95 Noses excrescence of flesh ibid. Noses impostume ibid. Noses infection called Polipus 97 Nummednesse 16 Nutmegs preserued 717 O. OIle of Saint Iohns wort 745 Oiles for the stomack in vomiting and scouring 341. 344 Oile of Antimonie of Steele and Iron 751 Oile of Amber 741 Oile of Abrecocke kernels 745 Oile of Cammomill 743 Oile of Capers ibid. Oile of Costus 142. 743 Oile of Beuercod 742 Oile of Egs. 49. 744 Oile of Euphorbium 744 Oile of Annis seedes ibid. Oile of blew Flowerdeluce 750 Oile of Roses 749 Oile of Sulphure ibid. Oile called Hypobalsamum 143 Oile of Mandragora 741 Oile of Rubarbe 784 Oile of Marierom gentle 747 Oile of Scorpions 750 Oile of Cloues 747 Oile of Pepper 748 Oile of Rue ibid. Oile of water Lillies 750 Oile of Spikenard ibid. Oile of Elderne flowers 745 Oile of Violets 751 Oile of Nutmegs 747 Oile of Vitrioll 752 Oile of the seeds and flowers of Poppie 746 Oile of Earthwormes 530. 748 Oile of Dill. 743 Oile of Linnen cloth 746 Oile of Lead 742 Oile of Mastike 331 Oile of Foxes 212. 744 Oile of the blossoms of Walnut trees 114 Oile of Wormewood 753 Oile of Oliues 8. 742 Oile of Poplar buds 741 Oile of Iuniper berries 752 Oile of Tiles 102. 753 Oile of Quinces 331 Oile of sweete Almonds 364. 746 Oile of Lillies 744 Oile of Hempseed ibid. Oile of diuers kinds ibid. Oile of bitter Almonds 746 Oiles diuers moe to be prepared 744. 745. 746. 747. c. Oile of Copperas 745 Oyntment of Roses described by Mesues 32. Ointment in Consumption 255 Oyntments or oyles for all colde stomackes 330. Opium prepared and vsed 13 Order of diet in the Rupture 287 Order of diet in the headach of heate 35 Order of diet in a cold headach 43 Order of diet for watering and running eyes 71 Order of diet in bleeding at the nose 98 Order of diet in diseases of the eares 105 Order of diet for weake memorie 119 Order of diet in the sleeping disease 135 Order of diet in the dead Palsey 147 Order of diet in the falling euill 152 Order of diet in Bronchocele 187 Order of diet in colde rheumes 198 Order of diet in the Pleurisie of heate 218 Order of diet in the spetting of bloud 246 Order of diet in the Consumption 252 Order of diet in the debilitie of the heart 259 Order of diet in swounings 261 Order of diet in the Pyles 305 Order of diet in the paine and windinesse of the stomacke 332 Order of diet in a hardned Spleene 414 Order of diet in the inuoluntary effluxion of vrin 464. Order of diet for women with child 504 Order of diet in the Canker 572 Order of diet in the Leprosie 584 Order of diet in hot Agues 628. 629 Order of diet for them that recouer after a long sicknesse 633 Order of diet in the Plague 679 Order of diet for them that are bitten with a mad dog 699 Order of diet for giddinesse of the head 124 Order of diet for those that are pursiue 234 235. Order for them that recouer from the Plague or any lingring sicknesse 680 Order of diet for an hote impostume of the Kidneyes 446 Order of diet in falling downe of the Pallet 167. Order of diet in the Ague Synochus 641 Order of diet in hote rheumes 202 Order of diet in obstruction of the liuer 391 Order of diet for outward vlcers of the kidneies 451. Order of diet for the grauell and stone 464 Order of diet for the dropsie 407 Oxycroceum Vigonis 213 Oxycraton 753 Oxymel diuersly prepared 44 Oxymel of Squils 38 Oxysacchara prepared 94 P. PAlsey or Paralysis 134. 135. 137 Palsey through fals or blowes 144 Pallet of the throate falling downe 166. 167 Pallets description 166 Paine in the head looke Headach Paine in the eyes looke Eyes paine Paine in the eares looke Eares paine Paine in the teeth looke Toothach Paine in the ioynts looke Ioyntach Paine in the backe looke Backe paine Paine of the Pyles looke Pyles pained Paine of the stomacke looke Stomacke Paine in the left side vnder the short ribs looke Spleene pained Paine in the right side vnder the short ribs looke Liuer pained .. Paine in the Kidneyes 443 Paine in the mother through cold 494 Paine in the same through heate 495 Paine in the hips or Sciatica through heate and cold 533. 534 Paine of the Podagra or Gout of the feete 545. Paine in the Pockes of long continuance 580 Paine in the throate through Phlegma and colde taking 193 Paine in the teeth through outward causes 177 178. Palsey that is shaking 137 Palsey that is dead 139. 140 Paine in the bowels looke Bowels pained Paine in the belly looke Bowels pained Paine in the belly remedied 428 Paine in the belly of yong children 431 Paine in the Kidneyes 442. 443 Paine of retention of vrine 466 Paine of the Mother 493 Paine of the ioynts an especiall remedie 550 Paine of wounded sinewes remedied 612 Paines description 367. 368. 619 Parbraking with a laske looke vomiting Patients before whose eyes Gnats seeme to appeare what to refraine 83 Pearle of the eye 78 Peaches preserued 355. 719 Peares preserued 712 Pearles prepared 9 Pectorall potion prepared 229 Pectorall salue ibid. Pestilentiall Agues looke Agues pestilentiall Phlebotomies cause and commoditie 20 Phlebotomie forbidden 21 Phlegmes description 603. 605. 619 Phisickes commendation 4 Phisicall bookes diuision 5 Phisickes description 4 Phisickes necessitie ibid. Phisicke is a sure pawne ibid. Phisicke waights 29 Pyles called Verrucales 312 Pyles called Haemorrhoides 304 Pyles that hang farre out 312 Pyles that bleede ouermuch looke bleeding 306. 308. Pyles opened 309 Pyles their paine 310 Pils pestilentiall 662 Pils Indae prepared 413 Pils for all kinds of laskes and the termes in women 357 Pils that moue vrine 398 Pils for the plague especiall good 663 Pils of Amber 324 Pils of diuers kinds 755 Pils to preserue health 237 Pils to bind 350 Pils for the Gout of Charles the Emperor 542 Pissing of blood 448 Pissing of matter looke Matter made by vrine Pith prepared 8 Places in women described 288 Places exulcerated by copulation 289. 290 Plague 653. 654. 655. c. Plague described ibid. Plague cured 668. 669. c. Plagues causes and signes 653 Plague preuented 654 Plague sore or Carbuncle 564 Plague sore what 564. 65 whence it proceedeth ibid. when it appeareth how to be remedied 675. 676. 677. Plague sore not appearing what is to be done 678. Plaister Diachilon how made 518 Plaisters in the rheumes 198 Plaister Basilicum 565 Plaister for the headach 31 Plaister de Muscilaginibus 64 Plaister to heale the corner of the eyes 77 79. Plaister for the rednesse of the eyes 69 Plaister for watering eyes and cold rheumes 72. 74. 200. Plaister of Bayberries 329 Plaister called the Blacke plaister 567 Plaister of Falkenstone 569 Plaisters for Rupture 277 Plaister Gratia Dei 566 Plaister for wounds 598 Plaister called Emplastrum Griseum 610 Plaister Apostolicum 313 Plaister de
