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A28326	Blagrave's supplement or enlargement to Mr. Nich. Culpeppers English physitian containing a description of the form, names, place, time, coelestial government, and virtues, all such medicinal plants as grow in England, and are omitted in his book, called, The English-physitian, and supplying the additional virtues of such plants wherein he is defective : also the description, kinds, names, place, time, nature, planetary regiment, temperature, and physical virtues of all such trees, herbs, roots, flowers, fruits, excrescencies of plants, gums, ceres, and condensate juices, as are found in any part of the world, and brought to be sold in our druggist and apothecaries shops, with their dangers and corrections / by Joseph Blagrave ... ; to which is annexed, a new tract for the cure of wounds made by gun-shot or otherways, and remedies for the help of seamen troubled with the scurvy and other distempers ...	Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. English physician.	1674 (1674)	Wing B3121; ESTC R15907	274,441	310

four foot high sometimes more and sometimes less the winged leaves are somewhat narrower than those of the Elder but else very like it the flowers are white with a dash of purple standing in Vmbells like those of the Elder but more sweet in smell after which come small blackish berries full of juice while they are fresh wherein there lie small hard kernels or seed the root doth creep under the upper crust of the ground springing a fresh in divers places about the bigness of ones finger Jagged Dwarff-Elder Descript 8. THis is called in Latine Ebulus foliis laciniatis there can be known no difference between this and the other save onely in the leaves which do so deform the whole face of the plant that none almost would think it should belong to the former the flowers fruit and smell onely leading us to Judge of the Species the leaves are almost Jagged as much as the jagged Elder wherein consists the only difference in this from the former The Place and Time Common Elder groweth very frequently in hedges and in many places it is planted to serve for hedges and partitions for grounds and Gardens especially about London where the Gardeners plant it not onely to serve in their grounds but for the annual profit it yeeldeth both for the green buds flowers and fruit and it is planted likewise in many places where Coneys breed for shadow every stick or branch being thrust into the ground will easily take root and grow The second it is said was first found by Tragus in the Woods of Germany The third is found wild on Hills in watry Woods The fourth is only found planted in the Gardens of the Curious The fifth is found by watersides and Moorish places in Germany France England Italy and Peidmont in Savoy as Pena saith The sixt is nursed up onely in Gardens but best delighteth in moist Grounds The seventh groweth Wild in many places of England where if it be once gotten into a Ground it will so creep and spread it self under the upper crust of the earth that is will hardly be gotten out again The last is as yet a stranger in England The Time The common Elder shoots forth his buds early in the year-in the beginning of January if the weather be mild all or most of the Elders flower in June but the Danewort somewhat late as his fruit likewise is later ripe even not untill September but the others are ripe for the most part at the middle or latter end of August Government and Vertues In the judgement of Culpepper about the planetary dominion of these plants he much mistakes himself saying that both Elder and Walwort were under Venus but they are numbred amongst the violent purgers and of a heating and drying quality quite contrary to the nature of Venus as also their rank smell demonstrates I do therefore attribute them to the dominion of Mars in Scorpio both Galen and also Dioscorides do attribute to the Walwort aswell as to the common Elder for they account their properties both one a hot and dry temperature purging watry humors abundantly but not without trouble to the Stomack the first shoots of the common Elder boyled like unto Sparagus and the young leaves and stalks boyled in fat broth draweth forth mightily Choler and tough Flegm Choler Flegm the tender leaves also eaten with oyl and salt doth the same the middle or inner bark boyled in Water and given to drink worketh much more violently and the berries also either green or dry expell the same humors and is often given with good successe to help the Dropsie by evacuating great plenty of watrish humors Watry humors the bark of the root also boyled or the juice therof drunk worketh the same effects but more powerfully than do either the leaves or fruit the juice of the root taken provoketh Vomiting Vomit Dropsie mightily and purgeth the watry humors of the Dropsie the same decoction of the root cureth the biting of the Viper Viper Adder or Adder as also of a Mad-dog Mad-dog Mother and mollifieth the hardness of the Mother if Women sit therein and openeth the Veins and bringeth down their Courses Courses Hair made black Eyes inflamed Burning the berries boyled in Wine perform the same effects the hair of the Head or other parts washed therewith is made black the juice of the green leaves applied to hot inflamations of the Eyes asswageth them the leaves boyled until they be tender and then beaten and mixed with Barly-meal and applied to hot inflamations asswageth them and helpeth Burning Burning Scalding Sealding Fistula's Vlcers cureth Fistula's Ulcers being laid thereupon and easeth the pains of the Gout Gout Brain being beaten and boyled with tallow of a Bull or a Goat laid theron the juice of the leave snuffed up into the nostrills purgeth the Tunicles of the Brain the juice of the berries boyled with a little hony and dropped into the Eares Eares pained easeth the pains of them the decoction of the berries in Wine being drunk provoketh Urine Provoke Vrine to make lean the powder of the seeds first prepared in Vinegar and then taken in Wine Wind Chollick half a dram at a time for certain daies together is a means to abate fat and keep the body lean the berries so prepared and asmuch white Tartar and a few Anniseeds put unto them a dram of this powder given in Wine cureth the Dropsy humor Dropsie humors very gently purging the dry flowers are very often used in the decoctions of Glisters to expell Wind and easeth the Chollick for they lose their purgeing quality which they have being green and retain an attenuating and digesting property being dried The distilled water of the flowers is of much use to clear the skin from Sunburning Sunburning Freckles Freckles Morphew Morphew or the like and saith Mathiolus the Head being bathed therewith it taketh away all manner of Head-ach Head-ach that cometh of a cold cause The Vinegar made of the flowers of Elder by maceration and insolation is grateful to the Stomack Stomack and of great power and effect to quicken the Appetite and helpeth to cut grosse or tough Flegm Flegm hot in the chest a sirrup of Vinegar made thereof will work more effectually for these purposes the leaves boyled and laid hot upon any hot and painful Aposthumes Aposthumes especially in the more remote and sinewy parts doth both cool the heat and inflamation of them and ease the pains the distilled water of the inner bark of the tree or of the root is very powerful to purge the watry humors of the Dropsie Dropsie Tympany Burning or Tympany taking it fasting and two hours before Supper Mathiolus prescribeth a Receipt hereof to help any Burning or Scalding Scalding which is made in this manner viz. Take saith he one pound of the inner bark of the Elder

many growing close together each hanging on a long foot-stalk by it self with a notch or clift at the head or end thereof The wood hereof is harder more knotty and yellower then the Female Descript 2. Tilia foemina major The greater Female Line-tree groweth to be a larger tree then the former especially if it happen to be planted in good ground covered with a dark coloured bark the next thereunto being very pliable to bend and bind having some other thin rindes within it the leaves are fair broad greener smoother gentler rounder than Elm-leaves and with a longer end dented about the edges and of a reasonable good scent at the end of the branches oftentimes and at the foot of the leaves shoot forth long and narrow whitish leaves along the middle rib whereof springeth out a slender long stalk with divers white flowers thereon smelling very sweet after which follow small berries wherein is contained black round seed the wood is whitish smooth and light Descript 3. Tilia foemina minor The lesser Linden-tree is like the last in all things saving that it groweth smaller in body leaves and flowers the leaves are of a darker green colour and beareth no fruit after the flowers Place and Time The greater Female-kind is planted in many places in this land in pleasant Walks it making a large sweet shadow and usually flowreth in May. The other are great strangers and scarce to be seen any where in this land Government and Vertues There is no medicinal use made of the Male Linden The Female is under the dominion of Venus of a moderate temperature and somewhat drying and astringent the decoction of the leaves being sod in water is a pood Lotion to wash the sore Mouthes Sore mouths of young Children or any sore Mouths that have Ulcers blisters Vlcers blisters or Cankers in them The leaves being pounded or bruised after the boyling and applied to the Legs or Feet cankers swelled Feet that are swelled with falling down of humors doth help them the hark is also effectual for the same purpose The flowers of the Line-tree and of Lilly Convally distilled together the water thereof is good against the Falling-sickness so likewise is the distilled water of the bark and is good against those fretting humors that cause the bloody Flux and griping in the Guts the water wherein the inner bark hath been steeped till the water become thick and muscilaginous and applied with clothes wet therein helps burnings and scaldings Liquid Amber Descript and Place LIquid Amber is a thick Rozen like gum droping by incision from certain great trees in the West-Indies which trees are full of branches covered with a thick Ash-coloured bark the leaves are like unto Ivy leaves and the Gum which issueth from the tree is of a strong and sweet smell and is somewhat like unto Liquid Storax and may passe instead thereof for the same uses but there is a coarse sort which is the scum of the uppermost fatness that is made by boyling the branches and is supposed to be that Storax liquida sold by Druggists and Apothecaries out of the first sort while it is fresh and laid in the Sun there droppeth a certain clear reddish oyl called oyle of Liquid Amber and of some Liquid Amber it self Government and Virtues Both Tree and Gum are under the influence of Jupiter of a moderately hot and moist temperature and is useful either of it self or mixed with other things to comfort and warm a cold moist braine Brain Stomack Digestion Apetite Mother Tumors being used as an oyntment and easeth all pains proceeding from a cold cause being applied thereunto It comforts and strengtheneth a weak Stomack helps digestion and procures an Appetite But more effectually if a plaister be made thereof with some Storax Musk and Amber and applied to the Stomack it is also profitably used in all cold griefs of the the Mother it warms mollifies and dissolves Tumors and opens obstructions and stoppings of the Terms Lung-flower or Autumn Gentian Kinds and Names THere are several sorts of these plants are generally called Autumn small Gentians Gentianellae Autumnales and of some Pneumonanthe Descript 1. The greater Autumn Gentian Pneumonanthe dicta riseth up according to the richness of the ground higher or lower sometimes two foot high and sometimes not above a foot and sometimes with many and sometimes with fewer stalks of a brownish green colour with many long and narrow dark green leaves set by couples upon them up to the tops● which seldom branch forth but bear every one a large hollow flower in most of them of a deep blewish purple colour but in some a little paler ending in five points the roots are many small and long growing deep into the ground and abiding all the Winter Descript 2. Gentianella Autumnalis simbriato flore Antumn-Geatian of Naples This doth creep up like Couch-grasse from a long yellowish small root shooting forth a few long and narrow leavs lik● those of Flax but shorter but those that grow up to the middle of the stalk are larger and lesser again from the middle to the top two set at every joint all along and striped from every one of the joints on both sides to the top of the stalk which is green and about a foot high at the top commeth a purplish green husk which hath four large pointed leaves and encloseth the flower which is long and writhed before it be blown and of a pale blew colour but when it is blown open is of a deeper blew colour having four leaves somewhat long and as it were purfled about the edges with a little hairiness at them and a small leaf at the bottom of each flower with a few yellow threds in the middle standing about a head which groweth to be the seed-vessel forked into two parts at the head being greater there then below and containeth in it very small black seed when it is ripe Descript 3. Autumn-Gentian with small Centory-leaves called in Latine Gentianella Autumnalis Centaureae minoris folio This riseth up with sundry stalks scarce a foot high parted into many small branches whereon do stand two leaves together very like those of the lesser Centaury not so long as either of the former but a little broader and of a whiter green colour at the tops of the stalks and branches grow divers blew flowers set in small long husks half way rising above the tops of them the seed is small and groweth in long horned vessels the root is small and fibrous Descript 4. There is another sort with small Centory-like flowers which is more spreading small but hath larger leaves and flowers than Centory and of the same colour as are the flowers of Centory yet having many more and lasteth longer the root abideth not the Winter Descript 5. Another smaller Gentian with Centaury-leaves is very like unto the last but smaller and the stalks much lower not above three inches high having

