vineger and then dried Sugar is vsed in many things as hereafter in this booke may appeare Sugar but to boyle it there be diuers and sundrie wayes and first of al shall be shewed how the common and course Sugar must be seuered from his filth and dregs and clarified for sirupes and other necessaries in phisicke Take for example two pounds of common Sugar put it into a certaine quantitie of water How to clarifie Sugar set it on the fire vntill it be readie to boyle or séethe then haue in a readinesse the white of fiue egges beaten to water with a litle rod and sprinkle them with thy rod into thy boiling Sugar let it boyle afterwards a pretie while then doth the filth of the Sugar adioyne himselfe to the whites of the egs then set it from the fire and when it ceaseth boiling take away the filth from it with a skimmer boile it againe besprinkle it and skim it as before so often vntill thou find it bright and cleare For sirupes and other confections let this Sugar boile somewhat longer let two or thrée drops of it fall on a cold stone dip thy finger in them and sée if it do string or glue or draw out in a threed which is a signe of a sufficient cocture Manus Christi For to make Sugar cakes or Manus Christi the foresayd Sugar must boile yet longer and if thou wilt know if it be sufficiently boiled for this thy purpose take a litle of it on spattens or skimmer and throw it from thée into the aire if it flie very white and fierie from it then is it boyled enough set it from the fire stirring it continually vntill it begin to be stiffe or hard then adde and mixe those things with it which thou wilt then very spéedily cast it on a cold stone whereupon a litle flower hath bene cast or sifted before lest they should sticke or cleaue fast to the stone Saccharum Penidium called Sugar pennets is best made of the whitest sugar that is brought from the yland of S. Thomas Take of this if thou canst tell how to worke it from two vntill fiue pounds at once powre vpon it a good pretie quantitie of water and if it be very vncleane clarifie it as afore continue the boyling easily vntill it begin to be thicke and that it rise vp in great bubbles then haue a spindle or the like litle round sticke being wet with cold water thrust it into the boyling sugar about a fingers breadth that some of thy sugar may cleaue to it and coole it in cold water if then it easily come from thy spindle or sticke if it be reasonable hard and if in the biting or chewing it sticke and cleaue not to thy teeth then it is readie to be wrought Take it from the fire let the bubbles settle themselues powre it out vpon a stone or table that is moistened all ouer with the oyle of Oliues when it is run flat or abroad take vp the ends corners or edges of it and throw them vpon the middest of it this continue vntill such time as it all do remaine in a heape or lumpe then dippe thy hands in fine floure lest the sugar sticke to them hang or fasten the whole lumpe of sugar vpon a strong hooke or crooked naile fastened in a wall and drawe one part of thy sugar towards thée about a cubits length fasten the end in thy hand on the hooke againe and pull againe thus continue pulling and fastening vntill thy Sugar become very white There must at the least be a couple to work it that the one being wearie the other may go forward with it besides that by reason of the great heate of the sugar it is not possible that one should doe it well alone Now when it waxeth white and cold thou shalt draw it out in long ropes and lay them on a table whereupon a little flower is sprinkled and so make it vp in rowles This whole worke must be done in hast for otherwise the sugar will waxe too hard which notwithstanding it is not spoiled But if thou wilt bring it into Sugar pennets againe it will be somewhat blacker than otherwise it would be This shall suffice at this present concerning the principall purging simples and after what sort they are best prepared and corrected and those things that haue as yet not bene spoken of shall hereafter as néede shall require be shewed and intreated of at large Addition Succus rosarum the iuice of Roses or their infusion purgeth choler gently and cooleth withall It may be giuen from one vnto two ounces very safely Serum lactis whay of milke or of cheese is a lenitiue and laxatiue medicine it doth also purge choler It is exhibited from three vnto fiue ounces Mechoacha in English Mechecan is an Indian roote of some called white Rubarbe It may be taken in substance from two scruples vnto one dragme with broth wormewood wine or sweet wine as followeth Take Mechecan one dragme Gentian one scruple Cinnamom halfe a scruple beate them into a fine powder and exhibite it three howers before meales with wormewood wine It purgeth flegme and waterish humours without any molestation or trouble vnto the patient It is giuen for the paine in the head that hath continued long for agues for the collicke for the dropsie and for the shortnesse of the breath Opopanax is the iuice of the herbe Ferula The best is white within and yellow without bitter brittle and of a strong sent It is commonly giuen from one vnto two dragmes It euacuateth the grosse and tough fleagme that is inherent in the braine nerues breast and ioynts Sagapenum is a certaine iuice or gum so called of a darke yellow colour white within and strong in tast It may be giuen from halfe a dragme vnto a whole with the water of Rue or of Elecampane It doth in like maner purge grosse and tough humours Both these gummes are corrected with Masticke and Spica c. Taken out of Dioscorides Mathiolus Weâ—ereus and others The seuenth Chapter §. 1. A generall rule to be obserued in purging FOrasmuch as the especiallest point in sanation is to vnburden the bodie of man of abounding superfluities A rule for purging and cleanse it of all corruption and vncleannesse which indéed may be done either by prescribing a moderate diet in meate and drinke by leading a well ruled life or rather if in these any thing be wanting by purgations Therefore it séemeth néedfull here to set downe a generall rule which euery man is to obserue and kéepe that purposeth to purge as thus He must haue a great regard of the nature of the disease of the diseased of his age of the time of the yeare and such like And where as it is alreadie sayd all sicknesses and inward griefes do procéede of corruption of the bloud and bad humours as in this our worke doth appeare necessitie therefore doth require that such
héere mention some moe things that are very commodious for the panting of the hart like as fragrant things which are of a cold nature as Violets water Lillies Roses all Saunders Corrall Perle Campher Harts bones Iacints Smaragdes shauen Iuorie Amber Coriander the iuice of Limons Rose water odoriferous fruites Quinces Peares Apples and their like Amongst compounds are the confection of Orange pils and their sirupe the confection of Citrons and their sirupes conserue of Buglosse Roses Violets Burrage confected Cherries and their sirupes the flowres and rootes of Cicorie confected sirupe of Sorrell Burrage wine and Cherie wine the Tabulats of Diamargariton Diarrhodon Abbatis Dragagant and Manus Christi with perles but the Phisitions do ordaine many compounded medicines as hereafter do follow The laxatiue sirup of Roses is specially commended if there be any stopping of the belly for it cooleth and diuerteth all ill vapors from the hart whereby the hart is much pained There are also made for this many confections according to the importance of the patient whereof there follow some hereafter Take conserue of Roses halfe an ounce conserue of Buglosse two ounces conserue of water Lillies one quarter of an ounce Perles Iacints Smaragdes Citron séede Sorrell séede and red Corrall of each one dragme red white and yellow Saunders prepared Coriander burnt Iuorie red and white Behen Harts bones stéeped in Rose water of each halfe a dragme filed Gold and Siluer of each two scruples Gold and Siluer leaues of each xv Sugar one ounce and a halfe beate them all small together and temper it with Rose water but not on the fire Item take the iuice of sweete Apples and of Buglosse which is cleare and setled of each two ounces Doronicum Citron pils Burrage floures Roses shauen Iuorie of each halfe an ounce Basill séedes halfe an ounce Mirtle leaues Balme Coriander Cinnamome Galingall Seduary Spike Lignum Aloes burnt silke and Saffron of each one quarter of an ounce small filed Gold and Siluer of each two dragmes and a halfe red and white Behen burnt Harts horne Mace Galliae Muscatae Amber Harts bones red Saunders of each thrée dragmes of all Mirobalans of each halfe an ounce Smaragdes Berill Iacincts Saphires Granates which be prepared of each one dragme Perles thrée dragmes Amber and Campher of each halfe a scruple Muske one dragme make a powder thereof and to euery ounce of powder put twelue ounces of Sugar dissolue the Sugar in Rose water and séethe it for to make Tabulates thereof or a confection This confection is of a temperate nature very forcible for all swouning and maladies of the hart These two next following are cooling Take conserue of Roses Buglosse Burrage of each one ounce Species de Gemmis and Rubies of each one scruple Harts bones péeled Citron seede of each 10. graines sirup of Apples as much as you desire to make it soft vse thereof in the morning two howres before meate The other Take conserues of Roses two ounces conserues of Buglosse one ounce Species Triasandalon burnt Iuorie Sorrell séedes peeled Melon seede Gourd séede and péeled Cucumber séede Limon seede and Oxysacchara of each thrée quarters of an ounce Sugar halfe an ounce Perles two scruples thrée leaues of beaten Gold mixe it with the sirupe of Apples vnto a confection And if this panting of the hart come too often then giue of this powder following halfe a dragme tempered with Rose water and water of Buglosse Take red Corrall Iacinct Smaragdes and Saphir of each fiue graines small filed Gold thrée graines Perles halfe a drag temper them together and put thereto a spoonefull of white Vineger make a potion thereof Item take red Corrall Perles Iacincts and Smaragdes all together prepared of each one scrup giue therof half a drag with some kind of distilled water Restoratiue waters of Capons are very requisite for this which must be thus prepared Boyle the Capon in water wherein hath diuers times gold béene quenched chop it afterwards in peeces and put thereto flowers of Borage Buglosse Violets Roses Citron péeles Cinnamome Cloues Balme and Saffron of each one dragme If you cannot get all these then take as many of them as you can get and distill them all togither with flesh and broth in hot water and then