The 7. § of the effluxion of the vrine thorough heate 463 ¶ The eighteenth Chapter of the Bladder 465. The first § of the retention of vrine in generall ibid. The 2. § of the paine which is caused by the retention of the vrine 466 The 3. § of the stopping of the vrine through the debilitie of the vertue retentiue 467 The 4. § of the retention of vrine through fals or blowes 469 The 5. § of the retention of vrine thorough some obstruction of the conduits 470 The 6. § of the hot and scalding vrine 471 The 7. § of any one be forced against his will to make his water 472 The 8. § of the excoriation of the bladder and of the necke of the same 473 The 9. § of the impostume of the bladder or neck of the same 474 ¶ The nineteenth Chapter of the Matrix or Wombe ibid. The first § of the termes or flowers in women in generall 476 The 2. § how to preferre and moue the termes or flowers in women 477 The 3. § how the excessiue course of the flowers are to be stopped 484 The 4. § of the Whites or the white fluxe in women 488 The 5. § of the suffocation or ascension of the Matrix 489 The 6. § of the descension or falling downe of the Mother or Wombe 491 The 7. § of the paine in the Mother or Matrix through wind 493 The 8. § of the paine in the Mother through cold 494. The 9. § of the paine in the Mother through heat 465. The 10. § of the contraction of the Mother or the necke of the same The 11. § of the Scirrhus or hardnes of the Mother ibid. The 12. § of the impostume in the Mother or in the necke of the same ibid. The 13. § of the canker and vlcer of the Wombe or Matrix 498 The 14. § of an vnnaturall birth called Mola 500. The 15. § what things are good for the Matrix 501. ¶ The twentieth Chapter of all that concerneth the fruitfull and childe-bearing women 502. The first § to know whether a woman be with child or not ibid. The 2. § to know whether a woman be with child of a boy or a girle 503 The third § of those thinges which be most commonly perceiued in women with childe ibid. The 4. § at what time and in what manner the childe groweth in the Wombe ibid. The 5. § of the order of diet for women with child 504 The 6. § of the strange longings of women with child 505 The 7. § of the vomiting in women with childe 506. The 8. § when a childe is weake in the mothers wombe ibid. The 9. § of mischaunces and vntimely birthes 508. The 10. § how a mischance is to be preuented or hindered 509 The 11. § how a dead child is to be expelled out of his mothers wombe 511 The 12. § a preparation for an easie childbirth and deliuerie 512 The 13. § when the throwes doe not continue in bearing women 514 The 14. § of the perillous and hard childbirth in generall 515 The 15. § when a woman cannot be deliuered of a child ibid. The 16. § of the Secundine or afterbirth and how the same is to be expelled 516 The 17. § how the afterthrowes are to be eased 517. The 18. § for the excessiue floud after birth ibidem The 19. § of the superaboundance of milke 518. The 20. § of diuers other accidents after birth ibidem The fourth Part or Booke containeth all the outward parts with all their accidents and infections and it is deuided into nine Chapters and 35. §. 519 THe first Chapter and first § of the Armes Pag. 519 The 2. § of the Armepits ibid. The 3. § of the hands 520 The 4. § for to keepe the hands cleane ibid. The 5. § for to perfume hands and gloues 521 The 6. § for scabbed hands ibid. The 7. § for chaps in the hands ibid. The 8. § for itchie or scabbie hands ibid. The 9. § of the fingers 522 The 10. § of the numbnesse of the fingers whether it be in part or in the whole ibid. The 11. § when the fingers are nummed through some bruises 523 The 12. § of the Felon or Ancome in the fingers 524. The 13. § of the nayles on the fingers and toes 524. ¶ The second Chapter of the legs and feet ibid. The 1. § of the knees 525 The 2. § of the shins ibid. The 3. § of the feete 526 ¶ The third Chapter of the paine in the ioynts in generall 527 The 1. § of
Median shall rather be vsed than the Liuer veine likewise if the Liuer veine be not seene open rather the Median than the head veine As for example this veine is conueniently opened in swolne eyes bleeding at the nose outragious melancholy hot rheumes panting of the hart ruptures to procure children in women of hote complexions bléeding of the hemorrhoides or piles and to procure the flowers in women c. by which euery skilfull man may guide himselfe Of the armepit veine Axillaris §. 10. THe fourth veine is called as is aforesaid Axillaris it is a branch of the great liuer veine called Vena caua the hollow veine which commeth from thence into the armes and sheweth it selfe in the bending of the arme It hath great correspondence with the head veine as is already sufficiently shewed After the same sort it is with the fift which is on the end of the arme so that all that hath bin said before and which shall be said hereafter of the Spleene veine the very same may be said of these two Of the Spleene veine or Saluatella §. 11. THe sixt principall veine lieth betwéene the little and fourth fingers on the outside of both hands It is oftentimes opened because it cleanseth the spleene liuer and brest cléereth the voice preserueth the internall parts but especially the stomacke and mouth from all accidents whatsoeuer easeth the paine of the heart and taketh away all the superfluous bloud of the before named inward parts The later Phisitions make this distinction they call this veine on the left hand Splenetica the spléene veine and on the right hand Saluatella for this cause haue diuers opened that on the left side letting it bléede till of it selfe it stanched supposing thereby to heale all infirmities of the spleene It is also opened in blood spittings in obstructions of the spleene and in the French pox That on the right hand in infirmities of the liuer in shaking palsies in contractures of the mouth in all maner of stitches in the gout in the pockes and in fine almost in all other diseases Of the hip veine §. 12. AFter the description of the veines that are in the armes and hands it followeth now to treate of the three principall veines apparent in the legs and feet The first and vppermost of them is called in Gréeke Ischiadica and in English the hip veine It is commonly opened vpon the left foote thereby to draw the blood downewards and to ease all the maladies of the same side of the kidneyes of the wombe and such like also to make the piles bléed to helpe the paine of the hip to cease the raging of the gout if it be opened hard by the little toe although it specially appeere vpon the ankle on the outside of the leg Of the wombe veine or Saphena §. 13. THis commeth from the great liuer or hollow veine and descendeth from the foreside of the legge downe to the inward ankle where it very manifestly appeareth for the which cause it is also called Manifesta the apparent or manifest veine otherwise Saphea and not Saphena This is especially opened to draw the bloud downewards from the priuie parts of man from the wombe in women in sore eyes in madnesse in the palsie in the night mare falling euill blood spittings womens flowers and barrennesse of them in the suffocation of the matrix or the rising vp of the wombe or mother in the gout and in the plague Of the hamme or knee veine §. 14. THis also is a median or middle veine which descendeth downewards through the calfe of the leg into the foote as the median of the arme doth into the hand and it is more méet to be opened to the aforesaid infirmities than either the hip or wombe veine because it is néerer adiacent to the womb with her annexed parts than either of them and therefore draweth with more force Of the veine in the forehead §. 15. IN the middest of the forehead is also a very apparent veine which vsually was opened in all paines of the hinder part of the head and necke although it haue continued very long also in all paines of the eyes but first of all ought the head veine to be opened It is also vsed in the frensie night mare and palsie Of the veines of the eyes §. 16. THese litle veines appéere in the corners of the eyes hard by the nose vpwards toward the forehead They are commonly opened in inflammations of the eyes but first of all open the veine of the head Of the veine in the temples of the head §. 17. IN the temples of the head are veines which some men do counsell to be opened in the paine of the eyes if the same procéed of hot humors or windinesse as is before said But it is not without great daunger because there is an artery hard by it which easily may be felt The same may be said of the veines behind the eares which also are very commodiously opened in great paines of the head as Hemicrania in a continuall paine and swimming in the head But Auicenna supposeth that such as vse it thereby are made barren or vnfruitfull Of the veine vpon the nose §. 18. IN like manner also is there a veine vpon the nose close by the forehead which may be opened but first must a towell or napkin be tied hard about the necke and throte that the veine may swell or puffe vp and be the better séene Of the veines in the lippes §. 19. THese are opened in all putrifactions and rottings of the gums and many other infections of the mouth but not before the head veine Of the veines of the almonds or kernels in the throate §. 20. THere be foure of these veines apparent the which being opened helpe very greatly in all rheumes and defluxions as also in the tooth-ach but it is not good to open them but when the rheume beginneth to fall Of the veines vnder the tongue §. 21. VNder the tongue are also some veines which in dangerous diseases may well be opened and especially in the squinancy and in all other flegmaticall tumors of the throte in the night mare and all maladies of the tongue Of the veines of the necke §. 22. TO conclude there be certaine veines in the necke called of the Arabians Guingedes which vsually were opened in the beginning of the leprie in the paine of the throate called Angina in shortnes and oppression of the breath impostumes of the lungs in affections of the spléene and sides Thus ending this Chapter of the opening of all kind of veines we wil treate of boxing or cupping which also is greatly commended in Phisicke The ninth Chapter Of Cupping THis is the second meanes whereby the abundance of blood in mans body is diminished Galen did so highly estéeme of it that he termeth it a precious helpe and commendeth it in many diseases but especially where flegme and windinesse doth excéed He ascribeth vnto it the attraction of humors
towards the shoulder blades and ribs This place is not altogether bonie like to the scul nor of one péece but very orderly the one with the other intermingled filled with bones and muscles so that the ribs comprehend and defend behind and before the inward parts euen as it were with a bulwork And euen as this part of mans body is outwardly defended with bones euen so are also the inner parts with veines arteries and strong sinewes ioyned together and fashioned very formally thereby to take aire into it and to yéeld it out againe wherby the hart the lights and other parts should be refreshed and preserued in their estate Also the brest like as other parts of man is subiect to many kinds of maladies as partly may be séene in the description of the rheume For when these mischieuous rheumes fall vpon the brest then do they harme the lights stop the wind pipes make a man pursiue stinking breathed much coughing and anguish so that at the last they rid matter and filth with many moe such accidents whereby the lights are perished and hurt whereof afterwards more at large and plainely shall be parcelwise discouered And to follow our woonted method we will first speake of the outward parts of the Breast Of womens breasts milke and of their diseases §. 1. THe womens breasts are by nature indued with two kinds of wondrous works The first that through their meanes the new borne child receiueth his food to wit from the bloud which through naturall warmth is altered and brought into milke The second that they are a defence couer of the hart whereby when they warme them they are also in like manner kept warme of the said hart Euen as our bodie warmeth the clothes so do the clothes also kéepe the bodie warme And this commeth more to passe in women than in men by reason that their breasts are bigger by ods The substance of womens breasts is a soft flesh by nature spongeous thereby to draw much moisture vnto it Contrariwise mens brests are hard and clung together especially in them that are not ouercharged with fatnesse both of them haue their nipples in the midst of their breasts The which in women are very méet comely instruments for to giue their new borne children their said sustenance Mans milke Otherwhiles also mens brests do giue milke but this is a token rather of vnable humors than otherwise Thus to procéed with womens brests they are subiect to diuers and sundrie accidents Otherwhiles they grow a great deale too big the which séemeth not onely ill but is also sometimes an occasion of other diseases But this commeth rather by nature or inheritance and according to that one woman is fatter and corpulenter of bodie than another But by nature as it hath bene said they are vessels of milke whereby in some women it is too litle and in some too much Therefore it is very néedfull to séeke a remedie how in the one to lessen them and in the other to augment them For where milke is too aboundant there prouoketh it many kinds of diseases to wit that it doth clod and congeale in the breast whereof hardnesse heate swellings canker woormes and such like do ensue In like manner the nipples do also chop which bringeth thereby great anguish to them that giue sucke and infect the children that sucke the matter and bloud into their bodies with sundrie sicknesses Of the ouermuch growing and hanging downe of the Brests §. 2. WHen as this superfluous and ouermuch growing of the brests hapneth in hail young and plethoricall women there shall in my best opinion the nature be suffered to haue her free course least by taking them away some greater mishap be procured yet some do counsell for a sure remedie that if one annoint the breast with the gall of a Hare that then they will not grow too great Item take Barley meale and Goates milke of each a like much vineger halfe so much let them séeth well and be laid on the breast it is taken for a certaine remedie in like manner frie Mallowes in Sallad oyle and lay it ouer the breast These things following are yet stronger Take Hypocistis the pils and blossomes of Pomegranates Acorne cups and burnt lead of each thrée drag Allume Ceruse the iuice of Sloes and rosted Lentils of each one drag Snailes with their houses burnt and Southernwood of each two drag and a halfe Make a salue thereof with the iuice of Plantaine and therwith annoint the brest Item take Frankinsence Masticke of each one ounce sea Muscles one drag and a halfe temper them together with red vineger All that is taught here doth not hinder onely the growing of the Breasts but also that they be not loose or hanging downe these things may also be vsed against the falling downe of the Mother euen as in the third part shall be further declared in the description of the diseases of the wombe or mother Pilles TAke Ferne rootes Sarcocolla and Allume of each one drag Sandaraca halfe a drag make fiue pils thereof with the iuice of Ireos whereof take one and fast foure houres after it These pils do not onely consume all superfluitie but also the naturall fatnesse of mans bodie if they be oftentimes vsed Secondly he or she may if they will strew beaten Amber vpon all their meate and if you will haue it work better put the powder in wine for the wine carieth the force of it very quickly into the veines Thirdly take beaten Gals Cypers nuts of each sixe ounces Allume prepared Iron drosse of each thrée ounces séeth them together in a good deale of Tanners lie and wash therewith méetely warme and make often wet therewith the hands féet face and breast with a sponge The like are you to do also on the priuie members Or take stamped Henbane séede seeth it in wine and then lay the wine ouer the Breasts But I cannot counsell you to take this by reason of his great cold Of Milke in generall §. 3. FOrasmuch as this wonderfull alteration of the red bloud into so faire white a colour daily happeneth in women and also in beastes therefore is their force and might accounted the lesse neuerthelesse hath God ordained it for all creatures that are borne aliue for their first and most requisite nourishment Of the difference of women and beasts Milke it is not our meaning here to discourse but concerning womens Milke the yellow is alwayes better than the white so is also the same more forcible in browne women then in white In Ponto by the Riuer Astaeo it is sayd that milke in women in beasts is black But without any circumstances we will onely discourse of the Breasts of women and of the accidents incident vnto them Of the want or scarcitie of Milke §. 4. IF women that giue sucke haue want of Milke then must we search out the cause thereof This may procéed somtimes of some hote or
each one drag and séeth it with decocted swéet Wine as thicke as you desire it Or vse this following Take Cammomill Dill seede Venus haire Hollihocke séedes and Folefoote of each two handfuls Currans thrée handfuls sixe Poppie heads sixe ounces of fresh Butter xxxvi ounces of swéet sodden Wine put vnto it when all is well sodden and brayed one dragme of Saffron A good salue Take Althaea salue and Butter annoint the place therewith where the paine is and strew thereon beaten Comin and lay a warme Colewoort leafe thereon When the Pleurisie taketh a woman with Child §. 12. IF it then chaunce that a woman be in doubt of bearing the space of two moneths were brought a bed before her time and brought a dead child into the world or were much inclined to the same and so be taken with the Pleurisie she must not be let bloud but she must haue cups set on her buttockes and be picked well whereby to draw the bloud downward But women that are woont to miscarie in hast they may well be let bloud yet alwaies taking good héed to their strength But for a generall rule all women albeit they miscarie or not or that they haue conceiued are to haue the liuer veine opened But if it be not the right Pleurisie then make a bagge with warme Millet and Bran and lay it where the stitch is felt and annoynt the backe with Althaea salue But they that are not with child and haue the Pleurisie it is much counselled that their Termes be prouoked as much as is possible whereof in the fift part is very largely discoursed And the other euen as is alreadie said are to be holpen according as they be of strength by other medicines Rules for such as are recouered of the Pleurisie that they fall not into it againe §. 13. FIrst all they that be subiect to this sicknesse are to shun all dwellings and principally in winter season that are situate in the North and West and neare the water They must also forbeare all tough slimie meates and all that is made of dough Chéese Milke and such like also from vineger sowre and sharpe and all kind of tart things Capers and Sallad oyle are also enemies vnto him Item from all pottage except of red and white Pease and Beane broth which be good for him and dresse Hennes Pullets Veale and Pigeons with it All cold fruites as Apples Peares Chesnuts c. are hurtfull for him but Figges and Raisins are very méete sodden Colewoorts and all sorts of Rapes and rootes as Parsneps Parsley rootes and such like are very good for him and all Barley paps also His drinke must be thin white and swéet wine or common Béere which is very cleare To drinke water is for this streightly forbidden but if the patient desire to water his wine he may doe it yet with water that is decocted with Cinnamome or Licorice After his meale tide is he to kéepe himselfe quiet one or two houres Watching is very hurtfull for him but to sléepe long is very good and néedfull In eating he must also beware of swallowing downe meate not well chewed and of ouercharging his stomacke with meate and drinke that there follow no harme to the stomacke He must looke well to all these and that he be alwaies merrie and of a light heart Secondly he must take good héede for to haue alwaies an open bodie and before he vse these pils following he must first vse these potions Take of the water of Fole-foote fiue ounces Sugar one ounce drinke it euery morning fasting at one time The pils are thus to be made take prepared Aloe one quarter of an ounce Opopanacum Bdellium and Colloquint of each one scruple make pils thereof with sirupe of Roses sixe of a drag then take euery foure dayes one or twaine according as you are bound and in the euening one before supper A Salue TAke Asarabacca Hyssope Mallowes and Rosemarie of each thrée quarters of an ounce Sandaraca three drag Spica nardi one quarter of an ounce Dragon bloud and the iuice of Sloes of each one drag Starch fiue dragms powne each apart as small as may be then temper it with Malmsey and kéepe this stopped tight Herewith are you to rub the backe bone and shoulders softly and afterwards a Foxe case bound theron And the patient must haue his veine opened on the right hand besides the little finger and let it bléede foure or fiue ounces of bloud These are the most principall meanes wherby these perillous sicknesses may be preuented but we will adde somewhat more to the rest Certaine seuerall remedies against the cold Pleurisie §. 14. FOr the true Pleurisie do serue these compounded Confections and losinges which are prepared two manner of wayes Diaprassium Diahyssopum Diaireââ Solomonis Lohoch de Pino Item all that is prepared against the cold cough as confected Elecampane rootes Treacle Mithridate swéete sirupe of Pomegranates and Parsley rootes sodden in wine tempered with a little vineger and thereof drunken often Also M. Tristrams water and other moe Aquae Composââe But by reason of the ague some cooling things must alwaies be tempered amongst it For the common drinke you haue here before in the sixt § a speciall Barley water mollists crums of white bread therin bounden in a clout straine it often out and mingle some white wine amongst it Hony water quencheth thirst it prouoketh also the tough humors flegmes to auoide and it is good for all coughes Thin wine tempered with water is tolerable for this if the Ague be not too strong IteÌ take Cicera Venus haire as much as you please let it séeth with a little Licorice For common things these following are very good for the cold Pleurisie as Assa foetida Nettles with their séede Balsam wood with their fruites Ireos Myrrhe the right Acornes for which some do take Calmus or great Galingall and Starch The fifth Chapter Of the Lights or Lungs WE haue hitherto spoken of the outward parts of the Brest and discoursed of their infirmities now we will write of the inner parts and will begin with the Lights for that they are made as a separation betwéene the pipes of the Lungs and the Hart also as an instrument of the breath ordained of God for the vse of the bodie thereby to draw in the outward aire thereby to coole and quicken the heart and all inward parts wherewith to forme also and effect the voice and spéech in all that hath receiued life Therefore hath nature made the substance of the Lights light and like a sponge formed with many pipes wherby they might be the more méet to draw the breath out and in Some ancient Phisitions are of opinion that they were without bloud but it is not so they haue their bloud too and are full of it but as soone as it commeth out of the Brests the bodie is void thereof What great difference is betwéene the Lights of men and of Beasts
Item butter and all cold and moist herbes must he forbeare as Spinage Lettice Béets Mallowes Purslaine c. vnlesse they be mingled with some warme herbes as Rosemary Mints Thyme Marioram and such like Meates that are good for him are well leauened bread not aboue thrée dayes old Brewesse of fresh flesh broth reare Egs Veale Mutton Porke Hares Item Capons Hens Phesants Partridges Ducks Doues and all other field fowles All fish fried in oile and salt fish may he vse otherwhiles c. Hard salt Chéese is also sometimes permitted All sorts of Turneps Oliues and Capers may he also vse All maner of spice may he eate drest with his meate Also Annis séed fennell séed Comin and such like All maner of sower things in his meates cannot hurt him as Vineger Veriuice Limons Orenges and such like For his drinke shall be good cleere wine or béere But if the patient can neither drinke wine nor béere then is he to vse this Meade following Take Rosemary halfe an ounce Cinnamom halfe a dragme Balme flowers Ginger Borrage Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme séeth these together in seuen quarts of water vntill the fourth part be sodden away afterwards put thereto sixtéene ounces of hony let it séeth againe vntill the third part be consumed This drinke is speciall good in the winter and if the same be not continually vsed yet may the wine be delayed with it This order is as well directed for flegmaticke humors as for the cause whereof this rupture hath his being And if the same be caused of Cholera and blood we haue thereof discoursed before The Chirurgions haue two other meanes to heale the Rupture which is by incision and with cautarisation whereof we are not purposed to write The fourth Chapter Of the Testicles or Stones SOme do name both these parts the priuities which name doth signifie more than the stones onely of men or women for that it is thought to be too grosse a terme the stones but if the matter bâ honest which is spoken of them then can the true name of them not be shamefull nor dishonest Both these small parts of a mans body were once fashioned thereto by God and nature like as is discouered whereby to continue mankind for which cause they are by good reason accounted amongst the principallest parts of mans body For how greatly mankind is depending theron it is to be séen by such whose stones be cut out who haue no beards growing do lose their mans voice and naturall heate yea are wholy vnfit for generation In fine do almost alter wholy into the nature of women we may therfore with good reason write thereof Men and women haue both of them two of these stones therfore do the Grecians call them Didymi which is Twins or Twilings In men they hang outwardly out of the body in the abouesaid cods and are of a fast fleshy substance round and somewhat long inwardly hollowish wherein they receiue the purest and cleanest blood of the whole body and for that they be hot and moist they prepare that for the full perfection of the séed Women haue the stones inward on each side of the neck of the Mother one but they are much lesse than the stones of a man and also of another fashion It is also adiudged that the right stone is hotter of nature than the left therefore the right also is sayd will ingender a son and the left a daughter It is found by experience if a man haue one stone cut out yet may he ingender children likewise they that haue three stones are very vnchast of life Of the diseases which these members of the body are subiect vnto is sufficiently discoursed in the treatise of the Cods for there can hardly come any infirmity to the cods wherein they do not suffer with them whether they chaunce to swell through wind or any other humor But chiefly yong children get lightly such diseases for which you haue this plaister following for to vse as well for yong as for aged folkes Take Lilly rootes foure ounces Linséed meale Beane meale halfe an ounce yellow wild Rape séed half an ounce Sulphur vife one dragme make a plaister thereof But before you lay on the plaister annoint the place with oile of Pepper and Saffron of each half an ounce temper them and vse it warme Another plaister Take small beaten Annis séeds temper them with well brayed whites of egs and lay warme vpon it This is approoued and found good The fift Chapter Of VVomens priuie Members THe Priuities of women make outwardly a small shew but within are much like to the priuy members of a man The neck of the Mother or Womb is in stéed of the Yard the Mother or Wombe is compared with the Cods where on the necke of the same like as is sayd the stones are fixed so that with good reason may be sayd That whatsoeuer men haue outwardly the same haue women inwardly but for honesties sake we will write no further of it But as much as concerneth the inward parts thereof and all that appertaineth thereto shall be discouered hereafter here shall only be touched certaine diseases which these parts are subiect to For which first of all the common aduise of women is against all paine of these parts be it of whatsoeuer cause that the same proceed to wit that Betony be layd to steepe in Wine and to drinke thereof Of the inflammation of the place with swellings §. 1. TAke the whites of Egs and bray them with a long péece of Allume a good space then will it be a salue spread it vpon a cloth and so apply it and when it is dry refresh it this hath beene many times approoued and found certaine Item take of the white of an egge half a nutshell full and Sallad oile stirre them wel together and therewith annoint the hot burnt place Or take the gréene and yellow barke of Elderne sticks put them in a little bag boile them in wine and lay them warme theron it driueth away all swelling as wel that which is caused of childbirth as otherwise Item take for the hot swelling of womens priuy places Consolida Saracenica Auens and Ladies mantle as much as you please powne them all together and wring out the iuice temper it with molten Capons grease and fresh butter annoint the place therewith betwéene day and night foure times at the least Of the Clefts of this place §. 2. THe Grecians do call these clefts Rhagades and are such clefts as discouer themselues with excrescence of flesh which for the most part standeth alwayes inward and bléedth not of it selfe vnlesse they be rubbed hard with the member of a man which procéedeth of inward outward causes The outward causes may be fals strokes or bignes of a mans member Also through putting in any sharp thing as Gith séed such like The inward occasions are when as any inward swelling hapneth through descent of some sharp humor which
is weakened so that it is not strong enough for to vnburthen her selfe of the superfluities Or that there be any maladie in the Matrix or mother to wit if the necke of the wombe be stopt and obstructed and is swolne too like as it may easily happen in the mother or in the veines of the same Now for to haue some certaine or infallible knowledge of these things there may outward causes be easily perceiued by the declaration of the patient her selfe If it come through weakenesse of the expulsiue power then is it perceiued by the heate by the thirst by the swift and strong pulse and other signes of heate But if such be caused through cold then is the woman bleake sléepie without any thirst the arteries of the pulse beate slowly and the vrine is of lothsome colour If the disease be of any inward part then doth the whole bodie declare the same through the great fatnesse or leannesse If such be caused through any of the foure humors that doth the blood sufficiently shew which therein beareth sway This obstruction doth bring to women no small sicknesse besides that as it is said they be barren for that they fall thereby otherwhiles into Maniam which is madnes into the falling sicknesse suffocation swellings and impostumes of the wombe and of the other parts adiacent vnto it slothfulnesse and heauinesse of the whole body great vnlustinesse wambling and parbraking coughing and a heauy breathing the dropsie and detension of the vrine and of going to the stoole heauines of the mind great paine of the head and at last into the gout And to remedie all these diseases therefore will we first of all prescribe certaine common rules whereof the first is in case that the Termes be obstructed in a drie bodie then must one beware of all those things that might cause either heate or dryth to the end the disease be not increased thereby The second is if in the stay or detension of womens flowers the bloud had course towards any other part of the bodie then is it aduised that the same blood be drawne out which otherwise might be spoyled Thirdly to preferre these flowres it is then néedfull that the veines be opened vnder the Matrix that the blood may be drawne downewards Fourthly there is meete for this the strong binding of the thighes and to hold the same a certaine time bounden Fiftly if the disease come for that the veines be stopt in the Matrix be it of whatsoeuer occasion that it will then is the blood to be diminished by opening of a veine and to be diminished through laxatiue medicines through abstinence through exercise and such like meanes Sixtly all strong things as Hellebore Euphorbium and Nardus séed which is wont sometimes to be adhibited from below must be but a very little and not to be holden long therein to the end that thereby the Ague nor any other anguish be caused Seuenthly all that moueth the vrine doth also moue the Termes Eightly where there is obserued no good order of diet in eating or drinking there can also no good aduice nor remedie doe any good at all Ninthly for to preferre the Termes is first of all the same to be approoued through gentle remedies and at the last through stronger meanes Tenthly all warme and well sauoring things are very meete for this if they be layed vpon the nauell vpon the priuities and vpon the parts about it Eleuenthly if this disease be caused through any vlcer impostume Ague or any other cause it is first to be practised how to remedie and afterwards to moue the flowres Twelftly in case it be perceiued that this detention of the flowres or termes doth cause any other sicknes or increaseth it then is all diligence to be had to prouoke the Termes and if fo be that the same cannot be effected then may the veine be opened in the foote and boxing cuppes be adhibited Thirtéenthly because there is a great space from the stomacke and the liuer vnto the Matrix then is the Phisicke so to be tempered that the same in so great a distance be not inféebled Fourtéenthly all that is to be put vp into the wombe is to be tied to a strong thréed that one when he list may draw it out and to the end also that through the long continuance there it bruse not the necke of the mother or cause not an Ague And to the end that we may come to the remedies for to open this obstruction therefore first of all be the causes of these obstructions to be thought vpon in case that the same be caused of some outward accident like as of too great labour great heate of too much fasting and such like then is the same presently to be preuented In hote causes are cooling things to be vsed in cold warming things which do open the obstructions In a bodie that is full of blood are the veines vnder the knees to be opened which be most necessary to people that haue not the terms and if so be that horeby and other moe lettings of blood is nothing profited then is one to come to the inward and outward remedies wherein be thrée manner of wayes to be followed which shall be here described of which each one may chuse what séemeth to be the best and fittest for it And because that it is not bad counsel to rehearse and shew the simples which may stirre vp the termes therefore we wil here discouer a good part of them and first all that be warme by nature and are weakest are these the rootes of Smallage of Fennell of Butchers broome of Sperage of Parsley of Grasse Madder Calmus Asarabacca Ireos Valerian white Diptamus and Elecampane rootes Item the séede of Ruscus Lupins séedes of both kinds of Parsley of Siluer mountaine of Sperage of Smallage of Annis of Fennell of Comin whether it be raw or confected the herbes are these Cinquefoile Mugwort wild Mints Marierom Feuerfew Harts toong Spikenard Wormewood white water Mints Iuniper wild Thyme Louage Cuscuta Maidenhaire Southernewood and washt Turpentine These ensuing be much stronger as Hemlocke Rue Centorie Laureola Sauin Euphorbium Ammoniacum Sagapenum Mirrha Opopanacum and Assafoetida the séede of Nardus Mustard séede Pepper Beuercod Colloquint blacke Hellebore Pieretrum Calmus rootes of Celandine the iuice of wild Cucumbers Licebane séedes Boras the galles of stéeres of hens and of all other beasts The odoriferous things which preferre womens termes be these Indie Spica Cinnamom Cassie wood Costus roots Ameos Muscus Spica Romana Squinant Gallia Muscata and such like They that may be burnt to receiue the vapor thereof be these viz. Opopanacum Saponaria Frankinsence Blatta Byzantia Lignum Aloes and red Storax These be now the cooling things which preferre the termes to wit the séeds of small Endiue the séede of Melons of Gourds of Pompeons of Cucumbers of Endiue of Lettice c. and other moe which shall be discouered hereafter of all which pessaries may be
one bathe and foment with all that which here ensueth Take Asarabacca halfe a handful Ebulus leaues one handful and a half Feuerfew Mints Mugwort Agrimony Marierom and Betonie of each one handfull Cammomill Melilot and Roses of each halfe a handfull cut all the herbes and séeth them like as hath bene taught oftentimes It is also very commodious and good to sit in warme water wherein Mallowes haue bene decocted Or take Mugwort and Sauine of each thrée handfuls Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Bearefoote of each one handfull Fennell seeds Parsley seedes Annis Dill séedes Orage seedes wild yellow Rape seedes and Asarabacca of each halfe a dragme Cammomill Elderne flowers Rosemary and Stechas of each one dragme make a little bag thereof and séeth it in water and then sit vpon it Another Take Mugwort Sauine trée of each thrée handfuls swéet Costus roots Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Bearefoote of each two handfuls the séed of Mallowes of Hollihockes of Southernwood of Linséed of Fenegréeke of Cuscuta mustard séede of Lauender and of Siluermountaine of each one ounce and a halfe Parsley séed Fennell Dill séed wile yellow Rape seede and Asarabacca of each halfe an ounce Cammomill Elderne flowers Stechas Rosemary flowers of each one ounce séeth them as before and then sit vpon the bag For fomentation you are to vse that which followeth hereafter Take Cammomil Mugwort Sauine and Nettle roots of each one handful séeth them together in water and receiue the vapor from beneath Item take Rue Sage Southernwood and Sauine of each one handful put them together into a new pot and close it tight but leaue a hole open aboue on the couer wherein a tap may be put whilest it boyleth afterwards draw out the tap and receiue the warme vapor from beneath as is sayd before Or take Myrrhe as much as you will temper it with the iuice of Mugwort and let it drie afterward put filed Harts horne vnto it to wit the third part as much as there is Myrrhe then strew this pouder vpon a hot tile and receiue the smoke beneath but round about couer you close You may also take for it Penniroyal Rue Sauine leaues and vse them alone Item take Violet leaues two handfuls Myrrhe halfe an ounce let them séeth together in raine water and foment therewith as warme as you can abide it Take Penniroyal Nep Southernwood Rue Centory and Hyssope of each one handfull Sauine Feuerfew of each one handfull and a halfe Cinnamom Galingall of each one dragme Siluermountaine and Mather of each halfe a handfull Myrrhe one quarter of an ounce beate them all grosse together and séeth the same in a quart of water euen to the halfe and then vse it as before this also prouoketh vrine Or take Penniroyall Marierom Sage and Mugwort of each one handfull séeth them all together for a fomentation for to fume you are to take a little Coloquint cast it vpon a hote stone and receiue the fume from beneath it greatly prouoketh womens termes but note that Coloquint is very sharpe and that the sayd well sauouring spices and other things be much safer for to fumigate withall Or take Dill Cammomill Melilot Squinant Cassie wood Costus rootes Sulphur Rue Marierom Stechas Southernwood any of all these or part of the same To set boxing cups vpon the thighes is also very behouefull and auailable Plaisters and Vnguents TAke the muscilage of Fleawort and of Linséede of each one ounce vnsalted butter two ounces Hens grease Duckes grease Goose grease and the marrow of Calues bones of each halfe an ounce Ammoniacum one quarter of an ounce oyle of Sesamum and oyle of swéete Almonds of each fiue dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue then annoint you therewith behind and before from the nauell downewards but not before that you haue vsed all other meanes of bathing letting of blood potions c. Item take of the confection Benedicta halfe an ounce Turbith one quarter of an ounce Nigella séed thrée dragmes decocted Hony as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister This is to be layd ouer the priuities as before If so be that one perceiueth the termes after the vse of this foresaid meanes some do aduise and that very well that this potion ensuing is to be made Take Mugwort Sene leaues and Penniroyall of each halfe a handful Cinnamom halfe an ounce Mace thrée dragmes séeth it al together in thrée pints of good wine vntill about the fourth part be wasted and this in a Canne stopt tight in séething water this expelleth the termes vnto her due time The other orderly meane for to preferre the termes is that first of all the Saphea or Median shall be opened and that afterwards a long bag is to be made and to be filled with any of the foresaid herbes which you like best and then put vnto it one quarter of an ounce of Gallia Muscata and weare it so vpon the priuities Afterwards make of one quarter of an ounce of the foresaid Gallia with the water of Mugwort nine pils and take three thereof at once in the morning early then make a pessary of the length of a finger and fill the same with pouned Mercury and put it into the place Set boxing cups also vpon the thighes and in the hams and then rub the legs downewards with warme clothes Squinant and Madder decocted also in the water of Maidenhaire and drunken are also highly commended Item take the pipes of Cassie when the Cassie is taken out and let them be well scraped on the outside as many as you will Cinnamom Mace Saffron Diptamus and Baulme of the one as much as of the other make a powder thereof and take a dragme thereof euery morning with water of Mints the same moueth them very gently But as much as concerneth letting of blood whereof mention is made before some do aduise and not without reason if in case that a woman hath not had her Termes a long time that her veine is to be opened besides her little toe and the next day afterwards on the other foote The words of Hippocrates and of his expounder Galen be true that the letting of blood and hunger do cause women with child to miscary for that thereby they say will the nourishment of the child be withdrawne Therefore good héede is to be taken in these things for that many women haue this for a custome whether they be fat grosse strong or leane that they alwayes open a veine at the halfe of their going with child like as we also haue before admonished in the first § But if one will néeds be let blood then must after the same or else without letting of blood bathings be oftentimes vsed for which is Penniroyall to be taken field mints Southernwood Centorie and Hyssope of each one handful Sauine and Feuerfew of each one dragme Siluer-mountaine Madder of each one handfull Myrrhe one quarter of an ounce stampe and choppe them all small and let them séeth
The heate augmenteth with pricking vntill that it breake out whence then issueth a blacke gréene matter and otherwhiles like as it were wine lées and sometimes like to water the which stinketh none otherwise than as it were a carren and corrodeth more and more for that is the nature of cankers The signes of these vlcerations be paine pricking panting of the mother and issue or descent of purulent matter according to the qualitie of the vlcer But if it be caused through any outward occasion that may be vnderstood of the sicke person her selfe Or if it come through sharpe bloud then is the paine sharpe pricking with great heate and ague Or if it be caused through Phlegma then is the paine not too great the place anguished and impaireth slowly If there run any cleere blood out of it with white corruption then is there a small veine broken in the impostume If the matter be like water wherein fresh flesh is washed then is it a signe that this disease is caused through long retentioÌ of womens termes If this impostume be caused of Cholera then doth gréene matter run out of it The signes of the canker haue we discouered before In these kind of vlcers and cankers in the wombe do the learned prescribe certaine rules whereof good héede is to be taken First in case this vlceration be very moyst then are drying things to vsed for it Secondly if there be with the vlcer a venemous quality adioyned then is this the most principall meanes of healing that the venemous quality may be taken away Thirdly that such kind of meate and drinke be vsed as do cleanse and make good blood which is most commodious for to clense the vlcers of the wombe for thereby wil the venemous matter be best of all taken away and drawne forth Fourthly these vlcers haue no néed of maturatiues for that thereby the venemous matter increaseth Fiftly the Phisition must vse such things as do dissolue and drie and lastly incarnatiues Sixtly if this vlcer can be séene then is the same to be refreshed with cleane and fine clothes continually And now to begin with some medicines Héede must first of all be taken of a good gouernement of life so that all that one doth eate drinke or vse according to the abilitie of the patient without the making of any heate may be drying things and commonly such things be ordained for this purpose as are warme in the first degrée but strongly drying Quietnesse in this disease is better than motion Hereby may it easily be marked and vnderstood that all cold and moist meates be hurtfull for this patient viz. Fish Crabs milke and all that is drest with milk much pap fat and such like be naught for her Their most commodious drinke shall be a thin red and hard wine which is very drying and discussiue the same may be tempered with water wherein Mastick two kinds of Consolida if so be that nature can abide it and Feuerfew be decocted Secondly concerning the other phisick if that nature may abide it the veine on the right foote is to be opened against euening yet is good regard to be had to the swouning for that the letting of blood in the neathermost parts do bring more debilitie with it than that of the vpper parts After the letting of bloud this potion following is to be giuen vnto her two mornings together Take Benedicta Laxatiua halfe an ounce Agaricus one scruple Ginger and Graines the iuice of Feuerfew two ounces and a halfe temper them together and afterwards she is to gouerne her selfe euen as the order is after purging Thirdly giue her this potion ensuing the space of certaine dayes together vntill that the vrine appeare of a good colour and very cleane Take Oxymel of Squils halfe an ounce Syrupus de Bysantijs and sirupe of Vineger of each thrée quarters of an ounce Louage and Agrimonie water of each one ounce Cicory water two ounces this is to be drunken early in the morning they may also sléepe well vpon it and fast foure houres after it This being done minister vnto her Pillulas Benedictas foure scruples or one dragme and a half fourmed with the iuice of Mugwort You may also temper one dragme of it with the foresayd water and drinke it and if so be that the cause require stronger remedies then take Pillulas de Opopanaco and de Hiera composita of each halfe a dragme make pilles thereof as is beforesaid With this purging one must diligently haue regard whether this vlcer or canker be so neare in the necke of the Matrix that one may come to it with the hand likewise if the matter do stink to the end that according to the qualitie thereof might be knowne what medicines should be vsed but be it howsoeuer it will Hony water is alwayes good for it You may also cleanse the disease therewith where the vlcer is and afterwards spread thereon this salue following Take Aloe Dragonblood Mirrha Sarcocolla and Frankinsence of each a like quantitie Duckes grease as much as is néedfull for to make a mild vnguent of it But this following is stronger Take oyle of Feuerfew flowers and of Saffron of each halfe an ounce oyle of Walflowers especially if there be great paine with it two ounces Sarcocolla Mirrha and Opopanacum of each one dragme Turpentine thrée quarters of an ounce Muscus one graine white waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue afterwards séeth them all together in foure ounces of the iuice of Smallage vntill all the iuice be consumed then annoint therewith a pessary made of cotton and put it into the place and refresh it oftentimes it is very commodious for it and found oftentimes good But if this disease be very déepe inwardly then doth néede require that the bodie be cleansed with necessary things to wit with Hony water and afterwards vse the pessaries which be described in the fifth Chapter and 2. § beginning thus Take Duckes grease c. and renew them foure or fiue times a day or make this following Take Smallage Feuerfew and Mugwort all together or each alone stamp them together make a pessary thereof and annoint it with Hiera Picra You may also take the iuice of these foresaid herbes and make a cloth wet with it and lay the same vpon the backe the hips and on the hithermost part of the back-bone For iniection this following is ordained Take Hony water seeth therein Ireos and Wormewood or séeth Agrimonie in Barley water and temper clarified Hony or hony of Roses amongst it If so be that the cause require stronger remedies then take sixe ounces of wine burnt Allume Verdigrease of each halfe a dragme temper them together and let them stand so fiue houres afterwards iniect it This following is also good and chiefly to dry the vlcers and to draw them together Take Gals Pomegranat pils and the blossoms and Allume let it séeth together with a litle Agrimony and if you think that
