through the back with a sharp knife pull out all the bowels and wipe him clean with a cloth break all the bones and put him into an Alimbeck and distil him with a pottle of Sack and as much red Cows Milk so will you have an excellent spirit for a Cough or Consumption of the Lungs if you take three or four spoonfuls of it in the morning fasting 65. For heat in the Reins Let such as are troubled with heat in the Reins lay to the place a fine cloth dipped in Rose-water juyce of Plantane and the Milk of a Woman which brought forth a Girl 66. An excellent remedy for those that are subject to vomiting Take Wormwood Spearmints and red Rose-leaves of each a handful chop them small and boil them to a Poltiss with red Rose-water and Vinegar of each equal quantities thicken it with Rie-bread grated spread it upon a cloth and apply it to the Stomach of him that is subject to vomiting as hot as he can endure it 67. For an Ague of the Breast Let such Women as are troubled with that inflamation commonly called the Ague in the Breast apply to the place a fomentation made with Rosemary-tops boiled in their urine apply it hot for three or four hours and it will help it 68. For the running in the Reins The Marrow of an Oxes back being dried and beaten into powder and a dram of it taken in the morning in a little red Wine is an excellent remedy for the running of the Reins 69. To take away Freckles from the Hands or Face Such as are troubled with Freckles either upon their hands or face or Sun-burning may easily help themselves if they wash the place with a little juyce of Lemmons wherein Bay-salt hath been dissolved wash the place often and let it dry in of it self 70. Against any Swelling Take Cammomile-flowers and Rose-leaves of each a like quantity boil them in white Wine to a Poltiss and apply it as hot as can be suffered to a swelling and it will presently ease the pain and asswage the swelling 71. Against Deafness Stop the ears of one that is deaf with good dried Sewet it many times gives help when nothing else will 72. To stop bleeding Take powder of Earth-worms and put upon a Wound that bleeds and it will instantly stop the bleeding 73. For the same Take the ear of a Hare dry it and beat it to powder and put that powder upon a Wound and it will do the like 74. For him that spits Blood Take the juyce of Betony and temper two spoonfuls of it with four spoonfuls of good Milk and let him that spits blood drink the same quantity four mornings together and by that time he will be whole 75. For a Flux Let him that is troubled with the Flux take the seeds of Trefoyl bruise them well and drink half a dram of them in the morning fasting in white Wine if he be curable it will cure him in three dayes if he be not curable he knows the worst of it it is but dying 76. To stop the bleeding of a Vein being cut If a Vein be cut and you cannot stop the bleeding take Rue and boil it in water then stamp it and apply it to the place and binde some wool over that which was never washed 77. For Veins that are sprung For Veins that are sprung take Beans and husk them then boil them in vinegar and bruise them and apply them Plaister-wise to the place 78. For those that piss Blood Take Garlike bruise it and boil it in water till the third part be consumed a little of this water being drunk presently helps them that piss Blood 79. To cause easie Delivery Let a woman that is with childe and near her time drink a decoction of Betony every morning and she shall be delivered without much pain 80. For the same and to expel the after-birth A decoction of Hyssop made with water and drunk very hot giveth speedy delivery to women in travel yea though the Childe be dead in her womb so soon as she is delivered of a dead childe if you suppose any of the After-birth be left behinde let her keep drinking the same decoction till her body be cleansed 81. For the same Savory used in like manner hath the same effects 82. For the same Also another good remedy to give speedy delivery to women in travel is this Take wilde Tansie or Silver-weed and bruise it and apply it to her nostrils 83. For the same Also another remedy is to take the Roots of Polypodium and stamp them and apply them to the soles of the feet Plaister-wise the childe will quickly come away be it alive or dead 84. For a Surfeit Take the bottom of a wheaten-loaf tost it very well till it be dry and hard then dip it in good Spirit of Wine and wrap it up in a single linen cloth and apply it to the Brest of one that hath surfeited and cannot digest his meat apply it warm and let it lie to the place all night and it will speedily help him and cause him either to vomit up or purge out the evil humors which the Surfeit hath contracted in his body 85. To cure hot Rhume in the Eyes Take twelve or sixteen woodlice some call them sows or slugs wash them clean then stamp them and put three or four spoonfuls of Ale to them and mix them well together in a morter then strain it and let him that is troubled with a hot Rhume in his eyes drink it in the morning fasting and as much at night going to bed and in a few times using it will cure him 86. An admirable Poltiss for any swelling Take Violet-leaves Groundsel Mallows and Chickweed of each a handful chop these small and boil them well in water to a Poltiss thicken it with Barley-meal adding a little rough sheeps suet to it to make it moist so have you an admirable Poltiss for any swelling or inflamation in a wound or ulcer 87. For scabby Heads of Children Take white Wine and Butter of each a like weight boil them together till they come to a salve and you shall finde it an excellent Oyntment for Childrens scabby heads 88. For the Falling-sickness or Convulsion Take the dung of a Peacock dry it and beat it into very fine powder and give the party troubled either with the Falling-sickness or Convulsion so much of it at a time in Succory-water as will well lye upon a shilling if it be a child half so much will serve the turn or less if the childe be very young 89. To cure Tetters or Ring-worms An excellent way to cure Tetters and Ring-worms is to wash the place often with Tanners Woofs 90. Against the bloody Flux Take the bone of a Gammon of bacon set it an end in the middle of a Charcole fire and let it burn till it be as white as choak both in the outside and inside then take it and beat it to
of Solomons-seal to come much behinde it 5. Make a Pessary or Goats-dung and the juice of Shepheards purse or Ribwort or Plantane and Yarrow and Pomgranate-flowers it helps mightily in this case 6. Make a bathe of Plantane Ribwort Teazle Shepheards-purse Pomegranate flowers the rinde of an Oak put it in a Close-stool and let the diseased Woman sit over it 7 As many Grains as a Woman doth drink of Corriander-seed so many dayes shall the tearms be stopped saith my author I set it down rather for the oddness of the conceit rather then to perswade any one of the truth of it 8. Red Corral being drunk stops the tearms 9. The ashes of burnt A corns cast up the 〈◊〉 trix stops the tearms and rids the Womb of all filthy noysom humors 10. The Decoction of Ribwort drunk is a most excellent remedy to stop the tearms 11. The water that is found in a hollow Oak is very good being drunk to stop the tearms 12. Dried Acorns beaten into powder and Acorn Cups and Comfry Roots and the Roots of Solomons-seal of Bistort Tormentil and Cinkfoyl are very good to take inwardly 13. The herb St. Johns-wort being beaten into powder and drunk doth stop both White and Red Flux 14. Also Dragons blood is much commended for it 15. The Flowers of Red Archangel or dead Nettles stop the Red Flux the Flowers of White the Whites 16. Many times this Flux comes upon women in Labour especially such as fall in Labour before their time and then it is exceeding dangerous in such a case the speediest cure for there must be no dallying is to force away the conception 17. If you can save them and dry them and give them her down back again it may do wonders CHAP. 14. For the fits of the Mother THe cause is cleerly windy vapors ascending from the Womb upwards 2. Stamp nettles and apply them to the matrix is very good 3. Apply a plaister of Galbanum to the Navel it is a most admirable remedy to restrain those noysom vapours I never yet knâ—w it fail 4. It is a strange thing that many that lie sick of this infirmity though their speech be even taken away yet their pulse gives no indication of any sickness at all 5. Therefore if you finde any Woman in that case especially if they fetch their breath short do not say they counterfeit but judge the disease to be the fits of the Mother 6. Let her receive stinking Vapors at her Nose and sweet vapors at her Privities for the Womb draws to all sweet things and flies from all stinking 7. Nettle-feed beaten into powder and drunk in Wine doth asswage all pains of the Womb and takes away the windiness thereof 8. Take of extract of Arrach half an ounce Assa-foetida two drachms make them up into Pills with powder of Arrach and let the diseased Woman take a scruple morning and