the Grecians do cal Phthiriasis This is a wonderful and terrible sicknes that a man should be eaten vp with such baggage worms and so bereft of his life It hapneth that these worms do bréed of moisture of a mans flesh and begin commonly in the eybrowes and in some scabs or among some scurfe therein when they do breake of themselues or are opened Then do lice créepe out and so by little and little out of the whole body with such danger that very skilfull Phisitions haue inough to do therewith and yet neuerthelesse are these medicines following ordained for the same Take the iuice of Fumitory Borage Germander of each two ounces Mirobalam Chebuli Indi Citrini of each foure scrup blacke pepared Hellebore one quarter of an ounce prepared Agarick half an ounce Aloe three quarters of an ounce Epithymum Sene leaues rootes of Polipody of each one ounce powne all that is to be powned and temper them with the iuice if it be too soft let it dry and forme a lumpe or masse thereof take one drag and make siâ—e pils of it of the which you are to take twice or thrice euery weeke two at one time an houre before supper Prepare this ly ensuing Take Aristology Swines bread of each half an ounce of Gentian Rhapontica of each three drag Centory one quarter of an ounce seeth these things in ly and wash therewith Item take Ireos halfe a ounce Squils one ounce Centory halfe an ounce Mirtle seed one ounce Cloues three quarters of an ounce bitter Almonds foure ounces Vineger as much as is néedfull let them seeth together stopt well in a glasse in water by a soft fire about the space of foure houres afterwards wring it out wel with this oile annoint the pushes or scabs whence the lice do issue and bréed A salue Take Iuniper berries powned well one ounce of sallet oile thrée ounces of white wine one ounce and a halfe seeth them together til the wine be consumed afterwards wring it out then take two ounces of Barrowes greace Elecampane rootes rosted vnder the ashes one ounce and a halfe Litharge of gold one ounce prepared Quicksiluer one ounce and a half temper them and annoint the scabs therewith but beware of the eyelids that you do not annoint them therewith In this lousie euill is commaunded to mortifie the Quicksiluer as hereafter followeth How to prepare mortifie Quicksiluer take wild Ferne and the roots thrée M. Limons and Oranges cut in péeces of each three drag seeth them in water vntill the third part be consumed afterwards straine it through a cleane cloth and temper the quicksiluer wel amongst it There are other meanes more to kil the quicksiluer like as hath bene shewed in the other salues for Lice Of the bad sore Scurfe or Scall of the head and such like §. 10. AS through the vnnaturall moisture of the head Lice do grow so doth there come thereof bad sores or scals of the head as is séene in children which are full of moisture And although these scabs are for the most part alwayes an expulsion of nature whereby children are cléered from other accidents and noisome diseases for which cause they ought rather to be prouoked then healed neuerthelesse heed must be taken that this breaking out come not to grow old and to be changed into the bad sore or scall the which is not to be holpen in people of yeeres nor yet in yong children therefore will we here write somewhat thereof Of a Scald head THis is a detestable disease to wit the sorenesse or scals of the head with scurfe spoile and falling off of the haire with much itch stench and lothsome mishape or ilfauorednesse the one sort are drie the other are moist neuerthelesse all are to be cured after one maner At the first doth this bad sore appeare small and little but if they be not quickly looked vnto then runneth it forthwith from the one side of the head to the other vntil the whole head be ful the causes are drie burnt humors or moisture and putrified blood If it come only of Phlegma then yéeldeth it moisture whereof we wil make further mention If it be dry and old then do all the learned conclude vpon it that it is incurable and although it should heale in continuance of time and through much aduise and with trouble neuertheles must not one cease therefore And to this end are these things following acknowledged to be good for the same First it is needfull to begin the cure with a good order of diet wherein neuerthelesse there is no certain order to be made because that this disease is incident to yong children albeit somtimes also to people in yéeres wherein great difference is to be made But generally to eschue all things which maketh heauy melancholike and flegmatike bloud whereof are many instructions giuen in many places of this booke First of all a full growne man must alway apply himselfe as hereafter followeth Aboue all he must beware of strong and sharpe wines and as is said from all melancholike meate as cheese coleworts salt flesh and such like and must rather vse them that be light of digestion and make good blood as fowles that haunt high grounds rere egs Borage sweet fish of fresh waters He must also oftentimes purge according as the person is and as the sores be great and noisome If a mans age wil permit it the the patient be abounding in blood which may be perceiued by the greatnesse of the veines it is aduised to open the head veines in both armes likewise the veines in the forehead and behind the eares Neuerthelesse some do suppose that the two last mentioned veines are not often to be opened To the end one might recouer haire for which this blood is requisite vpon the places where it is red and raised and sheweth bloody are horse-leaches and boxing cups to be set and plaisters to be applied that do raise blisters whereof shall be more spoken in time If there be any disease where haire groweth there must it be shorne off twice a wéeke and alway before there be laid any salue vpon it the haire must be cleane shorne away and be also wel rubbed with course linnen and afterwards annoint it ouer with the iuice of onions or of radishes These are now the beginnings of the cure First of all must the grosse burned moisture be attenuated and prepared for expulsion the which is to be effected with Oxymel of Squils called Compositum and is described in the second Chapter § 6. for which also doth serue the sirupe of Fumitory The melancholike and flegmatike humors are to be purged with the pils Cochiae and if one haue strong folks in hand he may vse thereunto Epithymum Coloquint and prepared Hellebore yet a man is alwayes to be aduised herein by a learned Phisition And for example in a dry scall Take prepared black Hellebore one drag Sene leaues Epithymum of each one