the fruit is ripe in Autumn Government and Virtues This Balsome-tree is a Solar plant of temperature hot and dry in the second degree and is sweet in smell being of thin parts but the liquor or Opobalsamum is of more thin parts than the plant it self the fruit or berries is very like it in quality but far inferior thereunto in the subtilty The Liquor or Opobalsamum is of great good use against all poisons or infections Poys ns Vipers Scorpions Pestilence Spotted Feaver Liver Spleen Head Stomack brain Memory Falling-sickness Eyes Eares Coughs Consumption Cold Wind Bowells Mother Barrenness Dead-birth Whites Vrine Stone Gravel Palsy Cramp Sinews Green Worms both Vipers Serpents and Scorpions the Pestilence and spotted Feaver and other putride and intermissive Agues that arise from obstructions and crude cold humors to take a scruple or two in some drink for some dayes together and to sweat theron for this openeth the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and digesteth those raw humors in them cherishing the vital spirits radical moysture and natural heat in them and is very effectual in all cold griefs and diseases of the head or stomack helping the swimmings and turnings of the brain weak memories and falling-sickness it cleareth the eyes of films or skins and easeth paines in the Eares It helpeth the cough shortness of breath and consumption of the Lungs warming and drying up the distillations of Rheums upon them and all other diseases of the stomack proceeding of cold or wind the cold or windy distempers of the bowels womb or mother which cause torments or pains or the cold moystures procuring barrenness It provoketh the courses expelleth the dead birth and afterbirth the flux of the Whites and stopping of Urine it cleanseth the Reins and kidneys and expelleth the stone and gravel it is singular good against the Palsy Cramp tremblings convuls●ons shrinking of sinews and for green wounds The women in Aegypt preserve their beauty and youth herewith for a long time The berries are especially good against poysons and infections the falling sickness swimmings and pains in the head the cough and diseases of the Lungs windy pains and Stitches in the sides stopping of Urine rising of the mother and other diseases thereof to sit in a bath made of them The wood is also though in a farre weaker manner effectual for the same purposes Bdellium Name BOth the tree and Gum are called by one name that is Bdellium and gum Bdellium Descript Dioscorides giveth no description of this tree but Pliny Lib. 12. cap. 9. setteth it down to be of a sad form and of the bigness of the white olive tree having leaves like an oak and fruit like the wild figtree the best Gum is clear like glew fat on the inside easily melting or dissolving pure or clean from drosse sweet in the burning like unto Unguis Odoratus and bitter in tast but there is hardly any such brought unto us for we find little bitternesse in any and lesse sweetnesse in the burning of it but strong and unpleasant rather neither is it soft or easie to be dissolved but hard and not to be dissolved Equally but into graines or knots without warmth yet it is of a sad brown colour somwhat like glew and much like unto Myrrhe so that they are often mistaken one for another but that Bdellium is harder dry and browner but there are sundry sorts therof as saith Mathiolus and Bauhine in his Comment upon him for the Indians and Arabians who were the chief merchants for drugs had learned the art of Adulterating them of whom the Jews learned that art and have since exceeded them therein as the Vintners and Coopers study who shall out-doe others in the mysterious Mystery and mischeif of sophisticating and adulterating wines Place Arabia is said to be the chief place where they naturally grow yet in Genesis 2. it is said it groweth in the land of Havilah which is compassed by the River Pishon one of the heads of the River which went out of the Garden of Eden which land of Havilah joyneth to Persia Eastward and doth incline towards the West where it is said is Gold Bdellium and Onyx stone Government and Virtues Both tree and Gum Bdellium are peculiars to the Jurisdiction of Mars the tree is very sharply armed with cruel Thorns the Properties of the Gum are to heat and mollifie hard Tumors Tumors Nodes knots Terms Stone cough serpents Spleen Sides Burstness Cods Dead-birth Mother and the Nodes or knots in the throat neck or Sinews or of any other parts any way applied it provokes Urine and womens courses and breaketh the Stone it is good for the Cough and for those that are bitten or stung by any Venemous creatures It helpeth to discusse the windiness of the Spleen and the pains of the sides it is good for those that are bursten or have the falling of the guts into their Cods as also for the swellings of the Cods through wind It expelleth the dead birth softneth the hardness of the mother and dryeth up the moysture thereof Buckwheat Names IN most Countries of England this grain goeth by the generall name of French Wheat especially in Hampshire Surry Berkshire Wiltshire and Buckinghamshire especially in those barren parts of those countries where it is most usually sown and delighteth to grow it is also in many parts of England called Buckwheat some take it to be the Erysinum of Theophrastus and the Ireo of Pliny and it is called by Mathiolus Frumentum Sarasenicum the Dutch names are B●ckweydt and Buckenweydt Descript It riseth up with divers round hollow reddish stalks set with divers leaves each by it self on a stalk which is broad and round and lye forked at the bottom small and painted at the end somwhat it doth resemble an Ivy leafe but is softer in handling at the top of the stalks come forth divers clusters of small white flowers which turn into small three-cornered blackish seed with a white pulpe within the root is small and threddy Place and Time It is said to have its original birth-place in Arabia whereby it had the Latine name of Frumentum Sarasenicum and was transplanted from thence into Italy but now it is very commonly sown in most of our Northern countries where for the use and profit made of it many fields are sown therwith it is not usually sown before April and sometimes in May for at its first springing up a frosty night kills it all and so it will do the flowers when it blossomes it is ripe at the latter end of August or beginning of September and will grow in a dry hungry ground for which it is held as good as a dunging Government and Virtues This grain is attributed to Venus it doth nourish lesse then wheat Rye or barly but more then millet or Pa●ick and the bread or cakes made of the meal thereof doth easily digest and soon passe out of the stomack yet some hold the contrary

yellow in the middle There is another kind that is yellow in the middle and bears many more flowers which are smaller than those before described Place The first two kinds grow plentifully in divers places of France as Burgundy and Languedoc in Meadows and pastures but in this Country they grow only in Gardens where they are planted Time They flower most of them in March and April and some kinds flower not untill the beginning of May. Temperature and Vertues Venus challengeth the dominion over these plants for her own and gave them their name from her darling Narcissus the root hereof is hot and dry in the third degree the which root being boyled or rosted or taken in meat drink provoketh the stomack to Vomiting Vomiting burnings the same pounded with a little honey is good to be applied to burnings and scaldings Scaldings and cureth Sinews Sinews-strains that are hurt or sprain'd and is good to help dislocations or Members out of joint Joinst Pains being applied thereunto it also giveth ease in all old griefs and pains of the joints the roots of Narcissus taketh away all spots Spots Face of the Face being mingled with Nettle-seed and Vinegar and applied it mundifieth and cleanseth corrupt and rotten Ulcers Vlcers and ripeneth and breaketh hard Impostumes if it be mixed with the meal of Vetches honey applied pultis-wise to the part greived and being mixed with the meal of Yuray and honey it draweth forth thorns and splinters being applied thereunto Yellow Daffodil Names THis kind of Daffodill is also called Lide-lilly because it flowereth in March which Moneth in some Countries is called Lide and they are also called Daffa-down-dillies Descript It hath long narrow green leaves the stalks be round upon which grow pleasant yellow-flowers to see to but somewhat unpleasant to the smell after which come round knops or husks like little heads wherein the seed is contained it hath abundance of roots which grow thick together and increase by new sprigs and blades whereby it spreadeth and increaseth it self under ground so that of one plant you may soon have a great increase Place It groweth not naturally in this Country but in Gardens where it is planted Time Daffodills flower in March and April Government and Vertues Yellow-Daffodil is under the dominion of Mars the roots hereof are hot and dry almost in the third degree The root boyled in posset drink and drunk causeth Vomiting Vomiting and is used with good successe in the beginnings of Agues Agues Imposthumes especially Tertians which frequently rage in the spring-time a plaister made of the roots with parched Barley-meal and applied to swellings and Imposthumes do dissolve them the juice mingled with hony Frankincense Wine and Myrrhe and dropped into the Eares Eares is good against the corrupt filth and running matter of the Eares the roots made hollow and boyled in oyl doth help raw Kib'd heels Kibed-heels the juice of the root is good for the Morphew Morphew and discolourings of the skin Date-tree Names THis is also called Palm-tree and the fruit Dates or fruit of the Palm-sree Descript This plant groweth to be a great tree with a straight thick trunk cover'd with a scaly bark at the top thereof grow many long branches with great plenty and store of long straight narrow leaves or twigs like reeds so that the branches seem to be no other thing but a bundle or sort of reed leaves growing thick together upon one branch amongst those branches groweth the fruit clustering together at the first and wrapped in a certain long and broad covering like to a pillow which afterwards openeth and sheweth the fruit standing along by certain small sprigs growing out of a flat yellow branch the fruit is round and long containing within it a long and hard stone there is the Male Palm-tree and the Female the Male tree bringeth forth flowers onely which vanish away and the Female beareth the fruit and bringeth it unto perfection and ripeness Place The Date-tree groweth in Africa Arabia India Syria Judaea and other of those Eastern-countries Time The Date or Palm-tree continueth alwaies green and floureth in the spring-time and the fruit in hot Countries is ripe in Autumn Government and Virtues The branches and leaves are cold and astringent the fruit is hot and dry almost in the second degree but somewhat astringent especially before it is throughly ripe Mars governs them Dates are hard of digestion and cause oppilations in the Liver and Spleen they ingender Windiness Headach and gross blood being eaten green and fresh but being through-ripe they are not so hurtful but nourish indifferently being well digested in a good Stomack Dry Dates stop Looseness Looseness Vomiting and stay Vomiting and Wambling Wambling in the Stomack especially of Women with Child if they be eaten or mingled with other proper medicines and applied plaister-wise to the Stomack and being administred inwardly or applied outwardly with medicines convenient they strengthen the weakness of the Liver Liver Spleenn and Spleen The leaves and branches of the Date-tree do heal Green-Wounds Green-Wounds and soder and close them up and refresh and cool hot inflamations There is a direction in the plaister Diacalcitheos that it be stirred with a stick of the Palm-tree that it might be of the more vertue and efficacy from whence also the same plaister is called Diapalma you may see the composition of the plaister in Galens first book de medicamentis secundum genera Dictamnum of Candy Kinds and Names DIoscorides maketh mention of three kinds hereof the first whereof is the right Dictamnum onely the second is the bastard Dictamnum the third is another kind bearing both flowers and seed it is called also Dittany of Crete and in shops Diptamum Descript The first kind which is the right Dictamnum as saith Dioscorides is a hot and sharp plant much like unto Penny-royal but having greater leaves somewhat hoary or mossey with a certain fine down or woolly white Cotton at the top of the stalks or branches grow certain small spikey tufts hanging by little small stems greater and thicker than the eares or spikey tufts of wild Marjoram and are somewhat of a red colour in which there grow little flowers 2. The second kind called Bastard Dictamnum is much like unto the first saving that it doth not hurt nor bite the tongue neither is it hot It hath round soft woolly stalks with knots and joints at every of which joints there stand two leaves somewhat round soft and woolly not much unlike the leaves of Penny-royal but that they are greater all hoary and white soft and woolly like to the first leaves of white Mullein or Tapsus Barbatus without any scent but bitter in tast the flowers be of a light blew compassing the stalk by certain spaces like to garlands and like the flowers of Penny-royal and Hore-hound the root is of a wooddy substance 3. The