evening 9. The Leaves of Burs draw the Womb which way you please therefore in this disease apply them to the soles of the feet but in falling out of the Womb apply them to the crown of the head 10. Bur-seeds do the like CHAP. 15. Of swellings of the Breasts and Nipples THe cause may be either cold taken at the Breasts which causeth inflamations there such as women call the Ague in the breast 2. Or else the curdling of the Milk there when it is turned into a substance like Cheese 3. Sometimes the nipples are so swelled through superfluity of Milk that the childe cannot draw them 4. In such a case take Bean flowers and mix it with the white of an Egg and apply unto them 5. Nettles boiled in Vinegar and applied to them instantly helps them 6. Crumbs of Bread mixed with the juyce of Smallage and applied unto the Breasts helps them when the Milk is curdled in them 7. If there be any hollow Ulcer in the Breast Goats-dung mixed with Honey soon easily and gently cleanseth out all the filth and healeth it 8. A Poltiss made of Mallows Chickweed Malt-flour and Sheeps-suet takes away the Ague in the Breast without breaking 9. Goats-dung mixed with Vinegar and applied plaister-wise dissolves the curdled Milk 10. The ashes made of a Dogs Head helps cankrous Ulcers of the Breast 11. Pigeons-dung mixed with Honey is of great efficacy in knotted Breasts 12. Knot-grass being carried about the person takes away the swelling of the Nipples incontinently 13. The Breasts anointed with the grease of a Hedge-hog helps the curdling of Milk and opens the Pores exceedingly also if the Nipples be swelled anoint them with it it instantly helps them 14. The shells of Partridges Eggs stamped and mingled with Tar helps the Nipples when they are so chapped that they are ready to fall off Crab-claws taken inwardly are very good in all diseases of the Breast yet my opinion at present is that the whole Crab converted into Mummy and taken a drachm at a time is better CHAP. 16. Of Childe-birth DAte stones beaten into powder and given in Wine doth give most wonderful ease to women in labour 2. Dip a linen cloth in the juyce of Parsley and put it up the Privities it causeth the deliverance of the dead childe 3. The same being drunk brings away the After-birth 4. It is also it very good thing being taken inwardly to cleanse the Womb of ill humors and therefore a syrup of it ought to be kept alwayes in the House it furthers conception much 5. Polipodium stamped well and applied to the feet of a woman in travel bringeth away the childe whether it be alive or dead 6. Castorium or the spirit of it taken inwardly is held to be very good 7. The ashes of an Asses-hoof mixed with Oyl and the Privitives anointed with it is a very good and easie remedy 8. Also give unto a Woman in this case another Womans Milk to drink it causeth speedy delivery 9. The decoction or rather the juyce of Vervine given to drink to a woman in travel causeth speedy deliverance also 10. A dram of Myrrh given in powder to drink in any convenient liquor bringeth the childe away whether it be alive or dead 11. Boil Mugwort in water till it be a Poltis and apply it hot to the Thighs of a woman labouring with childe it causeth both birth to come away and if you let it tarry long there it will bring the Womb away also 12. Dittony in powder given a dram at a time to a woman labouring with a dead childe bringeth it away 13. Take Peony-seed in powder mix it with so much Oyl that you may make it into a Plaister and apply to the small of the back of a woman in labour according to the opinion of my Authour it causeth delivery without pain 14. A suffumigation made of the Horns and Hooss of a Goat being put in a Close-stool the woman sitting over it wonderfully moveth the Womb to deliverance 15. Betony is held to be a precious herb to be taken
Sea Sand. IF a man that hath the Dropsie stand up to the neck in Sea-sand by the Sea-side in a hot day it will drink up all the water and cure the Disease Wicker 20. Whetstone of Cypress A Whetstone of Cypress that which comes off from it by whetting stayes the falling off of Hair and causeth it to grow in bald places it keeps the breasts of Virgins from growing being drunk with Vinegar it consumes the Milt and cures the Falling sickness Wicker 21. Aetites THere are four sorts of these but the best comes from Affrick and are found in an Eagles nest which is very little and soft having another little one within it and is thought to be the female The Male come from Arabia and is hard like a Gaul having another hard Stone within it and is of a reddish colour The third comes from Cypress and is like that which comes from Affrick but is bigger and hath sand and little stones within it The fourth is called Taphiusius from the place whence it comes and is found in Rivers it is white and round in form this is the worst of all These all joyntly are called Lapis pregnans or a Stone with Childe because it carries another Stone within it If this Stone be given to a thief in bread he cannot swallow it down or if you boil it in any thing and give the Decoction to any that hath stollen any thing from you he cannor drink it though the Stone be out Being bound to the Neck or Arm of a Woman it strengthens conception and stayes miscarriage in the time of her Labour if it be bound to the inner part of her Thigh near the place of conception it causeth her to have an easie labour almost without any pain but be sure you take it away so soon as she is delivered for fear of further mischief Pliny Disocorides Lemnius 22. Chelidonius IF you take young Swallows out of their nest before the full Moon you shall finde two little Stones in their Ventricles the one reddish the other black these ought never to touch the earth but be kept close wrapped up in Bullocks or Stags leather the former being bound under the Armeholes helps the Falling-sickness the other Feavers Thus Albertus Magnus Some say if you prick out their eyes the Old one will bring a Stone which will recover their sight and some say she doth it by Celandine the Stone will remain in their Ventricle I have tried this I pricked out the eyes of some in a nest and not of others and I found the Reddish-stone in the Ventricle of one whose eyes I pricked out and she could see again but in those whose eyes were not pricked out there was none but I never observed the Lunation Also they say if you break their Legs she will bring a Stone which will instantly cure them which Stone will be found in the nest 23. Lincyrius LApis Lincyrius being cast among burning coles quencheth them and if you wrap it up in a Linnen cloth not onely that but the cloth also will remain unburned even in the midst of the hottest fire It wonderfully helps forward the Travail of Women Epiphanius 24. Jet 25. Amber IEt being beaten into a very fine powder and given to a Woman fasting in White Wine will presently make manifest whether she be a Virgin or no for if she presenlty make Water her Virginity is lost if not the contrary The same effect also hath Amber both of them or either of them being hung about ones Neck are profitable against distillation of Phlegm into the Throat and Lungs Baptista Porta Mathiolus 26. Lapis Lazuli IT is a Stone of a Sky colour the best of them have spots in them like stars of gold and are found in Gold Mines being given inwardly they purge Melancholly notably So they do meanly being carried about one they make the bearer of them merry fortunate and rich Dioscorides Cardanus Med. Florentini 27. Blatta Bizantia BEing beaten into powder and snuffed up into the Nose helps the fits of the Mother and such as have the Falling sickness being taken inwardly it looseneth the Belly Dioscorides Medici Coloniensis 28. Pearls PEarls help trembling in Old men Convulsions and Frenzies preserve the body sound and restore lost health both amend and increase milk in Nurses correct the seed and failings in the parts of generation helps eating Ulcers Cankers and the Hemorrhoydes Dardanus Wicker 29. Corral OF Corral there are three sorts Black White Red the first is most rare the second most common the third most excellent Let a Childe newly born take ten grains of Red Corral in powder in a little Breast Milk before it taste any other food and it will never have the Falling-sickness Generally it takes away all inward griefs restores weak and sick bodies by strengthning the heart resisteth all Diseases growing in children by strengthening nature cureth all Fluxes in Men Women and Children it stops blood flowing from any part it stops the Tearms in Women if they be immoderate else not and brings their bodies to good temperature Arnoldus Mathiolus Wicker 30. Turkey Stone THis Stone being worn in a Ring as sickness comes or death draws nigh so it loseth its lustre it looks perfectly blew in sickness pale a little before death perfect white and so it looks if brought neer to any Poyson This Treatise was revised and for want of time left to posterity without addition Nich. Culpeper Sol. 18. Aquar 1652. Doctor Diets DIRECTORY OR THE Physicians Vade