I seek in this book is to eschew prolixity and because heerin I would not willingly exceed the bounds of a preface making the porch bigger then the house the world daily produceth a sort of criâ—icks that rather will carp at a fault then amend it and regard more the letter then the Authours intent which indeed were lets sufficient to have staied me from publishing any thing had not the reasons aforesaid mightily importuned me hereto for he that sets forth any thing to the world must frame and fashion it just as Solon did his laws frame them rather to the content and willing observation of the vulgar then to the rule of equity and more to satisfie the opinions and fantasies of men then to serve the time For my owne part I have not heerby sought any vaine glory and praise by shewing the manner of compounding and the nature of medicines which I have done more faithfully and more amply then ever any hath done heertofore in English and this is comfort sufficient to me though the world yield me not their approbation that I have done something whereby others may reape profit And if my book chance to come under the censure of the learned all I demand is that if they cannot afford it their good wills and words let them in like manner adventure themselves to be judged by others as I have heer done and thus Reader I end only craving thy favourable acceptation which will encourage me if not to hazard the like again yet at least to amplifie and enlarge the next impression heerof and also to consecrate all my studies only to thy commodity T. B. A Catalogue of such Authours whose helpe I have used in this worke ALbertus magnus Aristoteles Arnoldus de villa nova Avicen Aelius Bartholomeus Banister Baptista porta Bodinus Bayrus Cardanus Co Celsus Clemens Alexandrinus Cornelius Agrippa Dodoneus Fallopius Fernelius Fuchius Galenus Guydo Hippocrates Iesus filius Hall Ioel. Iohannis Lebot Iohannitius Iohannis Vigo Mesue Parreus Paracelsus Petrus Low Philip Barrow Ptolomeus Rasis Reolanus Trallianus Weckerus And divers old Manuscripts both Greeke Latin and English of sundry approved Authours for Iudgement and Practice Hunc Librum perlegi in quo nihil invenio Med. Arti contrarium IOHANNES FRIER 19. May 1640. Imprimatur IO HANSLEY The Marrow of Physick THE most glorious and great Workeman who excels all Wisedome and is beyond all understanding the most potent wise and mercifull Father who is the uniter of all creatures and by whom they have their being who is the most potent and most excellent being before all things and having no need of any thing but being sufficient in himself and remaining in the most unsearchable closet of his Divinity and out of his aboundant goodnesse willing to bring foorth things thought and determined on from all Eternity did in the beginning create a certain essence of things being as it were scarce fashioned into any shape which by some is called the fountain or head from whence all other things flowed by others an empty plot of earth producing nothing at all by others a Chaos by some the mother of the world the foundation of nature but certainly the first he created was four Simples which are the four Elements of one and the same essence or matter but of divers formes or qualities and these as I will shew heerafter more at large are called Fire Water Earth and Aire and out of these he created all the rest that now are both the things that are above and also those beneath us and that for this reason because the creatures intended to be made might be extracted from a certaine root whereby they might multiply and increase in the world Therefore first of all God created the four elements out of which he afterwards created what he pleased to wit divers natures as the elements are divers for if the elements had been made all of one nature then had all creatures been so likewise Now of this first matter he created the Angels which he made only of Fire not of firm substantiall fire for then it must have been necessary that they had eaten drank and slept but he made them of the most purest and thinnest part of pure thin and simple fire and therfore they neither eat drink nor sleep God created the Sun Moon and Stars of two elements Aire and Fire and therefore are the Angels more bright then either the Sun Moon or Stars because they are created of one and that the most rare element the other of Fire and Aire compounded God made the Heaven of Water and Aire so it is compounded of one rare or light element that is Aire and of another heavy that is Water but he created the Fowls and brute Beasts of three elements and also the Vegitables that is to say of Aire Water and Earth certain are of the Earth and Aire others of Fire Aire and Earth of the last are the Fowls and all things wherin remaineth a spirit of the first are the vegetables but all bruit Beasts are of Earth Aire and Fire but the Vegetables of Earth Water and Aire and they likewise partake of a kind of thin Fire brought in with the Aire and therfore when we say that Fire is in the Vegetables we mean that thin fire that being in the aire is carried by it and with it into them God made Man of the four elements as the most excellent peece of all his workmanship he made him according to his own image naturally according to his similitude spiritually and from hence the Ancients gathered that there were four worlds the first whereof was ultra mundanum which the Divines call Angelical and the Philosophers Intellectuall The next was the Celestiall The third the Sublunar which we inhabit The last was Man in whom all the rest were found whereto the Schoolmen alluding call Man the Microcosmos or lesser World in whom there is a mixture of the four elements a spirit celestiall a vegetable soul and the sence and reason of brute beasts an angelicall minde and finally the whole similitude of God Now as God hath made Man in this excellency so he hath subjected all these things under him and so fitted them to his use that there is no disease can happen to our bodies whereto the earth brings not forth a convenient medicine and from hence sprung the originall of Physick whereof divers have attained to such excellency as that they have been worshipped for Gods therefore for the further instructing of those that shall practice any of these my experiments I have thought it convenient to publish such notes as I have in my Studies gathered from the best Authours that have written concerning the laudable Science of Physicke and the Practice thereof which shall serve as a compendious Introduction to my Booke Physick defined Hippocrates called physicke an addition and a substraction an addition of things necessary and a substraction or taking away of the superfluous Wherein
he includes two principall offices of a Physitian for a disease proceeds either from too much emptinesse or from too much fulnesse The first whereof is cured by adding what is wanting end the latter by taking away that which exceedes Galen calls physicke a science of the healthfull unhealthfull and neuters which are neither well nor can properly be said to be sicke and this is made good three waies as the body as the cause and as the signe that body is counted healthfull that enjoyes his perfect health that cause is healthfull that procures health and is the meanes of preserving it The healthfull signe doth show or indicate the present health the unhealthfull body is affected with a disease which is generated by an unhealthfull cause and the manner and greatnesse of the griefe is showne by the unhealthfull signe a body is said to be neither healthfull nor sicke when it is as it were declining and cannot be said to be perfectly well nor altogether sicke But the more vulgar and common definition of physicke is this Physicke is an art which preserves health in the sound and restores it to the sicke and preserves the neuters that are neither well nor sicke and from hence it is said to be an art of things naturall not naturall and against nature the former were according to the theory these are according to the practique Things naturall doe agree with our nature and are those things whereof our body is compacted and made and are in number seven viz. Elements Temperaments Humours Members Faculties Operations and Spirits Things not naturall are those meane and indifferent things whereby the body is preserved in health and are six in number Aire Meate and Drinke Sleepe and Watching Labour and Rest Fulnesse and Emptinesse or repletion and inanition and perturbations of the minde Things against nature are those that doe destroy our health and are of three sorts A Disease the cause of a Disease and a Symptome Hereby you may understand the two parts of Physicke Theoricke and Practique and by the Theoricke know every disease and the quality thereof and by the Practique to preserve health and cure a disease by the due administration of things not naturall and by removing of those that are against nature Things naturall and which properly belong to the constitution of our body are as I said before in number seven Elements Temperaments Humours Members Faculties Actions Spirits whereto are annexed Sex Colour Composure Time or season Region Vocation of life CHAPTER I. Of Elements An Element what it is AN Element is the most least and simple portion whereof any thing is made and in the destruction thereof is lastly resolved which to say plainely the foure first and simple bodies which accommodate and subject themselves to the generation of all manner of things be the mixture perfect or imperfect Thus Aristotle called the Heaven an Element counting five parts of the world Heaven Fire Aire Water and Earth Of Elements we reckon foure whereof two are grosse and heavy and move downewards as Earth and Water and two are light and strive upwards as Fire and Aire Earth is a simple body whose naturall place is the center of the universe in which it naturally remaines solid and still round as an apple in the middle whereof as the antient Philosopher writes is the pit of hell like as the blacke kernels lyeth in the midst of the apple and at the day of doome when all things shal be renewed then shall this Element be made a thousand fold more transparent and brighter then the Christall or any pretious Stone that they that are in the bitter paines of hell to their encrease of torment shall through it behold the blisfull joyes of heaven which will be more paine to them then all the torments of hell Earth is of nature cold and dry Water is also a simple body whose naturall place is to compas the earth it is light in respect of the earth but heavie in respect of the fire and aire therefore Reolanus saith that the earth holds the lowest part because of it's heavinesse and the fire because it is absolutly light hath the highest place the aire and water because they are as it were equally heavie or light have the middle place water being heavier then the ayre lighter then the earth the nature of water is cold and moist Aire is a simple body whose naturall place is above the Water and under the Fire and is by nature hot and moist Fire is also a simple body whose naturall place is above all the elementary parts because it is a hollow superficies of the Heavens and by its absolute lightnesse striveth upward even to Heaven its nature is hot dry these are so contrary in nature that they cannot be joined without a meane which is a temperament which fals out next to be treated of CHAP. II. Of Temperaments What is a Temperament A Temperament therefore is a concord or mixture of the former disagreeing elements or a mixture of hot cold moist and drie Of these temperaments which are in number nine eight are called distemperate and one temperate The temperate is also devided either to temperature of weight or temperature of justice but we call it not a temperature to weight wherein the elements are mingled by a like heape or weight but where it is exquisitely made temperate by the equall mixture of the foure first qualities wherein no quality exceeds but wherein all equality is included and that as if it were put in a ballance it drawes downe neither to this nor that parte Secundum justitiam A temperament to justice is that which is conveniently temperate to the vse that nature hath appointed and destinated it therefore all those things that have taken from nature a mixture of the elements though unequall yet agreeable to motion and use are called temperaments secundum justitiam as if wee see any living creature that performes the functions of nature aptly and as is ought to doe we say he hath a temperament secundum justitiam according to justice The distemperate temperament is double simple and compound the simple wherin one only quality exceeds the other two contemperate as hot cold moist dry hot in which the heate hath the dominion over the cold the moist and drie being temperate cold in which the cold excels the heate the other two being temperate The compound in which two qualities exceed and this is hot and moist or hot and drie cold and moist or cold and drie for the first qualities may be joyned within themselves six manner of waies but heate cannot be joyned with cold nor moisture with drinesse because they are in themselves contrary neither can they remaine together in one subject Heere may be added the temperatures of the seasons of the yeere which are four Spring Summer Autumn and Winter and are in nature hot cold moist and drie Spring The Spring is the most temperate as being neither too cold and moist
then put to it foure penniworth of Treacle and a quarter of a pinte of the best Angelica water Take every Morning and Evening halfe a spoonfull at a time for a preservative against infection and if you be infected take two spoonfulls and sweat thereupon A pretious Water for the Stone 52 In May take the hearbe called Ramsins and distill it put unto your Water the same proportion of white Wine and distill them againe together A Water to make the Face and Hands white 53 R. The leaves of Nettles dry them and make thereof Powder and put that Powder in Water and boile it and therewith wash your Face and Hands gather your Nettles in May before the Sun riseth and you may keep them all the yeare A Water for Pimples and heate in the Face 54 R. A spoonfull of burnt Allome put it into a Sawcerfull of white wine Vinegar and stir it well together and at Night when you goe to bed dip a Cloth into it and wet the Sore places A Water to make the Stone slip and to provoke Vrine 55 R. Halfe a pinte of white Wine and boile it and in the boiling put in half an ounce of castle Soape sliced thin when it is dissolved drinke thereof blood-warme For a Pearle or Web or Blood-shotten Eye 56 R. Of Maidenhaire and ground Ivy m. i. Archangel flowers pu i. wash them cleane and swing them dry then stamp them and straine them with a little good Ale and with a feather drop a drop or two into the sore Eye thrice in a day if the Eye be much Blood-shotten take more of the Ivy. A Water for an olde Sore 57 R. Flint stones nu iii. vel iiii burne them to Lime and slake them in Running water then take Allome and doe the like therewith boile them two houres then put thereto Bolearmenick greene Coperas Camphire ana q. s boile them all one houre after they are dissolved and then straine it and put it up To make Aqua coelestis the Celestiall Water 58 Aqua coelestis is of two kindes if you mingle with it as much of the Water called Mother of Balme and distill it againe you have the Treasure of all Medicines First of the Vertues of these two Waters the first Water is of such Vertue that if you put it into a fresh Wound it healeth it in foure and twenty houres so it be not Mortall and it healeth maligne Vlcers Cankers Noli me tangere and olde Wounds within the space of fifteene dayes if you wash it with the said Water every third day and if you put a drop of it upon a Carbuncle it mortifieth the malignity thereof shortly also if you put of the same Water into the Eye that hath lost his sight if not utterly it shall be recovered within eight daies at the uttermost and if a Man drink a drop of it with a little good Wine it breaketh the Stone in the space of two houres in the Reines or Bladder it mollifieth hardened Sinewes if you wash them therewith This Water must be used from November to April and but halfe a spoonfull at once once a weeke It is thus made First you must have a vessell of Glasse a Cubite high or thereabouts and fill it with Aqua vitae made of good Wine and see that it be well luted and then cover it in Horse dung or Doves dung so that it be not too moist nor too hot lest the Glasse breake leave the neck of the Glasse without in the aire this will boile mightily and so let it stand thirty daies then draw out the Glasse and put these things following into the Water and stop the mouth close and so leave it eight daies lastly put the Glasse in Balneo Mariae with Sand setting on a head with a receiver well luted and make a slow fire and gather the first Water whiles it seemeth to drop downe cleare but when it turneth red then change the receiver for this is the second Water which you shall keep in a Glassewell stopped The Spices to be put in are these good Cinamon Cloves Ginger Galingale Nutmegs Zedoary long Pepper and round rootes of Citron Spikenard Lignum Aloes Cubebs Cardamomum Calamus Aromaticus Germander S. Iohns wort Maces white Frankincense round Turmentill Hermodactills the pithe of white Wallwort Iuniper Laurell berries the seed of Mugwort Smalllage Fennell Anise flowers of Basile Rosemary Sage leaves Margerome Mints Penniroyall Sticados flowers of Elder red Roses and white Rue Scabious Lunary Centaury the lesser Egrimony Fumitary Pimpernell Dandelion Eufrage Maidenhaire Endive seeds of Sorrell yellow Sanders Aloes Epatich ana â„¥ ii Ambrosine fine Rubarb ana â„¥ ii dry Figs Raisons Dates without stones sweete Almonds Pine kernels ana â„¥ i. Aqua vitae made with good Wine to the quantity of them all and foure times as much Sugar as they be all of white Honey lib. ii then put to the underwritten Rootes of Gentian flowers of Rosemary Nigella that growes in the Corne Bryony roote of the hearbe called Panis Porcinus Hogs bread seed of Wormwood anaÊ’ ss before you distill the Water you must quench in it a hot plate of Gold oftentimes and put to it Orientall pearles which must lye covered with Water else they lose their colour and so distill it Cataplasmes or Poultisses CHAP. XXXVII An excellent Cataplasme for any Swelling Apostume rankling Wound or broken Bone R. Of new Milke one pinte seethe in it untill it be thicke the crums of fine white bread then take it from the fire and put into it the white of an Egge and one spoonfull of Sallet Oyle first well beaten together and stir it well and lay it to the place as hot as can be suffered it will serve twice A Poultis for a sore Breast 2 R. Of Neats foot Oyle pi i. of Marigold leaves m. i. make it thicke with wheaten Bread and put into it a little Saffron and boile it to a Poultis A Poultis for a sore Throate 3 R. A Swallowes nest and boile it in Water to a Poultis and binde it to the Neck and Throate as hot as you can A Poultis for any Swelling that comes of a hot cause 4 R. A Lapfull of wilde Mallowes boile them in running Water untill they be tender then swing them in a Cloth and chop them small then take a penniworth of sweete Butter and the crums of Manchet and put the Mallowes and all into a quart of Milke and boile it untill it be thicke and lay it to the griefe as hot as can be suffâ—red A Poultis to be applyed to the bottome of the Belly to breake Winde and move Vrine 5 R. Figs and the herbe Grownsell ana m. i. boile them in running Water to a Poultis Another for the same 6 R. The dung of a Ston'd horse boiled in white Wine to a Poultis and applyed to the bottome of the Belly Another 7 R. Hemlock boile it in a sufficient quantity of fresh Butter and lay it to
