ransackt euery part therof brake forth with so great violence at the mouth as that all those that stoode by were afraide and then the fit ceasing the sicke partie felt himselfe relieued And yet this is not all for two or three moneths before he died he had euery day two or three little and light soundes his heart fainted and fayled him by reason of an extreame great desire that he had to pisse and when he had pissed became to himselfe againe but the fiercenes of the sickenesse was so great that the Soule in the ende was constrained to forgoe her lodging I was called to the opening of the bodie because that ordinarilie I had counselled him in his sickenes together with one of my fellow Phisitions Mounser Hucher Chancellour of our Vniuersitie whom I am willing for honour sake to name and as knowing him to be one of the most learned and best practised Phisitions of our times I found his breast halfe full of blacke and stinking water therewith the left ventricle of the heart was all filled and in the trunke of the great arterie a man might see the same colour At which time I calling to minde a notable place in Galen in his sixth booke of diseased parts I shewed vnto the companie that the cause of these faintings and of his earnest desire to pisse came of this cursed humour which hauing pained the heart passed from thence by the arteries vnto the reynes A worthie obseruation for the defence of Galen and from thence vnto the bladder It was my intent to stand vpon this by the waie that so I may take occasion to defend Galen against the false accusations of young Phisitions which thinke that putrified and purulent matter gathered in the breasts of those which are troubled with the disease Empyema and Pleurisies cannot purge and conuay it selfe away by the heart or arteries I haue handled this matter more largelie in the third booke of my Anatomicall workes The second historie The other historie is also very strange I obserued it this winter at Towers and was called to counsaile about the same with Mounser Anselmeau Valeseau and Vertunian very learned Phisitions and of great experience A young Lord euer since he was eight or nine yeares olde was troubled with this Hypochondriake disease he heard euery day about nine of the clocke in the morning a little noyse on his spleene side afterward he perceiued avapour to rise which made all his breast and face red and seazed the top of his head the veines of his temples did beate very forciblie the veines of his face were puffed vp and at the corners of his browes where the veines doe end he felt an extreame paine which passed not the breadth of a shilling the rednes ran all along his left arme euen vnto the fingers ends and was like a Saint Anthonies fire or cholerike tumour called Erisipelas the right side went altogether scorfree All the time of the fit he was so cast downe as that he was not able to speake a word teares trickeled downe his cheekes aboundantlie and out of his mouth ran an incredible quantitie of water without he burned and within he was colde asyce his left legge was all full of swolne veines and that which I finde most strange on the left side of the head where the hard and rockie bone groweth there was a peece of a bone carried and sunke somewhat inward and that without any apparant cause as blow or fall going before neither could he suller one to touch him in that place the disease hath hitherto been so rebellious as that all the remedies which the best learned Phisitions haue appointed for him could neuer finde the way to asswage and cure it It was agreed vpon by all our consents Or new remedies deuised of our owne braines that it should be impugned by extraordinarie remedies and by inward cordials whereof wee haue not as yet heard what is the successe See how these grosse burnt and melancholike humours continuing in the veines of the liuer spleene and Mesenterium may cause an infiuite number of strange accidents and are the occasion of a very great iarre and strife to the disturbing of all that good order and gouernement which should be in the whole bodie CHAP. XV. The cure of the Hypochondriake disease THere are necessarie for the curing of the Hypochondriake disease two sorts of remedies The one to be appoynted and vsed when the fit is not and they are called preseruatiues the other are to be vsed in the time of the fit euen then when the partie is haunted of all these accidents but I will begin with the former The preseruing of a man from this disease To preserue a man from the Hypochondriake diseease Euacuating medecines Blood letting is attempted by three kindes of remedies namely Diminutiues Alteratiues and Corroboratiues The Diminutiues are letting of blood and purging vniuersall Phlebotomie may serue to correct the hote distemperature of the liuer and to emptie away some part of melancholike blood it must be done vpon the Basilike veine which the Arabians call the blacke veine The opening of particular veines as the Hamorrhoids is counted amongst the number of the most famous and sure remedies for the cure of the Hypochondriake in as much as they emptie the spleene and all the Meseraicke membrane There are some which praise the opening of that veine which goeth to the little finger of the left hand which is called Saluatella Furging The other diminutiue is performed by purgation which must not be strong least this humour should growe more fierce You must purge therefore very gentlie and at seuerall times The purgations must be such as purge fleagme and melancholie because these are the two humours which doe most offend Sene and Agaricke haue the chiefe and principall place I haue described in the chapter of the first melancholie the receipts of many purgations which may serue heere in this place but for as much as the humour causing the windie melancholie is compound pound we must beforced to set downe some other fort A magistrall Syrupe I like and approue of magistrall syrupes and Opiates greatly and they may be framed after this fashion Take the rootes of Buglosse and Asperagus the rindes of the rootes of Capers-tree and Tamariske of each an ounce the rootes and leaues of Succorie Borage Buglosse Hops Fumitorie Ceterach Maidens haire of each a Handfull of Sea wormewood and Balme a pugill of Licorise and Corans washt in warme water of each an ounce of the seedes of Citrons blessed Thistle and Endiue of each two drammes of the three cordiall flowres of the flowers of Succorie of the crops of Tyme and Epythymum of each a pugill boyle them all in a sufficient quantitie of cleere water and hauing strained it well take two pintes thereof and adde thereto of the infusion of orientall Sene made in the former decoction with a dramme of Cloues an ounce
a halfe of Tutia well prepared and of good Aloes a scruple hang these bagges in the waters aforesaid and wash your eyes therewith euery night An excellent water of bread The water of bread so called is very excellent You must make paste with flower grossely sifted and the powder of Rew Fennel and Clarie which they call great Celondine of this paste you must make a loafe and bake in the ouen which so soone as it is baked must be clouen in two and put betwixt two siluer plates or peauter dishes made very close in such sort as that there may nothing breath out and so you shall thence gather a water which must bee kept for the eyes Some also doe much commend the extraction of Fennegreek with Honey The water of blew flowers called Blew-bottles and growing in the corne distilled is excellent good for the preseruation of the sight Some also take the stalke of Fennell a little aboue the roote and cutting it fill it with the powder of Sugar candie whereupon commeth forth a licour which is singular for the eyes I cannot but highly praise this water which I am about to describe A water Take of White wine a pound and a halfe and as much of good Rosewater of Tutia well prepared an ounce of the rinde of Nutmeg called