generall The 2. § of the vppermost paine and griping of the guts Iliaca passio the which the common man man calleth Colica ibid. The 3. § of the paine or griping in the guts which is called Colica 422 The 4. § of the difference of these paines in the guts 423 The 5. § of the paine in the guts through obstruction or binding in the body 424 The 6. § of the paine in the guts through slime and flegme ibid. The 7. § of the paine in the guts through winde 426. The 8. § for all manner of paine in the belly 428 The 9. § of the paine in the guts through any impostumes or other affections of the bowels 429. The 10. § of the paine in the bowels thorough heate and Cholera 430 The 11. § of the paine in the belly mixt with grauell 431 The 12. § of the paine in the bellies of yong children ibid. The 13. § of the Wormes in the belly 432 The 14. § of the wormes Ascarides which do keep in the arsegut 438 ¶ The sixteenth Chapter of the Kidneyes 439 The 1. § of the paine in the kidneyes thorough cold and moisture ibid. The 2. § of the paine in the Kidneyes thorough wind 441 The 3. § of the obstructed Kidneyes ibid. The 4. § of the paine in the kidneyes thorough heate and drith 442 The 5. § how to asswage the paine in the kidneies 443 The 6. § of an hard impostume in the kidneyes 444. The 7. § of impostumes and vlcers in the Kidneyes 445 The 8. § of the impostumation in the kidneyes through heate 446 The 9. § of impostumes in the kidneyes through cold 447 The 10. § of the exulceration in the Kidneyes ibid. The 11. § of pissing of bloud 448 The 12. § if any man pisse matter 449 The 13. § of the outward vlcers of the kidneyes 450. The 14. § the order of diet 451 ¶ The seuenteenth Chapter of the grauell sand or stone of the Kidneyes and of the Bladder ibid. The 1. § for to hinder and restraine the ingendering and growing of the grauell and stone 452. The 2. § to let the growing of the stone ibid. The 3. § against the paine of the grauell 454 The 4. § of those things that expell grauell and breake the stone ibid. The fifth § when one cannot holde his water 462. The 6. § of the effluxion of the vrine thorough cold ibid. The 7. § of the effluxion of the vrine thorough heate 463 ¶ The eighteenth Chapter of the Bladder 465. The first § of the retention of vrine in generall ibid. The 2. § of the paine which is caused by the retention of the vrine 466 The 3. § of the stopping of the vrine through the debilitie of the vertue retentiue 467 The 4. § of the retention of vrine through fals or blowes 469 The 5. § of the retention of vrine thorough some obstruction of the conduits 470 The 6. § of the hot and scalding vrine 471 The 7. § of any one be forced against his will to make his water 472 The 8. § of the excoriation of the bladder and of the necke of the same 473 The 9. § of the impostume of the bladder or neck of the same 474 ¶ The nineteenth Chapter of the Matrix or Wombe ibid. The first § of the termes or flowers in women in generall 476 The 2. § how to preferre and moue the termes or flowers in women 477 The 3. § how the excessiue course of the flowers are to be stopped 484 The 4. § of the Whites or the white fluxe in women 488 The 5. § of the suffocation or ascension of the Matrix 489 The 6. § of the descension or falling downe of the Mother or Wombe 491 The 7. § of the paine in the Mother or Matrix through wind 493 The 8. § of the paine in the Mother through cold 494. The 9. § of the paine in the Mother through heat 465. The 10. § of the contraction of the Mother or the necke of the same The 11. § of the Scirrhus or hardnes of the Mother ibid. The 12. § of the impostume in the Mother or in the necke of the same ibid. The 13. § of the canker and vlcer of the Wombe or Matrix 498 The 14. § of an vnnaturall birth called Mola 500. The 15. § what things are good for the Matrix 501. ¶ The twentieth Chapter of all that concerneth the fruitfull and childe-bearing women 502. The first § to know whether a woman be with child or not ibid. The 2. § to know whether a woman be with child of a boy or a girle 503 The third § of those thinges which be most commonly perceiued in women with childe ibid. The 4. § at what time and in what manner the childe groweth in the Wombe ibid. The 5. § of the order of diet for women with child 504 The 6. § of the strange longings of women with child 505 The 7. § of the vomiting in women with childe 506. The 8. § when a childe is weake in the mothers wombe ibid. The 9. § of mischaunces and vntimely birthes 508. The 10. § how a mischance is to be preuented or hindered 509 The 11. § how a dead child is to be expelled out of his mothers wombe 511 The 12. § a preparation for an easie childbirth and deliuerie 512 The 13. § when the throwes doe not continue in bearing women 514 The 14. § of the perillous and hard childbirth in generall 515 The 15. § when a woman cannot be deliuered of a child ibid. The 16. § of the Secundine or afterbirth and how the same is to be expelled 516 The 17. § how the afterthrowes are to be eased 517. The 18. § for the excessiue floud after birth ibidem The 19. § of the superaboundance of milke 518. The 20. § of diuers other accidents after birth ibidem The fourth Part or Booke containeth all the outward parts with all their accidents and infections and it is deuided into nine Chapters and 35. §. 519 THe first Chapter and first § of the Armes Pag. 519 The 2. § of the Armepits ibid. The 3. § of the hands 520 The 4. § for to keepe the hands cleane ibid. The 5. § for to perfume hands and gloues 521 The 6. § for scabbed hands ibid. The 7. § for chaps in the hands ibid. The 8. § for itchie or scabbie hands ibid. The 9. § of the fingers 522 The 10. § of the numbnesse of the fingers whether it be in part or in the whole ibid. The 11. § when the fingers are nummed through some bruises 523 The 12. § of the Felon or Ancome in the fingers 524. The 13. § of the nayles on the fingers and toes 524. ¶ The second Chapter of the legs and feet ibid. The 1. § of the knees 525 The 2. § of the shins ibid. The 3. § of the feete 526 ¶ The third Chapter of the paine in the ioynts in generall 527 The 1. § of
of the same In like manner the same may be well caused through some obstruction of the Matrix or through any other disease as an impostume and such like in the foresaid parts this also may be brought to passe through the rudenesse and vnhandsomnesse of the Midwife When as these foresaid reasons be declared then may the cause easily be adiudged of this grieuous and perillous child birth If the disease be of the woman then hath she had a great former sicknesse or she is diseased through hunger she may be also too young and haue conceiued before the due age or she may be too old or not haue borne before at any time in which the places will be hardly opened also if a woman be dismayed or neuer wont to beare child be also too fat of bodie and is ouercooled then can she hardly be deliuered of the child Secondly the fruit it self may cause also a grieuous labour like as is said yet without foundation that boyes be easier borne into the world than girles Item if the child be too grosse of bodie or head and therewith be very small and weake that through his féeblenesse it cannot help it self to the birth Item if the child be dead haue two heads or the like double members Item if the child with his hands and féet and not with the head doth lie in the birth place like as behooueth and as is naturall Further the Matrix may be by nature too narrow or too drie so that with no moisture the passage can be made slipperie Item if the woman before in the necke of the matrix haue had any exulceration whereby the muskles could not stretch abroad or that as yet there be some vlcer in the neck of the mother or if it cometh by the secundine then is the same so thicke and so strong that it will not breake This grieuous and very hard labour may also be caused by the stopping of the bodie If now this heauy labor do procéede of the forementioned diseases sicknesses hunger such like outward causes that may be very well perceiued of the woman The signes of a féeble or dead child are to be found in the 8. 11. § But if there be of none of all these signes any instant and if that a woman is not strong and that a child in deliuerie remaine in the birth place and cannot be brought into the world then is it a certaine signe that the afterbirth like as is said is too strong and not yet broken Thus be all perillous accidents of childbirth so ioyned to each other that all of them for the most part are cured with one kind of remedie whereof we haue written much before And because we haue especially admonished here of the secundine therfore doth our old order require that we should also discourse somewhat particularly therof But because nature obserueth this method that it first expelleth the child and afterwards the Secundina which is the secundine therefore we will also first of all write perfectly of the child and afterwards of the secundine with all which is ordained for the same Lastly we will shew and declare all that is méete for both of them When a woman cannot be deliuered of a child §. 15. THe causes of this hard and longsome childbirth are before sufficiently discouered when as then a child appeareth with a hand or a foote before which doth happē very seldome without swelling of the necke of the matrix and of the parts adiacent then take Penniroyall Mugwoort and browne Betonie of each a like quantitie hack it all together and let it séeth in milke lay it then vnder her before the birth as warm as she may abide it about the member of the child that same driueth away the swelling or set séething water vnder it when the child féeleth the warmth then doth it draw the member back againe This and the like things shold Midwiues know on whose knowledge and experience is very much depending that very renowned aduice which is discouered in the 13. § of Amber when the throwes will not continue also there is laid vnto it scraped Vnicornes horne Some be of opinion that first of all the woman should take a spoonfull of oyle with twice as much water Other do also aduise that one should séeth halfe a drag of Mace and so giue it this forceth also the secundine If that then a child will not frame himself to birth in his mothers wombe and neuertheles the throwes the right time of birth be instant then take a litle Lilly water and as much good Rhenish wine so drinke it together it will frame it self the better afterwards For this is also good the iuice of Sloes whereof we haue spoken before Another Take fresh well water and hony as much as you please temper them together without séething or skumming and so giue it to drink this quickneth the throwes paine so that she wil be the sooner deliuered of child for that the paine expelleth the child and the secundine Or take the flowers of Cypers seeth them in wine and drinke a good draught thereof this should be very certaine especially if the herbe or flowers may be gotten fresh Item take well powned Linseede seeth the same in wine giue the woman a good draught therof In like maner may she well drinke wine which is decocted with Plantaine Wine wherein Vine leaues haue bene stéeped shold also expel birth Boreas the waight of half a drag drunken with wine is also very aduancing for it as we haue admonished before A stronger Take Saffron and Pearles of each one scrup Boreas 4. scrup giue this also with hony water if the throwes come not but if so be that the throwes be instant then giue it with Mugwoort water or with swéet wine it expelleth very swiftly Now for to vse outwardly may one chuse out of these things following for a time that which one will as the séeds of Garlick Sauintrée Mugwoort S. Iohns woort Pigeon dung the horne of an Asses foote or of a horses foote Oxe dung Wormwood Rue of all which tempered or each alone also to bathe to make salues plaisters such like Item take round Hartwoort Aristologie Sauin trée and Cresses of each a like stampe and temper them all together with an Oxe gall then afterwards make a great taint moist therin and put it before into the places it helpeth much to birth This following doth also expell a child whether it be liuing or dead and also the secundine very vehemently Take Sauintrée round Hartwort Asarabacca Dragon roots of each a like quantitie powne them all together temper them with hony afterwards giue to the woman therof the waight of one quarter of an ounce with water wherein Lupins be decocted and if so be that this expell not sufficiently then take Opopanacum and Oxe gall of each one quarter of an ounce Beuercod one dragme giue it to the woman to drinke
Median shall rather be vsed than the Liuer veine likewise if the Liuer veine be not seene open rather the Median than the head veine As for example this veine is conueniently opened in swolne eyes bleeding at the nose outragious melancholy hot rheumes panting of the hart ruptures to procure children in women of hote complexions bléeding of the hemorrhoides or piles and to procure the flowers in women c. by which euery skilfull man may guide himselfe Of the armepit veine Axillaris §. 10. THe fourth veine is called as is aforesaid Axillaris it is a branch of the great liuer veine called Vena caua the hollow veine which commeth from thence into the armes and sheweth it selfe in the bending of the arme It hath great correspondence with the head veine as is already sufficiently shewed After the same sort it is with the fift which is on the end of the arme so that all that hath bin said before and which shall be said hereafter of the Spleene veine the very same may be said of these two Of the Spleene veine or Saluatella §. 11. THe sixt principall veine lieth betwéene the little and fourth fingers on the outside of both hands It is oftentimes opened because it cleanseth the spleene liuer and brest cléereth the voice preserueth the internall parts but especially the stomacke and mouth from all accidents whatsoeuer easeth the paine of the heart and taketh away all the superfluous bloud of the before named inward parts The later Phisitions make this distinction they call this veine on the left hand Splenetica the spléene veine and on the right hand Saluatella for this cause haue diuers opened that on the left side letting it bléede till of it selfe it stanched supposing thereby to heale all infirmities of the spleene It is also opened in blood spittings in obstructions of the spleene and in the French pox That on the right hand in infirmities of the liuer in shaking palsies in contractures of the mouth in all maner of stitches in the gout in the pockes and in fine almost in all other diseases Of the hip veine §. 12. AFter the description of the veines that are in the armes and hands it followeth now to treate of the three principall veines apparent in the legs and feet The first and vppermost of them is called in Gréeke Ischiadica and in English the hip veine It is commonly opened vpon the left foote thereby to draw the blood downewards and to ease all the maladies of the same side of the kidneyes of the wombe and such like also to make the piles bléed to helpe the paine of the hip to cease the raging of the gout if it be opened hard by the little toe although it specially appeere vpon the ankle on the outside of the leg Of the wombe veine or Saphena §. 13. THis commeth from the great liuer or hollow veine and descendeth from the foreside of the legge downe to the inward ankle where it very manifestly appeareth for the which cause it is also called Manifesta the apparent or manifest veine otherwise Saphea and not Saphena This is especially opened to draw the bloud downewards from the priuie parts of man from the wombe in women in sore eyes in madnesse in the palsie in the night mare falling euill blood spittings womens flowers and barrennesse of them in the suffocation of the matrix or the rising vp of the wombe or mother in the gout and in the plague Of the hamme or knee veine §. 14. THis also is a median or middle veine which descendeth downewards through the calfe of the leg into the foote as the median of the arme doth into the hand and it is more méet to be opened to the aforesaid infirmities than either the hip or wombe veine because it is néerer adiacent to the womb with her annexed parts than either of them and therefore draweth with more force Of the veine in the forehead §. 15. IN the middest of the forehead is also a very apparent veine which vsually was opened in all paines of the hinder part of the head and necke although it haue continued very long also in all paines of the eyes but first of all ought the head veine to be opened It is also vsed in the frensie night mare and palsie Of the veines of the eyes §. 16. THese litle veines appéere in the corners of the eyes hard by the nose vpwards toward the forehead They are commonly opened in inflammations of the eyes but first of all open the veine of the head Of the veine in the temples of the head §. 17. IN the temples of the head are veines which some men do counsell to be opened in the paine of the eyes if the same procéed of hot humors or windinesse as is before said But it is not without great daunger because there is an artery hard by it which easily may be felt The same may be said of the veines behind the eares which also are very commodiously opened in great paines of the head as Hemicrania in a continuall paine and swimming in the head But Auicenna supposeth that such as vse it thereby are made barren or vnfruitfull Of the veine vpon the nose §. 18. IN like manner also is there a veine vpon the nose close by the forehead which may be opened but first must a towell or napkin be tied hard about the necke and throte that the veine may swell or puffe vp and be the better séene Of the veines in the lippes §. 19. THese are opened in all putrifactions and rottings of the gums and many other infections of the mouth but not before the head veine Of the veines of the almonds or kernels in the throate §. 20. THere be foure of these veines apparent the which being opened helpe very greatly in all rheumes and defluxions as also in the tooth-ach but it is not good to open them but when the rheume beginneth to fall Of the veines vnder the tongue §. 21. VNder the tongue are also some veines which in dangerous diseases may well be opened and especially in the squinancy and in all other flegmaticall tumors of the throte in the night mare and all maladies of the tongue Of the veines of the necke §. 22. TO conclude there be certaine veines in the necke called of the Arabians Guingedes which vsually were opened in the beginning of the leprie in the paine of the throate called Angina in shortnes and oppression of the breath impostumes of the lungs in affections of the spléene and sides Thus ending this Chapter of the opening of all kind of veines we wil treate of boxing or cupping which also is greatly commended in Phisicke The ninth Chapter Of Cupping THis is the second meanes whereby the abundance of blood in mans body is diminished Galen did so highly estéeme of it that he termeth it a precious helpe and commendeth it in many diseases but especially where flegme and windinesse doth excéed He ascribeth vnto it the attraction of humors
each one drag and séeth it with decocted swéet Wine as thicke as you desire it Or vse this following Take Cammomill Dill seede Venus haire Hollihocke séedes and Folefoote of each two handfuls Currans thrée handfuls sixe Poppie heads sixe ounces of fresh Butter xxxvi ounces of swéet sodden Wine put vnto it when all is well sodden and brayed one dragme of Saffron A good salue Take Althaea salue and Butter annoint the place therewith where the paine is and strew thereon beaten Comin and lay a warme Colewoort leafe thereon When the Pleurisie taketh a woman with Child §. 12. IF it then chaunce that a woman be in doubt of bearing the space of two moneths were brought a bed before her time and brought a dead child into the world or were much inclined to the same and so be taken with the Pleurisie she must not be let bloud but she must haue cups set on her buttockes and be picked well whereby to draw the bloud downward But women that are woont to miscarie in hast they may well be let bloud yet alwaies taking good héed to their strength But for a generall rule all women albeit they miscarie or not or that they haue conceiued are to haue the liuer veine opened But if it be not the right Pleurisie then make a bagge with warme Millet and Bran and lay it where the stitch is felt and annoynt the backe with Althaea salue But they that are not with child and haue the Pleurisie it is much counselled that their Termes be prouoked as much as is possible whereof in the fift part is very largely discoursed And the other euen as is alreadie said are to be holpen according as they be of strength by other medicines Rules for such as are recouered of the Pleurisie that they fall not into it againe §. 13. FIrst all they that be subiect to this sicknesse are to shun all dwellings and principally in winter season that are situate in the North and West and neare the water They must also forbeare all tough slimie meates and all that is made of dough Chéese Milke and such like also from vineger sowre and sharpe and all kind of tart things Capers and Sallad oyle are also enemies vnto him Item from all pottage except of red and white Pease and Beane broth which be good for him and dresse Hennes Pullets Veale and Pigeons with it All cold fruites as Apples Peares Chesnuts c. are hurtfull for him but Figges and Raisins are very méete sodden Colewoorts and all sorts of Rapes and rootes as Parsneps Parsley rootes and such like are very good for him and all Barley paps also His drinke must be thin white and swéet wine or common Béere which is very cleare To drinke water is for this streightly forbidden but if the patient desire to water his wine he may doe it yet with water that is decocted with Cinnamome or Licorice After his meale tide is he to kéepe himselfe quiet one or two houres Watching is very hurtfull for him but to sléepe long is very good and néedfull In eating he must also beware of swallowing downe meate not well chewed and of ouercharging his stomacke with meate and drinke that there follow no harme to the stomacke He must looke well to all these and that he be alwaies merrie and of a light heart Secondly he must take good héede for to haue alwaies an open bodie and before he vse these pils following he must first vse these potions Take of the water of Fole-foote fiue ounces Sugar one ounce drinke it euery morning fasting at one time The pils are thus to be made take prepared Aloe one quarter of an ounce Opopanacum Bdellium and Colloquint of each one scruple make pils thereof with sirupe of Roses sixe of a drag then take euery foure dayes one or twaine according as you are bound and in the euening one before supper A Salue TAke Asarabacca Hyssope Mallowes and Rosemarie of each thrée quarters of an ounce Sandaraca three drag Spica nardi one quarter of an ounce Dragon bloud and the iuice of Sloes of each one drag Starch fiue dragms powne each apart as small as may be then temper it with Malmsey and kéepe this stopped tight Herewith are you to rub the backe bone and shoulders softly and afterwards a Foxe case bound theron And the patient must haue his veine opened on the right hand besides the little finger and let it bléede foure or fiue ounces of bloud These are the most principall meanes wherby these perillous sicknesses may be preuented but we will adde somewhat more to the rest Certaine seuerall remedies against the cold Pleurisie §. 14. FOr the true Pleurisie do serue these compounded Confections and losinges which are prepared two manner of wayes Diaprassium Diahyssopum Diaireâ—â— Solomonis Lohoch de Pino Item all that is prepared against the cold cough as confected Elecampane rootes Treacle Mithridate swéete sirupe of Pomegranates and Parsley rootes sodden in wine tempered with a little vineger and thereof drunken often Also M. Tristrams water and other moe Aquae Composâ—â—e But by reason of the ague some cooling things must alwaies be tempered amongst it For the common drinke you haue here before in the sixt § a speciall Barley water mollists crums of white bread therin bounden in a clout straine it often out and mingle some white wine amongst it Hony water quencheth thirst it prouoketh also the tough humors flegmes to auoide and it is good for all coughes Thin wine tempered with water is tolerable for this if the Ague be not too strong IteÌ„ take Cicera Venus haire as much as you please let it séeth with a little Licorice For common things these following are very good for the cold Pleurisie as Assa foetida Nettles with their séede Balsam wood with their fruites Ireos Myrrhe the right Acornes for which some do take Calmus or great Galingall and Starch The fifth Chapter Of the Lights or Lungs WE haue hitherto spoken of the outward parts of the Brest and discoursed of their infirmities now we will write of the inner parts and will begin with the Lights for that they are made as a separation betwéene the pipes of the Lungs and the Hart also as an instrument of the breath ordained of God for the vse of the bodie thereby to draw in the outward aire thereby to coole and quicken the heart and all inward parts wherewith to forme also and effect the voice and spéech in all that hath receiued life Therefore hath nature made the substance of the Lights light and like a sponge formed with many pipes wherby they might be the more méet to draw the breath out and in Some ancient Phisitions are of opinion that they were without bloud but it is not so they haue their bloud too and are full of it but as soone as it commeth out of the Brests the bodie is void thereof What great difference is betwéene the Lights of men and of Beasts
vpon the priuities then annoint the priuities with oyle of Cammomill with oile of Lillies and such like euen as in the impostume of the kidneyes hath bene declared more at large For this is also very méet water baths wherein Mallowes Hollihock roots Cammomil Linséede Melilot Marierom Cipers roots Rape leaues Colewort Fenegréeke and such like be decocted If it be néedfull to vse warming oiles then take oile of Lillies of S. Iohns wort of Rue of sweet and bitter Almonds of wall flowers all these oiles do allay the paine as also doth the oile of tyles and the plaister of Barberries which consume all cold humors When as this impostume is broken then follow the same course as hath bene taught in the impostumes of the kidneyes To conclude these things following are much commended to be eaten for all diseases of the bladder viz. preserued Elecampane rootes and Pimpernell rootes which expell all vncleannesse from the stomacke likewise also preserued Calmus Treacle Mithridate conserue of Betony Meade and Hony water Item the iuice of Limons which is especiall good for all brusings of the bladder that were caused of the stone The nineteenth Chapter Of the Matrix or VVombe FRom the beginning of this booke of Phisicke hitherto we haue written and discoursed of all the principall inward parts of our body concerning as well men as women but concerning the Matrix which is onely proper to the female kind haue we deferred vntill this present and now we will intreate somewhat thereof This matrix or wombe is the chiefest part whereby the generation of mankind is maintained and ordained of God Almightie Creator of nature it selfe as for a vessell receiuer and preseruatiue place of humane seed which is therein formed vnto a liuing creature increased defended nourished and sustained vntill the opportune time of birth The Grecians do call this Matrix or Wombe Metra and Hystera the Latinists Matrix Vâ—lua Vterus and we by reason of her vertue for that it incloseth the conceiued child the Mother or Wombe This hath her place in the neathermost part of the Belly right vnder the Nauell It reacheth backwards to the Arsegut and forward to the Bladder It is deuided into two parts whereof the first part is her whole bodie wherein as is said humane séede is receiued and the fruit preserued The second part is the necke of the Matrix or Wombe which reacheth out of the formost part of the priuities so that it is assimulated vnto the Bladder with her neck the ligaments wherewith she is bound to the hips onely excepted When this Matrix or womb with all that belongeth thereto is rightly beholden then is it onely shapen like to a mans member only that the humane member dependeth outwardly and that the womanhood lieth hidden within whereof before in the beginning of the fift Chapter and afterwards hath bene spoken at length Her substance is inwardly fleshie and rough especially in the bottome strewed all ouer with small knops or bunches which be full of small veines that come and haue their accourse from all parts of the bodie vnto the wombe and in carnall vse do draw and keepe with them the humane séede which also yéeld forth the flowers or termes nourish the conceiued fruite and maintaine the secondine Also this Matrix hath two concauities and it is supposed that in the concauitie on the right side Sonnes be conceiued and in that on the left side the Daughters whereof we shall speake hereafter more at large Outwardly she is full of sinewes and hard because that she openeth and shutteth too againe in the bearing of children all which must be atchieued and brought to passe through the sinews the same hardnes doth also defend her from many kinds of brusings The foresaid sinewes be also causes of her motion and ascending and descending in the body for that because these sinewes are very sensible and easily harmed therefore they do shrinke in and draw the mother vpwards with great painfulnesse as hereafter shall be shewed more at large The neck of the wombe which is with some women long and with some short whereof the right measure is the breadth of eleuen fingers is shapen of a hard muskelly and sinewy flesh which so hardeneth from day to day especially in leacherous women or common harlots and old women that it is at the last altered into a kind of Cartilage This necke of the Matrix hath also where the mother beginneth an entrance which is neuer more opened but in the venerious act in time of the termes and in the birth otherwise doth it remaine alwayes most tightly shut and especially after the receit of the humane séed so that nothing may go in or out In yong maidens or girles it is very thinne but in growing it waxeth thicker and bigger viz. when the termes be at hand and lesseneth when they be past the thicknesse also increaseth with the being with child and how many times moe that she beareth child so much the thicker doth it grow In like sort also will it be harder and thicker in time of the first conception but in the growing and increase of the child is it dilated to the end the fruite might haue toome and scope but in women that neuer conceiued or haue not borne any children at all it continueth in one bignesse and is much lesse than in fruitfull women In like maner it is also in children much smaller than the bladder but with growing vp it dayly waxeth greater yea that it is at last in greatnesse farre excéeding the bladder These kinds and such like sundry motions like as they haue delight in odoriferous things and a loathing of stinking things for which it flieth and for which it ascendeth caused the wise Philosopher Plato to write as hereafter followeth This part in women which many do call Metram and Hysteram is a liuing creature very gréedie of conception therefore if it be drawne vpwards vntimely and if it remaine a long space vnfruitfull then doth it become vnwilling it créepeth through the whole bodie whereby the parts of respiration are so obstructed and stopt that the woman can get no breath yea it bringeth with it at the last great danger and perill and causeth many kinds of sicknesses These be the words of Plato but this opinion is withstood by Galen This noble part in women is subiect to many kinds of diseases and sicknesses which if they â—o get the vpper hand do hinder the conception and the fruitfulnesse of women which vnfruitfulnes is especially caused when she hath too many of her termes or too few or when the same is wholy detained whence then followeth a spoile of the natural seed the whites the suffocation of the mother which otherwhiles stifleth women the precipitation and falling out of the same great paine vlcers impostumes hardnings Canker the vnnaturall disease Mola barrennesse and if she peraduenture chance to conceiue an vntimely birth whereof hereafter shall be written yet first we will
begin of womens termes and flowers Of the Termes or Flowers of women in generall §. 1. THat these Termes of women be called the Flowers is for this cause viz. when it is séene that a trée bloweth then is it esteemed meete and conuenient to beare fruite and contrariwise the trée vnfruitfull which bloweth not except the Fig trée So is it likewise with women that all they that haue their Termes are fit and commodious to conceiue and beare children the which they that haue not their flowers or termes can neuer more accomplish Secondly the Latinists do cal these flowers Menstrua of the moneth and thus for they euery moneth or thirty dayes returne and come againe or for that they according to the course of the Moone that is because they appeare the first quarter of the Moone in young girles the second quarter in them that be somewhat bigger the third quarter in the middle sort the last quarter in aged women Whereby all expert Phisitions do obserue in each time that each age is to haue them to wit the yong people in the new and increasing Moone the old folkes in the decrease of the Moone in fine the health of all women dependeth especially in this necessary menstruall fluxe yea all her chastitie fruitfulnesse and welfare To the contrary if they do not at all auoid do flow too much vnorderly or be lothsome of colour then do they cause all miseries inclination to venery and many kind of sicknesses like as hereafter shall be taught Wherewith it is to be estéemed for no smal work of wonder that amongst all creatures that do liue and are of the female kind except certaine Apes only women are subiect vnto this fluxe and therefore haue the Philosophers many kinds of disputations which be here too long and néedlesse to be rehearsed But of the fountaine and matter of this blood it is with one consent concluded that it is a cold vndigested and grosse matter and the blood of the whole bodie the which through the foresaid veines is gathered together in the womb and is afterwards expelled in due time as a matter hurtfull and of no vse That this matter is also cold is by this perceiued that when it passeth away the woman féeleth a great cold ouer the whole bodie this happeneth after many fashions Of the Termes that be auoided ouer and aboue their naturall custome shall be hereafter spoken of with all their appertenances The women whose Termes auoide in two or thrée dayes are ridde of them with small trouble but if they endure long then will they be thereby very féeble The first auoidance of their Termes is commonly about the fouretéenth yéere the which signifieth that then their naturall séede beginneth to ripen that the haire and breasts beginneth to grow and they that be hote of nature do then get desire of the man for that the womans Termes be none other but a naturall séede which is not yet throughly ripe and that through his superfluitie of nature desireth to be expelled This course of the Termes or Flowers abateth about the age of fortie or two and fortie yeares or endureth sometimes vntill the fiftith yéere but very seldome vntill the sixtith yéere in which time women be still méete and fit for generation yet do these Flowers or Termes of women come sometimes sooner and sometimes later according to that the nature and complexion of the bodie is full of blood strong suffereth much labour is quiet and feeble It is also a common rule with all them that haue experience in naturall things that a woman which getteth not her flowers like as some which be hot drie by nature is barren and vnfruitfull and that for those causes that are discouered in the seuenth Chapter of the barrennesse of men and women although that it chanceth neuerthelesse but very seldome that such women do conceiue and beare This is also the natural custome that when a woman hath conceiued that then her termes do tary away for this blood is prepared for a sustenance vnto the child in the mothers womb like as also after childbirth the same to that end is turned into milke notwithstanding that it oftentimes happeneth that women with child auoide their Flowers or Termes after the old custome vntil the very day of birth as we shall hereafter somewhat intreate thereof but these women do bring small spare weake and not liuing children into the world because they haue bene depriued of the most part of their nourishment It is also contrary to the opinion of many women that she shall open a veine when she is halfe gone with child in case she be not full of blood and the veines not great therefore is not the same very vnaduisedly to be done Item in this flowing or course of womens termes there is another wonderfull nature and propertie to wit that so harmefull and venimous a matter in mans bodie without any hinderance yea for a great preferment of health may be retained and expelled The common experience bringeth with it and all learned do testifie the same that these womens termes do bring innumerable sicknesses with them and haue many infectious properties namely where the same happeneth to fall there groweth no fruite spoileth the vines the Must will be vineger the herbes wither the trées drie away iron rusteth and all mettals do darken and waxe dim the same being taken make a man madde and chiefly the dogges the Bées leaue their hiues if they be annointed therewith women when they haue the same then do they darken through their breath all bright looking glasses the aire wil be poisoned with them and children as it is said bewitched Now doest thou sée thou stout high minded man what a precious matter it is that thou hast in the beginning of thy birth and what the matter is that hath thee nourished This hath caused the auncient Poets to assimulate this fluxe vnto the warres saying that Mars is no son of the god Iupiter but of Iuno onely meaning by Iuno this menstruall fluxe And truly if this hurtfull propertie be likened to the warres then is it an expert and true similitude for what doth more spoile fruites vineyards Must herbes and trées than the warres what is there which taketh away and wasteth more iron how many bright harnesses be thereby darkened where beareth madnes more mastery where are men more like to mad dogs than in the wars how can the aire be more venimed than through the stinking dead bodies Here is now sufficiently spoken of this matter now we will procéede with our medicines How to preferre and moue the Termes or Flowers in women §. 2. FOr the first we will speake of the causes whereby the termes be detained the which be outward and inward The outward causes be sore labour hunger care great satnesse agues dropsies consumptions and some disease of the wombe The inward causes be a bad complexion of heate cold dryth or of moisture whereby the vertue expulsiue