beare them up then turne them and cast on the rest of your Sugar but you must not let them seethe when you doe turne them because then they will breake on both sides but let them lie in hot Sirrup a while then turne the broken sides downewards againe and let them seethe softly a little while then may you turne them as often as you please and let them seeth reasonable fast till you think they be enough if you let them seethe long they will lose their colour and will be tough you must skinne them very cleane and when they be cold put them up in Glasses and put in foure or five Cloves and as many little slices of Cinamon of about an inch long thus you may preserve any Plummes but you must put neither Cloves nor Cinamon to your white Plummes To make Marmalade of Quinces 4 First take twelve quarts of fine running Water and put to it sixteene pound of Quinces well pared and coared and quartered into foure parts and put to them eight pound of Sugar and let all this seethe softly till it be more than halfe sodden away let them be close covered or else they will not be red when you see them of a good colour breake them with a spoone and boile them till they come to Marmalade You may dissolve a little Muske or a little Ambergreece in some rose-Rose-water and put into it after the boiling to give it both a fine taste and smell when it begins to cleave to the spoone then take it from the fire and fill your Boxes and with a feather strike it over with Rosewater To preserve Grapes Barberies or Gooseberries 5 Take as much Sugar as they doe weigh and somewhat more and beate it very fine then take your preserving Pan or Skillet and lay a bed of Sugar and a bed of Fruit till you have laid all then take five or six spoonfulls of faire water as much as will wet the bottome of the Pan and boile them as fast as you can untill they be cleare then boile the Sirrup untill it will button upon the side of a dish and it is enough then put them up in pots To keep Quinces rawe all the yeare 6 Take some of the worst Quinces and cut them into small pieces and boile them in water untill it bee strong of the Quince put in the boiling to every Gallon two spoonfulls of Salt as much English Honey halfe a pinte of white Wine Vinegar then straine it and when it is cold put it into a woodden vessel and take as many of your best Quinces as will goe into that Liquor then stop them very close that no aire get into them and they will keep all the yeare To make Paste of Oranges and Lemons 7 Take your Oranges well coloured boile them tender in water shifting them sixe or seaven times in the boiling put into the first water a handfull of Salt then beate them in a wooden Bowle with a wooden Pestle straine them through a piece of Cushion Canvasse take the weight of them in Sugar and somewhat more then boile it and dry it and fashion it as you please and dry it in a warme Oven upon a Plate all night on the morrow turne it To make Paste of Genua the true way 8 Take Quinces and boile them in their skins then scrape all the pulpe from the coare straine it through a piece of Cushion Canvasse then take as much Sugar as the pulpe doth weigh put to it twice so much water as will melt it that is halfe a pinte to every pound of Sugar boile it to a candy height dry the pulpe upon a Chafingdish and Coales then put the Sugar and the pulpe hot together boile it with stirring untill it will lie upon a Plate even as you lay it and run no broader then fashion it some like leaves and some like letters so set your Plate in a warme Stove or Oven set it upon two billets of Wood up from the hearth of the Oven all one night in the morning turne it and so set it in the like heate againe and so every day turne untill it bee dry To make Paste of any tender Plummes 9 Take any tender Plummes and put them in an earthen Pot and put your Pot into a Pot of seething water and when they are dissolved straine all the thin water from them through a faire Cloth and set the Liquor by to make Quiddnie of then straine the pulpe through a piece of Canvasse then take as much Sugar as the pulpe doth weigh put to it as much water as will melt it and boile it to a Candy height Then boile the pulp of the Plummes very well upon the Coales and put it and the Sugar hot together so boile them with stirring then lay them upon a Pie plate and fashion it and dry it as before put some pulpe of Apples amongst the the pulpe of Plummes else it will be tough To make Marmalade of some of these Plummes 10 There is no more difference but in boiling it higher than your Paste till it come cleane from the bottome of the Skillet then boxe it To make conserve of any of these Fruits 11 When you have boiled your Paste beforesaid ready to fashion upon the Plate put it up in gally Pots and never dry it and that is all the difference betweene Conserve and Paste and so you may make Conserve of any Fruits this is for all hard bodyed Fruits as Quinces Pippins Oranges and Lemons To make Conserve of tender Fruits or Berries 12 First dissolve your Plummes as you did to make your Paste straine through the Liquor Pulpe and all and to every pinte of that take three quarters of a pound of Sugar and so boile it untill it be somewhat thicke that when you lay some of it upon a cold dish it will run no broader then put it up To Preserve Fruits greene 13 Take Pippins Apricockes Peareplummes or Peaches while they are green scald them in hot water and pill them the Peaches and Apricockes scrape the Furre off them then boile them very tender then take as much Sugar as they doe weigh and as much water as will make a Sirrup to cover them in then boile them something leisurely and take them up and boile the Sirrup untill it be something thick that it will button upon a dish side and when they are cold put them up together To Preserve these Plummes when they are ripe 14 Take as much Sugar as they weigh and put not so much water to them as you did to the greene for they will yeeld Liquor of themselves boile them not altogether so leasurely as you did the other if you doe the Sirrup will turne red and so when you have boiled them take them up and pot them as aforesaid To dry Pippins as cleare as Amber 15 Take yellow Pippins pare them and cut them in the middest and cut out the Core then put them into a Bason of Water then take
as the Winter nor too hot and dry as the Summer from hence Hippocrates cals the Spring the most healthfullest time of the yeere and lesse subject to dangerous diseases then any other season for it never breeds any disease but onely produces such as have been breeding in the body all the Winter precedent Summer Summer is hot and drie and a breeder of cholericke diseases which proceed from too much bloud generated in the Spring and now become adust and these diseases are for the most part speedy in running their course Autumne The Autumn is very unequall for when it is drie it hath great inequality of heat and cold the mornings and evenings being very cold and the noondaies exceeding hot whereby many long and dangerous diseases are ingendred Winter The Winter is cold and moist of temper it excites naturall heat and appetite and augments phlegme After this maner are we to consider the ages of man which are agreeable to the four quarters of the yeere Of Ages What an age is AN Age is the space of life in which the constitution of our bodies of its selfe doth encrease stand decrease and utterly decline whose whole course hath five ages or speciall mutations The first whereof is Infancy Infancy which is hot and moist and lasteth from the first houre of the birth untill the eighteenth year of age and is governed by the Moone and this the age wherein the body by reason of the moisture continually groweth and encreaseth and is subject to Feavours Fluxes Wormes in the belly Stone Aposthumes and divers other diseases Youth Youth is temperate in which there is augmentation neither of heate drinesse nor cold in this age the voice beginneth to grow great in men and the paps encrease in women and this lasteth untill the five and twentieth yeare Mans esate The next is mans estate which is hot and drie in which moisture cannot be said to augment nor diminish but the body remaines according to the course of nature it lasteth not above the thirty fifth or fortieth yeare this age is subject to hot agues feavers frenzies and sundry other maladies it is governed by Venus and is named by Avicen the beautifull age The fourth is the decreasing or declining age which Parte of old age 1 is by some devided into three but by most of our latest writers onely into two the first whereof is to the forty ninth or fiftieth yeare and is cold and drie in which the moistture is diminished without any manifest debility of the strength so that they are able to undergoe divers affaires and are pâ—udent wise and fit to governe commonwelths for this age is governed by Iupiter Parte of old age 2 The secoÌ„d part of old age and which stands for the fift part is called the decrepit age is cold and dry because the humidum radicale the radicâ—ll moisture is decayed it is governed by Saturne and is subjâ—ct to Epilâ—psie lithargie numnesse and the like this age hath no distinct period but ends yeares and life together and is called the end of age and life wherein the memorie and senses decay the judgement faileth and they are as it were infants againe But we cannot measure these ages by certaine proportion of yeares because divers seeme older at forty then others at threescore or threescore and tenne And now because these ages are governed and altered by the influence of the planets therefore I will breifely shew you the natures of them and first the natures of the twelue signes of the Zodiacke whereby mans body is governed and with whom the 7 planets worke by influence There are foure triplicities of signes three of the water Cancer Scorpio Pisces three of the earth Taurus Capricorne Virgo three of the fire as Aries Leo Sagittarius and three of the aire as Gemini Libra Aquarius to these are agreeable the seaven planets in their qualities and working in the severall ages of mans life Iupiter and Venus are good planets Saturne and Mars evill Sol and Luna indifferent Mercury is good with the good and evill with the evill and these seaven superior planets do worke by influence with the seaven celestiall signes in the bodies of all living creatures and are agreeable with the foure elements and the foure parts of the world as before I shewed you which for the better understanding I will thus devide Cancer are of the nature of water Scorpio are of the nature of water Pisces are of the nature of water Gemini are of the nature of the aire Libra are of the nature of the aire Aquarius are of the nature of the aire Aries are of the nature of fire Leo are of the nature of fire Sagittarius are of the nature of fire Taurus are of the nature of the earth Capricornus are of the nature of the earth Virgo are of the nature of the earth And these twelve signes are again devided into three quaternions or three fours of different qualitie in this sort and diversity of nature viz. four are moveable four are fixt and four are called common signes Aries are moveable Cancer are moveable Libra are moveable Capricorne are moveable Taurus are fixed Leo are fixed Scorpio are fixed Aquarius are fixed Gemini are common signes Virgo are common signes Sagittarius are common signes Pisces are common signes Some of these are Orientall of the East and some are Occidentall of the West some are Meridionall of the South and some are Septentrionall of the North. These twelve signes are also agreeable to the foure cardinall winds and some are of the day and some of East South West North Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagitt Capricor Aquarius Pisces Fiery Earthly Airie Watry the night some are masculine and some are feminine But note that these are not proper beasts as they are named but named and likened to such beasts by way of Philosophy for they are onely the twelve parts of the firmament of which each part hath a certaine number of Starres assigned and are called the proper houses of the seven Planets in which they rest and abide a certaine time The three quaternions of the twelve signes doe governe in divers parts of our bodies whereof foure there be that rule the inward parts called spirituall members viz. Cancer Rule these parts in a mans body viz. The Liver and Lunges Leo The Heartstrings and Backe Virgo The Stomack and the mouâ—h of the Stomacke Midriffe and Bowells Libra The Loynes and Navell And of these are ingendred these severall diseases viz. Cancer Leo. Virgo Libra causeth the Cough Ptisicke and Pleurisie Imposthumes Iaundies Feavers Pestilence Swelling of the Belly Dropsie Hardnesse of the Belly Collicke Passion Exulceration of the Bowels Pain in the Belly and about the Small of the back And these evill affects are chiefly engendred when the signes aforesaid are in the houses that are evill as the sixt house the eight house and the twelfe house from the
the five senses sight hearing taste smell and touch to the performance whereof necessarily occurre these three 1. the organe 2. the medium or meane 3. the object The organe is the animall spirit diffused all over the body the meane carries the object to the instrument the object is an externall quality that can by a medicine stirre up the organe as for example sight is the seeing faculty acted by the eye which is the organe the object is the visible quality before the eye the medium arrives the object at the eye The hearing faculty whereof the eare is the organe every sound the object the medium is the ayre that carries the sound to the eare The smelling faculty commeth from the mammillary processes produced from the proper substance of the braine and seated in the upper part of the nose the object is every smell the medium by which it is carried is to men birds and beasts the aire to fishes the water The action of the taste is performed by the tongue the object is the taste of severall meats and drinkes the medium is either externall as is the spittle that doth moisten the tongue or internall as the spongy flesh of the tongue it selfe All parts endued with a nerve enjoy the sense of touching the object is every tractable quality as heat cold roughnesse c. The medium is either the skin or the flesh endued with those nerves The next action is voluntary motion and is performed by a muscle as I shewed you in the Chapter of Parts or Members either by extention or contraction upward downeward to the right hand to the left hand forward or backward The principall action is threefold 1. Imagination 2. Reason 3. and Memory Imagination is a certaine distinguishing apprehension Reason is a certaine judiciall estimation of things apprehended Memory is the sure storer of all things as in a magazine which the minde oft unfolds CHAP. VII Of Spirits What a spirit is THE Spirit is the substance subtle and acrious of our body bred of the most pure and thinne bloud and is the prime instrument wherby the members shall performe their office and they abide most in the heart and arteries in the braine and nerves Division of spirits The Spirits are divided into three parts animall vital naturall Animall spirit the animall is seated in the braine for there it is prepared and made and of which a great part is sent to the eyes by the nerves optickes and some to the eares and divers other parts this kind is called animall because it is the chiefe and prime instrument of life Vitall spirit The vitall spirit hath his chief mansion in the left ventricle of the heart and in the arteries and is made of the evaporation of the bloud and furnished with matter from the aire which we draw in breathing and is sent from his seate in the heart through the channels of the arteries into the whole for the conservation of naturall heate Naturall spirit The naturall spirit is engendred in the liver and veines and there remaines while the bloud is made and other naturall operations perfected the use of it is to helpe the concoction both of the whole body and of each severall part and to carry blood and heate to them These spirits being dissipated we cannot hope for life because the flower therof is decaied and wasted in their defect Now to these naturall things which I have shewed you are associate and joyned these foure following viz. Age Colour Figure or Scite and Kinde or Composure Age is a space or part of our life in which our bodies are subject to mutations and of this I have sufficiently spoken before The Colour shewes the temperament of the body and the just proportion of humours as if there be a just proportion of the foure humours the colour is red if aboundance of melancholy the colour is livide and blacke if aboundance of choller the colour is citrine and yellow if phlegme the colour is white and pale Scite and figure shew the good composure and connexion of all the parts of a body fitly and duely compacted as they ought to be of this kind there are foure quadrature crassitude or thickenesse extenuation and fatnesse Sex is the distinction betwixt Male and Female not in parts but in constitution as the Male is commonly hot the Female cold and so are Eunuches CHAP. VIII Of things not naturall which is the second part of Physicke What things not naturall are HAving shewed you things naturall whereof mans body is composed and what they are as Elements Humours c. as we formerly comprehended under the name naturall we will now proceed in the description of things not naturall which are used to conserve and defend the body composed and made of the things naturall already spoken of these doe pertaine to that of Physicke which is for preserving health and are the meane betwixt things naturall and things against nature for they doe not constitute our nature as things naturall neither doe they hurt or damage it as things against nature but they are indifferent good if they be well used and bad if they be ill used the use whereof we consider from foure conditions quantity quality occasion and manner of using These being observed you may effect and cause things doubtfull of themselves to bring undoubted health things not naturall are in number six 1. the aire that goeth about us 2. the meate and drinke we use 3. the motion and rest of our bodies 4. sleeping and waking 5. repletion and inanition or things to be expelled or retained 6. and perturbations of the minde CHAP. IX Of Aire Aire AIRE is so necessary for us that not one minute of health can be enjoyed without the same as we may perceive by the continuall transpiration and breathing that all living creatures have for their refreshing and to regender the spirit animal and therefore because we so often draw it in breath it out it wil be very necessary for our health to know what aire is wholesome and what unwholesome for the aire doth alter our bodies three manner of waies by quality as if it be horter moister or drier by substance as if it be more grosser or more subtle then is fit or by mutation which any man may prove who makes a suddaine change out of a quiet aire into a stormy and that is troubled with winds The most healthfull Aire Therefore the most healthfull and best aire is that which is cleere subtle and pure free and open on every side exempt from evill evaporations fennes sinkes cloudes rotten and carrion like smells of dead carkasses standing pooles and all corruption that is neither is too hot nor too cold too drie nor too moist and this aire is the best both for the preserving of health and curing of diseases Evill Aire The evill aire is quite contrary to the good as that which is putride shut prest up in some narrow place thicke rotten
