sick or be hurt they shall hardly escape which are these the 1. and 7. of Ianuary the 3. and 4. of February the 1. and 4. of March the 8. and 10. of Aprill the 2. and 7. of May the 10. and 15. of Iune the 10. and 13. of Iuly the 3. and 2. of August the 3. and 10. of September the 3. and 10. of October the 3. and 5. of November the 7. and 10. of December As likewise the 10. of August the 1. of December and the 6. of Aprill are observed by Philosophers as perillous to take any surfet therein by overmuch eating It is likewise observed by an antient Philosopher Arabian that there are three mundayes in the yeare very unfortunate either to let bloud or begin any worke of importance viz. the first munday in Aprill on the which Caine was borne and his brother Abel slaine the first munday in August the which day Sodom and Gommorha were consumed And the last munday of December on the which Iudas Iscariot was borne who killed his father married his mother and betrayed his master our Saviour And these three mundaies with Childermas day which is the eight and twentieth of December are by divers scholars held unfortunate to all men and subject to divers mishaps Good daies Some daies there are also which are observed by old writers to be very fortunate daies for any busines to be undertaken in also that children borne in those daies should never be poore children put to schoole in those daies should be rich and the like the daies are these the 3. and 13. of Ianuary the 5. and 28. of February the 3. 22. and 30. of March the 5. 22. and 29. of Aprill the the 4. and 28. of May the 3. and 8. of Iune the 12. 13. and 15. of Iuly the 12. of August the 1. 7. 24. and 28. of September the 4. and 15. of October the 13. and 19. of November the 23. and 26. of December and this shall suffice for the opinions of the more curious sort of the learned Of the fourth part of Physick which is of the signes of diseases presaged by the urine stoole pulse sweate vomite bloud astrologicall signes crisis c. I shall treate of in the next impression having not so much time now as scarce to finish the fift part as it should be CHAP. XIX Bleeding PHlebotomie or bloudletting is an incision artificiall of a vâ—in evacuating the bloud with the rest of the humors it was first invented by the river horse inhâ—biting in Nilus that famous river of Egâ—pâ— who when he findes himself charged with overmuch bloud by rubbing his thigh against the shâ—rp banke opens a veine and discharges the sâ—perfluous bloud which he stoppeth likewise when he sees convenient time by rowling it in the thicke mud Phlebotomie is not used in children before 14 nor in old men after fourscore without great necessiâ—y also the strength of the party must be considered that the quâ—ntity of bloud evacuated may be according and if it be only for preserving of health let it be neither in sommer nor winter but in the spring time and in the morning before the day grow hot The veine in the forehead being opened is good for paine in the hinder part of the head which place first ought to be fomented with warme water The veines of the tongue are opened aslant in a squinancy without any ligatures about the neck the inner veine of the left arme is opened for disease in the lunges the liver is purged by the inner veine of the right arme the wombe by the veine under the ankle but for the gout or megrim it is not amisse to open the veine of the part affected Draw bloud from the sanguine the moone being in Taurus Virgo or Capricorne from the phlegmatick in Aries or Sagittarius from the cholerick in Cancer or Pisces from the melancholicke in Libra or Aquarius but beware you open not a veine in that part where the signe is because it hath beene often found very dangerous unlesse necessitie urge but by no meanes let it be upon a criticall day for then it is not good to administer any medicine purge or bleed as I shewed you before Three daies were observed of the antients wherein they would by no meanes let bloud the first of August the fourth of September the eleventh of March. Now bloud is let by opening of a veine for five principall respects the first is to lessen the aâ—undance of bloud as in phlethorick bodies The second is to divert as when a veine in the right Arme is opâ—ned to stay the bleeding of the left nostrill The third is to allure or drawe downe as when the sâ—phona is opened to drawe downe the courses in women The first is for alâ—eration or introduction of another quality as when in sharpe feavers a veine is opened to draw out that bloud which is hot and coole that which remaines behind The fifth is to prevent diseases as in the spring and autumne we open a vein in such as are subject to spitting of bloud squinancie plurifie falling sicknes apoplexie madnes gout or in such as are wounded to prevent inflamation Arteriotomie is the incision of an Artery and is much used now a daies chiefely in the temples and behind the eares for catarres and defluxions in the eyes breast and maladies of the head and inveterate headach CHAP. XX. BOxing or cupping is the application of some instrument either for the evacuation of some humour under the skinne or to divert the course of some humour to an other part and to draw away such things as are hurtfull to nature they are for the most part of glasse with wide bellies and are sometimes applied with scarification and sometimes without the way to apply them is thus put into the glasse a little dry flax and stick it to the bottome of the glasse with a little wax then light the flax with fire and apply the glasse to the place when the flesh is swolen up presse it about the edges and the glasse will fall off then with an incision knife scarify the place a little and apply the cupping-glâ—sses as before and draw as much bloud as shall seeme convenient then drie the place with a soft cloth and anoint it with oyle of Roses and sleepe a while after Leaches Where cupping-cupping-glasses cannot be applied there we put horseleaches as to the gums nose fingers wombe and fundament anoint the place first with the bloud of some other creature that they take hold the more egerly and apply them to the place holding them in a linnen cloth for if you handle them in your bare hand they will be stomachfull and will not bite when they are filled with bloud and fall off then either apply more leaches or else cupping-cupping-glasses to cause them to fall off you shall put some powder of aloes salt or ashes upon their heads also if you desire to know how much bloud they have sucked
and such Cloth as hath been starched A Salve to heale any Wound 29 R. Virgin Waxe lib. ss sweet Butter clarified â„¥ iiii Turpentine â„¥ iiii yolkes of Egges nu ii beaten to Froth red Rose water â„¥ iiii Sugar Candy Ê’ ii Flowre as much as shall suffice boile all these together with a soft fire stirring it well together as you put in the Flowre untill it come to a perfect Plaister A Plaister for the Gout or Ache in the Ioints 30 R. Of Waxe Rosin ana lib. ss Olibanum â„¥ i. white Lead â„¥ ix Litharge of Gold finely beaten and searsed â„¥ ix Neats foot Oyle pi i. set the Oyle on the fire with the Waxe and Rosin when they are melted put in a pint of white Wine a while after put in the other Powders and stir it fast with a stick then drop a little and when it is cold if it be hard it is enough then take it off and anoint a faire board with Neates foot Oyle and when it is almost cold worke it thereon like Waxe and make it up in great rowles when you use it spread it upon linnen Clothes or Leather and lay it warme on where the paine is so renew it Morning and Evening untill it be whole beware of cold and hot Wines The black Salve good for any fresh Wound 31 R. Of Oyle Olive pi i. red Lead â„¥ ix stir them well together and set them on the fire and boile it fast untill it looke black and if a drop stick to you finger it is enough beware lest any sparke of fire flie into it in the boiling A very good Salve to heale an old inveterate Sore 32 R. A pint of strong Ale and set it on the fire and put into it a quarter of an ounce of roche Allome and a spoonfull of good Honey and as much Deere suet or Sheepes suet and a Crab and let them seethe together till the fourth Part bee consumed then take three or foure spoonfulls of wheate