sufficient quantity of white Wax make it up into an Oyntment Or take Oyl of Roses Violets of each three Drams Oyl of Foxes Camomil of each two Drams with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make them into an Oyntment to which add the Mueilages of the Roots of Marsh Mallows Linseed Fanugreek of each half an Ounce And anoint the parts therewith as afore directed and after you have anointed them cover them with a hot Sheep Skin Lamb or Cat and when it is cold make it hot again with Oyl of Lavender and Dill c. You may give to the Patient Cordial Julips wherein is mixed Spirit of Castor and Spirit of Lavender and such like And purge the Head with the following Gargarisme Take Roots of Pellitory of Spain and the Seeds of Rocket of each half an Ounce being bruised boil them in one Pint of Wine to the consumption of half and add thereto Oxymel of Squills two Ounces Hiera Piera half an Ounce wherewith let the Patient Gargle his Mouth every Morning fasting And make use of the sneesing powder made as followeth Take Marjoram Euphorbium Pellitory of Spain of each two Scruples and dry it being beaten to a fine Powder snuff a small quantity thereof up into the Nostrils CHAP. IX Of the Catarrh ACatarrh is an unnatural defluxion of an excrementitious Humour falling from the Head to the inferiour parts as to the Nostrils Mouth and Throat c. and doth cause Appilation it is caused Coryza and when it doth descend to the parts of the Throat it is called Branchus and when it falleth to the Breast or to the Lungs then it is called the Catarrh The cause of this Disease is often either through outward coldness or heat also of Vapours arising from too much or evil nourishment sometimes by the Odor or Scent of hot and cold things also by the over much use of Venery especially in those who are animated thereunto through the use of provoking Medicines other violent Exercises and too much sleep c. also doth cause this Distemper The Symptoms or Signs are heaviness in the Head dulness of the Senses long sleep and much snorting a snotty running Nose more then ordinary spitting the body often or altogether Costive and much troubled with Wind. If this Disease come of a very cold Humour the Patient will be sensible of much cold the Face pale the Spittle sweet sour Belchings slimy and watry Matter and a general Flegmatick constitution of body If the Humour distilling is hot it will appear by the redness of the Face thirst salt and very sharp inflamations pains and Ulcers in the Mouth and most commnoly a cholerick constitution of the whole body There are two sorts of Catarrhs the one hot the other cold The hot Catarrh is cured by Medicines which discharge the Matter found offending which doth thicken and take away as also by Correcting the distemper of the parts sending and receiving the same So forthwith let Blood especially where the Body is full if age and strength will permit and take it by degrees forth of the Liver or middle Vein in the right Arm or as occasion serves open the Vein under the Tongue After which give to the Patient the following Potion Take Rubarb four Scruples Myvabelans rubbed with Oyl of sweet Almonds one Scruple and a half Yellow Sanders ten Grains infuse them in a sufficient quantity of Purslain and Letuce Water after which strain it and add thereto Syrup of Roses Solutive and Manna of each eight Drams make it up into a Potion and give it in the Morning all at once Or make use first of the following Glister Take the Flowers of Violets and Camomil Dill Mallows Mercury wild Betouy of each one handfull Cut and Bruise them small and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half then strain it and to one Pint of the strained Liquor aâ—â— Hiera simple one Ounce and a half Oyl of Camomil three Ounces common Salt one Dram. Mix them well together and put it up into the Fundament Glister ways You may give to the Patient to drink a decoction made of Tamarinds and cold Herbs to which you may add some purging Medicines as Senna Rhubarb c. Or make use of the following Julip Take the four great cold seeds white Poppy Seeds of each two Drams Plantain Purslant and Letuce of each one handfull Red Poppies Violets and Water Lillies of each half a handful boil them in a sufficient quantity of running Water to one Pint strain it and add thereto Syrup of dryed Red Roses and Violets of each one Ounce and a half being mixed together divide it into three parts and drink one part thereof first and last so long as need require Or instead thereof use the distilled Water of the forementioned Herb or the Emulsions of the four cold Seeds which are all of a specifick vertue to thicken the Humour And also make use of the Oyntment made as followeth Take Oyl of Roses and Water Lillies of each one Ounce Rose water half an Ounce Vinegar of Roses two Drams Mix them well together in a Silver Dish over some Coles and anoint the Head therewith and with Lint apply it warm to the Temples An excellent Foot Bath for the Catarrh Take three Quarts of Lye made of wood Ashes red Wine one Quart add thereto Camomil and Bay Salt of each one handfull Let them boil together for a small time and bath the Feet therewith first and last Or Take Betony Dill and Camomil Flowers the Leaves and Flowers of Poppies and willow Leaves of each a good quantity and make a Bath therewith and bath their Feet therein as afore directed after which apply to the Soles of the Feet warm the green Buds or Leaves of the Oak bruised and beat well together with a small quantity of Salt and Vinegar The more to restrain the flux and thicken the Humour Take Syrup of Poppies dryed Red Roses and Syrup of Violets of each two Ounces of which take an Ounce thereof every night going to Bed Or Take the Species called Diatragacanth frigid one Dram Conserve of old Red Roses three Drams fine Bole washed in Rose Water and the Powder of Mastick of each one Scruple and a half with the Syrup of dryed Red Roses make it into an Electuary according to Art whereof take as much as a small Nut every night last Another to spose the Gatarrh or defluxion of Rheume Take the finest Bole washed in Rose Water and prepared two Drams the best white Starch one Dram Gum Arabick and Gum Tragacanth White Poppy Seed of each half a Dram beating all into fine Powder add thereto Conserve of Red Roses two Ounces and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Poppies make them up into an Electuary whereof let the Patient take often the quantity of half a Wallnut The Cure of the cold Catarrh consists in the preparing and evacuating of the offending Humors and by the clear