Oyle ana â„¥ iii. new Waxe â„¥ i. Quicksilver extinct Turpentine washed ana â„¥ ii common Salt beaten â„¥ ss Melt the grease and waxe in the Oyle then adde the Enula campana Quicksilver and Salt lastly the Turpentine kill the Quicksilver with a little Grease and Turpentine This ointment is marvellous effectuall against the Itch or Scabs either dry or moist Vnguentum Populeon 3 R. Of the buds of Popular fresh gathered lib. i. macerate them in lib. iii. of fresh swines greace prepared for the space of two months then R. of the leaves of red Poppy leaves of Mandrake leaves of Henbane tender crops of Brambles Nightshade Lettuce Houseleeke Stone crop great Burres Penny grasse ana â„¥ iii. good Wine lib. i. bruise them mixe them with the buds of Popular then set them in a warme place for eight daies then adde one pinte of strong Vinegar and boile them till it be consumed which may be perceived by casting a little thereof into the fire then straine it forth and put it up This Vnguent asswageth Phlegmons burning of Agues heat of the Head and Kidnies and anointed upon the Temples procureth sleepe Vnguentum Aegyptiacum 4 R. Verdigreace â„¥ v. good Honey Ê’ xiiii strong Vinegar Ê’ vii all these being boiled together untill it be thick and of a purple colour this doth forcibly cleanse ulcers inveterate and fistulous and doth consume proud spongious and dead flesh Vnguentum Apostolorum 5 R. Turpentine white Waxe Rosine anaÊ’ xvi Opponaxe Verdigreace anaÊ’ ii Ammoniacum Ê’ xvi long Aristolochia great Incense anaÊ’ vi Myrrhe and Galbanum anaÊ’ iii. Bdellium Ê’ vi Litharge Ê’ ix Oyle lib. ii make an ointment mingle the Litharge with two ounces of Oyle and let them stand five houres then boile it gently untill it be thick as Honey alwaies stirring it then take it from the fire and put to the Waxe and Rosin being dissolved with the rest of the Oyle then whiles it is cooling put to the rest of the Gummes dissolved in Vinegar boiled and incorporated with the Turpentine then the Aristolochia Myrrhe and Frankincense are to be mingled and lastly the Verdigrease finely powdered and sprinkled in This Vnguent doth by detersion purge Wounds and rebellious Vlcers and Fistulaes wasteth dead Flesh and encreaseth new Vnguentum Album 6 R. Cerus â„¥ iiii Litharge â„¥ ss lay them a good space in Rosewater then put them into a Mortar and by little and little poure in so much Rose oyle as they can drinke up continually stirring and tempering them untill they come to the forme of an Vnguent then adde thereto a little white Vinegar and of Camphire Ê’ i. ss It is cooling asswageth Paine and Inflammation and is good for Scabs Itch and Excoriation Vnguentum Vulpinum or Ointment of a Foxe 7 Take a Foxe and draw out the Entrailes then take Sage Rosemary Iuniper leaves and berries Dill wilde Marjoram of the Garden Lavender Camomile of each halfe a pound stampe these herbes in a Mortar of stone very finely then cut the Foxe in pieces and put him with the herbes into a vessell of eight gallons and put to foure pintes of Oyle Olive Oyle of Neats feete one pound Calves suet Deere suet Goose grease Brockes grease of each one pound and a halfe of sea-Sea-water three quarts and as much of good Malmesey set all together on the fire and boile it till the Wine and Water bee consumed and that the flesh and bones bee separated asunder then take it from the fire and straine it and presse it through a strong Canvasse cloth and so reserve it to your use as a most precious oyntment against all Aches and to restore Limms and Ioynts lamed through paine of the Gout Vnguent of Saint Cosme and Damian 8 R. Pimpernell Vervine Betony ana m. i. stampe them and put to them of white Wine lib. ii ss boile them together in a tinned vessell to the wasting of three parts then straine them and set the decoction over the fire againe in a glased vessell then R. Turpentine washed â„¥ vi Rosin washed lib. i. new white Waxe â„¥ iiii when they are melted altogether in the same glased pot add to them Mastick powdered â„¥ i. of the Milke of a woman giving suck to a Male and a Female Childe ana â„¥ ii boil them to a perfect body it availeth for all Wounds and namely of the Sinewes also for Cankers Fistulaes and S. Anthonies fire A very good ointment for any Ach or Bruise for any Noise in the head or to draw out a Thorne 9 R. Rosin and a little red Deeres suet and a little Camphire and a little white Wine let them boile a walme or two after all the Suet is melted then straine it into white Wine and beate it untill it come to an ointment then put it up in pots and when you use it you shall chafe the Part before the fire very well and then anoint it An Ointment of the Wormes of the earth good to strengthen the Back to coole it and take away the Ache. 10 R. A great platterfull of long Wormes of the earth lay them upon Fennell or such like to scoure the space of foure and twenty houres then chop them small and put to them a quart of Neats-foot Oyle then take a platterfull of field Daisies chopped very small all save the rootes let them be a platterfull when they are chopped and put them to the Oyle and Wormes then boile them together upon a soft fire for two houres then strain it and keepe it for your use it is to be made either in April or about Michaelmas An Ointment for a Bruise and Swelling also for the Piles 11 R. Of red Sage â„¥ vii of Rue â„¥ iii. of Camomill Bayes Wormewood ana â„¥ iiii of Mutton suet lib. i. bruise all these well together in a Morter then set them in an earthen Pot nine daies well and close stopped in the earth then boile them in a quart of Oyle and strain it forth and keep it for your use An Ointment which I used with good successe to a woman who had a paine in her Hip without any tumour proceeding from the retention of her monthly Visits 12 R. Camomill Rosemary ana m. i. twinings of Vines m. ss Plantaine p. stamp them together and put them into a jarre Glasse and put on it a quart of good Oyle Olive and let it stand a day or two in the Sunne then set a skillet of water on the fire and when it is scalding hot stop the jarre Glasse close and put it into the water and keepe the water ever scalding hot but when it hath been in almost an houre then let it boile a little and then take it out and straine it and annoint the place every night and after bathing the manner of the Bath I shall speake of hereafter An ointment for the face after the Foxe are dryed to cause them to fall off without leaving any Markes 13 R. Of Oyle of bitter Almonds â„¥ ii
put thereto of Parmacetae â„¥ ss and anoint the face with a feather Another for the same and which mightily cleares the skin 14 R. Of fat Bacon lib. i. cut it in thin slices and hang it in a string before the fire that it may melt and let it drop into a quarter of a pinte of Plantaine water and when it is all melted let it coole and then beate it out of the water with a cleane spatula and wash it in three or foure severall waters more of Plantaine then put to it a peny weight of Parmacetae and a penniworth of white Rose water and beate them well together and annoint the face with a feather An ointment for Aches and Bruises Stitches Goute and Lamenesse 15 R. Sage Rue ana lib. i. crops of Wormwood Bayleaves Rosemary ana m. i. Sheeps suet cleane picked from the skin lib. ss Oyle Olive a pottle shred the hearbes and suet small and then stamp and work them together very small then put in the Oyle and temper them well and let them stand close stopped the space of seaven daies then set it to the fire and as it melteth stir it till the hearbes are parched then take it off and straine it and with this anoint the place An ointment for a burne or scald 16 R. Incontinently the white of an Egge beaten with Oyle of Roses Omphacine and a little juice of Plantaine Night-shade and Houseleeke and with a feather anoint the place Vnguentum de Calcantho good for old Vlcers Mundifieth evill flesh and Incarnateth 17 R. Of Swines grease Calves and Cowes suet ana lib. ss Celidony Alleluia Plantaine Woodbine Houndstongue ana m. i. Lime thrice quenched with water lib. ss Calcantum Pulverizatum â„¥ i. Verdigrease Ê’ x. stamp them and leave them together seaven daies then put thereto water of Plantaine Wine of Pomegranates â„¥ iiii then seethe them with a soft fire till the Water and Wine be consumed and so straine them with a thick cloth then put to it Litharge Auri Argenti â„¥ iiii Bolearm Terr sigillat Minii ana â„¥ i. cleere terebent â„¥ iii. let them seethe againe and make a blacke ointment with sufficient white Waxe An ointment for an Ache. 18 R. Two or three nests of quick Swallows tendrings of Straw-berries Rue Lavender-cotton Bay-leaves Wormwood Horehound Rednettle crops ana m. i. the gall of an Oxe black Snailes n. 6. Oyle Olive halfe a pinte then stamp the Swallows whole feathers and guts with all the aforesaid things very small then you shall melt a quantity of May-butter in a frying pan and then put in all the other things and fry them well together alwaies stirring it that it may not burne Lastly straine it through a linnen Bagge and you have the ointment A precious Oyntment against all Pains and Griefes 19 R. Rosemary leaves Sage Time Polimountaine Hyssope Marigolds Rue Wormewood Marjoram Valerian Mouseare Harts-tongue Bloodwort Merch Seagreene gather these Hearbes with the Flowers and Blowings of each m. iij. seeth them in iij quarts of Water untill the Water be consumed to a quart then put to them a pound and a halfe of Barrowes grease Deeres Suet lib. i. Dogges fat lib. ss Cats fat lib. ss Rosewater pint i. Aquae composita â„¥ vi seeth these a good while stirring them well then strain them through a rough cloth and take off the scumme with a Feather and let it stand till the morrow then seeth it once againe and straine it and keepe it for thy use A good Oyntment to cleanse a Sore both old or new 20 R. Turpentine â„¥ ii washed well in Barly water lib. ss put to it Yolkes of new laid Egges nu vi Hony of Roses or common Honey â„¥ iiii mingle them and make the Tents or Pledgets therewith An Oyntment for Scabbes Ring-wormes or any other breaking out 21 R. Oyle of Roses â„¥ iiii Waxe iiii d. weight melt them together then take Litharge of Gold Ceruse ana â„¥ ss Powder them and mingle them with the Oyle and Waxe in a Morter then put thereto the white of a new laid Egge and halfe an ounce of Quicksilver mortified and use it every Morning and Evening To mortifie the Quicksilver you shall put it into a Violl with fasting Spittle and worke it up and downe untill it become like ashes then put it to your stuffe A good Oyntment for the Spleene 22 R. Bryony rootes the pith taken out Marsh Mallow rootes or red Holly-hocke rootes the pith taken out ana lib. i. seeth them in Water untill the Rootes be soft stampe them in a Morter and straine them through a Strainer till the thicknesse be come through then take of sower leavened Bread â„¥ iiii Bores grease li. ss mingle them altogether well in the Morter with white Wine Vinegar iiii spoonefuls First in the morning rub your Spleene with a course warme Cloth untill the skin wax red then lay upon it a peece of blue wollen cloth wet in the Water of a man childe as hot as may be suffered and when the Cloth waxeth cold take it away and dry the Skin with a warme cloth and annoint the place with some of the ointment aforesaid warmed in a Sawcer and rub it well in then lay upon it a Quilt of blacke wooll and doe thus every morning till it be well An Ointment for burning or scalding 23 R. Sweet Creame q. i. Ferne rootes m. i. washed and cut in small peeces boyle them in the Creame in an earthen Pot untill they jelly when you will use it chafe a little in your hand with a Spatula and apply it to the Sore untill it be whole Vnguentum Aleblastrum 24 R. Crops of the red Bryer stamped small m. vi adde thereto of white Wine one pottle of Rue m. i. of the flowers or leaves of Camomile â„¥ i. powder of Aleblaster â„¥ ii Fennell seed â„¥ i. Oyle of Roses lib. ss Wax Ê’ ss put all together except the Camomill and the Waxe then put them on the fire to infuse and when it seethes put in the Waxe and Camomill and boile it well untill the Wine be consumed and when it is cold take the whites of five Egges and mingle them with all the aforesaid things and then straine it through a faire linnen cloth and put it into a cleane vessell It is good for webbs in the Eyes Megrim and Headache if a woman have paine in her Matrice let her take thereof as an Electuary and it will help her also for those that are diseased in the Stomack let them anoint the Stomack Hands Feet and Reines therewith anoint the Temples for the Megrim it is also good for the Gout An Ointment to asswage paine and coole 25 R. Of white Cerate â„¥ iiii Oyle of Roses â„¥ x. red and white Sanders red Roses Myrrhe Olibanum Mastick anaÊ’ ii Camphire Ê’ ss Turpentine â„¥ ii ss make an Vnguent in a leaden Mortar To make Flos Vnguentorum 16 R. Rosin Perosin ana lib. ss Virgins waxe Frankinsence ana â„¥
iiii Mastick â„¥ ss Harts suet â„¥ iiii Camphite Ê’ ii melt those that are to be melted and pound those that are to be pounded and searce them finely then boile them altogether over the fire and strain them into a pottle of white Wine then let it coole and when it is no more then blood warme put to of Turpentine â„¥ iii. ever stirring it untill it be cold then worke it well in the hands and make it up in rolls It is good for old Wounds cleansing them and engendring good Flesh and wasting evill Flesh it is good for all manner of Impostumes in the head or in the body and for strained Sinewes and it draweth out any Thorne or broken Bone and it healeth all manner of Botches it is good for a Canker or Noli me tangere it is good for Seareclothes for the Gout Sciatica and other Aches and for pestilent Botches Of Oyles CHAP. XXXIII To make Oyle of Roses 1 R. Buds of red Roses fresh gathered the prickles taken away and the buds bruised juice of Roses ana lib. i. macerate them in five pound of Oyle Omphacine which is without Salt in a vessell of glasse close shut then set them the space of sixe or eight daies in the Sun after boile them three houres in a double vessell and straine them and cast away the Roses and put in new doe so twice or thrice lastly being fairely strained set it in the Sunne and boile it in a double vessell untill the juices be consumed if you want Oleum Omphacinum you may wash Oyle Olive in the juice of sowre Grapes This Oyle is cooling and doth strengthen thicken and stay Fluxes and helpe the gnawing paine of the Guts being given in a Clister Oyle of Violets 2 It is made by putting in fresh purple Violets into a vessell of glasse and Oyle Omphacine or Oyle of Almonds and to be sunned ten or twelve daies changing the Violets every third day lastly put in dry Violets it hath the same Vertue as hath Oyle of Roses Oyle of Mints 3 R. The leaves of sowne Mints bruise them and with the juice macerate them in Oyle Omphacine and change and boile it as you doe Oyle of Roses It corroborateth and strengthens the stomack if it be therewith anointed and furthereth concoction Oyle of Wormwood 4. R. The tops and leaves of Wormwood bruise them and macerate them in Oyle Omphacine as you do make Oyle of Roses it is a furtherer of concoction procurer of appetite and kills the Wormes Oyle of Lillies 5 R. Of Mastick Calamus Aromaticus Costus Oyle of Pellitary Carpobalsame ana â„¥ i. Cloves and Cinamon ana â„¥ ss Saffron Ê’ iii. bruise them all and steepe them in water xxiiii houres then boile them a little and taken from the fire poure in of sweete Oyle lib. ii leaves of Lillies â„¥ viii set them forty dayes in the Sun and then straine it Oyle of sweet Almonds 6 R. Sweet Almonds and blanch them and bruise them then poure upon them a little Rose water then put them in a vessell that they may be kept warme as it were in hot water lastly put them in a little bagge and presse them in a presse untill you have the Oyle It doth mitigate paine comfort the exasperated parts especially the Lungs and Kidnies it mollifieth dry and hard matter and is very fit for those that have the Hectick feaver Oyle of bitter Almonds 7 R. Bitter Almonds dry and purge them and bruise and calefie them in hot boiling water and pressed as the former This Oyle doth mightily attenuate and divide doth dissipate Winde cures the Noise in the Eares and opens the obstructions of the Liver and other Intrailes and mollifieth hardnesse of Sinewes Oyle of Wormes 8 R. Of Wormes of the earth washed and prepared lib. ss white Wine â„¥ ii sweet Oyle lib. ii boile them to the consumption of the Wine and the wasting of the Wormes then straine the Oyle and reserve it for your use It mollifies asswages Paine and is good for Bruises and paine in the Ioynts Oyle of Rue 9 R. Of leaves of Rue the juice of Rue ana lib. ss macerate them three daies in lib. iii. of sweet Oyle boile them in a double vessell untill the juice be consumed then straining the Rue change it three times or foure then presse out the Oyle It is hot and attenuateth grosse Humours dissipates Winde being administred as a Clister alone it availeth against the Crampe Palsey and coldnesse of the Wombe and Bladder Oyle of Baye 10 R. The ripe berries of Laurell bruised and boiled a good space in Water and then straine it and when it is cooled gather the Salt that swimmeth above the decoction which is the Oyle and is good to extenuate califie dissipate Winde in the stomack the Collick and dissolveth cold diseases of the Head Intrailes Wombe Kidneies and Ioynts Oyle of Scorpions 11 R. The roote of round Aristolochia Gentian Galingale barke and roote of Capers ana â„¥ i. bruise them all and macerate them in lib. i. ss of Oyle of bitter Almonds and sunne them twenty dayes then boile them in a double vessell with a gentle fire lastly put in xv Scorpions and sunne them againe thirty daies then straine the Oyle and keepe it as an excellent Oyle to extenuate forcibly and being anointed upon the loines doth unlodge the Stone in the Kidneies Oyle of Turpentine 12 R. Of the best Turpentine lib. iiii put it in a large glasse Cucurbite and set it in Sand and distill it by art first you shall have a thin Oyle come out with the Water the second Oyle will be of a golden colour the last will be yellow and thick keepe every one by its selfe but the last is the best and is good against all cold Diseases especially of the Ioynts Oyle of Mastick 13 R. Oyle of Roses â„¥ xii odoriferous Wine â„¥ iiii of the best Mastick â„¥ iii. boile them according to art in a double Vessell to the consumption of the Wine This Oyle strengthens the Braine Nerves Ioynts Ventricle and Liver mollifies Tumors and asswages pain Oyle of Tilestones 14 Breake an old red Tilestone in pretty small pieces burne them in the fire untill they be red hot then extinguish them in cleare old Oyle and let them lie in it untill they be full of Oyle then take them out and beat them into fine power and put it into a Cucurbite of glasse and lute the joynts well together and put under coales and draw your Oyle according to art It is good against all cold diseases for it is hot and penetrative easeth the Epilepsie Vertigo Palsie Crampe and paine in the back and all cold affects of the Ioynts and Nerves Oyle of the Yolkes of Egges 15 R. Of new laid Egges one hundred boile them untill they be hard and take out the yolkes and cut them in pieces and put them in a frying pan untill they turne reddish and yeeld a fatty moisture then take them and put them hot into
Strawberry strings Tutsane Plantaine Walnut leaves Bay toppes Hyssope Violet leaves Sake of Vertue Roman Wormwood ana m. i. Camomill m. ii Red Roses m iii. then put to them a quart of Neats-foot Oyle or May Butter and grinde them together with an ounce or two of Cloves then put them in an earthen pot stopped close with lute sapientiae and set them nine dayes in a Cellar then take them out and seeth them seven or eight houres on the fire or in a pan of water but first open your pot and put in white or yellow Waxe and a pint of Oyle or Butter An Oyle for a noise in the Head 26 R. A Silver Eele roste it but baste it not then take the dripping and put it into a Pipkin with some Commin seedes infuse it all night in the Embers then take the Oyle and pretty warme drop a little into the Eare that most troubles you and you shall finde helpe in a short time An Oyle for the dead Palsie 27 R. Sheepes feet and boyle them with the Wooll a great while then take the Oyle of them and red Sage and boile them together well then when you use it take a little Aqua vitae and Pepper and warme them together and anoint the place therewith and after with the Oyle Because it will be a great deale of trouble and charge in a private house to distill and draw Oyles from Gums Spices Seeds Roots Hearbes c. except they had occasion for greater Quantities and for such Portions as they shall use they may buy at the Chymists I will therefore only set downe the names of the Oyles and the vertues thereof for such as are desirous to learn the Art of Extracting may finde divers Authors to that purpose Oyle of Mastick 28 It is excellent against all cold-Diseases of the Mawe comforteth the Liver Lights and all inward Parts of the Body being drunken it helpeth those that Vomit and Spit Blood it consumeth and breaketh all inward Sores this Oyle being anointed on the Belly stoppeth the Fluxe and womens Termes and is also good for the Mother that is fallen downe if you anoint it therewith and the underpart of the Belly it is good for young Children whose Arse gut commeth forth if you anoint it therewith and put it up againe it is also good for those that are Burst if you anoint them therewith and let them weare a Truss being anointed on fresh Wounds it helpeth them soone laying thereon a Cloth wet in the same anointing the Gums fasteneth the Teeth and causeth a good Digestion if you anoint the Stomack therewith Oyle of Storax Calamite 29 Three or foure drops of this Oyle being drunke comforts the Lungs it helps the paines of the Mother being drunke and the place anointed therewith beware you take not too much of this Oyle for it is dangerous if you put a drop or two into the Eares it takes away the buzzing noise Oyle of Galbanum 30 Is good against an old Cough and for such as are Short-winded and cannot easily draw their breath this Oyle being taken with Oyle of Myrrhe in a little Wine is good against Venome drunken likewise being thus taken it procures womens Naturall sicknesse and driveth downe the dead Childe if you make a perfume thereof into the Wombe it is held very good for the rising of the Mother being laid to the Navell it settles the Womb that hath beene misplaced this Oyle is Mollificative and being mixed with any convenient Vnguent it draweth forth Thornes or cold Humours mix this Oyle with the Root of Angelica or the Seed or Roote of Spondilium and if you touch any Serpent or Venemous Beast therewith it will die in fine it is so opposite to Venome that the Perfume of it being burned drives away Serpents from the place Oyle of Myrrhe 31 This Oyle preserveth all things from Putrefaction and if you anoint the Face and Hands therewith it causeth them to looke young a great while if you mixe it with Wine and wash the Mouth it will fasten the Teeth it stoppeth the Laske and helpeth the Stitch in the side if you drinke thereof one Dramme it helpeth all stinking Sores and is good for Wounds in the Head and Paines in the Eares if it be put therein also if you put one or two drops thereof into the Eyes it preserveth the sight it helpeth all the Paines of the Mother if it be anointed therewith also it dryeth and consumeth all Accidents after birth and is marveilous good against a Feaver if the Patients body be anointed therewith and laid to sweate Oyle of Sagapenum 32 Is good for the Stitch in the side and an olde Cough it is very good against the Crampe and all Paines of the Hips and Ioynts comming of Cold if you anoint the Nosthrills of women in Childbed therewith it availeth much and eases their Paine for it driveth forth the Childe quickly whether alive or dead being drunke with Wine it is good against Poyson but by any meanes let women with Childe take heed of this Oyle Oyle of Castoreum 33 Being anointed on the Neck and drunke with Wine availeth much to those that have the Falling sicknesse it is also excellent against Apoplexie it helpeth the Cholick and suffocation of the Matrix Oyle of Ambre 34 It is good against the Cholick and suffocation of the Matrix if you anoint the Parts therewith if a woman drinke three or foure drops thereof it causeth her to be fairely delivered it is good against Paines and Fluxes of the Head resolution of Sinewes and Falling sicknesse if ye drinke thereof in a Morning three or foure drops in Piony Water it preserveth from all poisons and pestiferous Ayres It driveth forth the Stone in the Bladder or Reines if it be drunke with Malmesey or Parseley Water Oyle of Ammoniacum 35 Being taken three or foure drops in the Yolke of an Egge it helpeth Vlcers in the Breast it dissolveth all hardnesse and swellings and taketh away the paines of the Milt if you mixe this Oyle with as much Oyle of Galbanum and a very little Oyle of Wormwood and anoint the place also being mixed with Oyle of Wormwood and anointed on the Navell it killeth Wormes Oyle of Waxe 36 Is good in all Wounds made by Contusion if a cloth wet in the same be laid thereon being taken inwardly it provoketh Vrine and easeth Stitches the dose is a dramme at a time with white Wine it helpeth the cold Gout and Sciatica comming of cold in fine it is an Oyle that is miraculous in his operation and is as it were a divine Medicine Oyle of Butter 37 If you anoint your hands and face with this Oyle it will preserve them faire it is also good for them that have a Catarre if they take an ounce fasting The quintessence of Honey 38 Dissolveth Gold or any Iewel put therein it helpeth the Palsey Falling sicknesse Cough Catarre and paines of the Milt and many other diseases and two or three