Flower and mingle them together and after put them into the rest of the Liquor and set it on the fire and stir it till it be thick then take it from the fire else it will be thin againe and put it into a pot and when you will use it spread it on a linnen Cloth a quarter of an inch thick and let it lie foureteene houres and when you take it away wipe away the corruption very cleane then lay on another alwaies warme A Salve for all manner of Wounds and Sores that be curable 33 R. Of Betony Plantaine Smallage of each lib. i. of the Iuice and put it in a pan adde to it of cleane new Waxe â„¥ ii of cleanest and whitest Incense â„¥ ii melt these by themselves with a soft fire then put the Iuices thereto and boile them together untill all the Iuices be wasted ever stirring it then take it from the fire and straine it through a Cloth then take of Turpentine â„¥ iii. and temper them together when it is cold put it up when you use it chase a little in your hand and spread it upon a Cloth broad and long enough to cover the Wounds first washing the Wounds with white Wine and Honey sodden together blood warm and dressing them Morning and Evening the Plaisters being warme if you wet a Tent in the said Wine and put into the bottome of the VVound it will draw out the corruption if the VVound ake poure in a little Oyle Olive Powders CHAP. XXXV A Powder for Hollow Vlcers 1 R. Frankincense Masticke Myrrhe Sarcocoll Bolearmenike Dragons blood Barley meal ana mixe them in fine Powder and sprinkle upon the Wound A Powder to incarnate Wounds 2 R. Of Hogge Fennell â„¥ ss Flouredeluce Ê’ v. Myrrhe Ê’ iii. the greater and lesser Centory anaÊ’ ii round Aristolochia Tuttie Oppoponax Meale of Orobus anaÊ’ ii ss make all in fine Powder A Powder to stay bleeding of a Wound 3 R. Quicke Lime Dragons blood Aloes Frankincense Copperas ana Incorporate them being finely powdered with the white of an Egge and Cobwebbes and apply it A Powder Adstrictive to be used in stitching of Wounds with Clothes 4 R. Of Mill dust Ê’ iii. Bolearmenicke Frankincense ana â„¥ ss Olibanum Masticke myrrhe anaÊ’ ii ss Dragons blood â„¥ iii. ss Blood-stone Ê’ i. make them in fine Powder which yee shall use with the white of an Egge and spread it upon a cloth and lay it over night upon each side the Wound one even with the edges and on the morrow you may joyne the edges by stitching the clothes and drawing them close Hollands Powder for the Cholicke 5 R. Anniseed ana â„¥ ss Bay Berries â„¥ ss Fennell Seed  Coriander Seed  Smalladge Seed Sene the weight of all the rest make a powder of them and give it in white Wine Ê’ i. ss at a time Parseley Seed Commin Seed Graine of Paradise Agat Stone Milfoile  Seed of Carrawaies  Seed of Broome  Ginger  Long Pepper  Nutmegs  To make the Powder called Pulvis sanctus to Purge the Dose whereof is Ê’ i. ss 6 R. Of the leaves of Sene white Tartar ana â„¥ ss Cloves Cinamon ana â„¥ ss DiagrediuÌ„ ℈ ii gr Galingale Ammi viii good Rubarbe Ê’ i. Salt Gemme gr 20. Ginger ℈ ss Agaricke ℈ ii beat all into fine Powder and mingle them A Powder for an Ague 7 R. Carduus Benedictus the Hearbe Mercurie Plantaine leaves Centaury Rue ana powder them and drinke it in Posset drink two or three nights together before you goe to bed and sweat upon it the Dose is Ê’ i. at a time Powder of Turbith to purge Phlegme for Women Children or old Men or for delicate Persons that live without labour 8 R. White Ginger Masticke ana Ê’ x. Turbith finely powdered Ê’ v. Sugar as much as all the rest mingle them together in fine powder A dredge Powder that purgeth Choler Phlegme and Melancholy 9 R. Turbith â„¥ i. Ginger Cinamon Masticke Galingale Graines of Paradise Cloves Anniseed the Hearbe called Mercuries Finger Diagredium ana â„¥ ss leaves of Sene â„¥ ii Sugar â„¥ iiii mingle them and powder them finely A Sneezing Powder 10 R. Rootes of Sneezing Wort or Bartram â„¥ i. Castoreum â„¥ ss white Elebor and black Elebor ana â„¥ i. Marjorame m. i. mingle them and make them into Powder A most excellent Powder to provoke Vrine and to send forth the Gravell and Stone 11 R. A Flint Stone and beat it in a Morter to a most fine and subtill Powder scarce it and keep it in a Bladder till you have occasion to use it then take halfe a Dramme at once fasting at time of need in white Wine or â—osset Ale or such like To make white Damaske Powder 12 R. Of Scuttle bone in fine Powder lib. ss adde thereto of Muske cod â„¥ ss or pure Muske Civet and Amber Greece ana Ê’ iii. To make common sweet Powder 13 R. Of Ireos â„¥ iiii Calamus Aromaticus Ciprus Sweet Marjoram
as the Winter nor too hot and dry as the Summer from hence Hippocrates cals the Spring the most healthfullest time of the yeere and lesse subject to dangerous diseases then any other season for it never breeds any disease but onely produces such as have been breeding in the body all the Winter precedent Summer Summer is hot and drie and a breeder of cholericke diseases which proceed from too much bloud generated in the Spring and now become adust and these diseases are for the most part speedy in running their course Autumne The Autumn is very unequall for when it is drie it hath great inequality of heat and cold the mornings and evenings being very cold and the noondaies exceeding hot whereby many long and dangerous diseases are ingendred Winter The Winter is cold and moist of temper it excites naturall heat and appetite and augments phlegme After this maner are we to consider the ages of man which are agreeable to the four quarters of the yeere Of Ages What an age is AN Age is the space of life in which the constitution of our bodies of its selfe doth encrease stand decrease and utterly decline whose whole course hath five ages or speciall mutations The first whereof is Infancy Infancy which is hot and moist and lasteth from the first houre of the birth untill the eighteenth year of age and is governed by the Moone and this the age wherein the body by reason of the moisture continually groweth and encreaseth and is subject to Feavours Fluxes Wormes in the belly Stone Aposthumes and divers other diseases Youth Youth is temperate in which there is augmentation neither of heate drinesse nor cold in this age the voice beginneth to grow great in men and the paps encrease in women and this lasteth untill the five and twentieth yeare Mans esate The next is mans estate which is hot and drie in which moisture cannot be said to augment nor diminish but the body remaines according to the course of nature it lasteth not above the thirty fifth or fortieth yeare this age is subject to hot agues feavers frenzies and sundry other maladies it is governed by Venus and is named by Avicen the beautifull age The fourth is the decreasing or declining age which Parte of old age 1 is by some devided into three but by most of our latest writers onely into two the first whereof is to the forty ninth or fiftieth yeare and is cold and drie in which the moistture is diminished without any manifest debility of the strength so that they are able to undergoe divers affaires and are pâ—udent wise and fit to governe commonwelths for this age is governed by Iupiter Parte of old age 2 The secoÌ„d part of old age and which stands for the fift part is called the decrepit age is cold and dry because the humidum radicale the radicâ—ll moisture is decayed it is governed by Saturne and is subjâ—ct to Epilâ—psie lithargie numnesse and the like this age hath no distinct period but ends yeares and life together and is called the end of age and life wherein the memorie and senses decay the judgement faileth and they are as it were infants againe But we cannot measure these ages by certaine proportion of yeares because divers seeme older at forty then others at threescore or threescore and tenne And now because these ages are governed and altered by the influence of the planets therefore I will breifely shew you the natures of them and first the natures of the twelue signes of the Zodiacke whereby mans body is governed and with whom the 7 planets worke by influence There are foure triplicities of signes three of the water Cancer Scorpio Pisces three of the earth Taurus Capricorne Virgo three of the fire as Aries Leo Sagittarius and three of the aire as Gemini Libra Aquarius to these are