through the back with a sharp knife pull out all the bowels and wipe him clean with a cloth break all the bones and put him into an Alimbeck and distil him with a pottle of Sack and as much red Cows Milk so will you have an excellent spirit for a Cough or Consumption of the Lungs if you take three or four spoonfuls of it in the morning fasting 65. For heat in the Reins Let such as are troubled with heat in the Reins lay to the place a fine cloth dipped in Rose-water juyce of Plantane and the Milk of a Woman which brought forth a Girl 66. An excellent remedy for those that are subject to vomiting Take Wormwood Spearmints and red Rose-leaves of each a handful chop them small and boil them to a Poltiss with red Rose-water and Vinegar of each equal quantities thicken it with Rie-bread grated spread it upon a cloth and apply it to the Stomach of him that is subject to vomiting as hot as he can endure it 67. For an Ague of the Breast Let such Women as are troubled with that inflamation commonly called the Ague in the Breast apply to the place a fomentation made with Rosemary-tops boiled in their urine apply it hot for three or four hours and it will help it 68. For the running in the Reins The Marrow of an Oxes back being dried and beaten into powder and a dram of it taken in the morning in a little red Wine is an excellent remedy for the running of the Reins 69. To take away Freckles from the Hands or Face Such as are troubled with Freckles either upon their hands or face or Sun-burning may easily help themselves if they wash the place with a little juyce of Lemmons wherein Bay-salt hath been dissolved wash the place often and let it dry in of it self 70. Against any Swelling Take Cammomile-flowers and Rose-leaves of each a like quantity boil them in white Wine to a Poltiss and apply it as hot as can be suffered to a swelling and it will presently ease the pain and asswage the swelling 71. Against Deafness Stop the ears of one that is deaf with good dried Sewet it many times gives help when nothing else will 72. To stop bleeding Take powder of Earth-worms and put upon a Wound that bleeds and it will instantly stop the bleeding 73. For the same Take the ear of a Hare dry it and beat it to powder and put that powder upon a Wound and it will do the like 74. For him that spits Blood Take the juyce of Betony and temper two spoonfuls of it with four spoonfuls of good Milk and let him that spits blood drink the same quantity four mornings together and by that time he will be whole 75. For a Flux Let him that is troubled with the Flux take the seeds of Trefoyl bruise them well and drink half a dram of them in the morning fasting in white Wine if he be curable it will cure him in three dayes if he be not curable he knows the worst of it it is but dying 76. To stop the bleeding of a Vein being cut If a Vein be cut and you cannot stop the bleeding take Rue and boil it in water then stamp it and apply it to the place and binde some wool over that which was never washed 77. For Veins that are sprung For Veins that are sprung take Beans and husk them then boil them in vinegar and bruise them and apply them Plaister-wise to the place 78. For those that piss Blood Take Garlike bruise it and boil it in water till the third part be consumed a little of this water being drunk presently helps them that piss Blood 79. To cause easie Delivery Let a woman that is with childe and near her time drink a decoction of Betony every morning and she shall be delivered without much pain 80. For the same and to expel the after-birth A decoction of Hyssop made with water and drunk very hot giveth speedy delivery to women in travel yea though the Childe be dead in her womb so soon as she is delivered of a dead childe if you suppose any of the After-birth be left behinde let her keep drinking the same decoction till her body be cleansed 81. For the same Savory used in like manner hath the same effects 82. For the same Also another good remedy to give speedy delivery to women in travel is this Take wilde Tansie or Silver-weed and bruise it and apply it to her nostrils 83. For the same Also another remedy is to take the Roots of Polypodium and stamp them and apply them to the soles of the feet Plaister-wise the childe will quickly come away be it alive or dead 84. For a Surfeit Take the bottom of a wheaten-loaf tost it very well till it be dry and hard then dip it in good Spirit of Wine and wrap it up in a single linen cloth and apply it to the Brest of one that hath surfeited and cannot digest his meat apply it warm and let it lie to the place all night and it will speedily help him and cause him either to vomit up or purge out the evil humors which the Surfeit hath contracted in his body 85. To cure hot Rhume in the Eyes Take twelve or sixteen woodlice some call them sows or slugs wash them clean then stamp them and put three or four spoonfuls of Ale to them and mix them well together in a morter then strain it and let him that is troubled with a hot Rhume in his eyes drink it in the morning fasting and as much at night going to bed and in a few times using it will cure him 86. An admirable Poltiss for any swelling Take Violet-leaves Groundsel Mallows and Chickweed of each a handful chop these small and boil them well in water to a Poltiss thicken it with Barley-meal adding a little rough sheeps suet to it to make it moist so have you an admirable Poltiss for any swelling or inflamation in a wound or ulcer 87. For scabby Heads of Children Take white Wine and Butter of each a like weight boil them together till they come to a salve and you shall finde it an excellent Oyntment for Childrens scabby heads 88. For the Falling-sickness or Convulsion Take the dung of a Peacock dry it and beat it into very fine powder and give the party troubled either with the Falling-sickness or Convulsion so much of it at a time in Succory-water as will well lye upon a shilling if it be a child half so much will serve the turn or less if the childe be very young 89. To cure Tetters or Ring-worms An excellent way to cure Tetters and Ring-worms is to wash the place often with Tanners Woofs 90. Against the bloody Flux Take the bone of a Gammon of bacon set it an end in the middle of a Charcole fire and let it burn till it be as white as choak both in the outside and inside then take it and beat it to