Mace half an ounce put all these together in a glasse violl close stopped and set it in the heate of the Sunne twenty daies stirring it euery day till it become very cleere An oyntment for the eyes There is a singuler oyntment for the preseruation of the eyes Take of Hogs grease very new two ounces steepe it in Rosewater sixe houres after wash it againe twelue seuerall times in the best White wine that may bee got by the space of fiue or sixe houres more adde afterward vnto this grease of Tutia well prepared and finely powdred one ounce of the stone Hematites well washed a scruple of Aloes well washed and made into powder twelue graines of powder of Pearle three graines mixe all together with a little of the water of Fennell and make them vp in an oyntment whereof ye may put a very little in both the corners of your eyes There is great store euery where of other outward remedies which may serue for the eyes as Colliries or Eyesalues and powders which are blowne into the eyes but I finde them not so fit for the purpose as waters Washing of the head The Arabians vse washing of the head the better to preserue the sight but it is not very good in the weakenes of the eyes to trouble the braine but if there be any such thing vsed it may bee done in this sort Take the lye that is made of the Vine ashes of the leaues of Stechados Betonie Eyebright Celandine and Camomill of each a handfull of Agarick and Chebule Mirobalanes tied in a cloute of each two drammes boyle all together till the fourth part be consumed and therewith wash your head Or else take dried Eyebright and make it into ashes then adde thereto the water of Eyebright and make thereof a lye Loe these be the meanes whereby we shall be able to preserue the sight especially if the diminution thereof come by some great moysture of the braine and eyes as is that of my Ladies the Dutchesse of Vzez to whom this whole discourse is particularly dedicated I do not set downe the remedies which are proper to the seuerall diseases of the eyes for so I should spend too much time It was my purpose onely to prepare this generall regiment which might serue as a patterne for the curing of all the rest Monsieur Guillemeau the kings Surgeon hath put forth a very learned treatise wherein are to bee found the most exquisite remedies set downe and vsed by the old and new writers Vnto his booke I referre the reader seeing it is extant in our common language An end of the first discourse THE SECOND DISCOVRSE WHEREIN ARE HANDLED THE diseases of melancholie and the meanes to cure them CHAP. I. That man is a diuine and politike creature endued with three seuerall noble powers as Imagination Reason and Memorie ABdalas the Sarrasin being importunatelie pressed and as it were forced to speake and tell what it was that hee found to bee most wonderfull in all the world answered at last with great commendation that man alone did surpasse all other wonder whatsoeuer An answere in trueth beseeming a great Philosopher rather then a rude and vnlettered man For man hauing the image of God engrauen in his soule The praise of mankinde and representing in his body the modell of the whole world can in a moment transforme himselfe into euery thing like a Proteus or receiue at an instant the stampe of a thousand colours like to the Chamelion Phauorine acknowledged nothing to be great here on earth but onely man The wise men of Egypt haue vouchsafed him such honour as to call him a mortall God Thrice renowmed Mercurie calleth him the liuing creature full of diuine parts the messenger of the Gods the Lord of the things below and fellow companion with the Spirits aboue Pithagoras the measure of all things Synesius the Horizon of things hauing and not hauing bodies Zoroaster in a certaine kinde of rauishment proclamed him the mightie worke and wonder of nature Plato the marueile of marueiles Aristotle the politike liuing creature furnished with reason and counsaile which is all as possessing all things by power though not really and in very deede as Empedocles would haue it to be but by the comprehending and conceiuing of the formes and seuerall sorts of things Plinie the ape or puppie of nature the counterfeit of the whole world the abridgement of the great world Amongst the Diuines there are some which haue called him euery maner of creature because he hath intercourse with euery maner of creature he hath a being as haue the stones life as haue the plants and sence or feeling as the beasts and vnderstanding as haue the Angels Othersome haue honoured him giuing him the title of vniuersall gouernour as hauing all things vnder his empire and iurisdiction as being he to whom euery thing yeeldeth obediēce and for whose sake the whole world was created In briefe this is the chiefe and principall of Gods worke and the most noble of all other creatures But this his excellencie From whence the excellencie of man springeth whereby he is more glorious then all the rest is not in respect of his bodie although the shape thereof bee more exquisite better tempered and of more comely proportion then any other thing in the world seruing as Polycletus his rule for the fashioning of other things and being as a platforme whereby the master builders may frame and contriue their buildings This noblenes I say commeth not of the bodie which consisteth of matter and is corruptible no the extract thereof or that which is indeede excellent therein is further fetcht
drammes of Borage Buglosse Balme and Hoppes of each halfe a handfull of Anise and Citron seede of each adramme of orientall Sene three drammes of the three cordiall flowers a pugill boyle them all take of this decoction foure ounces and infuse therein of Rubarbe a dram and a halfe after the straining of it dissolue therein of the syrupe of Roses an ounce and of the syrupe of Apples as much make thereof a decoction which you must take in the morning and keepe your chamber There are some which take in the broth of a chicken halfe an ounce of Sene others an ounce of Cassia or else the infusion and expression of ten drams of Catholicum The maner of preparing of the melancholike humour This sleight purgatiue hauing gone before the rest of the humour must bee prepared for to thinke of the rooting out of the preparing of whole at the first blow forcibly as the Emperickes doe were to ouerthrow the sicke partie Wee must attenuate soften and dissolue the same and follow the precept of famous Hippocrates which sayth in his Aphorismes that when we will purge any bodie we must first prepare it and make it fit to flow for such preparation there is good vse to be made of Iulebes and Apozemes An Apozeme Take of the rootes of Buglosse and Elecampane of the rindes of the rootes of Capers and Tamariske of euery one an ounce of the leaues of Borage Hops Succorie Fumitorie Capillus Veneris crops of Time and Balme of each a handfull of Anise Fennell and Citron feede of each two drammes of the three cordiall flowers of the flowers of Oranges and of Epithymum of each a pugill boyle them all in fountaine water and after you haue strained out a pound and a halfe put thereto of the syrupe of Hops two ounces and as much of the syrupe of Fumitorie and make thereof an Apozeme clarifie it and aromatise it with a dram of the powder of Cinamome or of Electuarium de gemmis it must be taken foure mornings together Stronger meanes for the purging of this humour The humour being thus prepared the bodie may be purged againe with the decoction before appointed whereto you shall put of Catholicum or else of Confectio Hamech which purgeth melancholie very well or ir you please you may prepare an Apozeme which will purge euery second time it is taken the same which is alreadie set downe will serue if you boyle some orientall Sene and Polypodie in it If this humour bee too rebellious and that you cannot purge and auoide it by these benedicts and gentle remedies you must bee forced to come to such as are stronger