when any body is very feeble giue him a meetely draught thereof it strengtheneth not only the Hart but the stomacke also maruellous much There is also another made with spices as followeth When the Capon is made cleane then stampe him with bones and flesh in a mortar afterwards powre it into a glasse helme Borage Balme Endiue Fennell and Rose water of each two ounces then put thereto the stampt Capon Item put more thereto the water of Wormwood and of Comfery of each one ounce Spec. de gemmis Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton the cold Cinnamome Lignum Aloes of each one scrup distill them all togither as before Moreouer there is another Capon water to be distilled as followeth Take an old Capon that is made cleane put thereto fower quarts of water let them seethe well togither then pull off the skin and the fatnes and then breake him all to péeces and distill water thereof as before You are to salt this water so that it may last the better without stinking You haue also here before in the fift Chapter in the 22. § a precious water which strengtheneth the Hart woonderfull much the which may be also vsed for the same Sirupe of Apples We haue often here before admonished of the sirupe of Apples which is thus made Take the iuice of sweete and sower Apples of each fiue ounces seethe it to the halfe scumming it then let it stand two daies to settle put thereto thrée ounces of Sugar and then séethe them togither vnto a sirupe Another Take the iuice of the best tasting swéete and sower Apples of each twelue ounces séethe it vntill it be well scummed then put thereto sixe ounces of Sugar and let it séethe togither to a sirupe These sirupes strengthen the weake panting Hart preserue one from swouning and strengthen the stomacke Item take Rose water the iuice of sower Apples and water of Buglosse of each thrée ounces seethe these togither to a sirupe or to a Iulep For this is also good many kindes of accustomed sirupes as the sirupe of vineger and of Limons of Raspes Violets water Lillies veriuice Sorrell Borage and Buglosse also Iulep of Violets and Roses the which are to be found in the first Register by their names Confections and Powders for to vse inwardly TAke Species Diarrhodon Abbatis Aromatici rosati de gemmis and prepared Coriander of each thrée dragmes prepared Bloodstone one drag and a halfe Trocisci de Spodio cum semine acetosae two scruples shauen Iuorie halfe a drag Harts bones halfe a scruple prepared Pearles fower scruples Granadoes Iacints Smaragdes Rubies Saphires Corall and Roses of each one scruple Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Sugar sixe ounces temper
or Setanias in latine Triticum Trimestre and Halicastrum of Columella Setanium or Sitanium of the Herbarists TriticuÌ„ sitanium The third kind is called in gréeke Selignis in latine Siligo and Triticum Siligineum Wheate ruffeared in gréeke Zea in latine Semen of Columella Far clusinum and of others Spelta There are two kindes of it the first is the common ruffeared wheate it bringeth two huskes close togither with two graines in them this is called Spelt and Zeadiococcos The second kind is called S. Peters corne it bringeth but one séede or graine to wit in a rowe as the former bringeth the two it is called in gréeke Zea monococcos and in latine Zea simplex and Semen simplex it is a kinde of graine which is a meane betwéene Barley and Wheate Wheate ruffeared prepared Alica or Halica in gréeke Chondrus Zea deglubita ruffeared wheate péeled White water Mints in gréeke Minthae agria Hediosmos agrios in latine Mentastrum and Mentha syluestris of the Herbarists Mentha equina Mentha caballina and Balsamita fesina There are two kinds of it the first hath rough white and round leaues and a hayrie and rough stalke this is the true Mentastrum Dioscoridis The second kinde is not rough but hath long picked leaues and a browne hayrie flower they growe néere to the water side this second kinde is called Mentastrum acutum and they haue both one and the same operation Apuleius and Pliny haue also their seuerall Mentastrum which they doe call Glechon agrion and Pulegium agreste It is the second Calamintha Dioscoridis which we haue called Calamintha aruensis before Wilde Béetes of the Herbarists Apiophyllon Herba pyrifolia or Pyrifolia Consolida pyrifolia Pyrola and Pyrula It is a vulnerall herbe hauing leaues like a Peare trée it groweth in the shadowie woodâ— and continueth greene both winter and summer There is yet another kinde of it which groweth in medowes néere hils which is like to the former but that it hath longer leaues and stalkes whereon there be white flowers the Herbarists do call it Pyrola or Pyrula pratensis they are both of one nature and operation they are drie in the third degree they doe consolidate mightily but by wilde Béetes shalt thou vnderstand that which groweth in woods Wild Cucumbers Cucumer Asininus Cucumer syluestris Cucumer anguinus and Cucumer erraticus It is a well knowen hearbe but it groweth not with vs vnles it be sowen in gardens There is a iuice prest out of the fruit of it and prepared which is called Elaterium whereof shall be spoken elsewhere Wilde Flaxe in gréeke and latine Osyris of the Herbarists Herba vrinalis and Linum beatae Maria at the Apothecaries Linaria Wilde Grapes in Gréeke Ampelos agria in Latine Labrusca the blossomes of the wilde Vine is called in greeke Oenanthe in Latine Flos labruscae Flos vitis syluestris and at the Apothecaries Flos lambruscae Wilde Peares Pyrum syluestre the trée is called in gréeke Achras in latine Pyraster in English a wild Peare trée these Pears their leaues and the water distilled of them is vsed for the Laske Wilde Radish Armoracia Raphanus syluestris at the Apothecaries Rapistrum There are two kindes of it both of them do grow in fields that are sowne The first kinde is that whereof now hath béen spoken The second kinde is like the first but it hath fewer and broader leaues the flowers are white and is commonly called white wilde Radish Rapistrum album that is Lapsana Dioscoridis Galeni They that call our Horse radish Armoracia do erre greatly for Armoracia is Raphanus syluestris a wilde Radish Looke for this in the description of Dioscorides and the truth will soone appeare Wilde Saffron in gréeke Cnicus Cnecus Gnicus and Gnecus in latine Cartamus or Chaâ—tamus There are two kindes of it the first is the wilde well knowen Saffron which groweth in many gardens this is called Cartamus domesticus of Serapio Kartan of Auerroes Elcratis of the Herbarists Crocus hortulanus Crocus syluestris Crocus saracenicus Crocus fatuus it is barbarously called Zaffranum syluestre and Saffranum fatuum Auerroes calleth the séede of it Semen de I'apaga The second kinde groweth on dry hils and vntilled and drie fields it is called wilde field Saffron in gréeke Atractylis and Cnicus agria in latine Colus rustica Fusus agrestis and of the Herbarists Cnicus syluestris Cnicus campestris Cartamus syluestris Eracantha and Carduus amoris but the tame kinde is onely vsed in Phisicke to wit the flowers and séede of it which is also called Semen papagalli or Semen Psittaci Note that Cartamus with t. doth signifie wilde Saffron and Cardamus with d. Cresses séeds Nasturtium wherefore great héed is to be giuen of it Wilde Thyme Serpillum Cunilago and in gréeke Herpyllum Willow trée in gréeke Itea in latine Salix of Homerus Frugiperda There are fiue kinds of it the first is called with vs the red Willow of Theophrastus Salix nigra or Punicea of Pliny Salix viminalis of Columella Salix Sabina and Salix Amerina this is the very best kinde of all the rest The second kinde is the white Willow and of the Herbarists Salix candida The third kinde is called of Pliny Salix vitellina of Columella Salix Graeca with vs water Willow trée The fourth kind is called of the Herbarists Salix platyphyllos Salix latifolia and Salix cinerea The fift kinde is the least of all called of Theophrastus Salix helix of Pliny and Columella Salix Gallica of the Simplicists Salix pumila These fiue kindes of Willowes are sufficiently knowen to all men Wine in gréeke Oenos of Cratinus Tryx There are fower kindes each according to the countrey to wit the least smallest middle and strong wine but we will speake but of two kinds at this present to wit of strong and of small wine the strong wine is called Vinum Oenodes Vinum polyphorum and Vinum multiferum The common wine is called Vinum oligophorum Vinum pauciferum Vinum aquosum and Vinum Cibarium this is only spoken and meant of Rhenish wine Winter Cherries in gréeke Halicacabus Physalis in latine Solanum vesicarium of Pliny Vesicaria of the Herbarists Solanum rubeum or Solatrum rubeum Cerasum Iudaeorum Cerasum terrae in the Arabian toong Alkekengi or Alkakengi they are cold and astringent in the seconde degree but meane moyst Weather Castron Veruex Woade in greeke and latine Isatis of Pliny Glastum of the Herbarists Guadum and Pastillum it is an hearbe well knowen to diuers There are two kindes of it one tame and one wilde the tame Woade groweth in France and in During with vs onely in gardens for phisicall vses it is called Isatis satiua Egne and Glastum satiuum The second is the wilde kinde it is lesser than the former it groweth here and there in the woods and fields it is called Isatis syluestris Isatis minor Glastum syluestre and Glastum minus They are both