of Solomons-seal to come much behinde it 5. Make a Pessary or Goats-dung and the juice of Shepheards purse or Ribwort or Plantane and Yarrow and Pomgranate-flowers it helps mightily in this case 6. Make a bathe of Plantane Ribwort Teazle Shepheards-purse Pomegranate flowers the rinde of an Oak put it in a Close-stool and let the diseased Woman sit over it 7 As many Grains as a Woman doth drink of Corriander-seed so many dayes shall the tearms be stopped saith my author I set it down rather for the oddness of the conceit rather then to perswade any one of the truth of it 8. Red Corral being drunk stops the tearms 9. The ashes of burnt A corns cast up the 〈◊〉 trix stops the tearms and rids the Womb of all filthy noysom humors 10. The Decoction of Ribwort drunk is a most excellent remedy to stop the tearms 11. The water that is found in a hollow Oak is very good being drunk to stop the tearms 12. Dried Acorns beaten into powder and Acorn Cups and Comfry Roots and the Roots of Solomons-seal of Bistort Tormentil and Cinkfoyl are very good to take inwardly 13. The herb St. Johns-wort being beaten into powder and drunk doth stop both White and Red Flux 14. Also Dragons blood is much commended for it 15. The Flowers of Red Archangel or dead Nettles stop the Red Flux the Flowers of White the Whites 16. Many times this Flux comes upon women in Labour especially such as fall in Labour before their time and then it is exceeding dangerous in such a case the speediest cure for there must be no dallying is to force away the conception 17. If you can save them and dry them and give them her down back again it may do wonders CHAP. 14. For the fits of the Mother THe cause is cleerly windy vapors ascending from the Womb upwards 2. Stamp nettles and apply them to the matrix is very good 3. Apply a plaister of Galbanum to the Navel it is a most admirable remedy to restrain those noysom vapours I never yet knâ—w it fail 4. It is a strange thing that many that lie sick of this infirmity though their speech be even taken away yet their pulse gives no indication of any sickness at all 5. Therefore if you finde any Woman in that case especially if they fetch their breath short do not say they counterfeit but judge the disease to be the fits of the Mother 6. Let her receive stinking Vapors at her Nose and sweet vapors at her Privities for the Womb draws to all sweet things and flies from all stinking 7. Nettle-feed beaten into powder and drunk in Wine doth asswage all pains of the Womb and takes away the windiness thereof 8. Take of extract of Arrach half an ounce Assa-foetida two drachms make them up into Pills with powder of Arrach and let the diseased Woman take a scruple morning and evening 9. The Leaves of Burs draw the Womb which way you please therefore in this disease apply them to the soles of the feet but in falling out of the Womb apply them to the crown of the head 10. Bur-seeds do the like CHAP. 15. Of swellings of the Breasts and Nipples THe cause may be either cold taken at the Breasts which causeth inflamations there such as women call the Ague in the breast 2. Or else the curdling of the Milk there when it is turned into a substance like Cheese 3. Sometimes the nipples are so swelled through superfluity of Milk that the childe cannot draw them 4. In such a case take Bean flowers and mix it with the white of an Egg and apply unto them 5. Nettles boiled in Vinegar and applied to them instantly helps them 6. Crumbs of Bread mixed with the juyce of Smallage and applied unto the Breasts helps them when the Milk is curdled in them 7. If there be any hollow Ulcer in the Breast Goats-dung mixed with Honey soon easily and gently cleanseth out all the filth and healeth it 8. A Poltiss made of Mallows Chickweed Malt-flour and Sheeps-suet takes away the Ague in the Breast without breaking 9. Goats-dung mixed with Vinegar and applied plaister-wise dissolves the curdled Milk 10. The ashes made of a Dogs Head helps cankrous Ulcers of the Breast 11. Pigeons-dung mixed with Honey is of great efficacy in knotted Breasts 12. Knot-grass being carried about the person takes away the swelling of the Nipples incontinently 13. The Breasts anointed with the grease of a Hedge-hog helps the curdling of Milk and opens the Pores exceedingly also if the Nipples be swelled anoint them with it it instantly helps them 14. The shells of Partridges Eggs stamped and mingled with Tar helps the Nipples when they are so chapped that they are ready to fall off Crab-claws taken inwardly are very good in all diseases of the Breast yet my opinion at present is that the whole Crab converted into Mummy and taken a drachm at a time is better CHAP. 16. Of Childe-birth DAte stones beaten into powder and given in Wine doth give most wonderful ease to women in labour 2. Dip a linen cloth in the juyce of Parsley and put it up the Privities it causeth the deliverance of the dead childe 3. The same being drunk brings away the After-birth 4. It is also it very good thing being taken inwardly to cleanse the Womb of ill humors and therefore a syrup of it ought to be kept alwayes in the House it furthers conception much 5. Polipodium stamped well and applied to the feet of a woman in travel bringeth away the childe whether it be alive or dead 6. Castorium or the spirit of it taken inwardly is held to be very good 7. The ashes of an Asses-hoof mixed with Oyl and the Privitives anointed with it is a very good and easie remedy 8. Also give unto a Woman in this case another Womans Milk to drink it causeth speedy delivery 9. The decoction or rather the juyce of Vervine given to drink to a woman in travel causeth speedy deliverance also 10. A dram of Myrrh given in powder to drink in any convenient liquor bringeth the childe away whether it be alive or dead 11. Boil Mugwort in water till it be a Poltis and apply it hot to the Thighs of a woman labouring with childe it causeth both birth to come away and if you let it tarry long there it will bring the Womb away also 12. Dittony in powder given a dram at a time to a woman labouring with a dead childe bringeth it away 13. Take Peony-seed in powder mix it with so much Oyl that you may make it into a Plaister and apply to the small of the back of a woman in labour according to the opinion of my Authour it causeth delivery without pain 14. A suffumigation made of the Horns and Hooss of a Goat being put in a Close-stool the woman sitting over it wonderfully moveth the Womb to deliverance 15. Betony is held to be a precious herb to be taken
CVLPEPER'S School of Physick OR THE Experimental Practice of the whole Art Wherein are contained all inward Diseases from the Head to the Foot with their proper and effectuall Cures such Diet set down as ought to be observed in Sickness or in Health With other safe wayes for preserving of Life in excellent Aphorismes and approved Medicines so plainly and easily treated of that the Free-born Student rightly understanding this Method may judge of the Practice of Physick so far as it concernes himself or the Cure of others c. A Work never before Publisht very necessary for all that desire to be rightly informed in Physick Chyrurgery Chymistry c. Nosce teipsum By Nich. Culpeper late Student in Physick and Astrology The Narrative of the Authors Life is prefixed with his Nativity Calculated together with the Testimony of his late Wife Mrs. Alice Culpeper and 〈◊〉 The general Contents of this Work are in the next 〈◊〉 With two perfect Tables very useful to the 〈◊〉 London Printed for N. Brook at the Angel in Cornhill 1659. The general Contents of the several Treatises 1. THe School of Physick or the English Apothecary a Treatise of the transcendent sufficiency of our English Herbs as they may be rightly used in Medicine being a brief account of the whole concernment of the Herbary Art as also the excellency of our English home Physick p. 1. 2. The Sovereign Vertues of Carduus Benedictus in English The Blessed Thistle which for the operation and great efficacy that God hath given to it may be rightly so named as also of the rare Vertues of Angelica p. 71. 3. Fragmenta Aurea Four Golden Centuries of Chymical Physical Judicial Aphorismes and Admirable Secrets p. 87. 4. The Garden Plat or a very brief account of such Herbs c. that excel and are some of them most useful in Physical and Chyrurgical Cures on emergent and sudden occasions p. 156. 