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A15599	The general practise of physicke conteyning all inward and outward parts of the body, with all the accidents and infirmities that are incident vnto them, euen from the crowne of the head to the sole of the foote: also by what meanes (with the help of God) they may be remedied: very meete and profitable, not only for all phisitions, chirurgions, apothecaries, and midwiues, but for all other estates whatsoeuer; the like whereof as yet in english hath not beene published. Compiled and written by the most famous and learned doctour Christopher VVirtzung, in the Germane tongue, and now translated into English, in diuers places corrected, and with many additions illustrated and augmented, by Iacob Mosan Germane, Doctor in the same facultie.; New artzney buch. English	Wirsung, Christof, 1500?-1571.; Mosan, Jacob.	1605 (1605)	STC 25864; ESTC S118564	1,345,223	940

his children and familie to féed and find them honestly and well to supply their wants to estéeme of friends to beware of enemies and to take care for the Commonwealth If then at length peraduenture he come to any preferment office or gouernance in that place where he liueth he is not onely constrained to set behind and omit his owne affaires and businesse but is hated also and enuied of others now soroweth dow ioyeth for his countries estate now with one thing now with another troubled and vexed in mind Furthermore the turmoile and paines he taketh resteth neither night nor day otherwhiles called vpon for one matter straight way for another and then at the last reapeth his paines for his labour and is rewarded with ingratitude yea oftentimes he is endangered of goods of honour of life and all Thus with much trauell with many perils and with great pains gaineth he nothing but gray haires and old age Old age a sicknesse of it selfe And to conclude what is old age else then a very sicknesse it selfe féeble weake full of sorowes and an heape of cares not regarded and estéemed of those that should most account of it I will not rehearse here the temptations of sathan vexations and troubles in mind pricking of the conscience and many other heauie matters which age is subiect vnto but end with this that the old man goeth with one foot in the graue and hath nothing more surer then death at his doore When we beginne to bethinke with our selues either what sicknesses we haue had withstood or what we haue séene in others and what diseases we are subiect vnto what strange how diuerse and what incurable calamities euen from the hower of our birth till our dying day are incident vnto vs as leprosie falling sicknes lamenesse blindnesse deafnesse c. Out of all which we may easily gather and euidently see that our short life is nothing else but a long dying day in that which all miseries méet This may well be a iust cause to admonish vs to thinke vpon another home which is promised and prepared for vs of that most cunning Phisition and Sauiour of our soules Christ Iesus which we shall find to be without all troubles or cares without wants and without end The second Chapter The causes of mans miseries and wretchednesse THe reason of man as alwaies if hath done euen from the beginning séemeth to complaine greatly The cause of mans wretchednesse that our nature shold be subiect vnto so many infirmities miseries and calamities yea it doth as it were chide with God and accuse him of tyranny for creating of man so wretched And in very déed a worldly minded man that neither acknowledgeth God nor the cause of his naturall imperfections might easily be brought and carried away with such like opinions and with great reason bewayle the infinite wretchednesse of mankind séeing he findeth no creature on the face of the whole earth that is vexed with so many aduersities but man onely But contrariwise they that are indued with the knowledge of God and godlinesse will not accuse him of tyrannie that is most gentle will not accuse him of euill that hath created and made all things most perfect and good nay that neuer could or would do harme Adam was created in the beginning sound and whole perfect wise absolute and without any blemish or spot whatsoeuer but by disobedience transgressing the commandement of God in that he would without contradiction be made like vnto God and know both good and euill which he did of his owne stubborne head and in despite and contempt of his Creator herewith hath he not onely brought and wrought vnto himselfe but vnto all his posteritie after him an euerlasting mishappe and infelicitie as a well worthie and deserued punishment for his and our misdéedes together Wherefore sinne is the first and onely cause of all our distresse of all our sicknesses and heauinesse here on earth which hath brought vs to that estate that after all our turmoyling paines taking we must at the last tast and take death as a merit and payment for our sinnes This if a godly man consider with himselfe Christians beare their crosse with patience and as Saint Paul saith sigheth for sinnes fake then doth he beare the crosse patiently acknowledgeth it to be a fatherly warning and rebuke vseth due and true meanes First calleth to God euen from the bottome of his heart committeth both his life and his death into his hands afterwards commeth vnto Phisicke the which it hath pleased God of his mercie to ordaine for the behoofe and néede of man and hath taught it his seruants the phisitions Also it is his will and pleasure that we should vse his creatures in our necessitie and giue him praise and thankes for them And to the end the aforesaid meanes might the better be vsed he hath mercifully lent and sent vs the Phisition and phisicke and hath shewed vs a way by which those meanes might best be wrought And to the end this might in our natiue language be better published and shewed abroad I thought good not to burie but to employ this litle talent of mine which for this end and purpose I haue receiued of God In which worke my purpose and intent is to begin and diuide the bodie of man orderly from the crown of the head and so descend downward from ioynt to ioynt til I come to the sole of the foote and withall to shew what infirmities euery part and member is most subiect vnto And lastly how and by what meanes they may be cured But séeing this cannot be done without phisicke and phisitions helpe I thought it best first to shew the iust dignitie and woorthie praise of them both before we go forward with our intent and purpose The third Chapter Of the necessitie profite and praise of Phisicke The neede and praise of Phisicke SEeing it hath pleased almightie God that we should with many infirmities of bodie and with great and heauie troubles and vexations of mind runne on and continue this our race and pilgrimage on earth and that we might preserue this lumpe of clay flie and auoide those things that might harme it take away the incident infirmities and to kéepe our bodies a pure habitation for God and his holy Spirit as it pleaseth him to grant vs life he hath also of his infinit mercie and goodnesse created as is aboue shewed naturall and effectuall meanes reuealed them and in pitie so bountifully by the art of Phisicke imparted and communicated vnto man that Iesus Sirach saith in this manner Honour the Phisition with that honor that is due vnto him because of necessitie for the Lord hath created him for the most high commeth healing and he shall receiue gifts of the King The knowledge of the Phisition lifteth vp his head and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration The Lord hath created medicines of the