white Sugar in a stone Bottle close stopped and set in a pot of water for two or three hours but open not the Bottle till it be cold then strain it and keep it for use of which give to the Child one or two Spoonfulls at a time for I will assure you it is a very excellent remedy and has cured many which have been lest past recovery Or give to the Child in the very Fit all the Gall of a Black sucking Puppy being choaked in the distilled water of Tile-flowers but for a Girl take the Gall of a Bitch Whelp There may be safely Blistering Plaisters applyed to the Nape of the Neck Cupping Glasses to the Shoulders and Loins with Scarification provided the Child be a year and half or two years of Age. CHAP. VI. Of the Apoplexie AN Apoplexie is a sudden privation both of the Sense and Motion of the Body and an interruption of the Animal Functions There are two sorts of Apoplexies the one strong the other more mild the strong is a most sharp Distemper and strangleth a Man forthwith or if not presently prevented turneth to a Palsey and is seldom cured But the milder sort is curable for in it both Motion and Sense remain but both very stupid heavy and exceeding dull The cause of the Apoplexie is too frequently in these dayes drunkenness falls from high places blows c. also it hapneth of Flegmatick Humours which doth fill and obstruct at one time the principal Ventricles of the Brain very cold Air which congeals or thickens the moist Excrements of the Brain is also oftentimes the cause of this distemper and it frequently cometh through gross melancholy humours The Symptoms or Signs of this deadly distemper are violent pains in the Head swelling of the Neck Veins a Vertigo and a brightness or a kind of glittering before their Eyes panting of the Body a coldness of the extream parts without any cause visible dull and slow in motion and in sleep oftentimes gnaw their Teeth their Urine little in quantity and black much like to Rust and the Canker in Mettals and hath a setling in the bottom like to flower Such that are troubled with the Apoplexie have not always evil Symptoms perceived before hand but fall down suddenly as if they were struck with Thunder and they lie with their Eyes fastned and snort without Sense Motion or Understanding differing from the dead only by Breathing and that with much difficulty This Disease for the most part happens to old men that are decrepit and of a Flegmatick Complexion and to the great drinkers of Brandy and decayed Wine too much made use of in these dayes were the Truth known The Cure of the milder sort of Apoplexie may be performed as followeth If the Cure be not too desperate in plethorick or full Bodies where strength will permit open the Cephalick Veins but take not away too much blood at a time but rather at several times I have often seen the Jugular Veins on both sides the Neck opened not without wonderfull success However bleeding ought not to be attempted without very good advice But give to the Patient the Glister made as followeth Take Lavender Hysop Pennyroyal Centaury Marjoram Betony Rue Origan Sage of each half a handfull Seeds of Fennel Carawayes Seselis Agarick Pollipody Pulp of Colocynthis of each two Drams cut and bruise them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half then strain it and to one Pint of the strained Liquor add thereto Sal Gemme one Dram and a half Hiera Picra one Ounce and a half Oyl of Rue Castor and Bay-berries of each half an Ounce the Extract of black Hellebor one Scruple mix them altogether and make a Glister thereof Or Take hard Honey half an Ounce Euphorbium half a Scruple the Powder of Colocinthys twenty Grains Sal Gemma two Scruples boil them together and make Suppositories thereof and fix Threads thereto that after they are put up into the Fundament you may draw them forth at pleasure When you have done thus provoke the Patient to Sneese with the following Powder Take Pellitory of Spain Marjoram white Hellebor of each half a Scruple Euphorbium and Castor of each five Grains being made into fine Powder snuff it up into the Nostrils or blow it up through a Quill but a little at a time Or make use of the Powder directed in the Chapter of the Falling sickness made as followeth Take the Seeds of Nigella half a Dram Nutmeg Mumia Peony Roots of each ten Grains dryed Marjoram six Grains Musk two Grains all being made into fine powder blow a small quantity thereof up into the Nostrils For it is most wonderfully effectual in the Fit of the Vertigo Falling Sickness and Apoplexie In places where such ingredients cannot be soon obtained take Nutmeg Ginger and sweet Marjoram or Ginger alone and blow it up into the Nostils as afore directed Or let the Patient smell to Galbauum Castor Opoponax or Sagapenum which will be a means to raise and stir him up It will also be necessary to annoint the Patients Back bone with the following Oyntment Take Oyl of Euphorbium Castor of each one Ounce Oyl of Costinum one Ounce the Oyl of Petraeleum and Juniper of each two Drams with a sufficient quantity of Virgins Wax make it into an Oyntment And take every Morning fasting the quantity of a Nutmeg of the Electuary made as followeth for it is a great preseruative against the Apoplexie Take the Conserve of Sage Betony of each half an Ounce Rosemary one Ounce Venice Treacle three Drams the Confection of Anacardit two Drams Diambra and Diamoschi Dulcis of each one Dram Powder of Castor and Seeds of Rocket of each half a Dram with Syrup of Betony make them up into an Electuary to which mix Oyl of Vitriol two Scruples Oyl of Cinamon ten drops stirring it well together Or Take Rosemary and Lavender-flowers of each one handfull Roses Violets Staechados Origan of each half a handfull Pellitory Peony Roots Gallingal of each half an Ounce Sea or Mountain Onign two Drams Cubebes one Dram Cloves Cardamoms Cinamon of each twenty Grains being cut and bruised boil them in one Pint of the distilled Water of Marjoram and a Pint and a half of Betony Water mixed together after which strain it and sweeten it with half a pound of the best Sugar or with eight or ten Ounces of the Syrup of Staechados and take thereof three or four spoonfulls every Morning fasting Purging Medicines proper in this Disease are made as followeth Take Extract of black Hellebor from 10 Grains to 15 Rosin of Colocynthis three Grains Spirit of Sal Armoniack six drops Tartar Vitriolatum Powder of Castor of each ten Grains with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Sage make them into a Potion which you may take every third Morning if need require Or Take Pills of Euphorbium Cochiae Aureae of each 15 or 20 Grains
twelve ounces boil them altogether in some new-glased Vessel to the consumption of the third part after which strain it and keep it for the foresaid use Or take Plantain water and Red-Rose-water of each one pint Roch-Allum and Mercury sublimate of each two drams Camphir one dram and a half powder what is to be powdered and boil them altogether in a glased Vessel to the consumption of the third part as afore directed which keep close stopped for use for they both dry exceedingly you may sometimes anoint the part with the forementioned Ointment or with the Ointment of Roses alone to keep the Ulcer supple c. CHAP. XIII Of the Tooth-Ach THe Tooth-Ach is caused several ways either from a flux of humours cold and flegmy or hot and watry sharp and salt c. And those humours deflux to the Membranes of the Jaws and to the holes wherein the Teeth are and to the Nerve placed in the root of the Jaw c. and sometimes the pain in the Teeth is caused through inflammation of the Gums c. but when a swelling riseth upon the Gums or Jaws the pain of the Teeth cease Much more might be said as touching the pains of the Teeth c. which here I must omit If the pain comes of hot humours open a Vein on the same-side in the Arm but if the pain come through cold bleeding will not be profitable And the day following let the Patient purge with my Pills c. and if need require apply blistering Plaisters to the neck or behind the ears which do much draw back the humours Or take of the best Aqua Vitae and Sallet-Oyl of each one good spoonful Pepper beat to fine Powder from two scruples to a dram being mixed well together