there be any veine broken within the vlcer then temper somewhat of these things following with it as Dragon blood Myrrhe Frankinsence fine Bolus Saffron Hartwort with Rose water or with Plantaine water A bath for the raines is very necessary for this purpose whereto you may prepare this following Take Valerian rootes Mew and rootes of Smallage of each foure handfuls Mirrha and Opopanacum of each one quarter of an ounce the rootes of Yarrow foure handfuls séeth them all in sufficient water and sit therein to the nauell Besides all this there is another bath highly commended wherin the roots of wild Cucumbers be decocted For this is also very good that which is described in the 12. § beginning thus Take oyle of Centory 6. ounces c. But in case this ensuing matter remaine stinking and that there be heate with it then vse the other pessaries made of cotton and Roses that are there discouered but the vlcers must be cleansed before by the iniection of Hony water Lastly if so be that the hardnesse do continue which may be perceiued by féeling as also by the pricking by the paine and by issuing out of the matter then is one to beware that there be no sharpe medicines vsed for it for that thereby the malady will be much the rather augmented for all which is discouered in the fifth Chapter and second § of the iniection of the muscilage of Fleawort and iuice of Housléeke for that is also the liuer veine to be opened and the salue of Ceruse to be vsed This person must also beware of all which augmenteth melancholy whereof you may find a sufficient discourse in the eleuenth Chapter and 8. § Of an vnnaturall birth called Mola §. 14. IT chanceth also sometimes that in certaine women which haue no company with a man yet their belly swelleth vp no otherwise than as though they were with child and all the signes of being with child agree also with it for that their Termes be absent and stayed they féele also some stirring in the Matrix their breasts will be hard the appetite of meate leaueth them their naturall colour will be pale all which signes are common to women with child notwithstanding they beare no child which beare this Mola This Mola groweth after two sorts in the wombe the one will grow to a péece of flesh without any figure halfe putrified and is also no right flesh but rather a spongeous masse of wind of water and of some other superfluous bloud which through the accustomed termes cannot be expelled and the same then being mixed with the naturall seed groweth otherwhiles to such a hardnesse that the same cannot be cleft asunder with any hatchet Secondly it may also be ingendred of the said bloud and the concourse of certaine tough humors and so make a false shew like women with child Neuerthelesse the expert Phisitions do distinguish thrée seuerall signes whereby bearing women and they that be burthened with this vnnaturall masse are to be knowne for that first the mouing of this Mola or vnnaturall masse is not like that of a child because it is a thing which hath no life Secondly the belly of women which beare Mola is much harder and not so moueable from one place to another as theirs is that be with child Thirdly this masse falleth from the one side to the other Fourthly if a woman be burthened with Mola then be her hands and feete very féeble and limber and it séemeth also that her fingers be shorter all which cannot be perceiued in bearing women Fiftly the woman that beareth Mola is not so merry as one that is with child Sixtly a woman with child is commonly after nine moneths deliuered but in the Mola is no certaine time for that it is found that women therewith haue gone two yeares foure yeares and also longer yea their whole life time that no phisicke hath holpen them And from these that be cured there auoydeth oftentimes as is sayd a lothsome peece of flesh and that with such paine as if she were deliuered of a child It auoydeth sometimes into bloud otherwhiles to wind and their belly falleth away as before This is such an accident that it ought not slightly to be regarded for that thereby it may easily be marked that the Matrix is vtterly vncleane and spoyled therefore do these women easily fall againe into the foresayd maladies or if not into an vnnaturall fluxe vlcer or impostume of the Matrix Lastly they commonly fall into the Dropsies Aseites or Tympanites or into some other perillous sicknesse whereof they die Neuerthelesse must the Phisition not doubt of the cure but as soone as he knoweth certainly that the woman be burthened with a Mola and be not rightly with child then is the woman to be commaunded that the stirre not too much and lie for the most vpon the backe and with her legs higher than the body and to constraine her selfe otherwhiles to vomit and parbrake and refraine from all cold and moist meates for which this potion following is to be made Take S. Iohns wort Sauine Rosemary field Mints and corne Mints Louage Mugwort Penniroyall and Mather of each one handfull Fennell Squinant both kindes of Parsley seede Calmus and wild Galingall of each one dragme Radish foure ounces seeth them together in a sufficient quantitie of water for a potion and vse thereof euery day thrée or foure ounces this potion melloweth that masse and expelleth the humor whereby it might be increased There is also to be tempered with this potion one of these Trociskes following Take Cinnamome Myrrhe of each two dragmes and a halfe Rue Sauine field Mints Penniroyall al together dried Mather Sagapenum and Opopanacum of each one dragme Cardamome Iuniper trée Rosemary of each one dragme and a halfe forme the Trociskes of the waight of a quarter of an ounce This afore described is so to be vsed the space of ten dayes or more Other do aduise for a thing of smaller importance to wit that the woman two moneths euery morning early should take thrée ounces of warme Feuerfew water and to fast foure houres at least after it Secondly that she euery fourth day when she drinketh of the water should take one of these pilles Take Galbanum one quarter of an ounce flowers of Mugwort Saint Iohns wort and Asarabacca of each one scruple dissolue the Gum in good Wine and make thereof sixe pilles of a dragme She is also to purge once in fouretéene dayes with thrée quarters of an ounce of Benedicta Laxatiua tempered with two ounces of Feuerfew water Or if she had rather pilles that she swallow one dragme of Pillulas Foetidas Fourthly she is alwayes to weare this plaster following vpon the belly the breadth of a finger beneath the nauell reaching vp towards the hips Take Galbanum one ounce and a halfe Galliae Muscatae one quarter of an ounce Alipta Muscata one dragme white Waxe thrée dragmes dissolue the gum in good wine and then
woman with child be burthened with an Ague and that a mischance be doubted then take Barley meale the iuice of Sloes and of Housleeke as much as you please make it to a plaister with vineger and then lay it oftentimes vpon the belly this plaister doth defend the fruite from all accidents in the Ague this sayd plaister is also to be layd vpon the liuer In case that now the woman with child be assayled with pricking then haue you before in the second part the fourth Chapter and 12. § how that might be remedied stamped Crabs the iuice thereof wroong out and tempered amongst womans milke it defendeth also the vntimely birth of women and it is said that it is a sure remedy for it If so be that a mischance be feared through much wind then giue one dragme of good Mithridate with the water wherein Comin hath bene decocted twice a weeke for thereby will the fruite be preserued and retained These confections or tabulats following are to be vsed Take Pearles and Pyretrum of each one dragme Ginger Mastick of each halfe an ounce Zeduary Doronicum the séed of Smallage Cassie wood Cardamome Nutmegs Mace and Cinnamome of each one quarter of an ounce red and white Behen long and black Pepper of each three dragmes Saffron one dragme sugar eighteene ounces or lesse decocted with the water of Buglosse or water of Mints How a dead child is to be expelled out of his mothers wombe §. 11. FOr this we wil first haue remembred all that is described before in the 19. chapter and 14. § of the vnnaturall excrescence Mola in the Matrix whereof that in the second § of prouoking the termes and before of the mischances and all that is discouered of the preferring of the birth is also meete for the expulsion or deliuery of a child so that betwéene these is none other difference than that this following is ordained rather for perfect children of which women do commonly lie in within fiue or sixe moneths Now for to preuent the same are these remedies following commanded to be presently vsed but first of all you must know whether the child be dead or not to the end there be not a sicke child expelled for a dead child the which is to be knowne by this and especially if it hath bene dead two or thrée dayes First the mother doth get a great paine in the sinewes of the eyes which be Optici nerui Secondly she doth also féele paine behind in the necke stretching downeward along the backe bone because that the Matrix is fastened vnto it Thirdly shée doth féele great anguish and paine beneath Fourthly if a woman lie from one side vnto another then doth the burthen alwayes follow towards the lower side which is of all other a sure token of a dead child and that the ligaments of the secundine haue no more force to hold the dead fruite in one place Fiftly there is a great paine about the priuities and ouer all the necke of the Matrix Sixtly the thicknesse of the belly which was aboue is wholy sunken downe Seuenthly they do féele continually a cold about the priuities Eightly if one hold a warme hand long vpon the belly and féele no stirring then it is a sure token that the child is dead These be now the signes of a dead child before it begin to putrifie When it hath bene dead thrée dayes then beginneth it to stinke the woman is full of agues and getteth a stinking breath out of the Matrix runneth a foule stinking matter the belly will be heauy and stinking winds which do arise in the mother cause swelling thereof and last of all there will be foule and stinking péeces of flesh expelled through the necke of the mother When al these things be séene then hath a Phisition none other thing to do but to driue out the dead child It is also néedfull before all other things to preserue and strengthen the heart from al filthy stenches which may be brought to passe with this powder following taking the same oftentimes with broths for that it strengtheneth the vitall spirits and also the heart it doth also withstand the ascending vapors Take white Diptamus one dragme and a half Citron péeles and the péeled séeds of the same of each halfe a dragme prepared pearles foure scruples prepared Coriander one scruple Roses two scruples sugar two ounces and a halfe temper them all together to powder and vse therof about one quarter of an ounce at once Or take this following Take white Diptamus and Zeduary of each one scruple prepared Pearles and Species de gemmis frigidis of each halfe a dragme mixe them together and giue it her to drinke at thrice it withstandeth all stenches that they infect not the heart The fine Treacle doth also driue dead children out of the mothers bodies In like manner also the iuice of Verueine or the herbe stamped and drunken with wine driueth forth also the dead fruite so doth Hyssope also Take Trociscos de Gallia one dragme giue it with small white wine they expell the dead child and the secundine and make an easie birth Item take the innermost skins of the mawes of Hens or of Capons wash the same in wine drie them and powne them to powder giue one dragme or one dragme and a halfe thereof with a draught of Wine or with some broth or with Rosewater Or take Betonie and Rue with the rootes of each one handfull poure thereto one ounce of the iuice of Salomons seale white Wine one pint let it séeth well then straine it through a cloth and so giue it her to drinke Séeth Iuniper berries in Hony temper some wine with it and so drinke it together Another Womans milke drunken should also expell the dead child likewise also the precious stone Iaspis This is a common medicine which followeth hereafter Take Boreas one dragme and a halfe Cinnamom and Saffron of each one scruple stamp them togither and giue it with swéete wine or Mugwort water to drinke it helpeth much to beare easily It is also said that Linséed passeth all things to make women to be easily deliuered for if they drinke the water which is decocted therewith and put the same with clothes beneath into the bodie or bath therein then must the dead fruit auoyd Or take Mirrha as much as the quantity of a hasell nut stampe it and giue it with wine or with water of Mugwort the same expelleth much whether that the child be dead or aliue The same doth also dogges milke tempered with hony Item take one ounce of Goates milke dissolue therein two scruples of Galbanum and so giue it it expelleth maruellously Or if the woman be strong then giue her as much of the iuice of Garlicke as will go into halfe an egshel with wine or hony If from a woman through frighting or otherwise the child auoid then take a Crab stampe it and wring out the iuice and then temper it with the water
of Mugwort and so drinke it For pils Take Trociscos de Mirrha one scruple Galbanum halfe a scruple make fiue pils therof with Penniroyall water Another Take the fruite of the Sauine trée one quarter of an ounce Assa foetida Ammoniacum and Madder of each halfe a dragme make eleuen pilles thereof then take thereof at each time one and that thrice a day For to vse outwardly take these things following fume the woman beneath with the horne of the Asses foote which hath an hidden nature for to expell the fruit but if so be that one can get no horne of the Asses foote then is horne of a horses foote to be burnt The same operation hath also the séed of Basilicum if it be fumed and receiued beneath likewise also the fume of Laudanum or take Mirrha Galbanum and Beuercod of each a like quantitie One may also hold before the priuities swines bread or cotten wooll made wet in the iuice of the same and to put it before into the bodie is also maruellous good for this purpose Item take blacke Hellebore Licebane Hartwort Coloquint and Ammoniacum of each one quarter of an ounce Oxe galles one ounce the gum is to be dissolued in the water of Mugwort afterwards temper the rest sodden well amongst it Or take Opopanacum and Hartwort of each a like quantitie and make a plaister therof with the iuice of Mugwort if it be too soft then put a little waxe vnto it and so lay it warme vpon it Out of all these forementioned things may you also make pessaries and put them into the bodie before For this is also good the plaister de Galbano whereof there be two kinds in the nineteenth chapter third § Another Take vnkemmed shéepes wool spread butter and hony vpon it and apply it Some do aduise to hold a Snakes skin to the priuities for they say when it beginneth to warme that nature will cause the dead fruite to follow presently For this are also bathes prepared Take Mints ten handfuls séeth it in sufficient water and sit therein vp to the nauell this worketh maruellously especially if thereupon be vsed the iuice of Swines bread as is before said likewise doth also driue out a dead child the plaister de Radicibus layd vpon it and the decoction of Garlicke A preparatiue for an easie child-birth and deliuerie §. 12. AL creatures haue their certaine time of bearing except a woman onely for that women may be deliuered of a child in the seuenth or eighth moneth also in the ninth and tenth moneth as we haue sufficiently written before yea it hath bin also found that they haue deferred both to the eleuenth moneth and also sometimes to the twelfth moneth It is also read of a woman that hapned to lie in of child in the thirtéenth moneth after that she had conceiued yet it oftentimes cometh to passe that they be deceiued in their reckoning therefore it is not néedful to dispute much of the time for when the Peare is ripe as is commonly said then doth it fall off Our purpose is here onely to discourse and shew through what meanes a fruitfull woman is to be prepared for to beare easily and with small paine For because that on the child birth dependeth the maintenance of humane kind and that women in their child birth are to expect all sundry mishaps therefore haue many famous Phisitions thought thereon and diligently studied how fruitfull women might be prepared vnto their child birth and therfore haue described these notable meanes first how the obstruction is to be opened and how the paines are to be prouoked Afterwards if a child in necessitie of birth or deliuery chance to die how the same shall be expelled whereof also hath bene spoken in the former 11. § and of other accidents moe which are to be expected after child birth When as now the time of childbirth is at hand that a woman is almost past her reckning then is she to eate and drinke well without excesse and to vse such meates which might nourish well viz. good Mutton Veale Hens and Capons all kind of field Foules egs good brothes with spices as with Cinnamom Saffron c and to drinke good wine But she must especially take care that she alwaies haue an open bodie therewith she is to bath certain dayes together in this bath following Take Hollihock rootes with the leaues two M. Mallowes and Betony of each one M. Mugwoort Marioram Mints and Cammomill of each halfe a M. grosse beaten Linséede two M. make two bagges thereof and seeth them in a great kettle with water afterwards let it be méetly cold and then set the woman in it the one bag must lie behind vpon her backe and she must sit vpon the other or hold it vpon the Nauell After bathing take oyle of sweet Almonds of Lillies and of Violets of each halfe an ounce Linséede Hollihocke roots Fenegréeke Butter and Hens grease of each one quarter of an ounce Quince kernels and Dragagant of each one ounce you are to stampe the séeds and cut the rootes afterwards seeth all together in raine water and take out the muscilage temper the same with oyle then let the powned Dragagant and Hens grease séeth so long vntill the muscilage be consumed and then make a salue of it with this salue are you to annoint warme beneath the whole backe both the sides and all the whole belly euen to the priuities Another Take oyle of sweet Almonds of Lillies and of Violets of each halfe an ounce Ducks and Hens grease of each three dragmes white Waxe as much as is needfull but if these salues cannot be gotten then is oyle of Lillies alone to be vsed in their stead Also this ensuing may be prepared Take the muscilage of Linseede and of Hollihock roots fresh Butter the grease of Hens of Geese and of Ducks oile of Lillies and of sweet Almonds of each halfe an ounce let them melt by the fire and temper it well together Or take Hollihock rootes with the leaues one handfull cut it small Venice sope one ounce and a halfe and one pot of good fresh Beere let it seeth together vnto the halfe then will there be a Salue of it with this foresaid salue is a woman to be annointed about her priuities fiue or sixe weekes before her time euery day after bathing These and such like meanes do open and soften the obstructions of the matrix so that thereby in necessitie of birth the throwes will not be so great nor yet any thing like so painefull When as now the time of childbirth and the throwes be instant then may one choose of these things following that which according to the importance of the cause is supposed to be most requisite first of all outwardly There be sundrie famous Phisitions which account it greatly auailable to hold certaine things before the priuities or bind the hippe with many strange ceremonies mo which are therewith to be vsed But if these
Eies described 65 Eies paines remedied 66 Eie water for all paines of the eies 76 Eie powder 66 Eies blearednesse called Ophthalmia 67 Eies that be red 68 Eie salue 69 Eies full of heate remedied ibid. Eies full of blisters 70 Eie water of the Emperour Fredericke 88 Eies how they are defended on all sides 59 Eies hurt with the haires of the eyelids 64 Eies that itch and are sore 70 Eies that runne and water 71 Eies that runne of a cold cause 73 Eyes that do matter 74 Eies impostumed of externall causes 76 Eies that bake together in the sleepe ibid. Eies spotted 77 Eies before which Gnats or Flies seeme to swarme 80 Eies growen ouer with skins 83 Eies mistie and cloudie 85 Eies that sticke out as if they would fall out 86 Eies that are burned 87 Eies that haue had a blow ibid. Eies wherein something is gotten ibid. Eies that are best by day or by night 91 Eies that are blind 87. 92 Eies squintnesse 92 Eie beames dilation 85 Eie corners fistulaes 76. 79 Eie corners infections 66. 67 Eielids that will grow together 64 Eielids turned 63 Eielids with Warts ibid. Eielids chapped ibid. Eielids itching 62 Eielids swolne diuersly 60 Eielids description 59 Eie waters and other things diuersly prepared 72. 76. Eie water for running eies 71. 72 Eie salue for all kinde of running and mattering 72. 75. 76. Electuary of Calmus prepared diuersly 705 Electuary for giddinesse of the head 123 Electuarium de Psyllio 734 Electuarium Diaphoenicon ibid. Electuarium de Citro 326 Elecampane rootes confected 711 Electuarium de succo rosarum 735 Electuarium de Sebesten 362 Electuarium vitae 737 Electuarium de Manna 732 Electuaries moe 731. 733. 734. 735. c. Eluxation of the ioynts 536 Emperour Charles his prescriptions and rules in the Gout 546 Epithymus or Dodder prepared 11 Eryngus rootes preserued 717 Esula prepared and vsed 15 Euphorbium prepared 11 Euphorbium vsed ibid. Excoriation of the bladder 473 Extraction for al obstructions and binding of the body 398 399 Exhortation to the keepers of the infected with the plague 680 Exulceration in the Kidneyes 447 Exulcerations in the stomacke 376 F. FAces description 56 Faces rednesse 58 Faces pushes and heate ibid. Face how to cleere it 59 Fals blowes and bruises cause many sicknesses 684. Falling sicknesse Epilepsia 151 Falling sicknesse in children 152 Fat of mans body described 616 Fat 's of diuers beasts prepared 11 looke Marrowes Fatnesse her troublesomnesse to man 616 Feare and frighting 383 Feetes diseases how cured 526 Felon or Ancome of the fingers 525 Feuer burning called Causon 638 Fingers described 522 Fingers numbed 522. 523 Fingers numbed through bruises 523 Fistulaes causes and signes 568. 569 Fistulaes description 568 Fistula in the corner of the eye 79 Fistula in the gums 175 Fistula in the breasts 211 Fistula in the arsegut 316 To cause flesh to grow in wounds 601 Fleshes description 615 Fixe and red flixe 343. 352 Flood too aboundant after deliuerie of childe 517. Flowers how long they may be kept 7 Flowers in women looke Termes Flowers of women in generall 476 Flowers how to preferre them 477 Flowers obstruction how remedied 478. 479. 480. 482. Flowers excessiue course how to be stopped 484. Fluxe of seed through heat looke running of the raines Fluxe of seed in sleepe 293 Fluxe of seed through cold ibid. Fluxe white in women how to be remedied 488. Fomentations for the stomacke 334 Fractures of bones 549 Frensinesse 124 Frensinesse of blood 127 Frensinesse with a hot ague 125. 126. Friction in the falling euill 159 Fruites of all sortes how to keepe them fresh 725. Fruites increase in the wombe 503 Fruites weaknesse in the mothers wombe 506 Fruitfulnesse how it is caused in man and woman 300. Fruitfulnesse her signes 502 Fruitfulnesse in woman how furthered 296 G. GAlbanum plaister prepared 487 Galbanum plaister Galen ibid. Gals description 407 Gallia muscata prepared 342 Gargarismes for all infirmities of the mouth 164. Gargarisme for giddinesse of the head 123 Gargarisme for losse of speech 173 Gargarisme for rheumes 196 Generation members 274 Giddinesse of the head 121 Ginger prepared 715 Glisters diuersly prepared 709 Golden Egge prepared 669 Gloues how to perfume 521 Going il after the gout in the feete how to remedie it 547 Gout 527 Gouts signes ibid. Goutes rules that are to be obserued 528 529. Gout of the hands called Chiragra 531 Gout in the feete 540 Gout of the feete his preseruatiues 542 Gout of the feete how to preuent it 541 Gout of the feete or Podagra how purged 543. Gout of the feete which is cold 545 Gout of the feete his remedies 542 543 544. Gout of the hips called Sciatica 531 Grapes preserued 725 Gratia Dei plaister 566 Grauell sand or stone of the Kidneyes 451 Grauels increase hindered 452 To expell grauell 454 Outward remedies for the grauell 461 Grauels paine delayed 454 Grauell remedied 454. 455. c. Griping of the heart 270 Groynes swolne 274 Gumme Amoniacke looke Ammoniacum Gums of the teeth 173 Gums bleeding 174 Gums vlcer 161 Gums fistuled 175 Gums resoluing 176 Gums putrifying ibid. Gums impostumating 173 Gunpouder burning 594 Guts paine looke Bowels paine H. HAgge or mare 150 Haires description 45 Haire to make it to grow 46 Haire made yellow ibid. Haire made blacke ibid. Haire made to curle 47 Haire that it waxe not gray ibid. Haire taken away ibid. Haire drawne out 47. 48 Haire infected diuersly 48 Haires falling out preuented 48. 49 Haire on the breasts what it signifieth 211 Hands end and vse 520 Hands description ibid. Hands how to keepe them cleane ibid. Hands how to make them sweete 521 Hands that are scabbed ibid. Hands that are chapped ibid. Hand waters or lotion for the hands 521 522 523. Hardnesse of the Matrix or Mother 495 Hartburning 334 Hearts heauinesse 271 Hearts panting or beating 263 Hearts panting through heate 264 Hearts panting through a bad stomacke 271 Hearts panting through cold 268 Hearts panting through frighting 271 Hearts oppression 260 Hearts description 256. 257 Hearts infirmities in generall 258 Headach 30 Headach Hemicrania 35 Headach Congelatio 30. 136 Headaches causes 31 Headach with an ague and a laske 33 Heahach of inanition 35 Headaches Hemicraniae and Cephalaeae cured ibid. Headaches remedies ibid. Headach of the Sunne 36 Headach of drukennesse ibid. Headach of blowes or falles 37 Headach of colde ibid. Headach of colde and an especial remedie for it 39. Headaches that be old 195 Head which is cold how to purge it 37 Head broken out 51 Head broken out healed 51. 52 Heads giddinesse looke giddinesse of the head Head veines vse in opening of it 24 Head wounded 43. 54 Hearing that is bad 107 Hearing diminished 113 Healthy how preserued from infection of the plague 654 What exercise is to be vsed of them 658 How their dwellings ought to be 656 Their gouernement without doores 660 Heate of vrine looke Vrine that scaldeth Heate of vlcers
water looke Vrines effluxion Wearisomnesse described 617 Whites in women 488 Wilde Cucumbers looke Iuice of wild Cucumbers Wilde Saffron prepared 13 Williams potion for the stone 455 Wines for the grauell and stone 460 Wine of Asarabacca 46 Wine forbidden in all infirmities of the sinewes 138. Wine of Eyebright to strengthen the sight 88 Wine of diuers sorts 782. 783. 784. 785. Wine for the cold headach 39 Wines amended that haue a fault 790 Wolfes liuer looke Liuer of a Wolfe Wombes description and vse 474. 475 Wombes descension looke Mother Good for childbearing women 502 How to know whether a woman be with childe ibid. And whether with a boy or a girle 503 What commonly appeares in women with child ibid. Womens priuities looke Places Women made narrow like maidens 290 Women with child 502. 503. for to comfort the wombs vertue retentiue 299 Women with child their strange longings 505 Wormes in the Arsegut called Ascarides 438 Wormes preuented 433 Wormes of the belly 432 Wormes of the teeth 180 Woundes and all that appertaineth vnto them 595. Wounds stitched 596 Wounds to make them matter 600 Wounds with proud flesh in them ibid. Wounds fresh 597 Y. YArd exulcerated in the act veneriall 374 Yards vnnatural erection called Priapismus and Satyrismus 275. 276. Yellow Iaundise 396. 397. c. The end of the first Table This second Index containeth all the Simples that are specified in this Worke as Rootes Herbes Flowers Fruites Plants Iuices Gummes Woods Stones Barkes Mettals Minerals and Earths Also all the parts of Beasts and of the body of man that are or may be vsed in Physicke A. ABrecockes or Peaches are called in Latine Mala armeniaca Mala praecocia and Bericocia others do cal them mala trecacina and the common sort name them Chrysomela but this is the right and true Latine name of the Orange it is a fruite sufficiently knowne and growing in this our countrie Adders toong is called of Plinie Lingua and Lingulaca of the Herbarists Echioglossum Ophioglossum Lingua viperina Lingua serpentina and Lingua vulneraria This herbe is to be gathered onely in Aprill and in May it groweth in moist medowes low grounds and that at no other time than in the abouesaid moneths It is vsed in vulnerall potions oiles and salues Alecost or Indish pepper in latine Lepidium Piperitis Alehoofe or as some say Harehoofe is called in Gréeke and in Latine Chamaecissus Selinitis Hedera humilis and Corona terrae by the Herbarists Hedera pluuiatilis and by the Apothecaries Hedera terrestris Allium alpinum it is also called Allium reticulatum Victorialis and Victorialis longa to distinguish it from Gladiolus segetalis which by diuers authors is called Victorialis rotunda although in very déede they differ greatly The leafe of this herbe is not much vnlike to that of Neesewort the roote is long and hairie twisted together as if it had bene done of purpose with the hand whereof two of them are layed crosse one ouer another as the legges of man or woman otherwhiles are placed This roote do the cosening Merchants I meane the Mountibanks and Quacksaluers sell for the right Mandragora or Mandrake saying that they haue digged it vp vnder the gallowes with great hazard of their liues thus doe they beguile and seduce the common sort of men with vntruths which ought by the Magistrates to be seuerely punished not for a small peece of siluer to be permitted otherwise I feare they shal be called to an account for it when it shall be said Redde rationem villicationis tuae Allum Alumen Alumen liquidum Alumen liparinum Alumen rubeum the Apothecaries do call it Alumen de Rocha Amber in Latine Ambarum Ambar Ampar Succinum orientale and at the Apothecaries Ambra it is a precious liquor or a kinde of swéete smelling earth Amethyst Amethystus a precious stone Ammie Ameos Ammium Ammi Cuminum regiū Hippocratis Cuminum Alexandrinum and Cuminum Aethiopicum it is a kinde of plant which beareth a sharp and sweet séed which the Apothecaris do call Ameos Anacardus or Anacardium is a strange fruit so called Angelica is called by diuers sundrie names for that there be diuers sorts of it as Hippiatricis Lasaron Gallaticon in Greeke Laser Gallicum Laserpitium Gallicum and of the Herbarists Imperatoria Ostrutium and Astrutium the Apothecaries do cal it Astrantia and Magistrantia Anthora is called of Paulus Aegineta Arnabo and of the Arabian writers Zurumbet of the Simplicists Zurumbetum It is a sweete smelling roote like to Ginger but it is bitter in taste It is commonly called Zedoaria but vniustly for there is no small difference betweene Zurumbet that is Anthora and Zedoaria of the Arabians as manifestly appeareth by the words of Auicen and Serapio who do write of these two in sundrie chapters seuerally wherefore the Zedoaria of the Arabians is not our Anthora although that it hath bene falsly vsed in many compositions for it but it is the roote of Zeduarie Anthora is an herb not much vnlike the lesser Wolfs bane but that it groweth somewhat higher and the flowers are a little lesse and yellow It hath two blacke rootes round like vnto an Oliue blackish without and as it were withered within white and solide It groweth in great quantitie on the hils in Sauoy and about Geneua also about Salmes in high Burgundy and on the hils of Switserland The latter Greeke writers call it Zadura Zaduaria Zedura Zudar Zaduara Zadur Zadera Zaduar and Zadar Serapio calleth it Zedoaria Auicen Zeduar Gieduar and Napellus Moysi The Simplicists name it Anthora Antithora and Anthullia wherefore whensoeuer you shall find Zurumbet in any composition then be sure to take Anthora but if you reade Zedoaria then take Doronicum Antimony in Greeke Stibi Stibium or Stimmi of Galen Gynacium and of Plinie Platiophthalmon it is called at the Apothecaries by the barbarous name Antimonium Plinie also calleth it Alabastrum which name is proper onely to Alabaster it is a minerall like to lead and knowne of all men Argentine Argemone altera Inguinaria Plinij Anserina Argentina Tenacetum syluestre Agrimonia syluestris Potentilla and Portentilla This herb is sufficiently knowne and much vsed for all paines and gripings in the belly which are without any binding Aristologie the round vide Hartwort Aromaticall wine is a wine made with spice and a kind of Hipocras Aromatites Hippocras is called in latine Vinum Hippocraticum the Claret wine Clarea vinum Claretum and at the Apothecaries Claretum Artichocks are called in Gréeke and in Latine Scolymus Cinara Cinarus Acantha Cactus Carduus Altilis Strobilus Carchofilus Articocalus and Articoca Ars smart in Gréeke and in Latine Hydropiper Piper aquaticum Piper caninum Herba pauonis Pauonaria and Persicaria of Hippocrates Polycraton or Polycriton It is a wel knowne and contemned herb but very good for wounds it is hot and drie The other kind which by the vnskilfull without any regard is vsed for
strayner or sieue hold it ouer a dish and with a round pestell squise it thorough the strainer and all the black pith will passe thorough and hang on the outside of the strainer which thou shalt scrape off with a knife and kéepe it then set thy sieue or strainer ouer the boyling water as is aforesaid and afterwardes squise it thorough againe as at the first This worke shalt thou do againe so long till no more pith passe thorough and nothing but kernels remaine in thy strainer this prepared Cassia is called by the Apothecaries Cassia cribrata Note that when thou wilt vse this Cassia it must alwaies be new taken out of the pipes for being reserued out of the pipe presently it waxeth sower and especially in the sommer time Of this strained Cassia maist thou exhibite at one time one ounce or one ounce and a halfe in hot burning agues vnto children and women in child bed to euery of them more or lesse as they are able to beare Also if thou wilt haue this Cassia to purge more effectually then put either the blossomes or leaues of the Peach trée in the boyling water before thou hold thy Cassia ouer the vapor of it The vertue of Cassia is to purifie and cleare the bloud to quench thirst and to allay heat being taken with Endiue water also to purge the stomacke to driue out choler and flegme without any danger for it hath no sharpnesse or corroding vertue in it In like sort it is very comfortable for the brest and liuer and is very good for the kidneys being mixed with the appropriate waters that driue out grauell and beaten Licorise then ministred it doth scowre away the grauell and hindreth the growing of the stone It is vsed in a confection with Manna and it is also prepared for Clisters Coloquint Coloquint is a very bitter apple and is oftentimes sowne in gardens for pleasure sake yet it is found very seldome to be ripe The vse of that which is brought vs from Venice or other places is this and no otherwise The innumerable white kernels being cast away the rest shall be beaten very small and sifted thorow a very fine searce and so be brought to as fine a powder as possible may be when it is wet it swelleth as if it had neuer bene powdered and for that cause it is straightly charged to be reduced into so fine a dust for if neuer so little a peece should by chaunce remaine in the stomacke or guts it would easily excoriate and hurt them so that hereby the sinewes might take some harme yea lamenesse and crampes ensue of it The right preparation of it is this that followeth Take of the aforesaid fine powdered Coloquint two ounces and a halfe rub it a great while with two ounces of oile of Roses then take of the gum Tragacanth of gum Arabicke of Bdellium of each of them ℥ ss stéepe them in a litle rose water vntill they be dissolued put of this mixture vnto the beaten Coloquint and forme little cakes of it let them drie beate them small againe and fashion your cakes againe with the gum water and kéepe them On this wise prepared are they more safe than the crude Coloquint and are called Throcisci Alandali To what end they be vsed in phisicke shall be shewed hereafter This prepared Coloquint may be exhibited from ℈ j. to ℈ j. ss ℈ ij but it purgeth vehemently it draweth the tough flegmaticall humors from the head and other parts Coloquint is supposed of some to be hote and drie in the second of others in the third degrée Corrall Corrall both red and white is prepared in that manner as is aforesaid of the Pearles Coriander séede being hurtfull vnto the braine both by his hot nature by his strong smell Coriander seedes is verie profitable for many vses ye shall correct it as followeth Stéepe it the space of twelue howers in good strong wine vineger afterward euaporate or drie away your vineger from it in a warme place then it is prepared Black Coriander is the séed of Nigella Nigella seedes and is prepared as that aboue sayd Dates both swéete and sower do purge very easily especially in hot diseases great drithes Dates being prest close togither as they are brought vnto vs they are kept good a long time you may minister of them from two ounces to fower at once They néede no preparing or correcting at all for that they purge so gently and can do no harme Gems or precious stones are prepared as is aforesayd of pearles Gems Horsleaches the bloud sucking water worme Horsleaches shall be kept some dayes in fresh water before they be vsed putting a little bloud and bran into the water for their food then do they lose their venome Scoria ferri the refuse of iron shalt thou cast into faire water wash it Scoria ferri Refuse of iron and let it settle to the bottome powre of the water from it vntil it remaine verie cleane and pure afterward put it in an earthen pot that is well leaded or glassed within put as much vineger to it as will wet it onely and not ouerflow it let them stand so both togither the space of thirtie dayes in the meane while oftentimes stirring them afterward moule or grinde them on a marble as thou didst the pearles Polipodium little ferne or polipodie doth willingly grow on old wals and mossie stones Polipodie but the best groweth on okes it purgeth gall and slimie superfluities it is somwhat hurtfull to the stomacke it is therefore corrected with Annise séedes Fennell seedes Cloues Cumine seedes and is administred either with hony water or else with the water of grapes and very seldome by it selfe alone Epithymus Dodder is vsed in many profitable medicines Dodder the gold coloured and strong smelling Dodder is the best foure dragmes of it in powder or at the most six driueth out melancholie and choler It is almost neuer giuen by it selfe but alwayes admixed with other things but specially it is sodden in drinkes or potions at which time thou mayest vse one ounce at once It is put in last of all into the boiling potion The iuice of wild Cucumbers called in Gréeke Elaterium is pressed out of the wild Cucumbers the Phisitions commaund that it should not be vsed till it be two yeares old Elaterium it may be kept ten yeares togither the older it is the better and when it is moistened it is like vnto milk being put to the fire it doth presently burne It purgeth flegme water and all superfluous humidities most violently and in like sort gall and choler also It ought not to be vsed vnaduisedly or without the counsell of a skilfull Phisition for that an error might be committed in a few graines Euphorbium is a strange gum so called Euphorbium amongst all the purging simples the strongest and hottest verie sharpe and biting on the tong
