the health of man the 3. is Pathologia and is exercâ—â—ed in searching out the sicknâ—â—â— the cause the 4 is Semcouâ—â—e and is exercised in hewing the signe either oâ—â—ife or death the 5. is Therapeutica and that teacheth the order of curing affects besides nature and vnder this last part is comprehended three other parts Dieta compositio medicamentorum and Chirurgia Doct. I see you are reasonably wel acquainted with the definition and diuision of the art But you told me but now that physick was the study of things natural of things not natural and of things against nature tell mee what are those things that you terme naturall Stud. Those things that are termed Res naturales naturall are seuen Elements temperaments humours spirits parts faculties and functions in the knowledge of which Physiologia or the knowledge of naturall things is exercised Doct. Tel me then what is an Element Stud. Element is a body most pure and simple the least part of the same wherin Elementum quid it is which câ—â— not be diuided into any other kind and of it all things natural haue their originall beginning This definition is taken out of Galen and Aristotle and therefore cannot be denied Doct. How many Elements are there Stud. There are are foure Elements viz. the fire which is extreame hotte and moderately drie the aire extreame moist and moderately hot the water extream cold and moderately moist the earth extream drie moderately cold In heat the fire with the aire and in drines with the earth in moisture the aire with the water and in heat with the fire in coldnesse the water with the earth and in moisture with the aire the earth in drines with the fire and in coldnesse with the water doe all consent and agree And as the water to the fire is extreame contrary so is the aire to the earth of the mixture of these Elements all naturall bodies haue their composition And yet it is nothing necessary that they be equally mingled in the body but according to that that hath dominion the body is named cholerick sanguin phlegmatick or melancholick and haue their denomination of the foure naturall humors viz. choler blood flegme and melancholy which take their qualities of the Elements for choler is hot drie according to the nature of the fire and blood is hot and moist according to the nature of the aire flegme is cold moist according to the water melancholy in no point doth disagree from the earth Doct. You haue well declared how naturall bodies are framed by the mixture of the Elements let me heare how briefly you can shew me the differences of temperatures Stud. Temperatures are in number Temperamentum nine whereof there are eight do exceed and therefore they may be better called distemperatures then temperatures the ninth is temperate for it doeth exceed in no quality Of distemperatures there be foure simple and foure compound the simple are heat cold drines moisture of the which ioyned together distemperatures are made The ninth is neither hot cold dry nor moist it is framed of them all and that is it which the Grecians do call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Bene temperatuÌ„ or according to the Arithmeticians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 TeÌ„peramentuÌ„ ad pondus a coÌ„plexion measured by weight because there are as many degrees of heat as there are of cold of drines as there are of moisture the other which be distemperatures be not measured by weight but by dignity as in the heart wel tempered heat doth exceed in the braine well tempered moisture doth exceed in the fatte wel tempered cold in Temperamentum secund iustitiam distributiuam the bones wel tempered drines and this is called temperamentum secundùm iustitiam distributiuam a temperature rightly measured or disposed with equality Doct. But is it possible to find a body so complexioned that we may say here is a body framed of the foure Elements ad poÌ„dus that is to a iust equal proportioÌ„ Stud. I am perswaded that it is altogether impossible for any man to find such a body that the soure Elements may be said to be equally proportioned in him for either heat or moisture hath still the predomination or coldnes and drines And yet I thinke it not to be impossible but that there may be such a body but hard to be found as hard to come by as Quintilians Orator or the wise man which the Stoicks defined a man harder to come by then the rich Iewell the Philosophers stone which although diuers brag that it may be framed yet it can neuer be attained vnto so we may imagine such a man to bee as by the consent of nature was neuer framed nor is euer like to be But if there be any that can find a man that is neither too grosse nor Definition of a temperate man too slender nor very ful of haire nor yet smoth without haire nor soft nor yet hard blacke nor white hot nor cold drie nor moist and to be brief such a one that keepeth a meane without al