in the howre of Iupiter it is for no harme but rather for good Therefore doubt it not and though it should seeme to be some harme or losse at the fyrst yet at length it wyll turne to good The oftner one tryes it the truer he shall fynde it so that he be not Retrograde or Combust OKe ferne called Polipodium stampt and plastred vpon the feete of the Woman traueling of chylde causeth the byrth of the chylde eyther a lyue or dead This was tolde me for a great secrete TAke the grease of a Swyne or a Hogge and rubbe therewith the body of any that is sycke against the harte or the soles of his feete then geue that grease to a Dogge which if he eate the partye wyll escape if not it is a token that he wyll dye thereof THis following wyll helpe them that be deaffe Take a peece of greene Elme or Ashe and laye it in the fyre and receyue the water that commeth out of the endes thereof and take also a spoonefull of the iuyce of Syngreene and a spoonefull of Aqua vite and a spoonefull of the grease of an Eele that is redde beneathe the nauell boyle all these together a lytle on the fyre and put it into a glasse and when he goeth to bedde put some thereof into his eare luke warme and in two or three dayes he wyll be hole and heare well This is proued TO drawe out a toothe without any payne Take the goom of Iuy and greene Iuy leaues of each a lyke weyght and burne them to powder in a newe earthen potte and when it is made in fyne powder myxe it together with the mylke of Spurge and put some thereof into the toothe that you woulde haue out if it be hollow if not touch the toothe therwith and it wyll fall out but beware you touch none other toothe therwith AElianus dooth report that no sycke person of the Locrenses should vpon payne of death drynke any Wyne without the consent knowledge of the Phisition or any other geue it them without the commaundement of the Phisition IF you wyll proue whether there be any water mixed with Wyne or not put an Egge into the Wyne and if the Egge synke into it there is water myxt with it if the Egge swym then it is pure Wyne IF the scull of an aged man be hanged in a Doouehouse Pygions wyll be encreased there and wyl lyue quietly Albertus as Mizaldus doth wryte THe iuyce of Baye leaues distylled into the cares doth not permytte deafnesse nor other straunge soundes to abyde in the eares Petrus Hispanus A Question was asked of the state of a certayn person being sycke of what condition the disease was and whether they should recouer therof or not c It seemed at the fyrst syght that the party was hole for whome the question was made because the Sunne was in the tenth house and the parte Fortune in the Ascendent but many other testymonies shewed the contrary And also Mars dyd corrupt Venus Lady or Alumten of the Ascendēt and Venus also was vnder the beames of the Sunne and began to be Combust distaunt from the Sun ten degrees for Venus was in the .xxviii. degree of Sagitary and the Sun in the .viii degree of Capricorne which two degrees in Sagitary dyd sygnify two monthes being a common sygne and the .viii. degrees in Capricorne being a moueable sygne dyd sygnify .viii. dayes therfore it was to be doubted of the death of the sicke personne about two monthes and .viii. daies after the questiō was made as God would ordaine and so it hapned ryght by the appoyntment of God to whome it belonges onely to cure infyrmities griefes to raise vp the dead and to moderate the earthly bodies by the heauenly bodies and to dispose inferyor thinges by meanes to whom be glory Amen Guilelmus Anglicus in suo tractatu de vrina non visa AN excellent medicine for the ache in the bones or armes or any other place of the body Annoynt the place where the payne or ache is with good and pure Aqua Composita by the fyre and let it drinke in doo thus three or fowre tymes together then at the last tyme whyle it is wette cast vpon the wette place where the ache is the powder of Olibanum which is the fairest and the whitest of the Frankensence and so laye a lynnen cloath vpon the powder and sowe it fast and so let it lye three or fowre dayes vntyll it be well and whole Which wyll be by that tyme God wylling Proued ENuches that is they that be gelded be neuer balde nor gowtye Hippocr IT is a thing worthy of memory that Lampridius wrytes of Heliogabalus the Romaine Emperour who sayth he had fowre Hartes in his Charret that carryed him and so many Dogges calling him selfe Diana and fowre Tygers calling himselfe Bacchus and fowre Lyons calling him selfe Cibel and he ioygned fowre Women to his Charret as Sesostris King of Egipt dyd with fowre Kings O prowde presumptuous Prince he might ryde a good whyle in that Charret ere it woulde bring him to heauen IT is not good to burye any too hastely especially such as haue had the Apoplexy the falling sycknes and that are suffocate with the Strangulation of the wombe called the moother For such may seeme to be deade and yet reuyue againe within three dayes for it was the fowrth daye after Lazarus dyed ere Christe dyd rayse him from death to lyfe least any should falsely report that Lazarus had had the Apoplexy or the falling sycknes or such lyke and therfore but in a traunce or not perfectly dead whereby the iust meryte of Christes maruelous myracle thereof myght be darkned This is the meaning of Lemnius in his seconde Booke of the secrete myracles of Nature Therefore it is very meete to know whether any such be perfectly dead or not which you may doo by holding a lytle burning candle at the parties nose whose mouth is open or else by setting some lytle cuppe or glasse full of water to the brymme vpon the sayde partyes belly or nauell for by the mouing of the flame of the candle or of the vessell with water you shall perceyue his secrete breathing and whether there be any lyfe in him or not Camillus AN approued medicine dooth follow for the shortnes of breath doth maruelously helpe the same for if halfe an ounce thereof be geuen to the patient thryse in a naturall daye that is three howres before dynner two howres before supper and about mydnyght continewing the same three or fowre dayes and no moe you shall see the diseased healed Take of Manna elect or chosen called Manna Granata two ounces the flowre of Cassia newly drawne halfe an ounce Penyedes three ounces oyle of sweete Almondes being new one ounce the Lyghts or Lungs of a Foxe fynely beaten and powdred two ounces make the rest in powder that are to be powdred then myxe all together and make therof a Lectuary
place of this booke IF the part of Fortune be Cadent from the AscendeÌ„t and doth not behold there the lyght or Lumynary of the time and his Lord be weake and Infortunate remoued froÌ„ an angle not beholding the part of Fortune the Lord of the house of substaunce be euyll affected of euyll Planets or of the beames of the Sun which destroyes scatters it sygnifyes that he or she that is then borne shal be poore a wretch that he wyl not be able to get his owne liuing and that is lyke to lyue of almos Haly Abenragel THis following is a secrete and approued medicine for them that are short breathed very good for the poore because it is not coastly Take of the rootes of Hollyocke dryed in the shaddow one pound made in fyne powder clarifyed Honny fowre pounde set them ouer a fyre and styrre them together vntyll it be in the fourme of a Lectuary wherof let the patient take often and he wyll be whole Emperica benedicti victorij Fauent A Perfect and most sure and proued remedy and a rare secrete for the helping of womens sore brests that be swolne ful of paine which was reuealed vnto me by an old woman who sayd that the Lady Owen Doctor Owens wife vsed it to women in this case very much who kept it as a great secrete The medicine foloweth Stampe or bruse nine litle woorms of som called Swyne lyce which commonly wyll be founde betweene the barke and wood of olde or drye trees which haue many feete and being touched they become round as a button in eight or nyne spoonefuls of drinke let them remayne therin all night and the next morning streyne the same drinke and let the diseased woman drinke the same a lytle warmed at one draught and then let her laye to her breast a two or three foulde lynnen cloath warmed the next morning let her take eyght of the same lytle woormes in drynke in such order as before the thyrde morning seuen the fowrth morning syxe so euery morning following one lesse discreasing one euery morning vntyl nyne mornings be ended on which nynth morning she must take but one of them as it wyll fall out by the discreasyng one euery day And if she be not then throughly hole of her breast let her encrease euery morning one immediatly following vntyll she hath receyued nyne at one tyme according to the order before appoynted A rare and notable thing if it be true for I neuer proued it FOr the swelling of armes legges or feete Take Lyn seede Wheate bran Brockleme ChickeÌ„ weed Groundsell of each one handfull and one pottell of whyte Wyne seethe them all together tyl it be thick and lay a plaster therof to the place that is swolne as hotte as the partye can suffer the same and it wyll take it away and helpe him within three or fowre plasters Proued TO helpe a stynking breath that coms from the stomacke Take two handfull of Coomyn seede and beate it into powder then seeth it in a pottel of white Wyne vntyll a quart thereof be wasted away then geue the party a good draught thereof fyrst and last as hotte as he maye suffer it and it wyll make him haue a sweete breath within fyfteene dayes This is proued MArke what Planet is ruler of the twelft house the day that beares the name of that Planet wyl be vnlucky to the Chylde borne at that tyme And many tymes wyll haue myshaps of that day Which by long experience is found true PUt the feete of Hens in hotte embers tyl the scales or skyn thereof be seperated and shrunke from the legs and with the same skyn warme rubbe Wartes three or fowre tymes or more and it wyl dryue them away Petrus Hispanus IF you wyll do away or consume a Wen do as followeth Bynd fast the Wen then take Uerdygrease Brimstone Sope oyle of Egs Allom and Honny of each a lyke much and temper them together and lay it thereto and it wyll do away the Wen and heale it without doubt A Syngular oyle very rare which causeth a comly face and maketh the person mery which vseth it yea strong hardy to fyght the making whereof doth follow Take one pound or two of Hempe seede which after the fynely beating therof sprinckle wet it with a lytle Wyne then put all the same into a new earthen pan glased and set it ouer the fyre heate it so long vntyll you can not suffer your hande in it after put the same substaunce hotte into square bagges which wryng harde out in a presse and an oyle wyll come forth very profitable wherof if any drinketh to the quantitie of an ounce at a tyme it maketh him pleasaunt and merry and if a Souldior drinke it it wyll make him both fierce and hardy to fyght without any feare or doubt of his enemy And also it is profitable to Women in that it maketh them merry coomly to see too and in this maner you may draw out an oyle out of all seedes This is in the newe Iewell of Health A Notable and often proued medicine for a Sciatica ache gowte or other payne or griefe Take a pynt of pure Aqua Composita one Beastes gall and one ounce oâ—â—epper beaten into powder boile them all together â—ntâ—ll halfe the Aqua vite be consumed then laye soâ—e thereoâ— on a cloath lyke a plaster and apply it something hotte to the grieued place and let it lye twelue howres vnremoued and do thus fowre or fyue tymes if neede be for it is a present helpe A Precious Water for eyes that be fayre cleare and yet are blinde Take Smalladge redde Fennell Rew Uarueyn Bettany Egremony fyue leaued Grasse Pympernel Eybright Sage Celendyne of each one quarter of a pounde washe them cleane and stampe them in a fayre brasen mortar or in a pan then take the powder of fyfteene Pepper cornes fynely searced and a pynt of good whyte Wyne and do them to the hearbes and also take three spoonefull of lyfe Honny and fyfteene spoonefull of the vrine of a Boy that is an innocent and mixe them all together and boyle them ouer the fyre a lytle whyle and strayne all through a cloath and keepe it in a glasse well stopt vntyll you occupy it and with a fether do it into the sore eyes and if it drye awaye temper it with whyte Wyne againe This is a medicine for all manner of euylles of sore eyes to make a man see if euer he shall see within fyfteene dayes on warrantyse by the grace of god This I tooke out of an auncient wrytten booke EUerye one that is borne whose degree of the seuenth house is the terme of an euyl Planet he shal dâ—e a fowle death And if it be the terme of a good Planet he shall dye a fayre and good death Haly Abenragell IF you rubbe Wartes with Egremony stampt and myxt with vinegar and also plastred vpon