superfluities and corruptions should be expelled and banished out of the bodie which for the most part is perfected by drying or purging medicines whereof now shall be mentioned The best counsell therefore is that not vnaduisedly but very warily thou meddle with strong medicines For as in all infirmities purgings are very needful and profitable so also the vse of bad and too strong purgations is very hurtfull and dangerous Wherefore in sharpe and perillous diseases shall the aduice of a learned Phisition be asked or else in his absence to choose and vse things that are easie and safe of which in this booke euery where mayest thou haue choise What persons shall abstaine from purging and the impediments thereof §. 2. ALL such as vse a moderate diet What persons are to refraine from purging and eate nothing but that which ingendreth good bloud they haue no néed of any purgation Those that do abound in bloud may in like sort omit purging but good it is for them to be let bloud If any matter or bad humour do settle it selfe in the concauitie or hollownesse of the articles or ioynts and is inherent as in the Leprie and such like happeneth in vaine it is also for them to purge for if such humours be mooued onely and not wholly expelled they might easily be drawne to some noble and principall part of the body whereby the diseased might be greatly weakened and fall into a worse incouenience than before In great heate or cold mayest thou not purge for the heate diuideth and spreadeth the matter ouer all the body and weakeneth greatly at which time if thou purge thou doest stir and moue the humor and doest ouerthrow the strength of nature In great cold is the matter tough and thicke and altogether vnapt for Phisicke to worke vpon It is also forbidden in weake persons whether their weaknesse procéed from nature or some other accidentall cause to purge strongly although gentle purgations for their ease in some sort be allowed Hote and drie natures must forbeare purgings for all purging medicines for the most part are hote and drie and by that meanes do they augment heate and drought and hurt the bodie Very nice and daintie persons shall not take any strong purgation for in them are the humours easily moued In like sort might fat bodies which commonly are but weake by strong purgations incurre the danger of stifling Young children and old men shall shunne purgations and those also that labour much and cary great burdens for they are alwayes weary which is contrary to all purgations What is to be obserued in and after the taking of a purgation §. 3. 〈◊〉 and after purguing AFter the taking of a purge is a moderate motion vp and downe and stirring of the armes commodious that the matter fall and remaine not all vpon an heape in the body But if thou feare that thou shalt cast vp the purgation thou shalt be at rest and quiet till thy stomacke be stayed If the purgation that thou hast taken be gentle and a little potion or drinke thou shalt forbeare to sleepe after it but vpon hard or solide medicines as pils tabulats and such like is sléepe and rest graunted that by the inward and naturall heate the substance of the pilles might the sooner be dissolued and dispersed The purgation being taken it is not amisse to vse some sower thing after it as a Pomegranate vnripe Grapes Oranges c. for that strengtheneth the stomacke that it draweth no ill humor to it and it stayeth all the vomiting It is also good after the taking of any purgation to drinke a draught of whay or warme béere it helpeth the operation of the medicine and dulleth her sharpnesse It is also good to kéepe the belly warme least by force he draw away the medicine from the stomack To this end is nothing more commodious than warme water to set thy féete in for that warmeth all the bodie The belly may also be couered with a little bagge and some bran in it When the medicine beginneth to purge it is not much amisse to mooue the bodie somewhat for by that motion descendeth it downewards and all the harme or badnesse which the medicine hath with it is thereby taken away the motion helpeth also to expell the humors Whilest the medicine doth yet purge thou shalt neither eate nor drinke least it hinder the operation thereof Notwithstanding if the patient cannot forbeare so long let him vse the broth of a hen or some such like thing or else the sirupe of Violets to delay the heate of the stomacke and to preserue him from an ague For a great quantity of choler being drawne into the stomacke by reason of hunger might easily cause such an accident as might be very hurtful for the diseased Secondly if a great hunger should ouertake him he may boldly take a péece of a toast and dip it in good wine or any such like liquor but not so much in quantity that the medicine might be hindered of her operation Sleepe after the operation of the purge is permitted for as the purge doth weaken and distemper the body so doth rest and sleepe strengthen it againe After thy sleepe thou shalt make but a small and easie meale for considering that the natural powers and vertues of the body be somewhat weakned they might by too much and too hasty eating be quite ouerthrowne so that this is a generall rule The more the medicine hath purged the lesse ought to be eaten after it The next day after purging is good to bathe in warme water if at the least the féeble estate of the patient do not disswade from it for thereby are the relikes that are left after purging moistened and digested and it suppleth also the drie body On the third day shall a veine be opened by the which the vapors of the humors that were mooued and expelled are taken away which otherwise would be no small hurt vnto the body This shall suffice as concerning the rules and ordinances that ought to be obserued in purging An addition for the better and more expedite vnderstanding of this Chapter Purging is an euacuation of humors that abound and molest one wherein is to be noted Who Are to be purged to wit they that be Full of corrupted humors Not crude First concocted Strong Vsed vnto it Not as they that be In health without any bad humours weake women with child leane not accustomed of a drie complexion old fat troubled with the bloudie flixe or any laske conuulsed empty of bodie subiect to sowning women that haue their flowers children labourers c. How The braine by the Eyes Nose Pallate Lungs by coughing Arteries of respiration by coughing Stomacke by vomite Conuexe part of the liuer by vomite Humours tending vpwards by vomite Concaue part of the liuer by stoole Humours descending by stoole Kidneyes by stoole Wombe by vrine How much Age. Strength Complexion The disease Time Custome Place of
a good draught of wine vpon it then to be let bloud and thrée houres after to breake his fast againe the cause whereof is that when the stomacke hath taken a little food nature is most strong The member likewise which is to be phlebotomised ought first to be somewhat chafed and rubbed with warme clothes that the humors thereby might be drawne thither It is also not amisse to bind the member with a band for that in like sort draweth the humors into the veines It befalleth oft in phlebotomie that the blood by no meanes can be stenched or stopped for the which thou shalt find in the fift booke diuers approued remedies but for the same is the powder of calcined or burned Vitrioll very highly commended being cast vpon it If the patient chance to faint in the letting of blood let him drinke a cup of good wine for that reuiueth the vital spirits strengtheneth the heart and refresheth the blood Vse also for the same those things that do comfort the heart which thou shalt find in the second booke If the opened veine should swell and puffe vp then boyle Rue in the oyle of Oliues and apply it to the veine This also is very good to be vsed after cupping if the place should begin to rankle After the letting of bloud the patient shall forbeare sléepe at the least sixe houres and not eate in the time aboue specified that the homors now stirred and troubled in the body might be setled againe in the meane while Afterwards let him vse light meates abstaine from milke or any thing that is made thereof and then at the last commit himselfe to sléepe Lastly he is not to vse any thing either inwardly or outwardly but that might warme and comfort the body and to follow that most learned man Ioachimus Camerarius who excellently and briefly obserued these rules after the letting of bloud Prima coena die sit misso sanguine parca Lux abeat laetis aucta secunda modis Tertia sed placidae debetur tota quieti Quarta quinta sibi mollius esse volunt Balnea sexta petit mox septima colligit auras Fertque vagos circum rura nemusque pedes Octaua amplexus dilectae coniugis quae Antè fuit vitam restituisse solet That is The first day not much meate be spent The second day to mirth be bent The third day vse thy rest and ease The fourth and fift eate what thou please The sixt day bathe in any case The seuenth walke from place to place The eight mayest thou lie with thy wife and after liue thy wonted life What veines ought in euery disease to be opened §. 6. SEeing that the body of man is euery where full of veines here shall now be shewed which of them ought to be opened for the ease of any one member or for cure and helpe of any disease whatsoeuer First therefore shall be noted that phlebotomie may be vsed in diuers parts of the bodie partly as the disease requireth partly also according as the veines are apparent Amongst others there are six from the armepit downeward to the elbow with those on the hand that may be opened The first is called Cephalica the head veine the second Basilica in Latin Hepatica the liuer veine the third Mediana Cordiaca Corporalis Nigra Matrix and Communis that is the median heart corpulent blacke mother and common veine The fourth Axillaris the veine of the armepit because in the armepit it most plainely appeareth The fift on the beginning of the hand which now is no longer phlebotomised The sixt is also on the outside of the hand betweene the litle and the fourth finger which of the Phisitions is called Sceiles Splenetica Saluatella that is the spleene veine The lower parts of the body as the legs and féet haue thrée speciall veines the one Ischiadica the hip veine the other is Saphea or Saphena the wombe veine the third Poplitis the knée vein which is the iust middle veine They are the special veines that commonly are opened of which and others more we will hereafter speake at large Of the head veine Cephalica §. 7. THis veine is also called Humeralis the shoulder veine because it easeth all the veins that are aboue and beneath the necke whensoeuer it is opened This veine being opened it doth much helpe the head-ach called Hemicranâ—a madnesse and such like that proceed of an extraordinary heat It beginneth to appéere about the armpits and passeth along by the left arme To the end then that the Reader might more cléerely vnderstand and know in what infirmities this veine may conueniently be opened I wil briefly rehearse out of other places of this our booke and shew when it is vsually opened As for example in head-aches with agues heate and flures in tumors of the armepits in the paines inflammations and apostumations with other impediments of the eyes in frensies or madnesse in the night mare or hag in al accidents of the mouth and throte in all rheumes in hot agues with an infection of the lungs Here maist thou perceiue and sée manifestly that this may iustly be called the head veine Of the liuer veine Basilica §. 8. AMongst all others is this liuer veine Basilica the principallest whose name is sufficiently knowne both in Gréeke and English This being opened vnburdeneth all the parts below the necke as breast liuer c. of their superfluous bloud so that if any of these be any kind of way diseased it may by that meanes be recouered againe it taketh her beginning of the armepit veine or Axillaris and goeth downe to the elbow The diseases in the which it is vsually phlebotomised are these In tumors of the eyes in vnmeasurable bléeding at the nose in whéesing or ringing of the eares in extreme melancholy in rheumes with heate and agues and in all infirmities of the lungs in broken veines or varices of the brest in the panting or beating of the heart in great faintnesse in ruptures in bleeding of the hemorrhoides in barrennesse of women that procéedeth of heate in an obdurated and hardned liuer in melancholy in hot swellings of the stomacke in obstructions of the vrine in impostumes of the wombe in the paine of the hips in the gout in wrenchings of the ioynts in broken veines in great inflammations in the poxe and in the measles Of the Median or middle veine §. 9. THis is for the most part of all our Phisitions and Chirurgians called by the Latine name Mediana because it lieth betwéene the abouesaid veines and taketh his beginning also from them both This being opened in all infirmities doth most good for that it easeth both the vpper and the lower parts of the bodie for which cause it is called Vniuersalis the common veine and not as some suppose because it commeth from the heart Here is to be obserued that if the head veine or Cephalica should be opened and it no where appeareth in stead of it the
this prepared Sope one pound white or yellow Saunders Roses of each halfe one ounce water Lillies two dragmes Camfere one dragme being all beaten to powder mixe them with the Sope and make it vp in little cakes drie them and reserue them for thy vse Of the paine in the head with agues and laske or flixe of the bellie §. 3. WHereas this paine of the head is oftentimes cause of diuers other maladies it shall not be amisse to describe that headache which raigned in the yeare of our Lord 1564 in Mosbach and in the whole Dukedome of the Palsgraue of Rhene at which time I compiled this present worke This paine began with a shiuering cold presently ensued an ague with a little heate but with great drithe and thirst which continued about one fortnight or more It returned vnto diuers after they had bin cleare of it a moneth or twaine and that twise or thrise togither others were intolerably troubled in the head and some so vehemently vexed with a flixe of the bellie without bloud that it could by no meanes by stayed yea they oftentimes very miserably perished with it In this headach were these remedies found very effectuall and good First if nothing do disswade from it thou shalt open the head veine especially if the patient be yong full of bloud and be of body strong and able inough to beare it Children shall then purge with easie medicines as Cassia Manna sirupe of Roses Sene leaues decocted with some cooling herbes The bigger sort shall be purged with sharpe pils and other purgations if they haue no laske withall and if nothing else could be had out of hand thou shalt make this decoction or drinke Take Sena leaues one ounce Cinnamom Annise and Fennell seedes Currans of each as much as thou canst hold betwéene two of thy fingers Licorise the length of thy finger if it be a thicke sticke take lesse of it one fig both cut small swéete Marioram Rosemarie as much as thou canst take vp betwéene thy fingers Sugar one ounce boyle them all in a quart of water till halfe be consumed of this giue to a child to drinke two ounces to an old body fower ounces to a strong body mayest thou boyle half an ounce of Sene leaues with it For women childrē to be boxed on the sholders and legs is very good or to rub their arms and legs with warme clothes downwards It is also good for them to bathe their féete in the decoction of Cummomill Roses and Betonie Wines of all sorts must be shunned in this infirmitie and all things that are hot as Spices Onions Garlicke and such like for daily drinke take two handfuls of Barly Anniséedes halfe an ounce Raisins one ounce and a halfe boile these together in a pottle of water till the Barly do burst then adde thrée dragmes of Cinnamom grossely beaten and let it boile a little so coole Séeing then this sicknesse prouoketh thirst thou maiest not altogether bar the diseased from any kind of drinke but let him take inough of the prescribed decoction with the sirupe of Roses of Violets or of Citrones admixed Thou mayest also giue him the conserue of the same flowers with the water of Endiue Succorie Borage and of Lettice for that it doth comfort the heart For his meate he shall commonly vse French Barly boiled with a hen in broth veale kids flesh or stewed Prunes and such like light meates But if a flixe or loosenesse in the bodie be adioyned to the former infirmitie the affected partie shall in any wise take great héede of such light and loosing meates and onely vse rosted veale pullets rosted and other small birds stewed Quinces or any such like thing Or if he would haue any other meate dressed it shal be done with stilled water which is made as followeth Take as much faire water as thou wilt set it on the fire and cast a good péece of steele into it being first made red hot thrée or foure times together then let the water coole and vse it as thou wilt In like sort also mayest thou prepare water of iron of gold of siluer and of flints for the same purpose thus is wine the milke of a cow and of goates also stéeled But to come to our purpose again as long as this loosenesse of the bodie doth continue thou shalt annoynt the stomacke twise a day with the oyles of Mastix and of Quinces If it be about the time of the yeare that Sloes be ripe take as many of them as you please put them into a pot and powre boyling water vpon them stop or couer them very close giue vnto the infirmed bodie three or foure of these a litle before his meate noting alwaies that in foure and twenty howers he vse not aboue twenty of them at the most Contrariwise if the bodie be bound thou shalt seeke by all meanes thou maist to loose it otherwise many vapors ascend vp into the head and there augment both the heate and the paine yea oftentimes bereaue the patient of his wittes Wherfore first of all thou shalt trie to open the bodie by suppositories which if they will not suffice vse common Clisters which herafter in the third part for the binding stopping of the bodie are prescribed Otherwise if these do not please thee vse some cooling purgation or else that purging potion aboue described There be aboue set downe many vnguents salues and waters but all are very good for the paine of the head But in this kind of head-ach this remedie that followeth is expresly described Take of the water of Lettice Nightshade and of Housleeke of each two ounces water of Camomill an ounce and a halfe good strong vineger one ounce Camfere beaten foure graines mixe them all together or take Rose water Rose vineger Melilot water Betonie water of each or of as many as are to be had what quantitie thou please wet linnen clothes in them and lay them to the forehead In this infirmitie oftentimes is both the toung and throate very raw and sore by reason of the great heate for the which looke the remedies that are set downe in the Chap. 13. § 6. of this first part for the infirmities and heate of the toung and the gargarismes for the paine in the throte in the first Chapter of the second part The sirupe of Mulberies with Plantaine Knotgrasse and Selfeheale water admired conduceth and helpeth very much likewise take the seede of Quinces and the seede of Fleawoort then take a litle sticke and tie to the end of it a little skarlet or linnen cloth with one dragme of these seedes in it steepe it in the water of Selfeheale when thou wilt cleanse thy toung rub it easily with that cloth so steeped it cleanseth moisteneth cooleth and healeth all the chops or clifts in it To comfort the heart vse Manus Christi with Pearles conserue of water Lillies Pomegranates preserued Citrons and others such like This binding water
this purpose Of the scales of the head of the beard and eyebrowes §. 7. THe Latinists do call the scales of the head Furfures which is bran well knowne of all people and are very common in al mens heads They grow there through a hot complexion and when they abound much aboue custome then were they wont to be messengers of leprosie They that haue them so excessiue do get them through a licentious life and surfetting in eating and drinking through incontinencie strong wine much vse of garlick onions and mustard whereby the blood is burnt to ashes For this must one begin with purging like as in all drie itches shall be expressed But if the person haue much bloud then is he to be let bloud if not then are to be vsed neesing powders gargarismes and boxing cups are to be set on the shoulders and necke and afterwards these things Seeth Mallowes or Venus haire in water wash therewith the head and face and alwayes rub well the head or boile fennell séed Licorice Fleawort Lupins Hollihocke rootes take out the muscilage as shall be taught hereafter and temper them with the iuice of Melons Item take Nuttrée wood or Nut shels burnt to ashes put them in the ly and wash you therwith Item take Charuill Southernwood make a lie thereof with a little vineger Item burne Hay flowers to ashes and poure ly vpon it Item take Elecampane rootes and infuse them a good while in ly Or take Storkes bill let it séeth in water and foment well the scales therewith that they be well frothed and afterwards lay the herbes on the top of it and they will weare away Will you yet haue stronger things then take the gall of a Bull Coloquint Sal Alcali Boras of each one drag Gals pils of Pomegranates and their blossomes of each one scrup and temper them together Item take narrow Plantaine Henbane séeds and salt of each a little séeth them in water and rub the scales therewith the same also doth Aqua vitae with Brimstone amongst it Heretofore in the second chapter § 1. you haue a bag for ly which beginneth Take Spica c. you may vse the same also for the scales and put therto two ounces of Orenge péels whereof some of the white is cut away For to draw the muscilage out of the séedes and rootes the Apothecaries do call the slime drawne out of all séeds and rootes Muscilagines it is much vsed in this matter and is thus prepared Take rootes and séeds chop and stampe each according to the qualitie How to make the slime or muscilage of seeds root seeth them vntil the liquor be very slimy muscilaginous this being done poure it al together into a long bag that is piked beneath and bind it hard to a staffe afterwards take two little boordes and fasten the said bag betwéene them wring it hard from aboue downewards then runneth the slime or muscilage out of it receiue it in a cleane porrenger and after this fashion wring or presse out all the slime that will come forth For to driue away Lice and Vermine §. 8. Lice THis lothsome and especially to children troublesome worme hath his most abode in the foresaid haire of the head and they do grow through moisture of the flesh or to speake properly of a grosse and moist vapor that fumeth out at the pores and through naturall warmth becometh outwardly a Louse and receiueth also a vital spirit and is altered into a litle worme with sixe feete increasing and seeking their meate in the place of their generation therefore are children and women more plagued then men that are drie by nature and be much lesse hurtfull to yong children then to full growne persons yet they haue this commodity thereby that they that haue most lice be wholly fréed from the headach Their cause The cause whence they are ingendred may be ouermuch eating and small digesture or eating of meates that be very moist as diuers fruites and especially figs and chestnuts also ouermuch carnall copulation vncleane clothes and such as are worne ouerlong Their remedies Now that one may be rid of this vermin annoint the head with the broth of Salt fish with the iuice of Alehoofe the iuice of Fumitory mixt with Vineger take Gentian and séeth it in ly and wash the head therewith Take Bay berries or if you haue them not the oile of Bay Vineger powned Bay berries burnt Harts horne seeth them together in water or ly and wash the head therewith Salues Take halfe a pound of Barrowes grease mixe and temper amongst it one ounce of Quicksiluer and one ounce of the oile of Bay Licebane and white Hellebore of each halfe an ounce Salgem one dragme and a litle vineger temper them all together and therewith annoint the head and put a kercher on the head and in the morning wash the head with lie Another Take Barrowes grease halfe a pound beaten Liuer foure ounces Wolues bane and white Hellebore rootes of each halfe an ounce oile of Bay one ounce temper amongst it one ounce and a half of quicksiluer so wel that one cannot sée it salt one drag vse a litle thereof for it is strong Item take vnprepared Coriander séeth it in water wash therewith the head and all places where there are any lice and wash the clothes in like maner it driueth away lice and fleas you may also try the same with Coriander leaues Crab-lice Against Crab-lice you are to vse all the former things They grow of a stinking matter that nature expelleth through the hairy skin as in the eybrowes beard priuities they are most plagued with them that eate many kinds of meates vse small exercises and much bathing For to consume this vncleane matter he is to be purged with Pillulae Cochiae and to vse oftentimes gargarismes with the sirupe of vineger and a litle mustard séed and to wash the place with Allume water and salt water or that wherein Stauesacre is decocted Iem take Stauesacre and Allume of each one drag beate them together temper it with hony and annoint therewith Others do take Salarmoniac Aloe and Borras amongst it and in stéed of hony vineger of Squils also the white of a rosted egge is commended for it wrapt vp in a cloth and held as hot vpon the place as may be suffered This being done thrée or foure times they will fall away Lice in childrens feete Somtime yong children haue also lice growing in their féet for them take new laid hen egs let them be sodden hard cut the white in péeces in the breadth beate then the yolks and with fine linnen rags lay it on the feet and then the white vpon it and so being well bound certaine houres the lice will créepe to the white of the egge The Lowsie euill Phthiriasis a miserable sicknesse §. 9. EVen as we haue written of the Lice so we wil adioyne thereto the Lowsie euil which
them so that it waxe a pap then lay it vpon the forehead take Hares haire temper it well with the white of egges and a little Allume afterwards mixe it with Rose water or Rose vineger take powned Horstaile temper it with Plantaine water or the iuice of Plantaine Thirdly the blood is to be stopt with astringent things as Dragagant Gum Frankinsence Mil dust whites of egs and such like take Tormentill or Pyrola one of both this is to be held in the mouth These astringent things are not oftentimes vsed alone but commonly tempered with the aforementioned binding and cooling things Fourthly the bléeding is to be inhibited by potentiall cauteries as Coperas Orpiment quicke lime Sal Armoniack when the same be powdered and blowne into the nose for they make an escarre But this is to be feared if so be that the blood be not quenched therewith that it might afterwards bleed the sorer therefore it is not without great danger to vse this meane Fiftly it wil be staunched with those things which haue a proper and hidden vertue for it as the iuice of Basil but especially Asse dung and Hogs dung are said to be good for it be it of what soeuer cause that the bleeding be prouoked if the same be but of it self alone held before the nose and so let smell thereto and also the same tempered with the iuice of broad Plantaine and annointed in the nose or burnt to ashes and blowne therein or a plaister made thereof and laid on the top of the nose Termes in 〈◊〉 this plaister is also méete against the excessiue termes or flowers of women put into the necke of the wombe and also applied to their priuities This is also very good Amber Purslaine garden Mints and their iuice with copwebs thrust vp into the nose Sixtly the blood will be stanched if one let it out on the contrary side the which is effected if one open the Median or liuer veine as also many learned Phisitions do affirme that they haue for the bléeding of the nose not approoued any thing more better nor certainer than to open the veine vpon the hand or on the foote and then to drinke two scruples of Philonium Persicum with Purslaine water they haue also as hath bene said powdered Troc de Carabe and blowne into the nose It is also very good to set boxing cups on the shoulders and on the legs vnderstanding well that if the blood run out of the right nostril then set the boxes vnpickt vpon the liuer if it run out of the left nostril vpon the Milt in the left side also the legs the armes and the breast are to be bounden to rub the outward members and also vnder the armpits and other places of the body with burnt nettles for to draw therewith the blood downewards Besides all these aforesaid I am to manifest one remedy more that excéedingly stoppeth also bléeding Take sleckt lime make a plaister thereof with vineger lay it ouer the nose it will stop presently Others suppose also that this lime is to be blowne into the nostrils or made vp with the white of an egge to be so put with a taint into the nose This also as some suppose wil the wooll or flaxe do that flieth from the herbe Carduius Benedictus cut small and thrust into the nose Item it hath bene oftentimes found that an extreme frighting hath caused blood by and by to stanch and cease for that the blood runneth then towards the hart In this also hath superstition and vnbeleefe taken place whensoeuer one holdeth in his hand a dead mans bone and the mosse that groweth vpon a dead bodies scalp be stopt into the nose then is the blood stanched out of hand In like maner also albeit that it be somewhat more naturall if one lay the mosse of the blacke or sloe thorne in the shooes and go thereon it doth stanch blood Item take broade Plantaine and the iuice of Shepheards purse of each thrée ounces prepared Bloodstone fine Bolus sealed Earth Dragon blood of each one dragme and a half spread it on a cloth and lay it on the place of the nose where the bloud cometh and refresh it oftentimes Or take beaten Beane meale temper it with the white of an egge and vse it as before It commeth also otherwhiles to passe and is also no wonder that such superfluous blood of the nose doth bring swouning with it for the which are sicke persons hands and feete to be rubbed with salt and vineger to bind fast the armes and legs and to bind and vnbind them againe also to vse other outward meanes which here afterwards in the second part shall be described for the swouning Item if the blood run out at the right nostrel set a boxing cup vnpickt vpon the Liuer and so whensoeuer the swouning is past the Liuer veine is to be opened or the Salnatella in the left side to smel to cold things as that which is made of Quince peares and to vse Lettice Purslaine Beanes and other pottages vntill that the blood waxeth thicke For a conclusion you haue hereafter many remedies in the fifth part for to stanch bloud which are also good for this purpose Enfeebled or lost smelling §. 8. THis is no small disease to man for if one be borne with it or haue had it long he is esteemed by the Grecians incurable vnles it be through continuance of time and with great trouble neuerthelesse the auncient and latter Phisitions haue imployed all diligence to deuise all necessary meanes and first described thrée seuerall kinds thereof The first kind where throughly and wholy the smell is lost The second is a diminishing of the smell where a thing is smelt like as it is yet vnperfectly and this disease is much more with men then with beasts for that they be of a moister braine and all beasts haue their braines much drier therefore they do also smell sharper and further The third kind is a corrupted smel where one receiueth the smel otherwise then it is of it self like as when one adiudgeth stinking things for odoriferous The cause that the smell is vtterly lost is when the conduits that go towards the braines be throughly obstructed that the aire receiued cannot come to the skin of the braines which obstruction may happen through some violent motion or blowes on the head Also if about the place and instuments of smelling there ingender any wart or fleshly excrescence or any vlceration or also through any other grosse humors that will settle there and stop vp the conduits of smelling Lastly through repletion of the head and of the whole body The cause of the diminishing of the smelling is as before but is not so great it may also be caused by cold or by hot medicines which be vsed at the nose The cause of a corrupted smell is a bad moisture which lieth hidden in the same place and there maketh stinking vapors and so may also the canker
towards the shoulder blades and ribs This place is not altogether bonie like to the scul nor of one péece but very orderly the one with the other intermingled filled with bones and muscles so that the ribs comprehend and defend behind and before the inward parts euen as it were with a bulwork And euen as this part of mans body is outwardly defended with bones euen so are also the inner parts with veines arteries and strong sinewes ioyned together and fashioned very formally thereby to take aire into it and to yéeld it out againe wherby the hart the lights and other parts should be refreshed and preserued in their estate Also the brest like as other parts of man is subiect to many kinds of maladies as partly may be séene in the description of the rheume For when these mischieuous rheumes fall vpon the brest then do they harme the lights stop the wind pipes make a man pursiue stinking breathed much coughing and anguish so that at the last they rid matter and filth with many moe such accidents whereby the lights are perished and hurt whereof afterwards more at large and plainely shall be parcelwise discouered And to follow our woonted method we will first speake of the outward parts of the Breast Of womens breasts milke and of their diseases §. 1. THe womens breasts are by nature indued with two kinds of wondrous works The first that through their meanes the new borne child receiueth his food to wit from the bloud which through naturall warmth is altered and brought into milke The second that they are a defence couer of the hart whereby when they warme them they are also in like manner kept warme of the said hart Euen as our bodie warmeth the clothes so do the clothes also kéepe the bodie warme And this commeth more to passe in women than in men by reason that their breasts are bigger by ods The substance of womens breasts is a soft flesh by nature spongeous thereby to draw much moisture vnto it Contrariwise mens brests are hard and clung together especially in them that are not ouercharged with fatnesse both of them haue their nipples in the midst of their breasts The which in women are very méet comely instruments for to giue their new borne children their said sustenance Mans milke Otherwhiles also mens brests do giue milke but this is a token rather of vnable humors than otherwise Thus to procéed with womens brests they are subiect to diuers and sundrie accidents Otherwhiles they grow a great deale too big the which séemeth not onely ill but is also sometimes an occasion of other diseases But this commeth rather by nature or inheritance and according to that one woman is fatter and corpulenter of bodie than another But by nature as it hath bene said they are vessels of milke whereby in some women it is too litle and in some too much Therefore it is very néedfull to séeke a remedie how in the one to lessen them and in the other to augment them For where milke is too aboundant there prouoketh it many kinds of diseases to wit that it doth clod and congeale in the breast whereof hardnesse heate swellings canker woormes and such like do ensue In like manner the nipples do also chop which bringeth thereby great anguish to them that giue sucke and infect the children that sucke the matter and bloud into their bodies with sundrie sicknesses Of the ouermuch growing and hanging downe of the Brests §. 2. WHen as this superfluous and ouermuch growing of the brests hapneth in hail young and plethoricall women there shall in my best opinion the nature be suffered to haue her free course least by taking them away some greater mishap be procured yet some do counsell for a sure remedie that if one annoint the breast with the gall of a Hare that then they will not grow too great Item take Barley meale and Goates milke of each a like much vineger halfe so much let them séeth well and be laid on the breast it is taken for a certaine remedie in like manner frie Mallowes in Sallad oyle and lay it ouer the breast These things following are yet stronger Take Hypocistis the pils and blossomes of Pomegranates Acorne cups and burnt lead of each thrée drag Allume Ceruse the iuice of Sloes and rosted Lentils of each one drag Snailes with their houses burnt and Southernwood of each two drag and a halfe Make a salue thereof with the iuice of Plantaine and therwith annoint the brest Item take Frankinsence Masticke of each one ounce sea Muscles one drag and a halfe temper them together with red vineger All that is taught here doth not hinder onely the growing of the Breasts but also that they be not loose or hanging downe these things may also be vsed against the falling downe of the Mother euen as in the third part shall be further declared in the description of the diseases of the wombe or mother Pilles TAke Ferne rootes Sarcocolla and Allume of each one drag Sandaraca halfe a drag make fiue pils thereof with the iuice of Ireos whereof take one and fast foure houres after it These pils do not onely consume all superfluitie but also the naturall fatnesse of mans bodie if they be oftentimes vsed Secondly he or she may if they will strew beaten Amber vpon all their meate and if you will haue it work better put the powder in wine for the wine carieth the force of it very quickly into the veines Thirdly take beaten Gals Cypers nuts of each sixe ounces Allume prepared Iron drosse of each thrée ounces séeth them together in a good deale of Tanners lie and wash therewith méetely warme and make often wet therewith the hands féet face and breast with a sponge The like are you to do also on the priuie members Or take stamped Henbane séede seeth it in wine and then lay the wine ouer the Breasts But I cannot counsell you to take this by reason of his great cold Of Milke in generall §. 3. FOrasmuch as this wonderfull alteration of the red bloud into so faire white a colour daily happeneth in women and also in beastes therefore is their force and might accounted the lesse neuerthelesse hath God ordained it for all creatures that are borne aliue for their first and most requisite nourishment Of the difference of women and beasts Milke it is not our meaning here to discourse but concerning womens Milke the yellow is alwayes better than the white so is also the same more forcible in browne women then in white In Ponto by the Riuer Astaeo it is sayd that milke in women in beasts is black But without any circumstances we will onely discourse of the Breasts of women and of the accidents incident vnto them Of the want or scarcitie of Milke §. 4. IF women that giue sucke haue want of Milke then must we search out the cause thereof This may procéed somtimes of some hote or