agreeable the seaven planets in their qualities and working in the severall ages of mans life Iupiter and Venus are good planets Saturne and Mars evill Sol and Luna indifferent Mercury is good with the good and evill with the evill and these seaven superior planets do worke by influence with the seaven celestiall signes in the bodies of all living creatures and are agreeable with the foure elements and the foure parts of the world as before I shewed you which for the better understanding I will thus devide Cancer are of the nature of water Scorpio are of the nature of water Pisces are of the nature of water Gemini are of the nature of the aire Libra are of the nature of the aire Aquarius are of the nature of the aire Aries are of the nature of fire Leo are of the nature of fire Sagittarius are of the nature of fire Taurus are of the nature of the earth Capricornus are of the nature of the earth Virgo are of the nature of the earth And these twelve signes are again devided into three quaternions or three fours of different qualitie in this sort and diversity of nature viz. four are moveable four are fixt and four are called common signes Aries are moveable Cancer are moveable Libra are moveable Capricorne are moveable Taurus are fixed Leo are fixed Scorpio are fixed Aquarius are fixed Gemini are common signes Virgo are common signes Sagittarius are common signes Pisces are common signes Some of these are Orientall of the East and some are Occidentall of the West some are Meridionall of the South and some are Septentrionall of the North. These twelve signes are also agreeable to the foure cardinall winds and some are of the day and some of East South West North Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagitt Capricor Aquarius Pisces Fiery Earthly Airie Watry the night some are masculine and some are feminine But note that these are not proper beasts as they are named but named and likened to such beasts by way of Philosophy for they are onely the twelve parts of the firmament of which each part hath a certaine number of Starres assigned and are called the proper houses of the seven Planets in which they rest and abide a certaine time The three quaternions of the twelve signes doe governe in divers parts of our bodies whereof foure there be that rule the inward parts called spirituall members viz. Cancer Rule these parts in a mans body viz. The Liver and Lunges Leo The Heartstrings and Backe Virgo The Stomack and the mouâ—h of the Stomacke Midriffe and Bowells Libra The Loynes and Navell And of these are ingendred these severall diseases viz. Cancer Leo. Virgo Libra causeth the Cough Ptisicke and Pleurisie Imposthumes Iaundies Feavers Pestilence Swelling of the Belly Dropsie Hardnesse of the Belly Collicke Passion Exulceration of the Bowels Pain in the Belly and about the Small of the back And these evill affects are chiefly engendred when the signes aforesaid are in the houses that are evill as the sixt house the eight house and the twelfe house from the
Aquarius â™’ The eleventh signe Aquarius raigneth in Ianuary and hath the name of the water-man forasmuch as Saint Iohn Bâ—ptist baptised our Saviour in the flood of Iordan to beginne to institute the new law of Baptisme and end the old law of Circumcision Whosoever is borne in this signe shâ—ll be negligent and lose his goods and shall be carelesse in his course of life Pisces ♓ The twelveth signe Pisces raigneth in February and hath the name of fishes forasmuch as Ionas the Prophet was cast into the sea and three daies and three nights lay in the belly of a Whale Whosoever is borne in that signe shall be gratious and happy if he make use of time But note that neither the planets nor the signes wherin they worke do constraine any man to doe good or evill but he may by his owne will and the grace of God doe good although he be disposed to evill after the nature and influence of his planet and on the contrary by his owne evill inclination he may doe evill though by his planet ha be disposed to good Saturnus ♄ Saturne hath the highest place of all the planets which hee compasseth once in thirty yeares and is a planet wicked and an enemy to humane nature a destroyer of life cold drie earthly and is masculine of the day he rules the right eare spleene bladder and bones melancholy humours mixt with flegme he hath dominion over old men solitary stubborne leane covetous and gluttonous persons the greatnesse of his body is 91 times so big as the earth his character is thus ♄ Iupiter ♃ Iupiter ends his course almost in twelve yeares he is a planet benevolent good hot and moist he rules the liver lights lungs arteries bloud and seed and the left eare humours sanguine humble just honest true liberall and rich Persons Prelates and Bishops his character is thus ♃ the greatnesse of his body is 95. times so big as the earth Mars Mars circleth his sphere once in two yeares almost he is a planet hot and drie immoderately governes the gall veines sinewes and stones the humour cholericke disdainefull seditious cruell bold and carelesse persons the greatnesse of his body is once so bigge as the earth and halfe so bigge and an eight part his character is thus ♂ The Sun ☉ Sol the lampe of heaven he passeth through the twelve signes of the Zodiack in three hundred threescore and five daies he giveth life naturall to all things and is a planet moderately hot and drie masculine of the day he rules the braine marrow and joyntes kings princes magistrates and famous persons the greatnesse of his body is 166. times so bigge as the earth his character is thus ☉ Venus ♀ Venus endeth her course as doth the sunne she is a planet feminine of the night cold and moist temperate she rules the throate pappes belly reines matrix and buttocks and humours phlegmatick governeth persons that are meeke pleasant lovers dancers musitians and Poets the greatnesse of her body is the 37 part of the earth her character is thus ♀ Mercury ☿ Mercury maketh his course as the Sun and Venus he is a planet variable unequall good with the good and bad with the bad sometimes masculine of the day and sometimes feminine of the night hot with the hot and cold-with the cold moist with the moist and drie with the drie planets whichsoever he is configured unto he rules the mouth tongue thoughts and memorie devisers of any subtilty or craft crafty deceitfull proud unconstant and lying persons the greatnesse of his body is the 32000. part of the earth his character is this ☿ Luna ☽ Luna the moone makes her passage through the Zodiacke in nine and twenty daies and eight houres and overtakes the Sunne in nine and twenty daies and twelue houres or thereabouts she is a planet naturally cold and moist of the night feminine she is the carrier of the influence of all the planets through her orbe unto us she rules the stomacke tast liver and the left-side she governes noble women widdowes also mariners and vagabondes and humors phlegmatike the greatnesse of her body is the 39. part of the earth her character is thus ☽ It shall be also necessary to consider the place country soyle windes and waters their good effects and their bad the temperature of the climate and the nature of the foure cardinall windes East which is hot and drie West which is cold and moist North which is cold and drie South which is hot and moist These I have the rather insisted upon because I find them so necessary to be knowne and duely considered in the administring of medicines CHAP. III. Of Humours AN humour is whatsoever is moist and liquid in substance into which the nourishment is first converted in the body of living creatures endewed with bloud and is called an humour not because all of them have one and the same force of moistning but because all of them have a fluent substance For choler and melancholy according to Reolanus are drie humours humours because of their liquid consistence and drie because they have the naturall force of drying The humours are the first begotten matter out of the mixture of the four elements choler of fire phlegme of water melancholy of the earth bloud of the aire for it is hot and moist as the aire An humour is either elementary alimentary or excrementitious elementary is the purest parts of the seed alimentary is that which is generated