thinges which are in all a thousand Wishing that they may be accepted as thankfully willingly as I haue bestowed them friendly and freely Being bould to affirme this much that a great deale of golde cannot counteruaile this Gyft if but some twenty of the sayd thousand be dilligently marked faythfullye followed and perfectlye practised And thus in fewe wordes I byd you farewell Thomas Lupton ⧠The first Booke of Notable thinges IN the first beginning hereof a rare straunge matter shal appeare worthy to be marked especially of such as loues or vse Sage A certaine man being in a Garden with his Louer dyd take as he was walking a few leaues of Sage who rubbing his teeth and gums therewith immediatly fell downe and dyed whervpon his said Louer being examined howe he dyed she sayde she knew nothing that he ayled but that he rubbed his teeth with Sage and she went with the Iudge and other into the same Garden place where the same thing hapned and then she tooke of the sayde Sage to shewe them how he dyd and lykewise rubbed her teeth and gums therwith and presently she dyed also to the great maruayle of all them that stoode by wherevpon the Iudge suspecting the cause of their deathes to be in the Sage caused the sayde bedde of Sage to be plucked and digged vp and to be burned least other might haue the lyke harme thereby And at the rootes or vnder the sayde Sage there was a great Tode founde which had infected the same Sage with his venemous breath Anthonius Myzaldus hath written of this maruelous matter This may be a warning to such as rashly vse to eate rawe vnwasht Sage Therfore it is good to plant Rew rounde about Sage for Todes by no meanes wyll come nye vnto Rew as it is thought of some A Certayne Poet by the report of Mizaldus dyd weare leaden Soles vnder his shoes least the winde shoulde ouerblow him his body was so light and so lytle IF any do myldlie or softlie beate the plant or stalkes of an herbe called Mullen some calles it Hedge taper in the morning when the flowers thereof beginnes to open all the flowers by lytle and lytle wyl â—all and come to one as though the plant were wythered or blasted which the ignorant haue thought to be done by Magicall artes or by some Inchauntment specially if he that doth stryke the same Mullen doth seeme to mumble some wordes whyles he doth it Mizaldus THe hooues of the forefeete of a Cowe dryed and made in fine powder encreaseth mylke in Nurses if they eate it in their Pottage or vse it in theyr drinke and being cast on burning coales the smoke thereof doth kyll Myse or at the least doth dryue them away This Mizaldus wrytes of the experyment of a certayne Spaniarde AQua vite being outwardly applyed doth helpe very well the Synewes and Muscles and all other parts of the body tormented or payned of a cold cause with his heating strength and swift penetration IF one vse to rubbe chapped or rough lyppes with the sweat behinde their eares it wyll make them fyne smothe and well culloured a thing proued WHen Infortunate Planets be in Angles and the Sunne or Moone applyes vnto them corporallye or by opposition it sygnifyes that the partie then borne wyll be eyther croackbackt or wyll halte or it sygnifyes the destruction or losse of some member especiallye if the Moone bee with the Dragons tayle in these sygnes Aries Taurus Cancer Scorpius or Capricornus or in the begynning or ende of the Sygne Iatromath Guat Ryff EArth woormes fryed with Goose greese then streynde and a lytle therof dropt warme into the deaffe or payned eare doeth helpe the same you must vse it halfe a dosen tymes at the least This is true ANthonius Beneuenius an excellent Phisytion doth glorie that he with the water wherein Smithes dyd quench their hote and burning yrons geuing the same often to drinke and with the eating of Cappares dyd perfectly heale a Citizen of Florence that had the griefe and swelling of the Splene seuen yeares ADdars tongue wrapt in Uirgin Waxe and put into the lefte eare of any Horse it makes the Horse to fall downe to the grounde as though hee were deade and when it is taken out of his eare it doeth not onely waken him or reyse him but also it makes him more lyuely or quicke Myzaldus wrytes this of the report of an Englysh man. IF a water Snake be tyed by the tayle with a cord hanged vp and a vessel full of water set vnder the sayd Snake after a certaine tyme he wyl auoyde out of his mouth a stone which stone being taken out of the vessell he drinkes vp all the water let this stone be tyed to the belly of them that haue the dropsie and the water wyll be exhausted or drunke vp and it fullie and wholie helpes the partie that hath the sayde Dropsie Iacobus Hollerius OFt thunder doth turne and chaunge Wines maruelouslie but if the Wines be then in Cellers being paued and the walles of stone they take lesse harme then in boorded Cellers therfore it is good before such tempest or thunder to lay a plate of yron with salt or flint stones vpon the sayde vessels with Wine Leuinius Lemnius by Mizaldus report THey wyll haue the palsey or be so that they cannot moue themselues or wyll be geuen to tremble in whose Natiuities the Moone is in an Angle with Saturne Saturne then being vnder the beames of the Sunne combust Lykewise if the syxt house and the Lorde thereof be infortunate of Saturne without the aspect of a good planet Iatromath Guat Ryff MAke powder of vnslackt Lyme and mixe it with black Sope and annoynt any Men therwith the Men wyl fall away and when the roote is come out annoynt it with oyle of Balme it wyl heale it perfectly IF you wyll make wood of the cullour of the wood Hebenus especially such as be harde as Boxe and Peare tree and such lyke do as followeth laye the wood you meane to cullour in Allam water so that it be couered with the layde water and let it rest so three dayes then laye the sayd wood against the hote Sunne or the fyre that it may onely waxe warme then seethe the same wood in common oyle wherin put asmuch of Uytryol Romaine and Brimstone as a Hasel nutte let it be dyssolued the longer you seeth it the blacker the wood wyll be so that you keepe a measure therin and it wyl be fayre elegant Mizaldus had this of an Italian a professor of many experimentes THe iuice of Mullen leaues of som called Hedgetaper of some Lungwoort put to any part that is brused or that hath had a strooke and the staÌ„ped leaues thereof then put vpon the same and tyed fast on with a cloath if you let it lye so a whole daye and night vnremoued it wyll heale it finely yea though it be a wounde but the
panne somewhat which after let stande close couered for fowreteene dayes or twelue at the least At the ende of which tyme heate the whole againe sufficiently that is vntyll it be very hotte then put it into a bagge and wryng out the oyle in a presse vntyll the whole Cynamom remayne through drye in the bagges and then that which is come foorth wyll be of the cullour sauour and taste of the Cynamom A Secrete and knowne to fewe to bee wrought in thys order THe powder of Pellyter of Spaine mixt with the mylke of Wartwoort or Spurge and Galbanum and a lyttle thereof applyed to any rotten or aking tooth wyl breake it or plucke it out and so the paine thereof wyll cease This I had out of an olde wrytten booke IF you wyll knowe whether one shall escape or not that is infected with the plague hauing the plague Sore geue the partie some excellent Treacle with whyte Wyne so that hee be not troubled with an ague for then geue the Treacle with Scabyus or Planten water and also annoynt the plague Sore with the lyke Treacle and if the same be dryed or burned and remayne fyxed the partie thereby not relieued or eased it is a verie euyll sygne but contrarie if the partie be eased it is a great sygne that the party shall escape Arnoldus IN the common place where the Censors of Uenys syttes there neuer enters any Flyes Gandeut Merula And in the fleshe Shamble of Toledo a Cittie in Spayne is not seene but one Flye in all the whole yeare As Leo Paptist sayeth And in Westminster Hall in the Tymber worke there is not to bee founde one Spyder nor a Spyder webbe Because as it is thought the Tymber wherewith the rooffe is buylded was brought out of Irelande and dyd growe there In all which Countrey of Irelande I haue not onely hearde it credibly tolde that there is neyther Spyder Tode nor any other venemous thing but also that some of the earth of that country hath bene brought hether wheron a Tode being layd she hath dyed presently Though this be maruelous strange yet it is true IT is proued sayth Taisnier if Iupiter be in the fift or the twelfth house whether hee be Orientall or Occidentall of the Sunne or whether hee be in a Masculine sygne or Femynine sygne the fyrst chylde of him or her then borne wyll be a boye THe iuyce of ground Iuie snuft vp into the nose out of a spoone or a sawcer purgeth the head maruelouslie and takes away the greatest and eldest paine therof that is This medicine is worth gold though it be very cheape I haue knowne them that haue had maruelous payne in their head almost intollerable for the space of a dosen yeares and this hath helpt them presently and neuer had the paine synce they tooke this medicine THis medicine following wyll kyll woormes in the bellie Take the gall of an Oxe or of a Cowe and so much of the flowre of Lupynes which are to be had at the Apothecaries as wyll thycken the same myxe them well together and laye it on wooll and so plaster it to his bellie where the griefe is and about the nauell and after twelue howres lay theron another plaster Do thus fowre or fiue dayes and it wyll helpe him HOw greatly is the sicke party to be feared or iudged not to escape iâ— in the tyme of the question or the fyrst beginning of the sycknesse both the Lumynaryes are vnder the earth c. Iatromath M. Guat H. Ryff argent IF hotte burning golde be quenched in pure Wine the same Wine being drunke it procures strength to the chiefe