and such Cloth as hath been starched A Salve to heale any Wound 29 R. Virgin Waxe lib. ss sweet Butter clarified â„¥ iiii Turpentine â„¥ iiii yolkes of Egges nu ii beaten to Froth red Rose water â„¥ iiii Sugar Candy Ê’ ii Flowre as much as shall suffice boile all these together with a soft fire stirring it well together as you put in the Flowre untill it come to a perfect Plaister A Plaister for the Gout or Ache in the Ioints 30 R. Of Waxe Rosin ana lib. ss Olibanum â„¥ i. white Lead â„¥ ix Litharge of Gold finely beaten and searsed â„¥ ix Neats foot Oyle pi i. set the Oyle on the fire with the Waxe and Rosin when they are melted put in a pint of white Wine a while after put in the other Powders and stir it fast with a stick then drop a little and when it is cold if it be hard it is enough then take it off and anoint a faire board with Neates foot Oyle and when it is almost cold worke it thereon like Waxe and make it up in great rowles when you use it spread it upon linnen Clothes or Leather and lay it warme on where the paine is so renew it Morning and Evening untill it be whole beware of cold and hot Wines The black Salve good for any fresh Wound 31 R. Of Oyle Olive pi i. red Lead â„¥ ix stir them well together and set them on the fire and boile it fast untill it looke black and if a drop stick to you finger it is enough beware lest any sparke of fire flie into it in the boiling A very good Salve to heale an old inveterate Sore 32 R. A pint of strong Ale and set it on the fire and put into it a quarter of an ounce of roche Allome and a spoonfull of good Honey and as much Deere suet or Sheepes suet and a Crab and let them seethe together till the fourth Part bee consumed then take three or foure spoonfulls of wheate Flower and mingle them together and after put them into the rest of the Liquor and set it on the fire and stir it till it be thick then take it from the fire else it will be thin againe and put it into a pot and when you will use it spread it on a linnen Cloth a quarter of an inch thick and let it lie foureteene houres and when you take it away wipe away the corruption very cleane then lay on another alwaies warme A Salve for all manner of Wounds and Sores that be curable 33 R. Of Betony Plantaine Smallage of each lib. i. of the Iuice and put it in a pan adde to it of cleane new Waxe â„¥ ii of cleanest and whitest Incense â„¥ ii melt these by themselves with a soft fire then put the Iuices thereto and boile them together untill all the Iuices be wasted ever stirring it then take it from the fire and straine it through a Cloth then take of Turpentine â„¥ iii. and temper them together when it is cold put it up when you use it chase a little in your hand and spread it upon a Cloth broad and long enough to cover the Wounds first washing the Wounds with white Wine and Honey sodden together blood warm and dressing them Morning and Evening the Plaisters being warme if you wet a Tent in the said Wine and put into the bottome of the VVound it will draw out the corruption if the VVound ake poure in a little Oyle Olive Powders CHAP. XXXV A Powder for Hollow Vlcers 1 R. Frankincense Masticke Myrrhe Sarcocoll Bolearmenike Dragons blood Barley meal ana mixe them in fine Powder and sprinkle upon the Wound A Powder to incarnate Wounds 2 R. Of Hogge Fennell â„¥ ss Flouredeluce Ê’ v. Myrrhe Ê’ iii. the greater and lesser Centory anaÊ’ ii round Aristolochia Tuttie Oppoponax Meale of Orobus anaÊ’ ii ss make all in fine Powder A Powder to stay bleeding of a Wound 3 R. Quicke Lime Dragons blood Aloes Frankincense Copperas ana Incorporate them being finely powdered with the white of an Egge and Cobwebbes and apply it A Powder Adstrictive to be used in stitching of Wounds with Clothes 4 R. Of Mill dust Ê’ iii. Bolearmenicke Frankincense ana â„¥ ss Olibanum Masticke myrrhe anaÊ’ ii ss Dragons blood â„¥ iii. ss Blood-stone Ê’ i. make them in fine Powder which yee shall use with the white of an Egge and spread it upon a cloth and lay it over night upon each side the Wound one even with the edges and on the morrow you may joyne the edges by stitching the clothes and drawing them close Hollands Powder for the Cholicke 5 R. Anniseed ana â„¥ ss Bay Berries â„¥ ss Fennell Seed  Coriander Seed  Smalladge Seed Sene the weight of all the rest make a powder of them and give it in white Wine Ê’ i. ss at a time Parseley Seed Commin Seed Graine of Paradise Agat Stone Milfoile  Seed of Carrawaies  Seed of Broome  Ginger  Long Pepper  Nutmegs  To make the Powder called Pulvis sanctus to Purge the Dose whereof is Ê’ i. ss 6 R. Of the leaves of Sene white Tartar ana â„¥ ss Cloves Cinamon ana â„¥ ss DiagrediuÌ„ ℈ ii gr Galingale Ammi viii good Rubarbe Ê’ i. Salt Gemme gr 20. Ginger ℈ ss Agaricke ℈ ii beat all into fine Powder and mingle them A Powder for an Ague 7 R. Carduus Benedictus the Hearbe Mercurie Plantaine leaves Centaury Rue ana powder them and drinke it in Posset drink two or three nights together before you goe to bed and sweat upon it the Dose is Ê’ i. at a time Powder of Turbith to purge Phlegme for Women Children or old Men or for delicate Persons that live without labour 8 R. White Ginger Masticke ana Ê’ x. Turbith finely powdered Ê’ v. Sugar as much as all the rest mingle them together in fine powder A dredge Powder that purgeth Choler Phlegme and Melancholy 9 R. Turbith â„¥ i. Ginger Cinamon Masticke Galingale Graines of Paradise Cloves Anniseed the Hearbe called Mercuries Finger Diagredium ana â„¥ ss leaves of Sene â„¥ ii Sugar â„¥ iiii mingle them and powder them finely A Sneezing Powder 10 R. Rootes of Sneezing Wort or Bartram â„¥ i. Castoreum â„¥ ss white Elebor and black Elebor ana â„¥ i. Marjorame m. i. mingle them and make them into Powder A most excellent Powder to provoke Vrine and to send forth the Gravell and Stone 11 R. A Flint Stone and beat it in a Morter to a most fine and subtill Powder scarce it and keep it in a Bladder till you have occasion to use it then take halfe a Dramme at once fasting at time of need in white Wine or â—osset Ale or such like To make white Damaske Powder 12 R. Of Scuttle bone in fine Powder lib. ss adde thereto of Muske cod â„¥ ss or pure Muske Civet and Amber Greece ana Ê’ iii. To make common sweet Powder 13 R. Of Ireos â„¥ iiii Calamus Aromaticus Ciprus Sweet Marjoram
red Roses ana â„¥ ss Lavender Origanum Nigella anaÊ’ ii Orange or Lemon Peeles Ê’ ii Clove dust â„¥ ii make all in fine Powder and mingle them To make Damaske Powder 14 R. Of Orris lib. i. red Rose leaves dryed â„¥ iiii Cloves Ê’ vi Saunders Citrine sweet Marjoram â„¥ ss Calamus Aromaticus Ciprus Rootes Coriander ana Ê’ iiii Powder them and adde of Storax Calamint Ê’ vi and Muske Ê’ i. or of Muske Cod Ê’ iiii beaten into small pieces A Powder for the Falling sicknesse 15 R. A Mans Skull that hath been dead but one yeare bury it in the Ashes behinde the fire and let it burne untill it be very white and easie to be broken with your finger then take off all the uppermost part of the Head to the top of the Crowne and beat it as small as is possible then grate a Nutmeg and put to it and the blood of a Dog dryed and powdered mingle them all together and give the sick to drinke first and last both when he is sick and also when he is well the quantity of halfe a Dram at a time in white Wine A Powder for the Gout 16 R. Of fine Ginger the weight of two Groates Elecampane Rootes dryed twice as much Licoras the weight of eight Groates Sugar candy â„¥ iii. beat all into fine Powder searce them and mingle them and drink thereof all times of the day A Powder to rub the Teeth and keep them white 17 R. White Bread Corrall Harts horne ana â„¥ ss Allome Ê’ i. Sage and Roses ana m. i. Oyster shels and Egge shels ana m. ii make them into fine Powder and rub the Teeth also pieces of Cheiney dishes powdered is excellent to rub the Teeth A Powder to stanch bleeding at the Nose 18 R. Truboll Ê’ iii. Dragons blood Frankinsence Alloes Mastick anaÊ’ i. haires of the belly of an olde Hare small cut Ê’ ss make them in Powder and blow them into the Nose and make a Tent of Cotton to hold it in A Powder for the Greene sicknesse 19 R. Steele Powder â„¥ i. Nutmegs nu i. Licoras Ê’ ii powder them and take as much Sugar as the quantity of the Powder and mingle them then take thereof as much as will lie on a shilling every Morning fasting and an houre and a halfe after take some water Gruell or other thin Broth using some exercise presently after doe the like at Night an houre before you goe to bed and use some exercise untill you goe to bed you must forbeare Milke and Fruits and Meates made of Milke A Powder for the Stone 20 R. Of Hollands Powder Ê’ i. a little long Pepper and the Seeds or Kernells that be in Ashe keyes powder them and put them into white Wine or stale Ale and drinke it first and last blood-warme A Powder for the Falling sicknesse 21 R. The Skull of a man that hath been dead but one yeare and bury it in the Ashes behinde the fire and let it burne untill it be marvellous white and so well burned that you may breake it with your finger then take off all the uppermost part of the Head to the top of the Crown and beat it as small as is possible then grate a Nutmeg and put to it then take Dogs blood and dry it and make Powder thereof and mingle as much with the other Powder as the Powder weighes and give it the sick to drinke both when he is well and when he is sicke first and last and it will help him by Gods grace A Powder for the black Iaundies 22 R. A platterfull of great Earth-wormes and wash them very clean then sprinkle them with Salt to scoure themselves to death then wash them very cleane againe and lay them one by one in a Platter then set them in an Oven after the bread is drawne and there let them stand untill they be so dry that they may be powdered then powder them very fine and put the Powder in a Bladder which you may keepe a whole yeare when you would use it take a spoonfull thereof and put it into a good draught of Beere or Ale then put in a little Powder of English Saffron and a little Iett powdered and as much Treacle as an Hasell Nut and a rase of Turmerick grated then warme it Blood-warme and give it the Patient to drinke and let him fast iii. houres after A Powder for a Stitch. 23 R. For a Man the Leaves of shee Holly for a woman of Hee Holly dry them and powder them and put thereof into your drinke or broth Waters CHAP. XXXVI A good Water for Heates and Inflammations of the Eyes 1 R. Of Aloes Epatick purest Sugar Turty stone powdered ana â„¥ i. red Rosewater white Wine ana lib. ii in a double Glasse set them in Balneo Maria five or sixe dayes often shaking it about A Water to cleanse a filthy cankerous Vlcer 2 R. Plantaine water red Rose water ana lib. i. Iuice of Night shade Houseleeke and Plantaine ana â„¥ iiii red Roses m. ss Myrtles Cypresse Nuts ana â„¥ ss of the rinde of the Pomegranate Ê’ iii. flowers of S. Iohns wort p. ii flowers of Molleyn p. i. Mastick Myrrhe Frankincense anaÊ’ i. Honey of Roses lib. i. â„¥ iiii powder that which is to be powdered and distill them all together R. of this distilled Water lib. i. therein dissolve conserve of Roses â„¥ vi and Sirrup of dry Roses â„¥ i. with Oyle of Brimstone xii drops and use it An excellent Water for the Vlceration of the Yard 3 R. Water wherein Iron hath been often quenched lib. ii red Roses â„¥ iiii Pomegranate Pills and Flowers anaÊ’ ii Plantaine Houseleeke ana â„¥ iii. ss Honey of Roses Turpentine ana lib. ss Allome â„¥ vi white Coperas Ê’ iii. boile them in a cleane vessell untill halfe bee wasted then straine it and adde Verdigrease â„¥ iii. boile them againe or if you will Filter it A Water for a Fistula 4 R. White Wine one pinte Iuice of Sage â„¥ i. Borace in Powder 3. d. weight Camphire powdered the weight of a Groate boile all together a pretty while on a gentle fire and with this Water wash the Fistula A Water for the Toothache 5 R. Red Rose leaves m. ss Pomegranate flowers m. ss Galls sliced thin n. ii boile them all in three quarters of a pinte of red Wine and halfe a pinte of faire Water untill the third part be wasted then straine it and hold a little thereof in your mouth a good while then spit out and take more also if your Cheeke swell apply the strainings betweene two Clothes as hot as may be suffered A Water for the Sight 6 R. Smallage Fennell Rue Egrimony Daffadill Pimpernell and Sage ana distill them with breast Milke and a little Frankincense and drop of it into your Eyes each night A precious Water for Sore Eyes and to restore the Sight 7 R. Smallage Rue Fennell Verveine Egrimony Scabious Avens Houndstongue Eufrace Pimpernell Sage ana
Distill all these together with a little Vrine of a Man childe and a little Frankincense and drop it into the Eyes at Night A Water for a Sore Mouth 8 R. Red Fennell red Sage Daisie rootes Woodbine leaves ana m. i. Roche Allome Ê’ i. English Honey one spoonfull boile them together in a pinte of Water and wash the mouth therewith A precious Water for Sore Legs and for the Canker in the Mouth or any other place 9 R. Of Woodbine leaves Ribwort Plantaine Abinte ana m. i. English Honey purified three spoonfulls Roche Allome a quantity put all these into a quantity of running Water and let it seethe to a Pottle or lesse then keepe the Water in a pure Earthen vessell well glased and wash the Sore therewith twice a day A Water for a Canker 10 R. The Barke of an Elder tree Sorrell Sage ana beate them and straine them and temper the Iuice with White Wine and wash the Sore therewith A Water to take away Pimples or Heate in the Face 11 R. A spoonfull of burnt Allome and put it into a sawcerfull of good white Wine Vinegar and stir it well together and when you goe to bed dip a linnen Cloth in the Vinegar and wet your Face therewith and it will dry up the Wheales and take away Rednesse A Water for to cleare the Face 12 R. Limons n. ii slice them and steepe them in a pinte of Conduite water let them infuse foure or five daies close covered then straine them and dissolve in the Water the quantity of a Hasell Nut of Sublimate some hold a Dram a good proportion finely powdered let the Patient wet a Cloth therein and rub her face every Morning and Evening untill the hewe doe please her you may make the same stronger or weaker as you please A Water for the Morphewe 13 R. White Wine Vinegar q. i. Distill it to a pint then put therein Egges with the shels n. ii râ—d Docke rootes scraped and sliced n. ii three spoonfulls of the flower of Brimstone so let it stand three dayes before you use it you must tye a little Wheat Bran in a Cloth and wash therewith Night and Morning nine daies together Another Water for the same 14 First to bring the Morphewe out R. every Morning fasting the quantity of a Nut of Treacle either in Strawberry or Fumetary water for nine or ten Mornings together Then R. Sulphur vivum â„¥ ss and as much Camphire finely beaten and searced infuse both in a pinte of the strongest white Wine Vinegar shake it twice or thrice for one day then use it to rub the place tainted A Water for heate in the Face and to cleare the Skin 15 R. The Iuice of Limons and therein dissolve common Salt and with a Cloth wet your Face when you goe to bed A Water to preserve the Face young a great while 16 R. Of Sulphur vivum â„¥ i. white Olibanum â„¥ ii Myrrhe â„¥ ii Ambre Ê’ vi make them all into fine powder and put them into one pound of Rosewater and distill them in Balneo Mariae and keepe the Water in a close vessell when you would use it wet a linnen Cloth therein and wash the Face before you goe to bed and in the Morning wash it with Barley water or Spring water The Water of Beane flowers Lillie flowers Water Lillies distilled Milke distilled Water of young Whelpes are good to wash the face and procure it lovely A Water to make the face Smooth and Lovely 17 R. Of Cowes Milk lib. ii Oranges and Limons ana n. iiii of the whitest and purest Sugar and Roche Allome ana â„¥ i. distill them together let the Limons and Oranges be cut into slices and infused in the Milke adding the Sugar and Allome then distill them all in Balneo Mariae and you shall have an excellent Water to wash the Face and about bed time you shall cover your face with clothes dipped therein Another for the same 18 R. Snails gathered in a Vineyard Iuice of Limons the flowers of white Mullaine mixed together in equall proportion with a like quantity of the Liquor contained in the Bladders of Elme leaves distilled all together is very good for the same purpose Also this 19 R. The crummes of white Bread lib. iiii Beane flowers white Roses flowers of water Lillies and Flower de luce ana lib. ii Cowes Milke lib. vi Egges nu viii of the purest Vinegar lib. i. distill them all in an Alimbeck of Glasse and you shall have a most excellent Water to wash your Hands and Face Another 20 R. A live Capon and the Cheese newly made of Goates Milke and Limons n. iiii Egges n. vi Cerus washed in Rose water â„¥ ii Boras â„¥ i. ss Camphire Ê’ ii Water of Beane flowers lib. iiii infuse them all for the space of foure and twenty houres and then distill them in a Limbeck of Glasse Also take Mutton bones severed from the flesh by boiling beate them and boile them in Water and when they are well boiled take them from the fire and when the Water is cold gather the fat that swims upon it and therewith anoint your Face when you goe to bed and wash it in the Morning with the formerly prescribed Water A Water for Rednesse and Pimples in the Face which for the Milky whitenesse is called Virgins Milk 21 R. Litharge of Gold â„¥ ii Cerus and common Salt ana â„¥ ss Vinegar and Plantaine water ana â„¥ ii Camphire Ê’ ss steepe the Litharge and Cerus severally in Vinegar for three houres and the Salt and Camphire in what Water you please and like best for your purpose then Filter them both severally and mixe them so Filtered when as you would use them To make a pretious Water 22 R. Cloves Cinamon ana â„¥ i. Mastick Mace Camphire ana â„¥ ii beate all these to fine Powder and let them stand in sixe spoonfull of good white Wine Vinegar the space of foure and twenty houres then put it into a Pottle of good Rose water and so let it stand two dayes in some warme place then put thereto three quarters of a pound of good hard Sugar and distill it with a gentle fire This Water is pleasant and good for the mouth it preserveth the Gums and scoureth the Pallate and keepeth white the Teeth and free from all corruption it maketh sweet the breath being gargarized in the Mouth wash the Face and Hands therewith and it will cleare the skin and adde much beauty to them and if you sprinkle a toste of wheaten Bread with three or foure drops of this Water and eate it a few Nights together last to bedward it will make the breath very sweet To make Aqua mirabilis 23 R. Galingale Cloves Quibibes Ginger Mellilot Cardemony Maces Nutmegs anaÊ’ i. of the Iuice of Celandine â„¥ viii powder the Spices and mingle them with the Iuice and adde thereto Aqua vitae one pinte and white Wine three pintes then put them all in a Stillatory