strayner or sieue hold it ouer a dish and with a round pestell squise it thorough the strainer and all the black pith will passe thorough and hang on the outside of the strainer which thou shalt scrape off with a knife and kéepe it then set thy sieue or strainer ouer the boyling water as is aforesaid and afterwardes squise it thorough againe as at the first This worke shalt thou do againe so long till no more pith passe thorough and nothing but kernels remaine in thy strainer this prepared Cassia is called by the Apothecaries Cassia cribrata Note that when thou wilt vse this Cassia it must alwaies be new taken out of the pipes for being reserued out of the pipe presently it waxeth sower and especially in the sommer time Of this strained Cassia maist thou exhibite at one time one ounce or one ounce and a halfe in hot burning agues vnto children and women in child bed to euery of them more or lesse as they are able to beare Also if thou wilt haue this Cassia to purge more effectually then put either the blossomes or leaues of the Peach trée in the boyling water before thou hold thy Cassia ouer the vapor of it The vertue of Cassia is to purifie and cleare the bloud to quench thirst and to allay heat being taken with Endiue water also to purge the stomacke to driue out choler and flegme without any danger for it hath no sharpnesse or corroding vertue in it In like sort it is very comfortable for the brest and liuer and is very good for the kidneys being mixed with the appropriate waters that driue out grauell and beaten Licorise then ministred it doth scowre away the grauell and hindreth the growing of the stone It is vsed in a confection with Manna and it is also prepared for Clisters Coloquint Coloquint is a very bitter apple and is oftentimes sowne in gardens for pleasure sake yet it is found very seldome to be ripe The vse of that which is brought vs from Venice or other places is this and no otherwise The innumerable white kernels being cast away the rest shall be beaten very small and sifted thorow a very fine searce and so be brought to as fine a powder as possible may be when it is wet it swelleth as if it had neuer bene powdered and for that cause it is straightly charged to be reduced into so fine a dust for if neuer so little a peece should by chaunce remaine in the stomacke or guts it would easily excoriate and hurt them so that hereby the sinewes might take some harme yea lamenesse and crampes ensue of it The right preparation of it is this that followeth Take of the aforesaid fine powdered Coloquint two ounces and a halfe rub it a great while with two ounces of oile of Roses then take of the gum Tragacanth of gum Arabicke of Bdellium of each of them ℥ ss stéepe them in a litle rose water vntill they be dissolued put of this mixture vnto the beaten Coloquint and forme little cakes of it let them drie beate them small againe and fashion your cakes againe with the gum water and kéepe them On this wise prepared are they more safe than the crude Coloquint and are called Throcisci Alandali To what end they be vsed in phisicke shall be shewed hereafter This prepared Coloquint may be exhibited from ℈ j. to ℈ j. ss ℈ ij but it purgeth vehemently it draweth the tough flegmaticall humors from the head and other parts Coloquint is supposed of some to be hote and drie in the second of others in the third degrée Corrall Corrall both red and white is prepared in that manner as is aforesaid of the Pearles Coriander séede being hurtfull vnto the braine both by his hot nature by his strong smell Coriander seedes is verie profitable for many vses ye shall correct it as followeth Stéepe it the space of twelue howers in good strong wine vineger afterward euaporate or drie away your vineger from it in a warme place then it is prepared Black Coriander is the séed of Nigella Nigella seedes and is prepared as that aboue sayd Dates both swéete and sower do purge very easily especially in hot diseases great drithes Dates being prest close togither as they are brought vnto vs they are kept good a long time you may minister of them from two ounces to fower at once They néede no preparing or correcting at all for that they purge so gently and can do no harme Gems or precious stones are prepared as is aforesayd of pearles Gems Horsleaches the bloud sucking water worme Horsleaches shall be kept some dayes in fresh water before they be vsed putting a little bloud and bran into the water for their food then do they lose their venome Scoria ferri the refuse of iron shalt thou cast into faire water wash it Scoria ferri Refuse of iron and let it settle to the bottome powre of the water from it vntil it remaine verie cleane and pure afterward put it in an earthen pot that is well leaded or glassed within put as much vineger to it as will wet it onely and not ouerflow it let them stand so both togither the space of thirtie dayes in the meane while oftentimes stirring them afterward moule or grinde them on a marble as thou didst the pearles Polipodium little ferne or polipodie doth willingly grow on old wals and mossie stones Polipodie but the best groweth on okes it purgeth gall and slimie superfluities it is somwhat hurtfull to the stomacke it is therefore corrected with Annise séedes Fennell seedes Cloues Cumine seedes and is administred either with hony water or else with the water of grapes and very seldome by it selfe alone Epithymus Dodder is vsed in many profitable medicines Dodder the gold coloured and strong smelling Dodder is the best foure dragmes of it in powder or at the most six driueth out melancholie and choler It is almost neuer giuen by it selfe but alwayes admixed with other things but specially it is sodden in drinkes or potions at which time thou mayest vse one ounce at once It is put in last of all into the boiling potion The iuice of wild Cucumbers called in Gréeke Elaterium is pressed out of the wild Cucumbers the Phisitions commaund that it should not be vsed till it be two yeares old Elaterium it may be kept ten yeares togither the older it is the better and when it is moistened it is like vnto milk being put to the fire it doth presently burne It purgeth flegme water and all superfluous humidities most violently and in like sort gall and choler also It ought not to be vsed vnaduisedly or without the counsell of a skilfull Phisition for that an error might be committed in a few graines Euphorbium is a strange gum so called Euphorbium amongst all the purging simples the strongest and hottest verie sharpe and biting on the tong
it seemeth to burne in the nostrils and prouoketh néesings it stoppeth the breth as if it would choke one if the dust of it be receiued Therefore great héed is to be giuen for two or thrée dragmes of it is ranke poyson In extreme diseases of flegme and dropsies when no other remedies will helpe thou mayest vse it from foure graines vnto twelue but no more Masticke and Spike of India do greatly diminish his hurting qualitie The ancient Phisitions did minister it with meade or honie water Sewets and marrowes of sundry beasts are prepared as followeth Sewets Marrowes First wash them cleane and often in cold water then chop melt them togither with a little fire in a seuerall pot with boiling water and wine or else with rose water after this presse straine them thorow a cloth and kéepe it in a vessell or pot of pewter in a cold place The marrow must especially be taken out of the bones in the beginning of winter Iuorie is thus prepared take of it in quantitie as you please cut it in thin chips Iuorie put them into a new pot and stop him close with a pot lid that is vnbaked put him into a potters fornace amongst other pots to be burned When your pot is cold take out your Iuorie beate it to a small dust or powder and searce it thorow a fine hairen searce put it into a leaded or glassed pot powring as much rose water on it till it be cleane couered Afterwardes take for euerie twelue ounces of Iuorie half an ounce of Camfere moule or grind them on a marble togither and when it is hard like dow forme or make little square cakes of it called Trochises kéepe them in a glasse well stopped that they lose not their smel Note also that if thy pot he not very closly luted and couered that thy Iuory cannot be burned white and that it loseth a great deale of his vertue This is vsed against all manner of poysons Hermodactils Hermodactils some suppose it to be our Daffodils and indeed I do take it to be a kind of them but the Gréekes do call their Hermodactilon Ephemeron and Colchicon of the place where it groweth And although this roote may kill a man in one day as also our Daffodils do excitate a fluxe or laske in the belly euen till the very bloud do follow yet hath it his vse as in other places shal be shewed This roote shall be digged vp out of the earth in the beginning of the sommer and those that are sappiest and whitest within shall be reserued Those that are withered and soft haue lost their vertue such as grow in wet watrish and low ground are verie venemous And albeit that they be verie cleane and drie yet shall they not be vsed in halfe a yeare and are verie seldome in request One dragme or one dragme and a halfe at the most is sufficient at one time Cinnamom Ginger Mastix long Pepper do greatly correct their venemous qualitie they are giuen in the vineger of Squils honie of Roses or Oximel Hartshorne 〈◊〉 Hartshorne is prepared as is aforesayd of Iuorie Lacca the gum or sap so called do we not vse verie often notwithstanding that we will not passe ouer her preparation which is as followeth Take of Hartwort of Fenegreeke of each one ounce boile them in a sufficient quantitie of water vntill the fourth part be consumed and that there remaine but ten ounces being strained put into this liquor eight ounces of the aforesayd Lacca boyle them togither on a little fire till the water become as red as bloud and all the best of the gum be dissolued in the water then straine it thorow a cloth and let your bloudy liquor boile in a glasse in water till it become thick vnto a sirupe and more thicker and harder make it vp into little cakes and drie them Agaricus Agaricus a kinde of well knowne Mushrome the white compacted light and soft is alwayes the best that which is hollow full of holes and blacke is reiected The one is taken to be the male and the other the female kinde the best is at the first in tast swéete but presently afterwards very bitter Being giuen by it selfe one dragme or one dragme and a halfe is inough at once but being boiled in drinks or other decoctions thou maiest vse halfe an ounce It is hot in the first and drie in the second degrée It doth purge tough flegme and openeth all obstructions When thou wilt administer it thou shalt adde a litle salt Gem and Ginger to it also Oximel and honie of Roses by the which his venemous qualitie is verie much delayed The Apothecaries do diuersly prepare this Agaricus as followeth Take of it as much as thou wilt cut it small mole or rub it in a mortar for it will not be beaten to powder make it in forme of a dow with wine in which ginger hath beene steeped eight or ten howers and then make little cakes or Trochiscos of it The other manner of preparing is this Take Malmesey or Muscadell fower ounces vineger of Squils three dragmes white ginger two dragmes Spike of India halfe a dragme let them boyle togither with a soft fire straine it and stéepe in this liquor thrée ounces of the beaten Agaricus but not too fine powdered and let it stand and drie verie well in a glassed pot when it is almost drie make little cakes of it with the flime of Polipodie They purge the head and the brest of superfluous and stinking humidities they are called at the Apothecaries Trocisci de Agarico Manna Manna may we call as it is indéed a deaw of heauē séeing that this precious liquor falleth in the morning with the deaw from heauen This is now in great quantitie very good brought vnto vs out of Calabria situated beyond Italie The best is that which is a little yellow and somewhat perspicuous or cleare like Masticke in tast swéete and without any filth admixed This Manna is an easie harmlesse cooling and fine purging medicine which may be giuen to women in childbed to yong children with distilled waters or any broth of meate from one ounce and a halfe vntill two ounces and more at once when it is moulten in the waters on hot coales straine it thorow a cloth that all the vncleannesse might be separated It needeth no correction for it hath no venemous or bad qualitie at all with it Mirobolani Mirobolani these are strange fruits of the which there are fiue sorts of some of them are the rindes or barkes dried of others is the whole substance dried and brought vnto vs. All of them do purge and draw tough flegme from the head they drie the braine c. But euery one of them hath an especiall and seuerall vertue which ought to be noted Curini these are yellow hauing a thicke skin or rinde with a hard stone or stonie kernell They purge cholericke and