members and to the vytall partes And it makes strong the natural faculties and doth helpe the diseased parte with strength and vytall spyrite And this lycquour is thought to be very good in the tyme of Plague And if the same be mixed with a lytle Tarter it doth quyte put away from any part of the body all spots though they be neuer so fowle Yea it helps a leprous face a red nose and any other deformity of the same If the place infected be washt and rubbed often tymes therwith Lemnius THe water that drops out of the Uine or the goom that is founde there being drunke with whyte Wyne doth breake expell the stones in the reynes maruelously And also being rubbed vpon Ryngwoormes Tetters and leprous places it doth cure them But they must be rubbed before with Niter This was tolde to Mizaldus as a proued thing IF his spyttle which hath a consumption being cast vpon the coales doth styncke and the heair fall from his head It is sygne of death Hippocrates in Aphor. THere is a certayne Electuary of lyfe of Arnoldus de villa noua in a lytle booke of his of the putting back of olde age described of the fiue kindes of Myrabolanes made for the conceruing or keeping of health and prolonging of lyfe And it is a perfyt approued thing For it doth not onely comfort but also it doth purge superfluous humors remaining of nutriment past And the vse thereof doth let or hynder graye heairs and it makes one come to the last olde age It strengthneth the stomacke and the vse therof maketh a good cullour in all the body And this is the description therof Take of great Reysons cleansed of their stones and stalkes two pounde Lycquerys made cleane and beaten one ounce Let these be put into two pounde and a halfe of fayre water and let them seethe well and let them then be strayned well And in that that is streined let there be put of Mirabolanes Kebule Citrine and Indy beaten in a Morter their stones taken away of each two ounces of Embelyck Bellerick of either of them two drams Let them be sodde streined pressed or wel wroong then put therto whyte sugar one pounde and seethe altogether to the thycknes of a Syrup and in the ende adde therto of good Cynamom halfe an ounce Cloues Galengaye of each two drams two Nutmugs Maratrum and Annes seede of eyther one ounce and make therof a Lectuary and keepe it in a pure vessell In this Electuary be medicines of the principall members that is to say of the hart head stomacke Lyuer Speâ—n And of the generatiue members and it is fyrst hotte after moyst then cold and the last drie Iohannes Ganiuetus lykewise describes it CErtaine woormes that shines in the night called Glo woorms being wel stopped in a glasse couered within hootte horse dung staÌ„ding there a certaine time wyll be resolued into a lycquor which being mixt with lyke porcion of quicksyluer first clensed purged which wylbe with halfe a dosen times washing in pure vineger myxt with bay salt which after euery washing rubbing must be cast away and then hotte water put to the quicksyluer therewith washed and then put closed in a fayre bright and pure glasse and so hanged vp in the myddes of a house
then he is lyke to dye thereof Iatromathematica M. Guat Ryff TO kyll Serpents in your dreame sygnifies victorie to see sayles of shyppes is euyl to dreame that all your teeth are blouddy it sygnifies the death of the dreamer but that the teeth is drawne out signifies the death of another that byrds enters into a house sygnifies losse to weepe betokens ioye to handle money sygnifies anger to see dead horsses sygnifies a lucky euent of thinges Artemidorus YOu shall make a Swoord Knife or any other Instrument to haue an excellent edge if you doo as followeth Put into a pounde of the vrine of a young Man as much soote as you may take in your hand putting thereto fowre ounces of the oyle of Lynne seede All being mixt together let them seethe on the fyre betwene the beating or stryking of the sword or the knife whiles it is red or burning hotte quench it in this myxture and according to arte let it be wel tempered Mizaldus IF you stampe Lupynes which are to be had at the Apothecaries and therewith rubbe round about the bottome or lower part of any tree no Antes or Pyssemyres wyll go vp and touch the same Tree Mizaldus IF Mercury being Lorde of the syxt house be impedyte of Saturne doth threaâ—â—n to the chylde then borne continuall blyndnesse and so much the more if the Moone beholde the Sunne and Saturne in that sort Taisnier RUb the leafe of a Marygoold betweene your fyngers and put the same into your nose and let it staye there a pretie whyle and it wyll bring forth aboundaunce of humors out of your head and it wyll help the rewine within a little whyle if you vse it This I had of a friende as an excellent secrete THe eating of two drams of great Reasons the Stones taken out in the mornyng fastyng doth profyte for conceruing of youth because they make better dygestion and fleame is dymynished by them they comfort the Lyuor and makes it fatte because they are friendes of the stomacke and of the Lyuor and they encrease bloud and makes it thycke and when they are taken after meate they strengthen and moystens the belly Iohannes Ganâ—uctus THe eyes be not onely instrumentes of Inchauntment but also the voyce and euyll tongues of certaine persons For there are found in Africke as Gellius sayth Families of men that if they chaunce exceedingly to prayse fayre Trees pure seedes goodly chyldren excellent horsses fayre and well lyking cattell soone after they wyll wyther and pyne away so dye No cause or hurt knowne of their withering or death Therupon the custome came that when any do praise any thing that we should say God blesse it or keepe it Aristot. in Probl. By the report of Mizaldus STop both your eares with your fyngers and the hyckop wyl go away within a whyle after Proued MAny that are borne at that tyme when the earth doth quake are alwayes fearefull in the tyme of thunder they are for the most part saynt fearfull in the time of the change of the Moone eyther they liue not long or else they be weake And oftentimes as Aristotle sayth haue Melancholicke diseases or els are out of measure Melancholicke which makes theÌ„ to be wayward â—reating seldome mery Mizaldus THere is a maruelous strength in Sperma ceti for if it be pure right it wyll penetrate go through the boxes or things wherin it is kept with a certain moysture or sweating droppes Mizaldus IF Mercury be coniunct with Saturne or in any euyll aspect of him neyther Iupiter nor any other good Planet doth beholde Mercury it doth note that they then borne shal haue an impediment in their tongue or shall stut chiefly if he be founde aboue the earth Taisnier THe rootes of Eldern sodde and streyned drunke thirtie dayes together thryse euery daye at morning noone and night doth cure the dropsy perfectly Proued IF the pappes of a woman which is with childe of two do waxe lytle she shall lose one of them and if it be the ryght pappe it is a man chylde that wyll be lost and if it be the lest a woman chylde Hippocrates in Aphor. TAke Garlyck and Houslyck of each lyke much stampe them both together and plaster the same eyther to a hotte or colde gowte and it wyll helpe or ease it maruelously This was reported to me to be excellent therfore THe Flower of oyntments called Flos vnguentoruÌ„ is made as followeth Take of Rosen and Perrosyâ— of each halfe a pounde Uirgin waxe and Olybanum of eyther a quarter of a pounde Masticke one ounce Hartes tallowe or els Sheepes tallow a quarter of a pounde Camphere two drams make your gooms in fyne powder and searce them then melt the waxe and tallowe and myxe the powders there with well and boyle them well together then streyne it through a canuas bagge into a pottell of white Wine then let it keele vntyl it be bloud warm then put thereto the Camphere and a quarter of a pounde of Turpentyne by lytle and lytle euermore styrring it well tyll it be through colde Then make it vp in rowles keepe it to your vse for the best salue for all things following that euer was made by the sufferaunce of god Wherfore esteeme of this salue aboue any other for it hath bene put in experience and substantially proued It heales wounds olde new it cleanseth very well and gathereth good fleshe It healâ—th head ache impostume in the head or in the body Swolne eares or cheekes sawsfleame in the face Synewes cutte starke or sprayned in trauell It drawes out yron and thorne it helpes venemous byting and pricking it heales all manner of botche all swelling and ache in the coddes and all other members it sâ—ases the fluxe of the Emrods and it is speciall good to make a seare cloath for all manner of griefes This was wrytten and cast into the Recluse or Anker at the Red hyll in Almaine wherewith he wrought many maruels and neuer vsed any other medicine but this This I copied out of a very olde booke and I haue proued it many tymes to be precious WHen the Alumten or the Lorde of the Ascendent is Infortunate in his fall or combust with three other testimonies or else two It sygnifies that the sick person shall dye And it is so much the worse if he be vnder the beames of the Sunne Iatromath Guat Ryff WHosoeuer hath the griefe or swelling of the splene neuer so much hath had it of a long tyme and doth heate the endes of a payre of tonges in the fyre vntyl they be glowing and red hotte and then quencheth the same in halfe a pynt of white Wine drynk the same Wine It wyll helpe them therof perfectly This was credibly tolde me for very trueth But it is more certaine if they be so heated and quenched fiue or sixe tymes and then drunke and to take the same fowre or fiue morninges
swolne and also the face necke and legges who dyd lye as though she were halfe dead to whome I gaue the rootes of Daffadyll stampt and myxt with water and saffern which being drunke she was quickly hole I wrote this â—ut of an olde written booke TAke heede in letting of bloud or geuing of Purgacions or strong medicines that the Lorde of the eyght house be not with the Moone or with the Lorde of the Ascendent Lykewise that the Moone nor the Lorde of the Ascendent be in the fowrth or eyght house nor that the Lord of the eyght house be in any Angle and it is not good that the Moone be in the Ascendent Iatromathematica Guat Ryff A Winde rysing in the North in the begynning of the nyght or in the twye lyght by and by he ceaseth and leaueth his place Therfore it is that the Shypmen or Marryners hauing iust tryall therof wyll not set forth in that wynde vnlesse it hath continued three dayes The South winde is contrary which if it ryse or begyn in the beginning of the day it bringes hope to the Marryners that it wyll continew and not quickly depart out of that place Mizaldus THe skynne of the ryght heele of a Uultar layde to the ryght foote and of the lefte heele to the lefte foote of them that are payned with the gowte It is sayde that it doth mytygate the griefe and ease the paynes Mizaldus LUte stringes or Harpe strynges cutte in lytle peeces and cast vpon flesh newly sodden or rosted wyl seeme to be woormes Whereby they that knowes not thereof wyll refuse the same meate Mizaldus IF the Yarde doth swell and be grieuously payned myngle Waxe Oyle and the iuyce of Purslane together and apply it to the swolne Yarde and it wyll helpe it It is often proued IOhannes Ganiuetus wrytes that in the yeare of the Lorde .1431 the seuenth daye of