be clensed with néesing looke in the first and second Chapters of the paine in the head Of the excessiue bleeding at the Nose §. 7. THe excessiue bléeding at the nose hath diuers causes which were too long to discouer them all at this present time it only sufficeth vs to shew the inward and outward causes as concerning the outward causes of bléeding are blowes fals thrusts sore labour and the heate of the sunne all these things do open the veines and make subtile blood which is easily mooued to runne out The causes thereof can easily be perceiued and inquired of the patient The inward causes be superfluity sharpnes and heate of the blood the which is ouer all the whole body head liuer milt wombe and other places In like maner also through agues and other great sicknes through paine of the head a forcible expulsiue power and féeblenesse of the retentiue vertue in full bodies and abounding of blood is the bléeding at the nose requisite it emptieth the head and other parts In Phthisi and other sicknesses moe it is commaunded to prouoke it whereof shall be more at large spoken in other places Therfore if there be perceiued an vnburthening through this bléeding at the nose then it is a good signe of health like as to the contrary a sudden and excessiue bléeding is very dangerous and a signe of death But if this bléeding happen through any bruising of the skin of the braines then it is very hard yea in danger neuer to be holpen And whensoeuer the bléeding is aboue 48. ounces then it is a bad token and yet badder if it do surpasse it if it come then vnto twenty or 24. pound euery pound reckoned at twelue ounces then must death follow after it immediatly In like sort the signes of death are if the bléeding person be not onely of a bleake colour but also darke gréene or leady coloured An order of diet THis bléeding at the nose commeth through some causes that require alwayes a good order of life to be obserued For this purpose is this most common that those things be alwaies vsed that coole the blood and make it thicke if there be any agues with it then must light things be vsed which be cooling as Lettice Purslain Endiue small Endiue vineger veriuice Is then the bléeding strong and vehement to the end it might once be stayd vse Beanes Pease Lentils Rie Colewoorts Chéese Beefe Hares and Harts also thicke red wine all hot spices white wine if so be that they be not well watred are to be eschewed Now we will shew how the blood is to be stanched For to performe the same there be sixe kind of meanes first by the foresaid cooling things which be to be eaten these things following are to be dropt into the nose and laid thereon in like maner also vpon the forehead the iuice of Lettice of Housléeke of Nightshade corne Roses or Nettles in like maner the water of water Lillies of Cichory of Roses and Cumin water Also the herbe of Poppy Willow leaues or their iuice Item also Horstaile Shepherds purse vineger and Camfere and if it be very great néed Opium for these things altogether make thick blood that it cannot run so hastily out of the veines It is also good to irrigate his head with cold water so long continuing vntill his head be so cold that he get thereby a shiuering and shaking or trembling In fine to kéepe the head cold not to stir it much is very commodious also wet a cloth or napkin in cold water in vineger or in Rose water wring it not out too hard and wrap it so about the necke Item take the whites of twelue egs powned Allume foure ounces beate it well together wet a cloth in it and wrap it about the neck about the forehead and temples afterwards take Hares haire or the haire of a Roebuck stop the nostrill full thereof and that at the first Also it is commended that both the thombes and their armes be bound hard about the elbowes but let them not be bound too hard but being sometimes made loose to bind them againe Or make one of these plaisters take the iuice of Nightshade six ounces Rose water one ounce and a halfe Barly meale as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister lay this vpon the liuer if the blood run forth of the right nostrill The second meane to stanch the blood effected with stopping things as the iuice of Sloes red Coral Momy Aloe Horstaile Amber Bloodstones Hippocystis Bolus flowers of Pomegranats Lentils gals Sumach Shepherds purse Medlers Seruices Quinces peares and other soure peares amongst the compounded things Trocisces de Carabe Terra sigillata which foresaid things all that be of this nature do draw and shut the veines together For this are also meet these plaisters following take the iuice of Plantaine and Rose water of each two ounces vineger halfe an ounce and the white of an egge sealed earth or in the stéed thereof time as much as is néedfull for to make it méetly thick lay it vpon the forehead and the temples of the head Another Take Dragon blood parched gum parched starch roses the iuice of Sloes Hippocystis burnt Iuory the blossoms of Pomegranats Bolus sealed earth bloodstone red Coral and Amber of each one drag and a half Poppy seed Purslane séed of each one drag Opium halfe a drag powne all that is to be powned thereof and with the iuice of Plantaine make it to a plaister and vse it as before This following is not much vnlike to the former Take Dragon blood parched gum the yellow seeds of Roses the iuice of sloes Hippocystis burnt Iuory blossoms of Pomegranats Bolus sealed earth bloodstone red Corall of each one dragme and a halfe Poppy séeds Purslane séeds burnt Harts horne ashes of gals Cipers nuts of each one drag beate them all small and mixe them amongst the other with the iuice of Plantaine afterwards make small cakes of it when you will now vse it then beate it to powder and blow it into the nostrils but you may vse it as a plaister for to lay vpon the forehead and temples of the head Item take well beaten Momy as much as you please mixe it with copwebs and the white of an egge dip cotton or lint in it and then stop it into the nose First take Harts bones burnt Iuory Dragon blood Verbascum powned with vineger temper the foresaid powder amongst it according to that you will haue of it little or much put it into the nose all these things stanch blood tempered together or each alone or mixe Aloe with the white of an eg vse it as aforesaid Item take the whites of foure egs well braied and tempered amongst Aloe one drag Frankinsence one quarter of an ounce Dragon blood and fine Bolus of each halfe a drag vse this yet putting therein Hares haire made wet Secondly take wel brayed whites of egs and temper Gips or plaister amongst