Piolomeus the king vsed in rebellious melancholie Electuarium Hieralogadium but the Hieras doe drie ouer much The Arabians commend the pilles of Lapi lazulus Pillulae Indae pilles of Fumitorie and those of Lapis armenus There are some which make a powder for melancholike persons and it is an excellent one A purgatiue powder Take of Lapis lazulus well washed in Violet water an ounce of oriental Sene two ounces of good Polypodie an ounce and a halfe of Anise and Citron seede halfe a dramme of Sugar candie three ounces of the foure cold seedes two drammes of the flowers of Elder-tree three drammes make thereof a powder take thereof the waight of two French crownes All both Greeke and Arabian Phisitions doe appoint in such diseases of melancholie The vse of Hellebor as are old and hardly remoued Hellebor should bee giuen It is true indeede that wee must in this case vse discretion and not to giue it in substance for the decoction or infusion thereof must be taken and choise made of that which is blacke and good for the Apothecaries doe oftentimes sell for blacke Hellebor a kinde of Aconitum which is very hurtfull and pernicious the white is not to bee vsed at all in these cases there must also diligent care be had not to mixc any thing with the Hellebor wee vse which hath any astringent or binding facultie such as are Mirabolanes least thereby it might bee staied too long in the stomacke The Poets that haue written long agoe haue acknowledged this propertie of Hellebor that it hath against melancholike diseases when as they send melancholike persons vnto Anticyra where the best Hellebor groweth and in Homer in his second Odissea Melampus a great Phisition is brought in healing the foure daughters of king Pretus with Hellebor who because they would bee equall in beautie to Iuno were for a iust punishment of their arrogancie and pride made fooles Some there bee which vse Antimonie prepared Antimonie but all such forcible meanes must be prescribed aduisedly and with discretion I could like it better to vse milder things and to reiterate them the oftner as a good magistrall syrupe or else some Opiate A magistrall syrupe The syrupe may be made of the iuyces of Borage Buglosse and Apples with some Sene or else you may vse the syrupe of the Apples of Sabor the king There may an Opiate be made after this fashion Take of good Cassia drawne in the vapour of the decoction of Mallowes an ounce and a halfe or if you will haue it somewhat stronger in the vapour of the decoction of black Hellebor for so it will retaine some little part of the force vertue thereof afterward take of Tamarisk an ounce of Catholicum sixe drams of Sene halfe an ounce as much of Epithymū 3. drams of good Rubarbe besprinkled with the water of Endiue vntill it become soft and relenting incorporate all together and mingle them with the syrupe of Violets or Apples and make thereof an Opiate whereof you shall take euery fiue daies in forme of a bole the quantitie of an ounce more or lesse according to the effect and working thereof And thus much of purgatiues Alteratiue medicines The second kinde of remedies is such as doth alter the melancholike humor that is to say which doth take away the distemperature therof This humour offendeth in coldnes and drines but more in drienes this is that very qualitie which maketh it so rebellious hardly to be remoued the alteration of it thē doth consist in the moistning of the same That there is more good done by moystening then by purging of the melancholike humour Galen in his third booke of diseased parts as also Trallianus do make more accompt of these alteratiues then they do of the diminutiues do confidētly professe to haue cured moe melancholike persons by moystening the humours then by purging of it This moystening is accomplished by inward and outward meanes the inward are brothes apozemes syrupes I haue sometime caused a melancholike man to vse for a long time together the broth of a chicken with Borage Buglosse Brothes Succorie Burnet and a little Saunders and Sassefras which I caused to be added thereto whereupon hee found himselfe exceedingly well amended The sympe of Apples
Buglosse Hops Syrupes and Violets doe macerate this humor in very good sorte You may prepare an apozeme with the same hearbes which I haue mentioned here aboue The vse also of Whay and Goats or Asses milke will serue well to water and moisten this humour withall Outward remedies The outward remedies are either vniuersall or particular the vniuersall are bathes Galen boasteth himselfe to haue cured many melancholike persons with the onely vse of baths of warme water Bathes or else you may if the whole body bee very drie and the skinne very rugged make an artificiall one with the rootes of Holibocks leaues of Mallowes Violets Lettuses Succorie with the seedes of Melons and Gourds Barley and the flowers of Violets you must bathe oft and stay long in at a time but not so long as to cause any sweate At the time of being in the bath you may haue two bags filled with sweete and bitter Almonds and the seede of Melons grosly pownded and therwith rubbe all the skinne ouer If you wil make your bath well you must put warme water in your bathing tub ouer night and there let it stand and breath till morning Ointments for the whole bodie at which time you shall go into it There be many practicioners in Phisicke which make such baths of milke only as also it is oftentimes done in the case of consumption In comming forth of the bath there are some which inioine the body to be annointed al ouer with the oile of sweete Almonds Violets or new fresh butter Applying of remedies vnto the head There are which applie remedies vnto the head as being the part most affected and they vse such as doe moisten whether they be lotionsor embrocations and these made of warme water and of the same decoctions or else of the oyles of the seede of Gourdes sweete Almonds and Violets or else of milke Comforting medicines The third kinde of remedies good in melancholike cases is of such as doe strengthen and cheere vp the spirits which are as Auicen saith become wilde and duskish It behooueth therefore to strengthen the braine and to cheere vp the heart the which intentions are effected by inward and outward meanes the inward Sytupes Opiates Lozenges and pouders Inward remedies the outward are Epithemes bags and ointments I will giue you an example of each of them An excellent Syrope The fittest syrupe that I haue found both for the cheering and moistening of melancholike persons is this which I am about to set downe being first inuented by Mounsieur Castellane mine vncle and one of the greatest and happiest Phisitions of his time and ordinarily imployed in his calling by Kings and Queenes Take of the iuice of Borage and Buglosse a pound and a halfe of the iuice of apples that are very sweete a pound of the iuice of Balme halfe an ounce of Diers graines infused in the former iuices a long time and after strained out three drammes of Saffron halfe a dramme of fine Sugar two pounds make these in a syrupe boyled to his height and aromatize it with a dramme and a halfe of the powder of the Diamargaritum that is cold and foure scruples of the powder of Diamber there must be taken of it euening and morning two or three spoonefull There are many sorts of Opiates but I will content my selfe to set down this one Take of the Conserue of the rootes of Buglosse Opiates and of the flowers of Borage of each one ounce of preserued Mirabplanes and of the rindes of Citrons condited of each halfe an ounce of the confection of Alkermes three drammes of the powders of Diamargariton and of the Electuarie of precious stones of each one dramme make thereof an Opiate with the syrupe of Apples whereof you must take a little in the morning drinking after it some Claret wine delayed with the water of Buglosse I will set downe some receipts of lozenges and powders in the chapter intreating of that melancholie