5. The Celestial Governours or a Discourse in which is pâ—â—iny declared what Members of the Body are governed by the twelve Signs and of the Diseases to them appropriate p. 182. 6. How the Members of the Body are governed by the seven Planets and of the Diseases to them appropriate p. â—8â— 7. Cardiaca Simplicia a brief Account of 〈◊〉 Choice Simples as are chiefly appropriate to the Hearâ— A Treatise left unfinisht by the Author p. 186. 8. The Chyrurgeons Guide or the Eâ—â—â—â—â— of some Vnskilful Practicioners in Chyrâ— corrected p â—â—5 9. Phlebotomy displayed or perfect Ru◠〈◊〉 the letting of Blood p. 214. 10. Vrinal Conjectures brief Observations with some probable Predictions on the sick Patients Stale or Water p. 222. 11. The Treasury of Life or Salves for every Sore experienced and tried Receipts for the Cure of the most usual Diseases that our frail Bodies are most subject to whilest we remain in this Life p. 229. 12. The Expert Lapidary or a Physical Treatise of the secret Vertues of Stones p. 263. 13. Doctor Diets Directory or the Physicians Vade Mecum short but safe Rules to preserve Health in a Methodical way passing by the impertinences and niceties of former Physicians treating onely of familiar and the most useful things in Diet which chiefly nourish and maintain Life 279. 14 Doctor Reason and Doctor Experience consulted with or the mystery of the Skill of Physick made easie short clear and certain Rules how to perceive judge and determine what any usual Disease is from the parts of the body affected the Causes Signs or Symptomes collected from the most approved Authors and constantly practised by Mr. Nicholas Culpeper p. 345. 15. Chymical Institutions discovering Natures choice Secrets in experienced Chymical Practice shewing the several degrees of Progression in the Physical Cabinet of that Art p. 405 M rs Alice Culpepers Testimony and Approbation of this Book Ingenious Reader HAving an Orphan or Posthumus in my protection and being sollicited by divers for the propagation of the publick good in its Publication for its better entertainment I appeare to tell the World it is a Legitimate Childe of Mr. Nicholas Culpeper my deceased Husband And as I promise you it is the Genuine and Ingenious Off-spring of his Brain so I question not it will with the rest of his laborious Pieces help to blow louder the Trumpet of his never dying Fame I need not much endeavoar to attest that this Tractate is his for it will evidently appear at first sight that it is the Childe of such a Father which will be commendation enough both for the one and the other and that is the reason I refused to seek a Patron for it since I know his bare Name will sufficiently serve for a Patronage I follow the new Mode of the Times by disallowing of Godfathers yet the Bookseller thought it inconvenient that this Treatise should wander up and down the World without a Name and therefore it is Christned The School of Physick If it shall please any one to cast their affections on this Fatherless Childe him shall I esteem as my Gossip Expect from me to say no more at present because I would willingly cross an old Saying Women are never silent till dead I am in in all vertuous Endeavours for the Publique Good Yours ALICE CULPEPER Novemb. 15. 1658. From my House in Spittle-fields next Door to the Red Lion The Preface To all Students in Physick Chyrurgery and Chymestry THough that those which look for an eternall life set but light by a temporary as they are truly sensible here below to meet with a mass and accumulation of sins and sorrows nevertheless since we finde long life to be one of those blessings so often promised in the old Law as also that the beloved Disciple of our blessed Saviour survived the other Disciples and many of the Fathers of the Church were long lived we Mortals as we are too prone on Earth to esteem it our chiefest good cannot at least but enroll it amongst others of the choice and great favours we receive from Heaven The old saying is Vita brevis Ars longa Life is short and Art is long therefore in all ages it hath been the ambitious task of Learned men if it were possible to perfect Art so as to prolong life even to the length of dayes indeed the best of them found there inquiries too difficult some of them having carefully scrutinized and searcht the matter of the reparation but none yet living ever attained to the manner it being an agreed of Truth that in the declining of age there is an unequal reparation some parts are repaired easily some with difficulty and loss the Spirits Blood Flesh and Fat are even after the declining of years easily repaired but the drier and more poreous parts the Membranes all the Tunicles Sinnews Arteries Veins Bones Cartilages most of the Bowels in a word all the organical parts are hardly repairable and to their loss Now these hardly repairable parts to use the same words of one of the
Pains of the Spleen trouble a man most after meat 32. Egg-shells dried and beaten into powder and given in white wine break the stone 33. Mizaldus Mice-dung with the ashes of burnt Wasps and burnt Hazel-nuts made into an Ointment with vinegar of Roses do trimly deck a bald-â—ead with hairs being anointed with it 34. Six cloves of Garlike stamped and strained into a draught of Rhenish wine and drunk up is a present râ—medy for the stone strangury and chollick 35. Gather Elder-flowers on a Midsummer-day dry them and beat them into powder and take a spoonful of it in Borage-water every morning and evening it restores Youth and conserves it 36. Burn horsleaches into powder and mix them with vinegar and therewithal rub the place where you would have Hair grow no more and you shall have your desire 37. Drinking much Butter-milk makes one laxâ—â—ive 38. The stone of a Swallow beaten into powder Petrus Hispanus and given in drink to such as have the Falling-sickness cures them 39. Mingle two spoonfuls of water with one spoonful of clarified Honey and give it to a woman when she goeth to sleep if she feel gripings and pains in her belly she is conceived with childe else not 40. Green Nettles steeped in the urine of one that is sick twenty four hours Mizaldus if they remain green and fresh the sick will live else not 41. The berries of white Thorns taken in white Wine are of great force to break and expel the Stone 42. Plantane is given with good success to such as have the Plague 43. Wormwood stamped with the white of an egg and applied to the eyes by way of a Plaister is a notable way to take away the redness and bloodiness of them 44. A Garland made of Ivy-leaves Mizaldus laid to the breasts of women that hang flagging gathers them up together decently and makes them round the like will Ivy-leaves do if they be beaten and applied to them 45. Mizaldus If you wash wounds with Wine wherein Agrimony hath been sodden it cleanseth them of their filth and putrefaction 46. Also stamp Agrimony and apply it to wounds that are ill knit or joyned and it will open them again 47. Mizaldus The juyce of Rue mixed with clarified Honey and a drop dropped into the eye at a time takes away dimness of sight 48 A head of Garlick the skins being pulled off bruised and applied in equal parts to the foles of the feet where they are hollow helps them with speed that are pained with the Tooth-ache especially if it come of a cold cause and lie in the nether jaw 49. Mizaldus If you rub Warts with the leaves