or Jucca 234. Zedoaria 235. Bitumen dry Pitch 235. Oyl of Peter Petroleum sive Oleum Petra 237. A Table of the Diseases treated in this Supplement to Mr. Nich. Culpepper's English Physician A. ASthma or shortness of breath see breath short Aged persons to comfort and strengthen 7. Agues 11. 13. 24. 36. 39. 49. 63. 99. 115. 136. 213. St. Anthonies fire 29. 33. 81. 107. 133. 147. Appetite to stir up 39. 108. 112 115 116. 121 135 147. 158. 228. Aches 40. 63. 69. 81. 104. 121. 129. 135 136. 152. 200. Aposthumes 61. Apoplex 67. 75. B. Bloud to dispell if clotted and to increase 78. 230. Bloud to cleanse 207. Bloud to stop p. 10. 34. 33. 87. 166. 231. Bloud spit 4. 9. 20. 33. 108. 133. Breath short 4 5. 13. 31. 74. 79. 90. 99. 104. 122. 129. 139. 164. Breath to sweeten p. 8. 10. 37. 108. 133. 171. 186. 234. Breast cleanse 5. 8. 11. 19. 28. 76. The Breast pain'd 38. 195. The Breasts Nipples 145. Brain 7. 11. 13. 60. 108. 112. Barrenness proceeding from a cold Cause 7. 13. 158. Barrenness proceeding from a hot Cause 125. Belching 8. 135. Bloody-flux 8. 17. 20. 27. 33. 81. 112. 122. 133. 215. Belly to open 9. 18. 23. 30. Belly to bind and strengthen 39. 100. 128. Bruises and stripes 11. 22. 35. 78. 115. 123. Bowels 13. Brain 13. 104. 136. Beauty to preserve 14. 46. 139. Bursten or Ruptures 15. 36. 81. 104. 123. 177. Bodies lean to help 42. 60. Back 46. 158. 160. Burnings and Scaldings 48. 91. 112. Boiles 78. 84. Broken bones 108. 133. C. Chastity to help 3. 46. Cods and Stone to help swelled 3. 20. 63. 74. Child-dead to expell 5. 72. 86. 101. 115 116. 139. Coughs old and new 6. 8. 14. 19 20. 25. 39. 55. 63. 74. 78. 121. 152. Coughs 174. 214. Chin-Cough 123. Colds 63. Consumptions 6. 13 36. 80. 104. 230. Children that be in danger of the Falling-sickness p. 8. Children new-born what to do to them 65. Choler or cold phlegmatick humours p. 9. 104. 126. 135. 207. Cramp 11. 13. 56. 75. 84. 90. 115. 177. 179. 237. Carbuncles 12. 33. 158. Corns 12. Convulsions 13. 56. Catharts 19. 67. 89. 97. 133. Choler and Phlegm 25. 30. 39. 60. 81. 126. Cholick 37. 61. 105. Conception in Women how hindred 41. Catharrs 55. Cankars 50. 107. 116. Chin-cough 123. Costive how remedied 128. D. Drunkenness to preserve from 4. 171. Dogs mad 4. 11. 60. 115. Dropsie 8. 22. 31. 60. 78. 101 102. 135. 168. 176. 218. 222. Dreaming 8. Dead bodies to preserve from Corruption 26. Drowsiness to hinder 75. For Digestion 93. 96. Drowsiness 186. E. Eyes bloud-shotten 62. Eyes 1. 10 11. 13. 15. 20. 26. 28. 31. 34. 56. 60. 72. 86. 101. 107. 115. 136. 141. 147. 151. 158. 174. 188. 209. Web in the Eyes or dimness 5. Eyes 13. 20. 26 27. 32. 49. 56. 68. 80 81. 84. 147. 209. Eyes troubled with kernels 131. F. Flux of the belly 4. 11. 23. 108. Falling-sickness 4. 7. 11. 34. 35. 66. 84. 111. 112. 207. Phlegm to ripen and carry away 5. 11. 31. 39. 78. 89. 97. 103. 135. 151. Fundament 10. 63. 87. 108. 122 133. 148. Fistulae 60. 72. French Pox. 19. 36. 41. 63. 75. 90. 129. Feavers 34. 69. 80 81. 100. 131 171. Freckles in the Face 80. 84. 110. 158. 209. Face troubled with spots pimples 37. 77. 103. 116. Faintings or swooning 39. 69. Flux of seed in men or women to stay 46. Fleas and Flies to kill 63. 72. 81. 117. Frenzies 72. Falls see Bruises Fistula 164. 174. 220. 227. G. Guts sore 4. Griping Guts 21. 25. 112. Gout 4. 7. 19. 32. 82. 103. Gout Running 6. Gout 24. 60. 61. 63. 93. 103. 183. Griping guts 7 8. 30. 35. 81. Griefs 13. Gums 20. 34. 78. 108. Hip gout 53. H. Head-baldness 75. Head-giddiness 104. Head-ach 4. 8. 10. 19. 50. 54. 61 62. 75. 81. 93. Giddiness Head 30. Huckle-bone 4. Hiccop 8. 183. Hearing or Deafness to procure 8. 78. Humours to dry up and carry off p. 9. 47. 56. 76. 78. 93. Humors of a slimy nature 72. Hair from falling off p. 10. Hemorrhoids 11. Hoarsness 11. 78. 126. Heels kybed 12. 49. 57. Hogs to fatten quickly 15. The Hair to colour black 33. 60. 215. Heart 35. 37. 135. Hoarsness 68. I. Joynts swelled or pained 5. 40. 108. Joynt Aches 6. Inflamations and Imposthumes 7. 32. 122. 125. 172. Jaundise 9. 24. 36. 40. 74. 99. 102. 118. 136. 182. 195. 233. Imposthumes or hard Swellings 12. 24. 48. 74. 76. 78. 80. 177. 232. Issues of blood to stop 27. 29. 71. 215. Itch. 76. 101. 108. 110. Jaws 78. K. Kings-Evil p. 11. 19. 29. 78. 115. 182. 211. 218. Kidneys and bladder 82. Kernels in any part of the body 152. 224. L. Lasks 1. 8. 20. 27. 29. 31. 71. 81. 106. 136. 182. Liver stopped 3 4. 7 8. 13. 22. 73. 79. 127. 209. Lungs 4. 76. 78 79. 101. Of Lust how it may be stirr'd pag. 8. Lips chopped 20. Lice to kill 27. 110. 218. Looseness in the body to stay 37. 50. Leprosie 72. 75. 78. 101. 149. Lethargie 75. Legs troubled with Vlcers 96 M. Mother 1. 7. 12. 15. 27. 38. 54. 83 84. 87. 108. 112. 122. 158. 237. Matrix 1. 27. 54. 76. 80. 86. 133. Members dead 3. Memory to help 6 7. 13. 38. 90. 93. 104. 230. Mouth 10. 68. 83. 86. 111. 231. Milk to increase 16. Moths 27. 88. 149. 171. Manginess 32. Melancholy 34. 36. 41. 118. 135. 217. Moles to kill 62. Measles 7 8. Matter corrupt to purge from the head and brain 105. 179. N. O. Nerves and sinews 7. 40. Nostrils 12. 33. 46. Navel 12. 81. Nose-bleeding 21. 97. Nose defective in smelling 68. 78. Nails 80. 133. 148. 182. 231. P. Pimples or spots in the Face 4. 203. Pains to asswage 5. 131. Pissing by drops 6. 40. Plurisie p. 11. 209. Pestilence 13. 75. 78. 110. 115. 139. 150. 170. 216. Palsie 13. 22. 36. 62. 67. 118. 158. Poyson to dissolve 19. 34. 78. 148. Plague 46. Piles or Emrods 62 63. 105. 115. 133. 135. Q. Quinsie 63. 152. 164. R. Running of the Reins 6. 34. 41. 103. 108. 188. Reins 13. 24 91. 99. Rheums 19. 36. 40. 89. 108. 235. S. Burning sores 79. Sores old 80. 86. 116. 162. 218. 230. Spleen 129. 172. Stone 144. 172. 227. Stomach to comfort and the inward parts 106. 112. 130. 151. Stomach to comfort p. 9. 22. 29. 31. 35. 37 38 39. 93. 102. Spleen 3 4 5. 13 14. 18 19. 22. 34. 40 41. 50. 52. 76. 84. Stone and Gravel 4. 8. 13 14. 24. 34. 47. 40 41. 61. 86. 96. 102 103. 108. 136. Sciatica 4. 11. 14. 17. 22. 35. 53. 63. 72. 93. 183. Strength to recover 7. Sleep to procure 7 8. 62. 124. 140. 188. Squinancy or swellings of the Throat 8. 11. 31. Swellings to dissolve 18. Sinews 11. 38. 48. 84. 207. 227. Spotted Feaver 13. Spirits to cherrish 13. 150. Stiches in the