giue the patient thereof sixe ounces He may also vse this Cocke water following the which is thus to be prepared when as the greatest extremitie is past and when the patient beginneth to recouer then giue him a good Cruce ful of this broth following for certaine dayes continually Take a Cock of thrée or foure yeares old course him so long vntill he lye still afterwards kill him and stuffe him with Currans Figs Licorice wild Saffron Venus haire white Mints Penniroyall Fenegréeke if you cannot get all of them take the most part of them of each a like much let them séeth in a great kettle that you néede to powre no more water vpon it drinke of this as is sayd But the third day take sixe ounces of this Potion and séeth therein two cut Figs vnto thrée ounces then put thereto a dragme of Treacle or Mithridate Philonium Romanum halfe a scruple washt Turpentine one dragme and a halfe and then take it all at one time This order must he obserue certaine daies togither albeit that it should last one whole yeare which would be the better Likewise there is good for this sicknesse Turpentine taken with Hony and prepared Foxe Lights for it openeth the Breast cleanseth the same and healeth the Lights Another Cocke water Dresse the Cocke as he ought to be and stuffe him with Hyssope Licorice and Venus haire of each halfe a handfull Currans halfe an ounce let them seeth well togither and lastly put a dragme of Thymus vnto it vse this broth as is aforesaid Item melt a drop of Ammoniacum in a spoonefull of the water of life and drinke it fasting Of the consumption Phthisis a disease of the Lights §. 23. THis Phthisis the which by reason of her nature is called the Consumption and of the Latinists Tabes is an vlcer of the Lights of the Breast of the throate or of the mouth of the stomack wherewith is alwayes a Cough or a small ague wherby the whole body consumeth away and waxeth impotent Or Phthisis is an exsiccation and weakning of the body whereby the whole body will be consumed euen as the Gréeke name sheweth Item Phthisis is a sicknesse of the Lights that dryeth away and consumeth the flesh marrow and all other powers of the body In fine Phthisis is all that harmeth the Lights or deuoureth them This disease is also of such nature and qualitie that it seldome infecteth the very young the very old and aged persons but most of all as Hippocrates testifieth those that are betwéene eightéene and 35. yeares of age and this is the cause that the eager and sharpe matter in this age be it through naturall or accidentall causes doth as then raigne most of all in these kinde of bodies First this Consumption can procéede of many causes as of a sore Cough whereby any veine doth breake in the Lights or of any eager brackish rheume that falleth vpon the Lights and there through his eagernesse doth arrode some veine of the Lights as a drop of water through continuall falling pierceth a hole into a hard stone Secondly this can also be caused through an impostume of the throate the which breaking falleth into the breast and there annoyeth the same Thirdly of any impostume in the breast which after the Pleurisie inflāmation of the Lights or spetting of bloud is not wel cleansed and taken away Like as of Empyema which is the infection of the Lights hath bene sayd Fourthly such can also be caused through some obstruction of any accustomed course of womens Flowers or course of the Hemorrhoides which being closed vp by their vapors do endamage the Lights Fiftly it commeth through extreame outward heate or cold raw windes and especially in the falling of the leafe Also straines wounds pestilent ayre through long vse of many hote spices Oinions Garlicke and other things moe which do ingender much and subtill bloud whereby a veine quickly commeth to breake whereby afterwards the bloud putrifieth there and turneth to an impostume These sicknesses can also be well prouoked through long conuersing in quicksiluer the vapor whereof harmeth and putrifieth the Lights These also are the commonest signes of this sicknesse to wit when the sicke mans nose waxeth small and sharpe when the temples of the head fall down their arme pits do strecth out like wings whereto commeth afterwards a small hot Ague Cough after meate oppression of the brest grieuous breathing matterie spettle the which is alwayes a little died with bloud which if it be cast ouer hot coales yéeldeth a stench or if one cast it in a kettle of water doth sink to the bottome The chéekes of the patient are alwayes ruddie the nailes on the hands and feete will be crooked he is sometimes hot and otherwiles cold In fine they that are oppressed with this wretched sicknesse are alwayes very raging and vnpatient so that no body can do inough for them c. When as then besides all these signes the bloud beginneth to consume to dry away and the haire to fall off then is he very far spent Now for to come to the meanes whereby all such sicknesses are to be holpen then is there first an old saying that the old and ripe consumption is not to be cured The cause is that all such vlcers of the breast do corrode too deepe Secondly because the Lights must be in continuall motion where notwithstanding all cures haue néede of quietnesse Thirdly through continuall motion doth race and eate in the déeper Fourthly for that the disease lyeth so deepe in the body that Phisicke can hardly or slowly come to it Fiftly if hot remedies be to be vsed for it then increaseth the Ague if cold remedies then haue they but small force to pierce to the place infected Or if there be drying medicines vsed thereto then do the same oppresse and putrifie there These sicknesses may be setled a long time in children and old folkes in corpulent and fat folkes and specially in women but if the sicknesse do draw to an end that besides all the sayd signes the stomacke faileth and the laske approcheth with it then is there small hope more at hand notwithstanding although this sicknesse as it is sayd is very dangerous and long continuing yet are the due remedies that serue for the same not to be despised nor abiected And before al as much as concerneth this disease the eyes are to be fixed on seuen kind of things First to see that the Rheume be stayd for the which you may here before finde diuers remedies in the Squinancie in the twelfth Chapter and 2. § Also in the fifth Chapter 2. § Secondly heede must be taken to the vlceration of the lights for which in this present description of the lights very many remedies are prescribed moe shall be herafter specified Thirdly to driue away the Ague and for that to this sicknesse many kinds of Agues are incident as may appeare in the sixt part of this booke Fourthly
this water of Elderne floures is maruellous good Lay then into a glased helme chopt Elderne floures afterwards lay thereon whole Egs with the piked end vpwards and the same opened alittle then againe Elderne floures and so Egs vntill that the helme be so full as the water is high wherein the helme standeth and is to be distilled When it is thus distilled then are you to lay of this Elderne water with a cloth vpon the hart thus do the auncient Phisitions accustome to make it But marke that not only feare and fright do disease the hart but also all other motions of the minde which are herebefore for the most part alreadie expressed but what power they haue in furthering the sicknes and health is sufficiently before discouered in both the descriptions of vnnaturall things which the learned do call Res non naturales in the first Chapter and 10. § Of Heauines a disease of the Hart. §. 8. THe cause of this infirmitie is Melancholia where are sorrow feare and many wonderfull fantasies without any cause at all which are thus to be purged Take Mirobalani Chebuli and Indi of each one dragme Epithimi one dragme and a halfe fine Bolus fiue graines Muscus thrée graines make pils thereof or mingle them with Wine but this following is more common Take Senie leaues one ounce beate them and cast them in the iuice of Burrage and of Buglosse of each sixe ounces the iuice of Apples thrée ounces let it séethe alittle and wring it out and then mingle therewith sixe ounces of fine Sugar then let it séethe againe and when it is cold temper amongst it one dragme of Saffron and vse thereof as often as you please at each time one ounce in Wine or tempered in one of the foresayd waters You haue also in the 5. § before a very good confection which beginneth thus Take Mastick Cinnamome c. which may also be vsed for this passion This following is also very expert Take rootes of Buglosse halfe an ounce Zeduary and Doronicum of each one quarter of an ounce beate them to powder and giue euery day thereof one dragme with Wine Behold also what hath béen sayd before in the first part the twelfth Chapter and 8. § of the madnes Melancholia and also in like manner in the third part which are commodious for this Of the griping of the Hart. §. 9. HEre before in the end of the fift Chapter we haue rehersed that this sicknes which we do call the griping of the hart is rather a disease of the Lights or a kind of consumption than a maladie of the hart but be it taken as it will yet neuertheles is this sicknes very grieuous for young children and almost incurable for old folks And in fine this english name doth signifie none other than the Feuer Hectica whereof we shall further discourse in the sixt part where we do write of all Agues for we haue alwayes thought good to adde thereto this that followeth Take Walnuts with the shels burne them wholie to ashes in a pot and thereof giue a child one scruple or more according vnto the strength of the child Item take dry browne Betonie therewith fill a small bag and lay it on the childs brest Women are of opinion that if the child may liue till the ninth day then will it recouer health For this you haue also a speciall Capon water for children that haue the consumption in the fift Chapter the 22. § It is also sufficiently knowen to all the world how that the hart by pestilent ayre will not only be féebled and infected but also inflamed with a full destruction against which you shall find sundry fit remedies in the sixt part in the treatise of the Plague For conclusion of this Chapter of the Hart and of the second part of this booke we will not omit the description of the Species de gemmis whereof is so often mention made which are to be found at euery good Apothecaries after two kinds of preparations to wit the cold and the hote Species which may be vsed to Confections Powders Cordiall waters and such like but by reason that the preparation of the same is very diuers therefore we will héere set foorth and describe only foure sorts of the most common preparations Species de gemmis frig Spec. de gemmis frigidae which are cold of nature are thus prepared Take Perles 3. drag Rubies Iacints Granadoes Smaragdes and Saphirs of each one drag Harts bones halfe a drag burnt Iuorie red and white Corrall of each one drag Roses one drag and a halfe white and yellow Saunders floures of Buglosse Burrage Sorrell séede and Basill séede red white Behen of each one dragme beaten Gold and Siluer of each fiue leaues Species de gemmis calidae Species de gemmis calidae or Mesuae Take prepared Perles thrée drag Saphirs Iacints Sardonix Correils Granadoes and Smaragdes of each one drag and a halfe Zeduary Doronicum Citron pils Mace and Basill séede of each one quarter of an ounce red Corrall Amber and filed Iuorie of each halfe a scruple red and white Behen Cloues Ginger long Pepper Spica Cassy wood Saffron and Cardamome of each one drag Cinnamome Galingall Zeduary of each one drag and a half small filed Gold and Siluer of each two scruples Amber 〈◊〉 quarter of an ounce Muske halfe a drag each beaten by it selfe and then tempered together Species de gemmis temperatae Species de gemmis temperatae These species are of a temperate nature not too hote also not too cold the which may be prepared as is thought good Species Cordiales Cordiall species For this take Perles burnt Iuorie Granadoes Cinnamome Tormentill and fine Bolus of each thrée drag red white and yellow Saunders shauen Iuorie and Vnicornes horne of each one quarter of an ounce Iacints Saphirs white and red Corrall Valerian Diptamus Zeduary and Lignum Aloes of each one drag sealed earth fiue scruples burnt silke two scruples Harts bones halfe a drag red and white Behen of each two scruples fiue leaues of beaten Gold Muske and Amber of each ten graines either of them prepared after his manner are to be beaten together Species Dia margariton frigidae The same operation haue also almost the Species Dia margariton whereof there are 2. kinds hote cold the warme are here before described in the 12. Chapter 12. § the cold are thus prepared take péeled Melon séeds Pompeon séeds Gourd séeds and péeled Cucumber séeds Purslane séeds white Poppie séeds white yellow and red Saunders Ginger Roses water Lillies Burrage floures and Mirtle seeds of each one drag white and red Corrall of each halfe a drag Perles thrée drag prepared together and being all beaten small temper them all together This holdeth all fell people that fall quickly into a swoune in their strength whether it be caused of the stomack or of the hart it fortifieth all the inward vitall parts it
Item butter and all cold and moist herbes must he forbeare as Spinage Lettice Béets Mallowes Purslaine c. vnlesse they be mingled with some warme herbes as Rosemary Mints Thyme Marioram and such like Meates that are good for him are well leauened bread not aboue thrée dayes old Brewesse of fresh flesh broth reare Egs Veale Mutton Porke Hares Item Capons Hens Phesants Partridges Ducks Doues and all other field fowles All fish fried in oile and salt fish may he vse otherwhiles c. Hard salt Chéese is also sometimes permitted All sorts of Turneps Oliues and Capers may he also vse All maner of spice may he eate drest with his meate Also Annis séed fennell séed Comin and such like All maner of sower things in his meates cannot hurt him as Vineger Veriuice Limons Orenges and such like For his drinke shall be good cleere wine or béere But if the patient can neither drinke wine nor béere then is he to vse this Meade following Take Rosemary halfe an ounce Cinnamom halfe a dragme Balme flowers Ginger Borrage Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme séeth these together in seuen quarts of water vntill the fourth part be sodden away afterwards put thereto sixtéene ounces of hony let it séeth againe vntill the third part be consumed This drinke is speciall good in the winter and if the same be not continually vsed yet may the wine be delayed with it This order is as well directed for flegmaticke humors as for the cause whereof this rupture hath his being And if the same be caused of Cholera and blood we haue thereof discoursed before The Chirurgions haue two other meanes to heale the Rupture which is by incision and with cautarisation whereof we are not purposed to write The fourth Chapter Of the Testicles or Stones SOme do name both these parts the priuities which name doth signifie more than the stones onely of men or women for that it is thought to be too grosse a terme the stones but if the matter b◠honest which is spoken of them then can the true name of them not be shamefull nor dishonest Both these small parts of a mans body were once fashioned thereto by God and nature like as is discouered whereby to continue mankind for which cause they are by good reason accounted amongst the principallest parts of mans body For how greatly mankind is depending theron it is to be séen by such whose stones be cut out who haue no beards growing do lose their mans voice and naturall heate yea are wholy vnfit for generation In fine do almost alter wholy into the nature of women we may therfore with good reason write thereof Men and women haue both of them two of these stones therfore do the Grecians call them Didymi which is Twins or Twilings In men they hang outwardly out of the body in the abouesaid cods and are of a fast fleshy substance round and somewhat long inwardly hollowish wherein they receiue the purest and cleanest blood of the whole body and for that they be hot and moist they prepare that for the full perfection of the séed Women haue the stones inward on each side of the neck of the Mother one but they are much lesse than the stones of a man and also of another fashion It is also adiudged that the right stone is hotter of nature than the left therefore the right also is sayd will ingender a son and the left a daughter It is found by experience if a man haue one stone cut out yet may he ingender children likewise they that haue three stones are very vnchast of life Of the diseases which these members of the body are subiect vnto is sufficiently discoursed in the treatise of the Cods for there can hardly come any infirmity to the cods wherein they do not suffer with them whether they chaunce to swell through wind or any other humor But chiefly yong children get lightly such diseases for which you haue this plaister following for to vse as well for yong as for aged folkes Take Lilly rootes foure ounces Linséed meale Beane meale halfe an ounce yellow wild Rape séed half an ounce Sulphur vife one dragme make a plaister thereof But before you lay on the plaister annoint the place with oile of Pepper and Saffron of each half an ounce temper them and vse it warme Another plaister Take small beaten Annis séeds temper them with well brayed whites of egs and lay warme vpon it This is approoued and found good The fift Chapter Of VVomens priuie Members THe Priuities of women make outwardly a small shew but within are much like to the priuy members of a man The neck of the Mother or Womb is in stéed of the Yard the Mother or Wombe is compared with the Cods where on the necke of the same like as is sayd the stones are fixed so that with good reason may be sayd That whatsoeuer men haue outwardly the same haue women inwardly but for honesties sake we will write no further of it But as much as concerneth the inward parts thereof and all that appertaineth thereto shall be discouered hereafter here shall only be touched certaine diseases which these parts are subiect to For which first of all the common aduise of women is against all paine of these parts be it of whatsoeuer cause that the same proceed to wit that Betony be layd to steepe in Wine and to drinke thereof Of the inflammation of the place with swellings §. 1. TAke the whites of Egs and bray them with a long péece of Allume a good space then will it be a salue spread it vpon a cloth and so apply it and when it is dry refresh it this hath beene many times approoued and found certaine Item take of the white of an egge half a nutshell full and Sallad oile stirre them wel together and therewith annoint the hot burnt place Or take the gréene and yellow barke of Elderne sticks put them in a little bag boile them in wine and lay them warme theron it driueth away all swelling as wel that which is caused of childbirth as otherwise Item take for the hot swelling of womens priuy places Consolida Saracenica Auens and Ladies mantle as much as you please powne them all together and wring out the iuice temper it with molten Capons grease and fresh butter annoint the place therewith betwéene day and night foure times at the least Of the Clefts of this place §. 2. THe Grecians do call these clefts Rhagades and are such clefts as discouer themselues with excrescence of flesh which for the most part standeth alwayes inward and bléedth not of it selfe vnlesse they be rubbed hard with the member of a man which procéedeth of inward outward causes The outward causes may be fals strokes or bignes of a mans member Also through putting in any sharp thing as Gith séed such like The inward occasions are when as any inward swelling hapneth through descent of some sharp humor which
all such dwellings yellow Rape séede baked in bread as much that there be put one scruple in halfe a penyworth of white bread is very requisite yong fat flesh not salted too much a sauce with Saffron long Pepper and tayles of Stincus prepared with good Wine all sowre sharpe doughy slimy meates must be forborne long sléepe and especially after meate doth annoy for the long sleepe immediatly after meate doth no lesse hinder venerie then surfetting with meate and drinke He is also to eschue all vexation sorrow and care But in generall these things are good for the increase of humaine séede and to recouer the losse thereof againe to wit Egs Milks Rise drest in Milke Sparrowes braines yea the whole birds Also the stones of these Beasts following viz. as of Buls Cockes Bucks Rams Bores and all their pissels Of pottages are very good that of Beanes Ciches Lupins the first bitter brothes of them cast away and the rest sugred Pease Turky or French Beanes and Wheate sodden in fresh broth and drest with Spice Annis Fennell seedes white and red Mustard séede Colewort seed and yellow Rape séede the seedes of white Sesamum Fenegreeke séede sodden with Hony in fat flesh broth Linséede tempered with Sugar and other meate and also Nettle séede Of Rootes these following are highly commended as stued Onions Garlick Léekes yellow Rapes fresh Ragwort rootes and confected Sugar or the powder thereof dronken with the water wherein Mustard seede is sodden confected rootes of Eringus confected Ginger Costus rootes Sperage Thistle rootes Radish Zeduary Squils rosted confected Asarabacca Pieretrum and Cypers nuts Of Herbes are the garden Cressis and braunches of Sperage Of Fruits hasell Nuts Pistacia Almonds and aboue all Marchpane made thereof All Spices are very commodious for this vse as Cinnamom Cardamome Galingall long Pepper Cloues Ginger Saffron For this is also very highly praysed Assa foetida the waight of one dragme and a halfe dronken in good Wine in like manner also Dragagant the pissell of a Bull or of a Hart the waight of one scruple taken also in Wine likewise the tayles of Stincus the waight of a dragme taken before meate with Wine Of things compounded you haue these confections Diamoschu Pliris Aromaticum Rosatum Diambra Dianthos Diagalanga Trionpipereon and Diamargaritan Calidum also Mithridate in like manner And aboue all other things is the confection Diasatyrion commended for it strengtheneth the stomacke This following is much vsed at Augusta Take Ginger one dragme and a halfe Almonds Pingles and Pisticia of each one ounce the kernels of an Indy Nut and Sisarum of each halfe an ounce the pissell of a Hart fiue dragmes Cynqfoyle Palma Christi one dragme and a halfe Galingall Cloues Cinnamom white Mustard séede long Pepper wild yellow Rape séede white Behen of each one dragme Onion séede Radish séed Rape seede and Ashen keyes of each two scruples the sides and tayles of Stincus thrée drag Borrage one quarter of an ounce Sugar two pound seeth it in Wine as you would make Tabulats or a confection of it This also following may be prepared Take yellow and other Rapes Onions Sperage rootes wild Mustard seede Radish seede Pingles Ash keyes rootes of Eringu◠of Satyrion swéete Costus rootes Ginger long Pepper and Cresses séedes of each a like much Also take clarified Hony three ounces to one ounce of the powder then make thereof a confection Of the same may three dragmes be taken at once tempered with Sugar pennets and new Milke One may vse outwardly Waxe made to an Oyntment with oyle of Beuercod Or take Beuercod Marierom gentle oyle of Costus of each a like much put thereto a little Muske or Zibeta and therwith annoynt the yarde with other places adioyning vnto it If you will haue a slighter then take the gall of a Beare An especiall oyntmēt Take of the great winged Ants thrée dragmes oile of white Sasamum and oyle of Lillies of each one ounce powne the Ants and put them into the oyle and so let them stand the space of sixe dayes in the Sunne afterwards wring out the oyle and put thereto Euphorbium one scruple Pepper Rue of each one dragme white Mustard seede half a dragme set this againe into the Sunne awhile and annoynt all ouer the priuities therewith Another Take oyle of Lillies two ounces oyle of Beuercod one ounce Euphorbium Pepper white Mustard séed of each one dragme Muscus halfe a scruple temper it vnto an Oyntment If so be that then the naturall heate be thereby excitated and stirred vp and other kindnesse do come vpon you then do what in you lyeth The seuenth Chapter Of Barrennesse in generall WHen as then neither in the one nor in the other as that neither in the Man nor in the Woman there appeareth any infirmitie in the parts of generation and both parties are mighty inough for the worke notwithstanding cannot come to any generation then must there be a certaine cause of barrennesse whereof there be many kinds First then concerning the Man it may be well caused through outward and inward accidents the outward are the hard meates whereto there commeth then also the vnbeliefe of Withcraft But if so be that the same proceed of inward causes then doth the same procéed of the weaknesse of the most principall parts of mans body as of the Hart the Braines the Liuer the Stomacke the Milt Or he may be too fat or too leane with many moe other infirmities which may be in the priuy mēbers that are not to be here discouered The signes of the Barrennesse of the man are these great heate which may be knowen by féeling him The woman in receiuing féeleth the great heate of the seede he hath great desire to the action and is very hairy ouer al his body and got haire very early about the priuities But if so be that cold be the cause then are these things found to be all contrary Concerning the Women the Barrennesse may be caused by drinking too much cold water by continuall vse of sowre meates by anger by feare by frighting and other motions moe of the minde which may cause all the same Item when a woman after copulation stirreth by and by leapeth runneth or daunceth too much If it proceede of any inward cause then must it be either of the constitution of the whole body or of some other infirmitie of the parts of generation If of the constitution of the whole body then shall some principal part of the body féele the same to wit by reason that the Termes are hindred or flow too much Also a woman may be too old or too yong or too fat which maketh barren If the maladie be in the parts of generation then dependeth it most in the mother or wombe which hath some vlceration or is too wide or too narrow or too much obstructed and such like The signes of Barrennesse in women are these to wit when it procéedeth of the coldnesse of
the mother then hath she her Termes very little and if they do runne yet are they not well coloured they haue also but little haire on their priuities they be by nature slow and slacke they care not much for men and are commonly of a pale colour for which doth also much helpe the long vse of meates or drinkes which are cold of nature If the Barrennes be caused through heate then hath she likewise her floures or termes very little mixt with yellownesse the woman is hasty headed crafty thirsty desirous of the man hairie about her priuie place she hath a quick pulse and black haire with other tokens moe all which dry or moyst diseases must néedes be in the mother or in the necke of the same Thirdly they are sometimes of a contrary complexion for that the séede cannot be rightly mixed or sometime also too neare like one another of complexion For an example when a cold man commeth to a cold woman or that they be both dry of nature and if in all things else they be also of like complexions one to another then is it vnpossible that the woman can conceiue There shall be moe other signes described how to know by whom the let and infirmitie commeth to wit do cast both Spermata vpon the water and that which driueth on the top is barren Item sprinkle both their vrines vpon a Lettice leafe and whosoeuer doth dye away first the same is vnfruitfull Or take fiue cornes of Wheate seuen Barley graines and seuen Beanes put them all into an earthen pot and pisse thereon let it stand so seuen dayes long and if they begin to sprout then is the person fruitfull or if they rot then is he or she barren be it man or woman Or let him pisse in a pot and let the vrine stand awhile if wormes grow therein then is that vrine barren These three last proofes do the auncient Phisitions themselues say to be vncertaine therefore we will let them rest Item make vnderneath an odoriferous fume as of Myrrhe red Storax and such like odoriferous warme things to passe into the necke of the wombe through a tunnell which being close couered round about if the woman finde that this smoke go through the body and feeleth it in her nose then is she fruitfull Another Take grosse beaten Garlick and lay the woman with her backe thereupon if so be that she féele the smell in her nose then is it a token of fruitfulnesse There are moe such like tokens which are sayd to be approoued but how that fruitfulnesse is to be furthered and holpen there are diuers remedies hereafter rehearsed out of the writings of the most famous Phisitions out of which may be chosen according to the complexion of women whether they be hote cold moyst dry fat leane oppilated or contrary by nature For to helpe and preferre or hasten fruitfulnesse §. 1. IF that fruitfulnesse be desired to be furthered and holpen then must the cause that hindreth the same be abated and taken away of which the learned do recken very many which may be contained in thrée especiall points as when a woman is to hote and too dry too cold and too moyst or hath her termes or floures too much or to little of which thrée especiall points we will now discourse Of Barrennesse through heate §. 2. ALl such women must beware of hote ayre dwellings and such like also of clothes which kéepe the parts and sinewes about the wombe too hote Also they must eschue all hote meates as Spice salt flesh strong Wine very fat meates warme herbs as Smallage Fennel Thyme Southernewood Rue long watching to lye much on the Raynes or Kidneis great labour anger heauinesse and such like motions of the minde but all that moderately cooleth that must be vsed They must take oftentimes conserue of Roses or cold Dragagant losinges and the confections Triasantali also to hold before the nose and smell to Campher Rose water and Saunders as hath bene many times told for hote sicknesses Aboue all these must the Basilica or Liuer veine be opened in the right arme and to let out about fiue ounces of bloud On the next day is this purgation to be vsed Take Elect. de Epithimo de succo Rosarum of each two dragmes and a halfe the whay of Milke foure ounces temper them well togither and take it in the morning then sléepe afterwards about one houre and a halfe and fast foure houres vpon it this being done drinke a good draught of whay and you may breake your fast one houre after Other do purge with Triphera Saracenica and Rubarb and also minister preparatiue potions mixed either with sirupes of Violets Roses or Endiue Or take the water of water Lillies foure ounces water of Mandragora one ounce beaten Saffron halfe a scruple drinke them luke warme and do this eight dayes one after another Also you may vse these pils following Take Broome flowers Smallage Parsley séede Comin Mugwort and Feuerfew of each halfe a scruple Aloe halfe an ounce Indy salt and Saffron of each halfe a dragme powne them all togither and mixe them well afterwards powre thereon fiue ounces of warme Feuerfew water close it to and let it stand and dry in a warme place do this thrée times one after another This being all done then make sixe pils of each dragme and take alwayes one thereof before supper about the second day all the while that this foresayd Potion is vsed afterwards you must take one thereof about the third or fourth day vntill that she haue conceiued After the foresayd Potions must this purgation following be vsed Take the conserue Benedicta lax one quarter of ounce de Psillio thrée dragmes Electuarium de succo Rosarum one dragme and a halfe temper them togither with Feuerfew water and drinke it warme in the morning early thrée dayes after this purgation must the Median veine be opened in the right foote to wit fiue or sixe houres after breakefast and according to her strength must be letten out fiue or sixe ounces of bloud the next day and also fiue dayes one after another filed Iuorie is to be taken one dragme and a halfe with Feuerfew water And the whilest that this Potion is by her vsed then is she in the morning one houre before that she do arise and also at night before she go to bed to sit in this bath following and remaine therein about halfe an houre Take wild yellow Rapes Daucus Balsam wood with the fruits and the séede or keyes of an ash trée of each two handfuls red and white Behen Broome flowers of each a handfull and a halfe Muske thrée graines Amber Saffron of each one scruple séeth all these in sufficient water But the Saffron Muske Amber and Broome flowers must be put into it when all the rest be sufficiently decocted and wrong out A profitable Confection Take Pistacia Pingles Eringus of each half an ounce of the swéet rootes which the Italians
little of it one time For to further the fruitfulnesse in man and woman §. 8. TAke Rapes Sisarum shauen Iuorie Sesely red and white Behen Ash keyes of each one drag Cinnamome Doronicum Mace Cloues Galingale long Pepper Rosemarie flowers Balsam wood Blattae Byzantiae Marierom gentle Penniroyall of each two scruples Balme Buglosse Citron peeles of each one scruple Indie Spike Amber Perles of each halfe a scrup Sugar decocted in Malmsey one pound make Tabulats thereof or a Confection A powder for to strew vpon the meate Take Nutmegs Cucubes and Ginger of each halfe a drag long Pepper Masticke Cinnamome red and white Behen of each one scruple stampe them togither and so vse them as is sayd Item take the stone of a Bore hog being two yeares old the pissell of a Stag shauen small halfe an ounce foure paire of Foxe stones and fiftie or threescore Sparrowes braines wild yellow Rapes Eringus rootes Satyrion confected all togither in Sugar shauen Iuorie of each thrée ounces and a halfe Cinnamome the pissell of a Bull Pingles Dates and Indy Nut kernels of each two ounces long pepper Ginger and Rosemary flowers of each halfe an ounce Seseli one dragme Nettle séed Cloues saffron Mace Galingal Cipers rootes Nutmegs Cassy wood Cucubes Doronicum field Mints Penniroyal Indy Spica Musk Amber of each one drag white Sugar refined in the water of wild Mints foure pounds and a halfe make thereof a confection this confection may be both by men and women vsed in the morning fasting and in the euening when they go to bed whereof haue bene great wonders seene Another Take clarified hony thrée ounces Linseed Greines and shauen Iuory of each one ounce Burrage thrée ounces make thereof a confection and temper therewith 24. ounces of sugar Muske and Amber of each halfe a scruple Cinnamome two graines Cloues and Mace of each one graine it is a very mild medicine It is also very good that men and women receiue euery morning a little Treacle to wit half a dragme with halfe a dragme of shauen Iuory but for such as be yong it is not so good by reason of the heate A good salue Take Galliae Muscatae Nutmegs Beuercod Hares renning Laudanum of each one quarter of an ounce oile of Spike oile of Masticke and of Mirtles of each thrée dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue therewith these are to be vsed as the other Wine of Rosemary is also much commended for this In like maner the Morolfe wine all which are described in the last part with other moe such spiced Wines which are very fit for such ouercold and barren men and women For to make a woman fruitfull for which this serueth for a potion bath following Take Wormewood and Mugwort of each a handfull séeth them together in a quart of Goates milke almost to the halfe whereof euery morning and euening she is to take a good draught For to bathe Take wild Penniroyall Mugwort and Rue of each one handfull make a bag thereof and let them séeth in raine water bathe therein euery eight houres and alwaies about the third day a fresh bath For a conclusion in women is as it is already said the greatest cause of barrennes for that the Matrix or Womb is not cleane is ouercooled or hath some other infirmity whereof hereafter in this part shall be discoursed and taught also what is meete and fit for the same The eight Chapter Of the Raines and their paines EVen as we haue described now the outward parts before of the belly in this third part of our booke of Phisicke so doth the cause require that we ought to write somewhat of the hinder part amongst which the Raines are comprehended and that these raines are a part of the back it appéereth by all that here before in the second part in the fourth chapter and also afterwards is written therefore it is thought néedlesse to make any further mention thereof These Raines do suffer by reason of the Kidneys very great paine whē the same are vexed with heate vlceration grauel stone or other malady the description whereof yet hereafter followeth in this third part where it may also be noted and obserued what may be good commodious for the same There be commonly commended for hot paines in the raines oile of Roses Violets and yellow violets Waterlillies and Poplar buds in like sort also thrée salues following of Saunders the cooling ointment of Galeni and the Poplar salue are very good and that in all hot causes But if the paine procéed of cold then is Honywater to be drunken confected roots of Eryngus Fennell Comin Caraway be it confected or otherwise are to be eaten for they asswage much the paine Some vse also the conserues of Piony This salue following is especiall good Take blew and yellow Violets of each one ounce and a halfe oyle of swéete Almonds of Sesamum of each one dragme and a halfe fresh butter one ounce Saffron one scruple white Waxe one ounce and a halfe Ducks grease oile of Cammomill oyle of Dill of each one quarter of an ounce and a small yolke of an Egge the oyle grease and butter melt together and at the last put the Saffron and yolke vnto it and stirre it well about it swageth much the paine which is caused through the grauel stone and any thing else therefore it is called by the Grecians Onodynum euen as the Apothecaries do call it vnto this day Vnguentum Anodynum The ninth Chapter Of the Buttockes THere are two Buttocks giuen to men for their vse by nature compiled of a compact fast muscly and hard flesh and not narrow piked bearing vp like to Beasts but prety and round as well for a comelinesse of the same place as for to sit on and ease the whole body couering and defending the fundament that the same cannot be violated nor strained through sitting These foresaid buttocks do seldome suffer any other infirmity but such as be subiect to Chirurgery as wounds vlcerations fistulaes Cankers and such like Besides this is no more to be spoken thereof therfore we wil passe ouer to the Fundament or outward part of the Arsegut with his infirmities which are incident vnto it outwardly and inwardly The tenth Chapter Of the Arsegut or Fundament in generall THere haue bin some dotrels in the world who haue complained of nature wherfore she had not chosen as wel a bone or some other neather member of the body wherby she might expel the excremēts as she did this mild place of the body which grosse speech is to be scorned as a great folly for how could she haue ordained a closer fitter handsomer place thā this Concerning then this Arsgut it is a conueier of all excrements long wide and whereas it cometh to our sight with a round circle it is there shapen of a muscly sinewy substance like as are the lips of the mouth therfore hath it