of purging is set for an example which according to the circumstances both of the disease and of the diseased may either be changed or vsed at pleasure The body then being purged the oyle of Roses or of water of Lillies shall be dropped or by some other meanes put into the patients nose and let him smell to Camfere Rose water or the water of Violets Or take oyle of Violets of Roses of water Lillies of each half an ounce Camfere thrée graines rub them well togither and put them into his nose In like sort also take oyle of the seedes of Gourds Willow leaues and oyle of Roses and vse it as before likewise in place of the foresaid oiles thou maiest vse cooling herbs as Night-shade Housleeke layd to the forehead with tow and double linnen clothes Also to the same end is womens milke mixed very well with the white of an eg and so layd to the forehead especially approued or let the patient bath and rub his legs with the decoction of Vine leaues water Lillies Violets Gourds Cucumber Melon leaues if for all this the paine would still increase thou maiest mixe two or thrée graines of Opium or Camfere with it and often iterate the dropping of the oyle of Willow leaues into the eares and nostrils for this purgeth the head greatly But sée thou forget not that which before hath bin sayd de Narcoticis and obstupefactiue things A sweete ball for the headache approued Take Violets water Lillies Willow leaues Roses of each one ounce Camfere two graines beate them all togither binde them vp togither in a fine péece of silke or linnen cloth and wet it often with a little Rose water Others beate the foresayd simples into fine powder and with molten waxe make it vp in forme of a ball but this is not so good Many such like cooling bals are described in the treatise of the plague in two diuers places of the sixt part as well to recreate and restore the sicke as to preserue the sound Headache proceding of the sunne or south winde §. 7 IF the paine of the head be caused by the heate of the sunne then may it easily be remedied with the aboue described Oxyrrhodinum vnguent of Roses the cooling vnguent of Galen c. And if those would not suffice vse the iuices of the before named cold herbes Also the oyles of Roses of Violets mixe with them as much strong vineger as thou takest of one of the oiles beate them well togither dip a wollen cloth in it lay it where the paine is Furthermore the patient shall obserue and kéepe the same diet that is aboue set downe in the Chapter of Cephalalgia eate things light of digesture abstaine from al things that might any way trouble or vexe the head and if neede require to purge with cooling medicines as aboue is already shewed Headache that commeth of drunkennesse §. 8. OF the disease that procéedeth from drunkennesse shall be spoken hereafter now we wil only intreate of headache without any other infirmitie adioining with it Néedelesse it is at this present to recite any signes of this kinde of headache for that euery thing is most euident whether this paine take her beginning of drunkennesse by wine or béere The first remedie is to vomit the second to sléepe long to fast it out the broth of Colewoorts or of Béetes a good quantitie being taken also to drinke much cold water and to eate sower fruits but the best meate is first of all to eate sodden Lentils Colewoorts and Pullets dressed with veriuice or Limons The patient shall also smell to Roses or Camfire let the vttermost partes of his bodie be rubbed drinke wine allayed with water and two dayes after eate astringent and binding meats with Pomegranates The first day also shall it not be amisse to annoint the forehead and temples with the oyle of Roses the next day with the oyle of Cammomill or of Lillies and if peraduenture the paine as yet would not cease he shall as néede doth require be purged especially if any vapours ascend vp into the head Likewise he may also vse this powder following Take Colewoort séedes Barbarie seedes Endiue séedes Lentils Roses calcined or burnt Iuorie or Elephants tooth of each two drag make it into a very supple powder giue of this two drag at once Camfire prepared three graines with the sirupe of Pomegranates or Citrons Headach proceeding of a stroke or fall §. 9. IF any one were hurt in the head by a stroke a fall or the throwing of a stone without any wound or breaking of the skin or fracture of the skull he shall first of all be let bloud in the head veine and afterward if need require take a common Clister and if he haue not an ague he shall be purged with Pilulae Cochiae And first of all lay on his head being shauen this that followeth Take the shelles and flowers of Pomegranates the iuice of Sloes Hyppocystis fine Bole Sanguis Draconis Terra sigillata of each one drag beate them all into powder mixe it with the whites of egs and lay it vpon the place affected or bruised Or take the decoction of Roses of Mirtle seed or of Willow leaues applying it three or foure times a day then take oyle of Mirtles and of Roses of each one ounce Mirtle seedes iuice of Sloes Hyppocystis of each one dragme mixe them together with a little molten waxe if there be no suffusion or congealed blood annoint the place with it two or three dayes together Thou maist also make a pultis of Roses Cammomill and Melilot flowers adding a little fine Bole to it and mixing it with the oyles aboue named If an ague be present vse either cold or lukewarme things also let him smell to cooling things as Violets Camfire Willow leaues and Mirtle leaues c. The second Chapter Of the paine of the head that is caused by cold IF the paine of the head proceede of cold flegmaticke humours and continue long then are these the signes wearisomnesse of all the partes and as if all the bodie were beaten and broken into peeces the paine is not extreame without any swelling or thirst fleepinesse much spitting at the mouth much moisture at the nose for such like humidities do daily increase in the diseased the face is alwaies palely coloured and somewhat swollen the eyes run and the mouth is quite out of tast In such cold headaches must contrarie remedies be vsed that is warming and drying medicines Also we must begin here likewise with the gentlest and easiest remedies first as this example following sheweth which alwaies must be holden in the mouth chewing it continually and casting foorth the slime and spittle which thereby is gathered Take Mastix Nutmegs Diptamer of Candie Pepper Stauesaker Pellitorie of Spaine Cubebs Ginger bound vp in a little cloth The manner of purging in this infirmitie §. 1. SEeing that purging is very needfull in this kind of head-ache
two ounces the iuice of Centorie the iuice of Fennell of each an ounce and a halfe let it séeth somewhat and scum it till it be cleare drop thereof on the white cloude of the eye Will you haue the honie more sharpe then put thereto thrée dragmes of Boreas Take one part of Swallowes dung Hony thrée parts temper them together this will apparantly helpe but it is sharpe like as is said alreadie Dispersion or contraction of the eye beames or sight §. 15. BEcause that these parts or skinnes of the apples of the eye called Ragodis and Vuea are sometimes disgregated through inward and outward occasions so that they be stretched out euen to the white of the eye whereby the sight is not a little hurt it is therefore first to be marked whether this disease be from the natiuitie or procéede of the great paine in the head Cephalaea If it be borne with one there is then small hope to haue it cured but if it be caused through any other occasions as fals blowes thrusts many humours that disperse themselues abroad or of some former impostume that hath not long bene past then it is still to be holpen first by letting of bloud in the head veine on the contrarie side where the disease is afterwards through purging with the pilles of Cochiae and through a well gouerned diet This is one of the best medicines for it consumeth all humidities not onely of the head but also of the whole bodie Afterwards one may make a plaister for it with fine Bolus Mirtle séed of each half an ounce Linséede beaten small two ounces Rose water and the iuice of Barberies or take Nightshade Plantaine the iuice of Housléeke of each a like much lay it ouer the eyes with a cloth Item wet a cloth in Rosewater wherein Tutia hath bene infused and lay it ouer the eyes for this is cauterization in the necke very much commended but if this disgregation of the sight be small then it will be easily cured with the Sieff of Gals which herafter shal follow which foresaid Sieff of Gals or de Fellibus is thus prepared 〈◊〉 de Felliâ—â—s Take the Gals of these aforenamed beasts to wit of Cranes Pickrels Buckes Hobbies Sparhaukes or of any other rauening birds whatsoeuer of each two drag and a halfe Euphorbium Coloquint Sagapenum of each one drag melt the gum powne all that is to be powned and temper it with the gals and with two ounces of the iuice of Fennell and vse it like any other Collyrium It is also specially good for those that are purblind whereof shall be hereafter spoken But if the starre or beame of the eye be dispersed because it is hurt there is then no great care to be taken for the same is easily to be holpen make this plaister following Take beanes and Barly meale of each one quarter of an ounce oyle of Roses halfe an ounce the yolke of an egge temper it well with the iuice of Endiue as much as is néedfull Take Nightshade Housléeke and Rosewater of each one ounce and the white of an egge make a cloth wet therein and lay it vpon the eyes For this is also good the gall of a Bucke ashes of the burnt head of a Magpie of each a like quantitie tempered with Honie and the iuice of Celendine and so layed vpon the eye this is commended for a very approoued receipt And if so be that the apple of the eye be contracted and waxe smaller it is then caused through drought and although naturally the small apple of the eye be good yet is the diminishing of the same very bad For this are good moist meates to be vsed to bath in swéet waters to vse oftentimes womans milke and drop of the foresaid mildest Collyrium into the eyes Of the extuberation of the Eyes as if they would fall out §. 