of the juice of Citrons For preservative you may drink Wormwood-beer or a small quantity of the former Cordials or eat mince and sage with bread and butter and smell to the herbs or you may steep those herbs with Wormwood in white-wine Vinegar which is excellent good in the Plague-time also Seamen and Soldiers are often troubled with Fluxes therefore it will not here be amiss to lay down some convenient remedies for the Cure of the same but being there are several kinds of Fluxes I shall begin first with that which is called Lientery which is when the food received into the body is cast forth in the same substance colour and smell as it was received This proceeds from a weakness of the retaining faculty of the stomach when it cannot keep the meat long enough therein till it be concocted likewise from a cold distemper of the stomach and liver begetting cold and raw humours which fill up the wrinkles of the stomach that it cannot keep the food it receives or else from ●harp humours pricking and twitching the parts by which the stomach and guts are provoked to send forth their meat too soon If this comes from a cold cause you may know it from the sowr belching that follows and phlegmatick excrements that are voided If the humors come from the head the excrements are frothy and after sleep the flux is greater if it come by provocation caused by sharp and pricking humors he will have a great thirst heat in his flanks gnawing in his stomach voiding sharp and chollerick excrements If this disease come from tough phlegmatick humors covering the wrinkles of the stomach you must cut them with honey of Roses Oxymel simplex and Oxymel-squils and the like Then you must give him gentle Purges for which purpose Pills are the best because they stay longest in the stomach of which you may take these for an example Take of Pillulae Cochiae and Pill Ruffi of each half a dram mix them and make them into six Pills of which let him take three at night going to bed and the other three the next morning or night according as you see occasion or else Pills of Hiera with Agrick or Pillulae Alephenginae the same Dose of either a part for Glisters they are here of no great force except the flux be violent and then they must be binding such as shall be spoken of hereafter In a Bloudy-flux after you have purged the humors offending you must then strengthen the stomach wi●h cooling Syrrups and Julips if it come from a hot cause mixing therewith some few drops of the Spirit of Viteral or Sulphur also some Marmalet of Quinces will be good or this following Take of the Conserve of Sorrel and Wormwood of each one ounce Conserve of Roses Suckery and Buglas of each half an ounce Diamargariton frigidum and Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one dram one scruple of Troches of Spodium with as much Syrrup of Lemmons as will serve to make them up to the form of an Electuary mix them and let the Patient take the quantity of a Chesnut morning noon and night or this following Take six ounces of old Conserve of Roses six drams of London or Venice Treakle with as much Marmalet of Quinces as will make it into an Electuary mix them and let the Patient take about the quantity of half an ounce in the morning drinking nothing after for the space of three or four hours if from a cold cause let the Patient boyl some Guaiacum or Sassafras in his drink of which take this for a pattern Take of guaiacum Sassafras Sarsaparilla of each two ounces English Liquorice and Cinnamon of each one ounce Coriander-seed an ounce Infuse them in four quarts of spring or running-water twenty four hours afterwards boyl it gently to the consumption of half of this Let the Patient drink half a pinte at a time about the quantity of a quart in a day here Mithridate Nutmeg Diatessaron and Diatrion pipirion is good if he wants rest and the flux continue give him three grains of Laudanum Opiatum where note in the taking of all which things if the Flux heing stayed break out again it is a sign ill humours are to be purged away to which purpose Rubarb prepared Infused often in Indiff-water is very excellent The next sort of Fluxes is called Diarrhaea which is a Flux in which excremental cholerick or phlegmatick humours are cast forth without either blood or food and these come either from the whole body or from the brain or stomach Guts Liver Spleen Mesentery and if in women from the womb and the like If the Patient hath had or have at present a feaver or be dropsical or of an ill habit of body or have eaten excessively and not digested his food it is a sign that it comes from the whole body If the excrements be frothy and he void more by night than day and he have some manifest disease in his head as a Catarrh Lethargy Deafness c. then it proceeds from the head If the fault be in the stomach the Patient hath eaten food apt to corrupt and there appear signs that the concoction is injured either from a hot or cold cause if from the first the humours will be sharp cholerick stinking and nature labours to throw it out if from the last then the excrements will be crude and phlegmatick If the Flux proceed from the Liver the excrements are cholerick and you will perceive some distemper of the Liver if from the Spleen they will be blackish and you have signs of a distempered Spleen If from the Dysentery you will have an extension of the humours but they come from the Liver and Spleen if from the Guts there 's worms if from the womb there hath been obstructions of the Courses and now some symptom that vexes and increases the Flux at that time the Courses are wont to flow For to help this Disease first of all open a vein if the body be full of bloud and if it be not it is good to let bloud if the Patient hath a feaver then purge with such things as leave a binding quality behind them such as Rubarb dryed and given in Plantane-water with syrrup of Quinces or take a dram of Rubarb and half a dram of the yellow Mirobolans and half a scruple of yellow Saunders infuse them in Plantane-water strain it and to the straining add half a dram of Rubarb in powder and one ounce of Syrrup of Roses a potion for one dose or you may add the lenitive Electuary or Catholicon according to the strength and condition of the Patient and humours vomiting is good if the body be strong before and after purging give this or the like glyster Take Wheat-bran and red Rose leaves of each one pugil whole Barley two pugils Liquorice sliced and Raisins of the Sun of each one ounce boyl these in a sufficient quantity of water till they come to a pinte in the straining

Iron hooks being soft under water but by the Air is hardned as Coral is the white which is the lighter and sweeter is best for Medicine the yellow serveth more to Mechanick uses and being rubbed it will draw strawes and other small things unto it as the Loadstone doth I●on and it will burn like Rozen or Bitumen with a strong heady sent the powder thereof cast into the flame of a Candle or other light will make a sudden flash like Nitre by being distilled in a retort it will yeeld an oyle which at the first is very red and smelleth very strong and almost odious but being several times Rectified both colour and sent will be amended and the oyle fit for medicinal use Government and Virtues Amber is of a moderate hot and day temperature and under the particular influence of Mars if it be burned on Coals and the fumes therof received into the head Head it doth much help the moyst distillations thereof on the Eyes Eyes Teeth Teeth Nose Nose or Stomack Stomack and is good for those that have the falling sickness Falling-sickness It provokes womens courses and is very good for to help the fits of the Mother Courses Mother it prevents miscarriage and procures Easie delivery to take half a dram of the powder in a teare Egg or in Wine three or four mornings together which also helpeth the whites and men that have the running of the Reins it stayeth fluxes and strengthneth the parts it provokes Urine plentifully being taken in saxifrage-water It is very good for those that are troubled with old Coughs or are fallen into Consumptions to take the powder therof mixed with conserve of red Roses and taken in the mornings fasting and is also profitable for Joynt-Aches and the Running Gout the chymical oyl of Amber being taken inwardly three or four drops in a little Muscadine doth wonderfully help the Stone and the stopping of Urine Strangury or pissing by drops Two or three drops used outwardly to the Temples and the nape of the Neck or behind the Eares doth warm and dry a cold moist brain discusseth wind in the Eares and head strengthneth the memory and is good in all diseases of the head or brain Ambergrease Names Descript IT is called Ambra Grisea in Latin and Ambergrise in English But what it is or from what it cometh there are various opinions yet none certain some suppose it be the spawn of a Whale others affirm it to bee the excrement which hath long continued in the belly of the whale which being cast forth is by the motion of the Seas cast on shore some others think it to be the excrement of certain great fishes and some take it to be the Foam of the Sea but all these opinions are vulgar Errors and Erroneous The most certain received opinion of the most Judicious is That it is a kind of Bitumen whose springs are in the Rocks of the Sea or as some and with good reason affirm that it groweth on the Rocks as Mushrooms do on Trees condensate into that f●rm and substance we observe it in oily and unctuous originally and being light is carried by the waves of the Sea unto the shores of sundry Countries and climates There is much variety in the colour thereof and some in the substance as white more or less or gray lighter or darker or inclining to redness or darkness that which is not very white as being usually very dry and inclining to a grayish colour more or lesse and either with spots and veines or without so as it be fat that is upon a knives point heated will shew oyly is accounted the best and the black sort is the worst Government and Vertues It is governed by the Sun and is hot and dry of temperature in the second degree it warmeth resolveth and strengthneth what way soever it be taken it easeth the paines in the head being dissolved in a warm morter and mixed with a little oyntment of Orenge flowers the Temples and forehead being anointed therwith It likewise comforteth the brain warmeth and resolveth the cold defluxions of humors thereon and on the Nerves and Sinews it doth also comfort and strengthen the memory and vital spirits it is good for women troubled with the mother to be applied to the place it helpeth barrenness proceeding from a cold cause and is good for those to smell unto who are subject to the falling sickness it doth well agree with aged persons to warm comfort and strengthen their cold decayed spirits adding vigour unto them and is likewise accounted to have a property to stir and excite Venereous exercises Amomum Description IT is a bunch or cluster of whitish round berries somewhat like unto grapes for the outward form and bigness but else very like unto Cardamomes within yet bigger and rounder having within the outer whitish thin shell or skin many blackish brown seeds close thrust together very like to the inner seeds of Cardamoms but larger and of somewhat a hot peircing sent smelling like unto oyle of spike and of a sharpe hot and quick tast as most Indian spices are Government and Vertues Sol hath the peculiar Government hereof it is of an heating binding and drying quality procuring rest and sleep Sleep Rest and easing pains in the head Head-ach Imposthumes Scorpions being applied to the forehead it digesteth and discusseth inflamations and Imposthumes and helpeth those that are stung by Scorpions being used with Basil it is good against the Gout and Griping in the Guts Gout Gripings to swallow three are four of the seeds and for the fits of the mother taken in the same manner or made into a pessary and so used or else in a Bath It is convenient for the Liver and Reines and is an ingredient of cheif account in great Antidotes that are preservatives Annise Name IT hath no other name but Annise and Anniseeds Descript This plant hath leaves much like young parsly newly sprung up his stalks be round and hollow the leaves at first coming up somwhat round but afterwards spring forth other leaves cut and jagged like those of Parsly but a great deal smaller and whiter at the top of the stalkes grow divers fair tufts or spikey Rundells with white flowers which being past cometh the seed whitish and sweet in smell and tast Place Annise grows naturally in Syria and Candy but may now be found in some gardens in England Time It flowers in June and July Nature and Vertues It is under the dominion of Jupiter of temperature hot and dry in the third degree the seeds are only used in Physick which do much dissolve Wind Wind Stomack Bow Belly lask Vrine stone Hiccop Flux Whites dropsie Liver Thirst Lust milk Mouth breath flegm Cough poyson Venemous Beasts Fa ling-sickness Squinance Throat help belchings and blastings in the Stomack and bowels Gripings and pains in the belly it stoppeth the Lask and provoks Urine and

