a certaine couering Notwithstanding all styrpes or Plants whereon Oyle is powred or effused do putrifie As Plynie reportes THe Coales of a Byrch tree made in powder put into a wounde or great sore healeth it perfectly without any other thing It was crediblie tolde me that the Muscouits vse it much esteemes it greatly A Robbyn read breast fynding the dead body of a Man or Woman wyll couer the face of the same with Mosse And as some holdes opinion he wyll couer also the whole body AN Italian through the ofte smelling of an herbe called Basyll had a Scorpion bred in his braine ▪ which dyd not onely a long tyme grieue him but also at the last kylled him Iacobus Hollerius a learned Phisition affirmes it for trueth Take heede therefore ye smellers of Basyll IF the Nauell string of a chylde after it is cut doeth chaunce to touche the grounde before it be burned the same childe wyll not be able to keepe or holde his or her water neyther night nor daye A thing verie true and well knowne A Flayne Mouse rosted or made in powder drunk at one tyme doeth perfectly helpe such as can not holde or keepe their water especially if it be vsed three dayes in this order This is verie true and often proued IT was credibly reported to me for a verie trueth that a certaine Inkeeper in Ware dyed which had a Dogge that loued him so well that certaine dayes after he mourned and sought for his sayde Maister without eating of any thing And when he could not finde his sayde Maister he layd himselfe among the hotte coales in a chymney who though he was pulled out of the fire yet he went in againe burned him selfe to death A rare straunge thing as hath bene heard of I thinke it is harde to finde a seruant so louing to his Lord as this Dog was to his Maister ASsoone as a child is borne especially a boy their ought to bee great heede taken in the cutting of the Nauell string for the member of generatiō doth followe the proporcion of the Nauell string and if it be tyed to short in a Wenche it maye be a hynderaunce to her in bringing forth her chylde Therfore it is meete that Mydwiues haue a great regarde therein This is gathered out of Mathias Cornace an excellent Phisition FOr the helping of the Coddes or Stones that bee swolne or pained The auncient learned did graue in a plate of copper the fygure of a Scorpion in the howre of Saturne the thirde face of Aquary then ascēding or rysing with Saturne and for the Gowte the Seale of Pisces and also for the helping or bettering of memory they made a Ring of pure golde wherein was closed a Diamonde vnder the coniunction of Saturne and Iupiter in Aries Hermes EGidius Herthoge wrytes a straunge maruell of a woman which caryed a dead chyld in her wombe thirtene yeares which was perceyued of many that handled her bellye but he wrytes not what successe she had therwith for whyles he wrote the same the woman was well and dyd her busynes with her husbande abrode and also at home DYtany drunke with water or wine doth cause a woman to be easily and speedily be delyuered yea though the chylde be dead or if it be turned contrary to a ryght course also it bringes forth the after burthen the lyke effect hath Peniryall as some affirmes And it hath bene proued as sayth Myzaldus PYgeons do so loue the Castrell that if one enclose young Castrels in a potte and stop and couer the same close and shall hang them in fowre corners of the Doouehouse it wyll procure such a loue to the Pygions of that place that for the desyre of them being so inclosed in the sayde Pottes they wyll neuer chaunge that place so much they loue the Castrelles their friendes after their death Columella reports this as Mizaldus affirmes THe Woort leafe layde on the crowne of the heade draweth vp the Vuula or the flap in the throate M. Cato by the report of Mizaldus IF a peece of fine golde or the leaues of pure golde be put into the iuyce of Lymons and taken out of it after it haue leyne therein a whole daye and the same iuice then geuen to one that is sicke of the plague with a lytle Wine and the powder of the roote of Angelica or of the decoction of the same roote it is maruayle to bee tolde what helpe it bringes them yea though they be past all hope or thought past recouerie This Mizaldus wrytes as proued IF a Man be the first that a Woman meetes after she comes out of the Church when she is newlye Churched it sygnifies that her next chylde wyll be a boye If she meete a Woman then a wench is lyke to be her next chyld This was credibly reported to me to be true But prayse it as it proues A Lytle baye Salt stamped small myxt with the yolke of an egge and applyed to a Fellon and so vsed diuerse tymes doth not only perfectly heale the same with speede but also drawes out all the payne out of the arme and ceases the swelling therof if any such be by the meanes of the same This is perfectly proued CHildren are not alwayes lyke vnto their Parēts as it maye appeare in Helides which dyd begette a Daughter of an Ethiopian which Daughter was not of the cullour of her Mother but after the sayde Daughter had a Sonne which was blacke and lyke to his grandmother So Niceus the Poet dyd degenerate in cullour from his Father and his Mother and was lyke his grandfather being an Ethyopian Which thing ought well to be considered of such that suspectes their Wiues when they bring forth chyldren vnlyke to eyther of them for it happens many tymes that the chylde is lyke to the Grandfather or great Grandfather and neyther lyke the father nor mother Mizaldus A Tode stone called Crapandina touching any part be venomed hurte or stung with Ratte Spider Waspe or any other venemous Beast ceases the paine or swelling thereof Lemnius THe iuyce of Broome myxt with the oyle of Radish or of Mustarde is a very safe remedy for the kylling or destroying of Lyse IF a Woman annoint often her Dugges or Pappes with the iuyce of Succorie it wyll make them litle round and hard For if they be hanging or flagging it wyl draw them together wherby they shal seeme as the Dugges of a mayde Mizaldus IF you shall enclose within a peece of thinne Sylke Galbanum made sofe and shall laye it to the mouth of the Matrix all a night the head of that woman hauing then no fowle nor stinking cloathes vpon it but onely couered with a Caule and a cleane or thyn Keyrchyffe without any kinde of Odors in the morning when the same are losed from her heade if the crowne of her head smell of Galbanum it is a sure token that that woman is apt to haue chyldren Hyppocrates IF
back emroddes therewith it is maruelous good for the gowte the making of the oyle is thus Take of the most purest and oldest whyte Wine one quart of the oldest oyle Olyffe three pound Carduus benedictus called the blessed Thistle Ualerian the lesser Sage with the flowres if you can get them of each a quarter of a pounde of the leaues flowres of S. Iohns Woort halfe a pounde let the hearbs and flowres be infused or stieped in the sayd Wine oyle xxiiii howres then the next day let all be put into an earthen vessell leaded or a vessell of brasse vpon an easy fyre vntyll the Wyne be consumed moouing it styl being ouer the fire then being taken from the fire streyned put therto of Uenys Turpentine a pound and a halfe then let all boyle together a quarter of an howre then put therto Olibanū fiue ounces Myrre three ounces Sanguis Draconis one ounce and let all boyle vntyl the Myrre be dyssolued then put it into a vessell of glasse stopped let it stand in the hotte Sun ten daies before you vse this oyle you must wash the sores or woūds with whyte Wine wherin must be the powder of Olibanū I haue writtē this here because I thinke thereby many shall haue knowledge of this precious Oyle which otherwyse should neuer haue heard of it A Sweete water an vnknowen wherof one part mixt with ten quartes of pure water maketh the whole most sweet Take Nutmugs Cloues Galingale Spiknard graines of Paradise Mase Cinamō of euery one an ounce pound or stamp thē all ad therto twenty graines of Musk or lesse as you delyght in the smell therof powre into them a pound a halfe of Rosewater let them so remayne together in a close vessell fowre or fyue dayes then put therto thryse as much Rosewater and distyl all the same in a potte or kettel ful of water seething as in Balneo marie keep the distylled water in a glasse wel stopt to the vse before sayd Euoni IF an Eg be painted with sundry cullors the same set vnder a Hen which syts to bring forth chickens she wyll hatche therof a Chycken hauing the lyke fethers vnto the cullors paynted on the Egge Thomas Hyll out of the naturall and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua affyrmes this IF one make a lytle rope of the guts of a Woolf and then bury the same vnder sand or earth there wyll neither Horse nor Sheepe go that way though you beate them with a staffe Albertus IT is sayd that a Hare doth lyue ten yeeres the age of a Cat is so much a Goate doth liue eight yeeres an Asse thirty yeeres a Sheepe ten yeeres but the Belwether many times doth liue .xv. yeeres a Dog. xiiii and somtymes .xx. a Bull .xv. but an Oxe because he lacks his stones doth lyue .xx. a Swine and a Peycocke .xxv. a Horse .xx. and oftentimes .xxx. there haue bene Horses that lyued fifty yeeres Pygeons lyues naturally .viii. yeeres a Turtle a Partrech .xxv. yeeres also a Ryngdooue which oftentimes lyues xl yeeres Mizal. THe body of a Byrch tree cut or scortched the spring time going before doth yeeld great plenty of water which water being droonke hath a maruelous strength to breake the stone in the raynes Matheolus vpon Dioscorides wrytes it FINIS Lib. 9. ¶ The tenth Booke of Notable things THere is an euident familiarity betweene the Oliue tree and the Myrte tree for as Andronicus reportes the branches of the Myrt tree do pleasauntly extende or spreade by the Olyue tree and the rootes of them do mutuallye embrace each other nor any other plant but the Myrt tree wyll grow well nye the Olyue tree This also Mizaldus doth affyrme THe smell of Bitumen rawe or the smoake thereof burned receyued by the nose of such as are grieuously tormented with the paynes of the moother is a present helpe or remedy It is most certainly proued Wherfore many Women which are grieued with the disease do hang it about theyr necks in wooll that they maye driue away theyr fyt by the oft smelling therof Mizaldus wrytes this And the learned Doctor Monardus affyrmes the lyke therof THe sparrowe Hawke is a fierce enemie to all Pygions but they are defended of the Castrell whose syght and voyce the Sparhawke doth feare which the Pygions or Dooues knowes well inough for where the Castrell is from thence wyll not the Pigions go if the Sparhawke be nye through the great trust she hath in the Castrell her defendor Iohannes Baptista Porta hath written this THe leaues of a Wyllow tree as also the bark therof sodde in Wine doth helpe them that haue the gowte if they be fomēted or bathed therwith Mizal. SToflerus an excellent Astronomer knowing by his Natiuity that he should be in daunger to be hurte about a certaine day or tyme kept him self then within his own house assured that it was strong inough The same day or very nye vnto it that the euent should happe certayne of his learned friends and he as they were reasoning together dyd vary in some certayne opynion about the tryall wherof as it should seeme he reached to take downe one of his bookes being placed among dyuers other when through the lacke of a nayle the whole classe or shelfe where the booke was fell vpon his head and wounded his head very sore Which doth not onely shew the worthynes and excellencie of Astrology especially in a learned and skylfull person therin but also our folly in flying from Fate for that our wisdome doth leade vs into it whē most of all we meane for to shun it Therfore perfect prayer passeth pollecie in preuenting of peryls THree halfe penny weyght of the powder of the Adamant stone droonke with the iuyce of Fennell drawes the water from them that haue the dropsie And the same stone put to the head takes away quite all the paynes therof Iacobus Hollerus an excellent Phisition affyrmes it IT is a manifest thing and proued by dayly experience that the bodies of them that be murthred when they be founde if any of theyr kynred be then present or the party or partyes that kylled or murthered thē or was the cause therof Immediatly bloud wil burst forth suddenly either out of the wound or nose or out of some other part of theyr body I could aleadge here a great sort of examples for the verifying thereof but I omyt them for it is a thing found true by dayly experience Besydes that Lucretius Philip. Melancton Iohannes Langius and Lauinius Lemnius haue written therof PEeces of Amber being put or tyed to the hynder part of the head doth helpe the running or watrines of the eyes with a maruelous successe and hanged about the necke doth hynder distyllations that they go not downe by the throate Mizaldus Besides that it is proued to be true A Certayne Woman went with a dead Chylde in her wombe aboue fowre yeeres which by