excesse if I say we can find such a one then are we sure we haue a body complexioned ad pondus and to just proportion Doct. Then you conclude there can be found no body so framed that it may be termed Corpus temperatum an pondus Stud. It is very true Read fernel Lâ—onar Tuc. Iohn Rolanus Doct. Then shew me the iudgement and signes of Temperaments Stud. That was I minded to performe if you had not spoken thereof for it is to no end to know the differences of temperatures if we know not the signes of the same also First then we know by the touching heate from cold moysture from drithe and those that are of a soft disposition of body the flesh being laxe and thinne them wee iudge to bee moyst those that haue a thicke and a hard skinne them wee iudge to be drie Then wee proceed as well to physicall actions as to morall neither doe wee account physicall onely naturall but vitall and the animall also Morall actions are assects of a body concupiscible angry and rationall for Galen in one booke doth teach that Animimores sequuntur temperamentuÌ„ corporis that the disposition of the mind doth follow the temperature of the bodie In men that by nature are hot the heart and the Artiers beate vehemeÌ„tly but in men of a cold disposition the heart and pulse beate remisly and slowly men of an hot dispositioÌ„ are very much inclined to lust and venerie the cold disposition is for the most part very flow or vnable notwithstanding it sometimes doth happen that the hot complexion proueth vnfit for Venus because the members of generation are ouer cold The hot complexion is prone vnto anger they are of a proud and hautie stomack but the cold are feareful sober and of an abiect mind the hot complexion is crafty subtill
there are that do very much commend the yelks of egs poched and coxe-stones boyled in milke but that is more fitter for the cause which is emptines then to the Feuer the Patient must vse decoctions of french barly a yong cocke stusfed with barly clensed and boyled for broth is very good if hee shall be wearie of the vse of pusans he may vse white wine being made thin by delution The Patient must auoid watchfulnes venery and all other perturbations of the mind which doth dry attenuate as anger sorrow bathing is thought to be good lukewarm so that it hath a cooling faculty especially before the disease be confirmed he may tarry in this bath 3. or 4. houres giuing vnto him therein Asses milke tempered cum saccharo violato or rosato after he is out of his bath he may be annointed with cerato refrigirante galeni or vnguento rosato mesue oyle of roses violets or Mympheae Marasmus is not to bee cured and those that make their Marasmus brags that they cure consumptions doc much mistake for it is rather leannes and thinnes of body then any Hectick passion for euen as to poure oyle into a lampe where is no weeke nor match is nothing else but oleum operam perdere euen so in vaine doe wee striue to restore to nature that solid substance being by heate consumed taken away because that through nourishment a watry humor not an angry is rather supplyed to the sicke Patient Common remedies for maligne diseases and contagious vnder the example of the Pestilence THe Pestilence is a disease which De Tesie doth happen vnto many and hath his beginning from a pernicious vnusual putrifactiō which doth very much exceed the condition of vulgar putrifaction Sometimes this pernicious quality hath it begining in our selues for it happeneth that sometimes the humors I could wish that our common Gardeners about London might be inhibited from planting such multituds of Cabbages or at the least might be compelled to bury deep vnder ground their rotten stalks and leaues from whence ariseth a pestilent vapour and vnusuall putrifaction at the latter end of the yere of our bodie doth so much degenerate from the natural temperature that at the length it taketh vnto it self a pernitios venemos quality so is constrained to striue with deadly venoms Somtimes it ariseth frō outward means as malign putrified exhalations which are communicated to the aire sometimes from dead fennes pooles and standing waters corrupted such as is the waters in Moore fields at London where no man was wont to walke in the euenings for stench stinking channels venemous dens and mettalin spirits arising out of the earth often times also it happeneth from the variable commistion of the Planets and then it is the hidden and admirable scourge of the most iust God for our sinnes and then it is properly called the pestilence but when it hath hit beginning from other causes it is called Morbus malignus or Febris maligna those feuers that haue their originall from Venom are for the most part deadly but not pestilential because they are not contagious The part affected is the heart by Pars affect meanes of the pestilent aire which creepeth vnto the same by the lungs through necessity of