shortness of breath and taken with Sugar-candy it is a present remedy Alpinus further saith that the oyle thereof is so familiarly used by the Aegyptians in their meals as that they do seldom eat without it yet it breedeth many obstructions and the viscous nourishment of it turneth into Melancholy and other diseases It will not be improper here to add somewhat of the virtues of our Marsh-mallows both leaves seeds and roots wherein Culpepper falls too short It is the chiefest of all other Mallows and most effectual and is therefore called Dismalva being twice as good as any other The root being boyled in wine and drunk is good against the pain and grief of the Gravel and Stone Gravel Stone Bloody Flux Sciatica cough Tooth-ach the blood Flux the Sciatica the trembling and shaking of any member and for such as are troubled with Cramps and burstings Pliny writeth the same boyled in sweet new milk healeth the Cough and being boyled in some Vinegar and holden in the mouth it asswageth the pain in the Teeth The same being boyled in Wine or hony-water and bruised or pounded very small Green Wounds Tumors Swellings Wens Kernels Impostumes chaps of the fundament doth cure and heal new Wounds and doth dissolve and consume cold Tumors and Swellings Wens and hard kernels and Imposthumes behind the Ears and is good for the burning Imposthume of the Paps It doth soften ripen digest breaketh and covereth with skin old Imposthumes blastings and Windy Swellings Mother it cureth rifts and chaps of the Fundament and trembling of the sinews and sinewy parts the same being so prepared pounded with hogs-grease goose-grease and a little Turpentine and a Pessary or Mother suppository made thereof and put up doth mollifie and asswage Imposthumes and sores of the Mother and openeth the stoppings of the same The leaves are likewise used instead of common Mallows to loosen the belly gently and are very effectual in decoctions for Glisters to ease all pains in the body Pains in the body Stone to open the straight passages and make them slippery whereby the stone may descend the more easily out of the Reins and Kidneys and the bladder and to ease the great and torturing pains that come thereby the roots being boyled very well in water and after they be strained out the decoction being boiled again with Sugar to a just consistence and troches rowls or Lozinges made thereof is effectual against the diseases of the Breast Chest and Lungs as Coughs Hoarseness Wheefings and shortness of Breath Coughs hoarseness shortness of Breath Guts Bloody flux the roots and seeds of the Marsh-mallow boyled in Wine and Water is very effectual to be used by such as have any excoriation in the Guts or bloody flux by qualifying the violence of the sharp Cholerick fretting humors which are the cause thereof and by sliminess easing the pains and healing the soreness and in some sort staying the further erruption of blood Ruptures cramps Convulsions Kings Evil Chin cough It is very profitable for them that are troubled with Ruptures Cramps or Convulsions of the sinews and being boyled in White-wine it is profitable for the Impostumes of the Throat called the Kings-evill for kernels behind the Ears and swellings or Inflamations in Womens breast The dryed roots boyled in Milk and drunk are singularly good for the chin-Cough Hippocrates used to give the decoction of the roots or the juice thereof to drink to wounded persons who were ready to faint through loss of blood and applied the same mixed with Hony and Rozen unto the Wounds he gave also the decoction of the roots in Wine to those to drink that were hurt by bruises or Falls or by blows or stripes and to such who had any bone or member out of joint and to those who had any swelling pain or Ach in the muscles sinews or Arteries it is good also to be used in all Ulcers and sores that happen in any Cartilaginous place The muscilage of the roots and of Linseed and Fenegreek put together is of much use in pultisses oyntments and plaisters to mollifie hard tumors and the Inflamations of them and to ease pains in any part of the body The seed either green or dry mixed with Vinegar cleanseth the skin of Morphew and other discolourings thereof being bathed therewith either in the Sun or in a Hot-house or Stove Mandrake Kinds and Names THere is described by Authors both a Male and Female Mandrake and two of the Males-Mandrak It is called Mandragoras both in Latine and Greek and Dioscorides saith in his time called Circaea because Circe the great Witch or enchantresse used it as is thought in love-matters Descript 1. The more ordinary Male Mandrake Mandragoras mas vulgatior sendeth forth from a somewhat great and downright root in some but with one in other two three or four twines or branches divided a little below the head or top and divers small fibres besides blackish on the out side and whitish within having many large leaves lying on the ground greater then any Beete-leaves from the middle whereof rise up sundry pale green flowers of five round leaves a peece each standing on a small slender footstalk within a green five-leaved husk wherein afterwards is set the fruit being of the bigness of a reasonable Pippin and as yellow as Gold when it is through ripe with divers round whitish flat seeds in it of a heady or strong stuffing scent This is the true Description of the plant without other shape of Mans or Womans parts although some Cheats have made counterfeit forms thereof and have exposed them to publick view both in our own and other Countries but they are utterly deceitfull forgeries to cheat people of their mony Descript 2. Mandragoras mas alter another Male-Mandrake whose leaves were of a more grayish green colour and somewhat folded together herein differing from the former This Mr. Parkinson saith he saw in the Lord Wottons Garden at Canterbury when John Tradescant had the keeping of it but that it had never born any fruit Descript 3. The Female Mandrake Mandragoras foemineus hath many leaves lying on the ground but smaller narrower more crumpled and of a darker green colour then the Male like those of Lettice as saith Dioscorides The flowers also rise from among the leaves each on a slender footstalk as the former but of a blewish purple colour the fruit is much lesse then those of the Male but round like them of a paler yellow colour when they are ripe and of a more pleasing and lesse heady-scent having in them such like seed as the Male but smaller and blacker the root is also like the former blackish without and white within neer unto the same form parted into sometimes more and sometimes fewer branches Place They grow in Woods and shadowy places and the Female by Rivers-sides in diverse Countries beyond the Alps but not naturally on this side thereof as in Greece Candy Isles

and other places of the Mediterrenean Sea and in Italy and Spain in our Countries they are carefully nursed up in Gardens the Male in many places but the Female onely with the Curious being rare to get and tender to keep Time The Male flowreth in March and the fruit is ripe in July the Female Clusius saith he found in some parts of Spain in flower in Febuary and in other places in Spain in the same Moneth it had ripe fruit but with us it flowreth not until August or September and the fruit seldome or never cometh to any perfection Government and Vertues The Mandrake is a plant of old Saturn endued with a very cold quality of temperature cold in the third degree but the bark of the root hath in it some driness the apple some moisture it hath a very soporiferous property causing sleepiness or drowsiness Levinus Lemnius reports that sitting in his Study at his from Book upon a suddain he became drowsie found the cause to be the scent of one of those apples which he had laid on a shelf therein which being removed the drowsiness ceased The bark or juice thereof is given to those that cannot sleep in their sickness the decoction of the root in Wine also doth the same It is given in like manner to those that are to be feared or are to have any member cut off to cast them into a sleep that they may not be sensible of the pain the condensate juice taken to the waight of a scruple in sweet Wine Flegm Melancholy Matrix Courses Deadcholy Inflamations Eyes Imposthumes Hardness knois kernels burning St. Anthonies fire purgeth Flegm and Melancholy like unto Hellebor but taken in a greater quantity it killeth It is used also in pessaries either by it self or with other emoldient things to take away the hardness of the Matrix to drive down the Courses and expel the Dead-birth but use not above half a scruple at one time The said juice is also used with ocular medicines to cool inflamations in the Eyes the leaves are likewise used for the same purpose as also to Imposthumes and also to discusse all hardness knots and kernels in the flesh and Scars of burning The root beaten with Vinegar and applied helps St. Anthonies-fire and applyed with hony or oyl it takes away the sting of Serpents The Apples and especially the seeds in them do purge and cool the hot Matrix as Serapio Avicen and Paulus Aegineta write which might be the reason that Rachel so desired them as knowing them to be available for her hot and dry body which was the cause of her barrenness Manna Kinds THere is two kinds of Manna the one hard and in peeces either greater or lesser the other liquid and thin like the lesse thick hony Of the hard fort there is some difference for that which is gathered in Arabia differeth from that in Persia being in small grains somewhat like unto Coriander-seeds and is gathered as Rauwolfius saith from those trees the Arabians call Agul or Alhagi Another sort is reddish and gathered from herbs and plants That of Persia is called Xireast lac Arborum that is milk of trees and is white like that of Calabria whereof some is as small as Hemp-seed others as big as Almond-Comfits another sort is gathered in Armenia in great lumps of a brownish colour Another sort is affirmed by Aphrodiseus cited by Niger that falling as an hony-dew on mount Libanus in Syria it is by the heat of the Sun congealed into an hard Sugar which the inhabitants call Saccar from whence came the Latine word Saccharum Some have been and some still are of the opinion that some of these smaller white sorts might be the Manna of the Israelites wherewith they were fed in the Wilderness and therefore called Bread But the Scripture doth flatly contradict such conceits with divers reasons 1. The Manna which was given to the Israelites to eat had no purging out a Nutritive quality 2. It was not so sweet as ours in tast 3. It fell not on their Sabbaths although it did all the week after 4. It fell all the year long and not as our Manna doth in the Summer only 5. It vanished away as soon as it felt the heat of Sun but the Sun condenseth and hardneth ours 6. It would putrifie if it were kept but two dayes besides the Sabbath day And lastly that Manna ceased to fall any more after they had eaten of the Corn of the Land There is Manna in Europe called Calabrina great controversies have been amongst writers whether it be a dew condensate by the cold of the night or whether it be a gum issuing from trees being cut as other trees that yeeld gums are some do affirm that it is only gathered from the manured or Wild Ash The Liquid sort is gathered both in Europe and Asia but that of the Levant is more plentiful and more operative it is gathered in divers other Countries both of Europe and Asia besides Calabria where no Ash-trees grow from many other trees and differs in drines form of greater or lesser peeces and colour as it is altered by the disposition and temperature of the Climate either hotter or colder Government and Vertues Both these sorts of Manna are governed by Venus and have properties alike in purging and are of a mean temperature a little inclining to heat and moisture and by their gentle working they may safely be given to Children and Women with Child and being mixed with other purgers they help their working and evacuate Choler but the grained Manna is much more frequent and more in use with us Choler quench thirst hoarsness nauseous Stomack and the properties thereof are that besides its purging quality it quencheth Thirst and doth Lenifie the Hoarseness of the Throat and allayes the sharpeness of Choler and the nauseous humors in the Stomack It is very profitable to be used often by those who are subject to be costive to be taken alone or to be put into brothes drinks or other things in stead of Sugar it is excellent good to be taken dis●olved in whey in Sunmer to abate heat and choler and quench thirst The greater Maple-tree Names IT is called the greater broad-leafed Maple or Sycomore-tree Acer majus latifolium Sycomorus falso dictum because it hath been and still is falsly called the Sycomore-tree it groweth quickly to be a great tree spreading many fair branches which make a goodly shadow covered with a reasonable smooth bark having very many fair large leavs thereon set upon reddish footstalks cut deeply into five long parts dented about the edges green above and grayish underneath the flowers are of a whitish yellow green colour standing on a long stalk with some few threds within them each flower yeelding two winged husks parted at the stalk which are thin skins at the ends and bunched out where the seed lyeth within and are very like unto the common or wood Maple but