Mecum OR Short but safe Rules to preserve Health in a Methodical way passing by the Impertinencies and Niceties of former Physicians treating onely of familiar and the most useful things in Diet such as chiefly nourish and continue Life BY Nich. Culpeper Gent. late Student in Physick and Astrology LONDON Printed for Nath. Brook at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhill 1659. Doctor DIETS Directory OR The Physicians Vade mecum OR Short but safe Rules to preserve Health in a Methodical way passing by the Impertinencies and Niceties of former Physicians treating onely of familiar and the most useful things in Diet such as chiefly nourish and continue Life Courteous Reader HAving to my no small grief observed what a stir and a pudder most Writers have made about Diet and there Common-place Practice I thought fit to reduce their tedious deviations into this Epitome that the diligent Student having recourse to these three Doctors Diet Reason and Experience might with the other assistance of the Doctors Dispensatory be so clearly informed as to rest ingeniously satisfied Nicholas Culpeper Of Diet. BY Diet is to be understood the ministring of Meat and Drink according to the accustomed natural ordering of it for the substance and temperature an exact order of it in labour Meat Drink Sleep and Venery There is none but if they rightly understand themselves but may in some respects be their own Physicians if they will but rightly consider of those things
nine drops of the strongest spirit given in any convenient liquor is an admirable remedy for the Convulsions With this I cured a childe lately that was not above a moneth old it had but one fit after the first taking of it then it sneezed much and recovered 14. A Caution And here give me leave to be a little critical against another vulgar custome and that is no Misleto must be used but what grows upon an Oak forsooth and I have proved by experience that it is all of a like vertue as being generated by the beams of the Sun upon what Tree soever Is an Apple ever the worse for being grafted upon a sower Crab-tree 15. Caution Yet this Caution let me give you have a care it touch not the ground for that good Philosophers hold takes away its vertue whether the reason be because it is appropriated to the head of a Man or because the Earth is Saturnline and therefore hinders the vertues of Sol I will not here dispute 16. For the bite of a mad Dog Let him that is bitten with a mad Dog drink either the juyce or decoction of Vervine every morning till the next new and full Moon be past 17. An Observation Observe this for a general rule all Creatures that are bitten with a mad Dog near the new Moon fall mad at the full and those that are bitten at full Moon fall mad at the new 18. To cure the biting of a mad Dog Take Vervine Agrimony and Plantane of each equal quantities bruise them and boil them in good white wine and let him that is bitten of a mad Dog drink a draught of the decoction every morning then take the Herbs and bruise them with Bay-salt and apply them to the wound 19. Ring-worm Take Featherfew and bruise it and rub any Tetter or Ring-worm with the juyce of it and it will kill it 20. Wen. An excellent way to cure a Wen is this take forty Snails and boil them in a pint of running water till half be consumed then let them stand and cool then take some Wool and dip it in the fattiness of the water and apply it to the Wen this will consume it insensibly in a short time especially if you take inwardly the following medicine 21. Take fine Jeat and beat it to powder and take half a dram inwardly in a little Ale or Pottage once in three or four mornings 22. Biting of an Adder The best way that I know for the biting of an Adder is this Catch the same Adder that bit you as she is easily caught cut her open and take out her heart and swallow it down whole 23. For the same Also cut off the head of the Adder and bruise it and apply it to the Wound both these together would give a cure to admiration 24. To expel an Adder being crept into the body If an Adder be crept into a mans body which is a thing though it happens but seldom yet it may happen therefore the cure is not amiss this do Take a handful of Rue and bruise it and boil it in the urine of the party and let him drink the decoction and it will make the Beast make more haste out then it did in 25. For the same If such a one be crept into the body of a Beast boil Rue in the urine of the Beast and force him to drink it 26. Winde in the Stomach Take Cummin-seeds two drams Galanga one dram make it up into Troches with Musfilage of Gum Tragacanth so have you an excellent remedy for Winde in the Stomach when you have occasion to use them take half a dram in powder in white wine in the morning fasting an hour after it 27. For the Plague Take of green Walnuts before they have shels of Rue and the inner rinds of Ash-tree of each equal quantities bruise them and infuse them well in white wine distil off the spirit in an alembick so have you a most sovereign remedy for the Plague 28. To draw the Venom out of a Plague Sore Take a Cock chicken pull off the feathers till the Rump be bare then hold the bare Fundament of the Chicken to a Plague Sore and it will attract the Venom to it from all parts of the body and dye when he is dead take another and use likewise you may perceive when all the Venom is drawn out for you shall see the Chicken no longer pant nor gape for breath the party sick will instantly recover 29. How to apply the foresaid Remedy to any part of the body I know no reason but why this may be very well used in the disease though there appear no rising at all it is an easie matter by the Symptoms to judge which of the principal parts is most afflicted then consider the purging places of the Liver are the Groins the purging places of the Heart are the Arm-pits the purging places of the Brain are behinde his Ears 30. Then take a live Pigeon if you cannot get a live Pigeon take a Chicken cut him asunder in the middle and clap the pieces hot to the purging places of the principal part afflicted 31. For a Rupture An excellent remedy for a Rupture is to take Oyl of Nep and dip well in it and binde it on to the place 32. To recover a new-born childe that hath any life in it When a childe is still-born if you perceive any life be in it when you cut the Navel string squeâ—ze out six or seven drops of blood into a spoon and give it to it inwardly and it will instantly fetch life in it again 34. I suppose the Arterial bood to be far better then the Venal blood in this case you may easily know the Artery in the Navel-string from the Vein because it looks whiter 35. Against the stopping of the Tearms in Women newly delivered Many times the Tearms stop in women so soon as they be delivered which costeth many women their lives in such cases take a dozen Peony-seeds and beat them into powder and let her drink them up in a draught of Carduus posset-drink and sweat after it if this do not the deed the first time give her as much more about three hours after 36. For the same The decoction of Vervine and stinking Arrash work the like effect 37. For a Felon Take a Snail out of his shell and chop it very small and binde it on to a Felon and it will instantly cure it 38. Foâ—â—he Sciatica An odd remedy for the Sciatica is this Take a handful of Nettles and sting all the place so far as the pain goeth till it be all blistered to the purpose and so let him go to bed and sleep if he can and the next day he will be well there have been those known to have been cured with this onely medicine that have been so bad they have not been able to stir out of their beds in five or six weeks 39. For the Convulsion A decoction of Clary drunk
