a dram in infusion from two drams to halfe an ounce Brassica Marina see Soldanella or Sea bind weed CHAP. IX De Bdellio Of Gum Bdellium BDellium is a Gum flowing from a tree growing in Arabia in India and Media but it chiefly groweth in Arabia The Names It is called in Latine Bdellium The Temperament Bdellium is hot in the second degree and moist in the first of a mollifying and discussing nature The best kinde The best say Authours is clear like glew fat on the inside easily melting or dissolving pure or clear from drosse sweet in the burning and bitter in tast but that we have is not to be found so for we find little bitternesse in any and lesse sweetnesse in the burning of it but strong and unpleasant rather neither is it easie to be dissolved without warmth and ours is of a sad brown colour somwhat like Glew and much like unto Myrrhe in colour insomuch that some erroneously judge the purer part of this Gum to be Bdellium and the grosser to be Myrrhe The Duration It will keep good ten or twelve years The inward Vse It provokes Urine and the courses in Women breaks the Stone it is good for those that have the Cough and are bitten by Serpents or venomous Beasts It helpeth to discusse the windinesse of the Spleen and pains of the side it helpeth Ruptures mollifieth the hardnesse of the Mother and dryeth up the moysture thereof and draweth forth the dead Child It provokes sweat stoppeth the overflowing of the menses or courses in Women and also of the womb as some affirm which if it doe both surely 't is by its Arcanum or hidden property It is given against a super-purgation after the taking of a sharp Medicine that is when a Purge worketh more then is meet The manner of administring it It is chiefly used in Pills but it may be dissolved in wine or any other liquour and so taken Pills of Bdellium that are good against the Hemroids or Piles and the overflowing of the courses Take of Bdellium one ounce and a halfe Myrobalans Chebuls Black Myrobalans Bellericks and Emblicks Concha Venerea burnt which is a Sea-shell of each two drams and a halfe Ammios-seed three drams Amber two drams and a halfe make those things in powder that are to be powdered then macerate and dissolve the Bdellium in juice of Leeks and with a sufficient quantity of syrupe made of the juice of Leeks make it into a masse or lump for Pills The Dose is from halfe a dram to four scruples Pills against the Hemroids Take of the former Pills two drams of Sene Rubarbe Agarick trochiscated in powder of each a dram with a sufficient quantity of syrupe of Roses make a masse for Pills of which take a dram at a time in the morning for divers dayes together if need require Riverius observat med cent 3. fol. 236. The Externall Vse It is outwardly used against Convulsions and Ruptures against swellings of the Throat it dissolveth hard tumours and nodes of the Joynts it openeth obstructions of the Womb mollifieth the hardnesse thereof and dryeth up its moistnesse either applied or a fume thereof received the same is good against swellings and apostumes of the genitalls or privy members A Plaister dissolving hard tumours Take of Bdellium one ounce of Sagapenum four ounces of Ammoniacum three ounces Galbanum Euphorbium of each two drams Dissolve the Gums in Sacke then add thereto Oyle of white Lillies and Oyle of sweet Almonds of each an ounce Propolis which is found in Bee hives four ounces and a halfe make them into a Plaister A Plaister against Nodes and glandulous tumours Take of Bdellium and Lupines of each two drams of Cow-dung two ounces of Colewort-root Capar bark Sea Onion pulp of Figs of each halfe an ounce make those in powder that are to be powdered dissolve the Bdellium in Wine and with a sufficient quantity of Honey Vineger Hogs-greace and Old Oyle make a Plaister apply it as need requireth The Hurtfull Quality It is not to be given to Women with Child The Dose The Dose is from a dram to two drams These following are made of Bdellium 1. Pills of Bdellium 2. Oyntment of Bdellium 3. Vnguentum Apostolorum CHAP. X. De Bistorta Of Bistort-root BIstort is a thick short knobbed root blackish without and somewhat reddish within a little crooked or turned together of a harsh or binding tast with divers blackish fibres or hairie threds growing thereat and hath leaves like Dock's but smaller The Names It is called in Latine Bistorta because the root is writhed in the likenesse of a Serpent in English Bistort or Snake-weede The Temperament It doth coole and dry in the third degree and is very astringent or binding The Duration It will keep good a year or two The inward Vse Bistort-root is excellent to resist all poyson and venom A dram of it in powder taken in Wine or Angelica-water expelleth the venome of the Plague or Pestilence the Small Pox Measles Purples or any other infectious Disease the same in powder or the decoction in Wine being drunk stayeth all manner of inward bleeding or spitting of blood as also any Fluxes of the body and moreover such as are troubled with vomiting The powder or the decoction being drunk helpeth Ruptures and is available against all bruises or falls and dissolveth the congealed bloud and easeth the paines that happen thereupon the same helpeth the Jaundise and hindereth Abortion or miscarrying in Women killeth Worms and is profitable for such as cannot hold their water especially if the juice of Plantaine be added thereto A dram of the powder taken in the water thereof wherein some Iron or Steel being red hot hath been quenched is an admirable help in the Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins so that the body be first purged It is very usefull in decoctions for Wounds being taken into the body the same stayeth the flowing of the courses in Women The manner of administring it It is given in powder in electuary and in decoction An Electuary against Womens Flux or the overflowing of their Courses Take of old Conserve of red Roses one ounce and a halfe Bole Armenick in powder two scruples red Corall in powder a scruple Bistort root in powder a dram with a sufficient quantity of syrupe of Mirtles or syrupe of Quinces make an Electuary Take often of it especially a little before meat the quantity of a Nutmeg and after meat as much An Electuary against the Pestilence Take of LONDON Treacle halfe an ounce Mithridate 3. drams Angelica root and Bistort root in powder of each halfe a scruple Cardamoms five grains Camphor four grains Cinamon in powder halfe a scruple Let the Camphor be dissolved in a little syrupe of Lemons and the rest being in powder make it into an Electuary The Dose is a dram or more morning and evening by it selfe or in Carduus-water In Decoction Take of Bistort root bruised two drams boyle it in
Countrey-people Tetter-berries may with good successe be applied to them The root cleanseth the skin from the Morphew Leprosie all running Scabs and Manginesse if a Bath be made thereof or the juice applied thereunto A Pessary made of the root bringeth downe the courses in Women and bringeth forth the After-birth and dead Child A Bath made hereof cleanseth the Womb from filthinesse and uncleannesse The root hung about the Neck is good against the Falling Sicknesse and Convulsion The root bruised and boyled in Vineger being applyed to the swollen Genitalls of men helpeth the same A decoction of the leaves or roots mingled with Honey and the mouth and throat washed therewith cureth Vlcers and sorenesse thereof The distilled water of the root worketh the same effect but more weakly yet the water is used for freckles and spots in the face Against hardnesse and stopping of the Spleene Take what quantity you will of the green root of Brionie bruise it with Figs and apply it to the Spleen adding thereunto a little Oyle of Capers Or Take Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger Oyntment Dialtheae or of Marsh-mallows Plaister of Melilot of each halfe an ounce Brionie root and Orris in powder of each halfe an ounce Ducks-grease Goose grease and Hens-grease of each three drams Bdellium and Galbanum of each a dram and a halfe Oyle of Orris-root one ounce and a halfe of the Mussilage of Linseede and Fenugreeke a sufficient quantity of each dissolve the gums and boyle them gently together and add thereto of Wax four ounces of Turpintine and Rosin of each one ounce and a halfe make all into a Cerat according to art Against corrupt and fretting sores in the Legs Take the leaves or root of White Brionie bruise them with Salt and Vineger and apply it Against the Gout and Sciatica Take of Brionie-root green bruise it and apply it with Hogs-grease The hurtfull Quality with the correcting means The root of White Brionie doth much trouble the Stomach head and other parts therefore it must not be given to delicate bodies nor where the spirits are low for though it have a specifick vertue for the Diseases of the Brain before mentioned yet it offends the weak The hurtfull Quality hereof is taken away in part by adding to it Ginger Cinamon Quince or such like The same is also very dangerous for Women with Child however it be given for it causeth Abortion or miscarrying These things are made of Brionie 1. The Extract thereof 2. Faeces vel Faculae Brioniae 3. Water of Brionie 4. Oyntment of Brionie 5. Vnguentum Agrippae The Dose The Dose of the root in substance is from a scruple to a dram in infusion from two drams to halfe an ounce The juice of the root is given from a dram to two drams or more in strong bodies The faeces or dregs thereof are given from five graines to twenty Cambogia see Gutta Gummi CHAP. XII De Camphora Of Camphor or Campher CAmphor is a Gum or liquor of a Tree growing in India and other places partly distilling forth of its owne accord but chiefly by incision and commeth forth clear and white without any spot therein of a very strong sent and of thin parts so that being but a while expos'd to the air both sent and substance vanisheth away The Names It is called in Latine Camphora Caphura in English Camphire Camfire Camphor and Campher The temperament Some will have it to be cold and dry in the third degree others esteem it to be hot but of this more hereafter The best kinde The best is white shining clear as Crystall not full of spots easie to be broken and brittle also being set on fire it burneth and is not easily quenched and hath also a strong sent The Duration It will keep good many years some say forty years but it must be kept from the air and in Flax-seed or Fleawort-seed otherwise it will evaporate and consume to nothing The inward Vse It resisteth putrifaction and venome therefore it is frequently used in the Pestilence contagious diseases and in Feavers It extinguisheth venery or the lust of the body Camphora venenis strenuè resistit cardiacon est Joubert de peste f. 72 Vide Thoner observat l. 3. observat 8. fol. 187. and is good for the running of the Reins as also against the Whites in Women and for the rising of the Mother being dissolved in Balm-water and so taken It cools the heat of the Liver Backe and all hot inflamations in the body The manner of Administring it It is given in Electuaries in Powders Potions c. An Electuary against the Pestilence Take Myrrhe Saffron the bone of a Stags heart or Harts-horne in powder of each two scruples and a halfe of Dittany in powder two drams of white Ginger in powder halfe an ounce of Zedorie in powder two drams and a halfe of Tormentill-roots in powder a dram of Campher in powder or dissolved in Aqua vitae two drams Mithridate and London Treacle of each three ounces with a little Aqua vitae make an Electuary Take thereof morning and evening as much as a small Nut. A powder for the Pestilence Take of Zedoary White Dittany root Gentian-root Scordium Carduus Sorrell of each two drams make them into powder The Dose is a dram in a morning in Carduus-water or in the winter let it be given in White-wine This is a good preservative in times of infection Or Take of white Sugar-Candy a dram white Ginger two scruples Camphor halfe a scruple make them in powder and give it in two or three ounces of Scabious-water or Angelica-water Or Take Angelica-root Bay-berries of each halfe an ounce round Aristolochia or Birthwort two drams Gentian-root Nutmeg of each a dram Camphor halfe a scruple make all into powder The Dose is a dram or more in Carduus-water A Potion against the Pestilence Take of Treacle called Diatessaron a dram Angelica-root in powder halfe a dram or a dram of Rose-Vineger a dram Campher three grains Carduus-water two ounces Dissolve the Campher and the rest that is to be dissolved in the water and make a potion give it and let the party sweat after it This may be given divers times if need be Note That Campher will not be made into powder alone without a blanched Almond or some other such like unctious thing which hereby will be brought into fine powder neither will it easily dissolve in cold water but by warmth it will or with any syrupe it will soon dissolve The outward Vse It helpeth pain of the head and heat thereof if it be mixed with yellow Sanders and red Rose-water and the Temples and Forehead bath'd therewith It stoppeth blood that floweth out of the nostrills if it be smelled to and refresheth the brain It is used against Phlegmous and Erysipelas or Wilde-fire also against heat or inflamations of the eyes it is good in Wounds and Vlcers to abate the heat thereof and is of much
and stoppings of the Urine and hath a speedy operation to cleanse the Uritories or passages of Urine from slimy flegme and stones gathered therein or the passages in the neck of the yard also to wast and consume any fleshly excrescence in the neck of the bladder or yard Galingal conduceth to Venery and help conception and is profitable for them that have cold reins and excellent for them that have cold and windy affects of the wombe It helpeth a stinking breath being boyled in wine and so taken It is chiefly good for cold and moist diseases The manner of administring them They are given chiefly in powder and decoction Against weaknesse and faintnesse of the heart Take the powder of Galingal two scruples of the juice of Borrage one ounce and a halfe mixe them together and give it with a little Sugar in the morning fasting or any other time Against a weake stomach and wind Take Galingal Pepper and Parsley-seed in powder of each half an ounce of Honey four or five ounces mixe them together and adde two ounces also of conserve of Red Roses Take the quantity of a Nut thereof morning and evening Or Take an ounce of Galingal and bruise it of White-wine a pint and a halfe or a quart boyle it till about halfe a pint be consumed straine it and drinke a draught morning and evening The outward use It helpeth a stinking breath being often chewed in the mouth and also a cold moist braine being snuffed up into the nose in powder or chewed in the mouth The hurtfull quality It must not be given in hot diseases nor to hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given in powder from a scruple to a dram in decoction from a dram to two drams or three Of such Medicines as are made of Galingall The chiefest species made thereof is Diagalangal which helps the cold effects of the stomach and liver and helps concoction drives away soure belching expels winde and flatulent humours and also helps a stinking breath There are many other species made thereof CHAP. XXXI De Galbano Of Gum-Galbanum GAlbanum is a Gum taken from one kinde of Ferula or Fennel-giant of a very strong and stinking savour The Names It is called in Latine Galbanum in English Gum Galbanum The Temperament Galbanum is hot and dry in the second degree or hot in the beginning of the third degree and dry in the second or in the beginning of the second The best kind The best is clear a little yellowish with white pieces amongst it without filth or sticks neither too dry nor too moist of a strong savour dissolving chiefly with wine and vineger The Duration It will keep good many years The inward Vse Galbanum is profitable for all cold diseases of the wombe for the rising or falling of the Mother and all stoppings thereof it helps to bring away the birth and dead child and provokes the Courses in Women 't is usefull in Convulsions and Cramps Falling-sicknesse inward Ruptures in pains and tumours of the Spleen and Sirrhus in shortnesse of breath Cough in the paines of the side and in torments of the bowels It resisteth poyson killeth worms and is an Antidote against Venome and all venemous Beasts for saith Plinie no Serpents will come neer to them that are besmeared with Galbanum Being taken in wine with Mirrhe it brings away the dead child out of the wombe and Mola or false conception it is excellent in the Collick dissolved in wine and taken with oyle of sweet-Almonds and a little Saffron and also for the stopping of the Urine The manner of administring it It is given chiefly in Pils Pils against the suffocation of the Mother Take of Galbanum two scruples Sagapenum a scruple Assa fetida a scruple oyle of Amber four drops make Pils thereof and give them Against the paine and swelling of the Spleen and Sirrhus Take a dram of Galbanum and dissolve it in a little Vineger of Squils or Oxymel of Squils and give it Against Wormes Take a dram of Galbanum dissolve it in a little Sack or Muskadel give it with Sugar Pellets The Outward Vse It mollifieth softneth and dissolveth the hard tumours and swelling as Scirrhus Kings-evil Aposthumes hardnesse of the Spleen hard nodes of the joynts and Biles also easeth pains in the side especially being mixed with oyles oyntments and plaisters for the same purpose It taketh away freckles and spots in the face or skin being mixed with Vineger and Niter and so applyed It takes away the pain of the ears being used with the oyle of Roses oyle of Nardus or such like It cures the Tooth-ach if the hollow-tooth be stopped therewith it draweth forth thornes splinters and broken bones being spread on Leather and applyed especially if you mixe Terpintine with it It avails in the fits of the Mother or Falling-sicknesse being but smelled to or a perfume thereof on Coals also a Pessary hereof used brings away the birth and dead child and also provokes the Courses it cures the bitings of Scorpions or other venemous beast being applyed thereto It helps the Sciatica if a plaister thereof be applyed It cleanseth wounds and ulcers cures rifts of the feet and ancles especially being mixed with Gum-Tragacanth Dears suâ—t and oyle of Violets It cures scal'd heads being dissolved with honey and so applyed Against fits of the Mother Make a Plaister of Galbanum on Leather about the bignesse of the Palme of your hand and lay it to your navell The hurtfull quality It is dangerous to give it to pregnant women or women with child least they miscarry therewith neither must it be given in hot diseases Plinie saith t is not good in difficulty of Urine but Diascorides and others say the contrary The Dose The Dose is from a scruple to a dram or a dram and a halfe Of such things as are made of Galbanum Oyle Chimicall of Galbanum Galbanetum i. e. Balsamum Galbanetum seu spiritus Terebinthinae Galbanetus Cerot of Galbanum or Ceratum matricale CHAP. XXXII De Genista Of Broom BRoom is better known for it's sweeping helpe then for its Physicall use therefore I shall give you the vertues thereof The Names It is called in Latine Genista and Genesta and that because it helps the pains of the knees or quod facile generet speciemque propagat The Temperament Broom is hot and dry in the second or beginning of the third degree The Duration The flowers and seeds will keep a year The inward use The flowers seeds stalks and roots are in use but chiefly the seeds and the flowers they draw forth thick Flegme and Choller as also water by vomit and stool and that somewhat strongly in many bodies The seeds and flowers are Spleneticall nephriticall and hepaticall that is good for the Spleen Stone and Liver and draweth from the joynts Flegmatick and Waterish humours whereby it helpeth those that are troubled with the Dropsie Gout Sciatica and paines in the joynts