August being Tewsday about seuen of the clocke in the morning one Maister Henricus Amici a Doctor of Phisicke borne at Bruxelles in Brabant dyd aske him for the Lord Deane of Viennens then being sycke whether he should dye or recouer of that sycknes In the fygure of which question he founde that the Moone was going in coniunction to the Sunne vnder the beames of the Sun which was a testimony of death With dyuers other lykelyhoods of the same But espying Mercury beginning to be Retrograde within one degree of the Ascendent corrupting the degree ascending dyd iudge that he woulde shortly fall into a frensye at the furthest within a naturall daye although he was a very wyse man And so it came to passe For within lesse then a naturall daye he became franticke And so dyed within two dayes after TAke cloues of Garlycke and burne them in a potte all to powder and if you vse to eate of that powder in your pottage doubtles it wyll procure you to make water if you are troubled with the stone This I had out of a very olde booke IF you put the powder of Allom in water whatsoeuer you wryte therwith the wryting or Letters wyl not appeare vnlesse you put the same paper in water and then you shall reade it perfectly Bapt. porta THis that followeth is a most excellent true sure proued medicine for a great and olde griefe and payne of the head Take of bay Salt stamped by it selfe as much of Coomyn seede stamped lykewyse by it selfe as much browne Fennell and then stampe or beate them all together then with as much pure vynegar also a lytle Rosewater mixe sturre them all together in a dyshe ouer a 〈◊〉 dyshe with hotte coales and then laye some of the same hotte vpon a cloath and apply it so to the hynder part of the heade at nyght and tye it fast thereto that it fall not away And also laye an other plaster therof hotte therto the next nyght and so do nyne nyghts together one after another and it wyll not onely helpe the same perhaps within three or fowre tymes so doing but also it wyll cleare the syght and draw the humors cleane away that runnes out of the head into the eyes and drye vp the same This medicine neuer fayles Therfore it is a precious thing and worthy to be estemed A Good waye to get the stone called Craupaudina out of the Tode Put a great or ouergrowne Tode fyrst brused in dyuers places into an earthen potte and put the same in an Antes hyllocke couer the same with earth which Tode at length the Antes wyll eate So that the bones of the Tode and stone wyll be left in the potte Which Mizaldus and many other as he sayth haue often tymes proued IT is sayde that the female Uyper doth open her mouth to receyue the generatyue sparme of the male Uyper which he doth by putting his mouth into her mouth which receyued she doth byte off his head This is the maner of the froward generating of Uipers And after that the young Uipers the springs of the same do eate or gnaw a sunder theyr mothers belly therby 〈◊〉 or bursting forth And so they being reuengers of theyr Fathers iniurye do kyll theyr owne mother Galen de Theriaca ad Piâ—onem You may see they were a towardly kynde of people that Christ called the â—eneration of Uypers SEethe Sage and drinke it eyther stampe it and lay it to the Matrix for both wayes it prouoketh the flowres and after burthens Petrus Hispanus THe gyrdle worne of a Chylde being vnder seuen yeares of age some sayes twelue yeares of age taken and tyde about the mydle of one that hath the fallyng sycknes and then presently taken from the sayde party and cutte in nyne peeces and euery peece throwne nyne seuerall wayes is a present and perfect remedy to heale and helpe the same party therof without saying of any wordes They that tolde it to me did see it proued a thing no doubt very straunge and almost incredyble Some thinkes that this wyll not preuayle but at the fyrst falling of the party THe tongue of a Dogge layde vnder the great toe within the shoe doth cease the barking of Dogs at the party that so weares the same Mizaldus THe skyn of an Asse being tande and shooes made of that part of the hyde wheron the burthens dyd lye that the Asse caryed they wyll neuer teare nor be worne No although you go continually among stones and thornes and with the oldnes therof they wyll waxe so harde that one can not suffer to weare them as Cardanus hath written TO stoppe the bleeding of the nose take nine or ten fresh new Leekes and put a threede thorowe the myds of them but cut of the toppes of the leaues then hang them about the parties neck that bleedes so that the leaues be vpward to the nose the heads of them downward It is good also to smell to Camphere dyssolued in vynegar and also to put the roote of Pyony vnder the tongue Iacobus Holleriâ—s IF you
take of Mouth glue Allom equall paâ—tes myxing them together and then powre vinegar to them what thing soeuer you shal cast into the fire being rubbed or all ouer annoynted therwith it wyl not be burned Mizaldus MArs in the nynth house doth threateÌ„ in long iourneyes chiefly on the lande feare and euyll hap or successe but not in Capricorne seeing it is his exaltation Taisnier IT is credibly reported that whosoeuer is sycke and at the poynt of death though they be maruelous olde lying or being in a certayne place in Irelande the same partye can not dye vntyll he or she shall be remoued out of that place And many that haue bene there being very olde and weary of their lyues haue earnestlye desyred to be remoued from thence who as soone as they haue bene out of the same place haue dyed presently A very straunge thing if it be true STampe Rew with oyle of Roses and laye the same some thing thycke vpon the crowne of the head of one that is sycke the same being fyrst shauen and if the same partie do neese within syxe howres after hee wyll escape that sycknesse If not he wyll dye thereof TO make a greene that wyll not vade away Take the flowres of Flowredeluse stampe them and streyne them then put the iuyce thereof into goom water and drye it in the Sunne TO make Letters of gold Take goom of Almonds and temper it with Uermylyon finely grounde let the goom be dyssolued in the whyte of an Eeg then wryte therwith and it wyll be lyke golde Proued IF you wyll knowe in what yeare Wheate wyll be deare or cheape and what tyme of the yeare and what month the same wyll chaunce Elect or thuse twelue fayre cornes of Wheate in the kalends of Ianuary which is the first day of Ianuary then sweepe the fyre harth cleane and make a fyre then take a youÌ„g wench or a boy of the house or els one that dwels nye you and byd the same boye or wench laye one of the sayde Cornes on the same harth being hotte and made cleane and when that is done marke dilligently whether the sayde Corne abyde styll in the place or leape If it be styl then saye that the price wyll contynew If it leape a lytle the pryce wyll abate a lytle If it leape much then perswade thy selfe that it wyll waâ—e very cheape If it leape towards the fire it wyll be dearer in the fyrst month and so more or lesse for the greater or lesser accesse of the same to the fyre Doo so with the seconde Corne and it wyll presayge for the seconde month that is for February And so you maye iudge of all the rest That is the thyrde Corne for March the fowrth for Aprill and so of the other Mizaldus hath heard that it hath bene proued of many THe Lyon is more fierce against Men then Women for Nature hath taught him that Women are to be more myldlye vsed then Men as Pliny affyrmes And Aristotle sayth that it is more wycked to kyll a Woman then a man c. And the Poet sayth Quód faeminea in pena nullum est memorabile nomen Which is true A man also can get no prayse nor honesty by beating of a woman Which let butcherly beaters and cruel tormentors of theyr wiues marke well and consyder Mizaldus A Spoonefull or more of the powder of the Nettell seede droonke in good Wyne doth asswage all paynes of the Matrix and takes away the wyndenes thereof or the griefe of the Moother Petrus Hispan BY this meanes following you maye put an Egge into a narrowe mouthed glasse Laye an Egge in strong vinegar tyl it be tender then fyll the glasse almost ful with water then put the wyndie Egge into the glasse and anon it wyll be harde Thys is proued TO roaste a dyshe of Butter Take fyne grated whyte breade and myxe the same well with Sugar then put a lumpe of Butter vppon a spytte and turne the spytte at the fyre and styll cast the grated breade and the Sugar vppon the Butter and it wyll be a fyne and trymme dyshe of meate Proued IF a certaine Woorme with many feete which wyl become rounde lyke a pease if she be touched of some called a swyne lowse be prickt with a needle then any aking toothe touched with the same needle the payne therof wyll cease immediatly This I got hardly out of an olde booke THey are possest with diuels that haue not in theyr natiuities Mercury with the Moone in some aspect if neyther of them beholde the Ascendent Which is the more certaine if Saturne be there in the Natiuity of the daye and if Mars be there in the nyghtly Natiuity and if eyther of them be in an Angle such is the natiuity of Diuelles Albohazen And they are or wyl be madde that haue Mercury and the Moone in this sort except that Saturne contrary must be in an angle in the Natiuitie of the night and Mars in an angle in a Natiuity of the daye Iatromath THere is a certayne Well at Gratianapolis which although it hath not hotte or warme water therin yet oftentymes there coms out of the same together with the water flames of fyre Two contrary Elements at one tyme out of one place flowing out together Mizaldus wrytes this of the report of the Inhabytaunts of that place IF you stampe Hollyocks with the whytes of Egs and therewith annoynt your handes and throwe then vpon the same the powder of Allom you maye handle fyre without any harme Albertus Prayse it as it prooues DRinke no medicine in the howre of Saturne neyther enter or begyn then any iourney on the Sea. Haly Abenragel WHyte Wine wherein Lapis Calaminaris is seuen tymes quenched fyrst made very hotte in the fyre doth maruelously stop the running of the eyes and cleareth the syght if you put a few drops therof into them and vse to wash them therwith This is a tryed thing IF you would allure or bring Pigions to a Doouehouse Take a fatte Dog and flea him and fyll his bellye full of the seedes of Coomyn then rost him dry wash also the Pygion hoales in the Doouecote with water wherwith Coomyn is sodde but fyrst cleanse the sayde hoales from all fylthynesse then laye the rosted Dog vpon a broade stone in the Doouehouse and hang a great glasse in the top of the Louor and three or fowre lytle looking glasses within the Doouehouse by some of the hoales Also take good claye and myngle it with bay Salt Coomyn and make therof a great lumpe lyke a Sugar loafe then put it into an Ouen bake it harde and set it by the deade Dogge Beware of Owles Buszardes and Starlynges see the house be close that no vermyne come therein as Pollecattes Weselles or Ferryttes and you shall haue Pygions enowe Also make a shrape by the Doouehouse strawe chaffe there then laye therein a good quantitie of Barlye but it must fyrst be