so it fastneth and byndeth the stronger and in such sort that it fastneth peeces of glasse together IF you woulde destroye Caterpyllers do thus Annoynt all the bottom of the trree round about with Tarre then get a great sort of Antes or Pyssemyres and put them in some bagge and drawe the same vp by a corde into the tree and so let it hang there so that it touch the body of the tree and the Ants letted to go downe from the tree by the meanes of the Tar wyll for want of foode eate and destroye all the Caterpyllers there without hurting any of the fruite This was tolde me for a very trueth MAke a hoale in the ende of a Goose egge and put all the whyte and yolke out of it then put into the shell a Backe that flyes about in the euening and then glew or close it fast on the toppe and you shal see the Backe flye away with the same Egge shell to the great maruayle of them that knowes it not IT is verye euyll for them that falles sycke when the Moone is applying in coniunction to the Sun and woorse when she is within syxe degrees of the Sunne This I know to be true by often proofe and tryall And Abraham Auenezra affyrmes the same wryting De criticis diebus RUbbe any precious Stone vpon Lead and if then it chaunge the cullour then it is a counterfeyte Stone If it chaunge not then it is a naturall and good Stone STampe Celondyne and laye it to any Tetter or Ryngwoorme or any other such lyke called Imipetigo or Serpigo shyfting it twise euery day with new for the space of a fortnyght and it wyll quyte destroy and kyll them And also it wyll put away any black spottes with the lyke vsyng thereof in what part of the body so euer they be TAke pure Waxe and fyne Brymstone puryfyed of eache a lyke much melte them together making therof a Candle and after take the powder of a coale fynely beaten and as much of Brymstone in powder These syfte through a Searse or a lynnen cloath and after heatyng the sayde Candle smeare it about with this powder so long vntyll it haue as it were a thycke cruste rounde about the same lyke vnto the thycknesse of a backe of a knyfe Which after couer about the head of it with a Paper and then hange the same at the mouth of a gutter that droppeth faste in a frostie euening vntyll it be couered with yse a fynger thycke then lyght the same and it wyll burne lyke as it were all Waxe This is taken out of the naturall and Artifyciall conclusyons of the Schollers of Padua Translated into Englyshe by Thomas Hyll THe coniunction of the Moone with Saturne in the fyrst begynning of sycknesse doth sygnify euyll and long sicknes But if Saturne be of a slow course it augmenteth the euyll If of a swyft course then it dimynisheth of the euyll If he be Retrograde applying by opposition to the Sunne after he is cured he wyl fall sycke againe but if he be Retrograde and seperate by opposition from the Sun the euyll is dimynished Abraham Auenesra de criticis diebus A Uery good laxatiue Dredgepowder whereof you may take a spooneful when you neede in your pottage or broath it wyll make you to go to the stoole Take of pure Turbyt one ounce Gynger Cynamō Mastick Annes seedes Hermodactyls Diagredyon of each half an ounce of the leaues of Sene two ounces of Sugar fowre ounces beate them al into powder and let them be myxed together Leonardus Fuchsius THat sygne and degree wherin the Moone is in the howre and time of the byrth of any the same signe and degree dyd ascende at the verye tyme of the conception of the same Chylde And that sygne degree wherin the moone is at the tyme of the conception the same sygne and degree or the opposyte to the same doth ascend at the very tyme of the byrth Hermes et Ptolomeus Therfore according to this rule of these auncient and famous Authors whereto Guido Bonatus Iohannes Ganiuetus Sconerus and Taisnerus notable learned Astronomers with dyuers other do consent and agree Dyuers Women haue dyuers times betweene the conception byrth of their chyldren For the place of the moone at the tyme of the conception her vncertayne course after doth plainly manifest that some Women goes with Chylde not aboue seuen and thyrty weekes some others eyght and thyrty weekes and vnder some nyne and thyrty weekes and something lesse some againe goes forty weekes and a few dayes lesse and somtymes certain dayes more yea and somtymes forty and one weeke and one day which is the longest time as the learned in the same Science can perfectly finde out Wherefore they are much deceyued that thinkes euery woman goes but iust forty weekes with chylde which fonde and false opinion hath made many an honest woman falsely suspected wrongfully slaundered and without iust cause from theyr husbande 's seperated Therfore it were good and very meete for euery one not to geue too much credyte to this fonde reckoning of iust forty weekes which is more cōmon then true Which fore discrybed excellent rule according to the mynde of the worthy and learned Mizaldus is of no small weyght for the tryall of the fydelytie honesty of women to theyr husbandes and to fynde out the very right tyme of the Natiuity or byrth so that the very day and howre of the conception be certen TAke the stones out of Reisens of the Sunne then stampe the same Reysens and apply a plaster therof to any griefe or ache and it wyll cease it presently and if you vse it fyue or syx tymes in such order it wyl throughly helpe and cure the same I haue seene this well proued IF you gather greene Beanes from the stalkes whē they be rype fully growne and ready to eate and then immediatly cutte of the sayde stalkes within a handful of the roote then new and moe branches wyll shortlye after spryng out of the same Which wyll bring forth new Beanes and more plentyfully then before and as good as the fyrst Whereby you maye haue more then double encrease and two seuerall gatherings of Beanes in one yeare But in anywyse take heede that the fyrst gathering and cutting away of the stalks be when the said stalks be greene I haue seene it proued therefore I wryte and publysh it for an vndoubted trueth It is credibly tolde mee that if you vse Peason in the same order the lyke effect wyl follow Which I beleeue to be true as well in the one as in the other LAye a dysh ouer hotte sodden milke and there wyl a water be on the insyde of the dyshe which water keepe in some glasse whereof if a lytle be put into sore payned or dymme eyes it wyll helpe them maruelously This was affyrmed to mee for trueth HEre followeth the discription of a notable Oyle of Balme Take of Turpentyne
away and then the woman by some meanes did teare or vnloose the sheete wherein she was wrapt and then she went straight home to her Husbande and called vpon him to let her into the howse whom when he harde hee thoughte it had beene a Sprite But at last through her importunate calling he receyued her into the house and thus woonderfully she recouered and lyued which Woman after that had three or fowre chyldren of whome it is sayde there is a Monument at this present in the sayde Citie of Cullen Therfore too hasâ—y or quick buryall is not to be vsed as not onely this rare example maye sufficiently teach vs But also for such causes as I haue alleadged in another place of this booke IF you graft the slyps of a Wylding or sowre Aple vpon the stock of a Hawthorne you shal haue Medlers grow therof This I haue seene proued therfore I affyrme it for trueth A Lytle Byrde called the Kings Fysher being hanged vp in the ayre by the neck his nebbe or byll wyll be alwayes dyrect or strayght against the winde This was tolde mee for a very trueth by one that knew it by proofe as he sayde WHosoeuer shall weare about theyr mydle such a gyrdle as followeth tying it fast that it fall not away they shall not neede to feare drowning though the boate they are in should myscarie whereby they may passe ouer any water safely without any dauÌ„ger though it be neuer so deepe For so long as it is about them they can not synke Take two peeces of good Neates lether well tand and drest such as foote balles be made of eyther peece being of the breadth of fyue or sixe fyngars And of such a length as wyll make a sufficient gyrdle for you let a shoomaker sew them very strongly thycke stytched and surely together and lykewise at both the endes and in the myds therof fasten a Pype lyke to a Bagpype wherewith blow the same gyrdle as ful of winde as you can possyble then vnder the nether ende of the Pype tye the lether very fast and sure that ioygnes the pype the gyrdle together with a strong packthred or with some other sure strong thing least the winde should come out of the gyrdle whereof you must take great heede Also blowe three Oxe bladders full of wind and tye them hard that the winde go not forth of the same and sew ech of them strongly and surelye within good strong Neates lether rounde lyke vnto a foote ball and make three strong lowpes vpon the sayde gyrdle one against the middes of the backe and against eyther of the sydes one and then tye fast and surely one of the sayde bladders sewed in the lether to euery of the sayde lowpes and then tye the same gyrdle about your mydle very fast and sure And then you can not synke into the water And so you maye passe safely ouer if the water be not too broade and too rough Nicholaus Michauel hath wrytten of such a lyke gyrdle in his excellent Booke of the Arte of Warres for the saueing of Souldiours and Fyshers ouer waters In which Booke there are other notable Engynes and worthy matter besyde concerning warres A Ladle made of the wood of a Fygge tree hath a maruelous propertie for if Fleshe in the seething therof be often sturred therwith or if it be in the Pot whyle it is seething it makes the Flesh to be sooner sodden Mizaldus A Partrych wyll crye alowde and will teare or breake the Cage or Coope where she is fedde if there be any deadly medcyn or poyson prepared within the same house which shee dooth feele presentlye and also hath knowledge thereof through a woonderfull speciall and rare gift of nature Actius ex pisone GEllius wrytes that the Hedgehogge makes the mouth of her hoale Cabban or Caue alwayes contrary to the winde for through a meruelous natural gyfte shee hath foreknowledge in what quarter the wynde wil be and thereupon shee chaungeth the mouth or entringe in of her hoale or caue whereby Marryners haue learned aforehand the place of the wynde The ende of the tenth and last Booke FINIS ¶ A speciall Table for the finding out of any matter in this Booke whereof the Table of the first Booke doth folowe A Straung Historie of two louers that were poysoned by eating of Sage pag. 1 â—ph 1. A 〈◊〉 Poct dyd weare leaden soles pag. 2. â—ph 2. A straunge thyng of Mullen pag 2.3 To encrease mylke in Nurses pag. 2.4 Aqua vite helpes synewes and muscles pag. 2.5 To make rough or chapped lippes smoth pag. 2.6 To knowe who shal be crooke backt or halt pag. 3.7 Earth wormes helpe deafenes pag. 3.8 A notable cure of one that had the griefe of the splene seuen yeres pag. 3.9 A rare thyng to make a horse â—all as dead and after to make him lyuely pag. 3.10 To get a precious stone out of a snake pag. 4.11 A way to keepe wine safe from thunder pag. 4.12 To knowe who shall haue the palsie pag. 4.13 To take away a Wen. pag. 4.14 To make wood of the cullour of Hebenus pag. 4.15 An excellent vertue of Mullen in helping of bruses and sores pag. 5.16 Ualerian wyl drawe out any wood or yron out of the fleshe pag. 5.17 To make a barren vine beare grapes pag. 6.18 To preserue the teeth froÌ„ rotting pag. 6.19 The teeth of a Bore newely killed wyll burne brysâ—ies or haires pag. 6.20 A present casâ— for the gowte pag. 6.21 The Citie of Tornace wâ—s marueylously deliuered from the plague by the shooting oâ—f of gunnes pag. 6.22 To make common Azure pag. 7.23 A Cocke feares not a Serpent yet he is afrayde of a glead pag. 7.24 To maâ—e amber clearer better pag. 7.25 A â—are way to staye the fluxe of spaâ—â—e pag. 8.26 Cantarides applied made one to pyssâ— blood pag. 8.27 A straunge vertue of y buâ— leafe pag. 8.28 A salue made of ale helpes sores and aches pag. 8.29 Docks makes toughe fleshe to be tender pag. 8.30 A way to knowe whether one be sicke in body or in minde or in both pag. 9.31 To know who is enfect with the pluresye pag. 9.32 They that haue the quarteyn shal not haue the falling sicknes pag. 9 33. To cullour bones with a greene cullour pag. 9.34 Oile keepes wine froÌ„ corrupting pa. 10.35 The coles of a birch tree healeth woundes pag. 10.36 A Robin red breast will couer the face of a dead body with mosse pag. 10.37 A straunge example of the heathe basyll pag. 10.38 Great heede ought to be taken of childrens nauels strings wheÌ„ they be cut pag. 10.39 To helpe them that can not holde theyr water pag. 10.40 An incredible tâ—le of a louyng dogge pag. 11.41 The member of generation dooth folow the proportion of the nauell string cutte pag. 11.42 A straung way for the helping of the cods pag. 11.43 A woman caried a dead child in her wombe thirteene yeres pag.