powder and let the sick of the bloody Flux take a drachm of it at a time in Milk thickned with flour 91. Against Heat in the Reins An approved remedy for the heat in the Reins which is a thing causeth hard labour and many times abortion to women is to take a fine linnen cloth and dip it in Housleek warm it and apply it to the Reins 92. To ease a woman of her After-pains Take Tar and Barrows-grease of each equal quantities boil them together and in boiling adde a little Pigeons-dung to it spread some of it upon a linen cloth and apply it to the back of a woman newly delivered that is troubled with After-pains and it will give her ease 93. For the same Give a Woman that is troubled with After-pains pains half a dram of Bay-berries beaten in powder and given her to drink in a little Muskadel 94. To cure the swelling of the Cods Stamp Rue and apply it to the Cods that be swelled and it will presently asswage it 95. Take the juyce of Valerian and wet a tent in it and put it into the Wound where any piece of Iron is broken in and stamp the said herb and lay at top of it and it will speedily not onely draw out the iron but also speedily cure the Wound 96. To cure the biting of a mad Dog So soon as a man feels himself bit with a mad Dog or any other venemous Beasts or at least so soon as he can possible get it let him take green Fig-leaves and press out the juyce of them three or four times into the wound if it be at such a time of the year when Fig-trees have no leaves take the rinde of the Fig-tree and bruise it and â—pply it to the Wound 97. For the same They say Mustard made with good Vinegar and applied to the wound works the same effect 98. For a Wound So soon as a man is wounded let him wash the blood clean out of the Wound either with white-Wine or with his own Piss and presently put the juyce of Thapsus Barbatus into it 99. A medicine to drive out the small Pox. Take of distilled Taragon water eight spoonfuls and put thereto six grains of Bezar or Unicorns horn or for want of those two put so much Saffron but the other is the better let it be warm double the portion as you see cause taking nothing an hour before nor an hour after it 100. To avoid Phlegm Take clarified Posset-drink and put thereto sweet Butter the yolk of an Egg and a little small Ginger Hysop red Mints and Sugar seâ— these seethe all together and drink thereof first and last as warm as you can suffer it The Garden Plat OR A very brief account of such Herbs c that excel and are some ofâ— them most useful in Physical and Chyrurgical Cures on emergent and sudden occasions HOundstongue stamped and bruised heals several wounds The Powder of Butter-bur alias Pestilent-wort the leaves in Summer and Roots in Winter expelleth the Plague by sweat drunk in Ale Beer or Wine Fumitory stamped and drink the juyce in Ale Beer or Wine purgeth Choller and doth cleanse the Blood Germander stamped and drunk doth purge womens flowers and helps the Green-sickness Celandine or Fig-wort or Tetter-wort or Pile-wort or Swallow-wort or Marsh-marigold these doth help Tetters Ring-worms Piles and Eye-sight Eye-bright the water helpeth the eyes washed therewith and the Powder eaten with â—hâ— yolk of an Egg and Mace restoreth 〈◊〉 sight The roots of Psillependula beaten and drunk cures the Stone Water-bittary alias Brown-wort stamped and laid to helps old and new sores Pellitory of the Wall steeped and drunk cures the Stone Egremony stamped and drunk helps Lunatick persons Saint-Johns-wort St. Peters-wort and Tutson-leaves stamped helps old sores Mercury the Herb stamped and drunk purgeth women and weak folks Shepherds-purse or Sinkfield stamped and drunk helps the Flux and so doth Plantane and Knotgrass Scabious stamped and drunken helpeth inward Imposthumes Divels-bit stamped and drunken helps the Ague Spown-wort alias Scurvey-grass stamped and drunken helps Dropsies and Scurvey Sanicle stamped and drunk inwardly helpeth Wounds and laid to outwardly Comfrey helpeth the Ruptures stamped and drunken and laid to outwardly it helps wounds and joyns them together Hyssop boiled bruised and drunken helps the Lungs Mints bruised and drunken comforteth the Heart so doth Sage White Horehound or Balm distilled or otherwise helps inward grief Rue expelleth the Plague Fennel Dill and Anniseed and Cummin breaks winde and helps the Stone Saxifrage stampt and drunken and seeds of Gromwel helps Winde and Stone above all others Betony helps the head and stomach Lovage restores the Lungs Pellitory of Spain expelleth the Plague Three Leaves of Arsarabacca stampt and drunken purgeth upward and downward English green Tobacco stampt and mixt with fresh Butter will heal a wound a sore or a scabbed or scald head Dragon-wort stampt and drunken expelleth the Plague or distilled and so doth Arone or Priests-Pintle Cuckow-pintle Centaury purgeth Choller by siege and so doth Rheubarb Elina Campany purgeth melancholly The seeds of Piony helps the falling evil Valerian or Setwal expelleth the Plague stampt and drunken English Galangal comforteth the heart Helleborus called neezing powder purgeth the head Aloe alias Sea-green purgeth Choller Laurel-leaves laid in Vinegar twenty four hours and dried the powder drunk purgeth Choller Phlegm and Melancholly The root of Elder or Danewort stamped and drunken helpeth Dropsies or swoln Legs or Limbs All Elder-leaves Plantane leaves Elm-leaves or all Oak or green leaves stamped and laid to will heal a green wound Ground-Ivy boiled in water and laid to a sore will heal it Wilde Bugloss alias Carpenter-work bruised and laid to healeth the green wound Maiden-hair boiled and drunken heals the Lungs and inward parts Oyl of white Poppy anointed upon the forehead will cause one to sleep The seed of Henbane mixed in a Wax-candle and the mouth holden over when it burneth will draw the Worms out of ones Teeth Sea-holm-roots candied with Sugar called Iringo-roots will restore nature And the powder of them will break Winde and Stone being drunken Yellow Dock-roots boiled and drunken purgeth by Urine and siege Water-cresses stamped or boiled and drunken is good for the Stone Dropsie and Scurvey Tamarisk the small or the rinde of the great Tamarisk boiled and drunken helps the Spleen Barberies in conserve or sirup doth stop the Flux and cool the body Licorice helps the Stone Stomach and Winde Oranges and Lemons helps a hot Stomach in the burning Ague Distilled Water of Oak-leaves stops the Flux Misletoe of the Oak stamped and drunk helps the falling evil Ash-tree â—â—â—ll suffer no Spider or venemous thing to coâ—â—nder the shadow the leaves steeped in Wine and drunk will make one lean An Elder-leaf laid unto a mans feet that is chaffed in going between the Toes or other places will heal it Costemary alias Balsum-mint stampt and bruised will heal a Wound as fast
as Balsome or Sanicle laid unto it Ditony of Candy or Ditony or Herb of Deliverance stamped and drunk is good to deliver a Woman in Travel with Childe and for want thereof Wood-betony will do the same To heal a scalding or burning quickly Take Sallet Oyl Olive and clear water beaten together and therewith anoint the grieved place till it be whole To heal a Tetter or Ring-worm or Chop or crush in ones Palm of the Hand Take Bay-salt finely beaten to powder and mix it with sweet Sallet Oyl Olive together that the Oyl be very salt and with that Oyl and Salt fret and rub away scurf and so use it till he be whole and purge him with the root Mechoakam To heal a bruised Thumb Finger or cut in the Leg Take the leaves of an Elm and stamp them together it will both binde and heal quickly and knit the bones together that is dispersed To stanch blood in a Wound take Sage and beat it together with Wheat-flour and lay it to it will stanch presently and heal the Wound so will Shepherds-purse Plantane Knot-grass Vnguentum album with Lint laid in a wound or old sore and a Plaister of Gratia Dei thereon will heal it very quickly Pestilent-wort boiled in Milk and made in a Posset with Sack will cause one to sweat extreamly and drive out the Plague and heal them and heal also the Ague Lay the Herb and curd unto the sore Sanicle Sanamonda alias Hedge Avince that beareth a yellow flower but not the red Scurvey-grass Fumitory and Sorrel stampt and strained into Ale or Beer and drunk inwardly doth cure the foresaid Diseases of Tetter Ring-worms Scurfs Scabs proceeing of the heat of the Liver which doth most commonly come or break out at the Spring or fall of the Leaf Beat Bay-salt to powder and put it into Beer or Ale that it be as salt as Brine and drink it three times in three mornings it will put away any Ague the strongest Ague that is The water of Oaken-leaves distilled and drunken will stop the bloody Flux Elder leaves stampt and laid to any sore or wound will draw very fast at first then mix therewith the fresh Fat of a Hog unsalted and it will heal it very quickly The Celestial Governours OR A Discourse in which is plainly declared what Members of the Body are governed by the twelve Signs and of the Diseases to them appropriate ARies Aries is of the East Masculine fiery and chollerick and governeth the Head Face Eyes and Ears c. And of Sicknesses The Apoplexy Mamnia Wounds and Spots in the Face Abortisements and other impitious diseases Ring-worms and Morphews Taurus Taurus is of the South Feminine earthly and melancholly and governeth the Neck Throat and Voice And of Sicknesses Squinancies Scrophulus Cattares and Hoarseness Gemini Gemini is of the West Masculine airy and sanguine and ruleth the Shoulders Arms and Hands And of Sicknesses Phlegmonies Ferruncula and other proceeding of blood in the said places Cancer Cancer is of the North Feminine watry and phlegmatick and ruleth the Breast Ribs Paps of Women Lungs Liver Spleen And of Sickness Alopesia watry Eyes Cotogses and Rheums Scabs and Leprosie Leo Leo. is of the East Masculine fiery and chollerick and ruleth the Heart Stomach Back Sides and the Midrift with Virgo And of Sickness Cardiaca trembling of the Heart and sounding Virgo Virgo is of the South Feminine earthy and melancholly and ruleth the Belly Guts and Midriff with Leo. Of Sicknesses Illiaca cotica passio opilations of the Spleen and black Jaundies Libra Libra is of the West Masculine airy and sanguine and ruleth the Loins Navel Reins Buttocks and Bladder with Scorpio And of Sicknesses all filthy