of the same In like manner the same may be well caused through some obstruction of the Matrix or through any other disease as an impostume and such like in the foresaid parts this also may be brought to passe through the rudenesse and vnhandsomnesse of the Midwife When as these foresaid reasons be declared then may the cause easily be adiudged of this grieuous and perillous child birth If the disease be of the woman then hath she had a great former sicknesse or she is diseased through hunger she may be also too young and haue conceiued before the due age or she may be too old or not haue borne before at any time in which the places will be hardly opened also if a woman be dismayed or neuer wont to beare child be also too fat of bodie and is ouercooled then can she hardly be deliuered of the child Secondly the fruit it self may cause also a grieuous labour like as is said yet without foundation that boyes be easier borne into the world than girles Item if the child be too grosse of bodie or head and therewith be very small and weake that through his féeblenesse it cannot help it self to the birth Item if the child be dead haue two heads or the like double members Item if the child with his hands and féet and not with the head doth lie in the birth place like as behooueth and as is naturall Further the Matrix may be by nature too narrow or too drie so that with no moisture the passage can be made slipperie Item if the woman before in the necke of the matrix haue had any exulceration whereby the muskles could not stretch abroad or that as yet there be some vlcer in the neck of the mother or if it cometh by the secundine then is the same so thicke and so strong that it will not breake This grieuous and very hard labour may also be caused by the stopping of the bodie If now this heauy labor do procéede of the forementioned diseases sicknesses hunger such like outward causes that may be very well perceiued of the woman The signes of a féeble or dead child are to be found in the 8. 11. § But if there be of none of all these signes any instant and if that a woman is not strong and that a child in deliuerie remaine in the birth place and cannot be brought into the world then is it a certaine signe that the afterbirth like as is said is too strong and not yet broken Thus be all perillous accidents of childbirth so ioyned to each other that all of them for the most part are cured with one kind of remedie whereof we haue written much before And because we haue especially admonished here of the secundine therfore doth our old order require that we should also discourse somewhat particularly therof But because nature obserueth this method that it first expelleth the child and afterwards the Secundina which is the secundine therefore we will also first of all write perfectly of the child and afterwards of the secundine with all which is ordained for the same Lastly we will shew and declare all that is méete for both of them When a woman cannot be deliuered of a child §. 15. THe causes of this hard and longsome childbirth are before sufficiently discouered when as then a child appeareth with a hand or a foote before which doth happeÌ very seldome without swelling of the necke of the matrix and of the parts adiacent then take Penniroyall Mugwoort and browne Betonie of each a like quantitie hack it all together and let it séeth in milke lay it then vnder her before the birth as warm as she may abide it about the member of the child that same driueth away the swelling or set séething water vnder it when the child féeleth the warmth then doth it draw the member back againe This and the like things shold Midwiues know on whose knowledge and experience is very much depending that very renowned aduice which is discouered in the 13. § of Amber when the throwes will not continue also there is laid vnto it scraped Vnicornes horne Some be of opinion that first of all the woman should take a spoonfull of oyle with twice as much water Other do also aduise that one should séeth halfe a drag of Mace and so giue it this forceth also the secundine If that then a child will not frame himself to birth in his mothers wombe and neuertheles the throwes the right time of birth be instant then take a litle Lilly water and as much good Rhenish wine so drinke it together it will frame it self the better afterwards For this is also good the iuice of Sloes whereof we haue spoken before Another Take fresh well water and hony as much as you please temper them together without séething or skumming and so giue it to drink this quickneth the throwes paine so that she wil be the sooner deliuered of child for that the paine expelleth the child and the secundine Or take the flowers of Cypers seeth them in wine and drinke a good draught thereof this should be very certaine especially if the herbe or flowers may be gotten fresh Item take well powned Linseede seeth the same in wine giue the woman a good draught therof In like maner may she well drinke wine which is decocted with Plantaine Wine wherein Vine leaues haue bene stéeped shold also expel birth Boreas the waight of half a drag drunken with wine is also very aduancing for it as we haue admonished before A stronger Take Saffron and Pearles of each one scrup Boreas 4. scrup giue this also with hony water if the throwes come not but if so be that the throwes be instant then giue it with Mugwoort water or with swéet wine it expelleth very swiftly Now for to vse outwardly may one chuse out of these things following for a time that which one will as the séeds of Garlick Sauintrée Mugwoort S. Iohns woort Pigeon dung the horne of an Asses foote or of a horses foote Oxe dung Wormwood Rue of all which tempered or each alone also to bathe to make salues plaisters such like Item take round Hartwoort Aristologie Sauin trée and Cresses of each a like stampe and temper them all together with an Oxe gall then afterwards make a great taint moist therin and put it before into the places it helpeth much to birth This following doth also expell a child whether it be liuing or dead and also the secundine very vehemently Take Sauintrée round Hartwort Asarabacca Dragon roots of each a like quantitie powne them all together temper them with hony afterwards giue to the woman therof the waight of one quarter of an ounce with water wherein Lupins be decocted and if so be that this expell not sufficiently then take Opopanacum and Oxe gall of each one quarter of an ounce Beuercod one dragme giue it to the woman to drinke
Eies described 65 Eies paines remedied 66 Eie water for all paines of the eies 76 Eie powder 66 Eies blearednesse called Ophthalmia 67 Eies that be red 68 Eie salue 69 Eies full of heate remedied ibid. Eies full of blisters 70 Eie water of the Emperour Fredericke 88 Eies how they are defended on all sides 59 Eies hurt with the haires of the eyelids 64 Eies that itch and are sore 70 Eies that runne and water 71 Eies that runne of a cold cause 73 Eyes that do matter 74 Eies impostumed of externall causes 76 Eies that bake together in the sleepe ibid. Eies spotted 77 Eies before which Gnats or Flies seeme to swarme 80 Eies growen ouer with skins 83 Eies mistie and cloudie 85 Eies that sticke out as if they would fall out 86 Eies that are burned 87 Eies that haue had a blow ibid. Eies wherein something is gotten ibid. Eies that are best by day or by night 91 Eies that are blind 87. 92 Eies squintnesse 92 Eie beames dilation 85 Eie corners fistulaes 76. 79 Eie corners infections 66. 67 Eielids that will grow together 64 Eielids turned 63 Eielids with Warts ibid. Eielids chapped ibid. Eielids itching 62 Eielids swolne diuersly 60 Eielids description 59 Eie waters and other things diuersly prepared 72. 76. Eie water for running eies 71. 72 Eie salue for all kinde of running and mattering 72. 75. 76. Electuary of Calmus prepared diuersly 705 Electuary for giddinesse of the head 123 Electuarium de Psyllio 734 Electuarium Diaphoenicon ibid. Electuarium de Citro 326 Elecampane rootes confected 711 Electuarium de succo rosarum 735 Electuarium de Sebesten 362 Electuarium vitae 737 Electuarium de Manna 732 Electuaries moe 731. 733. 734. 735. c. Eluxation of the ioynts 536 Emperour Charles his prescriptions and rules in the Gout 546 Epithymus or Dodder prepared 11 Eryngus rootes preserued 717 Esula prepared and vsed 15 Euphorbium prepared 11 Euphorbium vsed ibid. Excoriation of the bladder 473 Extraction for al obstructions and binding of the body 398 399 Exhortation to the keepers of the infected with the plague 680 Exulceration in the Kidneyes 447 Exulcerations in the stomacke 376 F. FAces description 56 Faces rednesse 58 Faces pushes and heate ibid. Face how to cleere it 59 Fals blowes and bruises cause many sicknesses 684. Falling sicknesse Epilepsia 151 Falling sicknesse in children 152 Fat of mans body described 616 Fat 's of diuers beasts prepared 11 looke Marrowes Fatnesse her troublesomnesse to man 616 Feare and frighting 383 Feetes diseases how cured 526 Felon or Ancome of the fingers 525 Feuer burning called Causon 638 Fingers described 522 Fingers numbed 522. 523 Fingers numbed through bruises 523 Fistulaes causes and signes 568. 569 Fistulaes description 568 Fistula in the corner of the eye 79 Fistula in the gums 175 Fistula in the breasts 211 Fistula in the arsegut 316 To cause flesh to grow in wounds 601 Fleshes description 615 Fixe and red flixe 343. 352 Flood too aboundant after deliuerie of childe 517. Flowers how long they may be kept 7 Flowers in women looke Termes Flowers of women in generall 476 Flowers how to preferre them 477 Flowers obstruction how remedied 478. 479. 480. 482. Flowers excessiue course how to be stopped 484. Fluxe of seed through heat looke running of the raines Fluxe of seed in sleepe 293 Fluxe of seed through cold ibid. Fluxe white in women how to be remedied 488. Fomentations for the stomacke 334 Fractures of bones 549 Frensinesse 124 Frensinesse of blood 127 Frensinesse with a hot ague 125. 126. Friction in the falling euill 159 Fruites of all sortes how to keepe them fresh 725. Fruites increase in the wombe 503 Fruites weaknesse in the mothers wombe 506 Fruitfulnesse how it is caused in man and woman 300. Fruitfulnesse her signes 502 Fruitfulnesse in woman how furthered 296 G. GAlbanum plaister prepared 487 Galbanum plaister Galen ibid. Gals description 407 Gallia muscata prepared 342 Gargarismes for all infirmities of the mouth 164. Gargarisme for giddinesse of the head 123 Gargarisme for losse of speech 173 Gargarisme for rheumes 196 Generation members 274 Giddinesse of the head 121 Ginger prepared 715 Glisters diuersly prepared 709 Golden Egge prepared 669 Gloues how to perfume 521 Going il after the gout in the feete how to remedie it 547 Gout 527 Gouts signes ibid. Goutes rules that are to be obserued 528 529. Gout of the hands called Chiragra 531 Gout in the feete 540 Gout of the feete his preseruatiues 542 Gout of the feete how to preuent it 541 Gout of the feete or Podagra how purged 543. Gout of the feete which is cold 545 Gout of the feete his remedies 542 543 544. Gout of the hips called Sciatica 531 Grapes preserued 725 Gratia Dei plaister 566 Grauell sand or stone of the Kidneyes 451 Grauels increase hindered 452 To expell grauell 454 Outward remedies for the grauell 461 Grauels paine delayed 454 Grauell remedied 454. 455. c. Griping of the heart 270 Groynes swolne 274 Gumme Amoniacke looke Ammoniacum Gums of the teeth 173 Gums bleeding 174 Gums vlcer 161 Gums fistuled 175 Gums resoluing 176 Gums putrifying ibid. Gums impostumating 173 Gunpouder burning 594 Guts paine looke Bowels paine H. HAgge or mare 150 Haires description 45 Haire to make it to grow 46 Haire made yellow ibid. Haire made blacke ibid. Haire made to curle 47 Haire that it waxe not gray ibid. Haire taken away ibid. Haire drawne out 47. 48 Haire infected diuersly 48 Haires falling out preuented 48. 49 Haire on the breasts what it signifieth 211 Hands end and vse 520 Hands description ibid. Hands how to keepe them cleane ibid. Hands how to make them sweete 521 Hands that are scabbed ibid. Hands that are chapped ibid. Hand waters or lotion for the hands 521 522 523. Hardnesse of the Matrix or Mother 495 Hartburning 334 Hearts heauinesse 271 Hearts panting or beating 263 Hearts panting through heate 264 Hearts panting through a bad stomacke 271 Hearts panting through cold 268 Hearts panting through frighting 271 Hearts oppression 260 Hearts description 256. 257 Hearts infirmities in generall 258 Headach 30 Headach Hemicrania 35 Headach Congelatio 30. 136 Headaches causes 31 Headach with an ague and a laske 33 Heahach of inanition 35 Headaches Hemicraniae and Cephalaeae cured ibid. Headaches remedies ibid. Headach of the Sunne 36 Headach of drukennesse ibid. Headach of blowes or falles 37 Headach of colde ibid. Headach of colde and an especial remedie for it 39. Headaches that be old 195 Head which is cold how to purge it 37 Head broken out 51 Head broken out healed 51. 52 Heads giddinesse looke giddinesse of the head Head veines vse in opening of it 24 Head wounded 43. 54 Hearing that is bad 107 Hearing diminished 113 Healthy how preserued from infection of the plague 654 What exercise is to be vsed of them 658 How their dwellings ought to be 656 Their gouernement without doores 660 Heate of vrine looke Vrine that scaldeth Heate of vlcers
water looke Vrines effluxion Wearisomnesse described 617 Whites in women 488 Wilde Cucumbers looke Iuice of wild Cucumbers Wilde Saffron prepared 13 Williams potion for the stone 455 Wines for the grauell and stone 460 Wine of Asarabacca 46 Wine forbidden in all infirmities of the sinewes 138. Wine of Eyebright to strengthen the sight 88 Wine of diuers sorts 782. 783. 784. 785. Wine for the cold headach 39 Wines amended that haue a fault 790 Wolfes liuer looke Liuer of a Wolfe Wombes description and vse 474. 475 Wombes descension looke Mother Good for childbearing women 502 How to know whether a woman be with childe ibid. And whether with a boy or a girle 503 What commonly appeares in women with child ibid. Womens priuities looke Places Women made narrow like maidens 290 Women with child 502. 503. for to comfort the wombs vertue retentiue 299 Women with child their strange longings 505 Wormes in the Arsegut called Ascarides 438 Wormes preuented 433 Wormes of the belly 432 Wormes of the teeth 180 Woundes and all that appertaineth vnto them 595. Wounds stitched 596 Wounds to make them matter 600 Wounds with proud flesh in them ibid. Wounds fresh 597 Y. YArd exulcerated in the act veneriall 374 Yards vnnatural erection called Priapismus and Satyrismus 275. 276. Yellow Iaundise 396. 397. c. The end of the first Table This second Index containeth all the Simples that are specified in this Worke as Rootes Herbes Flowers Fruites Plants Iuices Gummes Woods Stones Barkes Mettals Minerals and Earths Also all the parts of Beasts and of the body of man that are or may be vsed in Physicke A. ABrecockes or Peaches are called in Latine Mala armeniaca Mala praecocia and Bericocia others do cal them mala trecacina and the common sort name them Chrysomela but this is the right and true Latine name of the Orange it is a fruite sufficiently knowne and growing in this our countrie Adders toong is called of Plinie Lingua and Lingulaca of the Herbarists Echioglossum Ophioglossum Lingua viperina Lingua serpentina and Lingua vulneraria This herbe is to be gathered onely in Aprill and in May it groweth in moist medowes low grounds and that at no other time than in the abouesaid moneths It is vsed in vulnerall potions oiles and salues Alecost or Indish pepper in latine Lepidium Piperitis Alehoofe or as some say Harehoofe is called in Gréeke and in Latine Chamaecissus Selinitis Hedera humilis and Corona terrae by the Herbarists Hedera pluuiatilis and by the Apothecaries Hedera terrestris Allium alpinum it is also called Allium reticulatum Victorialis and Victorialis longa to distinguish it from Gladiolus segetalis which by diuers authors is called Victorialis rotunda although in very déede they differ greatly The leafe of this herbe is not much vnlike to that of Neesewort the roote is long and hairie twisted together as if it had bene done of purpose with the hand whereof two of them are layed crosse one ouer another as the legges of man or woman otherwhiles are placed This roote do the cosening Merchants I meane the Mountibanks and Quacksaluers sell for the right Mandragora or Mandrake saying that they haue digged it vp vnder the gallowes with great hazard of their liues thus doe they beguile and seduce the common sort of men with vntruths which ought by the Magistrates to be seuerely punished not for a small peece of siluer to be permitted otherwise I feare they shal be called to an account for it when it shall be said Redde rationem villicationis tuae Allum Alumen Alumen liquidum Alumen liparinum Alumen rubeum the Apothecaries do call it Alumen de Rocha Amber in Latine Ambarum Ambar Ampar Succinum orientale and at the Apothecaries Ambra it is a precious liquor or a kinde of swéete smelling earth Amethyst Amethystus a precious stone Ammie Ameos Ammium Ammi Cuminum regiuÌ Hippocratis Cuminum Alexandrinum and Cuminum Aethiopicum it is a kinde of plant which beareth a sharp and sweet séed which the Apothecaris do call Ameos Anacardus or Anacardium is a strange fruit so called Angelica is called by diuers sundrie names for that there be diuers sorts of it as Hippiatricis Lasaron Gallaticon in Greeke Laser Gallicum Laserpitium Gallicum and of the Herbarists Imperatoria Ostrutium and Astrutium the Apothecaries do cal it Astrantia and Magistrantia Anthora is called of Paulus Aegineta Arnabo and of the Arabian writers Zurumbet of the Simplicists Zurumbetum It is a sweete smelling roote like to Ginger but it is bitter in taste It is commonly called Zedoaria but vniustly for there is no small difference betweene Zurumbet that is Anthora and Zedoaria of the Arabians as manifestly appeareth by the words of Auicen and Serapio who do write of these two in sundrie chapters seuerally wherefore the Zedoaria of the Arabians is not our Anthora although that it hath bene falsly vsed in many compositions for it but it is the roote of Zeduarie Anthora is an herb not much vnlike the lesser Wolfs bane but that it groweth somewhat higher and the flowers are a little lesse and yellow It hath two blacke rootes round like vnto an Oliue blackish without and as it were withered within white and solide It groweth in great quantitie on the hils in Sauoy and about Geneua also about Salmes in high Burgundy and on the hils of Switserland The latter Greeke writers call it Zadura Zaduaria Zedura Zudar Zaduara Zadur Zadera Zaduar and Zadar Serapio calleth it Zedoaria Auicen Zeduar Gieduar and Napellus Moysi The Simplicists name it Anthora Antithora and Anthullia wherefore whensoeuer you shall find Zurumbet in any composition then be sure to take Anthora but if you reade Zedoaria then take Doronicum Antimony in Greeke Stibi Stibium or Stimmi of Galen Gynacium and of Plinie Platiophthalmon it is called at the Apothecaries by the barbarous name Antimonium Plinie also calleth it Alabastrum which name is proper onely to Alabaster it is a minerall like to lead and knowne of all men Argentine Argemone altera Inguinaria Plinij Anserina Argentina Tenacetum syluestre Agrimonia syluestris Potentilla and Portentilla This herb is sufficiently knowne and much vsed for all paines and gripings in the belly which are without any binding Aristologie the round vide Hartwort Aromaticall wine is a wine made with spice and a kind of Hipocras Aromatites Hippocras is called in latine Vinum Hippocraticum the Claret wine Clarea vinum Claretum and at the Apothecaries Claretum Artichocks are called in Gréeke and in Latine Scolymus Cinara Cinarus Acantha Cactus Carduus Altilis Strobilus Carchofilus Articocalus and Articoca Ars smart in Gréeke and in Latine Hydropiper Piper aquaticum Piper caninum Herba pauonis Pauonaria and Persicaria of Hippocrates Polycraton or Polycriton It is a wel knowne and contemned herb but very good for wounds it is hot and drie The other kind which by the vnskilfull without any regard is vsed for
habitation infection When Not In the beginning of a disease In the state or vigor of a disease In the declination of a disease The humours being concocted With what in Cholericke persons With medicines that purge Choler Flegmaticke persons With medicines that purge Flegme Melancholike persons With medicines that purge Melancholy The eight Chapter §. 1. Of Phlebotomie in generall Phlebotomie THe health of man is no lesse maintained and being in decay restored by right vse of Phlebotomie than by purging and therefore ought it not at this present time to be passed ouer in silence As concerning euery particular disease and causes of it shall hereafter particularly be mention made First one that is in in good health néedeth neither boxing nor cupping nor the letting of bloud Also the Phlebotomie is fruitlesse to such as haue so strong a nature that being ouerladen is able to expell all superfluities through naturall passages as by bléeding at the nose by the piles or hemorhoides by the flowers in women and such like to such is nothing else to be done but to ayde nature in opening of those passages that shée hath chosen to ease her selfe by But now might some man aske this question Why or for what cause is Phlebotomie vsed Whereunto may thus be answered When the aboue-named naturall euacuations haue not their course then are there foure reasons why this letting of bloud might be vsed First when bloud aboundeth as commonly in those that haue a hote liuer full veines a high colour and brownish and are not too fat and corpulent also in those that eate and drinke abundantly liue at ease and that vse meates that ingender much bloud which when nature cannot altogether digest doth smother rot and corrupt in the veines from which dangerous and deadly diseases do ensue Wherefore if phlebotomie be in due season adhibited it hath these commodities with it First that the whole bodie or the part affected may more surely by this meanes then by administration of inward Phisicke be eased For in the letting of bloud being ruled by art thou mayest draw as little as thou wilt and as much as séemeth néedfull which in purging can in no wise be done for that which is taken into the bodie that remaineth there whether it be too much or too little whether it do good or euill Furthermore Phlebotomie doth strengthen the braine comfort the sight warmeth the cold marrow in the bones freeth the inward parts of many infirmities stayeth vomiting helpeth also oftentimes the flixe or laxe cleareth the senses restoreth sleepe reuiueth the spirits because melancholy bloud is by it diminished cureth deafnesse reduceth the lost voice augmenteth the powers and vertues of all the bodie by reason that it is by this meanes rid of superfluities In the same sort also is anger delayed by it because that choler or gall is by Phlebotomie also diminished The aboundance of bloud is knowne no lesse by the thicknesse and troubled consistence of vrine than by the signes before mentioned Secondly although the bloud be not inflamed but onely superabounding yet doth it cause greeuous agues and other perillous diseases wherefore whensoeuer we find an inflammation and an aboundance of bloud presently we open a veine Also if any one euery morning about the dawning of the day doth vse commonly to sweate it is a signe of a superfluitie in the veines Thirdly where bad and cold bloud is there must a purgation precéede phlebotomie otherwise the good bloud will be drawne foorth and the thicke tough and cold bloud remaine in the veines Lastly it is profitable at sometimes to be let bloud not for any of the aforesaid causes but only that the bloud might be led or drawne from the one veine into the other For example If a woman do ouerpasse the time wherein she should haue her flowers then do we open the veine Saphea in the foote thereby intending to draw the bloud downewards Others comprehend all these particulars in these two points namely such ought to be phlebotomized that abound in bloud and for that cause are very subiect vnto sicknesse Secondly that are full of bad humors or that do abound in a corrupted masse of bloud and are diseased of all which points and how euery veine shall be opened we will more at large speake hereafter where we shall treate of euery sicknesse in particular Of the causes that prohibite or forbid phlebotomie §. 2. WE haue before shewed what persons ought to be phlebotomized Causes that hinder phlebotomie also what profite this letting of blood causeth Now we will declare what persons must for beare it and what might hinder it First Galen commandeth that no body before the foureteenth yeare of his age should be let blood but his successors the latter Phisitions will that no man should haue a veine opened before the seuenteenth yeare also those that are aboue thréescore and ten yeares old should in no case meddle with it adding that youth being hote and moist doth consume much and therefore néedeth much bloud for the sustenance of life In like sort also haue old men small store of good blood but rather great store of bad humors where the letting of blood might take away the best blood and leaue the worst behind Beside this they are weake and their strength doth dayly decay But those that are of a middle age from thirtie to fiftie may most safely vse phlebotomie for that they neither incline to the one nor to the other To those that are cold of complexion is phlebotomie forbidden as also to such as dwell in cold countries for their blood lieth déepe in their bodies is chicke and vnapt to be educed Also where there is a great paine shall it be omitted except it were in a hote ague and there shall so much be drawne that the patient do swoune to the intent the whole bodie thereby might be cooled and the heate taken away Also it is not good presently after a bath to be let blood nor after the vse of Venery nor after any long lasting sicknesse vnlesse the patient do abound in vncleane blood neither must any one that hath ouerladen his stomacke with meate or drinke and as yet is vndigested vse phlebotomy They that are constrained to much vomiting of choler in the stomacke must also forbeare it otherwise it will greatly weaken them Lastly no man shall after much bleeding at the nose or much bléeding of the hemorrhoides or piles or after great store of the flowers in women be phlebotomized for it will cast him downe and weaken him because the blood is the treasure of life At what time and in what signe a veine ought to be opened §. 3. FOr the preseruation of health it is best to be let blood in Aprill or in May When phlebotomie ought to be vsed because at that time man doth most abound in blood and it shall be done on the right side either in the hand arme or foote for in these moneths and
a good draught of wine vpon it then to be let bloud and thrée houres after to breake his fast againe the cause whereof is that when the stomacke hath taken a little food nature is most strong The member likewise which is to be phlebotomised ought first to be somewhat chafed and rubbed with warme clothes that the humors thereby might be drawne thither It is also not amisse to bind the member with a band for that in like sort draweth the humors into the veines It befalleth oft in phlebotomie that the blood by no meanes can be stenched or stopped for the which thou shalt find in the fift booke diuers approued remedies but for the same is the powder of calcined or burned Vitrioll very highly commended being cast vpon it If the patient chance to faint in the letting of blood let him drinke a cup of good wine for that reuiueth the vital spirits strengtheneth the heart and refresheth the blood Vse also for the same those things that do comfort the heart which thou shalt find in the second booke If the opened veine should swell and puffe vp then boyle Rue in the oyle of Oliues and apply it to the veine This also is very good to be vsed after cupping if the place should begin to rankle After the letting of bloud the patient shall forbeare sléepe at the least sixe houres and not eate in the time aboue specified that the homors now stirred and troubled in the body might be setled againe in the meane while Afterwards let him vse light meates abstaine from milke or any thing that is made thereof and then at the last commit himselfe to sléepe Lastly he is not to vse any thing either inwardly or outwardly but that might warme and comfort the body and to follow that most learned man Ioachimus Camerarius who excellently and briefly obserued these rules after the letting of bloud Prima coena die sit misso sanguine parca Lux abeat laetis aucta secunda modis Tertia sed placidae debetur tota quieti Quarta quinta sibi mollius esse volunt Balnea sexta petit mox septima colligit auras Fertque vagos circum rura nemusque pedes Octaua amplexus dilectae coniugis quae Antè fuit vitam restituisse solet That is The first day not much meate be spent The second day to mirth be bent The third day vse thy rest and ease The fourth and fift eate what thou please The sixt day bathe in any case The seuenth walke from place to place The eight mayest thou lie with thy wife and after liue thy wonted life What veines ought in euery disease to be opened §. 6. SEeing that the body of man is euery where full of veines here shall now be shewed which of them ought to be opened for the ease of any one member or for cure and helpe of any disease whatsoeuer First therefore shall be noted that phlebotomie may be vsed in diuers parts of the bodie partly as the disease requireth partly also according as the veines are apparent Amongst others there are six from the armepit downeward to the elbow with those on the hand that may be opened The first is called Cephalica the head veine the second Basilica in Latin Hepatica the liuer veine the third Mediana Cordiaca Corporalis Nigra Matrix and Communis that is the median heart corpulent blacke mother and common veine The fourth Axillaris the veine of the armepit because in the armepit it most plainely appeareth The fift on the beginning of the hand which now is no longer phlebotomised The sixt is also on the outside of the hand betweene the litle and the fourth finger which of the Phisitions is called Sceiles Splenetica Saluatella that is the spleene veine The lower parts of the body as the legs and féet haue thrée speciall veines the one Ischiadica the hip veine the other is Saphea or Saphena the wombe veine the third Poplitis the knée vein which is the iust middle veine They are the special veines that commonly are opened of which and others more we will hereafter speake at large Of the head veine Cephalica §. 7. THis veine is also called Humeralis the shoulder veine because it easeth all the veins that are aboue and beneath the necke whensoeuer it is opened This veine being opened it doth much helpe the head-ach called Hemicranâa madnesse and such like that proceed of an extraordinary heat It beginneth to appéere about the armpits and passeth along by the left arme To the end then that the Reader might more cléerely vnderstand and know in what infirmities this veine may conueniently be opened I wil briefly rehearse out of other places of this our booke and shew when it is vsually opened As for example in head-aches with agues heate and flures in tumors of the armepits in the paines inflammations and apostumations with other impediments of the eyes in frensies or madnesse in the night mare or hag in al accidents of the mouth and throte in all rheumes in hot agues with an infection of the lungs Here maist thou perceiue and sée manifestly that this may iustly be called the head veine Of the liuer veine Basilica §. 8. AMongst all others is this liuer veine Basilica the principallest whose name is sufficiently knowne both in Gréeke and English This being opened vnburdeneth all the parts below the necke as breast liuer c. of their superfluous bloud so that if any of these be any kind of way diseased it may by that meanes be recouered againe it taketh her beginning of the armepit veine or Axillaris and goeth downe to the elbow The diseases in the which it is vsually phlebotomised are these In tumors of the eyes in vnmeasurable bléeding at the nose in whéesing or ringing of the eares in extreme melancholy in rheumes with heate and agues and in all infirmities of the lungs in broken veines or varices of the brest in the panting or beating of the heart in great faintnesse in ruptures in bleeding of the hemorrhoides in barrennesse of women that procéedeth of heate in an obdurated and hardned liuer in melancholy in hot swellings of the stomacke in obstructions of the vrine in impostumes of the wombe in the paine of the hips in the gout in wrenchings of the ioynts in broken veines in great inflammations in the poxe and in the measles Of the Median or middle veine §. 9. THis is for the most part of all our Phisitions and Chirurgians called by the Latine name Mediana because it lieth betwéene the abouesaid veines and taketh his beginning also from them both This being opened in all infirmities doth most good for that it easeth both the vpper and the lower parts of the bodie for which cause it is called Vniuersalis the common veine and not as some suppose because it commeth from the heart Here is to be obserued that if the head veine or Cephalica should be opened and it no where appeareth in stead of it the
ceasing of paine diminishing of flegme dissipation of windines to prouoke hunger to withdraw and to stay rheumes and to stanch bleeding He aduiseth also to vse it in a great paine of the belly procéeding of wind as the most true and present remedie namely to fasten a great box or cup on the place pained and often to renew it for thereby is the wind maruellously drawne forth and dissipated and not only for this but for the hardnes and other accidents of the spleene but without picking or opening of the skin But note that this boxing or cupping ought not to be vsed except the patient haue first of all throughly bene purged otherwise it doth draw the superfluous humiditie which lieth deepe vnderneath outward to the skin These boxes also are not to be set iust vpon the place affected but hard by it thereabout that by them the matter might be dissipated and withdrawne As for example if a woman had too many of her flowers continuing the cups or boxes shall be set vpon her brests In too much bléeding at the nose vpon the nauell and so in more places contrary still to the course of the blood or else vpon the veines whence the cause procéedeth likewise to prouoke or moue the termes in women the cups shall be fixed vpon the thighes in sore eyes behind the necke as in many places in this booke shall be shewed Thus much for the cupping without opening the skin .. But if thou wilt open the skinne also as commonly is vsed in diuers parts of the bodie and especially in any hard tumor or Schyrrhus or other swellings with a great distention and paine In like manner when thou wilt draw the peccant matter from the infected place to another as to remoue head-ach the cups are fixed on the caues of the legs with opening of the skin which also is done if the termes or flowers in women be stayed and in such like other accidents as hereafter in this booke at large shall appeare The tenth Chapter Of the diminishing of the bloud by Horsleaches THe third meanes whereby the blood is drawne forth of the body is that blood sucking water worme which the auncient Phisitions by their experience for the helpe of man haue found out These Horsleaches are of diuers and sundrie colours some blacke some red some gréenish and of many other colous They are all of them somewhat venemous but especially those that be partie coloured with greene stripes big and liue in stinking pooles which altogether are to be auoided Others that appeare in May and most of all about noone abide in other pooles and waters where also they are taken how to prepare them for to vse hath bene shewed in the sixt Chapter Before they be fastened the place must first be well chafed with water moistened and well scratched with the nailes then take they the better hold When they are fast annoint the place with warme oyle that it coole not and if they be fixed to either hands or féete then put that part into luke-warme water whereon they be fastened but if they draw or sucke not strong inough cââ off a litle peece of their tailes that the bloud may passe through them for they will not leaue sucking for all that vnlesse a little salt or a few ashes be cast vpon their heads or that they be stricken on the head with a little wand or rod or that they be burnt with a waxe candle After they be falne off thou shalt fasten a boxe or cup vpon the same place to draw out the remaining bloud and venome or else moisten it with a warme sponge and if it continue bléeding cast some meale on it and lay shéepes wooll dipped in oile vpon that or some other thing as in the fift part of this booke is taught how to stanch blood Here is also to be obserued that these horsléeches do not draw the blood out of the inward parts of the bodie but onely that which lieth in the flesh thereabout so that they can onely be vsed in place of boxes and especially in blacke melancholy blood which by nature they only suck forth And this is all the difference betwéene the vse of them and of cups In the application or fastening of Horsleaches they must be put into a quill réede or cane that they take hold of no other place but where they should It is furthermore well knowne that great store of superfluous humidities are expelled by baths sweat rubbing vomiting and such like but because these things must be altered augmented and diminished according to the estate of the person great héede ought to be giuen what here and there in this booke is spoken of them The eleuenth Chapter Of the sixe things not naturall called of the Phisitions Res non naturales THe cause why we make no mention of these sixe things is for that by them a generall rule of the life is to be obserued but most of all in the time of sicknesse when euery one according as necessitie requireth is taught what order is to be kept in euery of them The first is aire to wit what aire ought to be elected what to be refused and if neither of these may be by what meanes to correct it The second is mouing or motion which is not a litle to be regarded because some diseases require much mouing others litle and some none at all The third is sléepe and watching which is of no lesse account than motion The fourth is fulnesse and emptinesse which teacheth what order is to be followed in meate and drinke as also in hunger and abstinence the meanes also to restore that which either is wanting in the one or in the other The fift the accidents or motions of the mind as anger feare gladnesse sorrow loue hatred c. which oftentimes cause great chaunge and alteration both in sicknesse and in health The sixt is meate and drinke which is méete for euery disease which vnméete Of the which in euery particular disease seuerall instructions shall be giuen this generall rule presupposed that no man diseased shall ouerlade his stomacke with meate or drinke except it were to vomit it vp againe It is also better to eate thrice a day and a little at once than but twise aboundantly If of all these things thou wilt haue a more iust explication looke in the second part of the wheesing and stopping of the breath by the which thou mayest also rule thy selfe in other infirmities Furthermore whatsoeuer might be said of the foure complexions or humors of mans body as bloud choler flegme and melancholy with their incompassed mixtures called Intemperies which are eight fold and what else doth appertaine vnto them shall sufficiently as oportunitie serueth hereafter be declared The twelfth Chapter An explication of all the weights and measures which commonly are vsed in Phisicke THere be two sorts of pounds the common pound containeth sixtéene ounces but the phisicall pound hath but twelue ounces It
to be made and applyed on the top of the head vpon the Sutura Coronalis a Cauterium whether it be potentiall or actuall Afterwards the patient is to be purged and to vse no other outward meanes but to betake him to a good order of diet Now to procéede to the especiall infirmities of the eyes or Ophalthmia this shall be the first Of the rednesse of the eyes §. 4. THis is caused outwardly of stripes thrusts concourse of blood superabundance of bloud in the veines which as is said spreadeth it abroad in the eyes For this it is aduised to open the head veine on the contrarie side or at least to set boxing cups vpon the shoulders afterwards to purge Further to apply outward things which driue the matter back againe For this is first the white of an egge brayed with womans milke most highly commended and safe a drop or twaine dropped into the eye Or séeth Linséed and make a spunge wet in that decoction and lay it warme on the eyes but if this will not helpe much then do in like manner with the decoction of Fenegréeke or of Cammomill Item take the iuice of Nightshade temper it with the brayed white of an egge and with oile of Roses make a cloth wet in it and lay it on the eye Item if the eyes be bloudshot take the iuice of wormewood bray it well with the white of an egge and drop into the eyes Take Coriander seeth it in water wring it out with this decoction make muscilage of Fleawort temper it with fine Bolus and lay it on the eyes with wet clothes Or make Cotton wet in the brayed whites of egs with oile of Roses and lay it to his forehead eyes and temples Also you may temper amongst it fine Bolus or Frankinsence which you will But if the matter be subtill then must one labour to discusse the bloud for which end you are to take young Pigeons or Turtle doues bloud like as is taught before in the § 1. for that hath beene found many times to be good Item take Frankinsence Sal gemmae of each one drag beate it small and make it with womans milke into a Collyrium Take broad Plantaine water about one pint small brused Verdigrease one ounce fine Bolus Dragon bloud of each half an ounce Camfire one quarter of an ounce distill this in a glassen helme in seething water it is not onely good for red eyes which are painfull Vlcerations oâ he priuiti and for swolen eyelids that haue long continued but also to all sore stinking mouthes and especially for al vlcerations of the priuie members Item take Aloe thrée parts Camfire one part stéepe them in Rosewater and vse it Radish water is also maruellous good for all rednesse of the eyes Take the water of Verueine of Eyebright of Marioram of each halfe an ounce Fennell water one ounce Camfire halfe a drag the gall of a great Pickerell temper and stir it all together and vse it as the rest Item take prepared Tutia prepared in pisse and Fennell water like as is taught in the Introduction halfe an ounce of Mace thrée drag of Camfire sixe graines of Malmsey one small pint beate all these as small as may be mixe them together and kéepe it You haue also other preparations mo of this Tutia like as there are twaine expressed in the Introduction of this booke but for the rednesse of the eyes is this especially recommended Tutia prepared take halfe an ounce of Tutia make it glowing and quench it 15. times in Rosewater then bruise it small and put vnto it one quarter of an ounce of Calamint stone thrée cloues halfe a pint of Malmsey mixe all these together These thrée Collyria are for all rednesse of the eyes and other things very highly commended of the ancient Phisitions Also to befume the eyes with white Amber is much praised Item take Hyssope Marioram Fenegréek Cammomill Melilot Roses such like séeth them let the vapor go into the eyes A plaister for the rednesse of the eyes Take Radish leaues wel made cleane and washed and Currans of each halfe an ounce Pigeon dung one quarter of an ounce beate them well together and lay it thereon The same may also be done with powned Willow leaues and laid vpon it Salues Take Tutia halfe an ounce oile of Bay one quarter of an ounce hony and vineger of each a spoonefull Camfire one drag make a salue thereof and therwith annoint the eielids This is also méet for inuerted eyelids Eiesalue called Nihil Take prepared Tutia one quarter of an ounce red Corall one dragme Pearles one drag Nihil albi one quarter of an ounce Camfire halfe a scrup Barrow grease 4. ounces temper it well annoint of this salue the quantitie of a Coriander séede in the corner of the eye in the euening when you go to bed it healeth the rednesse of the eye and taketh away all rheumes that fall into the eyes After this forme is the salue of Roses much commended which is described in the first Chapter and 2. § whereof take one ounce prepared Tutia foure scrup and annoint the eyelids therewith Confected Chebuli being eaten do withstand the rednesse of the eyes and defend the sight In like manner Nutmegs confected in hony Hote eyes §. 5. FOrasmuch then as that there can be no rednesse of the eyes without heate therfore must we discourse somewhat thereof and vse these remedies following for it Take the water of Eyebright of Fennell of Celendine of each one ounce prepared Tutia thrée scrup prepared Sarcocolla and pearles of each halfe a drag temper it together This Collyrium is much in vse at Augusta Another Take Rue Fennell Verueine of each like much stampe it and poure thereon Rosewater and white wine so that the herbes be couered let it stand a night afterwards distill it in a glassed helme and in water Item take prepared Sarcocolla halfe an ounce white Dragagant Frankinsence Iron drosse Pearles of each thrée dragm Indy Spica Siluer and gold Litharge of each one drag and a halfe Starch Ceruise of each one quarter of an ounce Tutia thrée drag bruise this all together vnto a small powder make a dough thereof with Rose water afterwards make small trocisces thereof and let them drie powne them afterwards againe and make them moist with the iuice of Pomegranates and drie them againe Thirdly make them moist with the water of Nightshade like as before put thereto one drag of Camfire white Sugar one drag and a halfe When ye will vse of it stirre it with Rosewater white of an egge and womans milke Take Aloe Tutia Hony Sugar Fenegréeke Fennell of each a like much seeth them in Wine and receiue the vapor or apply it vnto them it is very good for the hote eyes Item take white Wine foure ounces Aloe Serapinum Myrrhe Sugar Fennel of each one drag let it séeth moderatly this is also good for a Collyrium Take the water of Fennell
that there may be a plaister made of them lay the patient vpon his backe and apply some therof vpon his eye Or take a whole Pomegranate betwéene sowre and swéet séeth it in a little Vineger A drying and astringent Collyrium stampe it and vse it as before Item take the yolke of a rosted egge lay it with towe vpon the eye Item vse also waters for the eyes that are drying and astringent as hereafter followeth take powned Bloudstone that is nine times washt in the vrine of a man child or boy one quarter of an ounce Gummi Arabicum Dragagant burnt Copper of each one dragm burnt and washt Pumis stone Opium of each a scrup Fennell water as much as is néedfull for to forme small trocisces thereof when you will vse them then stéepe them in white wine The eyes are also to be often washed with water wherein Roses are decocted or well water tempered with Vineger and foure Wine for this is also fit Oliue leaues and if they cannot be had then in the stead of them is the iuice of Shepheards purse vsed wherein burnt lead brused smal is to be tempered also the iuice of Quince leaues and Medlar leaues and then sallad oile must be put amongst it and so lay it ouer the sore eye Where the eyes do bake together in the sleepe TAke the iuice of Housléeke and annoint the eyes therewith it doth soke them softly and coole them Item take iuice of Agrimonie alone or tempered with womans milke also Rosewater and other waters for to soke therewith the dryed matter of them Of Aegylops a certaine swelling betweene the nose and the corner of the eye §. 9. THere commeth otherwhiles a small impostume betwéene the nose and the corner of the eye the which the Phisitions call Aegylops If the same be not holpen betimes then doth it infect the bone The Chirurgeons do heale the same in this manner they cut vp the vppermost skinne and wring out the impostume which lyeth lockt in a little bladder and cut it off as neare as may be the rest do they take away with an actuall or potentiall Cauterie The same swelling doth settle it selfe otherwhiles in the length of the eyelids yet both are to be holpen with Oatmeale Wine and Tutia tempered together in manner of a Salue Of Blemishes or spots in the Eyes §. 10. THese are two speciall kindes red and white The red are caused thorough bloud when there appeareth in the eye a red drop or a darke like as a congealed bloud which at times is also blacke that is woont to be caused of blowes falles great labour much wéeping and such like In like manner also of inward causes as hath bene said of Ophthalmia and of red or ouerheated eyes For this is also much commended the bloud of Turtle doues wild Pigeons or if one cannot haue them of common house Pigeons being let bloud vnder the wings like as is alreadie rehearsed and chiefly in the beginning if one temper some fine Bolus among it and the eyes to be fomented with warme water wherin wild Time Marioram Fennel and Barley is decocted A water for the eyes Take the séede of Ameos Comin Fennell rootes and the séedes sodden together and a little Salgemmae tempered amongst it you shall oftentimes let some thereof drop into the eyes If it be néedfull to vse any stronger thing for it then take one quarter of an ounce of Orpiment put eight ounces of water vnto it stir it well about then let it settle powre the water cleare from it that no substance of the Orpiment run with it and drop thereof in the eye But good héed must be taken in the vse of this sharpe venime that there follow no bad accident after it therefore it is more sure to vse this following Take prepared Bloodstone thrée drag burnt Copper one quarter of an ounce red Corall Pearles of each halfe a dragm Gummi Tragacant of each two dragmes and a halfe Pepper the waight of thirtie graines washed Ceruise one drag Orpiment Dragon bloud Saffron Amber of each halfe a drag make a dough thereof with the blood of Turtle doues of Hennes or common Pigeons bloud and forme Trocisces thereof about the waight of one dragm When you will vse these bruise them in womans milke and put a drop thereof in the eye It is also very good for the skinnes of the eyes whereof we purpose to intreate hereafter A plaister Take Doues dung make it with wine and vineger into a plaister and apply it lukewarme vpon the eyes Or take that which followeth which is most certaine Take Raisins put out the stones powne them and put vineger to it vse it as before Item take fresh chéese méetly salted Radishes rosted in ashes Melilot Cammomill of each one ounce rosted Lillie rootes meale of Lentils Dragon bloud of each halfe an ounce Saffron one quarter of an ounce temper them all together with the brayed white of an egge vnto a plaister In like manner it is also good to foment the eyes with the decoction of Coleworts and the leaues thereof sodden together in wine in manner of a plaister with Cammomill laid vpon the eyes Now concerning the white spots which do come commonly after the Impostume of the eyes Of these some are thin and some are thicke But they that stand vpon the white and be thin do the sight no hurt but those that are thicke and lie vpon the apple of the eye they remaine and are almost vnpossible to be healed but to be somewhat eased and rather in children then in aged folkes Now albeit that this is hardly effected without the manuall operation of an Occulist yet neuerthelesse are these things very good for it and especially if the same be white and thin First of all he is to bath oftentimes in water or at the leastwise to foment his face and eyes so long with warme water vntill the face be thorowly red and sweating and if that therby be caused a rednesse or paine of the eyes it is to be omitted certaine dayes and afterwards begin againe Also you may vse water wherein Mallowes Hollihocke rootes Oaten straw Barley Otes and chiefly Fenegréeke are decocted for this is a certaine and approoued receipt After this fomenting strew this powder therein take Sarcocolla white Sugar Spuma maris of each a like much and bruise it very small Item take Cuttle bone powdered small and temper it with womans milke Take swallowes dung honie as much as is needfull and if you will make it soft mixe it with Fennell water But the storie of Tobias doth shew that this medicine is especially perilous Make the eyes oftentimes moyst with fresh womans milke but if you cannot get it then vse the waters wherein Mallowes Hollihock rootes be decocted afterwards you may put thereto the Sieff de Thure the which you must prepare like as hereafter followeth Take Frankinsence fiue dragmes Ammoniacum Sarcocolla of each two dragmes and a halfe