one handfull the grease of a Hen one ounce oyle of Camamell and oyle of sweete Almonds of eyther a lyke much which wyl be inough to make the plaster â—atte This I knowe to be an excellent remedy in this case which I learned of Benedictus victorius â—auentinus in his booke called Emperica benedicti THis medicine following wyll helpe any paynes or weaknes of the backe Take a quart of Malmsey of Balme Neppe and Maydweede which Maydweede is a stynking hearbe hauing a flowre lyke a Daysie of eache one handfull stampe the hearbes well and strayne them well into the Malmsey or put some of the Malmsey in the stamping to them and strayne it into the rest of the Malmsey and drinke a good draught therof euery morning fasting and at night when you go to bed and within three or fowre dayes it wyl helpe you perfectly God wylling A notable and often proued medicine DRinke the iuyce of Centorie once euery morning fowre dayes together and it wyll make thee syng cleare and speake with a good voyce It cleanseth the breast maruelously Often proued MYntes doth abhorre yron as Rew doth Basyll for if Mynt be geuen to one that is wounded he wyll not easily waxe hole if Myntes be myxt with mylke and after taken from the same and the Rennet or Cheslyp put to the same mylke the same mylke wyll neuer gather together or come to crudde Florentinus in suo Georgico WHosoeuer falles sicke in the howre of Saturne his infirmity or disease wyl be prolonged or he wyll be long sycke and after wyll dye of the same sycknes Haly Abenragel FYll a hollowe toothe with Crowes dung and it wyll breake the toothe and take away the payne Petrus Hispanus GVido Bonatus wrytes a straunge thing which he founde out by the science of Astrology in the Reuolution of Henry the Emprour who had of the sayd Emprour a yearely stypende for that he was a man of famous knowledge which Emprour had many Astrologyans as well Phisitions as other in his owne house Who for a certayne yeare dyd trauell for the Calculation of the Reuolution of the sayde Natiuity of the sayde Emprour And euery one of them dyd draw out a Fygure therof a lyke and they found Mars in the same Fygure of the Reuolution in the Angle of the earth which is the fowrth house vnder the earth and they iudged Mars then to be of an euyll influence and thereby they iudged that the Emprour that yeare shoulde haue hotte Feuers of the nature of Mars And they agreed all in that opinion to the Emprour Guydo Bonatus being there had drawn the Emprours Reuolucion lykewise he fouÌ„d Mars going towards the fourth house being then of an euyll influence iudged thereby the poyson should be mynistred to the Emprour to kyll him Therfore he counsayled the Emprour that if any dyd whysper or had any priuie talke together or were found meeting or hauing confereÌ„ce together in his Court they should be apprehended Or if any should come to the Kytchin not woont or appoynted that some faythfull man of his Court should watche the same Which charge was commytted to the Maister of the Emprours housholde which being very dillygent therin espyed and founde two Knights of the Emprours Court that were very busye in talke together and had not only mutuall conference together more then they were woont but also oftentymes requyred to come into the Kytchin Whervpon the Maister of the housholde committed them to prison and then one of them called Iohannes Franciscus was sore tormented but yet he would confesse nothing So that they deuised a letter in the name of the sayde Iohannes Franciscus confessing therin the matter and shewed it to his fellowe which when he saw strayte way sayde that the sayd Iohannes Franciscus was the chiefe procurer therof entysed him to it Which vttered they had theyr desyre wherfore they were secretly executed Iohannes Ganiuetus lykewise discribes it A Certaine WomaÌ„ that vsed Mizaldus for her Phisition had a belly dyd so swell that it seemed shee was not able to carry her burthen from whome about the ende of nyne monthes there came an euyll shapen masse or peece wherevnto were two eares lyke the handles of a cuppe fastned lyke armes with feeling after that there dyd fall from her wombe a monster with a crooked byll or beake with a long rounde necke with brandishing eyes a sharpe tayle maruelous quicke of foote and as soone as it sawe any light it filled the Parlor or place with noyse and so it dyd runne from place to place but at the last the Women following it dyd smoolder or chooke it to death with pyllowes After the woman almost werryed not without great daunger of her lyfe did bring forth a Boye which was so tormented of the Monster that they had much to doo to christen it with lyfe Leuinus Lemnius is the Author IF Saturne be in the tenth house in a watry sygne and hath any dignity in the Ascendent the Chylde then borne wyll be a Shypman or a Sayler or else he wyll abyde gladly on the water and wyll delyght in fyshing Taisnier CUluer dung sodden in Wyne tyll the Wyne be coÌ„sumed and then emplastred hotte to the gowte healeth the same perfectly Use it morning euening fowre or fyue dayes together Petrus Hispanus TO restore the deaffe to hearing Take the roote of Houndstung out of the earth and make a hoale in the roote as long and deepe as you can and fyll the same hoale with Salt and couer it wel that nothing can come within it then set it in the earth againe as it was and couer it with earth and let it be there so three dayes and at the thyrde dayes ende take it vp and that which you finde therein keepe it in some cleane glasse and put some therof into the deaffe eare Let him vse it euery euening at his going to bedde vntyll he heare clearly which wyll be within a fortnyght at the furthest God wylling And when you do it into his eare let him lye in his bedde that the lycquor may enter This I had out of an olde wrytten booke Prayse it as it proues TAke two lytle peeces of good Lycqueres the bark scraped awaye of the length of a pyn and of the bygnes of two barley strawes put eyther of them into your mouth betweene your gooms and your cheekes that is on eyther syde one and so let them lye all the whole nyght Use this euery nyght for a fortnyght at the least and without doubt it wyll stop or stay the rewme For it conieales the thyn rewme into thyck fleame so that you may spyt it out This helpt one that was without all hope to be helpt TO helpe the Pocks in the eyes Take Saffern and lay it in a â—awcer with fayre water and let it stande whyles it be yallow and then droppe some of it into the eye with a sether and it wyll destroye the
them it taketh them away cleane And also if Purslane be rubbed vpon them it pulleth them vp dy the rootes Petr. Hispanus FOr the Coddes that be swolne Take the powder of Coomyn seede Barly meale and Honny of each a lyke much frye them together with a lytle Sheepe suet and bynde the same as a plaster all about the Cods and it wyll helpe it Proued THis following wyll breake a Byle Botche or a Fellon Lay fyrst thertoo some posset crudde and let it not be remoued of twelue howres and that wil gather the matter together and make it tender But if once applying of the posset crudde do it not then apply therof to it twyse or thryse then take vnquencht Lyme and cast vpon it some fayre spring water and myxe the same with blacke Sope and lay to the sore a peece thereof according to the greatnes that you woulde haue the hoale of the sore and when it is brooke then washe it with whyte Wyne a lytle heated and so heale it with Butter powder of Sugar mixed together This is a sure and approued thing A Notable secrete for all incurable aches paynes in the ioyntes where euer they be Take all the whole horne that a Buck castes off the later the better cast away the scawpe take nothing but the horne cut the same in shyuers or peeces then seethe the same in a gallon of fayre water vntyll all be comd to a pynt or some thing more then cast away the peeces of the horne and then let that in the vessell stand vntyll it be colde which then wyll be lyke a ielly And when you wyll occupy therof warme some of it in a sawcer or some other conuenient thing then annoint the grieued place therwith by the fyre morning and euening let it drynk in by the heate of the fyre and it wyl helpe and heale it throughly for euer God wylling within nyne or ten dressings This is very true and well proued which a friend of mine tolde me that helped him selfe of such an ache therwith that neyther counsell of Phisitions practise of Surgeons nor yet the long vsing of the Bathes could ease wherby he spent much money in vayne vntyll a Wenche by chaunce tolde him this excellent remedy Which as she sayde a noble man of this Realme dyd learne beyonde the Seas who hath reuealed it synce to the great commodity and helpe of many FOr swolne or sore throtes a rare and sure remedy Rubbe your hand on the bare earth or ground and then therwith rubbe the sore or swoolne throote if presently you do thus three seuerall tymes the swelling payne wyll myraculously go away This was taught me by a friende of myne that dyd knowe it to be true by proofe AN excellent remedy for a great heate pricking in the eyes Fyl an Egge she l newly emptyed with the iuyce of Syngreene set it in the hotte embers and skym of the greene baggage from it and then it wyll be a water then straine it and keepe it in a glasse and put some of it into the hotte eies fowre or fiue nights together and it wyll cease the burning and pricking therof quickly Often proued HE shall scantly or neuer dye an euyll death that hath a good Planet in his .viii. house Haly Aben. A Woonderfull drinke against brusings and it helpeth such maruelously that are brused through falling Take Egremony Bettony Sage Planten Iuy leaues Rosepearslie stampe them together and mixe Wyne therto geue the patient it often to drinke tyll he be hole A true and tried medicine I thinke that Petrus Hispanus hath the same IF you burne fowre ounces of Turpentine vpon a hotte or burning plate of Yron vntyll it maye be made in powder and then myxe two drams there of with fowre ounces of the water of Saxifrage and geue it twyse in a weeke early in a morning to thâ—m that haue the stone in theyr blather and so continew it two monthes he shall not onely be preserued from breeding of the stone in the blather but also it wyll burst and dryue forth the stone bred there already This is proued and a secrete and is to be kept well in minde Benedictus victorius Fauentinus IF Lauender be well sodde in water and then strayned and halfe a pynt therof droonke dayly fyrst and last for the space of a fortnight it wyll heale them that haue the Palsey This was founde in an olde written booke AN excellent and speedy remedy for many diseases and chiefly for the stomacke Myxe two spoonefull of Sallet oyle with two spooneful of pure Aqua vite and drynke all the same in the morning at one tyme doo so syxe or seuen morninges together It is a notable and often proued remedy FOr the Strangury a straunge medicine Take a pynt of good Aqua composita and put a good haÌ„dfull of Iuy leaues therin keepe the vessell wel stopt the Iuy leaues wyll consume therin vse to drink of the same three or fowre spoonefuls at one tyme morning and euening fyrst last fiue or sixe dayes together and you shall see a maruelous helpe therof THis following is a proued medicine for the ache in the huckle bone called the Sciatica Take a pounde of good black Sope one pint of good Aqua vite halfe a pynt of Sallet oyle and a quarter of a pynt of the iuyce of Rew seethe them and sturre them all together ouer an easie fyre vntyll it be something thycke and that it maye be made in a plaster then spreade some therof vpon a peece of lether and apply it to the ache or payned place and let it lye thereon vnremoued three dayes and three nyghts and if the payne be not then gone then applye such an other plaster thertoo and remoue it not of so long and it wyl helpe it certainly This was tolde me by one that knew it often proued THe powder of whyte harde Sugar put into a bloudshotten eye or that is some thing dymme of syght It helpes the same and mendes the syght very well Especiallye if you put afterwarde a lytle Rose water into the eye This I haue proued dyuers tymes to be true Yea and I thinke if it were vsed it woulde consume the webbe of the eye at length HAly sayth that he that begyns to set forewarde his iourney in sayling or enters to go to the Sea in the howre of Saturne he wyll be drowned or else wyll be lost by the inuasion of Pyrates or other or else the fiercenes or great raginge of the Sea wyll throw him to the land where he shal suffer shipwrack Or else into farre Ilands he shal be caryed perhaps vnknowne to him Which of trueth hath alwayes hapned to that Shyp that then sets forewarde as the booke of Natures dyd contayne which as he hath dillygently proued and read which chiefly entreates of the iudgements of howres And the sayde Haly saith further as foloweth when a certaine shyp dyd set forth