the herbe of Mars and therefore good against the diseases and paines of the head because that the signe Aries which is one of the houses of Mars doth gouerne the head And also Planten is very good against the griefe diseases of the stones and the Ulcers of the bladder and also Gonorrha passio and Hemerods because Scorpio the other house of Mars doth rule that parte of the body Lyke iudgement maye be had of other herbes of the planets Myzaldus IF the ryght knee of a Bull be very streyte tyed hee cannot bull a Cowe although before his eyes shee allure him therto with her moowing Mizaldus IF a marryed man bee let or hyndered through Inchauntment Sorcery or Witchcraft from the acte of generation let him make water through his maryage Ring and he shal be lowsed from the same and their doinges shall haue no further power in him Guilel Varignana and Arnoldus de villa noua affyrmes the same WHo vse to rubbe their fingers betweene theyr toes of their feete when they go to bed especially when they smell most and then to smell the same at their nose it is a perfect remedy to put awaye the crampe This was affyrmed to me as a tryed thing A Candle burning holden or put to a hole or place wherein a peece of Saltpeter is put the sayde Candle wyll soddenly be blowne out And the same Candle immediatly put to another place wherin is Brimstone wyll be lyght and burne againe to the great maruayle of them that standes by if they bee ignoraunt of the secrete Mizaldus But the snuffe of the Candle must not be cleane out THat wrytings shall not burne in the fyre take very strong Uineger and the whytes of egges and put them together and put therto Quicksyluer mixting and sturring the Quicksyluer well therein and with the same mixture annoynt Paper three times and after euery time drye the same well and after that wryte what you lyst on the same paper then cast the same writing into the fyre and you shal see it leape out of the fyre without burning This Mizaldus had out of an olde booke CUt or breake a whyte loafe in the myds when it comes hotte out of the ouen and laye it to the eare of such as haue any quicke thing in their head and it wyll bring it out shyfting it styll with hotte breade vntyll all the quicke thinges be come foorth This is proued to be true THe lytle bone in the knee ioynt of the hinder legge of an Hare doth presently helpe the crampe if you touch the grieued place therwith Often proued A Lytle peece of the tongue of a Foxe being moystned and made soft in vineger if it be drye draweth out a thorne or any other thing deepe in the flesh if it be layde vpon the place where it is It is an excellent and true thing WHen the sygne of the sixt house is Libra Mars in the same house it sygnifies griefe and paines of the eyes Iatromathematica Guat Ryff IVlius Vyator a Knight of Rome Plynie being the Author who in his chyldhoode had the Dropsie therfore then forbiddeÌ„ of the Phisicions to vse moyst thinges dyd so ouercome Nature through continuaunce or long vse that all the tyme of his lyfe after he lyued without drinking of any thing THe three corned stone of a Carpe which is to bee found in the hinder part of the head nye vnto the necke beaten small and blowne into the nose doeth staye the bleeding of the nose by his binding faculty which may be perceyued by the tasting therof This hath bene proued and I knowe it to be true Mizaldus also affyrmes it THe head of a Catte that is all blacke burned in a newe potte and fine ashes or powder made therof and some of the same thrise euerie day blowne out of a quyl into the eye that hath eyther Web or Perle or any other euyll or griefe in the same is a most excellent helpe and remedy therfore But if the party feele any burning in his or her eye especially in the night let three or fowre Oken leaues styeped or moystned in water be layde together vpon the sore or grieued eye and let the same be afterwarde turned and layd on againe The Author of this secrete sayd that the syght is restored with this remedy after a whole yeres blindnesse This was tolde to Mizaldus THat Salt wyll helpe Fecunditie or make women more apt to bring forth chyldren It maye be an argument because of the great number of Myse and Rattes that are wont to breede in Ships of the sea And because women that are louers of Salt Salt-meates are more prone and haue mo children Lemnius ASses that are much cumbred with Melancholy do gladly eate Cytterache or Scaleferne that they maye mende helpe the diseases of the Splene Goldâ—inches Eybright and Uipers Fennell for the mending of their syght So Goates by a certayne propertie of Nature do hate or can not abyde mans spytle nor they wyl eate any thing wherof man hath first tasted But the nature of Lyserdes is contrarie for they lycke vp the same greedily Plynius Theophrast ANnyball made a passage for him his Souldiers through the harde rockes of the Alpes to passe into Italy For by heating burning the stones with fyre and sprinckling vineger thereon he made them so softe that they might fall easily in peeces and that they might be sooner broken a sunder Titus Liuius Plutarchus with other reports it HEre followes an excellent remedie for al wounds and easie to be made Take greeke Pytch Brimstone and whyte Olybanum which is a kinde of FraÌ„kencense of all a lyke quantitie let them be stamped and mixt with the whytes of egges then the wouÌ„d being first washt and the lyppes therof well ioyned together laye the same mixture on a lynnen cloath and apply it to the wounde and tye the same fast on with cloathes or broade bandes and let it lye so certaine dayes vnremoued A maruelous thing and proued sayth Mizaldus WHyte Lyllies wyll waxe redde as Florentinus hath taught if warely and dilygently you open the clyfts of the rootes and fyll the same with any redde cullour and so then set the same in a fat duÌ„ged earth Mizaldus WOmen that vse to lye sleepe on the right syde seldome or neuer bring forth any wenches Rasis writes this WHosoeuer is annoynted for the Neopolytane disease coÌ„monly called the French pocks if he hold in his mouth a Ryng of golde or els an other peece of gold and rowles the same about in his mouth with his tongue the quicksyluer that is in his body by the meanes of the oyntment is drawne of the sayde gold and is so wrapt about the sayd Ryng or golde that when the same is taken out of his mouth it shall seeme as though it were all Syluer And the same Ring or other golde wyll not be restored to his former brightnesse or cullour except it be put
burie the same in the myds of the house or hang it in any place of the house but if thou hast fowre such plates and burie or hang them in fowre corners of the house or hyde them within the walles that no body take them awaye it were farre better But this laying of them must be when the first face of Taurus doth asceÌ„d And so no Flie wyl come in there nor tary there Ptolomie sayth that he sawe the tryall hereof in the house of King Adebarus who was verie wyse and was maruelous expert in naturall Magicke in whose Pallace or Place there was neyther Flye nor any other hurting worme and that I might search it out sayth he I brought in thyther lyue Flyes which presently dyed Mizaldus SIxe or seuen whytes of Egs put into troubled or thicke Wine and the same being well moued or styrred with a stycke makes the Wyne â—ayre and cleare IT is daungerous to stryke especially to cut that part of the body when the Moone is in that signe that gouernes the same as daily experience sheweth by many and a thing euery where feared doubted through the daungers that folowes therof And it was credibly tolde me that one that was by chauÌ„ce prickt in the finger with a thorne the Moone then in Gemini dyed without any remedy thereof And I knewe a tall man and a stowt that in fighting had a lytle cutte with a sword vnder the ancle as it seemd to me seeing the same a thing of small harme yet notwithstanding he dyed within halfe an howre after the stroke was geuen This maye be verified by many examples So that by this and by many other things it is manifest that the Moone and other Celestiall bodies haue maruelous power in our earthly bodies As in this booke and in diuers and many places the same is manifest IF a Ratte Mowse or Wesell or any other thing sodenlye leape or fall on the body of a Woman with chylde or else any Cheryes or a cluster of Grapes or other thing whatsoeuer chauÌ„ce to fal or hyt any part of her body by and by it haps that the chylde is marked with some speciall noate or marke on that part wheron they did fall or hyt except happely the woman on whose body the same did chauÌ„ce wipe with her hande sodainly the parte or member therewith touched and laye her sayd hande on some other part further of Lemnius There are fewe women but knowes this to be true many haue fouÌ„d it to true As two or three straunge exaÌ„ples in this booke doth shew most wonderfully BUrning water called Aqua vite is of maruaylous force in preseruing of thinges and keeping them from putrifying For fleshe or meates whatsoeuer moystned therwith wyl be safe from corruption and woormes IF young Beasts eate of the leaues of an Ywe tree they dye But if they that chawes the cud do eate thereof they feele no harme This is the opinion of Theophrastus But Plynie doth ascribe it to the Ashe tree But the lykelyhood and neerenes of the words might deceyue him For the Ashe tree in the Greeke tongue is Milean and the Ywe tree is Milon Mizaldus A Maruelous matter and a thing worthy to be remeÌ„bred is written by Aelinus that a great mighty Woolfe dyd come to a schoole and dyd snatche the wryting Tables out of the handes of a Boye called Gelon of Syracusa Whereat the sayde chylde Gelon rysing from his seate dyd dillygently and sharplie without any feare followe the sayde wylde Beaste earnestly to pluck the sayd Tables from his mouth But after that Gelon was out of the schoole the same with a sodaine ruine fel vpon the rest of the schoollers kylled and opprest with the Schoolemaster aboue a hundreth Boyes Only Gelon by Gods prouidence of all his fellowes remayning alyue And because he was not kylled of the Woolfe but rather reserued it cannot be without great admiration partly by foreshewing his kingdome and rule and partly that he was preserued from so imminent a peryll WHosoeuer wyll preserue Chesnuttes and keepe them safe and sounde â–ª let them laye mixe them with Walnuts for they wyll drinke vp and consume such humors whereby they corrupt And they wyll not suffer them to waxe mowly Mizaldus KNotgrasse is thought to be the herbe of the Sun wherevpon it helpes greatly all the diseases of the harte and the mouth of the stomacke Whereof Leo the Lyon is gouernour which is the house of the Sunne And it is very good against the great griefes of the backe the Stone and the Collicke by drinking of it or by infection It was affyrmed to Mizaldus that it was founde true by experience AN herbe called HouÌ„dstonge ioyned with the Matrix of a Bytch being so tyed to the neck of a Dog that he can not get it away you shall see him turne about so long that he wyll fall downe and seeme to be halfe dead Albertus WHen the Scithians were constrayned to susteyn hunger for any certaine matter or vrgent cause they gyrded in their bellyes with broade bands that no emptines left in their bellye or guttes their hunger might the lesse grieue them For through the harde bynding in of the bellye hunger is the more tollerable WhervpoÌ„ it is seene that they that eates much do loose or vnbutton their dublettes and loose their garters Phauorinus THe Elephant seeing a Ram is by by tame and leaues his fiercenes With which pollecie the Romaines caused the Elephantes of King Pyrhus to returne and go backwarde And so the Romaines obteyned a worthy victory Mizaldus THe paring of an Apple cutte something thicke the insyde wherof layde to hotte burning or running eyes at night when the partie goes to bedde tyde or bounde to the same doth helpe the same verie spedelie and contrary to expectation An excellent secrete A Certayne Priest hauing a louing Dogge was kylled for his money and throwne among bushes or some other priuie place Which Dog so mourned for his sayd Maister that he would not depart from him but howled so that the dead body was founde Which dead body was brought afore certayne men to be viewed to which place diuers people resorted Amongste whome the murtherer woulde needes shewe him selfe lamenting outwardlie the matter with the rest of the standers by as though hee had bene as guyltlesse as the best whome when the sayde Dogge perceyued he barkt and dyd runne at him fiercely and by no meanes would leaue his barking howling and running at him And following after him and at none other shewing in his manner that that was hee that kylled his Mayster Wherevpon being suspected he was examined who forthwith confessed his wicked fact and therefore was executed Saint Austine affyrmes this as I do remember IF both the lyghts that is to say the Sun and the Moone be in the sixt house Infortunate they that be then borne without doubt wyll be blinde And if but one of them be there and Infortunate then
the chylde wyll be blinde but of one eye And lykewyse it wyll be if eyther the sayde lyghts be Lorde of the sixt house Infortunate And vniuersally their eyes can not escape great hurt in whose Natiuitie the sayde lyghts are impedite Iatromath Guat Ryff THis following wyll presentlie ease the paynes of the gowte Frye out the grease of Shoomakers spetches or peeces of Lether and lay some of it vpon a browne paper warming it a lytle at the fyre then applie the same to the griefe and it wyll take awaye the paines in one night I had this of them that haue proued it often to be true IF Sheepe chaunce to eate of an herbe called Knotgrasse it wyll make their bellyes swell and they wyll auoyde out of their mouthes a thynne stynking froth therfore they must be let bloud vnder the tayle next to the buttocke Columella THere is many do the thinges in their sleepe that they that be awake vse to do For they wyl walke about the house and chamber and wyll go to other folkes beddes and dare do any thing without feare Whereof there are many daylye examples But one among all the rest which was credibly told me was maruelous straunge and almost incredible Which was that two men lying in bed together the one of them being fast a sleepe tooke the keyes and vnlocked the doores and the gate of the house and so took his Bowe Arrowes and went to a wood or chase aboue a myle from thence and kylled a Bucke or a Doe and then dyd couer and hyde the same in the wood and then came home againe vnlocking and locking the gates and doores againe and layde the keyes where he had them and so went to bed The other man that lay with him being awake folowed him and dyd see all that he dyd But he would not go to bed but stayde a whyle in another place to see the ende thereof And assoone as the other was in his bedde he tooke his dagger stabbing and thrusting therwith in the bedde where the other man dyd lye and by and by after awaking sayde alas what haue I done I haue kylled him The other answered nay I am not kylled yet thankes be to god Then sayde he for I was a dreamed that I kylled a Bucke in such a place that thou dyd see me where I dyd kyl him and hyd him and thinking thou would bewray me I thought to kyll thee But I am glad sayde he that it was but a dreame Then the other sayde if it were a Dreame thy Dreame is then true For thou hast performed all the Dreame except the kylling of me Which he would not beleeue vntyll the next day when he that laye with him caryed him to the place where he him selfe tolde that he dyd