16. THis is caused through many occasions as for that the head is full of humors or that the eyes of themselues do swel through a ful bodie otherwhiles through wind and otherwhiles through some kind of impostume if there be much bloud or flegme with it whereof mention is before made in the 8. § It may happen also that the sinewes of the muscles about the eyes are féebled and lamed thorough some superfluous humor of the head like as it may well happeÌ„ by reason of the great paine of the head through extreame vomiting and strong straining of going to stoole of hard coughing and of such like strong motions and this happeneth especially in the dropsie if it come through fulnesse of the bodie then doth the patient féele a strong pricking and paine about the eyes if through wind then is the pricking not so strong but rather contracting if it come through much bloud that do the red veines declare with heate Cholera maketh pricking and smarting If this infirmitie be new then it is easily to be holpen in case that it is not caused through the dropsie and that onely through good gouernment of diet But if this infirmitie be but small then lay cotton on the eye and tye it to a linnen band eate and drinke but little sléep much and refraine from all labour But if the griefe be much and with great paine open the head veine and purge with Hiera and with Pils ordained in Ophthalmia Set boxing cups with picking on high vpon the shoulders foment the eyes with wooll which is dipped in warme vineger and water or with water and vineger wherein Pomegranate blossomes and péeles Gals and Sumach is decocted and make the whole face wet therewith And if therwith be great heate then make a plaister of the hearbe Shepheards purse Plantaine and Housléek and so apply it vpon the eye But if it procéed through weaknesse of the sinewes then purge the head vse Gargarismes and the Salues that hereafter are taught in Paralysi and contraction of the mouth make a fomentation of warme hearbes or this plaister take Frankinsence Masticke Cipers nuts and the leaues of each a like much beaten tempered with oyle of Cammomill but if you will put some of the iuice of Sloes vnto it you may Of eyes that be burnt §. 17. IF any bodies face be burnt so that one haue feare of his eyes and that they do swell then take water of Verueine steepe Quince kernels therein wring the slime through a cloth and annoint the face therewith and the eyelids but looke for that which is written before of white and red eyes what cooleth all kinds of inflammations or that is declared in the first part Whensoeuer any be stricken in or vpon the eye §. 18. TAke powned Wormewood temper it with the brayed white of an egge and lay it ouer the eye Item take the iuice of Verueine the white of egs well brayed lay it on the eyes with a wet cloth looke also thereof in the sixt Chapter and the first § of the humors of the eyelids If any thing be fallen into
described in the eight part of this booke Some men do vse Aqua fortis and it helpeth much but you must deale very warily with it These stinking teeth are oftentimes the cause of a stinking breath If the tooth be altogether corrupted then is the only and best remedy to draw it out otherwise must one wash the mouth alwayes after meales with water sodden with Sal Armoniac or otherwhiles with vineger wherein hath bene decocted some Pellitory of Spaine and Stauesacre Vineger of Squils tempered therewith is also very good After meales as hath before bin admonished is the hollownes of the tooth to be picked and cleansed of al superfluitie If this paine proceed of cold then are you to thrust into the hollow tooth a litle péece of Galingal of ginger of Cloues of pepper frankinsence or of Myrhe If it be caused of heate then vse Roses Sanders Campher and such like Of the wormes that are in the teeth IT is euidently knowne that if the paine be not ouermuch but that there be felt a continuall stirring and crawling in the téeth that the same was wont to procéed of wormes for if 〈◊〉 wash his mouth with warme water and hold the hollownesse of the tooth vp towards the Sunne then may the wormes apparantly be seene to stirre in them For this thou shalt take Aloes one drag Myrrhe half a drag make them into little pils with wine and thrust them into the hollow tooth Item boyle Coloquint in faire water and wash thy mouth with it Make a fomentation of Henbane séed or which is safer of Onion séeds or of Garlicke séeds then wash thy mouth with warme water and spit it into cold water then shalt thou sée the wormes swim in it Take Myrrhe Aloes and red Storax of each a like much put a little of it into thy tooth where the wormes are Or take Calmus brused boile it in a little wine dip a litle cotton in it and lay it ouer or in the hollow tooth In the greatest extremity make a fume with Opium Beuercod and Onion seeds or with white Henbane seeds or Mustard séeds receiue this fume through a tunnel into thy hollow tooth but at one time take but the quantity of a barly corne to fumigate withall and take heed the fume passe only into the hollownesse of the tooth although you should get a little pipe of purpose to put into thy hollow tooth and to fit it vnto the tunnel If all these meanes bring no ease then let it be drawne out and bleed throughly Of grinding of the teeth in children THis commonly happeneth vnto children in their sléepe through the debility of the muscles that stirre and moue the iawes this after a while leaueth them altogether It may also be caused of wormes that are in the stomacke or intestines but then their grinding of their téeth is not all after the same manner they rub their noses c. Of which thou shalt haue further direction in the treatise of the wormes where also shall be shewed how this is to be remedied But if this infirmity do continue for some other cause then it is commonly the messenger of the dead palsie contracture or of some other affection of the sinewes for the which you are to vse those things as are thought méete for euery such infirmitie But for this it is especiall good to annoint the chéekes and the whole necke with Vnguentum Martiatum or the oile of Beuercod of Spikenard of Iuniper of Bayes and such like Of the paine in the teeth that commeth through the application or vse of cold things AL maner of oiles that are warme by nature applied to the tooth or holden in the mouth do ease this paine Item take Bay berries Aristologie and Allume of each a like much boile them in a sufficient quantity of wine wash thy mouth with it warme If thou wilt haue it stronger adde Hiera Picra vnto it The same operatiō hath old Treacle mixed with wine and a good while after not to take any other moisture in the mouth Note also that whatsoeuer is vsed or applied to the teeth may not be hot for they are thereby corrupted and spoiled Of the standing an edge of the teeth THis procéedeth otherwhiles of a sharpe and astringent slime or rheume which falleth into the rootes of the téeth or of some other sower matter that lieth in the stomacke and fumeth vp into the mouth and téeth whereby the téeth are set an edge But for the most part it is caused of sower and vnripe fruits as of vnripe Grapes Limons Raspes Corna Sloes and such other for this purpose serueth Purslaine with her séed beaten together and vineger put vpon it bitter or swéete Almonds Licorice and the iuice thereof Salt water milke of an Asse to wash the mouth with the decoction of Aristology and Bay leaues These things may you mixe together vse or chew them as you please To hold warme wine in the mouth is also very commodious Or as soone as euer you do perceiue this infirmitie then chew sixe of the graines of pepper and afterwards wash thy mouth with warme wine this helpeth immediatly This doth also oftentimes procéed of cold as hath bene before said For when one will cure the toothach with ouercold things then will thereby the small heate of them be extinguished so that they loose their sense and féeling Now to cure the same you must take some kind of oyle that is warme by nature as I haue shewed you before and also bite the yolks of egs hard rosted or hot bread to annoint the gums with the oile of Spikenard and afterwards to hold warme wine in the mouth wherein Cubebs haue bene sodden Lastly to chew Masticke in the mouth a great while and then to wash it with warme wine How to confirme and fasten Teeth that be loose THe cause of this loosenesse of the téeth may be blowes thrusts defluxions that fall out of the head into the téeth that as it were resolue and slacken their sinewes and loose their roots It may also procéed of a great drought as it hapneth vnto them that recouer of a long lingring disease the corruption of the mouth and teeth may also cause the same The signes of this loosenes of the téeth may be discerned by beholding them diligently The cure of this infirmitie is comprehended in two principall points to wit in a good regiment or diet and in the adhibition of good remedies First he must take héed not to bite hard vpon any thing but to vse soft meates also not to speake much thereby to eschew the cold aire also he is not to sléepe with an open mouth neither are the téeth to be touched roughly either with the fingers or with the toong If this loosenesse of the téeth do come of blowes and such like with an euident heate then is he to vse the pils and blossomes of Pomegranates Medlars with their leaues and rinds Seruices Quinces Lycium Gals Butchers