of Birthwort root a dram Myrrhe in powder ten graines make the other in powder and with water of Honey or Carduus water make a Potion and give it Against the swelling of the Spleene Take of round Birthwort in powder a dram or of the Extract of round Birthwort halfe a dram Give it with Oxymel Acoratum or Carduus water Against the impurity of the Womb to provoke the courses expell the After-Birth and to bring away the dead Child Take of round Birthwort in powder a dram Myrrhe in powder twenty graines white Pepper in powder ten graines mix them together and give them in Savine water In Decoction Take of round Birthwort bruised two drams boyle it in Posset-drink and being strained give it Against Botium gulae or strumous swellings about the Throat Take round Birthwort Radish-root and stinking Gladwin of each a dram Pimpinell or Burnet Mouseare Rue of each two drams Figwort Droppewort of each halfe an ounce Anni seede two drams Ginger a dram Turbith and Sene of each three drams make them all into a fine powder and add thereto of white Sugar four ounces The Dose is one spoonfull every morning in White-wine or Broom-water The outward Vse It is used in old rotten and maligne Vlcers and Fistulaes especially being mixed with Oris powder and Honey for thus used it cleanseth and incarneth It cures Vlcers of the secret parts if you wash them with the decoction thereof The powder hereof doth cleanse the teeth and make them white being rubbed therewith It easeth the Gout being mingled with Honey and Salt and applied It draweth forth Thorns and Splinters of bones that are broken being applyed with Terpintine It helpeth the biting of venomous Beasts being boyled in Wine and laid on or let the powder thereof be mixed with the juice of Rue and so applyed to the Wound Being mingled with the powder of Aloes Lime or Chalke and Honey into an Oyntment adding a little Wine it cures the Cancer in the Nose and Polypus if tents be made thereof and put up and make an Oyntment for the said purpose with the powder of round Birthwort Cypresse and Honey and use it as the former The powder thereof tempered with Honey cures the Vlcers of the mouth and gums A Pessary made hereof and with Myrrhe provokes the terms in Women It healeth all Wounds in the Head the fume thereof or the powder in a quilted Cap stayeth all Fluxes and distillations of thin Rheume from the head An Oyntment to procure flesh in Vlcers Take the powder of round Birthwort and Oris of each a dram roots of Reeds and Peucedanum or Hoggs Fennell in powder of each a dram and a halfe Francumsence Mastich and Myrrhe in powder of each two drams of the Oyntment called Vnguentum Comitissae three ounces Honey of Roses so much as is sufficent make all into an Oyntment An Oyle usefull in the Palsie and Epilepsie or Falling Sicknesse Take of round Birthworth two ounces bruise it Euphorbium and Castor of each a dram and a halfe boyle these in Oyle Olive twelve ounces strain it and anoint the spina dorsi from the Neck to the Buttocks or shutting of the Hips do thus for the space of a fortnight or three weeks The hurtfull Quality It is not to be given to Women with Child because it brings Abortion or causeth miscarrying Of such things as are made of Birthwort long and round 1. The Distilled Water Usefull against creeping Vlcers and Pustules of the Genitalls both in men and women being therewith washed or linnen cloaths dipt in the same and laid on the place all night 2. Pils of Aristolochia Fernel 3. Extract thereof 4. Diatessaron or Theriaca Diatessaron The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to a dram In decoction from a dram to two drams or three drams CHAP. VII De Assa Foetida Of Assa Fetida ASsa Fetida is a Gum comming from the Plant called Laser or Sylphyum growing in Media Libia and Syria and not of Laserpitium of Diascorides the juice of which is unknown to Modern Writers Johan Schroder pharmac med chym lib. 4. fol. 180. Others will have it to come from Laserpitium The Names In Latine Laser medicum foetidum and Assa Foetida or Asa foetida It is so ill sented that the Germans call it Teuffelz drech that is Diaboli stercus Devils durt or dung The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree The best sort The best is that which is clear smelling somwhat like Garlicke tough and not dry or foul with sticks in colour like the best Myrrhe The Duration It will keep good many years It is adulterated by mixing Meal Bran and the Gum Sagapenum together The Inward use It is profitable for Women that are troubled with the rising of the Mother and Diseases of the Womb It bringeth downe the courses in Women and expells the secundine or After-Birth being taken with Pepper and Myrrhe It is usefull in Diseases of the Breast Nerves and Brain and being taken in an Egge that is soft it helps Hoarsnesse and given with Oxymel it helpeth the Cough Jaundise and Dropsie Given with Vineger of Squills or Mulsa that is Wine and Honey boyled together it helps the Falling Sicknesse Being given in Wine or Angelica water it helpeth against Venome and Poyson of venomous Beasts where any are stung therewith It cures the Quartaine Ague and Feavers of long continuance Taken with Oxymel it dissolveth coagulated milk in the breast it killeth Worms and expelleth wind it is used also to take away the loathing of the stomach to meat by the Indians and to strengthen the weaknesse of it also and is much in use by them to provoke unto Venery The manner of administring it It is given in Pils or in powder but hardly made into powder because of its moistnesse or it is given in wine or other liquor being first dissolved in the same A powder against the Quartaine Ague Take Assa Fetida Rue long Pepper of each two drams make them into powder and mix it with a little Honey Give a dram or a dram and a halfe of it in any convenient liquor before the fit commeth Wecher syntax fol. 248. 348. Note here that except the Assa Fetida be very dry you cannot make it into powder therefore you may dissolve it in honey or wine and so take it There is an Electuary made of Assa Fetida Pepper Ginger Rue Salniter and Honey which is commended against the Quartaine Ague and Chronicall Feavers or Agues of long continuance It is so much commended against wind that Mr Parkinson in his Herball tells a Story from Gartias of a Portugall that tried it upon a Horse whom the King of Bisnager would have bought but that he was over subject to break wind but after the Portugall had cured him thereof the King bought him and asking how he cured him he answered with Assa Fetida given in his Provender no marvaile said the King if he
were cured with the Gods meâ—t yea rather with the Devils said the Portugall but softly and in his owne language for fear of being over-heard The outward use If it be mingled with Rue Salniter and Honey it breaketh Carbuncles and Pestilentiall sores being thereto applied and in the same manner used it helpeth Cornes and draweth them forth Being applied with Garlicke and the white of an egge it helps Felons and white flaes of the fingers It clears the fight and helpeth suffusions or spots in the eyes being mixed with Honey and dropped in It cures the stinging of venomous Beasts being applied and the swelling of the Spleen being laid on as a Plaister A perfume thereof is good for the rising of the Mother also a fume thereof and of Goats horne prevents or much mitigates the fit of the Falling-Sicknesse if the party hold his head over it when he feels the fit come upon him It helpeth the Tooth-ach being put into a hollow tooth Plinie lib. 22. cap. 23. forbiddeth it thus to be used and saith he knew one that tried it in the same manner threw himselfe headlong from an high loft and brake his neck but surely this was by accident the party having a cachecticall or plethorick body and so it stirred up the humours The hurtfull quality Give it not to women with Child nor to such as have very hot and dry bodies These things following are made of Assa Fetida 1. Pills of Assa Fetida 2. Extract of Assa Fetida The Dose The Dose is from halfe a scruple to a dram CHAP. VIII De Asaro Of Asarabacca ASarum or Asarabacca is an hearb that hath a round leafe like Ivy but more round and tenderer the roots are many small and slender of a sweet and pleasing smell and a little biting the tongue It growes in many Gardens The Names It is called in Latine Asarum in English Asarabacca Asarobacca and Folefoot The temperament Asarum is hot and dry in the second degree or as some in the third degree The roots are hotter then the leaves The duration The roots will keep a year or two The leaves are best green which may be had almost all the year The inward use Asarum purgeth strongly by vomit and sometimes by stoole It draweth away thick Flegme and Choller both yellow and cruginous or green It is profitable for them that have the Dropsie Jaundise and that have Tertian and Quartaine Agues as also the Green-sicknesse Paine of the head arising of vapours from the Stomach It provokes sweat the Courses in Women and Urine therefore it is good in the Strangury and stopping of the Urine and also in the Hip-Gout and in Asthmatick persons or such as are short-winded It helpeth stoppings of the Liver Gall and Spleen The roots are effectuall against the biting of Serpents and therefore is put with other simples both into Mithridate and Treacle of Andromachus saith Mr Parkinson in his Herball but I find it only put into Mithridate It helpeth Chronicall or long continued Agues upon a double ground First Because it purgeth away thick Flegme and Choller of all sorts from the Stomach and parts adjacent as also whatsoever is of long continuance in the viscerous parts which is the cause of these Diuturnall or long-continued Agues now by vomit the humours aforesaid are taken away Secondly Because it provoketh sweat and so expelleth obnoxious humous from those parts by the ports of the skin The manner of administring it The leaves and roots are given by infusion decoction and in substance The green leaves are most effectuall to provoke one to vomit the roots more effectuall to purge by siege by Urine and to provoke sweat Neither the leaves nor roots will abide any long boyling for thereby the chiefest strength thereof vanisheth and is lost If you give it in fine powder it doth provoke vomit and Urine If you give it in course powder it purgeth downwards Before the fit of an Ague Take of the roots of Asarum or Asarabacca in powder a dram of white-wine four ounces mingle them together and give it before the fit commeth This taketh away the shaking fit and causeth the hot fit to be more remisse or gentle Or thus Take of Asarabacca-root a dram of Radish-root one ounce of Orach-seed halfe an ounce boyle them in Hydromel or water and honey straine it and give six ounces thereof as before Or Take of root of Asarabacca in powder Broome-flowers Broome-seeds of each halfe a dram in powder give it in Barly-water Against the Green-sicknesse Dropsie Jaundise c. Take of the green leaves of Asarabacca five six or seaven bruise them and steep them in Hydromel or Posset-drink all night in the morning straine it and give the clearest when it works take Posset-drink and keep your selfe warm To provoke the termes or courses in Women Take Myrrhe Cinamon of each a dram Savin halfe a dram Smalladge-seed and Parsly-seed Spiknard Asarum Squinanth or sweet Rush of each a scruple make all into powder and give hereof a dram in the juice of Sea-Holly or in the juice of Rue Freitag â—ur med fol. 325. Against the Quartaine Ague and Agues of long continuance Take of the distilled water of Asarabacca three or four ounces give it in a morning fasting or before the fit commeth This may be given divers times if need be The externall use The leaves bruised and applied outwardly cure creeping and cancerous Vlcers as also the swelling thereof and hinder their growth and increase They cleanse Wounds and sores If the head be washed with a lie made thereof it strengthneth the braine being molested with cold and quickneth the memory The juice and the water thereof with Pompholigos helpeth the dimnesse of the sight The leaves bruised and applied to the forehead and temples doe ease the pain thereof comming of cold There is an Oyle made thereof with which if the ridge of the back be nointed it provoketh sweat and taketh away the shaking fits of Agues The leaves also bruised and applied to Womens Breasts are good to dry up the milk and is good to be laid to the Disease called the Wilde fire especially at the beginning The hurtfull Quality It is not safe to give it to weak and tender bodies nor to Women with Child for though Fernelius saith in his Method medend l. 5. 117. it be free from any malignant quality and therfore may safely be given to women with Child especially if it be not given in fine powder yet Theodor. Dorstenius Botanic fol. 14. saith that both the decoction and water thereof driveth forth the Child living or dead and therefore may not safely be given to Women great with Child Of such things as are made of Asarabacca These following are made of Asarum 1. Diasarum Fernelij 2. Extract of Asarum or Coagulum Asari 3. Distilled Water of Asarum both of the leaves and roots 4. Oyle of Asarum The Dose The Dose in substance is from halfe a dram to two scruples or
not so dangerous as some Authors fabulously report for Women to stride over or but to touch it It is not to be given without correcting helpe Now the correcting meanes are Mel Passulatum or Honey of Raisons Manna Mastick Syrup of Quinces or with species Diarrhodon Abbatis or with Oxymel and Hydromel or in powder it may be given with Chicken broth or Veale broth The Dose The Dose in substance is from a dram to a dram and a halfe The juyce is given from a dram to two drams or three drams Of such Medicines as are made of Sowbread First Vnguentum de Arthanita majus 2Vng de Arthanita minus CHAP. XXIV De Dactylis Of Dates DAtes are long and round fruits growing in the East and West Indies and in other places from whence we have them They abound in Indiae Syria Aegypt Arabia and such hot places The Names They are called in English Dates The best are called Cariotae and Phaenicobalanis which were also called Regiae because they were fittest for the dyet of Kings The Temperament Dates are hot and dry almost in the second degree and astringent or binding especially when they are not through ripe being through ripe they are hot and moist in the second degree some say hot and moist in the first degree The best sort The best Dates are such as are Yellowish in colour sweet ripe within new uncorrupt not worme-eaten and having their caps on therefore called Cap Dates for if the Caps fall off they soon decay The Duration Dates will not keep good long especially in the Summer time some will keep halfe a year or longer The inward Vse Dates yeeld a grosse and clammy and fatty or impingnating nourishment therefore they are used against Consumptions and wasting of the body they helpe the hoarsenesse and roughnesse of the throat the sharpe Cough by reason of sharpe rheume falling on the breast and lungs The decoction of them taken alayeth the force of hot Agues and stayeth spitting of blood the paine in the stomach and bowels by reason of a Flux and boyled in water and honey and taken doth refresh the spirits they somewhat provoke to Venery the decoction helpeth the weaknesse and paines in the back and bladder they strengthen the weaknesse of the Liver and Spleen being mixed with other convenient medicines They are used in broth 's against Consumptions and pining diseases and are counted restorative especially the sweet ones Dry Dates being eaten doe stop the belly and stay vomiting of women with childe and helpe against miscarying they stay womens courses and the bleeding and falling downe of the Fundament and Piles being taken in red Wine The manner of administring them They are given in brothes Decoctions and Electuaries A decoction against the Cough shortnesse of breath and the Plurisie Take of Dates six in number Figs four French Barley an ounce Raisons of the Sun stoned an ounce Sebesten and Jujubes of each fifteen Licoris halfe an ounce Maiden-haire Hysop Scabious Colts-foot of each halfe a handfull Cut the herbs and fruits and bruise the Licoris then boyle them in three pints of spring water to a quart straine it and drink of the clearest morning and evening seven or eight spoonfulls warme The outward Vse Dates made into a Poultis alone or with other things and applied to the stomack and belly stayeth the vomiting of Women with child The Decoction of Dates or the leaves of the Date-tree maketh the haireblack being often used and stayeth fretting Vlcers Being mixed with Wax and Saffron they helpe the black and blew marks remaining after stripes or blowes and reduceth the skin to its naturall colour Date stones being burnt and washed serve instead of Spodium to binde and restraine the fluent humours into the eyes and to consume the Pin and Web in them and to dry up Pushes being used with Spikenard it it stayeth the falling of the hair from the eye brows being mingled with wine and used it helpeth any Excressences of the flesh as Wens and such like and bringeth foul Vlcers to Cicatrising and stayeth the spreading of Vlcers A Poultis made of them and applyed helpeth any luxation or joynts out of place and they are used in astringent Cataplasmes or Pultises The hurtfull quality They breed ill and grosse humours and thick blood in the body and are hard of concoction especially in such as are of a hot constitution bring the head-ach obstruct the Liver and breed winde therefore they are not to be used by such as are troubled with the head-ach Collick or hot Livers These Medicines following are made of Dates First the Electuary Diaphoenicon mesuae 2 Diaphoenicon solidum 3 Electuarium resumptivum 4 Lohoch e Pino 5 Lohoch sanum experium Diagredium seu Scammonium CHAP. XXV De Dictamno Cretico Of Dittany of Creete or Candy DIttany of Crete is an hearb much like unto Penny-royal but hath greater leaves and hoary covered over with a soft downe and white woollen Cotten growing in Candy The Names It is called in Latine Dictamum and Dictamus or Dictamnum creticum also Dictamnus creticus and it is so called a dicte promontorio Cretae because plenty of it grows there in that mount in English Dittanie and Dittanie of Candy The temperament Dittany is hot and dry in the third degree of a biting nature especially being green The best kind The best is that which is newest white and not too full of strings The Duration It will keep a year or longer The inward Vse Dittany provokes the Courses hasteneth the birth and bringeth away the dead child and after birth It profits those that have the Dropsie Spleen swollen The juice drunken with wine is a present remedy for those that are bitten or stung by any venemous creature nay the herbe is so effectuall against the poyson of all beasts that are venemous that the very smell drives them away or if they do but touch the herbe The powder being mixed with hony and taken easeth the Cough an killeth Wormes and a decoction thereof taken is profitable in the Jaundies The distilled water is commended against the Pestilence if three ounces be drank morning and evening and sixe ounces thereof against Venome also three ounces thereof taken in a morning is profitable against the Stone The manner of administring it It is given in powder Electuary c. Powder to bring away the dead Childe Take of Dittany of Crete a dram of Saffron five grains make them in powder and give it in wine An Electuary against Venome Take Dittany of Candy round Birth-worth in powder of each halfe an ounce with six ounces of honey make an Electuary The Dose is from a scruple to a dram in wine or Carduus water The outward Vse A Pessarie made of the juice and the powder bringeth away the dead child and after birth being applyed A Bath or decoction made thereof and used all over cures the Jaundies The juice mixed with the powder help 's the Vvula fallen being nointed therewith also the juyce mixed with womans milk