hyde the sayde Bucke Where in deede they founde the Bucke kylled as he before tolde in his Dreame A maruelous matter if it were true THe Greekes and Romaines dyd keepe snowe tyll Somer in caues of the earth couered with Oken bowes or chaffe Which made Saint Austine saye who gaue chaffe such a colde strength to keepe and preserue snowe or such a hotte strength to heate and rypen vnrype Aples WIne wyll be pleasant in taste and in sauour and cullour it wyll much please thee if an Orenge or a Lymon stickt round about with Cloaues be hanged within the vessell that it touche not the Wyne And so the Wyne wyll be preserued from foystines and euyll sauor Mizaldus THey wil haue paines or diseases in their Liuer in whose Natiuitie Iupiter is Lord of the sixt house being euyl aspected of an Infortunate planet Iatromath IF shell Snayles be rosted and dryed at the fyre or in an Ouen and made in powder and a spoonefull thereof drunke in Ale at one tyme and so taken nine or ten daies together it doth perfectly helpe and cure the blacke Iaundies Proued IF you stampe earth woormes then streyne them through a cloath and then put to the same as much of the iuyce of Radish rootes and betwene the beating or framing of Swords Kniues or Daggers when they be hotte you do quenche them twyse or thryse therein the same shall cutte yron after as though it were lead This Mizaldus had of a Phisition that was cunning in that art STinking and corrupt Wine wyll be marueylouslie mended if according to the bygnes of the vessell a sufficient quantitie of cleane Wheate in a bagge be hanged in the sayde vessell and after be taken out of the same For whatsoeuer is vncleane or naught in the Wine the Wheate wyll drawe the same to it and so wyll leaue the Wine pure and cleare Pistorius THe vttermost or last ioynt of the tayle of a young whelpe after he is fortie dayes olde being wrythen of the same Dogge wyll neuer be mad Besides that his tayle wyll be thereby of a comelye lengthe Mizaldus IF you bore holes in Bay berries put into euerie hole the seedes of Artychokes and wrap theÌ„ with dung and so put them into the earth thou shalt haue so sweete pleasaunt smelling Artychokes that nothing can be of a more sweete pleasant smel Varro The same wyll happen if you do styepe seedes three dayes in sweete smelling water Mizaldus BUtter Aqua vitie and Beast gall of eache a lyke quantity mixt together And any ache or stytche annointed therwith somthing hotte euery morning and euening for seuen or eyght dayes doth perfectly helpe the same Proued ALl Wheate that is sowne in continual moyst grouÌ„d after the thirde sowing wyll become the purest Wheate that makes the synest best bread that can be made Columella GAlene saith that he knew certain men in his time â–ª that gaue the pouder of mans bones burned to them that had the falling sycknesse they not knowing of it least their minde should stande against the medicine and many was cured with the same Gesuerus hath proued it with the scull IF the lytle Nerue vnder a Whelpes tongue commonly called the greedy worme be taken away it keepes the same saâ—e after from being madde and he wyl not be geuen so much to barking after And also it is thought they wyll not be geuen to greedines after IF you pricke the head of a Leeke with a reede or a sticke sharped and put within the same the seedes of rape or of Cucumbers the sayd Leekes head wyl so swell that it wyll seeme monstrous AEtites called the Eagles stone tied to the left arme or syde it bringes this benefite to Women with chylde that they shall not be delyuered before their tyme Besydes that it bringes loue betwene the man and the wyfe And if a woman hane a painefull trauayle in the byrth of her chylde this Stone tyed to her thygh bringes an easie lyght birth but you must take it away quicklie after the byrth The same Stone as the Caldeans reportes if it be mixt with meates enuenomed it forbyds or lets that the same meate be
or other place or rowme wyl geue such a light in the darke as the Moone doth when she shines in a bright night Iohannes Baptist. A Peece of a chyldes Nauell string borne in a ring is good against the falling sicknes the paynes of the head and of the collyck Mizaldus BAptista Fulgosus reports that nie to Sirminū a Citie of Pamony sometymes there hath bene Tendrals of Gold found in the Uines wherof there hath bene money coynd Which many haue seene sayth Gandeut Meruba in his tyme And Alexander Neapolitanus sayth that he hath founde in Germany within Daunby Uines that dyd beare lytle nayles and leaues of pure golde which was geuen for presentes to Kings and Dukes Mizaldus IF any doeth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astronomie whether that place where he dwelles is better for him then that to which hee meanes to go beholde and if thou dost finde the Moone seperate from Infortunes that is from an euyll Planette or from an Infortunate Planette tell him that his going is better then his tarying But if you finde the Moone seperate from a good or fortunate Planet then it is better for him to tarry there styl then to go from thēce to dwel And to be briefe if one shall aske thee saying thus I must needes doo a certaine thing or I haue certayne busynesse to doo whether maye I doo it or not then marke thou the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone and if thou finde them seperate from euyll Planets or euyll fortunes applying to good or fortunate Planets byd him do that that he is determined to do and spare not But if thou finde them seperate from good Planets or fortunate and applying to euyll Planets byd him that he doo it not neyther take it in hande Haly Abenragell THat Woman is lyke to be barreyn in whose Natiuitye the Moone and Venus being in barreyne signes are Infortunate of Mars and Saturne Or if Saturne be in the seuenth or tenth house Infortunating 〈◊〉 and the Moone or if Venus be with Saturne and the Moone then in the syxt or twelfth house Infortunate Iatromath Guat Ryff THe seedes of Roses with Mustarde seede and the foote of a Wesell all together tyde in some thing hangde among the bowes or branches of a tree that beares but lytle fruite It is sayde that it wyll make that tree to beare well and to be maruelous fruitfull Mizaldus PAre the nailes of one that hath the quarteyn ague which being put into a lynnen cloath and so tyed about the necke of a quicke Eele and the same Eele put into the water thereby the ague wyll be dryuen away Geber et Alb. IF any lyst to sleepe and laye by him the braunches of moyst Hempe Gnats wyll not trouble him nor come neare him Myzaldus IF the Lorde of the twelfth house be in the twelfth house many debates and enemities wyll happen vpon the day belonging to that Planet to the childe then borne Taisnier COoluer dunge stampt and vsed for a plaster with strong Uineger and applyed to the Nauell byndeth incontinent all Fluxes of the belly Macer THe roote of a Goorde tyed to the reynes of the backe of Women that is in labour or trauell of chylde doth cause speedy delyueraunce thereof But let it be taken away as soone as the chyld doth come foorth least the Matrix go out after the chylde Trotula de passionibus mulierum HEre foloweth an Electuary of a wonderfull vertue in the tyme of Pestilence this Electuary is of so great a vertue in them that do receyue it once in .xxiiii. howres that they may be sure from all euyl infections of corrupt and contagious ayres all the daye after But in them that are infect already and are taken with the Pestilence if they drinke of it but one spoonefull as shall be sayde hereafter especially after letting of bloud if it be conuenient to the patient and laye him downe and sweate vpon the same if the venyme hath not vtterlie ouercome the hart he shall vndoubtedlie recouer It hath bene lately proued that after drynking of the same medicine when the patient made his water in an vrinall the glasse hath burst in peeces by reason of the venime that it purged out This is the making of the sayde Electuary Take Cynamom elect one ounce Terra sigillata sixe drams fyue Myrre three drams Unycornes horne one dram the seede rynde of Cytron rootes of Dyptanny Burnet Turmentyl Zedoary red Currall of each two drams yellow Saunders fowre scruples red Saunders two scruples whyte Been and red flowres of Marygooldes of each one dram Yuery rased Scabius Veroincitunici seede of Basyll the bone of a Stags harte Saffron of each two scruples make a syne powder and ad vnto it of bole Armoniacke preparate two ounces whyte sugar three pound and with a syrrup of Acetositate citri make a goodly Electuary and keepe it in a glasse If the Pestilence commeth with great excesse of heate drinke it in Rose water Uineger but if you feele it colde take it in a draught of Wine and couer you with cloathes so that you maye sweate as long as is possible for without doubt it is a present remedy as I my selfe haue nowe of late proued Thus much Thomas Phayre in his Treatyse of the Pestylence THe teethe of a mad Dogge that hath bytten a man or woman tyed in leather and then hangde at the shoulder doeth preserue and keepe the partye that beares it from being bytten of any madde Dogge Diascorides by the report of Mizaldus THe Seedes of Carduus Benedictus stamped and drunke doth helpe the griefe paynes prickings and stitches of the syde and the gryping in the guts and the lower parte of the belly This is proued for trueth IF any doth sprinckle his head with the powder of the skinne that a Snake doth cast off gotten or gathered when the Moone is in the ful being also in the fyrst part of Aries the Ram he shall see terryble and fearefull dreames And if he shall haue it vnder the plant of his foote he shal be acceptable before Magistrates and Princes Cardanus WHosoeuer beginnes theyr iourney in the howre of Venus he shall haue good and profyte on the behalfe of Women or some such lyke thing Haly Abenragell IF Woormes gnawe vpon or hurt the mouth of the stomacke put Honny combes into the mouth fasting and holde them there and the Woormes wyll draw vnto the Honny and so voyde by the mouth It hath bene proued IN the fyrst beginning of any sycknes or at the time of any question for the sycke if the Moone be Orientall nye to the Sunne within twelue degrees it is sygne of death and the nearer to the Sun and in Combusyon the woorse Iohannes Ganiuetus WIth this Secrete following Benedictus victorius had alwayes good successe in passions and griefes of the harte Take of the iuyce of Buglosse cleansed or putrified at the fyre two ounces of white Sugar two drams myxe them
then he is lyke to dye thereof Iatromathematica M. Guat Ryff TO kyll Serpents in your dreame sygnifies victorie to see sayles of shyppes is euyl to dreame that all your teeth are blouddy it sygnifies the death of the dreamer but that the teeth is drawne out signifies the death of another that byrds enters into a house sygnifies losse to weepe betokens ioye to handle money sygnifies anger to see dead horsses sygnifies a lucky euent of thinges Artemidorus YOu shall make a Swoord Knife or any other Instrument to haue an excellent edge if you doo as followeth Put into a pounde of the vrine of a young Man as much soote as you may take in your hand putting thereto fowre ounces of the oyle of Lynne seede All being mixt together let them seethe on the fyre betwene the beating or stryking of the sword or the knife whiles it is red or burning hotte quench it in this myxture and according to arte let it be wel tempered Mizaldus IF you stampe Lupynes which are to be had at the Apothecaries and therewith rubbe round about the bottome or lower part of any tree no Antes or Pyssemyres wyll go vp and touch the same Tree Mizaldus IF Mercury being Lorde of the syxt house be impedyte of Saturne doth threaâ—â—n to the chylde then borne continuall blyndnesse and so much the more if the Moone beholde the Sunne and Saturne in that sort Taisnier RUb the leafe of a Marygoold betweene your fyngers and put the same into your nose and let it staye there a pretie whyle and it wyll bring forth aboundaunce of humors out of your head and it wyll help the rewine within a little whyle if you vse it This I had of a friende as an excellent secrete THe eating of two drams of great Reasons the Stones taken out in the mornyng fastyng doth profyte for conceruing of youth because they make better dygestion and fleame is dymynished by them they comfort the Lyuor and makes it fatte because they are friendes of the stomacke and of the Lyuor and they encrease bloud and makes it thycke and when they are taken after meate they strengthen and moystens the belly Iohannes Ganâ—uctus THe eyes be not onely instrumentes of Inchauntment but also the voyce and euyll tongues of certaine persons For there are found in Africke as Gellius sayth Families of men that if they chaunce exceedingly to prayse fayre Trees pure seedes goodly chyldren excellent horsses fayre and well lyking cattell soone after they wyll wyther and pyne away so dye No cause or hurt knowne of their withering or death Therupon the custome came that when any do praise any thing that we should say God blesse it or keepe it Aristot. in Probl. By the report of Mizaldus STop both your eares with your fyngers and the hyckop wyl go away within a whyle after Proued MAny that are borne at that tyme when the earth doth quake are alwayes fearefull in the tyme of thunder they are for the most part saynt fearfull in the time of the change of the Moone eyther they liue not long or else they be weake And oftentimes as Aristotle sayth haue Melancholicke diseases or els are out of measure Melancholicke which makes theÌ„ to be wayward â—reating seldome mery Mizaldus THere is a maruelous strength in Sperma ceti for if it be pure right it wyll penetrate go through the boxes or things wherin it is kept with a certain moysture or sweating droppes Mizaldus IF Mercury be coniunct with Saturne or in any euyll aspect of him neyther Iupiter nor any other good Planet doth beholde Mercury it doth note that they then borne shal haue an impediment in their tongue or shall stut chiefly if he be founde aboue the earth Taisnier THe rootes of Eldern sodde and streyned drunke thirtie dayes together thryse euery daye at morning noone and night doth cure the dropsy perfectly Proued IF the pappes of a woman which is with childe of two do waxe lytle she shall lose one of them and if it be the ryght pappe it is a man chylde that wyll be lost and if it be the lest a woman chylde Hippocrates in Aphor. TAke Garlyck and Houslyck of each lyke much stampe them both together and plaster the same eyther to a hotte or colde gowte and it wyll helpe or ease it maruelously This was reported to me to be excellent therfore THe Flower of oyntments called Flos vnguentoruÌ„ is made as followeth Take of Rosen and Perrosyâ— of each halfe a pounde Uirgin waxe and Olybanum of eyther a quarter of a pounde Masticke one ounce Hartes tallowe or els Sheepes tallow a quarter of a pounde Camphere two drams make your gooms in fyne powder and searce them then melt the waxe and tallowe and myxe the powders there with well and boyle them well together then streyne it through a canuas bagge into a pottell of white Wine then let it keele vntyl it be bloud warm then put thereto the Camphere and a quarter of a pounde of Turpentyne by lytle and lytle euermore styrring it well tyll it be through colde Then make it vp in rowles keepe it to your vse for the best salue for all things following that euer was made by the sufferaunce of god Wherfore esteeme of this salue aboue any other for it hath bene put in experience and substantially proued It heales wounds olde new it cleanseth very well and gathereth good fleshe It healâ—th head ache impostume in the head or in the body Swolne eares or cheekes sawsfleame in the face Synewes cutte starke or sprayned in trauell It drawes out yron and thorne it helpes venemous byting and pricking it heales all manner of botche all swelling and ache in the coddes and all other members it sâ—ases the fluxe of the Emrods and it is speciall good to make a seare cloath for all manner of griefes This was wrytten and cast into the Recluse or Anker at the Red hyll in Almaine wherewith he wrought many maruels and neuer vsed any other medicine but this This I copied out of a very olde booke and I haue proued it many tymes to be precious WHen the Alumten or the Lorde of the Ascendent is Infortunate in his fall or combust with three other testimonies or else two It sygnifies that the sick person shall dye And it is so much the worse if he be vnder the beames of the Sunne Iatromath Guat Ryff WHosoeuer hath the griefe or swelling of the splene neuer so much hath had it of a long tyme and doth heate the endes of a payre of tonges in the fyre vntyl they be glowing and red hotte and then quencheth the same in halfe a pynt of white Wine drynk the same Wine It wyll helpe them therof perfectly This was credibly tolde me for very trueth But it is more certaine if they be so heated and quenched fiue or sixe tymes and then drunke and to take the same fowre or fiue morninges