72.83 An caste way to stynche bloud pa. 72.84 A sure remedy to put away â—etters or ringwoormes pag. 73.85 Excellent Pylles that helpes the headache brings gladnes and are good for the eyesyght 〈◊〉 pag. 73.86 A Chylde borne at a certaine tyme shall be hyndred in his speech or toÌ„gue pa. 73.87 A man dyd barke lyke hounds pa. 74.88 The eyes of young Swallowes put out wyll see againe by a maruellous meanes pag 74.89 To prouoke sleepe pag. 74.90 A perfect waye to heale lame members pag. 74.91 It was a maruelous offence with the Egiptians to kyll a Cat. pag. 75.92 To keepe Harnes or Yron from rusting pag. 75.93 They shall haue ryches without labor that are borne at a certaine tyme pag. 75.94 A notable oyle for the gowte pag. 75.95 An excellent thing to keepe one safe from pâ—yson pag. 76.96 A thing to make one sleepe presently pag. 76.97 A rare secrete to cease bleeding pag. 76.98 To draw out a toothe with ease and without any instrument pag. 78.99 A sure medicine for them that bee costy 〈◊〉 pag. 78.100 The Table of the fourth booke TO make Dwale that wyll cause one to sleepe whyles they are cut whereby they shall feele no payne al the while pag. 79.1 They that be borne at a certaine tyme wyll haue griefâ—s in their noses c. pag. 79.2 A precious thing to breake the stone pag. 79.3 To make a combe that wyll helpe heade ache pag. 80.4 A Ryng procuryng the vertue of stâ—rres pag. 80.5 A straunge help for the pains of the throte pag. 80.6 An excellent thing for the gowte pa. 80.7 To make Yron of the cullour of Brasse pag. 81.8 What Horsses are deafe and doom pa. 81.9 To keepe Harnes or Yron from rusting pag. 81.10 To know whether one com to deceyue thee or meane well or not pag. 82.11 To loose the belly pag. 82.12 The good effect of deafenes in an ague and bleeding at the nose pag. 82.13 A diuine medicine for the pluresie pa. 82.14 A straunge waye to keepe a woman from hauing a chyld with a Hare lyp pa. 83.15 To destroy any Impostuâ—e pag. 83.16 To knowe Astrologicallye where any disease is eyther in the body or in the minde pag. 83.17 A Queenâ— droonke at one draught the value of two hundreth and fyftie thousande pounde pag. 84.18 The straunge propertye of a Fygge tree pag. 84.19 The excellent vertue of Uarueyne in helping the falling sycknes pa. 84.20 A Chylde borne in a certayne constellation wyll be chiefe of his brethren pag. 84.21 A notable waye to put away the paynes of sâ—aldng or burning with gunne powder pag. 85.22 To make syluer Plate fayre and whyte pag. 85.23 A sure preseruatiue from the Plague pag. 85.24 A notable vertue of Pyony in curing the falling sycknes pag. 86.25 Astrologicalles tokens of death of the sick pag. 86.26 A rare waye to make a woman be spedilye delyuered pag. 86.27 To drawe out the Oyle of Cynamom pag. 86.28 To plucke out a rotten or aking tooth with ease pag. 87.29 An excellent proofe whether one that hath the plague shall escape or not pag. 87.30 The place where the Censors of Uenys sytâ— is free from flyes c. pag. 87.31 The first Chylde borne at a certayne tyme wyll be a boye pag. 88.32 A sure medicine to take away the greatest eldest paine of the head that is pag. 88.33 A perfect medicine to kyll woormes in the belly pag. 88.34 A daungerous tyme for the syck pa. 88.35 The excellent vertue of golde pag. 89.36 The nature of the water or goomme of the vine pag. 89.37 The sygnes of death of such as haue a consumption pag. 89.38 An excellent Electuary preseruing lyfe and hindring olde age pag. 89.39 A Lampe without fyre to geue lyght in the nyght pag. 90.40 Excellent vertues of the Nauell stryng pag. 91.41 Golde found in vines pag. 91.42 To knowe what place is best to dwell in pag. 91.43 Women lyke to be barren that are borne at a certaine tyme pag. 92.44 To make barren trees fruitful pag. 92.45 A straunge waye to put awaye the quarten ague pag. 92.46 That Gnaâ—tes shall not trouble them that sleepes pag. 93.47 Troubles and debates what day they shall happen pag. 93.48 An excellent waye to staye the Fluxe pag. 93.49 To cause a woman bee spedilye delyuered pag. 93.50 A woonderfull medicine in the tyme of pestilence pag. 93.51 To keepe one from being bytten with a mad dog pag. 94.52 To helpe the griefes or stitches in the side pag. 95.53 To see terrible and fearefull Dreames pag. 95.54 The howre of Uenus good to take iourney in pag. 95.55 To draw out woormes out of the stomack pag. 95.56 A great token of death when the Moone is nye the Sunne c. pag. 95.57 An excelleÌ„t medicine for paines of the hart pag. 96.58 For the gowte and swellings of the ioynts pag. 96.59 A straunge helping of the Swyne pockes pag. 96.60 A perfecte medicine for the bloody fluxe pag. 97.61 A rare helpe for the crâ—mpe pag. 97.62 They that are borne at a certayne tyme shal fall from some hye place c. pag. 97.63 To cure the Dropsie pag. 97.64 The great vertues of Eybright pag. 97.65 To pluck vp a Cankar by the rootes pag. 98.66 To knowe whether a woman be barren or not pag. 98.67 To make Letters of the cullour of what mettal you rub the same withal pa. 99.68 To helpe the red pympled face pa. 99.69 To knowe whether the dropsie be hotte or colde pag. 99.70 To knowe whether the sycke shall dye of that sicknesse or not pag. 99.71 An horible murder bewrayed by young Swallowes pag. 100.72 For them that can not holde theyr water pag. 100.73 A sygne of recouery or health pag. 100.74 Significations of dreames pag. 100.75 To make a Swoorde haue a sharpe edge pag. 101.76 To make that Antes go not vp on trees pag. 101.77 A chylde borne at a certaine tyme is lyke to be blinde pag. 101.78 To helpe the Reâ—â—me pag. 101.79 To conserue youth pag. 102.80 Thinges prospers not after the woordes of some pag. 102.81 To cease the Hyckop pag. 102.82 Chyldren borne in the earthquake What followes pag. 102.83 The nature of Sperma ceti pag. 103.84 They that are borne in a certayne constellation shal haue impedunâ—e in their tongue pag. 103.85 To cure the dropsie pag. 103.86 Signes when a woman with two childreÌ„ is lyke to lose one pag. 103.87 To helpe or ease a hotte or colde gowte pag. 103.88 The making of the flowre of oyntmentes pag. 104.89 Signes of death by Astrology pa. 105.90 A perfect way to cure the Splen pa. 105.91 Tokens of health in a sick body pa. 105.92 To destroy a Carbuncle pag. 105.93 To make y blacâ— sea coale soft pa. 106.94 To helpe the stone pag. 106.95 A straunge example of a chylde borne without a mouth pag. 106.96 The Wyfe shall dye before the Husbande pag. 107.97 To helpe the Dropsie pag. 107.98 To know perfect Balâ—e pa.
107.99 To help the falling sycknes pag. 107.100 ¶ The Table of the fyft booke TO make a Mare bring forth a Fâ—ale of dyuers cullours pag. 108.1 To helpe the stone and the Dropsie pag. 108.2 A Woolfe feares to go in 〈◊〉 wayes pag. 108.3 They that are borne in a certayne constellation shall neuer marry pag. 108.4 A helpe for the head ache pag. 109.5 A water to prouoke sleepe pag. 109.6 To destroye an Impostume in the head pag. 109.7 Signifycations of dreames pag. 109.8 To cause softe heairs to grow on the chyn pag. 110.9 A straunge medicine for the swellynges pag. 110.10 To see true dreames pag. 110.11 A helpe for the falling sycknes pa. 110.12 One borne at a certaine time shall dye a naturall death pag. 110.13 A precious helpe for the Reâ—â—m pa. 111.14 To preserue youth pag. 111.15 An excellent Gargaâ—â—â—ne to cleanse the head and the breast pag. 111.16 The syck party shall escape death without all hope pag. 112.17 To cure perfectlye the blacke Iaundyes pag. 112.18 To keepe Chyldren from breeding of Lyce pag. 112.19 The Cocke reioyceth contrary to all other Byrds or Beasts c. pag. 113.20 A Chylde borne at a certaine tyme wyl die of yron pag. 113.21 To forbyd the engendring of the Impostumation of the stomack pag. 113.22 To restore syght to the blind pag. 113.23 A Woman helped of the moother with the roote of Bryony pag. 113.24 A straunge waye to put awaye Wartes pag. 114.25 A maruelous thing of a Cockes Egge pag. 114.26 A Chylde borne at a certaine time wyll be hangd pag. 114.27 An excellent purginge of the head pag. 114.28 Blacke sâ—eges an euyll sygne pag. 114.29 A notable medicine for the Collyck StraÌ„gury and the stone pag. 115.30 To breede Childrens teeth â—asâ—ly pa. 115.31 A strauÌ„ge nature of the Walnut pa. 115.32 To keepe water hotte without fyre pag. 115.33 To take madnes from Dogs pag. 116.34 To keepe a Chyld safe vntyll the due tyme of the byrth a rare secrete pag. 116.35 A straunge thing to put awaye Wartes pag. 116.36 Sygnification that a Chyld wyl be hangd pag. 116.37 To preserue one from head ache pa. 117.38 A straunge medicine for the gowte pag. 117.39 To make a hotte loafe leape pag. 117.40 A notable oyle of Saint Iohns Woort pag. 117.41 That no Flyes shall touch any Beasts in the hotte wether pag. 118.42 One borne at a certaine tyme wyll dye by the commaundement of the Iudge pag. 118.43 To kyll and heale any Canâ—er pag. 118.44 A precious water for mad men pa. 118.45 They shall neuer lose theyr sences nor vnderstanding borne at a certaine tyme pag. 119.46 To make a glasse with water burn a thing nye to it pag. 119.47 To make a sheepe follow one pag. 119.48 To know what one shall see in his dreame pag. 120.49 A straunge way to help the quarteyn ague pag. 121.50 To see the Sunne Eclipsed without hurting of the eyes pag. 121.51 Excellent vertues of plates of gold worne pag. 121.52 A Chylde borne at a certayne tyme is lyke to perish by the hands of many pag. 122.53 To preserue the stomacke from any paine pag. 122.54 A precious water that breakes the stone in the reynes and in the blader pag. 122.55 Significations of dreames pag. 122.56 To make Copper melt quickly pa. 123.57 To keepe Goates froÌ„ straying pag. 123.58 To keepe Corne from hurtfull stormes pag. 123.59 They wyll dye in captiuitie that are borne at a certaine tyme pag. 123.60 An excellent oyntment pag. 123.61 A maruelous waye to helpe any paines of the throate pag. 124.62 A precious medicine for a redde face pag. 124.63 A burning candle founde in an olde tombe pag. 124.64 What tyme is best to dygge or make a wel pag. 125.65 A