and some Camfere others do vse oile of water Lillies alone or tempered with others A generall rule of the outward applications into the Eares FOrasmuch as now it is of much importance how that is to be vsed which is to be put into the eares therefore we will before we run any further declare this rule following First there ought nothing to be dropt into the eares before that the body and especially the head be purged but before we come to this he may vse the fomentations bags vapors and plaisters that are to be vsed most safely for this application hath alwayes some more danger in causing some obstruction or stopping And if so be that with them nothing can be effected then is the imposition to be attempted yet the eares are first of all to be cleansed with clothes also there is nothing to be put therein which by nature is either too hot or too cold but al whatsoeuer is middle meane and lukewarme also not too much but from one to foure drops and to hold the same not aboue thrée houres in the eares howbeit neuertheles others do suppose this time to be too short for that the medicine in so short time cannot performe his operation therefore do they prescribe sixe or eight howers In the imposition shall the patient lie vpon his whole eare yet not to drop it in if so be that it be not first run out the which through néesing crying strong blowing of the nose is done And this is also to be noted that there is neuer any repelling medicines therein to be vsed to the end that the paine be not driuen to the braines Now for to come to the hot pains of the eares then take the water of Purslaine grated Gourds the iuice prest out temper them or vse each alone like as is already taught Or take the séeds of Gourds Melons Pompions and Cucumbers of each one drag and a halfe beate them and seeth them in sixe ounces of vineger vntill that two ounces be consumed straine them through a cloth and vse them like as all the other Take the iuice of Housleeke oile of Roses of each halfe an ounce and temper them or take the iuice of Roses of Housleeke of each halfe an ounce oile of Sesamum two drag temper them togither Or take the oile of Roses two ounces sharpe vineger halfe an ounce let them seeth vntil the vineger be sodden away then temper therin Philonium Romanum one quarter of an ounce and rub it in and about the eares Take the iuice of Housléeke temper it with womans milke and vse it Also you may take the iuice of Peach leaues tempered with a little vineger Item take a small glasse with a narrow neck put therein the fresh leaues of Violets halfe ful put more vnto it afterwards twenty Ants egges and then fill full the glasse with the foresaid Violet leaues stop it tight bury it the space of sixtéene dayes in the ground wherein Ants are afterwards wring them out and drop thereof into the eare and if one perceiue thereby no amendment and that the paine be yet augmented then are stronger things to be vsed for it as followeth Take Opium one scrup oile of Roses one ounce temper them together and drop a litle thereof in the eare it asswageth the paine and procureth sléepe but do this but seldome for we haue oftentimes warned you from the Opium The same may you also do with the iuice of Southernwood with the foresaid oile In like maner also garden Snailes decocted in the oile of Almonds Eyewaters may also be vsed for this which are ordained for the hot and sharp paine of the eies like as here before in the seuenth Chapter in the fourth and fifth § is declared if so be that the paine be intolerable This plaister following is very highly commended for all paine of the eares Take dry Violets and Cammomil of each one ounce temper amongst it well decocted and beaten Henbane roots with Barly meale of each one ounce and a halfe the fat of Hens one ounce oile of Cammomill as much as is néedful let them séeth thicke together and lay it vpon the eares and vpon the temples of the head when it is cold then lay another vpon it that is warme It must also not be neglected to rub the patient softly behind his eares with the foresaid oile being made lukewarme once or twise a day But if the occasion of this paine be through cold then parch first Millet and salt vpon the fire and lay it warme ouer it in a cloth and purge the patient like as hereafter shall be taught of the diminishing of hearing For to put into the eares are to be taken these things following which are extant or in readines as oile of Baies oile of Costus oile of Radish séeds the iuice of Marioram gentle the which also is good each apart or mixed and dropt therein Also oile of Rue oile of Spike of Beuercod and of Behen the eares are to be rubbed round about with the salue of Martiaton and couered with vnwasht sheepes wooll and to do this twice in 24. houres Take oile of Roses or of Egs and the iuice of Sage of each two ounces stampe therein one or two Scarabées which are of the small beasts that fly abroad in the euening with or without hornes also as many Earthwormes washt in wine seeth this by a soft fire vntil all the moisture be wasted afterwards straine it through a cloth and drop thereof in the eare euery morning and euening lukewarme two or thrée drops Item temper Beuercod with womans milke vse it as aforesaid if this help not so soone then take Ants bruse them and temper them with womans milke the iuice of Radish dropt therein the space of thrée dayes shall also take away the paine Take the iuice of Pauls betony of strawberry leaues of Sage of Housléeke of each one ounce Mastick and Frankinsence of each one drag and a halfe temper them together the decoction of Coleworts two ounces drop thereof into the eare should also take away all paines Of the order of life or diet VVHereas we haue shewed many causes of the disease in the eares yet can there no certaine order or rule be yeelded for it But one must direct him according to the quality or importance of the cause But generally whereas paine or impostume of the eares be approching then must one kéepe him alwayes sober in eating and drinking and to eschew all that which ascendeth to the head whereof is already sufficiently expressed also all that maketh wind as pottages moist fruite cheese smoked and salted flesh vnleauened bread and great fishes small or watered wine is he to drinke and to eate roast meate Comin Annise Caraway and Fennell are very requisite for all diseases of the eares which procéed through cold so also is prepared Coriander after meate Of the noise and hissing in the eares §. 2. THis disease hath many causes as blowes without wounds