which is begot amōgst the bowels and called the flatuouse or windie melancholie Outward remedies for the cheering vp of the spirits The outward remedies are applied vnto the braine and heart Vnto the braine there are applied powders and caps But in asmuch as the greatest part of these aromaticall things are hote and drie we must vse them but sparinglie Vnto the heart wee may more boldly applie Epithemes Bags and ointments An Epitheme for the heart Take of the waters of Borage and Buglosse of each halfe a pound of the waters of Balme and Scabiouse of each foure ounces of good white wine two ounces of the powder of colde Diamargaritum one dramme of the confection of Alkermes three drammes of the seede of Balme and Diers graines of each one dramme mixe al together and make Epithemes thereof and applie them to the region of the heart with a piece of scarlet If liquid Epithemes dislike you then you may vse a solide one with the cordiall conserues or else you may weare bags vpon the region of your hart the descriptions whereof I leaue vntill I come to the chapter of windie melancholie where they shall come in more fitly for the purpose in asmuch as those which are troubled with the windie melancholie haue almost continually the panting and beating of the heart And thus much for the three kinds of remedies which are in my mind needful for the curing of that melancholy which is setled in the braine being purgatiues alteratiues and comfortatiues The means to remedie too much watchfulnes There remaineth as yet vnremoued a tedious and trouble some accident which is continuall watching which now and then whippeth melancholike men so cruelly as that therby many haue bene plunged into the pit of despaire Wherefore I will addresse my selfe with all the best wits I haue or deuises I can inuent to set downe the meanes of their comfort Inward means to procure sleepe Sleepe is procured by inward and outward meanes We will haue diuers sortes of the inward because melancholike persons doe loue varietie We shall make for them mundified barlie a Condite an Opiate a Tart a Restauratiue a Potion a bole and masse of pils all giuen to procure sleepe A mundified barley The mundified barley is made with the flowre of barley prepared as is meet with Almonds which haue been infused in Rose water with the foure cold seeds the seeds of Poppie rosed Surgar A Condite The forme of the condite shal be such Take of the conserues of the flowers of Borage and Buglosse of each three drammes of the pulpe of Gourds confected and of the rindes of Citrons of each two drammes of white Poppie and Mellon seedes of each a dramme of rosed Sugar so much as is needfull make thereof a condite whereof you shall take at night two or three spoonefuls An Opiate The Opiate shall be thus made Take of the conserues of the pulpe of
Gourds and of the rootes of Lettuse of each an ounce of the conserue of Roses and Water-lillie of each halfe an ounce of the powder of the colde Diamargaritum a dram of Poppie seede two scruples make thereof an Opiate with the syrupe of Violets Of this you must take at night the quātitie of a chestnut For varietie sake you may make a Marchpane A Marchpane Take of sweete Almonds blanched and washed in hot water and afterward infused in Rosewater a pound and a halfe of white Poppie seede very new and well mundified three ounces of fine Sugar two pound worke them into a paste and with the water of Roses make a Marchpane of this you shall take when you go to sleepe There are in like maner resumptiues Restauratiues or restauratiues of a liquide forme Take the white of a good Capon of water of Roses and Water-lillies of each a quart of Buglosse Purcelane and Sorrell waters of each foure ounces of the powder of colde Diamargaritum two drammes distill all these together in Maries bath The potion may be prescribed after this maner A Potion Take of the syrupe of Violets Apples and Poppie of each halfe an ounce of the powder of Diamargaritum a scruple make hereof a potion with the decoction of Lettuses and Endiue And for such as may delight in a bole this which followeth may serue A Bole. Take of the conserue of Roses three drams of Requies Nicolai one dram and with a little Sugar make a bole Orelse Take of the conserue of the flowers of red Poppie two drammes Pilles of new Treacle one dram and with a little Sugar make a bole If pilles be in request then let there be made as followeth Take of the pilles of Hounds-tongue or of Styrax one scruple let them bee moystned with the syrupe of Apples The Chymists make a Laudanum But in the vse of all these stupefactiue medicines taken inwardly wee must take heed to deale with very good aduise for feare that in stead of desiring to procure rest vnto the sillie melancholike wretch wee cast him into an endlesse sleepe Outwarde meanes to procure sleepe The outward remedies are not altogether so dangerous and wee may frame tenne or twelue sorts of them as head powders frontlets bags emplasters oyntments epithemes nosegaies pomanders and lotions for the legs Take of the flowers of red Poppie and red Roses of each three drams of Lettuse A powder Purcelane and white Poppie seede of each two drams of red Saunders and the seede of Coriander prepared of each a dramme and a halfe make them all into powder and cast it vpon the head the haire being shaued A Frontlet Of the them same powder may a Frontlet bee made putting thereto of the flowers of Water-lillies and a little Margerome You may make great bagges after the fashion of pillowes Bags which shall be filled with the flowers of Roses and the leaues and seedes of white Henbane An Epitheme You may applie this Epitheme vnto the head Take of the distilled waters of Lettuse Sorrell and Roses of each three ounces of the powder of cold Diamargaritum one dram of red Roses and red Saunders two scruples make thereof an Epitheme Let the oyntment bee like vnto this An oyntment Take of populeon halfe an ounce and as much of Galens colling oyntment of oyle of Roses an ounce mixe all together with a little vineger and therwith annoynt the head browes and nostrils You may also make this plaister An Emplaister Take of Castoreum a dram and a halfe of Opium half a scruple mixe both together with a little water of life and make two small plaisters thereof and applie them to the temples You may make Nosegaies of flowers of Violets Nosegaies Roses of Willowe and a little Margerome they must be dipped in rosed vineger and in the juyce of Lettuse and Poppie wherein a little Opium and Camphire hath been dissolued Or else Take two heads of Poppie beat together Nodules tye them vp in three nodules or knots then hauing in readines of Styrax three drams of Rose water sixe ounces and a little Opium dip these nodules in the licour and smell vnto them oftentimes A pomander There may also an Apple be made to smell vnto Take of the seede of Henbane of the rinde of the rootes of Mandrags of the seede of Hemlocke of each one dram of Opium a Scruple of the oyle of Mandrags a little mixe all these with the iuyce of Fumitorie and Houseleeke and make an apple thereof which if you smell vnto it will cause you now and then to sleepe put vnto these to correct them a little Amber and Muske There are some which with good successe doe applie Horseleaches behinde the eares Blood suckers or horseleaches and hauing taken away the Horseleaches they put by little and little a graine of Opium vpon the hole Lotions for the legs Lotions for the legges doe much auaile to cause one to sleepe Take of the leaues of the Orange tree and of Margerome of each a good handfull two heads of white Poppie of Roses and Waterlillie flowers and Camomill of each a pugill boyle them all together in two parts of water and one of white wine and herewith you must wash the thighes and legges of the sicke partie at night letting it be good and hot I thinke that by this meanes you may procure sleepe vnto the most melancholike man in the world