the house which he doth beholde with a good Asspect But if he be seperate from an euyll Planet and applyes also to an euyll Planet Then the vision or dreame is euyl to be feared and is of an euyl signification Which euyll harme shal be according to the nature of the Planet to whom the same applyes and according to the nature of the house wherin he is in the fygure according to the nature of that euyll Planet But if he be seperate from a good Planet and applyes to an euyll Planet saye that the vision or dreame was good and pleasaunt but he hath an euil sygnification But if he be seperate from an euyl Planet and doth apply to a good Planet say that the vision or dreame was fowle euyll but it hath a good sygnifycation and the profyt or successe thereof wyll be according to the nature of the Planet to whom he doth applye and according to the nature of the house wherein he is in the fygure As we haue sayde Therefore according to this waye and rule consyder the visions or dreames and confer one to another thou shalt be certified God wylling Haly Abenra IT is proued and a secrete that if you geue to them that haue the hyckop euery morning three howres before meate one roote of greene Gynger and immediatly after drinking two draughts of Malmesey you shall see that he wyll be soone cured Emperici benedicti victorij AS word wherwith a man is kylled the bloud being cleane wypt from it put into a hotte fyre which being taken out of the same doth manifestly shew the murther for so farre as the sword was in the wounded person so farre it wyll be of a contrary cullour to the sword It was told me that a Byshop dyd trye it to be true by one of his men IF the bloud of a Cocke be dryed and made in powder and myxt in Wyne wherin there is water it makes the water swym aboue This was of the relation of a learned Moonke Mizaldus PLanteyn hath a maruelous vertue to deliuer them of the Plague that are infected therwith geuen any manner of way Proued THe more lyuely and quick that a Horse is the more deeper he wyl thrust his nose into the water when he drynkes Plinius SWyne and Elephants doo hate whyte garments Bulles and Oxen hates maruelously garmentes that be of purple cullour which many vnder such apparel haue some tymes proued to theyr great griefe Plinius IF the Lord of the eight house be in the eyght house or beholde the same happely the chyld then borne wyll dye in his countrey or nye the same Taisnier THe white of an Egge and the iuyce of Perytory of the wall well beaten together and scummed and then one droppe of that lycquor put into the eye doth heale the webbe in the eye This is true and proued A Proued Oyle which is very good for the dropsie called Ascites if all the belly or paunche be annointed therwith Take of Turpentine one pounde of Frankynsence Mastick Myrre of each two drams Landanum one dram Nutmugs Cloues Galenga Zedoary of each one dram and a halfe of the iuyce of Walwoort and the iuyce of Cucumber called Cucumis asinimus of either one ounce Let them be poudred that are to be powdred and let theÌ„ be all myxed together put them in a Lymbeck and let an Oyle be distylled therof and it is a most secrete thing not onely to take awaye the swelling of the bellye in the dropsie called Ascites but also any flegmatyke swelling of any other member of mans body it is maruelous for the paynes of ioyntes and members of a colde cause Emperica benedicti A Certayne Butchers wyfe being with chylde as she was sturring the bloud of a Beast newlye kylled a lytle therof dyd chaunce to sprinckle or spurt on her face which she with her haÌ„d suddenly wiped off then wyped the same hande on her left thygh Who after being brought to bedde of a boy the same boy had and hath the lyke marke or bloud spot on his left thygh They that knew both the Father Mother and the chylde tolde this for a very trueth Therfore it is not good to hyt a woman suddenly being with chylde on the face or otherwyse least the chylde she is with all be so marked as is declared in other places of this booke THe sycke person can not escape when the lyght of the tyme that is the Sunne in the daye and the Moone in the nyght and the Alumten of the Ascendent are both impedyte or euyll affected of the Lord of the eyght house or of the Lord of the fowrth house Iatromath Guat Ryff IF you wyll take the heair from any place of the body and woulde haue it to growe there no more stampe Antes egges with the iuyce of Henbane and Humlockes or with the bloud of a Backe or Reremowse and annoynt the place therewith Mizaldus IF you cutte the Lyuer of a Beast in peeces and put into the same peeces the powder of Nux vomica called the Spuing Nutte which is to be had at the Apothecaryes the same peeces being strowed or layde in an open place where Rauens or Crowes maye resort thereto the Crowes or Rauens that eates thereof can not flye away whereby you maye take them easelye This I knowe to be certayne and true THe lytle Byrde called Linaria begynnes to leaue synging and also to be sycke when the Starre called the lytle Dogge doth ryse and wyll plucke off her fethers Which chaunceth about the myddes of Iuly as we haue proued by one and other sayeth Mizaldus the space of tenne yeares And therevpon haue shewed to many that then that Starre dyd surâ—ly ryse And in a Larke we haue obserued the same sayth hee in the rysing of Arcture wyth the Sunne And it is not to be doubted but that other Byrdes and lyuing thinges haue theyr peculyar Starre wherby they are mooued to syng or to hold theyr peace to sadnesse or gladnesse which I desyre the dillygent searchers of secretes to obserue Thus much Mizaldus THe Lorde of the Ascendent in the twelfth house in a humaine sygne without the beames of good Starres the Chylde then borne wyll be imprisoned This is true and often proued and also Taisnier affyrmes it THis following is a sure and proued medicine for the toothe ache Take a handfull of ground Iuy as much of Spere Mint and as much of Salt stamp them all a lytle together then put all the same into a pynt of vynegar and seethe all wel ouer the fyre then streyne it well and put the same into a close glasen vessell or bottell and when you wyll occupy it take a spoonefull thereof and put it into that syde of the mouth that aketh and holde downe your cheeke that it may descende to the rootes of the aking teeth and it wyll take the ache and payne away presently This was taught mee by a woman to whome many
laide to stiepe in Honny three dayes and then cast it among the chaffe and then a great sort of Pygiōs wyll resort to that Doouehouse LYn seede put into the rootes of Radyshe and by and by put into fatte or dunged earth it wyl bring forth an hearbe lyke Dragons whose taste wyll seeme lyke vynegar and Salt therefore it is maruelously desyred in Sawses for hauing this you neede neither vynegar nor Salt as one that is chiefe of the Kings gardens tolde me sayth Mizaldus FOxes being sodde and cutte in peeces and then geuen to Hens or Geese amongst theyr meate it makes them safe from being hurt of any Foxes after for the space of two monthes Mizaldus THe seedes of Docks tyde to the left arme of a Woman doth helpe barrennes or sterilyty Africanus THe Moone and the Ascendent are generally Signifyers of the hole shyppe of the state therof and the Lorde of the Ascendent is the Sygnifyer of them that sayles in the same wherof if all they be Infortunate the Shyp is broken and they that sayled in her are drownde vnlesse some one of them be receyued that is of the sayd Sygnifyers and then the Impedyment wyll chaunce in the drowning and some clymers of the Shyppe wyll escape but if all they be Fortunate all shall escape and be saued that is both Shyp and men chiefly if there be any reception Furthermore if the Ascendent the Moone be both fortunate the Lord of the Ascendent Infortunate the Shyp is safe the Saylers in her are destroyed but if the Ascendent the Moone be Infortunate and the Lord of the Ascendent fortunate the shyp is ouerwhelmed or lost the saylers in her are safe Haly Aben. GOates dung mingled with Uynegar bran and applyed as a plaster to a sore breast looseth wonderfully all swellings of the breast It hath bene proued BEttony stampt and applyed to any wounde of the heade doth not onely draw out the broken bones but also doth heale the same with speede A Speciall medicine to strengthen the back Take a quart of whyte Wine and the pythe that runneth in an Oxe backe and halfe a quarter of a pounde of Dates and of Marygooldes Planten Bettony Pearsley rootes and Fennel rootes of all two handfulles boyle all these together vntyll the Wyne bee halfe wasted away and then streyne them through a cloath and drynke nyne or tenne spoonefull thereof euerye morning and euenyng for the space of nyne or tenne dayes and it wyll strengthen the backe maruelouslye FYue leaued grasse sod in water which water if it be droonke and gulpt vp downe into the throte is an excellent helpe for sore throtes THey are diuellysh or possest with Diuels in whose Natiuityes Saturne is Lorde of the place of the Moone and the Moone then vnder the beames of the Sunne or if Mars be Lorde of the place of the Moone opposyte to the Sunne especially in Sagitary Haly Abenragel TO keepe Beastes safe that the blynde mowse called a Shrew do not byte them Enclose the same Mowse quicke in chalke which when it is hard hang the same about the necke of the Beast that you woulde keepe safe from such byting And it is most certayne that he shall not be toucht nor bytten as is before sayde Vegetius I Heare sayth Mizaldus that it is obserued proued that a Cowe an Ewe a she Asse a Bitche a she Catte and such other domesticall and tame Beastes of the Female kinde wyll cast theyr Calfe Lambe Colte or that that they go withall if the Male by whome they conceaued be kylled whyle they went with the same Such a strong and vehement concord or agreement of nature is betweene or among them IF the nynth house begynne in a fyxed sygne or if Saturne be founde in the same except it be Aries they that be then borne shall for the most parte see true Dreames but if in a moueable sygne his Dreames wyll be without effect c. Taisnier A Notable oyntment for the head ache comming of any cause wherwith you must annoynt the pulses of the temples and all the forehead Take of the iuyce of new or fresh Camamyle fowre ounces of the iuyce of new and fresh Roses two ounces of the iuyces of fresh Rew and Bettony of eyther one ounce and a halfe of the iuyce of the rootes of Hollyock two ounces of oyle Rosate Omphacine one pound and a halfe of the best and purest Alablaster three ounces powder the Alablaster finely and put it into the sayd oyle and let it lye therein a daye and a nyght then myxe them all together and with sufficient whyte waxe make it into an oyntment which oyntment is good for any payne of the head proceeding of any matter or cause And it may be vsed at any tyme of the fytte or payne except the begynning Emperica benedicti victorij fauenti AN excellent distilled water for hearing foloweth Take of the iuyce of Bettony of the iuyce of Onions of eyther of them syxe ounces of the leaues of Rosemary stamped one handfull of the oyle of bitter Almondes three ounces and one whyte grosse Eele chopt and cutte in small peeces myxe them all together and destyll them and the lycquor which cōmeth therof keepe in a cleane glasse droppe two or three droppes therof into your eare fowre or fyue nyghts together and it wyll helpe and amende the deaffnes IT is much to be marueled at that the lytle Byrde called a Wren being fastned to a lytle stycke of Hasell newly gathered doth turne about and rost him selfe Cardanus and Mizaldus THou mayst make fayre Pictures Uesselles and many other fyne thinges with small coast and expences as followeth Seethe the barke of the Elme tree and the toppes of the Populer tree and whyles they are very hotte put thereto most pure and fyme Lyme vntyll all the same be lyke cruddes of milke Afterwards put therto the whytest marble that is well and fynely beaten into powder and searced and then cast the same in what fourme you wyll then drie them in the shadow Hieronimus Gardanus HErmes doth saye that an euyll Planet in Gancer doth threaten short lyfe and continual sycknes to the mother of the chylde then borne BRymstone stampt with Wyne and plastered ouer the Dugs or Paps of Women breakes the hardnes of them Isac WAter Myntes stamped and layde to the myds of the browe and to the nape of the necke of one that is madde wyll much helpe and relieue him But fyrst tyckle him on the browe and it wyll dyspose him to sleepe and then apply it to him as is beforesayde But if he be farre gone that it wyll not helpe him then take a Tenche and cleaue the Tenche in the myddes and so warme lay the one part to his brow and the other to the nape of his necke and without doubt it wyll helpe him if euer he shall haue helpe This I tooke out of an excellent written booke FOr burning with syre Take oyle