them so that it waxe a pap then lay it vpon the forehead take Hares haire temper it well with the white of egges and a little Allume afterwards mixe it with Rose water or Rose vineger take powned Horstaile temper it with Plantaine water or the iuice of Plantaine Thirdly the blood is to be stopt with astringent things as Dragagant Gum Frankinsence Mil dust whites of egs and such like take Tormentill or Pyrola one of both this is to be held in the mouth These astringent things are not oftentimes vsed alone but commonly tempered with the aforementioned binding and cooling things Fourthly the bléeding is to be inhibited by potentiall cauteries as Coperas Orpiment quicke lime Sal Armoniack when the same be powdered and blowne into the nose for they make an escarre But this is to be feared if so be that the blood be not quenched therewith that it might afterwards bleed the sorer therefore it is not without great danger to vse this meane Fiftly it wil be staunched with those things which haue a proper and hidden vertue for it as the iuice of Basil but especially Asse dung and Hogs dung are said to be good for it be it of what soeuer cause that the bleeding be prouoked if the same be but of it self alone held before the nose and so let smell thereto and also the same tempered with the iuice of broad Plantaine and annointed in the nose or burnt to ashes and blowne therein or a plaister made thereof and laid on the top of the nose Termes in ãâã this plaister is also méete against the excessiue termes or flowers of women put into the necke of the wombe and also applied to their priuities This is also very good Amber Purslaine garden Mints and their iuice with copwebs thrust vp into the nose Sixtly the blood will be stanched if one let it out on the contrary side the which is effected if one open the Median or liuer veine as also many learned Phisitions do affirme that they haue for the bléeding of the nose not approoued any thing more better nor certainer than to open the veine vpon the hand or on the foote and then to drinke two scruples of Philonium Persicum with Purslaine water they haue also as hath bene said powdered Troc de Carabe and blowne into the nose It is also very good to set boxing cups on the shoulders and on the legs vnderstanding well that if the blood run out of the right nostril then set the boxes vnpickt vpon the liuer if it run out of the left nostril vpon the Milt in the left side also the legs the armes and the breast are to be bounden to rub the outward members and also vnder the armpits and other places of the body with burnt nettles for to draw therewith the blood downewards Besides all these aforesaid I am to manifest one remedy more that excéedingly stoppeth also bléeding Take sleckt lime make a plaister thereof with vineger lay it ouer the nose it will stop presently Others suppose also that this lime is to be blowne into the nostrils or made vp with the white of an egge to be so put with a taint into the nose This also as some suppose wil the wooll or flaxe do that flieth from the herbe Carduius Benedictus cut small and thrust into the nose Item it hath bene oftentimes found that an extreme frighting hath caused blood by and by to stanch and cease for that the blood runneth then towards the hart In this also hath superstition and vnbeleefe taken place whensoeuer one holdeth in his hand a dead mans bone and the mosse that groweth vpon a dead bodies scalp be stopt into the nose then is the blood stanched out of hand In like maner also albeit that it be somewhat more naturall if one lay the mosse of the blacke or sloe thorne in the shooes and go thereon it doth stanch blood Item take broade Plantaine and the iuice of Shepheards purse of each thrée ounces prepared Bloodstone fine Bolus sealed Earth Dragon blood of each one dragme and a half spread it on a cloth and lay it on the place of the nose where the bloud cometh and refresh it oftentimes Or take beaten Beane meale temper it with the white of an egge and vse it as before It commeth also otherwhiles to passe and is also no wonder that such superfluous blood of the nose doth bring swouning with it for the which are sicke persons hands and feete to be rubbed with salt and vineger to bind fast the armes and legs and to bind and vnbind them againe also to vse other outward meanes which here afterwards in the second part shall be described for the swouning Item if the blood run out at the right nostrel set a boxing cup vnpickt vpon the Liuer and so whensoeuer the swouning is past the Liuer veine is to be opened or the Salnatella in the left side to smel to cold things as that which is made of Quince peares and to vse Lettice Purslaine Beanes and other pottages vntill that the blood waxeth thicke For a conclusion you haue hereafter many remedies in the fifth part for to stanch bloud which are also good for this purpose Enfeebled or lost smelling §. 8. THis is no small disease to man for if one be borne with it or haue had it long he is esteemed by the Grecians incurable vnles it be through continuance of time and with great trouble neuerthelesse the auncient and latter Phisitions haue imployed all diligence to deuise all necessary meanes and first described thrée seuerall kinds thereof The first kind where throughly and wholy the smell is lost The second is a diminishing of the smell where a thing is smelt like as it is yet vnperfectly and this disease is much more with men then with beasts for that they be of a moister braine and all beasts haue their braines much drier therefore they do also smell sharper and further The third kind is a corrupted smel where one receiueth the smel otherwise then it is of it self like as when one adiudgeth stinking things for odoriferous The cause that the smell is vtterly lost is when the conduits that go towards the braines be throughly obstructed that the aire receiued cannot come to the skin of the braines which obstruction may happen through some violent motion or blowes on the head Also if about the place and instuments of smelling there ingender any wart or fleshly excrescence or any vlceration or also through any other grosse humors that will settle there and stop vp the conduits of smelling Lastly through repletion of the head and of the whole body The cause of the diminishing of the smelling is as before but is not so great it may also be caused by cold or by hot medicines which be vsed at the nose The cause of a corrupted smell is a bad moisture which lieth hidden in the same place and there maketh stinking vapors and so may also the canker
Cantharides therein whereof the head and wings be abated make it smell well with Muscus and Amber and vse it as before Euen as of all outward accidents of the head and the face mention hath bene made before so will we now also speake of all inward diseases and members of the same And first of the Braines The twelfth Chapter The Braines and all that concerneth them LIke as is alreadie alleaged the braines are the vppermost and chiefest of all the inward members of mans bodie a place and abode of the vnderstanding memorie and iudgement the which are shapen and by nature fashioned with many kinds of woonderfull seuerall and proper shapes for they be without bloud without flesh soft and congealed together like as a scum also as marrow moist cold and of themselues insensible where they neuerthelesse through the sinewes do impart and send to all other members the sensiblenesse and motion With this part of the bodie are all beasts indued which haue much or little bloud but most of all men aboue all beasts and the men more than the women the foresaid braines are also moister in man than in any beast Hence do also spring all the sinewes that thence as is specified do spread themselues thorough the backe ouer all the whole bodie strengthening and conioyning it making it moueable and sensible Vnto the braines do also stretch and reach the right beginning of all veines out of the heart and there do they end from thence commeth also sléepe which imparteth rest vnto the whole bodie It is also the second part next to the heart that is formed in the mothers wombe This precious and tender part is also subiect vnto many accidents which bring with them very great inconueniences like as for example if so be that the brains through fals or strokes be annoyed or molested then doth it oftentimes come to passe yea commonly that the patient becommeth mute and dumb like as also in the dead palsey the members are altogether nummed or vtterly lamed and so losse of vnderstanding ensueth But before that we do come to these infirmities we purpose here to admonish that before the description of other diseases of the head those things are not discouered which might be conuenient for the brains as Néesing Treacle Mithridate Eyebright wine conserue of the same and such like With these may be also well annexed all that strengtheneth the braines dryeth the superflous moisture taketh away heate and whatsoeuer might be else But because our whole booke is full with such like things therefore it is the lesse needfull for to write much thereof For to drie the braines FOr to drie and strengthen the braines you haue amongst other many and sundrie remedies When you go to bed swallow down two or three little péeces of Frankinsence this strengtheneth and dryeth the braines maruellous much The smell of Sugar is also very good receiued at the nose Certaine Aromaticall wines which in the last part are described with their operations and other moe as Calmus compounded waters Master Tristrams water are also very good for this vse And especially this following Take Ireos thrée ounces Lauander flowers Rosemarie flowers and the hearbe Rose leaues of each one ounce and a halfe red Styrax Benzuin of each one ounce Nigella prepared Coriander Epithymum Stechas of each one dragm make a powder thereof furre a cap therewith and weare it on the head You shall haue also many moe such like whereas we shall discourse of the giddinesse of the head But if you desire any cooling things for the braines whereto you haue not onely commodious things to lay thereon in the first Chapter and second § but also in other places where we discourse of the Ague and Plague as much as concerneth their vertues and infections of the braines we will begin with that costly treasure of memorie Of the Memorie §. 1. MEmorie is a retaining of acts either heard or séene Or memorie is a comprehension of the things ouerpast the which the mind as present doth kéepe and retaine Item memorie is a retaining establishing and preseruing of matters which haue bene conceiued in the spirit If so be that this memorie be hurt then followeth forgetfulnesse of matters which be past and done And there be two sorts described thereof by the Phisitions The first they do call the greater Lethargus Lethargus the sleeping disease whereof we will speake apart hereafter The other is lesse and without Ague that may in time so take the vpper hand that not onely the memorie will be enféebled but also that men lose their vnderstanding and become childish and foolish The cause of this is commonly a bad and cold complexion otherwhiles also adioyned with cold and moisture which ouerruleth the hinder part of the head If it be caused onely through cold Stupor Cold braine then it is Stupor astonishment These sicke persons do speake neither of things past nor yet things to come they care for nothing they sléepe and wake méetly they féele no drought of the toung nor yet of the nose Cold and dry But if this disease be caused through cold and drith then can the patient sléepe thinketh well vpon things which be ouer past but not of any thing that is present the mouth and nose are alwaies drie Cold moist If it come through moisture and cold then it is the sleeping disease which forgetteth all former things wholly and throughly and all present very quickly they haue very moist braines so that the moisture runneth out at the nose and mouth If heate and drith be causes Mania then commeth it to Mania that is the right madnesse To the end now that this precious treasure of memorie may be continued and kept thereof you shall haue sufficient instructions which you find of the sléeping sicknesse astonishment and madnesse so that we will onely speake here of that kind of forgetfulnesse which is caused of cold and moisture together and is not an absolute Lethargus neuerthelesse doth raigne most For this is to be applyed for a generall rule to defend the head from al superfluous moysture how the same is to be effected you haue many and sundrie meanes especially there whereas it is discoursed of the cold paine of the head in the first Chapter § 2. and also hereafter where we shall speake of giddinesse But to the end we haue an orderly rule for to preuent this forgetfulnesse therefore we will here prescribe an orderly meanes for an example If this disease procéede of an eâcessiue vncleanesse surfetting of meate of drinke of cold and such like outward causes then are they to be shunned and good gouernment obserued whereof we will once againe speake more at large For this must also strong Clisters be vsed take Consolida Saracenica Betonie S. Iohns woort both kinds of Sage both sorts of Centorie Rosemarie Stechas Flouramour Cammomill of each half a handfull Baulme a handfull Coloquint one drag and a half
them with wine burne them to powder in a tight stopt pot temper this powder with oyle of Roses and of Lillies and therewith annoint the Breast and couer it ouer with fattie sheepes wooll wrapped in a cloth This maturateth very well and swageth the paine This powder is also highly commended taken with some sweete things against the wormes is the belly the waight of a dragme and a halfe and is in like sort very good against the yellow Iaundies Of the tumors of swelling of the Breast §. 8. TAke broad Plaintaine and Purslaine of each one handfull stampe them to pap Commomill Melilot of each one ounce Barley meale foure ounces temper them being small with oile of Violets and Roses amongst the iuice vntill it waxe to be a thicke salue And lastly mingle amongst it halfe an ounce Gummi Helenij dissolued in strong vineger spread it on a cloth and lay it on the swelling Item take Salld oyle and Cow dung mingle them and straine them through a cloth then put Fenegréeke meale amongst it vntill it will serue for a plaister Or take Peach leaues onely or as much Rue with them stampe them to powder let them séeth in water vntill it be a pap lay it on the swelling it easeth the paine and ripeneth the impostume This salue is also highly commended Take Plantaine and Mallowes of each one handfull the lesser Housléeke sixe handfuls let all be sodden gréene vntill it be a growt straine it out then adde vnto it thrée ounces of the oyle of Roses beaten Cammomill Melilot of each one ounce Barley meale foure ounces Bdellium dissolued in vineger one quarter of an once let them séeth together vnto the consistence of a plaister Of the Impostumation of the Breasts §. 9. THese impostumations do proceéed of two speciall causes First of congealing of the milke whereof is written alreadie Secondly of other bad rheumes that sinke into these parts and there putrifie breeding there diuers accidents as namely the Canker Kingwoorme Gangrene and such like According to the nature of the foresaid rheume it happeneth also quickly in women which haue not their Termes that their Breasts do impostumate by reason of the abundance of bloud that taketh his course thither The signes of this griefe are that the woman hath not conceiued nor can giue sucke that this swelling doth not deuide it selfe into many places but remaineth in one place onely If it be caused of bloud than is the Breast full of paine with beating and rednesse Or if it come of Cholera then is the paine greater the breast redder and yellowish and with greater agues and more heate than that which procéedeth of bloud If it be of Phlegma then is there small paine and no ague with it the Breast is white with a small tumor For to remedie this must the cause be knowne If it procéede of bloud then first of all open the mother veine on the same side where the sore is for to withdraw the matter thereby But if there be any want of the Termes or flowers then are they to be prouoked by all meanes possible and in the augmenting of the swelling must the Liuer veine be opened or at leastwise the Median afterwards temper oyle of Roses with Vineger and wet a cloth therein and lay it foure times a day vpon it You may also séeth Cammomill therein Of these things following you may vse which you will Take Beane meale Fenegréeke meale Linséede meale and crums of white bread of each one ounce Myrrhe halfe an ounce Saffron one drag and a halfe rosted Hollihocke rootes foure ounces foure yolkes of egs oile of Violets and Linséede oyle of each thrée quarters of an ounce if it be too hard then make it softer with water and vse it till that the swelling be ripened Or make this following Take sixe ounces of clarified honie Barley meale two ounces and a halfe two yolkes of egs Mayrrhe and Sarcocolla of each halfe a dragme let the honie and the meale seethe together vntill it be méetly thicke stir them the yolkes of the egs amongst it and at last the powder But if you will haue it more cooling put thereto thrée ounces of the oyle of Roses and hony of Roses foure ounces and sixe ounces more of Barly meale This is a wonderfull plaister for to consume and cleanse all swellings not onely of the breasts but also of all other members Item take Ireos as much as you please cut it small then put as much oile Roses thereon as will couer the Ireos root let it seeth very well and straine it afterwards put one half ounce of Ireos vnto it oile of Voilets foure ounces Ceruse Waxe and Mastick of each one drag and therewith annoint the Breast When as then this Tumor is sufficiently maturated and will breake out then make pap of Wheat meale Sallad oyle and common water If it will not breake out of it felfe then is it to be opened with a Lanset and afterwards cleanse it with Hony the iuice of Smallage yolks of Egs and Turpentine and a salue made thereof Or take the common salue Vnguentum de Apio mundificatiuum Vnguentum de Apio mundificatiuum the which is thus to be prepared Take clarified Hony the cleare iuice of Smallage of each one ounce Wheat meale thrée quarters of an ounce temper them togither This is also good for all Fistulaes and Carbuncles This Salue is to be vsed for any kind of sore with a Tent or Lint for to cleanse the same But if this Tumour be caused of cold then are all warming oyles to be vsed thereto as of Lillies Spike and Beuercod and such like And you may lay thereon water of Honysuckles whereby diuers are holpen but washed with water of Cardus Benedictus and the powder of the same strewed thereon helpeth aboue all others All things that are ordained in the first part the 13. Chapter and 1. § against the vncleannes of the mouth are also commodious for this For to maturate take sixe fat Figs gréene Cresses Dock rootes Hollyhock rootes Lilly rootes Fenegréeke meale and Linseede meale of each one ounce let them séeth well to a pap stampe it well togither and temper it with thrée ounces of Barrowes grease this swageth the paine and ripeneth exceedingly When as this impostume is sufficiently ripened open it with a Lanset in the lower part of the same or with a Corsie afterwards cleanse and heale it as you do all other impostumes For the Canker in the Breasts §. 10. HItherto hath onely bin spoken of the impostumes tumors of the breasts whereof otherwhiles do spring and grow the Canker Fistulaes other inconuenieÌces but here will we only discourse particularly of the Canker worme and Fistula of the breasts For the sore which the Chirurgians call the worme this is their common plaister Take Rye Wheat meale of each alike much temper amongst it about one third part of burnt Copper powdred small and make a
giue the patient thereof sixe ounces He may also vse this Cocke water following the which is thus to be prepared when as the greatest extremitie is past and when the patient beginneth to recouer then giue him a good Cruce ful of this broth following for certaine dayes continually Take a Cock of thrée or foure yeares old course him so long vntill he lye still afterwards kill him and stuffe him with Currans Figs Licorice wild Saffron Venus haire white Mints Penniroyall Fenegréeke if you cannot get all of them take the most part of them of each a like much let them séeth in a great kettle that you néede to powre no more water vpon it drinke of this as is sayd But the third day take sixe ounces of this Potion and séeth therein two cut Figs vnto thrée ounces then put thereto a dragme of Treacle or Mithridate Philonium Romanum halfe a scruple washt Turpentine one dragme and a halfe and then take it all at one time This order must he obserue certaine daies togither albeit that it should last one whole yeare which would be the better Likewise there is good for this sicknesse Turpentine taken with Hony and prepared Foxe Lights for it openeth the Breast cleanseth the same and healeth the Lights Another Cocke water Dresse the Cocke as he ought to be and stuffe him with Hyssope Licorice and Venus haire of each halfe a handfull Currans halfe an ounce let them seeth well togither and lastly put a dragme of Thymus vnto it vse this broth as is aforesaid Item melt a drop of Ammoniacum in a spoonefull of the water of life and drinke it fasting Of the consumption Phthisis a disease of the Lights §. 23. THis Phthisis the which by reason of her nature is called the Consumption and of the Latinists Tabes is an vlcer of the Lights of the Breast of the throate or of the mouth of the stomack wherewith is alwayes a Cough or a small ague wherby the whole body consumeth away and waxeth impotent Or Phthisis is an exsiccation and weakning of the body whereby the whole body will be consumed euen as the Gréeke name sheweth Item Phthisis is a sicknesse of the Lights that dryeth away and consumeth the flesh marrow and all other powers of the body In fine Phthisis is all that harmeth the Lights or deuoureth them This disease is also of such nature and qualitie that it seldome infecteth the very young the very old and aged persons but most of all as Hippocrates testifieth those that are betwéene eightéene and 35. yeares of age and this is the cause that the eager and sharpe matter in this age be it through naturall or accidentall causes doth as then raigne most of all in these kinde of bodies First this Consumption can procéede of many causes as of a sore Cough whereby any veine doth breake in the Lights or of any eager brackish rheume that falleth vpon the Lights and there through his eagernesse doth arrode some veine of the Lights as a drop of water through continuall falling pierceth a hole into a hard stone Secondly this can also be caused through an impostume of the throate the which breaking falleth into the breast and there annoyeth the same Thirdly of any impostume in the breast which after the Pleurisie inflaÌmation of the Lights or spetting of bloud is not wel cleansed and taken away Like as of Empyema which is the infection of the Lights hath bene sayd Fourthly such can also be caused through some obstruction of any accustomed course of womens Flowers or course of the Hemorrhoides which being closed vp by their vapors do endamage the Lights Fiftly it commeth through extreame outward heate or cold raw windes and especially in the falling of the leafe Also straines wounds pestilent ayre through long vse of many hote spices Oinions Garlicke and other things moe which do ingender much and subtill bloud whereby a veine quickly commeth to breake whereby afterwards the bloud putrifieth there and turneth to an impostume These sicknesses can also be well prouoked through long conuersing in quicksiluer the vapor whereof harmeth and putrifieth the Lights These also are the commonest signes of this sicknesse to wit when the sicke mans nose waxeth small and sharpe when the temples of the head fall down their arme pits do strecth out like wings whereto commeth afterwards a small hot Ague Cough after meate oppression of the brest grieuous breathing matterie spettle the which is alwayes a little died with bloud which if it be cast ouer hot coales yéeldeth a stench or if one cast it in a kettle of water doth sink to the bottome The chéekes of the patient are alwayes ruddie the nailes on the hands and feete will be crooked he is sometimes hot and otherwiles cold In fine they that are oppressed with this wretched sicknesse are alwayes very raging and vnpatient so that no body can do inough for them c. When as then besides all these signes the bloud beginneth to consume to dry away and the haire to fall off then is he very far spent Now for to come to the meanes whereby all such sicknesses are to be holpen then is there first an old saying that the old and ripe consumption is not to be cured The cause is that all such vlcers of the breast do corrode too deepe Secondly because the Lights must be in continuall motion where notwithstanding all cures haue néede of quietnesse Thirdly through continuall motion doth race and eate in the déeper Fourthly for that the disease lyeth so deepe in the body that Phisicke can hardly or slowly come to it Fiftly if hot remedies be to be vsed for it then increaseth the Ague if cold remedies then haue they but small force to pierce to the place infected Or if there be drying medicines vsed thereto then do the same oppresse and putrifie there These sicknesses may be setled a long time in children and old folkes in corpulent and fat folkes and specially in women but if the sicknesse do draw to an end that besides all the sayd signes the stomacke faileth and the laske approcheth with it then is there small hope more at hand notwithstanding although this sicknesse as it is sayd is very dangerous and long continuing yet are the due remedies that serue for the same not to be despised nor abiected And before al as much as concerneth this disease the eyes are to be fixed on seuen kind of things First to see that the Rheume be stayd for the which you may here before finde diuers remedies in the Squinancie in the twelfth Chapter and 2. § Also in the fifth Chapter 2. § Secondly heede must be taken to the vlceration of the lights for which in this present description of the lights very many remedies are prescribed moe shall be herafter specified Thirdly to driue away the Ague and for that to this sicknesse many kinds of Agues are incident as may appeare in the sixt part of this booke Fourthly
is also good against all Coughes against the consumption and all those that be brought lowe through a long sicknes it bringeth againe to their former might and strength The third part of this Booke of Phisicke Containeth the Bellie THe third part of mans body haue the Anatomists who are the surueiors of the vniformity and members of mans body ascribed to the belly which beginneth outwardly from the breast and inwardly from the Diaphragma descending downewards euen to the legs This part hath outwardly these members following on the forepart the Nauel which is placed in the midst of the whole body and belly vnder which do follow both the parts of generation the which in man are the testicles or stones hanging downe in a cod behind are the raines and the buttockes which couer the fundament The inward members are the stomack the liuer the gall the kidneys the bladder the bowels and in women the mother all which are subiect to very dangerous diseases of the which we are now to write and dicourse The first Chapter Of the Nauell THe first outward member of the bellly is the Nauell which is called the roote of the belly for that nature hath formed it as the first amongst the féeding parts and also in new borne children holdeth fast in the mothers belly no otherwise then as it were a roote in the earth For like as the root of a trée draweth nourishment vnto it whereby it groweth euen so doth the nauell also which draweth the blood vnto it out of the mothers body thereby to nourish the child and make it grow Euen as the foresaid roote of a trée of all that which it draweth vnto it for food doth not driue away any thing but all that which is watery and vnnecessary for his nourishment as the gum which one séeth on a trée euen so doth the string of the nauell which sweateth out all superfluous moisture which is not good for nourishment and doth gather all the same together in the Secundina vntill the birth day the which is called of women the flood or breaking of the water All people be they yong or old may get a rupture of the nauell which swelleth and hangeth out of the forepart of the belly the which causeth chiefly to women a great hinderance if they be not holpen thereof like as we shall write hereafter more at large when we shall discourse of the rupture yet we will here discourse and write somewhat of certaine things for the behoofe and ease of yong children Take Comfrey one ounce stampe it well put thereto halfe an ounce of molten Waxe temper it well and then lay it vpon the nauell But if the rupture be very great then take Beares grease and therewith annoint the whole back bone of the child it causeth the Nauell to be drawne in It is found to be oftentimes good for all ruptures of the Nauell be it in people of discretion or in yoong children that the herbe Perfoliata and his séed be sodden and layd vpon the rupture and so worne or caried continually vpon the nauell vntill that thereby the rupture be cured And the same séed being also sodden in water or in wine and one drag thereof giuen to drink or stamp the herbe and the seed and giue thereof to the child the weight of one scruple and a half to eate in pap Also you shall hereafter find a plaister of Perfoliata which you may vse for this purpose A good powder Take Lupins meale halfe an ounce burnt linnen one quarter of an ounce temper them together and take therof one quarter of an ounce then temper it afterwards with wine and lay it vpon the nauell Satyros Some do write that when a man without lust of women hath his yard erected and comming to a woman the same will not swage nor relent that then it is called Priapismus Satyrismus is the erection of the priuities which is lost by copulation The cause of both these infirmities are grosse thick vapors or dampes with smal heate that they cannot suddenly spend as also abstinence from women continuall vse of Pease and Beanes and other pottages In fine if there be not speedy remedy for these causes then may insue after it as great a paine and distention of the sinewes as at the last might cause an intollerable crampe and impostume For to remedy this infirmity foure things are to be noted first that the patient beware of all such things which might cause the yard to stand and stirre vp venery what these are we will shew immediatly hereafter Secondly he must indeuour to vomit to let blood and to take mild purgations Thirdly to rub well the vppermost members and not the vndermost to hinder the defluxe of the matter Fourthly the patient must refraine womens company except it be that he haue very great lust thereto And for to cure this it is therefore aduised that first the Median be opened and afterwards cause the patient to vomit If it will not thereby amend open the veine againe and giue the patient a little of the muscilage of Fleawoort which is made with the water of Purslaine or of water lillies or bathe the members and parts about it with boyled Rue Agnus castus Cumin and such like Item annoint the kidneyes and the priuities with herbes cold of nature of which the séeds of Fleawort Campher and Poplar salue are tempered For his Sallad he must take Purslaine Endiue lettice and such like For vineger the iuice of Limons and Citrons are good in all his meates To fast much and liue onely by water and bread is very good for him but in case he will drinke wine then must it be well watered This plaister following shall he weare on the reines and the priuities so long as this sicknesse endureth Take white waxe sixe ounces melt it and wash it ten times in cold water afterwards temper amongst it halfe an ounce of small bruised Campher or weare vpon the raines a thin plate of lead full of holes and wet it often with vineger and Campher This powder following may also be prepared Take Fleawort two dragmes and a halfe Purslaine seed prepared Coriander and Lettice séed of each one quarter of an ounce Campher one dragme temper them all together being powdred small and giue euery morning one dragme thereof with the sirupe of Limons or faire water Vnder the patients shéets must be laid the leaues of Agnus castus and he must lie alwayes vpon his side But if he cannot abide to fast then is he to eate much bread of Millet and many Sallads and his drinke shall be white Wine wherein Rue Cumin Coriander and such like haue bene stéeped Also cold sirupes cold confections and such like are very commodious for him The sent of Beuercod of Campher of Saunders Roses and all cooling things are also passing good for him The third Chapter Of the Testicles and Cods and of sundry Ruptures NAture hath fastened behind the yard or secresie a
there seeketh issue and to tell the truth this is very hardly to be healed especially when all such diseases do stand deep in the necke of the mother But these clefts are to be healed with the same remedies which shortly hereafter in the treatise of the Arsgut shall be described yet if there be no Ague nor sharpnes present then may these pessaries following be vsed Take Ducks grease and the marrow of a Stags bone of each halfe an ounce Saffron one scruple oyle of Lillies and of white Daffodill of each one quarter of an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull wherewith to frame pessaries These pessaries must be put vp into the place yet bounden at a threed they draw the clefts together Item take Frankinsence and Hypocistis of each halfe a dragme Aloe halfe a scruple Dragon blood three dragmes the iuice of Sloes one dragme dried Asse dung one ounce dried Mints a scruple burnt Egshels one dragme and a half three whites of Egs burnt paper two scruples thrée ounces of the iuice of broad Plantain Vineger one quarter of an ounce temper them all together it is especiall good for all clefts of the whole body But if so be that there be any heate or sharpnesse therewith then is oyle of Roses to be vsed for it and the pessaries must be annointed with this white vnguent or make a pessary of Cotton stéeped in Rose water or Plantaine water But if the heate therof be great take the iuice of Purslaine muscilage of Fleawort and iuice of Housléeke worke this the space of certaine houres in a leaden mortar and temper a little oyle of Roses amongst it this healeth and cooleth It is also very good against the Canker of the Mother and such like diseases Item take Dragagant and Gum dissolued in Rose water washed Aloe Ceruse Frankinsence and Dragon bloud of each one dragme litharge of Gold halfe an ounce oyle of Roses two ounces waxe as much as is néedful stamp all that is to be stamped and make a salue of it Also this hereafter following may with a Siring be squirted into the place Take washed white bread Frankinsence Bolus and Dragon blood of each one ounce powne it and séeth it in foure ounces of Goates milke vnto the half then straine it through a cloth and vse it as hath béene sayd Of the Vlceration in the priuities of Women §. 3. AL that is ordained herebefore for the clefts is also good for all vlcerations of the priuities in women so is also in like manner that which followeth hereafter Take fresh butter Badgers grease and Deeres suet of each one ounce the marrow of a yong Steere halfe an ounce fiue beaten yolkes of Egs temper them all together ouer a mild fire and stirre it continually when as it is almost cold then put thereto Violets Cammomill and Roses of each one ounce oile of Oliues one ounce and a half let this séeth softly one quarter of an houre stirring it alwayes about afterwards straine it through a cloth Item take Barrowes grease wherin Dill hath bin fried May butter and Harts suet of each two ounces Sallad oyle one ounce and a half the marrow of a yong Stéere and Roses of each one ounce Violets Cammomill of each one dragme and a halfe sixe yolkes of egs well beaten temper it as before you may put thereto a little Beuercod this is the elder the better For a generall rule note that whereas any vlceration or clefts do show themselues outwardly that for the same these foresaid remedies are commodious if so be that they stand déepe in the neck of the Mother then vse the foresaid pessaries and thrust them in déepe inough for which cause the pessaries must be reasonable long Also for all swellings and exulcerations vse the oyle of white Daffodill for it is very much approoued for it When any body catcheth any sore through carnall copulation §. 4. THis is to be vnderstood of any sore which commonly commeth through copulation or venery For this you shall take Calues suet letting it melt treatably vpon hote coles then temper therewith the marrow of an Oxe when it is molten let it be cold when you will vse this then take a little of it and annoint the sore therewith But if it hapned that one haue his ordure to come forth before then take a small Tunnell and stick it into the fundament like as it were a Clister pipe then poure therein the molten fat but not too hot The patient must also keepe in his breath and afterwards plucke out the Tunnell and so stop the fundament with Cotton that the same fat might not run out againe And two or thrée dayes after he must bathe in warme water or foment with a bag that is filled with Oken leaues Plantaine and Roses and is decocted in water For to make a Woman to be as narrow as a Maiden §. 5. TAke Consolida Saracenica Plantaine red Roses and Shepherds purse of each a like much and chop them small when you haue two handfuls of them then take a pound of May butter melt it and put thereto the sayd herbes then let all séeth softly together halfe an houre long afterwards straine it through a cloth and therewith annoint the place Item take Coperas and let it dissolue in well water wet a cloth therein and lay it in the place but it must otherwhiles be refreshed If then one be troubled with the Crablice looke the first part in the third Capter in the 8. § where is sufficiently written of Lice For to speake then more at large of this matter and to declare like as is said already how much importeth mankind in the soundnesse and health of these parts of generation therefore we will first speake of the Spermaticall fluxe or running of the raines be it by day or night afterwards of the impossibility of the veneriall act Thirdly of the barrennesse both of man and woman and how to redresse it Fourthly what belongeth to the Secundina or Skin wherein the child is wrapt we will shew hereafter The sixt Chapter Of the Spermaticall Fluxe or running of the Raines THe Grecians do call this infirmitie Gonorrhaeam which is when one against his will without the erection of the Yard hath his séed running out through the losse of his strength and vnnaturall heate This is caused through the féeblenesse of the vertue retentiue which is in the instruments of the séed which may happen through any ouercoldnesse be it by sitting on cold stones or otherwise It is else daily séene if any beare this mischiefe too long that he waxeth leane thereby and falleth away And it is also no wonder that by reason of this fluxe of the seed which sometimes ten yea twenty times hapneth betwéene day and night that therby the best nourishment of the body is withdrawn If so be then that this Spermaticall fluxe is caused through weaknesse of the retentiue vertue then hapneth it without féeling or if it happen through
as De succo Endiuiae de Cydonijs de Rosis siccis Rosatus solutiuus and Mirtinus It hath béene also said before that for this disease no purgations are fit But if such were most needfull then is there to be giuen him one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of fine Cassia with Purslaine water Another which is stronger Take Cassia one ounce and De succo Rosarum one quarter of an ounce beaten séeds of Agnus castus one scruple Water-lillies thrée ounces temper them all together Also there is to be giuen him one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassia with hony or milke Afterwards take euery morning a draught of well decocted barly water and temper therewith according as the heate is great a spoonful or twaine of the iuice of Housléeke or Purslaine for it cooleth much Item take one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassia strew it with the powder of Licorice and swallow it downe in the morning fasting Item vse fourtéene dayes continually in the morning early a little Cassia out of the pipes and spet out the kernels A Confection that is very fit for this Take prepared Coriander one quarter of an ounce powder of Mints thrée dragmes Lettice Purslaine and pilled Cucumber séed of each two dragmes and a halfe Gum Comin both parched of each one dragme parched Dragagant one dragme and a halfe Waterlillies one quarter of an ounce all these beaten small together Sugar fiftéene ounces and séeth the Sugar in Purslaine water and then make Tabulates of it Hereafter follow Potions Take Comfrey rootes and seeth them in water drinke thereof thrée or foure ounces with Sugar it is very fit for this disease Item steeled water wherein Mirtle seede hath bene decocted being drunken is also very good For this is also meete Plantaine water Sorrell water Purslaine water and Cicorie water Or take Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes boyle them in water and drinke of it Or take of the Trocisci de Carabe de terra Sigillata de Spodio which you will or of each halfe a dragme for the whole Dose mixe it with whay and so drinke it What ought to be vsed outwardly IF so be that this infirmitie haue long continued then make Smiths Sinders glowing hot and slake them in wine and bath therwithall You must fill the Nauel with Stags suet which stayeth the affluxion of the heate and sharpnesse of the matter If the patient then desire to make water theÌ must the patient hang his priuities in PlaÌtaine water or Nightshade water Item take old oyle of Roses two ounces oyle of Quinces and Mirtles of each two ounces and a halfe Burnt Lead white Lead Bloudstone both washt in Lettice water of each halfe an ounce Starch one ounce and a halfe Willow leaues and water Lillie flowers of each fiue dragmes Camfere one quarter of an ounce mixe one with another in a leaden mortar with the iuice of Plantaine and make also a salue thereof For this disease shall you finde many remedies both in the auncient and later Phisitions The cooling salue is also very commodious for this like as is the oyntment of Saunders Vnguentum Sandalinum Vnguentum Sandalinum which is made in this manner Take Roses three dragmes red Saunders two dragmes and a halfe yellow Saunders one dragme and a half fine Bolus one quarter of an ounce burnt Iuorie one drag Camfere halfe a dragme white Waxe one ounce oyle of Rose buds three ounces the Waxe and the oyle are to be molten togither and then temper the other things amongst them This is not onely good for this disease but also for inflamed Kidneies and to coole the liuer the stomacke and all other parts With any of both these oyntments annoynt the patients Kidneies and the Cods euen to the end of his Yard Item take oyle of Mirtles Roses Masticke of each halfe a dragme shauen Iuorie one scruple Camfere two graines powne all that is to be powned and with a little Waxe make thereof a salue wherwith annoynt the Kidneies This salue is also good for the whites in women Womens whites It is also much commended to weare vpon the Kidneies a peece of thin beaten Lead Of the Fluxe of Sperme or the running of Reynes through cold §. 2. IN this infirmitie is felt with the paine in the head a distemperance also of the braines a vexation af the whole body with cold eueÌ as in Mania For this be especially Mints very méete Rue also and the seede thereof be highly commended for the same mountaine Mints Agnus Castus Artichockes with the rootes parched Comin Caruway Annis Frankinsence and their barkes Masticke and Marierom This patient must then prouidently as is sayd and mildly purge afterwards euery morning take a dragme of Treacle with Betonie water You may giue him also stued Peares or Quinces to eate Likewise rere sodden egges wherein is a little Masticke powder strewed and red Corall powder Also the Reynes and bladder are to be annointed round about with oyle of Masticke and oyle of Roses Of the Fluxe of the Sperme or seede in the sleepe §. 3. ABoue the afore mentioned fluxe of the seede this yet is to be annexed vnto it when as the seede also passeth away in the sleepe a nights and very seldome by day The cause of this is daily riotting and surfetting and specially meates which are drest with spice and be easie of digestion Secondly the thoughts vpon a faire woman whom one loueth Thirdly to sléepe sound and to lye vpon the backe abundance of bloud abstinence from women haile youth whence all other signes are to be had and taken these are also to be remedied like the former If it be caused of fulnesse it is to be cured by abstinence if through lust after women then will it be eased with a godly Matrimonie as also by the vse of cold and dry things as is already sayd of the running of the Raynes of that which procéedeth not of abundance but maketh a man vnfit to get children as shall be hereafter spoken of Of what and whereby naturall Sperme or seede will be most augmented §. 4. THe cause of the diminishing or increasing of naturall séede may as well procéede of intollerable heate as cold also of inward and outward causes The cold is repercussiue and kéepeth backe the heate consumeth Likewise it may grow by fals and such like other things moe whereby the braines are weakened Item of some kind of lesion of the stones and other parts also of inward as a bad concoction of the séede cutting of the stone or the Piles wherby the generation of the séede is hindred of sore precedent diseases of sorrow heauinesse temptation smalnesse of the humaine member and amongst diuers other causes of age also Now for to helpe this disease euen as is before sayd not to increase lecherie or fleshly lust but in fauour and preferment of Matrimonie For this therefore is good warme and dry weather and also
all such dwellings yellow Rape séede baked in bread as much that there be put one scruple in halfe a penyworth of white bread is very requisite yong fat flesh not salted too much a sauce with Saffron long Pepper and tayles of Stincus prepared with good Wine all sowre sharpe doughy slimy meates must be forborne long sléepe and especially after meate doth annoy for the long sleepe immediatly after meate doth no lesse hinder venerie then surfetting with meate and drinke He is also to eschue all vexation sorrow and care But in generall these things are good for the increase of humaine séede and to recouer the losse thereof againe to wit Egs Milks Rise drest in Milke Sparrowes braines yea the whole birds Also the stones of these Beasts following viz. as of Buls Cockes Bucks Rams Bores and all their pissels Of pottages are very good that of Beanes Ciches Lupins the first bitter brothes of them cast away and the rest sugred Pease Turky or French Beanes and Wheate sodden in fresh broth and drest with Spice Annis Fennell seedes white and red Mustard séede Colewort seed and yellow Rape séede the seedes of white Sesamum Fenegreeke séede sodden with Hony in fat flesh broth Linséede tempered with Sugar and other meate and also Nettle séede Of Rootes these following are highly commended as stued Onions Garlick Léekes yellow Rapes fresh Ragwort rootes and confected Sugar or the powder thereof dronken with the water wherein Mustard seede is sodden confected rootes of Eringus confected Ginger Costus rootes Sperage Thistle rootes Radish Zeduary Squils rosted confected Asarabacca Pieretrum and Cypers nuts Of Herbes are the garden Cressis and braunches of Sperage Of Fruits hasell Nuts Pistacia Almonds and aboue all Marchpane made thereof All Spices are very commodious for this vse as Cinnamom Cardamome Galingall long Pepper Cloues Ginger Saffron For this is also very highly praysed Assa foetida the waight of one dragme and a halfe dronken in good Wine in like manner also Dragagant the pissell of a Bull or of a Hart the waight of one scruple taken also in Wine likewise the tayles of Stincus the waight of a dragme taken before meate with Wine Of things compounded you haue these confections Diamoschu Pliris Aromaticum Rosatum Diambra Dianthos Diagalanga Trionpipereon and Diamargaritan Calidum also Mithridate in like manner And aboue all other things is the confection Diasatyrion commended for it strengtheneth the stomacke This following is much vsed at Augusta Take Ginger one dragme and a halfe Almonds Pingles and Pisticia of each one ounce the kernels of an Indy Nut and Sisarum of each halfe an ounce the pissell of a Hart fiue dragmes Cynqfoyle Palma Christi one dragme and a halfe Galingall Cloues Cinnamom white Mustard séede long Pepper wild yellow Rape séede white Behen of each one dragme Onion séede Radish séed Rape seede and Ashen keyes of each two scruples the sides and tayles of Stincus thrée drag Borrage one quarter of an ounce Sugar two pound seeth it in Wine as you would make Tabulats or a confection of it This also following may be prepared Take yellow and other Rapes Onions Sperage rootes wild Mustard seede Radish seede Pingles Ash keyes rootes of Eringuâ of Satyrion swéete Costus rootes Ginger long Pepper and Cresses séedes of each a like much Also take clarified Hony three ounces to one ounce of the powder then make thereof a confection Of the same may three dragmes be taken at once tempered with Sugar pennets and new Milke One may vse outwardly Waxe made to an Oyntment with oyle of Beuercod Or take Beuercod Marierom gentle oyle of Costus of each a like much put thereto a little Muske or Zibeta and therwith annoynt the yarde with other places adioyning vnto it If you will haue a slighter then take the gall of a Beare An especiall oyntmeÌt Take of the great winged Ants thrée dragmes oile of white Sasamum and oyle of Lillies of each one ounce powne the Ants and put them into the oyle and so let them stand the space of sixe dayes in the Sunne afterwards wring out the oyle and put thereto Euphorbium one scruple Pepper Rue of each one dragme white Mustard seede half a dragme set this againe into the Sunne awhile and annoynt all ouer the priuities therewith Another Take oyle of Lillies two ounces oyle of Beuercod one ounce Euphorbium Pepper white Mustard séed of each one dragme Muscus halfe a scruple temper it vnto an Oyntment If so be that then the naturall heate be thereby excitated and stirred vp and other kindnesse do come vpon you then do what in you lyeth The seuenth Chapter Of Barrennesse in generall WHen as then neither in the one nor in the other as that neither in the Man nor in the Woman there appeareth any infirmitie in the parts of generation and both parties are mighty inough for the worke notwithstanding cannot come to any generation then must there be a certaine cause of barrennesse whereof there be many kinds First then concerning the Man it may be well caused through outward and inward accidents the outward are the hard meates whereto there commeth then also the vnbeliefe of Withcraft But if so be that the same proceed of inward causes then doth the same procéed of the weaknesse of the most principall parts of mans body as of the Hart the Braines the Liuer the Stomacke the Milt Or he may be too fat or too leane with many moe other infirmities which may be in the priuy meÌbers that are not to be here discouered The signes of the Barrennesse of the man are these great heate which may be knowen by féeling him The woman in receiuing féeleth the great heate of the seede he hath great desire to the action and is very hairy ouer al his body and got haire very early about the priuities But if so be that cold be the cause then are these things found to be all contrary Concerning the Women the Barrennesse may be caused by drinking too much cold water by continuall vse of sowre meates by anger by feare by frighting and other motions moe of the minde which may cause all the same Item when a woman after copulation stirreth by and by leapeth runneth or daunceth too much If it proceede of any inward cause then must it be either of the constitution of the whole body or of some other infirmitie of the parts of generation If of the constitution of the whole body then shall some principal part of the body féele the same to wit by reason that the Termes are hindred or flow too much Also a woman may be too old or too yong or too fat which maketh barren If the maladie be in the parts of generation then dependeth it most in the mother or wombe which hath some vlceration or is too wide or too narrow or too much obstructed and such like The signes of Barrennesse in women are these to wit when it procéedeth of the coldnesse of