of a Fig-tree and bury the leaves in the earth the warts will insensibly consume away 50. Briony-berries dried and beaten into powder and drunk in the decoction of Water-cresses doth wonderfull help the Strangury 51. Benedictus Victorius Faventinus Emp. Take of venice Treacle one scruple of liquorice and Cinnamon in powder of each three grains of White Wine an ounce and an half mix all these together and make of them a Potion If a Woman take such a drink as this is every other morning about a fortnight or three weaks before her delivery it will make her labour very easie My Authour saith she will bring forth her childe without any pain at all 52. Take of Yarrow and Plantane of each a like quantity beat them and strain the juyce of them into red Wine a good draught of which being drunk morning and evening will stop a bloody Flux 53. If a Woman desire to know whether she be with childe or not Mizaldus let her make water in a clean copper or brazen vessel at night when she goes to bed and put a Nettle in it if the Nettle have red spots in it next morning she is with childe else not 54. Oxen Kine Bullocks or Horses Absertus will not be troubled with any disease if you hang a Harts-horn upon them 55. Put two or three of the seeds of Oculus Christi into your eye and within a while after you shall not feel them whereby you will think they are not there at last they will drop 〈◊〉 of themselves compassed about with slimy 〈◊〉 which doth hinder the sight If you 〈◊〉 this now and then it will clear your eyes wonderfully 56. Warts rubbed with a piece of raw Beef and the beef buried in the ground the warts will consume away as the beaf rots in the ground 57. Take the inner rinde of an Oak-tree and boil it well in fair water then bathe any sore with it whether new or old three or four times morning and evening and then anoint it with fresh butter and flour of brimstone well mixed and you shall see a speedy cure 58. Take a Bur-root the bigger the better and scrape it clean then put it in a Pot of new Ale and the Ale will boyl let it stand twenty four hours close stopped and then let one that hath the yellow Jaundies drink a good draught of it and in doing so two or three mornings he will be cured 59. Let him that hath the Strangury drink a draught of small Ale wherein the inner Rind of the young branches of a Hazel-tree hath been boiled first in the morning and last at night and it help him in few dayes 60. Lay a thin piece of raw beaf to the forehead of them that have lost their voices and remove it not all night and in two or three nights it will help them 61. Take the bones of Horses and wash them clean then dry them in the sun then break them and boil them in a Caldron of water a long time and save the fat which cometh from them which is an excellent Oyntment either for Gout or Palsie 62. The ashes of burnt Snails put into the eye take away the spots thereof 63. A piece of raw Beef of an indifferent thickness put in steep all day in good Aqua vitae and laid at night to the temples and let lie there all night stops the waterings of the eyes and all rheums that flow down from the head 64. Draw a coard through the tail of a Water-snake and hang her up Hollerius a vessel of water being under her into which she may gape and after a little time will she vomit up a stone which will drink up all the water this stone being tied to the navil in a piece of fine linnen of one that hath the Dropsie quickly draws out all the water 65. An Egg that is laid on a Thursday the white being emptied out and the empty place filled with salt and gently roasted by the fire without burning till it may be beaten into powder and cankered teeth being rubbed with it kills both canker and worms that eat the teeth 66. White Copperis the quantity of hâ—â—f an ounce dissolved in a pint of water kills all Tetters and ringworms that are washed with
inwardly in this case 16. It is reported but whether it be true or no I know not that if there be any Pears in the room where a woman is in labour they wonderfully hinder delivery 17. Juniper-berries eaten or rather the distilled spirit of them drunk causeth delivery both of the childe and after-burthen 18. Dissolve a Swallows-nest in water strain it and let the woman labouring with child drink the water a good draught of it at a time it causeth the birth of the childe to be very easie CHAP. 17. Of the Gout TOwn cresses stamped and made in a Poltiss adding a little Sheeps-suet to it to keep it moist and applied to the place is a very good remedy 2. The place being anointed continually with Rape-seed-oyl will in time help the disease without any other remedy 3. The root of a Hollyhock or else of a Marsh-mallow being stamped and mixed with the grease of an old Dog and applied to the place will help the Gout in three dayes time 4. The seed of Plantane being beaten into powder and mixed with Hogs-grease and applied to the place is a great help against the Gout Take Mustard seed Figs and Honey a little Bread and a little Vinegar beat them all together and binde them to the grief Take the flesh of a fat Cat the grease of a Goose of a Badger and of a Fox Ivy-berries Sage Rue Virgins-wax Frankincense the Yolks of rosted Eggs and snails put all these in an earthen pot that hath a hole made in the bottom for the purpose lute the top of it close with paste that no Air may go out nor in and put the bottom of this pot into the mouth of another whole pot that is fit to receive it and lute them close together then dig a hole in the earth fit to receive the undermost pot and cover it up close with earth then make a fire about the uppermost and there will distill out of it a most excellent Oyntment to cure the Gout 7. Take six Bats or Flittermice boyl them in rain-water with a few sprigs of Willow it makes an excellent Bath to cure the Gout 8. The Gouty place being anointed with Oyl of Henbane takes away the pain 9. Take Snails and bruise them and apply them to the place is a most admirable remedy 10. Kill a puppy dog that is not thirty dayes old and anoint the grieved place with its blood 11. Take a whelp of the age aforesaid and roste him and when he is half rosted cut him through the midst and apply him hot to the grieved place 12. Henbane heat hot between two Tile-sherds and applied to the place helps the disease 13. Make a plaister with Opium Saffron and the Yolks of Eggs and apply to the place 14. Make an Oyntment with Emmets and their Eggs and Hogs-grease adding a little Bay-salt to it and anoint the grieved place with it 15. The distilled Spirit of Misletoe the grieved place being bathed with it is as excellent a remedy for the Gout as most is 16. The ashes of burnt Time mingled with the White of an Egg and plaistered upon the place helpeth the Gout 17. A Bath made with Water wherein Emmets and their Eggs being first bruised have been boyled doth quickly help the oldest Gout that is 18. A most admirable remedy for the Gout but that is very difficult to be gotten in these parts is to anoint the place with the grease of a Lion 19. Gallen saith that the ashes of Coleworts being mixed with Hogs-grease will help the Gout in three dayes time if it be anointed with it 20. The dung of a Stork mixed with Hogs-grease helpeth the Gout though of long continuance 21. An Oyntment made of Rosa Solis and Hogs-grease is an excellent remedy 22. Hermodactils beaten into powder and