an easy fyre and that that shall distyll keepe in a vessell of Gold or Syluer Sylens is to be kept of the prayse of this water because it may not be bought For his vertue doth pallyfie leprous persons it heales and destroyes a pure leprie it wypes away or takes away euery spot it conserues youth it makes the eye fayre I cease to speake of the secretes of this water for because I feare least they that haue it should be puft vp with pryde Trotula de pass Mulier THis following is a proued thing for the sounding of the eares or wynde in the same Take Almonds and the kernelles of Peches and let them be cleane pylled in hotte water then stampe them and get oyle out of them and put of the same oyle with tents wet in the same into the soūding eares or otherwise grieued which tents must be made of fyne lynnen cloath and do thus with new tents euery daye once for the space of nyne or ten dayes and it wyll put away the sounding and other paines of the eares This I learned of one that came out of Spaine And I proued it to be very true FINIS Lib. 7. ⧠The eyght Booke of Notable thinges YOu shal make Vinegar by and by if you powre pure good Wine halfe sodde into a newe earthen vessell then well couered and stopte and so the same Potte set in hotte scalding water A Woolfe fyrst seeing a Man doth lyfte vp his voyce and as a vyctor doth despyse him But if he perceyue that the Man hath espyed him fyrst he laies away his fiercenes and can not run D. Ambrosius Virgil. Plato Sextus Platon And other THere is deadlye warre betweene the Hawke and the Eagle who sometymes are so fast together in theyr fyght that they are both taken or catcht therby Plynius TO take the Byrdes that eates the seedes that are sowne Seethe Garlicke that it may not growe againe for it is sayde to profyte maruelously if it be throwne vnto them for they that shall eate of it wyl be taken with your hand Mizaldus HE that takes his iourney on the Sea in the houre of Saturne he shall haue many waues and diuers wyndes which wyll cast him to vnknowen places Haly Abenragel YF you geue one of these Pylles following euerye nyght going to bed to him that hath the palsey it wyll helpe him for it is proued Take of hearbe Iue Cowslops Bettony of the flowres of Sticados arabici of each one dram let them be dryed in the shadow and make them in fyne powder then take good Turbyth one dram of the best Agarick two drams Coloquyntyda halfe a dram Gynger Salgem of eyther ten graynes good and chosen Rewbarbe one dram and a halfe Spykenarde seuen graines the powder of Hiera simplex galeni halfe an ounce Scamony prepared one dram let them all be made in fyne powder and with the iuyce of hearbe Iue make a masse of Pylles The weyght to be geuen at one tyme is one Pyll of one scruple And marke if he that hath the palsey take this ordinary Pylle not once euerie day but twyse in the weeke at the least you shall see a sudden helpe in the palsey These Pylles maye worthely bee called gloryous Pylles in the palsey Emperica benedicti victorij fauentini A Certaine man fynding or catching a Mowse dyd hyt his wife therwith on the left cheeke being with chylde who after was delyuered of a Wench which Wench had and yet hath the marke of a Mowse on her left cheeke This was tolde by a credible womā who sayd moreouer that the name of this Wenches Father was Thomas Bucknam dwelling at the tyme in Northfolke in a certayne Towne called Dysse This affyrmes my other wryting hereof YOu may turne white Wine into redde without any hurt or detryment by and by if the powder of Honny that is fyrst sod vnto a stony substaunce and then dryed so made in powder be cast into whyte Wyne and myxing it well in the same with rowlyng it vp and downe together The rootes of any kinde of Dockes eyther new or dryed put into the Wine wyll perfourme the same with lesse busynes GArlycke being stampt with Hogs or Barrowes grease and made something thycke lyke an oyntment doth maruelously helpe them that haue the coughe and haue taken colde if theyr soles of theyr feete and theyr backe bone before the fyre be annointed therewith WHosoeuer hath any fyxed Starre of the fyrst honor or magnitude in the degree of theyr Horoscope or in the degree of theyr Cuspe of the tenthe house or in the degree of the Sunne by day or in the degree of the Moone by nyght he shall possesse great rytches and honors then his Auncestors haue done of the Nature of that fyxed Starre In deede this is true if that fyxed Starre be of a small Latitude but if it be of a great Latitude his strength wyll smallie appeare in the Natiuitie of the Chylde Thus much Taisnier THis water following is excellent good to cleare a dym syght if two or three drops therof be put into the eyes at a tyme vsyng it certayne dayes together Take of the water of Uarueyn the water of Roses and the water of Fennell of eache fowre ounces whyte strong wine three ounces Tuty preparate Sugar candy of either three drams Aloes Hepatick two drams let al them be beaten in fine powder that are to be powdred and put them into the waters Wine mixing all together and let them remaine and stand a whole day then streine them easely and keepe that lycquor in a fayre glasse vse it as is before said This is a precious thing for the syght and the eyes A Maruelous medicine for woundes sores Take a handfull of Arsmart wette in fayre water then laye it in the wounde or sore After burye the same Arsemart in some moyst ground and the said wound or sore wyll afterwarde myraculously heale as the same hearbe doth rotte and consume This I had of one that affyrmed it to be true I thinke it is written by Paracellus THe bodyes of drownd or dead men do fleete on the water with theyr faces and bellies vpward but dead Women do fleete on the water grouelyng or with theyr faces downward cōtrary to theyr procreation But they do not fleete or swym aboue the water out of whome the Lunges is taken c. Mizaldus THe water of Marygooldes doth helpe all diseases of the eyes and takes away all paines of the head And the smoake of the flowres therof taken or receyued by a Fundyble into the secrete partes of a Woman or else otherwyse taken doth bring forth easelie the after burthen This secrete Mizaldus dyd get of an olde Mydwyfe which had neede of his helpe otherwyse THe heade of a Gleade vnfeathered burned and so much thereof taken with water and droonke as you maye take vp with three fyngers helpes them that haue the gowte Galenus IF any come or send to thee
Hempe the leaues or seedes of Mustarde the tops of sharpe Docke red Colewoort leaues and Tansey let them all seethe in a good quātity of whyte Wine after strayne all the whole put into the streyning as much Honny as shall be thought meete geue therof vnto the patient early late vntil such tyme as the cleare pocyon or drynke come forth by the mouth of the Fystula which must alwayes be kept open with a syluer Pype put into it and keepe vppon it alwayes a redde colewoort leafe It is of a wonderfull operation Petrus Hispanus And I my selfe haue proued it and it healed in such manner as is before declared It is a precious thing DRagans bounde to the priuities of a Woman in labour causeth her to be delyuered incontynent But there must be heede taken that it be quickly remoued least it drawe forth the Matrix with all Petrus Hispanus HEre followeth an excellent Oyle which maketh a fayre cullour in the face Take of Almonds scraped ten poundes of redde Saunders in powder sixe ounces of Cloues one ounce of whyte Wyne fowre ounces of Rosewater three ounces these after they be groslye beaten together let them lye in a marble Morter close couered for eyght or nyne dayes beating the same ouer once a daye then heate it all in an earthen vessell vntyll it begynne to fume and be through hotte and after that put it into a newe square bagge of lynnen cloath then put the same bagge into a presse betweene two smoothe plates of Yron something hotte ▪ for out wyll come a redde oyle wherewith Women maye annoynt theyr faces for it causeth a comly redde and bewtyfull skynne A secrete and practysed of fewe This is in the newe Iewell of Health a Booke of muche value and small pryce THe grease of an Eele and the iuyce of Syngreene mixed together of each a lyke much boyled a lytle and a lytle therof put into the deafe eare nyne nights together wyll bring the hearing agayne as well as euer it was TAke Salt Armoniacke Allom and Salt Niter of eache a lyke quantitie with a lytle fylings of Syluer let all be myxt together then put them vnto the fyre that they maye be hotte and when they shall cease to smoake then with the same powder alone or else myxte or moystened with the spettell of your mouth let Copper or Brasse be rubbed therewith and strayght way it wyll haue the cullour of Siluer SErpentes being within a cyrcle made of Byttony they can not go out of the same But rather wyll dye with beating them selues Plinius IF the Lorde of the seconde house be in the twelfth house enemyties wyll come many tymes to him that is then borne for money or through money Taisnier PLanten stampte and the iuyce wroong out put into the hollownesse of an Ulcer with a spowte healeth the same So doth Bettony stampte and applyed to a Fystula healeth it Petrus Hispanus ▪ The iuyce of Cinquefoyle doth heale the Fistula lykewise if it be put into the same with a spowte TO seperate Golde from any thing that is gylded Take Borace and temper it in water thē boyle it ouer the fyre and with the same water annoynt the thing that is gylded cast theron a lytle of the powder of quick Brymstone after put it into the fyre that it may be made red then quench it in running water you shall finde the gold in the bottome of the vessell FOr any paynes of the eares and for them that cannot heare Take a great Onion cutte a hoale therin and set it in the embers to roast then fyll it full of oyle Olyffe and euer as it dryeth fyll it vp againe tyl it be roasted well then take away the vppermost skin therof then strayne the Onion through a cloath and keepe it in some close glasse and when you wyll occupy thereof put some of it into the hole eare and let him lye on his sore eare when he goes to bedde and if he vse this nyne nyghts at the furthest it wyll helpe him Proued FOr the fundamēt that goeth forth Take the tops of redde Nettelles and stampe them in a morter then put it into an earthen potte then put thereto a good porcion of whyte Wyne and set it ouer the fyre and let it seethe tyll halfe the lycquor be concōsumed and geue the party diseased a good draught thereof something hotte to drinke morning and euening fyrst and last for the space of ten dayes And also apply the hearbes something warme to his fundament and it wyll helpe him perfectly Proued FOr eyes that be chafed and the lyddes turned vp or bleared eyes Take Arnement Honny and the whytes of Egges of each a lyke much temper them well together then take flaxe laye the same theron then applye the same vpon the sore eyes and it wyll draw the euyll bloud out of them and perfectly heale them This medicine hath bene proued IT is sayd that a Hart doth so abhorre a Ram that he can not abyde the syght of him Aristotil Plin. And other WHen fowre or fiue Planets be cōiunct or ioygned together in the Ascendent or fyrst house of any chylde that is borne that chyld wyll not lyue long Expositor doth say the King of our Cittie dyd cal me because one of his Women had borne a Son the Ascēdent was the eyght degree of Libra the terme of Mercury and Iupiter was in the same also Venus Mars Mercury and the company of the Astrologyans dyd meete together there and euery one of them dyd tell his opinion and I heald my peace The King sayde vnto me saye what thou can why doost thou not speake To whome I aunswered geue mee respyte for three dayes for if your Sonne shall passe the thyrd daye you shall see a great myracle of him And after xxiiii howres was ended the Chylde dyd ryse vp to sytte and he spake and gaue sygnes with his hande wherof the King was greatly afrayde And I sayde that he woulde speake some Prophesie or some myracle Then the King went to the Chylde and wee with him to heare what he would saye And the Infant sayde I am the Infortunate borne Chyld and I am borne to shew the losse of the kingdome of Azdexit and the destruction of the people of Almanaz And strayght way the Chylde fell downe and dyed Haly Abenragel THis following is a Secrete and proued thing for the Palsey whereof if you geue thryse in the daye to him that hath the Palsey halfe an ounce that is in the morning three howres before meate and two howres before supper and at his going to bedde it wyll helpe him thereof Take of the new and fresh brayne of an Hare broyled or fryed one pounde the iuyces of Sage of hearbe Iue and the iuyce of the roote of Acorus of each three drams of pure Cynamom Cloaues blacke Pepper of each halfe a dram Turpentyne washt with the water of hearbe Iue three ounces Sugar
the counsayle of learned Phisitions and expert Surgeons was drawne from her peecemeale and the mother dyd not onely lyue but also conceaued an other Chylde as Mathy Cornace a notable learned PhisicioÌ„ hath affyrmed who was present when the sayd Woman was cutte for the getting out of the sayde dead Chylde Mizaldus reports this IF Eeles be suffocated in wyne whosoeuer shall drynke of that wyne though they haue bene very much geuen to wyne before could scantly abstayne from the same they wyl loothe wyne and not be desyrous to drinke wine after The greene Frogges which vse or leapes about sprynges if they be suffocated in wyne workes the lyke effect Mizaldus IF Musaraneus called a Shrew I take it to be the blinde Mowse doth chaunce to go ouer any part of any Beast that part of the Beast wyll after be lame This is knowne to be true WHo so would haue a very whyte delycate skyn Let them boyle or heate Lytarge of Syluer in vinegar distylled and wash therewith theyr skynne which they desyre to haue fayre trym and whyte This I tooke out of Mizaldus IN the tyme of Traiane the Emprour a certayne man hauing a disease called the Dissury dyd pysse with much a doo a knotted Barly straw Anthonius Mizaldus hath written this And I knew a Gentleman that after his death being opened had a Pygions fether stycking in his harte which fether was shewed me by the Surgeon that dyd cutte and open him OTes sodden and the hotte fume therof close receyued on any lame members eyther armes legs or any other and then the sayde members put holden a good whyle in the same sodden Otes when they may be suffred therin and the same order vsed fowre or fyue tymes if neede be doth helpe them perfectly that be lame This was tolde me for a very trueth by them that knew it and saw it tryed THe toothe of a man hanged at the necke of the partye that is tormented with toothe ache doth take away the payne therof especially if a Beane be put thereto wherin there is a hoale bored and a lowse put therin and the same beane wrapt in a peece of sylk and then hanged about the parties neck as is before sayde Anthonius Mizaldus THe most whytest Frankensense made in very fyne powder and droonke with Wine if it be in colde wether or in wynter or in water wherin Reysens are sodde if it be hotte wether or in Sommer in the encreasing of the Moone at the rysing of the Sun at noone at the setting of the Sun doth maruelously helpe and encrease the memory And is very profytable for the brayne and the stomack Rasis is the Author hereof by the report of Mizaldus ANy parte or a peece of the bone of a Mans arme with the hyghest parte or ende of a Goose wyng being carryed or borne of them that haue the quarten ague doth cure the same Mizaldus fathers this of Geber IF one that hath the Dropsy or the Iaundise shal drink theyr owne vryne for certayne dayes together it wyl helpe maruelously Thus Hermes sayth But Benedictus victorius Fauentinus in his practises affirms for trueth and sayth it is certaynly proued that fyue ounces of the vryne of a Boye not polluted and of a sanguyne complection myxt with halâ—e an ounce of good whyte Sugar being droonke euery morning early â—asting for the space of ten daies doth helpe certaynly the Iaundyse and also so much droonk at once a month together in such order doth helpe the Dropsye perfectly STiepe a threede in oyle brimstone myxt together and compasse a glasse with that threede in the place where you would haue it broken euen or parted and after kyndle the same threede with fyre and do thus so often vntyll that place of the glasse be hotte and after compasse the same with a threede wet in cold water and it wyll part so cleane a sunder as though it had bene cut with a sharpe poynted Diamonde IF they that be swolne and are full of the Dropsy do lye three dayes and nyghts in theyr beds wel couered rounde about in sodden Barley it helpes cures them perfectly This was proued by them that came vexy swolne from Gynny And one of them that was helpt therwith reuealed it vnto