drop two or three drops into the contrary ear and stop it up with black wool dipt therein and lie upon the other side This is most proper if the pain come of cold Or take of the best Opium and Bees Wax of each a like quantity and work it well together before the fire with your fingers wherewith mix a small quantity of Lint and put it up into the hollow Tooth for if the pain come of heat it will give present ease and cureth in a short time If the pain come through cold take Sugar and Pepper beat in fine Powder being melted together in a Brass Copper or Silver Ladle and made up in round Balls while hot held between the Teeth gives present ease To hinder the defluxion apply to the Temples the Plaisters made as followeth Take Gum Elemi and Mastick of each alike melt them together being spread upon Silk apply them to the Temples The Plaister called Emplastrum ad Herniam applied as afore directed Or the Plaister of Mastick is likewise effectual An excellent remedy for all manner of pains in the Teeth Take Pellitory of Spain two ounces and a half cut and bruise it small after which put it into a Glass-Vessel and add thereto one pint of the best Sallet-Oyl hot shake them well together and stop the Vessel close and let it stand in the Sun or some other warm place for 14 days stirring or shaking the same once a day after which strain it and add thereto white Vitriol half an ounce Amber five drams both in very fine Powder and put it up in the Glass again being close stopped let it stand for one week shaking it every day as afore directed and so keep it for use and upon occasion with a feather drop one drop thereof upon the aking Tooth or Gums keeping the same for a small time in the mouth and it will help Or dissolve in a quarter of a pint of Spring-water one dram of the Powder of Roman Vitriol and hold thereof in the mouth Or take the distilled water of Rosemary and keep the same hot in the mouth and it will give ease Or take red Sealing-Wax two drams Roche Allum burnt one dram mix them well together and apply it to the Teeth or put thereof into the hollow Tooth Or take the Powder of double refined Sugar and Powder of White Pepper of each alike being melted in a Brazen or Coppet Ladle make it up into small Balls and hold them between your Teeth and it giveth present ease in all cold causes CHAP. XIV Of the Blackness and Rottenness of the Teeth and Exulceration of the Gums c. BLackness and Rottenness in the Teeth is often contracted by the evil humours sticking to them which in process of time doth corrode and cause them to be rotten c. The cause is through defluxion of vitious humours c. or of filthy vapours that ascend that are ingendered of evil nourishment from the distemper of the stomach c. which corrupt the good nourishment sometimes falls or blows causeth the Teeth to be corrupt and often times by taking too much Mercury inwardly or outwardly applied to cure the Pox c. And there are many women that frequently make use of Mercurial waters to beautifie their faces or to make themselves more fair by which means their Teeth are made black and corrupt c. To make them white again Take Spirit of Vitriol and dip there in brown Paper and roll the Paper up into little Balls and rub the Teeth therewith Oyl of Sulphur used in the like manner will also cause the Teeth to be exceeding white Or you may take Spring-water and drop therein a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Vitriol or Oyl of Sulphur and so gargle the Mouth and Teeth therewith Some take Aqua-fortis and dip Paper therein and rub the Teeth therewith but you must have a care that you touch not the Gums Or take white Corral and Pearl of each two drams beat them into fine Powder and rub your Teeth therewith and they will become very white Or take the ashes of Vine-branches and rub your Teeth therewith Or take the hard Crusts of Rye or Barley bread burn them and make it to Powder and the Teeth rubbed therewith will cause them to be white To make rotten Teeth sound Take the juice of Water-Cresses and White-Wine in equal parts mix them together and rub the Teeth and Gums therewith and often gargle the Mouth with the same The ashes of Tobacco is of excellent use to cleanse the Teeth and to make them white Or take Allum white Corral the Roots of Snakeweed of each half an Ounce beat them to powder and often rub the teeth Or take Pumestone white Corral Alablaster fish Bones Tarter Orris-Roots Pebble-stones of each two Drams Cinnamon Cloves of each one dram and a half Sal-Armoniack half a dram Amber-greese and Musk of each five grains being mixed and made into fine powder rub the Teeth therewith and wash your mouth with Rose-water and Vinegar or with Spring-water and Vinegar which will serve as well Or take common Salt white Marble Pomestone white Corral of each two drams Mastick Citron-peels of each one dram Musk three grains being
Lapis Lazuli of each 15. or 20. Grains make them into seven Pills with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Fumatory And take them as afore directed Or Take Heira Picra Simple and make it up into Pills as big as Gray Pease And take thereof three at a time every second or third night at the hour of sleep for they are of excellent use and good against vicious Juice which oftentimes Furr the Tunicles of the Stomack and for such idle fancies as the Brain suffers thereby The Pills of Faetidae taken once or twice aweek are also a very good remedy against the Vertigo So are my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills taken two or three at a time more or less according to the age and strength of the Patient For they above any yet found out are of most excellent use to cleanse the Stomack of all pituitous matter so hinders the ascension of Vapours from thence that so frequently hurt the Brain The like Vertue they have in all other Distempers that affect the same which in the following discourse shall be more plainly demonstrated Medicines which strengthen the Stomack and Brain in this distemper are made as followeth and are exceeding profitable Take Misselto of the white Thorn or Oak Gallingal Mace of each one Dram and a half Nutmegs Rosemary of each one Dram Cloves half a Dram Sugar one Ounce mix them and beat them into fine Powder and take the quantity of one Dram every night going to Bed for fourteen days together Or Take Mustard Seed and Hemp Seed of each a like quantity and infuse them in Vinegar 24. hours then strain it and take thereof one or two Spoonfulls at a time every morning fasting Or Take Cummin Seed and infuse it for the space of 12. hours in the best White Wine Vinegar after which dry it very well then take two Drams thereof Fennel Seed Anniseed Anacardii of each half an Ounce Hysop Marjoram Cardamoms Cubebes Rosemary of each two Drams Gallingal Mace Nutmegs of each one Dram double refined Sugar five Ounces Mix and make all into fine Powder and take a small quantity thereof every day after Meals upon toasted Bread so long as it lasts or make it up into an Electuary with Syrup of Betony and take it as afore directed To strengthen the Brain if the Vertigo come of a cold cause Take dry Marjorum Cinamon Cloves of each one Scruple Cubebes Mace Nutmegs of eech one Dram Rocket Seed two Drams being cut into small pieces mix them well together of which let the Patient take a small quantity and chew in his mouth every morning fasting as long as need shall require and each time let