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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50413	Macis macerata: or, A short treatise, concerning the use of mace, in meat, or drink, and medicine In six sections, the fifth whereof containeth some hints at the signaturs of simples; and the sixth, is concerning the original and cure of wind, in mans-body. By Matthew Mackaile chyrurgo medicine.	Mackaile, Matthew, fl. 1657-1696.	1677 (1677)	Wing M147; ESTC R218643	24,208	110

but more especially Solomon's Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth c. doth endeavour by his great swelling words of vanity to allure the ignorant Vulgar affirming First three severall times that No Man and once that No Man in this Land knew the like or can or could come near him in the Art The true reason wherof St. Paul hath given some that commend themselves but they measuring themselvs by themselve are not wise For this undervaluing be makes a mends by promising to put all his 5 years Cures in a method for the Press for the benefit of his loving Countrie men 2ly that he cureth those that are pest help and such as are given for dead and beyond all hope and offereth to cure all persons who cannot be cured by any other 3ly He cureth the Gout infallibly if the person be in the hight of the distemper in six hours and immediatly thereafter he taketh no less then 24. hour● to cure the Ciatica as he calls it 4ly He affirmeth that he hath cured Children of Cataracts by him called Catherick 5ly He cureth all sorts of Pox and the falling-sickness proceeding from any cause whatsomever and especially Ruptures by him called Hernia Canola without loss of time knowledge of friends or neglect of bussiness 6ly In half an hours time he cured a woman that had been deaf 30 years 7ly which is best of all He takes forth rotten Teeth with Ingenuity 8ly He hath an excellent preservative against Barrenness in Women a thousand times experienced which must be his Mille Opifex All which he would have beleeved because he had his Education first in America the most barbarous and ignorant Quarter of the World and then in Europe Moreover the rest of his Vocabularia viz. Scrufusionem or Catua●ctum Polypum Scroficlus Lyentera Descu●ima Colica Pessio and Ilian Passio Poripulmonimus c. are a sufficient Touchston of his qualifications Because for sooth this M. by serving some other of that Profession tho not as an Apprentice hath learned to cut a Cancer a Hernia and to do some such Operations with greater confidence than knowledge sometimes with success the all knowing Chirurgians have most warrily and sometimes anxiously advontured upon thom therefore must He mount himself upon a Stage deerying the Skill of all others and so offering as it were to force Providence to get Imployment to him Were it not better for such a person to live privatly as others doe at least untill he acquyre better Language wherewith to appear especially amongst Scholars for even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise rather than by persisting to demonstrate that in Medicin Ignorance is more surely the eause of Confidence than in Divinity it is of Devotion So eminently accomplished Virtuoso's would do well to spend some of their Idle houres in the disquisition of the Cuckow 's or Gowk 's nature for solying the many Phaenomena relating to it At I. Why that Bird being silent all the Winter doth by its melodious voice disturb the pleasant and concordant chirming of the Lark and other delicious Birds whose Organs are tuned of new when Phoebus beginneth more vigorously to display the native splendor of all Beings II. Why the vesicating Nettle is not so often if at all deformed as is the milde and fragrant Lavender by what is called the Cuckow 's spittle which is nothing else but the Sperm or Excrement of some despicable Insect which being deposed upon the Herb fomented by the common influence of the Sun which also oberisheth the usefull Silk Worm contracteth lyfe and then extracteth the juice of the Herb for its Aliment Wherefore in the middle of that Spuma or Froth we will constantly find a little stercoraceously coloured Flee III. Why the mordicant Nasturtium Pratense doeth not slower untill the Cuckow begin to crow for which it is also called Flos Cuculi Surely the morall improvement of these Notions and the further prosecution of these Resemblances betwixt the irrationall Cuckow and those who use too doservedly to be designed by the simple Name would in some measure contribute to the peace of Humane Societies and to the preventing of such insolent Impertinencies This Treatise is particularly recommended unto such of the Female Sex as are most studious only of the Diecteticall part of Medicin commonly called Kitchin Physick it being chiefly of that nature and most properly belonging unto them who doe prudently forbear medleing with Vomitive and Purgative Medicins which some of them and too many of my own lyke a Rustick Fisher-Man offering to Pilot a Ship to the Indies have imprudently adventured to make use of to the prejudice of others thinking it alse ensie thus to arrive at Health the Metropolis of all our temporall mercies as it is to goe to Edinburgh by land from one Town to another untill they reach it Whereas it is rather lyke a Voyage thither by Sea where the Tyde and Wind doe and may often change or blow tempestuously to the puzling of the best Pilot and all his Skill The latest and best Physicians having written of Medicin according to the laesed or decayed faculties of Mans body and the Concoction of the Stomack being the first and this Simple Mace a most excellent remedie for it I thouht it might be usefull for all being altogether void of hazard untill they should advertise and advise with the Physitians concerning that or any other Distemper occasioned thereby The Courteous Reader is earnestly desired to pardon the disproportionable prolixity of this Epistle which hath been swelled by my necessitated Vindication from the Aspersions of One whom the Vulgar esteem a Licentiat whom thus I have eudeavoured to Answere according to his folly lost he be wise in his own Conceit for which I am altogether excuseable by him who affirmed when I accused him that the speaking of Trueth was no Reflecting Farewell M. M. Macis Macerata OR A Short Treatise concerning the use of the Mace in Meat or Drink and Medicine SECTION I. HAving resolved to write a little concerning the use of this Simple called Mace I shall begin with a short descrip●●on of it makeing use only of Schroder as one of the best of our Modern writers In his Pharmacopoea Medico-Chymica lib. 4. cap. 219. he calls it a Rinde or Bark which groweth about the Nutmeg which is called Nux-moschata Muscata Nux Aromatica Nux Myristica sen Vnguentaria Nucista Clusius affirmeth that there is a lesser sort called the Female and a greater the Male. It groweth in an Yland called Banda in the East-Indies It is covered with a twofold husk or bark the outmost of which is the grossest or thickest like that of the Walnut which openeth when it cometh to maturitie so that the other being the Mace doth appear surrounding the Nutmeg like a little Net-work But there is betwixt the Mace and the Nutmeg a thin shell broun without like the skin of a Chesunt which Schroder