of Glasse and let them infuse all Night and in the Morning distill it with an easie fire This Water helpeth much the Lungs and healeth them if they be much wounded or perished it suffereth not the Blood to putrifie so that there shall be no need of Phlebotomy it is good against Phlegme and Melancholy and expelleth Rheume mightily and purgeth the Stomack it comforteth youth in his owne estate and gendreth a good colour and conserveth their Visage and Memory it destroyeth the Palsey of the Liver and Tongue and if the said Water be given to a man or woman labouring towards death one spoonfull relieveth of all Waters artificiall this is counted the best and in the Summer use once a weeke fasting the quantity of a spoonfull and in Winter as much more A Water for a Canker in the Mouth 24 R. The inner barke of an Elder tree and boile it with white wine Vinegar then straine it and put into it a good quantity of Honey and a race of Ginger grated boile them together a pretty while then take a Cloth and wash the Mouth therewith and it will heale the Canker A Water for sore Eyes 25 R. A good handfull of yong red Fennel as much Eyebright Sugar candy the quantity of a Walnut as much white Coperas as a Beane boile all these in a pint of running Water till halfe be consumed in a well leaded Earthen Vessell then straine it and let it settle then put the clearest into a Glasse and drop it into your Eyes as you have need For sore Eyes 26 R. An Egge and roste it hard then cleave it and take out the Yolke and fill the hole with white Coperas and presse it hard in a cleane Cloth and wash your Eyes with the Water A Water for a Webb or Pearle in the Eye 27 R. Strong Eysell or Vinegar and put it in a vessell of Brasse with black Sloes of the hedge Lead and Wormwood and let them stand well covered nine or ten daies then draine out the Water and keep it to your use and when you have occasion put a drop into the corner of the Eye To make Eysell 28 R. A quantity of Beane flower and knead it with Vinegar and bake it then take it out of the Oven and wash it all over with Vinegar and bake it againe doe thus twice or thrice and when it is well soked with Vinegar put it into Wine and it will turne it into Eysell A precious Water for dimnesse of Sight 29 R. Roche Allome and powder it small and put it into a quantity of faire running Water and let it stand an houre to dissolve then put a little Brasse pot into the Earth to the brim and cover it with a cleane linnen Cloth and let the Water with Allome run through the Cloth into the pot and then put to it a little quantity of Quicksilver to a pinte of Water halfe an ounce and alwaies keepe it covered then put another little vessell on the top of the Cloth and make in it a little easie fire with Coales for an houre then put this Water in a Glasse and put away the Quicksilver and with this Water anoint the Eyes A Water for the Humour which falls into the Eyes 30 R. Of red Rose water â„¥ vi white Wine â„¥ vi Eye-bright water â„¥ vi Lapis TutiaeÊ’ iii. Aloes Epaticke Ê’ iii. fine white Sugar powdered Ê’ iiii put all these in a Glass with a narrow mouth and Sun them for one Moneth and shake them once or twice a day make it in the hottest time of the yeare A Drinke to purge away Gravell breeding in the Kidnies 31 R. Greene Parseley white Saxifrage Pairestone hearbe Ashen leaves ana m. i. Eringoe Rootes m. ii sliced and pound beate all together in a Mortar and boile them with sixe Gallons of Ale or Beere wort as Beere and Ale is boiled then worke it as Beere and tunne it up in a vessell to draw out and after it hath stood three or foure dayes drinke a pinte every Morning only if it be too sharpe sweeten it with Sugar A Water to be used in extremity of the Stone when it stoppeth the Water 32 R. The small River fish called a Gudgin wash them cleane and boile them in Water with Parseley Harts tongue browne Fennell and Way-broad leaves till they be all to pieces then straine it upon a Table Napkin held between two men rubbing it up and down upon it till the Iuice be fully out set the Liquor on the fire and put therein a pennyworth of round Pepper two pennyworth of Sugar and a little sweet Butter boile it againe very well and give the Patient to drinke in extremity or take a little thereof Mornings and Evenings if the body be subject to Gravell A Water to destroy any Pearle or Webb or any Blood shotten in the Eyes 33 R. Of Maidenhaire Ground Ivy ana m. i. Archangell flowers a quarter of a handfull wash them and swing them cleane from the water and stampe them small and straine them with a little strong Ale and with a feather drop three or foure drops into the Eye three times a day at Morning Evening and Night A Water for the Stone 34 R. Halfe a Gallon of Milke from the Cow then take Saxifrage Parseley Pellitary of the Wall Mothertime greene Sage Radish rootes ana m. i. steepe them over Night and distill them in the Morning and take hereof vi spoonefulls as much white Wine and the third part of a Nutmeg rosted and drinke it in the Morning fasting Doctor Stevens his Aqua composita 35 R. A Gallon of Gascoigne wine Ginger Galingale Nutmegs Cinamon Cloves Mace and Graines Aniseeds Fennell seeds and Carraway seeds anaÊ’ i. Sage red Mints red Rose leaves Time Pellitary of Spaine Rosemary wilde Time Camomill Lavender ana m. i. beate the Spices small bruise the hearbes letting them stand in the Wine twelve houres then distill them in a Limbeck and keepe the first Water by it self which will be about a pint then take the second Water which is good but not so good as the first This Water comforteth the Vitall spirits and cureth inward diseases engendred of cold and helpeth the Palsey the Contraction of Sinewes it maketh women apt for Conception and killeth Wormes in the body sendeth forth the Stone in the Bladder cureth the cold Cough and Toothache and calefieth a cold Stomack it is good against the Dropsie Stone in the Kidnies stinking Breath and preserveth youth and good colour very long if it be not used too often To procure Beauty and cleanse the Face or Hands 36 R. An olde Capon pluck him and take out his Garbage and make him very cleane within with a dry Cloth but wash him not then fill the body full of the Iuice and Meate of Limons then R. of Fennell m. i. Cloves nu xii bruised Camphire â„¥ i. lay your Camphire in water till it be dissolved then put one spoonfull of Water with all
the rest into the Capon then distil it in an Earthen distillatory and you shall have a precious Water A red Water to cure Vlcers 37 R. Of the Ashes of Ashe wood one Peck a Gallon and a halfe of water make thereof a Gallon of Lie put to it one Gallon of Tanowse not used with any Leather one pound of Madder crumbled smal into the Tanowse and roche Allome lib. ss boile these to the halfe upon a soft fire then let it run through a Canvasse bag and after you have washed the Sore therewith wet a Cloth therein and lay it upon the Sore it both cleanseth and healeth A Water to coole the Liver 38 R. Savory Endive Borage Sorrell ana m. i. Leekes Violet leaves Buglos Liverwort ana m. ss boile all these in running Water to the consumption of halfe then scum it and straine it then set it upon the fire againe and boile it gently and put thereto of Vinegar â„¥ ii as much Sugar as will make it pleasant to drink and keep it in a Violl for your use For sore Eyes 39 R. Of Lapis Calaminaris the quantity of a Walnut put it in the fire until it be red hot then quench it in a little white or Rhenish Wine and so doe for seven times then put it into a Marble morter and beate it exceeding small then put the same into sixe or eight spoonfulls of red Rose water in a small Glasse and take a little piece of a Spunge tyed to a thred and hang it in the Water and when you would use it shake it that the thicknesse in the bottome of the Glasse may run unto the Spunge then opening the Eye drop therein a drop or two out of the Spunge doe this two or three times a day and it will ease the Sorenesse and cure the Blood-shot A Water for a Sore Mouth to be made in May for all the yeare 40 R. Vnsett Hyssope Plantaine Violet leaves Cullumbine leaves Strawberry leaves Cinkefoile leaves Woodbine leaves red Rose leaves dryed ana m. i. a good piece of roche Allome burnt three spoonfulls of Hony a pottle of running Water bruise all the hearbes and put them into the Water and boile them in a Pipkin from a Pottle to a Quart then take blew Figs sliced in the middle nu ii put them into the Pipkin and cover it with a Paper and set it in the Sun foure or five daies or more and then straine it and put it into a Glasse A Water for a bruised Eye 41 R. The Iuice of Daisie rootes being cleane washed and dryed the Iuice of Fennell the white of an Egge well beaten ana Rose water a little temper all these together then take a little Pledget of Flaxe wet therein and lay on the Eye but first drop a drop or two of the Water into the Eye Another for dim Eyes 42 R. Ground Ivy Celandine Daisies ana Stampe them and straine them and put thereto a little Rose water and drop a little into the Eyes with a Feather It cureth Inflammations Spots Webs Itch Smarting or any other griefe in the Eyes To make Hydromell or Honied Water 43 R. Of Fountaine water lib. xv fine Honey lib. i. mixe all in one pot adding a little Fennell and a handfull of Eyebright tie all together with a thred and put it into the pot and let it seeth untill the third part of the Water be consumed and in the seething scumme it cleane To make a good Ptisan 44 R. A pot of Brasse or Earth and put therein a Gallon of faire water and one handfull of Hyssop and two spoonfulls of Honey then take Licoras â„¥ ss and beate it well and put it into the pot and boile them all together a quarter of an houre then straine it and let it stand untill it be cold and drinke thereof last when thou goest to bed and it will Coole and Moisten and drive the Phlegme from thy Stomack and profit thee very much A Water to heale any Sore Leg. 45 R. Running water one quart Allome roche as much as an Egge bay Salt a spoonfull or somewhat more if it be full of dead flesh Wheate flowre to the quantity of an Egge beate the white of an Egge the Flowre and bay Salt together and put it into the Water as it boileth with a branch of Rosemary stirring it continually In using this Water doe thus three times in the day wet Clothes and lay on the Wound in the Morning wet them with the Water to loosen them from the Sore and then dresse them and so againe at Noone and Night Water of Coperas 46 R. Coperas grinde it all to Powder then put a little Water to it and so let it stand a Day and a Night then straine it through a Cloth this Water is good for sore Eyes Canker in the Mouth and Noli me tangere For the Spots of the Morphew a Water 47 R. Foure Egges roste them hard and put them all broken into a pinte pot to a pinte of Vinegar and let it stand so three Dayes and three Nights well stopped and then cleanse it through a linnen Cloth and wash the Spots therewith till they be away To take away the roote of the Morphew 48 R. Of Fumetary m. viii Borage Scabious ana m. iiii bray them together in a Mortar and put thereto a Pottle of cleane Whey then straine them and set them on the fire till the scum rise then take it off and straine it and then set them over the fire againe and put thereto a good quantity of clarified Honey and boile them well together as long as any scumme will rise take hereof a good draught in a Morning An excellent Water to help Pimples in the Face and it is good for sore Eyes and Pearles in the Eyes or any Ache in the Head Shoulders or Knees 49 R. A pinte of white Wine white Coperas Ê’ ii Allome â„¥ ss Camphire and Brimstone anaÊ’ ii beate all these very small in a Mortar and then put it into the Wine and shake it all together halfe an houre and let it stand two dayes before you use it you may keepe it a whole yeare When you Bathe any Ache with it heat a little thereof in a Sawcer and with a Cloth bathe the Member at the fire A Drinke against the small Poxe or any Feaver 50 R. Of the herbe Scabious m. ss Figs dry nu vi Licoras â„¥ ss slice them and boile them in a pinte of Springwater to the consumption of halfe then adde a penniworth of Saffron hereof take three spoonfulls in the Morning warme A Drinke against the Plague Poxe Measells and other infectious Diseases 51 R. Three pintes of Malmesey and boile therein of Sage and Rue ana m. i. till one pinte be wasted then straine it and set it on the fire againe and put thereto one penniworth of long Pepper halfe an ounce of Ginger a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs all beaten together let it boile a little and
purely Vesalius his Balsame 5 R. Of the best Turpentine lib. 1. Oyle of Bay â„¥ iiii Galbanum â„¥ iii. Gumme Elemi â„¥ iiii ss Frankincense Myrrhe Gumme of Iop great Centory wood of Aloes ana â„¥ iii. Galingale Cloves Comfrey Cinamon Nutmegs Zedoary Ginger white Ditanie ana â„¥ i. Oyle of Earth-wormes â„¥ ii Aqua vitae lib. vi beate all these small and infuse them three daies in Aqua vitae then distill them in a Retort of such largenesse that three parts thereof may remaine empty then place the Retort in an earthen Pan filled with sifted Ashes and set it upon the Fornace and to the neck thereof fit and closely lute a Receiver Lastly kindle under it a soft fire at the first from hence will flow three Liquors the first waterish and cleare the other thinne and of a pure golden colour the third of the colour of a Carbuncle which is the true Balsame the first Liquor cuts flegme and discusses Flatulencies is good against the weaknesse of the Stomack comming of a cold cause the second helps hot and fresh bleeding Wounds the third is chiefly effectuall against these same affects Fallopius his Balsame 6 R. Of cleere Turpentine lib. ii Linseed Oyle lib. i. Rosin of the Pine â„¥ vi Frankincense Myrrhe Aloes Masticke Sarcocoll Mace Wood of Aloes ana â„¥ ii Saffron â„¥ ss let them be put in a Glasse retort set in Ashes and so distilled there will come forth a cleere Water and presently after a reddish Oyle most profitable for Wounds A very good Balme 7 R. Of Turpentine lib. i. ss Galbanum â„¥ ii Aloes Cicatrine Masticke Cloves Galingale Cinamon Nutmegs Cubebs ana â„¥ i. Gumme of Iop â„¥ ss beat them all and mixe them together and distill them in a Glasse with a slow fire first and receive the first Water severally by it selfe then encrease the fire and you shall have a Water more reddish then encrease your fire and you shall have a red Oyle your Receiver must be thrice changed This Oyle hath all the vertues of true Balme for it burneth in the Water and curdeth Milke the first Liquor is called the Water of Balme the second Oyle of Balme the third Balme Artificiall the first is good against the running of the Eares if two drops Morning and Evening be put into them dropt into the Eyes it helpeth the Blearednesse and consumeth the Teares it is good to wash the mouth against the Toothache and Wormes in the Teeth the third Liquor is good against Venome and poyson if two or three drops be laid upon it and if you inclose any venemous thing within a Circle made herewith the Creature will rather die then come out it is good against Impostumes Fistulaes and Noli me tangere and all cold Flegmaticke humours if a cloth be wet therein and laid upon it it availeth against the Palsey and trembling of the Members Bathes CHAP. XXXIX A Bathe for a Rupture 1 R. Of the Barke and Flowers of Pomegranates Cups of Acornes Shumac ana â„¥ i. Larkes spurre Comfry ana m. i. Hypocistis Galls Allom ana Ê’ ii Roses Camomill anise ana p. ii boyle them in equall portions of Red Wine and Smithes Water with the Decoction Bathe the place affected A Bathe for Diseases in the Legs called Malum mortuum 2 R. Of sowre Sorrell of Fumetary ana m. ii nip m. i. Barley Branne Lupines ana m. i. ss Violets Mallowes ana m. ss white and black Elebor ana â„¥ i. ss Hony â„¥ ii let them boyle in a sufficient quantity of Water till the third part be consumed A Bathe for the Stone 3 R. Of Hyssop Mallowes Parseley Pellitory of the Wall ana m. i. Linseed â„¥ ss Saxifrage m. i. put them in a cloth and boyle them in a sufficient quantity of Water and make a Bathe A Bathe for a Consumption 4 R. Of new Calves Heads nu vi with the Gathers and Feet as many Sheepes Heads all as well dressed as if they were to be eaten boyle them in Water in a great Vessell or for need in two and make a Bath which let the Sicke use every other day at Evening and Morning an houre at a time thus use it every time fresh for nine times together A Bath for the retention of Womens Visits 5 R. Of Mallowes halfe a Pecke as much Plantaine as much of Elder leaves Mugwort and Motherwort ana m. iiii Wormwood Rue Featherfew ana m. ii Camomill halfe a Pecke as much Red Sage boyle them in Water untill they be soft then put into it Bay-berries â„¥ ii Cominseeds â„¥ ii make a Bath wherein let the Patient sit up to the Pappes A Bathe to soften and mollifie the Skinne 6 R. The Rootes of white Lillies and Marshmallowes ana lib. ii Mallowes Pellitory of the Wall Violets ana m. ss Linseed Fenugreeke Marshmallowes ana lib. i. Flowers of Camomill Melilot and anise ana p. vi boyle them in a sufficient quantity of Water after adde Oyle of Lillies and Flaxe ana lib. ii make hereof a Bath that the Sicke may swimme therein a good while You may see the Figure of your Bathing Tub in Parreye's Chirurgery with the double Personated Bottome to which I referre you Observations for those that Bathe 7 It is not good to use Bathing too often for it offendeth the Heart causeth Sincope taketh away the Appetite looseth the Ioynts resolveth the Spirits and moveth the Humours After what manner soever your Bathes be made they must alwayes be warme for warm Water humects and mollifies the solid parts if at any time they be too dry or hard it is good against Sun-burning and Wearinesse also if we finde our selves too hot or too cold or loathing of Meats we find great profit in Bathes made of sweet warme Water Herein wee usually adde Oyle because Water alone will not so long adhere to the Body they are good in Hecticke Feavers and in the declension of all Feavers and against raving and talking idlely for they procure sleepe against inflammation of the Lungs and Sides for they mitigate paine For Bathes we chuse Raine Water rather then River Water so it be not muddy and then Fountaine the Water of Lakes and Fennes is not to be used First you must fill your Vessell with your Decoction warme almost full and so let the Sicke goe into it in the Morning fasting or sixe houres after Meat cover the Tub close with a Goverlet or Blanket all but the Patients Head that he may take breath For the time of the yeare chuse the Spring and latter end of Summer a cleare warme day a close quiet roome and warme Whiles the Patient is in the Bathe he must abstaine from all meate unlesse to comfort his heart and keepe him from fainting he take a little sop in Wine or the Iuyce of an Orenge or a stewed Pruine or the like to quench his thirst The strength of the Patient will shew how long he may stay in the Bathe for he must not stay in to the