It is true that to preuent that these cooling things may not altogether quench that small store of naturall heate that is in them you must cause them to take now and then some cordiall Syrupes or comfortable Opiates And thus much for the cure of that melancholie which chiefly affecteth the braine That melancholie which commeth of a drie distemperature of the whole bodie is cured almost by the same helpes I come therefore vnto the windie melancholie but because there is one kinde of this essentiall melancholy which happeneth through raging and fond loue and that it requireth a speciall maner of curing I will first speake of the same CHAP. X. Of another kinde of melancholie which commeth by the extremitie of loue THere is another kinde of melancholie verie ordinarie and common which the Greeke Phisitions call Erotike The names of amourous melancholie because it commeth of a furie and raging loue the Arabians call it Iliscus and the common sort the diuine Passion imputing the cause thereof to the pettie god which the Poets haue made so great reports of Cadmus Milesius if we may credit Suydas hath written foureteene great volumes of this subiect which are not at this day to be found I will onely make two chapters of it the one describing the maladie the other the remedies I will not here curiously search out the crimologie of loue and why this name Eros was giuen vnto it neither will I vndertake to define it seeing very
loftie and continually glistering in feare cast downe and as it were set fast in the head in ioy pleasant and cleere in pensiuenes all heauie mournfull and darke To be short they be wholly giuen to follow the motions of the minde they doe change themselues in a moment they doe alter and conforme themselues vnto it in such maner as that Blemor the Arabian and Syreneus the Phisition of Cypres thought it no absurditie to affirme that the soule dwelt in the eyes and the common people thereabout think so vntil this day for in kissing the eyes they thinke they kisse the soule Momus condemned See here thy selfe condemned O shameles find fault and vtterterly ouerthrowne in thine action and delay not but come and make condigne satisfaction by honorably recompencing of nature whom thou hast so maliciously and falsely accused of follie in the framing of mans bodie for that she did not set two windowes next neighbours to the heart through them to spie all the passions of the same Canst thou wish more goodly windowes then these of the eyes Doest thou not see therein as in a glasse the most hidden things of the mind The poore man at the barre doth he not reade written in the eyes of his iudge his sentence either of condemnation or absolution There is saith Theocritus a broad trodden way betwixt the eye and the heart a man can not so dissemble the matter but that such will be the passion of the eye as is the passion of the heart It grieueth me that euer I should finde so vaine a discourse as should containe the eger desire of any man to haue the bread framed of christalline cleerenes to the end he might see what is within the heart seeing we are alreadie possessed of this round christalline humour within our eyes which casteth forth most liuely light much like the glittering beames comming from a shining glasse moued in the Sun But if it may be granted me to mixe one dram of Phisick amongst the large masse of these Philosophicall and Poeticall sentences I dare auouch that in the eyes wee perceiue and discerne the whole estate of the health of the bodie That the eyes doe shew the whole estate of mans health Hippocrates that sacred Oracle of Greece which all the world as yet euen to this day hath in singular reuerence and rare admiration hath obserued the same very well in his Epidemickes and in his treatise of Prognostications he commandeth the Phisition when he goeth to see the sicke partie to behold and looke well vpon the face but chiefly vpon the eyes because that in thē as in a glasse is easily espied the strength or weaknes of the animal powers if the eye be cleere and bright it maketh vs well to hope but and if it bee darke withered and clowdie it presageth death Galen calleth the eye a diuine mēber that part of euery liuing thing which most resembleth the Sun and therewithall doth so highlye steeme of it as tha the verely beleeueth that the braine was made onely for the eyes The Lawyers doe hold it as a Maxime that a blind man cannot plead or handle a case well because he cannot see the maiestie of the Iudge Arislotle that light of nature in his second booke of the generation of liuing things sayth that from the eyes men take infallible signes of fruitfulnes as if in dropping some bitter water into a womans eye she by and by feele the taste thereof vpon her tongue it is a signe of her aptnes to conceiue The eyes sayth the same Philosopher are full of spirit and seede and this is the reason why in new married persons they bee so much the lesser and as it were languishing But what neede I to alleadge so many proofes concerning the excellencie of these two Sunnes seeing that nature her selfe doth sufficiently demonstrate the same vnto vs Let vs reade in the booke of nature Natures care for the preseruation of the eyes and see how carefull she hath been to preserue the eyes as her most de are and trustie messengers let vs admire the arte and skill she hath vsed in working their safetie and defence wee shall finde her not to haue forgotten or left out any thing but so to haue bestirred her selfe as those men which haue a purpose to fortifie a place and make it impregnable The fortifications seruing for the safetie of the eye First she hath lodged them as in a bottome or little valley that so they might not be subiect to the assaults of manifold dangers and hurts and to the end that nothing might commaund this little valley she hath raised vp foure notable bulwarkes all fortified with bones as hard as any stone which in such sort doe swell and bunch out as though they were little hillockes made to receiue the blowes and beare off the violence of euery enemy that might assaile them Aboue them is the brow bone vnderneath them the cheek bone on the right and left hand the two corners the one of them somewhat greater then the other and is that which is next the nose the lesser one being that which is set right ouer against it And for as much as the forepart of this place lay wide open without any couer for feare that the prince commanding the same which is the eye should be ouertaken or offended with too much winde cold or smoke nature hath made as it were a draw-bridge to be pulled vp and let downe as the gouernour shall commaund and this is the eye lid which openeth and shutteth as best pleaseth vs. The chaines by which this bridge is drawne let fall are the muscles the instruments of voluntary motion It appeareth then plainly enough by this great care which nature hath for the preseruation and defence of the eyes how excellent they are and therewithall we haue our lesson taught vs how carefull we ought to bee for the preseruation thereof CHAP. V. Of the composition of the eye in generall SEeing it is now time to lay open the skilfull workmanship of these bright starres appearing and rising together I purpose to describe them in such liuely sort and perfect maner as that the most curious and such as are borne onely to carpe it may be will content and hold themselues satisfied therwithall letting passe all those notable obiections and questions which might bee made about the parts of the eye for that I haue at large handled them in the sourth booke of my Anatomicall workes And euen as Cosmographers and those which trauailing applie themselues curiously to obserue and marke things do first inquire of the names of the prouinces view and consider the situation beauty largenes strength and entrances of cities together with whatsoeuerels may be seene without before they enter into them so will I describe the forme situation fortresses largenes vse and number of the eyes with whatsoeuer els may bee marked in generall before I enter into any particular search