much larger and many more standing together the wood is whitish and smooth but not so smooth hard and close as our common Maple is Place This great Maple or falsly-called-Sycomore groweth no where wild or natural in this Kingdom but is onely planted before houses or in walks for the shadowes sake but groweth naturally in many places in Germany c. This as-well as our Wood-Maple flowers about the middle of April and the fruit is ripe in the end of September Government and Vertues It is a tree of Jupiter and is nevertheless scarcely made any mention of for its medicinal virtues but onely Pliny saith that the root of the Maple being bruised is with very great effect applied unto those that have obstructions or other pains of the Liver and Spleen but the root made into powder and given the quantity of a dram in Wine often is more effectual The Mealy-tree Names IT is called in Latine Viburnum and it is also called the Way-fairing-tree and by Mr. Parkinson from the pliantness of the twigs and branches the Pliant Mealy-tree Descript This tree hath from a small body rising to the height of a hedge-tree or bush covered with a dark greyish bark sundry small short but very tough and pliant branches of a fingers thickness whose bark is smooth and whitish whereon grow broad leaves like Elm-leaves but long and hoary rough thick white like meal and a little hairy set by Couples and finely dented about the edges at the ends of the branches stand large tufts of white flowers which turn into large branches of round and flat seed like unto Lentils but greater green at the first and afterwards and black when they are ripe The branches hereof are so tough and strong that they serve for bands to tye bundles or any other thing or to make fast gates of the Fields better than withy or any other Place It groweth as a hedge-bush and is often cut and plashed by Country-men to spread on the hedges in length and is very frequently found in Kent and in many other places of this Land Place It flowreth about the end of May and the fruit is ripe in September Government and Vertues It is a plant of Saturn the leaves thereof have a harsh binding quality and are good to strengthen and fasten Loose-teeth Loose-teeth the decoction of the leaves hereof and of Olive leaves together in Vinegar and Water is excellent good to wash the Mouth and Throat that are swelled by sharp Rhumes falling into them and is good to set the Palate of the Mouth or Vvula in the right place and to stay Rheums that fall upon the Jawes the kernels of the fruit hereof taken before they be ripe dryed and made into powder and drunk do stay the Looseness of the belly and all other fluxes Of the roots being steeped under ground and then boyled and beaten a long time afterwards is made Bird-lime to catch small birds with all The leaves boyled in Lye and the Head or Haires washed therewith doth keep them from falling and make the Hairs black Mechoacan and Jalap Kinds and Names THe Mechoacan of Peru is called also in Latine Brionia alba Peruana sive Mechoacan There is also another kind called Wild Mechoacan and a third sort called black Mechoacan or Jalap Descript 1. The Mechoacan of Peru that hath grown in these parts sendeth forth divers dark greyish long branches winding themselves about poles that are set for them or any other things that are next unto them whereon do grow fair broad leaves pointed at the ends of a dark green colour thin and hard in handling seeming so dry as if they had no juice in them the flowers are many standing in long clusters of a sullen yellow colour in the Indies as Monardus saith and as large as an Orenge-flower with an Umbone in the middle which afterwards cometh to be the fruit which when it is ripe is as big as an Hazel-nut divided by a thin skin in the middle in each side whereof lye two black seeds of the bigness of Pease of a dark whitish colour in the warmer Countryes of Europe but not with us yeelding berries and seed but not so large the root groweth to be as large as any Briony-root being not bitter or loathsome to tast as it is but rather without either tast or smell having many circles in it as may be discerned in the dry roots and may easily be brought into powder Descript 2. Wild Mechoacan called in Latine Mechoacan Sylvestris is altogether like the other both in manner of growing with branches leaves flowers and roots but in every particular lesser and the root wherein is the chiefest difference being sharp and loathsome procureth Vomiting and troubling the Stomack when it is taken asmuch as any ordinary Briony Descript 3. Mechoacan nigricans sive Jalopium black Mechoacan or Jalap The dryed roots of this plant are brought as a Merchandize unto us in England It cometh to us in small thin peeces some greater some smaller yet nothing so large as the greater but rather as the smaller peeces of Mechoacan of a brownish black Colour somewhat more solid compact and Gummy for out of it will rise a black Gum being laid on a burning Coal and of no unpleasant tast but sticking a little in the Teeth when it is chewed Place Mechoacan groweth beyond Mexico in the Province of Mechoacan but since hath been plentifully brought from the main Land of Nicaragna and Quito The wild Mechoacan was brought from the Promontory of St. Helen which is on the same Continent with Nicaragna The last is brought from a place in the Indies called Chelapa or Calapa from whence it obtained the name of Jalap Time They flower in the months of July and August some earlier or later than others as their original is from colder or hotter Climates and do seed soon after where they give any Government and Vertues The Mechoacans are plants of Mars the Mechoacan of Peru is a familiar Medicine used by many It is given to all Ages young and old and to young Children and Women with child without any harm or danger as also at all times of the year for being without any evil taste or smell it may be the better taken of the most delicate and tender stomachs that loath all other medicines It is most usually being made into powder taken in wine or the Root may be boyled in a little broth or wine and so taken The Dose in powder is from half a dram to a whole dram or a dram and an half or two drams as there is cause and according to the Age and strength of the Patient It purgeth cholerick and Flegmatick gross viscous and putrid humours whatsoever Choler Flegm putrid humours Liver Spleen Dropsie Jaundice Wind Pains in the head Bladder Reins Vrine Cholick Mother shortness of breath Cough French Pox. as also the yellow waterish humours of the Dropsie with much ease and facility It cleanseth the Liver

paler white colour The flowers stand in the same manner three or four together upon a stalk but are somewhat of a paler white colour to whom succeed sometimes but one and sometimes two pods together which are thicker and shorter than those of the white kind straked all along and double-forked at the ends wherein lie silk and seeds as in the former The roots have not so strong a smell as the last and have aswel as the rest of the Plant a strong smell like Box-leaves Place and T me The two first grow in rough and untilled ground upon divers Mountains in France about Narbone Marseilles and Mompelier and in Italy also The last in Candy They flower in the months of June and July and sometimes not until August and their Cods are ripe about a moneth after the empty husks abiding on the dry branches when the seed and silk is fallen out Government and Virtues These are Solar Plants the roots have a most soveraign faculty against all poysons Poysons Venemous beasts Serpents mad do● Plague P●stilence P●ssions of the heart Griping in the Belly particularly against the Apocynum or Dogs-bane and is effectually given to such as are bitten by any venemous beast or stung by any Serpent or other Creature as also against the biting of a mad dog and a dram and an half thereof taken in Carduus-water for divers days together It is taken also in wine every day against the Plague and pestilence a dram thereof taken in Bugloss-water is effectual against all passions of the heart if the same quantity of Citron-seeds be taken therewith it easeth all the griping pains in the belly the Decoction of the roots made with white-wine taken for divers days together a good draught at a time and sweating thereupon cureth the dropsie The same also cureth the Jaundice Jaundice Dropsie Vrine provoketh Urine and easeth the cough and all defects of the Chest and lungs The powder of the roots taken with Peony-seeds is good against the Falling-Sickness Cough Chest Lungs Falling-Sickness Melancholy Worms or with Basil-seed or the rinde of Pomcitron-seeds is good against melancholy and taken with the roots of Dictamnus albus or bastard-Dittany will kill and expell worms of the maw or belly the roots are also used amongst other things for baths for women to sit in to ease pains of the Mother and to bring down their courses the decoction hereof with comfrey roots made in wine Pains of the Mother Courses Rupture Bruises Vlcers Sores is good for those that have a Rupture or are bursten or have received hurts by bruises The powder of the roots or leaves is effectual to cleanse all putrid rotten and filthy Ulcers and Sores and may safely be used in all Salves Unguents and Lotions made for such purposes The leaves and flowers boyled and made into a Pultis and applyed to the hard tumors or swellings of womens breasts cureth them speedily and all sores in the matrix Womens breasts Matrix Tobacco Names Descript IT is called Petum and Nicotiana There have several kinds thereof been planted here in England which they did manure for Smoaking but that is now prohibited I shall only describe one kind which is planted here for its uses in physick and Chirurgery only It riseth up with a thick round stalk about two foot high whereon do grow thick fat fleshy green leaves nothing so large as the other Indian kinds neither for breadth nor length somewhat round-pointed also and nothing dented about the edges the stalk brancheth forth and beareth at the tops divers flowers set in green husks scarce standing above the brims of the husks round-pointed also and of a greenish yellow colour after which followeth the seeds contained in great heads The root is woody byt perisheth in winter but generally riseth of the seed that is suffered to shed it self Place and Time This as is supposed was first brought from Brazile it giveth ripe seed in our Countrey here earlier than the other Indian sorts It flowreth from June to the end of August or later and the seed ripeneth in the mean time Government and Vertues Tobacco is a Plant of Saturn Culpeppers deity of a stupifying quality it is held to be available to expectorate tough phlegm out of the stomach chest and lungs the juice thereof made into a Syrup Phlegm Stomach Chest Lungs worms or the distilled water of the herb drank with Sugar The same also helps to expell worms in the stomach and belly as also to apply a leaf to the belly and to ease the pains in the head or Meagrim Pains in the head Meagrim Stone Gravel Mother and griping pains in the bowels It is also profitable for those that are troubled with the stone in the kidneys to ease pains and by provoking Urine to expell gravel and the stone ingendred therein and hath been found very effectual to suppress the malignity and windy vapours which cause the strangling of the mother The seed hereof is much more effectual to ease the pains of the teeth than Henbane-seed and the ashes of the burnt herb to cleanse the gums and teeth and make them white The herb bruised and applyed to the place of the Kings-Evil is a speedy rememdy as is said It is also said to be effectual to cure the Dropsie Kings-Evil Dropsie by taking four or five ounces of the juice thereof fasting which will strongly purge the body both upwards and downwards And too strongly too unless it be a well steeled body indeed The distilled water is often given with some sugar before the fit of an Ague to lessen the fits and alter them and to take them quite away in three or four times using if the distilled faces of the herb having been bruised before the distillation and not distilled dry be set in hot dung to digest for fourteen days and afterwards hung up in a bag in a Cellar the liquor that distilleth therefrom is singular good to use for Cramps Aches the Gout and Sciatica and to heal Itches Cramps aches Gouts Sciatica Scabs Cankers Lice Green wounds Old Sores Scabs and running Ulcers and foul Sores whatsoever The juice is good for all the said griefs and likewise to kill lice in childrens heads The herb bruised and applyed to any green wound doth speedily heal the same the juice put into old sores doth heal the same A good salve thereof may be made in this manner Take of the green herb three or four handfulls bruise it and put it into a quart of good oyl-olive boyl them on a gentle fire till the herb grow dry and the oyl will bubble no longer adding thereto wax Rozen and sheeps-tallow or Deers suet of each a quarter of a pound of Turpentine two ounces which being melted put it up for your use Some will add to it the powder of round Birthworth and white Frankincense each half an ounce which is to be put in when it is nigh cold and well