resolution of his powers comming out of the Bathe he must be taken up in a cleane warme Sheet and so laid in a warme bed and cloathes enough upon him to make him sweat easily after hee hath sweat so long as he can well endure take the Sheet from him and dry him well with warme Napkins chiefly his Head under his Armes Breast and Root of his Thighes then let him rest in his Bed an houre or two and when he is well refreshed give him a cleane Shirt that is dry and warme and let him rise and walke but let the Chamber be kept very warme then let him feed upon meates of good juyce and digestion after Bathe use not Venery for Bathing use such Hearbs as are most convenient for the Disease the Patient is affected with the Ordinary sort of Hearbes which are used in the Spring are these Mallowes Marshmallowes Violets Pellitory of the Wall Fumetary Angelica Roses Betony Fennell Barefoote Dragon Plantaine Buglosse Agrimony Harts-tongue which are sodden in Water and made into a Bathe after the Bathe dry well the Head and eate not of two houres after CHAP. XL. Of Stoves and Hot-houses SToves are either dry or moist dry by making a fire underneath or moist by causing a moist Vapour or heate from some decoction of Leaves Hearbes Flowers or Seedes in Water or Wine or both together the dry Stoves are used in many places in London by making a cleare fire underneath that presently heates all the roome by reason of a vaulted Furnace wherein the fire playes of this kinde every one may make himselfe one as he shall judge best and fittest the most necessary for private uses I shall delineate to you in this Figure following The Figure of a Stove to sweat in with a hole to put out the Head and a drawing Boxe underneath to put in Coales or a hot Wedge of iron it must have a seat within for the Patient to sit on so high that his feet touch not below for feare of burning A shewes the hole in the top B the dore to shut in the Drawer with Coales and C shewes the little doore whereat to give the Patient warme Clothes to dry off the Sweat The moist Stoves are made in an ordinary Bathing Tub by putting the decoction into a Pot and setting it over the fire well luted with a Pipe that shall come into the Bathing-tub standing neere thereto which Tub must have a double bottome the uppermost being full of holes whereupon the Patient sitting may receive the Sudorificke Vapour now that the heat may be mitigated when it is too hot you must have a hole in the top of your Pipe to be stopped opened at your pleasure Let the Tub be covered all but the Patients Head Electuaries CHAP. XLI To make an Electuary of the Iuyce of Roses 1 R. Of the Iuyce of fresh dry Roses white Suger ana lib. i. ss boyle them into a solid Electuary with an easie fire and in the end sprinkle powdered Sanders Masticke Cinamon all finely powdered ana ʒ ii Diacridium ℥ i. ss Camphire ℈ ss make Tablets in weight ʒ iii. ss the Dose is one Tablet the whole composition is ℥ xxii the Doses be about 70. It doth draw Choler very strongly and also thinne and watrish humours very good for those that have the Gout if they have not a vehement Ague withall To make Diaphaenicon 2 R. Of the Pulpe of Dates cleansed boyled in Hydromell and fined in a Sive fresh Penids ana lib. ss blancht Almonds ℥ iii. ss when they be bruised and mingled all together put into them clarified Hony lib. ii boyle them a little and then sprinkle Ginger Pepper Mace Cinamon Leaves of dry Rue Fennell seed and seed of wilde Carrets ana ʒ ii Turbith finely beat ℥ iiii Diacridium ℥ iiii ss the Dose is from ʒ iii. to ℥ ss the whole composition is about lib. iiii the Doses about 130. This Electuary doth mildly purge Choler Crude and slimie Flegme agreeable and convenient in continuall Agues and Diseases arising of Crudity and also for the Cholicke To make the Electuary called Benedicta 3 R. Of Turbith ʒ x. Diacridium Hermodactills red Roses anaʒ v. Cloves Ginger Saxifrage Parseley seed Salt Gemme Galingall Mace Carrawayes Fennell-seed Sparagus seed and Seed of Kneeholme or wilde Myrrhe Millet the four great cold seeds Licoras ana ʒ i. of the best clarified Honey lib. i. make it up according to Art the Dose is from ʒ iii. to ℥ ss the whole composition is almost lib. ii the Doses be about 50. It draweth forth Phlegmaticke Humours it purgeth the Rheines and expelleth the Stone and Gravell To make the Electuary called Confectio Hamech 4 R. The Barke of yellow Mirabolanes ℥ ii little Onions black Violets Coloquintida Polipody of the Oake ana ℥ i. ss Woormewood Thyme ana ℥ ss Aniseed Fennell seed red Roses anaʒ iii. bruise them all and soake them in Whey lib. ii then boyle them to a pound rub them in your hand and wring them to the strained decoction adde the juyce of Fumetary the Pulpe of Pruines and Raisins ana lib. ss white Sugar clarified Honey ana lib. i. boyle them to the thicknesse of Honey sprinkling in the end Agaricke and Sene beaten fine ana ℥ ii Rubarb beaten ℥ i. ss Dodder that groweth upon Thyme ℥ i. Diacridium ʒ vi Cinamon ℥ ss Ginger ʒ ii Seed of Fumetary and Anise Spikenard ana ʒ i. the Dose is from ʒ iii. to halfe an ounce the whole composition is lib. iii. and ℥ viii the Doses be about 80. This Electuary purgeth Melancholy and other humours adust and is good against Madnesse Melancholy Giddinesse Forgetfulnesse and all faults of the Skinne as Scabbes Morphew Canker Tetter and Elephantiasis To make an Electuary called Hiera Simplex 5 R. Cinamon Mace A sarabacca Spikenard Saffron Masticke ana ʒ vi Aloes unwashed ʒ 100 or lib. i. ss the best clarified Honey lib. iiii the Powder alone is ministred from ʒ ii to ʒ iii. but being taken in Honey from ℥ i. to ℥ i. ss It is more comfortable then purging it purgeth Choler and Phlegme from the stomacke and Intrailes it doth mildely helpe all Diseases proceeding of Crudity and also the Palenesse of the Face An Electuary for a Cough or Cold. 6 R. Of Germander Hyssop Horehound Maidenhaire Agrimony Betony Liverwort and Harts-tongue ana m. i. boyle them in nine pints of water to the consumption of sixe then let it coole and straine it to this decoction put of clarified Honey lib. ss fine Powder of Licoras ℥ v. Enulacampana roote powdered ℥ iii. boyle them to the thicknesse of an Electuary take of this at any time but especially in the morning fasting and at night when you goe to bed or two houres after Supper the quantity of a Nutmeg The Electuary of an Egge commonly called Electuarium de ovo against the Plague 7 R. A new laid Hennes Egge make a little hole in the least end of it no
and penetrates into all the parts of the Body and also after a Purgation it provoketh sweat and corrects the malice of all humours To make Sirrup of Vinegar compound 3 The Sirrup of Vinegar compound is made by boyling Hearbes Rootes or Seedes in Water and of the Decoction to make a Sirrup with Vinegar and Sugar the Hearbes or Seedes ought to be such as are fittest to prepare the humour you intend to purge To make Catholicum simplex 4 R. Of the rootes of Enula Campana Buglosse Cichorie or wilde Endive Marshmallowes Polipodie of the Oake seed of Bastard Saffron all beaten ana â„¥ ii Hyssop Staechados Bawme Agrimony Mugwort Betony Scolopendria or Stoneferne ana m. ii Raisins stoned â„¥ iii. of the foure great cold Seedes Aniseedes Licoras ana Ê’ iii. boyle all these according to Art in lib. x. of Hydromell which is xv lib. of water boyled with lib. i. of Honey skummed cleane as it boyles till three pounds be consumed then straine the Decoction and macerate therein the space of xii houres the cleansed leaves of Sene beaten â„¥ iiii the Sirrup of the infusion of pale Roses lib. i. of the best clarified Honey lib. ii boile them with an easie fire unto the thicknesse of Honey putting into it last of all of the best Rubarbe and purest Cinamon ana â„¥ i. yellow Sanders â„¥ i. Nutmegs Ê’ ii the Dose is â„¥ i. the whole composition is lib. iiii the Doses be about 50. This doth purge all humours gently from all parts of the Body and may be given to women with childe old folke or children either with an Ague or without To make Catholicum Majus 4 R. Of the foure great cold Seedes cleansed of white Poppy seed ana Ê’ i. Gumme Dragant Ê’ iii. red Roses Yellow Sanders Cinamon ana Ê’ ii Ginger Ê’ i. of the best and choisest Rubarbe Diacridium ana â„¥ ss Agaricke Turbith ana Ê’ ii white Sugar dissolved in Rose water in the which â„¥ ii of the leaves of Sene have beene incocted lib. i. let Tables be compounded of weight Ê’ iii. the Dose is one Table the whole composition is lib. i. ss the Doses be about 50. It gathereth humours from all places of the Body more forcibly without disturbance of the body or strength To make a Sirrup of white Roses by infusion 6 R. Of the Water of infusion of white Roses lib. v. clarified Sugar lib. iiii boyle them with a lent fire to the thicknesse of a Sirrup soake lib. ii of Fresh white Roses in lib. vi of warme water twelve houres covered instead of these put in other fresh Roses then wring those out and put in other fresh Roses nine or tenne times untill the water have the strength of the Roses in which the Sugar must be dissolved This Sirrup draweth from the Entrailes thinne Choler and waterish humors to be given to children and old folkes and those that are sicke Sirrup of the Iuice of Lemmons 7 The Sirrup of the juyce of Lemmons of Citrons of Oranges of unripe Grapes of Pomegranates of Sorrell of Ribes or red Gooseberries the order of making them is all alike for the juyce of every one of them must be purged by running through a Woollen Strainer freely without compulsion and to every vii lib. of Iuyce adde of good white Sugar lib. 5. and boile them in a Tinne Vessell on a soft fire to a Sirrup The Sirrup of the Iuyce of Lemmons doth asswage heate and thirst and restraineth corruption in Feavers it defendeth the Stomacke Heart and Noble parts it purgeth the Kidneyes and provoketh Vrine Sirrup of Citrons doth the like the Sirrup of Pomegranates corroborates the Stomacke the Spleene Liver and Lungs and restraineth vomiting Sirrup of Oranges is more pleasant Sirrup of unripe Grapes doth more quench thirst Sirrup of the Iuyce of Sorrell doth allay Choler and open obstructions the Sirrup of red Gooseberries is more sweet in taste and more astringent Oxymel simple 8 R. Of the clearest Water and of the best Honey ana lib. iiii boyle them untill halfe the Water be consumed then poure in of very sharpe Vinegar lib. ii and let them be boyled againe to a Sirrup it doth extenuate grosse humours and scoure slimy matter and open old obstructions and Asthma that is obstructions of the Lungs with Flegme whereof ariseth shortnesse of Wind. Sirrup of Endive 9 R. Of fresh Endive Lettice Agrimony Garden Succory Liverwort Sowthistle Hawkeweed ana m. i. ss of the foure great cold Seedes ana â„¥ i. red and white Sanders red Roses bruised ana Ê’ ii boyle them in lib. viii of Water to the halfe then straine it and to the decoction put of white Sugar lib. iiii seeth them all together againe and scumme and fine them as they boyle then adde of the Iuyce of Endive purged by setling lib. i. afterwards of the pure Iuyce of Pomegranates without dregs â„¥ iiii boyle them all to a Sirrup It cooles purges and corroborates the Liver and is good after Purgations Sirrup of Harts-tongue 10 R. Of Oake Ferne Rootes of both kindes of Buglosse the barke of the root of the Caper bush Barks of Tamariske ana â„¥ ii Harts-tongue m. iii. Maydenhaire Balmemint Hoppes Dodder ana m. ii boyle them in lib. ix of Water untill there remaine v. straine it and put to the decoction of white Sugar lib. iiii boyle them and fine them to a Sirrup It is good against Melancholly and abateth the Swelling of the Spleene Sirrup of dry Roses 11 R. Of Water lib. iiii make it warme and infuse in it for the space of xx iiii houres red Roses dried lib. i. straine it and dissolve therein white Sugar lib. ii then boyle them to a Sirrup It doth mitigate the hot Diseases of the Braine asswages thirst strengthens the Stomacke causeth Sleepe and stayeth Fluxes of the Belly agglutinates and mundifies Vlcers Sirrup of Poppy 12 R. the Heads of white Poppie not throughly riped and new â„¥ viii the Heads of blacke Poppy fresh gathered â„¥ vi Aqua Coelestis lib. iiii boyle them to the consumption of halfe and put thereinto Sugar and Penids ana â„¥ viii boyle them to a Sirrup It is good against Catarrhes and Coughes mitigateth the heate of the forehead helpeth Frenzies and Watchings and so procureth Sleepe To make Diacodion 13 R. The heads of white Poppy neither the greatest nor ripest nu xii Aqua Coelestis lib. ii boyle them to the thid part and when it is strained put thereto of the best Sapa that is new Wine boyled to the third part â„¥ iiii of the purest Honey â„¥ ii boyle all these together and in the end of the Decoction put red Roses Flowers of Pomegranates Acatia Sumach ana Ê’ ii Seed of Purselaine white and red Corrall ana Ê’ i. This Sirrup procureth Sleepe and helpeth the Catarrhes and stayeth all Fluxes of the Belly Sirrup of Violets compound 14 R. The fresh gathered Flowers of Violets â„¥ ii Seed of Quinces and Mallowes ana â„¥ i. Iujubes Sebestens
halfe a pinte be consumed straine it and with one pound of white Sugar candy powdered make a Sirrup A Sirrup for the cough of the Lunges 27 R. Leaves of Harts tongue nu iii. Liverwort Lungwort unset Hyssope wilde Time ana m. i. boile all these in a pottle of new Wort to a quart make a thin Sirrup with Sugar candy and drinke of it when you goe to bed and in the morning before you rise Another Sirrup for the same and to open Obstructions and help a short breath 28 R. Of unset Hyssop and Penyroyall m. iii. wash them and stamp them and to the strained juice adde the like proportion of English Honey boile it in a Pewter dish on a Chafingdish and Coales the space of half an houre untill the Iuice and Honey be well incorporated hereof let the Patient take two spoonefulls at Morning three of the Clocke and bed time and use it as long as need shall require A Sirrup for a Cold. 29 R. Of Cetrack one ounce Coltsfoot and Maidenhaire ana â„¥ i. Elecampane rootes sliced lib. i. boile them in three quarts of Water till it be wasted to one quart then straine it and with a pound of Sugar make a Sirrup secund art take of this Sirrup every night and morning Ê’ ss and as often as you cough Pilles CHAP. XLIII To make Pilles of Aristolochia 1 R. The roote of round Aristolochia â„¥ i. roote of Gentian Myrrhe anaÊ’ iii. Aloes Cinamon ana â„¥ ss Ginger Ê’ i. beate them very fine and make them up with new Oyle of sweete Almonds the dose is Ê’ i. ss they may be drunke but they are so bitter that they are more easily swallowed These Pilles are of an opening vertue scouring the Liver and Reines and are good in an olde Cough and in the suppression of womens visits also they expell the after birth and dead childe Pills of Agaricke 2 R. Of Agaricke Mastick anaÊ’ iii. root of Flower-de-luce Horebound anaÊ’ i. Turbith Ê’ v. powdered Hiera Picra â„¥ ss the pulpe of Coloquintida Sarcocoll anaÊ’ ii Myrrhe Ê’ i. Sapa as much as shall suffice to make them into a masse They purge very strongly from all parts of the body both Choler and Slimy humours but especially from the head and breast and are good against Catarrhes and old Coughes Pills called Without which I would not be 3 R. Of the best Aloes Ê’ xiiii yellow Mirabolanes Mirabolanes of India Mirabolanes Chebules Rubarbe Masticke Wormwood Roses Violets Sene Agarick Dodder anaÊ’ i. Scammony Ê’ vi ss dissolve the Scammony in the Iuice of Fennell as much as shall suffice and straine it through a Cloth and with the same Iuice mingle the said Powders finely beate These draw Choler Phlegme and Melancholy from all parts of the body but especially from the Head Eyes and Sences they preserve the sight and take away the paine and noise of the Eares Stomack Pills 4 R. Aloes Ê’ vi Mastick red Roses anaÊ’ ii make them up with the Sirrup of Roses or Wormwood These are to be taken before meate and doe purge the Stomack gently and mildly and help concoction Pills of Ruffus called common Pills or Pestilentiall 5 R. Of the best Aloes â„¥ ii of the best Myrrhe and Saffron ana â„¥ i. mingle them with Aromatick Wine and make a masse They doe much help the concoction and will not suffer the meate to putrifie and availe much against pestiferous contagions Those that would purge twice or thrice in a day or keep their bodies soluble let them take two or three little Pills as big as a Pease every morning of Aloes Rosatum or at any time when they will also there is a way to wash Aloes and so to make it into Pills very excellent to purge the Head of Phlegme whereof I shall speake hereafter As for Antidotaries Trochiskes and the like because amongst those for whom I intend this Booke such things are seldome used and therefore may more better be bought at the Apothecaries if occasion shall serve I have omitted them and considering also that so little cannot be made as sometimes is used the residue oftentimes corrupted and lost the strength before they use any againe moreover I doe not finde any but such as are in Print at large already and therefore needlesse to be here inserted Next I will shew you some things that are set downe in this Book amongst divers Simples which you cannot know unlesse you runne to the Apothecary to buy them CHAP. XLIV First Of the foure cordiall Flowers which are 1 Roses 2 Violets 3 Borage 4 Rosemary or Bawme 5 Buglosse The five Emellient hearbes are 1 Marsh-mallow Mallow 2 Beets Brankursine 3 Mercury hearbe 4 Violet Plants 5 Pellitary of the Wall The foure great hot seeds 1 Aniseed 2 Fennell seed 3 Carraway seed 4 Cummin seed The foure lesse hot seeds 1 Ammi 2 Our Ladies rose 3 Smallage or Sage 4 Daucus or wilde Carrets Pimpernell The foure great cold seeds 1 Gourds 2 Cucumbers 3 Citrons 4. Mellons The foure lesse cold seeds 1 Endive 2 Cichory 3 Lettuce 4. Porcelaine The five great common Rootes aperitive and diuretick 1 Smallage 2 Asperagus 3 Fennell 4 Parseley 5 Kneeholme or Butchers broome The two Rootes 1. Fennell 2 Parseley The foure Pleuretick Waters 1 Our Ladies Thistle 2 Sowthistle 3 Holy thistle 4 Scabious The five lesse opening Rootes 1 Grasse 2 Sea Holly 3 Capers 4 Cammocke or ground Furze 5 Madder The three Stomachiall Oyles 1 Wormwood 2 Quinces 3 Mastick The five Capillar hearbes 1 Adjanthus Black or Venus haire 2 Adjanthus White or Wall Rue 3 Golden Polytrichon 4 Common Maidenhaire 5 Scolopendria The foure hot Oyntments 1 Agrippa 2 Marshmallowes 3 Arragon 4 Martiatum The foure cold Oyntments 1 White Oyntment with Camphire 2 Of Popular Buds 3 Galens refrigerative 4 Mesue his Rosate The common hot Flowers 1 Camomill 2 Melilot 3 Flower-de-luce or Lillie The foure Ointments wherewith a Chirurgion ought to be stored 1 Basilicon which digests and ripens 2 Greene Oyntment of the Apostles to Mundifie 3 Golden Oyntment to Incarnate 4 The White to Cicatrize CHAP. XLV Notes for those that shall practise the compounding of Medicaments THose Sirrups that you make by infusion of Flowers to every pinte of Water you must adde foure ounces of Flowers and these must be done in Pipkins of earth well glased or in Vessels of Pewter or Silver with narrow mouthes that may be stopped close and not in Brasse nor Copper In making Sirrup of Roses and Violets c. which are made with many infusions it will be good that the first infusion be made with scalding water powred on them the rest of the infusions with warme water Boile your Sirrups softly upon a cleere Charcoale fire taking it from the fire when it is boiled and with a Spoone full of holes scum it cleane you shall know when it is boiled enough by the breath which comes out very strongly at first but when it is almost enough the fume