respiration whereby the vitall spirits are assailed and the humidum radicale and solid substance cleane ouer throwne We must in the beginning resist the externall cause the aire is to be purged by fire both abroad in the house for that doth separate remoue the putrifaction many waies if it be prepared of sweete woods as of Iuniper it is more better doth more refresh the vitall spirits The vitall faculty it selfe is to be strengthned by cordials as well inward as outward the better to resist venom Rec. Conseruae buglos borrag an ℥ j. Corticis semenis citri an Dr. ij Diamargirits frioidi Alexiphar macon Troch scorūde Camphora an dr j Adde si vis boli armeni terrae sigillatae tantundē Rasurae Vnicornis smaragdt ambrae an gran ss cum syrupo conseruationis citri fiat opiata vel cum saccharo in aqua violarum Buglos scabiosae cardut benedicti soluto fiat electuarum per tabellas but if these things shail seeme too hot for the summer they may be temperated with adding of Roses violets and sanders for the poorer sort may suffise the rines and seeds of the citren cornu cerui zedoaria dictaminus angelica tormentill gentian taken the quantity of Drag j. in aquae cardui or borragini To the heart must be applied Sacculus fotus Epithemita the sacculus may be prepared with red roses violets flowres of buglosse the citren rine of their decoction or distilled waters may bee made fotus and with adding of cordiall powders may be framed an Epithema There are alwaies ready in the Apothecaries shops two Alexiteriās against al venoms and venemous diseases that is treacle mithridate the which our antients haue vsed with great profit as wel for preseruatiue as for expelling presēt sicknes they were wont to giue one Dr. by it selfe or else in some cordiall water and also to apply it outwardly in the forme of a Linament vpon the region of the heart with some mice of Lymons or mixed with some Cordiall conserues in the forme of an Emplaster Some learned men doe agree that the same cacochymia is to be diminished by some gentle purge which must be vsed with some cordial decoction as for example if choler be accended and a poison may seeme to possesse all the humours the signes shew presently a cholerick feuer although by reason of the same cacoethes and conioyned poyson it be increased we may say Rec. Radicis acetosae ℥ ss Scabiosae Cichorij Pimpinellae an M. j. Decoctio cordialis Sem. citri Cardui benedictian Drag ij Flor. cordialium an P. j. Fiat decoctio in colaturae ℥ iiij infunde Rhabarbari Dra. ij ss in expressione leui dissolue syrup rosarum Solutiui ℥ j. ss adde Camphorae grana quatuor fiat potus I dare not vse any stronger purge as Diaprunum solutinum and Electuarium Desucco rosarum least nature should be disturbed and therefore we must farre lesse vse Diacrydium or Antimoni Yet there be some Physitions that doe affirme that iiij or v. graines of Antimoni being infufed in some cordiall waters to haue been giuen with good successe In all Epidimicall diseases one doeth administer this medicine Rec. Diascordij Drag j. Syrup Delymonibus ℥ ss Aquae cardui benedict ℥ ij Spirit vitrioli gut 4. Misce fiat haustus Capiat fudet and so let him take ij Nota. or iij. of the same draughts if the feuer seeme to be a synochus and the patient haue a plethoricke body a veine may safely be opened but if it be but an Ephemera or hecticke then at no hand must it be enterprised From hence aririseth that great
in which the matter of the disease doth chiesly lurke and so driue the matter from the inward to the outward and to that purpose we may vse Decocto radicum feniculi enulae campanae lentium vuarū passarum sicuum To this decoctiō may be added treacle or mithridate as if wee take iiij ounces of decoction wee may adde Scr. ij of mithridat or treacle with two drops of spirit of vitrioll and so may he sweat the space of iij. houres together afterwards the sweate being cleane wiped hee may commit himselfe to his bed in which hee may more pleasantly sweate at his pleasure and this order of sweating is often to be repeated Doct. But what if these courses taken bring no profit to the patient Stud. Then wee proceed to a more stronger kind of cure as after bloodletting to vse the decoction of Guiacum or of sarsaparilia or of the roots of China alwaies prouided that the body be first well purged and this decoction must be giuen hot and the Patient wel closely couered with clothes that hee may the better sweate after his sweate hee may rise and walke in his chamber so that he keep himselfe from the iniury of theaire he may also 4. or 5. hours after the receiuing of the medicine dine sup either with a chickin or a little rosted mutton But if for busines or pouerty the Patient may not vse the decoction we may in the place vse the vnction of mercury that with very good successe and also sometimes after the vse of the decoctiō with great profit for thereby shall the