scabs and spots in the Face loss of sight Canker and Hemeroides Leprosie Alopesia and Chollick Scorpius Scorpius is of the North Feminine watry Phlegmatick and ruleth the secret Members the Fundament and Bladder with Libra And of Sicknesses all filthy scabs and spots in the Face loss of sight Canker and Hemerods Leprosie Alopesia and the French Pox. Sagitarius Sagitarius is of the East Masculine fiery and chollerick and ruleth the Thighs and Hips And of Sicknesses hot Feavers Optsaluva and blear Eyes and falls from high places and from Horses Capricornus Capricornus is of the South Feminine earthy and melancholly and ruleth the Knees And of Sicknesses Aches in the Knees Deafness loss of speech and sight Itch Scabs and foulness of the skin Aquarius Aquarius is of the West Masculine airy and sanguine and ruleth the Legs And of Sicknesses Feaver Quartanes black Jaundies Swelling of the Legs and Varices Pisces Pisces is of the North Feminine watry and phlegmatick and ruleth the Feet And of Sicknesses Gowt Scabs Leprosie and Palsie How the Members of the Body are governed by the seven Planets and of the Diseases to them appropriate SAturn Saturn governeth the Bones Teeth the right Ear and Spleen and the Bladder with the Moon And of Sicknesses Leprosie Canker Feaver Quartane Palsie Consumption black Jaundies Illiaca passionis Dropsie Cattare Gowt in the Feet Scrophulus Jupiter Jupiter ruleth the Lungs the Grizzles the Liver and Spearm with Venus the Arteries and Pulse And of Sicknesses Peripneumonia Apoplexy Pleurisie Cramp the Cardaca with the Sun Squinancy numness of the sinnews and stinking of the mouth Mars Mars ruleth the left Ear the Gall Veins Yard and Stones and the Reins with Venus And of Sicknesses the Pestilence hot Feavers yellow Jaundies Shingles Carbuncles Fistula's Chollerick Fluxes Feaver Tertians and Quotidians all Wounds specially on the Face and the Falling-sickness with the Moon and Mercury Sol Sol. ruleth the Heart the right Eye the sight the sinnews and the Brain with the Moon and Mercury Of sicknesses swooning Cramp Opthalima Rheuming Eyes and the Cardiaca with Jupiter Venus Venus ruleth the Genitores Dugs Throat Loins the Liver and Spearm with Jupiter and the Reins with Mars Of sicknesses all Diseases of the Matrix Gomorhea passio Flux of urine Priapismus weakness of the stomach and Liver French Pox Flux of the Bowels and the menstrual sickness with the Moon Mercury Mercury ruleth the Spirits Imagination Memory the Tongue Hands and Fingers and the Brain with the Sun and Moon Of sickness Madness loss of the common sences foolish doting lisping and stammering Cough and Horseness the Falling-sickness with the Moon and Mars The Moon ruleth the left Eye of a Man Luna and the right Eye of a Woman the Belly and Guts the Brain with the Sun and Mercury and the Bladder with Saturn And of sicknesses Collica passio Phlegmatick Aposthumes all manner of Opilations the Falling-sickness with Mars and Mercury the Palsie with Saturn and the Menstrual sickness with Venus Cardiaca Simplicia OR A brief Account of some choice Simples as are chiefly appropriated to the Heart Left unfinished by Nich.
Culpeper WHat this Treatise concerns the Title shews the Margine shall also shew you what Planet and Sign of the Zodiack every Herb is under all the several parts of the Body handled in this manner open to you my own Moddel of Physick and draw the Curtain which hath so long blinded the Eyes of the Vnderstanding both of ancient and moddern Physicians here is revealed those hidden qualities A Common-wealth is well hope up with such Physicians which they harping at and onely groaping for could never give a reason of like mad men rather then Naturalists But I desire here to be helpful not critical therefore I shall about the Business promised in the Title by him who loves and delights in the Works of the Lord. Nich. Culpeper Spittle Fields Sol 6. Libra 1649. BAum is of a cherishing nature Sol. Leo. and wonderfully resists passions of the Heart faintings â—nd swoonings it makes the man lightsome and â—lithe merry and chearful it comforts and chears â—he spirits and takes away fears cares and destracted thoughts arising from Melancholly or â—ddust Choller It is hot and dry in the second degree strengthens the inward parts exceedingâ—y helps digestion and opens obstructions of the Brain it naturally preserves the vital Spirits Heart and Arteries from melancholly vapours and is profitable in the bloody Flux and a notable meat for such as have the Gout a sovereign Antidote for such as are poisoned by eating Mushromes I suppose it took its name Balm from its sovereignty in curing Wounds Scordium Jupiter Leo. or Water-Germander is of a heating drying and binding quality and provokes both Urine and the Tearms in Women it is a great Antidote against poison and helps the gnawing pains of the Stomach or Sides comming either through cold or obstructions it stops the bloody Flux easeth the Lungs of old Coughs and rotten Phlegm it keeps bodies from putrefaction resisteth Pestilence Small Pox Meazles faint spots Purples and some are of opinion it withstands any Epidemical Disease whatsoever It comforts and strengthens the Heart exceedingly and nothing better to kill Worms whether in the Stomach or Belly boiled in Vinegar and the place bathed with it helpeth the Gout Vipers Bugloss is a deadly enemy to poison Venus Leâ— and poisonous Creatures there grows enough of it about the Castle Walls at Lewis in Sussex whosoever eats of it shall not be hurt by venemous Beasts that day Crollius in his Basilica Chymica will furnish you with enough such notions it chears and comforts the Heart expels sadness and causeless Melancholly it allayes the heat of the Blood and the fury of Agues by cooling the spirits it procures abundance of Milk in Nurses especially the seed of it it mightily easeth pains in the Back and Reins Jupiter Sol. Burnet is hot and dry in the second degree and is a great friend not onely to the Heart and Liver but also to the whole body of man a little of it put in Wine is not onely delightful to the taste but also wholesom for the body It refresheth the heart quickens the Spirits exceedingly driving away melancholly and indeed the opposition of the house of Saturn to Leo shews that the heart and vital Spirits are impeached by nothing so much as by Melancholly it defends the body from all noysom vapors from ill Air and Pestilence and indeed whatever defends from ill Air must needs defend from all Epidemical diseases for it is the Planets corrupting the air nor the A piece of Colledge nonsence in this time of Fluxes Brewers corrupting their drink that causeth Epidemical diseases It is admirable good in fluxes whether they be of blood or humors whether they be internal or external it stops the whites in women belching and vomiting and is a very good wound Herb for all moist sores Venus Taurus Sorrel is cooling and binding drying in the second degree it opposeth the sting and venom of Scorpions so exceedingly that a man can feel no hurt by them It succors the heart and blood as also the Vital Spirits over-pressed with heat whether you take the Root Herb or Seed if any planet from Scorpious cause the malady this is the cure It resisteth putrefaction exceedingly in the blood and restores weak decayed stomachs it stops fluxes and helps the immoderate flowing of the terms it strengthens the Reins and Kidneyes and hinders the breeding of the Stone neither is there a better remedy in the world for Scrophula or the disease called the Kings evil or any other disease in the neck or throat Violets Venus I can give but little reason if I were asked why I set Violets amongst the Cordials unless I should plead tradition All Physicians have reckoned Violets among the Cordial flowers for my part I believe nothing less they cool inflamations be they internal or external they are especially appropriated to inflamations in the neck and throat fundaments and matrix falled down and inflamed they cool the heat of the Reins thereby resisting the Stone and stopping miscarriages Difficult labours in women thence arising they are excellent in Feavers and Plurisies and hot Rhumes and horseness of the throat Strawberries Venus I know no reason why I may not put in Strawberries here as well as either Violets or Sorrel for neither of them are proper in this place for the heart being the original of heat in the Microcosme no cold thing is properly or per se appropriated to it Strawberries are cold in the first degree the fruit cold and moist temperate the root dry and binding in general they refresh the Spirits ready to faint for heat they cool the liver and blood abate the fury of Chollerick diseases help Palpitation of the heart the yellow Jaundies Inflamations whether internal or external they are excellent in sore mouths sore throats Ulcers in the privitives fasten loose teeth Scabs Itch Tetters and other Martial infirmities of the skin Jupiter Leo. Borage and Bugloss their natures being the same I put them both together they are hot and moist and naturally appropriated to keep the vapors of melancholly from the heart and bridle the unruly passions of the vital Spirit which my Theory of Chyrurgery will manifest to you they make the heart joyful and glad cheerful and merry it clarifies the blood exceedingly opens obstructions of the Liver and helps the yellow Jaundies and by clarifying the blood and removing the addust and sharp humors there must needs be a gallant internal remedy for Scabs Itch Pimples and other infirmities thence arising They help swoonings and passions of the heart and restores such as are pined away either by Consumptions or any other lingring sickness Ros-Solis Sundew It is alwayes moist in hot weather Sol. Cancer yea the hotter the sun shines upon it the moister are the leaves thence it took its name It is excellent good for hot salt Rhumes that distill down upon the Lungs Ulcers in the Lungs coughs shortness of