made with an Oyntment in to Hogs-grease is very good 23. Pigeons-dung boyled in Wine till the Wine be consumed and used as a plaister helpeth the Gout 24. Take a pound of wax five pound of good Oyl a pound of good Wine boyl them together till the Wine be consumed afterwards mingle therewith two drachms of Euphorbium in powder make an Oyntment thereof the effects thereof hath been proved in Gouts of all sorts 25. A drachm of the Juyce of the rinde of a Popplar-tree being drunk every morning is an excellent remedy if you cannot get a drachm of the Juyce bruise the Bark and make a strong Decoction of it and of that you may drink a quarter of a pint CHAP. 18. For the Fistula and other hollow Vlcers MIngle the Milk of Spurge with Hogs-grease and boyl them together till they be well incorporated then put a little powder of Myrrh to them anoint the tent with this Oyntment and put it into the hole of the Fistula and it will cleanse it of all manner of filth 2. Take of Plantane Ribwort Primrose-Leaves and Dazies dry them and beat them into powder and let him that hath a Fistula take three drachms of this powder in a day inward in any convenient Liquor viz. one in the morning another at noon and the third at night it is a sovereign cure for all sorts of Fistula's and hollow Ulcers if they be cureable if not my Author saith the Patient will vomit up the Medicine again 3. The ashes made of a Dogs-head being burnt in a new pot helpeth any Fistula or Canker and cleanseth the hollow Uâ—cer of all his filthiness 4. If the Fistula have many holes or if there be but one and that one be so straight that it will not admit of a Tent as many times it happens by reason of hardness of the lips in such a case there is no better remedy then this take Goats-dung and boyl it well with Honey then strain it when it is hot and drop a little of it warm into the hole it taketh away the Swelling and draweth out the Filth and Corruption purgeth away the rotteness and healeth up the Fistula 5. If the Fistula be outwards put thereto the Juyce of Doves-foot and it will heal it if it be inward drink it inwardly and it will do the like 6. Let such as are troubled with Fistula's take a drachm of Myrobalans in powder every morning if the cause come of Melancholly let him take the powder of Indian Myrobalans but if it proceed of Choller use Citron Myrobaâ—ans 7. If it be a woman that have the Fistula drop into it the Juyce of a Cows turd but if it be a man that hath it let it be Juyce of a Bulls â—urd 8. The Juyce of Plantane put into the holâ—owness of the Fistula will help it 9. The Juyce of Ribwort and the Juyce of Pimpernel will do the like 10. If the Fistula be clean a Tent made of Lead being put into it will cure it you may pull 〈◊〉 out now and then if you please and put it in â—gain 11. Let such as are troubled with Ulcers or Fistula's use Avens in their ordinary drink 12.
Sea Sand. IF a man that hath the Dropsie stand up to the neck in Sea-sand by the Sea-side in a hot day it will drink up all the water and cure the Disease Wicker 20. Whetstone of Cypress A Whetstone of Cypress that which comes off from it by whetting stayes the falling off of Hair and causeth it to grow in bald places it keeps the breasts of Virgins from growing being drunk with Vinegar it consumes the Milt and cures the Falling sickness Wicker 21. Aetites THere are four sorts of these but the best comes from Affrick and are found in an Eagles nest which is very little and soft having another little one within it and is thought to be the female The Male come from Arabia and is hard like a Gaul having another hard Stone within it and is of a reddish colour The third comes from Cypress and is like that which comes from Affrick but is bigger and hath sand and little stones within it The fourth is called Taphiusius from the place whence it comes and is found in Rivers it is white and round in form this is the worst of all These all joyntly are called Lapis pregnans or a Stone with Childe because it carries another Stone within it If this Stone be given to a thief in bread he cannot swallow it down or if you boil it in any thing and give the Decoction to any that hath stollen any thing from you he cannor drink it though the Stone be out Being bound to the Neck or Arm of a Woman it strengthens conception and stayes miscarriage in the time of her Labour if it be bound to the inner part of her Thigh near the place of conception it causeth her to have an easie labour almost without any pain but be sure you take it away so soon as she is delivered for fear of further mischief Pliny Disocorides Lemnius 22. Chelidonius IF you take young Swallows out of their nest before the full Moon you shall finde two little Stones in their Ventricles the one reddish the other black these ought never to touch the earth but be kept close wrapped up in Bullocks or Stags leather the former being bound under the Armeholes helps the Falling-sickness the other Feavers Thus Albertus Magnus Some say if you prick out their eyes the Old one will bring a Stone which will recover their sight and some say she doth it by Celandine the Stone will remain in their Ventricle I have tried this I pricked out the eyes of some in a nest and not of others and I found the Reddish-stone in the Ventricle of one whose eyes I pricked out and she could see again but in those whose eyes were not pricked out there was none but I never observed the Lunation Also they say if you break their Legs she will bring a Stone which will instantly cure them which Stone will be found in the nest 23. Lincyrius LApis Lincyrius being cast among burning coles quencheth them and if you wrap it up in a Linnen cloth not onely that but the cloth also will remain unburned even in the midst of the hottest fire It wonderfully helps forward the Travail of Women Epiphanius 24. Jet 25. Amber IEt being beaten into a very fine powder and given to a Woman fasting in White Wine will presently make manifest whether she be a Virgin or no for if she presenlty make Water her Virginity is lost if not the contrary The same effect also hath Amber both of them or either of them being hung about ones Neck are profitable against distillation of Phlegm into the Throat and Lungs Baptista Porta Mathiolus 26. Lapis Lazuli IT is a Stone of a Sky colour the best of them have spots in them like stars of gold and are found in Gold Mines being given inwardly they purge Melancholly notably So they do meanly being carried about one they make the bearer of them merry fortunate and rich Dioscorides Cardanus Med. Florentini 27. Blatta Bizantia BEing beaten into powder and snuffed up into the Nose helps the fits of the Mother and such as have the Falling sickness being taken inwardly it looseneth the Belly Dioscorides Medici Coloniensis 28. Pearls PEarls help trembling in Old men Convulsions and Frenzies preserve the body sound and restore lost health both amend and increase milk in Nurses correct the seed and failings in the parts of generation helps eating Ulcers Cankers and the Hemorrhoydes Dardanus Wicker 29. Corral OF Corral there are three sorts Black White Red the first is most rare the second most common the third most excellent Let a Childe newly born take ten grains of Red Corral in powder in a little Breast Milk before it taste any other food and it will never have the Falling-sickness Generally it takes away all inward