Hollihock rootes Figs cut Linséed and Fenegreeke beaten small as much as you thinke good let this séeth all to pap and at the last temper therewith thrée or foure yolks of Egs and as much Butter as you thinke good and lay it warme vpon the place where the paine is If so be then this be caused through cold then put vnto it a litle of the rootes of Lillies Cammomill Melilot and such like And if so be that this Arsegut by reason of the impostume will hardly be put vp againe into the body then must the patient be set oftentimes in warme water and afterwards annoint the Arsegut with oile of Cammomill and of Dill which are molten with a little Waxe this swageth the paine In like sort also descendeth the neck of the Matrix in women and is in such sort to be cured like as hereafterwards amongst other infirmities of the wombe shall be written more at large Of the Piles called Haemorrhoides §. 4. AFter the foresaid falling downe of the Arsegut there commeth one disease more in the fundament the which we call the Piles and the Grecians Haemorrhoides which is a fluxe of blood and Sycoses that are Figs which the Latinists do call Ficus Figs and Mariscas All these are Accidents and Tumors which do come behind in the Fundament or in the lowermost part of the Arsegut And they do appeare by their swelling and otherwise whereof they get their name sometimes with blood and otherwhiles without blood but seldome without paine but vexeth folkes with great trouble They take their beginning from some small veines which spread themselues into the vttermost parts of the stomack and are thereof called the Pile or Emroyd veines When as these be then ouercharged with blood or any other humors then do they open themselues and expel the melancholick blood from them sometimes in great quantity whereby nature is much vnburthened and getteth great health therefore it is often commaunded for to open the same euen as hereafter shall be admonished also they bléed otherwhiles so excessiuely that great trauell is taken before they can be stopped wherof we shall speake hereafter There be also some of these veines which lie somewhat deepe vpwards and therefore are called the blind Piles These Piles are properly the Hemorrhoides like as by their name may appeare Others be without blood of the which they that make shew outwardly on the Arsegut are first of all the Figpiles by reason that in their whole substance and quantity they be like vnto figs and also are therfore called Verrucales the which are much worse than the other whose cause is only melancholick blood Other do shew themselues like to a black ripe grape so that they be called Vnales which haue their matter from blood mingled with melancholy The third are like to Mulberies red and blackish coloured wherein the blood doth apparantly excéed The fourth kind is like to the bladder of a fish which is extended very much without blood filled or stuft with melancholick humors but these sorts are seldome séene The first sort are the secret Piles which do come within the Arsegut and be very hurtfull especially those which extend towards the priuities for that through their hot tumors they hinder the passage of the vrine whereby the strangury is prouoked and especially when they do not bléed Now for to know these hidden Piles and diseases there is nothing more certaine than to set a great boxe or cup on the Arsegut without pricking the which will draw the Arsegut outward so that it may be apparantly séene how that the case doth consist within The sixt kind of Piles are the Figs a certaine excrescence vpon the Arsegut outwardly who with a little veine like the stalke of a fig is fastened to the gut formed as it were a small dry fig from thence a little bigger and is pressed downe on the top like a Fig which is called of the Gréekes Condyloma which is an excrescence of flesh for it hapneth sometimes that round about the roundnes of the Arsegut or fast besides it there do come great scabs which sometimes yet vncertaine whether it be first or last according as the patient ruleth himselfe do happen to bléede sometimes much and sometimes little These figs and swellings are tempered also with bloud and melancholy a little red outwardly and perilous ynough euen as hereafter shall be further expressed In all these Species of the Pyles the learned haue a generall rule that they estéeme them for an accident that can hardly be cured They recite nine causes of these accidents albeit we will recite but fowre First for that it is in an vncleane place and no man medleth willingly therewith Secondly for that this place is very hard to be séene Thirdly for that it is a place whither all vncleannes of the bodie doth descend Lastly for that it is a place cold by nature and therefore voyd of strength notwithstanding there be many good remedies prouided and ordained for them as hereafter followeth But before we discourse of the foresayd remedies for the Pyles Blathers Figs Warts Tumors and their accidents we will first of all shew their causes and teach how the same may be cured for which the principallest is to obserue a good dyet in meate and drinke and such like Of the Dyet IT is sufficiently declared before that the greatest cause of these accidents is the heauie melancholick bloud which is mixt with the pure bloud and perisheth the same which all other members expell from them like as it were a poyson and so falleth downewards from the other bloud into the veines openeth them through his heate and maketh them bleed This is altogether caused of a bad digestion of the stomack and other members and of all such grosse meates whereof there can be none other ingendred but melancholick bloud the which must be altogether left off as Beanes Lentils and other Pottages Item Coleworts Chéese old Beefe Harts Hares Goats salted and smoked flesh sodden Wheate Rice vnleauened bread which bring much moysture with them Also all water Fowles Eeles and other Fish without scales féete heads and all entrailes of Beasts grosse Wine Must and Béere Item all things which burne the bloud as much Mustard Pepper Garlick Onions Léekes All things which be very cold do also increase melancholie as Melons Cucumbers and such like Amongst the medicins which are contrary for this disease are Coloquint Centorie Scammonie and chiefely Aloe very hurtfull for the Arsegut for it openeth the Pyles Euen as we haue recited what is hurtfull for this disease so will we also teach what manner of dyet might be commodious and profitable for the same The dwelling of this patient must be a warme and dry place which is close and toward the South But if the house be not of it selfe fit thereto then is it to be prepared for the same with fire and fumes yet is alwayes to be eschued things which be too hote and must
Fistula corrode no deeper then must the same be cured with drying things so that for a while they neither runne nor swell any more but if so be the matter come to runne againe then must be done as before and that so long as one liueth As concerning then the curing of this Fistula it must alwayes be looked to that the hole be kept open which may best be effected with the pith of an Alder trée dryed Gentian rootes or Briony rootes afterwards you must vse those things that are set downe in the first part the eight Chapter and 11. § and also afterwards of the Fistula of the eies Some do commend two or thrée drops of oile of Sulphure to be iniected into the Arsegut which will haue a wonderfull operation and if so be that there follow any inflammation that it should be delayed with the white of an Egge or fresh Butter Fistulaes and such like vlcers are to be washed with Rosemary wine for it clenseth and keepeth the vlcers cleane but of this Fistula will we intreate further hereafter in the fift part Of the itch in the Arse-gut §. 13. THe causes of the itch in the Arsegut are foure First that there remaines somewhat that is sweatie or saltish in the fundament which causeth the same Secondly through the wormes Ascarides that haue their being in the end of the Arsegutte Thirdly some kind of vlcers that are in the lower part of the guâ—te Fourthly sharp humors as it oftentimes hapneth thorow some vncleanenesse that resteth in the Arsegut and then must the Arsegut be washed with warme water be cleansed with clothes or wolblade leaues But if the same come thorough the smal wormes then take a sharpe Clister yet not aboue eight ounces in quantitie also dippe wooll or any such like thing in soft Pitch or Turpentine then do the wormes sticke fast thereon besides the Pitch doth kill the wormes by nature or annoint a great taint with Bird lime and bind it on a thred that it may be drawne out againe You may also sée in this present part what hath bene written for the wormes but if the same be caused through any vlcers then vse for it the white salue and others moe but keepe the vlcers alwaies cleane and drie with fresh cloathes wash the same oftentimes with water wherein Agrimonie Oliue leaues and such like are decocted put also burnt Allume thereto and plume Allume and bind clothes ouer it and kéepe your selfe quiet But if this itch procéed of a sharp matter then vse Suppositories with Opium Clisters and others as shall appeare hereafter for the laske or loosenesse of the bodie The eleuenth Chapter Of the inward members of the third part IN the beginning of the third part of this our booke of practise we haue giuen to vnderstand how that therein are contained the Stomacke the Liuer the Gall the Kidneys the Bladder the Bowels and in women the Mother or womb but because we haue hitherto treated of the outward parts and their accidents therefore will we now discourse orderly of the inward members and first we will begin with the Stomacke for that the same is couered with the Liuer and lyeth on the top thereof for it hath not onely his beginning at the mouth of the stomacke but is also the meate roome or kitchin of all the other members and therefore will we and that by good reason place it before Of the Stomacke in generall §. 1. VNder the Diaphragma or Midriffe betwéene the Liuer and the Gall on the right side and the Milt on the left side that is right in the midst of the body yet a little more on the left side there lyeth the stomacke that is so ordained by nature for that the Liuer might kéepe roome and scope The Stomacke is called of the Gréeks Gaster Colâ—a and sometimes also although vniustly Stomachus and of the Latinists Ventriculus It is ordained for a receiuer of the meate to dresse the same and afterwards like as out of a Cubbord to impart all that is cooked to each member his due that might suffise for his sustentation and nourishment and to send out all that is vncleane or not fit for the nourishment thorow the bowels and other naturall passages as a superfluitie His substance is outwardly hard flesh inwardly compacted full of veines rough and with many pleites or folds whereby it draweth the meate vnto it His forme is long and round hollow within and like a Tunne to let passe easily that is receiued wide beneath and neare the mouth of the Stomacke which is properly called Stomachus Oesophagus and by the Arabians Meri it is narrow In comparison of the bodies of beastes it is not big so that thereby it doth not much excéede the blind gut Intestinum caâ—cum and is otherwise not much vnlike to a dogs mawe With the vppermost end of the Stomacke doth it receiue the meate and with the lower end doth it let all that is digested fall into the bowels from whence all superfluities are cast out Both these ends of the stomacke below and aboue after that the meate is receiued do shut vp most wonderfully lest that the concocting and digesting warmth should vanish away For if in the mouth of the stomacke there were not such closing then could not the meate be well digested whereby then must insue a noysome vapour and a diminishing of naturall heate So happeneth also of the lower passage of the stomacke when as it after the meate is receiued will not be shut vp a bad digestion and other diseases as the fluxe c. whereof we will hereafter speake more at large But thus much we would write in generall of the stomacke Now will we procéede forward with particular things Of the necke and mouth of the stomacke §. 2. THis passage through which the meate and the drinke descendeth out of the mouth into the stomacke is properly one péece of the same therefore will we first write thereof as of the beginning of the stomacke The necke of the stomack is of the old Grecians and now adayes called by all learned men Oesophagus and vnrightly Stomachus and of the Latinists Gula the which we in English doe name properly the vpper part of the stomacke the necke and the neathermost part the mouth of the stomacke which lyeth right in the pit of the heart So that both these parts haue some difference and that by reason of their situation and for other causes moe euen as also Galenus maketh two sundrie Chapters of them These foresaid necke and mouth of the stomacke are subiect to many diseases be it out of heate cold drought moisture or of any compounded complexion Also through the obstruction of those parts whereby the meate is drawne into the stomacke Item through impostumes vlcers blowes wounds and other inconueniences all which may hinder the swallowing whereof much is written in the second part the first Chapter § 5. But we will here onely rehearse
is very common at some Apothecaries and is thus prepared Take Turbith halfe an ounce Cinnamom and Ginger of each one quarter of an ounce Galingall Masticke Cardamome Cloues of each halfe a dragme Annis one dragm Hermodactyli Diagridion Sene leaues of each halfe an ounce Sugar three ounces temper these together and giue him a drag of it at the most Medicamen de Turbith Medicamen de Turbith is also common whereof here do follow two sorts Take white Ginger Masticke and Turbith of each halfe an ounce Sugar one ounce and a halfe mixe these to a subtill powder The other Take Turbith halfe an ounce Ginger one quarter of an ounce Masticke tenne graines Sugar three dragmes this being beaten small and tempered well together purgeth slimie humors of the which may well be giuen to yong children women in child bed old folks and all dainty persons one dragme at the least at one time Of which may all be giuen according to the abilitie of the person more or lesse Sene powder called Puluis Senae praeparatae is not onely laxatiue Puluis Senae praeparatae but also purgeth maruellous well the head Take Sene leaues one ounce and a halfe Ginger and Nutmegs of each two dragmes Cinnamom and Argall of each one dragme and a halfe make a powder of it and giue one dragme of it at once A powder Take Turbith one quarter of an ounce Ginger Cinnamom Mastick Galingal Cardamome Cloues Annis Hermodactyli and Diagridij of each one dragm Sene leaues halfe an ounce Sugar one ounce or put vnto them as much Sugar as you thinke good for without Sugar it is not to be taken aboue one dragme Item take Sene leaues halfe an ounce Ginger and Cinnamom of each one dragme Sugar one quarter of an ounce take the halfe thereof and strewe it vpon a slice or shiue of tosted bread that hath bene stéeped in wine and so eate it But if it do not loose then eate another slice of bread and the rest in a morning It is surely good Amongst the things that one doth eate some mixe Mercurie leaues in a Sallad for they do easily loose them that be apt to go to stoole Item Dates Mirobalanes stued Prunes strewed well with Sugar do loose the body very mildly Likewise also Damaske Prunes stewed with Raisins do loose also if one sup vp the broth withall fiue or sixe Figs eaten before meate do open the bodie Item Currans washt in swéet Wine and stéeped therein and afterwards dried and strewed with Sugar are also very good for this purpose Or take Raisins as is said which be steeped half a pound beate them and wring them thorough a hairen strainer Sugar two ounces Sugar of Roses and Hony of Roses of each one ounce and a halfe seeth them well by a mild fire vnto a confection then take of it as often as you will the quantitie of a nut Also you may steepe these Currans in oyle of swéet Almonds strewed with Sugar and then eaten for much Sugar hath a laxatiue nature and especially in young children Now will we write of certaine laxatiue potions of which be diuers readie at all well furnished Apothecaries to be had and albeit you may vse the same alone yet notwithstanding haue all Phisitions ordained that the same shall be commonly tempered and taken with purging medicines whereof here shall follow some which the Apothecaries at Augusta haue at all times in a readinesse First they haue a drinke which they call Decoctionem communem Decoctio communis which is a common decocted potion made after this manner Take ten or twelue Prunes Licorice Currans Annis séede and Fennell of each half an ounce floures of Burrage and Buglosse of each one dragm and a halfe powre a quart of water vnto it séeth it so long vntill a third part be wasted then straine it thorough This drinke ensuing is of a temperate nature for it is somewhat more cooling and the same is to be vsed in Sommer Take Currans Licorice Prunes Iuiubes Violets Barley péeled Melon séede Pompeon séede Gourd séede and Cucumber seede of each one quarter of an ounce boyle them together in water like as is said before Take Fumitorie Betonie Mints Mugwort of each halfe a handfull floures of Burrage and Buglosse of each halfe a dragme Annis Fennell Asarabacca of each halfe an ounce wild Saffron seede thrée quarters of an ounce Calmus one ounce Polipody rootes Agaricus of each one quarter of an ounce Sene leaues one ounce the seeds and rootes must be beaten grosse letting them séeth first a little afterwards put vnto it the herbs floures and Agaricke and so let them seeth again when it is then cold wring it out hard kéepe it well very close stopt in a coole place In like manner there is prepared a stronger which is called Decoctio aperitiua maior Decoctio aperitiua maior and is made thus Take Endiue Cicorie Fumitorie of each one handful Agrimonie Windweed and Harts toong of each half a handfull floures of Burrage and Buglosse of each one quarter of an ounce Thime and wild Thime of each two dragmes and a halfe rootes of Fennell Smallage Parsly of each halfe an ounce Annis Fennell séede Melon séed of each one quarter of an ounce sliced Licorice halfe an ounce rootes of Cipers rinds of Tamariske of each thrée dragmes Sene leaues two ounces Polipodie rootes one ounce Agaricus halfe an ounce seethe them all together in water like as is said before then wring it well out You are to steepe in this decoction Rubarb thrée dragm and a halfe Indy Spica one scruple Sal Gemmae halfe a scruple Cinnamome two scruples let them stand together to stéepe all a whole night afterwards séeth it once in boyling water straine it very well out and put sixe ounces of Sugar vnto it Decoctâ—o Senae A decoction of Sene leaues called Decoctio Senae Take Sene leaues two ounces and Sene husks one ounce rootes of Cicorie Agrimonie Hyssope of each half a handfull Polipody roots one ounce séeth them together in a quart of water vntill the third part be decocted away then wring it out and kéepe it in a coole place I susio Senae Another Insusio Senae This decoction is much vsed for the Pockes at Augusta in Germany for which it is most méete Take the huskes and leaues of Sene of each fiue dragmes Ginger two scruples Burrage flowers Violets Roses of each one scruple Polipodie one quarter of an ounce Currans halfe an ounce ten or twelue Sebesten sliced Agaricus halfe an ounce powre vpon them sixtéene ounces of boyling water and let it be stéeped the space of ten houres by the warme ashes afterwards wring it out and kéepe it well whereof is commonly thrée or fowre ounces taken and sirupe of Fumitorie or De Bizantijs one ounce and a halfe or two ounces tempered together three or fowre dayes one after another There be also vsed many other
as it hath bene here before sufficiently taught Also in respect herof for that some haue so weake and so tender a mouth of the stomake that they cannot abide any fasting but when they begin to be hungrie and may not by and by haue foode do fall presently into a swoune When this happeneth then are the outward members to be rubbed hard and bounden with paine and the face sprinkled with Rosewater or washed and quickened with other things which be mentioned in the second part the sixt Chapter and 2. § But if so be that his force be not quite spent or if one perceiue that the swouning will come vpon him then giue him a bit of bread to eate stéeped in wine The fourth is a corrupted or bad hunger But because this hunger for the most part happeneth to women with child therefore we will not discourse here any further thereof vntil such time as we shall discourse of this and other matters moe appertaining to women In like manner also concerning the wormes because that they do infect and frequent more the bowels than the stomacke and are thence expelled therefore we will discourse of them in the description of the bowels The twelfth Chapter Of the Lyuer ALbeit now the Lyuer haue the seate in the third part of mans body fast vnder the Midriffe or Diaphragma about the stomacke for which cause we continuing our method ought to haue written thereof before the stomacke yet we haue declared sufficient causes in the beginning of the tenth Chapter and shewed for what cause it hath not yet bene effected This most noble member whereof we are now to discourse which we call the Lyuer the Grecians Hepar and the Latinists Iecur hath her situation as is said on the one side of the stomacke which it toucheth in a wonderfull and yet neuerthelesse in a naturall manner with fiue branches like as it were fiue fingers wherewith she stretcheth also a litle towards the left side and is also by nature one of the most needfull and worthiest members which is giuen for the nourishment and sustayning of mans bodie therefore are all beasts that do blow endued with it This great and excellent gift haue the heathen people also acknowledged but they shamefully infidelly abuse this wonderfull creature of God in their sacrifices in which amongst other the entrailes they behold the Lyuer especially supposing thereby to learne and vnderstand things for to come euen as they whether it be through naturall causes illusions of the diuell or through the leasings of their sacrificing priests haue published and made knowne many kinds of wonderfull things The substance of the Liuer is compacted flesh of a red colour not much vnlike to congealed bloud full of veines and arteries and is of a warme and moyst complexion like as is also the bloud Also of her selfe she is without sense or féeling like to halfe a circle and in man in regard of the whole body she is much bigger then in beasts and especially in such as banquet euery day and make good cheare or be fleshy by nature The Liuer is the beginning and the seate of all lustes a fountaine of all the veines the kitchen of all the bloud which she afterwards in most wonderfull manner doth spread abroad and impart throughout the whole body whereby all the members be nourished sustained and strengthened This her admirable operation is not amisse to be compared with must which hath his lées that setleth it selfe in the bottome Also there is then some light with it which ascendeth that we do call the flowre of the wine Lastly there is somewhat more which vaporeth out within the yeare which is waterish Euen so fareth it with the Liuer which draweth first all manner of mixed moisture vnto her the greatest the muddiest to wit Melancholia sendeth he towards the Milt or Spleene that which is light hote and fierie as Cholera is draweth to the Gall the excessiue waterish moisture which remaineth still in the rest of the bodie and all that is not méete for the bloud that do the Raynes draw to them from whence the same commeth into the Bladder and is afterwards voyded out for vrine This excellent member is like as the whole body of man subiect to diuers diseases amongst which the most principall are these namely when the arteries and veines be obstructed wherof then be caused all kind of sicknesses as inflammations schirrosities lasks or bloudie flixes diseases of the Kidneies and of the conduits of the vrine thirst yellow Iaundies and lastly diuers sorts of Dropsies whereof we will speake more at large hereafter Of the infections of the Liuer in generall §. 1. FIrst all men that haue any infection of the Liuer are called Hepatici notwithstanding that some do make somewhat else of it and it is described thus Hepaticus hath his continuall paine about the place of the Liuer with swelling and hardnesse The face looseth his naturall colour there is also an Ague and thirst with it with drouth of the tongue and the mouth But this is to be thought againe vpon that the Liuer it selfe is vtterly insensible and therefore féeleth no paine But this sensiblenes or féeling haue the inward adiacent Tunicles and all that belongeth vnto them which paine doth procéede through a cold or hote Liuer or some impostumation wherof the Phisitions haue their proper signes which we shal declare in their conuenient places But the common people yea also the vnlearned Phisitions do not know so quickly the sicknesse of the Liuer and that bicause of her manifold accidents and Symptomata which be incident vnto it whereof we will describe the most néedfull with all their necessarie remedies Of the obstruction of the Liuer in generall §. 2. FOrasmuch as the common causes of the obstruction of the Liuer like as is alreadie discoursed are in the veines and arteries and that as well through heate as through cold therefore will we first of all make some declaration in generall of this oppilation before that we come to the principall This obstruction or oppilation is thus described Oppilatio is an obstruction and such a disease as hindreth the bloud and other humors that should haue their passage course through the veines which may be prouoked through these causes following in the Liuer to wit if a bodie do gird himselfe too hard and hath his clothes too straight about the Liuer Item through fallings through thrustings and such like through vse of grosse meates as Porke Béefe Chéese vnleauened bread boyled séeds as Rice Wheate c. All manner of Pap other oppilating Pottages Item through outward cold through inward tough slime and grosse bloud which hapneth to lye before the orifices of the veines through winde impostumes and through other diseases moe of the Liuer The common signes next after the forementioned are these that alwayes his excrements or ordure is very thin and watrish the vrine also sheweth thin cleare and yellowish
is weakened so that it is not strong enough for to vnburthen her selfe of the superfluities Or that there be any maladie in the Matrix or mother to wit if the necke of the wombe be stopt and obstructed and is swolne too like as it may easily happen in the mother or in the veines of the same Now for to haue some certaine or infallible knowledge of these things there may outward causes be easily perceiued by the declaration of the patient her selfe If it come through weakenesse of the expulsiue power then is it perceiued by the heate by the thirst by the swift and strong pulse and other signes of heate But if such be caused through cold then is the woman bleake sléepie without any thirst the arteries of the pulse beate slowly and the vrine is of lothsome colour If the disease be of any inward part then doth the whole bodie declare the same through the great fatnesse or leannesse If such be caused through any of the foure humors that doth the blood sufficiently shew which therein beareth sway This obstruction doth bring to women no small sicknesse besides that as it is said they be barren for that they fall thereby otherwhiles into Maniam which is madnes into the falling sicknesse suffocation swellings and impostumes of the wombe and of the other parts adiacent vnto it slothfulnesse and heauinesse of the whole body great vnlustinesse wambling and parbraking coughing and a heauy breathing the dropsie and detension of the vrine and of going to the stoole heauines of the mind great paine of the head and at last into the gout And to remedie all these diseases therefore will we first of all prescribe certaine common rules whereof the first is in case that the Termes be obstructed in a drie bodie then must one beware of all those things that might cause either heate or dryth to the end the disease be not increased thereby The second is if in the stay or detension of womens flowers the bloud had course towards any other part of the bodie then is it aduised that the same blood be drawne out which otherwise might be spoyled Thirdly to preferre these flowres it is then néedfull that the veines be opened vnder the Matrix that the blood may be drawne downewards Fourthly there is meete for this the strong binding of the thighes and to hold the same a certaine time bounden Fiftly if the disease come for that the veines be stopt in the Matrix be it of whatsoeuer occasion that it will then is the blood to be diminished by opening of a veine and to be diminished through laxatiue medicines through abstinence through exercise and such like meanes Sixtly all strong things as Hellebore Euphorbium and Nardus séed which is wont sometimes to be adhibited from below must be but a very little and not to be holden long therein to the end that thereby the Ague nor any other anguish be caused Seuenthly all that moueth the vrine doth also moue the Termes Eightly where there is obserued no good order of diet in eating or drinking there can also no good aduice nor remedie doe any good at all Ninthly for to preferre the Termes is first of all the same to be approoued through gentle remedies and at the last through stronger meanes Tenthly all warme and well sauoring things are very meete for this if they be layed vpon the nauell vpon the priuities and vpon the parts about it Eleuenthly if this disease be caused through any vlcer impostume Ague or any other cause it is first to be practised how to remedie and afterwards to moue the flowres Twelftly in case it be perceiued that this detention of the flowres or termes doth cause any other sicknes or increaseth it then is all diligence to be had to prouoke the Termes and if fo be that the same cannot be effected then may the veine be opened in the foote and boxing cuppes be adhibited Thirtéenthly because there is a great space from the stomacke and the liuer vnto the Matrix then is the Phisicke so to be tempered that the same in so great a distance be not inféebled Fourtéenthly all that is to be put vp into the wombe is to be tied to a strong thréed that one when he list may draw it out and to the end also that through the long continuance there it bruse not the necke of the mother or cause not an Ague And to the end that we may come to the remedies for to open this obstruction therefore first of all be the causes of these obstructions to be thought vpon in case that the same be caused of some outward accident like as of too great labour great heate of too much fasting and such like then is the same presently to be preuented In hote causes are cooling things to be vsed in cold warming things which do open the obstructions In a bodie that is full of blood are the veines vnder the knees to be opened which be most necessary to people that haue not the terms and if so be that horeby and other moe lettings of blood is nothing profited then is one to come to the inward and outward remedies wherein be thrée manner of wayes to be followed which shall be here described of which each one may chuse what séemeth to be the best and fittest for it And because that it is not bad counsel to rehearse and shew the simples which may stirre vp the termes therefore we wil here discouer a good part of them and first all that be warme by nature and are weakest are these the rootes of Smallage of Fennell of Butchers broome of Sperage of Parsley of Grasse Madder Calmus Asarabacca Ireos Valerian white Diptamus and Elecampane rootes Item the séede of Ruscus Lupins séedes of both kinds of Parsley of Siluer mountaine of Sperage of Smallage of Annis of Fennell of Comin whether it be raw or confected the herbes are these Cinquefoile Mugwort wild Mints Marierom Feuerfew Harts toong Spikenard Wormewood white water Mints Iuniper wild Thyme Louage Cuscuta Maidenhaire Southernewood and washt Turpentine These ensuing be much stronger as Hemlocke Rue Centorie Laureola Sauin Euphorbium Ammoniacum Sagapenum Mirrha Opopanacum and Assafoetida the séede of Nardus Mustard séede Pepper Beuercod Colloquint blacke Hellebore Pieretrum Calmus rootes of Celandine the iuice of wild Cucumbers Licebane séedes Boras the galles of stéeres of hens and of all other beasts The odoriferous things which preferre womens termes be these Indie Spica Cinnamom Cassie wood Costus roots Ameos Muscus Spica Romana Squinant Gallia Muscata and such like They that may be burnt to receiue the vapor thereof be these viz. Opopanacum Saponaria Frankinsence Blatta Byzantia Lignum Aloes and red Storax These be now the cooling things which preferre the termes to wit the séeds of small Endiue the séede of Melons of Gourds of Pompeons of Cucumbers of Endiue of Lettice c. and other moe which shall be discouered hereafter of all which pessaries may be
one bathe and foment with all that which here ensueth Take Asarabacca halfe a handful Ebulus leaues one handful and a half Feuerfew Mints Mugwort Agrimony Marierom and Betonie of each one handfull Cammomill Melilot and Roses of each halfe a handfull cut all the herbes and séeth them like as hath bene taught oftentimes It is also very commodious and good to sit in warme water wherein Mallowes haue bene decocted Or take Mugwort and Sauine of each thrée handfuls Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Bearefoote of each one handfull Fennell seeds Parsley seedes Annis Dill séedes Orage seedes wild yellow Rape seedes and Asarabacca of each halfe a dragme Cammomill Elderne flowers Rosemary and Stechas of each one dragme make a little bag thereof and séeth it in water and then sit vpon it Another Take Mugwort Sauine trée of each thrée handfuls swéet Costus roots Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Bearefoote of each two handfuls the séed of Mallowes of Hollihockes of Southernwood of Linséed of Fenegréeke of Cuscuta mustard séede of Lauender and of Siluermountaine of each one ounce and a halfe Parsley séed Fennell Dill séed wile yellow Rape seede and Asarabacca of each halfe an ounce Cammomill Elderne flowers Stechas Rosemary flowers of each one ounce séeth them as before and then sit vpon the bag For fomentation you are to vse that which followeth hereafter Take Cammomil Mugwort Sauine and Nettle roots of each one handful séeth them together in water and receiue the vapor from beneath Item take Rue Sage Southernwood and Sauine of each one handful put them together into a new pot and close it tight but leaue a hole open aboue on the couer wherein a tap may be put whilest it boyleth afterwards draw out the tap and receiue the warme vapor from beneath as is sayd before Or take Myrrhe as much as you will temper it with the iuice of Mugwort and let it drie afterward put filed Harts horne vnto it to wit the third part as much as there is Myrrhe then strew this pouder vpon a hot tile and receiue the smoke beneath but round about couer you close You may also take for it Penniroyal Rue Sauine leaues and vse them alone Item take Violet leaues two handfuls Myrrhe halfe an ounce let them séeth together in raine water and foment therewith as warme as you can abide it Take Penniroyal Nep Southernwood Rue Centory and Hyssope of each one handfull Sauine Feuerfew of each one handfull and a halfe Cinnamom Galingall of each one dragme Siluermountaine and Mather of each halfe a handfull Myrrhe one quarter of an ounce beate them all grosse together and séeth the same in a quart of water euen to the halfe and then vse it as before this also prouoketh vrine Or take Penniroyall Marierom Sage and Mugwort of each one handfull séeth them all together for a fomentation for to fume you are to take a little Coloquint cast it vpon a hote stone and receiue the fume from beneath it greatly prouoketh womens termes but note that Coloquint is very sharpe and that the sayd well sauouring spices and other things be much safer for to fumigate withall Or take Dill Cammomill Melilot Squinant Cassie wood Costus rootes Sulphur Rue Marierom Stechas Southernwood any of all these or part of the same To set boxing cups vpon the thighes is also very behouefull and auailable Plaisters and Vnguents TAke the muscilage of Fleawort and of Linséede of each one ounce vnsalted butter two ounces Hens grease Duckes grease Goose grease and the marrow of Calues bones of each halfe an ounce Ammoniacum one quarter of an ounce oyle of Sesamum and oyle of swéete Almonds of each fiue dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue then annoint you therewith behind and before from the nauell downewards but not before that you haue vsed all other meanes of bathing letting of blood potions c. Item take of the confection Benedicta halfe an ounce Turbith one quarter of an ounce Nigella séed thrée dragmes decocted Hony as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister This is to be layd ouer the priuities as before If so be that one perceiueth the termes after the vse of this foresaid meanes some do aduise and that very well that this potion ensuing is to be made Take Mugwort Sene leaues and Penniroyall of each halfe a handful Cinnamom halfe an ounce Mace thrée dragmes séeth it al together in thrée pints of good wine vntill about the fourth part be wasted and this in a Canne stopt tight in séething water this expelleth the termes vnto her due time The other orderly meane for to preferre the termes is that first of all the Saphea or Median shall be opened and that afterwards a long bag is to be made and to be filled with any of the foresaid herbes which you like best and then put vnto it one quarter of an ounce of Gallia Muscata and weare it so vpon the priuities Afterwards make of one quarter of an ounce of the foresaid Gallia with the water of Mugwort nine pils and take three thereof at once in the morning early then make a pessary of the length of a finger and fill the same with pouned Mercury and put it into the place Set boxing cups also vpon the thighes and in the hams and then rub the legs downewards with warme clothes Squinant and Madder decocted also in the water of Maidenhaire and drunken are also highly commended Item take the pipes of Cassie when the Cassie is taken out and let them be well scraped on the outside as many as you will Cinnamom Mace Saffron Diptamus and Baulme of the one as much as of the other make a powder thereof and take a dragme thereof euery morning with water of Mints the same moueth them very gently But as much as concerneth letting of blood whereof mention is made before some do aduise and not without reason if in case that a woman hath not had her Termes a long time that her veine is to be opened besides her little toe and the next day afterwards on the other foote The words of Hippocrates and of his expounder Galen be true that the letting of blood and hunger do cause women with child to miscary for that thereby they say will the nourishment of the child be withdrawne Therefore good héede is to be taken in these things for that many women haue this for a custome whether they be fat grosse strong or leane that they alwayes open a veine at the halfe of their going with child like as we also haue before admonished in the first § But if one will néeds be let blood then must after the same or else without letting of blood bathings be oftentimes vsed for which is Penniroyall to be taken field mints Southernwood Centorie and Hyssope of each one handful Sauine and Feuerfew of each one dragme Siluer-mountaine Madder of each one handfull Myrrhe one quarter of an ounce stampe and choppe them all small and let them séeth