wounds of the Joynts are those of the Shoulder Elbow and Knee in any of which places the Cure is difficult because those parts are subject to receive fluxions and by reason of the productions and Insertions of the Nervs and Tendons by which they are bound together so that these parts being naturally more sensible of the lest pain than other parts they being wounded there follows oftentimes bad symptoms especially if the wound be in the bending of the Arm or Armpits the inward part of the Wrist or the Ham there must n●eds follow great flux of bl●od great pain and other Inflammations and other symptoms by reason of the Veins Arteries and Nervs about those parts all which Symptoms must be resisted according as their nature and condition requires as fluxes of blood must be stayed with medicines for that purpose which are set down oftentimes before Likewise pains must be asswaged with Anodines or things against pain as is often repeated before if the wound be large and wide it is to be joyned together by stiches leaving an orifice in the lower-part by which the matter or qui●ture may come forth This following powder is to be strowed upon the stitch or Suture Take Frankinsence Draggons blood Boll-Armonack Sea led-earth of each two drams Aloes and Mastick of each one dram make them into a fine powder and use them Then you must wrap about the joynt this following medicine made of the whites of Eggs Boll Armonack Mastick and Barley-flower with a little of the oyle of Roses if you are necessitated to use a tent let it be short and thick lest it cause pain and let it be armed with this Medicine made of the yolk of an egg Turpentine washed in Plantain-water oyl of Roses and a little Saffron But if the wound be so narrow that the matter hath not free passage you are to make it wider the part must be sure to be kept quiet in rest and ease and you must not use any cold moistning mollifying or unctuous medicines to it unless it be upon necessity to asswage pain But on the contrary you must apply to the part those Medicines that are of a binding and drying quality such as those poultises mentioned in the Cure of wounds of the Nerves and Tendons or this following Poultis Take of Barley or Bean-flower of each four ounces Camomil and Mellilot-flowers of each half an handfull three ounces of Turpentine two ounces of common-honey an ounce of oyl of mirtles with as much Oxymel-simple or Oxycrate that is water and vinegar or common washing-lee as much as will suffice to make it up to the form of a Poultis or you may make a Poultis of the Lees of wine Turpentine Ciprus-nuts Gauls the powder of the Bark of an Oak and wheaten-bran that are of a binding strengthning quality and so are good to asswage pain and to hinder destruction of Humours to the parts This following Medicine is likewise binding and agglutinating Take two ounces of Venice Turpentine the powders of Mastich Allaways Mirrhe Boll Armoniack of each two Scruples and a little Aquavitae Now seeing these wounds are apt chiefly to cast forth mucous excrements and such as are like to the white an egg sometimes thin and watery which preceeds from the old distemper of the part therfore to correct that you must apply things actually hot such as discussing decoctions put into bladders filled half-full and the like moreover there must be special care had of the figure of the wounded part which if not well regarded there follows oftentimes numness incurable contraction and the like though the wound it self be cured up to avoid which danger observe these following Rules If the forepart of the shoulder be wounded the Patient must car●y his arm in a scarf and you must put great bolster under his arm-pit if the lower-part be wounded when flesh begins to grow in the wound and the lips thereof come together then let the Patient often stir his Arms every way lest after it is cured it become more stiff and l●ss pliable to move any manner of way or for fear of quite losing its motion If the wound be upon the joint of the Elbow then the Arm is to be rolled so that it be not too strait-howed not held out too stifly for otherways after it is Cured there will be some difficulty in stretching out and pulling in his Arm. When the wrist or joint of the fingers be wounded either in the outward or inward part you must keep his hand half shut moving a Ball therein for if the fingers be kept stretched too much out they cannot take up or hold any thing after they are cured If the Joints of the Hip be wounded you must place the Patient so that the thigh-bone go not out of the hollowness of the huckle-bone which may be done with Artificial-rollings and linnen bolsters and the Patient lying upon his back when the wound begins to cure up the Patient shall move his thigh every way so that the head of the thigh-bone may not stick to the cavity of the Huckle-bone so that he cannot move or make use of it When the Knee is wounded that the Patient may not be lame the Leg must be placed and kept strait out The joint of the Feet and Toes being wounded the Patient shall bend these parts neither in nor out for if he doth otherways he will not be able to go If any of the Limbs of the Body should be so mortified that it must be cut off which falls out when if you cut the part you find it senseless black and flaggy-flesh being cold smelling like a dead Carkass and if you suppurat the skin from the flesh there flows from it a Green blackish matter The manner of cutting off such mortifyed member is this Draw up the Muscles and flesh very hard then bind the part two inches above the place which is to be cut off with a strong fillet that done with a sharp Razer or a dismembring-knife made for that purpose being somwhat crooked cut the flesh round to the very bone if this be to be done below the Elbow or in the Leg then you must with your Incision-knife devide the flesh betwixt the Forsiles then with the back of it take away the film or membrane which covers the bone which is called the Periostium then with your Saw take away the bone as near the flesh as you can If the Patient be strong and full of blood you may let it bleed a little afterwards you must stay the flux of blood by Cauterising-irons made for that purpose by which a●●er you have clensed and wiped away the clotted blood from the mouths of the Vessels you must fear them by applying thereto the Cauterising irons once or twice at the most some stay the flux of blood by such powders as this and the like Take six ounces of Tarin Volatil Dragons-blood and Frankinsence of each one ounce Boll Armonack sealed-earth of each

not too slack for then the broken bones will not well joyn together upon your splints use your junkes made either of straw or bents which are to be tyed on with filletting putting bolsters into the hollow places All which being done you are to lay the member in a soft place letting it lye reasonable high to keep humours from flowing see the Patient have every day a stoole either by Nature or Art open not your first dressing till after six or seven dayes unless pain or other symptomes force you to it then you are to open it to give ease and hinder other accidents and so to bind it up again as before till fourteen dayes then you may renew your plaister and when in applying your plaisters you find a hard fleshy substance call'd a Callus to increase too much and bunch out you are to keep it down by straight rowlling and a plate of lead laid to the part if you shall perceive that the bones will not naturally join-together for want of the said Callus to confirm and agglutinate them then you must use artificial means to procure the Callus such as every three or four dayes to foment the member with hot water keeping a plaister of ●itch to the broken part If there be a wound with the fracture you must so order your business that you leave a way to dress the wound and not unbind the member but keep it firm and steady which may be done after this manner Taking strong clothes that may but little more then come round the part being three or four double the edges of which are to over-meet at the wound then with filtring in convenient places tye on your splints which are to be made of such as they make sword-scabbards of then dress the wound either with Liniment of Arceus mixt with oyl of St. Johns wort compound or else with this unguent following If the bone be fowl made of syrrup of dryed Roses and Turpentine of each two ounces powder of the Orrice roote Aloes Mastick and Barley-flower of each half a dram incorporate them into an unguent the Thigh being broken commonly knits in fourty or fifty dayes the Arm requires not above thirty or fourty the broken member being subject to slip aside by turnings and the like you are to view it often which you may know by the Patients complaining a fresh of pain and the unevenness of the part The accidents which may happen to broken bones and which you are to consider of and seek to remove them are first pain which if it proceed from too hard binding which will cause a swelling and the like then you are to slacken the binding if it come from a flux of humours cure it as an inflammation if it come from a pricking of the bones which the Patient will resolve you if you gentle touch the part then you must either put them into their places or take them quite away but if it come from the placing the part ill at ease you must needs remedy that by putting it into a better and more easie posture after which you are to overcome by blood-letting cooling Juleps or such like made of common water boyld or Barley water sweetned with Sugar and the juice or syrrup of Lemmons boyling in the water a little Cinamon Sometimes there happens an inflammation sometimes a Gangreen for both which you have had choice of remedies before sometimes itching and gaulings happen which are caused from the flowing of the matter for the which after having first dryed the part clear apply spread upon Paper the white oyntment with Camphire unguentum tripharmacum oyntment of Roses and the like Lastly if the member fall away which may happen either by too spare a dyet or too long binding of the part you are to help the Patient in both these by using good nourishing dyet and comfortable things to draw it to the part by fomenting it with warm water and the like annointing the part with unguentum resumptivum emplaster of Oxycroceum and the like where note that in fractures it is a good sign if the Ligatures or binding be loose on the third or fourth day And if you see the broken stand forth your are to rowl it streighter with bolsters and splints and when on the seventh or eighth day the Symptoms shall be past you may venture to bind the part streighter Lastly remember and consider that the Thigh being broken requires great care in as much as may be that it be kept in its proper posture by reason the bone of it self is naturally bowing and that which hath been said in general may serve for Fractures in the Arms and Leggs We have before spoken of the Fractures of the Scull and Nose now when the Jaw-bones are broken you must restore them by putting your finger into the Patients mouth and on the outside with the finger close them smoothly together if the Teeth be shaken and loose put them to the right places tying them with a thred to the sound Teeth if you see occasion you must devide your splints at the chine and these to be made of Leather such as they sole shooes wi●h your Ligatures must have four ends and be made two fingers broad Two of the ends of the Ligatures must be fastned to the crown of your Cap the other two ends must be fastned to the hinder part of the Cap to the nape of the neck you may know when it is well set when the teeth are in order when these bones are broken you will have occasion to administer purges to your Patient by reason of the flux of Humours unless there happen inflammation the bones joyn or knit together within twenty dayes you are to feed the Patient with water-grewel and liquid things for he must have nothing hard to chew If the Coller-bone be broken athwart it is more easily put into its place than if it were broken longwaies In putting these bones or any other into their place have alwaies a care that the bones lie not one over another then drawing the shoulder forward and the arm backward you may that way put the bones into their places or else put a bottom of yarn under their Arm-pits so forcing the arm down to the Ribbs you may restore them or else lay a Tray with the bottom upwards under the shoulder having a Rugg or Blanket or some such thing over it or a pillow stuffed hard so pressing down the shoulder till you see the bones fly out then you may restore the broken bone or else setting the Patient on the ground cause your mate or Assistant to set his knee behind over-against the broken place and he putting the shoulder to him you may put the bones in the right place Here you must take notice that if there be any splints to cause pain or difficulty of breathing as they will doe if the Ribs be splintred then you must open the skin if you cannot well restore them cut off the sharp