conceits of the mind vnto our friend also there is nothing else in which we differ from brute beasts but onely in the voice We will not speake of any weake voices which are caused of some long sicknes for we haue already written of them before in the thirtéenth chapter But we purpose only to treate of those things that do corrupt or spoyle the voyce as of hoarsnesse and such like If the voyce be decayed of a cold cause then drinke halfe a drag of beaten cubebs at your lying downe sodden in thrée ounces of the decoction of Guaiacum The common people thinke it a good experiment to stéepe Horstongue in wine and to drinke the same But the tabulats of Diaireos are especially commended which are made as followeth Diaireos Take Ireos halfe an ounce Penniroyall Hyssope Licorice of each thrée drag Dragagant bitter Almonds Pine apple kernels Cinamom Ginger Pepper of each one drag and a half figs dates Currans of each fiue scrup red Styrax three scrup and a halfe and for euery ounce of this powder take twelue ounces of Sugar cut the fruits small beate all the rest and make tabulats or an Electuary of them This is called at the Apotheries Diaireos Salomonis Another Take Ireos halfe an ounce Sugarcandy and the abouenamed spices without Sugar two dragmes Sugar twelue ounces boyle it in the water of Hyssop vntill it be thick then make tabulats of it Both these kinds of Diaireos are good for the cough proceeding of a cold rheume and for a whéesing breath Of Hoarsnesse §. 1. THis hoarsnesse proceedeth of many and sundry causes but especially of cold and sharp humors that fall out of the head into the throte and there make it dry whereof shall be spoken at large when we shall speake of the infirmities of the throte we will now only shew what is conuenient for the roughnesse and hoarsnesse of the same for the which Sugarcandy holden in the mouth very often is very commodious also the confectiō Diatragacanthum whereof there be two sorts to wit the hot and the cold which may be made as hereafter followeth The cold Electuary of Diatragacanthum TAke white Dragagant one ounce gum Arabeck fiue drag Starch two drag Licorice péeled Melon seeds Gourds séeds Cucumber and Pompeon séeds of each one drag Campher fiue graines sugar pennets one ounce and a half beate them to powder If thou wilt make tabulats of it then take of this powder one ounce of the best Sugar twelue ounces boile it in water of Violets as it behoueth This confection is also very good for all infections of the lights and of the breast which do procéed of heate and drouth and especialy for them that are declining to a consumption and them that haue a dry cough doth it much helpe The hote confection of Diatragacanthum TAke Dragagant Hyssop of each two ounces pine apple kernels swéet Almonds and Linséed of each three drag Fenegréeke Cinnamom of each two drag iuice of Licorice Ginger of each one drag make it into an electuary or confection as before This is very good for them that haue a tough and slimy cough and that cannot get vp any thing also for all them that haue a whéesing and short breath and that are subiect to a consumption Take Iuiubes boyle them in water stéepe Cotton seeds in it and hold them in thy mouth a long time it hath a maruellous operation in all hoarsnesse drought and roughnesse of the throate Amongst all other things that haue bin found good by experience the tabulats of Diatragacanth are much conmended wherefore euery night when you go to bed shall you dissolue one of them in swéet wine adding halfe a scruple of Saffron vnto it and drinke them all together this hath cured many men of an inueterate hoarsnesse A good potion Take fiue pints of water half a pint of hony sixe Figs one ounce of Currans two drag of Licorice boyle one pint of it away and scum it well drinke euery morning fasting a good cupfull warme you shall also temper or mixe your wine with it This potion is also very commodiously vsed against the cough Hony of Roses is also very good for all drouth and hoarsnes of the throate for it moisteneth and easeth it In like maner also the conserue of Roses oile of sweet Almonds sirupe of Violets and Hony water which commonly allayeth all roughnesse of the throte But if this hoarsnesse procéed of a cold rheume then is Fennell seed very profitably vsed howsoeuer it be adhibited but for this purpose are confected Cumin séeds Caru◠and confected Almonds much better Likewise whatsoeuer shall be written hereafter in the second part of this booke for the cough may also be vsed in this infirmity How to make a cleere voice §. 2. ONions and Garlicke as also the Hyssop wine are much commended for to make a cléere and good voyce also the tabulats called Diaireos Nicolai This electuary following is also much commended for this purpose Take Cabbage séeds Hyssope Elecampane rootes Fole foote rootes of the Flower deluce Horehound of each half an ounce Annis séeds Fennel séeds Ameos Cubebs Aristology of each one drag and a halfe Oxymel compositum Sirupus de Prassio of each thrée ounces Sugar pennets thrée drag Pineapple kernels that haue bin infused in Vine cuict two dayes foure ounces Saffron one drag clarified hony twelue ounces temper it to a confection or electuary Take of this in the morning halfe an ounce with two ounces of the decoction of Nettle rootes If it be not too much trouble for you take one halfe of it in the morning and the other halfe at night mixed with a little Sugar This may be vsed for all harshnes and hoarsnesse of the throte The water may you alter or change according to the quality of the disease And so we end the first part of this our Booke The second part of this Practise of Phisicke Containeth the Breast THe Anatomici by deuiding mans body into the outward and inward members do affirme the second part of the same to begin in the vppermost part next vnder the Head thence to extend it selfe downewards vnto the Midriffe which is a skin that parteth the Heart and the Lights from the Belly This part maketh shew outwardly of very few members to wit of the Necke of the Breast Ribs Shoulders and vpper parts of the Backe and containeth inwardly two of the principallest members as the Heart and Lights of the which and of the diseases of the same and how they are to be holpen shall now be shewne The first Chapter Of the Necke THere is none other disease to be séene in the Necke outwardly then a swelling or tumor which is called Bronchocele the which either commeth by nature or else of some outward cause the same chanceth also sometimes to swell inwardly although that commonly depend and is caused of the first swelling Of Bronchocele §. 1. IF any man haue this tumor in the throte by
inheritance or discent from his parents and naturally is borne with it as commonly happeneth in Bintsgaw and in many places moe whereof at this present shall not be spoken for that all Phisitions hereupon conclude that they are altogether incurable But that which is not naturall which procéedeth commonly of flegmaticke or waterish humors with the which otherwhiles wind is admixed by ioyning both together bréedeth knots on the necke For by experience it hath bin found that when these Tumors haue bin opened by incision that sometimes there is found nothing in them but water therfore is the same called a watery Bronchocele Sometimes there will be therein a thick matter like Hony and otherwhiles a tough ashcoloured slime as it were snot or sniuel Lastly it hath also bin séene that there is but a little water in it with much wind which in opening euen as other wind is let out and flieth away These tumors are caused most of cold raw Northerne winds and of thick slimy flegme whereby all such flegmaticke defluxions are increased also through continuall vse of grosse meates that augment Phlegma When as such swellings appéere then must you not delay and rest thereon but séeke some remedy betimes and not follow the counsell of such as do say that it will weare away of it selfe The order of diet IT is first néedfull that he take héed of eating vnleauened bread in like sort of all young sucking beasts and that are fat and slimy as Swines flesh fish and chiefly sod milke and all that is drest therewith also of moist fruits as Cherries Peares Apples Haselnuts and Melons also of cold and moist herbes as Béetes Spinage Lettice Endiue Purslaine Veriuice and fresh butter But contrariwise warme and dry dwellings situate in the East and South are very good and not much sléeping for that increaseth much flegme also quiet and idlenesse are hurtfull Therefore are all such patients to endeuour themselues to go and walke much and to hold alwayes the head vpright And if that cannot be done let them be rubbed with hot clothes from their heads downewards towards their féete vntil the skin be red therewith and also both their féete Their heads shall be seldome washed and then only with lie and Sope after the driest manner like as you may find a good instruction thereof in the discouery of the headach Their drinke shall be small white Wine that is old and of a good tast the which must be delayed with decocted water in their meates they must beware of all superfluitie and arise from their meales with appetite also they must chew their meate well before they swallow it Now to the remedie of this Tumor first you shall prepare the humor whereby this swelling is caused with Oximel of Squils which is acuated with Pepper and Pellitory of Spaine This must be continued certaine dayes fasting taking two or three ounces mingled with wine In like maner if néed require open a veine afterwards vse this laxatiue powder following whereby the corruption may be drawne out of the head and out of the stomacke the braines strengthened and all humors consumed that run towards the swelling Take beaten Hermodactili Turbith of each one drag Ginger two scrup Diagridion sixe graines flowers of Esula halfe a drag mingle them together you are to giue at once halfe a drag of this powder or two scrup at the most tempered with thrée ounces of Meade once euery weeke and that early in the morning whereupon he must fast foure houres And this shall he take continually a whole moneth together Prepare also this following and it will consume the corruption and the wind whereby the Tumor is caused Take Cammomill Melilot of each one ounce Annise séedes Rue of each one ounce and a halfe dried Goose and Pigeon dung Sal gemmae of each two ounces all beaten grossely Of this compound take a handfull and stéepe it eight houres long in Sopers lie and then let it seeth a little make a spunge wet therein and bind it warme on the griefe Take one of these waters following the which you can get best to wit water of Aristologie of wild Cucumbers and Rosemary make a spunge wet that will couer the same and the places about it wring it out and lay it warme thereon and renew it often You must also annoint the part infected and the places about it with warming oiles and then lay this plaister following Take of Diaculum magnum called the Apostolicon plaister Ammoniacum of each a like quantitie temper therewith Ireos and Sal gemmae both beaten as much as the other spread thereof vpon leather thrée dragmes of Opopanacum Litharge of siluer Ammoniacum Galbanum of each one drag Myrrhe Miscleden Frankinsence of each one drag and a halfe Gipa Bolus Aloe of each halfe a dragme the muscilage of Hollihocke halfe an ounce Tupentine one ounce or as much as is néedfull powne all that is to be powned dissolue the gums in vineger and temper the powder therein and then make it into a