halfe a pint of Posset-drink till about halfe be consumed strain it and give the clearest in a morning against the Diseases forementioned The outward Vse Being used in Fumigations it dryeth up Rheumes and stayeth Womens Fluxes or the bleeding of Wounds the fibres or fungous substance of the root doth wonderfully stop the bleeding of Wounds or bleeding of the Nose A decoction thereof helpeth sore mouths and inflamations of the Almonds and Throat if they be washed therewith the decoction of the roots in water whereunto some Pomegranet pills or flowers are added serveth for an injection into the matrice as well to stay the accesse or flowing of humours and to cure Vlcers thereof as also to bring it to the place being fallen downe and to help stay the abundance of their courses The water distilled from both leaves and roots is a good remedy to wash any place bitten or stung by any venomous creature and is very good to wash any running sores or Vlcers as also Cancers in the Nose and Polypus which is a Disease in the Nose if the powder of the root be applied afterwards A decoction of the root fastneth the loose teeth and helpeth the sorenesse of the Gums being washed therewith The powder of the root strewed upon any cut or bleeding Wound stayeth the bleeding thereof The powder mixed with a little Oyle of Roses and Wax helpeth the running of the Reins if the back be noynted therewith An Oyntment to hinder Abortion or miscarrying of Women Take Oyle of Roses Oyle of Quinces of each three ounces Cerusse washed in Rose-water halfe an ounce Bistort root and red Corall of each two drams Barbery-seeds a dram of white Wax a sufficient quantity powder those things that are to be powdered and make hereof an Oyntment with which annoynt the back warm morning and evening laying a warm cloth thereon Rondelet meth cur morb cap. 63. fol. 168. Against the Tooth-ach Take Bistort root in powder Pellitory of Spaine burnt Allum in powder of each two drams make it into a paist with Honey Put a little piece thereof into a hollow Tooth or between the Teeth and it will ease the paine thereof and draw away much offensive matter from the head and parts adjacent The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to a dram in decoction from a dram to two drams or three drams Of such things as are made of Bistort 1. The distilled water thereof 2. Diascordium 3. Emplastrum Coe saris 4. Emp. Hystericum Nic. CHAP. XI De Bryonia alba Of White Brionie WHite Brionie is somewhat like unto the common Vine in his leaves and branches but something rougher and whiter The root is sometimes very great long and bitter The Names In Latine Vitis alba Bryonia and Bryonia alba in English Brionie and Tetterberries The Temperament Briony is hot in the second degree and dry in the third The Duration The Root will keep good a year or more if it be gathered in a dry season and carefully dryed The inward use The root of White Briony purgeth strongly Choller Flegme and Water from the Brain Nerves Womb and Joynts it openeth obstructions or stoppings of the Liver Spleen and Womb therefore it avails much in Hystericall fits or fits of the Mother in the Falling Sicknesse Palsie Apoplexie and Vertigo or swimming of the head as also in the Gout or Shortnesse of breath It provokes the courses in Women and cleanseth the Womb provokes Urine and is excellent in the Dropsie for it draweth away water abundantly both by vomit and stoole It dissolveth congealed blood in the body by reason of falls or bruises The root is good against the biting of Vipers or Adders and killeth Worms in the body It is good in the Kings Evill the juice being taken with equall parts of Wine and Honey The foecula or dregs thereof are used for the aforesaid Diseases you may give five or ten grains of it The manner of administring it The root of White Brionie is given in powder in juice in decoction in syrupe and in electuary though every way not pleasing to the palate An Electuary of white Brionie purging the body Take of White Brionie root four ounces Turbith three ounces Agaricke cut in thin slices one ounce Ginger in powder Mastich Lonage seed bruised of each three drams macerate or steep them three dayes in two pints of Aquavitae then boyle them to the consumption of one pint straine it to which add clarified Honey the pulp of Prunes of each a pound Sugar a pound and a halfe Boyle them to the thicknesse of Honey then being cold let these things following be put in Gum Gutta in powder one ounce Diagredium six drams Anni-seed Fennell-seed in powder of each two drams Cloves in powder halfe an ounce mix them well together and make an Electuary The Dose is from halfe an ounce to six drams in white Wine or Posset drink This Electuary is excellent in the Dropsie and Gout Syrupe of Brionie simple Take of the juice of White Brionie-root in May a pound of pure Honey clarified two pound boyle them gently to the thicknesse of a syrupe by often scumming it The Compound Syrupe of Brionie Take of the juice of White Brionie-root five ounces Vineger of Squills a pound of the decoction made with Origanum dry Hyssope Lonage Seseleos Cardamomes Stoechados halfe a pound of good Honey two pound boyle them gently to the thicknesse of a syrupe Freitag aur med fol. 355 356. Both these foregoing syrupes are good in the Falling-Sicknesse Swimming of the Head and for Shortnesse of breath An Electuary for an old Cough and shortnesse of breath Take of White Brionie root in powder a dram of clarified Honey three ounces of the Lohoch or Electuary of Fox-Lungs halfe an ounce Spirit of Sulpher eight drops make all into an Electuary Take of it chiefly in the morning and evening as much as a small Nutmeg Against the Pestilence Take of White Brionie-root in powder a dram Diagredium one graine take it in the juice of Celandine and let the party sweat upon it Theod. Dorsten Botanic fol. 52. For such as have broken a Bone Take of the juice of White Brionie-root two drams or three drams of Comfry-water three ounces mingle them together and give it Continue it for a weeks space if need require The externall Vse A decoction of the root or the juice thereof taketh away Freckles or Sun-burning and all kind of Spots and Scarres So doth the Oyle wherein the roots of Brionie hath been boyled It dissolveth black Bloud and blew Marks by reason of bruises or falls and dissolveth new swellings It bringeth to maturity and breaks old Imposthumes It draweth forth splinters and broken bones and helpeth filthy Ulcers and white Flaes that grow up about the roots of the Nailes The leaves fruit and roots doe cleanse old and filthy sores and are good against fretting and running Cankers Gangrenes and Tetters therefore the beâ—ries are usually called by the
in powder stirring them well together till it become a fit masse for pils The Dose is from ten grains to fifteen Freitag Aur. Med. f. 337. The external use A decoction of Coloquintida made with Veniger easeth the paine of the Teeth if they be washed therewith The powder thereof with Honey applyed to the Navill killeth wormes Being infused in Vineger it cureth the Morphew Leprosie Elephansie dry scurfe and scabs if the places be often rubbed therewith A bath made of Coloquintida and the feet and other parts fomented therewith bringeth downe the Courses in Women The juyce boyled with Hogs-greese and applyed to the hip easeth the Sciatica An oyle made of Coloquintida and dropped into the ear take's away the noyse and singing thereof and is good against baldnes and falling of the hair Coloquintida is used in Glisters and Suppositories A Glister Take of the Pulpe of Coloquintida two drams Camomel flowers a handfull Anniseed Cuminseed of each halfe an ounce Make a decoction in fair water straine it and in a pint of the decoction desolve honey of Roses oyl of Camomel of each three or four ounces and make a Glister A Suppository Take of Coloquintida in powder a scruple species Hiera simplex halfe a dram Salgem halfe a scruple with a sufficient quantity of Honey make a Suppository A Ball made of Coloquintida which purgeth onely by smelling to it Take of Colocynthis and Esula or pine spurge in powder Aloes and Myrrhe in powder of each a dram with the juice of Coriander make two bals to hold in each hand one and being warmed therewith smell often to them The hurtfull quality with the correcting means Coloquintida hurts the heart liver and stomach by its strong operation it opens the mouthes of the veines whereby many times after the taking of it blood is voided both upward and downeward It also excoriats the bowels and passages of the Urine and bringeth great gripings and tearing pains Therefore it must not be given to women with child for being but applyed to the wombe it killeth the child nor to children aged persons or such as are weake neither to any that have the Plurisie Hectich Feaver or any inflamation It is not safe to give it alone but being well corrected it may be given to strong and rustick bodies It is corrected with Hepaticall Cardiacall Stomachicall and other gentle means as Tragacanth oyle of sweet Almonds Ginger or Mastich Some adde Bdellium and other astringent things But surely those things that binde make the operation of the Medicine afterwards more strong for though the binding faculty of such things may hinder the operation for a time yet it will at length bring forth and worke more violently Sagapenum is counted a good corrector of Coloquintida because of it's clammy faculty whereby it preserves the bowels from gripings The Dose The Dose in powder is from five graines to ten or fifteen These things following are made of Coloquintida First Pils of Coloquintida 2 Pilulae Alhandal 3 Extract of Coloquintida 4 Trosses of Alhandal 5 Chimicall oyle of Coloquintida 6 Oyle by infusion of Coloquintida 7 Wine and Vineger of Coloquintida CHAP. XVIII De Corallio Rubro Of red Coral REd Coral is a hard stony substance growing on the Rocks in the Sea The Names Coral is called in Latine Corallium Coralium and Coralium this Corallium rubrum in English Red Coral The temperament Red Coral is cold and dry in the second degree The best kinde The best is that which is smooth clear and red for the redder it is the better it is The Duration It will keep good ten or twenty years The inward Vse Red Coral doth dry cool and bind it strengthneth the heart stomach and liver purifieth the blood and is therefore very usefull in the Pestilence against venome and all pestilent Feavers and malignant diseases it cheares the heart and is good against Melancholy helpeth such as spit blood or that bleed at the mouth or the nose as also stoppeth the Fluxe of blood in man or woman and being taken in wine or other liquor frequâ—ntly it taketh away the hardnesse and stopping of the Spleen it stayeth the Gonorrhaea or running of the reins in men and the whites in women helpeth conception by its binding faculty and is good for the stopping of of the Urine and paines of the Stone in the bladder if the powder when it is burnt be taken in Whitewine or Posset drinke the powder taken in Wine oâ— distilled Water brings rest to such as have an Ague and is good for such as have Cramps It is much commended in the falling sicknesse or to prevent it if a Childe so soon as it is borne take ten graines thereof in black-Cherry-water or in the Mothers miâ—ke Some affirme that it causeth an easie delivery of the birth which fit doe it is by a specifick vertue for experience doth manifest it to be of a binding nature The Chymicall oyle of Coral is commended against the Falling-sicknesse in children and others as also in all Fluxes of the belly and spitting of blood The manner of administring it It is given in Electuary powder c. An Electuary against the Flux of the belly Take of red Coral in powder three drams of Marmeâ—â—â—de of Quinces two ounces and a halfe species Diamargariton frigidum two drams with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Quinces make an Electuary take of it a little before meat An Electuary against vomiting of blood by reason of a bruise or fall Take of red Coral in powder a dram conserve of red Roses conserve of Comfry of each one ounce Bâ—le Armoniack washed in Rose water and in powder Blood stone in powder of each a dram Acacia Myrtle-Berries of each a dram Suger Pellets halfe an ounce with an ounce of Suger dissolved in Rose-water make an Electuary The Dose is three drams or halfe an ounce with red Wine in the morning and before meat A Powder against Ruptures Take of Myrtle-berries Cinamon and Nutmeg of each two drams of Knot-grasse dry halfe an ounce seeds of Plantaine and Purslaine of each three drams and the seeds of Garden Cresses a dram of red Corall a dram and a halfe make all into powder adding so much Sugar as will make it sweet The Dose is from halfe a dram to a dram in red Wine every morning or second morning for a Months space if need require A Powder against the Fluxe of the belly Take of red Coral a scruple roots of Tormentil two scruples Mirrhe a scruple Gum Tragacanth a dram Plantaine-seeds halfe a dram Dragons blood a dram trosses of Spodium a dram Bole Armoniack and Harts-horne burnt of each a dram make them into powder The Dose is a dram in Plantaine-water The outward Vse It helpeth sore Gums and Ulcers in the mouth and healeth up soul hollow Ulcers in other parts and filleth with flesh and is used in medicines for the eyes to stay the Flux of Rheume and takes away the heat and rednesse thereof
three grains make an infusion in water or white wine according to art of which being streined give three ounces In substance Take of black Hellebore-root prepared and in powder give it in Oxymel Or Take a dram of black Hellebore-root of Anise-seed Fennell-seed Cynamon Mastick of each ten graine make them into powder and give it in broth The externall use It is outwardly used against the Leprosie Morphew Scab Itch Warts and Pushes of the skin being boyled with vineger and bathed therewith The powder put into Fistulaes or hollow Ulcers doth soon heal them and if there be callons or hard flesh grown in the Fistula the root left in it for two or three dayes will consume it quite and put into a wound where dead or spongious flesh is it consumes it and preserves the flesh from putrefaction A decoction thereof helpeth the tooth-ach and the sores of the mouth being gargled and being put into the eares it helpeth the noyse thereof A Pessary made of the root and put up prevailes wonderfully to bring down the termes or courses in women A Cataplasme or Poultis made of the root with Barley-meale and wine is good to be applyed to the bellies of such as have the Dropsy In time of the Pestilence it is usefully applyed to or in any sores either in the groine or under the arme or an issue made and a piece of the root put in to keep it open doth much avail to draw sorth corrupt humours out of the body The root is in use to rowell cattel withall and to help them of the cough Being put upon the swollen Hemorrhoides it cleanseth them Against the Gowt Boyle the herbe or root in salt water and bath with it also lay the herb or root boyled to the affected part For wormes in the ears Take of the powder of black Hellebore-root half an ounce of the juice of Rue or Assmart four ounces mix them together and put thereof into the eares For the scurffe of the head Boyl the roots of Lupines in vineger and adde to it powder of black Hellebore and anoint with it wash the head after with warme water The hurtfull quality with its corrective help The ancient Writers counted it very dangerous though not so dangerous as the white yet that it worketh not without trouble and difficulty therefore it is not to be given but to robustick and strong bodies because it bringeth convulsions which happily may be spoken concerning Hellebore in substance of such as did grow in hotter clymates then ours is or of some other kinde then we now use for we do not finde any such great danger in any of that which is now in use with us yet 't is not safe to give it to children women with childe or weak persons It is corrected with Mastick Cynamon Anise-seed Origanum c. to a dram of Hellebore adde half a scruple of any of these It is given more safely in decoction or in infusion then in substance The Antients did infuse the root a day and night in vineger and then used it Macerate or steep the bark casting away the middle three dayes in Quince-wine or Muskadell dry it and keep it for your use It may be given also in broth with some seeds as before mentioned Also you may give it in wine of Raisons Oxymel syrupe of Quinces or with juice of Quinces Some give it with Scammonie to quicken its vertue Note that all preparations of Hellebore vvhich are made by sharp and acute liquours such as are spirit of wine Anise-seed-water or spirit of Anise-seed Aromatickes or oile of such also the putting Hellebore into Radish-root and so to take it except you desire a vomiting or turbatory medicine to be made of white or black Hellebore are to be rejected The Dose The dose in substance is from a scruple to two scruples in infusion or decoction from a dram to two drams or more Such Medicines as are made of black Hellebore The distilled water of black Hellebore both of the leaves and roots The extract thereof Syrup of Roses solutive with Hellebore Oxymel Helleboratum CHAP. 38. De Hermodactylis of Hermodactiles HErmodactyles are whitish roots about the bignesse of a Chesnut smooth flattish and sharp at the one end but somewhat fuller at the other growing upon I know not what plant comming from I know not what place and truly may be called opprobrium medicorum the shame or disgrace of Physicians The names This root is called in Latine Hermodactylus in English Hermodactyle and Hermodactyles The temperament They are hot and dry in the second degree The best kinde The best are such as are white both within and without of some good bignesse which being lightly bruised and made in powder look like wheat-flower and of a pleasant and sweet taste Such as are worm-eaten are to be rejected The duration They will keep good three or four yeers The inward use They purge chiefly thick and tough flegme from the joynts therefore they profit in any kinde of Gowt yea they are so available in the Gowt that this root is called Theriaca Arthritidis Treacle for the Gowt It is used also in the French Pox The manner of administring They are given in potions drinks Pils c. A Potion Take of Hermodactyles cut in thin slices or bruised Sene Epithymum of each two drams Raisons of the Sun stoned half an ounce licorish bruised a dram Ginger bruised half a dram make an infusion in a sufficient quantity of water upon hot embers all night strain it to which add of syrup of Roses one ounce A purging Drink against watery humours Take of Hermodactyles of Lignum vitae of each three ounces Mechoacan foure ounces Ginger two drams Sarsaparilla Licorish of each two ounces of Nutmegs two drams of Seabind-weed one ounce a half cut and bruise those those things that are to be cut bruised put them all in a vessell with three gallons of new Beer in a bag adding thereto of Seue an ounce After six dayes take a draught of it in the morning and before supper D. Sadlerus Prax. Med. f. 205 The externall use They are outerwardly used in the Gowt to ease pain they are also good to cleanse wounds and to consume proud flesh therein as also to heal old wounds and Ulcers A Poultes to ease the Gowt Take of new milk a quart Barley-meal a pinte or more Harmodactyles in powder three ounces the yolks of foure Eggs Saffron in powder two drams crumbs of bread so much as is sufficient to make a poultes apply it warm Or Take new Cow-dung a pound and a halfe Hogs-grease half a pound or twelve ounces Hermodactyles in powder two ounces and a half make a poultes and apply it The hurtfull quality and the corrective means There are two things in the use of Hermodactyles to be minded First that the hurtfull quality may be taken away for it troubleth the stomach and causeth windinesse now to help this let it be mixed with