to be noted first that the Testicles are covered with three Tunicles the first of them takes his original of the skin and is called Scrotum or Purss the second which takes his original of the Peretoneum and is called Dartos the third which is proper to the said Testicle and is called Heritroides these two last do not onely cover the Testicles but also the Spermatick vessels as well they which bring the substance wherewith the Sperm is made which are named Preparans as them which bring the Sperm to the neck of the Bladder which is called Ejaculatores or expelling the which goes up to Ossa pubis Phlebotomy displayed OR Perfect Rules for the letting of Blood GAllen Ipocras and Avicenna and other Masters of Physick accord and say That lettting blood of the Vein and that is called Phleobatomatum or it is ventosing carving or cutting and letting blood of any of these wise is good for mans health of body for Blood immingled with other humors that is too much or else corrupted by the cause of much sickness it is therefore good to know which Veins in a man should be let blood and for what Sickness The Vein in the Forehead is good for the Frenzie and aking of the Head and for the Megrum and for the Morphew and Scab in the Face for the Posthumes in the Eyes both hot and cold The Vein in the Heart is good for a mans minde and for the Rhume that is within the Forehead and for the watering Eyes The Veins in the Temple is good for the Megrum and for the Head-ache of the Eyes and that hath long lasted for the sickness of the Eyes for ache in the Eyes and for the great heat in the Temples The Veins behinde the Ears is good for the Blains and Pimples of the Head for the Megrum and Ache of the Head it helpeth mans minde it is good for Tooth-ache and for the Gums and for all vices in the Mouth and it purgeth the Rhume of the Head The Veins in the corner of the Eyes next the Nose is good for the Megrum for all the sickness of the Eyes and for the Sight Cephica tum prius apta The Vein in the top of the Nose it purgeth the Brain it is good for Ache and Flux of the Eyes and for the Ache of the Nose The Vein in the Cheeks is good for the Megrum and for Spots or Scabs in the Head The vein in the Mold is best for to bleed and for to wash thy Head with the same bloud The Veins of the over Lip and the nether be good for hot Blains in the Mouth and for Aposthumes and for hot evils in the Mouth or Gums The Vein under the Tongue is good for Posthumes and Rhumes of the Head and Gums and all manner of vice of the Eyes Mouth Tongue Tooth-aching and Blains of the Nose Mouth Gums and for the Aposthumes and swellings under the Throat The Veins under the Chin is good for the Kings-evil and for Sauce-flean for Spots and Blains in the Face and other Aches of the Eyes the Gums and for Ache in the Nose The Veins of the Neck before is good for the Squinancy and for all manner of Aposthumes and Swellings that come from the Head to the Ears or to the Gums that causeth the Tooth-ache when the breath beginneth to be short The Vein of Liver that is called Bosilica it is good for the Jaundies and for chafing of the Liver and for all manner of Dropsies and it is good for all evils in the Breast and aking of the Back Shoulders Sides and Stomach and for the Posthume that is called Pleusis The Head Vein that is called Cephanica it is good for the Megrum and for Head-ache and for madness of the minde for ache and all other vices in the Eyes Teeth Tongue the Squinancy and other evils that come to the Throat The Heart Vein that is called Cardiaca ut medium it is gentle Purgacions for it draweth bloud and humors of all the body but namely it is good for the Sickness and Purgations of the Heart Breast Stomach Liver and Lungs The Vein above the Thumb is good against all Feavers and most Feaver quartane and for evils of the Gall and for streightness of the Breast The Vein between the Thumb and the Fore-finger let bloud for the hot Head-ache for Frensie and madness of Wit and for Sickness of the Head Cephanica let the blood of the Vein in the Forehead if it be needful The same vein of the left hand is good for Lithargy and afterward bleed in the Forehead The Vein which is between the little finger and the next thereto is called Salva cella you must let blood in the right hand for Aposthumes and Sicknesse in the Stomach and for all evil humors about the Liver The same Vein on the left hand is for to let bloud for Imposthumes and gathering of evil humors about the Milt and Spleen it is good for the black Jaundies The over Vein in the Yard is good for the Cramp and for Sctatica passio for swelling of the Womb for the Dropsie and for the Stone The nether Vein of the Yard is good for the sides for the Reins Bladder for swelling of the Stones and for the Emerodes The Vein beneath the knee helpeth the knees and it is good for aking of the thighs and the joynts that is called Sciatica passio The Veins beneath the knees both within and without is good for the Liver Sides and Thighs and for the matter that is above and to draw downward The Vein in the Hams is best for holding of Womens Purgations for it is the next matter as saith Aviceri and also it cleanseth mans body The Vein that is under the Knuckle which is called Sophena It is good for Aposthumes Swellings and akings and other evils that comes to mans body from the Head to the Foot it asswageth them it is good for the Stone and letting of urine it helps the Matrice and womens purgations it is good for the Seab that is called Malum mortum de Bassilica The Vein that is under the Knuckle without that is called Sianca it is good for aking that is in the Thighs and goeth down to the Legs and to the Feet and for the Podagar and for the Seab it helpeth most the aking of the Thighs and Joynts that is called Sciatica passio The Vein that cometh to the great Toe on either Foot it is good for the Gout in the Eyes for Blans and Spots in the Face and for Postumes and Evils of the Stones for the Blood for Cankers Festers and Sores in the Thighs and Legs and for withholding of Womens Purgations As for the time of letting Blood to wit that neither in hot weather nor yet in great cold nor in rainy weather nor in misty weather nor in the weather of great tempests nor in the old Moon nor in the new that is to say four dayes before the change
little cynamon and seed of Annis white wine mixt with water musick is good in this disease and such means must be used as may cause sleep Of Melancholly of black Choller THis disease is a kinde of doting without a feaver arising from such maligne and melancholick humors which distrub the seat of the Minde The signs of melancholly are fear and sadness evil thoughts without any cause proceeding from such vapors of black Choller as darken the mind and over-cloud the brain Melancholy which seizes on the essence of the brain and continues there long is altogether incureable The Air where the Patient resides must be of a wholesom smell moist and temperate his diet moist but of good juyce easie of digestion Let him drink white wine and exercise himself moderately his sleep should be somewhat longer then ordinary he is to be cherisht with mirth and good hopes perturbations of minde being wholly avoided Of the overflowing of the monethly Tearms THe superfluous flux of moneths is when it doth tend to be the hurt rather then the good of the woman by reason that they are purged more then they should but in such women as are of a moist constitution that have good diet and much ease the moneths may be suffered to flow more then ordinarily they use The womb is the part chiefly affected sometimes the whole body sympathizeth this affection is an accident which appertains to the immoderate excretion it is not altogether against nature as it is in the bleeding of the nose and other bleedings for here onely too great a quantity of the monethly flux is unnatural This distemper takes away the appetite hinders digestion breeds crudities weakens the whole body the colour of the face is changed feaverish heats arise in the body sometimes the feet are swelled and a dropsie follows one cause is by reason of the heat thinness or