and a halfe of the infusion of Agaricke made in the water of Minthes with a scruple of Ginger and with a sufficient quantitie of Sugar boyle them all together to the height of a syrupe which you shall keepe for your ordinarie vse Hereof you must take two ounces once euery moneth or twise with the broth of a Chicken wherein are put Borage Buglosse Hops and the Capillar hearbes you may make a syrupe with the iuyces of the same hearbes and put thereto the same laxatiues An Opiate The Opiate that I haue set downe may serue here but it may be made of a far other fashion which purgeth most gentlie Take of the iuyce of Mercurie well purified as much as shall neede infuse therein for the space of foure and twentie howres two ounces of Orientall Sene and causing them to boyle once afterward straine them strongly and after boyle the licour strained out with Sugar till it come to the forme of an Electuarie whereunto you shall adde of Cassia new drawne out of the cane two ounces of Epithymum halfe an ounce of Cloues made in powder two drammes the mixing all well together you shall make an Opiate whereof you may take halfe an ounce or more They which cannot vse decoctions nor Opiates shall take pils The extraction of Sene to be made into pilles made of the extract of Sene Agaricke and Rubarbe for other pilles are not so fit in this disease Take of good Polypodie foure ounces the rootes and leaues of Succorie Buglosse Fumitorie Hops of each a handfull of damaske Raisines a dozen of the three cordiall flowers one handfull make a decoction vnto a pint and boyle therein two ounces and a halfe of Sene of Epithymum sixe drammes of good Agaricke halfe an ounce all these hauing infused together one whole night straine and presse them out very strongly putting thereto of good Rubarbe which shall be infused in the foresayd decoction with a little Cinamome halfe an ounce afterward you shall put all this together vpon hote ashes you shall thereupon drie them til they come to a reasonable thick consistence and then putting thereto of Epithymum three drams you shall make all vp into a masse of pilles which will purge very gently if you giue thereof at one time the quantitie of foure scruples And let these serue for gentle and easie purgations only you may adde hereunto the often vse of Clisters which may serue for the windie melancholie But for as much as this humour is grosse and for the most part lurking in the most inward veines it is not very easie to purge it well if it bee not first prepared wee must come therefore vnto the second kind of remedies which we haue called Alteratiues Inward Alteratiues The alteration to be made must consist in moystning and making thin of this humour this may bee done by inward and outward remedies Apozemes The inward are Apozemes which must be somewhat opening because of obstructions and it must be looked vnto with great care that they be not made with too hot a fire It will bee very fit to make them of such hearbes as properly respect the liuer and the spleene and amongst the rest wee must not forget Wormewood for all good practitioners doe confidently affirme that the onely decoction of Wormewood hath preserued an infinite number of persons from the windie melancholie It will not bee amisse to lay in steepe these grosse humours and for the opening of the vessels to commaund to bee vsed the decoction of the roote China with a little Sassafras for the space of twelue or fifteene daies The vse of the roote China Broths Broths that doe alter and moysten the humour the maner of liuing and vse of milke will serue marueilously well for the preparing and moystning of this drie humour Outward alteratiues As concerning outward remedies bathes for the whole bodie deserue to be most chiefly accounted of there may fomentations also bee applied to the spleene and all ouer Mesenterium as also oyntments and liniments The fomentations must be mollifying somewhat opening and making thinne or apt to attenuate hauing mixt therewithall some carminatiues or things to breake winde the manner of making them is common enough The oyles of Capers bitter Almonds Broome Elder Lillies Of the berries Camomil Danewort berries are most fit proper The last kind of remedies is of such as are corroboratiues Comiortable medicines for there are in this disease of the windie melancholie many parts that are much weakned hauing bin branded with this humor as the hart the stomack and the braine The weakenes of the heart is caused through the beating and light faintings of the same the weake stomacke filleth all full of cruditie the weakened braine causeth that the imagination and reason are oftentimes troubled in this disease Wee must therefore haue regard vnto these parts Meanes to comfort the heart An Opiate The heart is strengthened by inward and outward meanes the inward are Opiates Condites and Lozenges Take the conserue of the rootes of Buglosse and of the flowers of Borage of each an ounce of the flesh of Mirobalanes and of the rindes of Citrons confected of each halfe an ounce of the confection of Alkermes two drammes Confectionis laetificantis of Pearle and of the powder of Mirth of each one dramme make thereof an Opiate with the syrupe of Apples whereof you must take twice or thrice euery weeke with a little of the water of Buglosse Take of the powder of the electuarie of precious stones and of Mirth of each a dram Lozenges of the confection of Alkermes halfe a dram of Pearle Emerald made in powder of each one scruple of Sugar dissolued in the water of Buglosse or Balme so much as needeth make vp Lozenges of the waight of 3. drams you must take hereof euening and morning twice or thrice euery weeke For such as are more delicate and daintie there are some that make confections of Muske Musk-cordials Take the third part of a Nutmeg confected of the rindes of Citrons three drammes and as much of Mirobalanes confected of Ambergrise halfe a dramme and as much of Muske of Sugar the double quantitie of all the rest and with the muscilage of Gumme Tragacanth drawne in the water of Buglosse make Muscardins You must not often vse these hote medicines in the Hypochondriake disease for feare of mouing and enraging of the humour Outward remedies Liquide Epithemes The outward remedies to fortifie the heart withall are liquide and solide Epithemes oyles oyntments and bags Take the waters of Buglosse Balme and Roses of each foure ounces of white wine an ounce and a halfe of Dyers graines of cordiall flowers of each a dram of the powder of Diamargaritum and Diamber of each halfe a dram of Saffron halfe a scruple mixe all together and make thereof Epithemes which you shall applie vnto the heart Solide Epithemes Take