or with Posset-drink The juice may be boiled for by boiling it loseth of its strong operation and given with Sugar syrup of Violets or in an Egg to sup up but let the pure juice only be given after it hath stood a while to cleer The Dose The juice of the root is given from six drams to an ounce and a half or two ounces The powder of the root is given from a dram to two drams Note that the roots of Ireos do not all work alike for in some climate they work stronger then in another These following are made with Ireos An extract A wine Species Diaireos simpl Diaireos Solomonis Trechisci bechisi albi Oile of Orris CHAP. 42. De Lapide Lazuli Armeno of Azure-stone or Lazul-stone and of Armene-stone LApis Lazuli or Azure-stone is a stone of a skie colour with certain veins of gold or silver in it Armene-stone differs little from the other only having some greenish spots in it They are both found in the same place or digged out of the same Mine only the Lapis Lazuli is found more frequently in the Golden Mines and Lapis Armenus in the Silver Mines also the Lapis Lazuli hath more maturity then the other The names Azure-stone is called in Latine Lapis caeruleus Lapis Lazuli Lapis Cyaneus in English Azure-stone and Lazul-stone The other is called in Latine Lapis Armenius Armenus because it was brought from Armenia but now it is found in Germany in English Armeniack and Armene-stone The Temperament Lapis Lazuli is hot and dry in the third degree or hot in the second degree and dry in the third Lapis Armenus is hot and dry in the beginning of the first degree or hot in the first degree and dry in the second The difference between them Lapis Armenus is more skie-coloured and hath green spots as also sometimes black spots in it and is more brittle and sooner dissolveth Lapis Lazuli is sometimes with Golden and sometimes with Silver veins and is not easily broken The duration They will keep good many yeers without any corruption The inward use Lapis Armenius purgeth black Choler effectually from the brain and is usefull in melancholy diseases as against madnesse melancholy giddinesse of the head pains of the head Falling sicknesse Night-mare against diseases arising from fear and grief c. against the Leprosie Obstructions of the Spleen Cancer black Morphew and all melancholy diseases being twelve times washed or oftner it pureth onely downwards for otherwise it worketh upwards by vomit Lapis Lazuli is of a hot burning nature It hath a double or two-fold formall specifick vertue for by the one it purgeth melancholy and by the other it strengthneth the heart wonderfully and recreates or cheereth the spirits It avails in melancholy diseases stoppings of the Spleen quartane Ague and the Piles being taken with a decoction of Sene and Fennel-seed It cleanseth the veins and bloud from corruption and is profitable for diseases arising from fear grief and sadnesse whereby the heart is oppressed it purgeth the breast and lungs by which means it helps such as are short-breathed and stopt with flegme it drives away melancholy Fevers and preserveth from the Leprosie It brings down the courses in Women See Trallianus de Melancholia cap. 16. f. 127. Editione 1560. These are much of one nature only some hold that Lapis Armenus is the stronger in operation others say that Lapis Lazuli is the stronger in working The manner of administring them They are chiefly given in Pils and Confections Pils against Melancholy Take of Hiera picra and Epithymum of each foure scrupls Agarick and Lapis Armenus of each four scruples Scammony two scruples or a dram Cloves twenty with the juice of Citrons make a masse for Pils The Dose is two scruples or a dram Against faintnesse of the heart and sadnesse Take of Lapis Lazuli prepared two scruples of the juice of Borrage or Buglosse half an ounce of the bone of a Stags heart ten grains in powder mix them together and give it The externall use Lapis Lazuli being hung about the neck as an Amulet keeps children from fearfulnesse sharpens the sight prevents faintings in women with childe and hinders miscarrying but neer the time of their delivery it must be taken away lest it hinder the birth from comming forth It is used in medicines for to cleer the eyes and to take away the haires of the eye-lids The hurtfull quality These being taken unprepared cause vomiting and offend the stomack They are prepared by washing and by burning By washing thus bruise them and make them in fine powder wash them in fair water till the water become cleer after washing Others do thus after they are thus washed they dry them in the Sun or hot place and wash them again and so a third time or oftner if need be and last of all they wash them with Borrage Buglosse or Rose-water or infuse them in the juice of either and being dry keep them to use and when they use them they add thereto Cloves Hiera picra Sal-niter c. By burning thus take Lapis Lazuli what quantity you will burn it in a crucible then make it into powder and wash it first in common water then wash it in Rose-water or Borrage-water dry it and wash it once or twice more or oftner till the water look cleer then dry it and keep it for your use Note that being burned or washed they only work downwards The Dose The Dose being washed is from half a dram to a dram These things are made of them Lapis Lazuli washed or prepared Pils of Lapis Lazuli essence or extract of Magister Oile or liquour CHAP. 43. De Ligno Aloe of Wood-Aloes LIgnum Aloës is a wood somewhat blackish on the outside and more gray and discoloured within brought from India The names It is called in Latine Xylaloës Yyloaloës Agallochum and lignum Aloës in English Wood-Aloës or Wood of the Aloe-tree The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree astringent and a little bitter and of subtill parts The best kinde The best is that which is knobbed or in uneven pieces very brittle and breaking short somewhat black on the outside and more gray and discoloured within of a small sent until it be burned and then it yields a most fragrant odour or small also being put to the fire it will sweat out an oily moisture and that with small bubbles which soon vanish away and being put into water it will swim The Duration It will keep good many yeers The inward use It strengtheneth all the inward parts but especially the brain which it doth wonderfully corroborate and dry therefore it is useful in the Apoplexie Palsie Lethargie and losse of memory also against faintings of the spirits and cold diseases of the heart and stomack for it doth much conduce to weak livers and fainting spirits helpeth the Dysenteries or Lasks and Pleurisies It dryeth up defluxions of
best Mechoacan is that which is new whitish in taste like meal or insipid not old or wormeaten The duration It will keep good two or three yeers The root is kept good and much preserved if it be kept in wax saith Tragosus Med. Ind. hist c. 35. f. 81. Monardus giveth counsel to roll it up in Sear-cloth Monard f. 26. The inward use Mechoacan purgeth chiefly thick flegme water and serous humours and that from the head stomach belly reins nerves and joynts therefore it is profitable in a long continued head-ach and lethargie in pains of the joynts reins and wombe in the Falling sicknesse Catarrhe Rheume diseases of the breast in old Coughs shortnesse of breath Jaundise stoppings of the Liver and Spleen It is very usefull in the Dropsie for it draweth away water and flegme and also strengtheneth the Liver and inward parts It is commended in the French Pox Kings Evill Scurvy and Gowt and causeth one to make water easeth the Collick and expelleth winde wonderfully It helpeth inveterate Agues whether Quotidian or Tertian It doth much conduce to the purging of crude and viscous or tough humours in the stomach and breasts of children It worketh without any hurtful quality molestation nauseousnesse or griping and is void of any hurtful quality for having done its work it leaveth the inward parts strengthened without debility and weaknesse contrary to most purgative Medicines Old-men children women with childe and weak persons may safely take this inoffensive Medicine The manner of administring it It is given in Powder Pils Boles Tabulates or Roulets and Potions But the best way is to give it in white Wine for so it works best It may be given with a little Cynamon in broth or with Mastick Anise-seed or Fennel-seed Note that the powder given by it self or with Wine doth work better then mixed with Syrups or other things A Powder against the Dropsie Take of Sene and Mechoacan of each two drams Ginger and species Diagalanga of each three grains Diagredium two grains make a powder and give it in broth Pils Take of Mechoacan in powder a scruple Gum Gutta six or eight grains with syrup of Roses make Pils and give them with Physical observation A Potion Take of Mechocan in powder a dram or a dram and a half white Wine or Fennel-water four ounces let them stand all night or all one day shaking them two or three times together then put to them of syrup of Roses laxative an ounce mix them together and make a Potion Or you may give it only with the white-Wine Tabulates Take of Mechoacan in fine powder a dram and a half of Diagredium three grains with Sugar dissolved in a little Rose-water make cakes dry them gently and give them for a Dose A Bele Take of Mechoacan in powder a dram of the Electuary called Diacarthamum two drams with syrup of Storchados make a bole or lump and eat it in a morning fasting Note two errours of Monardus the one is in that he saith hac radice purgatos esse fortiores quà m antè the other that after the taking of a little broth or food it ceaseth to work any more which is contrary to daily experience Tragos Med. Ind. Hist f. 82. The hurtfull quality Although it work without any hurtfull quality yet in hot diseases and pure tertian Feavers and also in hot and dry bodies and in such as are subject to be bound 't is not safe to give it The Dose The Dose to a childe is a scruple or a scruple and a halfe to persons of yeers in substance from a dram to two drams in infusion from two drams to half an ounce Medicines made of Mechoacan Pils of Mechoacan extract of Mechoacan both simple and compound Vide Schroder Pharm Med Chym. l. 4. f. 232. CHAP. 47. De Myrobalanis of Myrobalans or purging Indian Plummes MYrobalans are fruits brought us from the East Indies The names and kindes There are five kindes of Myrobalanes First the yellow Myrobalane or purging Indian Plum as big as a reasonable Plum somewhat long and not round of a yellower colour then the rest called in Latine Myrobalanus Citrina The second is the Chebule or purple Myrobalane called in Latine Myrobalanus Chebula and is the greatest and longest of all the five sorts of a blackish purple colour on the out-side while it is fresh and also dry being five square as the former of the thickest substance and more fleshy then any other and with the smallest stone in the middle not fully so hard to break as the former but with the smallest kernel therein The third sort is the Bellerick or round Myrobalane yet being as it were three square in many of a pale russetish colour when they are fresh but of a dark or dusty whitish colour on the outside being dry of the thinnest substance or least fleshy of any of them the stone whereof is thick and greater then any other proportionable to the fruit very hard to break with a kernel within of a reasonable bignesse and is called in Latin Myrobalanus Bellerica The fourth sort is the six square Myrobalane or beaded called in Latine Myrobalanus Emblica they are round in shew and brought unto us broken into small pieces without any stones the kernels within being separated into three severall divisions having each of them two cauls wherein the parts of the kernell lie almost three square The fift sort is the black or Indick Myrobalane called in Latine Myrobalanus Indica and are eight square as Gartias saith which may be when they are fresh but they cannot be so plainly discerned in those that are brought over to us dry they are the smallest of all the rest somewhat long altogether fleshy without any stone in the middle and the blackest of any In Arabick they are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dulegi or delegi The temperament They are cold in in the first degree and dry in the second The best sort The best are such as are new and not too old fleshy thick and heavy or ponderous and gummie within The duration They will keep good two or three years The inward use All the sorts of Myrobalans do purge gently some more some lesse than others some also purging choler some flegme and some melancholy but they have in them also an astringent faculty much more then is in Rubarbe they are exellent in fluxes of the belly The Citrine or yellow Myrobalans do purge choler strengthen the stomack heart and liver profit such as have the Hemorrhoides and are proper for such as are of a temperate heat they are good in tertian feavers cause a good colour and hinder old age being often used The Chebule do purge flegme quicken the brain and sharpen the sight strengthen the stomach after purging they are profitable for such as have the Dropsie and are troubled with long continued Agues The Emblick and Bellerick purge the stomach from rotten flegme lying therein and strengtheneth the braine
a singular remedy for a stinking breath It doth conduce much to women to help Conception especially by removing obstructions or stoppings from the uterine parts The manner of administring it It is given in Powder in Pils in electuary and Trosses though it be rarely given alone by reason of its bitternesse To hasten the birth Take of Myrrhe in powder two scruples Give it in a little Posset-drink or make foure or five Pils thereof with a little Honey and give them drinking a draught of posset-drink after them The outward use It healeth wounds of the head and helpeth to cover bones that are bare and incarneth good flesh in deep wounds It helpeth a stinking breath if the mouth be washed with the decoction thereof and helpeth rotten gums and fastneth loose teeth being dissolved in wine and washed therewith it cleanseth also the filthinesse of the Eares Being used with Ladanum and Wine of Myrtles it stayeth the falling or shedding of the haire it helpeth watering eyes and taketh away the skin that beginneth to grow therein and darken the sight and helpeth ulcers of the eyes It is commended to beautifie the face and to make it smooth and youthfull to be made into an oile or rather liquour of Myrrhe which is made with Eggs boiled hard cut in the middle the yolkes taken forth and filled up with the powder of Myrrhe then put into a Glasse and set in a Wine-seller or moist place and with this liquor to wash the face A fumigation hereof comforts the braine and dryeth up superfluous humours It openeth and mollifieth the hardnesse of the matrix and a fumigation thereof helpeth conception and it bringeth downe the courses if a Pessarie be made thereof and used It doth facilitate or hasten the birth being used to the genitals or privities with oile of white Lillies Being used with Vineger it helpeth Tetters and Ring-wormes and freckles or used with Cassia and Honey it helpeth the Gangrene and wilde fire the stinking or chafing of the arme-holes used with oile of â—ox it doth extend and mollifie the nerves that are stiffe with cold It helpes Tenasmus or a desire often to go to stoole from a cold cause A Powder for wounds in the head Take of myrrhe half an ounce of Madder-seed of Cypresse-root of Orris-root of Sarcocole of each three drams make a powder and us it as need requireth The hurtfull quality It must not be given to women with childe for it causeth them to miscarry nor to such as have very hot and dry bodies The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to two scruples Of such things as are made of Myrrhe Trosses of Myrrhe Myrrhe depurated or cleansed Extract of Myrrhe Oile of Myrrhe CHAP. 49. De Opio of Opium OPium is the juice of black Poppie-heads being cut after they are full ripe Meconium is the juice of the heads and leaves of white or black Poppy pressed forth The names It is called in Latine Opium and in English also The Temperament Most of the Ancient writers say Opium is cold in the fourth degree others will have it partly cold and partly hot but some of the new Writers will have it to be altogether hot as Sennertus Doringius Schroderus c. Now the reasons given that it is hot are these 1. Because it is bitter now that which is bitter is hot but Opium is bitter therefore hot 2. It is sharp and biting that being put upon the tongue it bites and blisters the same and palate 3. Causeth drynesse 4. It is of a very strong smell and savour 5. It doth soone burne and flame being set on fire for the true Opium saith Plinie will burne like a Candle From whence we reason thus Omne quod citò inflammatur est calidum Opium citò inflammatur Ergo calidum That which doth soon burne and flame is hot but Opium doth soone burne and fleme therefore it is hot 6. It troubleth the minde and brings a kinde of madnesse or dotage to such as take it 7. It stirs up and provokes Venery 8. It stirs up and provokes the Itch. 9. It provokes sweat 10. It softneth hardnesse and discusseth or dissolveth swellings all which are effects of heat Now though Opium be narcoticall or stupefactive or make dull and senselesse yet this doth not proceed from its frigidity or coldnesse but this it doth by an occult or hidden quality They that desire to know more concerning the nature of Opium let them read that excellent Tract of Doringius de Opio printed 1620 and Freitagius de Opio Med. Opiat printed 1632. Also Sennertus Paralipomena fol. 347 printed 1644 and Mercurialis de morb venenosis venenis lib. 2. cap. 7. fol 59 60 61. printed 1624. The best Opium The best is that which is heavy not too thick in substance nor too thin in colour like Aloes very bitter in taste and burning of a stinking smell soporiferous like Poppie if dissolved it be yellow like Saffron 't is adulterate for it ought to be of a brownish yellowness colour being dissolved The best is called Opium Thebaicum because it comes from Thebes I much question whether we have the true Opium of the Ancient for that which we use is either adulterate or meconium It is adulterated with Glaucium which is the juice of an herb with leaves like to horned Poppy The Duration It may be kept good many years some say nine or ten years others say twenty years The inward use Opium is given to provoke sleep to ease the paine of the Iliack and Collick as also to mitigate the paine of the stone in the bladder or kidneys and to ease pain of the Gowt It cooleth inflammations agues or frensies and stayeth defluxions which cause a cough or consumption It is given in great paines of the head and to stop fluxes of the belly and womens courses It is put into Mithridate Treacle and other medicines that procure rest and ease paine The manner of administring it It is given in Pils Potions Boles Electuaries c. An Electuary against fits of the mother and paines of the wombe either with an ulcer or without an ulcer Take of the species Diamoschu amari and Diambra of each two drams Castor in powder a scruple Opium halfe a dram with syrup of Mugwort make an Electuary The dose is a dram The outward use It is used outwardly to ease the paine of the Gowt or any other paine to cause sleep and to cool inflammations being put into a hollow tooth it easeth the paine thereof Some commend it in medicines for the eares and eyes but I think it rather dulleth the sight then otherwise An oyntment to cause sleep Take of Vnguentum Populeum one ounce powder of Mandrake-root or leaves a scruple oile of Nutmeg by expression a dram oile of Violets halfe an ounce Opium a scruple make an ointment and at night anoint the temples therewith Against the Tooth-ach Take Pellitory of Spain a dram and a halfe Henbane-seed a