with their hands they also do sit commonly with bent knees on the ground they loose their speach and neuertheles when one calleth them by their names then do they heare it but they cannot answere and do lie oftentimes that neither breath nor pulse nor any life can be perceiued in them yea are taken to be dead and also sometimes they are so taken or assailed with these kinds of maladies that they depart out of this world neuertheles they alwaies retaine their memorie and knowledge and when they come againe to themselues then do they rehearse all that is spoken and done So that this disease like as is rehearsed is in many things to be compared with the falling sicknes onely that they do not fome In like maner it is not vnlike the palsey but only that there is no long breath with it and very like the sleeping sicknes Lethargo but that there is no ague with it Amongst all the foresaid signes is there no woorse than the retention of the breath for that the same cannot be long holden vp without death follow after it for that a body cannot liue without breath This greeuous accident may also be caused through a strong cold which doth so sore assaile a body that thereby all his breath and pulse will be so drawne inward that by the feeling it can be at no hand perceiued as we haue also admonished héere and there in the first part amongst the diseases of the braines In fine the meane to remedie this terrible disease consisteth in three seuerall things The first what is to be done in the hastie accident for to hinder the stifeling The second if so be that this disease be caused through retention of the seed what is to be vsed for it The third in case that this be caused through retention of the termes or through any other had humours how one is to behaue her selfe therein When as this disease commeth with hinderance of the breath then is spéedie help néedfull therefore is cold well water or Rose water to be cast by and by into her face and to hold to the mouth and nose to the end it may compell the breath backward and breake out with force also the hands féet buttocks and thighes are to be rubbed hard with Vineger and salt and afterwards to be bounden very hard Another woman must make her finger fat with odoriferous oyle as oile of Lillies or any other and therewith annoint the necke of the wombe or Matrix and rubbe the same softly to the end that the Matrix be thereby drawne downewards Further there is a little néesing powder to be blowen into the nose to the end that through the strong motion of néesing the mother may be drawne downeward They are also to be called hard and lowdlie by their names and to keepe away all pleasant sauours from their nose but the places are to be fomented annointed or fumed with all odoriferous things Also a great boxing cup is to be set vpon the same place vnpickt You are also to hold all filthie lothsome sauours before the nose as Assa foetida Galbanum or Beuercod also the smell of old clouts of shooes burnt of haire of feathers and such like that may be gotten speedily are you to let her smell vnto For that like as we in the beginning of the description of the Matrix or mother haue admonished the mother doth flie and auoid by nature all stinking things and to the contrarie loueth all odoriferous fumes and sauours yet are these stinking things not to be vsed but in extreme need for that all that stinketh very lothsomely doth also weaken and infeeble nature Amongst these foresaid things is Hares haire also verie requisite The chéefest odoriferous things which are to be vsed beneath is Muscus and Ambra meete And if one can get it suddenly this powder following is to be taken Take red Storax Lignum Aloes and cloues of each one dragme Muske Amber of each halfe a dragme make all to powder then binde it in a cloth and put it vp into their places Item Take one ounce of the oyle of Lillies Muscus and Saffron of each thrée graines bruise them well togither and dip a taint in it and put it into the place or fill a small bag with salt and vse it as before You are also to make a fume with these things following and to receiue the same through an Ammell Take Cassie wood Cinnamom Thyme Gallia Muscata and such like But if these will not helpe then vse one of the strong pessaries and others which be described before in this chapter and the 2. § Verum saluo pudore praesentissimum Remedium est si maritus vngat Penum cum Oleo Garyophyllorum admixto parùm Olei amygdalarum dulcium ad caliditatem prioris temperandam cum vxore Cocat Matrix enim subito descendet When as now this patient beginneth to recouer againe being a maiden and enclined to this grieuous sicknes then is there no better remedy than that she induce her selfe into the state of matrimony if not then is she to refraine from all these things which do increase naturall seed as flesh wine and other like as before is described in the sixt Chapter and the 4. § and the seuenth Chapter and the 8. § For this is also letting of blood very méete the vse of all cooling meates and the absence of men All minerall bathes which do drie be also very fit for this vse and she may also vse therewith these confections following Take fresh rootes of Polypody sixe ounces Sene leaues Violets Prunes Sebestes sower Dates and Currans of each one ounce and a halfe seeth them in two quarts of water vnto the halfe afterwards wring it out and whilest that the decoction is yet warme steepe therein sixe ounces of the seeds of Fleawoort so long that the muscilage may be drawen out of them then put 24. ounces of white Sugar vnto it Likewise also the pith of sower Dates and Cassie which are prepared with the foresaid decoction of each three ounces then seeth them againe togither by a milde fier vntill that it be thick and temper with it these things following beaten very small burnt Iuorie Rubarbe red and white Saunders Roses Violets white Poppy seed Purslain séed Endiue séed Lettice seed small Endiue séed of Fennell Dragagant Starch scraped Iuory Gum Hollihockes Fumitory Licorice and Annis seeds of each a dragme and a halfe Diagridion two dragmes and a halfe Mirobalani Indi Emblici of each thrée dragmes temper them all togither in a mortar and giue from halfe an ounce vnto seuen drag This foresaid electuary is so highly commended that it is called the gift of God These are also not euery day but only once or twice to be vsed with a decoction of Mugwort and Sugar and then to fast sixe howers vpon it This being done there shall a round plaister be layd vpon the nauell De Galbano and not to take it off before
it fall away of it selfe whereof there be two diuers sorts discouered before in the 3. § Lastly these pils ensuing are to be vsed Take Siluermountaine Madder Penniroyal the innermost rindes of Cassie pipes Pomegranate kernels Pyony rootes and Calmus of each three dragmes Muscus and Spica of Indie of each halfe a dragme then make pils thereof with the iuice of Mugwoort of them is she to take euery day or at leastwise about the other day if she do not vse the Confection and that before supper But the same is not to be giuen if the termes be present but when they be past if you will haue them milder then put one drag and a halfe of Aloes vnto them But in case that this ascension of the Mother be caused through the obstruction of the termes and that a woman be come to her selfe againe and that it is feared that it will returne againe by reason that the cause is not yet taken away that it be certaine that this disease were caused through the retention of the termes or of the naturall seed then must diligence be vsed that the termes be preferred and moued whereof we haue before giuen a full instruction Item if this suffocation of the Matrix procéed through obstruction or hinderance of the termes then giue her one quarter of an ounce of powdred Agaricus with Wine or with Hony water for it is a sure meane for it It is also very good for the same that there be taken one dragme of the powned Agnus Castus with one ounce of the hony of Roses especially if the disease do come through the detention of the seed the Trocisci de Myrrha do also moue much Secondly the Saphea is also to be opened in the foote and afterwards one dragme of powned Betonie with the water of Feuerfew In like manner also boxing cups are to be set vpon the thighes picked or vnpicked Cut a peece of bread round like to a Dollor and set thrée waxe candles in it of the length of a finger set them so burning vpon the nauell and then whelme ouer it a glasse of a quarterne long then do the candles go out and the glasse doth draw the Mother or Matrix perforce into her due and wonted place and this hath béene oftentimes approoued Item annoint all the belly with oile of Masticke and make a pot lid warme wind it about with clothes and hold it warme to the belly Item take Beuercod and Assa foetida of each one quarter of an ounce Philonium Romanum one dragme temper them together and giue it fasting then drinke vpon it a good draught of Muscadell or Malmsey it helpeth maruellous well The same vertue hath Triphera magna the waight of a dragme and a halfe drunken with wine in the morning early Likewise is also good for this one dragme of powned Pionie seeds drunken with Hony water If the Matrix or Mother begin to ascend then is to be taken one quarter of an ounce of yellow Rape séed with the water of Mugwort For a plaister you are to take Galbanum one dragme and a halfe Bdellium one dragme Mugwort Feuerfew of each halfe an ounce oyle of Lillies one ounce dissolue the gummes in the oyle and when they begin to be cold then temper the powder amongst it with this salue they are to annoint them beneath and aboue the nauell and then to lay a plaister of Galbanum vpon it Item take Assa foetida one ounce Galbanum two ounces melt them in vineger and spread them warme vpon a leather of a quarter long then lay them ouer the nauell the Galbanum is also good vsed alone Whensoeuer you will lay any thing vpon the place of the paine then take the rootes of Louage cut them very small and put them in a bag Cometh the paine of the Mother through cold then seeth it in Wine but if it be through heate then séeth them it water and lay it on the place of the paine Could you not get these rootes then take Acorne buds it is also good Néesing and parbraking is much aduised for this but especially héede must be taken to the strength of the patient And in case that the same woman must liue without a man then is she so much the oftener to vse annointing with the odoriferous salues with the fingers beneath and vse therewith all things which do diminish naturall seede as Rue Agnus Castus and such like as elsewhere hath bene shewed Besides all these you may looke all that hath bene said before in the second § of the termes in women Of the descension and falling downe of the Mother or Wombe §. 6. LIke as the Wombe or Mother in women ascendeth so doth it also descend so that it commeth so low that she being turned about it dependeth and with a long end hangeth out of the bodie like as is wont to happen with the Arsegut wherof we haue written in the tenth Chapter and the second § The causes of this disease may be outward and inward the outward may come of fals heauy birth long sitting vpon a cold stone or in the water through hard going to stoole through strong néesing through running leaping through vse of much cold salue and such like The inward be when the bodie is pestered and full of humors which afterwards do fall euen to the wombe which do so vnknit and dissolue the bands and stayes of the same that they cannot hold the mother any longer like as oftentimes befalleth in the palsie and falling sicknesse also in vlcers and impostumes of the wombe The signes of this disease be manifest if the same be caused through any outward causes the same may be inquired of the patient her self Otherwise it is to be considered whether the woman be fat moist liue in quiet is wont to eate much fruite or much fish c. They haue also oftentimes paine about the priuie members and in the neather part of the backbone There commeth also sometimes an Ague with it retention of the vrine and hardning of the stoole Some get also much trembling the crampe and great feare without any manifest causes with many moe grieuous accidents Now in case that the descension of the Mother do yet remaine somewhat inwardly then must a Midwife behold and search her to wit then she must put one finger into the necke of the wombe or Matrix if the passage be smooth and open then is the Mother not falne downe but if she find therein any stop or let then it is a sure signe that it is descended and if so be that the Matrix or Mother continue long out of her natural place then is if vnpossible that she should be reduced againe into her due and naturall place and more vnpossible if the same depend out of the body Thus for to remedie this disease then may one choose out of these things following those which are thought to be best and most méete according to the qualitie of the
The heate augmenteth with pricking vntill that it breake out whence then issueth a blacke gréene matter and otherwhiles like as it were wine lées and sometimes like to water the which stinketh none otherwise than as it were a carren and corrodeth more and more for that is the nature of cankers The signes of these vlcerations be paine pricking panting of the mother and issue or descent of purulent matter according to the qualitie of the vlcer But if it be caused through any outward occasion that may be vnderstood of the sicke person her selfe Or if it come through sharpe bloud then is the paine sharpe pricking with great heate and ague Or if it be caused through Phlegma then is the paine not too great the place anguished and impaireth slowly If there run any cleere blood out of it with white corruption then is there a small veine broken in the impostume If the matter be like water wherein fresh flesh is washed then is it a signe that this disease is caused through long retentiō of womens termes If this impostume be caused of Cholera then doth gréene matter run out of it The signes of the canker haue we discouered before In these kind of vlcers and cankers in the wombe do the learned prescribe certaine rules whereof good héede is to be taken First in case this vlceration be very moyst then are drying things to vsed for it Secondly if there be with the vlcer a venemous quality adioyned then is this the most principall meanes of healing that the venemous quality may be taken away Thirdly that such kind of meate and drinke be vsed as do cleanse and make good blood which is most commodious for to clense the vlcers of the wombe for thereby wil the venemous matter be best of all taken away and drawne forth Fourthly these vlcers haue no néed of maturatiues for that thereby the venemous matter increaseth Fiftly the Phisition must vse such things as do dissolue and drie and lastly incarnatiues Sixtly if this vlcer can be séene then is the same to be refreshed with cleane and fine clothes continually And now to begin with some medicines Héede must first of all be taken of a good gouernement of life so that all that one doth eate drinke or vse according to the abilitie of the patient without the making of any heate may be drying things and commonly such things be ordained for this purpose as are warme in the first degrée but strongly drying Quietnesse in this disease is better than motion Hereby may it easily be marked and vnderstood that all cold and moist meates be hurtfull for this patient viz. Fish Crabs milke and all that is drest with milk much pap fat and such like be naught for her Their most commodious drinke shall be a thin red and hard wine which is very drying and discussiue the same may be tempered with water wherein Mastick two kinds of Consolida if so be that nature can abide it and Feuerfew be decocted Secondly concerning the other phisick if that nature may abide it the veine on the right foote is to be opened against euening yet is good regard to be had to the swouning for that the letting of blood in the neathermost parts do bring more debilitie with it than that of the vpper parts After the letting of bloud this potion following is to be giuen vnto her two mornings together Take Benedicta Laxatiua halfe an ounce Agaricus one scruple Ginger and Graines the iuice of Feuerfew two ounces and a halfe temper them together and afterwards she is to gouerne her selfe euen as the order is after purging Thirdly giue her this potion ensuing the space of certaine dayes together vntill that the vrine appeare of a good colour and very cleane Take Oxymel of Squils halfe an ounce Syrupus de Bysantijs and sirupe of Vineger of each thrée quarters of an ounce Louage and Agrimonie water of each one ounce Cicory water two ounces this is to be drunken early in the morning they may also sléepe well vpon it and fast foure houres after it This being done minister vnto her Pillulas Benedictas foure scruples or one dragme and a half fourmed with the iuice of Mugwort You may also temper one dragme of it with the foresayd water and drinke it and if so be that the cause require stronger remedies then take Pillulas de Opopanaco and de Hiera composita of each halfe a dragme make pilles thereof as is beforesaid With this purging one must diligently haue regard whether this vlcer or canker be so neare in the necke of the Matrix that one may come to it with the hand likewise if the matter do stink to the end that according to the qualitie thereof might be knowne what medicines should be vsed but be it howsoeuer it will Hony water is alwayes good for it You may also cleanse the disease therewith where the vlcer is and afterwards spread thereon this salue following Take Aloe Dragonblood Mirrha Sarcocolla and Frankinsence of each a like quantitie Duckes grease as much as is néedfull for to make a mild vnguent of it But this following is stronger Take oyle of Feuerfew flowers and of Saffron of each halfe an ounce oyle of Walflowers especially if there be great paine with it two ounces Sarcocolla Mirrha and Opopanacum of each one dragme Turpentine thrée quarters of an ounce Muscus one graine white waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue afterwards séeth them all together in foure ounces of the iuice of Smallage vntill all the iuice be consumed then annoint therewith a pessary made of cotton and put it into the place and refresh it oftentimes it is very commodious for it and found oftentimes good But if this disease be very déepe inwardly then doth néede require that the bodie be cleansed with necessary things to wit with Hony water and afterwards vse the pessaries which be described in the fifth Chapter and 2. § beginning thus Take Duckes grease c. and renew them foure or fiue times a day or make this following Take Smallage Feuerfew and Mugwort all together or each alone stamp them together make a pessary thereof and annoint it with Hiera Picra You may also take the iuice of these foresaid herbes and make a cloth wet with it and lay the same vpon the backe the hips and on the hithermost part of the back-bone For iniection this following is ordained Take Hony water seeth therein Ireos and Wormewood or séeth Agrimonie in Barley water and temper clarified Hony or hony of Roses amongst it If so be that the cause require stronger remedies then take sixe ounces of wine burnt Allume Verdigrease of each halfe a dragme temper them together and let them stand so fiue houres afterwards iniect it This following is also good and chiefly to dry the vlcers and to draw them together Take Gals Pomegranat pils and the blossoms and Allume let it séeth together with a litle Agrimony and if you think that
make a soft plaister thereof Fiftly she is to vse this bath ensuing for the raines thrice a wéeke twice a day Take Galliae Muscatae one quarter of an ounce Colophoniae halfe an ounce Saint Iohns wort flowers Betony Mugwort and Feuerfew of each thrée handfuls Bistorta fiue handfuls séeth them together in sufficient water vntill it sauour well she is to sit therein vp to the nauell These be very excellent remedies for to bring the mother to good health againe to strengthen all the parts of generation and to ease their maladies In fine all those things may be vsed for this intent which are prescribed for the expulsion of the dead child out of the mothers body and for the secundine and such like things moe What commonly is good and profitable for the Matrix §. 15. ELecampane rootes the greater Pimpernell rootes the rootes of Eryngus and Ginger all preserued conserues of Betonie of Gilloflowers of Spikenard of Lauender and of Pionie wine of Elecampane rootes of Auence of Betonie and of Rosemary The oyles are these oyle of Lillies of Rue and of Bayes Item the iuice of Gentian and of other rootes which are described in the twelfth Chapter and 11. § We haue now almost written of all especiall accidents and diseases of the wombe whereon naturally dependeth the whole state of humane generation But if so be that this part of the bodie be not sound and without all infirmities then is the humane séede be it as commodious as it will neither rightly conceiued nor duly contained and though it be receiued and contained yet doth either a mischance follow after it or at the least a féeble and weake birth Vnfruitfulnesse ensueth also thereby as we very largely haue shewed in the seauenth Chapter before so that it séemeth not to stand without reason that many Philosophers and learned men haue disputed and concluded By what meanes this part once infected might be eased and prepared to fruitfulnesse to which end it was first created whereof as also of the conception of fruitfull women of their infirmities of their deliuery and of all that concerneth them shall be spoken in this Chapter following The twentith Chapter Of all that concerneth fruitfull and child-bearing women WHen as in women as oftentimes hath bene sayd this vessell of conception is by their termes well clensed and fréed of their forementioned and all other diseases or if some disease now present can be remedied then néede not any one in this place take care for barrennesse What might moue their termes is sufficiently shewed before in the seuenth Chapter yet notwithstanding we purpose here to speake of diuers things which are very commodiuos for conception amongst which the first is sirupe prepared as followeth Take Madder Mugwort Sauine of each halfe a handfull Mints Wormewood Fennell rootes Squinant Marierom Calmus Nep Annis of each halfe an ounce Cloues Buglosse flowers and Balme flowers of each thrée dragmes Cypers rootes Galingall Fennell Ameos and Siluermountaine of each one quarter of an ounce Cinnamome and Raisins of each fiue dragmes Hony as much as is néedfull séeth them all together and make a sirupe thereof as hath bin taught in the first part the fift chapter and 6. § Lastly put vnto it Masticke Ginger Mace Cloues scraped Iuorie Saffron Nutmegs Doronicum Zeduary and Basill of each halfe a dragme and beate them all together small The second is a powder which they may vse with their meate Take Nutmegs Cucubes and Ginger of each halfe a dragme long pepper Mastick and Cinnamom of each one dragme Galingal two scruples the séeds of the Ash trée scraped Iuory Siluermountaine red and white Behen of each one scruple beate them small and mixe them all together The third is this salue folowing Gallia Muscata Nutmegs Beuercod Hares rennet and Laudanum of each one quarter of an ounce oile of Spikenard oile of Masticke and oile of Mirtles of each three dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue annoint the place of the mother with it euery other day The last is a confection prepared as followeth Take wild yellow Rape séed and tame Rape seed scraped Iuorie white and red Behen Siluermountaine and séedes of the Ash of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome Doronicum Mace Cloues Galingal long pepper Rosemary flowers Balsam wood Blattae Bisantiae Penniroyall and Marierom gentle of each two scruples Balme Buglosse Citron pils of each one scruple Indy Spica Ambra and pearls of each halfe a scruple these being mixed and powned all together very small take eight ounces of sugar or somewhat more séeth it in Malmsey and make an electuary or tabulates of it To know whether a woman be with child or no. §. 1. WHen a woman hath layen with a man if that her places after the action be drie the Labra and sides of the same smaller and harder then is it a signe that she retaineth the receiued seede and if the same passe not from her in seuen dayes she remaineth with child Item take Lettice seeth it in water and let her drink three or foure ounces of that decoction if so be that she parbrake the same vp againe then hath she conceiued Take a steele needle stick it in a new wooden dish and let the woman make water in it if there hang a little cloud at the néedle then is she with child Or let her drinke Meade fasting if so be that she vomit the same vp againe she will proue with child Another Take Mace one quarter of an ounce Saffron beaten smal one drag wel water sixtéene ounces Hony two spoonfuls boile them all together as long as you would boile an egge hard let her drinke the third part therof when she goeth to bed and continue it the space of three dayes together if so be that thereby she get not her termes then is she vndoubtedly with child which of these thou mayest best beleeue experience will teach thee The common signes that a woman hath conceiued be these to wit when her termes without ague and cold be stayd for then the blood is deuided thrée maner of wayes the subtillest doth féed the fruit the middlemost doth by certaine veines passe towards the breasts for a preparation of the milke the grossest remaineth in the Matrix which wil be expelled in and after the deliuery Item when a woman is conceiued then doth she find great wambling and distemperature in the stomacke inappetencie to meate vomiting with other symptomes more as hath bene shewed in the former Chapter the 14. § of Mola She findeth also commonly the tenth day great headach giddinesse and darknesse of the eyes It is also sayd if a woman perceiue immediatly after she hath layen with a man small paine and cold about the raines that it is a sure signe of conception To know whether a woman be with child of a Boy or a Girle §. 2. ALbeit there be diuers signes whether a woman be conceiued of a Boy or a Girle yet are they
not so sure that one may stedfastly beléeue them for example it is adiudged that those women which beare a boy haue the right breast sooner hard and round than the left but experience teacheth the contrary and so it is with all the other signes wherefore it séemeth superfluous to spend any time in this behalfe but because we are now come to the conception of mankind we will speake of the symptomes and signes which are perceiued in the women with child Of those things which commonly appeare in women with child §. 3. THose that haue conceiued a man child are for the most part better of colour lustier nimbler of their ioynts and lesse troubled in the bearing than of a maiden child they haue also a better appetite to their meate they do féele the most burthen in the right side in which place they also perceiue the first motion and stirring of the child the pulses be on the right side more stronger and swifter than on the left When they rise from sitting then do the lift vp themselues with the right hand the right eye looketh more liuely than the left and in going they commonly set their right foote forwards But when they beare a maiden child then iudge all the foresaid signes to the contrary they are paler leaner more pensiue and more troubled in the bearing The man child stirreth lower in the mothers bodie and as the common opinion is most of all in the right side The legges and places do otherwhiles swell It is also affirmed that if milke be dropped on her vrine it should swimme on the top Likewise if she beare a sonne then perceiueth she on the 40. day the milke to come into her breasts with a kind of tickling And when she is with child with a daughter she findeth the same about the 90. day Aristotle neuerthelesse acknowledgeth and diuers more that this as we haue sayd before is not alwayes certaine but with the motion in the right or left sides of a man or maiden child it seldome hapneth to the contrary as may appeare in beasts which at one time commonly do beare two yong ones as Goates Sheepe c. At what time and in what maner the child groweth in the wombe §. 4. ALbeit this concerne no Phisicke but is rather a worke of nature than any part of our science yet doth our methode require that we should shew in what time and also how the child doth increase and grow in his mothers bodie First there is also as hath bene sayd before a great difference betwéene boyes and girles to wit the man child receiueth both forme and life much sooner than the maiden child yet the perfect fashioning of a man or maiden child is in manner as followeth In the first sixe dayes the séede doth swell like to a bladder full of wind or a windy egge nine dayes after that doth this bladder draw bloud vnto it whereby in twelue dayes the liuer the heart and the braines are so euidently formed that they seuerally may be séene and perceiued about the 27. day It is called of the Grecians Embryo or Foetus that is a fruite whereof afterwards a perfect man is formed the other members are fashioned within 18. dayes following so that the summe of all this time amounteth to 4◠dayes in which space the life is for the most part also receiued although the child by reason of his weaknesse séeme rather to be still than to moue euen to the 90. day When as now vnto this number which maketh in all 135. dayes is added as much more then saith Hippocrates you haue the true time of the birth which is iust nine moneths counting thirtie dayes for euery moneth but as we haue said before al things are longer deferred with a girle than with a boy for they commonly be not borne before the tenth moneth Secondly some suppose that if a man child be borne in the seuenth moneth as it otherwhiles befals that the fruite was perfectly formed at the first in 30. dayes and began to liue and moue in the 40. But a maiden child borne in the 7. moneth receiueth her perfection in 35. dayes and beginneth to stirre about the 60. day and both of them are perfected in a 100. dayes but a man child which hath bene borne vntill the ninth moneth that getteth his perfect forme in 45. dayes and stirreth about the 100. day is borne into the world about the 300. day But the maiden children are fully fashioned about the 60. day they stir about the fourescore day and are brought into the world about the 279. day The cause why men children are sooner fashioned in the mothers wombe is because the séede and the right side wherein they be conceiued are hotter Thirdly we reade that in the first moneth the conception should be nought else but a collection of bloud in the second moneth a forming of the bodie in the third moneth a perfect body in the fourth moneth the nailes do grow in the fift moneth it getteth the perfect signes of a man or a woman child in the sixth moneth do the veines beginne to appeare in the seuenth moneth doth the marrow grow in the bones in the eight moneth are the bones hardened and strengthened in the ninth moueth doth it get a full proportion of man or woman and prepareth it selfe for birth Albertus Magnus in the ninth booke and fifth Chapter De Animalibus sheweth diuers more diuisions of the kinds and concludeth with these words following That which the Phisitions do write of this matter is not sufficiently approoued and they are not alwayes found to speake the truth These are the words of the foresaid Albertus Now that this is true appeareth by the difference of the foresaid computations It differeth also sometimes according to the health and debilitie of the parent whereby the fruite of necessitie is gouerned and is brought into the world sooner or later wherefore it may iustly be said that in this matter no certaintie may be found The order of diet for women with child §. 5. WHen God hath endued a woman with his gracious blessing that in the state of wedlocke she should conceiue with child then let her take héede that she cast not away the gift of God voluntarily by some great misdiet but that she acknowledge the goodnesse of God and liue in such sort that by her diet the conceiued fruite be not onely not harmed but cherished and strengthened and fall not into any mishap or mischance whatsoeuer To this end we will at this present prescribe certaine rules first a woman conceiued shall alwayes contend to be loose in body for the which she is to eate euery morning before breakfast some ripe stued Prunes especially if she be bound Also she is to beware of all manner of néedlesse labour of leaping dauncing vomiting coughing much venery and especially presently after meales also of great sorrow frighting feare anger and such like Neither may she bathe her selfe vnlesse
it were some few dayes before her child-birth for then is it very commodious as hereafter shall be shewed more at large All maner of cold all kind of stenches all sharpe and bitter meates as Capers vnripe Oliues Radishes French beanes Lupins red pease Rue white water Mints Penniroyall and whatsoeuer else might prouoke her termes is hurtful to her Contrariwise she may vse all maner of wholesome accustomed meates and drinke good red wine or méetly strong Béere for the red wine is méeter for her than the white Item ripe fruits that are somewhat astringent and that do strengthen the stomacke are very méete for her as Quinces Peares c. if she desire any other commodious meate she shall not so strictly be kept from it but that she may vse a little of it at once But if so be that she do long for some vnnaturall and vnaccustomed meate then is she to be dealt withall as hereafter in this next § that be shewed For to strengthen her serueth the warme confection of Diamargariton for it comforteth the stomacke and the Matrix For the same purpose serueth also this wine following a litle draught otherwhiles taken of it Take Ginger Cloues of each one drag rootes of Louage Spikenard white pepper of each halfe a dragme Comin Galingall Annis séedes of each halfe an ounce red Wine thrée pints Sugar as much as you please make Hipocras If the woman be hot by nature then do lay that wine with the decoction of Currans what she ought to obserue beside this may you find euery where in the discourse of conceiued women Of the strange longing of women with child §. 6. ALbeit that this disease of this vnnaturall appetite which otherwhiles hapneth to women with child of some foule or vnusuall meates as Chalke Coales Lime earth Tarre raw flesh fish and such like which is sometimes rather an imagination and an idle or vaine conceit of some vntoward women neuerthelesse the Philosophers do alleage a certaine naturall cause thereof and affirme therewith that this vnnaturall lust doth also come sometimes vpon them which be not with child yea also that men be otherwhiles plagued with it although very seldome wherefore this longing by good reason may also be reckoned amongst the vnnaturall hungers and may be called a corrupting as we before in the eleuenth Chapter haue moued somewhat thereof and haue alwayes hitherto determimed to write somewhat thereof This vnnaturall longing do the Gréeks call Cittam the Latinists Picam and Malaciam that is a desire of bad meate and is thus described Citta is a bad action of the stomack wherein the partie is gréedie to eate vnnaturall and foule things The causes of this vnnaturall desire are very bad humors and especially Melancholia which lieth in the stomacke where the same is excitating this vnnaturall longing In women with child the matter of the termes doth cause it which cometh into the stomacke and because the same is of sundrie natures therefore do they also get diuers lusts But in those that be not with child it doth come through retention of the termes when those humors happen to ascend into the necke of the stomack or by the obstruction of the liuer or the milt whereby the said melancholicke humor doth stirre vp this vnnatural longing The same bad melancholike humors may also be burnt in the stomacke as may appeare in the quartaine ague And for to remedie this disease especially in women with child must first héed be taken to their meate and drinke Rosted Lambe Hens Pullets Partridges and all kind of field fowles are very méete for her yea also otherwhiles buckes braines and shéepes braines whether they be rosted or sod Her drinke shall be good white wine After meate shall she eate rosted Peares Hasell nuts Marmalade confected Pomegranats and Chestnuts Giue her also oftentimes Marmalade with spices which you shal find described in the last part Of the confection Diantha is euery morning about halfe a quarter of an ounce to be vsed Item giue her oftentimes the Syrupum de Montha In like maner is good for her the Mina of Quinces temper them both as much as you please and take thrée spoonefuls thereof before meate It is also much aduised for this woman that she must otherwhiles incline her self to parbrake and vomit as with cleere warme water and sirupe of Vineger wherof we wil hereafter speake more at large because that women conceiued are much addicted vnto it But in case that they incline themselues to vomit then is their stomacke to be annointed with this salue following Take Masticke and oyle of Spike of each a like quantitie Vineger a little lay this plaister following vpon it the flowers of Buglosse of Baulme of Saunders Citron pils of each a like quantitie with oile of Masticke and waxe wrought together or a bag made of the foresaid except the oile of Masticke and waxe and so layd vpon the necke of the stomacke But if it happen that they at any time desired that which might nourish them and that they were detained from it or that the same could not be gotten whereby it came to passe that they were disquieted or vexed then take presently a spoonefull of Hony scrape a little Nutmeg in it and so giue it her If so be that any man or woman being not with child were taken with such vnnatural lust they are to take these things following fasting as Oxymel compositum two ounces with water of Cipers rootes or the decoction of Cardamome or take one ounce and a halfe of Oxymel of squils with the foresayd water afterwards to prouoke vomit are they to vse this Hony water following wherein Mustard séede the seede of Orage of Dill Onions and Radishes is decocted For to purge take Pillulas Stomachicas or de quinque generibus Mirobalanorum which you will one dragme whereupon these confections following are to be vsed viz. Diapliris Diamoschu and Diambra The stomacke is to be strengthened with these things following Take Acorne cups one quarter of an ounce Raisins with their stones seuen dragmes Annis thrée dragmes Mirobalani Indici Bellirici Emblici of each fiue dragms prepared refuse of iron one ounce and a quarter foure quarts of wine which is somewhat strong and as much water séeth them all together vnto the half and then straine it through a cloth and let the patient drinke it out now and then in the space of eight dayes Item take Cardamome Graines Cucubes of each a like quantitie white Sugar as much as all the rest giue thereof euery morning one dragme and a halfe with luke-warme water afterwards vse the foresayd confections and annoint the stomacke and kéepe your selfe with eating and drinking like as is said before Of the vomiting in women with child §. 7. WIth this vomiting are commonly women with child oppressed vntill that they do begin to feele the milke and about the time they were wont to get their flowers or whē the childs haire beginneth