the mother then hath she her Termes very little and if they do runne yet are they not well coloured they haue also but little haire on their priuities they be by nature slow and slacke they care not much for men and are commonly of a pale colour for which doth also much helpe the long vse of meates or drinkes which are cold of nature If the Barrennes be caused through heate then hath she likewise her floures or termes very little mixt with yellownesse the woman is hasty headed crafty thirsty desirous of the man hairie about her priuie place she hath a quick pulse and black haire with other tokens moe all which dry or moyst diseases must néedes be in the mother or in the necke of the same Thirdly they are sometimes of a contrary complexion for that the séede cannot be rightly mixed or sometime also too neare like one another of complexion For an example when a cold man commeth to a cold woman or that they be both dry of nature and if in all things else they be also of like complexions one to another then is it vnpossible that the woman can conceiue There shall be moe other signes described how to know by whom the let and infirmitie commeth to wit do cast both Spermata vpon the water and that which driueth on the top is barren Item sprinkle both their vrines vpon a Lettice leafe and whosoeuer doth dye away first the same is vnfruitfull Or take fiue cornes of Wheate seuen Barley graines and seuen Beanes put them all into an earthen pot and pisse thereon let it stand so seuen dayes long and if they begin to sprout then is the person fruitfull or if they rot then is he or she barren be it man or woman Or let him pisse in a pot and let the vrine stand awhile if wormes grow therein then is that vrine barren These three last proofes do the auncient Phisitions themselues say to be vncertaine therefore we will let them rest Item make vnderneath an odoriferous fume as of Myrrhe red Storax and such like odoriferous warme things to passe into the necke of the wombe through a tunnell which being close couered round about if the woman finde that this smoke go through the body and feeleth it in her nose then is she fruitfull Another Take grosse beaten Garlick and lay the woman with her backe thereupon if so be that she féele the smell in her nose then is it a token of fruitfulnesse There are moe such like tokens which are sayd to be approoued but how that fruitfulnesse is to be furthered and holpen there are diuers remedies hereafter rehearsed out of the writings of the most famous Phisitions out of which may be chosen according to the complexion of women whether they be hote cold moyst dry fat leane oppilated or contrary by nature For to helpe and preferre or hasten fruitfulnesse §. 1. IF that fruitfulnesse be desired to be furthered and holpen then must the cause that hindreth the same be abated and taken away of which the learned do recken very many which may be contained in thrée especiall points as when a woman is to hote and too dry too cold and too moyst or hath her termes or floures too much or to little of which thrée especiall points we will now discourse Of Barrennesse through heate §. 2. ALl such women must beware of hote ayre dwellings and such like also of clothes which kéepe the parts and sinewes about the wombe too hote Also they must eschue all hote meates as Spice salt flesh strong Wine very fat meates warme herbs as Smallage Fennel Thyme Southernewood Rue long watching to lye much on the Raynes or Kidneis great labour anger heauinesse and such like motions of the minde but all that moderately cooleth that must be vsed They must take oftentimes conserue of Roses or cold Dragagant losinges and the confections Triasantali also to hold before the nose and smell to Campher Rose water and Saunders as hath bene many times told for hote sicknesses Aboue all these must the Basilica or Liuer veine be opened in the right arme and to let out about fiue ounces of bloud On the next day is this purgation to be vsed Take Elect. de Epithimo de succo Rosarum of each two dragmes and a halfe the whay of Milke foure ounces temper them well togither and take it in the morning then sléepe afterwards about one houre and a halfe and fast foure houres vpon it this being done drinke a good draught of whay and you may breake your fast one houre after Other do purge with Triphera Saracenica and Rubarb and also minister preparatiue potions mixed either with sirupes of Violets Roses or Endiue Or take the water of water Lillies foure ounces water of Mandragora one ounce beaten Saffron halfe a scruple drinke them luke warme and do this eight dayes one after another Also you may vse these pils following Take Broome flowers Smallage Parsley séede Comin Mugwort and Feuerfew of each halfe a scruple Aloe halfe an ounce Indy salt and Saffron of each halfe a dragme powne them all togither and mixe them well afterwards powre thereon fiue ounces of warme Feuerfew water close it to and let it stand and dry in a warme place do this thrée times one after another This being all done then make sixe pils of each dragme and take alwayes one thereof before supper about the second day all the while that this foresayd Potion is vsed afterwards you must take one thereof about the third or fourth day vntill that she haue conceiued After the foresayd Potions must this purgation following be vsed Take the conserue Benedicta lax one quarter of ounce de Psillio thrée dragmes Electuarium de succo Rosarum one dragme and a halfe temper them togither with Feuerfew water and drinke it warme in the morning early thrée dayes after this purgation must the Median veine be opened in the right foote to wit fiue or sixe houres after breakefast and according to her strength must be letten out fiue or sixe ounces of bloud the next day and also fiue dayes one after another filed Iuorie is to be taken one dragme and a halfe with Feuerfew water And the whilest that this Potion is by her vsed then is she in the morning one houre before that she do arise and also at night before she go to bed to sit in this bath following and remaine therein about halfe an houre Take wild yellow Rapes Daucus Balsam wood with the fruits and the séede or keyes of an ash trée of each two handfuls red and white Behen Broome flowers of each a handfull and a halfe Muske thrée graines Amber Saffron of each one scruple séeth all these in sufficient water But the Saffron Muske Amber and Broome flowers must be put into it when all the rest be sufficiently decocted and wrong out A profitable Confection Take Pistacia Pingles Eringus of each half an ounce of the swéet rootes which the Italians
coldnes for the which are strengthening and warming things to be vsed as Amber Frankinsence with their rinds Masticke Lignum Aloes Cloues Nutmegs Sage Galingall Calmus and Cardomome Also she must be gouerned like as hath bene sayd in the discourse of barrennesse Item there is more good for this that the necke of the matrix be often washed with water wherein Cypers rootes are decocted or with water wherein Iron drosse is sodden which is stronger Also for this may serue Masticke strewed vpon hot coales and the fume thereof receiued from below A very good salue fit for this Take the iuice of Roses of Pomegranates and Cloues of each one ounce Frankinsence Hypocistis the iuice of Sloes Mastick prepared Coriander and Iron drosse of each one drag Sealed earth and Starch of each one ounce bruse these very long in a Leaden mortar and annoint the priuities therewith oftentimes But if the infirmitie procéede of heate then are things to be vsed which be astringent roborating and cooling yet tempered with some warme things The cold things are these burnt and washt Harts horne Amber iuice of Sloes Hypocistis burnt Muskle shels Bolus burnt Gals Dragon bloud Sealed earth flowers and shales of Pomegranates Acornes with their cups the rind of the Medlar trée and the fruits Seruices and Mirtle séede of all these foresayd simples may salues plaisters and other things be prepared which are all fit for this infirmitie Of Barrennesse through repletion of the body and obstruction of the Termes or Flowers §. 7. THese women must forbeare all slimy meates as milke and all that is drest therewith also from all doughie meates pottage and old fish vnleauened bread new Chéese but old Cheese is meetely tollerable from all cold and moyst fruits Touching all other meates they may liue according to their old custome their drinke must be reasonable or meane strong white wine Concerning the medicines you must first begin with the letting of bloud opening the Basilica in the right arme and to let out foure or fiue ounces of bloud The next day following you may cause to be mixt togither Pillulae de Opopanaco and of Hiera Composita of each halfe a dragme and to make seuen pils thereof and to take them in the morning and then to sléepe one houre and a halfe vpon it and fiue houres after to drinke a draught of sugred water and then one houre after that to eate This being done this powder following is to be prepared and to be vsed foure graines therof euery mealetide in all their meats Take Cinnamome halfe an ounce Saffron one drag Spikenard two scruples Licorice foure scrup whereof make a subtile powder Immediatly after the pils they are to vse this potion sixe or eight dayes continually early in the morning Take Syrupum Acetosum compositum De Eupatorio of each thrée quarters of an ounce Mugwoort Feuerfew and the water of Elecampane rootes of each one ounce temper them togither Or take the foresayd waters alone without sirupes fiue ounces at one time Other pils Take Aloe two ounces Agaricus and Opopanacum of each one drag and a halfe Spica Mather Cinnamome Saffron and Indie Salt of each one drag Coloquint foure scrup the iuice of Feuerfew foure ounces temper all togither and set it in the sunne and stir it often about vntill it be dry do this thrice Then take the waight of a dragme and forme sixe pils thereof vse one euery thrée dayes iust before supper Also likewise one in the day time so long as they vse these foresayd potions but not when they purge The said purgation must be made thus Take Electuarium Indum halfe an ounce de Succo Rosarum one drag temper this with thrée ounces of water of Elecampane rootes After this second purgation she is one moneth long to take the waters of Feuerfew Elecampane rootes and Balme of each one ounce mixed togither before noone and against night she is to sit in this bath following Take Balme Maierom gentle white Mints Penniroyall Feuerfew and Mugwort of each a handfull small and great Camedrios Spica romana Daucus Agrimonie and Stechas of each a handfull séeth these all togither in sufficieÌt water vntill that about the third part be sodden away and then put thereto Muske three graines Lignum Aloes Galliae Muscatae beaten small of each a dragme This being so prepared then shall the set her self therein and kéepe her selfe from her husband thrée dayes In the meane while she is to put into the necke of the wombe this pessarie following Take Saffron half a scruple Muske Amber Lignum Aloes and Ash keyes of each thrée graines Hares renning as much as is néedfull forme it like to Date stones and she is to weare it all the day in her body Another Take Hares renning one dragme and a halfe shauen Iuorie red and white Behen and Ash keyes of each halfe a dragme Sesely Penniroyall Nep Sauine Galliae Muscatae of each halfe a scruple being all beaten small and tempered with oyle of Spike vntill it be soft then temper therewith Muske and Laudanum of each two graines dip some wooll therein and vse it as before For the poore is onely the oyle of Lillies commended with a pessarie of Cotton dipped therein and so put vp and holden therein the space of thrée houres When such women haue purged and bathed then must they before that they come at their husbands be let bloud in the Saphena or Median two houres after supper letting out thrée or foure ounces of bloud if so be that she be any thing strong It were also very good that wheÌ such women arise a mornings they do gird about them a loÌg garment and set some fire vnder them and to strew therin this powder following that she may receiue the vapour thereof and vse a little at once A very good confection Take Doronicum Ash keyes Mugwort Feuerfew flowers of S. Iohns woort of each one dragme Balme Basill of each one quarter of an ounce shauen Iuory halfe an ounce Amber one scruple Muske fiue graines small filed Gold halfe a dragme the powder called Nere one dragme Syrup de Calaminta thrée ounces Sirupe of Citron péeles fiue ounces Sugar sixe ounces all that is to be powned powne small séeth the Sirupe and Sugar méetely thicke and when it beginneth to be cold then temper it with all the powder except the Spec. Nere Muske and Amber the which must be put in at the last Kéepe this confection in a Gally pot whereof the woman is to take immediately after her second letting bloud euery morning the quantitie of a Nutmeg and fast foure houres after In like manner also after meate the bignesse of a Beane and drinke thereupon a draught of good wine the which hath holpen many women The powder before promised for suffumigation Take Laudanum halfe an ounce Galliae Muscatae two dragmes Muske Amber of each thrée graines Lignum Aloes Opopanacum of each one dragme make them into powder and vse a
little of it one time For to further the fruitfulnesse in man and woman §. 8. TAke Rapes Sisarum shauen Iuorie Sesely red and white Behen Ash keyes of each one drag Cinnamome Doronicum Mace Cloues Galingale long Pepper Rosemarie flowers Balsam wood Blattae Byzantiae Marierom gentle Penniroyall of each two scruples Balme Buglosse Citron peeles of each one scruple Indie Spike Amber Perles of each halfe a scrup Sugar decocted in Malmsey one pound make Tabulats thereof or a Confection A powder for to strew vpon the meate Take Nutmegs Cucubes and Ginger of each halfe a drag long Pepper Masticke Cinnamome red and white Behen of each one scruple stampe them togither and so vse them as is sayd Item take the stone of a Bore hog being two yeares old the pissell of a Stag shauen small halfe an ounce foure paire of Foxe stones and fiftie or threescore Sparrowes braines wild yellow Rapes Eringus rootes Satyrion confected all togither in Sugar shauen Iuorie of each thrée ounces and a halfe Cinnamome the pissell of a Bull Pingles Dates and Indy Nut kernels of each two ounces long pepper Ginger and Rosemary flowers of each halfe an ounce Seseli one dragme Nettle séed Cloues saffron Mace Galingal Cipers rootes Nutmegs Cassy wood Cucubes Doronicum field Mints Penniroyal Indy Spica Musk Amber of each one drag white Sugar refined in the water of wild Mints foure pounds and a halfe make thereof a confection this confection may be both by men and women vsed in the morning fasting and in the euening when they go to bed whereof haue bene great wonders seene Another Take clarified hony thrée ounces Linseed Greines and shauen Iuory of each one ounce Burrage thrée ounces make thereof a confection and temper therewith 24. ounces of sugar Muske and Amber of each halfe a scruple Cinnamome two graines Cloues and Mace of each one graine it is a very mild medicine It is also very good that men and women receiue euery morning a little Treacle to wit half a dragme with halfe a dragme of shauen Iuory but for such as be yong it is not so good by reason of the heate A good salue Take Galliae Muscatae Nutmegs Beuercod Hares renning Laudanum of each one quarter of an ounce oile of Spike oile of Masticke and of Mirtles of each thrée dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue therewith these are to be vsed as the other Wine of Rosemary is also much commended for this In like maner the Morolfe wine all which are described in the last part with other moe such spiced Wines which are very fit for such ouercold and barren men and women For to make a woman fruitfull for which this serueth for a potion bath following Take Wormewood and Mugwort of each a handfull séeth them together in a quart of Goates milke almost to the halfe whereof euery morning and euening she is to take a good draught For to bathe Take wild Penniroyall Mugwort and Rue of each one handfull make a bag thereof and let them séeth in raine water bathe therein euery eight houres and alwaies about the third day a fresh bath For a conclusion in women is as it is already said the greatest cause of barrennes for that the Matrix or Womb is not cleane is ouercooled or hath some other infirmity whereof hereafter in this part shall be discoursed and taught also what is meete and fit for the same The eight Chapter Of the Raines and their paines EVen as we haue described now the outward parts before of the belly in this third part of our booke of Phisicke so doth the cause require that we ought to write somewhat of the hinder part amongst which the Raines are comprehended and that these raines are a part of the back it appéereth by all that here before in the second part in the fourth chapter and also afterwards is written therefore it is thought néedlesse to make any further mention thereof These Raines do suffer by reason of the Kidneys very great paine wheÌ the same are vexed with heate vlceration grauel stone or other malady the description whereof yet hereafter followeth in this third part where it may also be noted and obserued what may be good commodious for the same There be commonly commended for hot paines in the raines oile of Roses Violets and yellow violets Waterlillies and Poplar buds in like sort also thrée salues following of Saunders the cooling ointment of Galeni and the Poplar salue are very good and that in all hot causes But if the paine procéed of cold then is Honywater to be drunken confected roots of Eryngus Fennell Comin Caraway be it confected or otherwise are to be eaten for they asswage much the paine Some vse also the conserues of Piony This salue following is especiall good Take blew and yellow Violets of each one ounce and a halfe oyle of swéete Almonds of Sesamum of each one dragme and a halfe fresh butter one ounce Saffron one scruple white Waxe one ounce and a halfe Ducks grease oile of Cammomill oyle of Dill of each one quarter of an ounce and a small yolke of an Egge the oyle grease and butter melt together and at the last put the Saffron and yolke vnto it and stirre it well about it swageth much the paine which is caused through the grauel stone and any thing else therefore it is called by the Grecians Onodynum euen as the Apothecaries do call it vnto this day Vnguentum Anodynum The ninth Chapter Of the Buttockes THere are two Buttocks giuen to men for their vse by nature compiled of a compact fast muscly and hard flesh and not narrow piked bearing vp like to Beasts but prety and round as well for a comelinesse of the same place as for to sit on and ease the whole body couering and defending the fundament that the same cannot be violated nor strained through sitting These foresaid buttocks do seldome suffer any other infirmity but such as be subiect to Chirurgery as wounds vlcerations fistulaes Cankers and such like Besides this is no more to be spoken thereof therfore we wil passe ouer to the Fundament or outward part of the Arsegut with his infirmities which are incident vnto it outwardly and inwardly The tenth Chapter Of the Arsegut or Fundament in generall THere haue bin some dotrels in the world who haue complained of nature wherfore she had not chosen as wel a bone or some other neather member of the body wherby she might expel the excremeÌts as she did this mild place of the body which grosse speech is to be scorned as a great folly for how could she haue ordained a closer fitter handsomer place thaÌ this Concerning then this Arsgut it is a conueier of all excrements long wide and whereas it cometh to our sight with a round circle it is there shapen of a muscly sinewy substance like as are the lips of the mouth therfore hath it
Hollihock rootes Figs cut Linséed and Fenegreeke beaten small as much as you thinke good let this séeth all to pap and at the last temper therewith thrée or foure yolks of Egs and as much Butter as you thinke good and lay it warme vpon the place where the paine is If so be then this be caused through cold then put vnto it a litle of the rootes of Lillies Cammomill Melilot and such like And if so be that this Arsegut by reason of the impostume will hardly be put vp againe into the body then must the patient be set oftentimes in warme water and afterwards annoint the Arsegut with oile of Cammomill and of Dill which are molten with a little Waxe this swageth the paine In like sort also descendeth the neck of the Matrix in women and is in such sort to be cured like as hereafterwards amongst other infirmities of the wombe shall be written more at large Of the Piles called Haemorrhoides §. 4. AFter the foresaid falling downe of the Arsegut there commeth one disease more in the fundament the which we call the Piles and the Grecians Haemorrhoides which is a fluxe of blood and Sycoses that are Figs which the Latinists do call Ficus Figs and Mariscas All these are Accidents and Tumors which do come behind in the Fundament or in the lowermost part of the Arsegut And they do appeare by their swelling and otherwise whereof they get their name sometimes with blood and otherwhiles without blood but seldome without paine but vexeth folkes with great trouble They take their beginning from some small veines which spread themselues into the vttermost parts of the stomack and are thereof called the Pile or Emroyd veines When as these be then ouercharged with blood or any other humors then do they open themselues and expel the melancholick blood from them sometimes in great quantity whereby nature is much vnburthened and getteth great health therefore it is often commaunded for to open the same euen as hereafter shall be admonished also they bléed otherwhiles so excessiuely that great trauell is taken before they can be stopped wherof we shall speake hereafter There be also some of these veines which lie somewhat deepe vpwards and therefore are called the blind Piles These Piles are properly the Hemorrhoides like as by their name may appeare Others be without blood of the which they that make shew outwardly on the Arsegut are first of all the Figpiles by reason that in their whole substance and quantity they be like vnto figs and also are therfore called Verrucales the which are much worse than the other whose cause is only melancholick blood Other do shew themselues like to a black ripe grape so that they be called Vnales which haue their matter from blood mingled with melancholy The third are like to Mulberies red and blackish coloured wherein the blood doth apparantly excéed The fourth kind is like to the bladder of a fish which is extended very much without blood filled or stuft with melancholick humors but these sorts are seldome séene The first sort are the secret Piles which do come within the Arsegut and be very hurtfull especially those which extend towards the priuities for that through their hot tumors they hinder the passage of the vrine whereby the strangury is prouoked and especially when they do not bléed Now for to know these hidden Piles and diseases there is nothing more certaine than to set a great boxe or cup on the Arsegut without pricking the which will draw the Arsegut outward so that it may be apparantly séene how that the case doth consist within The sixt kind of Piles are the Figs a certaine excrescence vpon the Arsegut outwardly who with a little veine like the stalke of a fig is fastened to the gut formed as it were a small dry fig from thence a little bigger and is pressed downe on the top like a Fig which is called of the Gréekes Condyloma which is an excrescence of flesh for it hapneth sometimes that round about the roundnes of the Arsegut or fast besides it there do come great scabs which sometimes yet vncertaine whether it be first or last according as the patient ruleth himselfe do happen to bléede sometimes much and sometimes little These figs and swellings are tempered also with bloud and melancholy a little red outwardly and perilous ynough euen as hereafter shall be further expressed In all these Species of the Pyles the learned haue a generall rule that they estéeme them for an accident that can hardly be cured They recite nine causes of these accidents albeit we will recite but fowre First for that it is in an vncleane place and no man medleth willingly therewith Secondly for that this place is very hard to be séene Thirdly for that it is a place whither all vncleannes of the bodie doth descend Lastly for that it is a place cold by nature and therefore voyd of strength notwithstanding there be many good remedies prouided and ordained for them as hereafter followeth But before we discourse of the foresayd remedies for the Pyles Blathers Figs Warts Tumors and their accidents we will first of all shew their causes and teach how the same may be cured for which the principallest is to obserue a good dyet in meate and drinke and such like Of the Dyet IT is sufficiently declared before that the greatest cause of these accidents is the heauie melancholick bloud which is mixt with the pure bloud and perisheth the same which all other members expell from them like as it were a poyson and so falleth downewards from the other bloud into the veines openeth them through his heate and maketh them bleed This is altogether caused of a bad digestion of the stomack and other members and of all such grosse meates whereof there can be none other ingendred but melancholick bloud the which must be altogether left off as Beanes Lentils and other Pottages Item Coleworts Chéese old Beefe Harts Hares Goats salted and smoked flesh sodden Wheate Rice vnleauened bread which bring much moysture with them Also all water Fowles Eeles and other Fish without scales féete heads and all entrailes of Beasts grosse Wine Must and Béere Item all things which burne the bloud as much Mustard Pepper Garlick Onions Léekes All things which be very cold do also increase melancholie as Melons Cucumbers and such like Amongst the medicins which are contrary for this disease are Coloquint Centorie Scammonie and chiefely Aloe very hurtfull for the Arsegut for it openeth the Pyles Euen as we haue recited what is hurtfull for this disease so will we also teach what manner of dyet might be commodious and profitable for the same The dwelling of this patient must be a warme and dry place which is close and toward the South But if the house be not of it selfe fit thereto then is it to be prepared for the same with fire and fumes yet is alwayes to be eschued things which be too hote and must
the Pyles are these things following highly commended Take Mirobalani Indi Emblici Bellirici a little parched of each fiue dragmes Perles halfe a dragme temper them all togither with the iuice of Garlicke and vse halfe a drag thereof at one time with stéeled water the party is also euery morning to eate a couple of confected Mirobalans Chebuli and to fast fower howers vpon it and that during the space of ten daies or as long as the bleeding continueth A stronger Take the confection of Triphera ex parte Phenouis or de Scoria ferri of which you will one quarter of an ounce or lesse tempered in two ounces of Purslaine water Also the iuice of Yarrow may be taken for this one ounce and a halfe the same stancheth much Item take Wormewood Venus haire and Sorrell of each one handfull Sorrell séed and the séeds of Plantaine Melons Purslaine and Roses of each one dragme seeth them in fayre well water afterwards wring it out and put thereto the shales of yellow Mirobalans one quarter of an ounce red and white prepared Corall Citron séed of each halfe a dragme let it seeth to thrée or foure ounces then mixe with this decoction Syrupum Acetosum Compositum one ounce Syrupum de Plantagine halfe an ounce take this certaine daies one after another in the morning betimes For this is also good one quarter of an ounce of Galbanum dissolued in water and dronken A very commodious confection for to be taken alwaies before meat Take Butchers broome seed parched séed of broade Plantaine the iuice of Sloes and Coriander of each one scruple Amber all beaten small and Sugar which is dissolued in Purslaine water thrée ounces take thrée dragmes thereof at one time Aboue all these astringent medicines you shall finde manie moe in the discourse of the excessiue fluxe of the Termes in women also in the first part where many are specified for the staunching of blood the which are altogither good for this purpose How that the Pyles are to be opened §. 6. WHat good this bléeding of the Pyles doth cause wheÌ it commeth by nature and of it selfe and from what sicknes it will preserue a man it is partly declared in the 5. § Likewise what this bléeding doth procure if it be staunched contrary to the old custome also what inconueniences may come ensue thereof When as this bleeding discoÌtinueth the Pyles do vexe the patient with great paine and extuberation then are they to be opened for to let the blood haue his accustomed course for this preserueth one besides all the recited perillous maladies from all corroding vlcers wildfire cankers madnes melancholy falling sicknes enflaming of the Lights both the kinds of dropsies and consumption And if so be that this blood be staunched then is it to be feared that all the foresaid diseases may ensue thereby therefore when any body desireth to open them then are these things following to be vsed First put the sicke body in a bath whereby the Pyles may be mollified Or in the stéed therof make this fomentation Take Marierom field Mints and Mallowes séeth them in wine and receiue the vapor thereof from beneath sitting on a close stoole méetly warme the next day after open the Saphea or the Median The Saphea is vpon the hindermost part of the foot besides the héele whereby the melancholicke blood is drawen downeward afterwards annoynt the Pyles with oyle of bitter Almonds or oyle of Nuts also a little Cotton is good for this made wet in the iuice of Onions and laid thereon This may you effect also with the Gals of all beasts although the Oxe gall be especially coÌmended aboue all the rest Secondly put Horsleaches into them through a pipe whereby they may fall right vpon the Pyles for by nature they do draw out the melancholicke blood which is contrary to the boxing cups Therefore if there be boxing cups set vpon it then must they be fastened vnpickt be it on man or woman and that betwéene the priuities and the Arsegut Thirdly rub the Arsegut with Fig leaues vntill it begin to bléede in like sort may the powder of Nep of Marierom of Fleawort of Swines bred of Pepper or any other biting powder as Cantharides and Esula also Flammula may be laid thereon But if you will haue milder things then take the iuice of Centorie or water wherein a good quantitie of Mallowes be decocted Item beaten Stauesacre tempered with Honie Fourthly this is the most certaine way viz. that two or thrée pyles be opened with the Flew and to the end they may not shut suddenly together againe like as their nature is then vse this salue following Take oyle of Peach kernels of Abricock kernels or the same kernels beaten and the iuice of Garlick of each one quarter of an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue But if so be that these inward Pyles cannot be séene then must the patient be required once to strayne hard as if he would goe to the stoole Do not the Pyles as yet appeare thereby then let a boxe or cup with a wide mouth be set vpon the fundament when these haue pluckt out the Arsegut then open a veine or twayne that be fullest Fiftly vse this salue following Take small beaten Aloe one quarter of an ounce Oxe gals one ounce Vineger two ounces temper them all together put therein some Cotton or wet a cloth and rub it well therewith Item take Centorie Rapontica Stauesacre Flammula and white Néesewort of each alike much temper it with Oxe gall and the iuice of Onions let it then dry stampe it and once againe do as before Reiterate this fowre times together when you will vse this then wash well the Pyles with warme water and temper the foresayd powder with Oxe gall and annoynt therewith the Pyles Another Take two small Onions fowre heads of Garlick beate them together and temper them with the meale of Lupins and with very eager Vineger vnto a plaister which will open the Pyles immediatly Sixtly make a long suppository of Swines bread put it vp into the fundament kéepe it therein a whole night if it come out then put in another vntill the Pyles begin to bléede Also with the suppositories of wild Cucumber rootes do the like Item take Coloquint thrée drag bitter Almonds halfe an ounce sodden Hony thrée ounces and make suppositories thereof and vse another euery fiue howres so that the Pyles will then bléede immediatly Some do open these veines with hote yrons and some through Cauteries potentiall as Arsenicum and such like but because they are perilous it is better to rest with the former remedies Against the paine of the Pyles §. 7. IF so be that there be any impostume besides the paine of the Pyles outwardly on the Arsegut then must the patients Liuer veine be opened on the right hand and this plaister following laid vpon the Fundament thereby to asswage the paine Take the
Fistula corrode no deeper then must the same be cured with drying things so that for a while they neither runne nor swell any more but if so be the matter come to runne againe then must be done as before and that so long as one liueth As concerning then the curing of this Fistula it must alwayes be looked to that the hole be kept open which may best be effected with the pith of an Alder trée dryed Gentian rootes or Briony rootes afterwards you must vse those things that are set downe in the first part the eight Chapter and 11. § and also afterwards of the Fistula of the eies Some do commend two or thrée drops of oile of Sulphure to be iniected into the Arsegut which will haue a wonderfull operation and if so be that there follow any inflammation that it should be delayed with the white of an Egge or fresh Butter Fistulaes and such like vlcers are to be washed with Rosemary wine for it clenseth and keepeth the vlcers cleane but of this Fistula will we intreate further hereafter in the fift part Of the itch in the Arse-gut §. 13. THe causes of the itch in the Arsegut are foure First that there remaines somewhat that is sweatie or saltish in the fundament which causeth the same Secondly through the wormes Ascarides that haue their being in the end of the Arsegutte Thirdly some kind of vlcers that are in the lower part of the guâte Fourthly sharp humors as it oftentimes hapneth thorow some vncleanenesse that resteth in the Arsegut and then must the Arsegut be washed with warme water be cleansed with clothes or wolblade leaues But if the same come thorough the smal wormes then take a sharpe Clister yet not aboue eight ounces in quantitie also dippe wooll or any such like thing in soft Pitch or Turpentine then do the wormes sticke fast thereon besides the Pitch doth kill the wormes by nature or annoint a great taint with Bird lime and bind it on a thred that it may be drawne out againe You may also sée in this present part what hath bene written for the wormes but if the same be caused through any vlcers then vse for it the white salue and others moe but keepe the vlcers alwaies cleane and drie with fresh cloathes wash the same oftentimes with water wherein Agrimonie Oliue leaues and such like are decocted put also burnt Allume thereto and plume Allume and bind clothes ouer it and kéepe your selfe quiet But if this itch procéed of a sharp matter then vse Suppositories with Opium Clisters and others as shall appeare hereafter for the laske or loosenesse of the bodie The eleuenth Chapter Of the inward members of the third part IN the beginning of the third part of this our booke of practise we haue giuen to vnderstand how that therein are contained the Stomacke the Liuer the Gall the Kidneys the Bladder the Bowels and in women the Mother or womb but because we haue hitherto treated of the outward parts and their accidents therefore will we now discourse orderly of the inward members and first we will begin with the Stomacke for that the same is couered with the Liuer and lyeth on the top thereof for it hath not onely his beginning at the mouth of the stomacke but is also the meate roome or kitchin of all the other members and therefore will we and that by good reason place it before Of the Stomacke in generall §. 1. VNder the Diaphragma or Midriffe betwéene the Liuer and the Gall on the right side and the Milt on the left side that is right in the midst of the body yet a little more on the left side there lyeth the stomacke that is so ordained by nature for that the Liuer might kéepe roome and scope The Stomacke is called of the Gréeks Gaster Colâa and sometimes also although vniustly Stomachus and of the Latinists Ventriculus It is ordained for a receiuer of the meate to dresse the same and afterwards like as out of a Cubbord to impart all that is cooked to each member his due that might suffise for his sustentation and nourishment and to send out all that is vncleane or not fit for the nourishment thorow the bowels and other naturall passages as a superfluitie His substance is outwardly hard flesh inwardly compacted full of veines rough and with many pleites or folds whereby it draweth the meate vnto it His forme is long and round hollow within and like a Tunne to let passe easily that is receiued wide beneath and neare the mouth of the Stomacke which is properly called Stomachus Oesophagus and by the Arabians Meri it is narrow In comparison of the bodies of beastes it is not big so that thereby it doth not much excéede the blind gut Intestinum caâcum and is otherwise not much vnlike to a dogs mawe With the vppermost end of the Stomacke doth it receiue the meate and with the lower end doth it let all that is digested fall into the bowels from whence all superfluities are cast out Both these ends of the stomacke below and aboue after that the meate is receiued do shut vp most wonderfully lest that the concocting and digesting warmth should vanish away For if in the mouth of the stomacke there were not such closing then could not the meate be well digested whereby then must insue a noysome vapour and a diminishing of naturall heate So happeneth also of the lower passage of the stomacke when as it after the meate is receiued will not be shut vp a bad digestion and other diseases as the fluxe c. whereof we will hereafter speake more at large But thus much we would write in generall of the stomacke Now will we procéede forward with particular things Of the necke and mouth of the stomacke §. 2. THis passage through which the meate and the drinke descendeth out of the mouth into the stomacke is properly one péece of the same therefore will we first write thereof as of the beginning of the stomacke The necke of the stomack is of the old Grecians and now adayes called by all learned men Oesophagus and vnrightly Stomachus and of the Latinists Gula the which we in English doe name properly the vpper part of the stomacke the necke and the neathermost part the mouth of the stomacke which lyeth right in the pit of the heart So that both these parts haue some difference and that by reason of their situation and for other causes moe euen as also Galenus maketh two sundrie Chapters of them These foresaid necke and mouth of the stomacke are subiect to many diseases be it out of heate cold drought moisture or of any compounded complexion Also through the obstruction of those parts whereby the meate is drawne into the stomacke Item through impostumes vlcers blowes wounds and other inconueniences all which may hinder the swallowing whereof much is written in the second part the first Chapter § 5. But we will here onely rehearse
bloud he must first haue his Lyuer veine and afterwards the Saphea to be opened For his drinke the patient is to vse Hony water or to make this drinke following Take twelue ounces of peeled Barly Fennell rootes Smallage rootes and Maydenhaire of each one handfull séeth them all together in two pots of water vntill that the Barly be well swollen Afterwards take twelue ounces of Hony and boyle it all together with the foresaid decoction but scumme it well and drinke thereof If so be that the vlcer be great and that there be néede of stronger things then put Ireos Hyssope and Horehound of each two ounces and a good pints of water more But if there be but a small vlcer which hath not long continued then take Mallowes Hollyhock séeds the séeds of Melons and of Pompeons of each a like much But you must péele the séeds and giue thereof thrée dragmes at one time tempered with Meade Afterwards shall he vrge himselfe to vomit once euery fourth day Let this much suffice as briefely spoken of the vlcers of the Kidneyes Of the pissing of Bloud §. 11. FOr as much as this pissing of bloud may be caused as well of the vlcers in the Kidneyes as in the Lyuer therefore we will describe it héere in this Chapter The pissing of bloud is of two sorts the one when one pisseth faire cleane bloud the other when the same is mixed with matter or corruption This pissing of bloud commeth of inward and outward causes The outward may be caused through falles blowes strong riding insatiable venerie great labour of certaine meates drinks wounds of a concourse of melancholick humors which are wont to be driuen out through womens Termes or through the Pyles Of the inward causes are superfluitie sharpnes of humors and of the vrine winds tumors impostumes debilitie of the Kidneyes and of the Bladder then doth he féele the paine aboue the priuities and the bloud is congealed and separated from the vrine In case that the bloud be much and runneth out swiftly then doth it signifie a broken veine but if it come out slow or longsome then an vlcer but if the vrine be like water wherein fresh flesh is washed then it is of a weakened Lyuer and if so be that it do come of a superfluous bloud then is the same to be séene by the fulnes of the bodie but if it come through the sharpnes of the humors then doth the patient féele a continuall burning But before we do come to the particular remedies it is néedfull that we do make declaration of certaine common rules First if so be that the maladie be new then aboue all things is the liuer veine to be opened and afterwards if the cause require and that the patient be strong inough the Saphea is to be opened thereby to driue the blood to another place Secondly in the beginning are not astringent nor binding things to be vsed that the blood may not congeale and coole but he must first beginne with such things as do cleanse the water conduits Thirdly if this pissing of blood do come as an expulsion of superfluitie or Crisis then is it not to be stayed if it be not so that thereby the naturall powers be ouermuch weakened Fourthly whensoeuer the pissing of blood whether it be caused of the Liuer Kidneyes or Bladder is thoroughly cleansed then is the same blood to be holpen with cold and astringent things and to mixe amongst them Anodines Fiftly all such patients are to eschue great labor venery hot drinks all spices and all hote things Now for to come to the remedies of the same then it is to be considered whether this pissing of blood do procéed of outward causes which may well be perceiued by the sicke person and is also to be remedied First of all whether this pissing of blood haue continued long or not Of the pissing of blood which hath not long continued we haue hitherto spoken But in old pissing of blood one must begin according to the contents of the other rules with the clensing of the vreters which is to be done through these meanes Take Maidenhaire foure handfuls Melon séed one ounce and a halfe Sugar and honie of each nine ounces make a cléere sirupe of it and giue it with water wherein Melon séede is decocted Another which is very good Take foure handfuls of Cinkfoile Sugar 9. ounces séeth the herbes in sufficient water then wring it out with sugar make thereof a sirupe This sirupe is to be giuen with water wherein Plantaine is decocted this sirupe healeth cleanseth certainly If any one fall or be beaten whereby a veine is broken in the bodie the liuer veine is then to be opened for that thereby the blood will be drawne backe which doth run out of these places But if that the blood do auoide in abundance and that the patient be strong enough then is the Saphea to be opened the second day afterwards and to the end that the blood which lieth clotted in the water conduits might be caried forth then giue to the sicke bodie a potion wherein Fennell rootes the rootes of Smallage Dragon rootes Ireos Hissope Maidenhaire and Ciceres be sodden afterwards one dragme or one dragme and a halfe of Trociscis de Carabe may be giuen him with water wherein the seedes of Butchers broome and such like is decocted or the Trocisci de terra sigillata For this is also méete the confection of Philonium Persicum but it is not to be vsed without the aduise of a learned Phisition Some do also take thrée quarters of an ounce of the conserue of Roses and temper amongst it seuen graines of Henbane seed and two scruples of prepared Corall which may be vsed with stéeled water It is also very fit to vse otherwhiles one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassie and chiefly if there be heate with it We haue spoken before of the letting of blood and therupon are to giue to this sicke person a profitable purgation of Rubarbe in substance which is beaten and not wrong out but in powder with plantaine water afterwards giue him one dragme of beaten horsetaile and one quarter of an ounce of plantaine water and strew all his meates with the same water All his flesh is to be sodden with Butchers broome séed and vnripe Grapes He is alwaies to beware of all sharpe tart and salt things and lay a plaister on the place of the maladie made of Bolus and the iuice of Sloes Aloe Lycium Vineger and Rose water If you will haue moe remedies then looke into the former § of the impostumes and vlcers of the kidneys And although al the same were caused of other meanes yet shall you find also thrée remedies méete for the same And if so be that this bléeding be caused through any sharpe meate or any composed wind then is the patient to order himselfe as of the letting of blood and taking of the foresaid Trociscis is
beforesaid But if there be any impostume or vlcer of the kidneyes with it that may be séene by the matter and blood therefore haue you hereafter all that is requisite for the pissing of matter If any man pisse matter §. 12. THe pissing of matter must proceede out of the bladder kidneyes or some of the vppermost parts as from some vlcer of the sides vlcer of the lights the liuer c. the which may procéede from some outward causes as of blowes falles wounds strong diureticall medicines and such like The inward causes may be vncleane impostumes vlcers superfluous tough and grosse humors wind or stone which do settle there and make some excoriation The signes of these accidents may be perceiued easily by the paine of the same place and by the declaration of the patient This infirmitie is thus to be holpen Take peeled Melon séede Cucumber séede Gourd seede and Pompeon seede of each one ounce and a quarter fine Bolus Gummi Arabicum Frankinsence and Dragon bloud of each fiue dragmes Opium one dragme and a halfe the seede of Smallage one dragme make Trociskes thereof with the muscilage of Quince kernels and giue the sicke folkes euery day the waight of one quarter of an ounce with the sirupe of Poppie heads For this is also to be vsed consolidating and mundifying things as hereafter followeth Take péeled Melon séed the seed of Hollihockes and Nightshade of each halfe an ounce bitter Almonds Pompeon seede fresh Maiden haire Ireos and Licorice of each halfe a dragme make a confection thereof with Sugar or with cleare honie For mundification are also fit Barley water meade the decoction of figs of Horehound and Maiden haire decocted with milke Now for to heale you are to take great and small Comfrey of each one quarter of an ounce Dragon bloud Frankinsence Masticke and fine Bolus of each one dragme parched Rubarbe the iuice of Sloes and Mirtle seede of each halfe a dragme Indie Spica halfe a scruple Sugar as much as you please make a confection thereof This sirupe following may also be prepared Take Licorice one quarter of an ounce Maidenhaire and Hounds ribbe of each two handfuls peeled Melon séede Pempeon séede Cucumber seede and Gourd séede of each one dragme white Poppie séede Hollihocke seede and muscilage of Quince kernels of each halfe an ounce Dragagant and Gum of each thrée dragmes Rubarbe Roses of each one ounce and a halfe white Sugar nine ounces make a cleare sirupe of it The Trocisci de Alkekengi which is of winter Cherries are surpassing god in this disease and not onely for this but also for all other diseases of the kidneyes giue one dragme thereof or one dragme and a halfe with Goates milke or Plantaine water Also for this disease is Hony water to be spouted into the yard and when the patient hath kept it in a certain season and pist it out againe then is this following to be vsed Take Ceruse Sarcocolla Gum Frankinsence Opium Dragon blood of each halfe a scruple temper it with foure ounces of womans milke and spout one ounce thereof at one time through the yard In like manner shall he drinke Radish water and water of Horse radish or spout it in For this must also this order obserued to wit that he now vse consolidating then againe mundifying things and do alter them according as occasion serueth Item take oile of Roses two ounces oile of Myrtle and the iuice of Plantaine of each one quarter of an ounce Trociscorum de Terra sigillata de Carabe of each one dragme Vineger one quarter of an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue This salue for the pissing of blood and water is to be rubbed on the place of the Kidneyes and also round about the priuities aboue and beneath begin rubbed well in and then well couered with warme clothes Of outward vlcers of the Kidneyes §. 13. THese vlcers outwardly in the Kidneies are wont to be cause if one lie vpon his backe then are the places of the Kidneyes red and do come to exulcerate Now when this is perceiued then is there a plaister to be made with the meale of Millet and with Pannick meale and be laid thereon and then are you to strew it with Willow leaues and to moisten the heated place with cold Rose water or to lay any cooling things vpon it These salues following are also méete for this viz. salue of Ceruse Poplar salue Sanders salue other cooling salue of Galen vine leaues stéeped in Rose water and thinne beaten Led also which is full of holes worne vpon the raines Item take oile of Roses tempered with a little vineger and laid often vpon it If that there do then appeare bladder or blisters which do breake open then are they to be cured with cooling salues and dried vp with the salue of Ceruse or Album coctum All these foresaid sicknesse and diseases are the true messengers of the most grieuous disease of the Stone or grauell of the Bladder and the Kidneyes whereof we will hereafter further discourse and write But we will first of all prescribe a briefe order of diet for all them that be infected with these terrible diseases as the paine of the Kidneyes impostumes and vlcers The ordre of diet §. 14. ALl meates of milke or wheate meale of the crums of bread barley paps oaten paps are very commodious for this disease In like manner all field fowles which are to be eaten as Partridges Phesants Doues Turtle doues Kids and yong mutton if it be vtterly without an Ague but if so be that there be a great heate with it then is he to vse Melons and Peaches which be very ripe Hasell nuts Almonds Pistacies Pingles and such like may he also eate Item yong hens rere egges hen-broth wherein purslaine Lettice Melon séede Pompeons Gourds Cucumbers or any other cooling things haue bene sodden all riuer fish that haue scales frayed are to be tolerated Gréene herbes as Orage Mallowes purslaine and Lettice are also very méete for him His best drinke were indéed Barley water but if he will drinke Wine and so there be no Ague with it then may he drinke good thicke red Wine tempered with water Asses milke is maruellous good for him and if the same cannot be gotten then may one take Goates milke It is before admonished that euery such patient is to beware of all sharpe hote bitter and swéete things and chiefly of all fruite whether they be gréene or dried The seuenteenth Chapter Of the Grauell Sand or Stone of the Kidneyes and of the Bladder THis stone or grauell hath his principall ofspring in the Kidneyes in the Bladder and seldome in the hollownesse of other inward parts as of the Liuer c. The cause of it is commonly by inheritance like as the Gout or Podagra the Leprosie and other moe Also these disease do come through a weake Stomacke and Liuer that ingender much tough and grosse slime