scruple Opium five and twenty graines make all into fine powder and with the Mussilage of gum Tragaâ—anth made in spirit of wine make up little balls and put onâ— into a hollow tooth there to remain an houre The hurtfull quality with the corrective meanes Opium by all is counted a dangerous medicine and the frequent use thereof bringeth Palsies Lethargies trembling of the joynts cold sweats This you must understand of the true Opium for that which is now in use being well prepared is not so dangerous shortnesse of breath and great sleepinesse it doth much stupifie the senses and understanding and often brings death It is dangerous to give it to children women or delicate bodies Opium is corrected with Castor Euphorbium juice of Garlick or Onions also with spirit of wine vineger and sharp juices as with juice of Lemon or Citron others correct it with Breast-milk Almond-milk Butter and oile of Almonds Note that in pains of the head it is not to be used with Saffron because it offends the head but with Nutmeg The Dose The dose is from a grain to two or three but it is rarely given by it self I have known it given to ease the pain of the stone from five grains to fifteen and all in a short time for at the first five graines gave ease and that for some reasonable time then seven or eight so that the dose was increased still Opium is much in use in Asia and Africa so that if they abstain from it they think their life is in danger thereby which wants not admiration as Gartias ab horto saith especially being so narcoticall and stupefactive for such as use it much are still sleepy and drovvsy The dose among them there is from a scruple to fifty grains The Turks and Persians take it to tvvo or three drams and they thinke thereby they are more apt to performe any businesse and especially they are fitter for vvarre Verery and animosity Also Hollerius writes of a Spaniard that in the hot vveather did eat halfe an ounce of it at one time and that vvithout any hurt to the party Holler de morb intern lib. 1. cap. 6. fol. 54. But vvonderfull is that of Gartias ab horto Aromat lib. 1. cap. 4. fol 23. vvho relates of one that for divers dayes together did eat three slices of Opium vvhich did vveigh ten drams and upvvard and although he vvas sleepy and stupid yet very ready to dispute of any thing Opium hath killed many therefore my advice is to let it alone and not to meddle vvith it or else to look that it be vvell prepared Pet. Forestus in his observations mentionss a vvoman that took Opium one day and vvas found dead the next day I shal relate what I have heard of an empericall practitioner who being ill and not taking rest sent to one either Physician or Apothecary for some Opium when the messenger had it the party he had it of said There is too much for once but I hope your Master knows that the messenger brought it home and this emperick it seems took it all and wrote to this effect in a piece of paper I shall sleep so many houres and then wake but forgot to give any notice thereof after he had took it he fell into such a sleep that he was given over for dead laid forth and buried so soon as he was buried his wife thinking to finde some money looking in his chamber found this writing before mentioned whereupon she sent and had the grave digg'd up and the coffin opened where they saw he had turned himself when he waked Of such things as are made of Opium Extract of Opium Laudanum Opiatum Nepenthes Opiatum CHAP. 50. De Opopanace of Opopanax OPopanax is a Gum of a plant called Panax very brown on the outside and yellow within It is taken chiefly from the roots of Panax and not from the stalks The names It is called in Latine and in English Opopanax and Gum Opopanax The temperament Opopanax is hot and dry in the third degree or hot in the third degree and dry in the second The best kinde The best is brown without and white or yellow within bitter and of a sowerish sent and somewhat strong which being dissolved with Wine or Vineger will make it look yellow and not mixed with sticks or drosse but clean Gum. The duration It will keep good five or six years The inward use Opopanax purgeth thick and tough flegme from remote parts as from the brain nerves sensitive parts joynts and breasts therefore it is profitable for any cold disease incident to any of those parts as in the Palsie in debility or weaknesse of the sight old cough shortnesse of breath Sciatica and in other kindes of Gowt It is good for Convulsions and Cramgs as also against winde in the belly Stitches in the side hardnesse of the Spleen Strangury and difficulty in making urine It likewise discusseth the Windinesse Hardnesse and Suffocations of the Mother and bringeth down the courses and brings away also the mola or lump of flesh bred in the Wombe Being drunk with Water and Honey or Wine it helpeth the Itchings and inward soares of the Bladder It expelleth Wormes helpeth the byting of a mad Dog and is good against poysons of other venomous creatures Dissolved in Wine and given it helps the Dropsie and taken in Vineger one houre before the fit commeth it takes away the cold fit of an Ague and especially if you dissolve some of it with the juice of Smallage and Oile of Dill and anoint the ridge of the back therewith It is good after falls and bruises to dissolve any congealed bloud especially in cold bodies and where no Feaver is It is commended against the Falling Sicknesse and it dissolveth Milk coagulated or curdled in the stomach The manner of administring it It is given with Wine Honey or any convenient juice but chiefly in Pills Pils against the Palsie and Convulsion Take of Opopanax Rue Serapinum Pepper of the juice or extract of Lorage Myrrhe of each a dram Powder what is to be powdered and with the juice of Cowslip make a masse or lump of which frame Pils The dose is a dram every second or third night so long as need requireth The externall use Opopanax being dissolved with Vineger and the juice of Smallage and applied it softneth the hardnesse of the spleene and a plaister made thereof dissolveth the Kings evill and hard nodes of the joints as also any plague-sore botch or bile especially if you dissolve it in Vineger and mixe it with a little Leaven and so apply it Being dissolved in a little Vineger and applyed with the pulp of Raisons of the sun it easeth any kinde of Gowt It dissolveth hard tumours of the womb if the mouth be washed with a decoction of Vineger made with Opopanax it easeth the paine of the Teeth or if it be a hollow tooth let it be stopped with a peece of
Night-shade easeth the hot Gowt and hot Apostumes being thereunto applyed mingled with Oile of Roses and Vineger it cures hot swellings in the joynts and Apostumes behinde the Eare with Vineger or Oile of Violets it helpeth the paine of the head if it be applied to the fore-head and Temples The same laid to with Vineger is good against the going out of the Navell and burstings of young Children The water wherein the seeds have been steeped is good against St. Anthonies fire or Wilde-fire The juice with Honey put into the Eares killeth wormes and stayeth the running thereof It helpeth hot swellings or eruptions of the skin as blaines wheales and such like as also paines of the joynts and places out of joynt and the Hip-gowt The same is applyed to womens nipples and sore breasts and that with good successe laying it often thereon Being mixed with Hogs-grease and applyed to foule corrupt and filthy Ulcers and sores cleanseth and healeth them by cooling the heat and repressing the sharpnesse of the humours flowing unto them The Muccilage of the seed made in Plantaine-water whereunto the yolke of an Egge or two and a little of the oint ment called Populeon is put is a most safe and sure remedy to ease the sharpnesse prickings and paines of the Hemorrhoides or Piles if it be laid on a cloth and bound thereunto It stayeth the bleeding of the Nose applied with the juice of Shepherds-purse and Bole. The hearb boyled or the seeds with the root and the fundament bathed therewith or to sit over the hot liquor easeth the Tenesmus a disease when one is often provoked to stoole It taketh away the burning and acrimonie of Lime Euphorbium and Cautharides It taketh away the roughnesse of the haire being bathed with the mussilage thereof Flea-wort-seed keepeth Camphor very well and that by its coldnesse and moisture The hurtfull quality and correction thereof Some have judged it to be dangerous to take it inwardly that it is hurtfull to the nature of man and causeth stifnesse and coldnesse of the body which is to be no otherwise understood then of all cold herbes such as Night-shade House-leeke and such like being not taken with discretion 'T is not amisse to give it with Cynamon or Mace It is not safe for cold and moist bodies neither may it be given to such as have narraw entrals or narrow passages within The Dose The seeds of Fleabane which are to be given in infusion rather then in substance are taken from a dram to three drams or halfe an ounce Of such things as are made of Flea-wort Electuary of Psyllium the Dose of which is from half an ounce to an ounce the distilled water of Flea-wort CHAP. 53. De Rhabarbaro of Rubarbe RVbarbe is a root of a yellow colour brought chiefly from China in the East Indies The names It is called in Latine Rhabarbarum in English Rubarbe and Rewbarbe The temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree of a mixt substance partly airie thin and purging whereby it openeth the stoppings of the Liver Gall and viscerous parts and also draweth away choler partly grosse and earthy whereby it bindes and constringeth the body and doth wonderfully strengthen the stomach and entrals or inward parts The kindes There are three kindes of Rubarbe mentioned by Authours First Rhabarbarum Indicum and that is brought from China Secondly Rhabarbarum Barbarum which comes from Barbary Thirdly Rhabarum Turcicum which comes from Pontus and Bosphorus for the Turkish Merchants bring it from thence The best kinde The best Rubarbe is brought from China and is of a light purplish red or yellowish colour being chewed in the mouth it is somewhat clammy and in colour like Saffron which being rubbed on paper sheweth the colour more plainly in taste it is somewhat bitter but of a pleasing smell The duration It will keep good two or three yeers if it be kept close from the aire The usuall way to keep it is to wrap it up in Cotten-wooll The inward use Rubarbe purgeth choler flegme and watery humours and is therefore usefull in diseases of the Liver as in cholerick and long continued Feavers in the Jaundise Green-sicknesse Dropsie Stoppings of the Liver as also against the hardnesse thereof or intemperate coldnesse It is so effectuall for the Liver that 't is called the life soul heart and the Treacle of the Liver It cleanseth the bloud gently and is profitable against tumours of the Spleen putrid or rotten Feavers and in all fluxes of the belly whether bloudy or not as also in spitting of bloud and in bruises or falls The powder of Rubarbe given with Cassia and Venice Turpentine washed cleanseth the reins and strengtheneth them afterwards and is very effectuall in Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins It killeth Wormes helpeth the Hickcock and may be given to weak persons old-men children women with childe and that without any danger The manner of administring it It is given in powder in infusion in Pils Boles c. A Powder Take of Rubarbe two drams Spicknard a scruple make them into powder and give it A Potion Take of Rubarbe cut in thin slices two drams Spicknard five grains Goats-Whey or Posset-drink four ounces steep them all night and strain it then add syrup of Roses solutive one ounce and a half make a potion Pils Take of Rubarbe in powder five scruples of Spicknard in powder five grains with syrup of Roses make pils and give them A Bole to cleanse the reins Take of Cassia newly drawn an ounce of Rubarbe in powder four scruples mixe them together and make a Bole or lump Now seeing Rubarbe is of a mixt substance as before is shewed if you desire to open Obstructions then give the infusion thereof if you desire to bind and strengthen give it in substance And when you would give it more to purge then to binde make but a gentle straining thereof but if you would binde the body more then purge strain it hard that so more of the earthy substance may come forth Rubarbe by boiling loseth its purgative faculty Note that there is a kinde of contrariety or Antipathy between Rubarbe and Diagredium for being put together in one Medicine they work very churlishly yet I have observed that when Diagredium is put to an infusion of Rubarbe being lightly strained it worketh better then when Diagredium is given with the substance of Rubarbe This I conceive may be the cause why Confectio Hamech worketh so churlishly upon the stomach for if you leave out the Rubarbe and put in the more of Sene you shall finde it to work better And so in other compositions where the substance of Rubarbe is put to Diagredium you shall finde them to work churlishly Rubarbe may be cut into thin slices or pieces and so taken with Raisons of the Sun as Massaria gives counsel f. 478. The outward use Rubarbe healeth those Ulcers that come in the eyes or eye-lids being steeped in white Wine or
and applyed it easeth paines of the side the cough and shortnesse of breath and is commended against the Pleurisy but I question whether it be not too hot except in a bastard Pleurisy If it be dissolved in Vineger and the juice of Rue and applyed it helpeth Contusions and bruises and used with Oile of Rue to the back it driveth away cold paines thereof Being dissolved with Vineger of Squills and applyed it dissolveth the hardnesse of the spleene as also the Kings evill or Scrophulaes bred under the eares and neare the throat and those hard nodes that arise in the joints after the Gowt with the juice of Rue or Fennell it cleareth the sight and takes away all spots therein Dissolved with Oile and applyed it strengtheneth those members that are out of joint or the strained members and joynts It draweth forth Thornes or splinters and breaketh any Botch or Boile Being put into Glysters it easeth the Collick and a Pessary made thereof and put up bringeth downe the after-birth and the courses A fumigation thereof with the horne of a Goat is commended against the Lethargie The hurtfull quality with the corrective meanes It hurts the Liver and Stomach therefore it is corrected with the third part of Mastick Cynamon Ginger Spicknard c. It must not be given to women with Childe for it kills the birth The best way to prepare it for the diseases of the braine nerves breast joynts and cold diseases of the Wombe is to dissolve it in Wine and with Aqualangii c. to draw forth its vertue in the manner of an extract The dose The dose is from halfe a dram to a dram The compounds made of Sagapenum Pils of Sagapenum extract of Sagapenum oile thereof CHAP. 56. De Sambuco Ebulo of Elder and Wall-wort or Dane-wort THe Elder and Dane-wort being of such affinity I shall joyne hem together in this Chapter The Dane-wort is very like Elder but much lower in growth The names Elder is called in Latine Sambucus from Sambix the first finder of it Dane-wort is called Low-Elder in Latine Ebulus in English Wall-wort Dane-wort or Dwarfe-Elder The temperament They are hot and dry in the second or third degree and the Wall-wort is somewhat hotter then Elder The duration They will keep good a yeere The inward use There is in use the flowers leaves inward barke or rinde the Seeds Berries and the spongie substance They are profitable in the Dropsie joynt-Gowt Agues stopping and swellings of the spleen stone of the Kidneys affects of the Wombe and St. Anthonies fire They purge tough flegme water and thin choler chiefly from the belly and joynts They are good in the Scorbute or Scurvy and kill wormes in the stomach or belly The first shoots or young leaves of the Elder boiled in Broth or Posset-drink draweth forth strongly choler and tough flegme the tender leaves eaten with Oile and Salt do the same The inner bark boiled in water and given to drink worketh much more violently and the berries also green or dry expell the same humour and is often given with good successe to help the Dropsie by evacuating great plenty of waterish humours the bark of the root also boiled in Wine or the juice thereof drunk worketh the same effect but more effectually then either leaves or fruit do the juice of the root taken provoketh vomit mightily and purgeth the watery humours of the Dropsie The decoction of the root cureth the biting of the Adder as also of a mad Dogge and bringeth downe the courses of women The decoction of the Berries in Wine being drunk provoketh Urine The powder of the seeds first prepared in Vineger and then taken in Wine halfe a dram at a time for certaine dayes together is a meanes to abate and consume the fat flesh of a corpulent body and to keep it leane The Berries so prepared and as much with Tartar and a few Anise-seeds put to them a dram of this powder given in Wine cureth the Dropsie by purging very gently The dry flowers are often used in decoction for Glisters to expell winde and easeth the Collick for they lose their purging quality which they have being green and reteine an attenuating The flowers in Ale or Beere are very good for such as have the Dropsie being put into a bag The flowers of both provoke sweat The Vineger made of the flowers of Elder by Ma ceration and setting in the Sunne is much more used in France then any where else and is gratefull to the stomach and effectuall to quicken the appetite and helpeth to cut grosse and tough flegme in the breast The distilled water of the inner bark of the Tree or of the root is very powerfull to purge the waterie humours of the Dropsie or Tympany taking it fasting and two hours before supper The dose is two ounces in the morning and as much before supper or take foure ounces in the morning The water of the flowers also is good in the Dropsie and openeth the stoppings of the Liver Spleen and Reines it driveth away the tertian Ague and is good against melancholy and strengthneth the stomach The dose is three or foure ounces fasting The Mushromes of the Elder called Jewes-eares are much used being dryed and boiled with Ale or milke with Columbine-leaves for sore throats and with a little Pepper and Pellitory of Spain in powder to put up the Uvula or palate of the mouth when it is fallen downe The young and tender branches of Dane-wort and leaves thereof taken with Wine helpeth those that are troubled with the stone and gravell The juice of the root is a strong purger of watery humours and excellent for the Dropsie The leaves boiled in water and given to drink helpeth the dry Cough and the Quinsie The dryed Berries or Seeds beaten to powder and taken in Wine fasting worketh the same effect as the juice of the root doth The powder of the seeds taken in the decoction of Ground-pine and a little Cynamon to the quantity of a dram at a time is an approved remedy both for the Gowt joint-aches and Sciatica as also for the French disease for it easeth the paines by withdrawing the humours from the places affected and by drawing forth those humours that are fluent peccant and offensive the powder of the root worketh the same effect The root steeped in Wine all night and a draught thereof given before the fit of an Ague doth much prevaile to abate the fit or to take it quite away especially taken the second or third time if need be In a word what hath been said of Elder may be said of Dane-wort only Dane-wort is more forceable or powerfull then Elder The manner of administring them They are given in powder Boles and decoction A Powder against the Hip-gowt and joynt-gowt Take Dane-wort-seed Turbith Hermodactyles Sene Tartar of each a dram of Cynamon two drams make all into fine powder The dose is foure scruples in any convenient liquor A