of the conserue of the flowers of Borage of Roses and a Balme of each two ounces of the confection of Alkermes and of the Iacinth of each two drammes of the powder of precious stones and of Mirth of each halfe a dramme make thereof a solide Epitheme in forme of a cataplasme with the water of Balme or of the flowers of Oranges and this you shall spread vpon a peece of scarlet Oyles and apply it to the heart Take the oyle of lesamin and of Costus one ounce of Amber grise three graines chafe therewith the region of the heart or else prouide you some naturall Balme An oyntment Take of the flowers of Camomile Rosemarie and Orange tree of each two drams of Ziloaloe of sweete Saunders of each one dram of the oyle of lesamin and naturall Balme of each one ounce of Amber and Muske sixe or seuen graines make hereof an oyntment with a little white waxe and annoynt therewith the region of the heart Bags Take of the leaues of Balme of the flowers of Borage and Buglosse of each halfe a handfull of the rindes and seede of Citrons two drams of the seede of Balme Basill and Cloues of each a dram of the powder of Pearle Emerauld and lacynth of each halfe a dram of the bone of a Harts heart one dram of red and yellow Saunders one dram of good Amber foure or fiue graines pound them all and make a stomacher of red taffata well quilted and weare it ordinarily vpon the hart Thus much concerning the proper remedies as well inward as outward for the strengthening of the heart and taking away of such weaknes as commonly happeneth to them that haue the windie melancholie Meanes for the strengthening of the stomack The other part to bee strengthened is the stomacke and to preuent that it may not beget such great store of crudities you shall vse powders helping disgestion and certaine oyles properly vsed in such cases for the annoynting thereof The digestiue powder must not be too hot A digestiue powder Take of Anise and Fennell confected of each three drams of the rindes of Citrons confected one dram of prepared Pearle and red Corall of each one halfe a dram of fine Cinamome two scruples of rosed Sugar foure ounces make them in powder and take thereof a spooneful alwaies after your meate Outwardly you may strengthen the stomacke Meanes to be applied outwardly to the stomacke by annoynting it with the oyle of Nutmeg Spikenard Wormewood or with some bag made of Wormewood Balme Cloues Macis Cinamome red Roses and such like powders it is meete that diligent care be had that they bee not applied vpon the place of the liuer because the hote distemperature of this part is commonly the originall of all Hypochondriake diseases And for this cause you may annoint the liuer with the oyntment of Roses and Saunders well washed in Succorie water or else you shall apply thereupon Epithemes of the waters of Succorie Endiue Sorrell the seedes of Endiue cordiall flowers and red Saunders As concerning the braine which is weake to the end it may not be subiect to so great quantitie of vapours you may strengthen it with powders appropriate for the head and sleight parfumes And thus much as concerning preseruatiues which are to be vsed when the fit is not and which without all doubt will keepe the fit from comming for taking a way the cause of accidents it must needes fall out that the effects cease Remedies to be vsed in the accesse of the disease But when the fit of the windie melancholie shall put the sicke partie in paines you must vse other meanes which the Phisition shall alter and varie according to the accident which is most strong and vrgent As if it be feeblenes Remedies and helpes against feeblenes you shall leaue to doe all other things and only strengthen the heart and that by vsing the remedies before described As you may take of the confection of Alkermes of bread dipped in wine of Lozenges cordiall Opiates and the rindes of Citrons You shall also apply vnto the heart liquide and drie Epithemes oyles baulmes oyntments and bagges Remedies against oppression through windines If heauines which is the most common accident in the windie melancholic as that which is caused of the grosse vapours or of the winde which waigheth downe the midriffe and membranes doe lye grieuously vpon the partie it will be good to chafe and rub the thighes and legs lightly to minister a Clister to breake windines to apply great cupping glasses vpon the region of the spleene vpon the nauell and all ouer the bellie and if the griefe of these windes be very great you may take a spoonefull of Ros Solis or Cinamome water distilled or Aquacoelestis or else two or three drops of the essence of Anise seede in a little broth very hote or a little Treacle and Mithridate if the winde doe continue vnremoued and will not stirre out of the breast you shall remoue them with some bags applied very hote and these shal be made of the flowers of Camomile and Melilot of the crops of Dill of Millet and fried Oates You may in like manner apply vpon the region of the spleene fomentations which will resolue and waste some part of these grosse vapours These are the three sortes of melancholie which ancient writers haue deliuered vnto vs that is to say that which hath his seat in the braine that which commeth of the sympathie of the whole bodie and that which ariseth ordinarily from the places about the short ribbes which is more common then either of the other and which is so often happening in these miserable times as that there are not many people which feele not some smatch thereof I come to the third disease of Madame Dutchesse of Vzez which is the Rheume THE THIRD DISCOVRSE WHEREIN IS HANDLED THE breeding of Rheumes and how they are to be cured CHAP. I. That the braine is the seate to cold and moysture and by consequent the fountaine of rheumes and distillations IT is not without cause that Hippocrates that great oracle of Greece that written in diuers places That the brain is the mansion of colde and moysture that the braine is the principall seate of cold and moysture for if we looke vnto his marrowie substance his cold temperature his round forme hollow and somewhat long like to the fashion of a cupping glasse and his high situation receiuing al the vapours of the inferiour parts we shall finde that all these dispose it and make it apt to beget and containe great quantitie of water The substance of the braine was of necessitie to be soft and marrowie that so it might the more easily take the stampe of formes and to the end that sinewes which must spring and rise from thence might with least annoyance and paine bend or bow themselues But indeed this marrowie substance is not so called for any resemblance
the excrements and superfluities of the principall parts Hippocrates hath debated this matter so well in his booke of Glandules as that a man cannot tel how to adde any thing therevnto The skin was by nature made weak to the end it might containe al the superfluities that are frō within whereupon some call it the vniuersall emunctorie Parts may also be weak by some accident as by a fall or blow or some distēperature in what maner soeuer they bee weake it maketh them apt to receiue the refuse of their neighbour parts How the part attracteth the humour to it selfe The last cause is the part his attraction of the humour The Arabians haue acknowledged three causes of this attraction heate paine and the auoyding of vacuitie Heate attracteth of it owne nature because it rarifieth the parts neere about attenuateth and maketh thin the humours and enlargeth the waies and passages for the humour to runne through How paine attracteth Paine doth not attract of his owne nature because it is an affect of feeling but feeling is a patient and no agent and euery one of the sences is executed by taking in of some thing but the humours flow to the pained part by reason of the weakenes of the same as also because the naturall heat thereof is weakened by the paine and cannot well concoct the humour it must needes bee that it should stay in that place They who affirme that the humour floweth vnto the part which feeleth the paine because nature sendeth thither both spirits and blood that she may comfort the same doe deceiue themselues in my judgement and offer great wrong vnto nature for if she knew that such a part stood in need of spirits and blood she would know therewithal that in sending this blood she should profit the part nothing at all but rather hurt it so that paine doth not properly attract and draw The last cause of distillations is imputed to the humour For if it bee thin in substance hot in temperature sharpe and pricking in qualitie it will be a great deale the more apt to flow CHAP. V. A generall order of diet to be obserued for the preuenting and curing of Rheumes and distillations I Will follow the same order and course in the laying downe of this regiment which I haue taken in the other two going before Wee must therefore so dispose of all the sixe things which are called not naturall as that they may not only hinder the engendring of rheumes but also consume and cure the same being alreadie