me which I am content to publysh to the common commodity of many THe earnest searchers of naturall things saye and set forth that certayne woormes are bredde in the vowels or guts of the Harte they are destroyed by the eating of Serpents which the Harte doth allure with the breath of his nose to come out of theyr heale or denne and least the poyson of them should hurte him he goes a pace to some fayre Spryng of water and whyles all his whole body is therein vnto the lyppes lytle drops or teares distylles out of his eyes which at length encreaseth to a thyng as bygge as a Walnutte and are in manner of a stone and when he perceyues he hath therby auoyded all the poyson and being comd forth of the water with the rubbing of his eyes at a tree the same lumpe or Stone being a hynderaunce to his syght he gets away Which matter or Stone is a thing most effectuall against any venome or poyson Many Phisitions of great aucthority and antiquitie are witnesses herof Iulius Scaliger and Amatus Lucitanus do boast that they saw such a thing and they affyrme that it maye be geueÌ„ effectually with a lytle wine to them that are infected with the plague for by the strength and help therof so much sweate wyl come forth of the body that you would thinke the whole body wyll turne or consume into moysture with which once geuing all the poyson or venom is thrust out of the body The Arabyan PhisitioÌ„s calles this Stone Besoard And therof Alexipharmaca a remedy against venoms Bezoardica This Anthonius Mizaldus wryteth These Besaar stones being of a most excellent notable and precious vertue are now gotten in Peru in the west Indyans and found about ten yeares past in certayne kynd of Beasts that goeth in the mountaines of that Countrey which are much lyke to Sheepe or Kyds that are in the Portingal Indyas by a worthy Spanish Gentleman called Peter de Osma who killed som of those Beastes purposely for the sayd Besaar stones which he thought to finde in them but although he looked and searched therfore in the belly and in other places of one of the eldest and greatest of them yet he could find none of them neither would the Indyans tel him in what place of the Beast they were saying they knew no such Stones being loath he should know that secrete But at the last an Indian Boy of twelue yeares of age tolde him where to finde them Wherfore the other Indyans would haue kylled the Boy because the Indyans do much esteeme those Stones for they doo offer theÌ„ vnto their Gods or before their Idols as one of the most precious
12.44 To make a woman be speedilye delyuered pag. 12 â–ª 45. A straung effect of the loue of Pigeons with the Castrell pag. 12.46 A rare secret of the woort leafe pag. 12.47 A perfect and precious medecine for the plague pag. 12.48 A straunge way to know whether the next childe of a woman wyll be a boye or a wenche pag. 13.49 A sure medcin to destroy a fellon pa. 13.50 A good prooâ—â— that children are not alwaies lyke their Parents pag. 13.51 A Tode stone ceases the paines coÌ„ming by the byting of any venemous beast pa. 14.52 A tryâ—â— way to kyll Lyce pag. 14.53 To make womans dugs round and harde pag. 14.54 To knowe whether a woman â—e barren or not pag. 14.55 A Ryng which makes the bearer thereof safe from poyson and plaguâ— pag. 14.56 The excellent vertues of fasting speâ—â—le pag. 15.57 To keepe Cheese from putrifying pa. 15.58 To â—nde a precious coale on Mydsommer euen pag. 15.59 A good thing to feede Beasts and to make the handes whyte pag. 15.60 All thinges wyll swyne vpon quicksyluer except golde pag. 16.61 An excellent waye to staye the growing of heaâ—â— pag. 16.62 A present remedy for horsenes the cough pag. 16.63 To 〈◊〉 who are lyke to haue the gowte pag. 17.64 To take awaye the euyll smell of the feete pag. 17.65 A straunge waye to cease the bleeding of the nose pag. 17.66 Mylke and exercise from the cradle makes tall and 〈◊〉 persons pag. 17.67 A present remedy for the Sâ—uinaÌ„cy pa. 17.68 Two coÌ„trary natures in the netle pa. 17.69 To know whether a womaÌ„ is lyke to haue chyldren or not pag. 18.70 To make teeth as white as Iuory pa. 18.71 To take spots out of the face pag. 18.71 A straunge waye to helpe the quâ—rteyn aâ—ue pag. 18.73 A proued waye to helpe the Collycâ—e and paines of the backe pag. 18.74 To helpe the swellinges of the throate pag. 18.75 To make a woman loathe the company of man a man to desyre a woman pa. 18.76 The straunge nature of dogs pag. 19.77 To know good pure 〈◊〉 pag. 19.78 To ioygne broken glasses and broken cups pag. 19.79 The great vertue of Planteyn being the hearbe of Mars pag. 19.80 To cause a Bull vnable to bull a Cowe pag. 20.81 A straunge waye to loose a man that is enchaunted or bewytched therby vnable to the act of generation pag. 20.82 A straunge waye to put awaye the crampe pag. 20.83 A pretie deuise to put out and lyght a caÌ„dle to make them maruayle that sees it pa. 20.84 To make a writing being cast into the fire to leape out of the same pag. 20.85 To gette any quicke thing out of the head pag. 21.86 A rare helpe for the crampe pag. 21.87 A straunge secrete to plucke out a thorne out of the fleshe pag. 21.88 Sygnifycations when the paines be in the eyes pag. 21.89 One through vse dyd forbeare drinke all his lyfe after pag. 21.90 The three corned bonâ— of a Caâ—p ceaseth the bleeding of the nose pag. 22.91 A straunge medicine for curing the webbe and the blindnes of the eye pag. 22.92 Salt wyll make women apt to haue chyldren pag. 22.93 Dyuers Beastes and Byrdes do dyuersly helpe theyr diseases according to theyr nature pag. 22.94 Annyball made a passage through the harde rocks of the Alpes with vinegar pa. 23.95 A notable remedy for all wounds pa. 23.96 To make whyte â—yllies reâ— pag. 23.97 A hynderaunce for women to bring forth wenches pag. 23.98 A notable waye to get quicksyluer out of such as are annoynted with oyntmentes myâ—t with the same pag. 24.99 To draw out thornes and to help the dropsâ—e a rare and straunge secrete pag. 24.100 The Table of the second booke FOr knowledge of griefs and diseases in in the eyes pag. 25.1 A maruelous vertue geuen to the sâ—uâ—th male Childe pag. 25.2 A learned Phisition knew â—one was sicke for loue by the feeling of his pulse pa. 25.3 A straunge way to know whether one that is sycke be in daunger of death or not pag. 25.4 To gather Harâ—s together into one place pag. 26.5 Why chyldren haue clouen ouerlyps called Hartlyps a wonderful thing pag. 26.6 What tyme the disease taken wyll be daungerous or not pag. 26.7 To draw an Eg through a ring pa. 26.8 To resolue Flynt stones into powder pag. 27.9 To cause woorms come out of the ground pag. 27.10 To take spottes and rustynes from Yron pag. 27.11 An excellent helpe for the gowte pa. 27.12 That Inke shal neuer be frosen pa. 27.13 The Starres are strong in the byrth according to the aptnes of them that be borne pag. 27.14 A straunge nature of the Sycamore tree pag. 28.15 A rare thing to procure sleepe pag. 28.16 To foreknow who shall haue paines in the stomacke pag. 28.17 A very straunge way to helpe them that be broken bellyed pag. 28.18 To make Hens laye Egs apace pa. 29.19 To clense the face from all spots and other deformities pag. 29.20 To driue away Flyes that neuer there be seene any there after pag. 29.21 To make troubled Wyne fayre and cleare pag. 30.22 What tyme is daunger to wounde or cutte any body pag. 30.23 A straunge cause of the notable markes of chyldren before they be borne pag. 30.24 To keepe things froÌ„ putrifying pa. 31.25 Beasts of one kind wyl be hurt not hurt with eating of one thing pag. 31.26 A chyld maruelously preserued by a woolf pag. 31.27 A straunge waye to preserue Chesnuttes pag. 32.28 The great vertue of Knotgrasse pa. 32.29 A straunge thing to make a Dogge turne round about and to fall downe as dead pag. 32.30 A way wherby hungar was the lesse greuous to the Scithians pag. 32.31 A notable Pollicie whereby the Romains got a worthy victory pag. 33.33 A louing Dog to his maister pag. 33.34 A sygnification of blindnes pag. 34.35 A present case for the gowte pag. 34.36 Knotgrasse dangerous for sheepe pa. 34.37 An incredible matter doon in ones sleepâ— pag. 34.38 The straunge nature of chaffe pag. 36.39 To make wine pleasaÌ„t in cullour and taste pag. 36.40 Who shal haue pains in their Liuer p. 36.41 A proued medicine to cure the black Iaundies pag. 36.42 To make a sword dagger or knife to cutte yron as though it were steele pag. 36.43 An excelleÌ„t way to purify wine pa. 37.44 To keepe a dog from being mad pa. 37.45 To make sweete pleasaunt Arthychokes pag. 37.46 A sure medicine to help the stitch pa. 37.47 What ground wyl breede the fyneâ—â— wheat pag. 37.48 A straunge medicine wherwith Galen cured the â—allyng sycknes pag. 37.49 To keepe Dogges from madnes and from much barking pag. 38.50 To make a Leeke haue a moÌ„struous head pag. 38.51 The maruelous properties of the stone Aâ—tites pag. 38.52 Certayne people without mouthes lyues by smelling of Flowres apples rootes pag. 38.53 A speciall remedye for falling or bruses pag. 39.54 Children borne at some tyme wyll be blind pag. 39.55
72.83 An caste way to stynche bloud pa. 72.84 A sure remedy to put away â—etters or ringwoormes pag. 73.85 Excellent Pylles that helpes the headache brings gladnes and are good for the eyesyght 〈◊〉 pag. 73.86 A Chylde borne at a certaine tyme shall be hyndred in his speech or toÌ„gue pa. 73.87 A man dyd barke lyke hounds pa. 74.88 The eyes of young Swallowes put out wyll see againe by a maruellous meanes pag 74.89 To prouoke sleepe pag. 74.90 A perfect waye to heale lame members pag. 74.91 It was a maruelous offence with the Egiptians to kyll a Cat. pag. 75.92 To keepe Harnes or Yron from rusting pag. 75.93 They shall haue ryches without labor that are borne at a certaine tyme pag. 75.94 A notable oyle for the gowte pag. 75.95 An excellent thing to keepe one safe from pâ—yson pag. 76.96 A thing to make one sleepe presently pag. 76.97 A rare secrete to cease bleeding pag. 76.98 To draw out a toothe with ease and without any instrument pag. 78.99 A sure medicine for them that bee costy 〈◊〉 pag. 78.100 The Table of the fourth booke TO make Dwale that wyll cause one to sleepe whyles they are cut whereby they shall feele no payne al the while pag. 79.1 They that be borne at a certaine tyme wyll haue griefâ—s in their noses c. pag. 79.2 A precious thing to breake the stone pag. 79.3 To make a combe that wyll helpe heade ache pag. 80.4 A Ryng procuryng the vertue of stâ—rres pag. 80.5 A straunge help for the pains of the throte pag. 80.6 An excellent thing for the gowte pa. 80.7 To make Yron of the cullour of Brasse pag. 81.8 What Horsses are deafe and doom pa. 81.9 To keepe Harnes or Yron from rusting pag. 81.10 To know whether one com to deceyue thee or meane well or not pag. 82.11 To loose the belly pag. 82.12 The good effect of deafenes in an ague and bleeding at the nose pag. 82.13 A diuine medicine for the pluresie pa. 82.14 A straunge waye to keepe a woman from hauing a chyld with a Hare lyp pa. 83.15 To destroy any Impostuâ—e pag. 83.16 To knowe Astrologicallye where any disease is eyther in the body or in the minde pag. 83.17 A Queenâ— droonke at one draught the value of two hundreth and fyftie thousande pounde pag. 84.18 The straunge propertye of a Fygge tree pag. 84.19 The excellent vertue of Uarueyne in helping the falling sycknes pa. 84.20 A Chylde borne in a certayne constellation wyll be chiefe of his brethren pag. 84.21 A notable waye to put away the paynes of sâ—aldng or burning with gunne powder pag. 85.22 To make syluer Plate fayre and whyte pag. 85.23 A sure preseruatiue from the Plague pag. 85.24 A notable vertue of Pyony in curing the falling sycknes pag. 86.25 Astrologicalles tokens of death of the sick pag. 86.26 A rare waye to make a woman be spedilye delyuered pag. 86.27 To drawe out the Oyle of Cynamom pag. 86.28 To plucke out a rotten or aking tooth with ease pag. 87.29 An excellent proofe whether one that hath the plague shall escape or not pag. 87.30 The place where the Censors of Uenys sytâ— is free from flyes c. pag. 87.31 The first Chylde borne at a certayne tyme wyll be a boye pag. 88.32 A sure medicine to take away the greatest eldest paine of the head that is pag. 88.33 A perfect medicine to kyll woormes in the belly pag. 88.34 A daungerous tyme for the syck pa. 88.35 The excellent vertue of golde pag. 89.36 The nature of the water or goomme of the vine pag. 89.37 The sygnes of death of such as haue a consumption pag. 89.38 An excellent Electuary preseruing lyfe and hindring olde age pag. 89.39 A Lampe without fyre to geue lyght in the nyght pag. 90.40 Excellent vertues of the Nauell stryng pag. 91.41 Golde found in vines pag. 91.42 To knowe what place is best to dwell in pag. 91.43 Women lyke to be barren that are borne at a certaine tyme pag. 92.44 To make barren trees fruitful pag. 92.45 A straunge waye to put awaye the quarten ague pag. 92.46 That Gnaâ—tes shall not trouble them that sleepes pag. 93.47 Troubles and debates what day they shall happen pag. 93.48 An excellent waye to staye the Fluxe pag. 93.49 To cause a woman bee spedilye delyuered pag. 93.50 A woonderfull medicine in the tyme of pestilence pag. 93.51 To keepe one from being bytten with a mad dog pag. 94.52 To helpe the griefes or stitches in the side pag. 95.53 To see terrible and fearefull Dreames pag. 95.54 The howre of Uenus good to take iourney in pag. 95.55 To draw out woormes out of the stomack pag. 95.56 A great token of death when the Moone is nye the Sunne c. pag. 95.57 An excelleÌ„t medicine for paines of the hart pag. 96.58 For the gowte and swellings of the ioynts pag. 96.59 A straunge helping of the Swyne pockes pag. 96.60 A perfecte medicine for the bloody fluxe pag. 97.61 A rare helpe for the crâ—mpe pag. 97.62 They that are borne at a certayne tyme shal fall from some hye place c. pag. 97.63 To cure the Dropsie pag. 97.64 The great vertues of Eybright pag. 97.65 To pluck vp a Cankar by the rootes pag. 98.66 To knowe whether a woman be barren or not pag. 98.67 To make Letters of the cullour of what mettal you rub the same withal pa. 99.68 To helpe the red pympled face pa. 99.69 To knowe whether the dropsie be hotte or colde pag. 99.70 To knowe whether the sycke shall dye of that sicknesse or not pag. 99.71 An horible murder bewrayed by young Swallowes pag. 100.72 For them that can not holde theyr water pag. 100.73 A sygne of recouery or health pag. 100.74 Significations of dreames pag. 100.75 To make a Swoorde haue a sharpe edge pag. 101.76 To make that Antes go not vp on trees pag. 101.77 A chylde borne at a certaine tyme is lyke to be blinde pag. 101.78 To helpe the Reâ—â—me pag. 101.79 To conserue youth pag. 102.80 Thinges prospers not after the woordes of some pag. 102.81 To cease the Hyckop pag. 102.82 Chyldren borne in the earthquake What followes pag. 102.83 The nature of Sperma ceti pag. 103.84 They that are borne in a certayne constellation shal haue impedunâ—e in their tongue pag. 103.85 To cure the dropsie pag. 103.86 Signes when a woman with two childreÌ„ is lyke to lose one pag. 103.87 To helpe or ease a hotte or colde gowte pag. 103.88 The making of the flowre of oyntmentes pag. 104.89 Signes of death by Astrology pa. 105.90 A perfect way to cure the Splen pa. 105.91 Tokens of health in a sick body pa. 105.92 To destroy a Carbuncle pag. 105.93 To make y blacâ— sea coale soft pa. 106.94 To helpe the stone pag. 106.95 A straunge example of a chylde borne without a mouth pag. 106.96 The Wyfe shall dye before the Husbande pag. 107.97 To helpe the Dropsie pag. 107.98 To know perfect Balâ—e pa.