griefs restores weak and sick bodies by strengthning the heart resisteth all Diseases growing in children by strengthening nature cureth all Fluxes in Men Women and Children it stops blood flowing from any part it stops the Tearms in Women if they be immoderate else not and brings their bodies to good temperature Arnoldus Mathiolus Wicker 30. Turkey Stone THis Stone being worn in a Ring as sickness comes or death draws nigh so it loseth its lustre it looks perfectly blew in sickness pale a little before death perfect white and so it looks if brought neer to any Poyson This Treatise was revised and for want of time left to posterity without addition Nich. Culpeper Sol. 18. Aquar 1652. Doctor Diets DIRECTORY OR THE Physicians Vade Mecum OR Short but safe Rules to preserve Health in a Methodical way passing by the Impertinencies and Niceties of former Physicians treating onely of familiar and the most useful things in Diet such as chiefly nourish and continue Life BY Nich. Culpeper Gent. late Student in Physick and Astrology LONDON Printed for Nath. Brook at the Sign of the Angel in Cornhill 1659. Doctor DIETS Directory OR The Physicians Vade mecum OR Short but safe Rules to preserve Health in a Methodical way passing by the Impertinencies and Niceties of former Physicians treating onely of familiar and the most useful things in Diet such as chiefly nourish and continue Life Courteous Reader HAving to my no small grief observed what a stir and a pudder most Writers have made about Diet and there Common-place Practice I thought fit to reduce their tedious deviations into this Epitome that the diligent Student having recourse to these three Doctors Diet Reason and Experience might with the other assistance of the Doctors Dispensatory be so clearly informed as to rest ingeniously satisfied Nicholas Culpeper Of Diet. BY Diet is to be understood the ministring of Meat and Drink according to the accustomed natural ordering of it for the substance and temperature an exact order of it in labour Meat Drink Sleep and Venery There is none but if they rightly understand themselves but may in some respects be their own Physicians if they will but rightly consider of those things
little cynamon and seed of Annis white wine mixt with water musick is good in this disease and such means must be used as may cause sleep Of Melancholly of black Choller THis disease is a kinde of doting without a feaver arising from such maligne and melancholick humors which distrub the seat of the Minde The signs of melancholly are fear and sadness evil thoughts without any cause proceeding from such vapors of black Choller as darken the mind and over-cloud the brain Melancholy which seizes on the essence of the brain and continues there long is altogether incureable The Air where the Patient resides must be of a wholesom smell moist and temperate his diet moist but of good juyce easie of digestion Let him drink white wine and exercise himself moderately his sleep should be somewhat longer then ordinary he is to be cherisht with mirth and good hopes perturbations of minde being wholly avoided Of the overflowing of the monethly Tearms THe superfluous flux of moneths is when it doth tend to be the hurt rather then the good of the woman by reason that they are purged more then they should but in such women as are of a moist constitution that have good diet and much ease the moneths may be suffered to flow more then ordinarily they use The womb is the part chiefly affected sometimes the whole body sympathizeth this affection is an accident which appertains to the immoderate excretion it is not altogether against nature as it is in the bleeding of the nose and other bleedings for here onely too great a quantity of the monethly flux is unnatural This distemper takes away the appetite hinders digestion breeds crudities weakens the whole body the colour of the face is changed feaverish heats arise in the body sometimes the feet are swelled and a dropsie follows one cause is by reason of the heat thinness or abundance of blood more then is requisite or else because of the continual motion for when these concur Nature is defeated Immoderate fluxes caused by the birth of a large Infant are less dangerous because they will stay of themselves This disease is to be feared if the body be weakned or the colour of the face changed the woman being reduced to such coldness faintness of heart swoundings and sometimes death The Air that this Patient lives in should be temperate the meat binding and thickning exercise is forbidden her rest and sleep must be moderate her minde pleased Of the suppression of the Moneths AS the overflowing is dangerous so the retention on the contrary is as dangerous and unnatural if they be of age unless they have conceived the womb is chiefly affected in regard of the fatness thereof whereby the veins are crushed together and so the flux is hindred In this disease the forepart of the head is pained spreads it self to the neck shoulders and loins her appetite is taken away her minde unquiet her stomach queasie she loathes meat her face discoloured she is troubled with phlegm and taken with a trembling her urine is thick red and muddy sometimes blackish with a red watry substance in the bottom the chief cause is gross and phlegmy matter mixed with blood which stops the veins leading to the womb whereby the straitness of the veins doth happen or else from the inflammation of the womb if the Tearms are stopt other diseases must of necessity follow The Air she is to breathe must incline to heat her meat must be heating she must not sleep too long her minde must not be disquieted Of the Obstruction of the Liver THe Obstruction of the Liver is a binding or straitning of the Veins or Liver passages The Liver is the Store-house of blood from which all parts of the body draw nourishment and together with purer blood gross and slimy humors are generated in the Liver seeing that the branches of the hollow Veins are knit unto the Vena Porta in such sort that the knitting and combination doth not come within the compass of our sight as also that all the nutriments of the body must be conveighed through the port Veins and the hollow Veins ends which are very small where they end in the Liver substance so that it is no wonder that by reason of the passages and straitness Obstructions are oftner caused in the Liver then in any other Bowel This Disease doth breed in the extream parts of the vessels of the hollow part and Veins and they are terminated in the Livers substance with thin ends knit one into another with little bones the universal nourishment of the whole body being to be made through these This Disease is to be discerned by a heaviness and stretching pain in the right side then most to be perceived when the Patient is exercised presently after meat The narrowness of the Liver and Veins passages is the cause of this Disease The air for the Patient must be hot and clear his diet such as may heat not stopping he must shun bathing and exercise after meat his diet moderate he may sleep in the day time but not too long at night not at the most above seven hours his belly must be kept loose and his minde delighted The Hicket THe Hicket called Singultus is a violent or vehement motion of the Stomach whereby it doth endeavour to expel such things as rest in the Tunicles and in the Body and also