to grow then haue they it most grieuous Also it is the more troublesome for that as then all strange lustes do come vnto them Neuerthelesse it oftentimes hapneth not long after they haue conceiued that they as then are most inclined vnto it It is also otherwhiles commodious for them as we haue shewed before But if so be that it do get the mastery and that thereby the foode be drawne away from the fruite then must one do his best for to strengthen the stomacke and to remedie the vomiting for which there be many remedies in the eleuenth chapter and eleuenth § described against the debilitie of the stomacke out of which may easily be chosen what is méet for women with child but especially these things following be aduised for safe things as the sirupe of Raspes Marmalade and sirupe of Quinces which the ancient Phisitions do so highly commend if a woman with child do vse the same much then wil the fruit be subtiller and whiter Annis Fennell Coriander whether they be confected or not are good against vomiting Item take a hard sodden egge and kéepe it very warme vpon the mouth of the stomacke For this is also passing good the sirupe of Veriuice When a child is weake in his mothers wombe §. 8. FOrasmuch as there is no doubt that the conceiued children be also sicke in their mothers body therefore it is no small question how they are to be holpen For séeing all sicknesses are knowne through féeling and sight the which cannot be done by children in their mothers wombe for this cause this matter is troublesome to the Phisitions But amongst other signes whereby it may be knowne whether the child be sicke in his mothers body or no it is the very certainest if that the woman with child haue her termes oftentimes and much for that there can follow none other thereof but a debilitie of the child because that his sustenance and nourishment is taken and drawne from him Secondly when the milke runneth from women with child then is it a sure token of the debilitie of the child also that the child is not strong enough for to draw his nourishment vnto it Thirdly if a woman do get a strong scouring then is it much to be doubted of a mischance but it dependeth specially on two things vnder which al other accidents be they how they wil are contained which is heate and cold by which all the rest may easily be adiudged First for to write of the debilitie of the child through heate and dryth is the mother to be purged of Cholera viz. with this following and such like Take conserue of Prunes without any other addition halfe an ounce warme whay of milke thrée ounces giue it vnto her in the morning betimes and let her fast vpon it the space of fiue houres Or take prepared Cassie one ounce with foure ounces of Sorrell water or Barley water If you will haue it stronger Take two ounces of Manna temper them together in thrée or foure ounces of whay and vse it as before Or if you wil you may stéepe in the former a dragme of Rubarbe and wring it out well or halfe a dragme of Rubarbe beaten to powder giuen without stéeping All these medicines be very safe for the child and the mother Concerning the order of diet it is to be cooling and moistening as with Lettice Béetes c. like as is oftentimes admonished Also Barly water and Barly paps are to be vsed the fresh is to be drest with vineger and veriuice with the iuice of Limons and such like that she eateth Afterwards she is to drinke euery morning a good draught of whay in sommer colde and in winter warme Or take water of Endiue and of Violets of each two ounces Or if you will haue that which cooleth more take sirupe of Roses of Endiue of each halfe an ounce Succorie water two ounces temper them together These things following are yet more forcible than the former Take sirupe of Vineger half an ounce sirupe of Citrons one ounce Buglosse water and water of Sorrell of each one ounce and a halfe temper them all together You may also drinke one ounce of the conserue of Violets tempered with thrée ounces of Endiue water The clisters with those things which force vrine and blood and also all things which cause vomiting must be forborne But if it be néedfull that one purge more then shall the former suffice But these thrée things are especially to be shunned One must also do his best for to defend resist all bad properties and to strengthen the same which may be done in this maner following to wit that the woman euery day thrée or foure times do drinke halfe an ounce of the sirupe of Limons with Barley water it cooleth and quencheth thirst Item take water of Citruls and of Violets of each sixe ounces water of Sorrell twelue ounces red Saunders Roses burnt Iuorie and séed of Sorrel of each one scruple Saffron halfe a scruple Vineger thrée spoonefuls temper them all together and make a cloth wet therein afterwards lay it beneath on the priuities and behind on the rump Also take then one ounce of small cut Pompeon péeles oile of Roses and of water Lillies of each one ounce and a halfe small fresh Housléeke one ounce temper them all well together and annoint the foresayd places with it thrée or foure times a day But if this debilitie do come through cold and moisture then is this thus to be remedied Take Buglosse water the séedes of wild Saffron grosse beaten Agaricus and Hermodactils of each one scruple Cinnamom Ginger Roses and prepared Coriander of each foure graines let them stéepe together one whole night afterwards wring it out and drinke it in the morning early Another Take the water of Feuerfew and of Balme of each one ounce and a halfe Benedicta Laxatiua one ounce white sugar halfe an ounce temper them together and let them stand the whole night afterwards straine it through a cloth and vse it as the other For this is also a good order of diet to be obserued wherefore these patients are to vse nothing else but that is warme and drie of nature And she is to boile in all her meates Sage Mints Rosemary and such like which haue no nature of opening Their drinke is to be méetly strong red wine tempered with a little stéeled water for it hath power to strengthen all the inward norishing parts and all veines One must also deuise how to amend and clense these bad humors which is thus to be effected Take Sage water foure ounces Miua of Quinces one ounce then mixe them all together Item take Sirupum de Myrto one ounce water of Baulme wherein Masticke is decocted thrée ounces temper them together and so giue it her to drinke A better Take Miua Citoniorum aromatica one ounce water wherein Mirtle séed is decocted thrée ounces temper them to a potion There may also be vsed
Women which be méetly fat or leane and neuerthelesse get a mischance euery third or fourth moneth that commeth beside the former causes of some slimie waterish humours which fall downe into the veines and sinewes whereon the secundine is fastened whereby they do slacke are loose and can sustaine the burthen no longer without falling out of the mothers body By the breasts may also a mischance be perceiued for that when they be small weake and flack in women with child then is a mischance to be looked for and expected When a child beginneth to come to his perfection then hath it néede of much nourishment And if there be any disease or infirmitie there then will the breasts be small soft and slack whereof the fruite must pine and die Or she will be impatient striueth and strugleth so long vntill the secundine breaketh and the fruite falleth away Now if a woman be pregnant with two children and one breast onely whether it be the left or right came to be small and slacke then is it a signe of the destruction of the child on the same side It is also found that certaine women through stench of the snuffing of a candle or lampe haue gotten a mischance Let this suffice of the mischance or vntimely birth we will now teach how the same is to be remedied How a mischance is to be preuented or hindered §. 10. WE haue before shewed that women conceiued sometimes do get their termes whereby that weake and spare yea also dead children be brought into the world which happeneth not without great perill of their life wherefore must we writs and discourse somewhat thereof First the termes do commonly come with paine of the backbone of the belly and the priuities which be altogether signes of a mischance to come for like as we haue said thereby is the nourishment drawne away from the fruite whereby it is not onely inféebled but also vrged to passe away And to obuiate or preuent this all child-bearing women are first to beware from ouerhote cold and ouermoist aire All meate and drinke which be too fat too sharpe and to bitter shall she also eschue as Radishes Parsley Smallage Fennell Pease broth Cinnamome Saffron Galingall Nutmegs and such like spices She is also to vse oftentimes thicke red wine but she is to eschue all great exercise of going running leaping accompany of a man anger and all ouerburthening and therewith haue regard that she alwayes haue a soluble bodie and if so be that be wanting then is she to vse some meate or drinke which do loose the body as the decoction of Mallowes or Mercury or stewed Prunes Otherwise she is to leaue all clisters and other diureticall medicines But if the body be obstructed too much then is she to eate Cassie wood out of the pipes or new prepared Cassie and that especially if she haue any issue or moistnesse in the necke of the Matrix for that the Cassie doth cleanse the Cholera and Phlegma without any trouble you are also in due time to put Rubarbe vnto it yet Manna is more commended for it powned Rubarb is also to be giuen to conceiued women as it is for so it is more effectuall than if she tooke the infusion onely Item if so be that there appeare in the necke of the Mother some sliminesse or moistnesse in the last moneth then is she to vse all things rosted baked and to do such exercises before meate as shall be drying also take Pomegranate péeles powne them grosse and séeth them in oyle of Lillies and iniect that into the Mother That is the right meane for to stay the slipperinesse of the Matrix Afterwards take Masticke Mirrha and Gallia Muscata of each halfe a dragme Goosegrease one ounce dip therein vnkemmed shéepes wooll and put it into the places Hares rennet or the rennet of any other beast is maruellous good for it whether there be any heate or impostume instant Burnt Iuorie and the powder of Zeduarie tempered together and strowed on the meate doth stay also the mischance To this end is also to be séene what is written before in the ninth Chapter and third § of the excessiue termes all which is also méete for this vse But she may vse these things following as the confection of Pearles of which Auicenna describeth alwayes to eate one tabulate before meate and thereupon to drinke a good draught of wine as she may do it very commodiously betwéene both meale-tides twise or thrise a day Secondly take the water of Mints of Daisies and water wherein Cipers nuts be decocted of each one ounce Sugar halfe an ounce drinke this early in the morning all together at one draught whether it be cold or warme Thirdly take scrapt Iuorie red and white Corall Masticke Mints the inward red péeles of Chestnuts Acornes Mirtle séed and Cypers nuts of each halfe a dragme make pils thereof with the iuice of Comfrey whereof thrée are to be taken in the morning with the foresaid water before meate and that afterwards she hath taken one of the foresaid tabulats Fourthly take Cipers nuts powned Gals Mirtle séed iuice of Sloes and Hypocistis of each halfe a dragme Bloodstone Amber Dragonblood and fine Bolus of each one dragme and a halfe refuse of Iron which hath bene long decocted in vineger halfe an ounce the innermost red péeles of Chestnuts one ounce thrée or foure whites of egs powne all that is to be powned and rub it all together a long time in a leaden mortar then annoint therewith the whole belly from the nauell to the priuities foure times a day Fiftly make this plaister ensuing Take Dragagant and Gumme both of them rosted and Bdellium of each one quarter of an ounce the iuice of Sloes Frankinsence Hypocistis and Sandaraca of each one dragme fine Bolus and Dragonblood of each one quarter of an ounce Wax half an ounce Paperglew dissolued in red vineger two ounces make a plaister thereof and lay vpon the priuities let it lie so and if the same must be taken off for any certaine cause then lay it on againe by and by and if there be too little Waxe and oyle of Masticke then take as much as is néedfull of it Another Take Frankinsence Masticke Dragonblood and fine Bolus of each one quarter of an ounce Comin thrée dragmes Pitch one ounce and a halfe three small Cypers nuts Waxe and oyle of Masticke as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister spread them on a cloth and vse it as is sayd before Make also this salue following Take oyle of Nuts foure ounces Barrowes grease one ounce and a halfe three small Cipers nuts Masticke one dragme and a halfe let them seeth softly the space of fiue houres and therewith annoint the place of the Matrix which is betweene the nauel and the priuities and behind vpon the backe ouer against it It is also written that it is wonderfull good to weare alwayes a Diamond on the finger Item if a
kind of things happen without misbeliefe and that amendment be found therby then may they be taken for approued Amongst the same things which seeme also to be like vnto the truth are Agrimonie with the rootes holden before the Matrix and immediatly after birth to cast it away to the end that the Matrix be not drawne downe Also Swines bread bounden vpon the thighs Item â—endane rootes rootes of Polypodie and of Bistorta should also be very good for it but what the Loadstone Smaragde the Eagles head Corall and chiefly if with the end wherwith it hath stood fast it shall be turned toward the Matrix may well helpe for childbirth I cannot comprehend nor vnderstand it therefore each one may hold and censure the same as he list That which followeth hereafter is more like to be true Take the rootes of Polypodie and Mallowes of each one handfull cut them small and seeth them very mellow and lay them warme vpon the priuities put also as much Mugwoort vnto it whereof a woman shall presently fall in labour and after deliuerie it is immediatly to be taken away The common people do commend to lay pouned Bayberries vpon the nauell For to further birth therby to take inwardly is much praised in time of this great néede the rinds of Cassie the vttermost being blacke scraped off the weight of three quarters of an ounce and beaten very smal giuen to women with red Wine or with the decoction of red Pease Item Saffron drunke with Wine helpeth also much to very spéedie birth and to diminishing of the paine The same doth also Cinamom drunke with wine Item take Boreas and Cassie pipes scraped well stampe them very small and temper them and giue thereof one dragme or one dragme and a half it is very forcible There is also good for this that which is described in the 19. Chapter and 2. § for preferment of the Tearmes like as is also that which is discouered for the expulsion of a dead child Item take Hony one spoonfull put two spoonfuls of water vnto it and giue it to drinke Fenegreeke decocted with Hony is also very good for it in like sort do the common people commend for it very highly the decoction of red Pease or Cicers drunken Take also Beuercod Asarabacca of each one dragme powned small and giue it with the decoction of red Peason In this manner also may be vsed the séede of Siluermountaine This insuing is commended for a forcible and sure powder méete for this purpose Take good Cinnamom and Myrrhe of each halfe a dragme giue it with small white Wine it is especiall good if a woman haue once snéezed or hath once vomited Take Cinnamom one dragme Saffron halfe a dragme Cassie wood and scraped Cassie pipes of each two scruples stampe it very small and giue it foure or fiue times with the decoction of red Pease Or take Myrrhe Beuercod red Storax of each halfe a scruple Cinnamom and Sauin trée of each halfe a scruple giue it so vnto women to drinke or make pilles thereof this is commended aboue all other things as this also following is Take Myrrha rootes of Costus and red Storax of each halfe a dragme Ammoniacum Sauin trée of each half a dragme stampe them very small and giue it three or foure times with the decoction of red Pease of this also may you make pils For this is also good Triphera magna one dragme or one dragme and a halfe for it maketh women not vnfruitfull as some women do falsly report but doth aduance fruitfulnes Some do aduise when a woman is past her time that her mother veine or Saphaea vpon the foote is to be opened for that the birth will thereby be the easier and it cleanseth also the child but how farre this is from the opinion of the auncient Phisitions we haue sufficiently declared before Other do aduise to seeth a Swallowes nest in water and straine it through a cloth and then to take foure ounces thereof it will accelerate the birth The fume also of a Mules fell of Comin of Colewoort stalkes of Myrrh of Mirtle of Stéeres gall which one will receiued beneath but aboue all Beuercod and Assa foetida Some say that one should giue one spoonfull or twaine of the iuice of Sloes and alleage also therewith that it is not to be taken but when a child is readie to be deliuered But we haue here many better and most apparant things When the throwes do not continue in bearing women §. 13. ALl that hath a strong odoriferous sauour as Muscus and such like is to be kept from women with child and to be taken away for that it doth hold backe the throwes and hindereth the birth or deliuerie But for to aduance birth take Betonie three handfuls Mugwoort one handfull Cammomill Penniroyall and Hyssops of each one handfull Linséede grossely beaten two handfuls cut all the herbes and fill a bag with it let it séeth well in wine and water This being done then foment with this decoction the priuities with a sponge fiue or sixe times afterwards annoynt the place with the oyle of Wal-flowers into the neck of the mother if so be that the same can be conueniently done by the Midwife whereby the woman will be stronger and the birth be aduanced especially if the child be rightly placed And if so be that this will not yet helpe then make this potion following and giue her therof a good draught euery two houres Take Betonie one handfull Mugwoort Penniroyall and Hyssope of each halfe a handfull a pint of Rhenish wine or somewhat more let them séeth together vntill about the fourth part be consumed straine it wring it out and put vnto it halfe a dragme of Saffron Amongst each draught is to be put halfe a dragme of this powder following Take of the blacke scraped Cassie pipes one dragme and make a subtill powder thereof in like sort haue you yet moe before This following wil be also much commended take white beaten Amber half a drag giue it with the water of Lillies or with the decoction of red pease it quickeneth mightily the throwes It doth also chaunce sometimes that the throwes do auoid at the mouth for which take thrée or foure skeanes of boyled warme linnen yaâ—â—e and let the woman with child receiue this vapor for thereby will the throwes fall downwards euery one may conceiue thereof what he list it is very like a grosse medicine for clownes Of the perillous and hard Child birth in generall §. 14. IT is knowne to all the world more than sufficiently how hard and sowre that some women lye in labour before that they can auoid the child and secundine so that it hapneth otherwhiles that young and strong women do die with the fruite These perils haue many occasions so that otherwhiles the women themselues or the child be a cause thereof Such anguish may also procéede otherwhiles from the Matrix or from the necke
with water wherein the Sauin-tree and Fennell is decocted and although all these foresaid medicines be meete and conuenient for to expell the secundine with them yet we will neuerthelesse in particular as we haue promised write and discourse thereof Of the secundine or afterbirth and how the same is to be expelled §. 16. THis afterbirth do the Latinists call Secundinam which is as much to say as the second because it commeth away after that she is deliuered of child and of such like wherefore it is by vs properly called the afterbirth or secundine This foresaid afterbirth or secundine hath this vse to wit when that in lying together both the séedes of the man woman be tempered in the Matrix and become like vnto milke then commeth about the same a caule or velme which groweth by little and little with the fruit and is augmented with it The same is by nature ordained that the fruite may be therewith as it were with a cloth couered enclosed about garded and defended vntill the day of the birth which presently after the birth of the child if all things happen aright doth auoide or remaining behind it bringeth very great perill with it as we haue said before that amongst other accidents there do follow agues stinking breath paine of the head swouning and such like If in case then that these afterbirths do thereby tarrie behind for that a woman is waxen too weary féeble through the former hard labor then must somwhat be giuen her wherby she may get some strength and might comfort her hart as Diamargariton Manus Christi and Diapliris She is also to be caused to neese and to hold in her breath wherby the vndermost parts of the belly be pressed down and stirred vp to expel that which remaineth And if so be that the secundine will not follow then let the woman rest a litle and annoint the belly and al other parts about it with oyle of Lillies and oyle of Elderne flowers also to kéep the belly very warme and then to vse those things which are specified in the deliuerie of children in the 11. § also whatsoeuer shall be prescribed hereafter All those that esteeme much of precious stones do counsell that when the afterbirth will not follow that then to the woman is to be giuen of the powder of the Aggat and that thereupon the secundine must follow It is also commanded to the contrarie that whensoeuer a woman is in labour that then she is to put away from her all manner of precious stones because that they do deferre this childbirth It is also said that corne flowers giuen with Lilly water do expell the secundine We haue also said before that halfe an Eg-shell full of the iuice of Garlicke giuen with Hony water doth expell the dead child and afterbirth but this aduice may we leaue for country people Néesing is also especiall good for deliuerie and auoyding of the afterbirth For to vse outward things therefore is much commended to make a ley of ashes and to set the feete déepe in them they should draw the afterbirth downwards Item take Béech ashes and powre séething water vnto it then let the vapor ascend from beneath vpwards and the afterbirth will follow Take Peacocks feathers or if you cannot get them then take Hens feathers kindle them and let the fume ascend from beneath Item take Hollihocke rootes séeth them very mellow and then temper it with Barrowes grease with Goose grease and therewith annoint the necke of the Matrix within This draweth not onely the afterbirth but also all other vncleannes for this is also chiefly good whatsoeuer before is described for the aduancement and lightning of childbirth also for womens termes How that the afterthrowes are to be eased §. 17. TAke Squinant and Spikenard of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them together with water of Mugwoort euen to the halfe and drinke thereof two or thrée times it allayeth the paine Item take Malmsey or some other good wine and make a candle thereof with the yolkes of Egs and Cinnamom Or take Saffron half a drag Mace one scrup Triphera magna halfe an ounce take this at two times with warme wine for this Triphera hath such power that it doth presently asswage the paine In like manner this may be annointed in the necke of the Matrix very commodiously Further you haue before in the 19. Chapter and 7. § of the paine of the Matrix through wind of Triphera and Philonium and presently afterwards a powder with Turbith Also how this Hellebore is to be vsed all which things be very commodious for the afterthrowes Item take small powned Woolblade temper them as a dough and bake cakes thereof and giue it to the woman to eate Take good fat Figs cut them to péeces and grosse beaten Fenegréeke of each one handfull let them séeth together and the woman to sit oftentimes ouer it or to foment her beneath with clothes Item take the yolkes of Egges temper them with the iuice of Mugwoort and bake cakes thereof and lay them behind vpon the backe The same doth also Hollihock rootes or the leaues if it be beaten and with warme wine laid vpon it and oftentimes renewed For the excessiue floud after birth §. 18. FOr this you haue before in the 19. Chapter 3. § of the asswaging of the excessiue termes of women many kinds of remedies which be also very méete for all women in childbed Yet of the Phisitions of Augusta be these following ordained for very especiall remedies At the first are these women in childbed be it howsoeuer it will to take with broth fasting one dragme of the same powder with white Diptamus that not long since hath bene described in the 11. § Afterwards she is to vse this costly confection Take conserue of Roses one ounce conserue of Burrage of Buglosse and of Baulme of each halfe an ounce prepared Bolus halfe a drag prepared Pearles one drag good Cinnamom one drag and a halfe temper them all together Item take conserue of Pionie it cleanseth a woman after birth Let her vse also this powder following Take prepared Bolus one drag Sealed earth 2. scru Tormentill halfe a drag Shepheards purse one scrup Species de gemmis frigidis one drag and a halfe prepared Pearles one drag Roses Corall and Saunders of each one scrup Cinnamom two scrup and a halfe Sugar thrée ounces temper them well together and take it with Henbroth This following is yet more forcible in stanching Take Bloudstone washed with Plantaine water one dragme and a halfe red Coral one drag Tormentill and Trociscos de spodio of each halfe a dragme scraped Iuorie and burnt Harts horne of each one scrup prepared Pearles foure scruples fine Bolus two scruples Bursa Pastoris and red Saunders of each a scrup Cinnamom one dragme Sugar sixe ounces make a powder thereof or losinges Of the superfluitie of milke §. 19. VVHen as now a woman is deliuered
Béech tree of each halfe a pound let this stand so the space of eight dayes in a woodden vessell stirring it about euery day three or foure times afterwards filter it so long vntill it be very cleare This Lye are you then to séeth in an iron pan vpon a good fire so long till it be sodden thicke enough Now for to know whether it be enough sticke a quill into it and if the fethers do fall off then take the pan from the fire and hold it on one side to the end it may run all together and may be hard It is also here to be marked that when as in seething it beginneth to make bladders or bubbles like as pappe is wont to do then is it a signe that it is sufficiently decocted and then cast it on a boord and cut it parcel wise When it is thorough cold and waxen hard then kéepe it in a glasse stopt very close and tight in a drie place Another Take vnslect Lyme Vine ashes Willow ashes Argall and burnt Saltpeter of each a like quantitie powne it all small and put it in a new pot afterwards powre sharpe Lye vpon it and so let it stand three dayes space but stirre it oftentimes about filter this Lye so often that it be very cleare at the last seeth it and kéepe it as before For all open sores in the Pockes §. 9. TAke Ceruâ—e as much as you please and Sallad oyle as much as is néedful and a little Vineger and Rosewater bruse them together vpon a rubbing stone and annoint therewith the running sores of the Pockes and other Item Take oyle of Roses Saltpeter and péeled Almonds of each a like quantitie Camfere a little then rub it all together as before For this may you also according to the importance of the cause temper small brused Tuty for that this healeth maruellous well all sores and especially those which do stand about the throate but if it be feared that they eate too deepe inwards then are they to be annointed before and after meate For the Scales and other spots §. 10. TAke oyle of Camelina and oyle of swéet Almonds of each foure ounces Butter and marrow of Oxe bones of each thrée ounces the grease of Géese and of Ducks of each one ounce white Waxe two ounces make a salue thereof This salue hath a maruellous vertue in mollifying all scales impostumes and other scirrhosities which procéede of melancholie and all hardened sinewes Will you then haue this salue to asswage the paine more then temper the brayed yolkes of three egges amongst it and one dragme of Saffron If you then desire to haue it pierce more stronger then take Bdellium and Ammoniacum of each one ounce dissolue them in Vineger and put them amongst it then séeth them vntill that all the moisture be consumed and stirre it together one amongst another Now for to heale all cicatrices markes and spots vse this ensuing Take a pound of Sulfure beate the same grosse and séeth it with water in a couered pot but looke to it that there go no vapour out of it afterwards hold the member ouer it and receiue the vapour thereof afterwards annoynt it with swéete Butter You shall also find good things for this in the description of burning The fourth Chapter Of the Leprosie AL famous Phisitions do estéeme no disease vpon earth to be more terrible and hurtfull than the right Leprosie for this malady doth so vehemently infect the bodie that it not onely inféebleth all the members of the whole bodie but spoileth and putrifieth also the same on all sides that the members will fall parcelwise from the bodie and it taketh away vtterly his whole naturall essence for that his nose will be crooked broad and falne downe his lips great thicke and swolne and his eares sharpe so that these people besides that they be disdained and despised of all the world as if they were the filthiest creatures on earth they must liue and die in misery And to the end that we might partly learne to know the misery which is caused through the Leprosie these are the most common signes the falling out of the haire of the beard the eybrowes hoarse spéech a short heauie and stinking breath great continuall thirst hardning and swelling of the spléene vnnaturall heate of the liuer and of the kidneyes wherewith is commonly grauell also the patient will be vexed with terrible dreames and will be much plagued as it is commonly sayd with the night-Mare He will also be vexed with much wind of the belly with great binding Also the fingers and toes do rankle and swell the nailes do sliuer and cleaue and spoile that at last they do fall out Wheresoeuer they haue any opennesse there runneth out alwayes a black loathsome and stinking matter Otherwise they haue ouer the whole bodie a hote irksome and itching scabbednesse with blisters and scales which for the most part do appeare in the throate and in the nostrils whereby they do take away the breath from the patient He getteth thicke cornels or knobs on the skin of the thighes legs and féete which do get a numbnesse whereby the naturall liuely colour is altered into a dead blacke and blew colour The eyes do also get another forme or fashion whereby their sight is darkned These be now like as is sayd and shall yet be sayd the most common signes of the Leprosie especially of that which the learned do call Elephantiasin whereby all the foresaid signes do shew themselues not all at one time but alwayes a good part of them It hapneth also wel that otherwhiles but one member only or some part of the bodie is infected with this disease and not the whole bodie We will also discouer somewhat here of the causes of this sicknesse It may be caused of a bad aire as in time of the plague by conuersing or dwelling besides Leapers or by much speech with them for that through their venemous breath may one be easily infected And this is such a disease whereby the one is not onely infected of the other but the children also do inherite the same from their parents so that whether the man or the woman be infected with it the other will soone take it also This miserable sicknes is wont also to be caused of great anger long sorrow feare and faintheartednes whereby much melancholicke blood is ingendred and then out of it the Leprosie Item of the long vse of melancholick meates as Pease Beanes c. old chéese Goates flesh Beares flesh Foxes Asses and measelly Swines flesh all old salt flesh grosse fish milke and fish eaten together and such like things moe Item through too hote a liuer whereby the blood is burnt The Leaprosie is diuided by the learned into foure parts and each species of the same called after a certaine beast for that it hath a little likenesse to the nature of the same beast whereof the first is Leonina of the Lions the
ensuing Take Cow dung and Goates dung make a plaister of it with the oyle of Earthwormes and so lay it warme vnto it by this meanes do the shrunken sinewes waxe loose But looke in the fourth part the seuenth chap. and 2. § what is written of the lamenesse and extenuation of the members The like also in the 3. chap. of the Pocks where you shal find good direction of this matter To cause the flesh to grow in wounds §. 13. THe Grecians and the Phisitions do call the things which cause the flesh to grow Sarcotica which be for the most part drie in the first degrée for if they be ouermuch drying then will they not onely drie the humors which do fall into the wounds but the bloud also and the whole substance of the part This salue following is very requisite for it Take Hony sixe ounces seeth and skum the same vntill it be a litle thicke afterwards temper therein Myrrhe Sarcocolla and Aloe of each one dragme and a halfe powned all together to powder Item take the Lytharge of siluer refuse of Iron Centorie Aloe Frankinsence and Masticke of each a like quantitie make a subtill powder of it For this is also méete the plaister Album coctum Triapharmacon and Apostolicon which all together ingender flesh and are prescribed for the same intent For this also be these plaisters following to be vsed viz. Emplastrum griseum or de lapide Calaminari which is thus made Take prepared Calaminari half an ounce Lytharge of gold one ounce Ceruse one quarter of an ounce Tuty halfe a dragm Masticke one dragme and a half Myrrhe one dragme Camfer two scruples make thereof a plaister if it be too hard put more Turpentine vnto it this plaister drieth causeth flesh to grow healeth and cicatriseth all wounds The other Take prepared Calaminari foure ounces Masticke Frankinsence and Dragagant of each one dragme the Lytharge of siluer halfe an ounce Waxe thrée quarters of an ounce Rosin halfe an ounce prepared Tuty two scruples and oyle of Roses as much as is néedfull this is somewhat weaker than the other The salue of Tuty Diapampholigos is very meete for this vse so is also the salue Apostolorum Of that which causeth the Skin to grow §. 14. AT last if you perceiue that the flesh is growne so high that there wanteth only cicatrisation then are things to be vsed which haue an astringent vertue and which do drie excéedingly without corrosion For which be most fit all the salues of lime which be described in the fift Chapter and first § In like manner also the fiue white salues which be discouered in the ninth Chapter and first § and the last mentioned Diapampholigos This powder following is excéeding good for it Take Lytharge of siluer burnt Allume washed Lyme burnt Lead Gals and Pomgranate peeles of each a like quantitie strew it vpon the wound for this also it is very fit that the wounds be washed with Wormwood wine or Rosemarie wine Concerning the wounds of the head we haue written somewhat in the description of the skull in the first part the fourth chapter and 1. § The eight Chapter Of the Cicatrices and spots of the Skin WHen there hath bene any bodie wounded or hath had some other exulceration healed then will there remain on the same place some cicatrice or mark For as hath bene admonished at the first the skin doth neuer more heale of it selfe but there must grow a new skin Also it happeneth otherwhiles that newborne children do bring spots into the world And because that the same are placed in the face they do make a great deformitie therefore we will also discourse of them Amongst the Grecians be those spots that be white called Leuce and by the Latinists Vitiligines which be white spots of the bodie Item there be also blacke spots of the Leprosie Of the spots which appeare in the face we haue written in the first part the fift Chapter and first § which remedies may also be vsed ouer the whole bodie But because there be so many kind of sorts we are to write the more at large of them Of the moles or markes that children are borne withall §. 1. IT hapneth also many times that newborne children do bring with them into the world certaine spots or moles which are caused by some frighting strange lusts and such like which women being with Child may get as by experience hath oftentimes bene séene Chew in the morning fasting Mustard séede and annoint therewith the spots do this oftentimes then will the spots weare away but looke diligently vnto it that it come not into the childs eyes also breath not into his eyes There come also otherwhiles certaine markes and other red spots on the skin for which the Basilica is first to be opened and afterwards some cooling sirupes and other cooling potions but we will write and discourse seuerally thereof Of red spots through heate §. 2. OF these spots we haue before admonished in the first Chapter and 4. § that all that may be vsed for it which is ordained for the Rose or Erisipelas But if so be that this be caused through some vncleannes of the bloud as it commonly hapneth and that notwithstanding there be no speciall heate instant then can no better thing be vsed for it than the sirupe of Fumitorie and al that may be made of that herbe for that herbe hath an especiall vertue to cleanse the bloud and to take away all itch of the skin Afterwards are you to vse this salue following Take vnsleckt lyme and prepared Tuly of each one drag oyle of S. Iohns woort two ounces and a litle wax temper them all together Or take Camfere bruse it with an Almond then temper the same with Rose water and annoint the spots therewith Take oyle of Egs as much as you please and temper amongst it a good part of brused lytharge of siluer then annoint therewith the spots this driueth them away how lothsome soeuer they be For this is also very fit the oyle of Iuniper and the oyle of bitter Almonds and of each alike or each apart Also you may vse for this maydens milke Lac virginis which is described in the first part the fifth Chapter and 1. § Item take Hellebore two ounces stampe it to pap and put thereto as much of the iuice of Agrimonie and a litle Rosewater then rubbe the spots with it Or take lytharge of siluer burnt Allume burnt Lead washed Lyme Gals and Pomgranate blossomes of each one dragme and make a powder thereof Of spots which come by fals §. 3. BEfore in the first Chapter and 6. § is a salue described beginning thus Take the caules of Goats c. which is especiall good for all spots and very safe Of spots by stripes or falles §. 4. FOr this you haue in the first part the fifth Chapter and 5. § two good remedies without which you may vse these ensuing which may be rather vsed