vpon the priuities then annoint the priuities with oyle of Cammomill with oile of Lillies and such like euen as in the impostume of the kidneyes hath bene declared more at large For this is also very méet water baths wherein Mallowes Hollihock roots Cammomil Linséede Melilot Marierom Cipers roots Rape leaues Colewort Fenegréeke and such like be decocted If it be néedfull to vse warming oiles then take oile of Lillies of S. Iohns wort of Rue of sweet and bitter Almonds of wall flowers all these oiles do allay the paine as also doth the oile of tyles and the plaister of Barberries which consume all cold humors When as this impostume is broken then follow the same course as hath bene taught in the impostumes of the kidneyes To conclude these things following are much commended to be eaten for all diseases of the bladder viz. preserued Elecampane rootes and Pimpernell rootes which expell all vncleannesse from the stomacke likewise also preserued Calmus Treacle Mithridate conserue of Betony Meade and Hony water Item the iuice of Limons which is especiall good for all brusings of the bladder that were caused of the stone The nineteenth Chapter Of the Matrix or VVombe FRom the beginning of this booke of Phisicke hitherto we haue written and discoursed of all the principall inward parts of our body concerning as well men as women but concerning the Matrix which is onely proper to the female kind haue we deferred vntill this present and now we will intreate somewhat thereof This matrix or wombe is the chiefest part whereby the generation of mankind is maintained and ordained of God Almightie Creator of nature it selfe as for a vessell receiuer and preseruatiue place of humane seed which is therein formed vnto a liuing creature increased defended nourished and sustained vntill the opportune time of birth The Grecians do call this Matrix or Wombe Metra and Hystera the Latinists Matrix Vâlua Vterus and we by reason of her vertue for that it incloseth the conceiued child the Mother or Wombe This hath her place in the neathermost part of the Belly right vnder the Nauell It reacheth backwards to the Arsegut and forward to the Bladder It is deuided into two parts whereof the first part is her whole bodie wherein as is said humane séede is receiued and the fruit preserued The second part is the necke of the Matrix or Wombe which reacheth out of the formost part of the priuities so that it is assimulated vnto the Bladder with her neck the ligaments wherewith she is bound to the hips onely excepted When this Matrix or womb with all that belongeth thereto is rightly beholden then is it onely shapen like to a mans member only that the humane member dependeth outwardly and that the womanhood lieth hidden within whereof before in the beginning of the fift Chapter and afterwards hath bene spoken at length Her substance is inwardly fleshie and rough especially in the bottome strewed all ouer with small knops or bunches which be full of small veines that come and haue their accourse from all parts of the bodie vnto the wombe and in carnall vse do draw and keepe with them the humane séede which also yéeld forth the flowers or termes nourish the conceiued fruite and maintaine the secondine Also this Matrix hath two concauities and it is supposed that in the concauitie on the right side Sonnes be conceiued and in that on the left side the Daughters whereof we shall speake hereafter more at large Outwardly she is full of sinewes and hard because that she openeth and shutteth too againe in the bearing of children all which must be atchieued and brought to passe through the sinews the same hardnes doth also defend her from many kinds of brusings The foresaid sinewes be also causes of her motion and ascending and descending in the body for that because these sinewes are very sensible and easily harmed therefore they do shrinke in and draw the mother vpwards with great painfulnesse as hereafter shall be shewed more at large The neck of the wombe which is with some women long and with some short whereof the right measure is the breadth of eleuen fingers is shapen of a hard muskelly and sinewy flesh which so hardeneth from day to day especially in leacherous women or common harlots and old women that it is at the last altered into a kind of Cartilage This necke of the Matrix hath also where the mother beginneth an entrance which is neuer more opened but in the venerious act in time of the termes and in the birth otherwise doth it remaine alwayes most tightly shut and especially after the receit of the humane séed so that nothing may go in or out In yong maidens or girles it is very thinne but in growing it waxeth thicker and bigger viz. when the termes be at hand and lesseneth when they be past the thicknesse also increaseth with the being with child and how many times moe that she beareth child so much the thicker doth it grow In like sort also will it be harder and thicker in time of the first conception but in the growing and increase of the child is it dilated to the end the fruite might haue toome and scope but in women that neuer conceiued or haue not borne any children at all it continueth in one bignesse and is much lesse than in fruitfull women In like maner it is also in children much smaller than the bladder but with growing vp it dayly waxeth greater yea that it is at last in greatnesse farre excéeding the bladder These kinds and such like sundry motions like as they haue delight in odoriferous things and a loathing of stinking things for which it flieth and for which it ascendeth caused the wise Philosopher Plato to write as hereafter followeth This part in women which many do call Metram and Hysteram is a liuing creature very gréedie of conception therefore if it be drawne vpwards vntimely and if it remaine a long space vnfruitfull then doth it become vnwilling it créepeth through the whole bodie whereby the parts of respiration are so obstructed and stopt that the woman can get no breath yea it bringeth with it at the last great danger and perill and causeth many kinds of sicknesses These be the words of Plato but this opinion is withstood by Galen This noble part in women is subiect to many kinds of diseases and sicknesses which if they âo get the vpper hand do hinder the conception and the fruitfulnesse of women which vnfruitfulnes is especially caused when she hath too many of her termes or too few or when the same is wholy detained whence then followeth a spoile of the natural seed the whites the suffocation of the mother which otherwhiles stifleth women the precipitation and falling out of the same great paine vlcers impostumes hardnings Canker the vnnaturall disease Mola barrennesse and if she peraduenture chance to conceiue an vntimely birth whereof hereafter shall be written yet first we will
then is it by no meanes to be stayed if thereby be not feared a great debilitie Thirdly if so be that women be full of blood and this fluxe come too abundantly then is the Basilica veine to be opened thereby to withdraw the blood Fourthly in case that it be perceiued that red Cholera or any other mixed moistured were cause of this fluxe then is the same moisture or humor to be purged with appropriate medicines yet mingling alwaies amongst it some binding and comforting things Fiftly iniection is also very needfull for this disease or some such like instruments to be vsed whereby the medicine might be brought into the womb Sixtly if any astringent things may be brought into it through any instruments then may they help much better and a great deale sooner than those things that be giuen by the mouth Seuenthly because that with this menstrual fluxe not onely the vertue digestiue but also the whole bodie is weakened therfore are they to be sustained with light meate as with yolkes of egges with yong flesh and broth of the same and such like Sometimes also with water wherein the seed of Butchers broome is decocted or tempered with water of Sorrel Eightly it is also good to set great boxing cups vnder the breasts vnpickt Ninthly this fluxe of the termes is not to be stopt so long as one seeth that the woman hath her liuely colour and doth remaine strong and healthie but as soone as one perceiueth that her strength fadeth away then be all meanes to be sought for to stop it Tenthly if one desire to purge any of the foure humors and to separate it from the cleane bloud then may that best be effected by vomits for that thereby the matter is deriued to another place and stay their course that they fall not downewards Eleuenthly these women are to abstaine from all heauie labour and from all that maketh the blood fluxible and thinne By all these forementioned propositions may be clearely séene and marked that if any desire to cure or remedy this disease that these women must leade an easie life and kéepe themselues quiet They must also liue in such a place where it is not too hote nor too cold They must also eschue all thinne and waterish meates viz. from fruite except all that which bindeth in like manner also from all meate which cause any kind of heate But all kinds of rosted fowles and all that maketh grosse blood as Rice Wheate and Lentils be good for them They must also beware of ouercharging them with meate or drinke whereof the causes be declared in the seuenth rule and afterward to put in practise these remedies following according to the importance of the cause Thus for to speake first of the things which inwardly are to be vsed hath bene spoken of before and also what order of diet or gouernement of life is to be obserued But in case that any do desire any ampler declaration of it then let him looke the seuenteenth Chapter and 17. § where is spoken of the red or bloudie flixe which also is most méete for this vse But for this menstruall fluxe may this Confection following be vsed Take the Species Triasantali and Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one dragme prepared fine Bolus two scruples Bloodstone washed in Plantaine water and make tabulats thereof Or vse this powder following Take Species Triasantali one dragme and a halfe Diarrhodon Abbatis one dragme De Gemmis Frigidis one dragme and a halfe prepared Coriander two scruples and a halfe washed Bloodstone one dragme prepared Bolus halfe a dragme Shepheards purse two scruples Roses Corall of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as you please then make a powder of it Item take prepared Bolus one dragme sealed earth two scruples Tormentil half a dragme Bursa Pastoris one scruple Species de gemmis frigidis one dragme and a halfe prepared Pearles one dragme Rubins Pomegranates Smaragdes Iacints Saphirs of each halfe a scruple Roses red Corall Saunders of each one scruple Sugar thrée ounces make a powder thereof and vse it in broth or strewed in meate The confection of the refuse of iron is also very profitable to be vsed for this disease especially if so be that the lesser remedies will not helpe Another Take conserue of Roses two ounces Bloodstone Trociscos de Carabe de terra sigillata and de Spodio of each one dragme make a powder thereof and temper them well together afterwards take euery time thereof about one dragme Take conserue of Roses sixe ounces conserue of Burrage of Buglosse and of Baulme of each one ounce prepared Bolus one dragme prepared Pearles one quarter of an ounce of the fiue precious stones aboue mentioned of each one scruple Cinnamome one dragme make an electuary thereof Another Take of the driest conserue of Roses thrée ounces Marmalade two ounces and a halfe red Corall one dragme Bistorta Trociscos de Carabe and prepared Bolus of each half a drag prepared Bloodstone two dragmes make an Electuarie thereof with the sirupes of Mirtles Item take conserue of Roses thrée ounces Marmalade two ounces and a halfe conserues of Burrage and of Buglosse of each one ounce prepared Bolus one dragme and a halfe prepared Pearles two dragmes and a half Bistorta one dragme Tormentill two scruples red Saunders one dragme then temper them all together with the sirupe of Mirtles vnto a confection The blacke confected Cherries are very good for this vse in like manner also the preserued Barberries Item hold a roote of Galingall long in your mouth and chew the same small It is is also a common aduice which is not to be despised that tosted bread should be steeped with red Wine and powned Nutmegs strewed vpon it and so eaten Item take fine Bolus which is well washed Masticke yellow Amber prepared Coriander and Dates of each a like quantitie then take thereof at each time halfe a dragme with a rere egge This powder ensuing is also maruellous good Take prepared Bloodstone thrée dragmes red Corall one dragme and a halfe Tormentill and Trociscos de Spodio of each one dragme shauen Iuorie burnt Harts horne of each two scruples prepared Pearles one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus halfe a dragme stampe all that may be stamped very small and strew your meate therewith Item take powned Horstaile leaues one dragme and bestrew your meate with it You may also drink of this powder following one dragme lesse or more with the water of Plantain Take of the first budded Harts horne burne them in a potbakers ouen throughly to white chalke and giue thereof one dragme or one dragme and a halfe with red wine or Plantaine water You shall also find hereafter many sundrie powders and waters to drinke described Take egshels whence yong chickens haue beene hatched and Nutmegs of each a like quantitie temper them together and drinke thereof the waight of a dragme with Vineger or Wine The part within the Walnut taken
not only stay the fluxe in women but also expelleth the wind of the stomack and hindereth parbraking Or take Sandaraca one ounce and a halfe pouned Cypers nuts one ounce fine Bolus foure ounces Plantaine seed and Pimpernell rootes of each two ounces and a halfe Starch three ounces then make it with water wherein Akornes were decocted vnto a plaister or salue and vse it as is sayd There may also be made a bathe as héere followeth Seeth the rootes of Curcuma in sufficient water and make thereof a bath for the raynes It is also good to make a bath wherein Allume is decocted or any of these things following which one will as Mirtle séed the rinds and rootes of the Elme trée the rinds of the Oke tree Pomegranat blossomes and the péeles Akornes Medlars Lentils and such like Item it is sayd that if one do burne Ranam Arboream to ashes and the ashes worne on the neck that womens termes will be stopt thereby but it is to be proued In like manner do some aduise that the mosse of the blacke or Slo-thorne worne in ones shoes should also stop the same Item take Shepherds purse and binde it on the soales of a womans féete Others aduise also that boxing cups should be set vnder her breast vnpickt for that they draw the bloud vpwards and it is also a very good remedie for to stop therewith the flowing of the termes Likewise it helpeth also excéedingly to binde the armes hard to the end that thereby the bloud might be drawne vpwards Further this setting of cups binding and all these things that are to be put into the places admonished before be especially to be vsed if it be perceiued that through such superfluous courses women be impotent and were afraid of present falling into a swoune In like manner also it is very requisite that she smell oftentimes to cold things and vse other moe binding things which be described in the first part the eight Chapter and the 7. § For a conclusion it is to be noted whether there be heate or cold in this woman that the medicine may be ordained accordingly These be all warming things and they also which stop bloud which do héere follow viz. Frankinsence Mastick Cypers nuts Sandaraca Laudanum Mirrha Storax Annis and such like Cold stopping things be these as Camfer the iuice of Sloes burnt Iuorie Coriander Dragon bloud Saunders bloud stone Hypocistis fine Bolus Ruscus seed Mirtle séed Gals Pomgranat blossoms the seed of Plantaine the seed of Melon of Cucumbers of Gourds of Pompeons and Pimpernell rootes c. whereby all tempered medicines may be adiudged Of the whites or white fluxe in women §. 4. THe disease which women do call the whites and the Phisitions Menstrua alba hath a great acquaintance or fellowship with the auoidance of humane séed or the running of the raynes whereof we haue written at large before in the sixt Chapter and it is also very euidently declared that such kind of fluxes be caused through hot and through cold causes which is héere also to be noted But aboue all that which is there discoursed do all famous Phisitions commend that if it procéed of heate women be first of all to be purged for which Cassie is passing good afterwards giue her euery other day one drag of Trociscos de Carabe tempered in Plantaine water or a quarter of an ounce of Triphera ex parte Phenonis tempered with a little fine Bolus The raines are to be annointed with the salue of Roses and with other things moe which be prescribed in the spermaticall fluxe There is also to be giuen her euerie second or third day one dragme of the filing of Iuorie to drinke with Plantaine water and the cold loosings of Diamargariton is she also to vse oftentimes Item Take Camphora ten graines bruse it small beaten Amber one scruple drinke them togither with Plantaine water it is a very good medicine For this is also estéemed to be a sure remedy the first buds of the Blackberrie bush and the berries thereof dried pouned drunken euery day one dragme with red wine or twise a day There may also be made a confection of the said berries when they be ripe seething the same with hony or Sugar and to vse thereof daily But in case that this disease procéede of cold whereto some do make sixe kindes of bathes which are to be vsed one vpon the other which me thinketh to be much too strong for that they take Sulphure Allum stéeled water and strong Menageges as Feuerfew Mugwoort and baiberries afterwards againe all things which be contrarie as Oken buds Knotgrasse Squinant c. Therefore will we leaue the same vnmentioned but for this must be taken the flowers of dead Nettles poudered the waight of a dragme with wine Confected Annis seed is also very commodious for this But in case that the issue be very sharpe then beate whites of egs with Rose water and make clothes wet in it and put it vp into womens secrets Of the suffocation or ascension of the Matrix §. 5. THis terrible sicknes is in many things most like to the falling euill Epilepsiae and the great swouning Syncopi because the Matrix hath great sympathie with the heart the arteries braines and with the two membranes which do couer the braines This maladie commeth to women through diuers causes and especially when there is retention of their termes or flowers yea also through the retention of their naturall seed especially to them that be accustomed to haue the company of a man and must then forbeare it as widowes and aged maidens for that in case the foresaid séed be retained then causeth it many kinds of winds in the Matrix which do compell it so to ascend that otherwhiles it oppresseth euen the Diaphragma This is then the opinion of diuers learned men in this case but Galen doth dispute against it with strong reasons that the foresaid naturall séed doth much rather cause this sicknes than the retention of the tearmes chiefly in women which also are burthened with many bad humours be full of blood and brought vp in idlenes haue accustomed to accompany with a man like as is expressed and now suddenly are constrained to want it Therefore is commonly séene saith he that this suffocation for the most part troubleth widowes He maintaineth also and that by good reason that the mother doth not ascend euen to the Diaphragma which is the midriffe and there doth abridge the breath Thus may be caused through the retention and putrifaction of the seed all manner of troublesome accidents as giddines and paines of the head madnes short breath and panting of the hart their natural colour doth alter into a yellow pale yea somtimes into rednes of the face of the eies they gnash with their téeth draw their hands féet away they do also feele that there ascendeth somewhat vpwards out of the belly and commonly then do they presse downe their belly
with their hands they also do sit commonly with bent knees on the ground they loose their speach and neuertheles when one calleth them by their names then do they heare it but they cannot answere and do lie oftentimes that neither breath nor pulse nor any life can be perceiued in them yea are taken to be dead and also sometimes they are so taken or assailed with these kinds of maladies that they depart out of this world neuertheles they alwaies retaine their memorie and knowledge and when they come againe to themselues then do they rehearse all that is spoken and done So that this disease like as is rehearsed is in many things to be compared with the falling sicknes onely that they do not fome In like maner it is not vnlike the palsey but only that there is no long breath with it and very like the sleeping sicknes Lethargo but that there is no ague with it Amongst all the foresaid signes is there no woorse than the retention of the breath for that the same cannot be long holden vp without death follow after it for that a body cannot liue without breath This greeuous accident may also be caused through a strong cold which doth so sore assaile a body that thereby all his breath and pulse will be so drawne inward that by the feeling it can be at no hand perceiued as we haue also admonished héere and there in the first part amongst the diseases of the braines In fine the meane to remedie this terrible disease consisteth in three seuerall things The first what is to be done in the hastie accident for to hinder the stifeling The second if so be that this disease be caused through retention of the seed what is to be vsed for it The third in case that this be caused through retention of the termes or through any other had humours how one is to behaue her selfe therein When as this disease commeth with hinderance of the breath then is spéedie help néedfull therefore is cold well water or Rose water to be cast by and by into her face and to hold to the mouth and nose to the end it may compell the breath backward and breake out with force also the hands féet buttocks and thighes are to be rubbed hard with Vineger and salt and afterwards to be bounden very hard Another woman must make her finger fat with odoriferous oyle as oile of Lillies or any other and therewith annoint the necke of the wombe or Matrix and rubbe the same softly to the end that the Matrix be thereby drawne downewards Further there is a little néesing powder to be blowen into the nose to the end that through the strong motion of néesing the mother may be drawne downeward They are also to be called hard and lowdlie by their names and to keepe away all pleasant sauours from their nose but the places are to be fomented annointed or fumed with all odoriferous things Also a great boxing cup is to be set vpon the same place vnpickt You are also to hold all filthie lothsome sauours before the nose as Assa foetida Galbanum or Beuercod also the smell of old clouts of shooes burnt of haire of feathers and such like that may be gotten speedily are you to let her smell vnto For that like as we in the beginning of the description of the Matrix or mother haue admonished the mother doth flie and auoid by nature all stinking things and to the contrarie loueth all odoriferous fumes and sauours yet are these stinking things not to be vsed but in extreme need for that all that stinketh very lothsomely doth also weaken and infeeble nature Amongst these foresaid things is Hares haire also verie requisite The chéefest odoriferous things which are to be vsed beneath is Muscus and Ambra meete And if one can get it suddenly this powder following is to be taken Take red Storax Lignum Aloes and cloues of each one dragme Muske Amber of each halfe a dragme make all to powder then binde it in a cloth and put it vp into their places Item Take one ounce of the oyle of Lillies Muscus and Saffron of each thrée graines bruise them well togither and dip a taint in it and put it into the place or fill a small bag with salt and vse it as before You are also to make a fume with these things following and to receiue the same through an Ammell Take Cassie wood Cinnamom Thyme Gallia Muscata and such like But if these will not helpe then vse one of the strong pessaries and others which be described before in this chapter and the 2. § Verum saluo pudore praesentissimum Remedium est si maritus vngat Penum cum Oleo Garyophyllorum admixto parùm Olei amygdalarum dulcium ad caliditatem prioris temperandam cum vxore Cocat Matrix enim subito descendet When as now this patient beginneth to recouer againe being a maiden and enclined to this grieuous sicknes then is there no better remedy than that she induce her selfe into the state of matrimony if not then is she to refraine from all these things which do increase naturall seed as flesh wine and other like as before is described in the sixt Chapter and the 4. § and the seuenth Chapter and the 8. § For this is also letting of blood very méete the vse of all cooling meates and the absence of men All minerall bathes which do drie be also very fit for this vse and she may also vse therewith these confections following Take fresh rootes of Polypody sixe ounces Sene leaues Violets Prunes Sebestes sower Dates and Currans of each one ounce and a halfe seeth them in two quarts of water vnto the halfe afterwards wring it out and whilest that the decoction is yet warme steepe therein sixe ounces of the seeds of Fleawoort so long that the muscilage may be drawen out of them then put 24. ounces of white Sugar vnto it Likewise also the pith of sower Dates and Cassie which are prepared with the foresaid decoction of each three ounces then seeth them againe togither by a milde fier vntill that it be thick and temper with it these things following beaten very small burnt Iuorie Rubarbe red and white Saunders Roses Violets white Poppy seed Purslain séed Endiue séed Lettice seed small Endiue séed of Fennell Dragagant Starch scraped Iuory Gum Hollihockes Fumitory Licorice and Annis seeds of each a dragme and a halfe Diagridion two dragmes and a halfe Mirobalani Indi Emblici of each thrée dragmes temper them all togither in a mortar and giue from halfe an ounce vnto seuen drag This foresaid electuary is so highly commended that it is called the gift of God These are also not euery day but only once or twice to be vsed with a decoction of Mugwort and Sugar and then to fast sixe howers vpon it This being done there shall a round plaister be layd vpon the nauell De Galbano and not to take it off before
it fall away of it selfe whereof there be two diuers sorts discouered before in the 3. § Lastly these pils ensuing are to be vsed Take Siluermountaine Madder Penniroyal the innermost rindes of Cassie pipes Pomegranate kernels Pyony rootes and Calmus of each three dragmes Muscus and Spica of Indie of each halfe a dragme then make pils thereof with the iuice of Mugwoort of them is she to take euery day or at leastwise about the other day if she do not vse the Confection and that before supper But the same is not to be giuen if the termes be present but when they be past if you will haue them milder then put one drag and a halfe of Aloes vnto them But in case that this ascension of the Mother be caused through the obstruction of the termes and that a woman be come to her selfe againe and that it is feared that it will returne againe by reason that the cause is not yet taken away that it be certaine that this disease were caused through the retention of the termes or of the naturall seed then must diligence be vsed that the termes be preferred and moued whereof we haue before giuen a full instruction Item if this suffocation of the Matrix procéed through obstruction or hinderance of the termes then giue her one quarter of an ounce of powdred Agaricus with Wine or with Hony water for it is a sure meane for it It is also very good for the same that there be taken one dragme of the powned Agnus Castus with one ounce of the hony of Roses especially if the disease do come through the detention of the seed the Trocisci de Myrrha do also moue much Secondly the Saphea is also to be opened in the foote and afterwards one dragme of powned Betonie with the water of Feuerfew In like manner also boxing cups are to be set vpon the thighes picked or vnpicked Cut a peece of bread round like to a Dollor and set thrée waxe candles in it of the length of a finger set them so burning vpon the nauell and then whelme ouer it a glasse of a quarterne long then do the candles go out and the glasse doth draw the Mother or Matrix perforce into her due and wonted place and this hath béene oftentimes approoued Item annoint all the belly with oile of Masticke and make a pot lid warme wind it about with clothes and hold it warme to the belly Item take Beuercod and Assa foetida of each one quarter of an ounce Philonium Romanum one dragme temper them together and giue it fasting then drinke vpon it a good draught of Muscadell or Malmsey it helpeth maruellous well The same vertue hath Triphera magna the waight of a dragme and a halfe drunken with wine in the morning early Likewise is also good for this one dragme of powned Pionie seeds drunken with Hony water If the Matrix or Mother begin to ascend then is to be taken one quarter of an ounce of yellow Rape séed with the water of Mugwort For a plaister you are to take Galbanum one dragme and a halfe Bdellium one dragme Mugwort Feuerfew of each halfe an ounce oyle of Lillies one ounce dissolue the gummes in the oyle and when they begin to be cold then temper the powder amongst it with this salue they are to annoint them beneath and aboue the nauell and then to lay a plaister of Galbanum vpon it Item take Assa foetida one ounce Galbanum two ounces melt them in vineger and spread them warme vpon a leather of a quarter long then lay them ouer the nauell the Galbanum is also good vsed alone Whensoeuer you will lay any thing vpon the place of the paine then take the rootes of Louage cut them very small and put them in a bag Cometh the paine of the Mother through cold then seeth it in Wine but if it be through heate then séeth them it water and lay it on the place of the paine Could you not get these rootes then take Acorne buds it is also good Néesing and parbraking is much aduised for this but especially héede must be taken to the strength of the patient And in case that the same woman must liue without a man then is she so much the oftener to vse annointing with the odoriferous salues with the fingers beneath and vse therewith all things which do diminish naturall seede as Rue Agnus Castus and such like as elsewhere hath bene shewed Besides all these you may looke all that hath bene said before in the second § of the termes in women Of the descension and falling downe of the Mother or Wombe §. 6. LIke as the Wombe or Mother in women ascendeth so doth it also descend so that it commeth so low that she being turned about it dependeth and with a long end hangeth out of the bodie like as is wont to happen with the Arsegut wherof we haue written in the tenth Chapter and the second § The causes of this disease may be outward and inward the outward may come of fals heauy birth long sitting vpon a cold stone or in the water through hard going to stoole through strong néesing through running leaping through vse of much cold salue and such like The inward be when the bodie is pestered and full of humors which afterwards do fall euen to the wombe which do so vnknit and dissolue the bands and stayes of the same that they cannot hold the mother any longer like as oftentimes befalleth in the palsie and falling sicknesse also in vlcers and impostumes of the wombe The signes of this disease be manifest if the same be caused through any outward causes the same may be inquired of the patient her self Otherwise it is to be considered whether the woman be fat moist liue in quiet is wont to eate much fruite or much fish c. They haue also oftentimes paine about the priuie members and in the neather part of the backbone There commeth also sometimes an Ague with it retention of the vrine and hardning of the stoole Some get also much trembling the crampe and great feare without any manifest causes with many moe grieuous accidents Now in case that the descension of the Mother do yet remaine somewhat inwardly then must a Midwife behold and search her to wit then she must put one finger into the necke of the wombe or Matrix if the passage be smooth and open then is the Mother not falne downe but if she find therein any stop or let then it is a sure signe that it is descended and if so be that the Matrix or Mother continue long out of her natural place then is if vnpossible that she should be reduced againe into her due and naturall place and more vnpossible if the same depend out of the body Thus for to remedie this disease then may one choose out of these things following those which are thought to be best and most méete according to the qualitie of the
make a soft plaister thereof Fiftly she is to vse this bath ensuing for the raines thrice a wéeke twice a day Take Galliae Muscatae one quarter of an ounce Colophoniae halfe an ounce Saint Iohns wort flowers Betony Mugwort and Feuerfew of each thrée handfuls Bistorta fiue handfuls séeth them together in sufficient water vntill it sauour well she is to sit therein vp to the nauell These be very excellent remedies for to bring the mother to good health againe to strengthen all the parts of generation and to ease their maladies In fine all those things may be vsed for this intent which are prescribed for the expulsion of the dead child out of the mothers body and for the secundine and such like things moe What commonly is good and profitable for the Matrix §. 15. ELecampane rootes the greater Pimpernell rootes the rootes of Eryngus and Ginger all preserued conserues of Betonie of Gilloflowers of Spikenard of Lauender and of Pionie wine of Elecampane rootes of Auence of Betonie and of Rosemary The oyles are these oyle of Lillies of Rue and of Bayes Item the iuice of Gentian and of other rootes which are described in the twelfth Chapter and 11. § We haue now almost written of all especiall accidents and diseases of the wombe whereon naturally dependeth the whole state of humane generation But if so be that this part of the bodie be not sound and without all infirmities then is the humane séede be it as commodious as it will neither rightly conceiued nor duly contained and though it be receiued and contained yet doth either a mischance follow after it or at the least a féeble and weake birth Vnfruitfulnesse ensueth also thereby as we very largely haue shewed in the seauenth Chapter before so that it séemeth not to stand without reason that many Philosophers and learned men haue disputed and concluded By what meanes this part once infected might be eased and prepared to fruitfulnesse to which end it was first created whereof as also of the conception of fruitfull women of their infirmities of their deliuery and of all that concerneth them shall be spoken in this Chapter following The twentith Chapter Of all that concerneth fruitfull and child-bearing women WHen as in women as oftentimes hath bene sayd this vessell of conception is by their termes well clensed and fréed of their forementioned and all other diseases or if some disease now present can be remedied then néede not any one in this place take care for barrennesse What might moue their termes is sufficiently shewed before in the seuenth Chapter yet notwithstanding we purpose here to speake of diuers things which are very commodiuos for conception amongst which the first is sirupe prepared as followeth Take Madder Mugwort Sauine of each halfe a handfull Mints Wormewood Fennell rootes Squinant Marierom Calmus Nep Annis of each halfe an ounce Cloues Buglosse flowers and Balme flowers of each thrée dragmes Cypers rootes Galingall Fennell Ameos and Siluermountaine of each one quarter of an ounce Cinnamome and Raisins of each fiue dragmes Hony as much as is néedfull séeth them all together and make a sirupe thereof as hath bin taught in the first part the fift chapter and 6. § Lastly put vnto it Masticke Ginger Mace Cloues scraped Iuorie Saffron Nutmegs Doronicum Zeduary and Basill of each halfe a dragme and beate them all together small The second is a powder which they may vse with their meate Take Nutmegs Cucubes and Ginger of each halfe a dragme long pepper Mastick and Cinnamom of each one dragme Galingal two scruples the séeds of the Ash trée scraped Iuory Siluermountaine red and white Behen of each one scruple beate them small and mixe them all together The third is this salue folowing Gallia Muscata Nutmegs Beuercod Hares rennet and Laudanum of each one quarter of an ounce oile of Spikenard oile of Masticke and oile of Mirtles of each three dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue annoint the place of the mother with it euery other day The last is a confection prepared as followeth Take wild yellow Rape séed and tame Rape seed scraped Iuorie white and red Behen Siluermountaine and séedes of the Ash of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome Doronicum Mace Cloues Galingal long pepper Rosemary flowers Balsam wood Blattae Bisantiae Penniroyall and Marierom gentle of each two scruples Balme Buglosse Citron pils of each one scruple Indy Spica Ambra and pearls of each halfe a scruple these being mixed and powned all together very small take eight ounces of sugar or somewhat more séeth it in Malmsey and make an electuary or tabulates of it To know whether a woman be with child or no. §. 1. WHen a woman hath layen with a man if that her places after the action be drie the Labra and sides of the same smaller and harder then is it a signe that she retaineth the receiued seede and if the same passe not from her in seuen dayes she remaineth with child Item take Lettice seeth it in water and let her drink three or foure ounces of that decoction if so be that she parbrake the same vp againe then hath she conceiued Take a steele needle stick it in a new wooden dish and let the woman make water in it if there hang a little cloud at the néedle then is she with child Or let her drinke Meade fasting if so be that she vomit the same vp againe she will proue with child Another Take Mace one quarter of an ounce Saffron beaten smal one drag wel water sixtéene ounces Hony two spoonfuls boile them all together as long as you would boile an egge hard let her drinke the third part therof when she goeth to bed and continue it the space of three dayes together if so be that thereby she get not her termes then is she vndoubtedly with child which of these thou mayest best beleeue experience will teach thee The common signes that a woman hath conceiued be these to wit when her termes without ague and cold be stayd for then the blood is deuided thrée maner of wayes the subtillest doth féed the fruit the middlemost doth by certaine veines passe towards the breasts for a preparation of the milke the grossest remaineth in the Matrix which wil be expelled in and after the deliuery Item when a woman is conceiued then doth she find great wambling and distemperature in the stomacke inappetencie to meate vomiting with other symptomes more as hath bene shewed in the former Chapter the 14. § of Mola She findeth also commonly the tenth day great headach giddinesse and darknesse of the eyes It is also sayd if a woman perceiue immediatly after she hath layen with a man small paine and cold about the raines that it is a sure signe of conception To know whether a woman be with child of a Boy or a Girle §. 2. ALbeit there be diuers signes whether a woman be conceiued of a Boy or a Girle yet are they
not so sure that one may stedfastly beléeue them for example it is adiudged that those women which beare a boy haue the right breast sooner hard and round than the left but experience teacheth the contrary and so it is with all the other signes wherefore it séemeth superfluous to spend any time in this behalfe but because we are now come to the conception of mankind we will speake of the symptomes and signes which are perceiued in the women with child Of those things which commonly appeare in women with child §. 3. THose that haue conceiued a man child are for the most part better of colour lustier nimbler of their ioynts and lesse troubled in the bearing than of a maiden child they haue also a better appetite to their meate they do féele the most burthen in the right side in which place they also perceiue the first motion and stirring of the child the pulses be on the right side more stronger and swifter than on the left When they rise from sitting then do the lift vp themselues with the right hand the right eye looketh more liuely than the left and in going they commonly set their right foote forwards But when they beare a maiden child then iudge all the foresaid signes to the contrary they are paler leaner more pensiue and more troubled in the bearing The man child stirreth lower in the mothers bodie and as the common opinion is most of all in the right side The legges and places do otherwhiles swell It is also affirmed that if milke be dropped on her vrine it should swimme on the top Likewise if she beare a sonne then perceiueth she on the 40. day the milke to come into her breasts with a kind of tickling And when she is with child with a daughter she findeth the same about the 90. day Aristotle neuerthelesse acknowledgeth and diuers more that this as we haue sayd before is not alwayes certaine but with the motion in the right or left sides of a man or maiden child it seldome hapneth to the contrary as may appeare in beasts which at one time commonly do beare two yong ones as Goates Sheepe c. At what time and in what maner the child groweth in the wombe §. 4. ALbeit this concerne no Phisicke but is rather a worke of nature than any part of our science yet doth our methode require that we should shew in what time and also how the child doth increase and grow in his mothers bodie First there is also as hath bene sayd before a great difference betwéene boyes and girles to wit the man child receiueth both forme and life much sooner than the maiden child yet the perfect fashioning of a man or maiden child is in manner as followeth In the first sixe dayes the séede doth swell like to a bladder full of wind or a windy egge nine dayes after that doth this bladder draw bloud vnto it whereby in twelue dayes the liuer the heart and the braines are so euidently formed that they seuerally may be séene and perceiued about the 27. day It is called of the Grecians Embryo or Foetus that is a fruite whereof afterwards a perfect man is formed the other members are fashioned within 18. dayes following so that the summe of all this time amounteth to 4â dayes in which space the life is for the most part also receiued although the child by reason of his weaknesse séeme rather to be still than to moue euen to the 90. day When as now vnto this number which maketh in all 135. dayes is added as much more then saith Hippocrates you haue the true time of the birth which is iust nine moneths counting thirtie dayes for euery moneth but as we haue said before al things are longer deferred with a girle than with a boy for they commonly be not borne before the tenth moneth Secondly some suppose that if a man child be borne in the seuenth moneth as it otherwhiles befals that the fruite was perfectly formed at the first in 30. dayes and began to liue and moue in the 40. But a maiden child borne in the 7. moneth receiueth her perfection in 35. dayes and beginneth to stirre about the 60. day and both of them are perfected in a 100. dayes but a man child which hath bene borne vntill the ninth moneth that getteth his perfect forme in 45. dayes and stirreth about the 100. day is borne into the world about the 300. day But the maiden children are fully fashioned about the 60. day they stir about the fourescore day and are brought into the world about the 279. day The cause why men children are sooner fashioned in the mothers wombe is because the séede and the right side wherein they be conceiued are hotter Thirdly we reade that in the first moneth the conception should be nought else but a collection of bloud in the second moneth a forming of the bodie in the third moneth a perfect body in the fourth moneth the nailes do grow in the fift moneth it getteth the perfect signes of a man or a woman child in the sixth moneth do the veines beginne to appeare in the seuenth moneth doth the marrow grow in the bones in the eight moneth are the bones hardened and strengthened in the ninth moueth doth it get a full proportion of man or woman and prepareth it selfe for birth Albertus Magnus in the ninth booke and fifth Chapter De Animalibus sheweth diuers more diuisions of the kinds and concludeth with these words following That which the Phisitions do write of this matter is not sufficiently approoued and they are not alwayes found to speake the truth These are the words of the foresaid Albertus Now that this is true appeareth by the difference of the foresaid computations It differeth also sometimes according to the health and debilitie of the parent whereby the fruite of necessitie is gouerned and is brought into the world sooner or later wherefore it may iustly be said that in this matter no certaintie may be found The order of diet for women with child §. 5. WHen God hath endued a woman with his gracious blessing that in the state of wedlocke she should conceiue with child then let her take héede that she cast not away the gift of God voluntarily by some great misdiet but that she acknowledge the goodnesse of God and liue in such sort that by her diet the conceiued fruite be not onely not harmed but cherished and strengthened and fall not into any mishap or mischance whatsoeuer To this end we will at this present prescribe certaine rules first a woman conceiued shall alwayes contend to be loose in body for the which she is to eate euery morning before breakfast some ripe stued Prunes especially if she be bound Also she is to beware of all manner of néedlesse labour of leaping dauncing vomiting coughing much venery and especially presently after meales also of great sorrow frighting feare anger and such like Neither may she bathe her selfe vnlesse
Parchment boyled to Lime and laid vpon it are also very forcible for to staunch bloud Burne a hat to ashes and strew it into the wound Dryed swines dung powned to powder doth also staunch bloud Item take Egshels and lay it so long in strong Vineger to stéepe vntill that they be very soft and then let them be hard againe afterwards powne them small and vse them as the other Mans haire also burnt and beaten to powder stauncheth much the bleeding at the nose and all other manner of bléeding The iuice of Shepheards purse stauncheth and cooleth all hote bloud In May are you to take Comfrey with the leaues and shred it small this being done distill it like other water and drop in the wound The same do the Chirurgians ascribe to Maiden milke which is in the first part the fift chapter and 1. § described Item for to staunch the bloud at the nose hold vpon the forehead a cold flint stone bloud stone Calcedonie or Carnoyle stones or put in his hand the rootes of Corne roses a man is to hang his priuities in strong vineger or a cloth wet therein and laid thereon the bléeding will cease immediatly For to staunch the bloud you may also looke into these places following as of the bléeding of the Eares in the first part the 9. chapter and 4. § of the bléeding of the gums in the first part the 17. chapter and 7. § Item of spetting of bloud in the second part 5. Chapter and 11. § to staunch the bléeding of the Hemorrhoides in the third part the 9. chapter and 4. § of pissing bloud in the third part the 16. chapter and 11. § and of womens tearmes in the 3. part the 19. chapter and 3. § Of the clotted bloud in the body §. 2. IF so be that a wounded man or one that hath taken a fall hapned to bléed inward then are all meanes to be sought to expell the same with all spéede for otherwise it must inwardly corrupt and putrifie whereby very perillous agues and other deadly diseases might ingender whereof in the second part the fift chapter and 17. § of the spetting bloud is sufficiently written The common people do aduise that in this disease one is to drinke his owne vrine whereby the clotted bloud should be expelled The same doth also the wine of Harts toung and all other vulnerall potions which hereafter shall be described This plaister following is much commended Take Goates milke and Honie as much as you please let it be very warme together and stir fine Bolus therein vntill it be a salue and bind that vpon it whereby the congealed and clotted bloud will be expelled Of the stitching of wounds §. 3. THis stitching of the wounds is committed to the Chirurgians charge according to the importance of the cause but I will onely adde this vnto it and speake of those things that do heale the wounds together without stitching Take Masticke and Dragonbloud of each one quarter of an ounce Frankinsence one drag Mill dust and Beane meale of each one ounce and a halfe make them all to powder and temper them with the brayed whites of Egs and Rose water vnto a pap Afterwards spread it vpon two long clouts which be somewhat strong and that are as long as the wound is lay one vpon each side of the wound vpon the whole flesh this being dry then few the wound so close together as you please the néedle not going thorough the skin but thorough the clouts onely The golden salue is also much commended called Vnguentum Aureum Mesuae which is made thus Take yellow Waxe 3. ounc Sallad oile 12. ounc Turpentine one ounce Rofin Colofonie of each one quarter of an ounce Frankinsence Mastick of ech half an ounce SaffroÌ a drag let the Waxe Turpentine and oyle melt together and afterwards put the Rosen vnto it and when it beginneth to be cold then temper amongst it the Masticke Frankinsence and Saffron this ioyneth the wounds together and healeth them In the first Part the 7. chap. and 10. § there haue you a water described beginning thus Take Litharge of siluer c. which is very much renowned for this purpose In like sort M. Tristrams water and other golden waters with foure kinds of Balmes which are to be found in the last part Of fresh wounds §. 4. THese forementioned things be verily the chiefest which may be vsed without any delay for all fresh wounds When as now the bloud is staunched and all finished that is néedfull to be done then are these things ensuing coÌmended highly First M. Tristrams water is thought meete to heale all fresh wounds which may also be done with all golden waters whether it be that one take them inward or lay them outwardly vpon them The oyle of Tyles should not onely heale but also preserue the wounds froÌ all putrified flesh this is also ascribed to the oyle of Linnen The oyle of S. Iohns wort is also much commended and the oyle of Roses for that they haue an astringent vertue and efficacie Likewise the oyle of Spike and oyle of Lead It is also streightly commaunded that all new wounds shall be washed with Wormwood or with Rosemarie for that both these keep the fresh wounds cleane and faire from all putrifaction and are also healing But if any one be but a little wounded so that it be not néedfull to go to a Chirurgian with it then vse this salue following Take Turpentine which is thrée times washed in wine and stirre the yolke of an egge amongst it Barly meale one quarter of an ounce Saffron 5. grains temper them together This salue is good for all paine although it be also in a finewie part it maketh flesh spéedily to grow It is also not vnlike to Vnguento Mundificatiuo This plaister following will heale the wound in 20. daies without matter and without paine Take Waxe half an ounce white Coral 3. drag Colofonia Momy of each 7. drag Myrrhe 2. drag Camfere Loadstone of each half a drag oyle of Egs as much as is néedful for to mixe amongst al the rest This salue is thus to be vsed if any one be cut or thrust if this plaister be laid vpon it within â4 howers then shall the wound within 20. daies without any corruption or any other addition be healed If so be that then it be a thrust that goeth quite thorough then is one to haue 4. plaisters in a readines and to lay 2. vpon it before noone and 2. at after noone without putting any thing else vnto it But if so be that it be but a wound then are two enough to the end that there remaine no clotted bloud within is this powder following to be giuen to the patient take Mommy one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus and Dragon bloud of each one dragm giue thereof to the patient euening and morning the quantitie of an Hasell nut Many kinds of vulnerall potions §. 5.