flowers ibid. The 27. § Tamariske wine ibid. The 28. § Wine of Wormewood ibid. The 29. § Wine of Zeduary ibid. The 30. § how that the infirmities of all wines are to be amended 790 The end of the Contents of this Booke A very meet and necessarie introduction for the better vnderstanding of all such things as are handled in this present Practise of Phisicke The Contents of the Jntroduction THE miserie of mans life caused by sinne hath constrained vs to thinke on such meanes by the which the diseases that daily are incident vnto it might be eased which truly by the mercie of God and Phisickes rule at length haue bene found out The profite and necessitie whereof together are iust causes why Phisicke may thorowly be praised And because the sicknesses are manifold and the bodie of man also diuided into many and sundrie parts members but principally into foure the Head the Breast the Belly and the external or outward parts Euery Maladie hath her due remedie also where when how and in what sort euery remedie is to be gotten gathered and kept likewise if any superfluitie were in it how and what is to be separated from it what regiment or order is to be obserued in Purging Letting of bloud Cupping or fastening of Horsleaches Then is shewed the due and true vse of the Aire of moouing and quietnes of waking and sléeping of meate and drinke At length also are expounded the weights and measures which are vsed in Phisicke Of the manifold miseries and calamities of mankind The first Chapter THe innumerable miseries calamities dangerous diseases and sores which the life of man is daily and hourely subiect vnto hath euen from the beginning of the world vntill this day mooued nay rather constrained diuers learned men to examine and trie whatsoeuer the earth and nature her selfe hath yéelded by that meanes to find ease for the disease and wretchednesse of mankind Some Philosophers there be that wholy haue employed and applyed themselues to amend and heale the infirmities of the mind haue extolled vertue aduaunced honestie and planted reason in the heart of man they haue also set foorth vice in a most vgly shape so to feare men from it and to induce them to leade an honest vertuous life But because all this was grounded only vpon the reason of man and altogether without a sure foundation it hath pleased God of his infinite mercies to supply the wants by his spirit in the holy Scripture and there to teach whatsoeuer is necessarie vnto a vertuous and honest life yet is the nature of man by sin so ouertaken by the first fall so ouer-reached so wrapped and rooted in iniquities that at no time in him any goodnesse either is or may be found Others there are that haue taken no lesse paines in séeking out the meanes to cure and help the innumerable maladies accidents sicknesses and sores of the bodie and therefore are forced to trie and approue all the creatures of God as Rootes Herbes Flowers Fruites Stones Woods Mettals all liuing beasts yea euery element each by himselfe to find out the hidden vertues and properties and to know to what vse they might rightly be applyed This was the first finding and foundation of this noble science of Phisick and hath bene from time to time by diuers and sundrie experience of the old Phisitions diligently obserued truely taught and written and at the last also imparted vnto vs and shall be reserued vntil the end of the world The wretchednesse of mans life And indeed if we behold our owne wretchednesse we shall euidently perceiue that we in the whole course of our short life in this world are as it were swimming in a boysterous and bottomlesse sea where waue vpon waue vncessantly couereth vs and is readie to swallow vs vp where we are tossed too and fro not finding any place to rest our foote or frée our head from water and albeit at length with much ado we do from stormie seas arriue on shore yet there we find as many thistles and thornes calamities and miseries about vs which do pricke and plague vs on euery side vntill our miserable flesh at the last returne whence it began to the dust and wormes meate This it is that the Prophet Esay acknowledgeth when he saith What is man All flesh is grasse and all the glorie thereof is as the flower of the field Behold the grasse withereth and the flower falleth away for the breath of the Lord bloweth on them And Dauid sayeth What is man that thou art so mindfull of him and the sonne of man that thou visitest him Man is as it were nothing his dayes passe away like a shadow With many such like sayings in diuers places of his Psalmes And in very truth if we rightly waigh our estate what is our life so long as we remaine on earth more then a continuall anguish and paine labour feare sorowe and alas altogether troublesome Wretchednesse of new-borne babes Behold our wretchednesse euen from the houre of our birth we are brought foorth not onely in perill and danger of our selues but hazarding also our mothers life But granting that happily we are borne yet are we not able in any wise or any way to helpe or aide our selues but are as it were thrust headlong into an euerlasting and terrible prison for we are no sooner come to the world but presently we are fettered and bound both hand and foote then must we eate and drinke what others commaund we must sléepe and awake when others will there lye we wrapped in our owne filth then do we abide paine in the belly gnawing of the wormes ach of the gums and téeth neither can we which is the greatest miserie of all complaine and shew our paine and griefe but lye wéeping and wailing euermore Beside all this how long créepe we vpon all foure not hauing vse of leg or hand how long liue we before we chat or prate any whit at all Thus without hand without foote without tong yea without any ioynt that doth his dutie aright liue we though not séeming to liue some yeares together and thus we spend infancie in miserie Afterward comming peraduenture a little further what followeth more than stripes and blowes braulings and chidings of the parents schoolemasters and ouerséeers till at the last if so it please God to preserue vs we with no smal sorrow care and trouble of our parents leaue childhood and enter into youth But now alas with much trauell and paine being come to youths estate Of youth we are in ten thousands of perilles both of bodie and soule for now we grow wanton and lasciuious stubborne and obstinate towards our parents vicious and vngodly in the sight of God as by experience daily we find and see and néede not any further proofe What sorrowes and cares after all these bring mans yeares with them great labour and paines taking do they againe require to maintaine himselfe his wife