notable vertue of Basyll pag. 125.67 The great vertue of Coriandar pa. 125.68 A sygne that the sicke wyll dye the nexte yeare after pag. 125.69 To helpe a red pympled face pag. 126.70 For the falling sycknes pag. 126.71 A daungerous thing to suffer a venemous woorme or a mad Dog to lyue after one is hurt by the fame pag. 126.72 To make Scorpions come into one place pag. 126.73 One borne at a certaine tyme wyll dye in prison pag. 127.74 A notable help for the Splen pag. 127.75 A precious oyle of Balme pag. 127.76 An excellent proued plaster to destroye any Impostume stytche or swelling pag. 127.77 Astrologicall lykelyhoods when the sycke cannot be cured but with great expences pag. 129.78 The great vertue of Egshels pag. 129.79 The great vertue of Sugar pag. 129.80 A straunge thing of a young Wenche pag. 129.81 To decke a balde head with heairs pag. 130.82 A Beast shal neuer conceyue pag. 130.83 A Dogge that takes his disease of a man ought to be buried pag 130.84 To cease the noyse of Frogs pag. 130.85 The whyt thorne is neuer touched with lyghtning pag. 131.86 Chyldren borne at a certaine tyme wyll be drownde pag. 131.87 A present helpe for the stone pag. 131.88 To make one looke young a great whyle pag. 131.89 To let heair from growing pag. 131.90 To make one laxatiue pag. 131.91 They are lyke to haue the falling sicknes that are borne at a certayne time pag. 132.92 That Fetters hurte not young Beastes pag. 132.93 A notable medicine for the falling sycknes pag. 132.94 Garlicke brought out a Serpent out of a man pag. 132.95 A stone founde in a Swallowe helpes the falling sycknes pag 132.96 To knowe if a woman be conceaued pag. 133.97 Who shall be poore pag. 133.98 To beawtify the face pag. 133.99 To knowe whether the sicke shall dye or lyue pag. 133.100 ¶ The Table of the syxt booke TO turne anye beast into a whyte cullour pag. 134.1 A precious thinge to expell the stone pag. 134.2 To knowe whether a Dreame be good or not pag. 134.3 A quick cure for the Hyckop pag. 135.4 To fynde out him that hath doan a murther pag. 135.5 To know whether water be in Wine or not pag. 136.6 Planteyn is meruelous for the Plague pag. 136.7 To know a liuely or quick house pa. 136.8 Diuers beasts hates diuers colloured garmentes pag. 136.9 They that be borne at a certayne time wyll dye in the countrey pag. 136.10 To heale the web in the eye pag. 136.11 A proâ—ued oyle which healeth the dropsye pag. 136.12 A straunge thinge of a Butchers wyfe pag. 137.13 They that falles syck at a certaine time are not like to escape pag. 137.14 To take the hayre away and that it growe no more pag. 138.15 To catche easelye Rauens or Crowes pag. 138.16 Byrdes leaues their singing or are syck according to the Starres pag. 138.17 The chylde borne at a certaine time wylbe imprisoned pag. 139.18 A sure and prooued medicyne for the tooth-ache pag. 139.19 To take awaye wrincles and spots in the face pag. 139.20 An excelleÌ„t way to take foxes pag. 139.21 What women doo hurt with their looking pag. 140.22 What dead bodyes remaine vncorrupt pag. 140.23 They shall dye
medicine for the yellow Iaundyeâ— pag. 211.77 To helpe the â—â—ad ache and swymming of the head pag. 212.78 To make a Cock stowte to fight p. 212.79 A straunge thing of Myce. pag. 212.80 For the Kinges Euell a rare thing pag. 212.81 Who shal be fortunate and happy c. pag. 212.82 A meruelous water to recouer the sight pag. 213.83 To make â— light that neuer shall faylâ— pag. 213.84 To make a swine follow one pag. 214.85 What thing dryues away Bees pag. 214.86 A good howre to take iourney in for getting of vnlooked profit pag. 214.87 To stay the bleeding of the nose presently pag. 214.88 That wrytinges appeare of the cullour of the paper and not to be read vnlesse it bee holden against the fyre pag. 214.89 To gylde Yron or Copper pag. 215.90 To make an Eg very harde pag. 215.91 To make a red Rose whyte pag. 215.92 To seperate golde from any thing gylded pag. 215.93 To knowe whether the sycke wyll lyue or dye a straunge practize pa. 216.94 To stay the bloody Fluxe pag. 216.95 An easye plaster for the gowte but of great effect pag. 216.96 To destroye any Impostumation and to auoyde the same pag. 217.97 He that is borne in a certayne constellation wyll be a good Phisition pag. 217.98 A straung thing of a lytle Bird. pa. 218.99 He wyll dye in prison that is borne at a certaine tyme pag. 218.100 The Table of the nynth booke THe woonderfull vertue of Egremony in helping them that be poysoned c. pag. 219.1 A maruelous Oyle of Balme for trembling and the Palsey and for helping the memory pag. 219.2 The hoofe of a certayne Beast wyll cure perfectly the falling Euell a maruelous thing pag. 220.3 A proued thing for the spytting of bloud pag. 221.4 A precious and an easie medicine for the Caâ—â—uncle Plague sore Botch Byle c. pag. 221.5 Tokens of death in the sycke person pag. 221.6 Pottage that wyll helpe perfectly the yallow Iaundies pag. 222.7 Serpents hates maruelously the Aâ—h tree pag. 222.8 Who wyll procure their owne enemytie pag. 222.9 Ienuper beâ—ryes maruelous against poysons pag. 222.10 To trye whether precious stones be pure or not pag. 222.11 A principall medicine for the bone ache pag. 223.12 To helpe the paynes in the back pa. 223.13 To catch Mowles or Woonts pa. 223.14 To helpe the Fystula outward or inward pag. 224.15 For them that haue surfeyted pag. 224.16 To plucke away carnall and fleshly lust a very straunge thing pag. 224.17 For them that cannot eate pag. 224.18 A present helpe for such as haue droonken poyson pag. 224.19 To let heair from growing pag. 225.20 The Lapwing foreshowes the great plentie of Wine pag. 225.21 A good howre to delyuer money in pag. 225.22 A precious drinke which cureth the Fystula pag. 225.23 To make a woman bee delyuered incontynent pag. 226.24 To make a fayre cullour in the face pag. 226.25 To make one heare againe pa. 227.26 To make Copper or Brasse of the cullour of Syluer pag. 227.27 That Serpents can not go out of the place where they are pag. 227.28 Anger or enemities wyll come to them through money that are borne at a certayne tyme pag. 227.29 To heale a hollowe Ulcer pag. 227.30 To seperate golde from any thing that is gylded pag. 227.31 For them that can not heare pag. 228.32 For the fundament that goeth forth pag. 228.33 For bleaâ—ed eyes pag. 228.34 A Harte can not abide the syght of a Ram. pag. 229.35 A straunge thing foretolde by a Chylde newly borne pag. 229.36 A proued thing for the Palsey pag. 230.37 To helpe sâ—olne legs pag. 230.38 What makes men be without the gowte pag. 230.39 A straung cure of one bitten with a Scorpion pag. 230.40 A myraculous oyle pag. 231.41 To put a wryting into an Eg. pa. 232.42 Beastâ— are according to the prâ—porcion of the inwarde parts pag. 232. â—3 He that is borne at a certaine time shal coâ—sume his goods or come to pouerty or miserye pag. 233.44 The great vertue of Egrunoâ—y pag. 233 45. For the webbe or spot in the eye pa. 233.46 The great vertue of Tormentyll pag. 234.47 Who shal be poore and a wretch pag. 234.48 A good medicine for them that are shorte breathed pag. 235.49 A straunge medicine for helping womens sore brestes pag. 235.50 To helpe swolne armes legges or 〈◊〉 pag. 236.51 To helpe a stinking breath a tryed medicine pag. 236.52 What daye is vnluckie to a childe borne pag. 236.53 To destroy Wartes pag. 236.54 To put away or consume a Wâ—n pag. 237.55 A sâ—nguler oyle to bewtyâ—ye the face pag. 237.56 A notable medicine for ache or the Gowte pag. 237.57 A precious water for eyes pag. 238.58 Who shall dye a fowle or euyll death pag. 238.59 To take Wartes cleane away pag. 239.60 The coddes that are swolne pag. 239.61 To breake a Byle Botch or a Fellon pag. 239.62 A notable secret for all incurable aches pag. 239.63 For swolne or sore throates a rare remedy pag. 240.64 For a great heate and pricking in the eyes pag. 240.65 He that is borne at a certaine time shall neuer dye an euill death pag. 241.66 A wonderfull drinke for brusynges pag. 241.67 To driue forth the stone in the bladder pag. 241.68 To helpe the Palsey pag. 241.69 An excellent remedye for many deseases pag. 242.70 For the strangury a straunge medicine pag. 242.71 A prooued medicine for the Sciatica pag. 242.72 The great vertue of Sugar for eyes pag. 242.73 They that sets forward to the Sea in a certaine hower are like to be drownde pag. 243.74 For to helpe deafnes a tryed medicine pag. 244.75 The making of an excellent Aqua vite pag. 244.76 To make sweete water forth with pag. 245.77 A precious oyle for cold aches pa. 245.78 To auoyde the dropsye water pa. 245.79 To make a Caâ—on bring vp young Chyckens pag. 246.80 A learned Astronomer foretolde one of his death pag. 246.81 A straunge longing of a woman with childe pag. 247.82 A meruelous straunge helpe for swolne legges of beasts or horses pag. 247.83 To put away any spottes or steyninges pag. 248.84 To make any byrd to haue white fethers pag. 248.85 A maruelous straunge helpe for the stone pag. 248.86 An excellent â—ryed secret for diuers inward greefes pag. 249.87 To make Corrall by arte pag. 250.88 An excellent thing for deafâ—es pag. 250.89 To deliuer a woman of a dead Chylde pag. 250.90 To make an Apple mooue pag. 250.91 To kyll all the fleas in a chamber pag. 251.92 A Lady swallowed pins without harme pag. 251.93 That Roses smell more pleasantlye and grow the better pag. 251.94 A notable oyle wherewith one got much money pag. 251.95 An excellent sweete water pag. 252.96 To make that Chyckens be hatched of diuers culloures pag. 253.97 To make that Horse nor sheepe shall goe forward though you beate them p. 253.98 The age of certaine Beaâ—â—es and Byrdes pag. 253.99 The great vertue of the water that comes out of the