Wounds in the head Take of Myrrhe half an ounce Madder-seeds Cypresse Orris Sarcocoll of each three drams make them into powder and use it where need is A Powder to incarnate or breed good flesh Take Sarcocoll Aloës Olibanum Dragons-blood and Orris of each two drams make them into powder The hurtfull quality with the corrective meanes Sarcocolla must not be given to hot and dry bodies or cholerick stomacks for it doth much trouble and offend such The often use of it causeth young men to wax old and to become bald It is corrected as Sagapenum The Dose The Dose is from a dram to two drams Of such medicines as are made of Sarcocoll There are made Pils of Sarcocoll Trochisi albi Rasis CHAP. 59. De Scammonio of Scammonie SCammonie is the juice of a root being full of milkie juice of a grayish colour The names It is called in Arabick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mahmûda in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. sodiendo cavenda radice saith Minsheu in his guide into the Tongues fol. 647. â—n Latine it is called Scammonium Scammoneum and may be derived from the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shamen i. e. pinguis because of it's unctious quality or Shamen per Metaphoram signifieth robustus for Scammonie is of strong operation and fit onely for robustious bodies Scammonie being prepared that is baked in a Quince in embers or baked in an oven is called Diagredium Diagrydium Diacrydium Diadredium In Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Lachrymula a little teare The temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree The best kinde The best is of a dark grayish colour somewhat light and not ponderous a little spongie also or with some holes in it somwhat clear and not muddy or drossie of a strong taste brittle or easie to break being wet with the tongue it shewes like milke but not burning in the mouth or throat for that is a signe of adulteration and that it is mixed with Spurge The best comes from Antioch The duration It will keep good two or three yeares some say twenty The time of gathering and p eparing it The time to gather it and to prepare it is in June The inward use Scammonie purgeth primarily and chiefly choler and watery humours and that both strongly and speedily from remote parts afterward say some it purgeth flegmatick humours The manner of administring it It is given in Pils Potions Boles c and is the Basis or chief ingredient of most purging electuaries and pills Pils Take Pils Aggregative and Cochiae of each two scruples Diagredium three graines make Pils thereof A Potion Take of Polypodie Sene of each two drams Anise-seed and Licoris bruised of each a dram bruise the Polypodie and make an infusion in a quarter of a pinte or strong Beer or Ale all night on embers then strain it and adde of Diagredium eight grains syrup of Roses laxative an ounce make a Potion A bole Take of Conserve of Roses half an ounce of Diagredium eight or ten grains mix them together and make a Bole. The externall use Scammonie being mixed with Honey and Ox-gall and rubbed on pimples or wheales taketh them away and boiled in vineger and anointed taketh away the Leprosie and spreading scabs If it be mixed with oile of Roses and vineger and applyed to the head it easeth old pains thereof Being applyed with Honey and oil it dissolveth cold swellings A Pessary made thereof and put up bringeth down the Howers and expelleth the Secondine or after-birth The hurtfull quality with the corrective meanes There are these hurtfull qualities found in Scammony First it ingenders sharp and gnawing windes in the stomack insomuch that it provokes to vomit to help this it must be baked in a Quince with Fennell-seed Daucus-seed or Galingall Secondly it inflames the spirits especially in those that have obstructions or stoppings and have putrid humours whereby burning feavers are procured This is helped by putting into your decoctions those things which do cool and extinguish the heat thereof as Flea-wort-seed pulpe of Prunes juice of Roses or Violets or with Rose-water or Violet-water or with the juice of a sowre sweet Quince and mix with it a little Sumach or Spodium or before boiling of the same that is the Scammonie steep it in oile of Roses or Violets Thirdly it hath a strong opening and drawing faculty whereby it brings immoderate fluxes of the belly by opening the mouth of the veines exceedingly This is helped by mixing binding and astringent things therewith as Mastick the juice of Quince or of yellow Myrobalanes Fourthly it raseth or shaveth by it's acrimonie the intrals and guts and thereby brings paines and torments thereof and procureth the Dysenterie and Tenesmus or Bloody-Flux and often provoking to stool This hurt is taken away by using fat moist and slippery medicines as Gum Tragacanth or Bdellium oile of sweet Almonds oil of Roses or pulp of Prunes with Sugar with the mâ—ssilage of Fleawort-seed Mastick and Quinces taken afterwards and vvarm water last of all All which causeth it to passe the sooner from the stomack and bowels and keepeth it from doing hurt From hence the wise are taught to give Barley-broth sweetned with sugar to those that have taken thereof Fiftly it hurts the heart liver and stomack totius substantiae proprietate through the propertie or essence of it's whole substance This hurt is taken away if cold medicines as well as hot being mixed together and given thereby to yield help to the heart liver and stomack It may also be taken with Cassia Manna the pulp of Raisons and Sebesteus It is dangerous to give it in Feavers or to give it to old and weak persons children or women with childe or to such as have hot and dry bodies or to persons that have great obstructions It is seldome given alone but mixed with some other medicine Heurnius adviseth to give Barley-broth after the taking of it Heurn prax med f. 259. The Dose The Dose is from six graines to twelve The compound medicines made of Scammonie Extract of Scammonie Extractum Diagredii aromati satum Elixir Scammonii sive Pill Scammonii Crollii Scammonium sulphuratum Infusion of Scammonie or purging spirit Diacydonium lucidum Scammoniatum Gelatina Cidoniorum cum Turbith with many others which you may finde in Schroderus pharm med chym lib. 4. f. 247 248 249. CHAP. 60. De Sena of Sene. SEne is a leafe of a plant like unto Licoris and was not known to the ancient Writers The names It is called in Latine Senna Sena in English Sene. The temperament It is hot in the second degree and dry in the first The best kinde The best is the greenest leaves and that which is new not brown nor too old The best is said to come from Alexandria and is called Sena Alexandrina The duration It vvill keep tvvo or three years but the newer it is the better it vvorks Some
roots are effectuall in decoctions for Glisters to ease paine and griping of the Belly whereby the Stone may descend out of the Kidneys or Bladder more easily boyled in Wine and applyed they helpe Impostumes of the Throat the Kings Evill and those Kernells behinde the Eares as also inflamations or swelling in womens breasts The muccilage of the roots and of Lineseede and Fenegreek put together is much used in Pultises Oyntments and Plasters that serve to mollifie and digest all hard tumours and inflamations and to ease paines in any part of the body the seeds greene or dry mixed with Vineger cleanseth the Skin of the Morphew and all other discoloring thereof what ever The roote boyled in Vineger easeth the Tooth-Ach being holden in the mouth The leaves laid to with Oyle help burnings and scaldings and are good against the bitings of men and Dogs and against the stinging of Bees and Wasps Oyntment of Marsh mallowes doth mollifie heat and moisten and is very usefull in the Plurisie in paines of the breast and side Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water The Muccilage Syrupe of Marsh-mallowes Oyntment of Marsh-mallowes simple and compound CHAP. 72. De Ambare griseo of Ambergrise THere are divers opinions concerning Ambergrise but the most likely and probable opinion is that it is a kinde of Butumen whose springs are in the Rocks of the Sea condensate or thickned into the forme and substance usually observed having that Oylinesse which is in it from its owne Originall and being light is carryed by the Waves of the Sea unto the shores of sundry Countries and Climats Renod. Dispens lib. 2. Sect. 1. c. 10. fol. 559. Fragos Hist Med. Ind. de gum Concret cap. 2. fol. 89. Gruling Flrorileg fol. 289. The Names It is in Latine called Ambra Ambragrisea and Ambergrysea in English Ambergrese and Ambergrise The Temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree The best kinde The best is not very white but dry and grayish more or lesse sometimes with spots or veines and sometimes without Oylie especially being pricked with a pin or needle not ponderous but light and of a good sent The black is to be rejected so is that which is very white The Duration It will keepe good many yeares being kept close The outward use It warmeth resolveth and strengthneth what way soever it be taken It comforteth the braine warmeth and resolveth the cold defluxions of humours thereon and on the nerves it doth likewise comfort and strengthen the memory revive the heart and spirits helpeth barrennesse proceeding from a cold cause It is effectuall against all weaknesse of the body and joynts helpeth weaknesse of the stomach and loathing of meat It doth most conveniently agree with aged persons and moist bodies to warme comfort and strengthen their cold decayed spirits adding rigour and lustinesse to them and is accounted helpfull to stir up Venus or Lust The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Powder Electuary or Pills The outward use It easeth the paine of the head being dissolved in a warme morter and mixed with a little Oyntment of Orenge flowers the Temples and forehead being anoynted therewith It helpeth fits of the Mother being applyed to the place and abateth the fits of the Falling-sicknesse being often smelt to and also recreates the Heart and both Vitall and Animall spirits being held often to the Nostrills The hurtfull quality It is not safe for women to smell to it that have fits of the Mother or have weake braines nor is it good for very hot and dry Bodies The Dose The Dose is from two graines to foure or five in any convenient Liquor Of such things as are made thereof Species Diambrae Essence of Amber Poma Ambrae CHAP. 73. De Anetho of Dill. The Names IT is called in Latine Anethum and Anetum in English Dill and Anet The Temperament It is hot in the third degree and dry in the second especiall being greene but being dryed it is hot and dry in the third degree The Duration It will keepe good a yeare the seede longer The inward use The decoction of the hearbe and seeds provoketh urine expelleth winde easeth pains and swellings in the body stayeth vomiting and the Hickops extinguisheth Venery or Lust for it mightily expelleth winde and dryeth up the naturall sperme and is very effectuall in the Collick and griping paines It is accounted by most writers good to breed milke but truly I rather thinke it dryeth up the milke in womens brests The seeds are good to digest raw and viscous or tough humours in the Body If two drams of the seeds be boyled in White-wine and drunke it comforts the wombe helps the windinesse of the Mother provokes the courses and expells the afterbirth The seeds are most in use The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction A Decoction against winde in the Belly or Stomach Take Stachados Camomill flowers Rue and Melilot flowers of each halfe a handfull Aniseede Carraway-seede Fennell-seede Dill-seede and Bay-berries of each three drams Bruise the seeds and make a Decoction in foure pints or lesse boyle it to the Consumption of about halfe straine it and give thereof a good draught Morning and Evening with Sugar The outward use It stayeth the Hickocks being boyled in Wine and but smelled unto tyed in a cloth The Decoction helpeth the rising of the Mother if women sit therein or receive the fume thereof The seed being toasted or fryed and used in Oyles or Plasters dissolveth the Apostumes in the fundament and dryeth up all the moist Ulcers especially in the secret parts Oyle wherein Dill seede or Dill hath beene boyled procureth sleepe and is effectuall to warme to resolve humours and Impostumes or hard Tumors and to ease paine The hurtfull quality It dulleth the sight being often taken and extinguisheth Venery or Lust and is hurtfull for hot and dry bodies Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water Oyle of Dill seede Chymicall Oyle by insolation or infusion and setting in the Sunne CHAP. 74. De Angelica of Angelica The Names IT is called in Latine Angelica from the Angel-lick properties thereof in English also Angelica The Temperament It is hot and dry in the second or third degree The Duration It will keep pood a yeare the root and seeds will keep longer The inward use The rootes and leaves are most excellent against Poyson and Venome and against the infection of the Plague and Pestilence by defending the Heart the blood and Spirits and giveth heate and comfort to them If halfe a dram of the root in Powder be given in Carduus water and the party laid to sweat thereupon in their bed it is effectuall as aforesaid and provoketh sweat The stalkes or roots Candid and eaten fasting are good helps also in times of infection and at other times to be warme and comfort a cold stomach The decoction thereof being drunk before the fit of an Ague so that
7. de Med. Purg. cap. 30. fol. 485. 486. Schroder Pharmacop Med. Chym. lib. 3. cap. 17. fol. 42. 43. 44. c. Freitag Aur. Med. lib. 4. cap. 15. fol. 616. 617. 618. c. Basil Antimon Ham. Poppii Printed 1618. Crol Basil Chym. Printed 1631. fol. 211. 212. 313. c. Of such Medicines as are made thereof Hepar Antimonii or Liver of Antimony Flowres of Antimony Antimony diaphoreticke Regulus Antimonii Oyle of Antimony L quor of Antimony Tinctura Salt Spirit of Antimony with many others The Dose The Dose is from three graines to five or sixe CHAP. 76. De Aniso of Anise-seed The names IT is called in Latine Anisum in English Anise and Anise-seed The Temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree or hot in the second degree and dry in the first The Duration It will keep good two or three yeares but the newer it is the better operation it hath The inward use The seed often taken helpeth a stinking breath and to break winde in any part of the body be it the Head Stomach Spleene Bowells or Mother and to provoke Urine and sleepe to them that want it they helpe Nurses to store of milke for their Children to eate the seeds comfited or Anise-seed comfits fasting and last at night and is very good for teeming women or with childe they helpe those that are short winded or have a Consumption to take the Decoction of them with Figs Licorish c. They helpe to expectorat flegme in them that have a Cough or straitnesse in the breasts and is very conducible to the Stomach and being boyled in wine and taken it helpeth the stoppings of the Liver and the Dropsey that cometh thereby The same stayeth the Hickock and helpeth Digestion It stirreth up bodily Lust and boyled in wine it is good against all poison and biting of all venimous beasts It availes in Children that have the Falling-sicknesse being taken The chymicall Oyle taken in broth or wine three or foure drops at a time doth helpe the giddinesse of the Head the straitnesse and paines in the breast and stomach or the crudities and belchings therein the much desire to cast and the rising of the Mother as also all other griefs and paines inwardly that rise of cold or winde The Quintessence gives ease to those that are Phrantick or distempered in their braines and for such as are troubled with the Falling-sicknesse or have the Cramp or Convulsion A Decoction of Anniseed is excellent in the Chollick and easeth the Cough The manner of Administring it It is given in powder in decoction or the seeds are eaten whole A Decoction against the Collick and winde in the Belly or Stomach Take of Anisse foure ounces Licorish two ounces boyle them in three or foure pints of water straine it and drinke thereof a good draught at any time The outward use If Anise either green or dry be beaten and laid to their Eyes that have any hurtfull thing fallen into them it will soone draw it forth and likewise take away the venome of any hurt by the biting of venemous creatures and healeth them quickly the seeds boyled in Oyle of Roses and dropped warme into the Eares easeth the paine and noyse in them the seeds bruised and mixed with Storax and the fumes thereof taken being cast on quick coales will soone ease the continuall Head-ache Being boyled with Hyssop and a little Vineger and Hony added thereto it helpeth the Quinsey if the throat be gargled therewith Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water of the hearbe and seed Confections of Anis-seede Laxative both simple and compound Anisseede comfits Oyle of Annisseed and Quintessence thereof Salt of Anisseede Species Dranisu Anisseede water hot CHAP. 77. De Argento vivo of Quicksilver The Names IT is called in Latine Argentum vivum from its agility and moving nature also Hydrargyrum that is watery Silver in English Quicksilver or Life-silver but Plinie saith it might be called Death-silver because it is the death of so many Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 33. cap. 6. fol. 473. The Temperament Some will have it hot and moist in the fourth degree others say its cold and moiste others say it is of a mixt quality partly hot and partly cold The Duration It will keepe many yeares The inward use Some commend this to be given inwardly for wormes and against the Chollick for by the weight thereof the gut is unfoulded and the Excrements and worms are brought away Paraus relates of a Gentleman that when he could not be freed from the paine of the Collick by any meanes prscribed by a learned Physitian at length by the Counsell of a certain German his friend dranke three ounces of Oyle of sweet Almonds drawne without fire and mixed with some White-wine and Pellitory water and swallowed a leaden bullet besmeared with Quick-silver and that bullet comming presently out by his fundament he was wholly freed from his Chollick Par. l. 17. cap 58. fol. 441. But this must be onely done in desperate cases and in strong Bodies for the outward use is dangerous and must be done with great caution Others give it to women against hard labours and to facilitate or hasten the birth and to bring away the secundine or after-birth Paraeus Booke 21. Chap. 38. and Doctor Primrose in his poular errours Booke 4. Chap. 29. Translated lately into English by Doctor Wittie But this must be onely used in desperate cases as is before shewed The outward use It is chiefly in use outwardly against the Frence-pox Itch Scab and kills Lice and Nits dissolves hard nodes or bunches of the joynts and swelling behinde the eares cures also maligne Ulcers penetrateth and Purgeth for it drawes from the center to the circumference that is from the inward parts to the outward An Oyntment against the Itch. Take Quicksilver killed with oyle of Bayes one ounce Hogs grease twelve ounces oyle of Turpentine one ounce red Bole in powder halfe an ounce the yolkes of foure Egs. Let the yolkes of Egs be rosted very hard and beaten well with the oyle of Turpentine then adde the rest and make an Oyntment Let the Body be anoynted with it f o divers nights together Or Take of Quicksilver killed with Fasting spitle halfe an ounce of Stavesacre in powder as much of Butter or Hogs grease sixe ounces or halfe a pound beat them well together and use it as before this will kill Lyce and cure the Itch. The hurtfull quality Quick-silver is counted by most writers a dangerous Medicine to be given inwardly because it brings dangerous symptomes as Cramps and Convulsions Lethargy Apoplexy Falling-sicknesse Tremulations Stupefaction Torments in the bowells and paine of the whole body suppresseth urine causeth the body to swell hurts the Stomach and Belly causeth vomiting and brings faintnesse of the heart Petrus Forestus de venenis Observat 8. in Scholia mentions an Apothecary who in stead of a glasse of water being dry to quench his