reliques of the disease bee throughly expelled we continue the decoction for the space of 30. daies together This euil also will require somtimes stronger engines as suffumigijs of Cinabrium which may be performed euery third or fourth day but this medicine is neuer to be put in vse vnlesse we haue in vaine assaied al the former meanes notwithstanding in the armes legs it may safely be performed if there be either pain aches nodes tophies or vlcers for those which by reason of their busines cānot keep home we may vse emplasters spread vpon leather or vpon new linnen cloth place them vpon the ioints which implaster may be remoued twice a weeke Doct. Shew me what plaster it is that may be applied for that purpose Stud. Rec. Emplastri de meliloto pro splene lib. ss Argentiviui ℥ ij olei laurini petrolei terebinthinae an Q. S. fiat cerotum For the hard tumors you may take the roots of Althea figs and fenugreeke which being boiled in wine with capōs grease make an emplaster so apply it And this may suffice for a discreet student as cōcerning the cure of that foule contagious disease called the Frēch pox Doct. There is one disease more which we call Scorbutus let vs finish our discomse with that disease tell me what is that Scorbutus Of the Scorbie Stud. Scorbutus is a disease obstructing De Scorbuto the splene wherby the course passage of melancholy is hindred which being mingled with the rest of the bloud infecteth all the body with vild wastings and corruption the groster part wherof falling downe staineth the legges with spots like vnto the couler of pomgranets and the thinner patt being carried vp doth desile the gummes with sharpe fretting and loathsome ouergrowing of the flesh This disease is thought to bee that which Plinie maketh mention of in lib. 25. of his naturall history calling it 25. Lib. hist naturalium Stomocace and Sccletyrbe Doct. What is the cause of this disease Stud. The cheife cause of this disease is grosse and corrupt diet as may be perceiued cap. 3. Strabo geograph lib. 16. Grosse diet the cause of the Scorby by those that trauell by sea by long voyages and our fishers that trauel to the Newfound-lands wanting fresh and sweet waters and vsing corrupt and stincking waters especially in an hot aire in which the waters will most speedely corrupt in like manner flesh tainted and stinking lard putrified and mouldie venson tainted fish of grosse substāce bread twise baked and sub mucid garlick drinkes ingendring cuill iuice bacon martlemas beefe fish dried in the smoake being ouer-salted such like But aboue al things a full diet and delicate vsing no exercise is the cause of this disease and somtimes this disease doth follow the quartan Feuer Doct. What are the certaine signes of this disease Stud. The signes of this disease is first Signa Sborbuti an euill sauor of the mouth swelling and bleeding in the gummes loosnes of the teeth black leadie spots of the legs somtimes in the face also weaknes of the joints disability to walke difficulty of breathing chiefly when they moue or stir and when they offer to rise or set vp right they are ready to die and their spirits faile them but when they lie downe they are refreshed breath more freely In like māner the sicke for the most part are greedy of meat and do desire to eate often for the most part their stomack neuer faile them also the belly for the most part is bound and the patient goeth hardly to stoole and yet there are some that are subiect to a continual slux Moreouer the spots of the legs do sometimes swell and tumisie in some the legs are so vlserated that the shinbone doth often lie bare And in a word this disease in some bodies doth turne into a kind of leprosy for the spots resolue into a black kind of scales as is wont to bee in the morphue and leprosie of the Greeks although in other some it is but light equall and shining Lastly those that die of this disease are sound to be spotted ouer all the body veins of the legs about the tongue are filled swolen with melancholy blod these are propper signs of this disease Doct. Let me now know the manner of of your cure of this disease Stu. Letting passe general remedies I wil shew you the particular cure of this disease which must if there be Plethoria Cura and fulnes be begun with blood-letling if strength age and other things permit but it is not thought good to draw blood in abundance but if it be possible to draw blood from the haemorrhodial veines it is more conuenient and if the splene be particularly affected the veine called Lienaris or middle veine of the left arme is to be opened but if the liuer be more affected and that the bodie is perceiued to abound with blood then we must open the liuer veine of the right arme or the Basilica or middle veine But where the Physition is neuer or seldome called vntill the disease hath Nota. taken deepe roote and is become desperate that is when it hath spread it selfe into the legges and other parts of the body we must then altogether abstaine from blood-letting Doct. What course must wee then take