is the bloud Besides these is also womens bloud much grosser blacker than mens bloud women haue also lesse bloud in the outward than in the inwards parts Moreouer there is no creature fuller of bloud amongst all them that haue receiued life than women wherefore nature doth vnburthen them euery moneth of all the superfluities of the bloud and they are lesse subiect than men vnto all sicknesses which procéed of bloud Albeit it hapneth yet seldome that they bléed at the nose or by the Hemorrhoids then do they quickly find that they haue their termes the lesse Secondly the bloud also in the Hearts Lights and arteries is much subtiler than that in the veines The grosse bloud is drawne away by the flesh whereby the foresaid bloud is more subtile thin and scummy The vpright good bloud which is without any disease is light red sweete in taste and not too thicke and in that estate it may be sustained and augmented by good meate and drinke if one take abundantly thereof but to the contrary it will be diminished through want of those things The bloud doth especially increase by good strong wine moderatly drunken it maketh the same also faire and fresh and especially the wine which is thick red for that wine behoueth not to be much digested In fine according to that the food is good or bad thereafter is the bloud qualified for the farther it is ingendred from his proper nature so much the blacker it is If the same spoile through abundance then will in the broken veines be knots called Varices whereof we haue written in the first chapter and seuentéenth § of the fift part or it will be expelled through the bléeding at the nose or through the Hemorrhoids also it is oftentimes altered in impostumations and corruptions What diseases are caused of the corruption of the bloud that shall hereafter be taught and declared Amongst all liuing creatures is the bloud of man the most subtile as to the contrary the Asses bloud the most grosse So long as it doth remaine in the bodie it doth kéepe his warme and moist nature but as soone as it is out then doth it thicken yet one mans bloud more than anothers whence afterwards you may separate the litle haires or Fibrae The bloud of a Stéete is so hard that being drunken it is a deadly poyson Contrariwise certaine beasts bloud doth not thicken at all viz. Hares bloud Conies bloud Harts and Hinds bloud the bloud of Roes of Swine of Goates and such like moe The Philosophers opinion is that all grosse thicke bloud doth giue strength subtile and thinne bloud wittinesse little bloud feare and very litle wit But for conclusion this ensuing is a maruellous property of the bloud that Nature hath placed such power therein that the countenance of a man is altered in the twinckling of an eye as happeneth in great anger shamefastnesse and such through the concourse of bloud Contrarily if the same depart from the face it sheweth feare and fright And in these alterations of palenesse and rednesse doth kéepe such a difference that therby may be adiudged and knowne how the heart and mind of man is disposed within Whereby the bloud may be cleansed §. 4. ALbeit that we haue taught enough for all sicknesses which be caused through the vncleannesse of the bloud by what meanes the bloud may be cleansed yet can it not but be necessary to discouer certaine things here which be méete for the same And first what things they be the confected Nutmegs are especially commended for this because they make very good and haile bloud Neuerthelesse it is not aduised that they which be of hote nature should vse the same vnlesse it be verie seldome We haue also declared in other places that there is nothing that clenseth the blood more than Fumitorie and all that is made of Fumitorie as conserue sirupe iuice water and especially if the same be decocted in the whay of Goates milke Rosemary is also highly commended for it In the first part the second Chapter and first § is a powder described beginning thus Take Sene leaues which is also maruellous good for this purpose Concerning the drinke we haue told before that there is nothing better than good red wine Amongst herb-wines the Burrage wine wine of Buglosse and of Tamariscus is commended for this may you looke also into these places insuing where there be diuers and sundrie things described whereby the bloud may be cleansed as in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and sixt § Item in the fift part of the vlcers and of scabbednesse which be commonly caused of vncleane bloud as also of the Pockes and the Leprosie hereafter shall be spoken of it in the description of Phlegma How the abundant bleeding is to be stanched §. 5. ALso there is nothing to be written of this abundant bléeding but onely to alleage certaine places where diuers and sundrie remedies are set downe for to staunch bloud withall as in the first part the eight chapter and seuenth § Item in the first part the ninth chapter and fifth § Also in the first part the thirtéenth Chapter and seuenth § Item in the second part the fift chap. and seuentéenth § Item in the third part the eighth chapter and fourth § Yet againe in the third part the eleuenth chapter and sixtéenth § Item more in the third part the fourtéenth chapter and 11. § And if so be that this bléeding come vpon women in childbed too fast then looke for it in the conclusion of the third part and before in the seuenth chapter where certaine precious vulnerall potions are described in which places there may good meanes be found according to the importance of the bléeding How to let out superfluous blood §. 6. IT is no lesse néedfull in many men to take away the superfluous bloud whereby nature is ouercharged and many sicknesses caused than in others to increase it and this hapneth most conueniently through letting of bloud through application of boxing cups or through fastning of leaches Of the letting of bloud we haue spoken at large in the Introduction and also written of the sixtéene veines of the bodie which are wont to be opened and likewise in what sicknesses each of them is to be opened whereby each one that readeth it shall find a good direction The second meanes whereby this noisome bloud may be taken away are the cups whereof we haue discoursed at large in the foresaid Introduction Also in like sort of the setting on of the Leaches thither do we direct the Reader and so conclude this Chapter The eleuenth Chapter Of the naturall warmth of mans bodie BEcause we haue now written of the veines and also how the same do spread themselues throughout the whole bodie and other things concerning this therefore we will admonish of the naturall heate which with the bloud is imparted vnto all parts of the bodie for that the bloud and the naturall heate be
will put Laudanum to it then make the same warme as aforesaid fashion your cakes as big as you will haue them For the common people and for the husbandmen the Bay trée is very good or if the country yéeld it Iuniper wood with his berries with drie Hen dung fumed or take powned Wormwood and Bayberries of each a like The rich folkes do vse to lay also with their clothes odoriferous bags for which all the powders that are before mentioned for fumes and hereafter for Pomanders are very good excepting the Laudanum the which is not to be powdered and other mo such soft things This following is very common in France Take Ireos foure ounces Roses two ounces wild Galingall Cloues and Marioram gentle of each two dragms yellow Saunders and Benzoin of each two ounces red Storax halfe an ounce then mingle them all together and put them in a bag If you will you may put thereto Muske and Amber or Camfer In the first part the twelfth chap. you haue also an especiall bag to strengthen the head as thus Take Ireos c. the which is very commodious for this our purpose Also you haue in the second chap. and elsewhere applications for the strengthening of the heart the which are not onely profitable but also very necessarie for this intent What exercise is to be vsed in the Plague §. 6. IN the time of infection the healthie are to exercise themselues moderatly and rather vse an easie walking than a great pace that thereby the venimous ayre may not ouermuch be drawne into the bodie as it hapneth to such as at such times do greatly labour and trauell but when a man abideth in a cleane place void of pestilent ayre and will exercise his body according to his old accustomed manner that cannot but be thought passing good Of the sleepe in this sicknes §. 7. AT such time as the Plague raigneth some think that it is better to sléep by day than by night euen seuen or eight howers long first vpon the right side being méetly well couered and his head raised high But séeing the same is not accustomed with vs then must they eate but little in the euening and sléep the foresaid time of seuen or eight howers But if he could not sléepe a nights then must he about 12. a clocke being 2. howres after his meale compose himselfe to sleepe Others counsel to sléepe a nights in a chamber that is well fumed and close shut but not very long for that through much sleepe the body is too much moistened the which must alwaies be inclined to drouth as much as possibly may be They also forbid sleeping by day and that chiefly in Winter Also you must take héede of excessiue and ouermuch watching for that greatly dryeth and weakeneth nature Of Purging and letting bloud §. 8. CAre must also be had that the bodie be not too much bound and if the going to stoole come of it selfe it is the better if not then must the partie be holpen with suppositories and mild Clisters with Cassie Manna sowre Dates and such like meanes whereof we haue here and there spoken at large but especially in the third part the eleuenth chapter § 20. Other would haue that young cholericke bodies should generally be purged in the summer and in the beginning of winter with the foresaid cooling and laxatiue things and also with yellow Mirobalans boiled with Plum-porredg but in the end of Autumne and in the winter with stronger medicins to wit with Agarick with Turbith and with Polypody but they must be vsed with great héede and discretion Touching letting of bloud When the partie is once purged and aboue sixtéene yeares old being ful of bloud and strong and without any obstruction of the liuer then may he haue a vein opened In like maner also women if their termes and flowers be stopped and if they be without piles in the fundament then may they in May and in Autumne let bloud and if occasion serueth once a moneth to wit in the Liuer veine or Milt veine euery time thrée or foure ounces for this taketh away the boiling of the bloud and the Cholera in the veines Yet for this infection must sometimes one sometimes more be opened but especially that which is fullest of bloud But great regard must as hath bene said be taken of the age and weaknesse of the patient also whether a woman haue conceiued or not or whether she haue her termes or not or haue the Hemmorrhoids or not with many such circumstances more that the weaknes of the party thereby be not augmented Aboue and beside all this must the patient abstaine from venery as much as may be Of the motions of the mind §. 9. NOw concerning the motions of the mind as sadnes feare sodaine motions of the mind such like they do greatly alter and spoile the bloud wherby it may the sooner receiue the pestilent ayre and anger especially inflameth the heart like as also doth ouermuch gladnesse notwithstanding moderate gladnesse is most commodious for the heart Of bathes and other common causes §. 10. AT such times take héede of bathing for that thereby is the body moistened the pores opened and all the members made the readier to receiue the infection of the plague It is therefore very ill done yea a temptation of God in time of the plague to frequent common bathing houses for that the plague can by no meanes be sooner gotten by reason that as well the pores of the infected as the sound are opened whereby the venimous vapor of the infected is let foorth and may easily be receiued of the healthy wherefore it is much better as the custome of this countrey is to refraine wholy from bathing In like manner it is not good at such times to wash the head for therby are the vitall spirits weakened but onely to combe their heads with an Iuorie combe But the hands must often be washt somtimes with wine and otherwhiles with vineger and especially with Rose vineger How one shall gouerne himselfe without doores §. 11. IT is very good that at this time euery man obserue a good diet within dores and not accompanie himselfe with many men for amongst many are as well those that be infected as those that are healthie whereby the diseased infect the healthie with their breath but for that it is vnpossible to forbeare it by reason that euery man hath businesse with others it is therefore best that euery one defend himselfe from all ill ayres Wherefore first we counsel the common sort and men of occupation which cannot beare greater charge to obserue these rules following to wit that he in the morning betimes before he go abroad or settle himselfe to worke take thrée or foure drie Figges thrée or foure kernels of Nuts and fiftéene or sixtéene leaues of Rue with a little salt This composition or medicine is so sure and approued that men haue vsed the same euery where for all
soeuer they drinke it it disturbeth their heads and maketh them drunken For this purpose may these things following be vsed to wit iuice of Quinces or raw Quinces well chewed and the iuice taken downe likewise the iuice of Citrons and Limons or of their sirupes do hinder drunkennes Hony is also much commended if it be taken after much drinking of wine for thereby wil the vapors of the wine be so driuen downwards that it cannot weaken the vnderstanding nor the braines Bitter Almonds confected Conserues of Gilloflowers after that you haue drunken much do preuent drunkennesse In the old time men did make a Garland of Saffron flowers and did weare it on their heads the same vertue is ascribed to the blew Violets And it is said that white Colewoorts cut into Sallads and the same eaten or the séeds therof chewed in the mouth shold hinder drunkennes for the iuice of Colewoorts or the pith of the stalkes doth stay the vapors of the wine from ascending into the head The precious stone Amethist shold also preserue men from drunkennesse But for to defend and preuent all contagions that procéed of drunkennes we wil adde some things more First he must be vrged to vomit with Oxymel of Squils with Radish seede with a feather dipped in oyle and put into the throate and thereupon he must fast and sléepe and after he awaketh againe you must froth his members to wit his hands and féete with warme water wherein is sodden Roses Cammomill and a little salt and tempered with some oyle of Violets wherby the vapors may be drawne downwards Item lay a cloth vpon the head that is made wet with the iuice of Cucumbers Purslaine or in any of their waters the patient must kéepe himself herein very sober and vse light meats Colewoorts Lentils young Pullets and young Pigeons drest with the iuice of Limons and Pomegranates the prepared and confected Coriander is also very good and sléeping thereuppon vntill that all the wine be digested which may be séene by the concoction of the vrine It chaunceth oftentimes that drunken folkes haue great thirst which if it commeth not through the abundance of wine then giue them faire fountaine water to drinke and sower fruites to eate You haue also an especiall thing in the first part the twelfth Chapter and fourth § which is good for drunkennesse and thirst after drunkennes There is also a great difference in drunkennes and that according to the nature of them that are drunken He that is sanguine doth sing daunce laugh and is merrie he may be compared to children that soone laugh and for the most part know not why nor wherfore and when as a long time they haue bene merrie then begin they to sléepe till they haue slept it out The cholericke man is in his drunkennesse angry raging clamorous addicted to fighting and will not be corrected nor admonished of any body one cannot bring them to bed they haue much babling and are much bragging The Phlegmatici they will be wearie lazie sléepie and kéepe themselues quiet The Melancholici are sorrowfull bewaile sometimes their sinnes their friends disease and that is the greatest imperfection of their drunkenes they are therein like to the Apes but in this they are all alike that they stammer with their toung they réele and tarrie not by their right wits How hurtfull also drunkennes is doth appeare in many places of this our booke of Phisicke where we admonish all men to refraine it and that not onely of this vnmeasurable drinking whereof we now make mention but also where all expert Phisitions do forbid wine And we will for a conclusion adde this to the rest that the Rape wine and Béere wine drunken after meate doth make one more drunken and sléepie than any other kind of Rhenish wine And it is a common opinion that watered wine doth sooner insect the head than pure wine But this is to be vnderstood of grosse and thicke wine which by the putting to of a little water is the more subtiller whereby the vapour sooner fumeth into the head You haue also many remedies before in the first part the first Chapter and eight § that are commodious for the paine of the head through drunkennes The 20. Chapter Of Frighting and Feare LEt no man wonder that we speake of Frighting amongst other sicknesses for it is not onely found by experience that through many sorts of distemperature of the bloud many sundry sicknesses are prouoked but also a sudden death it selfe whereof commeth not onely the aforementioned but also thereby is caused an inestimable feare and faintnes of âart whereby they become most vnfit for all worthy and knightly proweââe and are depriued of all counsell and indeuors Of this faint hartednesse and feare the Philosophers do write that the same for the most part do raigne and dwell in the hart of such as are of a cold nature which being sodainly and hastily set vpon their subtillest bloud runneth with such a streame to the inward parts of the bodie and towards the heart that it séemeth that the naturall heate shold be suffocated whereby cometh such bleaknes and quaking yea somtimes swonnings debilitie of the sinewes and muscles that it makes frighted persons very féeble and weak wherby also the motions of the muscles are so disturbed that both ordure and vrine slides from them their teeth chatter for cold they are thirstie and the whole bodie shiuering and shaking For this are two principall and also certaine remedies euen as Horatius saith to wit that one should build a wall of stéele about him that is shall alwaies haue an vpright conscience that cannot accuse him of any misdealing Secondly that he feare God and haue righteousnes alwaies before his eyes which medicins do so frée men of all frighting that like as Dauid saith it will alwaies go well with him and know for certaine that God of his goodnesse hath with his holy Angels as it were a strong towre compassed him round about wherby he will defend him But the faintnes of heart is also to be holpen with naturall medicines Note therefore that when the bloud through frighting is stirred and runneth towards the heart as it indeed hapneth then must of necessitie the trembling and quaking follow after it for which you haue in the second part the sixt Chapter and seuenth § a very good Elderne water many other things described When a woman with child especially is frighted then do some bid that there should be taken a quarter of an ounce of clarified hony and therewith some scraped Nutmegge and so eate it all together Wine moderatly drunken maketh the fearfull and faint-harted men stout and couragious And it is a common custome if any be sore frighted that he be admonished to make water and if there be any that after such frighting can come hardly to himselfe and fell into a swoune then is he to vse those things that strengthen the hart for which there are many
BEcause that the right Balsam is no where to be gotten or although it be brought vnto vs yet common people cannot haue the same by reason of the dearenesse wherefore haue many Phisitions endeuoured themselues for to distill such an oyle which might haue the same efficacie and vertue and verily the Phisitions and Chirurgians haue found therein an especiall operation wherefore I cannot pretermit the description of some of them First this ensuing is a very precious remedie against the poxe against all diseases of the mother and of the stomacke Take faire cleane oyle of Turpentine sixtéene ounces stop it very close afterwards take Lauander Sage Betonie Roses Rosemarie Mints and Bayleaues of each a small handfull rootes of Angelica of Ireas of Valerian Elecampane rootes and Diptamus of Candy of each one dragm flowers of Burrage of Buglosse of Lauander and flowers of Spike flowers of Sage of Cammomill and Stechas of each one quarter of an ounce Annis one drag and a halfe Piony rootes Licorice and Spica of Indy of each one dragme péels of Citrons and of Oranges of each two scruples stampe them all small together and then powre vnto it the oyle of Turpentine and so let it stéepe the space of a whole day with meetly much water with it that it be couered therein afterwards distill it out againe in water at the first with a gentle fire vntill it be warme and that so long as any oyle or water doth come out of it afterwards separate the oyle from the water Secondly if you will distill it once againe then put to the foresaid water and oyle 3. ounces of liquid Storax and distill it as before Thirdly take red Storax two ounces Frankinsence Myrrhe Lacca Masticke Bdellium and Benzoin of each one ounce and a halfe stampe them all together and distill it as before Fourthly take Ginger Galingall Zeduarie and Gentian of each one quarter of an ounce Cubebes Cardamome Greines and Pepper of each one dragme and a halfe selected Rubarbe and Saffron of each halfe a dragme Nutmegs Mace Cloues and Calmus of each one ounce stampe them all small together and put it into a glasse bodie then put vnto it againe the foresaid oyle and water let it so stand and stéepe and distill it afterwards then separate the oyle from the water and kéepe it well stopt You haue also in like manner in the second part the sixt Chapter and third § an artificiall Balme which was ordained for the Emperour Ferdinandus and another in the first part the twelfth Chapter called a Hypobalsamum This following is also highly renowned Take selected Myrrhe Aloe Indy Spica Dragon bloud Frankinsence Bdellium Balsam fruit Saffron Mastick Gum Stechas red Styrax Laudanum and Beuercod of each one quarter of an ounce Turpentine thrée ounces and a half yellow Cowslips halfe a handfull further distill them all together as is before said These thrée last be very forcible against all Palseys if the lame members be annointed therwith and if that one do drink a drop or twaine thereof with wine it is also very good These Balmes be also good for all fresh wounds so that they may be healed in two or thrée daies therwith They be also very good against all diseases of the sinewes Another which is common with all Chirurgians Take selected Myrrhe Aloe Spica of Indie Dragonbloud Frankinsence Momy Opopanacum Bdellium Ammoniacum Sarcocolla Laudanum Balsam fruites Saffron Masticke Gumme and liquid Storax of each one quarter of an ounce fresh Beuercod two dragmes and a halfe Muscus halfe a dragme Turpentine foure ounces and a halfe powne all that is to be powned and adde the Turpentine vnto them with a little water and distill all together in séething water as is said afore Of Beere §. 1. COmmon Béere is made in this countrey of many kinds of Graine as of Oats of Barley and of Wheat whereby it is also of sundry natures That which is made of Barley is cold of nature in comparison of wine that which is made of Barley and Oates is lesse binding and maketh also fewer winds and doth also nourish lesse that which is brewed of Wheate or of any other grain is hotter warmer and more binding the thicker it is the worse the thinner the better that which is well Hopt causeth one to pisse fréely and looseth the body but it is not wholesome for them that haue weake braines and that is vnwholsomer wherin the seeds of Rue be decocted for that the drunkennesse of such Béere weareth away much flower then the drunkennes of wine for that it maketh grosse vapors in the head and a tough flime which will hardly be digested If it be not well sodden then doth it cause much wind puffeth vp the belly But very old and well sodden beere doth make people fat increaseth the bloud and in women that giue sucke the milke and that especially if the same be brewed of good corne Thus for to kéepe beere long take about halfe a pound of prepared Coriander vnto a barrell of béere and seeth the same in two quarts of the same béere afterwards straine it and wring it out and powre it warme into the vessell yet make it tight and let it stand so still a day and a night Some do take a new earthen pot knocke the same in péeces and cast it into the vessell and put also vnto it a new laid egge The 3. Chapter Of Clarret wine Hyppocras and Herbwines THese aromaticall wines and such like haue no certaine prescription for that each one maketh them according to his owne good liking and pleasure the one putteth much spice vnto it the other much Sugar and another lesse of the one or of the other Some do also make them with Hony like as hereafter some do follow for an example Take elected Cinnamom thrée ounces clensed and smal cut Ginger and Greines of each one ounce Galingall one ounce and a halfe Nutmegs Cloues Cardamome and Cucubes of each one quarter of an ounce being powned al together grosly powre a quart of wine vpon it and stop it tight afterwards set it a whole night in a warme place This being all done then take foure quarts of wine and one quart of cleare skummed Hony powre the Hony vnto a litle wine and so let it seeth softly together afterwards then powre the foure quarts of wine vnto it and all the stéeped Spices and let it coole a little then powre it so thorow a straining bagge and that so oftentimes together vntill the wine runne cleare thorough it This Claret wine may be put into a little vessell and the spices thorough which the wine hath runne are to be hanged in the vessell in a long bugge then will it remaine good a long time This potion is very good against all cold and moist diseases of the head of the braines and thee stomack It is also good for all cold women and for all old people it strengtheneth the digestiue vertue prouoketh naturall heate and
womens termes it warmeth the backe it asswageth the paine of the same it breaketh the stone it expelleth vrine the stone grauell and the slime whereof the grauell is ingendred it increaseth womens milke it cureth sowre belchings of the stomacke it is good against all wambling and vomiting it allayeth the Cough and all hoarsenesse of the throate But aboue all is this Fennell séede commended against the darknesse of the eyes for it preserueth people from all volines on the eyes it sharpeneth the sight if one take the same morning and euening to wit after meales and cheweth the same long Coâââ doth grow much in Apulia it hath the same vertue with the Caraway It is also very good for them which be plagued with the grauell and can hardly make their water The Caraway seede is hotter and dryer by nature than the Annis or Fennell therefore it is stronger and more forcible and especially doth it warme the stomacke and all inward parts it openeth all obstructions it forceth vrine it breaketh the stone it expelleth sand and grauell it driueth out winds and it taketh away all paine and chollicke of the belly The confected Almonds are good against all diseases of the Lights and the throate against all drie Coughs and narrownes of the brest it strengtheneth all weake people and all them which do consume away The bitter Almonds do expell vrine and grauell they do dry the braines and do hinder the ascending vapors they withstand all drunkennes and be good against many diseases of the brest and of the lights The hasell nuts haue in some sort the same nature with the Almonds but they with the red shales haue an especiall operation and vertue for all scowrings and laskes and especially to staunch the bloudie Fluxe All sorts of hasell nuts be more wholesome confected with sugar than otherwise as one may see and reade in many places of this booke The Pingles be also of the same nature with the Almonds and be especiall good for all leaue folkes for that they strengthen much yet are the kernels to be layed 24. howers before to stéepe in Rosewater and then to be dried againe for they augment much humane séede Of the confected Spices Peeles Rootes and such like §. 3. THe Ginger the Cinnamom the Cloues the Nutmegs the Mace Cucubes Orange peeles Citron péeles Marioram and the sliced Licorice are likewise confected with Sugar These foresaid do kéepe all alike the properties of their natures and be especiall good in time of the Plague for that they make good breath which will not lightly be infected It is also to be noted that all that which is to be confected for phisicke must be couered very thin with sugar but onely the spices may well be confected somewhat thicker The common baked Ginger sugar is thus prepared Take one pound of sugar and seeth it with Well water clarifie it as the sugar is wont to be boyled for baked sugar and when it beginneth to be cold then mixe fiue dragmes of powned Ginger amongst it and when you see that it beginneth to be thicke then powre it vpon a stone or a table which is made fat with a little sallad oyle Yet another baked sugar Take Ginger two dragmes and a halfe Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce Cloues one dragme Mace and Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme Sugar one pound séeth it and do as before You haue in like manner also in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and 20. § a baked sugar which purgeth mildly whereof one may take a quarter of an ounce at once The 4. Chapter Of preserued Fruits Flowers and other things TO the end that all Fruites Flowers Rindes and in fine all that is preserued with Sugar or with Hony be not parted from the former therefore we will in this chapter comprehend all that is preserued in Sugar or decocted as Conserues and also declare their vertues How to confect the Elecampane roote §. 1. IN the spring of the yeare is this roote to be digged out of the ground and the outtermost péeles to be cut off the roote made very cleane afterwards cut it in somewhat thicke shiues or slices this being done then séeth the same very softly in two kindes of water one after the other to the end the bitternesse may be taken away and be very mellow Then lay them on a cleane cloth to the end they may waxe somewhat drie Put them in a leaded pot and powre méetly hard sodden Sugar vpon them but that it be not too hot vntill the rootes be couered This shall stand so a day and a night then shall the Sugar draw all the moisture vnto it which as yet is in the roote and afterwards powre the Sugar off againe and boile it vnto a sirupe this being done then powre it lukewarme vpon it and do this so often as the rootes giue any moisture from them These preserued Elecampane rootes be a very good medicine for all cold diseases of the bladder They take away the piping of the breast and the shortnesse of breath They be also good against the Cough the spetting of bloud against the paine of the sides they strengthen the stomacke and the digestion They cleanse also the same from all vncleane humors they breake the stone and moue womens termes They separate also all tough phlegme of the breast they heale the vlcers of the Lights and all inward parts and especially they warme the stomacke and the Matrix To preserue blacke Cherries §. 2. TAke blacke Cherries as they come from the trée and then cut off the stalkes for two pound of Cherries take one pound of Sugar and séeth the same and clarifie it when it is then halfe boyled put in the Cherries and then let them séeth all together softly to the end the Cherries do not breake and that so long vntill that the Sugar be drawne betweene the fingers with small thréeds And when as now the broth is almost cold then put the Cherries in a leaded pot with the stalks vpwards for so they will remaine good a whole yeare And in this manner shall red Cherries also be preserued These Cherries be not onely acceptable for them that be sicke but also good for all kind of heate they moisten the dry mouth the tongue and the throate they quench thirst they make appetite and refresh debilitie The conserue of Cherries is thus prepared Take blacke Cherries as many as you please let them séeth well in wine wring them thorough a cloth or thorough an hairen strainer and afterwards let it seeth againe vntill it be thicke stirring it alwaies well about Vnto thrée pounds of this iuice put two pounds of Sugar and afterwards séeth them together to the full thicknesse There may also a Conserue of Cherries be made with spices as hereafter followeth Take of the foresaid Conserue whilst that it is yet warme one pound and temper powned Cinnamom amongst it and Nutmegges of each one quarter of an ounce Ginger and
it Powre the liquor from it and then let it séeth againe vntill that they be thorough mellow to wit in good wine then stampe them to grout and at last put good Malmsey vnto it and so much Sugar as you please and so let it séeth well together stirring it alwaies well about Some do lay them to stéepe in a strong ley and afterwards stéepe them in water But it is not so good for that their force will be thereby much abated so that it is better to séeth them in two or thrée waters to the end that they may lose their bitternesse they strengthen the heart and the vitall spirits and therwith also the stomacke they do helpe the consumption and drie the braines Conserue of Burrage §. 8. AMongst the learned there is debate whether the name betwéene Burrage and Buglosse be exchanged but therin is no great importance by reason that both of them are of one nature to wit that the same are to be vsed in all venimous and pestilentiall Agues they do strengthen the heart and all vitall spirits they withstand all venim and all heauinesse of mind and they do also cleanse the bloud from all melancholy In fine they coole all inward parts This Conserue is made of the blew flowers as we haue taught before How Calmus is to be preserued §. 9. TAke faire perfect Calmus powre faire Well water vpon it and let it séeth together vntill it be thorough mellow and that it loose some of his bitternes afterwards make these rootes faire from the outwardmost peeles and from all other vncleannesse If so be that some do swell too thicke then cut them longwise and in case that they be too bitter then let them séeth once again in water and then afterwards lay them to dry in a sieue The Sugar is certaine times to be decocted like as is taught before vntill that all the moisture be wasted This confected Calmus is most in all his force like vnto the Ginger and especially it is very good for all debilitie of the stomack that is burthened with some cold humor for that it consumeth the same humors and besides this strengtheneth the stomack if it be taken in the morning then doth it keep folks from all pestilentiall ayre and maketh a swéet breath it expelleth water and is especiall good for all diseases of the bladder and the kidneys it forceth the stone and the grauell and it prouoketh womens termes it is warme and dry by nature and hath an especiall operation for to open all obstructions c. How Citrons are to be preserued §. 10. A Common manner to preserue Citrons in Sugar or in Hony is this that one peele off the yellow rinds and cut the white pit in round or long péeces and then to separate the sower with the séedes from it Further the same is to be boyled in a water or twaine to the end that the bitternesse come from it and therewith may be mellow and soft afterwards is boyled Sugar to be powred lukewarme vpon it and deale with them like as is taught of the Elecampane rootes This preserue is very good against all venime it strengtheneth the heart and all vitall powers it is moist and cold in the first degrée and it is very safe to be taken How Citron peeles are to be preserued §. 11. TAke the péeles of Citrons which be not péeled too thin but that there remaine some of the white with it and do therewith as is said of the Orange péels These péeles be warm and drie vnto the third degrée wherfore they are but seldome to be vsed but in cold sicknesses they do helpe digesture they withstand all melancholicke humors and also all diseases which may procéed thereof How Berberries be preserued §. 12. YOu must take of the very fairest Berberries that you can get and wash the same very cleane afterwards séeth them in a sirupe of good Sugar and when the sirup is sodden short enough then cast the Berberries vnto it and let it seeth so softly a short time so that the berries do not breake and then preserue them in a glased pot They be good against all heate and all other inflammation of the bloud and especially of the stomack and liuer they comfort sicke persons in great thirst they moisten the drie toung the throate and all the mouth There is also a conserue made of this fruite and that in this manner following Take Berberries as before and seeth the same in wine afterwards straine them thorough a sleue or searce or thorough a cloth and then let it be sodden vnto a Conserue stirring it alwaies about This Confection stoppeth the bloudy fluxe cooleth the bloud which is inflamed of Cholera it obstructeth womens terms and maketh appetite to meate it is alwaies somewhat stronger than the Conserue of Raspes Otherwise hath it the same vertue or operation the Apothecaries do call it Rob de Berberis Conserue of Fumitorie §. 13. THis bitter herbe Fumitorie is very well knowne if you will make a Conserue of it then take the flowers of it and powne the same with Sugar as other Conserues and as we haue taught of Eyebright This confection is especiall good for all theÌ which be full of vncleane bloud and also for all them that be plagued with scurfe with the Poxe and with such like vncleannes it keepeth men in health and also from all venimous ayre Of this Conserue may fréely be taken as much as the quantitie of a great nut before that men will bath for that it expelleth out the sweat and al bad humors of the bodie therfore it is also good in the beginning of the Dropsie for that it openeth the liuer and all obstructions of the inward parts it driueth out the yellow Iaundise by the vrine and is very commodious for many other things How the Conserue of the fruite of the wild Rose tree is to be made §. 14. WHen as the fruits of these wild Roses which be called Priestpintle begin to be ripe then take as many as you please and séeth the same with red wine vnto pap afterwards wring it thorough a sieue or searse so let it séeth wel without putting any other thing vnto it with a continuall stirring about as another conserue This Conserue hath a maruellous operation for to stop the scouâing or laske it is also good for all wambling of the stomack others do make it to a Conserue with Must halfe decocted wherwith they seeth it againe and cast certaine slices of Marmalade vnto it which is especiall good for a cold stomacke This Conserue is more in vse with the common people than at the Apothecaries wherfore we will speake the lesse thereof How Abricockes are to be preserued §. 15. THe skins of these Abricockes are to be pluckt off softly then powre vpon them Sugar decocted hard not ouer hot then let it stand so the space of one day or somewhat longer afterwards séeth the Sugar againe and that so