the Nostrils be stopped till the tast thereof be gone forth of the Mouth If Flegm be the cause of this Disease the following Gargarisme will prove of special use However it will be requisite if Flegm be not the cause Take Rocket Seed half an Ounce Pellitory of Spain three Drams Betony and Marjoram of each half a handfull cut and bruise them and boil them in White Wine and Water of each half a Pint to the consumption of half strain it and add thereto three Ounces of Honey of Roses and gargle therewith once or twice a day for it doth most wonderfully attract or draw the pituitous matter from the Brain c. So doth the Juice of Black and Red Beets or the Juice of Sow Bread being snuffed up into the Nostrils If the Disease prove violent you may safely bleed in the Cephalick Vein not too much at a time but take it forth at several times least the Patient faint When the body is purged according to the aforesaid directions apply blistering Plaisters to the Nape of the Neck and Hand-rists or apply Cupping Glasses to the hinder part of the head with scarification CHAP. V. Of the Falling Sickness THe Falling Sickness is a Convulsion or for the most part a praeternatural motion of the whole body and most commonly depriveth the Patient both of Reason and Sense There are three differences in this Distemper The first is caused when this Disease cometh only through the disease in the Brain as it falleth out when sharp Choler or gross and tough Flegm doth obstruct the passage of the Spirit in the Ventricle of the Brain and if this distemper cometh of a gross humour it doth suddenly seize upon the Patient and is quickly gone again The second Cause is through an evil affect in the Orifice of the Stomack that may be when the Brain laboureth to expel the Vapours that arise up to it from the Stomack The third cause is from Vapours which ascend by consent from most parts of the Body or else from some particular Member which the Patient may perceive like to cold Air creeping up to the Brain but this doth but seldom happen The signs of the Falling sickness are many in some sadness and forgetfulness c. in others a foolish state both of Body and Mind troublesome dreams the Head-ach and fullness in it more especially in passion or anger the Face commonly pale and the motion of the Tongue inordinate and oftentimes they bite it As soon as this Disease seizeth upon the Patient he falls down and is plucked up together he snorts and sometimes cries out many tremble and turn round The only sign of this Disease is foaming at the Mouth which happens most to Children and young people In the fit of the Falling Sickness as soon as the Patient falleth down open his Mouth with a stick the haft of a Knife or with the handle of a Spoon and after his Mouth is made clean by taking away the foam with a Rag or Feather give him to drink the following Julip Take the distilled Water of Lavender three Spoonfulls Syrup of Cowslips one Ounce Spirit of Vitriol or the Oyl of the same well rectified 20. Drops beingmixed together give it as afore directed The Chymical Oyl of Angelica given in the foresaid Water and Syrup doth also take away the Fit Or Take Red Coral Pearl prepared of each half a Scruple Vnicorns Horn two Scruples the Skull of a man hanged or killed by chance half a Dram the Roots and Seeds of Peony of each half a Scruple Musk three or four Grains being mixed and made into fine Powder give to the Patient in the Fit from half a Dram to two Scruples or a whole Dram to the stronger sort first infused for a small time in the distilled Water of Lavender Or Take white Helleber Marjoram of each one Scruple Castor and Euphorbium of each four Grains being mixed and made into fine Powder blow a small quantity at a time through a Quill up into the Patients Nostrils Or Take the Seeds of Nigella half a Dram Nutmegs Peony Roots Mumma of each 10 Grains dryed Marjorum six Grains Musk two Grains all being made into Powder blow it up into the Nostrils as afore directed Those and such like I will assure you are
Troches Alhandal three Grains with the distilled VVater of Marjoram make them up into seven Pills of which take three at night and four in the Morning especially near the Full and Change of the Moon Or take the Pills directed in the Chapter of the Vertigo Or make use of the following Liquor Take the Flowers of Sage Rosemary Betony and Lavender of each one good handfull Castor two Drams Sugar-candy four Ounces boil these in one Gallon of Water to the consumption of the third part strain it and drink thereof at any time hot for it is of excellent use to prevent the Apoplexie CHAP. VII Of the Palsey THe Palsey is a distemper wherein the one half of the Body either the right or left doth lose both Sense and Motion and then it may be called a general Palsey But sometimes it hapneth in one Member only as in the Head the Tongue the Hand and the Yard Leg c. In the Palsey sometimes Sense is only lost and sometimes Motion alone and at other times both Sense and Motion The cause of this Disease is through abundance of gross tough and clammy Humours which obstruct or stop the Sinews hindering the Animal faculty that it cannot come from the Fountain to the Members Sometimes it is caused through immoderate Cold at other times through excessive heat or inflamation or by some Schirrus or hardness in the Back bone or in the parts adjacent or in other Sinewy parts over much pressed or crushed by which means the Animal faculty cannot pass Many times it is caused through a Feaver and that principally ingendred of melancholy possessing the mind and changing the temperature thereof It is frequently caused three manner of ways sometimes of Melancholy it self and sometimes by the alteration of the Blood in the Brain and through inflammation and evil affect of the Stomack and Sides The signs of the Palsey are many as sadness fearfulness envy hatred strange fantasies or imaginations This is no acute Disease but Chronical or of long continuance and for the most part curable especially in young people or when the paralitick Member doth not become less or change his Colour for if so it is hardly curable In this Distemper his Diet ought to be slender and drying and for the first two or three days let him altogether abstain or be content with Broath made of Barley unhusked or with Mede c. after let him have Meat of good Juice and of light digestion and that well Roasted Let him eat Partridge Larks and such like Pine-nuts and Almonds Let him take of Savory Sage Parsley Fennel Hysop and Marjoram And forbear all things that are cold and moist as Fish Fruit c. and drink sparingly except of Honey and Water wherein is boiled Sage and Cinamon Or of the drink made as followeth Take Gallingal long Pepper Nutmegs Cloves and Mace of each one Dram Cardamoms one Dram and a half Ginger half an Ounce the best Cinamon two Ounces boil them altogether in three or four Quarts of running Water to the consumption of half then strain it and add thereto eight Ounces of the best Sugar and drink thereof a small quantity at a time first and last In the time of Cure drink no Brandy neither any other strong Spirits of that Nature Also forbear Wine except a small quantity towards the latter end of the Cure Exercise and motion is good also mirth sleep in the night but not in the day The Cure ought to be began with Blood-letting if age and strength will permit especially where fullness abounds but it