head or by the consent of some other member or by both but the matter of the disease is either blood choler flegme or melancholy or else sometimes vapours arising from the same Achor or Furfur it is a kind of vlceration of the head like a scurffe or dandruffe and is like vnto branne or oatmeale It springeth through too much humiditie and moistnes of the braine and somtimes through melancholy or some salt humor it is not much different from Fauus which is also a kind of scaly matter in the head Phrenitis or Frenisis is the Frensie or madnes some affirme that it is bred in the pellicles of the braine called Pia mater either by inflammation or impostumation it causeth alienation of the mind and losse of memorie There is an other kind of Frensie which doth follow as accidents of some disease as with a Feuer the Plurifie and such like Lethargus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an other disease which doth take his name from the forgetfulnes of all things It hapneth with the alienation of the mind and a sleepines not to bee resisted It is caused of flegme which cooleth the braine ouermuch and moistneth it and therby doth prouoke sleepe it is deriued of Lethe obliuion and of argos hebetudo that is dull obliuion Caros or subeth is a depriuation of a mans sense and motion It doth differ from Lethargus because that those that be affected with the Lethargre will answere to a question demanded but those that are affected with this disease are occupied with a deep sleep and if they be stirred or pricked although they feele yet they will say nothing nor once open their eyes It is caused of a cold grosse and viscous flegmatick humor filling the braine Melancholia and mania is an alienation of the mind troubling reason and waxing foolish so that the Patient is almost besides himselfe It doth come without a wound or an vlcer either in the braine or in the marrow of the backe or in any particular sinewes Torturaoris called of Almansor contractio it is vntruly named the palsie for it is more neerer a crampe for because it doth contract the sinewes of those partes The chiefe cause of this disease springeth as of that of the Palsie or else of cold or some angry passion Spasmus or conuulsio in English the Crampe it is a disease in the which the sinewes are drawne and pluckt vp against ones will there bee of it three kindes the first is called by the Latines Distentio and is when the neck doth remaine altogether immoueable and cannot bee turned any way but must bee holden right forth the second is called in Latine Tensio ad anteriora in this disease the head and the neck bee drawne downe to the breast the third is called tensio ad posterioria in this disease the head is drawne downe backward to the back and the shoulders The causes by Hippocrates are said to be two that is fulnes and emptines of the sinewes in the body somtimes it doth come with the biting or stinging of some venemous beast some are also of opinion that the extraordinary vse of Venerie and vsed vpon a full stomack may cause this desease also debilitie and weaknes and the want of blood may be an occasion of this disease Catarrhus is a distillation of some rheumatick matter vnto the lower parts as when it doth discend to the nostrels and cause oppilation it is called Coryza or when it doth descend to the parts of the throat it is called Branchus or when it doth descend vnto the brest or to the lungs then it is called the catarrh from whence this verse doth arise Si fluit ad pectus Rheuma tuicc dico catarrhū Ad fances branchon ad nares dico coryzam The catarrh is also caused either through some outward coldnesse or heate sometimes by euaporation of meats sometimes by the smell and odor of hot and cold things by the immoderate vse of Venerie oucrmuch sleepe violent exercise or too much rest or repletion There are many other diseases which do spring from the braine as palpitatio membrorum tremor and stnpor with such other like which for breuities sake I doe omit CHAP. II. Of the affects of the eyes THe affects of the eyes are opthalmia the cataract lippitudo leucoma glaucoma Aegilops suffusiones and such like The opthalmia is an inflammation or an hot impostume in the eye It is caused of some distillation from the braine or else of the corruption of blood mixt with choler and somtimes accidentally by a stripe or blow the smoake dust the sunne c The cataract of some called suffusio is a disease in which the Patient doth imagine oftentimes that he seeth black things it is a corrupt water congealed like a curd ingendred of the humors of the eye distempered betwixt the tunicles set before the sight of the eye the Crystaline humor The causes hereof may bee a fall stroake heate cold paine by whose meanes