womens termes it is very necessarie for al maladies of the Matrix it is also especially commodious for all them that be plagued with the gout in the hands and feet but especially it is giuen against all poyson this doth it not onely taken inwardly but also laid vpon the outside In like manner doth it apparantly worke in the tertian and quartaine Ague if that the same be taken an hower before or ere the ague cometh with wine The common waight that one taketh thereof is a dragme the which neuerthelesse according to the abilitie of the person and of the sicknesse may be augmented or diminished or also omitted all together Electuarium Oculistae §. 29. THis is a Confection for the eyes whereof you shall find two sorts in the first part the 7. chap. and 20. § Electuarium de Olibano §. 30. THis present Confection of Frankinsence is seldome vsed and prepared but it is good against all paine and rheumes of the head and also of the eyes it swageth all bad throates which proceede of defluxions it is also auaileable against the Cough and spitting of bloud it stayeth all wambling and vomiting Further it is also good for all diseases of the Lights and for the pleurisie whereas the matter is coughed vp it stayeth the running of the Raynes and womens termes it is also vsed against the scouring Electuarium de Ouo §. 31. HOw that this precious Confection of the golden Egge is to be made is after two waies described in the sixt part the 16. Chapter and 3. § and also taught thereby how that all haile and sicke folkes ought to vse the same Electuarium Diaphoenicon §. 32. THis Confection of Dates is also to be made in Tabulates It is méetly strong for to purge therewith in the Quotidian and Tertian agues It purgeth Phlegma and Cholera It hath a maruellous efficacie against all paine of the stomacke and other like paines of the guttes which are caused through any rough slimie humor therefore it is also oftentimes prescribed in this booke Philonium §. 33. THis confection is also called according to them which haue found it out to wit after Philon It is made after sundry manners whereof there be twaine which be accompted the chiefe viz. Romanum and Persicum The first is good against the Cough and against all diseases of the Lights viz. heauie breath spitting bloud distemperance of the stomacke paine of the Lyuer of the Spléene and against all infirmities of the priuities and of the bladder The other to wit Persicon is very good to staunch bloud like as womens termes or when the Pyles runne too sore also in all scourings and bloudie fluxe and whereas bloud is auoided then is it an especiall medicine It is also excéeding good for women which haue first conceaued for to preserue and kéepe the fruite Electuarium Diaprunis §. 34. HEre before in the fourth Chapter in the description of the preserued Prunes is expressed of her power and how it is made Electuarium de Psyllio §. 35. THis is also one of the commonest confections which one findeth ready at all Apothecaries it expelleth the cholerick matter and is very good for all hote Agues which otherwise are hardly to be expelled Moreouer it is good against the giddines and all paine of the head which is caused by the vapors of Cholera and mixed with other humors Item for the falling sicknes and for enflaming of the Lyuer c. Electuarium de Raphano Syluestri §. 36. HOw this is to be prepared and of what power it is that is to be séene in the third part the 17. Chapter and 4. § Electuarium Regium §. 37. ALbeit that it is called a kingly confection and is very good yet it is neuerthelesse no where in this booke vsed but onely in the spetting of bloud Electuarium de succo Rosarum §. 38. THis present Confection named of the iuice of Roses is one of the chiefest purging confections and because that it is very easie to be made therefore we will describe it here Take the iuice of red Roses and white Sugar of each eight ounces Diagridij three quarters of an ounce red white and yellow Saunders of each three dragmes burnt Iuorie one dragme and a halfe Camfer halfe a scruple the iuice and Sugar is to be sodden vnto a meete thicknesse and when it is almost cold then temper the rest amongst it being all beaten very small This may also well be made after the forme of losinges This Confection purgeth Cholera without any anguish and it is also good for all paine of the members which be caused through hote cholerick rheumes also for the tertian Ague and for other moe such like hote accidents Diasatyrion §. 39. THis is a Confection of Ragwoort rootes how the same is prepared and vsed for the increase of humane nature you may reade in the third part the sixt Chapter and 4. § Electuarium de Scoria Ferri §. 40. THe Confection of the refuse of Iron doth Rasis describe It is seldome made or vsed It stoppeth the Fluxe and all bloud Electuarium de Sebesten §. 41. THis is also a very vsuall confection how that the same is to be prepared and what it hath for an operation or power you may reade that in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and twentieth § Dia Sena §. 42. THis Confection of Sene is also very common at all Apothecaries It is good vsed in all melancholicke franticke pensiue and such like sicknesses which proceed of melancholicke bloud and it cureth them that complaine of the Spleene Theriaca magna §. 43. THe occasion wherefore that this high commended Confection is not here described is for that it is made of so many things Also because there is a contention as yet amongst the learned then for that certaine things which must be vsed in it be not to be gotten and especially in this Countrey as the flesh of the Snake Tyrus whereof this Treacle hath the name but it is neuerthelesse needfull and well worthie that we here describe her operation and vigour This Treacle and the Mithridate be amongst all other confections the most renowned and worthiest The first was by Andromacho Neroes Phisition found out first but afterwards by Galen brought into a better order and in such manner amended that it may very well be kept for so precious a Iewell which is neither with gold nor siluer to be compared thus for to speak of her vertue First it is good against all poyson whether it be of beasts or otherwise for to the same end it is giuen and it is laid vpon the biting of mad Dogges In like manner it hath an especiall power against all bad ayre against the Plague and all pestilentiall Agues It is also good against all old paines of the head against the falling sicknesse the giddinesse and all darknesse of the eyes Item it is commended for all infirmities of hearing and for losse of sent And briefly to
speake thereof it doth also amend all debilities the infirmities of the mind and also of the braine Moreouer it strengtheneth also all weaknesse and swounings of the heart it openeth all obstructions of the Lyuer and of the Spleene and mollifieth or suppleth all their hardnesse it openeth the breast and is good against the wheasing and also against the short breath It allayeth the cough and suppleth all rawnesse of the throate it doth prouoke the tough humors to be coughed vp it withstandeth spetting of bloud and swelling vp of the veins It expelleth the yellow Cholera and the Dropsie it healeth all inward diseases and vlcers it asswageth all inward diseases where there is no heate nor ague instant if the same be taken with Wine or otherwise the same must be taken with some other distilled water Likewise it is also good for all bad stomackes it easeth the Consumption it expelleth Wormes and all windinesse of the guts also it is good against all gripings and paine of the guts it is also very fit for all diseases of the Rayns it is very commodious and helping to all them which be vexed with the grauell or the stone for that it expelleth the same it healeth all vlcers of the bladder and all conduits of vrine it expelleth vrine and womens termes in like manner also dead children out of their mothers bodies To all melancholicke which be full of anguish and pensiuenesse without cause and halfe distract of their wits is this giuen with great aduancement In fine it is very good for all lingring sicknesses as the Leprosie old Agues and chiefly Quartain Agues Wherefore it is aduised to such as are to trauell in the cold that euery morning fasting they should take somewhat thereof for that it warmeth the inward parts and defendeth them from all cold It strengtheneth also the lame members and bringeth them againe to their power and when the greatest paine of the Gout is past then is it taken with great aduantage so that it preserueth the bodie from all corruption But here is especially to be noted that this Treacle is not good for young people especially in Sommer time or when it is hote weather if so be that great néed do not require and then shall not aboue halfe a dragme be giuen at once for that it is too strong for such young natures All they that be of middle age it is good for vsed oftentimes so that it cannot here be told how much thereof may be giuen at once The commonest waight is a dragme and if so be that néed require not the same then is seldome any more to be giuen yet according to the importance and abilitie of the person the sicknesse and such like is the same to be augmented or diminished with wine or any other water Theriaca Diatessaron §. 44. THis Confection hath her name of the Grecians for that it is made of foure kinds of things namely in this manner following Take Gentian fresh Bayberries Myrrha and the right Hartwoort of each two ounces stampe all together very small with one pound and a halfe of wel scummed Hony then kéepe it well where you please This Treacle may the common people commodiously vse in stead of the great Treacle for that it withstandeth all pestilentiall Agues and all venime therefore do the people of the countrie also giue it to sicke Cattell and that with very great aduantage It is also good against all diseases of the braines of the sinewes and all sicknesses which procéede of cold as Falling sicknesses Palsey lamenesse and the Crampe it strengtheneth the stomacke and her digestiue power it openeth the Liuer the Spléene and the Kidneys therefore it is also good for the yellow Iaundise the Dropsie it expelleth windinesse and all paine of the guts There may one dragme or one dragme and a halfe be taken thereof to wit in the morning fasting but Cattell must take more of it Triphera §. 45. OF such like Confections are many kinds described of the Phisitions like as we shall shew hereafter The first is Foenonis and is the lesser It is good for all excessiue fluxes for womens termes for the bléeding of the pyles and against all debilitie of the stomacke it causeth all grosse and tough humors to auoid it amendeth the naturall colour it strengtheneth the bladder and stayeth the scourings The other is Triphera magna that is the greater The same is vsed for all cold paine of the stomacke as soone as one hath taken thereof then sweate doth breake out vpon one It is good for all melancholick women which cannot sléepe and they that haue gotten this anguish and vexation through any disease of the Matrix Likewise also for those which be burthened with any slimie matter in the Lights and for all them that spet bloud whether it be beneath or aboue and if that one leaue out the Opium then should the same be good for to aduance the fruitfulnesse of women The third is Triphera Persica which is made of many kinds of things it is good against all agues which procéede out of the stomacke and also against the yellow Iaundise which procéedeth of great heate it openeth all obstructions it amendeth the sight which is infirmed through cholericke vapors it quencheth thirst and defendeth one from all hote sicknesses The fourth is Triphera Saracenica which with her heate strengtheneth the digestion of the stomacke and of the Liuer it consumeth all windinesse of the same it maketh a good breath and is very commodious for the whole bodie it kéepeth a bodie healthie it prouoketh desire of venerie and it obstructeth all the bleeding of the Pyles whereof is from one dragme to thrée dragmes to be taken and that according to the importance of the person Electuarium vitae §. 46. THis is called a Confection of life and is described in the first part the second Chapter and first § Of Ley. §. 47. THe auncient Phisitions as they were very diligent and curious in searching out the vertues of all things thereby to withstand all diseases of mankind so haue they not omitted to search out the nature of Ashes for to discerne of whatsoeuer wood that the same be burnt which should be the most commodious and fit and they haue in truth found no small efficacie and power in them as is shewed here and there in this booke For to make excellent spice or sugar Cakes §. 48. ALbeit that these cakes may be vsed for the strengthening of the stomacke and of the head in Phisicke neuerthelesse they be more eaten of licorousnesse but for their abuse we will not omit their description First take wheate and Rie flowre of each about a pound and a halfe clarified Hony as much as is néedfull for to kneade this flowre to dough then temper amongst it these spices following all beaten small to wit Cinnamom two ounces Greines Nutmegs and Cloues of each halfe an ounce long Pepper one quarter of an ounce Mace and Galingall of
of the Citrons and their vertues Syrupus de Agresta of Veriuice §. 8. FOr what Veriuice is good and how the same is to be made we haue taught in the first Chapter of this eight part for the sirupe are you to take fiue ounces short sodden and vnsalted Veriuice and thrée ounces and a halfe of Sugar then let them séeth together vnto a sirupe Syrupus de Aurantijs of Oranges §. 9. TAke the iuice of swéet Oranges which is wrung thorough a cloth and well cleansed two parts Sugar one part séeth them together vnto a sirupe This sirupe is very good for all heate caused of Cholera Likewise it is also good in all pestilentiall Agues and it asswageth the thirst singular well it may also be made of sower Oranges for that the same is much more forcible than that of Citrons Syrupus de Artemisia of Mugwoort §. 10. THis sirupe is very troublesome to be made wherfore we wil commend it to the Apothecaries it is very good for all diseases of the Matrix it kéepeth it in her due place it expelleth all wind and all paine of the same it strengtheneth the sinewes it openeth the pores it maketh good bloud and it forceth womens termes For what purposes else it may be vsed looke in the table of Mugwoort Syrupus de Berberis of Barberries §. 11. TAke Barberries which be very ripe and let them séeth well in wine vntill that they be mellow then wring it thorow a cloth and boile the colature with Sugar as before Item take the iuice of ripe Barberries and let it séeth apart afterwards scum it well when it is well cleansed take as much Sugar as iuice séeth it all together vnto a sirupe her vertue is to be read in the Table of the Barberries Syrupus de Betonica of Betonie §. 12. THe description of this sirupe is very long wherefore we will pretermit it her vertue may be adiudged by the description of the herbe Betonie in the Table Syrupus Byzantinus §. 13. TAke the iuice of Endiue and of Berberries of each sixe ounces the iuice of Hops and of Buglosse of each three ounces seeth all together clarifying it vntill there remaine 12. ounces then put seuen ounces and a halfe of Sugar vnto it and let them séeth all together to a sirupe This sirupâ maketh al the tough slimie matter to auoide and it openeth all obstructions wherfore it is all good for all yellow Iaundis like as there be many other sirupes Syrupus de Boragine of Burrage §. 14. WE haue before admonished in the fourth Chapter in the description of the Conserue of Burrage that there is none or indeed very small difference betweene the Burrage and the Buglosse neuertheles there be made at the Apothecaries two kinds of sirupes and commonly mixed with other medicines wherfore is an housholder to prepare it thus Take the iuice of both these herbes of each 8. ounc the iuice of both these flowers of each one ounce séeth the same with foure ounces of Sugar and scum it as behooueth and ought to be you may also suffer the flowers to séeth in some water and powre the iuice vnto it This sirupe is good against all diseases of the heart and it maketh a merry mind and of her power you may reade further in the Register of Burrage Syrupus de Buglossa §. 5. OF this Sirupe is sufficiently written in this foresaid sirupe of Burrage Syrupus de Calamintha of field Mints §. 16. TAke of field Mints and white water Mints of each two ounces the séede of Louage of the greater Pimpernel in stead of Dauci Cretici and Squinant of each fiue dragms Raisins sixe ounces hony 24. ounces let them séeth all that is to seeth scum and wring it out well then make with hony or with as much Sugar a sirupe of it This sirupe is especiall good for a hard Spléene and all hard intrailes and also for an old Cough of all old people which be plagued with a féeble and short breath like as you may reade further of Mints in the Table Syrupus Capillorum Veneris or of Maidenhaire §. 17. THis sirupe doth cost very much labour before the same may be made like as we haue admonished vnder the name of Maydenhayre in the Table Syrupus de Cichorio cum Rhabarbaro of Cicorie §. 18. AT all Apothecaries this sirupe is very rise it cleanseth and withstandeth all poyson and especially the Carbuncle and such like it strengtheneth the hart and al nutritiue parts it is also good for all pestilent Agues it expelleth all bad matter by the stoole and by the vrine it causeth also appetite and sleepe Syrupus de Cytonijs of Quinces §. 19. THis sirupe is like to all other sirups made of Sugar and iuice of Quinces you shal reade of her vertue and efficacie in the Register in the description of Quinces There is another sirupe described before of sower Quinces called Miua Cytoniorum Further there are iuices or thicke sirupes prepared vnder the name of Miua whereof there be some described in the third Part the eleuenth Chapter and 17. § Syrupus de Citro of Citrons §. 20. SOme do take not onely the sowernes of the Citrons but also the iuice of the white rinds so that not onely the outwardmost péeles and the seedes are separated but this sirupe is not so forcible as that which is prescribed yet they be both made and vsed in all hote sicknesses Syrupus de corticibus Citri of Citron peeles §. 21. TAke the outwardmost fresh péeles of Citrons cut in small ãâã one pound powre thereon fiue times as much water and let it séethe to the halfe then wring it through a cloth afterwards put a pound of Sugar vnto it When it is almost sodden to a sirupe then put fower graines of Muske vnto it broken in Rose water This sirupe cooleth not like the former but it warmeth and strengtheneth the hart the braines all inward parts and the vitall spirits It strengtheneth the weake stomacke maketh a good breath and defendeth from the Plague c. Syrupus de Cucurbita of Gourds §. 22. THis sirupe is seldome vsed and in this booke but onely in two places Syrupus de Endiuia of Endiue §. 23. OF this herbe be many sundry sirupes made That which is called Simplex is made thus take the iuice of greene Endiue one pound and when it is clarified through seething then put ten ounces of Sugar vnto it seethe it away like as all other sirupes be This sirupe is good against all inward heate of the Liuer and other nutritiue parts it is vsed for many kinds of things as may be séene in the Register Syrupus de Epithymo §. 24. AT all well furnished Apothecaries this sirupe is rife whereas the same is to be fetched it expelleth the burnt cholericke humors it doth therefore withstand all sicknesses which spring or come thereof viz. the Leprosie Canker bad vlcers and Fistulaes like as his name shall shew
inward parts like as the Register further declareth vnder the name of Stechas Syrupus de Thymo of Thyme §. 52. THis sirupe is vsed very seldome and in this booke it is onely vsed against the Leprosie Syrupus Violarum of Violets §. 53. THis present sirupe is also described after three kindes of sorts the first is made by infusion like the sirupe of Roses the same is good against all inward burning against all heate of Agues of the Liuer of the Hart against all roughnes of the throate against thirst and against the obstruction of the belly The purging sirupe of Violets is made laxatiue like the sirupe of Roses which is described in the first Part. The third sirupe is made as hereafter followeth Take one ounce of fresh Violets Quince kernels the séede of Mallowes of each halfe an ounce Iuiubes and Sebestes of each ten or twelue water of Gourds as much as will suffice let it then seethe togither vntill the third part be boyled away Species Nere. §. 27. THese species are for the most part mixed with other compositions and made as followeth Take Amber one ounce Lignum Aloes thrée dragmes Muske halfe a scruple Campher fiue graines mixe and beate them all together Species de Olibano of Frankincense §. 28. THese species by reason of the Opium and Henbane séede which be put into it are seldome vsed inwardly and therefore made but seldome Whether they be made in powder or in a confection yet be they alwayes good for all paine of the head they stay all rheumes they be good against the Cough and spetting of bloud and they do also expell all wambling of the stomacke they be also good for all those that haue any impediment in the Lights and them that haue the Pleurisy and spet matter they stay the effluxion of naturall séede and Satyriasin besides that also womens Termes if they runne too much for which in this booke they be commended to be vsed further looke into the Table vnder the title of Frankincense Species de Papauere of Poppie seede §. 29. TAke the iuice of Licorice Dragagant and Gum of each fiue dragmes white Poppie séede and sugar Pennets of each ten dragmes peeled Almonds fiue dragmes Starch Quince kernels and Purslaine séede of each two dragmes and a halfe péeled Gourds séede the seeds of Pompeons Cucumbers and Lettice and of Mallowes of each one dragme and a halfe shred them and stamp them very small of this may commonly be made a confection with Sugar like as they are also in the Table vnder the name of loosings to be found Species de Penidio of sugar Pennets §. 30. THese species be also described in the second part the fift Chapter and 6. § and also therewith declared for what the same is wont to be vsed Species Paeoniae of Piony §. 31. THese species be very seldome vsed and that but once in this whole booke Species Diaphoeniconis of Dates §. 32. THis mixture and her operation is described in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and 5. § for what the same is now to be vsed that is to be séene in the Table vnder the name of Dates Species Philanthropon §. 33. THis is a very great composition so that there come indéede some 50. things into it It is seldome made and is vsed in this booke but once viz. in the obstruction of the Kidneyes Species Pliris Arcoticon §. 34. IN these kinds of Species there are put many kinds of things they be very good against all melancholick and pensiue people against weake stomacks and also against all swounings which procéede of any debilitie of the heart they quicken the vnderstanding the memorie they be also very good for all them which haue the Falling sicknes and a short breath and also for other things moe Species de Prassio of Horehound §. 35. THis is also one of the very greatest compounds for that it is made of some lxx things It is made in manner of a Confection and also in forme of loosings It is good against all dazeling and darkenes of the Eyes it clenseth the throate and all parts adiacent it dryeth the moysture of the Vnula in the throate it asswageth the toothach and it is especiall ãâã for the heauie breath and for all that which causeth the same it expelleth the paine of the Lyuer and strengtheneth the same it strengtheneth the Stomack and the Milt it expelleth all paine and also all wind of the bowels it clenseth the Kidneyes and passages of vrine from all grauell and when the same is often vsed then doth it make a good colour it furthereth womens Termes and also is good against the Tertian Quartain agues In fine all they which often vse these Losinges or Confections they are fréed and defended froÌ many kinds of sicknesses but because of their vnpleasantnes they be seldome vsed as in the Register you may sée vnder the title of Horehound Species Diarrhodon Abbatis of Roses §. 36. ALbeit that this composition be made of many things yet it is neuertheles oftentimes vsed wherefore we will héere describe the same Take red and white Saunders of each two dragmes and a halfe Dragagant Gum and burnt Iuorie of each two scruples Asarabacca Mastick Indy Spica Cardamome the iuice of Licorice Saffron Lignum Aloes Cloues Gallia Muscata Annis Fennell Cinnamome Rubarb Basill Berberies the seedes of small Endiue of Purslaine péeled Melon séede Gourd séede the séedes of Cucumbers of Pompeons and of white Poppie séede of each one scruple Pearles and bones of the Stags hart of each halfe a scruple Sugarcandy and Roses of each one ounce and three dragmes Campher seuen ounces Muscus thrée graines and a halfe poune each apart and then temper them all together These species be especiall good for all hot Stomacks for the heate of the Liuer the Milt of the Lights and for all paine of the intrailes and of the whole bodie For what these species or their confection be méete looke for that in the Register vnder the name of Roses Species Electuarij de succo Rosarum of Roses §. 37. THese Species be before in the tenth Chapter described amongst the Confections out of which Species there be purging loosings wont to be made In the Register shall you also finde vnder the name of Roses for what the same are to be vsed Species Rosatae Nouellae §. 38. THese kinds of Species be very seldome prepared they be especially méete for all hot and dry Stomacks Harts Lights and Liuers They do quench thirst stay vomiting they fortifie the Stomack they draw the resolued inward parts together and they be very necessarie for all that haue any panting or beating of the hart they do withstand sweate and strengthen them also which be recouered from a long lingering Sicknes Species de Seminibus §. 39. THese be also very seldome vsed and be made of these séedes following viz. of Annis Fennell Carnway Comin Parsly seede Ameos séede of Smallage Amomum of each
out of it then powre it againe in the body by all that which remained therein to the end it may be soft againe and in this manner distill it seuen times togither Other be of opinion that as often as it is distilled that then it is to be set againe in horse dung Some suppose that it ought to be but thrée times distilled and that at the most put the dry feces into a Retorte and distill it with moderate fire and then will it yéeld a stinking oyle Afterwards powre oftentimes water vnto it and distill this oyle as many times with the water vntill it loose her sauour or stench This water is to be giuen in three or fower times a yéere each time one ounce but not aboue three or fower drops of the oyle Each one may beléeue this as far as he will Concerning all other drinks as Béere Claret wine Aromaticall wines Barley water Iuleps Almond milke Meade and such like of them we haue written elsewhere In the end of this booke we will admonish and discourse of moe other herbed wines The second Part of this Chapter of certaine powders for Meate WE will not here admonish of any powders which be seruiceable méete for any sicknesses but we will only speake of them that are vsed for pleasure and for to warme the stomacke or that may be strowed vpon wine sops as this ensuing Take elected Cinnamome one ounce and a halfe Ginger thrée ounces Greines and Pepper of each one dragme and a halfe Nutmegs Cloues and Mace of each thrée drag poune all verie small togither Sugar as much as you please and according as that you desire to haue it strong Item take Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce Nutmegs one drag Mace Greines and Cloues of each halfe a drag Sugar as much as you please Or take Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Nutmegs one drag Mace and Greines of each halfe a drag prepared Coriander and red Roses of each two scrup Sugar as much as you please but not too much These powders be very good vsed as well at meales as afterwards Another take blacke white and long Pepper of each halfe a drag Thyme Annis and Ginger of each fiue greines Sugar fiue ounces then temper them altogither This is speciall good for all cold stomacks The third part of this Chapter of Trociskes TRociscus is a Gréeke name and is as much to say as a round shiue or round Cake like as these Trocisci be made but the Apothecaries doe commonly make them now adayes fower square and about the waight of one dragme which is of small importance These Trociskes be made diuersly whereof be many mentioned in this our booke whereof wée will onely describe the name and force of them that be too troublesome to make to the end the same may be asked for at the Apothecaries when there is vse for them Trocisci de Absinthio of Wormewood §. 1. THese be ordained onely against the obstruction of the Liuer and be described in the third Part the twelfth chapter and 4. § Trocisci Adulphi §. 2. THese doe take their name of the Sulphure like as you may finde written in the second Part the fift chapter and fiftéenth § Trocisci de Agarico of Agaricke §. 3. THese Trociskes are found prepared at all Apothecaries to the end that the bad qualitie of the Agaricke may be taken away thereby The manner to prepare them is described in the Introduction Their vse shall you finde in the Table vnder the name Agaricke Trocisci Alhandel of Coloquint §. 4. THe preparation of these Trociskes is also described in the Introduction of this booke for to strengthen other purgations with it like as stands admonished in the Register vnder the name of Coloquinte Trocisci Alkakengi of winter Cherries §. 5. THese be also troublesome to be made they be good for all diseases of the Raines and the bladder and for Dysuria Looke further in the Register vnder the name of winter Cherries Trocisci de Berberis of Barberries §. 6. OF the iuice of Barberries take one quarter of an ounce burnt Iuory Lignum Aloes Sorrell seede Masticke Gallia Moscata and Indy Spica of each one ounce Gum thrée dragmes Roses fiue dragmes and Rose water as much as is needefull for to temper them togither You shall find their vse vnder the name of Barberies Trocisci de Bolo Armeno §. 7. THese Trociskes be in no vse but they are aduised to be vsed for a cold stomacke Trocisci de Camphora of Camfere §. 8. FOr that these Trociskes be very much vsed therefore we will describe the same Take Roses halfe an ounce burnt Iuory and Licorice of each one quarter of an ounce péeled séedes of Melons of Pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers Dragagant Saffron Gum and Indy Spica of each one dragme yellow Saunders two dragms and a half Lignum Aloes Cardamome Starch and Camfere of each two scruples white Sugar and Manna of each thrée dragmes then fashion them with the Muscilage of Fleawort which is made with Rose water These Trociskes be very good against all hot Agues against all inflaming of the blood and Cholera against a bad stomacke and bad liuer and also against thirst which is caused thereby they be also good against the yellow Iaundies against the Consumption and against the dizzines of the head like as you may further perceiue in the Register vnder the name of Camfere Trocisci de Capparis of Caper rootes §. 9. THese Trociskes be very seldome made They be good against the hardened Milt like as you may further reade in the same place of the hardened Spléene Trocisci de Carabe of Amber §. 10. TAke a quarter of an ounce of yellow Amber burnt Harts horne parched Gum burnt Corall Dragagant the iuice of Sloes Hypocistis blossomes of Pomegranates Masticke Lacca parched blacke Popie séede of each two scruples Frankincense Saffron and Opium of each halfe a dragme then make thereof Trociskes with the slime of Fleawoort These Trociskes stop the blood out of whatsoeuer place it should flowe as womens termes the Piles and excessiue making of water it healeth also all inward exulceration viz. of the Liuer and of the Lights looke further in the Table of Amber Trocisci de Chelidonia of Chelidony §. 11. THese Trociskes are vsed alone in this booke for fowle flesh in vlcers Trocisci de Corallis of Corrall §. 12. THey be very troublesome to be made and be very seldome vsed they be onely good against the Piles Trocisci de Eupatorio of Agrimony §. 13. TAke the iuice of Agrimonie and Manna of each one ounce Roses halfe an ounce burnt Iuorie thrée dragmes and a halfe Indie Spica thrée dragmes Rubarbe Asarabacca and Annis of each two dragmes and a halfe poune them verie small to powder and temper them togither with water of Cuscuta then dry them in the shadow These be especiall good for all obstructions of the lyuer and of the spléene and also
for all agues which procéede of it Item for the yellow Iaundise and dropsie looke in the register for Agrimonie Trocisci de Lacca §. 14. THey are verie troublesome to be prepared they open the obstructions of the liuer and spleene and cure the agues that are caused thereby they do also expell the dropsie Ascites by vrine as hath béene shewed in the name Lacca Trocisci de Myrrha §. 15. TAke Myrrha one dragme and a halfe Lupins two dragmes and a halfe Rue white water Mints Diptamus of Candy Comin Madder Assa Foetida Sagapenum and Opopanacum of each one dragme then make thereof Trociskes with the iuice of Feuerfew These Trociskes do mooue womens termes and asswage all paine which may be caused by their obstructions such like Trociskes of Myrrh haue you described in the third Part the 19. chapter and 2. § looke further in the Table of Myrrha Trocisci de Olibano of Frankinsence §. 16. THe description of these Trociskes you haue in the third Part the 11. chap. and 12. § looke further in the Table vnder the name of Frankinsence Trocisci de Rhabarbaro §. 17. TAke good Rubarbe fiue drag the iuice of Agrymonie and bitter Almonds of each one quarter of an ounce Roses Indy Spica Annis Madder the séed of Smallage Wormewood and Asarabacca of each halfe a dragme then make Trociskes therof with water of Fleawort These open the obstructions of the liuer they take away all paine and swelling of the same they be good against the dropsie and the yellow iaundise and also against all distemperance of the bodie like as you may reade in the Register vnder the name of Rubarbe Trocisci Diarrhodon §. 18. THese Trociskes doth Nicholaus describe and they be easily made Take fresh Rose leaues halfe an ounce burnt Iuorie and red Sanders of each one dragme and a halfe and seuen graines white Sanders one dragme and twelue graines Saffron two scruples and seuen graines Camfer two graines make Trociskes of them with Rose water They be verie little vsed like as is admonished in the Table of Roses Trocisci de Rosis of Roses §. 19. BY Rasis these be described in this manner following Take Roses halfe an ounce Lignum Aloes one quarter of an ounce Masticke one dragme and a halfe Wormewood Cinnamom Indie Spica Cassie wood Squinant flowers of each one dragme fashion them with âld Wine They be verie good against all paine and bad digestion of the stomacke against all cold agues and the beginning of the dropsie but especially they be very good for all them which lose their naturall colour looke further for this in the Table of Roses Trocisci de Santalis of Saunders §. 20. THese be not made but when the same be prescribed of purpose they be very good against the diseases of the liuer and against the dropsie like as our table of Saunders doth shew Trocisci de Spica §. 21. THese Trocisks be not vsed and there is mention made but once of them in this Booke and that onely against the pursiuenes of the breast Trocisci de Spodio of Iuorie §. 22. THese be prepared as they are described in the third Part the eleuenth chapter and fouretéenth § and ordained for the laske Lienteria for which they be further necessarie that doth the Register make mention of Iuorie Trocisci de Terra sigillata §. 23. OF more than twentie things be these Trocisks made wherefore we do leaue them to the Apothecaries They be very much vsed for that they be forcible against spetting of blood if the same be giuen with the water of Knotgrasse they be also good against the bleeding at the nose if the same be annoynted on the forehead and also for womens flowers if they passe away too excessiue fast likewise for the bléeding of the pyles and for pissing of blood if it be spouted into the yarde like as the same is mentioned in the Register vnder the title of sealed Earth Trocisci de Violis of Violets §. 24. YOu must take Violet leaues which be somewhat withered one ounce and a half Turbith one ounce the iuice of Licorice Manna and Diagridion of each halfe an ounce make Trocisks thereof with the sirupe of Violets They are very seldome vsed alone but sharpned with thrée greines or with any other pils if they be giuen to any bodie that is hard to be purged They are made also without Diagridio and they be also otherwhiles mixed with some other Trocisks looke further for it in the Register of Violets For to make writing Incke §. 25. WE must not pretermit the description of this Incke being a necessarie matter It is also made in sundrie manners but this is the commonest manner for to make Incke Take pouned Gall nuts one pound Coperas halfe a pound raine water fiue quarts seeth them all togither vntill the third part be wasted then let it settle afterwards straine it thorow a cloth put foure ounces of Gum vnto it and then stir it oftentimes about Some do not boyle it but let it stand and stéepe stirring it very often and well but take for it no more but thrée quarts of water and let the Gum be first dissolued in good wine Vineger vntill it be all dissolued and then put the other substance vnto it thus it is also best of all doth remaine alwaies without moulding For to make common Vernish §. 26. VErnish is made after sundry waies and there are also sundry sorts of them each for an especiall vse the one is made thus and the other so But we will here describe onely and teach how that it shall be most fitly made and for what it shall be requisite for each one First take olde Linséed oyle and séethe it so long vntill it be as thicke that if you do take a drop of it out and let it be cold when you presse vpon it with your finger it spinneth two or three threads or glueth to the finger This oyle being now so sodden put Rosin vnto it as much as shall suffice for to make the Vernish thicke enough then let the Rosin decoct togither with the oyle so long vntill it do stand wholly still This Vernish is good for the Smithes for the Trencher-makers for the Trunck-makers and further for to Vernish all slight things Of Painters Vernish §. 27. TAke olde Linséed oyle and séethe the same as is aforesaid afterwards put amongst one pound of the oyle halfe a pound of Masticke or somewhat more and so let it séethe togither a good while This being done then set it in the sunne in a leaden Basen and power one part of water vpon it and stirre it well togither then will the oyle come vpon the top and let it stand so clarifying in the sunne and ayre the space of two or thrée moneths But it is to be noted that you must alwaies take good héede of the faire weather and of the raine and also of the night for if so be that
95 Noses excrescence of flesh ibid. Noses impostume ibid. Noses infection called Polipus 97 Nummednesse 16 Nutmegs preserued 717 O. OIle of Saint Iohns wort 745 Oiles for the stomack in vomiting and scouring 341. 344 Oile of Antimonie of Steele and Iron 751 Oile of Amber 741 Oile of Abrecocke kernels 745 Oile of Cammomill 743 Oile of Capers ibid. Oile of Costus 142. 743 Oile of Beuercod 742 Oile of Egs. 49. 744 Oile of Euphorbium 744 Oile of Annis seedes ibid. Oile of blew Flowerdeluce 750 Oile of Roses 749 Oile of Sulphure ibid. Oile called Hypobalsamum 143 Oile of Mandragora 741 Oile of Rubarbe 784 Oile of Marierom gentle 747 Oile of Scorpions 750 Oile of Cloues 747 Oile of Pepper 748 Oile of Rue ibid. Oile of water Lillies 750 Oile of Spikenard ibid. Oile of Elderne flowers 745 Oile of Violets 751 Oile of Nutmegs 747 Oile of Vitrioll 752 Oile of the seeds and flowers of Poppie 746 Oile of Earthwormes 530. 748 Oile of Dill. 743 Oile of Linnen cloth 746 Oile of Lead 742 Oile of Mastike 331 Oile of Foxes 212. 744 Oile of the blossoms of Walnut trees 114 Oile of Wormewood 753 Oile of Oliues 8. 742 Oile of Poplar buds 741 Oile of Iuniper berries 752 Oile of Tiles 102. 753 Oile of Quinces 331 Oile of sweete Almonds 364. 746 Oile of Lillies 744 Oile of Hempseed ibid. Oile of diuers kinds ibid. Oile of bitter Almonds 746 Oiles diuers moe to be prepared 744. 745. 746. 747. c. Oile of Copperas 745 Oyntment of Roses described by Mesues 32. Ointment in Consumption 255 Oyntments or oyles for all colde stomackes 330. Opium prepared and vsed 13 Order of diet in the Rupture 287 Order of diet in the headach of heate 35 Order of diet in a cold headach 43 Order of diet for watering and running eyes 71 Order of diet in bleeding at the nose 98 Order of diet in diseases of the eares 105 Order of diet for weake memorie 119 Order of diet in the sleeping disease 135 Order of diet in the dead Palsey 147 Order of diet in the falling euill 152 Order of diet in Bronchocele 187 Order of diet in colde rheumes 198 Order of diet in the Pleurisie of heate 218 Order of diet in the spetting of bloud 246 Order of diet in the Consumption 252 Order of diet in the debilitie of the heart 259 Order of diet in swounings 261 Order of diet in the Pyles 305 Order of diet in the paine and windinesse of the stomacke 332 Order of diet in a hardned Spleene 414 Order of diet in the inuoluntary effluxion of vrin 464. Order of diet for women with child 504 Order of diet in the Canker 572 Order of diet in the Leprosie 584 Order of diet in hot Agues 628. 629 Order of diet for them that recouer after a long sicknesse 633 Order of diet in the Plague 679 Order of diet for them that are bitten with a mad dog 699 Order of diet for giddinesse of the head 124 Order of diet for those that are pursiue 234 235. Order for them that recouer from the Plague or any lingring sicknesse 680 Order of diet for an hote impostume of the Kidneyes 446 Order of diet in falling downe of the Pallet 167. Order of diet in the Ague Synochus 641 Order of diet in hote rheumes 202 Order of diet in obstruction of the liuer 391 Order of diet for outward vlcers of the kidneies 451. Order of diet for the grauell and stone 464 Order of diet for the dropsie 407 Oxycroceum Vigonis 213 Oxycraton 753 Oxymel diuersly prepared 44 Oxymel of Squils 38 Oxysacchara prepared 94 P. PAlsey or Paralysis 134. 135. 137 Palsey through fals or blowes 144 Pallet of the throate falling downe 166. 167 Pallets description 166 Paine in the head looke Headach Paine in the eyes looke Eyes paine Paine in the eares looke Eares paine Paine in the teeth looke Toothach Paine in the ioynts looke Ioyntach Paine in the backe looke Backe paine Paine of the Pyles looke Pyles pained Paine of the stomacke looke Stomacke Paine in the left side vnder the short ribs looke Spleene pained Paine in the right side vnder the short ribs looke Liuer pained .. Paine in the Kidneyes 443 Paine in the mother through cold 494 Paine in the same through heate 495 Paine in the hips or Sciatica through heate and cold 533. 534 Paine of the Podagra or Gout of the feete 545. Paine in the Pockes of long continuance 580 Paine in the throate through Phlegma and colde taking 193 Paine in the teeth through outward causes 177 178. Palsey that is shaking 137 Palsey that is dead 139. 140 Paine in the bowels looke Bowels pained Paine in the belly looke Bowels pained Paine in the belly remedied 428 Paine in the belly of yong children 431 Paine in the Kidneyes 442. 443 Paine of retention of vrine 466 Paine of the Mother 493 Paine of the ioynts an especiall remedie 550 Paine of wounded sinewes remedied 612 Paines description 367. 368. 619 Parbraking with a laske looke vomiting Patients before whose eyes Gnats seeme to appeare what to refraine 83 Pearle of the eye 78 Peaches preserued 355. 719 Peares preserued 712 Pearles prepared 9 Pectorall potion prepared 229 Pectorall salue ibid. Pestilentiall Agues looke Agues pestilentiall Phlebotomies cause and commoditie 20 Phlebotomie forbidden 21 Phlegmes description 603. 605. 619 Phisickes commendation 4 Phisicall bookes diuision 5 Phisickes description 4 Phisickes necessitie ibid. Phisicke is a sure pawne ibid. Phisicke waights 29 Pyles called Verrucales 312 Pyles called Haemorrhoides 304 Pyles that hang farre out 312 Pyles that bleede ouermuch looke bleeding 306. 308. Pyles opened 309 Pyles their paine 310 Pils pestilentiall 662 Pils Indae prepared 413 Pils for all kinds of laskes and the termes in women 357 Pils that moue vrine 398 Pils for the plague especiall good 663 Pils of Amber 324 Pils of diuers kinds 755 Pils to preserue health 237 Pils to bind 350 Pils for the Gout of Charles the Emperor 542 Pissing of blood 448 Pissing of matter looke Matter made by vrine Pith prepared 8 Places in women described 288 Places exulcerated by copulation 289. 290 Plague 653. 654. 655. c. Plague described ibid. Plague cured 668. 669. c. Plagues causes and signes 653 Plague preuented 654 Plague sore or Carbuncle 564 Plague sore what 564. 65 whence it proceedeth ibid. when it appeareth how to be remedied 675. 676. 677. Plague sore not appearing what is to be done 678. Plaister Diachilon how made 518 Plaisters in the rheumes 198 Plaister Basilicum 565 Plaister for the headach 31 Plaister de Muscilaginibus 64 Plaister to heale the corner of the eyes 77 79. Plaister for the rednesse of the eyes 69 Plaister for watering eyes and cold rheumes 72. 74. 200. Plaister of Bayberries 329 Plaister called the Blacke plaister 567 Plaister of Falkenstone 569 Plaisters for Rupture 277 Plaister Gratia Dei 566 Plaister for wounds 598 Plaister called Emplastrum Griseum 610 Plaister Apostolicum 313 Plaister de