ought to be taken away with moderation least the Body should be over much cooled and also observe to open the Veins on the well and whole side and a day or two after cleanse the Bowels with the following Glister Take Sage Betony Camomil Mercury both sorts of Mallows of each one handfull Calamint and Rue of each half a handfull Staechados half an Ounce the Seeds of Ammeos and Fennel of each two Drams Cut and Bruise them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of the third part strain it and take a Pint thereof to which add the Electuary called Benedictum Laxativum and Diacatholicon of each half an Ounce the Extract of black Hellebor 20 Grains Oyl of Rue Oris and Bayes of each six Drams Sal Gemmae two Scruples being mixed together and a Glister made thereof put it up according to Art You may make use of the Pills directed in the Chapter of the Vertigo for they are uery proper in this Distemper The next day after Purging make use of the sweating Potion made as followeth Take Venice Treacle one Dram the Powder of Virginia Snakeweed one Scruple Oyl of Vitriol well Rectified ten drops Syrup of Cowslips one Ounce Carduus Water three Ounces mix them all well together and make a Potion thereof which take in the Morning and sweat as strength will permit repeating the same as need require To comfort and strengthen the Vital and Animal Spirits especially in persons afflicted with this Disease make use of the following Cordial Julip Take of the distilled Water of Cowslips and Lavender of each three Ounces Syrup of Betony and Cowslips of each two Ounces Spirit of Lavender and Castor of each one Ounce and a half Oyl of Vitriol Rectified 20 drops or as much as will cause it to be of a sharp tast of which take one Spoonfull first and last or at any time when ill or fainty Anoint the Region of the Back with the following Oyntment Take Oyl of Nutmegs Nard Oyl and Oyl of Foxes of each one Ounce the Juice of Sage and St. Johnwort of each three Drams Sagapenum dissolved in Juniper Water two Drams Powder of Castor and Euphorbium of each one Dram with a sufficient quantity of Wax make it up into an Oyntment Or Take the Oyl of Juniper berries Euphorbium and Castor of each half an Ounce Oyl of St. Johnswort and Terpentine of each one Dram the Water of Juniper three Drams mix them all well together and anoint the parts affected therewith for it is also of excellent vertue Or Take Oyl of Earth-worms Foxes and Castor of each one Ounce Lucatelles Balsom two or three Ounces Spirit of Sack half an Ounce the Chymical Oyl of Rosemary one Dram and a half mix them well together and anoint the Back therewith hot and the other parts affected and cover them with warm Cloths Another Oyntment of excellent use in t he Palsey and weakness of the Limbs pains in the Joynts c. Take Bay-leaves Rue St. Johns-wort of each three handfulls Camomil Sage and green Rosemary of each one handfull cut and bruise them very small then add thereto Neats-foot Oyl three Pints Caraway Seed bruised one Ounce and a half after which boil them all together over a gentle fire till the Oyl become Green and the Herbs dry then strain it and add to the strained Liquor one Bull or
distill them of which Water drop into the Corners of the Eyes and it will take away the inflamation and redness Or Take the distilled Water of Beech-tree Flowers and make Rags moist therein and apply them to the Eyes Or Take the Water distilled from the Flowers of Hogs Fennel Garden Fennel Celendine and Elder Flowers of each a like quantity and make Jews-ears moist therein and apply them to the Eyes Or make use of the water of Hogs Fennel alone in the foresaid manner for it is of excellent use Or Take white Vitriol half an Ounce white Sugarcandy one Ounce Camphir two Drams being beat to Powder add thereto of the distilled Water of Eye-bright and Fennel of each one Pint and in a new Earthen pot being covered close let it boil gently to the consumption of the fourth part when cold put it into a Glass and keep it close stopped for use And dip a Linnen Rag therein and apply it to the Eye-lids being first shut for it is of wonderfull vertue in such cases How to Cure the Cataract or Pearls in the Eyes Take a Copper Bason which is not Tinned and spread in the bottom thereof a sufficient quantity of Salt then a quantity of Strawberries then Salt so do till the Bason be full after which cover the Bason very close and put it under ground one foot or more deep for the space of a Month then take it forth and distill it of which precious Water drop into the Eyes Morning and Evening Or take the Roots of Burr-docks Cichory and Celandine of each a like quantity bruise them and sew them up into a piece of Cloth or Silk and hang them about the Neck and when they are dry take fresh and when you are well burn the Boots Some have found good by wearing the Roots of water Pepper seven or eight in number hanged about the Neck which Roots must be gathered upon St. Batholomews day before the Sun rise Or Take Hemlock one small handfull Bay Salt two Ounces being beat well together and apply it to the contrary Hand-rist for the space of 24 hours which will take away the Pin and Web at four five times dressing Take Borau and burn it till it be very white and dry then beat it to fine Powder and with a Quill blow a small quantity thereof into the Eyes Or Take white Vitriol two Drams one Clove of white Ginger Camphir one Scruple dissolved in one Spoonfull of Aqua Vitae put them all together in six Ounces of Rose Water in a Glass well stopped up and so let it stand for three Weeks then drop it into the Eyes as afore directed and you will find it to be a very good remedy to take off the Cataract Or Take the Stone called Lapis Judaicus white Vitriol of each a like beat it to fine Powder and put it into the hollow part of an Egg roasted hard first being cut through the middle and the Yelk only taken forth after which joyn the Egg together again and so let it continue certain days in a Glass or some Earthen Vessel well glazed then strain it and add thereto a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Penyroyal and stop it up very close in a Glass and cover it with Past and set it into an Oven with Brown Bread and when it is cold take it forth and keep it for use and with Lint or fine Linnen Rags apply it to the Eye-lids being close shut repeating the same till the filme or spots depart Or Take Red Ants Eggs and put them into a glazed Vessel and stop it close then cover the same with Rye Past and Bake it with Brown Bread and when it is cold break the Pot and take forth the Water very carefully and keep it for use of which drop into the Eyes as cause requires for it doth not only help the Cataract but most infirmities of the Eyes For Blows in the Eyes Take the Roots of Cichory and bruise them very well and mix therewith the White of an Egge and apply it to the Eye Or take Celandine and Agrimony of each a like quantity bruise them well together and apply the same to the Eyes repeating it as often as need require This is good for most Diseases in the Eyes and abateth the pains caused by inflamations For swelling of the Eyes Take a fine Linnen Rag made moist in Wine and apply it to the Eyes and upon that another made moist in Sorrel or Rose Water For the Pin and Web. Take one Dram of the fine Powder of Liquorice Ginger half a Dram being mixed well together blow a small quantity thereof into the Eyes and