the humor is drawne and gathered together or the cause may bee vapours and humours ascending to the braine and from thence discending to the eyes which in processe of time and by reason of cold are changed into water and in the end is become thick and congealed Lippitudo bleare-eyes it is when the vnder lidde of the eye is subuerted Rasis doeth affirme that to be lipitudo when the white of the eie is turned to rednesse It is caused of some salt humor or of superabundance of rheume with corruption of blood Leucoma a kind of webbe the which is rooted in vpon the eies The cause is a viscous humor or some rheumatick matter sometimes also it may come of a stripe or bruise Glaucoma is vsed in two senses for it is taken vnproperly for a webbe cataracte or spot which is gathered and dried round about the apple of the eye but there is a difference betweene the cataract and Glaucoma for the cataract is a collection and an heap of other humors then of those which are naturall in the eye slowing vnto it from some other place but Glaucoma is properly vsed when the crystaline humour is drie and thicke and the colour of it is greene whereupon the eyes seeme greene or pale Aegilops is a little fistula in the corner of the eie neere vnto the nose out of the which doth issue continually flegme or a thinne humor arising of some former disease as of anchilops suppurated but either not speedily opened or negligently dressed or rather it doth arise of some slimie matter or moist medicines or the aire which hath altered and rotted the bone in that part CHAP. III. Of the diseases of the eares DOlor aurium paine in the eares is caused of some through cold taken in iournying by cold winds somtimes it is caused of cold bathes and medicinall waters also it doth chance to many through hotte distemper sometimes through inflammation sometimes sharpe and biting humours doe cause paine in
originall or matter of a feuer in generall is from the abundance of the foure humours for from the redundance of blood is engendred a continual feuer From the superfluity of choler is ingendred the feuer tertian From the domination of slegm is ingendred the feuer called Ephemera or quotidian and from melancholy putrisied is ingendred a continuall quartane And generally the Physitions do define a feuer to be an vnnaturall heat kindled in the heart and liuer distempering the whole body and hurting the same Some define a feuer to be an vnnaturall heat kindled in the heart and liuer distempering the whole body and doth proceede from the spirits and blood by the artiers and veines into the whole body and so doth hurt and let the operation of it This we must note that there be 3. kinds of simple feuers The first is called Ephemera and doeth continue but one day for if he continue any longer he is changed into some other kind The second is called Putrida and Humuralis or rotten feuer and is in the foure principall humors as blood choler flegm and melancholy The third is Febris hectica and is in the solid and radicall members and of all others is most dangerous for it doth consume the naturall humidity in man that is to say the blood and so consequently nature From these three are deriued al other kinds of Feuers FINIS The Antidotarie Pilles for Alopecia proceeding of Phlegme Rec. ALoes Hepatici Diagridij an Scr. ij Pulpae colocynthidos Scr. j. Mastiches bdellij an ℥ ss With the iuyce of wormwood make a masse of which you may giue one dragme or halfe a dragme in three pilles according to the strength of the Patient after midnight Rec. An vngueut for alopecia Euphorbij Seminis Nasturlij an Scr. ij Sulphuris viui Ellebori Elleborialbi velnigri an Scr. j. Cerae Scr. vj. Olei laurini Q. S. make an vnguent with the which annoint the place Pilles for Cephallagia and paine of the head Rec. Pil. aurearum Scr. ij Pil. de fumo terrae drag ss Mixe them with the sirup of violets and make v. pils And if it chance that the paine doe proceed from morbus Galicus you shal after the takiug of these pils take this potion following for the space of twentie dayes together and so sleepe vpon it Rec. Decocti ligni guiaci Secundum artem facti lib. vi Fol. senae alex. an M. ss Betonicae an M. ss Staecados Arab. an M. ss Polypodij querc an M. ss Tū by th boni an Drag Agarici elect ij ss Mixe them and boile them al together vntill the third part bee consumed then let it be strained and take of the straining ℥ vj. Oximellis simplicis Drag ij Let them be mixed for one dose Let him continue this manner and there is no doubt but he shall grow well Vnguents for achor and Vlcerations of the head Rec. Sulphuris foliorum Parietariae an ℥ ss Saponis Galici ℥ j. Mixe them with the iuyce of Parietaria and make an vnguent An other Rec. Litargirij ℥ ij Foliorum rutae virid ℥ j. Staphisagriae ℥ ss Vitrioli Drag ij Mixe them together in a morter with vinegre and oile of mirtles vntill it come to an vnguent