abundance of blood more then is requisite or else because of the continual motion for when these concur Nature is defeated Immoderate fluxes caused by the birth of a large Infant are less dangerous because they will stay of themselves This disease is to be feared if the body be weakned or the colour of the face changed the woman being reduced to such coldness faintness of heart swoundings and sometimes death The Air that this Patient lives in should be temperate the meat binding and thickning exercise is forbidden her rest and sleep must be moderate her minde pleased Of the suppression of the Moneths AS the overflowing is dangerous so the retention on the contrary is as dangerous and unnatural if they be of age unless they have conceived the womb is chiefly affected in regard of the fatness thereof whereby the veins are crushed together and so the flux is hindred In this disease the forepart of the head is pained spreads it self to the neck shoulders and loins her appetite is taken away her minde unquiet her stomach queasie she loathes meat her face discoloured she is troubled with phlegm and taken with a trembling her urine is thick red and muddy sometimes blackish with a red watry substance in the bottom the chief cause is gross and phlegmy matter mixed with blood which stops the veins leading to the womb whereby the straitness of the veins doth happen or else from the inflammation of the womb if the Tearms are stopt other diseases must of necessity follow The Air she is to breathe must incline to heat her meat must be heating she must not sleep too long her minde must not be disquieted Of the Obstruction of the Liver THe Obstruction of the Liver is a binding or straitning of the Veins or Liver passages The Liver is the Store-house of blood from which all parts of the body draw nourishment and together with purer blood gross and slimy humors are generated in the Liver seeing that the branches of the hollow Veins are knit unto the Vena Porta in such sort that the knitting and combination doth not come within the compass of our sight as also that all the nutriments of the body must be conveighed through the port Veins and the hollow Veins ends which are very small where they end in the Liver substance so that it is no wonder that by reason of the passages and straitness Obstructions are oftner caused in the Liver then in any other Bowel This Disease doth breed in the extream parts of the vessels of the hollow part and Veins and they are terminated in the Livers substance with thin ends knit one into another with little bones the universal nourishment of the whole body being to be made through these This Disease is to be discerned by a heaviness and stretching pain in the right side then most to be perceived when the Patient is exercised presently after meat The narrowness of the Liver and Veins passages is the cause of this Disease The air for the Patient must be hot and clear his diet such as may heat not stopping he must shun bathing and exercise after meat his diet moderate he may sleep in the day time but not too long at night not at the most above seven hours his belly must be kept loose and his minde delighted The Hicket THe Hicket called Singultus is a violent or vehement motion of the Stomach whereby it doth endeavour to expel such things as rest in the Tunicles and in the Body and also such as do stick fast thereto The Hicket though it much resemble vomiting yet this Disease is rather stirred up then vomit when the humors are strongest the part affected is the mouth of the Stomach sometimes the inflamation of the Liver This Disease comes often for the most part by fits as the Cough doth with a swooning the cause of the swooning in this disease is the straitness of the passage of the air which is contained in the stomach it being often caused by fulness and superfluous moisture by which the Patient is either loaded â—or in a manner shrunk together If this disease be caused by fulness if a sneezing come the Patient will soon be rid of it if it be accompanied with wringing in the guts commonly called Illiaca passia it is a bad Omen but if it follow doating swooning or convulsion it is mortal A temperate air is best for the Patient his meat must be such as doth heat and dry a small quantity of Wine may be permitted Of the Stone THe Stone of the Kidneys is a hard substance bred like a Sand-stone in the Reins from whence by the force of the Urine it is often conveighed through the straight pipes into the Bladder if it be not too great which doth so stretch the passages of the Urine that great pain doth follow the settled pain is in the Veins and sometimes the right side or the left is affected or both at one time even as the right or left Kidney is affected for the gravel is bred in the mouth of the Kidney or substance of them This Disease is
shall onely treat of that pain that doth follow asharp disease by the inflamation of the inner skin for if the inflamation be in the outward Muscles or if the pain be great because of windiness this is but a basterd Pleurisie and the Patient is without a Feaver The signs of this disease besides the difficulty of breathing and a vehement Cough is a pricking pain which plainly doth demonstrate that the membranes and some other tender parts are affected this pricking pain sometimes spreads it self over the sides and breast sometimes to the short Ribs to the Channel-bone of the Throat so that the Patient is forced to breath short and thick also there is a continual Feaver because the inflamation doth border on the heart the Pulse is thick not too great hard and unequal and by that means tough and like to a saw a cough also cometh withal the first day and then nothing cometh at length spettle is voided and comes up coloured according to the nature of the excrements and it is also moister there are many other signs the cause for the most part is blood running from the hollow Veins into the Ribs thin Veins sometimes it is caused by Phlegmy blood and then the disease is longer of continuance and the spettle frothy and white sometimes the blood is Chollerick and then a sharper disease is caused The suppression of the Hemrhoides or monethly tearms will cause a Pleurisie this disease is dangerous to old men to Women with childe and such as have been sick twice or thrice of it it vexes the Patient more in the night then day time whosoever is sick of a Pleurisie and is not cleansed in fourteen dayes they turn to supuratiâ—â— This disease kills by choaking or too mâ—ch pain or by the translation of the matter into the Lungs whereby the Consumption of them is caused and also Ulcers The air the Patient lives in must be temperate somewhat inclining to heat his meat easie of digestion he is not to drink Wine till the disease be abated he may be permitted longer then ordinary sleep his belly must be kept loose Of the Bleeding at the Nose THe Bleeding at the nose called Hemorrhagia doth signifie a Bleeding at the Nose whether it doth come immediately from the Nostrills carried thither by the Veins of the palate through which for the most part nature doth expel the superfluous blood of many or else whether it comes from the Veins of the Head further off but in general it doth signifie any bleeding whether it be of Nose Womb or any other part of the body when blood comes forth moderately in the beginning of a Pleurisie Impostume Squinancy Burning Feaver Small Poxs it is alwayes for the best yet this Bleeding in some other diseases is Critical foreshewing death the Nostrills are chiefly affected but not alwayes the essence of the Nostrils but they are affected by the consent of some other part the Veins by which this blood is cast out at the Nose run from the palate and Mouth into the Nostrills and sometimes from the head when too much blood is voided the colour of the face waxeth pale the body is of a leaden colour the outward parts are cold and a swooning follows and many times after death Oftentimes bleeding at the Nose is caused by nature which doth by this means expel the excrements and which is troublesome to the body Sometimes it is caused by the evil affection of the Veins wherein the blood is contained and the blood runs out of the Veins the Veins being opened by the plenty of blood which they could not contain There are sundry other causes If bleeding have continued long swooning weakness and too much cooling of the Liver Lachexia or the Dropsie is to be feared Bleeding at the Nose without coldness of the outwards parts is mortal The air the Patient should live in must be somewhat cold his meat must be such as doth nourish well and easie of digestion he must avoid exercise and speak little he must avoid all passions of the minde especially anger Of the Falling-sickness THe Falling-sickness is a Convulsion of all the parts of the body not continual but that which cometh by distances of time the minde and senses being thereby hurt This disease doth either happen when the brain hath the cause of the disease in it self which is usual or by the evil effect of the mouth of