will scarce appeare at all also if you take a little in a Spoone and let it fall if it make a thread it is enough else not when it is almost cold put it in a Pot and cover it with a Paper perforated with a Needle and when it is quite cold cover it with a leather and keepe it in a temperate place To make pulp of Dates 1 R. Of Dates lib. i. part them in two and pill off the white on the inside and the skinne all over put away the stones and cut the Dates into small pieces and put them into a Skillet and powre on them of cleere Water lib. ss let them infuse in some warme place the space of three daies then take them up and beate them into a paste in a Marble Mortar and pulp it through a pulping sieve This Pulp is used in Electuaries To prepare and correct Sene. 2 R. Of the best Sene lib. i. cleanse it from the stalkes and naughty leaves and to every ounce of Sene adde of fennell seed or Aniseed Ê’ i. and powder them first your seeds and when they are well beaten then adde your Sene and beat them all well together and searse them in a covered searce that which will not passe beat againe and searse it till all be finely searsed this is used in Pilles Electuaries Powders c. and is never used otherwise then with his Correctives When you powder Myrrhe or Saffron they must be done by themselves by dropping a drop or two of Oyle Olive into the bottome of the Mortar that it may not sticke the same way you shall powder Rubarb Aloes or Assa foetida and also Scamonie but Mastich must be powdered by dropping a little rose-Rosewater into your Mortar Before you beat Camphire you must grinde ii or iii. sweet Almonds in your Mortar the like in beating Cinamon Oyles are boiled enough when if you throw a drop in the fire it burneth cleare and without cracking Plaisters are boiled enough when if you put a drop into faire water it runneth not abroad but riseth whole to the top of the Vessell those Plaisters that have Oile in them when you make them up wet your hands in faire water or white wine those that have none wet your hands in Oyle To wash and prepare Fat 's 3 R. The cakes of Fat and picke out the skin and bloudie Veines and wash it in severall waters untill the water runne from it cleere and neither fatty nor bloudie then cut it in pieces and melt it in a panne with a little water then straine it strongly through a linnen cloth and put it in a good great pot and when it is cold cover it with warme water and beate it together against the sides of the pot well then powre away that water and adde more thus doe nine times untill it hath lost the smell of Grease then wash it in Rose water and put it up To prepare Marrowes you must take them out of the bones in the beginning of Autumne and wash them and melt them and then use them as you did the Fat 's To make Hony of Raisons 4 R. Raisons of the Sunne stoned lib. ii infuse them xxiiii houres in in lib. vi of warme water then boile them to the consumption of halfe and straine it and presse it throughly and boile the decoction to the thicknesse of Honey or else to lib. iii. of the decoction adde two pound of dispumed Honey mingle it and boile it to the thicknesse of Honey Honey of Violets and Roses is thus made R. of red Rose buds lib. ii of the best and purest Honey lib. vi boile them as before To make dispumed Honey 5 You shall boile Honey that hath beene clarified with the white of an Egge untill it come to the thicknesse of Honey againe then take it from the fire and when it is coole put it up Rose Vineger 6 R. Red Rose buds almost blowne the whites and stalkes cut away gathered drie and dried in the Sunne three or foure dayes lib. i. Vineger * See this word in the Table of weights and measures Sextaries viii let them soake xl daies then straine it and adde other Roses doe thus until the savour and taste please you To make the decoction of flowers and fruits much used in purgations 7 R. Drie Figs nu v. Damaske pruines nu xv Iujubes Sebesten ana nu xx Tamarindes â„¥ i. Flowers of Roses Violets Borage and Buglosse ana Ê’ i. Venus haire Hops Endive ana m. ss Licoras Ê’ ii cut them and beat them all together and boile them in lib. iii. of Fountaine water to the consumption of the third part To make Iuice of Licoras 8 R. The Roots of Licoras full of Iuice and well cleansed and a little bruised what quantity you please macerate them three daies in Spring water in a Vessell wherein the water may stand three or foure fingers above the Licoras after this heate them at the fire and strain them then take the decoction and boile it gently untill it come to the just consistence then make it up into what fashion you will To make Aloes Rosatum 9 R. Of the best Aloes cicatrine and cleere powdered â„¥ iiii Iuice of Damaske Roses clarified lib. i. mingle them and put them in the Sunne or in a Balneo untill all the moisture be exhaled doe this foure times make it up in a masse and when you have occasion make small pilles thereof To make May Butter 10 R. Fresh Butter made in May and without salt put it in a broad earthen Vessell glased and set it in the Sunne to melt that which melts whilest the Sunne is hottest let runne through a thicke Cloth without pressing then put it againe to the Sunne doe thus untill it be white then put it up in pots To make Salt of Cerusse described in my receits for Beauties 11 R. A quantity of Cerusse grinde it into very fine Powder and infuse lib. i. in a pottle of distilled Vinegar for foure or five daies then Filter it then set that you have Filtred in a glased Earthen vessell over a gentle fire untill it concrete unto Salt The manner to prepare Goats blood wonderfull efficacious in Medicines for the Stone 12 R. A young Male Kid of a reasonable age not too young breed him up in the house with Pimpernell Smallage Parseley Fennell Bayes Ivy Lovage and all manner of hearbes that will breake the Stone and let him eate nothing else kill him in the moneth of August when the Sun is going into the signe Cancer cut his throate and receive the blood that comes out of the Arteries which you may know by the thicknesse let it congeale and throw away the water that swims on the top the rest of the blood put into an Oven when the bread is newly drawne and let it dry and then powder it To make Metheglin 13 Gather these hearbes following in the middest of Iuly and lay them to dry in the Winde
then keepe them cleane and from moulding untill Michaelmas that you make your Metheglin Saxifrage Egrimony Sentory Time browne Mints Rosemary Betony ana but of Saxifrage and Egrimony a greater quantity boile all these in Water untill it looke like Malmesey then take it from the fire and let it coole then take your poulst or combes wrought as it is and put into the Wort being blood warme temper them well together and let them run through a cleansing sieve and skumme the Waxe off very cleane then put in a new laid Hens Egge into the Wort and if it beare not the Egge put in more Combes untill it beare it then seethe it again three or foure walmes and skumme it cleane then take it off the fire and when it is cold put it into a Barrell and when it hath worked stop it up close To make Cider 14 Grinde your Apples or beate them small and straine them let the Liquor stand a while as you doe Wort then tunne it up and let not the Barrels be stopped untill it hath done working and casting out all the dregs then stop it up close if you will have it compounded with Spices you must boile such Spices in it as you have a minde to and then tun it as before Perry is made after the same manner with Peares An excellent way to wash Aloes 15 R. Of the best Aloes â„¥ ii put thereto a quarter of a pinte of the Iuice of damaske Roses and as much of the Sirrup of Violets two spoonefulls of Vinegar then set it in a warme Oven after the bread is drawne and let it so remaine untill it be dissolved then straine it hard through a faire Cloth and set it on faire Embers untill it be thicke like a Conserve stirring it divers times then R. Nutmegs Cinamon Ginger Cloves Mace Agaricke Cubebs ana one Duccate weight and as much Rubarbe bruise all these as you would for Ipocras and lay them in three quarters of a pinte of very good Muskadine three daies then straine it and after beate the Spices as small as you can and grinde them with the said Wine againe then straine it and wring it out as hard as you can then put your Wine to your Conserved Aloes and let it stand so long on warm Embers till it have drunke up all the Wine and is turned to a Conserve againe stirring it divers times then put it in a close Pot and keepe it for an excellent purging Pill to be taken once a weeke the quantity of a Beane made in Pills one houre before supper it doth cure the Headache comforteth the Stomack and hath many good and approved operations To make Lute sapientiae to lute the Receivers in distillations or to lute Pots in any decoction 16 R. Of Potters earth two parts Horse dung one part a little fine powdered Bricke and a little of the filings of Iron quick Lime with salt Water and the yolkes of Egges temper them very well together and use it If you wet a linnen Cloth in salt Water and let it dry of it selfe then wet it in the yolkes of Egges well beaten and lay it over with a little of the former lute thin and cover the pot the whites of Egges with Lime is also good 17 Bread and Honey eaten every Morning cureth a Consumption To make Honey of Roses 18 R. Of red Rose buds lib. ii of the best Honey lib. vi boile them according to art To know the vertues of hearbes in all Seasons Gather hearbes and leaves in March April May Flowers in May Iune Iuly August Seeds in September October November Rootes in December Ianuary February Preserves and Conserves CHAP. XLVI To preserve Cherries 1 GAther your Cherries in the morning and let them not be too ripe cut off the tops of the Stalkes and lay the Cherries in a pan upon a thin bed of Sugar to every pound of Cherries take a pound of Sugar and beate it very fine and ever as the Cherries boile up cast Sugar on them and scumme them not untill the scumme be ready to seethe over let them boile with a quick fire for so they will be the fairer you need not feare the breaking of them for as they coole they will close againe and seethe not above two pound at once the fewer the better and boile them rather too little then too much being sodden put them into a faire dish and let them stand till the next day and if there come any Water from them then seethe them a little more you must use a silver spoone about them which must be scoured very cleane for if you use either Ladle or knife that hath been used about flesh it will cause Mites to breed in your Cherries To preserve Quinces 2 Take Quinces and wipe them cleane and coare them into a faire platter that you may save the seeds then take cleare Conduit water and put it into a faire Earthen pot that is somewhat broad in the bottome that the Quinces may lie one by one then put in your Quinces with the Kernels and Ielly about them but no part of the Coares for it will make the Sirrup bitter then set them on the fire and let them seethe gently till the Quinces be soft and breake not then take them out and lay them in a faire dish and when they are cold pare them but let the Kernels and the Water seethe a while after the Quinces are out then take the Water and straine it cleane from the Kernels and to every pound of Quinces put a pinte of that Water and a pound of fine beaten Sugar and put the Sugar into the Liquor and stir it well untill the Sugar be melted then let it seethe and when it hath sodden a while and is scummed put in your Quinces and let them seethe very softly a good while till they be red for with long seething they will be red of themselves you must turn them often that they may be all of one colour and when you thinke they be red enough skin them cleane and when they be cold put them up To preserve Damsons Peareplums or any other kinde of Plummes 3 Gather your Damsons in a faire dry day and let them not be bruised but let them be ripe or else they will not be well coloured to every pound of Damsons take a pound of fine beaten Sugar and one spoonfull of Rosewater you must put your Damsons in a faire great pan one by one and not above a pound at once then set them upon a Chafingdish and Coales but let not your fire be too hot at first then set on your Plummes and cast in as much Sugar as the rose-Rosewater will melt before you set them on the fire and when you feele your pan warme cast on halfe your Sugar and let the pan be no hotter than you can suffer your hand on it for the space of a quarter of an houre you must not turn them untill there be as much Sirrup as will
their weight of Sugar clarifie it boyle it neere to Candy height dry your Pippins with a faire cloth then put them into the hot Sugar and let them boyle as fast as you can when they rise up take them off the fire and scumme them turne them and set them on the fire againe and let them boyle apace and scumme them againe so doe sixe times when the Sugar is Candy height take out the Pippins lay them on a board and put them into a warme oven within three houres you may turne them within three dayes they will be dryed enough To dry Apricocks very Orient and cleare 16 Take Apricocks which be not over ripe take out the Stones put them into as much clarified Sugar as will cover them boyle them leasurely often stirring them then take them off the fire and let them stand all the night in the Sirrup the next day warme them againe in that Sirrup when they be through hot set them to draine then take another fresh Sugar and boyl it a little higher boyle them in it leasurely and turne them now and then and scumme them so let them stand untill the next day in that Sirrup then warme them throughly and lay them again to dry take the third fresh Sugar boyle it to a Candie height put in your Apricocks to that hot Sugar boyle them now and then taking them off to skumme them your Sugar being boyled to a Candie height take out your Apricocks lay them upon a faire board then put them into a warme Oven the next day turne them and put them againe into an Oven within one weeke they will be dry and as yellow as gold To dry Plummes or Cherries 17 Gather them in the heat of the day and pricke them with a Pinne lay them upon the bottome of a Sive put them in an Oven after the Bread is drawne when they beginne to wither let not your Oven be so warme as at the first putting them in within one week they will be dry then boxe them up To dry Peares without Sugar 18 Take the Norwich Peares pare them save on the stalke and the Peepe pricke them with a knife and put them in an earthen pot and bake them in an Oven but bake them not too soft put them into a white Plate Panne put dry Straw under them and lay them into an Oven after the Bread is drawne and every day warme the Oven to that degree of heat as when the bread is newly drawne within one weeke they will be dry To dry Peare-Plummes or other Plummes 19 Take Plummes pricke them put to them as much Sugar as will cover them set them on the fire untill they crack a little then take them up and put them into fresh Sugar added to the first Sirrup and let them boyle higher then before take them off the fire now and then to skimme them then put in your Plummes againe and let them warme againe in that Sirrup halfe an houre then put them into a Glasse for three or foure houres in that Sugar then warme them againe and set them to draine then take as much fresh Sugar as will cover them and boyle it to a Candy height then put in your Plummes againe into that Sugar and let them boyle leasurely halfe an houre now and then turning them for that will make them to take Sugar take them up betweene hot and cold lay them on a Board to dry boxe them up To dry Orenges or Lemmons 20 Raspe off their outward skinnes cut them into halves take out their meate and lay them in Water three or foure dayes then take them out of that water and lay them into a fresh Water and boyle them tender shift the Water five or sixe times to take away their bitternesse when they are tender then take them up and wipe them with a faire cloth and put them into as much clarified Sugar as will cover them and let them boyle leasurely two houres take them off the fire put them into an earthen Pipkin for foure dayes then set them on the fire untill they be through hot then set them to draine and when they are drained take fresh Sugar boyle it to a Candy height then put in your Orenges to that hot Sugar so let them boyle till they come to a Candy height then take them out lay them upon a Sive and dry them in an Oven within ten dayes they will be dry To dry Lettice Stalkes Arcichhcke Stalkes or Cabbage Stalkes 21 Take the Stalkes pill them to the Pith put the Pith into a strong Brine three or foure dayes then take them out of the Brine boyle them in faire Water very tender then dry them with a cloth put them into as much clarified Sugar as will cover them so preserve them as you did your Orenges then take them up and set them to draine then take another fresh Sugar and boile it to the height of a Candy when it commeth to a Candy height take them out and dry them To Candy Barberries Grapes or Gooseberries 22 After you have preserved them as aforesaid dip them in warme Water very suddenly to wash off the ropy Sirrup then strew them over with sersed Sugar as you would doe Floure upon Fish to fry and so set them into a warme Oven or Stove three or foure times and never let them be cold untill they be dry and they will looke like a sparkling Diamond To dry any fruits after they are Preserved 23 Take Pippins Pears or Plummes and wash them out in warme Water from the Sirrup they are preserved in and strew them over with searsed Sugar as you did before then set them in a broad earthen Panne that they may lye one by one then set them in a warme Oven or Stove to dry if you will Candy them withall you must strew on Sugar three or foure times in the drying To make cleere Cakes 24 Take Plummes of any sort but Raspices are the best put them into a stone Iugge put the Iugge into a Pot of seething Water and when they are dissolved straine them thorow a faire cloth and take to every Pint of that a pound of Sugar put to the Sugar as much water as will melt it and boyle it to a Candy height boile the Liquor likewise in another Panne by then put them seething hot together boile them a little together with Stirring then put them in Glasses made like Marmalade boxes and set them in a warme Oven or Stove in a drying heat let them stand so a fortnight or three weekes and never be cold and remove them from one place to another while the cold places are heating that they may not be cold they will turne in a weeke beware you set them not too hot for that will make them tough and so every day turne them untill they be dry and they will be very well Candied without and moist within To Candy the cleare Rocke Candy 25 Take Spices or Flowers or
any dry Sucket or any Fruits after they are preserved and dry againe lay them upon round Wiers in an earthen Panne the Panne being narrow at the bottome and broad at the top and take as much Sugar refine or Brasill Powder you must neither take Barbary Sugar nor Maderous they are too fat put to it as much Water as will melt it that is halfe a Pint to every pound and something more and when your Sugar is melted take the white of an Egge and a dozen spoonfuls of faire Water beat them together in a Basen with a Birchin Rod till it come to a froth then put the froth of the Egg into the hot sirrup set it on the fire againe and when it boyles and riseth up drop a drop of cold Water amongst it then set it off the fire scum it then boyle ito to a Candie height that is when it will draw like a thred betweene your finger and your thumbe then poure it seething hot into your Panne amongst your fruits set it upon a Cushion in a warme Chimney corner and cover it close with a Blanket on the morrow poure out all the Sirrup that will run from it and then set your Pot in a warme place againe to dry pricke up your Wiers take off all the Fruits and lay them on Papers to dry then boxe them To Candy Eringoe Rootes 26 Take your Rootes new gathered without knots or joynts boyle them tender in faire Water let your Water boyle before you put them in then pill them slit them and pith them and wash them in two or three faire Waters dry them with a faire cloth and plat them then take twice so much as they weigh and refine your Sugar and boyl them in the one halfe till they be tender and cleare make your Sirrup first with halfe Rosewater and halfe faire Water when their be cleare make a Sirrup with the other halfe of your Sugar and boyle your Sugar to a Manus Christi that is when it will draw as fine as the haire of your head then put in your Rootes again and boyle them and shake them in a Basen till they be cold and so lay them upon Papers untill they be dry To Candy Suckets Orenges Lemmons Pome-citrons and Lettice Stalkes 27 Boyle them tender in Water and then Candy them as you did the Rootes aforesaid To Candy Flowers after another fashion used in Spaine 28 Take what Flowers you will and picke off the leaves from the Flower and make a Sirrup of Sugar and put in the Blossomes of your Flowers as many as will goe into the Sirrup boyle them with stirring untill it be turned to Sugar againe set them off the fire and with the backe of a Spoone stirre them and bruise the Sugar from them and they will be Candied and no Sugar seene upon them To make Lozenges of any of these Flowers 29 Make a Sirrup of Sugar as before and take the blossomes of what Flower you will and shred them on a Trencher or beat them in a Wooden Dish then put in as many as will colour the Sirrup of that colour the Flowers are of and boyle it with stirring untill it will come cleane from the bottome of the Panne and so thicke that it will scarce drop out of your spoone then poure it upon a wet board and with a wet Knife spread it abroad not very thinne when it is almost cold cut it in square Lozenges like Diamonds To make a Marchpane Ice it garnish it and gild it 30 Take Almonds and blanch them out of seething Water and beat them in a Stone morter in the beating drop in a drop or two of Rose Water to keepe them from oyling and now and then strew a handfull of searsed Sugar to bring it to a Paste when you have brought it to perfect Paste roll it as thinne as you will have it and set an edge about it as about a Tart then cut Flowers and Images to garnish it with of the same Paste then set it on Wafers and after on a double Paper and then on a Pie Plate and so put it into an Oven hot enough for Manchet and bake it when it is halfe baked take it out and with the white of an Egge Rose Water and searsed Sugar beaten together as thick as Batter for Fritters with a Feather Ice it by spreading it over then set it into the Oven againe and when the ice is risen take it out and whilest it is hot sticke in your long garnishing Comfits and when it is cold gild it over in this manner beate the white of an Egge very short and with a Pensill wet those places you would have gold when it is almost dry cut your Leafe gold in little pieces and with a Feather lay it on To make Rashers of Bacon 31 Take some of the Marchpane and knead it in Saunders untill it be red then roll abroad three Rolls of the red and foure of the white and lay together a white and a red Roll untill you have laid all then cut them overthwart in thinne slices and dry them and they will looke like Bacon To make Makeroones 32 Take of blanched Almonds a quarter of a pound and three ounces of searsed Sugar beate these in a Mortar with a little of the white of an Egge and Rose water so beat it untill it be a little thicker then Batter for Fritters then lay it a spoonefull at once upon Wafers and so bake it To make Naples Bisket 33 Take Almonds and Sugar as you did before for Makeroones to every quarter of a pound put one ounce of Pine apple seed bake it as before that is all the difference To make French Bisket Take halfe a pecke of Flower foure Egges halfe a pinte of Ale Yest an ounce and a halfe of Aniseeds make all these together in a loafe with a little sweete Creame and a little cold water make it in the fashion of a Dutch loafe something long when it is baked and a day or two old cut it in thin slices like toasts and strewe it over with pgwdered Sugar and dry it in a warme Stove then Sugar it againe when it is dry then dry it again and so doe three or foure times then box it To make Prince Bisket 35 Take a pound of Sugar and a pound of fine Flower beate your Sugar very fine then take eight Egges take out two of the Whites and beate all these together in a Bowle an houre then take Coffins made of Tinne and indosse them over with sweet butter within put to it halfe an ounce of Aniseeds finely dusted when you are ready to fill your Coffins for if it be put in before it will discolour your bread or you may lay Wafers all within your Coffins which is the best way and so bake it To boile Sugar to a Manus Christi height 36 Boile it untill it be almost Sugar againe and at the last drop of your spoone there will a haire