and there with annoint the place A water called aqua Booeoartica or a water against the Pestilence Rec. Cardui benedicti Radicum cnulae an ℥ j. Zedoriae Imperatoriae Carlinae Diptami albi Angelicae an ℥ j. ss Gentianae Pimpinellae Tormentillae Sandalorum omnium an drag vj. Petasite Serpentariae an ℥ j. Valeriana ℥ ss Let all these be brused very finely then adde Musci optimi Ser. j. gra v. Camphorae Scr. ij ss Theriacae Mithridati an ℥ ij ss Let all bee infused for two dayes in vij pintes of aqua vitae or of wine twice distilled and then let it bee distilled in a lembeck with a gentle fire and then wil it be a most perfect water against the Pestilence and other venom whose dose is Some make an infusion for 3. or 4. dayes making afterwards an expression and it is more delectable ij ounces or one ounce and a halfe with sorrell water and the water of Cardu benedictus and for a presetuatiue halfe a spoonfull is enough at a time A distilled water against the falling sicknes called aqua Epileptia Rec. Florum lilij conuallij M. vj. Infuse them in one measure of the best white wine and so let it stand for tenne dayes then let it be distilled at a gentle fire in a lembeck in balneo mariae afterwards take Florum lauendulae M. j. Florum anthos M. ss Garyophillorum Scr. ij Macis drag ss Cubebarum Scr. j. Visei quercini Radicis diptami alb an drag ij ss Let these be infused for foure dayes in the aforesaid distillation then let all bee distilled againe by a lembeck The dose for preseruation is one or two spoonefuls to be taken once or twice in a weeke the day before the new moone and the full of the moone and in or after the Paroxysme or fit so much also And with this water and suger may be made Manus Christi against the falling sicknes caros subeth and the Apoplexie A distilled water againg the Apoplexie and Palsie Rec. Florum primulae veris. an M. j. Florum rorismarini an M. j. Florum maioranae an M. j. Florum iuae artheticae an M. j. Speciarum Diamusciamar an ℥ ss Diapliris an ℥ ss Diambrae an ℥ ss Confectionis anacardinae ℥ j. Cubebarum Ligni alocs Nucis Muscatae Gariophillorum Macropiperis Carpobalsami an Drag j. Radicum acori Ireos Aristologiae rotund an ℥ j. ss Seminum sileris montani Poeoniae Faemiculian Drag j. Aquarum herbae paralyfis Saluiae Betonicae an lib. j. Aquae florum tiliae lib. j. ss Serapini opoponacis Myrrhae Gummi Iuniperi an Drag j. ss Let al be brused and mixed together and let to stand in infusion for eight daies afterwards let there bee a threefold extraction in hot ashes or by vapour or Balneo sicco It is of marueilous vertue in the preseruation from the Apoplexie and all other cold sicknesses of the nerues It cureth the Palsie tortura oris spasmus and doth marueilously restore speech A water that doth strengthen the memorie Rec. Aquarum buglossae Betonicae Florum tiliae an lib. j. Aquae ardentis opt lib. ss Florum anthos Rosarum rubearum Maioranae Buglossae an M. j. Specierum confectionis Anacardinae ℥ ij A Cordial water Rec. Rosarum rubearum M. ij Florum Borraginis M. ss Cinamomi drag ij ss Xyloaloes drag j. Spicae Indicae Garyophil an drag ss Radicum ireos ℥ j. ss Ben albi rubei an drag j. Sandalorum rub citri an drag ss Corallorum rubeorum drag j. Corticum citri drag ss Seminum ocimi Garyophi lati drag ss Galliae muscatae drag ij Margaritarum Scr. ij Zedoriae drag j. Zinziberis albi drag ss Camphorae gra vij Croci orientalis Scr.
ij Moschi Scr. ss Aquae rosarum lib. ij Vini maluatici lib. ss Aceti ros lib. ss Let all be finely bruised and mixed for viij daies and afterwards distilled in Balnea mariae A water against the syncope or swounding Rec. Aquae rosat lib. ij Acetirosati lib. j. Maluatici lib. ss Florum rorismarinae Maioranae an Dra j. ss Zedoariae Dra j. Coriandrorum Scr. ij Cubebarum Nucis Muscatae Macis Garyophillorum singl Dra. ss Cinamonti Scr. ij Ligni aloes Dra. ss Specierum Diamusci Drag j. Camphorae Scr. ss Ambrae Gran. iiij Let all bee bruised and mixed together with the liquors and let it infuse together for foure daies then let it be distilled in Balnea Maria. You may adde to these Aquarum nympheae Violarum Lauendulae an ℥ ij Aquae vltae ℥ iij. It is a most effectuall remedie astainst swounding in the pestilence In like manner three branches of pentiy-royall infused in two ounces and a halfe of vineger of Roses and one ounce of Rose water for onely with the smell of this the spirits are reuiued A restoratiue water Take a Capon or Phesant or a Pertridge the bowels being pulled out and let him be cut into small pieces washed then with Rose water and vineger adde one dragme of Cinamon Of Cloues Ser. ij Manus Christi Cum perlis ℥ ss Succiarantiarum ℥ ij Acetositatis citri ℥ iij. Let all be put into a glasse or into some earthen vessell and let it be boiled with a strong fire in Balneamaria vntill halfe becōsumed then strain it preserue it and drinke thereof twice a day A