the stomach or from some other part underneath by which the venemous effect creepeth into the brain through secret passages the Patient feels the cause of this Disease like a vapour of cold winde to be carried to the brain by the continuity of the other parts from the part of the body wherein the Disease is chiefly seated the cause of this Disease being for the most part a venomous vapour carried up from some lower part of the body into the brain and then the Patient doth suddenly fall with a Convulsion The brain is the part affected either by it self or by the consent of the stomach or by some other parts The fit comes oftentimes suddenly with much foam which because it is slimy may be drawn out at length yet in a gentler Falling-sickness this doth not appear when the Patient is deprived of his senses he falls to the ground with a violent shaking of his body his face is wrested his eyes turned upwards his chin somewhat driven to his shoulder and oftentimes he voids seed and ordure against his will his Muscles are loosened all these are signs of a strong fâ—t Sometimes their teeth are so fast closed together that they are in danger of stifling paleness of the face inordinate motion of the tongue pain and heaviness of the head forgetfulness sadness troublesome dreams are ushers to this Disease the Patient being taken with a giddiness sometimes darkness and divers dim glisterings appear before his eyes This Disease is for the most part caused by abundance of melancholâ—ck and phlegmatick humors from whence corâ—upt venomous and stinking vapors break out whereby obstructions are caused in the passages â—f the brain and the passages of the spirits are â—â—ereby hindred by this means the brain and the roots of the Sinnews shrink and as it were tremble in the expelling of that which is obnoxious whether it be vapor or humor This disease frequents children because they are of a moister brain then yong men next to these men oâ— a full growth and old men least of all This Disease is more incident to men then women and usually it doth stick close to the Patient unless it be taken away by medicines in the minority If the Disease be vehement and come often on the Patient it is incurable but if a quartane Ague or any longer Feaver surprize him iâ— portends health The air wherein the Patienâ— lives must be hot and dry his meat mixed with such things as do dissolve and extenuate the humors exercise of the body and frication of thâ— head are prevalent
180 Burning 74 120 141 180 Biting of venomous Beasts 82 156 188 189 192 Bitings of Mad Dogs 83 154 155 174 Burns in the Eyes 92 Bloody Flux 98 104 115 133 134 269 173 179 181 187 189 â—ness 100 Back pained 111 188 Bladder 118 Bewitched 118 149 Barreness 120 Bones broken ib. Birth and After-birth 120 122 123 170 171 Blood spitting 169 30â— Blood pissing 170 Blood cooleth 180 Blood clarifieth 190 â—east swelled 240 C COngelation 391 Consumption 73 166 Chollick 73 91 93 95 112 118 128 129 130 191 â—8â— Carbuncles 74 107 Cuts and Wounds heal without pain 74 75 Cramps â—2 141 Cold 100 191 Cough 127 165 166 â—â—7 Chin-cough â—46 Children to speak quickly 147 Convulsions 150 163 172 363 Child-birth 25â— Cods swelled 174 24â— Choller 176 177 178 187 347 3â—â— Cooleth 17â— D DEafness 71 1â—â— 168 Dropsie 73 93 106 107 10â— 10â— 117 177 178 179 192 231 39â— Diabetes 89 107 132 242 161 Digestion helpeth 99 146 E EYes 171 176 361 F FAlling-sickness 73 75 94. 97 10â— 108 113 153 172 178 179 384 French-pox 75 357 Fellons 90 144 159 Freckles 91 95 121 168 Flegm 176 Flâ—â—â— 177 179 188 189 168 Fistula 96 256 Fâ—â—ness 98 Feâ—â—ors 98 Frenzy 393 G GReen-sickness 73 176 Gout 82 88 93 94 96 97 102 103 107 110 116 123 139 140 141 187 188 253 389 Grâ—â— 105 171 Gâ—â—â—â—der burning 142 Goâ—â—â—â— 167 Gallâ—â—â— 180 H HEad-ache 71 76 87 103 104 108 110 119 123 164 178 36â— Heart comforteth 73 177 178 187 188 Hard labour 81 89 100 101 114 122 170 180 189 Hair taketh away 90 112 Hoarseness 90 164 189 â—â—ad purgeth 109 110 â—air to grow 112 Humors 146 188 190 Head Scabby 17â— Hicket 35â— Hearing 35â— I INfectious air 8â— 8â— Increase Milk in Nurses 87 18â— Itch 152 153 1â—â— Jaundies black 94 109 124 1â—â— Joynts lame 99 102 122 17â— Imposthumes 108 144 145 176 Jaundies yellow 116 124 125 126 190 â—35 37â— K KIngs-evil 95 10â— â—8â— Kanker 74 Kibes 1â—5 166 L LEthargy 373 Liver strengthneth 73 190 231 379 Lungs and their obstructions 73 127 128 177 178 179 187 197 192 Lice 109 Looseneth 103 112 133 137 Looseness 1â—â— Lunatick 177 3â—â— Liver 188 Leanness 180 Lust 191 Leprosie 258 M MOthe 97 Megrum 71 Memory strengthens 76 98 99 Mother fits 110 161 248 Measles 163 Miscarrage 165 Melancholly 178 188 190 346 Madness 119 Morphew 143 Murrain 145 Madness 353 393 Mirth 190 191 N NIght-Mare 363 O OBstructions opens 35 190 191 351 P PLague 72 74 75 78 80 89 97 104 157 162 176 177 178 179 18â— 187 188 35â— Poyson 75 78 82 97 187 191 192 Palsie 73 92 121 143 144 376 314 Pleurisie 88 126 127 166 191 244 â—8â— Purgeth 17â— Pains in the Bladder 9â— Pains 103 105 113 13â— 191 Passions 105 18â— Priapismus â—18 Piles 137 138 350 Pimples 19â— R RVptures 9â— Rhume 94 107 108 117 â—â—â— 171 189 190 â—86 Redness of the Face 91 Ringworms and Tetters 102 117 155 172 176 180 181 190 Reins 120 167 173 188 189 S SIght 71 100 106 113 114 115 161 Stomach strengtheneth 72 96 99 187 189 359 388 Stitch in the sides 73 94 163 190 Stone 74 75 93 96 101 102 103 104 112 113 118 120 121 134 135 136 177 178 179 189 191 236 352 412 Sweat 〈◊〉 74 Sores 74 76 96 108 116 151 157 177 179 181 〈◊〉 74 111 139 145 146 151 168 172 〈…〉 114 116 129 160 191 239 〈◊〉 88 112 191 233 372 Sauinâ—â—â—â— 90 103 360 â—welliâ—g of the Throat 91 103 Sâ—linters draws forth 92 93 260 Sâ—aâ—â—â—ring 147 Sâ—nses lost 161 Small poâ—e 163 175 187 Surfeitâ— 171 〈◊〉 177 179 〈◊〉 â—rovokes 181 〈◊〉 100 〈◊〉 96 109 〈…〉 102 178 〈…〉 106 〈…〉 109 111 157 Swelling 121 Sick live or dye 113 118 119 Scalding 124 142 164 178 1â—â— Sciatica 137 1â—â— Swooning 371 T TYsick 73 160 192 Teeth 72 82 88 99 117 12â— 121 179 19â— Teeth white 90 Tearms provoke 119 159 244 Thirst quencheth 147 Tearms stop 2â—â—â—â—8 V VErtigo 71 7â— 37â— Vrine provoketh 74 7â— Vomiting 10â— Voice lost 〈◊〉 Vlcers 75 241 2â—â— W WIt quickeneth 〈…〉 Winde 81 101 162 1â—â— 179 〈◊〉 Worms killeth 75 104 130 131 1â—â— 179 187 192 35â— Wen 88 155 Wounds 88 89 114 123 136 143 148 152 175 176 177 178 179 187 188 Web in the Eye 92 117 148 Womens Breasts 113 120 167 Warts 114 115 122 192 259 Womb 119 173 187 FINIS Courteous Reader These Books following with many others are Printed for Nath. Brook and are to be sold at his Shop at the Angel in Cornhill Excellent and approved Treatises in Physick Chyrurgery c. CVlpeper's Semiatioa Vranica his Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the decumbiture of the sick much enlarged the manner of finding out the cause change and end of the Disease also whether the sick be likely to live or dye and when the Recovery or Death is to be expected according to the judgement of Hippocrates and Hermes Trismegistus to which is added M. Culpepers Censure of Urines The expert Doctors Dispensatory the whole Art of Physick restored to practice the Apothecaries Shop and Chyrurgeons Closet opened with a Survey as also a Correction of most Dispensatories now extant with a Judicious Censure of their Defects and a Supply of what they are deficient in together with a learned account of the vertues and quantities and uses of Simples and Compounds with the Symptoms of Diseases as also prescriptions for their several Cures by that renowned P. Morellus Physician to the King of France a Work for the order usefulness and plainness of the Method not to be parallel'd by any Dispensatory in what language soever Natures secrets or the admirable and wonderful History of the generation of Meteors describing the temperatures of the Elements the heights magnitudes and influences of Stars the causes of Comets Earthquakes Deluges Epidemical Diseases and Prodiges of Precedent times with Presages of the weather and descriptions of the weather-glass by T. Wilsford The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence or the Arts of Wooing and Complementing as they are managed in the Spring Garden Hide-Parke and New Exchange and other eminent places A work in which are drawn to the life the Deportments of the most accomplisht persons the Mode of their Courtly Entertainments Treatment of their Ladies at Balls their accustomed Sports Drolls and Fancies the Witchcrafts of their perswasive Langue in their Approaches or other more Secret Dispatches c. by E. P. Helmont disguised or the vulgar error of emperical and unskilful Practicers of Physicâ— confuted more especially as they concerne the Cures of Feavers the Stone the Plague and some other Diseases by way of Dialogue 〈◊〉 which the chief Rareties of Physick are admirably discoursed of by J. T. Books very lately printed and in the Press now printing THe Scales of Commerce and Trade by T. Wilsford 2. Geometry demonstrated by Lines and Numbers