it helpeth Another excellent Remedy for the Cataract Pin and Web. Take good store of Crickets which commonly are in Bake-houses c. bruise them well and strain forth the Juice and drop one drop into the Eye thrice a day and though the Patient be as it were blind he shall be restored Ear Wax put into the Eyes is also of excellent use so is the Oyl that may be taken forth of the great Bone in a Gooses Wing The Gall of a Cock mixed with the like quantity of Honey and the Eyes annointed therewith clears the sight The Gall of an Hare and the Gauls of Eles are also very good Or Take the Juice of Alehoof which is the right ground Ivy the Juice of Celandine and Field Daisies of each a small quantity and after you have clarified it mix therewith a little fine Sugarcandy and drop it into the Eyes first and last for it is not only a good Remedy for all pains redness and waterness of the Eyes but for the Pin and Web and all manner of Filmes growing over the sight The Juice of Alehoof alone mixed with two or three Corns of Bay Salt and a little Honey will effect the same Much more might be said touching the Diseases of the Eyes and the several Cures thereof which I shall leave to the skillfull Oculist Only for all Rhumes hot sharp salt and Watry Humours which deflux or fall upon the Eye s though caused through the worst of Distempers as the French Pox c. make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills according to Directions Or if possible of a better Medicine which did I but know I would inform you of CHAP. XI Of the Ears THE Ears are incident to many infirmities as violent pains sound and noise deafness thick and slow hearing inflamations c. The pain in the Ears is often caused through cold taken in Journeys cold Baths also it happeneth to many through not distempers and sometimes through inflamations and many times sharp Humours coming of the French Pox c. do absolutely cause pains and pricking in the Ears The sound and noise in the Ears is for the most part ingendred of a windy Vapour or of tough and gross Humours and many times through the weakness of the Members as it often happens upon the recovery of a Disease
third part After which strain it and add thereto Syrup of Wormwood one ounce and a half Syrup of Agrimony six ounces Being well mixed together let the Patient drink four ounces at a time twice a day first in the morning and two hours after Dinner Or let him take often of the Conserve of Wormwood mixing therewith each time a drop or two of the Chymical Oyl Or drink some drops of the Spirit in Wine first and last two hours before Dinner and two hours after Outwardly you may use the Oyl of Wormwood Nard and Oyl of Camomil mixed together making it hot Or take Nard Oyl Oyl of Wormwood and Rue of each one ounce and a half Spicknard Squinant Cinamon Cloves Mastick Wood of Aloes all made into fine Powder of each two scruples with a sufficient quantity of the best Wax make them up into an Ointment And let the Patient make use of such meats as are of light Digestion which are with all somewhat heating and let him drink Wine at Meals that is thin and hot broth wherein is boiled Sage Savory Sauthernwood Hysop Fennel and Parsly and such like In the moist Distemper of the Liver Let the Patient make use of drying Medicines as the Decoction of Sasaphras Saâ—saperilla Lignum vita and China c. and let him eat flesh well roasted and let him make use of dry Baths or hot Houses Or take Venice Treacle one dram Diaphoretick Antimony ten grains Chymical Oyl of Wormwood five drops mix them together drink it off in a Glass of Sack and sweat moderately Thus do once or twice a week Or take Dialacca Diacurcuma and Syrup of Wormwood of each one ounce mix them together and take as much as a Nutmeg at a time morning and evening for it is not onely good against the over-moistness of the Liver but very good against the Dropsie because it strengthens the Liver c. In the dry Distemper of the Liver The Patient ought to make use of moist Medicines therefore if the Body be costive take at night going to Bed one ounce of the Lenitive Electuary or of Cassia newly drawn with either of which mix two or three drops of the Chymical Oyl of VVormwood for that will strengthen the Liver You may take the powder of a VVolfs Liver well prepared one dram the distilled VVater of Strawberries four ounces Syrup of Violets half an ounce being mixed together drink it all at once in the morning repeating the same as need require The Livers of young Rooks washed in White-wine and after dried and made into fine powder as aforesaid is very profitable in such cases Or take half a dram every morning of Diamargaritum frigidum or Diatragacanti frigidi or Pulvis Haly as afore-directed for I will assure you it is also very profitable CHAP. XXIII Of the Stoppage of the Liver THe Stoppage of the Liver is a continual straightness of the Branches of the Gate and hollow Vein c. The cause of which stoppage is oftentimes viscous gross and clammy Excrements sometimes the over-plenty of Humours causeth stoppage more especially when they are tough and clammy and cannot find a free passage The Signs are known by Grief and Heaviness about the right side and stretching forth If this stoppage come of gross and tough humours then followeth heaviness with sense of pain but sometime ease and then pain again Sometimes the Patient hath a Fever and sometimes no Fever Oftentimes the breath is short and very difficult especially when the Patient goeth up a hill or up a pair of stairs or walketh fast because the parts stopped do draw the Midriff downwards and so hinders its free motion The Cure of this Distemper ought to be begun with Medicines that will cause plentiful Evacuation of the whole Body by a potion or Pills agreeable to the nature of the Distemper Therefore make use of the following Potion Take of the Electuary of the Juice of Roses six drams Syrup of Cichory with Rhubarb three drams Salt of Tartar ten grains Salt of Wormwood twelve grains with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Cichory make a potion thereof which take in the morning fasting Or take Rosin of Scamony and Rosin of Jallap of each ten grains Extract of Rhubarb fifteen grains Tartarum Vitriolatum twelve grains Salt of Wormwood five grains with a sufficient quantity of the foresaid water or the distilled VVater of Fumatory make a Potion thereof which drink as afore-directed Note either of these potions may serve the weaker sort twice being equally divided Or if you please take of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they very powerfully open all manner of Obstructions and strengthens the Liver besides And after the Patient hath taken of either of the Potions or the Pills afore-directed if the Body abound with fulness open the Liver-Vein in the right Arm and draw forth such a quantity of Blood as may be thought requisite After which make use of the following Broth Take Roots of Sparagus Smallage and Parsly of each half an ounce Agrimony Maiden-hair and Hysop of each one handful Crystal of Tartar that is rightly prepared one dram boil them with a Neck of Mutton or with a Chicken and make broth therewith every morning for a week or nine days together Every second or third day you may infuse into this broth one dram of Anniseed which will keep the Body very soluble Or make use of the following Pills for they also are good to remove Obstructions Take of the Pills