Cinamon water We make Cinamon water either by distillation the Cinamon being grossely bruised and infused in as much Borrage water or Rose water as shall suffice and so distilled in Bolneamaria Or else we take two dragmes of Cinamon being finely powdred with sine ounces of the best suger being put into a measure of the water of the decoction of Barlie beeing very hotte and so to remaine vntill it bee cold or else with three dragmes of Cinamon one handfull of Barly Reasons of the sunne being washed one ounce Anisseed two drag of white suger Candie two ounces and a halfe running water sixe pints and so let it bee boiled at a gentle fire vntill halfe be consumed and then straine it A water in the opilation of the Liuer and Iaundes Rec. Caponem Deplumatum Et euisceratum being cut into small pieces and boiled and then bruised with the flesh and bones in a morter then adde thereunto Aquaeviolarum Betonicae Endiuiae Lupulorum Cuscutae Sichorijan ℥ iij. Succipomorum Redolentium ℥ iiij ss Decoctionis caponis Macri lib. j. Sandalorum citrimorum Dr. j. Scr. ij Spodij Drag j. Cinamomi Dra. ij Camphorae Gran. v. Let all be put into a vessel of tin close stopt and placed in a vessel of water and so boiled for foure houres space then let it be strained and put the straining into a Lembecke and so distilled by Balnea Marinae A wine against the oppilation of the liuer splene reines and the euils of the bladder Rec. Scolopendriae M. vij Adianti M. iiij Chamae pyteos M. iij. Roris Marinae M. ij ss Cyperi ℥ ss Radicis liquiritiaerasae ℥ ij Rhapontici ℥ j. ss Passularum lib. ss Alkakengi M. iiij ss Let all be put into an earthen vessell well glassed and being close stopped and so let there bee put into a peece of fine linnen of Calamus aromaticus Drag iij. Gariophillarum Drag ij And so let it hang in the vessell in the middest of the wine for foure and twentie houres then distill it by filter as we vse to distill hipocras stil letting the Calamus aromaticus and cloues hang in the vessell A wine that is laxatiue Rec. Fumiterrae M. j. Foliorum scolopend M. ij Fol. senae alexandr ℥ j. Polypodij Drag v. Turbith electi Drag ij Cinamomi Drag j. ss Garyophillorum Scr. iiij Zinziberis Drag j. Rhabarbari cum scrupulo Vno squinanti in petia Ligati Scr. v. Florum violarum Borraginis an M. ss Let all boile in an earthen vessell with three pints of white wine and so let it stand for a night in the morning let it be strained in which shall be dissolued foure ounces of sine white suger one white of an egge and with ij scruples of Cinamon and halfe a dragme of Cloues tied in a peece of fine linnen in the boiling let it be clarisied The dose for those that be of ripe yeares is iiij ounces and a halfe in which may be dissolued fiue scruples or two dragmes of Diaturbith Against the retention of the Menstrus Rec. Baccarum Lauri ℥ ss Roris marini M. ss Granorum Iuniperi num xi Cinamomi fracti Scr. v. Croci integri in petia ligati Gran. v. Let all be boiled in one pinte and a halfe of white wine and let the patient drinke euery morning a good draught hotte against the time that nature seeketh to expell the matter In like manner you may take Trochis de myrrha subt pulu Drag j. in a cup of white wine being warme in the morning fasting Or Rec. Boracis mineralis Dra. ij Cassiae ligneae Scr. ij Croci Graen iij. Let al be made into fine powder and with v. ounces of aqua matricaria Let it be giuen once in a weeke A Diuretic decoction in the stone Rec. Capillorum veneris M. j. ss Crithami marini M. ss Radicum apij remorae an ℥ i. Liquiritiae rasae Drag ij Corticum radicis scolymi ℥ j. ss Seminum saxifragiae Dra. j. ss Damasonij Drag ij Alcacengi num xvij Radicum graminis Drag iij. Let all bee cutte bruised and boiled at a gentle fire in three pints and a halfe of running water vntill the third part be consumed then make a strong expression in which shall be dissolued one ounce and a halfe of syrupe of Violets of fine Rhubarb two ounces then let it be clarified with the white of one egge The dose is ℥ iiij ss A decoction against the strangurie and burning of the Vrin. Rec. Flordei integri M. j ss Liquiritiae Drag j. Seminum anisi Drag ij ss Dactilorum incisorum num v. Sebesten incisorum num xv Let all be boyled in two measures and a halfe of running water in an earthen vessell being glased vntill the barly breake then let it bee strained and take three ounces and a halfe of this decoction Syrupi de papauere ℥ j. Syrupi liquiritiae ℥ ss Pulueris glandum Drag j. Let it bee mixed and giuen at the entrance into bed A Iulep against the Apoplexie and Vertigo Rec. Florum Lauandulae M. j. Violarnm Rosarum Sticados Arabici Origani an M. ss Radicum Poeoniae Acori Pyrethri an ℥ ss Squilla Drag ij Cubebarum Drag j. Cardamomi Cinamoni Gariophillorum an Scr. j. Let all bee boiled in one pint and a halfe of Betony water and one point of Marioran water and let it bee strained