such as do stick fast thereto The Hicket though it much resemble vomiting yet this Disease is rather stirred up then vomit when the humors are strongest the part affected is the mouth of the Stomach sometimes the inflamation of the Liver This Disease comes often for the most part by fits as the Cough doth with a swooning the cause of the swooning in this disease is the straitness of the passage of the air which is contained in the stomach it being often caused by fulness and superfluous moisture by which the Patient is either loaded â—or in a manner shrunk together If this disease be caused by fulness if a sneezing come the Patient will soon be rid of it if it be accompanied with wringing in the guts commonly called Illiaca passia it is a bad Omen but if it follow doating swooning or convulsion it is mortal A temperate air is best for the Patient his meat must be such as doth heat and dry a small quantity of Wine may be permitted Of the Stone THe Stone of the Kidneys is a hard substance bred like a Sand-stone in the Reins from whence by the force of the Urine it is often conveighed through the straight pipes into the Bladder if it be not too great which doth so stretch the passages of the Urine that great pain doth follow the settled pain is in the Veins and sometimes the right side or the left is affected or both at one time even as the right or left Kidney is affected for the gravel is bred in the mouth of the Kidney or substance of them This Disease is
shall onely treat of that pain that doth follow asharp disease by the inflamation of the inner skin for if the inflamation be in the outward Muscles or if the pain be great because of windiness this is but a basterd Pleurisie and the Patient is without a Feaver The signs of this disease besides the difficulty of breathing and a vehement Cough is a pricking pain which plainly doth demonstrate that the membranes and some other tender parts are affected this pricking pain sometimes spreads it self over the sides and breast sometimes to the short Ribs to the Channel-bone of the Throat so that the Patient is forced to breath short and thick also there is a continual Feaver because the inflamation doth border on the heart the Pulse is thick not too great hard and unequal and by that means tough and like to a saw a cough also cometh withal the first day and then nothing cometh at length spettle is voided and comes up coloured according to the nature of the excrements and it is also moister there are many other signs the cause for the most part is blood running from the hollow Veins into the Ribs thin Veins sometimes it is caused by Phlegmy blood and then the disease is longer of continuance and the spettle frothy and white sometimes the blood is Chollerick and then a sharper disease is caused The suppression of the Hemrhoides or monethly tearms will cause a Pleurisie this disease is dangerous to old men to Women with childe and such as have been sick twice or thrice of it it vexes the Patient more in the night then day time whosoever is sick of a Pleurisie and is not cleansed in fourteen dayes they turn to supuratiâ—â— This disease kills by choaking or too mâ—ch pain or by the translation of the matter into the Lungs whereby the Consumption of them is caused and also Ulcers The air the Patient lives in must be temperate somewhat inclining to heat his meat easie of digestion he is not to drink Wine till the disease be abated he may be permitted longer then ordinary sleep his belly must be kept loose Of the Bleeding at the Nose THe Bleeding at the nose called Hemorrhagia doth signifie a Bleeding at the Nose whether it doth come immediately from the Nostrills carried thither by the Veins of the palate through which for the most part nature doth expel the superfluous blood of many or else whether it comes from the Veins of the Head further off but in general it doth signifie any bleeding whether it be of Nose Womb or any other part of the body when blood comes forth moderately in the beginning of a Pleurisie Impostume Squinancy Burning Feaver Small Poxs it is alwayes for the best yet this Bleeding in some other diseases is Critical foreshewing death the Nostrills are chiefly affected but not alwayes the essence of the Nostrils but they are affected by the consent of some other part the Veins by which this blood is cast out at the Nose run from the palate and Mouth into the Nostrills and sometimes from the head when too much blood is voided the colour of the face waxeth pale the body is of a leaden colour the outward parts are cold and a swooning follows and many times after death Oftentimes bleeding at the Nose is caused by nature which doth by this means expel the excrements and which is troublesome to the body Sometimes it is caused by the evil affection of the Veins wherein the blood is contained and the blood runs out of the Veins the Veins being opened by the plenty of blood which they could not contain There are sundry other causes If bleeding have continued long swooning weakness and too much cooling of the Liver Lachexia or the Dropsie is to be feared Bleeding at the Nose without coldness of the outwards parts is mortal The air the Patient should live in must be somewhat cold his meat must be such as doth nourish well and easie of digestion he must avoid exercise and speak little he must avoid all passions of the minde especially anger Of the Falling-sickness THe Falling-sickness is a Convulsion of all the parts of the body not continual but that which cometh by distances of time the minde and senses being thereby hurt This disease doth either happen when the brain hath the cause of the disease in it self which is usual or by the evil effect of the mouth of the stomach or from some other part underneath by which the venemous effect creepeth into the brain through secret passages the Patient feels the cause of this Disease like a vapour of cold winde to be carried to the brain by the continuity of the other parts from the part of the body wherein the Disease is chiefly seated the cause of this Disease being for the most part a venomous vapour carried up from some lower part of the body into the brain and then the Patient doth suddenly fall with a Convulsion The brain is the part affected either by it self or by the consent of the stomach or by some other parts The fit comes oftentimes suddenly with much foam which because it is slimy may be drawn out at length yet in a gentler Falling-sickness this doth not appear when the Patient is deprived of his senses he falls to the ground with a violent shaking of his body his face is wrested his eyes turned upwards his chin somewhat driven to his shoulder and oftentimes he voids seed and ordure against his will his Muscles are loosened all these are signs of a strong fâ—t Sometimes their teeth are so fast closed together that they are in danger of stifling paleness of the face inordinate motion of the tongue pain and heaviness of the head forgetfulness sadness troublesome dreams are ushers to this Disease the Patient being taken with a giddiness sometimes darkness and divers dim glisterings appear before his eyes This Disease is for the most part caused by abundance of melancholâ—ck and phlegmatick humors from whence corâ—upt venomous and stinking vapors break out whereby obstructions are caused in the passages â—f the brain and the passages of the spirits are â—â—ereby hindred by this means the brain and the roots of the Sinnews shrink and as it were tremble in the expelling of that which is obnoxious whether it be vapor or humor This disease frequents children because they are of a moister brain then yong men next to these men oâ— a full growth and old men least of all This Disease is more incident to men then women and usually it doth stick close to the Patient unless it be taken away by medicines in the minority If the Disease be vehement and come often on the Patient it is incurable but if a quartane Ague or any longer Feaver surprize him iâ— portends health The air wherein the Patienâ— lives must be hot and dry his meat mixed with such things as do dissolve and extenuate the humors exercise of the body and frication of thâ— head are prevalent