drop from it as fine as the haire of your head To boile Sugar to a Candy height 37 Boile Sugar untill it will draw like a thred betweene your Finger and your Thumbe Preserve all your white Fruits in a Copper preserving Pan tinned within for any Mettall else will change the colour of your Fruits To make Marmalade of Oranges or Lemmons 38 Take faire Oranges or Lemmons cut them take out the meate and boile them tender in faire water shifting the water seven or eight times to take away the bitternesse then take them up and wring all the water from them and beate them in a stone Mortar with the pulpe of three or foure yellow Pippins then straine it and boile it with stirring untill it become thick then take it from the fire and lay it upon white Paper and take as much refined Sugar as that pulpe doth weigh and put it into a Pan with as much Rosewater as will melt it boile it to a Candy height and then put in your pulpe into the Sugar and boile it untill it rise from the bottome of the Pan ever stirring it then boxe it and put it into a Stove uncovered and when it is dryed cover it Miscellanea CHAP. XLVII To make Ielly of Flesh 1 TAke a red Cocke and a knuckle of Mutton or the sinewes and knuckle of Veale and a little Mutton Raisons of the Sun stoned boile all these to pieces then take it from the fire and stampe the meate and all together in a Mortar and let it run through a woollen strainer and when it hath stood all night skumme off the top and season the rest with Sugar and a little Nutmeg sliced and a sticke of Cinamon and a blade of Mace boile it up and straine it through a Ielly bagge To make Harts-horne Ielly 2 Put to foure ounces of Harts-horne a quarte or three pintes of Water and infuse it twelve houres in a Pipkin very close and when it is almost enough put to it a few Cowslip flowers Borage and Violet flowers and a blade of Mace then let it run through the strainer and season it with Sugar put to it the Iuice of a Lemmon and a little Nutmeg sliced and boile it untill it will Ielly in a spoone then put a sprig of Rosemary a little while into it and so run it through your Ielly bag To make the Court Ielly 3 Take three Calves feete water them all one night then scald them as you would doe a Pig and slit them and take out the long bones then take a young Cockerell and dresse him and after he hath layen one night in water boile him and the feete together in foure pintes of white Wine and as much faire Water untill it be enough then let it run through a faire strainer into a Bason letting it stand untill it be through cold and then take a Knife or a Spoone and cut or skumme off the purest from the drosse in the bottome and put the same into a cleare Pot with three quarters of a pound of Sugar two ounces of Cinamon scrapt and a little bruised one ounce of Ginger pared and sliced two Nutmegs sliced and ten Cloves cut all these being put together set them on the fire and boile them untill it be almost enough then take the whites of sixe Egges and beate them well together and put them into your Ielly on the fire stirring them altogether letting them boile a good walme and so take it off the fire letting it stand untill the heate be well off it and then take off the uppermost cleane and let the rest run through a Ielly bag with a branch of Rosemary twice or thrice untill it be very cleare A remedy for the Fluxe 4 R. The inward Rinde of an Oake sapling boile it in the milke of a red Cow herewith make Rice pottage and season it with Cinamon and some Sugar and use to eate of it For an old Cough or Ptisicke 5 R. Auripigmentum made into fine Powder Ê’ i. mixe it with Wort or the Yolke of an Egge to the thicknesse of a Plaister and spread it upon Coltsfoote leaves or new Canvasse cut into small pieces and burne them one after another upon a Chafingdish and Coals and receive the fume into your mouth with a Funnell For a Consumption 6 Boile in running Water a legge of Veale or Beefe or a Capon cut in small pieces skumme away the fat and froth as fast as it riseth boile it the space of an houre then R. Parseley rootes Fennell rootes Tamarisse rootes Rosemary brances Hartstongue leaves ana nu v. Borage m. ii Spearemints Sowthistle Sorrell Dandelion Violet leaves Hyssop ana m. i. cut the rootes and stuffe your Capon with the hearbes the residue of you hearbes binde in a bundle and boile with your rootes in the same Earthen vessell adde thereto a few crusts of Manchet Raisons of the Sun lib. ss Currans â„¥ iii. whole Mace Ê’ i. bound in a Cloth Dates quartered nu viii boile all these together with the flesh untill the Broth be thick and clammy adde more Water in the boiling that the flesh boile not drie then run it through a Ielly bag after that put it on the fire againe to clarifie hereof let the Patient take foure or five spoonfulls at a time To make a good Searecloth to skin and heale 7 R. Of Deare suet and May butter ana lib. ss Waxe â„¥ iii. when these are molten put to them of Lapis Calaminaris beaten and searsed when it hath boiled a little while take it off the fire and let it run through a thinne Cloth then dip your Clothes into it and stroake them smooth when they be cold sleeke them A Medicine for the Spleene 8 R. White Wine Vinegar and the Gall of an Oxe ana mingle them together and set them on the Embers all night to infuse on the morrow take a blew Cloth well woaded and wet it in the Liquor and apply it reasonable warme to the Spleene and in few daies you shall have helpe For an Apostume in the Head 9 R. Barley flower and Cummin seeds beaten ana make thereof a Cake with a little Water and bake it then whiles it is hot make a hole in the top and fill it with Treakle and hold it to your eare that the breath may goe into your head For a weake Backe 10 R. The pith of an Oxe back â„¥ iii. Dates sliced â„¥ ii boile these in a pinte of Muscadine and eate thereof in a morning For the small Poxe 11 When you perceive the Poxe comming out either on the Patients Breast or Face make this Posset R. Of Ale or Beere which the Patient likes best make a Posset with new Milke and take off the Curde and boile in the drinke one spoonfull of raspt Harts horne and as many Marigold flowers sixe or eight leaves of Sorrell a little Licoras sliced and scraped a few Figs cut in pieces take this blood-warme and drinke no other drinke for two
Cheese grate it and with Honey make an Oyntment and anoint the place till it bee whole For to stay the humour that flowes to the Teeth and Eyes through the Temples 26 R. Of Masticke and Frankincense powdered ana make a Plaister with sufficient white Wine and the white of an Egge and lay it to the Temples To give present ease to the goute 27 R. Milke and boile it and with Vinegar make a Posset and binde the Curde hot to the part For the Palsey 28 R. A new Earthen pot and fill it full of Camomill and stop it well and set it in another pot under ground for forty dayes then take it up and you shall finde Oyle there in and anoint the place with that Oyle if it be in thy Head anoint thy Forehead if the Hands anoint thy Wrists To stop a Laske 29 R. Wheaten Meale and with the juice of Yarrow make little Cakes and bake them and eate them Another 30 R. Rubarbe â„¥ i. grate it and mingle it with as much Conserve of Roses as will make it up hereof R. every morning Ê’ ss and presently after it drinke a good draught of warme Milk well boiled and fast two houres after it doe thus for three daies then R. every night before you goe to bed halfe a dram of Diascordium For one that is blasted 31 R. A Hens Egge and roast it hard and put the white only into a brasse Mortar and put to it of Copperas Ê’ ii and grinde them well together to an Ointment and anoint the Face and it will coole it and allay the swelling and when it is almost whole anoint it with Oyntment of Popular buds described before To stop womens immoderate Fluxe 33 R. A Hares foote and burne it to Powder and drinke it first and last in stale Ale till you be whole To provoke the monthly Visits 33 R. A piece of fresh Beefe boile it in faire Water and skumme it cleane when it is enough take it up and boile in the Broth these hearbes following being shred small untill they be soft Hartstongue Maidenhaire Borage red Mints Languebeufe Alisander and Water cresses ana eate these hearbes next your heart in a morning for nine daies and lie not long in bed For them that cannot hold their Water 34 R. The Pissle of a red Deare that is fallen from him as it doth every yeare dry the same in an Oven after the Bread is drawne then beate it to powder and give the Patient a little thereof in a draught of drinke blood-warme last at night and first in the morning and fast for three houres after it To stay a Laske 35 R. A Nutmeg made in Powder mixe it with a Yolke of an Egge in the shell the White done away then heate a Stone hot and drop a little hereof upon the Stone like little Cakes and let it bake and eate of them morning and evening the quantity of one Egge and a Nutmeg at a time For a Cough or Cold. 36 R. Aniseeds â„¥ i. Licoras â„¥ ss of the best dry Figs nu x. Raisons of the Sun nu xx bruise them small and boile them in a quart of running Water till halfe be consumed and give it the sicke to drinke warme morning and evening and fast two houres after and it will remove the Cold from the Stomack For the running of the Reines 37 R. Parsnips sliced thinne and boiled in red Cowes Milke till they be all Pap taken cold morning and evening if you adde in the boiling the water of Oaken buds it will be much better For any Carbuncle Plague Sore Botch Boile or Imposthume 38 R. Bay Salt well beaten to powder sifted and incorporated well with the yolke of an Egge and applyed and it will draw to it selfe all the Venome of the Sore and breake any Boile and heale it A singular Medicine for Bone ache in what place soever 39 R. Of Aquavitae and Oyle of Bay ana mixe them well together and warme it in a Saucer and anoint the grieved place from the fire and keepe it warme For all old Aches and Paines in the Ioynts 40 R. The whole Horne that a Bucke casts off the later the better cast away the Scalpe and take nothing but the Horne then cut it in pieces and boile it in a Gallon of faire water untill it come to a pinte or something more then straine it and let it stand untill it bee cold when you use it warme some of it in a Saucer and anoint the grieved place by the fire and it will cure in nine or ten dressings To cause one to voide Winde 41 R. The cleare Iuice of red Fennell and make Posset Ale therewith and drink it A good Purge 42 R. Of Sene â„¥ i. Coriander seed â„¥ ss Cinamon Licoras Aniseeds Ginger anaÊ’ ii Sugar â„¥ ii beate them into powder and steepe them in a quart of Ale the space of foure and twenty houres then straine it and drinke the one halfe at a time if you will you may take the other halfe the next day To stay bleeding at the Nose 43 R. A linnen Cloth and wet it in cold water and wrap it about the Patients Cods and it will stay For the bloody Fluxe 44 R. As much linnen Cloth as will make a Suppositary make it up into the forme of a Suppositary and soake it well in Aqua composita and put it up into the Fundament To stay womens immoderate Fluxe 45 R. A pinte of Milke hot from the Cow put in as much Rennet as will serve to turne it to Cheese and immediatly drinke it up doe thus for three mornings if need be and it will stay For too much Vomiting 46 R. Of Speare Mint water â„¥ iiii put thereto of the Sirrup of Quinces â„¥ ss and Ê’ ii of Cinamon Water and take two or three spoonfulls at a time For Freckles in the Face 48 R. The blood of a Hare warme from the body and anoint the Face therewith and it will doe them away For an old Ioint sicknesse 49 R. Ants with their Egges stampe them and boile them in faire Water and bathe the member therein For a Botch Boile or Fellon 50 R. The curde of a Posset and lay to it to gather the corruption together remove it not in twelve houres and if once laying will not serve then doe so three or foure times then take quicke Lime and quench it with faire Spring water and mixe with it as much blacke Sope and lay a little thereof to the Sore when it is broken wash it with white Wine a little warmed and then heale it with Butter and powder of Sugar mixed together To make a Iuice of Licoras to stay the Cough comming of Rheume to be made in the beginning of May. 51 R. Of Licoras â„¥ iiii beate it small and searce it then R. of Hyssop m. v. or vi of Foales foote m. iiii Rosemary flowers m. i. stampe all these together in a Stone Mortar and straine them into a faire Bason
with halfe a pinte of faire running Water or Hyssope water put in your Powder of Licoras and boile it and stirre it untill it be as thicke as good Creame then straine it through a fine Strainer and set it againe on the fire and let it seethe a good space after ever stirring it untill it be very thicke then put in of red Sugar Candy â„¥ iii. or iiii and boile them untill they puffe up from the bottome of the Bason For a Fellon 52 R. Raggewort Rue Hyssop ana pu i. one clove of Garlicke a little pieces of sowre Leaven a spoonfull of Bay salt and a piece of rusty Bacon beate all these together and lay it to very thicke for foure and twenty houres space For those that are troubled with Rheume distilling downe their Throate in the night 53 Of Cumminseeds â„¥ ii bruised Nutmegs sliced nu ii Cloves bruised the same quantity the yolkes of two Egges or two Egges hard roasted mingle these together and quilt them in a linnen bagge and sprinkle the said bagge with very good Aquavitae and lay the said bagge every night to the nape of your Necke For a Bruise 54 R. Of the blood of a Pigge â„¥ iiii of Vinegar â„¥ ii a few crummes of browne Bread boile all these together untill they be something thicke and so warme lay it to the place for the space of foure and twenty houres doe thus twice or thrice if need be To take away the Morphew and other filth from the Face and Hands and to make a new skin 55 R. Of white Mercury sublimated Ê’ i. Camphire Ê’ ii Lemons nu ii white Sugar â„¥ i. faire water one pinte and a halfe put all these into a Glasse and so let it stand eight or ten daies and then straine it and keepe it in a cleane Violl and when you will use it wet a cleane linnen Cloth therein and then put it softly upon the Face or Hands where the Morphew or Filth is and will take it off in short time To make the Skin soft and white after the said Medicine 56 R. A black Sheepes head or two and cut off the Hornes and Skin and throw them away with the Brain and eyes then seeth the Heads in faire water and skum off the Oyle very cleane put to this Oyle a little Rose-water and anoint the Face therewith and it will make a smooth Skin soft white and faire To breed Blood and bring a good fresh Colour in the Face 57 R. A new Pipkin with a Cover that will hold a pinte fill it with good olde Muscadine and halfe a pound of great blew Currans and the weight of a Shilling of the best Rubarbe cut in slices and three slices of Ginger let these stand all night upon the hot Embers and eate every morning a spoonefull or two of the Currans and Sirrup For the Spleene 58 R. Ashen keyes and the Greenewood burne them make Lye of the Ashes after it hath stood three dayes cleare it then take Barrowes grease and wash it in white Wine and dry it and beate it with a rowling pin and when it is well beaten put it into the Lye and seethe the Lye and it to an Oyle then put into it a spoonefull of Doctor Stephens water and and as much Rose-water beate it well together and so put it up to anoint the Side downewards if you use to drinke Bedward Posset drinke wherein the greene barke of Ashe is boiled it will much profit it is also good to use Oyle of Tamariske and Oyle of Capers to anoint the Side with it An approved laxative Whey for the Spleene 59 R. Of the inner barke of the Ashe tree Maidenhaire Hartstongue Licoras Aniseeds Parceley rootes Sene leaves and coddes ana m. i. boile them in a pottle of cleane Whey untill almost the halfe be consumed then straine it and use it first and last every day untill you finde health forbearing to eate or drinke the space of two or three houres after all the while you doe this you shall anoint your Side with the aforesaid Ointment To stanch Blood in Veine or Artery 60 R. Olibanum â„¥ ii Aloes Hepaticke â„¥ i. haires of a Hare a little cut whites of Egges as much as will serve to incorporate them make a Stuphe of Flax and dip it in the Medicine and apply it cold let it lye three or foure dayes then if it sticke fast apply the white of an Egge and Oyle of Roses untill the next day To provoke Vomit and to purge the Belly 61 R. The rinde of the roote of Elder tree chopped in small pieces steepe it in Wine the space of a night and drinke the Wine in the morning For the Dropsie 62 R. Raisons of the Sun stoned lib. i. put them into a pinte of good white Wine and so let them stand covered nine or ten dayes then eate thereof three or foure times a day eight or nine at a time For the Ptisicke 63 R. The tender crops of Mallows boile them and butter them as a Sallet with Butter and Vinegar and eate them with your meate For women with Childe that are subject to Miscarrying 64 R. The whites of two Egges beate them well with cleane Water and sup them up when you feele any fright or sudden alteration For the Cholicke 65 R. Of the Oyle of sweete Almonds drawne without fire â„¥ iii. mixe it with a little white Wine and Pellitary water and drinke it then swallow a Leaden Bullet besmeated with Quicksilver and the Bullet comming presently forth at his Fundament will cure him For the Sciatica 66 First raise a Blister and let out the Water in it then R. ground Ivy and stampe it and apply it to the Blister with a cloth sufficiently doubled then R. a Cat and flea it and put into the Belly the garbage being taken out twenty Snailes shels and all and so roast it and to the dripping put of Oyle of Spike one penny-worth halfe an Oxe gall Neats-foote Oyle two spoonefulls Badgers grease one spoonefull Oyle of Turpentine two penniworth A quavitae one penniworth mixe them and therewith anoint the griefe and keepe it warme FINIS A Table of the principall matters contained in this booke A TO make Aegyptiacum part 2. page 8. For an Ache part ibidem page 10. num 9. page 11. num 10 page 12 num 15 page 13. num 18. page 17. num 16. page 49. num 6. page 51. num 10. page ibi num 11. page 52. num 13. page 55. num 19. page 48. num 8. page 45. num 5. page 167. num 41. page 84. num 49. Actions what they are part 1. page 52. Ages part 1. page 9. Agues cured part 2. page 63. num 7. page 104. num 2. page 110. num 2. Aloes Rosatum made part 2. page 133. num 9. Aloes washed part ibidem page 135. num 15. Apoplexie cured part 2. page 36. num 33. Apostemes cured part ibidem page 49. num 6. in the head page 158. num 9.