Pepper of each one dragme Galingall one scrup Cloues Cubebs of each one drag and a halfe powne them al together to powder and bind them in a linnen cloth let them séeth well together in two quarts of Wine stopt fast as aforesaid afterwards let it stand couered vntil it be cleare wherof you are to drink euery morning fasting and at euening going to bed a good draught and that before you shall haue annointed with the salue which shall hereafter be described The vertue of this wine is for to draw a superfluous moisture out of the head This being done then place your selfe in Somer time in the Sunne and in Winter season by the fire and kembe your haire softly a long time so that thereby the pores may be opened afterwards wash your head with the water of Rue and drink a good draught of wine and therupon eate a bit or twaine of bread that hath bene stéeped in the wine then fast so vnto the euening Your supper must also be sober your sléepe quiet and vndisturbed continue this many daies together the longer the better When now the veines be warme with kembing then annoint the head and the temples with this salue following Take white Lillies Colewoort leaues wild Baulme of each one drag powne them together put them in a pot powre therein two ounces of Sallad oile fresh butter as much as all the rest thrée spoonefuls of the spirit of wine which hath bene rectified at least foure times water of Rue of Sage of Celendine of each two spoonefuls old white wine fiue spoonefuls temper them well together set it so sixe or eight houres in a warme place then straine it through a cloth afterwards séeth the liquor vntill it be as thicke as honie and that by a small mild fire then set it in the Sunne so long till it be of the colour of Copper This salue must be alwaies made betimes and it can continue good the space of two yeares Also it behooueth to gather all the hearbes for distillation when the daies be at the longest and then may also most méetely this salue be prepared This salue must you as is rehearsed vse after that the head is purged you must annoint well the hinder parts of the head and the temples with it afterwards couer it with a leatherne cap or hat so that the head may be warme that the said salue may haue her operation the better in the bloud and braines In the euening is the head to be washed with good warme wine and one must kéepe a good diet and vse meates that be light of digestion also vse moderate drinking This order is to be kept at the first by the space of foure daies and so to continue it the space of a whole yeare euery eight weekes once two or thrée daies together The next yeare afterward you may chuse one day vpon which it is good to take Phisick and then vse this salue euery three moneths once when the Moone increaseth The third yeare it is sufficient once in twelue moneths and afterwards so long as you liue once in two yeares Of the giddinesse of the head and infirmitie of the Braine §. 2. THis disease is called of the Grecians Scotomia and of the Latinists Vertigo which is a giddinesse or swimming of the head we call it also the swimming of the head for that it séemeth that all which one séeth runneth round about or the sight faileth when he will behold any thing and he thinketh that he séeth swarming before his eyes many maruels and things which be of strange colours yea it often happeneth that his eyes be very darke and must fall to the ground like as also it somtime happeneth to a sound bodie if they run too much about or to such as looke too much downeward from a great height or vpon a quicke turning thing or into running waters This disease do they chiefly get that are woont to frequent much the Sunne and their heads haue bene ouerheated It is also caused of the stomacke if that it be ouercharged with any superfluitie whereby the mouth of the stomacke is harmed and sendeth some bad vapors towards the head which do cause this swimming or giddinesse In winter time and when the wind is southerly then are all people more subiect to this giddinesse than in drie sommer Of this giddinesse the Phisitions do make many kindes like as also it is diuers according to the nature of the humor whereof it is caused but to speake of the foresaid giddinesse when any one thinketh that all that he séeth runneth round about the sight vanisheth as he would fall to the ground the face and the eyes waxe red the veines swell the eares shew themselues great and full of bloud thereby it may easily be adiudged that it is caused through superfluous bloud in the head the which troubleth and molesteth the braines therefore is this sick person to procure presently afterwards to open the veine behind the eare and to let out thrée or foure ounces of bloud for that is a certaine remedie for this disease And further for all other spices of this swimming of whatsoeuer cause that they may procéede for if so be that this giddinesse do continue long it is much to be doubted that the falling sicknes or the dead palsey may come thereby In like maner are boxing cups vnpickt to be set aboue vpon the head in the necke vpon the shoulders and on the legs For this also are certaine lotions of the feete to be vsed made with herbes which do strengthen the head whereof before in the first Chapter 3. § for the heate of the head and in the second Chapter 12. § sundry are described But although these foresayd veines do not appeare and make shew and neuerthelesse the face were alwayes red then must the median be opened boxing cups as is sayd to be vsed to moysten the head with vineger of Roses and with oyle of Roses and to eschew all hot meates much sléepe long watching to looke from great height downwards and such like things Lintels milke kids flesh prepared with veriuice iuice of Pomegranates or with vineger rosted peares or apples after supper are very good for him of herbes Lettice and Purslaine with vineger may he also eate well for his drinke he may also temper vineger or the iuice of Pomegranates Sugar water decocted with Fleawoort or any small thin wines For purging are meete yellow Mirobalans especially if the giddinesse be caused of Cholera the which are thus to be vsed Take one ounce and a halfe of yellow Mirobalans beaten grosse séeth them in eight ounces of water at the least put thereto one ounce of sower Dates let them séeth togither vnto the halfe then temper amongst it thrée or foure ounces of sirupe of Violets or of Roses and so giue it to the patient in the morning fasting Take sixe ounces of whay lay therein to stéepe one dragme and a halfe of Rubarbe a whole night