of the nourishment in the body by the native heat and mixed in the veines by the name of bloud but not only bloud for it hath a mixture of the three other humours although the greatest part be bloud and of these are produced the second humours inominata or without name ros dew gluten which is ros condensed and cambion excrementitious which is either profitable and necessary as choler in the gall melancholy in the spleen spittle in the jawes and milke in the dugs or unprofitable as urine sweate excrement of the nose and menstruous blood The alimentary Humour as I have said which is fit to nourish the body is that humour which is contained in the veines and arteries of a man who is temperate and perfectly well in health and is knowne by the generall name of Blood which is let out at the opening of a veine though it be in divers parts of the body unlike and different for the thicke blood which is in the bottome is not an humour but is melancholy blood the light froth that swimmes on the top is not Choller but cholericke blood unlesse it be changed by nature into choller and melancholy which often it is and from the blood is knowne because being out of its vessels it will congeale but the humour never at all for blood otherwise taken is an humour of a certaine kinde destinguished by heat and warmth from the other humours comprehended with it in the whole masse of the blood Blood in
to be cold and moist in the second white and unsavorie for it is made sweete before it is mingled with the bloud and it is evident that sweetnesse proceeds from a moderate heate as bloud sugar hony and the like do shew which are moderately hot but naturall phlegme is cold therfore it may better be termed unsavorie then sweete melancholy in his first qualities is cold and drie in his second black and sharp or sower bloud is hot and moist if it be with other humors it is temperate but in the second qualities it is red and sweet in all foure there ought to be a proportion of chollar least then melancholy then of bloud ought to be most then phlegme and if this proportion faile so that there be either more or lesse of one then ought to be or that one of them fall from its right temper it breeds the originall of almost all diseases which is ill digestion But to returne the unnaturall phlegme as I shewed you is either chaâ—ged in its quality or quantity and of these we count eight kindes according to Avicen whereof foure without the veines viz. Watery that is subtill as water and is found in the spittings of drunken men Secondly mucous or raw wherein are some parts grosse some subtill but when the difference of the parts is so little as it cannot be perceived then it is termed raw Thirdly glassie resembling molten glasse or rather the white of an egge by reason of the stiffenesse and weight and is not properly cold but of a kinde of faint heat Fourthly Gypsea plaisterlike which is concrete into the forme and hardnesse of chalke whose subtle parts are resolved as you see in a knotty goute in the joyntes of the fingers The other foure are within the veines as first acide or sower which hath had none or very little impression of heate more then that it first had in the stomach Secondly salt or adust which is bred by the mixture of choler whose bitternesse is lost by the unsavorinesse of phlegme Thirdly thicke and grosse of sower phlegme by reason of the vehement cold Fourthly stipticke that is not so cold nor grosse as the other Phlegme is of the nature of the three signes of the water Cancer Scorpio and Pisces and is watry cold and moist of consistence liquid of colour white of taste sweete or rather unsavory fit to nourish the braine and all other cold and moist parts to make the bloud temperate and to yeild moistnesse to the joynts It is placed in the body either of necessity or for profit of necessity two waies whereof the first is common the second particular The common is that phlegme which is neerest the members and by which they are nourished when at any time they shall have lost their proper nourishment good blood neither doth it nourish but when it is sent into the bloody veines by the liver the particular is the mingling of it with the blood tempring it and making it fit to nourish the phlegmaticke parts as the braine and nerves for to nourish these a great part or portion of phlegme is required for profit likewise two waies whereof the first is likewise common the other particular the common whereby it makes the blood the more thinne flowing and penetrating the easier to slide through the veines into the members the particular that it may moisten the joynts and members that are most moved in the body least by continuall motion they become dry because every locall motion is a straining and heating and every heate is resolutive and desiccative therefore that the joynts of the bones by continuall motion which is made by the sinewes and muscles should not be over heat dried and consequently made quite unfit for the naturall use and motion nature hath ordained these phlegmaticke humours which as it were distilling out of the veines doe water and moisten them not unlike the oyling the Axel-tree of a Coach without which it would as we see by daily experience be burned into dust but this office of this humour is not profitable nor necessary for every one for infantes and weake impotent people that can neither walke nor worke but sit idle doe not need this moisture but those that labour hard and go much have extraordinary need of it Phlegme maketh a man drowsie dull fat and swollen and hastneth gray haires it abounds most in Winter and in those that incline to old age and is encreased by cold and crude nourishment Choller The next is Choller which is an humour hot and dry of thinne and subtle substance and is as it were a certaine heate and fury of humours which generated in the liver together with the blood is carried by the veines and arteries through the whole body that of it which abounds is sent partly into the guts and partly into the bladder of the gall which is its proper receptacle and is in the hollownesse of the liver or is consumed by transpiration and sweats Choller is devided into two parts naturall and unnaturall Naturall choller The Naturall is as it were the froth of the blood whose colour is of a cleare red turning towards yellow and hath its originall from the more subtill parts of the Chylus Vnnaturall Unnaturall is by infection and commixtion of another humour or by alteration and it is called unnaturall when it is either greene blacke or darke red of colour that kinde of unnaturall Choller which is made by mixture with another humour is called Vittelline Vittelline because in heate and consistence it is like the yolkes of egges and this Avicen thinkes to be made of thicke phlegme mingled with choller but Gallen thinkes it to be only by alteration and a stronger heate destroying the moisture for any humour deprived of its moisture must needs wax thicke and this is the most received opinion for choller waxes pale and cold by the mixture of phlegme These other following are made only by alteration viz. Leeke coloured Leeke-coloured or resembling the juice of a leek in greenes tending towards black which is generated in the ventricle by the crudity of meats and therefore is sometimes called greene phlegme Aeruginous Aeruginous of the collour of Verdigreace tending towards white for according to Avicen it is made of the aforesaid greene being more adust by the ventricle or liver inflamed as bones being burned are first blacke and afterwards turne white it is so hot and biting that it burnes like to hot poison To these we may adde blew Blew choller much like in colour to the herbe Woad that our dyers use and to this also belongs that which is called Skie-coloured Skie-coloured or Sea-greene or Sea-coloured and is the worst of all the humours except blacke choller for it gets so much acrimony by reason of the heat that it corrodes and ulcerates this kinde is generated in the ventricle or neare about it Red Red. choller is improperly called Red being rather blood only this is the difference blood