107.99 To help the falling sycknes pag. 107.100 ¶ The Table of the fyft booke TO make a Mare bring forth a Fâ—ale of dyuers cullours pag. 108.1 To helpe the stone and the Dropsie pag. 108.2 A Woolfe feares to go in 〈◊〉 wayes pag. 108.3 They that are borne in a certayne constellation shall neuer marry pag. 108.4 A helpe for the head ache pag. 109.5 A water to prouoke sleepe pag. 109.6 To destroye an Impostume in the head pag. 109.7 Signifycations of dreames pag. 109.8 To cause softe heairs to grow on the chyn pag. 110.9 A straunge medicine for the swellynges pag. 110.10 To see true dreames pag. 110.11 A helpe for the falling sycknes pa. 110.12 One borne at a certaine time shall dye a naturall death pag. 110.13 A precious helpe for the Reâ—â—m pa. 111.14 To preserue youth pag. 111.15 An excellent Gargaâ—â—â—ne to cleanse the head and the breast pag. 111.16 The syck party shall escape death without all hope pag. 112.17 To cure perfectlye the blacke Iaundyes pag. 112.18 To keepe Chyldren from breeding of Lyce pag. 112.19 The Cocke reioyceth contrary to all other Byrds or Beasts c. pag. 113.20 A Chylde borne at a certaine tyme wyl die of yron pag. 113.21 To forbyd the engendring of the Impostumation of the stomack pag. 113.22 To restore syght to the blind pag. 113.23 A Woman helped of the moother with the roote of Bryony pag. 113.24 A straunge waye to put awaye Wartes pag. 114.25 A maruelous thing of a Cockes Egge pag. 114.26 A Chylde borne at a certaine time wyll be hangd pag. 114.27 An excellent purginge of the head pag. 114.28 Blacke sâ—eges an euyll sygne pag. 114.29 A notable medicine for the Collyck StraÌ„gury and the stone pag. 115.30 To breede Childrens teeth â—asâ—ly pa. 115.31 A strauÌ„ge nature of the Walnut pa. 115.32 To keepe water hotte without fyre pag. 115.33 To take madnes from Dogs pag. 116.34 To keepe a Chyld safe vntyll the due tyme of the byrth a rare secrete pag. 116.35 A straunge thing to put awaye Wartes pag. 116.36 Sygnification that a Chyld wyl be hangd pag. 116.37 To preserue one from head ache pa. 117.38 A straunge medicine for the gowte pag. 117.39 To make a hotte loafe leape pag. 117.40 A notable oyle of Saint Iohns Woort pag. 117.41 That no Flyes shall touch any Beasts in the hotte wether pag. 118.42 One borne at a certaine tyme wyll dye by the commaundement of the Iudge pag. 118.43 To kyll and heale any Canâ—er pag. 118.44 A precious water for mad men pa. 118.45 They shall neuer lose theyr sences nor vnderstanding borne at a certaine tyme pag. 119.46 To make a glasse with water burn a thing nye to it pag. 119.47 To make a sheepe follow one pag. 119.48 To know what one shall see in his dreame pag. 120.49 A straunge way to help the quarteyn ague pag. 121.50 To see the Sunne Eclipsed without hurting of the eyes pag. 121.51 Excellent vertues of plates of gold worne pag. 121.52 A Chylde borne at a certayne tyme is lyke to perish by the hands of many pag. 122.53 To preserue the stomacke from any paine pag. 122.54 A precious water that breakes the stone in the reynes and in the blader pag. 122.55 Significations of dreames pag. 122.56 To make Copper melt quickly pa. 123.57 To keepe Goates froÌ„ straying pag. 123.58 To keepe Corne from hurtfull stormes pag. 123.59 They wyll dye in captiuitie that are borne at a certaine tyme pag. 123.60 An excellent oyntment pag. 123.61 A maruelous waye to helpe any paines of the throate pag. 124.62 A precious medicine for a redde face pag. 124.63 A burning candle founde in an olde tombe pag. 124.64 What tyme is best to dygge or make a wel pag. 125.65 A notable vertue of Basyll pag. 125.67 The great vertue of Coriandar pa. 125.68 A sygne that the sicke wyll dye the nexte yeare after pag. 125.69 To helpe a red pympled face pag. 126.70 For the falling sycknes pag. 126.71 A daungerous thing to suffer a venemous woorme or a mad Dog to lyue after one is hurt by the fame pag. 126.72 To make Scorpions come into one place pag. 126.73 One borne at a certaine tyme wyll dye in prison pag. 127.74 A notable help for the Splen pag. 127.75 A precious oyle of Balme pag. 127.76 An excellent proued plaster to destroye any Impostume stytche or swelling pag. 127.77 Astrologicall lykelyhoods when the sycke cannot be cured but with great expences pag. 129.78 The great vertue of Egshels pag. 129.79 The great vertue of Sugar pag. 129.80 A straunge thing of a young Wenche pag. 129.81 To decke a balde head with heairs pag. 130.82 A Beast shal neuer conceyue pag. 130.83 A Dogge that takes his disease of a man ought to be buried pag 130.84 To cease the noyse of Frogs pag. 130.85 The whyt thorne is neuer touched with lyghtning pag. 131.86 Chyldren borne at a certaine tyme wyll be drownde pag. 131.87 A present helpe for the stone pag. 131.88 To make one looke young a great whyle pag. 131.89 To let heair from growing pag. 131.90 To make one laxatiue pag. 131.91 They are lyke to haue the falling sicknes that are borne at a certayne time pag. 132.92 That Fetters hurte not young Beastes pag. 132.93 A notable medicine for the falling sycknes pag. 132.94 Garlicke brought out a Serpent out of a man pag. 132.95 A stone founde in a Swallowe helpes the falling sycknes pag 132.96 To knowe if a woman be conceaued pag. 133.97 Who shall be poore pag. 133.98 To beawtify the face pag. 133.99 To knowe whether the sicke shall dye or lyue pag. 133.100 ¶ The Table of the syxt booke TO turne anye beast into a whyte cullour pag. 134.1 A precious thinge to expell the stone pag. 134.2 To knowe whether a Dreame be good or not pag. 134.3 A quick cure for the Hyckop pag. 135.4 To fynde out him that hath doan a murther pag. 135.5 To know whether water be in Wine or not pag. 136.6 Planteyn is meruelous for the Plague pag. 136.7 To know a liuely or quick house pa. 136.8 Diuers beasts hates diuers colloured garmentes pag. 136.9 They that be borne at a certayne time wyll dye in the countrey pag. 136.10 To heale the web in the eye pag. 136.11 A proâ—ued oyle which healeth the dropsye pag. 136.12 A straunge thinge of a Butchers wyfe pag. 137.13 They that falles syck at a certaine time are not like to escape pag. 137.14 To take the hayre away and that it growe no more pag. 138.15 To catche easelye Rauens or Crowes pag. 138.16 Byrdes leaues their singing or are syck according to the Starres pag. 138.17 The chylde borne at a certaine time wylbe imprisoned pag. 139.18 A sure and prooued medicyne for the tooth-ache pag. 139.19 To take awaye wrincles and spots in the face pag. 139.20 An excelleÌ„t way to take foxes pag. 139.21 What women doo hurt with their looking pag. 140.22 What dead bodyes remaine vncorrupt pag. 140.23 They shall dye
among straungers that are borne in a certaine constellacion pa. 140.24 To take the bloud or readnes out of the eyes pag. 140.25 They shall neuer haue the Collick that vseth a certaine confection described pag. 140.26 To make wood or bones red pag. 141.27 Sygnifycations of Dreames pag. 141.28 To make â—lagging or haÌ„ging paps round pag. 141.29 A woonderfull thing of a Tode and a spider pag. 141.30 A notable and approued powder for breaking â— consuming of the stone pa. 142.31 A great vertue for the eyes of the Oyle of Paper pag. 143.32 Signifycations that the sick party wyl kyl him selfe pag. 143.33 A spreete came to M. Brutus pa. 143.34 The great vertue of Egremony for wouÌ„ds pag. 143.35 Money receyued in Uenus howe it wyll be spent pag. 144.36 To ryd one of an auncient dymnes of sight pag. 144.37 Whether a woman bee conceaued or not pag. 144.38 A notable medicine for the stone pa. 144.39 A rare and true medicine for the tooth ach pag. 145.40 Who shall haue few chyldren pag. 145.41 To consume Wartes a straunge thing pag. 145.42 Myce wyll make Elephantes refuse theyr meate pag. 145.43 Who shall dye in pryson pag. 145.44 A notable medicine for to heale the Strangury pag. 146.45 To make a woman bring forth her childe without paine pag. 146.46 To stop the bloudy Fluxe pag. 146.47 To proue whether a woman be with chyld or not pag. 146.48 A Crowe wyll dye if he eate of the meate whereof the Woolfe hath eaten before pag. 147.49 The great power and vertue of a Baye tree pag. 147.50 That Myce eate not wrytten Papers pag. 147.51 The howre of Mars is to be abhorred pag. 147.52 To make Cattell safe from diseases pag. 147.53 A straunge matter of the skynne of a Lyon pag. 148.54 Colewoortes and Rew ought not to bee sowne nye together pa. 148.55 A myraculous thing for the destroying of woorms in man or beast pa 148.56 They that bee borne at the conâ—unction of the Sun and Moone pag. 149.57 The maruelous vertue of the seedes of Oculus Christi pag. 149.58 A maruelous straunge waye to destroye Wartes pag. 149.59 To make the Letters of the cullour of paper pag. 150.60 A woonderful matter of a woman transformed into a man pag. 150.61 What chyldren are lyke to haue short life pag. 151.62 A notable thing to heale olde sores pag. 151.63 An excellent helpe for the yallowe Iaundyes pag. 151.64 When the sick is to be feared pag. 152.65 What kind of Chycken coms of the Egge pag. 152.66 To make Amber as soft as clay pa. 152.67 The force of olde lether in expelling Serpents pag. 152.68 A precious thing for the Strangury pag. 153.69 When the sycke personne is lyke to dye pag. 153.70 A notable medicine for the Sciatica pag. 153.71 A good lesson for Phisitions pag. 153.72 The loue of a Lyzard to a man pa. 153.73 A notable medicine to breake the stone pag. 154.74 Who shall go farre and long iourneyes pag. 154.75 A straunge thing for them that haue lost their voyce pag. 154.76 An excellent thing for the Palsey and the gowte pag. 155.77 To heale the Sciatica pag. 155.78 To make a lyght to make the beholders yallowe pag. 155.79 The straunge nature of the dunge of a Woolfe pag. 155.80 To plucke out thornes an excellent thing pag. 156.81 A maruelous Hystorie of a Lady that had by Imagination a Chyld lyke an Ethyopian pag. 156.82 The straunge propertie of certain flowres pag. 157.83 〈◊〉 thought to be dead with the eating of Heâ—locks pag. 157.84 To take away the spotte in the eye in three dayes pag. 158.85 Things askt in the howres of Saturne or Mars is a suspicion of euyl pa. 158.86 A maruelous way to helpe women weakned their monthly disease pag. 158.87 The straunge breeding of Synnewes pag. 158.88 The great dyuersitye betweene the leaues and seedes of Docks pag. 159.89 To amende sowrenes or tartnes of Wine pag. 159.90 A straunge medicine to helpe all Rewmes distyllations and watrines of the eyes pag. 159.91 A Chylde borne in a certayne constellation wyll be mighty wyse and a great Philosopher pag. 159.92 To gette a stone that wyll cure the dropsie pag. 159.93 A maruelous medicine to kyll the Cankar pag. 160.94 To destroy Tetiers and Ringwoormes pag. 160.95 To breake the stone pag. 160.96 To dryue away Crowes or Byrdes from Corne that is sowne pag. 160.97 A strauÌ„ge helpe for the Collick pa. 160.98 What people are euyll pag. 161.99 When beares shall aryse in iourneyes pag. 161.100 The Table of the seueÌ„th Book A Helpe for all griefes of the bladder pag. 162.1 A notable water for breaking of the stone pag. 162.2 The straunge breeding of Barnacles pag. 163.3 To helpe them that are bewytched pag. 163.4 Mony delyuered in the howre of the Moone pag. 163.5 Great vertues of Bettony pag. 163.6 To know whether one that is sick wyl liue or dye pag. 164.7 A great cure of one that was swolne pag. 164.8 A good warning for purginge or letting of bloud pag. 164.9 Good knowledge for the certaintye of the winde pag. 165.10 A straunge helpe for the gowte pa. 165.11 A straunge thing of Harpe stringes pag. 165.12 To cease the swelling of the yarde pag. 165.13 One fortold by Astrologie the speedy death of one that was sicke pag. 165.14 For the Stone an easie medicine pag. 166.15 That wrytinges shall not be read vnlesse the same be put first in the water pag. 166.16 A notable medicine for an olde paine in the head pag. 166.17 To get the Tode stone pag. 167.18 The straunge generating of Uâ—pers pag. 167.19 To prouoke the Flowres and after burthen pag. 168.20 An incredible helpe for the falling sycknes pag. 168.21 To cease the barking of Dogs pag. 168.22 Sâ—â—oes that wyl neuer be worn pa. 168.23 A straunge thing to stoppe the bloud pag. 168.24 The fyre shall not burne a thing cast into it pag. 169.25 Feare or daunger in long iourneyes pag. 16â— 26 A myraculous thing in Ireland pa. 169.27 Whether the sicke shall escape or not pag. 169.28 To make a greene that wyl last pa. 170.29 To make Letters of golde pa. 170.30 To know when Wheate wyll be châ—ape or deere pag. 170.31 The Lyon is more fierce against men â–ª then women pag. 171.32 The great vertue of nettle seede pa. 171.33 To put aâ— Egge into a narrowe mouthed gâ—asse pag. 171 3â— To roast a dysh of Bâ—tter pag. 171.35 To put awaye the tooth ache a straunge thing pag. 172.36 They that are borne at a certaine time wyl be possest with Deuyls pag. 172.37 A straunge well pag. 172.38 To handle fyre without harme pa. 172.39 An excellent tyme to take medicine pag. 173.40 An excellent thing to cleare the sight pag. 173.41 To bring Pigions to a Doouehouse pag. 173.42 To make an hearb like DragoÌ„s pa. 174.43 To keepe Hens safe from Foxes pa. 174.44 To helpe barrennes pag. 174.45 To knowe in what case a Shippe with the men in her is being absent