the Dropsie Tympanites §. 16. THis Tympania or Tympanites is also properly called Hydrops which is a Dropsie because that it is rather caused to wind then of water and hath therfore her name for that the belly as in other Dropsies is here also puffed vp higher the Nauell is thrust foorth on high and because all other members do consume and waxe very leane yea for that the belly is hard swollen that one clapping or knocking vpon it ◠giueth a cleare and hollow sound In these sicknesses the patient ought not to eate at any hand any gréene herbes nor yet any thing else which maketh or ingendreth wind as Spinage Béetes Coleworts new fruites Pease Beanes Turneps boyled Rice or any such like He must also beware of milke Cheese Chestnuts vnleauened bread and Must He must also eschue all cold and keep himselfe alwaies warme and to sweate if it be possible euen as we haue said before And the belly must be daily well warmed with warme Panicke or Millet wherewith is mixt a little Salt for this causeth the wind to breake away In like manner shall boxing cups also be set vpon it vnpickt All these things following are good for him to wit the Confection Diacyminum or de Baccis Lauri vsed often and other mo that be written hereafter for the griping of the belly But aboue all and for all Dropsies the prepared Wolfes lyuer is very much commended be it powdered or eaten otherwise amongst other meate for it hath an excellent and priuie vertue to expell the Dropsie Item these things following may be vsed for all Dropsies if there be no heate with it as Conserue of Elderne leaues of Betony Gilloflowers and of Rosemarie Fennell Annis Cathirst and much watching are also good for this These suppositories also following are very méete for this purpose Take Sal gemmae Rue Beuercod Euphorbium and Nettle seede of each one drag decocted Hony about thrée ounces and make thereof suppositories These following be not so strong Take Comin Boreas Rue-séede of each a like quantitie Hony as much as is néedfull for to make suppositories Also let the belly be rubbed with rough linnen vntill it be red And when the wind doth not blow let the Sun shine vpon it This plaister following is maruellous good for this Take dryed Goates dung twelue ounces rootes of wild Cucumbers and rootes of Ebulus of each two ounces Barley meale twelue ounces steeled Vineger foure ounces make a plaister thereof boyled well with sharpe Lée this plaister consumeth all windie matter openeth the pores and draweth all wind out of the body if it be laid warme thereon The belly is also to be annointed with oyles which be of a hote nature to wit with oyle of Dill oyle of Rue of Costus and of Bayberries Of Clisters we haue spoken before but for this are such chiefly to be vsed as do expell the winds as this following is Take Ireos Hyssope Smallage Rue Bearefoote of each one handfull Annis Fennell Ameos Bayberries of each half an ounce let them séeth well Take afterwards of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces if the patient be méetly strong then put vnto it clarified Hony and oyle of Rue of each one ounce and a halfe and stone Salt one drag There may also Hiera Picra be put vnto it for the same is maruellous good for to driue out all bad humors and to leaue the good Here do now follow certaine Sirupes moe which are to be vsed for all Dropsies like as the common sirupe of Eupatoriae which is good for all cold diseases and obstructions of the Lyuer and therefore is good for the dropsie it extenuateth all tough and grosse humors it comforteth the Lyuer it expelleth water and hindereth all swellings of the inward parts In Italy is the ensuing sirupe of Ireos much vsed Take gréene rootes of Ireos fowre and twenty ounces cut them in péeces steepe them the space of thrée dayes in as much wel Water as will couer them stir them about twice a day but that they may be couered vnder the water afterwards straine the water frō them and powre other water vpon them as before keepe the first water in a cleane pot and do the second time as you did at the first Then temper both these waters together or seeth each alone with a little Sugar Afterwards mixe these things following with it to wit Scabious and Maidenhaire of each one handfull Sperage rootes Fennell rootes Ireos rootes of each halfe a handfull péeled Melon séede Gourd séedes Cucumber seedes and peeled Pompeon seedes séedes of Purslaine of Cicorie of Endiue and of Lettice of each one quarter of an ounce Fennell Annis Sperage séede and Smallage séede of each halfe a dragme Millet and winter Cherries of each thrée dragmes fatte Dates and Figs of each sixe Liccorice Madder of each fiue dragmes let them séeth all together vnto the halfe and afterwards séeth the decoction with sufficient Sugar vnto a sirupe Some do giue this sirupe a pleasant tast with Cinnamome Other do stéepe therein one quarter of an ounce of Rubarbe against the obstruction and debilitie of the lyuer The Italian Phisitions do giue thereof when they will prepare any bad humor not aboue one ounce at the first and afterwards a little more vntill they be wholly purged with it It is also to be noted that when this Sirupe waxeth old it looseth the purguing vertue Also we will now speake of the iuice of the blew Flower-deluce When it is giuen alone it annoyeth the stomack and causeth the red or bloudie flixe Further for this sicknes is to be vsed the sirupes de Radicibus de Absynthio Capillis Veneris de Betonica and such like moe When it appeareth that the swelling of the belly of the legs and of the priuities doth decrease be it in whatsoeuer Dropsie it will the boyle Ebulus with the root herbe and bathe or foment therewith the swolne places or wash it with common Lye which is somewhat salted Other do aduise this following Take Marioram Wormwood field Mints Parietarie the rootes and leaues of Ebulus Marioram gentle Cammomill and Maydenhaire all together or which you will séethe them in Wine or Lye and therewith bath the members but alwaies after purging for otherwise it is not requisite Marke also that for all sorts or kinds of Dropsies the remedies are often to be altered taking now one sort and another time another sort and that for this is alwaies a good order of dyet as we shall here briefly note and set foorth The order of Diet. WE haue heretofore sufficiently shewed that sobrietie is good and néedfull for all Dropsies It is therefore required that one do eate but once a day Partridges are good for him Turtle doues and other young Pigeons Kids rostmeate Pullets Fowles drest with Veriuice and the iuice of Limons Barly or Spelt dread which is raised and well-baked are also good for him He may also eate sometimes Endiue Sorrell and Cicorie with