congeales when it is out of its vessels but red choller will not it is made red by being mingled with some bloudy moisture and it is made pale almost to the likenesse of naturall choller by the mixture of phlegme Blacke Black choller so much degenerates from the naturall as that it acquires the name of another humour which is properly called melancholy of which we will speake in his place You shall understand that that part of naturall choller that goeth with the blood through the veines is sent thither for two speciall reasons which we may call necessity and profit of necessity because it is requisit and needfull that the cholericke members be nourished by it whereto agreat part of choller is required Secondly for profit that it may subtle the blood in the veines and make itth more penetrating in its passage Another part of naturall choller is seperated from the masse of humours generated in the liver and is sent to the bladder of the gall of necessity and for profit of necessity that the whole body may be purged cleansed and mundified from cholericke superfluities for the gall either by its owne property or by the naturall attractive vertue doeth draw unto it choler as a thing most fit and proper for it self even after the maner of the Loadstones drawing of iron which kind of delight in attracting is established in a certaine hidden sympathy which nature hath ordained betweene choler and the bladder of the gall by whose attraction the whole body and likewise the bloud is cleansed and mundified from all superfluous choler which otherwise might impaire the health secondly for profit first that it may wash the intestines from dregs and viscous phlegm secondly to pricke and sting the guts and muskles of the belly that they may feele that it is hurtfull for them and therefore may endevour to expell it for the expulsive faculty doth not exercise it selfe in expelling the dregs remaining in the belly and guttes unles it be excited by choler flowing thereunto whereby it often happens that the passages betweene the gall and the guts being stopped the colicke ensues Choler is chiefly bred and expelled in youth and acride and bitter meats yeeld matter to it but great labours of body and mind give the occasion It maketh a man nimble quicke ready for any performance leane and much subject to anger and quicke of concoction Choler is of the nature of the three signes of the fire Avies Leo and Sagittarius and is fiery hot and drie of consistence thin of colour yellow or pale or taste bitter it provoketh the expulsive faculty of the guts and attenuates the phlegme cleaving to them but the alimentary is fit to nourish the partes of like temper with it Melancholy Melancholy or the melancholy humour being the grosser portion and as it were the mud and dregges of the bloud is partly sent from the liver to the spleene to nourish it and partly carried by the vessels into the rest of the body and spent in the nourishment of the parts endewed with an earthly drynesse it is an enemy to mirth and jollity and neere kinsman to death and is by the ancients devided into two parts as phlegme is that is naturall Naturall melancholy and unnaturall the naturall is cold and drie and is generated in the Chilus passing as aforesaid Vnnaturall melancholy The unnatural is not like the dregs of blod but it is like the lees of wine burnt hotter lighter then naturall melancholy is and taks its originall from any of the humors adust as from choller adust turned into melancholy which only amongst all the humours reserves its owne proper tast that is bitter from phlegme adust which phlegme if it be watery and very subtle then the melancholy thereof generated will be salt which if it be not salt then the melancholy will be acide and sharpe from bloud adust and this kind of melancholy is salt having also some little sweetnesse for bloud is the treasure of nature and most diligently preserved by the other humours whereby it seldome happens that it is wholy and totally adust because it retaines some sweetnes from naturall melancholy adust from whence it happens that if the naturall melancholy from whence this unnaturall melancholy proceeds be subtle then this melancholy arising from the adustion will be even as sharp as vineger and being cast on the ground turnes into bubbles and this is the worst of all the kindes of melancholies and is called atra bilis Atra bilis or blacke melancholy for it not only corrodes the parts whereinto it is gathered but wheresoever it touches it burnes and scaldes as powerfully as Lime Ashes or burnt Lees of Wine wherein some reliques of fire remaine hereby it happens that a disentery caused by this humour is deadly because it ulcerates the intestines now blood adust melancholy humours and atra bilis may easily be distinguished for from blood adust arise carbuncles from melancholy schirrous tumours and from atra bilis is generated cancer and of this last the smell is so contagious that the very flies doe shunne it but if that naturall melancholy be grosse then that which proceeds from it by adustion will be of farre lesse sharpnesse A part likewise of naturall melancholy passeth along with the blood of necessity and for profit of necessity that it may be mingled with the blood in that quantity and proportion as is necessary and requisite to nourish some members which are maintained by a great portion of melancholy as the bones and other cold and dry melancholy members Secondly for profit that it may attenuate the grossenesse of the blood and strengthen and consolidate it untill it becomes a solid part of such hard members as it ought to nourish A part of naturall melancholy is also sent unto the spleene the blood having no need thereof which is done for the aforesaid causes The first is universall for it is very necessary the whole body should be purged of superfluous melancholy and also particular because it ought to nourish a particular member that is the spleen The second is of the melancholy that flowes to the orifice of the stomacke and by his stipticity straining and as it were milking out the moisture it there findes as a woman straines and presses out the milke from the Cowes teates with her fingers and this profit arises two severall waies first when melancholy bindes unites and strengthens the orifice of the stomacke that the meate may be the better retained therein secondly where such melancholy by his acridnesse makes a kinde of commotion in the mouth of the stomacke whereby the desire of meate is excited and stirred for after the mouth of the stomacke is thus moved a kinde of griping followes as saith Iames de Forlivio which presently the sensitive faculty perceiving is excited to the desire of meate whereby that griping is ended Melancholy is made of meates of grosse juice and by the perturbations of the minde turned
into feare and sadnesse it is augmented in the first and crude old age it makes men sad harsh constant froward envious and fearefull it is of the nature of the three signes of the earth Taurus Capricorne and Virgo and is of nature earthly cold and dry of consistence grosse and muddy of colour blackish of taste acide sower and biting stirres up the appetite nourishes the spleene and all the parts of like temper to it as the bones c. Neither is it to be doubted but that these humours doe move and rule at certaine set houres of the day and night as by a certaine peculiar motion or tide for the blood flowes from the ninth houre of the night to the third houre of the day as in the spring time Choler to the ninth of the day as in summer Melancholy to the third of the night as in autumne the rest of the night that remaines is under the dominion of phlegme as in winter whereof manifest examples appeare in the French Pox c. And these things thus understood you may know what humour raigneth in the sicke and at what time he shall he most grieved The second humours Next I shall shew you what the second humours are which as I told you are likewise foure Inam humiditas The first whereof is called the humour without a name as having no proper name but is thought to be a kinde of bloody moisture which hanges ready to fâ—ll in little droppes at the orifice of the small capillary veines for in the body are certaine great veines which like the trunke of a tree doe spread forth their branches to the finenesse of haires in which according to Iohannitius are scituate the humours which