make some of it stiffe and put up into the Nose The hurtfull quality It is not safe to give the juice of Damask Roses to women with childe because it provokes their courses and the water also thereof is hurtfull to such as are troubled with the head-ach The dose The leaves and seeds are given from a scruple to two scruples The juice is given from one ounce to two ounces Syrup of Roses laxative is given from one ounce to 3. or 4 ounces The electuary of the juice of Roses is given from two drams to six drams Of those Medicines that are made of Roses The distilled water of Damask red and white Roses Conserve both of Damask and red Roses Sugar of Roses or Sugar-roset Oile chymicall and spirit of Roses Species Aromaticum Rosatum Diarrhodon Abbatis Rosata novella Syrup of Roses solutive Syrup of the juice of Roses Syrup of Roses with Agarick Syrup of Roses solutive with Hellebore Syrup of Roses solutive with Sene. Syrup of red Roses dry Honey of Roses Tincture of Roses Oile of Roses by infusion Ointment of Roses Vineger of Roses Balsam c. CHAP. 151. De Rosmarino of Rosemary The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Rosmarinus Rosmarinum quasi Rosa marina English Rosemary It is hot and dry in the second degree and also of an astringent or binding quality yet of subtil or thin parts it is best for cold and moist seasons for the age flegmatick and rheumatick The duration It will keep good a yeare or two being dryed The inward use It helpeth all cold diseases of the head stomach Liver belly and wombe A decoction thereof in Wine helpeth the cold distillations of the braine into the eyes and the giddinesse or swimming of the braine drowsinesse or dulnesse of the minde and senses like a stupidnesse the dumbe Palsie or losse of speech the Lethargie Apoplexie and Falling Sicknesse it helpeth the paines in the Gums and teeth by rheume falling into them or by putrefaction causing an evill smell from them or a stinking breath it helpeth a weak memory by heating and drying up the cold moistures of the brain and quikening the senses It is a good remedy for windinesse in the stomach or bowels as also the Hypochondriack passion and winde in the spleen It helpeth those that are Liver-growne by opening the stoppings thereof by warming the coldnesse making thin the grossenesse and afterwards binding and strengthening the weaknesse thereof it helpeth dim Eyes and to quicken the sight as also the yellow Jandise and the whites in women and the rising of the Mother if the flowers or leaves be daily taken in decoction or in powder The dried leaves shred small and taken in a Pipe as Tobacco is taken help the Cough or Tissick and Consumption by warming and drying the thin rheum which causeth those diseases The Chymicall oile is good for the aforesaid diseases if two or three drops thereof be taken in Beere or other Liquor The flowers and the conserve made thereof doth comfort the braine and heart and is good to expel the contagion of the pestilence If you steep or infuse a few Cloves Mace and Anise-seed in the distilled water of the flowers for certaine dayes and take morning and evening thereof it helpeth a stinking breath and mouth The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder The outward use It helpeth the cold diseases of the head if a decoction thereof be made and the temples and neck bathed therewith The leaves are much used in bathings and made into Ointments or Oiles is singular good to help cold benummed joints sinews or members the herb burned in houses and chambers in time of infection is good to correct the aire in them The Herb is much used in powders and quilts to dry up rheume and to strengthen the wombe The Chymical oil is good for the cold diseases of the braines if the temples nostrils and nape of the neck be anointed therewith An Epitheme for the cold head-ach Take Rose-mary Sage Camomil Melilot Betony and Bryonie-root of each a handfull Boile them in water and with a spnge or soft linen clothes made wet therein apply it hot to the forehead The hurtfull quality It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies The Dose It is gven in powder from a scruple to two scruples Of such Medi ines as are made thereof The distilled water Chymical Oile Conserve of the flowers Species Dianthos Balsame CHAP. 152. De Rusco of Knee-holme The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ruscus Ruscum and Bruscus in English Butchers Broom and Knee-holme It is hot in the second degree and dry in the first with some tenuity or thinnesse of parts It is one of the five opening roots The duration The roots will keep good a yeer or two The inward use A decoction of the roots made in Wine and taken openeth stoppings provoketh urine and amendeth the strong smell thereof helpeth to expel gravel and the Stone Strangury and Womens courses the same also helpeth the yellow Jaundise and the Head-ach and with some Sugar or Honey put thereunto helpeth to bring away flegme and to cleanse the chest of much clammy humours gathered therein The juice of the leaves taken with Sugar helpeth spitting of bloud and cleanseth the wombe The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder A Powder against Winde and gripings of the belly Take the roots of Knee-holme Anise-seed and Fennel-seed of each half an ounce make them in powder and mix therewith half an ounce of Sugar take every morning thereof as much as will lye on a shilling in White Wine or Posset-drink The outward use The juice thereof taketh away the stink of the mouth and Gums being washed therewith and the powder of the root cleanseth Wounds and preventeth a Gangrene being strewed therein The Dose It may be given from half a dram to a dram CHAP. 153. De Ruta of Rue The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ruta and Ruta hortensis in English Rue and Herb-grace or Herb of Grace it is hot and dry in the third degree The duration It will keep good a yeer The inward use Rue provoketh urine and womens courses expelleth all venome and poyson and is most excellent in time of the Plague or sicknesse the seed also taken in Wine is an Antidote or Counterpoison against all dangerous Medicines or deadly poisons A decoction made thereof with some dried Dil-leaves and flowers easeth all pains and gripeings in the body The same being drunk helpeth the pains both of the chest and sides as also Coughs hardnesse or difficulty of breathing the inflammations of the Lungs as also the shaking of Agues to take a draught before the fit come It killeth Wormes being boiled in Wine and Honey and taken The juice taken with Wine purgeth women after their deliverance bringeth away the dead childe and after-birth It dryeth up the milk and the
naturall seed of generation and quickeneth the sight The leaves of Rue first boiled then laid in pickle is by some eaten as sawce for the dimness of sight and to warm a cold stomach The manner of administring it It is given in powder in decoction and electuary Mithridates his Antidote against Poison Take twenty leaves of Rue a little Salt a couple of Wal-nuts and a couple of Figs beat them together into a masse This is for every day The outward use It helpeth tht swelling of the cods if it be boiled with Bay-leaves and they bathed therewith The juice mixed with Honey and the juice of Fennel helpeth dim eyes being dropped therein being boiled or infused in Oile it is good to help the winde-collick or the swelling hardnesse or windinesse of the Mother and freeth women from the strangling or suffocation of the Mother if the shares and parts thereabouts be anointed therewith It helpeth the Gowt or pains in the joints of hands feet or knees and also the Sciatica applied thereunto the same with Figs helpeth the Dropsie It cureth the Morphew and taketh away all sorts of Warts on the Hands Face Nose or any other parts if it be boiled in Wine with some Pepper and Nitre and the places rubbed therewith and with Allome and Honey helpeth the dry Scab or any Tetter The juice dropped into the eares easeth the pains thereof It is good against the bitings of venomous beasts and to be laid to Carbuncles A fomentation against the running Sores of Childrens heads Take of green Copperas two ounces of Rue and Sage of each a handful boil them in a quart of water to half and wash the head therewith The hurtfull quality It is hurtful for women with childe and destroyeth the ability of getting children The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to thirty grains Medicines made thereof The distilled water Chymicall Oile Oile by infusion Salt Vineger of Rue and Balsame CHAP. 154. De Saccharo of Sugar The Names and temperament IT is called Saccharum Sacchar Succharum Mel Arundinaceum Mel Cannae it is Honey of the Cane because it grows in Canes in English Sugar It is hot and moist in the first degree or temperately hot and moist and is abstersive or cleansing The best sort Some commend the coarsest or brownest Sugar before the other but sure the whitest refined Sugar being made up without adulteration or deceit is the best and most wholesome for nourishment The duration It will keep good many yeers The inward use Sugar is good for the diseases of the breast cleanseth and strengtheneth the Lungs is convenient for the stomach helpeth the roughnesse and drinesse of the mouth and throat also thirst and drought in Feavers especially being mixed with water and so taken and it is very profitable for the Reins and Bladder The outward use Sugar or white Candy being put into the eye taketh away the dimnesse thereof and the bloud shotten therein and strewed into foul sores it cleanseth them A Water against an Ulcer in the Bladder Take of the water of Milk distilled half a pound of white Sugar five ounces mix them at the fire and inject it hot with a Syringe A Water against rednesse of the Eyes Take of white Sugar and Aloes of each five drams Tutia or Tutty in powder half a scruple White Wine Rose-water and Fennel-water of each half an ounce Put them together in a glasse vessell and let them infuse six or seven houres then use it as need requires The hurtfull quality Sugar soon turns to choler causeth thirst and is hurtful to hot constitutions being over-much used it produceth dangerous effects in the body for it heateth the bloud breedeth the Jaundise Stoppings the Green-sicknesse and Consumptions rotteth the teeth and maketh them black withall causing also many times a loathsome stinking breath And therefore let young persons especially beware how they meddle too much with it lest they have for their sweet meat sower sawce I knew a young maiden whose mother was so indulgent over her that she gave her all the sweet meats she desired and that for many yeers together till at length her teeth were so corrupt and her breath so stanck that she was loathsome to company then followed Apostumation of her teeth and gums the Kings Evil and so continued a long time Of such things as are made thereof White Sugar-Candy Red Sugar-Candy or Brown Sugar-Candy Sugar-Pellets Sugar of Roses Sugar of Violets Oil and Salt of Sugar CHAP. 155. De Sale of Salt The Names and temperament IT is call'd in Latine Sal in English Salt it is hot in the second degree and dry in the third it is of a cleansing digesting attenuating drying consuming and somewhat also of an astringent faculty The duration and kindes Salt will keep good many yeers There are two sorts in use White and Bay Salt The inward use Salt may most justly be called Condimentum condimentorum Sawce of sawces as being necessary for seasoning and preserving of meats that we cannot well live without it For it is a custome among us to set it first at the table and to take it away last It maketh thin grosse and clammy humours resisteth venome preventeth and correcteth putrefaction by drying and consuming all crude and moist superfluities stirreth up Venery strengtheneth weak and loose parts helpeth digestion especially in a cold and moist stomach consumeth all corrupt humours and is very profitable in stoppings of the urine and belly as also in the Collick The manner of administring it It is used chiefly in powder A powder to help concoction Take of common Salt one ounce and a half Pepper six drams Cummin-seed half an ounce Caraway-seed Cynamon Zedoarie of each three drams Ginger and Mace of each two drams and a half make all into a fine powder and let it be eaten with meat The outward use It is used in rotten and putrid Ulcers as also in creeping Ulcers and simple Tumours in the Itch Scab Tetters or Ringworme in the Gowt cold Aches pain of the Teeth Head-ach Collick and to take away the skin growing over the Eye It is good also in Gangrenes and in Burnings to draw out the heat A Lotion against the Gowt Take of common Salt three or four handfuls boil it in water to the consumption of half with which bathe the parts affected warm Against pains of the Eares Take Salt and dry it make it in powder and being put into a bag apply it warm to the eares A Suppository gently to provoke siege Take of Honey half an ounce of common Salt a dram boil it gently to a due light and form and being cold anoint it with Oile or Butter and put it up The hurtfull quality Salt used too much dryeth up the humours of the body wasteth seed burneth the Liver and Bloud ingenders sharp and biting humours causeth Itch and Scabs annoyeth the stomach dimmeth the sight destroyeth the radicall moisture corrupteth and spoileth the habit of the
whole body making persons soon look old and wrinkled as may be seen in young maidens that eat much thereof It is very hurtful for lean dry and cholerick persons Of such things as are made thereof Oile of Salt or Spirit Tincture of Salt Flowers of Salt CHAP. 156. De Salvia of Sage The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Salvia because it maketh men safe and sound in health in English Sage It is hot and dry in the second or beginning of the third degree The duration It will keep good a yeer The inward use A decoction of Sage made and drunk provoketh urine bringeth downe the courses easeth paines of the head that proceed from cold and rheumatick humours as also all paines of the joynts and therefore helpeth such as have the Falling Sicknesse the Lethargy or Drowsie Evil such as are dull and heavy of spirit and those that have the Palsey and is in much use in all distillations of thin rheum from the head and for the diseases of the breast The juice of Sage is much commended for women that have moist and slipperie wombes and not able to conceive by reason thereof if they take a quantity of the juice with a little Salt for foure dayes before they company with their Husbands and it is good to prevent miscarrying in women If three spoonfulls of the juice be taken fasting with a little Honey it doth stay the spitting or casting up of blood It stoppeth the whites and reds in women It is of excellent good use to help the memory by warming and quickening the senses and the Conserve made of the flowers is used to the same purpose as also for all the former recited diseases It is of good use in the time of the Plague and good also against the Cough hoarsenesse paines of the side and Dropsie The manner of administring it It is given in decoction in powder in Pills Potions c. A Potion against Arthriticall paines Take of Sage and Hyssop of each two ounces infuse thereein for a nights space of Agarick trochiscated two drams Rubarbe foure scruples Cynamon halfe a dram then strain it and dissolve therein of the Electuary Diacarthamum two drams Syrup of Stoâ—chodas halfe an ounce make a Potion Pills against a Comsumption Take of Spicknard and Ginger of each two drams of the seed of Sage a little dryed at the fire one ounce Long pepper twelve drams all these being made into fine powder make it up into a masse with the juice of Sage the dose is a dram every morning and evening The outward use A decoction of Sage taketh away the itching of the Cods if they be bathed therewith it stayeth the bleeding of wounds and cleanseth foule ulcers or sores The leaves of Sage and Nettles bruised together and laid upon the Impostume that riseth behinde the Ears doth asswage and help it much The leaves boiled in Wine and the place bathed therewith helpeth the Palsey Cramp cold joints paines in the side comming of winde if the grieved place be bathed warme therewith and the Herb after the boyling be laid warme also thereto Gargles for mouth-waters are made with Sage Rosemary Honey-sackles and Plaintane boyled in water or Wine with foine Allom put thereto to wash Cankers sore mouths and throats or the secret part of man or woman as need requireth It is also commended against the biting of Serpents The often chewing of Sage in the mouth is profitable for the Teeth and sinews for it strengtheneth the one and preserveth the other from putrefaction The hurtfull quality The frequent use of Sage is hurtfull to leane and dry bodies and in hot and dry seasons The dose The dose in powder is from a scruple to thirty graines Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Chymicall Oil. Conserve and Salt of Sage CHAP. 157. De Sassafras of Sassafras The names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Sassafras in English also Sassafras and Ague-tree of his vertue in healing Agues It is hot and dry in the beginning of the third degree The duration It will keep good many yeers The outward use The decoction of Sassafras is given in all cold diseases and stoppings of the Liver and Spleen as also in cold Rheumes that fall on the teeth eyes or lungs warming and drying up the moisture and strengthening the parts afterwards and therefore is available in Coughs and other cold diseases of the breast stomach and lungs and restraineth castings and helpeth digestion breaketh and expelleth winde the gravel and stone in the Kidneys and provoketh urine and Womens courses it also warmeth heateth and dryeth up the moysture of Womens Wombes which is the cause of barrennesse and causeth them to be more apt to conceive it is of good use in tertian and quotidian Agues that are of long continuance It is generally used in all diseases that come of cold and raw thin and corrupt humours the French Disease and other of the like foule nature The manner of administring it It is given chiefly in decoction as thus Take of Sassafras foure ounces steep it in a gallon and a half of water foure and twenty houres then boil it close covered till it be neer half consumed then being strained give a good draught thereof morning and evening for the diseases before mentioned The outward use It is thought to be good in the time of the Pestilence to weare some thereof continually about them that the smell of it may expel the corrupt and evil vapours of the Pestilence The hurtfull quality It is hurtful to very hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given in powder from a scruple to two scruples Medicines made thereof Extract of Sassafras Chymicall Oile CHAP. 158. De Sarsaparilla of Sarsaparilla The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Sarsaparilla Salsaparilla and Zarzaparilla it is hot and dry in the first or second degree of thin parts and provoketh sweat The duration It will keep good many yeers The inward use It is chiefly used in the French Pox in Rheumes Gowts cold diseases of the head and stomach expelleth winde both from the stomach and mother It helpeth all manner of aches in the sinews and joynts all running sores in the legs all cold Swellings Tetters or Ring-wormes and all manner of spots and foulnesse of the skin The hurtfull quality It is bad for hot Livers and cholerick persons The manner of administring it It is given chiefly in decoction see the fore-goin Chapter The Dose The Dose in powder is from half a dram to a dram CHAP. 159. De Scordio of Water-Germander The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Scordium because it smels like Garlick in English Water-Germander and Garlick-Germander It is hot and dry in the second degree bitter in taste harsh and sharp The duration It will keep good a yeer or two The inward use It is effectuall to provoke urine and Womens courses killeth Wormes in the belly or stomach is also a safe