together Which I know to be excellent the lyke vnto this is affyrmde to be most true and proued by Anth. Beneuenius IT is a great token of health when the stones or coddes begyns to ytche though the other parts of the body be weake But then take heede of Uenerius actes least you pay for your pleasure This out of Mizaldus COryander seede made in powder and mixt with Honny and unplastred vpō a Carbuncle or other grieuous byles destroyes the same quite Arnold de villa noua THe black Sea coale mixed with oyle wyl be made soft Wherwith if one annoynt Uines it wyll destroye the woormes which destroyes or eates the buddes of the Uines Seuerinus Gebelius THe goom of a Chery tree dissolued in white wine and so geuen to them that are grieued with the stone it wyll helpe them maruelously Mizaldus affyrmes that it is certainly proued IT was credibly told me for a very truth that there was a very poore woman being brought to bed of a chylde hauing many chyldren before to whome a syster of hers being rytch and that neuer as yet had any childe came to see her who sayd vnto her as followeth Ah syster syster here are many mouthes and lytle meate To whom her poore syster answered cōtent your selfe syster God neuer sends mouth but he sendeth meate After it chaunst the rytch syster to be with chylde which when it was borne had neuer a mouth So that ther was much meate no mouth A worthy rare example to make al couetous greedy carefull worldlinges to cast their whole care on the lord And not so to depend on their own prouision or worldly wealth If it were not for the great goodnes of God we should haue no more meate for our mouthes then this womans chyld had a mouth for meate But if we haue both mouthes and meate and lacke good stomacks for the same what are we the neare So that both mouth meate and stomack are not in our wylles to haue when welyst but are Gods gyfts to bestowe as he wyll HErmes sayth if in the Natiuitie of the Husband Venus be Combust the wyfe shall dye before the husbande If in the Natiuity of the wyfe Mars be Combust the husband shall dye before the wife WAter or wine wherin Walwoort is sodde if a good draught thereof be drunke euery day fyrst and last for the space of twentye dayes at the most doth perfectly helpe them that haue the dropsy It is an excellent medicine for the same CAst or instyl certaine drops of Baulme into cleare water and then with a stick labour well the water and if the water then be troubled the baulme is not perfect But if the water abyde cleare then the same is good and perfect baulme For the good and true baulme doth gather it selfe alwayes into one place And thus you may trye a true good baulme from a false and sofysticate baulme IF the roote of Pyony especialy of the male Pyony be hangde at the necke of a chylde or a boye that hath the falling sycknes it doth helpe very much Lykewise doth Pellyter and the heaire of a Dogge that is all blacke Lemnius FINIS Lib. 4. ⧠The fyfth Booke of Notable thinges A Mare wyl bring forth a Fole of diuers cullours if she be couered with a cloth of dyuers cullours whyles she is taking the Horse For such cullours as be before the eyes of of the Horse whyles he doth horse her without doubt the Fole wyll be of the same cullours The same may be proued with Dogs and other Beasts Mizaldus THe berryes of Halicacabus called wynter Cherries being stampt and the iuyce prest or wroong out of the same and then dryed in the shaddow the same if it be geuen to such as haue the stone or cannot make water and also to them that haue the Dropsie it wyll prouoke vrine or dryue forth the water and also expell the Hydropycall humors Mizaldus HOrus Apollo doth saye that a Woolfe doth feare greatly stones therfore when he is constrayned to go by stony places he treades very demurely or softly For being hurt with a very lytle stroke of a stone it breedes woormes wherof at length he is consumed or brought to his death Therfore he doth flye from a trauellor that layes wayte to stryke him with stones IF the Moone and Venus be ioyned together and both be Combust He that is then borne shall lacke a wyfe or neuer marrie Ptolomeus IF the leaues of Elderne fyrst made hotte between two Tyle stones and then applyed hotte to the forehead and the temples if any painelye there It helpeth the ache of the head maruelously This is very good and well proued HEre followeth a maruellous water to prouoke sleepe Take of Opium thebaicum and Garlicke heads pylled of each two ounces beate the Garlicke heads in a morter with a woodden pestel put therto the Opium grinded incorporate these well together that it maye be lyke a Sawce Distyll this in a Retorte with a most soft slowe fyre in ashes With this water distilled when neede shal require annoint the temples the forehead and pulses of the wrestes And beware you mynister nor vse this but vppon a great necessity as in franticke persons as you shall thinke it good THe iuyce of the buddes leaues inner rynde or of the young braunches of Elderne something warme put into the eare doth not onely breake the impostume thereof within sowre or fiue tymes but also doth maruelously helpe the deafnes This was tolde me for a great secrete and I haue tryed it to be an excellent thing in such a case TO see Moonks in ones dreame doth portēd death or calamity to see fatte Oxen betokens plenty of thinges to loose an eye or a toothe sygnifies the death of a friende or of a kynseman or some other euyll lucke to dreame to be dumme foreshewes speedie gladnes to see Oxen plowe betokens gaine to enter into waters betokens euyll Artemidorus THis following makes a soft beard and doth beautifie the chynne with a fyne heaire Take butter witstout salt the iuyce of a redde Onion the grease of a Gray or a Badger the roote of Bryony of Beetes of Radysh and of whyte Lyllies whereof make a Lynyment and annoint the chyn often therewith being shauen Mizaldus PUt vp an olde Gander into a house and let him be there three dayes without meate then cast vnto him peeces of an Eele newlie kylled then gather the dunge that comes from him after he hath eaten the peeces of the Eele which dung being layde to any impostume or swelling Is a present remedy therfore HE that sleepeth in a sheepes skynne shall see true dreames or dreame of things that be true Mizaldus THe brayne of a Wesell dryed and drunke with Uinegar doth helpe them that haue the falling sicknes Mizaldus IVpiter and Venus or the one of them in the eyght house not Combust nor Retrograde doth sygnifie the chyld then borne shall dye a naturall
and no violent death Taisnier TAke a lytle sticke and tye about the ende thereof olde Oken leaues then cutte them something rounde and holde the same leaues in your mouth as deepe and as farre in as you may suffer it well holding the stycke betweene your teethe so hold your mouth ouer a porrenger or a dysh and there wyll great aboundaunce of humors auoyde out of your mouth and within a whyle washe in fayre water the sayde leaues on the stycke and then holde it in your mouth so againe Doo thus for the space of halfe an howre and vse this three or fowre tymes a daye for three or fowre dayes together or vntyll you haue auoyded as much waterie humors as you thinke good This is the best and the presentest remedy for helping of the rewme that euer I knewe or hearde of I had it of a Gentleman that esteemed it as a Treasure And whosoeuer proues it shall fynde it an excellent thyng MIrabolanes chebuli preserued with his syrruppe vsed daylye and eaten preserueth youth excellently well THis followinge is an excellent Gargarisme to purge the head and the brest Take of Stauesacre three drams Pellyter of Spaine and mustard seede of eyther two drams long Pepper Gynger and Aâ—lomgem of each one dram Make powder of them that are to be powdred and stampe the rest myxe all well together and put as much therof as a beane in a little lynnen cloath and tye the same fast with a threde that it may be rounde then houlde the same in your mouth champe it softly betweene your teeth and it wil bring forth water and fleame aboundantly Use this dayly vntill you thinke your head be wel purged YF the Lord of the Ascendent be in the eight house receyued of the Lord of the eight house so that he receyue not the Lorde of the eight house It sygnifies that the sycke party shall escape without all hope Iatromath Guat Ryff EArth woormes slyt and cleansed and washt from their slymye and earthye matter halfe a dosen of them at the least and cut in peeces or chopped and a good messe of pottage made thereof with otemeale and water and so much euerye daye eaten by them that haue the black Iaundies for the space of twelue dayes or longer no doubt it will perfectly cure them therof though it be neuer so long rooted or thought to be past cure Or else a spoonefull of the powder made of them in March or any other time when you can get theÌ„ taken euery day so long in a litle draught of any drinke doth likewise perfectly cure the same This is very true and hath bene often tymes proued It hath helpt some in fowre or fyue dayes OLâ—banum which is a kinde of Frankencence in powder mixte with as much of Swines grease and boyled together wherewith if childrens heades that are full of Lyce or that are geuen to breede lyce be annoynted they shall afterwardes be free from Lyce This is better and more safe then to vse oyntments mixt with quicksyluer which is very daungerous therefore let Mothers or Nursses rather vse this WHereas euery Beast the act of generation ended or done is woont to be sadde onely the Cock reioyseth for he sheweth his gladnes then by crowing IF Mars be in the eyght house in a humaine signe or in the seconde face of Taurus or in the first face of Leo It doth shew the child then borne shall dye of yron Taisnier IT is proued by experience that to vse customablie in the dynner and immediatly before the Supper halfe an ounce of the flowre of Cassia newly drawne doth forbyd the engendring of the impostumation of the stomacke Truly I saye vnto thee that who doth vse such taking of Cassia shal be preserued from euery euyll affection of the stomacke Emperica bened WIne of the decoction of Tormentyll drunke daylye without any other drinke and the hearbe thereof sodden and euery euening plastred ouer the eyes the space of three or fowre monthes or more restoreth the syght yea to those that haue their eyes as though they dyd see and yet are blinde and sees nothing at all Petrus Hispanus ANdreas Mattheolus knewe a Woman that euery daye for a whole yeares space was greeuously troubled with the paynes of the moother which was helped verye well of that disease by drinking once a weeke at her going to bed oâ— white Wine wherein an ounce of the roote of Bryony was heated and she vsing this medicine a whole yeare in such sort she felt no more harme therof IF you wyll destroye or put away Warts cut of the head of a quyck Eele and rubbe the Warts all ouer well with the same bloud then as it runnes from the Eele then bury the head of the sayd Eele deepe in the ground and when the head is rotten then they wyll fall away I thinke the Author hereof is Iohannes Baptista Porta Mizaldus ABout the rysing of the lytle Dogge being in the Sommer an olde Cock doth lay an Egge round speckled and of dyuers cullours where of many doo thinke that the Basylike or Cockatryse doth come which is a most pernicious and venemous serpent especially if that egge be syt vpon and hatched by a Tode Which whether it be a fable or not let other iudge Mizaldus MArs in the eyght house with the head of the Dragon betokens that the chylde then borne shal die of a roape or be hangd Taisnier THe iuyce of Colewoorts put or snuft into the nosthrylles doth purge the head maruelous well and helps the auncient payne of the head Often proued BLacke sieges lyke to fylthy bloud are wonderfull euyll Whether they be with an ague or without an ague And the darker cullour they haue the woorse they bee but if these sygnes come through a Purgation they be more laudable And although they be of dyuers cullours they be not euyll Hippocrates THis following is an excellent and often proued thing for the Collycke Strangurie and the stone Take the seedes of Careaway Fennell seede Spicknarde Annes seede Coomyn seede Cynamom and Galyngale of eache halfe an ounce Gromell seede and Lycores of eyther of them an ounce and beate them all to powder and drinke halfe a spoonefull of the same powder in Ale a lytle warmed and walke vppe and downe one howre after before you eate or drinke any other thing Doo thus fiue or sixe dayes together at the least and you shall finde it of a notable operation This was taken out of a learned practysers booke besydes synce it hath bene many tymes proued YOung Chyldren whose gummes are annoynted with the brayne of an Hare doo breede their teeth easylie Mizaldus And it hath bene proued with the brayne of a Conie A Walnutte put fast into a Chycken that it fall not out in the roastyng thereof It makes that the same Chycken wyll be the sooner roasted Mizaldus IF a rounde large vessell with one hole in the toppe thereof be fylled full with