Hypoquistidos indeclââbiliter Hypogessum Seâum maius Housléeke Hypopium Thapsia Turbith Hyâge Pausaniae Granum iinctorium Couchenill Hyssopites wine of Hyssope Hyssopum or Hyssopus Hyssope Hyssopus humida officinaruÌ Oesypus Wooll of the slancke of a sheepe Hystera Vterus Loci Matrix the Mother in women or Matrix or Wombe Hysteralgia paine in the belly or Matrix I. IArum Cuckoepit Iacca Harts ease Iacca nigra Morsus Diaboli Diuels bit Iamânum officinaruÌ Alumen scissile vide Alumen  Iaspis a Iasper stone Iaspis a greene Iaspis Ichthiotheron Cyclaminus Sowes bread Iâââs Alâhea marsh Mallowes Icteritia the yellow Iaundies Icteritis Apuleij Libanotis coronalis Rosemary Icterus Morbus regius the yellow Iaundies Iecur the Liuer Igre Hippocratis Isatis Woad Ignis diui Anthonij or Iânis sacer Erysipelas the Rose Ileos or Il us or Iliaca passia or Iliaca a wringing in the small guts Ilecebra Piper murinum Stonecrop Illinctus Eclâgma a medicine which is licked vp and not swallowed Imaginatio an imagination or conceit Imperatoria Angelica Impeâgenaria aâborca Lichen arboreus a kinde of Liuerwoort Impetiginaria petraea Lichen saxatilis Liuerwoort Impetigenaria saxatilis Lichen the same Impetigo a Ringworme or dry scab Inanââto emptines of the body Incensum Thâ Frankinsence Incrementum the increasing of a sicknes Inâubus Ephialies Faunorum in quiete ludibrium as Pliny saith the Night-mare or Hag it is a little falling sicknes and is a signe of madnes to come or of the falling euill or Palsey c. Infusio Senae the infusion or stéeping of Sene leaues Inguinalis or Inguinaria Dioscoridis the herbe Bubonium Inguinaria Plinij Anserina  Intemperies vntemperatenes Intestina gracilia the little guts Intestina terrae Lumbrici terrestres Earth-wormes Intestinum duodenum Intestinum primum Pilorus the gut next to the stomacke Intestinum ieiunum Nestis the empty gut Intestinum monoculum  Intestinum caecum the blind gut Intestinum primum vide Intestinum duodenum  Intestinum rectum Longanum the Arsegut Intubum Endiuia Endiue Intubum satiuum angustifolium a kinde of Endiue Intybus Intybus satiuus latifolius white Endiue Inturis Capparis Capers Inuersio ventriculi Anastrophe an inuersion of the stomacke Inula Helenium Elecampane Inula rustica Apuleij Symphytum magnum Comfrey Ion Viola a Violet Ion porphyrion Viola purpurea a March Violet Ion melan Theophrasti Viola nigra the same Ion polyphyllon Viola multiplex double Violets Ion Agria Viola syluestris wilde Violets Ireos siue Irios officinarum Iris the Flouredeluce Iris the same Iris alba the white Flouredeluce Iris Apula the same Iris domestica the same Iris Florentina the same Iris Germanica the blew Flouredeluce Iris lutea yellow Flowerdeluce Iris palustris latifolia a kinde of Flowerdeluce Iris Schlauonica the Flouredeluce Isatis Glastum Woad Isatis minor wild Woad Isatis satiua tame Woad Issopus humida officinarum Oesypus Wooll of the flanke of a shéepe Ischias Coxarius morbus the Sciatica Ischiatica barbarorum the same Ischuria vrinae retentio a stopping of vrine Itea Salix a Willow Iuiuba Arabum officinarum Zizifum a kind of fruit so called Iua officinarum Aiuga or Abiga wilde Cypres Iuglans a Walnut trée Iuglans equina the great Walnut Iulebum or Iulepum a Iulep Iunci flos SchoenuÌ Anthos Squinanthum  Iuncus angulosus Plinij Cyperus a kinde of Galangall Iuncus odoratus Squinanthum  Iuncus odoratus Celsi Cyperus a kinde of Galangall Iuncus triangulus Plinij Cyperus the same Iuniperus a Iuniper trée Iuniperus acuta the greater Iuniper trée Iuniperus maior the same Iuniperus minor Iuniperulus and Iupicellus the lesser Iuniper trée or the Gooseberry bush Iuniperi baecae vel Iuniperi grana Gooseberrie or Iuniper berries Iunonia Rosa Plinij Lilium a Lilly Iusquiamus officinarum Hyoscyamus Henbane K. KArtam Arabum Cuicus Cartamus wilde Saffron Kauroch Arabum Chelidonium Celandiue Keiri Leucoium Walflowers Kerua Arabum Ricinus Palma Christi  L. LAbrum Veneris Dipsacus Teasell Labrusca vitis syluestris the wilde Vine Labruscae flos the blossome of the wilde Vine Lac amygdalinum Almond milke Lac acidum Oxylacha sower milke Lac ebuteratium Buttermilke Lac chalybatum stéeled milke Lac ouillum or Ouinum Ewes milke Lactis cremor Pingue Flos vel Pinguedo Creame Lac scistum Curded milke Lacca Caucamum a Gum so called Lacerta or Lacertus an Euet Lachryma draconis a gum called Sanguis draconis Lachryma Iobi Lithospermum maius Gromill Lachryma Iuniperi Sandaraca the Gum of the Iuniper trée Lachryma Mariae  Lachryma medica Assa foetida a Gum so called Lachryma Syriaca the same Lachryma vitis Aqua vitis Sap of a Vine Lactaria Tithymalus Spurge Lactuca Lettice Lactuca cappadox Plinij crumpled Lettice Lactuca asinina Anchusa Orchanet Lactuca Betica Columellae great Lettice Lactuca Caeciliana Columellae white Lettice Lactuca crispa curled Lettice Lactuca caprina or Lactuca marina Tithymalus Spurge Lactuca marina Apuleij Cataputia syluestris great wilde Spurge Lactuca Laconia Plinij or Lactuca sessilis or Lactuca capitata headed Lettice Lacaturris Plinij Brassica lacuturrea a kinde of Cabbage Lada or Ladon or Ladanum or Laudanum this is called of Dioscorides Ledum Laden and Leden In the Apothecaries shop it hath his common name Laudanum It is the dryed iuice of an herbe so called The Herbarists call it also Cistum laudaniferum and Fruticem laudaniferum Laetitia Galeni officinarum vide Laetificans Lagopodium or Lagopus Hares foote Lagopus the same Lamium Plinij dead Nettles Lampsana Rapistrum album Cadlocke Lampas  Lana succida vnwashed wooll Lanaria Saponaria the herbe that Fullers vse in scouring of cloth Lana arborea or Lana xylina Cotton Lanceola narrow Plantaine Lanugo arborum Mosse Labdanum barbarorum vide Lada Lapathum Dioscoridis Oxalis Sorrell Lapathum Galeni Docke Lapathum acidum a kinde of Docke Lapathum acutum a Docke Lapathum aquaticum water Docke Lapathum cepeon or Lapathum satiuum Monkes Rubarbe Lapathum domesticum or Lapathum latifolium satiuum Herbe patience Lapathum equinum water Dockes Lapathum latifolium  Lapathum non acuminatum  Lapathum platyphyllon the greater Docke Lapathum barbarorum vide Lada  Lapillus Eritraeus a Pearle Lapis calaminaris officinarum Cadmia natiua the Oare of Brasse Lapis caeruleus an Azure stone Lapis corrosiuus a corrosiue or corroding stone Lapis Cyaneus an Azure stone Lapis Indicus Margarita a Pearle Lapis Iudaicus a stone that purgeth Melancholy or a Iewes stone Lapis Hepaticus a Liuer stone Lapis Lazulus officinarum the Azure stone Lapis Erithraeus Margarita a Pearle Lapis Lyncis officinarum Lapis phrygius of some white Amber of others a Thunderbolt of others a stone that groweth in Phrygia Lapis Stellatus or Caeruleus the Azure stone Lapis viridis an Hemeraude Lapis vini Argoyle Lappa maior Bardana the great Burre Lapsana Rapistrum album a kinde of Mustard séede Lasaron Galacticon Angelica Lascaphrum Naraphtum blacke Frankinsence Laserpitium
praecipitatus Precipitate Mercurius sublimatus Sublimate Meris Tripolium a kind of Turbith Meri Arabum Oesophagus the mouth of the stomacke Meseraicae venae certaine little vaines in the Liuer Mespilum a Medlar or open arse Mespilus a Medlar or an open arse trée Metallum Metall Metopium Ferula galbanifera the herbe of the which the gum Galbanum is made Metra Hippocratis Vterus the Wombe Meu Arabum Meon or Meum Mewe Mezereon Arabum Lorell or Laurell Mica thuris Mantia thuris the fragments of Frankinsence Micancalus flos githaginis a Corne rose Mchleta a Confection so called Milax barbaroruÌ Smilax Taxus a trée like Fir. Milium Millet Milium Indicum siue Milium saburrum Indian Millet Milium solis Lithospermum Gromill Millifolia or Millifolium Yarrow Nosebleede or Milfoile Millimorbia or Millimorbium Figwoort Milos Taxus a tree like Firre Miltos Plinij Cinnabaris natiua natural Cinoper Miluius or Miluus a Kite Minij gleba Celsi Terrae lemnia Terra sigillata or sealed earth Minium red lead Minium Dioscoridis or Minium Plinij Cinnabaris metallica Cinoper Minium lemnium terra lemnia sealed earth Minium artificiale artificiall Cinoper Minium natiuum Cinnabaris metallica natiua naturall Cinoper Minium officinarum or Minium secundarium red or burnt Lead Mintha Mentha Mints Mintha agria Mentastrum horse Mints Misereuinium Apuleij Polygonum Knotgras Mithridanium Dioscoridis Trixago palustris water Germander MithridatiuÌ Antidotus mithridatis Mithridate Mithridatium or Mithridatia Apuleij Scordium water Germander Miua Cydoniorum and Miua Cydoniorum simplex officinarum Syrupus Cydoniorum simplex the sirupe of Quinces Miua Aromatica officinarum Syrupus Cydoniorum Aromaticus  Mnion Muscus Mosse Mola a péece of flesh without shape growing in a womans wombe Molge Salamandra a Salamander Moloche Malua maior the great Mallow or Hollihocke Molotriculum Veneris  Moly Galeni Ruta montana wild Rue Molybdaena Plinij Persicaria maior Persicaria maculata the greater sort of Arsesmart Molybditis Plinij Spuma plumbi LitargyriuÌ plumbi Litargy or white Lead Monembasites Nicolai Myrepsi Vinum Maluaticum wine made of Mallowes Monoceros Vnicornium an Vnicorne Montulmus Gazae Vlmus montana a kinde of Elme Mora poma siue fructus mori Mulberies Mora bati Bramble berries Mora Celsi Mulberries Mora rubi Brambleberries Mora rubi Idaei Frambois Morbus arquatus Morbus regius the yellowe Iaundies Morbus caducus Morbus comitialis Herculeus lunaticus the falling sicknes Morbus comitialis vide Morbus caducus Morbus Diui Fiacari Condyloma the Emerods Morella Herbariorum Solanum Nightshade Morea Mulberrie trée Morsus Diaboli Diuels bit Morsus gallinae running Burwheate Morsus mulierum Germander Moron Morum a Mulbery tree Morus Morea the same Morus vaticana blackbery bush Moscus Muscus Muske Moschocaryon Moschocarydion a Nutmeg Mucago Mucilago and of the Apothecaries Muscilago it is a slime or iuice which is drawen either out of herbs rootes or seeds Mula herba Gazae Hemionium Harts toong Mulsum swéete wine Mulâneruia Plantago maior the great Plantaine Multinodia Polygonum Knotgrafie Multinodia minor the lesser Knotgrasse Mumia ArabuÌ Pissasphaltum factitiuÌ Mummy Mumia Graecorum Pissasphaltum the same Mumia sepulchrorum the same Muria salt water pickell or brine Muria Colymbadum Muria OliuaruÌ the liquor of Oliues Muria Lemoniorum the brine of the Limons Muria Oliuarum Oliue brine Muralium Helxine Pellitory of the wall Muscatellum vinum Muscadell Muscus arborum Mosse Mustum new wine or Must Mustum coctum sodden wine Myacantha a Palme tree Myacantha Aeginetae Asparagus myacanthinus Sparage Myces Fungus a Toadestoole or Mushrome Myosotis Eufrasia caerulea blew Eyebright Myrmex Formica an Ant Emmot or pismire Myrapia or Myrapidia Pyra muscatella a kinde of plesant and odoriferous Peares Myrica Tamarix a Tamariske trée Myricites Vinum Myricinum or Tamaricinum wine made of Tamariske Myrobalanus Bellerica a kinde of fruite growing in India Myrobalanus Cepula vel Chebula the same Myrobalanus citrinus officinarum Myrobalanus flaua  Myrobalanus Empelitica or Emblica  Myrobalanus inda Myrobalanus nigra  Myrobalanus Graecorum Myrobalanus vnguentaria a strange fruite called Ben. Looke for Ben or Behen in the second Index Myrrha a swéete gum called Myrre Myrrha Troglodytica a very excellent gum so called Myrrhus Cicutaria Kex Cax asse Parsly mock Cheruill Myrsine Myrthus or Myrtus the Mirtle trée Myrsine agria Ruscus Knéeholme Myrsionides Vnicordia Peruincle Myrtillus officinarum Bacca myrti the berries of the Mirtle trée Myrthacantha Ruscus Knéeholme Myrtus a Mirtle trée Myrtus aculeata myrtus acuminata a kinde of Mirtle Myrtus humilis the same Myrtus terrestris Ruscus Knéeholme Myxa or Myxaria a kinde of fruite so called N. NAocaphton Pauli Naocauton Narcaphton black or common Frankinsence Naphta Petroleum Bitumen liquidum and Bituminis Calamentum a kinde of maunde or chalkie clay Napellus Tota  Napellus Moysis Auicennae Napellus salutiferus Antithora it is a roote much like vnto Seduary but yet is not the right Seduary but an other vnknowne roote Napi Sinapi Mustard seede or the herb it selfe Napus siue Napum a Turnep Narce Gentiana Centaurium magnum Gentian Bitterwort Narcissus the white Daffodill Narcissus Autumnalis Flos Colchici a kinde of Daffodils Narcissus luteus a yellow Daffodill Narcissus Roseus Rhodionarcissus Herbariorum  Narcissus verus a Daffodill Narcissus officinarum Leucoium Theophrasti an Italian Daffodill Narcissus Virgilij Narcissus Theophrasti  Narcotica or Narcotica pharmaca medicamenta quae frigiditate torporem adferunt it is a certaine medicine which maketh people stupefactiue or some of their members vnsensible Nardinum Oyle of the Spikenard Nardus Nardus or Spica from India Nardus Indica Nardus Celtica Nardus Romana Nardus Gallica a kind of Spikenard Narcaphtum Thymiama a kind of Frankinsence Nascaphtum the same Nasturtium NasturtiuÌ hortense towne Cresse garden Cresses or Nosesmart Nasturtium aquaticum water Cresses Nasturtium album Raphanus marinus horse radish Nausea a disposition or will to vomit Nebula oculorum the dimnesse of the eyes Nectris or Netris Pollucis Oliua conditanea an Oliue Nephrytis Renum dolor a griefe or sicknesse in the raynes Nepeta or Nepita Calaminta Nep. Nepenthes Buglossion Buglosse Nenuphar or Nenuphar Arabum Nymphaea the flower deluce Neregil Nux Indica an Indian Nut. Nerantzia malus an Orange tree Neranzion or Neranzium malum the same Nerion Nerium Rhododendron Rose lawrell Bay Rose trée Oleander Neruorum resolutio or desolutio is a dissoluing or weakening of the sinewes called Paralysis Neruus a sinew Nessium Apuleij Centaurium magnum the great Centory Neurospaston Plinij Oxyacantha Dioscoridis the Barbery tree sharp or Tartbery tree the white Thorne trée Nigella Melanthium Coriander of Rome Narde Peperwort Nigella alba Melanthium album white Peperwort Nigella Romana Coriander of Rome Nigellastrum Corne rose Nihill album officinarum Pompholyx Tutty Nihili griseum officinarum Spodium Gracorum Tutia Arabum gray Tutty Nil album
Monenbasiaticum Malmsey Vinum Nenupharinum wine of water Lillies Vinum Oenodes siue vinosum strong wine Vinum Polyphorum vinum multiferum the same Vinum pauciferum Oligophorum small wine Vinum ex Poenia siue Paenites Pionie wine Vinum ex floribus Pseudonardi Spikenard wine Vinum ruffum rubrum vel rubeum red wine Vinum rubellum reddish wine Vinum Raspatitium wine of whole Grapes Vinum sublimatum Aqua vitae  Vinum saluiatum Saged wine Vinum seniticum vinum ex Sena confectum wine of Sene. Vinum temperatum siue vinum dilutum wine mixed with water Viola a Violet Viola alba Dioscoridis white yellow browne Violets Viola alba Theophrasti a kind of winter gillofer Viola alba multiplex white double Violets Viola canina a dog Violet Viola fatua a wild Violet Viola martia a March Violet Viola Martia alba a white March Violet Viola mortuorum Peruinca Perwinkle Viola muraria March Violets Viola nigra the same Viola purpurea idem quod Viola nigra Viola purpurea multiplex double Violets Viola Quadragesimalis March Violets Viola syluestris wild Violets Violaria March Violets Vipera Tyrus a Viper or kind of Adder Virga Cerui Pryapus Cerui the pisle of a Stag. Virga aurea solidago saracenica  Virga pastoris Tassell Viride aeris Aerugo Verdigrease Visnago Hispanoruâ Gingidium Spanish Cheruill Viscum Ixos Astylis Mistletoe or Mistleden Viscum quercinum Mistleden of the Oake Viscum viscus pro glutine Aucupum gluten auiarium Birdlime Vitalis Sedum Housleeke Vitealis lesser Ropeweede Vitex Agnus Chast tree Vitis siue vitis vinifera a Vine Vitiligo Morphea alba Barbarorum a foulenesse of the body with spots of diuers colours Vitis alba Bryonia white Bryonie Vitis chironia vitis nigra a blacke Vine or black Bryonie Vitis Idaea Vaccinium a Blackberry Vitis Veneris  Vitis syluestris a wild Vine Vitis syluestris flos the blossomes of the wilde Vine Vitriola Parietaria Pellitory of the wall Vitriolum Chalcantum blew Vitrioll Vitriolum Romanum Romish Vitrioll Vitriolum vstum burned Vitrioll Vitulipes Arum Cuckopit Vlcus an vlcer or Byle Vlmus an Elme Vlmus campestris a wild Elme Vlmus Montanus Montiulmus a kind of Elme Vlophonium Chameleon niger a kind of Thistle Vmbilicus Veneris Cyclaminus Sowes bread Vndimia Chirurgorum Oedema an impostume so called Vnefera siue vnephera Centory the great Rapontica Vngula alces  Vngula caballina Bechium Folefoote or Colts foote Vngula odorata Blatta byzantia vide Blacca Byzantia Vnguis muris Polygonum Knotgrasse Vnguis Aromaticus the same that vngula odorata is Vnicordia Clematis Daphnoides Perwinkle Vnicornium Cornu monocerotis the Vnicorne Vnguentum Aegiptiacum an Egyptian salue Vnguentum Agrippae Agrippas salue Vnguentum Altheae a salue of marsh Mallowes Vnguentum album vnguentum de Cerusa a salue of white Lead or Ceruse Vnguentum album Camphoraetum a salue of white Lead and Camfere Vnguentum Anodinum a salue which easeth any paine Vnguentum Apostolorum a salue so called Vnguentum Aragon a salue so called Vnguentum Auraniziorum a salue of Oranges VnguentuÌ Alabastrinum a salue of Alablaster Vnguentum mundificatiuum de Apio a salue of Smallage Vnguentum de Arthanita vnguentum de Cyclamine a salue of Sowes bread Vnguentum basilicon a salue of Basill Vnguentum de Cerussa vide vnguentum album Vnguentum de Cerussa Mesues a salue of Ceruse after the description of Mesues Vnguentum Citrinum a salue of Citrons Vnguentum Comitissae a salue so called Vnguentum infrigidans Galeni a cooling salue Vnguentum de Gallia a salue so called VnguentuÌ ex Gammaris a salue of sea Creuisse Vnguentum fuscum a salue for wounds being yellow Vnguentum marciatum a salue so called Vnguentum Mercuriale a salue for the Poxe Vnguentum neruinum officinarum a salue for the sinewes Vnguentum nihili officinarum a salue so called good for blearing eyes Vnguentum de Pompholige a salue made of ashes which the Apothecaries call Nyl Vnguentum pectorale a salue for the breast Vnguentum Populeon a salue of Poplar Vnguentum Rosatum an oyntment of Roses Vnguentum Rhodinum the same Vnguentum Sandalinum vel santalinum an ointment of Saunders VnguentuÌ sericinum vel siricinuÌ a salue so callââ Volubilis Ropeweede or Woodbind Volubilis Antiochena siue volubilis Colophonia an herbe so called Volubilis magna Hops Volubilis media Woodbind Volubilis Mesues Hops Volubilis Syriaca an herbe so called Volucrum maius Caprifolium Woodbind Voluulus Iliaca passio a paine in the guts or a Colicke in the vppermost gut Vrania Iris the Flouredeluce Vrceolaris Helxine Pellitorie of the wall Vreteres the waterpipes or conduits by which the vrine passeth from the raines to the bladder Vrinae profluuium the ouerflowing of vrine Vrsus a Beare Vrtica a Nettle Vrtica foemina vrtica Romana Italica the Romish Nettle Vrtica foetida a stinking Nettle Vrtica Herculana siue Herculea a kind of dead Nettles Vrtica Italica vide Vrtica foemina Vrtica iners Vrtica labeo vrtica mortua dead Nettles Vrtica lactea Worme nettles Vrtica labeo vide vrtica iners Vrtica mascula vrtica maior the great sharpe and stinging Nettles Vrtica minor the lesser Nettles Vrtica mortua vide vrtica iners Vrtica odorata a kind of swéet smelling Nettle Vrtica hortulana Romaine Nettles Vrtica Romana vide vrtica foemina Vrtica scarlata a kind of dead Nettles Vrtica syluatica wild Nettles Vrtica syluestris the same Vsnea Muscus arborum Mosse Vterus the wombe of a woman Vulgago siue Vuluago Asarabacke Vulpes a Foxe Vulua vterus the wombe of a woman Vultur a certaine gréedie creature so called Vua a Grape Vua acerba vua immatura an vnripe Grape Vuae acerbae conditae vnripe Grapes comfited Vua anguina vua serpentina vitis alba Bryonie Vuarum expressarum retrimenta the huskes of pressed Grapes Vua immatura vide vua acerba Vua lupi vua vulpis Nightshade Vua serpentina vide vua anguina Vua Taminia vitis nigra blacke Bryonie Vua Vulpis vide vua Lupi Vuae passae Raisins Vuae Damascenae Zebeben great Raisins Vuae passae Ciliciae siue Corinthiacae seu minores Currans Vuae passae Corinthiacae vide vua passae Ciciliae Vuae passae Damascenae vide vua Damascenae Vuae passae maiores great Raisins Vuae passae Massilioticae a kind of great Raisins Vuae Zibebae great Raisins Vuula a little péece of flesh in the roofe of the mouth Vuularia Horsetoung X XAuster Arabum Tithymalus a kind of Spurge Xerocollyrion vide Collyrium Xylon Gossipium Cotton Xyphium Flowerdeluce Xyphium aquaticum the small blew water Flowerdeluce Xyphium aruense Flowerdeluce Xyloaloe Xyloaloes Xylumaloes Lignum Aloes a kind of swéet wood so called Xyloaloes vide Xyloaloe Xylobalsamum the wood whereof Balme naturally commeth Xylocassia a kind of flower so called Xylocaracta officinarum Xylocerata S. Iohns bread Xylocolla a kind of Lime Xylon Santalon Saunders Xylophyton wild Comin Xylum aloes vide Xyloaloe Z ZAduar Zaduaria Zadura Zadera siue Zador a kind of Seduarie Zaduara vide Zaduar Zador vide Zaduar Zaffranum Barbarorum Saffron Zastranum fatuum siue fatuorum wild Saffron Zapetium Zibetum Ciuet. Zea Spelta Béere barley or Spelt Zea Dicoccos Spelt Zea deglubita Corne. Zea monococcos Semen Spelt Zea simplex the same Zedoaria officinarum Zurumbetum Seduarie Zeduar the same Zeliaurus Anagallis Pimpernell Zibebae great Raisins Zibetae officinarum  Zibethum zibettum Ciuet. Zibettum vide Zibethum Zina officinarum Absinthium Seriphium a kind of Wormwood Zingiber Gingiber Ginger Zingiber conditum comfited Ginger Zingiber coctum siue Tabulatum baked Ginger Zingiber tabulatum vide Zingiber coctum Zingiber viride vide Zingiber conditum Zingiber officinarum Zingiber Ginger Zirbus Barbarorum Omentum the Call or suet wherein the bowels are lapt Zizypha a kind of fruite so called Zoophthalmon Sedum Housléeke Zopissa Pitch Zuccarum siue Zuccharum Saccharum Sugar Zuccarum penidium a certaine kind of Sugar Zuccarum candidum Sugar of Candie Zuccharum vide Zuccarum Zulapium Nympheae Iulep of the white water Lilly Zulapium Rosarum Rose Iulep Zulapium Violaceum Violet Iulep Zurumbet siue  Zurumbetum Anthora Zurumbetites Anthora wine Zime fermentum Leauen Zythum Ceruisia Béere FINIS
parched before What further is requisite for this purpose it may be sought for in the third part the 11. Chapter and also in the 12. chapter in the first part and 13. § For the affluxion of vrine through heate §. 7. IF so be that there be with this vnnaturall affluxion of the vrine an vnnaturall thirst and the drinke forthwith pist out againe then are these meanes following to be vsed first in case that the body be bounden then minister to the patient laxatiue clisters of the common cooling herbes wherewith Hiera picra or Benedicta with the oyle of Violets be tempered and immediatly afterwards open the liuer veine whereby all the ill accidents of the body may be defended and auoyded And if it be néedful purge the patient with yellow Mirobalans and with Cassie which both do coole But if you will make it that it be good for the grauell then mixe things amongst it which expell the grauell afterwards cause the patient to vomit when he hath drunken much water like as is taught in the sixt rule Otherwise is this ensuing especially commended for this disease Diabetes Take Acacia one quarter of an ounce Rose leaues thrée dragmes fine Bolus Gum and Dragagant of each half an ounce powne them all small together and let it passe through a small sieue afterwards make it into small Trocisces with the muscilage of Fleawort and giue thereof the waight of a dragme with Endiue water Burrage and Cicorie water Item take fine Bolus and Sealed earth of each one scruple the iuice of Sloes Pomgranate flowers Mirtle séede red Corall and Roses of each one dragme make a fine powder thereof when he goeth to rest with thick red wine or take the innermost rinds of hens mawes wash them cleane with wine and dry them the powder of a burnt Hares head and Mastick of each half an ounce Agrimony fiue dragmes burnt powder of an Hedge-hog halfe an ounce temper them all together and powne them all small to powder afterwards giue thereof one dragme and a halfe with red Wine when he goeth to sléepe Another Take Nettle rootes one handfull Veruaine and Caruway of each one handfull and a halfe séeth them together in steeled water and drinke thereof Item take Sorba and peares stampe them together distill a water thereof and drinke often of it or mingle any other drinke amongst it Outwardly may these things following be vsed stampe cooling herbes viz. Lettice Purslaine Nightshade Housléeke Rose leaues and Willow leaues Or cut fresh Pompeons or Citrons in broade peeces and lay them thereon you may also weare a beaten plate of led vpon the raines the which may be made oftentimes wet with Vineger Also prepare this salue ensuing Take thrée ounces of Poplar salue oile of Roses and oile of Mandâagora of each halfe an ounce the muscilage of Fleawort one quarter of an ounce Vineger one dragme Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make therewith a salue Item take the iuice of Lettice of Purslaine and of Nightshade of each one dragme and a halfe Rose water one ounce Vineger halfe an ounce white beaten Poppie séede one ounce Waxe as much as sufficeth for a salue and annoint the raines with it After the annointing lay then this plaister following vpon it Take Barly meale Vineger and oile of Roses let them séeth together and lay it thereon Or take Vine leaues Willow leaues Quince leaues Tassell leaues and Housleeke of each one handfull stampe them well together and put vnto it sixe ounces of Barley meale oile of Roses and Vineger as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister then lay it cold vpon it The order of diet ALl meates that do coole are good for this patient as Veriuice the iuice of Ruscus Barley and all that is drest with Barly Almond milke and Rice all fruits which coole and bind as Medlars Sorba Sloes Cherries sometimes also plums Mulberies Pomegranates and Strawberries are also good for him If there be neither heate nor Ague with it then may he haue the foresaid things drest as Barly Rice and Almonds with fresh broth He may also vse otherwhiles Neates feete and riuer fish but very little salted Also hen-broth decocted with cooling séedes is very good for him His best drink shall be Barly water wherein a little Fleawort is decocted Buttermilke is also good for him The iuice of the first mentioned fruites may be mixed with fresh Well water and so drunke in like sort also the Rose water of it selfe alone Thicke red wine is also as before to be tempered with fresh well water For this is also méete the sirupe of Violets or Iulep of Violets with some cooling waters or tempered with some well water You haue also herebefore in the twelfth chapter and 3. § other Iuleps and Confections moe which be also very fit for this vse as Triasantalon and Diarrhodon Abbatis therefore is he to take now the one and then the other to the end that nature chance not to abhorre and loath that which is to be taken For an intolerable thirst may this following be vsed Take burnt Iuorie ten dragmes Lettice séed and Purslaine séede of each fifteene dragmes Coriander séede yellow Rose séedes and fine Bolus of each fiue dragmes Pomegranate blossomes one quarter of an ounce Camfer halfe a dragme then make a powder of it and vse one dragme thereof or one dragme and a half at once with the iuice of pomegranates What is further good for the thirst looke for it in the twelfth Chapter and 10. § in the third part of this booke This patient must restraine and kéepe himselfe from all labour and conuersation or companie of women Also to eschue all sower things and to performe and do in all things like as herebefore in the sixt Chapter and 1. § is taught of the eftluxion of humane séede The eighteenth Chapter Of the Bladder THis inward part the Bladder is common to all humane bodies it is made of two strong skins or membranes whereof the innermost skinne is twise as strong as the outmost and that not in vaine but to the end it might the better withstand the sharpnes of the vrine Both these skinnes are formed of a slipperie white matter and betwéene both the skinnes or membranes there runne many veines sinewes and arteries euery way whereby they do draw the moisture of the Vreters which do come from the Raines and do carrie it into the Bladder For the foresaid Vreters be so small and so narrow that one cannot in a dead bodie discerne nor find the same like as also the bladder of beasts doth manifest the same which is so tight and so shut vp that no water nor wind can pierce through In men doth this Bladder lye with his necke which is fleshie very hard besides the Arsegât crooked and almost like this letter S great and long euen to the beginning of the Yard But in women the necke of the bladder doth lie somewhat higher then the necke
of the wombe it is also shorter and wider and therefore also they may much easier be holpen of the stone then men Item in the forepart of the necke of the bladder there is a muskellish flesh the which holdeth the vrine so long shut vp vntill a bodie desire to make or let go his water Further mens bladders be also according to the proportion of the bodie much bigger than in any beasts they can also stretch themselues very farre whereby they in time of néede may retaine and kéepe a great quantitie of vrine Whensoeuer this bladder also is pricked in her membrane substance or a hole made in it then is it incurable notwithstanding that Aristotle doth thinke that it hath bene healed but very seldome for the necke of the bladder which we haue said to be fleshie may be healed without plaister or salue and onely through the vrine like as is sufficiently made knowne shewed by the stone cutters Amongst beasts they only haue bladders which bring forth a liuing creature into the world and that haue lights full of blood But all that do lay egs as fowles and wormes they haue altogether no bladder the Tortoise onely excepted This bladder is by nature ordained for a receiuer of the vrine and to the bodie a very néedful member for if so be that nature must haue expelled all her waterish moisture throughout al the whole bodie not hauing any particular vent or passage for it then of necessitie should a bodie oftentimes either drie away or stifle To this bladder do also happen oftentimes many sundrie diseases and perillous infections as the grauell the stone painfull making of vrine retention of the same the Strangurie slime obstruction through blood the which doth not onely cause heate swelling vlcers and deadly impostumes but also bringeth with it many kinds of other perils and because that we herebefore haue written at large thereof therefore will we not here rehearse them againe but only speake and discourse of those things that concerne the bladder and the necke of the same Of retention of vrine in generall §. 1. VNder the name of the retention of vrine wée do comprehend all accidents whereby the water is retained and kept backe whereof there be fiue kinds disclosed in the seuentéenth chapter in the conclusion of the fourth § and here are to be rehearsed Amongst all these is the one more violent then the other and for that cause are to be cured and holpen with diuers and sundry remedies First we will speake of the disease which the Grecians do call Lithiasm which is when the stone of the bladder relying on the neck of the same hindereth the passage of vrine or causeth such a distention of the yard and foreskin that this and the stone together doth wholy hinder and kéepe backe the vrine which is not without great paine and trouble to the patient but these meanes following are to be vsed in this extremitie If so be that the stone of the bladder cannot be expelled through the former remedies then put backe the stone and so let out the vrine First the patient is to be layd on high with his arse and spread his legs abroade and shake and rub the place strongly that thereby the stone may be remoued from the necke of the bladder or the same is to be put backe with a siluer instrument that thereby the vrine might fréely passe forth But great care is to be had whether the passage for the vrine be not shut vp by some swelling otherwise would the yard within thereby be brused and the griefe made worse then before The second maner of the retention of vrine is Dysuria which is when a man doth make water with great griefe and paine very slowly the which is commonly perceiued by the pricking paine and great heate in the forepart of the yard The third kind of the retention of vrine is called Stranguria which is when one is constrained to make water often and that with a few drops at once These two sorts of retention of vrine are so like one to the other that few Phisitions can seuer them yet neuertheles haue they some differences Both these kinds are caused of a sharpnesse of some humour and of the vrine or through the debilitie of the muscles and of the retentiue power For if there come any sharpe or corroding humour into the bladder then will it presently by force expell the same without any intermission Or if the retentiue vertue of the bladder be weakned then can it not abide the least dissension in the world but let the vrine continually passe forth as an intolerable burthen Ischuria detaineth the vrine altogether and is caused diuersly to wit of heate of the hardnes of the passage of the debility of the expulsiue and force of the retentiue vertue and of the forementioned disease Lithiasis Also if there be any grosse and tough slime gathered together in the passage of the vrine or if there be any clotted blood through blowes or falles setled in the bladder which there do hinder the course of the vrine In like maner also when the kidneyes and the bladder do rankle and impostumate Lastly as it oftentimes hath bene found when the water is long held vp And albeit there be many sorts of this retention of vrine which at the last may cause impostumes vlcers and much paine yet is this the totall summe and conclusion that all of them that detaine or hinder the frée passage of the vrine do require but one kind of remedie Notwithstanding we will in this our discourse following as much as shall be possible shew some differences in them Although there haue bene diuers causes shewed before of this disease yet to prosecute our accustomed methode we will recite them once againe namely if one haue fallen hard or haue had a blow or bruse on the bladder Item the tumors impostumations which do stop the passage of the vrine Also when the back or any other part of the bodie is brused and the blood falne downe into the bladder and there lieth clotted Likewise thicke tough slime or corruption or other causes more c. whereof partly hath bene spoken of before in the 16. chapter and 7. § and partly shall be intreated of hereafter more at large The signes of this maladie are these if it proceede of any outward cause that may be inquired of the patient Or if the same be caused through congealed blood stone slime or corruption then may the same matter be perceiued by the vrine and by the paine of the place infected whence the matter commeth Also by the siluer probe whereby the stone may be felt or by the blood and slime which remaineth on the instrument being drawne forth Of the paine which is caused by the retention of the vrine §. 2. WE haue amongst other things before made mention of grauell whereby not onely the patient is grieued with great paine but also the Phisition is hindered
bloud there is no greater veine than the Lyuer veine which appeareth none otherwise but as the body of a trée which is thickest beneath in the ground and at his beginning and besides his roote stretching foorth wide and broad and the branches aboue do spread themselues againe in many sprigs or twigs And thus it is also with the arteries wherefore the foresaid authors haue also affirmed that the Lyuer is none other thing but like to a root and fountaine of all other veines so that she doth impart her bloud first of all to the heart as to the most noble part of the bodie This is now sufficiently spoken in generall of the bloud veines whereof we will speake and discourse more at large hereafter Of the Arteries §. 2. WHereof Galen writeth thus the Arteries are vessels of the thin and clean bloud wherein are more naturall spirits or ayre more heate drith and féeling than in the bloud veines which remaine alwaies panting and beating They haue their ofspring of the left concauitie of the hart and the first branch a little off from his roote is parted in twaine whereof the one part goeth vpwards and the other downewards where in both places the foresaid bloud-veines are spread abroad with diuers small veins so that there be few arteries without veins This altogether is most diligently described by Aristotle Galen Albert and also of Walter Rijf and at last with liuely figures it is apparant to the eyes These arteries or pulse veines be by nature as is said much hotter drier thicker sensiblier and harder than the bloud veines Partly like vnto the nature of the sinewes they also receiue some bloud but it is subtiller and fairer than the bloud of the veines they be also much more replenished with vitall spirits than the veines which is also a cause of their continuall panting and mouing which hapneth so forcible that the same is outwardly felt ouer the whole bodie and especially on the hands féet temples of the head and on other places me may be séene and felt All Phisitions may déeme thereby whether the nature be strong or feeble and all according as the pulse beateth swift slow hard soft steddie or very trembling The auncient Phisitions haue bene of opinion that both these sorts of veines and especially the arteries if they be cut or chopt off could not be consolidated againe yea that the heart veines be vtterly incurable But Galenus acknowledgeth verily that the same could hardly be effected in men that be old but in young people otherwise Of women and young children doth he admonish that one should not be discouraged for that he had saith he healed inough himselfe that were wounded after that manner For this be also before many good remedies in the second part the fift Chapter and 18. § if a veine be broken in the breast or any other place which may also be vsed inwardly and outwardly for this purpose In like manner you may also vse for it this confection insuing Take Henbane séede and white Poppie séedes of each one ounce and a quarter Sealed earth and red Corall of each fiue dragmes old conserue of Roses the older the better foure ounces temper all together and take thereof in the morning and euening each time halfe a dragme and no more this is very good and also forcible for all kinds of bléeding When as now the veines do swell be it of whatsoeuer cause it will then annoint them with Treacle or Mithridate Of the Bloud §. 3. IT is sufficiently knowne that mans bodie is ioyned together of foure kinds of humors or complexions to wit of Bloud Cholera Melancholia and Phlegma but amongst these is the bloud one of the best partly for that it is the matter of the vitall spirits wherein life it selfe hath his being or for that it is to be compared with the beginning of life because it is by nature warme and moist or because it hath more vertue to nourish and to sustaine than any of the other humors In fine it is such a Iewell of nature that if the same be taken away then death doth ensue Cholera and Melancholia haue their proper places or residences in the bodie wherein they do gather themselues as we haue of late declared from which places they do also shew their power in the ingendring of sicknesses But the bloud and Phlegma are so diuided into two parts of the bodie that one cannot so soone âpon the skin in any place but immediatly the bloud doth issue foorth and that the veins be the vessels and habitation of the bloud hath bene declared before without the which there can also no bloud be found except in the least concauitie of the heart Wherefore Albertus hath bene of none other opinion but that the veines do begin there and not in the liuer The nature of the bloud is hot and moist yea so hot that in the whole bodie there is nothing âotten and to the contrarie nothing colder than the Phlegma Therefore this hote and moist bloud is giuen to all liuing creatures not onely for a nourishment of all members of the bodie but also to maintaine them by their naturall warmth and no otherwise For example good wood is laid vpon the fire for to warme a whole chamber with it in like sort also as the fire is abated and his burning taken away if the same be ouercharged with too much wood or if the wood be too moist also if the wood be pluckt away or too litle laid vpon it so is it with the heate of the heart that if the same be too much or too litle likewise ouerâold vnmeasurable hote or is too féeble When the heart shall féele these kind of diseases then will all other members of the bodie be partakers thereof It is also the opinion and censure of all learned that the bloud is the most principal meanes in the mothers bodie whereby the heart as the chiefe part of the bodie hath his beginning Concerning his nature and propertie then is this not a small miracle of nature that it hath ân féeling of it selfe neuerthelesse it is cause of the same and of life also And it is found by daily experience that if there run much bloud from any creature that therby come swounings yea the life it selfe runneth out with the bloud Neither is the bloud alike in all men nor in all members it getteth also through age many kinds of nature In children it is thin and waterish in youth hote and sharpe in men at the fullest and best of all and in all these aforesaid very much and abundant In age there is but little thicke and blacke and clotting very sodeinly as well inwardly as outwardly vpon the bodie In like maner it is also sure that how fatter a body is so much lesse bloud hath he for that it is through the fatnes consumed as is séene that all fat hath no bloud in it Contrarily how much the leaner so much the blacker