after the third concoction are turned into moisture which is called in latine inominata because it wants a proper name whereby to call it or else because it participates with the first and second humours and after certaine spongious or porous parts beginnes the orifice of the veines like the mouthes of small wormes which whiles the digestion is perfecting are shut as the matrice is after conception but digestion finished they open naturally as the matrice opens when the child is ready to be borne through which thus opened distills this aforesaid bloody moisture which entring the members agreeable is apropriate unto them as the first operation of the nutritive vertue Ros. The second is called Ros dew which moistens the part into whose substance it is already fallen it is begot of the other humours and serves very aptly for to nourish when the body wants nourishment as to moisten members that are overdryed either by too much care or over much frequenting the fire or remaining under a hot climate as the Aethiopians c. This moisture is properly called Ros from the likenesse it hath to dew because as dew falleth upon the earth moistneth it and administers nourishment to the plants so this moisture doth at times of necessity yield nourishment to the desiring member but not true substantiall nourishment because it hath not in it selfe solid substance sufficient to be made part of a member but it is in a kinde of imperfect way which is called a refreshing Further seeing that this moisture is partly watry partly airy and fat therefore when it waters the members being by a continuall resolution dry the easier is that joyned to the members which they call Cambium then if they had still remained dry for moist to moist makes an union Cambium The third is called Cambium which put into the part that is to be nourished is there fastened being more thickned then the other two in the holes of the aforesaid little veines and is a substance truely nourishing because it is converted into the substance of the members according to complexion but yet not according to the compleate essentiall parts and full likenesse which we call substantiall forme for it is the object of the fourth digestion about which the vertue nutritive exercises its selfe which is properly termed the last vertue digestive and of which arise three operations First the adding of the Cambium to the members Secondly the uniting or fastning thereof Thirdly the assimulating or bringing into forme therefore while this Cambium generated of pure meats is added to the members it is conformable to them in complexion neither heating nor cooling nor moistning nor drying the substance of the members qualitatively as a distemperate medicine but in substance and essentiall forme and similitude it is not yet assimulated to the members yea the vertue nutritive a little working it and striving as it were to assimulate it doth thicken and consolidate its substance that it may make it like the substance of the members Gluten The fourth is called Gluten Glew which is only the proper and substance-making humidity of the simular parts not their substance and the first roote and begiâ—ning of it is in the sperme or seed as the beginning of the seed is from the humours neither is it as I said a substantiall part of the members but a part of the part as elements constituting simple members as it appeares by the composition of the body for this is compounded of foure severall things hot qualified by cold and moisture diminished by drines but yet none of these serve towards the composition of a soule neither are they any integrall or substantiall parts of the body of any one living Now that you may know what humour is most predominant in every one I shall briefly declare the signes which we usually observe To know a man of a sanguine complexion First therefore because the matter and generation of flâ—sh is chiefly from blood a man of fleshy dense and solid habit of body and full of a sweete and vaporous juice is of a sanguine complexion they have a ruddy coloured and flushing face with red and white White by reason of the skinne spread over it and Red by reason of the blood lying underneath the skinne for alwaies such as the humour is such is the colour of the face they are curteous affable and faire spoken of a smooth forehead and something given to women seldome angry for as the inclination of the humour is so also is the disposition of manners they eate and drinke freely have pleasant dreames and are troubled with diseases that arise from bloud as phlegmones pustles bleeding much and menstruous fluxes they will endure bloud-letting and desire most those things that are cold and dry therefore offended by hot and moist things they have a great and strong pulse great quantity of urine but of a milde quality with substance and colour indifferent Signes of a cholericke complexion As for Cholericke persons you shall observe them to be of a pale yellow colour the body leane slender and rough faire veines and large arteries with a quicke pulse their skinne feeles dry hard and hot with pricking they cast forth much choller by vomit and stoole they are nimble witted stout
coates that the spirits may not be exhaled and that it may not be broken by the continuall motion and beating a veine beates very little or not at all A nerve A nerve is that which proceeding from the braine or spinall marrow hath sence and motion some partes of the body which have nerves have feeling also but no voluntary motion as the membranes veines arteries guts and all the entrailes from the braine arise two soft nerves which have feeling the hard nerves spring from the spinall marrow and are moving from the braine proceed seven conjugations of nerves from the spinall marrowe thirty paire that is sixty nerves some nerves cannot be perceived to be hollow at all it is a simple part of our body bred and nourished by a grosse and phlegmaticke humour The second instruments Of the three first and simple instruments veines nerves and arteries and of the eight aforesaid parts least conformable being knit in due quantity number and scite spring the second instruments amongst which the muscles Muscles have the first place as being the instruments of voluntary motion which is performed six maner of waies viz. upwards downewards forwards backwards to the right hand and to the left hand this is simple motion the second voluntary motion is circularly as when you lure a hauke you swinge your hand round A muscle consists of veines nerves and arterious flesh and fibres from which they receive nourishment life sense and motion they are reckoned amongst the second instruments because they consist of a coate a tendon and a ligament and are devided into three partes the begining middle and end the head insertion and neather parte and these are all differing in figure scituation perforation and quantity colour and connexion The fingers The fingers consist not only of veines of which they are nourished of arteries from whence they receive spirit and vitall heate nerves by which they feele and muscles whereby they are mooved but also of three bones in each finger that is fifteene in each hand which are hollow fistulous and full of thinne and liquid marrow and not of grosse and thick as in the arme or thigh whereby they are fortified and sustained likewise of ligaments whereby the bones are connexed of flâ—sh and skin by whose coniunction is ordained the true organicall touching the fingers are in number five The nailes are generated by the fibers of the ligaments and the excrements of the tendons which are terminated at the bottom of the nailes The hand The hand consists of five fingers the palme or hollow of the hand the back of the hand and the wrest it is the instrument of instuments made for to take up and hold any thing for with the hands are all the other instruments made it is devided into five fingers the more easily to take up even the least bodies of any figure or fashion soever and to this end nature ordained us the nailes because the fingers ends being soft flesh might not turne away in meeting with a hard body The heart The heart is the chiefe mansion of the soule the organe of the vitall faculty and is placed in the body as the Sun in the firmament