begotten Let euery man therefore make choise for himselfe of such an ayre as is temperate in his actiue qualities and as for the passiue that it bee altogether drie I say that it must be temperate in heate and cold because that a hot ayre resoluing the humours of the braine and a cold pressing them out causeth them to fall downe aboundantly If the ayre bee too cold it may bee corrected with good fires made of Iuniper Rosemarie Bay-tree Oke and Fig-tree if it be exceeding hote it may be cooled with hearbs and flowers that are indued with such propertie There must care be had to auoide the Northerne and Southerne windes because the one filleth the head full and the other presseth it out You must not abide much in the Sunne-beames nor yet in the open ayre The windes which pearce through chinkes and rifts are extreamely dangerous for the rheume The inequalitie of the ayre as Celsus obserueth very well doth mightily further the begetting of rheumes it is called an vnequal aire when it is now hot now cold As concerning the passiue qualities the ayre-must in all maner of distillation incline vnto drines and for that cause it is good to dwell vpon mounted places and such as are farre from riuers In meates three things are to be obserued the quantitie qualitie and manner of vsing them As concerning the quantitie In meats three things are to be obserued all repletion and full gorging is enemie to such complexions as are subiect vnto rheumes we may not at any time eate to the full it is better to rise from the table hungrie and hee cannot but fare the better which cutteth of one meale in a weeke As concerning the qualitie it must bee contrary vnto the disease or the cause thereof the cause of rheumes is a superfluous humour so that it will bee fittest to vse such meates as may dry vp the same All vaporous meates in generall must bee abstained as also meates that are grosse windie full of excrements and hard to disgest In the maner of vsing of these meates there must many rules bee obserued as there must no new meate bee taken into the stomacke before the former bee throughly disgested You must content your selfe to feede vpon one onely dish and that such as is good for varietie filleth all full of cruditie and it mingleth it selfe with the blood in the veines and ministreth rheumatike matter vnto the braine You must vse to eate more at dinner then at supper in as much as sleepe which succeedeth supper within a short time doth send great store of vapours vnto the braine which are afterwards turned into water The bread must bee of good wheate and throughly baked Bread not cleane purged from his branne but retaining a little branne and mixt with some salt it must neuer be eaten hot at the latter end of meate you may eate bisket wherein some Anise and Fennell seede haue been put Rosted meates are much better then boyled Flesh and of them such as doe not abound with humours we allow the vse of Capon Pigeon Partridge young Hare Kid Hart Feasant Quailes Turtle doues and all birds of the mountaines all which maybe interlarded with Sage and Hissope of the mountaines The vse of water-fowles Porke Lambe Mutton and young Veale is forbidden broths and pottage are very ill Fish is exceedingly contrary Fish All sort of milk-meates is an enemie in rheumatike diseases as also all maner of pulse As concerning hearbes Hearbes the Arabians recommend vnto vs Sage Hissope Mints wilde Time Margerome Rosemary Burnet Cheruill Fennell and Costmarie Aetius tolerateth Coleworts and Leekes but he forbiddeth in expresse tearmes Garlick Onions because they send vp many vapours and all cold moyst hearbes as Lettuse Purcelane Sorrell and such like All fruites that abound in moysture Fruites as Apples Plums Melons Cucumbers and Mulberies are forbidden But as for such as haue propertie to drie as Pine apples small nuts Pistaces Almonds Peares Quinces Figs drie Raisines Medlers Ceruisses they may be vsed after meate And thus much concerning meate As concerning drinke Drinke cold water and all maner of licour that is actually cold it is enemie to al such as are subiect to the rheume if so bee that such rheume be not extreame hot pricking and accompanied with an ague Barley water with a little Sugar and Cinamome is very good and fit or a Ptisane or
and that experience of such things as do him good or harme make him a maister and Phisition vnto himselfe CHAP. XI What medecines are most fit for olde folke and by what meanes the discommodities of olde age may be amended SO many are the discommodities which olde age bringeth with it as that the learned of olde time did thinke it to come neerer to the nature of a disease then of health The discommodities waiting vpon old men You shall see olde men commonly to be costiue to abound with fleagme and sharpe waterish humours which causes some small itchings and burning of vrine they are all full of windines and feele an vniuersall weakenes ouer all their bodies because they haue a weake stomacke and the naturall heate of their whole bodie is faint and languishing they are in a maner altogether subiect to theumes and cease not either to cough spit or weepe All these infirmities may be prouided against by some gentle and delightsome medicines And first of all the bellie must be made good How the belly may be kept soluble A laxatiue broth that is to say loose with artificiall brothes which may bee prepared diuerse waies Take of the tender crops of Mallowes of Mercurie Garden and wilde Artichoke and of the hearbe called Cynocrambe boyle them with a Chicken and take it in the morning The broth of red Coleworts with oyle is very good but the broth of a Cocke is the excellentest of all the rest it must be made thus Take an olde Cocke pull him and beate him well afterward kill him The broth of a Cocke and hauing taken out his guts wash him twise or thrise in white wine and stuffe his bellie with a handful of the rootes of Percely the leaues of Borage Buglosse Burnet Mercurie Artichoke of the garden and field fat Figs damaske Raisins Dates Iuiubes the seed of Carthamus and Hisope boile all these together perfectly and afterward straine them very well for the purpose and cause it to be taken three dayes together Some put thereto a little of the salt of Tartar to giue it some sharpenes This broth serueth exceeding well for olde men for it keepeth the bodie loose cleanseth the waies of Vrine and is very profitable for the breast and shortnes of breath whereunto they be subiect Suppositories must be ordinarilie vsed of them as also mollifying Clysters Galen would not that we should vse any strong and sharpe Clysters he resteth contented in the onely vse of oyle Oliue For inward Laxatiues I like well and allow of the pills of Hiera of Aloes well prepared and those which are called Mastichinae Turpentine cleanseth and purgeth all the inward parts Remedies for the weakenes of their stomacke without danger for the weakenes of their stomacke and to discusse the windes which put them to paine the roote of Ginger confected Lozenges of Aromaticum Rosatum sugard Anise seede Cinamome water the essence of Anise seede To stirre vp the heate of olde folke of Iuniper berries and Cloues is commended To stir vp the heate which may seeme to be asleepe all ouer the bodie I finde nothing better then to cause them to take oftentimes the weight of two French Crownes of Amber Grise in a very new egge I allow also of the vse of Treacle Mithridate Confectio Alkermes Aquae Theriacales Imperiales and Caelestes The compositions whereof I set not downe because they are at this day very common All the parts also may be strengthned with outward medecines as the braine by caps and head powders amongst which Auenzoar praiseth Cloues powdred and scattered vpon the Coronall suture the heart by emplasters oyntments and bags the stomacke by oyntments and bags Finally we must thinke that all aromaticall things and those which smell well are good for olde folke FINIS