of Hiera with Agarick one ounce the Troches of Agarick one dram the Powder of the lesser compound of Senne half an ounce Aloes Rosate two drams the Powder of Steel one ounce and a half the faecula of Briony Aron and Piony round Birth-wort Madder Borax Cloves of each half a dram Salt of Mugwort one scruple Spirit of VVormwood fifteen drops the Powder of Turpentine one dram with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Cichory with Rhubarb make them up into a mass for Pills The Dose is from two scruples to one dram Or take Filings of Steel one ounce Elicampane and Eringo-Roots of each half an ounce Senne one ounce and a half the inward Rind of Tamarisk two drams Epithimum half an ounce Cinamon and faecula of Briony of each one dram the Powder of white yellow and red Sanders of each twenty grains VVhite-wine and the distilled water of Agrimony of each half a pint being infused three days in Balneo Maria strain it and take thereof three ounces every day two or three hours before Dinner Or make use of the following Syrup Take of the Filings of Steel infused in Vinegar two ounces the middle Rind of Tamarisk half an ounce Cinamon three drams Ceterach half a handful the distilled Water of Agrimony and Wormwood of each half a pint White-Wine sixteen ounces infuse them in some warm place for six or seven days then strain it and add to the strained Liquor of the best double
refined-Sugar one pound and a half and make a Syrup thereof according to Art of which let the Patient take two or three spoonfuls every morning fasting The following Pills are also of excellent use Take Rhubarb Senne Aloes Succatrina Agarick Jallap of each one dram Steel prepared with Sulphur half an ounce Diarrhodon Abbatis half a dram Saffron ten grains Mercurius Dulcis one dram with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Roses solutive make them up in a mass and of every dram make six Pills of which take two at night and three in the morning for fifteen or twenty days together if need require The more to strengthen the Liver and take away the obstructions of the same Take the Roots of Ground-pine and Orris the Seeds of Smallage and Annis of each two drams Asarum two drams and a half Camomile Flowers Ginger Cinamon and Carraway Seed of each one dram Red-Nettle-seed Gentian Hoarhound and Stacados of each two drams being all made into fine Powder make them up into an Electuary with a sufficient quantity of Oxymel of Squills This Medicine purgeth by Urine powerfully and hath done strange Cures You may take the quantity of a large Nutmeg at a time first in the morning and last at night the stronger sort may take more You may apply outwardly the Ointments directed in the Cold Distemper of the Liver c. CHAP. XXIV Of the DROPSIE THe Dropsie is a preternatural Collection of a thinnish Water c. There are in general three sorts of Dropsies The first is called Ascites The second Tympanites The third Anasarca Ascites is a swelling of the Belly and sometimes the Legs and Feet caused by a serous Humour and being of the Nature of Water it is cold but as it is salt it hath in it heat caused by the nearness of the Bowels and the more by the putrifaction which is gathered by long continuance from whence comes a fever and thirst namely from the stinking salt vapours which do infect the Orifice or mouth of the Stomach The Dropsie called Tympanites hath its Name from a Drum because the Abdomen is extended or stretched forth like to a Drum and being struck with your hand it sounds like it This extention is from Wind shut up in the hollowness of the Abdomen and sometimes in the hollowness of the Guts The wind which causeth a Tympany is seldom contained in the Belly alone but most commonly mixed with water as in Ascites not only water but wind also is contained Both which Dropsies have their Name of that which predominateth if more wind than water it is a Tympany if more water than wind an Ascites but if equal between both they cannot always be discerned one from the other The chief cause of wind is a raw Humour and thick whether Flegm or Melancholy which being stirred and made thin by heat sends forth thick vapours which are called flatus and are hard to be dissolved This thick raw Humour is partly in the Stomach and Guts but more especially between the Membranes of the Midriff and Guts So the more hard to be removed than from the hollowness of the parts aforesaid Hippocrates saith They who have pains and gripings about the Navel and Loins which cannot be removed have a dry Dropsie c. The Dropsie called Anasarca comes of a flegmatick Humour dispersed through the whole Body and therefore the Body is swelled and puft up and seems white from whence the Disease is called Leucophlegmatia This Flegm comes from a cold Liver which instead of good Blood produceth raw and flegmatick and when it cannot be turned into the substance of the parts leaves the raw part thereof unfit for nourishment upon them and so makes them swell from whence comes Anasarca or Leucophlegmatia this Disease in the beginning is called Cachexia c. Most Dropsies are caused through great coldness of the Liver or through other parts over-much cooled which doth bring the Liver oftentimes into the same affect The Liver is affected by the Spleen being cold and by the Stomach and Bowels likewise by the Lungs the Reins and Diaphragma and sometimes by the immoderate flux of the Hemorthoids or through the superfluity of Womens monthly Sickness but commonly through the obstruction or stoppage of the same and often through some other great affection of the Womb. And in all these the Liver is found without unnatural swelling and yet the Body affected with the Dropsie caused through the over-coldness of the Liver affected in the first place but afterward it groweth hard which may be seen in them which by drinking over-much small Beer and cold water have their Liver cooled so that the Dropsie forthwith followeth before the Liver is puft up with knotty swelling some fall into this Distemper through the loss of much Blood others after long-continued Agues c. ☞ But thousands in these days through the excessive drinking of Brandy which beyond all other Liquors commonly drunk Burns and dries up the Radical Moisture hinders the circulation of the Blood and turns it into a serous matter c. from which follows sudden death for I have not yet hardly seen an old Brandy-Drinker to receive a perfect Cure Some fall into the Dropsie after the Gout or through the violent pain of the Huckle-Bones commonly such whose Stomachs are dejected and have no good Digestion and have an evil habit of Body and troubled with the Jaundice forthwith follows the Dropsie Sometimes those who have a Dysenteria and the French Pox the Dropsie also follows The Symptoms or Signs of the Dropsie are in brief as followeth In that Dropsie called Ascites the whole Belly is swelled up and if it be but stricken there is heard such a kind of sound as a Bottle maketh that is not full of water but the other parts especially the upper parts of the Body are not swelled not puffed up In that Dropsie called Tympanites the Belly is puffed up and extended forth and being stricken it maketh a noise much like to a Tabor or Trimbrel but the other parts of the Body becomes lean In that Dropsie called Anasarca c. all the whole Body waxeth loose and as it were like to a Spunge so that it swelleth up and is like to a dead Body In most Dropsies the Feet Ankles and Legs especially upon the Shin-Bones commonly swell first sometimes the Belly and Privy Members c. so that if you thrust your fingers thereon the part will pit and leave an impression the colour of the Skin especially the Face is pale and swarthy the Urine little and thick and oftentimes very red the Breath short the Appetite dejected or altogether lost a troublesom thirst by reason of the sharpness and saltness of the humour in which the Stomach swimmeth and if not in time prevented then follows a lingering Fever c. from the corruption of the water which at length doth corrupt all the Bowels swimming therein ☞ As touching the most infallible Cure of Men