it is placed by nature as it were in a box that it may have free liberty to spread it selfe and receive hurt neither from the ribs or vertebres of the chest it containes a continuall moisture that by its motion and heat it may not be over dried it consists of a hard and dense flesh in which are two hollowes the right side is the biggest the left side is the more corpulent and thereby the more straite but it is the more solid and thick that the vitall spirits which are worked in it may not be exhaled In the right hollow are two vessels a branch of the hollow veine whereby the heart drawes the bloud from the liver and the gate veine by which it sends the bloud throughly concocted and subtilized to the lunges In the left side also are two vessels the great Artery Aorta whereby it sends the vitall spirits every way and the arteria venosa whereby it receives the aire from the lunges which are only the bellowes of the heart to coole it The heart hath auricles or little eares on every side to hold up the gate vein and branch of the hollow veine that they be not broken by the violent motion of the heart the heart is one alone scituate most commonly upon the fourth vertebrae of the chest being placed there by nature because it is the most sure and armed place and is besides as it were covered on every side by the hands of the lunges and is made of a more dense solid and compact substance then any other part of the body because it must have a naturall motion of its selfe These thinges I have spoken in briefe only to shew you how necessary it is to be perfect in Anatomie wherby you shall the more easily discern the pâ—rts affâ—cted by the place of paine and cure it by a fit application of remedies without the hurting of any other part next I shall speake of the faculties CHAP. V. Of Faculties What a faculty is A Faculty is a certaine power and efficient cause proceeding from the temperament of the part and the cause whereof proceed the actions and powers of the body The animall faculty Of these are three kindes in every perfect body that is the Animall Vitall and Naturall which have a certaine simpathy one with another for if one be hurt all the rest suffer with it The Animall is that which proceeds from the proper temperament of the braine and yields knowledge sense and voluntary motion and this is of three kindes 1. Moving which remaines in the Muscles and Nerves as the fit instruments of voluntary motion 2. Sensative which consists in the five externall senses Sight Hearing Taste Smell and Touch. 3. and principall which comprehends the reasonable faculty the memory and fantasie The Animall faculty being thus seated in the braine sends from thence sence and motion by the nerves or certaine chanels into the whole body Vitall faculty But the Vitall faculty is that which sendeth life to every member of the whole body and maintaines the essence of the spirits and this hath his seat in the heart from whence he sends heat through the arteries to every part of the body and is much hindred by diseases in the breast Naturall faculty The naturall faculty is that which carries the nourishment into all the members of the body and this claimes his place in the liver it is by Avicen and most of the ancient Philosophers concluded that this naturall faculty is divided into two parts whereof one is the preserving of life and health unseparable and to nourish the body as comming from the fountaine and mint of nourishment the other is the preserving and maintaining the forme and species made in generation First by drawing the seminall matter from the humours of the body and
neere hills stinkes the sea and all such townes that stand low and close infected with evill and noisome savors that which is nebulous and exposed to south winde and the mouldy putrified aire inclosed in unhabited dampe houses and so wants ventulation and it is the evill aire that causes townes scituate on or neare the sea coast at the end of summer and in the autumne to be afflicted with the plague and divers other dangerous maladies How the aire is changed Now the aire is changed five manner of waies first by the time of the yeare secondly by the starres thirdly by the windes fourthly by the earth and fiftly by fumes and vapors Aire is changed by the time of the yeare as in spring summer autumn and winter the spring maketh the aire temperate the summer maketh it hot and dry which ought to be corrected by things that are cold and moist the autumne cold and dry the winter cold and moist and must be all corrected by their contraries Aire is changed by the starres by the proximity of the sunne to them or when the starres approach neere the sun that is when they end their course sooner then the sunne by whose nerves the aire is heate and the further from the sunne the colder it is By the windes the aire is changed for those places have the healthfullest aire where the windes blow freely as in champion countries where the people live longer and more free from diseases Aire is also changed by the earth and that is twofould the scituation and the composure by the scituation divers waies as the altitude produces cold at least so farre as it is habitable and likewise depth procures heat latitude either in plaines or mountaines for the most part causes temperate aire but the aire of the south mountaines is cold and unhabitable but the north is hotter because of the reflection of the beames of the Sunne espâ—cially betwixt the north line and Cancer and the nearnesse of the sea changes the temperature of the aire as thus the south sea heats and dries the north sea cooles and dries by composure of the country divers waies also is the aire changed as by the nature wherof it consists as the rocky countries are cold and drie the durty clayey countries are cold and moist c. according to the complexion of the matter it is composed of Vapours and fumes of the earth alter the aire especially such as proceed from fennes moores and other putride places from which an evill savour and breath is exhaled Finally because aire is so powerfull in woundes and diseases the ancient Phisitions councelled to change the aire if it might possibly be if not then to correct and accomodate it by art CAAP. X. Of meate and drink Meat and drink NOurishment is another part of preserving health and is as necessary as aire is it is either temperate or intemperate either of good juice or ill of easie or hard concoction The temperate is such meates as taken in due order doe cause no distemper in our bodies as is bread made of wheate as there are fewe temperate men so there are fewe temperate meates the intemperate are almost all which by some qualitie doe alter the state of our bodies as for example wine mustard garlicke leekes onyons c. doe heate and so doth pottage made with hotte hearbes as hissop time c. Bread made of barley grapes and porrage made with coole hearbes as sorrell lettuse c. do coole What diet is best Some kind of nourishments breed phlegme some choller some melancholy and some execrments those that generate good bloud are these viz. red wine milke reere egges the flesh of hens and capons the flesh of birds is to be preferred before any flesh either kid or veale because they generate better juice for these that are fed tame in the house cannot be so wholesome as those that live in a free cleare aire black and thick wines breed ill juice the like doth oxes flesh goates flesh but worst of all is the flesh of bulles foxes and asses bread that is made of yellow and sweete wheate well drest and leavoned is the best for nourishment Pulse All manner of pulse do breede wind and increase melancholy beanes that are greene are cold and moist and generate crude bloud and winde drie beanes are cold and dry the flowre wherof is much used in cataplasmes that are to drie and coole as in hot apostumes of the pappes Rice Rice is a great binder and therfore vsed in clysters to stop a laske it generates thick juice and obstruction of the veines if it be much used Fish All fish doe of themselves yield a cold and moist nourishment and much phlegme But let the quality of meats be never so good yet too much quantity taken will cause their nourishment to prove evil for gluttony and intemperance is the maintainer of Physitians for it