180 Burning 74 120 141 180 Biting of venomous Beasts 82 156 188 189 192 Bitings of Mad Dogs 83 154 155 174 Burns in the Eyes 92 Bloody Flux 98 104 115 133 134 269 173 179 181 187 189 â—ness 100 Back pained 111 188 Bladder 118 Bewitched 118 149 Barreness 120 Bones broken ib. Birth and After-birth 120 122 123 170 171 Blood spitting 169 30â— Blood pissing 170 Blood cooleth 180 Blood clarifieth 190 â—east swelled 240 C COngelation 391 Consumption 73 166 Chollick 73 91 93 95 112 118 128 129 130 191 â—8â— Carbuncles 74 107 Cuts and Wounds heal without pain 74 75 Cramps â—2 141 Cold 100 191 Cough 127 165 166 â—â—7 Chin-cough â—46 Children to speak quickly 147 Convulsions 150 163 172 363 Child-birth 25â— Cods swelled 174 24â— Choller 176 177 178 187 347 3â—â— Cooleth 17â— D DEafness 71 1â—â— 168 Dropsie 73 93 106 107 10â— 10â— 117 177 178 179 192 231 39â— Diabetes 89 107 132 242 161 Digestion helpeth 99 146 E EYes 171 176 361 F FAlling-sickness 73 75 94. 97 10â— 108 113 153 172 178 179 384 French-pox 75 357 Fellons 90 144 159 Freckles 91 95 121 168 Flegm 176 Flâ—â—â— 177 179 188 189 168 Fistula 96 256 Fâ—â—ness 98 Feâ—â—ors 98 Frenzy 393 G GReen-sickness 73 176 Gout 82 88 93 94 96 97 102 103 107 110 116 123 139 140 141 187 188 253 389 Grâ—â— 105 171 Gâ—â—â—â—der burning 142 Goâ—â—â—â— 167 Gallâ—â—â— 180 H HEad-ache 71 76 87 103 104 108 110 119 123 164 178 36â— Heart comforteth 73 177 178 187 188 Hard labour 81 89 100 101 114 122 170 180 189 Hair taketh away 90 112 Hoarseness 90 164 189 â—â—ad purgeth 109 110 â—air to grow 112 Humors 146 188 190 Head Scabby 17â— Hicket 35â— Hearing 35â— I INfectious air 8â— 8â— Increase Milk in Nurses 87 18â— Itch 152 153 1â—â— Jaundies black 94 109 124 1â—â— Joynts lame 99 102 122 17â— Imposthumes 108 144 145 176 Jaundies yellow 116 124 125 126 190 â—35 37â— K KIngs-evil 95 10â— â—8â— Kanker 74 Kibes 1â—5 166 L LEthargy 373 Liver strengthneth 73 190 231 379 Lungs and their obstructions 73 127 128 177 178 179 187 197 192 Lice 109 Looseneth 103 112 133 137 Looseness 1â—â— Lunatick 177 3â—â— Liver 188 Leanness 180 Lust 191 Leprosie 258 M MOthe 97 Megrum 71 Memory strengthens 76 98 99 Mother fits 110 161 248 Measles 163 Miscarrage 165 Melancholly 178 188 190 346 Madness 119 Morphew 143 Murrain 145 Madness 353 393 Mirth 190 191 N NIght-Mare 363 O OBstructions opens 35 190 191 351 P PLague 72 74 75 78 80 89 97 104 157 162 176 177 178 179 18â— 187 188 35â— Poyson 75 78 82 97 187 191 192 Palsie 73 92 121 143 144 376 314 Pleurisie 88 126 127 166 191 244 â—8â— Purgeth 17â— Pains in the Bladder 9â— Pains 103 105 113 13â— 191 Passions 105 18â— Priapismus â—18 Piles 137 138 350 Pimples 19â— R RVptures 9â— Rhume 94 107 108 117 â—â—â— 171 189 190 â—86 Redness of the Face 91 Ringworms and Tetters 102 117 155 172 176 180 181 190 Reins 120 167 173 188 189 S SIght 71 100 106 113 114 115 161 Stomach strengtheneth 72 96 99 187 189 359 388 Stitch in the sides 73 94 163 190 Stone 74 75 93 96 101 102 103 104 112 113 118 120 121 134 135 136 177 178 179 189 191 236 352 412 Sweat 〈◊〉 74 Sores 74 76 96 108 116 151 157 177 179 181 〈◊〉 74 111 139 145 146 151 168 172 〈…〉 114 116 129 160 191 239 〈◊〉 88 112 191 233 372 Sauinâ—â—â—â— 90 103 360 â—welliâ—g of the Throat 91 103 Sâ—linters draws forth 92 93 260 Sâ—aâ—â—â—ring 147 Sâ—nses lost 161 Small poâ—e 163 175 187 Surfeitâ— 171 〈◊〉 177 179 〈◊〉 â—rovokes 181 〈◊〉 100 〈◊〉 96 109 〈…〉 102 178 〈…〉 106 〈…〉 109 111 157 Swelling 121 Sick live or dye 113 118 119 Scalding 124 142 164 178 1â—â— Sciatica 137 1â—â— Swooning 371 T TYsick 73 160 192 Teeth 72 82 88 99 117 12â— 121 179 19â— Teeth white 90 Tearms provoke 119 159 244 Thirst quencheth 147 Tearms stop 2â—â—â—â—8 V VErtigo 71 7â— 37â— Vrine provoketh 74 7â— Vomiting 10â— Voice lost 〈◊〉 Vlcers 75 241 2â—â— W WIt quickeneth 〈…〉 Winde 81 101 162 1â—â— 179 〈◊〉 Worms killeth 75 104 130 131 1â—â— 179 187 192 35â— Wen 88 155 Wounds 88 89 114 123 136 143 148 152 175 176 177 178 179 187 188 Web in the Eye 92 117 148 Womens Breasts 113 120 167 Warts 114 115 122 192 259 Womb 119 173 187 FINIS Courteous Reader These Books following with many others are Printed for Nath. Brook and are to be sold at his Shop at the Angel in Cornhill Excellent and approved Treatises in Physick Chyrurgery c. CVlpeper's Semiatioa Vranica his Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the decumbiture of the sick much enlarged the manner of finding out the cause change and end of the Disease also whether the sick be likely to live or dye and when the Recovery or Death is to be expected according to the judgement of Hippocrates and Hermes Trismegistus to which is added M. Culpepers Censure of Urines The expert Doctors Dispensatory the whole Art of Physick restored to practice the Apothecaries Shop and Chyrurgeons Closet opened with a Survey as also a Correction of most Dispensatories now extant with a Judicious Censure of their Defects and a Supply of what they are deficient in together with a learned account of the vertues and quantities and uses of Simples and Compounds with the Symptoms of Diseases as also prescriptions for their several Cures by that renowned P. Morellus Physician to the King of France a Work for the order usefulness and plainness of the Method not to be parallel'd by any Dispensatory in what language soever Natures secrets or the admirable and wonderful History of the generation of Meteors describing the temperatures of the Elements the heights magnitudes and influences of Stars the causes of Comets Earthquakes Deluges Epidemical Diseases and Prodiges of Precedent times with Presages of the weather and descriptions of the weather-glass by T. Wilsford The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence or the Arts of Wooing and Complementing as they are managed in the Spring Garden Hide-Parke and New Exchange and other eminent places A work in which are drawn to the life the Deportments of the most accomplisht persons the Mode of their Courtly Entertainments Treatment of their Ladies at Balls their accustomed Sports Drolls and Fancies the Witchcrafts of their perswasive Langue in their Approaches or other more Secret Dispatches c. by E. P. Helmont disguised or the vulgar error of emperical and unskilful Practicers of Physicâ— confuted more especially as they concerne the Cures of Feavers the Stone the Plague and some other Diseases by way of Dialogue 〈◊〉 which the chief Rareties of Physick are admirably discoursed of by J. T. Books very lately printed and in the Press now printing THe Scales of Commerce and Trade by T. Wilsford 2. Geometry demonstrated by Lines and Numbers