fourteene yeares of the Gout Take cleane milke of a blacke Goate and turne it with Figmilke or if you haue it not wherewith you will straine out the whay and let the rest seeth in an earthen pot scum it well and let of thrée parts twaine seeth away then straine it once againe to the end there remaine no curds in it at all afterwards take the vppermost of Burrage a good part and according to that there is much whay with some other things moe which be meete for the Podagra and according to that thâ— â—gra doth procéede through heate or cold let it stéepe well therein afterwards straine it thorough a cloth and drinke of it once or twice a day But if so be that the paine be intolerable great then stéepe in the foresaid whay wherein the Burrage and other things be stéeped one drag or one drag and a halfe of Agaricus Take of this whay ten or twelue ounces according to the quality of the sicknes and according as he can easily go to stoole and temper amongst it Oxymel of hony of Roses or which is better Oxymel of Squils two ounces you are to drink of it in the morning as warme as you can and to fast foure howers after it at least Further he is in the meane time to exercise himselfe with walking and going afterwards he is during the space of fiue or sixe daies to drink of this whay without Agaricus and that is to be done once euery moneth And he is especially to indeuor himselfe to drinke this in winter for that it is sufficient if he do this twice a yeare And this is especially to be done when one perceiueth that the Podagra is instant thereby to be frée and although it appeared alreadie yet are you to proceed forward with it What remedies are then to be vsed for it may be seene and chosen out of the forementioned things The letting of bloud must be principally in the beginning of that spring and before the paine ariseth like as one may sée and reade more at large in the 2. § But aboue all things is a good diet commended for if the same be not kept then may all other things helpe but litle This is now the principallest and the total of all that Toraltus communicated to the Emperors Maiestie The order of diet which is to be obserued in this disease may you perceiue by all that which hath bene said before whereof also you shall find all things more amply described in the beginning of the sixt Chapter where we haue discoursed of the paine of the hips that aboue all other things Wine is chiefly forbidden vnto all goutie people as hath bene before expressed The decoction of Cinnamom Meade c. are they to drinke as is there admonished When any one doth go but ill after the Goute of the feete §. 7. THis debilitie of the féete doth sufficiently shew that there is still some flegmaticke matter present which ought to be expelled whereto these pils ensuing are to be prepared Take prepared Aloe halfe an ounce Coloquint one dragme Diagridion halfe a dragme Hermodactyli halfe an ounce temper them all together and make seuen pils of one dragme thereof Afterwards take euery fourtéene daies sixe thereof and fast sixe howers vpon it In the meane time is he alwaies the fift day to take one of them before supper Secondly he is to vse this Confection following Take Species de Xiloaloe Species Diatrionpipereon of each one drag white Saunders Violet and Sorrell séede of each one scrup Sugar sixe ounces decocted in water of Asarabacca or water of Parsley make Sugar plates thereof and then take daily before noone and after noone or at leastwise once a day of it three dragmes at the least and continue this the space of one whole moneth Thirdly take one pint and a halfe of Smiths water and seeth therein fiftéene or sixtéene Cipers nuts forty or fiftie Gals Hermodactyli and Pionie rootes of each one ounce vntill the third part be wasted away He is afterwards to rub the sicke person from the knees vnto the soles of the feete letting it be made moist to wit once a day alwaies before meate Fourthly take vnripe Sallad oyle one ounce Sandaraca Masticke and burnt Iuorie of each one dragme temper this together and therewith annoint after the former rubbing all the parts very warme which be weakened through the Gout and continue it thus with rubbing vntill they be thorougly strengthened againe and grow to be well Fiftly when the sicke person hath vsed certaine dayes to wash and annoint and findeth neuertheles no perfect amendement then is this salue following to be vsed like as the other precedent Take Dragon bloud fine Bolus Sandaraca the iuice of Sloes Mastick Frankinsence and Myrrhe of each one quarter of an ounce Sealed earth and Starch of each one ounce the iuice of Plantaine and of Roses of each one ounce and a halfe then temper them a long time together in a mortar vnto a salue These be now the very best and necessariest remedies which of all ancient and later Phisitions be prescribed for al the ioynts of the bodie God almighty the chiefe and best Phisition giue his blessing vnto it What things they be which conuey the medicines towards the ioynts §. 8. AMongst al other things which be written of the ioynts we haue yet to speake of this which be the things that conuey the medicines towards the ioynts amongst which the chiefest that are to be estéemed be rosted Squils Ginger Calmus which is the right Acorus Penniroyall Opopanax both of the kinds of Germander the séed Amomum and other moe The ninth Chapter Of the outward accidents of the ioynts and members FRom the third Chapter hitherto we haue discoursed of many kindes of diseases of the outward members which are most of all caused through outward causes and defluxions here will we now in this last Chapter adde certaine outward accidents as when the outward members or ioynts be beaten or strained Secondly we will also admonish somwhat of the fracture of the bones And because that by this there falleth otherwhiles some putrifaction of the bones therefore will we here also discourse somewhat of it and because that all this cannot be effected without great paine we will shew withall how that the same paine is to be asswaged Lastly how that the numbnesse and vnsensiblenesse of the members may be preuented and cured Of strayned members §. 1. IF any one haue strained any one member through falling or beating and the same hapned to swell without great heate then take the salue Dialthaea one ounce oyle of Cammomill and of Dill of each halfe an ounce Waxe a little and annoint the place therewith Another Take salue of Agrippa of Althaea and of the white salue which followeth hereafter of each halfe an ounce temper them together and annoint the place affected with it for which the Alablaster salue is also good Item take Barly meale Fenegréeke