sirupe and Sugar with water enough till it be as thicke as Hony and afterwards temper the spices therewith then beate it well together and put thereto Rubarb one quarter of an ounce that hath bene steeped foure and twenty howers in Malmsey Lastly adde thereto Muske and Amber of each foure greines this being done mingle them all together and keepe it safe being well stopt in a glasse Item take Mithridate and Treacle that at the least is ten years old of each half an ounce Citron seede and fine Bolus of each halfe a dragme Rose water with the which Muscus is dissolued as much as is needfull for a confection hereof may you vse euery day one dragme Also that are sound and whole as also those that are infected may vse the waight of a quarter of an ounce of this confection following morning euening without any daunger Take Iacincts Granadoes Smaragds Saphirs Pearles bones of a Stags hart Paradise wood of each halfe a dragme red and white Saunders red and white Corall burnt Iuory Tormentill fine Bolus Terra sigillata Camfer small filed gold of each one scruple beate them all together very small and then take Sugar sixe ounces that is sodden with Rose water to a sirup then temper it so thicke as you will haue it with sirupe of Citrons Men may vse also otherwhiles in stead of this confection two or three dayes together of this drinke following which also is a wonderfull preseruatiue against the plague and may be vsed as well of young as of old folke yea also of young children and women with child Take fine Bolus a dragme and a halfe beate it to fine powder and drinke it with white wine and Rosewater very warme in the morning and eight daies after you must take a dragme of Treacle or Mithridate in the winter with wine and in the summer with Rosewater These foresaid medicines are not onely good against the plague to come but also against that that hath alreadie infected And forasmuch as those foresaid confections are made of many costly things that may be too deare for the common people for this cause haue we of purpose described the confection of Nuts and Rue which they may vse in stead of these Or take the kernels of Nuts Rue and Iuniper leaues of each a like quantitie powne them all well together and with Vineger make thereof a confection whereof euery morning you may take the bignes of a Nutmeg In like manner may one also prepare this following take eight and twentie or thirtie Nut kernels and forty or two and forty Figs Wormwood Rue Scabious and Sorrel of each half a M. Aristologie two dragmes and a halfe Tormentill Pimpernel and white Diptamus of each one dragme fine Bolus halfe a dragme red and white Corall Sorrell seedes of each halfe a dragme Citron séedes one dragme Iuniper berries thrée dragmes chop and stampe all that must be stampt and hereof with clarified Honie make a confection hereof may one take at one time the bignes of a Walnut Also make another which is called the confection of Iuniper berries as followeth Take Nut kernels Iuniper berries of each two ounces beate them wel together put thereto foure ounces of clarified Honie and temper with it Cinnamom Ginger Mace and Cloues of each a dragme white Diptamus Tormentill Zeduarie Citron peels Rue Carduus Benedictus and S. Iohns woort of each a quarter of an ounce Cardamome Paradise wood blacke Coriander Angelica white and red Behen fine Bolus and sealed Earth of each a drag then mingle them all together If the quantitie of Nut kernels Iuniper berries and Hony be too little then may you take twice so much And for the common sort it is also excellent good that euery morning he do take eight or ten Iuniper berries that haue bene steeped in Vineger Now follow certaine powders that preserue men from the Plague but as hath bene said before great regard is to be taken in time of the plague that the heart may be defended from al pestilent infections as much as is possible To this end are all the bouesaid medicines also many powders confections cordiall waters and other such like as herafter follow prescribed Take Rubies Granats Iacincts Smaragdes and Saphires of each half an ounce white and red Corall and shauings of Iuorie of each three quarters of an ounce shauen Harts horne and Sorrell séedes of each halfe an ounce prepared Pearles a quarter of an ounce Saffron ten greines beaten gold foure leaues mingle them all together Item take prepared Rubies Saphirs Iacincts Emrodes and Pearles of each halfe a dragme red Corall burnt Iuorie shauen Iuorie Vnicorns horne Diptamus Zeduary Cinnamom and Tormentill of each two scruples Doronicum Aristology red white and yellow Saunders Citron péels and Sorrell séedes of each halfe a dragme Saffron two scrup white Amber one scruple red and white Behen of each two scruples and a halfe Sugar sixe ounces and a halfe mingle them all together and then take halfe an ounce thereof euery time These following do the Apothecaries call Species liberantes that are very much esteemed and much vsed at Ausburg by reason they defend the heart and all inward parts very maruellously against all venimous ayre they are made in this manner Take prepared Bolus and sealed Earth of each thrée quarters of an ounce Tormentill Sorrell seede séede of Endiue péeled seedes of Citron and prepared Coriander of each three dragmes red white and yellow Sanders prepared Pearles red and white Corall yellow Amber shauen Iuorie bones of a Stagges hart that hath bene stéeped a while in Rosewater red and white Behen Doronicum Cardamome Mace Paradise wood Cinnamom Saffron Zeduarie and Cassie wood of each a dragme Emrodes Saphires Granates and silke Wormes nests chopped as small as may be of each a scruple Camfer fourteene greins Muske and Amber of each sixe greines Sugar candie and Sugar pennets of each a quarter of an ounce beate all very small and mingle it together ye shall giue one dragme of this powder in the winter with wine and in summer with Sorrell water The Emperours powder against the Plague Take Pimpernell Gentian Tormentill Dragon Rue Wormwood Nut kernels prepared Granats and Iuniper berries of each a like much make them into powder and vse it vpon a tosted péece of bread If you will make a confection of this powder then put thereto Rose vineger and Treacle as much as shall suffise Another powder Take fine prepared Bolus one ounce and a halfe Cinnamom one ounce Tormentill and white Diptamus of each halfe an ounce Pimpernell Angelica and Gentian of each a quarter of an ounce prepared Coriander thrée dragmes Saffron Sealed earth Citrō péeles red and white Behen red Corall yellow Saunders shauen Iuorie prepared Pearls of each a quarter of an ounce burnt Iuorie Paradise wood and bones of a Stags hart of each two scruples Granates Saphires Iacincts Emrods and Rubies of each halfe a dragme Spike
Hypoquistidos indeclâ—â—biliter Hypogessum Seâ—um maius Housléeke Hypopium Thapsia Turbith Hyâ—ge Pausaniae Granum iinctorium Couchenill Hyssopites wine of Hyssope Hyssopum or Hyssopus Hyssope Hyssopus humida officinaruÌ„ Oesypus Wooll of the slancke of a sheepe Hystera Vterus Loci Matrix the Mother in women or Matrix or Wombe Hysteralgia paine in the belly or Matrix I. IArum Cuckoepit Iacca Harts ease Iacca nigra Morsus Diaboli Diuels bit Iamâ—num officinaruÌ„ Alumen scissile vide Alumen  Iaspis a Iasper stone Iaspis a greene Iaspis Ichthiotheron Cyclaminus Sowes bread Iâ—â—â—s Alâ—hea marsh Mallowes Icteritia the yellow Iaundies Icteritis Apuleij Libanotis coronalis Rosemary Icterus Morbus regius the yellow Iaundies Iecur the Liuer Igre Hippocratis Isatis Woad Ignis diui Anthonij or Iâ—nis sacer Erysipelas the Rose Ileos or Il us or Iliaca passia or Iliaca a wringing in the small guts Ilecebra Piper murinum Stonecrop Illinctus Eclâ—gma a medicine which is licked vp and not swallowed Imaginatio an imagination or conceit Imperatoria Angelica Impeâ—genaria aâ—borca Lichen arboreus a kinde of Liuerwoort Impetiginaria petraea Lichen saxatilis Liuerwoort Impetigenaria saxatilis Lichen the same Impetigo a Ringworme or dry scab Inanâ—â—to emptines of the body Incensum Thâ— Frankinsence Incrementum the increasing of a sicknes Inâ—ubus Ephialies Faunorum in quiete ludibrium as Pliny saith the Night-mare or Hag it is a little falling sicknes and is a signe of madnes to come or of the falling euill or Palsey c. Infusio Senae the infusion or stéeping of Sene leaues Inguinalis or Inguinaria Dioscoridis the herbe Bubonium Inguinaria Plinij Anserina  Intemperies vntemperatenes Intestina gracilia the little guts Intestina terrae Lumbrici terrestres Earth-wormes Intestinum duodenum Intestinum primum Pilorus the gut next to the stomacke Intestinum ieiunum Nestis the empty gut Intestinum monoculum  Intestinum caecum the blind gut Intestinum primum vide Intestinum duodenum  Intestinum rectum Longanum the Arsegut Intubum Endiuia Endiue Intubum satiuum angustifolium a kinde of Endiue Intybus Intybus satiuus latifolius white Endiue Inturis Capparis Capers Inuersio ventriculi Anastrophe an inuersion of the stomacke Inula Helenium Elecampane Inula rustica Apuleij Symphytum magnum Comfrey Ion Viola a Violet Ion porphyrion Viola purpurea a March Violet Ion melan Theophrasti Viola nigra the same Ion polyphyllon Viola multiplex double Violets Ion Agria Viola syluestris wilde Violets Ireos siue Irios officinarum Iris the Flouredeluce Iris the same Iris alba the white Flouredeluce Iris Apula the same Iris domestica the same Iris Florentina the same Iris Germanica the blew Flouredeluce Iris lutea yellow Flowerdeluce Iris palustris latifolia a kinde of Flowerdeluce Iris Schlauonica the Flouredeluce Isatis Glastum Woad Isatis minor wild Woad Isatis satiua tame Woad Issopus humida officinarum Oesypus Wooll of the flanke of a shéepe Ischias Coxarius morbus the Sciatica Ischiatica barbarorum the same Ischuria vrinae retentio a stopping of vrine Itea Salix a Willow Iuiuba Arabum officinarum Zizifum a kind of fruit so called Iua officinarum Aiuga or Abiga wilde Cypres Iuglans a Walnut trée Iuglans equina the great Walnut Iulebum or Iulepum a Iulep Iunci flos SchoenuÌ„ Anthos Squinanthum  Iuncus angulosus Plinij Cyperus a kinde of Galangall Iuncus odoratus Squinanthum  Iuncus odoratus Celsi Cyperus a kinde of Galangall Iuncus triangulus Plinij Cyperus the same Iuniperus a Iuniper trée Iuniperus acuta the greater Iuniper trée Iuniperus maior the same Iuniperus minor Iuniperulus and Iupicellus the lesser Iuniper trée or the Gooseberry bush Iuniperi baecae vel Iuniperi grana Gooseberrie or Iuniper berries Iunonia Rosa Plinij Lilium a Lilly Iusquiamus officinarum Hyoscyamus Henbane K. KArtam Arabum Cuicus Cartamus wilde Saffron Kauroch Arabum Chelidonium Celandiue Keiri Leucoium Walflowers Kerua Arabum Ricinus Palma Christi  L. LAbrum Veneris Dipsacus Teasell Labrusca vitis syluestris the wilde Vine Labruscae flos the blossome of the wilde Vine Lac amygdalinum Almond milke Lac acidum Oxylacha sower milke Lac ebuteratium Buttermilke Lac chalybatum stéeled milke Lac ouillum or Ouinum Ewes milke Lactis cremor Pingue Flos vel Pinguedo Creame Lac scistum Curded milke Lacca Caucamum a Gum so called Lacerta or Lacertus an Euet Lachryma draconis a gum called Sanguis draconis Lachryma Iobi Lithospermum maius Gromill Lachryma Iuniperi Sandaraca the Gum of the Iuniper trée Lachryma Mariae  Lachryma medica Assa foetida a Gum so called Lachryma Syriaca the same Lachryma vitis Aqua vitis Sap of a Vine Lactaria Tithymalus Spurge Lactuca Lettice Lactuca cappadox Plinij crumpled Lettice Lactuca asinina Anchusa Orchanet Lactuca Betica Columellae great Lettice Lactuca Caeciliana Columellae white Lettice Lactuca crispa curled Lettice Lactuca caprina or Lactuca marina Tithymalus Spurge Lactuca marina Apuleij Cataputia syluestris great wilde Spurge Lactuca Laconia Plinij or Lactuca sessilis or Lactuca capitata headed Lettice Lacaturris Plinij Brassica lacuturrea a kinde of Cabbage Lada or Ladon or Ladanum or Laudanum this is called of Dioscorides Ledum Laden and Leden In the Apothecaries shop it hath his common name Laudanum It is the dryed iuice of an herbe so called The Herbarists call it also Cistum laudaniferum and Fruticem laudaniferum Laetitia Galeni officinarum vide Laetificans Lagopodium or Lagopus Hares foote Lagopus the same Lamium Plinij dead Nettles Lampsana Rapistrum album Cadlocke Lampas  Lana succida vnwashed wooll Lanaria Saponaria the herbe that Fullers vse in scouring of cloth Lana arborea or Lana xylina Cotton Lanceola narrow Plantaine Lanugo arborum Mosse Labdanum barbarorum vide Lada Lapathum Dioscoridis Oxalis Sorrell Lapathum Galeni Docke Lapathum acidum a kinde of Docke Lapathum acutum a Docke Lapathum aquaticum water Docke Lapathum cepeon or Lapathum satiuum Monkes Rubarbe Lapathum domesticum or Lapathum latifolium satiuum Herbe patience Lapathum equinum water Dockes Lapathum latifolium  Lapathum non acuminatum  Lapathum platyphyllon the greater Docke Lapathum barbarorum vide Lada  Lapillus Eritraeus a Pearle Lapis calaminaris officinarum Cadmia natiua the Oare of Brasse Lapis caeruleus an Azure stone Lapis corrosiuus a corrosiue or corroding stone Lapis Cyaneus an Azure stone Lapis Indicus Margarita a Pearle Lapis Iudaicus a stone that purgeth Melancholy or a Iewes stone Lapis Hepaticus a Liuer stone Lapis Lazulus officinarum the Azure stone Lapis Erithraeus Margarita a Pearle Lapis Lyncis officinarum Lapis phrygius of some white Amber of others a Thunderbolt of others a stone that groweth in Phrygia Lapis Stellatus or Caeruleus the Azure stone Lapis viridis an Hemeraude Lapis vini Argoyle Lappa maior Bardana the great Burre Lapsana Rapistrum album a kinde of Mustard séede Lasaron Galacticon Angelica Lascaphrum Naraphtum blacke Frankinsence Laserpitium
praecipitatus Precipitate Mercurius sublimatus Sublimate Meris Tripolium a kind of Turbith Meri Arabum Oesophagus the mouth of the stomacke Meseraicae venae certaine little vaines in the Liuer Mespilum a Medlar or open arse Mespilus a Medlar or an open arse trée Metallum Metall Metopium Ferula galbanifera the herbe of the which the gum Galbanum is made Metra Hippocratis Vterus the Wombe Meu Arabum Meon or Meum Mewe Mezereon Arabum Lorell or Laurell Mica thuris Mantia thuris the fragments of Frankinsence Micancalus flos githaginis a Corne rose Mchleta a Confection so called Milax barbaroruÌ„ Smilax Taxus a trée like Fir. Milium Millet Milium Indicum siue Milium saburrum Indian Millet Milium solis Lithospermum Gromill Millifolia or Millifolium Yarrow Nosebleede or Milfoile Millimorbia or Millimorbium Figwoort Milos Taxus a tree like Firre Miltos Plinij Cinnabaris natiua natural Cinoper Miluius or Miluus a Kite Minij gleba Celsi Terrae lemnia Terra sigillata or sealed earth Minium red lead Minium Dioscoridis or Minium Plinij Cinnabaris metallica Cinoper Minium lemnium terra lemnia sealed earth Minium artificiale artificiall Cinoper Minium natiuum Cinnabaris metallica natiua naturall Cinoper Minium officinarum or Minium secundarium red or burnt Lead Mintha Mentha Mints Mintha agria Mentastrum horse Mints Misereuinium Apuleij Polygonum Knotgras Mithridanium Dioscoridis Trixago palustris water Germander MithridatiuÌ„ Antidotus mithridatis Mithridate Mithridatium or Mithridatia Apuleij Scordium water Germander Miua Cydoniorum and Miua Cydoniorum simplex officinarum Syrupus Cydoniorum simplex the sirupe of Quinces Miua Aromatica officinarum Syrupus Cydoniorum Aromaticus  Mnion Muscus Mosse Mola a péece of flesh without shape growing in a womans wombe Molge Salamandra a Salamander Moloche Malua maior the great Mallow or Hollihocke Molotriculum Veneris  Moly Galeni Ruta montana wild Rue Molybdaena Plinij Persicaria maior Persicaria maculata the greater sort of Arsesmart Molybditis Plinij Spuma plumbi LitargyriuÌ„ plumbi Litargy or white Lead Monembasites Nicolai Myrepsi Vinum Maluaticum wine made of Mallowes Monoceros Vnicornium an Vnicorne Montulmus Gazae Vlmus montana a kinde of Elme Mora poma siue fructus mori Mulberies Mora bati Bramble berries Mora Celsi Mulberries Mora rubi Brambleberries Mora rubi Idaei Frambois Morbus arquatus Morbus regius the yellowe Iaundies Morbus caducus Morbus comitialis Herculeus lunaticus the falling sicknes Morbus comitialis vide Morbus caducus Morbus Diui Fiacari Condyloma the Emerods Morella Herbariorum Solanum Nightshade Morea Mulberrie trée Morsus Diaboli Diuels bit Morsus gallinae running Burwheate Morsus mulierum Germander Moron Morum a Mulbery tree Morus Morea the same Morus vaticana blackbery bush Moscus Muscus Muske Moschocaryon Moschocarydion a Nutmeg Mucago Mucilago and of the Apothecaries Muscilago it is a slime or iuice which is drawen either out of herbs rootes or seeds Mula herba Gazae Hemionium Harts toong Mulsum swéete wine Mulâ—neruia Plantago maior the great Plantaine Multinodia Polygonum Knotgrafie Multinodia minor the lesser Knotgrasse Mumia ArabuÌ„ Pissasphaltum factitiuÌ„ Mummy Mumia Graecorum Pissasphaltum the same Mumia sepulchrorum the same Muria salt water pickell or brine Muria Colymbadum Muria OliuaruÌ„ the liquor of Oliues Muria Lemoniorum the brine of the Limons Muria Oliuarum Oliue brine Muralium Helxine Pellitory of the wall Muscatellum vinum Muscadell Muscus arborum Mosse Mustum new wine or Must Mustum coctum sodden wine Myacantha a Palme tree Myacantha Aeginetae Asparagus myacanthinus Sparage Myces Fungus a Toadestoole or Mushrome Myosotis Eufrasia caerulea blew Eyebright Myrmex Formica an Ant Emmot or pismire Myrapia or Myrapidia Pyra muscatella a kinde of plesant and odoriferous Peares Myrica Tamarix a Tamariske trée Myricites Vinum Myricinum or Tamaricinum wine made of Tamariske Myrobalanus Bellerica a kinde of fruite growing in India Myrobalanus Cepula vel Chebula the same Myrobalanus citrinus officinarum Myrobalanus flaua  Myrobalanus Empelitica or Emblica  Myrobalanus inda Myrobalanus nigra  Myrobalanus Graecorum Myrobalanus vnguentaria a strange fruite called Ben. Looke for Ben or Behen in the second Index Myrrha a swéete gum called Myrre Myrrha Troglodytica a very excellent gum so called Myrrhus Cicutaria Kex Cax asse Parsly mock Cheruill Myrsine Myrthus or Myrtus the Mirtle trée Myrsine agria Ruscus Knéeholme Myrsionides Vnicordia Peruincle Myrtillus officinarum Bacca myrti the berries of the Mirtle trée Myrthacantha Ruscus Knéeholme Myrtus a Mirtle trée Myrtus aculeata myrtus acuminata a kinde of Mirtle Myrtus humilis the same Myrtus terrestris Ruscus Knéeholme Myxa or Myxaria a kinde of fruite so called N. NAocaphton Pauli Naocauton Narcaphton black or common Frankinsence Naphta Petroleum Bitumen liquidum and Bituminis Calamentum a kinde of maunde or chalkie clay Napellus Tota  Napellus Moysis Auicennae Napellus salutiferus Antithora it is a roote much like vnto Seduary but yet is not the right Seduary but an other vnknowne roote Napi Sinapi Mustard seede or the herb it selfe Napus siue Napum a Turnep Narce Gentiana Centaurium magnum Gentian Bitterwort Narcissus the white Daffodill Narcissus Autumnalis Flos Colchici a kinde of Daffodils Narcissus luteus a yellow Daffodill Narcissus Roseus Rhodionarcissus Herbariorum  Narcissus verus a Daffodill Narcissus officinarum Leucoium Theophrasti an Italian Daffodill Narcissus Virgilij Narcissus Theophrasti  Narcotica or Narcotica pharmaca medicamenta quae frigiditate torporem adferunt it is a certaine medicine which maketh people stupefactiue or some of their members vnsensible Nardinum Oyle of the Spikenard Nardus Nardus or Spica from India Nardus Indica Nardus Celtica Nardus Romana Nardus Gallica a kind of Spikenard Narcaphtum Thymiama a kind of Frankinsence Nascaphtum the same Nasturtium NasturtiuÌ„ hortense towne Cresse garden Cresses or Nosesmart Nasturtium aquaticum water Cresses Nasturtium album Raphanus marinus horse radish Nausea a disposition or will to vomit Nebula oculorum the dimnesse of the eyes Nectris or Netris Pollucis Oliua conditanea an Oliue Nephrytis Renum dolor a griefe or sicknesse in the raynes Nepeta or Nepita Calaminta Nep. Nepenthes Buglossion Buglosse Nenuphar or Nenuphar Arabum Nymphaea the flower deluce Neregil Nux Indica an Indian Nut. Nerantzia malus an Orange tree Neranzion or Neranzium malum the same Nerion Nerium Rhododendron Rose lawrell Bay Rose trée Oleander Neruorum resolutio or desolutio is a dissoluing or weakening of the sinewes called Paralysis Neruus a sinew Nessium Apuleij Centaurium magnum the great Centory Neurospaston Plinij Oxyacantha Dioscoridis the Barbery tree sharp or Tartbery tree the white Thorne trée Nigella Melanthium Coriander of Rome Narde Peperwort Nigella alba Melanthium album white Peperwort Nigella Romana Coriander of Rome Nigellastrum Corne rose Nihill album officinarum Pompholyx Tutty Nihili griseum officinarum Spodium Gracorum Tutia Arabum gray Tutty Nil album
Monenbasiaticum Malmsey Vinum Nenupharinum wine of water Lillies Vinum Oenodes siue vinosum strong wine Vinum Polyphorum vinum multiferum the same Vinum pauciferum Oligophorum small wine Vinum ex Poenia siue Paenites Pionie wine Vinum ex floribus Pseudonardi Spikenard wine Vinum ruffum rubrum vel rubeum red wine Vinum rubellum reddish wine Vinum Raspatitium wine of whole Grapes Vinum sublimatum Aqua vitae  Vinum saluiatum Saged wine Vinum seniticum vinum ex Sena confectum wine of Sene. Vinum temperatum siue vinum dilutum wine mixed with water Viola a Violet Viola alba Dioscoridis white yellow browne Violets Viola alba Theophrasti a kind of winter gillofer Viola alba multiplex white double Violets Viola canina a dog Violet Viola fatua a wild Violet Viola martia a March Violet Viola Martia alba a white March Violet Viola mortuorum Peruinca Perwinkle Viola muraria March Violets Viola nigra the same Viola purpurea idem quod Viola nigra Viola purpurea multiplex double Violets Viola Quadragesimalis March Violets Viola syluestris wild Violets Violaria March Violets Vipera Tyrus a Viper or kind of Adder Virga Cerui Pryapus Cerui the pisle of a Stag. Virga aurea solidago saracenica  Virga pastoris Tassell Viride aeris Aerugo Verdigrease Visnago Hispanoruâ— Gingidium Spanish Cheruill Viscum Ixos Astylis Mistletoe or Mistleden Viscum quercinum Mistleden of the Oake Viscum viscus pro glutine Aucupum gluten auiarium Birdlime Vitalis Sedum Housleeke Vitealis lesser Ropeweede Vitex Agnus Chast tree Vitis siue vitis vinifera a Vine Vitiligo Morphea alba Barbarorum a foulenesse of the body with spots of diuers colours Vitis alba Bryonia white Bryonie Vitis chironia vitis nigra a blacke Vine or black Bryonie Vitis Idaea Vaccinium a Blackberry Vitis Veneris  Vitis syluestris a wild Vine Vitis syluestris flos the blossomes of the wilde Vine Vitriola Parietaria Pellitory of the wall Vitriolum Chalcantum blew Vitrioll Vitriolum Romanum Romish Vitrioll Vitriolum vstum burned Vitrioll Vitulipes Arum Cuckopit Vlcus an vlcer or Byle Vlmus an Elme Vlmus campestris a wild Elme Vlmus Montanus Montiulmus a kind of Elme Vlophonium Chameleon niger a kind of Thistle Vmbilicus Veneris Cyclaminus Sowes bread Vndimia Chirurgorum Oedema an impostume so called Vnefera siue vnephera Centory the great Rapontica Vngula alces  Vngula caballina Bechium Folefoote or Colts foote Vngula odorata Blatta byzantia vide Blacca Byzantia Vnguis muris Polygonum Knotgrasse Vnguis Aromaticus the same that vngula odorata is Vnicordia Clematis Daphnoides Perwinkle Vnicornium Cornu monocerotis the Vnicorne Vnguentum Aegiptiacum an Egyptian salue Vnguentum Agrippae Agrippas salue Vnguentum Altheae a salue of marsh Mallowes Vnguentum album vnguentum de Cerusa a salue of white Lead or Ceruse Vnguentum album Camphoraetum a salue of white Lead and Camfere Vnguentum Anodinum a salue which easeth any paine Vnguentum Apostolorum a salue so called Vnguentum Aragon a salue so called Vnguentum Auraniziorum a salue of Oranges VnguentuÌ„ Alabastrinum a salue of Alablaster Vnguentum mundificatiuum de Apio a salue of Smallage Vnguentum de Arthanita vnguentum de Cyclamine a salue of Sowes bread Vnguentum basilicon a salue of Basill Vnguentum de Cerussa vide vnguentum album Vnguentum de Cerussa Mesues a salue of Ceruse after the description of Mesues Vnguentum Citrinum a salue of Citrons Vnguentum Comitissae a salue so called Vnguentum infrigidans Galeni a cooling salue Vnguentum de Gallia a salue so called VnguentuÌ„ ex Gammaris a salue of sea Creuisse Vnguentum fuscum a salue for wounds being yellow Vnguentum marciatum a salue so called Vnguentum Mercuriale a salue for the Poxe Vnguentum neruinum officinarum a salue for the sinewes Vnguentum nihili officinarum a salue so called good for blearing eyes Vnguentum de Pompholige a salue made of ashes which the Apothecaries call Nyl Vnguentum pectorale a salue for the breast Vnguentum Populeon a salue of Poplar Vnguentum Rosatum an oyntment of Roses Vnguentum Rhodinum the same Vnguentum Sandalinum vel santalinum an ointment of Saunders VnguentuÌ„ sericinum vel siricinuÌ„ a salue so callâ—â— Volubilis Ropeweede or Woodbind Volubilis Antiochena siue volubilis Colophonia an herbe so called Volubilis magna Hops Volubilis media Woodbind Volubilis Mesues Hops Volubilis Syriaca an herbe so called Volucrum maius Caprifolium Woodbind Voluulus Iliaca passio a paine in the guts or a Colicke in the vppermost gut Vrania Iris the Flouredeluce Vrceolaris Helxine Pellitorie of the wall Vreteres the waterpipes or conduits by which the vrine passeth from the raines to the bladder Vrinae profluuium the ouerflowing of vrine Vrsus a Beare Vrtica a Nettle Vrtica foemina vrtica Romana Italica the Romish Nettle Vrtica foetida a stinking Nettle Vrtica Herculana siue Herculea a kind of dead Nettles Vrtica Italica vide Vrtica foemina Vrtica iners Vrtica labeo vrtica mortua dead Nettles Vrtica lactea Worme nettles Vrtica labeo vide vrtica iners Vrtica mascula vrtica maior the great sharpe and stinging Nettles Vrtica minor the lesser Nettles Vrtica mortua vide vrtica iners Vrtica odorata a kind of swéet smelling Nettle Vrtica hortulana Romaine Nettles Vrtica Romana vide vrtica foemina Vrtica scarlata a kind of dead Nettles Vrtica syluatica wild Nettles Vrtica syluestris the same Vsnea Muscus arborum Mosse Vterus the wombe of a woman Vulgago siue Vuluago Asarabacke Vulpes a Foxe Vulua vterus the wombe of a woman Vultur a certaine gréedie creature so called Vua a Grape Vua acerba vua immatura an vnripe Grape Vuae acerbae conditae vnripe Grapes comfited Vua anguina vua serpentina vitis alba Bryonie Vuarum expressarum retrimenta the huskes of pressed Grapes Vua immatura vide vua acerba Vua lupi vua vulpis Nightshade Vua serpentina vide vua anguina Vua Taminia vitis nigra blacke Bryonie Vua Vulpis vide vua Lupi Vuae passae Raisins Vuae Damascenae Zebeben great Raisins Vuae passae Ciliciae siue Corinthiacae seu minores Currans Vuae passae Corinthiacae vide vua passae Ciciliae Vuae passae Damascenae vide vua Damascenae Vuae passae maiores great Raisins Vuae passae Massilioticae a kind of great Raisins Vuae Zibebae great Raisins Vuula a little péece of flesh in the roofe of the mouth Vuularia Horsetoung X XAuster Arabum Tithymalus a kind of Spurge Xerocollyrion vide Collyrium Xylon Gossipium Cotton Xyphium Flowerdeluce Xyphium aquaticum the small blew water Flowerdeluce Xyphium aruense Flowerdeluce Xyloaloe Xyloaloes Xylumaloes Lignum Aloes a kind of swéet wood so called Xyloaloes vide Xyloaloe Xylobalsamum the wood whereof Balme naturally commeth Xylocassia a kind of flower so called Xylocaracta officinarum Xylocerata S. Iohns bread Xylocolla a kind of Lime Xylon Santalon Saunders Xylophyton wild Comin Xylum aloes vide Xyloaloe Z ZAduar Zaduaria Zadura Zadera siue Zador a kind of Seduarie Zaduara vide Zaduar Zador vide Zaduar Zaffranum Barbarorum Saffron Zastranum fatuum siue fatuorum wild Saffron Zapetium Zibetum Ciuet. Zea Spelta Béere barley or Spelt Zea Dicoccos Spelt Zea deglubita Corne. Zea monococcos Semen Spelt Zea simplex the same Zedoaria officinarum Zurumbetum Seduarie Zeduar the same Zeliaurus Anagallis Pimpernell Zibebae great Raisins Zibetae officinarum  Zibethum zibettum Ciuet. Zibettum vide Zibethum Zina officinarum Absinthium Seriphium a kind of Wormwood Zingiber Gingiber Ginger Zingiber conditum comfited Ginger Zingiber coctum siue Tabulatum baked Ginger Zingiber tabulatum vide Zingiber coctum Zingiber viride vide Zingiber conditum Zingiber officinarum Zingiber Ginger Zirbus Barbarorum Omentum the Call or suet wherein the bowels are lapt Zizypha a kind of fruite so called Zoophthalmon Sedum Housléeke Zopissa Pitch Zuccarum siue Zuccharum Saccharum Sugar Zuccarum penidium a certaine kind of Sugar Zuccarum candidum Sugar of Candie Zuccharum vide Zuccarum Zulapium Nympheae Iulep of the white water Lilly Zulapium Rosarum Rose Iulep Zulapium Violaceum Violet Iulep Zurumbet siue  Zurumbetum Anthora Zurumbetites Anthora wine Zime fermentum Leauen Zythum Ceruisia Béere FINIS
parched before What further is requisite for this purpose it may be sought for in the third part the 11. Chapter and also in the 12. chapter in the first part and 13. § For the affluxion of vrine through heate §. 7. IF so be that there be with this vnnaturall affluxion of the vrine an vnnaturall thirst and the drinke forthwith pist out againe then are these meanes following to be vsed first in case that the body be bounden then minister to the patient laxatiue clisters of the common cooling herbes wherewith Hiera picra or Benedicta with the oyle of Violets be tempered and immediatly afterwards open the liuer veine whereby all the ill accidents of the body may be defended and auoyded And if it be néedful purge the patient with yellow Mirobalans and with Cassie which both do coole But if you will make it that it be good for the grauell then mixe things amongst it which expell the grauell afterwards cause the patient to vomit when he hath drunken much water like as is taught in the sixt rule Otherwise is this ensuing especially commended for this disease Diabetes Take Acacia one quarter of an ounce Rose leaues thrée dragmes fine Bolus Gum and Dragagant of each half an ounce powne them all small together and let it passe through a small sieue afterwards make it into small Trocisces with the muscilage of Fleawort and giue thereof the waight of a dragme with Endiue water Burrage and Cicorie water Item take fine Bolus and Sealed earth of each one scruple the iuice of Sloes Pomgranate flowers Mirtle séede red Corall and Roses of each one dragme make a fine powder thereof when he goeth to rest with thick red wine or take the innermost rinds of hens mawes wash them cleane with wine and dry them the powder of a burnt Hares head and Mastick of each half an ounce Agrimony fiue dragmes burnt powder of an Hedge-hog halfe an ounce temper them all together and powne them all small to powder afterwards giue thereof one dragme and a halfe with red Wine when he goeth to sléepe Another Take Nettle rootes one handfull Veruaine and Caruway of each one handfull and a halfe séeth them together in steeled water and drinke thereof Item take Sorba and peares stampe them together distill a water thereof and drinke often of it or mingle any other drinke amongst it Outwardly may these things following be vsed stampe cooling herbes viz. Lettice Purslaine Nightshade Housléeke Rose leaues and Willow leaues Or cut fresh Pompeons or Citrons in broade peeces and lay them thereon you may also weare a beaten plate of led vpon the raines the which may be made oftentimes wet with Vineger Also prepare this salue ensuing Take thrée ounces of Poplar salue oile of Roses and oile of Mandâ—agora of each halfe an ounce the muscilage of Fleawort one quarter of an ounce Vineger one dragme Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make therewith a salue Item take the iuice of Lettice of Purslaine and of Nightshade of each one dragme and a halfe Rose water one ounce Vineger halfe an ounce white beaten Poppie séede one ounce Waxe as much as sufficeth for a salue and annoint the raines with it After the annointing lay then this plaister following vpon it Take Barly meale Vineger and oile of Roses let them séeth together and lay it thereon Or take Vine leaues Willow leaues Quince leaues Tassell leaues and Housleeke of each one handfull stampe them well together and put vnto it sixe ounces of Barley meale oile of Roses and Vineger as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister then lay it cold vpon it The order of diet ALl meates that do coole are good for this patient as Veriuice the iuice of Ruscus Barley and all that is drest with Barly Almond milke and Rice all fruits which coole and bind as Medlars Sorba Sloes Cherries sometimes also plums Mulberies Pomegranates and Strawberries are also good for him If there be neither heate nor Ague with it then may he haue the foresaid things drest as Barly Rice and Almonds with fresh broth He may also vse otherwhiles Neates feete and riuer fish but very little salted Also hen-broth decocted with cooling séedes is very good for him His best drink shall be Barly water wherein a little Fleawort is decocted Buttermilke is also good for him The iuice of the first mentioned fruites may be mixed with fresh Well water and so drunke in like sort also the Rose water of it selfe alone Thicke red wine is also as before to be tempered with fresh well water For this is also méete the sirupe of Violets or Iulep of Violets with some cooling waters or tempered with some well water You haue also herebefore in the twelfth chapter and 3. § other Iuleps and Confections moe which be also very fit for this vse as Triasantalon and Diarrhodon Abbatis therefore is he to take now the one and then the other to the end that nature chance not to abhorre and loath that which is to be taken For an intolerable thirst may this following be vsed Take burnt Iuorie ten dragmes Lettice séed and Purslaine séede of each fifteene dragmes Coriander séede yellow Rose séedes and fine Bolus of each fiue dragmes Pomegranate blossomes one quarter of an ounce Camfer halfe a dragme then make a powder of it and vse one dragme thereof or one dragme and a half at once with the iuice of pomegranates What is further good for the thirst looke for it in the twelfth Chapter and 10. § in the third part of this booke This patient must restraine and kéepe himselfe from all labour and conuersation or companie of women Also to eschue all sower things and to performe and do in all things like as herebefore in the sixt Chapter and 1. § is taught of the eftluxion of humane séede The eighteenth Chapter Of the Bladder THis inward part the Bladder is common to all humane bodies it is made of two strong skins or membranes whereof the innermost skinne is twise as strong as the outmost and that not in vaine but to the end it might the better withstand the sharpnes of the vrine Both these skinnes are formed of a slipperie white matter and betwéene both the skinnes or membranes there runne many veines sinewes and arteries euery way whereby they do draw the moisture of the Vreters which do come from the Raines and do carrie it into the Bladder For the foresaid Vreters be so small and so narrow that one cannot in a dead bodie discerne nor find the same like as also the bladder of beasts doth manifest the same which is so tight and so shut vp that no water nor wind can pierce through In men doth this Bladder lye with his necke which is fleshie very hard besides the Arsegâ—t crooked and almost like this letter S great and long euen to the beginning of the Yard But in women the necke of the bladder doth lie somewhat higher then the necke
of the wombe it is also shorter and wider and therefore also they may much easier be holpen of the stone then men Item in the forepart of the necke of the bladder there is a muskellish flesh the which holdeth the vrine so long shut vp vntill a bodie desire to make or let go his water Further mens bladders be also according to the proportion of the bodie much bigger than in any beasts they can also stretch themselues very farre whereby they in time of néede may retaine and kéepe a great quantitie of vrine Whensoeuer this bladder also is pricked in her membrane substance or a hole made in it then is it incurable notwithstanding that Aristotle doth thinke that it hath bene healed but very seldome for the necke of the bladder which we haue said to be fleshie may be healed without plaister or salue and onely through the vrine like as is sufficiently made knowne shewed by the stone cutters Amongst beasts they only haue bladders which bring forth a liuing creature into the world and that haue lights full of blood But all that do lay egs as fowles and wormes they haue altogether no bladder the Tortoise onely excepted This bladder is by nature ordained for a receiuer of the vrine and to the bodie a very néedful member for if so be that nature must haue expelled all her waterish moisture throughout al the whole bodie not hauing any particular vent or passage for it then of necessitie should a bodie oftentimes either drie away or stifle To this bladder do also happen oftentimes many sundrie diseases and perillous infections as the grauell the stone painfull making of vrine retention of the same the Strangurie slime obstruction through blood the which doth not onely cause heate swelling vlcers and deadly impostumes but also bringeth with it many kinds of other perils and because that we herebefore haue written at large thereof therefore will we not here rehearse them againe but only speake and discourse of those things that concerne the bladder and the necke of the same Of retention of vrine in generall §. 1. VNder the name of the retention of vrine wée do comprehend all accidents whereby the water is retained and kept backe whereof there be fiue kinds disclosed in the seuentéenth chapter in the conclusion of the fourth § and here are to be rehearsed Amongst all these is the one more violent then the other and for that cause are to be cured and holpen with diuers and sundry remedies First we will speake of the disease which the Grecians do call Lithiasm which is when the stone of the bladder relying on the neck of the same hindereth the passage of vrine or causeth such a distention of the yard and foreskin that this and the stone together doth wholy hinder and kéepe backe the vrine which is not without great paine and trouble to the patient but these meanes following are to be vsed in this extremitie If so be that the stone of the bladder cannot be expelled through the former remedies then put backe the stone and so let out the vrine First the patient is to be layd on high with his arse and spread his legs abroade and shake and rub the place strongly that thereby the stone may be remoued from the necke of the bladder or the same is to be put backe with a siluer instrument that thereby the vrine might fréely passe forth But great care is to be had whether the passage for the vrine be not shut vp by some swelling otherwise would the yard within thereby be brused and the griefe made worse then before The second maner of the retention of vrine is Dysuria which is when a man doth make water with great griefe and paine very slowly the which is commonly perceiued by the pricking paine and great heate in the forepart of the yard The third kind of the retention of vrine is called Stranguria which is when one is constrained to make water often and that with a few drops at once These two sorts of retention of vrine are so like one to the other that few Phisitions can seuer them yet neuertheles haue they some differences Both these kinds are caused of a sharpnesse of some humour and of the vrine or through the debilitie of the muscles and of the retentiue power For if there come any sharpe or corroding humour into the bladder then will it presently by force expell the same without any intermission Or if the retentiue vertue of the bladder be weakned then can it not abide the least dissension in the world but let the vrine continually passe forth as an intolerable burthen Ischuria detaineth the vrine altogether and is caused diuersly to wit of heate of the hardnes of the passage of the debility of the expulsiue and force of the retentiue vertue and of the forementioned disease Lithiasis Also if there be any grosse and tough slime gathered together in the passage of the vrine or if there be any clotted blood through blowes or falles setled in the bladder which there do hinder the course of the vrine In like maner also when the kidneyes and the bladder do rankle and impostumate Lastly as it oftentimes hath bene found when the water is long held vp And albeit there be many sorts of this retention of vrine which at the last may cause impostumes vlcers and much paine yet is this the totall summe and conclusion that all of them that detaine or hinder the frée passage of the vrine do require but one kind of remedie Notwithstanding we will in this our discourse following as much as shall be possible shew some differences in them Although there haue bene diuers causes shewed before of this disease yet to prosecute our accustomed methode we will recite them once againe namely if one haue fallen hard or haue had a blow or bruse on the bladder Item the tumors impostumations which do stop the passage of the vrine Also when the back or any other part of the bodie is brused and the blood falne downe into the bladder and there lieth clotted Likewise thicke tough slime or corruption or other causes more c. whereof partly hath bene spoken of before in the 16. chapter and 7. § and partly shall be intreated of hereafter more at large The signes of this maladie are these if it proceede of any outward cause that may be inquired of the patient Or if the same be caused through congealed blood stone slime or corruption then may the same matter be perceiued by the vrine and by the paine of the place infected whence the matter commeth Also by the siluer probe whereby the stone may be felt or by the blood and slime which remaineth on the instrument being drawne forth Of the paine which is caused by the retention of the vrine §. 2. WE haue amongst other things before made mention of grauell whereby not onely the patient is grieued with great paine but also the Phisition is hindered