destroies more then the sword but we should eate to live and not live to eate therfore we finde it best for any mans health to eate so little as he may continually have an appetite and to perform some exercise to help concoction likewise to keep a due order and time of eating and drinking Drinke As for drinke I hold that good cleare wine that is of a good colour and tast moderately taken doth nourish also Beere and Ale that is old and cleane is a good drinke but with these must also be observed a moderation for too much drinke destroyeth the digestion as one very well notes that the first draught quenches the thirst the second maketh man joyfull the third drunke the fourth quite out of his sences CHAP. XI Of Labour and Rest Labour and rest and what it is LAbour is a vehement motion of the body untill they be as we say out of breath for by the motion of the joynts the heat is encreased and carried through the veines and arteries to the heart from whence it is that we require a more stronger and oftner breathing and by this word labour or exercise is comprehended all manner of running riding leaping playing wrastling dancing fencing and carrying of burthens and is â—ccounted very necessary for our health for let iron lie still and it gathers rust the memory not exercised doth decay so doth the whole body if it continue in idlenesse it gathers together much phlegme and excrements which would be dissipated by exercise for it doth helpe the naturall health quicken the spirits make all the senses the better performe their severall offices it openeth the pores of our body whereby all the excrements are consumed and wasted and finally it comforteh all the spirits and members that they may the better undergoe their functions In exercise consider first the time which is the fittest before meate and secondly the manner of the exercise which is generall or particular generall as playing at ball and leaping particular as when one part only is exercised as walking exercises the legges fighting the
with halfe a pinte of faire running Water or Hyssope water put in your Powder of Licoras and boile it and stirre it untill it be as thicke as good Creame then straine it through a fine Strainer and set it againe on the fire and let it seethe a good space after ever stirring it untill it be very thicke then put in of red Sugar Candy â„¥ iii. or iiii and boile them untill they puffe up from the bottome of the Bason For a Fellon 52 R. Raggewort Rue Hyssop ana pu i. one clove of Garlicke a little pieces of sowre Leaven a spoonfull of Bay salt and a piece of rusty Bacon beate all these together and lay it to very thicke for foure and twenty houres space For those that are troubled with Rheume distilling downe their Throate in the night 53 Of Cumminseeds â„¥ ii bruised Nutmegs sliced nu ii Cloves bruised the same quantity the yolkes of two Egges or two Egges hard roasted mingle these together and quilt them in a linnen bagge and sprinkle the said bagge with very good Aquavitae and lay the said bagge every night to the nape of your Necke For a Bruise 54 R. Of the blood of a Pigge â„¥ iiii of Vinegar â„¥ ii a few crummes of browne Bread boile all these together untill they be something thicke and so warme lay it to the place for the space of foure and twenty houres doe thus twice or thrice if need be To take away the Morphew and other filth from the Face and Hands and to make a new skin 55 R. Of white Mercury sublimated Ê’ i. Camphire Ê’ ii Lemons nu ii white Sugar â„¥ i. faire water one pinte and a halfe put all these into a Glasse and so let it stand eight or ten daies and then straine it and keepe it in a cleane Violl and when you will use it wet a cleane linnen Cloth therein and then put it softly upon the Face or Hands where the Morphew or Filth is and will take it off in short time To make the Skin soft and white after the said Medicine 56 R. A black Sheepes head or two and cut off the Hornes and Skin and throw them away with the Brain and eyes then seeth the Heads in faire water and skum off the Oyle very cleane put to this Oyle a little Rose-water and anoint the Face therewith and it will make a smooth Skin soft white and faire To breed Blood and bring a good fresh Colour in the Face 57 R. A new Pipkin with a Cover that will hold a pinte fill it with good olde Muscadine and halfe a pound of great blew Currans and the weight of a Shilling of the best Rubarbe cut in slices and three slices of Ginger let these stand all night upon the hot Embers and eate every morning a spoonefull or two of the Currans and Sirrup For the Spleene 58 R. Ashen keyes and the Greenewood burne them make Lye of the Ashes after it hath stood three dayes cleare it then take Barrowes grease and wash it in white Wine and dry it and beate it with a rowling pin and when it is well beaten put it into the Lye and seethe the Lye and it to an Oyle then put into it a spoonefull of Doctor Stephens water and and as much Rose-water beate it well together and so put it up to anoint the Side downewards if you use to drinke Bedward Posset drinke wherein the greene barke of Ashe is boiled it will much profit it is also good to use Oyle of Tamariske and Oyle of Capers to anoint the Side with it An approved laxative Whey for the Spleene 59 R. Of the inner barke of the Ashe tree Maidenhaire Hartstongue Licoras Aniseeds Parceley rootes Sene leaves and coddes ana m. i. boile them in a pottle of cleane Whey untill almost the halfe be consumed then straine it and use it first and last every day untill you finde health forbearing to eate or drinke the space of two or three houres after all the while you doe this you shall anoint your Side with the aforesaid Ointment To stanch Blood in Veine or Artery 60 R. Olibanum â„¥ ii Aloes Hepaticke â„¥ i. haires of a Hare a little cut whites of Egges as much as will serve to incorporate them make a Stuphe of Flax and dip it in the Medicine and apply it cold let it lye three or foure dayes then if it sticke fast apply the white of an Egge and Oyle of Roses untill the next day To provoke Vomit and to purge the Belly 61 R. The rinde of the roote of Elder tree chopped in small pieces steepe it in Wine the space of a night and drinke the Wine in the morning For the Dropsie 62 R. Raisons of the Sun stoned lib. i. put them into a pinte of good white Wine and so let them stand covered nine or ten dayes then eate thereof three or foure times a day eight or nine at a time For the Ptisicke 63 R. The tender crops of Mallows boile them and butter them as a Sallet with Butter and Vinegar and eate them with your meate For women with Childe that are subject to Miscarrying 64 R. The whites of two Egges beate them well with cleane Water and sup them up when you feele any fright or sudden alteration For the Cholicke 65 R. Of the Oyle of sweete Almonds drawne without fire â„¥ iii. mixe it with a little white Wine and Pellitary water and drinke it then swallow a Leaden Bullet besmeated with Quicksilver and the Bullet comming presently forth at his Fundament will cure him For the Sciatica 66 First raise a Blister and let out the Water in it then R. ground Ivy and stampe it and apply it to the Blister with a cloth sufficiently doubled then R. a Cat and flea it and put into the Belly the garbage being taken out twenty Snailes shels and all and so roast it and to the dripping put of Oyle of Spike one penny-worth halfe an Oxe gall Neats-foote Oyle two spoonefulls Badgers grease one spoonefull Oyle of Turpentine two penniworth A quavitae one penniworth mixe them and therewith anoint the griefe and keepe it warme FINIS A Table of the principall matters contained in this booke A TO make Aegyptiacum part 2. page 8. For an Ache part ibidem page 10. num 9. page 11. num 10 page 12 num 15 page 13. num 18. page 17. num 16. page 49. num 6. page 51. num 10. page ibi num 11. page 52. num 13. page 55. num 19. page 48. num 8. page 45. num 5. page 167. num 41. page 84. num 49. Actions what they are part 1. page 52. Ages part 1. page 9. Agues cured part 2. page 63. num 7. page 104. num 2. page 110. num 2. Aloes Rosatum made part 2. page 133. num 9. Aloes washed part ibidem page 135. num 15. Apoplexie cured part 2. page 36. num 33. Apostemes cured part ibidem page 49. num 6. in the head page 158. num 9.