plaister with waxe This is also good for Bronchocele Diuers powders for the same TAke Hasell nuts Spunges Sea-bals writing paper burnt all together Cuttle bones and séeds of Plantaine of each half an ounce Pepper Ginger Sal gemmae Pumice stones Nutmegs Gals white and long pepper Cinnamom black and white Hellebore of each one quarter of an ounce make them into powder and giue thereof euery morning halfe a drag The Hellebore or Néesewort is somewhat dangerous therefore this following is safer Take new spunges and burne them in a luted pipkin or pot vntil they may wel be beaten and giue him thereof euery morning with wine one drag Another which is much vsed Take cleane washt spunges foure ounces burne them in a luted pot with halfe an ounce of Spunge stones Pumice stones and Cuttle bones of each one drag red cloth burnt like to the spunges halfe an ounce mingle them and vse them as before Make also this gargarisme Take Oxymel of Squils one ounce sirupe of Calamint one quarter of an ounce blew Ireos and Marioram gentle of each two ounces temper them all together and therewith you are to gargarize morning and euening euery other day Let him smell to this that followeth Take Rosemary flowers Marioram gentle and Spica of each one quarter of an ounce Lignum Aloes one drag and a half Mace Ameos Laudanum red Storax of each one drag Amber halfe a drag powne each a part and bind it vp in a péece of silke and let him hold it alwayes in his hand for to smell to Capitall powders TAke Cucubes Nutmegs Lignum Aloes Rosemary flowers Swines bread of each halfe a drag Sandaraca one quarter of an ounce powne them and temper them together take euery morning fiue greines thereof and strew it on the top of the head Or make a little bag fiue singers long and thrée fingers broade and lay it on the head Take the herbe called Harts toong beate it
are hard of digesture and their fat is windie Other parts are much easier of digestion and warmth of nature reasonable fat flesh is easie to be digested the wings or pinnions and the legs are good for him at noone being sodden and at night are good rosted but fryed in a pan is not for his dyet All fowles as Capons Cocks and chiefly Hens wild and tame Pigeons which are not fully feathered and haue béen killed a day or twain before and are well drest these may he eate franke and fréely Yong Peacocks Geese Ducks shall he also refraine or at least eate of them very seldome and that rosted Of all wild birds these are good for him Partridges Fesants and small birds as also Stares Finches Nightingales Larkes Sparrowes Snites Dishwashers and such like by reason that all their flesh is much drying Swallowes Magpies and Woodpigeons are not to be vsed Quailes shall he also abstaine from in regard they are hurtfull for the stomacke and breed loathsomnesse No kind of fish is to be vsed but in case that he wil eate them then let them be hard broiled to wit Roches Pikes Gugeons Perches and such like and they will hurt the lesse if they be drest with Parsley and Mints and they are alwayes better broyled or fried than sodden and stued also the salt fish is better than the fresh The Eele the Tench and the Creuets are also forbidden Likewise Milke and all that is drest therwith but he may eate â—eare egs out of their shels or poched but hard egs are naught Of all manner of Pottages there is onely allowed of Panicum red Pease and Rice The herbes that are commodious for this must be in operation drying and warming as Sage Fennell Mints wild Thyme Rosemary Marierom gentle Basill Dill. Contrariwise he must forbeare Lettice Endiue Spinage Cherries and all that are cold and moyst In like manner also Radish Léekes and Onions after what manner soeuer that they be drest shall he forbeare Rapes or Turneps haue much superfluous moisture therefore are not to be vsed but Oliues and Capers are good for him He must auoid all cold and moyst fruits parched Hasell nuts Almonds Figs Raisins Pinapple kernels Pistacium may he vse without danger All meates that are betwéene sower and swéete in like manner that which is drest with Ginger Annis seede Fennell Parsley Saffron Cinnamom Nutmegs and Mace are very commodious for him and the rather if they be swéetened with hony than with Sugar Item a Sallad made of Parsley Mints wild Thyme Vineger is very profitable for him His best drinke is hony water or Meade Cinnamom and Licorice wine amongst which are to be tempered some of the foresayd waters And if he will néedes drinke wine without mingling it at all with water then is to be taken as is said a thinne and pleasant white Wine the which ought to be drunken delayed with steeled water Lastly is the patient after meales to vse somwhat that closeth the stomacke that the vapors ascend not into the head as prepared Coriander toasted bread rosted Quinces or such as be confected with hony In the morning fasting to go or walke on foote or to ride a horsebacke softly is very commodious for these Rheumes And if the patient be not so strong then may one vse in stead thereof to rub him with warme clothes euen as is oftentimes afore sayd and after meales to kéepe himselfe quiet two or thrée howers Of watching and sleeping THis patient must wholly forbeare sléeping on the day time vnles he be otherwise distempered and must forbeare it at the leastwise two howers after meate first he must lay himselfe on the right side and then on the left side and not on the backe for how hurtfull the same is hath bene shewed sufficiently before The heate of the sunne and of the fire must he auoid and forbeare lowd calling and speaking And to conclude touching these cold and stifling rheumes we will tell how they are to be preuented the which may be effected through these meanes following And for that this disease proceedeth of a cold and moyst stomacke and braines all things measurably warme and dry are good for it as these confections following These Species Diatrion piperion Aromaticum Rosatum of each halfe a drag Mace one quarter of an ounce Cinnamom one drag and a halfe Sugar three ounces sirupe of Roses fiue ounces the Sugar and the sirupe séeth till they be méetly thicke afterwards mixe the other spices amongst them in a mortar take euery day foure houres before meales as much as a Nutmeg And this must you continue a moneth together and afterwards three times a weeke as long as you please Or make this confection to be vsed after meate and take thereof thrée dragmes at one time Take Species Diâ—mbrae de xylo Aloe of each one drag and a half Violets Water Lillies Sorrel seedes and Endiue seedes of each one scrup Sugar foure ounces seeth it in water of Violets and make Manus Christi of them A plaister for the stomacke TAke Laudanum and Rosin of each fiue drag prepared Corall and Yuorie small Endiue seede and Purslaine seede of each one scrup The two first you shall dissolue in sharpe vineger and put thereto molten waxe as much as is néedfull and thereof make a plaister or twaine for the stomacke and weare them all the winter vpon it When these rheumes are a diuiding then must you prepare a drie bath as hereafter followeth Take a sweating tub make it méetly wet with wine and Rosewater afterwards haile the same ouer a glowing fire till that it be through drie then make the same wet againe with a sponge or cloth as before and do this so long vntill that the tub be through hot and then set the patient therein and couer the tub ouer with clothes which must stay vpon the hoopes yet holding his head without and let him sit so sweating one houre or twaine Hote Rheumes §. 2. AS in the beginning is generally treated of rheumes so are there also declared certaine causes of the hote rheume therefore it is néedlesse to rehearse the same again These rheumes are much prouoked through idlenesse through sléeping a daies through superfluous eating and drinking Also if the head be too hot couered great labour ouerheating of himselfe and such like The signes and tokens that one hath the rheume are these to wit the face is red mixt with bleaknesse or pale colour great heate in the nose with itchings when as the mouth and the throate are full of bitternesse and sharpnesse And if the head be hote in feeling the which rheume is thus to be cured First it hath not bene a little disputed of amongst the learned whether a veine must be opened or not but for the most part they affirme it some would open the head veine other the median and some the Liuer veine But this letting of bloud must be effected according as the rheume falleth more on the
each one scrup Sandaraca one quarter of an ounce water Lillies one drag and a half Cloues halfe a drag temper them together being all beaten small and therewith bestrew the crowne of the head and euery other day when you will strew other powder thereon brush off the first This following is more cooling Take Roses Myrtle séede or leaues Corall and Butchers broome séedes of each a like much This being powdred small vse it as before The order of Diet. THe best meate that this patient may vse when he is not ouerweake are paps of Barley of Spelt of Starch of Oten meale and alwaies adde some Sugar pennets In like manner may he eate these hearbes following drest or sod with other meates as Spinage Orage Purslaine Mallowes and Béetes also Melons Gourds Cucumbers But if he be weake then is he to eate Kids Hens and such like sodden with these foresaid hearbs and mildly salted reare egges Oyle of swéet Almonds and all small birds are very méete The best that he may vse for drinke is Barly water or Sugar water and both hauing Licorice sodden in them Item cleane fresh Well water tempered with sirupe of Roses or Violets He must wholy forbeare wine but if that will not be then must he vse a thin wine tempered with a little veriuice It is also good counsell for all rheumaticke persons to sléepe as little as is possible and that with the head vpright The which together with the whole bodie must be well couered and in the meane whiles if any sweat follow he must let the same haue his course It is also thought good that the forehead the temples and the whole brest be annointed with oyle of Violets water Lillies and Roses mingled together or with each a part Or that his breast be annointed with oyle of swéet Almonds and fresh Butter When as the sicknesse is declining then is the patients head to be washed if euer he vsed the same with cleare lye wherin is decocted or stéeped Marioram gentle Roses Cammomill and Melilot and afterwards he is to be combed and dried with warme clothes Of Rheumes with agues §. 