points or else cut them quite off if there be many Splinters after you have restored them try to knit them together with a medicine made of Wheat-flower Dragons-blood Bol-armonack Frankinsence all made into powder mixt with the white of Eggs and ther apply it putting splints thereupon covered with soft linnen rags armed with the same Medicine and then lay a bolster dipt in the same upon each side and one thicker then the other upon the place that is broken and bunches out to keep it so then roll the part with the roller of a hands breadth and two els and a half long cross wayes filling his Arm-pits especially that next to the broken-bone In rolling drawing his arm somewhat backwards and do not unroll until the seventh day unless necessity urge The Shoulder-blade may be broken either in the ridge thereof which may be perceived by an unequality being compared to the other sound part or else may be broken on each side and then there is a Cavity or Hollowness to be perceived or else it may be broken in that part where the shoulder is knit and joyned together to it here if the splints or fragments stick to the bone and doe not prick the flesh they are to be restored to their former state and place and so kept with the glutinating Medicines and such as beget the substance called a Callus as hath been before mentioned and rollers and bolsters fit for the purpose But if the fragments doe not stick fast to the bone and prick the fleshy parts about them and so cause ill symptoms then cut open the flesh and with your Forceps or Crows-beak or such like instrument and so take them out yet they are not to be taken out though you may move them up and down if they stick fast to the membran Concerning the bone called Periostium and the Ligaments prick not the Muscles so cause not pain for it may come to pass that they may grow to the bones adjoyning But if they be wholly parted and stick not to the Periostium then they must be plucked away unless you conceive that Nature will be strong enough to drive them forth of it self those fractures that happen in the neck of the shoulder-blade or joining of it to the shoulder are seldom recoverable by reason of the many large Vessels as the Axillary-vein and Arterie and Nerves about this place which are subject to Inflammation and putrifaction whence grievous symptoms and oftentimes death it self insues by reason of the neerness and communication of the heart and other principal parts these bones usually knit together within four and twenty dayes space The Breast-bone is sometimes broken sometimes prest-in onely without being broken if you perceive an inequality by your feeling the bones crackling at the thrust of the finger it shews the bone is broken but a manifest hollowness in the part as spitting of blood Cough difficulty of breathing argue the depression of the bone only sometimes both for restoring of this Bone whether it be broken or depressed or thrust in onely without being broken you must order such Patient after the same manner as in fractures of the Coller-bone pressing the Ribs on both sides and so set the bone with your hand to the part apply formerly described fitting Medicines to asswage pain with bolsters fastned thereto with a Ligature made cross-waies above the shoulder being not too straight lest it hinder the Patient from breathing The Ribs may be broken either inwardly or outwardly the first is deadly the latter is discerned as well by uneveness of the part as noise in touching to restore which those which are inward let the Patient lye upon his sound-side apply this following plaister to the broken part Take one ounce of wheat-flower half an ounce of Ising-glass being dissolved in Scabies and Poppy-water powder of Mastick Frankinsence Dragons-blood Gypsum and Farena Volatil as much as will serve to make a plaister being boyled to a good substance in Red-poppy-water apply this hot spread upon a strong cloth with two strings fastned in the middle pull it off quickly and with great force after it hath laid on a good while so that the Rib with your plucking may come to its former place this is to be done so often till he find himself better and breathe freely and with more ease then anointing with oyl of Roses apply that Pultis till the eighth day spoken of at the beginning of the cure of Fractures if there happen a swelling it must not be neglected but resolved with such fit Medicines as this and the like Take Barley and Bean-flower of each two ounces the flower of Cammomil Mellilot Elder of each one ounce boyl them in sufficient quantity of water when they are boyled enough put to them oyle of Cammomil and Roses of each one ounce if the swelling cannot be made to vannish with this or the like medicine but it shall come to apostumate then it must be speedily opened lest the matter contained within the Aposthume rot the bone afterwards cure it according to art But if the pricking continue and so cause pain and inflamation cut open the flesh as before and take out the fragments and cure up the wound as you have heard often before The Back-bones are sometimes broken sometimes bruised or strained on the inside whence it comes to pass that the membrans which encompass the marrow of the Back-bone and sometime the marrow it self being oppressed there follow many malign symptoms as Palsie numness of the Arms Legs Fundament and bladder which quite take away or else diminish the faculty of feeling or moving so that their urine and excrements come from them without their knowledge or will or else they are wholly stop'd which when it happens because the marrow of the Back-bone is hurt you may fore-know that death is at hand After you have so prognosticated you may cut open the flesh to take out the splinters of the rack bones of the back which if you cannot do you shall at leastwise apply such medicines as are sit for asswaging pain and hindring Inflamation then put the broken bones into their places and so keep them by applying two pieces of wood of four fingers long and one fingers thickness more or less wrapt in linnen cloaths one on each side of the broken rack bones of the back and so with your hands press them against the broken bones till you put them again into their proper places if the processes or bunchings out of the rack-bone of the Back be only broken you shall put the fragments into their places unless they be quite parted from their periostium or membran that covers them If they be open the skin and take them forth then heal the wound according to art After the same manner are fractures of the Os sacrum or holy bone to be ordered Fractures of the Rump-bones are to be put in their places by putting your finger into the Patients Fundament

Disease and so may either be said to Preserve or Cure therefore you are to adminster them before evacuating Medicines for a Cordial take this for an example made of one scruple of Mithridate half a dram of London-Treacle or that called Diatessaron one ounce of Syrup of Lemons three ounces Of Plantane or Rose-water and six drops of Spirit of Vi●riol for one dose about three hours after give an other dose Or this following Take of Confectio Alchermes burnt Harts-horn of each two scruples syrup of Lemons one ounce as much spirit of Vitriol as will give it a sharp taste after this first administer a Suppositer or Glister of which you have several examples before then after they have done working let him blood plentifully if he be of a strong and gross body as you see occasion his dyet is to be but thin broth water-grewel ponadoes or such like two or three dayes together for purges give him about a scruple of Mercurius dulcis or else this Take six drams or an ounce of Lenitive Electuary two scruples of the Cream of Tarter and one scruple of Confectio Alchermes with Sugar make it into a boll for a dose if it should be convenient to give them a Vomit then give him six drams one ounce or ten drams more or less as you see occasion of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum if sweating be to be procured give him from a scruple to half a dram of Antimonium Di afreticum in a little London or Venice Treacle or Mithridate if he want rest give him from two grains to four of Laudanum Opiatum or else Syrup of wild Poppy six drams of Frogs-spawn and poppy-water of each one ounce and a half with three drams of Treacle make a potion and give the Patient at night to cause him to rest let his ordinary drink be either a decoction of Barley with Liquorish or else this following Take three quarts of fountain-water put an ounce of Harts-horn burnt and prepared into it let it boyl to the consumption of the third part then take it from the fire and put to it four ounces of Rose-water two ounces of syrup of Lemons as much Sugar as will serve to sweeten it and as much sp●rit of Vitriol as will make it sharp this is an excellent drink in all feavors and for all sorts of persons Remember too much purging bleeding and thin dyet is dangerous in all diseases at Sea and will bring your Patient into the Scurvy which is usually the end of most diseases at Sea and then if your Patient be too much weakned the Scurvy discharging it self by a flux is often mortal If you shall have occasion to be concerned with Armies by Land or in Garrisons there will sometimes a continual malign and contagious Fever called the Camp-Disease seize upon the Souldiers which will be seconded by a great pain in the head and his stomach will be clogged with many foul humours sometimes there will follow swooning and often faintings the Patient grows very weak without manifest cause his pulse will be sometimes weak but quick and sometimes strong there will appear oftentimes many large spots of several colours he complains of a pain in his stomach and joints little or no appetite oft-times troubled with vomiting and sometimes difficulty of breathing and singing in the ears all which proceeds from putrefaction or corruption of the humours in the veins or from contagion the corruption or putrefaction of the humours comes from ill dyet ill vapours arising from the earth corrupted naughty air dirty foul apparrel and such like for the cure if there be an inclination to vomit which you may perceive by pain and fulness of the stomach then provoke it with this made of six drams of the infusion of the glass of Antimony two ounces of Barly-water Oxymel of squils and syrup of the 5 opening-Roots of each six drams mix it and give the Patient The manner of infusing your Antimony is this Take two drams of the glass of Antimony put it into a pint of white-wine Cloves and Ginger of each one dram infuse all these together when you have occasion administer it from two drams to an ounce after that you have used all the wine you may put more to the ingredients adding to them the same quantity of fresh ingredients as before after you may bleed if the Patient be not very weak or if you see your Patient of a strong constitution you may begin with blood-letting not forgetting glysters or suppositories with cordials made of the Carduus benedictus Scabious Sorrel Angelica-waters with Venice or London Treacle and burnt Harts-horn Mithridate Dioscordium confection of Alchermes bezoar root of contrayervae as for example Take of the wild Poppies and Sorrel-water of each one ounce and a half London Treacle and burnt Harts-horn of each two scruples one scruple of Mithridate one dram of Dioscordium and three drams of Treacle-water with some syrup of Lemons and as many drops of the spirit of Vitriol as will give it a sharp taste make a potion and give it at one dose or take two scruples of Dioscordium and one scruple of burnt Harts-horn mix them and dissolve them in Mace-ale a little Sack or in Beer and Ale wherein Harts-horn and Marigold flowers have been boyled to cause him to sleep Take syrup of Dioscordium and syrup of wild-poppies of each half an ounce of Angelica and wild-poppy-water of each one ounce and an half and a dram of Diascordium mix them and give it going to sleep Take notice that Cordials are to be given often For purges they must be somewhat strong as one dram of Pulvis astrictionis one ounce of syrup of Roses solutive Diaphrenicon Electuarii three drams dissolve all in three ounces of Endive-water For bleeding in this Disease if the veins be full and stretching out and be burthensom to nature let it then be plentiful for the blood is corrupted in all putrid Feavers it is very safe to let blood which may be done til the fourth day and if your occasion require till the seventh day though spots appear As for vomiting that removes nauseousness pain bitterness and sadness by freeing the stomach from the abundance of naughty humors Vesicatories or blisters may be good applyed to the wrists any time but on a Critical day The form of a blister-plaister may be this Take half an ounce of Cantharides call'd Spanish-flies two drams of Turpentine Olibanum Myrrhe Mastick and Camphire of each half a dram oyl of Roses and Bees-wax as much as will be sufficient to make it to the consistence of a Plaister The Patient is to keep a spare dyet not to eat any flesh but brothes wherein is boyled the shavings of Harts-horn the opening roots with Sorrel and Borrage and Panadoes water-grewel c. And posset-drink with Harts-horn boyld in it dropping a little spirit of Vitriol into it and burnt Harts-horn boild in the Calenture is good to which you may add the syrup