41 46 51 53 54 63 64 66 78 79 80 81 83 85 86 87 93 94 95 96 102 107 111 112 129 133 136 137 140 141 144 146 148 151 152 Jaundise black chap 29 32 Iliack passion chap 16 49 Impostume see Apostume Incarnate see flesh to procure Inflammation chap 12 49 56 57 63 71 98 100 107 113 123 134 141 144 150 Joynt Gowt chap 4 6 56 57 62 110 112 141 148 153 Joynts pained chap 32 36 37 45 46 52 56 57 64 93 101 106 110 141 156 Joynts trembling chap 55 92 Joynts colde chap 41 Issue to keepâ—open chap 56 Itch to help chap 6 21 27 29 35 36 54 60 63 64 70 75 77 79 101 104 110 114 131 138 141 144 146 150 155 157 16â— K KErnels to dissolve chap 4 33 78 119 124 141 161 Kibes and Chilblanes chap. 23 70 79 104 114 149 Kidnies hot chap 14 63 117 Kidnies stopt chap 5 140 144 Kidnies ulcers thereof chap 44 144 Kidnies pained chap 45 116 Kidnies weak chap 44 Kibes in Cattel chap 68 Kings evill chap 4 11 23 26 31 32 33 37 41 46 50 55 58 64 71 102 Knee ach thereof chap 32 Knots and tumours chap 28 33 50 55 64 77 87 141 166 L LEan persons to fat chap 5 24 Legs sore chap 56 Leprosie chap 1 11 17 27 29 36 37 42 47 59 60 63 65 70 75 95 114 149 150 Lethargy chap 28 36 43 46 62 67 92 96 97 118 133 151 156 161 Lice to kill chap 1 32 36 69 70 77 79 111 118 Lips Apostume thereof chap 3 Liver stopt to open chap 1 4 5 8 11 20 21 22 23 26 27 29 33 34 35 46 51 53 54 56 57 61 63 66 67 74 75 76 78 79 80 84 87 93 102 105 109 110 112 118 120 122 125 129 136 137 139 140 141 144 146 148 151 Liver hot chap 12 14 18 57 63 100 107 145 150 Liver to strengthen chap 40 43 46 47 150 Liver colde chap 53 Loathing of meat chap 7 72 Lump of flesh in the womb see Molâ— Lungs to clense chap 5 13 138 Lungs hurt chap 64 Lungs inflamed chap 5 15 44 131 153 Lungs consumption thereof chap 2 see Consumption Lungs stopt chap 21 48 51 52 64 71 74 80 84 87 88 100 105 115 121 147 148 159 160 Lungs impostumated chap 106 Lust to provoke chap 69 76 91 95 99 102 Lust to abate chap 12 74 88 117 145 M MAdnesse chap 27 36 37 42 60 63 65 75 Maligne Feavers chap 1 Manginesse chap 11 137 Marks of the Poxs and Measels chap 119 Matrix faln chap 10 31 62 Matrix pained chap 14 21 Matrix impostume thereof chap 169 Measels and Pox to drive out Chap 10 19 64 81 82 104 149 158 Meat loathing thereof chap 129 Melancholy to purge chap 16 27 29 37 40 47 51 60 137 150 Melancholy to help chap 21 29 36 37 42 54 57 60 62 75 81 83 94 96 102 124 133 135 142 Melancholy Dreams chap 140 Memory to quicken chap 8 21 62 72 90 91 103 114 151 156 Megrim see swimming of the head Mice and Rats to kill see Rats Milk in womens breasts to dry up chap 4 8 153 Milk to increase chap 67 76 83 105 113 117 121 130 Milk curdled in the breasts chap 4 7 Miscarrying to hinder chap 10 24 42 64 Mola or lump of flesh in the Wombe chap 31 50 Morbus Gallicus see French Pox Morphew chap 11 16 17 29 41 42 54 56 65 69 71 119 131 134 153 167 Mother-fits chap 7 11 12 20 31 33 50 55 62 72 74 76 81 92 96 99 101 114 124 127 132 140 153 Mother pained chap 2 45 67 80 93 114 Mother hard chap 9 48 104 106 Mothes and Wormes to preserve from chap 1 Mother windinesse thereof chap 30 31 45 62 67 73 75 78 129 153 Mother inflamed chap 129 Mouth sore chap 6 10 14 23 29 37 64 66 67 70 107 121 122 131 141 150 152 156 Mouth bleeding chap 93 97 141 Mouth dry chap 52 Mushromes eaten chap 1 105 N NAils fleshinesse thereof to take away chap 70 146 Navel going out chap 52 145 Navel swoln chap 27 145 Neck crick thereof chap 145 Nerves cold to warm chap 7 Nerves bruised chap 6 Night-mare chap 3. 42 62 140 Nipples sore chap 52 Nits to kill chap 69 70 77 111 Nodes of the joynts chap 9 28 50 55 77 95 119 Nose bleeding chap 10 12 18 23 52 56 58 62 63 64 80 82 90 114 125 128 131 135 141 144 167 Nostrils stopt chap. 79 137 Nostrils stench thereof chap 41 111 Nostrils fleshinesse growing therein see Polypus O. OBstructions to open chap 14 19 22 69 83 Opium too much taken chap 78 137 P PAine to ease chap 49 Pale colour to help chap 2 3 47 Pallat of the mouth fallen see Uvula Palsey chap 11 16 20 26 28 39 43 47 50 54 55 56 60 66 69 75 80 84 92 95 96 114 118 120 124 128 131 141 149 151 156 159 161 163 166. Pestilence chap 1 10 12 18 21 25 29 33 34 37 62 64 66 69 74 75 81 82 85 96 111 124 142 151 153 159 157 169 Pestilent feaver see Feaver Phlegmon see Inflammation Piles see Hemorrhoides Pip in poultery to help chap 69 Pimples and wheales chap 12 15 59 63 79 119 145 Pissing blood see blood-pissing Pissing by drops chap 84 Plague chap 10 21 64 77 80 91 96 101 111 112 114 142 153 156 Plague-sore chap 7 50 81 90 100 104 165 Plurisie chap 5 14 21 39 43 44 48 51 52 55 62 71 74 81 93 121 122 131 135 Polypus chap. 6 1023 51 68 75 167 Pox and Measels to expell chap 10 19 21 64 81 82 104 149 159 Pox marks thereof to take away chap 119 Poyson chap 1 6 7 10 14 23 25 31 50 55 64 69 74 76 81 83 84 85 89 92 96 101 104 112 120 121 124 128 129 130 133 141 145 146 149 158 161 165 Privy parts inflamed chap 106 123 144 145 Purples chap 10 64 159 Pustules chap 37 80 114 145 150 Putrefaction to restist chap. 3 6 12 14 19 33 34 43 48 54 82 110 114 122 131 150 Q Quartane Ague see Ague Quinsie chap 1 4 15 26 48 56 69 76 104 122 131 141 143 R RAts and Mice to kill chap. 36 Reds in Women see Courses Reins pained chap 39 108 116 Reins cold chap 30 Reins hot chap. 14 107 117 Reins to cleanse chap 5 32 53 115 Rheume to purge chap 3 17 46 48 75 Rheume to stay chap 2 6 10 14 43 45 48 49 52 57 58 62 63 64 80 82 93 95 96 97 107 110 121 122 130 135 141 144 146 150 151 157 169 Rheume hot chap 15 115 Rheume cold chap 80 114 122 Ring-wormes see Tetters Running of the Reins chap. 10 12 15 18 45 53 57 62 63 64 94 97 117 132 134 135 137 145 150 Ruptures chap
Urine flowing to stop chap 10 64 69 134 Urine sharp chap 100 107 108 116 117 134 145 160 Urine to provoke chap 2 4 5 8 9 11 14 18 20 21 23 27 30 31 32 33 37 39 41 44 45 46 50 54 55 56 62 67 69 73 74 76 78 79 84 86 87 89 90 91 96 99 100 101 102 105 107 109 111 112 113 114 118 126 128 129 130 132 133 136 137 138 148 149 152 153 157 165 167 Urine stinking ch 152 Vrine bloody chap 66 97 144 145 146 Vterine parts to cleanse chap 1 6 3â— Vvula swollen ch 62 Vvula fallen ch 25 56 161 167 W WArts to take away chap 16 37 66 139 145 153 Waspes to kill chap 36 130 Waspes stinging thereof chap 90 125 Water to purge chap 11 13 16 23 26 28 32 34 35 41 46 53 55 56 59 61 65 Water yellow to purge ch 17 Water running between the flesh and the skin ch 1 63 Wearinesse after travail chap 33 66 67 Wens to take away châ—p 24 78 123 124 Wheales and blanes chap 52 59 63 79 107 112 150 Wheesing chap 80 105 147 160 167 Whit-flaes chap 7 11 19 Whites in women chap 18 19 57 62 64 82 96 97 125 142 145 146 Wilde fire chap 8 12 13 21 48 52 56 63 69 90 121 141 144 145 Winde to expell chap 1 6 7 20 30 33 43 56 69 73 76 84 91 92 101 112 114 123 126 128 130 132 143 151 165 169 Winde in the belly chap 33 50 86 157 160 169 Wine to take away the smell thereof chap 169 Wombe diseases thereof chap 6 7 Wombe to cleanse chap 1 11 20 23 152 Wombe cold diseases thereof chap 30 31 43 151 Wombe windy chap 5 76 120 Wombe stopped chap 11 14 22 23 48 56 Womb impurity thereof chap 6 11 20 23 104 Wombe moist chap 9 10 19 141 157 Wombe hard tumours thereof chap 48 56 Wombe pained chap 46 Women newly delivered to help chap 5 105 Women not sufficiently cleansed after Child-birth to help chap 140 Wormes to kill chap 1 3 5 6 7 10 11 17 19 20 23 25 29 31 33 34 39 41 43 48 53 56 61 64 66 69 77 80 81 85 89 90 93 96 98 101 106 109 111 114 119 125 130 144 145 146 148 153 159 160 167 Wormes called Ascarides to kill chap 4 Wounds to cure chap 14 23 25 28 39 54 67 93 144 Wounds bleeding to stop chap 10 58 75 82 128 135 141 144 147 156. Wounds heat thereof chap 12 134 Wounds green chap 3 32 33 34 39 80 93 97 109 111 112 123 142 147 158 165 Wounds to incarnate chap 135 Wounds inward chap 112 Wounds of the head chap 6 48 80 Wounds to cleanse chap. 3 8 31 34 38 64 152 Wounds of the Testicles and Privities chap. 3. Wounds moist chap. 20 Wounds dead flesh therein to take away chap 3 4 See more in dead flesh in Wounds Wounds to inlarge chap. 33 Wounds inward to cure chap. 10 97 142 Wounds to close up Y YOuth to preserve chap. 47. An Alphabeticall TABLE of those Diseases for which the Compound Medicines are prescribed in this TREATISE A ABortion or miscarrying to hinder an Ointment chap. 10. a Powder 64 a Plaister 64. After-birth to expel a Potion chap. 6 Pils 6 Ague a drink chap. 1 8 Ague tertian a Potion chap 35 Ague quartane a Potion chap 1. a Powder 7. Pils 55 Ague quotidian a decoction 16 Arthritical paines a Powder chap. 6. 32 a Potion 29. 35. 93. a Poultis 49. a Fomentation chap 78 B BElly winde therein see winde in the stomach and belly Birth to bring away Pils chap 6. 14 a Potion 14 21. a Powder 14. 21. 25 Bladder ulcerated a water chap. 154 Bloud to purge a Potion chap. 29 Bloud-vomiting an Electuary chap. 18 Bloud-spitting a Potion chap. 39. an Electuary 45. a Lâ—hoch 49 Breast to clease a Potion chap. 2 Breath short a Potion chap. 2. Pils 4. 6. a Potion 21. a Syrup 11 Bruises a Cataplasme chap. 56. a Powder 128 Burning to cure an Oyntment chap. 112 144 C CHaps of the hands and lips an Oyntment chap. 45 Choler to purge a Bole chap. 2. 15 Pils 3. a Potion 53 Collick an Electuary chap. 69. 28. a Potion 44. 76. Pils 31 Cough Pils chap. 6. 55. a Decoction 24 an Electuary 122 Courses in women overflowing Pils chap. 9 Courses to provoke a Potion chap. 6. Pils 6 8. an Electuary 10. a Decoction 54. a Pessary 93 D DEad childe to bring away a Potion chap. 6 Dog mad biting thereof a Drink chap. 33 Dropsie a Potion chap. 34 41 46. a Powder 46. Pils 17. 46. a Bole 42. 46. 56. a Plaister 17. Pils 16. 55. a Potion 16. 29 32. a Powder 16. 56. 61 E EAres wormes therein chap. 37 Eares swoln a poultis chap. 146 Eyes red a water chap. 12. 21. 103. 154 Eyes spots therein a water chap. 12 F FAce spots thereof chap 5. 17 Falling Sicknesse a powder chap. 6 Pils 6. an Oyntment 6. a Syrup 11 a potion 49. A Quilt 140 Fig in the fundament chap. 2 Feaver an Epitheme chap. 57 Fistula chap. 2 Flegme to purge Pils chap. 2. a potion 2 Flesh to produce in ulcers an Oile chap. 6 a Cerot 50. a powder 48 58 Flux of the belly a Decoction chap. 45. a potion 47. 53. an Electuary 14. 18. 19 Flux bloudy a Glister chap. 116 Frensie a Fomentation chap. 117 G GReen sicknesse a potion chap. 8 Gowt a poultis chap. 38. a Liniment 15. a plaister 50. a powder 32. a Cerot 49 H HEads of children sore a Fomentation chap. 153 Head-ach chap. 21. Pils 49 a Liniment 120. a Quilt 132. an Epitheme 152 Heart faint a potion chap. 42. 30. 74 Heart-beating a Quilt chap. 124 Hemorrhoides pils chap. 9. a poultis 144 Hickop pils chap. 49 Hip-gowt see Sciatica I JAundise a decoction chap. 1 66 39. a Bole 35. a potion 13. 29. 53. 55. a powder 19 Iliack passion pils chap. 17 Joynt-ach a decoction chap. 101 Incarnate see flesh to procure Itch an oyntment chap. 77. See Scab K KIdneys hot an emulsion chap. 5 Knots and tumours to dissolve a Cerot chap. 4. a plaister 9 L LEannesse to help a Marchpane chap. 5 Legs fretting sores thereof chap. 11 Leprosie a potion chap. 29 Liver stopt pils 4 6 Liver hor chap. 12 Lungs to cleanse an emulsion chap. 5 Lust to abate an Electuary chap. 67 M MEasels to expel chap. 21 Melancholy a potion chap. 1. 27 29 Pils 42. a Syrup 51. a decoction 47 Miscarrying see Abortion Mother-rising pils chap. 31. 50. a plaister 31 N NErves to strengthen a Lotion chap. 118. Nodes see Knots Nose bleeding a poultis chap. 18. 83. 150 P PAlsie pils chap. 6. 50. an oile 6. a Liniment 28 Pestilence a potion chap. 11. 12. 64. 74 an electuary 10. 12. a powder 12. 57. 64 Piles see Hemorrhoides R RHeume a potion chap. 21. an Elect. uary 45. 150. Pils 49 Ring-wormes or Tetters a Lotion chap. 131 Rupture a powder chap. 18 S SCab and Itch a potion chap 29. a Bath 113. a water 141 Sciatica or Hip-gowt Pils chap 4. a Plaister 31. a Bath 114 Scurf of the head chap 37 Scurvie a Potion chap. 29 Senses to strengthen a Lotion chap 118 Side pained a Potion chap. 6. a Bag 123 Sight to preserve chap 103. a water 103 Sleep to procure a Bole chap 49. a Lotion 86 Spleen hardnesse thereof a Plaister chap 4 a Potion 6 31 a Cerot 11â— a Linimenâ— 31 an Oyntment 56 Stomach weak a decoction chap. 30. Pils 49 an Electuary 150 Stomach pained Pils chap 3. a Potion 6 an Electuary 62. a Quilt 125 150 Stone and Gravel chap 5. Pils 50. a decoction Sweat to provoke a Potion chap 56 T TErms to provoke see Courses Temples pained an oyntment chap 45 Testicles swoln a Plaister 31 Teeth to white a Poult's chap 45. a Powder 18 Tooth ach chap. 2. 10 144 Tumours hard to dissolve a Cerot chap 4. a Plaister 9 V VEnome an Electuary chap 25. 153 Vlcers of the Privities a water and oyntment chap 68 Vlcers heat thereof a Plaister chap 62 Vlcers to dry a powder chap 58. a water â—1 Vomiting to stay Pils chap. 49 Vlcers in the mouth a water 97 Vrine stopt see Stone and Gravel Vrine sharp an emulsion chap. 5 W WAtery humours to purge a drink chap. 38 Weak to strengthen a Jelly chap 19 Winde in the stomach a decoction chap 1 30. an Electuary 69. a potion 6 74 a Fomentation 121. a powder 152 Whites in women an Electuary 57 Wombe impure a potion chap. 6 Wormes a plaister chap. 1 3 4. a potion 2 31. a powder 19 98 Wormes in the eare an injâ—ction chap 93 Wounds an oile chap 39. a water 88 Wounds in the head a powder chap. 58. a Cerot 80 Wounds hollow a Powder chap 48 Wounds to dry an oyntment chap 142.
Essence of Saffron 2. Extract of Saffron 3. Chymicall Oyle 4. Trosses of Saffron 5. Crocomagma 6. Species Diacrocuma 7. Elect. de Ovo 8. Oleum crocinum 9. Emplastrum Oxycroceum CHAP. XXII De Curcuma Of Turmericke TVrmerick is a root like Ginger but yellow like Saffron within and without and not so flat as Ginger but rounder hot in the tast and bitterish but nothing so bitter being fresh by reason of the moysture in it as when it is dry The Names It is called in Latine Cyperus Indicus Crocus Indicus and Curcuma in English Turmerick The temperament Turmericke is hot and dry in the second degree or as some say in the third degree The best sort The best roots are those that are yellowest and soundest not worm-eaten The duration It will keep good many years The inward Vse It is very effectuall to open the stoppings of the Stomach Liver Gall Bladder and Womb it is much used against the yellow Jaundise and is very good in the Dropsie and Green-sicknesse for it openeth obstructions very much and helpeth to bring down the menses or womens courses The manner of administring it It is given in Powder Pills Decoction c. The outward use It is outwardly used to take away the hair and is put into those Medicines that are made for the eyes and for the Itch and Scab if some juice of Oranges and the Oyle of the Cocar or Indian Nut be mixed with it as Gartias saith Gart. ab horto Aromat hist l. 1. cap 39. It is much used to colour wooden dishes cups and such like in stead of Saffron The Indians use it much both to colour and season their meats and broths because it is cheaper then Saffron The hurtfull quality It must not be given to hot and dry bodies The Dose In powder the Dose is from a scruple to a dram in decoction from a dram to two drams or more Cuscutha see Epithymum CHAP. XXIII De Cyclamine Of Sow-Bread CYclamen or common Sow-bread is an hearb that hath leaves like Ivy or Asarabacco only the upper part of the leaves have here and there white spots and that side of the leafe which is next the ground is of a purple colour the root is round like Turnep black without and white within with many small threads or strings The Names It is called in Latine Cyclaminus Cyclamen Arthanita and Panis porcinus in English Sow-bread The temperament Sow-bread is hot and dry in the third degree The duration It will keep good a yeare The inward use Sow-bread purgeth tough flegme and water and is effectuall to take away obstructions or stoppings of all the inward parts helps the Collicke comming of thick flegme It is usefull in any Head-ach and in cold Diseases of the Brain and Nerves 't is profitable in shortnesse of breath in the Jaundise and expells choller by sweat openeth stopping of the Liver Spleen Reins Bladder and Womb also cleanseth the impurity thereof brings downe the courses violently provokes Urine openeth the mouths of the vessells and provokes the Hemroids helpeth the Dropsie and any hard swelling of the Spleen or Liver Being drunk with wine it expelleth poyson and venome The wine wherein Cyclamen hath been boyled doth help the stopping of the Spleen The root saith Plinie if it be put into a cup of wine it makes as many drunk as drink thereof Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 25. cap. 9. fol. 229. The manner of administring it It is given in decoction in powder and in juice The outward use The root boyled in Oyle of bitter Almonds or Oyle of Camomill and dropped into the ears cures Deafnesse and Noyse in the ears or the root bruised with Peach-kernells bitter Almonds and infused two or three dayes in a little Aqua vitae then presse out the juice or creamy substance and drop some of it into the ears It cures foul Vlcers and Fistulaes and takes away the hardnesse thereof consumes proud flesh dissolveth all cold swellings and scrophulous tumours The juice put up with wooll openeth the Hemroids and moveth to the stool strongly The same helpeth the Pin and Web in the eye being infused with Honey and put in the juice snuffed up purgeth the brain from offensive humours but be not too busie with it because it is a sharp Medicine If the belly be bath'd with the juice it will provoke to stool and that strongly and also killeth Worms The root being applied provokes the courses it cleanseth all deformities of the skin as freckles and spots and the marks of the Small Pox and Measles The juice or the decoction thereof with Vineger taketh away the falling of the haire if the place be bath'd therewith Applied to the region of the Spleen it easeth the hardnesse thereof the juice mixed with Honey or Plantaine-water helpeth all manner of fores in the Mouth or Throat or the Tooth-ach being washed therewith A decoction thereof healeth Wounds the running sores in the head bones or members out of joynt Kibes or Chilblaines and the Gout the root bruised and applied with Honey draweth forth splinters thorns and pieces of loose bones the root in powder mingled with Honey helpeth the fleshinesse that groweth in the Nose if it be therewith anoynted but 't is best to mix other things with it because of its sharpnesse Bruised and applied to the biting of any venomous Beast it helpeth the same Being burnt and the ashes mixed with Vineger and applied to the Hip it helpeth the Hip-Gout The leaves laid to the Navill and secret parts doth much help Women in Travell or the root hanged about them in their Travell The distilled water from the root saith Matthiolus snuffed up into the Nostrills stayeth the bleeding thereof wonderfully and if you give six ounces of the water to drink with an ounce of Suger it will stop the blood that cometh from the breast stomack or liver or if any veine be broken in them Matthiol in lib. 2. Diascor 159. fol. 407. The juice mingled with Vineger helpeth the falling downe of the fundament if it be anointed therewith The juice of Sow-bread and the juice of Plantaine of each a like quantity mixed together and Aloes Myrrhe and Olibanum added thereto stoppeth the bleeding of the nose if it be applyed to the nostrils and forehead An Errhine to purge the Head Take of the root of Sow-bread a dram of Elaterium a Scruple macerate or steep them in four ounces of Water and Honey one night Put up Tents dipped in the same into the Nose but beware of too frequent use thereof The dry powder is not safe to snuffe up without it be mingled with some other things The hurtfull quality and correction Sow-bread by reasons of its acrimony and biting faculty hurts the Liver and brings gnawing pains to the stomach neither must it be used inwardly without much caution It is dangerous for pregnant women or women with child to meddle with this herbe least they miscarry for it destroyeth the birth but