obserued and well to be remembred that in drie and hot weather they are few yet strong and bad Agues do raigne but without any sweat at all In wet weather are these agues most rife and that with sweate For so much as these continuall Agues are first of all described amongst hote agues therefore here will we admonish the Reader that we make this our discourse so much the longer to the end we might declare the matter more openly and that such hote agues as hereafter follow may thereby the better be knowne and easier cured and that especially in this § wherein shall be taught the meanes which are to be kept in meate and drinke in vomiting sléepe also what might reuiue those that are so diseased whereby they should be eased in great heate and after what order they should gouerne themselues their ague being gone The Ague that is continuall Continua §. 1. THe occasion of all such mightie Agues is the putrifying of the humors within the great veines and the cause of the putrifaction aforesaid is a stay and detaining of superfluous tough humors that are caried in the bodie the heate wherof approching to the heart enflameth the same This commonly hapneth in all such bodies that are filled with tough humors or that the veines through heate of the same are ouer dried This Ague also may ingender of venimous ayre as in the time of pestilence is to be séene Item through great cold whereby the pores be shut vp through sore labor in the hote Sun through much watching through great anguish grieuous thoughts and through a great fluxe of the belly The common signes of this mightie ague are paine of the head and great heate easily to be felt watching great thirst swift and vnequall pulse red thicke and yellowish vrine the patient rageth in his sléepe his senses are troubled and complaineth of terrible dreames If he be young and the season of the yeare be hote and that he dwell in a high and hilly countrie then are all these recited signes the likelier to be certaine and true The order of dyet in time of hot Agues §. 2. IF so be that these patients desire to be rid of these Agues then is it very néedful that they haue a good gouernment or order in eating and drinking they must haue speciall care to be fed with such meats through which they may be cooled the bloud purified and moistened whereby the heate and drought may be withstood In like manner shall the patient be kept in the beginning of his sicknesse whilest he is in strength sober in eating and drinking and encrease the same according to oportunitie In like sort with the letting of bloud if the patient be red in the face his veins full young then is he to be let bloud in a very hot ague vntill he fall into a swoune But if the patient be so weake that such forcible letting of bloud may hurt him then let it be done at diuers howers euery time a little two or thrée daies together for some are to be dealt withall more gentlier than other and require that the Saluatella vpon the right hand to wit by the little finger may be opened and that there shall about fiue ounces of bloud be let out We haue before giuen order what kinds of meate this patient is to vse that the same must be cooling and cleansing the bloud as Cicorie and Endiue with the roots water Cresses sodden in his meate and in like sort also a Sallad made of the same herbes and rootes with oyle and Vineger and there is chiefly to be put into the same Sallad Liuerwort that vseth to grow besides the water Cresses which is passing good Also the iuice of Oranges Pomgranates or Limons are to be vsed with his meate and amongst other herbes Spinage Béetes and Turneps with their leaues are excellent good Item Lettice Endiue and Parsley and mingle amongst them sometime a little Marioram Penniroyall and wild Thyme and Hyssope but once for that it is warme of nature Of fruits let him vse Damask prunes Oranges Pomegranates And of flesh let him be serued with that of Calues Hens Capons the which are to be brused eaten with the broth also make sops with Vineger mingling the yolks of egs Sugar amongst it Item Partridges Fesants field fowles and such like are not hurtfull it is also to be noted that with the flesh is to be sodden Parsly roots Cicorie roots Veriuice with a little Marioram and Hyssope Moreouer the séedes of Lettice Melons Cucumbers are passing good yet not all together but somtime of the one somtime of the other Péeled Barly sodden with Hen broth is much set by and also Hen broth alone wherin a litle bread is soked Item shiues of bread soked in water and the water powred out and afterwards the iuice of Pomegranates powred thereon and bestrewed with Sugar is very good meate for all such maladies Some are of opinion that the flesh of a Magpie is a certaine good medicine for the Ague and some suppose that young Magpies with the feathers distilled and the water of them giuen to the patient to drinke and it were not amisse that in the distilling of them there were put the rootes of Parsley and of Elecampane For these hote Agues may fountaine water be drunken or any other cleare riuer water that hath bene sodden once before or powred a good while and often out of one pot into another Or you may mingle with this water iulep of Violets or iulep of Roses and so drinke it vnsodden Barly water is a very fit drinke for al such maladies may be mingled with the foresaid Iulep Wine though very little is otherwhiles permitted and also Sugar water and sodden Hen broth the fat blowne off is very good Common rules for Agues §. 3. ACcording to the prescribed ordinance or gouernment of the life we are to shew in like manner the remedies cures But first we will declare certaine rules which in all hot Agues must be obserued that thereby for all such maladies a better order may be had kept The first rule is how to discerne easily that the patient cannot come to his health vntil the putrified matter of the Ague be purged away Secondly the eyes are to be fixed vpon that matter that ingendreth the ague that the same be prepared for purging the ague which is present be corrected and that which is to come be hindred Thirdly whē this putrified matter is to be taken away then must care be had how to open the obstructions which are the foundations of the ague for otherwise there can no good be done Fourthly if the Ague be forcible hot and the patients strength very small to resist the same that it is impossible for the patient to tolerate the violence of the ague then must the patient not be suffered to vse many cold things before that thereby the naturall heat be