Burgundy Pitch and Harts Fat of each one ounce melt them together adding thereto one spoonful of Linseed Oil after which strain it into a Bason of cold water and with your hands rubbed with Sallet Oil make it up into a Roll and keep it for use for it giveth ease in most pains of the Joints being applied thereto CHAP. XXXV Of the Sciatica or Hip-Gout THe Sciatica is a violent pain in the Huckle-Bone which is caused for the most part through a gross flegmatick humour and being congealed is retained in the foresaid Bone Sometimes violent Exercise the stoppage of the Hemorrhoids and other accustomed Evacuations as the Mensis c. may also be the Cause of this Disease As touching the Cure In the first place let the Patient forbear drinking Brandy and sophisticated Wines and the unmeasurable use of Venery ☞ And make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they with much ease purge all flegmatick humours from the Joints if not of long standing there congealed Or take Oxymel of Squills from half an ounce to six drams at night going to Bed The next morning take the following potion Take the Electuary called Caryocostinum half an ounce Troches Alhandal five grains mix them with two or three ounces of White-wine and drink it off fasting repeating it as need shall require Or take the Powder of a Mans Skull that was never buried Hermodactils Senna and Turbith of each two drams Scamony prepared with Sulphur one dram being made into very fine Powder give to the Patient one dram at a time in the Distilled VVater of Fumatory or in Broth or Posset-Drink Or take Scamony prepared with Sulphur two scruples Mercurius Dulcis one scruple mix them and make it up for three doses The stronger may take it at twice as afore-directed which will eradicate or root out the Humour causing this Distemper but nothing near so powerfully as my Pills However let the Patient use his own pleasure Outward Medicines of Excellent Vse in this Disease are made as followeth Take a Bull 's or an Oxe's Gall and clarifie the same after which add thereto the like quantity of Aqua Vitae and gently boil the same till it come to Ointment with which anoint the part pained well before the fire Or take the Chymical Oil of Wax one dram and a half Oil of Myrrh and the Chymical Oil of Salt of each half a dram Oyl of Scorpions two drams being mixed together anoint therewith for it is of wonderful efficacy and to my knowledge hath helped many Castle-Sope is also of Excellent Virtue if it be first dissolved in the true Spirit of Sack and the Hip anointed therewith well before the fire You may also take the Oil of Foxes half an ounce Oil of Tiles and Earth-worms of each one ounce Oil of Turpentine and Saint John's wort of each one ounce and a half with a sufficient quantity of Virgins VVax make an Ointment thereof and use it as afore-directed Or take the Oil called Petrolei Oil of Tiles Juice of Dane-wort Turpentine of each one ounce Oil of Earth-worms one ounce and a half Spirit of Sack half an ounce melt all these together and anoint the grieved part hot therewith Or apply to the part the Plaister made of Frankincense White Wax c. in the Chapter of the Gout page 229. Or take Rosin Burgundy Pitch the Plaister of Paracelsus and Bees Wax of each one ounce Verdigrease in fine Powder half an ounce being melted altogether spread it upon Sheeps Leather and apply it to the part Some apply with excellent success Blistering Plaisters to the Huckle-Bone which doth attract or draw forth the matter to admiration keeping it running two or three days by the applying thereto a little Butter and Wax melted together and spread upon a Linnen Cloth CHAP. XXXVI Of the Invention and most Remarkable Cures effected by those most Famous CATHARTIQUE and DIURETIQUE PILLS ABout March in the Year 1661. many Persons sorely tormented with the Dropsie c. coming to me for Advice and then being ignorant of any Medicine though I had made trial of many that would combat the same put me upon a severe Study and soon after by searching the Great Volume of Nature observing the Property and occult Quality of Metals Minerals and Vegetables I arrived to the Knowledge and true Preparation of this most Incomparable Medicine And the first Pill that ever I gave thereof was to a very worthy Person a Good Friend of mine at which instant of time I took another my self which wrought upon us both very strange effects expelling not onely viscous or tough flegmatick Humours that lay furring the Tunicles of the Stomach but all sharp salt and watry Humours that were found offending And I will assure thee Reader that this Gentleman and many others with my self ever since the year 1662. upon the least indisposition of Body have made use of those Pills and thereby preserved our Bodies in Pristine Health Which may be a sufficient Argument to convince the People that this is a very Safe Medicine leaving no evil Qualities behind it as some of the same Faculty falsely to defraud the Patient do report In the year 1663. I effected many strange Cures upon persons very dangerously afflicted with the Dropsie and Scurvy c. Amongst which Captain Matthew Hall now belonging to Her Majesties Life-Guard being much troubled with the Dropsie and Scurvy for which he drunk plentifully of Tunbridge-Waters being there to wait upon Her Majesty but finding it rather destructive than to do him the least good against the Dropsie he forthwith made use of my Pills by which he had present help and will upon request testifie the same About September the same year I was called to a Gentleman then living in Black Friars sorely tormented with the Dropsie and from some other cause had Buboes in his Groins which were newly broke putting him to very great misery which with the Dropsie were soon cured with my Pills Onely he kept the Sores clean with White-wine wherein was dissolved a small quantity of Egyptiacum and applied thereto the Plaister of white Lead One Mr. John Powel a Taylor living then near to the aforesaid place troubled with a Tertian Ague his Legs much swelled who had a great Pain in his Back was in a very short time cured with my Pills The following Winter I was called to a Gentlewoman then living in Newgate-Market who had been for some years troubled with a violent pain in her Stomach and had made trial of many Medicines for help but found none till she made use of my Pills and drinking with them the Decoction of Pellitory of Spain and Gallingal as you have directed pag. 127. was perfectly cured and in a short time conceived with Child though she had had none before though married seven years About August or September 1664. Mr. Quallet then living in Field-Lane near Holburn sorely afflicted with the Dropsie Scurvy and Gout was in three weeks