3. IF in case that through the foresaid remedies the rheume will not be stayed which happeneth often through the aboundance of humours then befalleth oftentimes a cough and ague to follow it whereby one may well guesse that the same procéedeth of a cholericke humor that lyeth still hidden in the veines Therefore is the letting of bloud very néedfull for this and especially in the liuer veine Afterwards you must purge the bodie with Cassia and Manna or concerning the same take the counsell of a learned Phisition For this also must continually be vsed those Losinges wherein is no Ireos And for to take away this hurtfull matter of the rheume it is specially aduised that the same be deriued from the brest into the nose where the same may be the better euacuated To this end take Ammoniacum halfe an ounce small beaten Pellitorie of Spaine one quarter of an ounce make this with the iuice of blew Flower deluce into dow and thereof take a little on a knife and put it in the nose and foorthwith you shall sée the water to run out of the nose This is a secret Item take the iuice of the roote of blew Flower deluce one ounce beaten Stauesacre and Pieretrum of each one drag make some cotton moist herein and so put it warm into his nose He must also be preuented and kept from eating of flesh and drinking of wine as long as the ague and the cough endure Barly water tempered with Iulep of Violets and sirupe of Violets must be his drinke for this suppleth moistneth and cooleth the breast and maketh the matter thicker But if it procéede of cold then are you to boile Venus haire Hyssope and Licorice amongst them When as then the ague and cough begin to cease which one may féele as the drouth and spettle beginneth to cease then are you to prepare this water following Take fiue fat Figs ten Iuiubes twenty Sebestes Raisins the stones taken out one ounce and a quarter Licorice cut small fiue drag let them séeth well together in sufficient water Afterwards straine it and take thereof thrée ounces sirupe of Violets fiue drag temper them all together and you shall giue him this potion if the rheume procéede of heate but if it procéed of cold and the flegme or spettle will not be loosed then seeth Venus haire and Currans with the foresaid things and leaue out the sirupe of Violets If the Rheume would not passe through the nose §. 4. TO conclude we are to adde this following to the rest If so be this rheume do stop the nose a great while and that there is no heate with it then are fumes to be vsed for it And héede is to be taken that if the moisture that issueth out at the nose be subtill sharpe or yellow make a smoake with a little Sulphur that hath bene stéeped in a little vineger and is dried againe or with husked Barley or Beans péeled that were also stéeped in vineger and are dried againe and beaten to powder For this also serueth Saunders and the Fume of Sugar Or you may prepare this following Take grosse beaten brimstone one quarter of an ounce séeth it in 8. ounces of red vineger and receiue the vapor of into your nose Or sprinkle the Sulphur with wine and lay it on a hote stone Item make a vapor of sodden Barley water Lillies and white Poppie séede Also you may sprinkle vineger alone vpon an hot iron For this is also good the vapor or smoke of Partriges feathers But if there be no heate nor rednes in the face then make a fume of Costus roots and Frankinsence Or take Gith séedes steeped in wine and so sprinkle it on a hote stone Take also Lignum Aloes Mastick and Frankinsence of each a like much being powned together and receiue the vapor thereof Likewise is commodious for this Sandaraca stéeped in vineger and the same sprinkled on a hote stone and the vapor thereof receiued into the nose And for as much as there is very much written at this present of this rheume and shall be more discouered thereof in the description of the rheume of the cough and pursiuenesse therfore will we here make an end of this Chapter The third Chapter Of the formost part of the Breast Thorax THat which we generally call the Breast hath his beginning there where the necke endeth downewards vnto the lower rib albeit that Aristotle ascribeth the whole bodie from beneath vnder the necke without the armes euen to the priuities below vnto it yet this Thorax includeth the foremost and hindmost part of the bodie from the necke euen to the midriffe The foremost part is in the middle of it downwards somewhat lower and heightened againe where the breasts or paps are euen so in the hinder part downe along the backe bone it is lower and on both the sides higher
breast be much then teÌ„per amongst it Trociscos de Agarico or giue him the powder thereof to drinke in like manner also Rubarb with Spica of Indie with Cinnamom or Squinant according to the importance of the cause Old folkes may vse this as well as yong children How commodious the Cassia is for all sore Coughs is sufficiently declared in our Introduction But for this paine in the breast it is néedefull that it be tempered with Agarick or some other thing according to the qualitie of the sicknesse But for this is especiall heede to be taken for women with child that it be not giuen them without great cause bicause it maketh paine or ache in the belly Item take Sulphur vise two graines temper it with a little Hony and so take it in for it is maruellous good There is also to be had ready at some Apothecaries a costly compound Trociscos de Sulphure Trocisci de sulphure Adulphi or called Adulphi and is thus prepared take losinges of Cole Dragagant Sugar pennets of each halfe an ounce Ginger two scruples Licorice thrée dragmes Ireos one scruple Hyssop Nettle seede Rosemary floures Saffron and Sulphur vife of each seuen graines mixe it with Looch sanum and forme trocisces thereof take a little of it letting it melt alone in the mouth and vse it often They make also a Confection of Brimstone take Sulphur vife one scruple mixe it with fresh Butter and Muscilage of Linseede or Elecampane one ounce take thereof often and a little at once The Confection of Foxe lights that is Looch de pulmone Vulpis is aboue all other remedies Looâ—h de pulmone Vulpis for the Asthma which is a shortnes of breath very much commended for it is not only good for a sore Cough and short breath but it healeth and cleanseth all vlcers of the breast and Lights And for the consumption it excelleth all other remedies is made thus Take prepared Foxe lights the iuice of Licorice Annis séede Fennell seede and Venus haire of each halfe an ounce clarified Sugar seuen ounces and a halfe beate these togither and decocted with Sugar in the water of Folefoote leaues temper it into a confection Hereafter follow some good Potions for this shortnesse of breath Take Sebestes Figs and Dates of each fower Venus haire Violets Currans and Licorice of each one quarter of an ounce white Poppy seede one ounce Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce Annis seed Fennell Agrimonie Hyssope of each one ounce 20. Iuiubes Sugar or Hony fiue ounces thrée or foure pintes of water let this séeth togither vntill the third part be sodden away straine the liquor through a cloth and put the Sugar thereto or hony and let it seeth againe vntill it be cleare IteÌ„ take 3. quarters of an ounce of Figs Dates Horehound Smallage seed Fennel Roses Venus haire Hyssope and Licorice of each fiue dragmes seeth them as before or to the halfe The common people may seeth water with hony and Hyssope as the shortnesse of breath beginneth to lessen he must lay one dragme of Agaricus in the water of Betonie and Hyssope to steepe and temper amongst it some hony of Roses and so drinke it togither Also the common Meade and Sugar water is good to drinke Another Potion Take a pinte and halfe of white wine steepe therein one handfull of Horehound let it seeth togither vntill the third part straine it and put thereto sixe ounces of clarified Hony let it seeth a little togither and scum it diligently whereof the patient is to drinke euery day two or three ounces Some do take three ounces of Hony and do melt therin half an ounce of Turpentine washt or as much Oxymel Both are good and sure A maruellous good medicine which is highly esteemed in Turky Take the liuer of a Wolfe the Milt Lights and braines salt well the braines and take of these fower of each a like much let them be dried well that they may be powned Giue the patient thereof one quarter of an ounce with a little fresh broth three daies one after another in the morning fasting and let him fast afterwards fiue or sixe houres The sicke partie must take his drinke through the Wolfes throate when this is so done they report that they which vse the same be from thenceforth fréed of it all the yeare following but if it returne not within one twelue moneth that then it will neuer come againe And if he had this sicknesse any more afterwards they aduise that one should make a lace of the Wolfes maw and weare the same all his life time on his naked bodie for thereby should he be certainely fréed of this sicknesse But to trie these things is the best way Water distilled of Elecampane or broth wherein it is decocted is very good and chiefly if it be mingled therewith Hereafter are some things described which the diseased may hold vnder his tongue without chewing as big as a beane and swallow it downe by little and little Take Looch de Pino one ounce and a halfe Sugar pennets halfe an ounce powne them together Item take Looch de Farfaria called ad Asthma as much as you thinke méete and as much powned Hollihock rootes make a hard confection thereof with prepared honie or sugar And if any do resist these weake things then shall he in the stead thereof vse Diapenidion described in this Chapter and 6. § And if it happen as it woonteth often that the sicke person by reason of this cough cannot sléepe then is he once or twice a wéeke to take this potion when he goeth to bed Take placents of Ireos one dragme the confection of Philonium Romanum halfe a scruple temper it with one ounce and a half of Hyssop water and at the same time strew on the top of the patients head this powder following Take Sandaraca one quarter of an ounce Cloues one drag Mace two scruples Roses water Lillies Violets and Poppie heads of each half a drag Lignum Aloes one scruple stampe each a part and temper them together Plaisters or Vnguents for this Asthma TAke fat Dates and Figges of each one ounce Mallowes Hollihocke leaues of each three handfuls rootes of Mallowes and of Hollihockes of each halfe an ounce cut them to péeces and boile them together into a pappe mixe Pigeon dung amongst it Turpentine and Rosin of each one ounce the muscilage of Linséede and of Fenegréeke as much as is needfull for to make a mild plaister lay it warme vpon the breast the same doth also the fatte shéepes wooll Item take Comfrey rootes broad and narrow Plantaine Purslaine and Henbane choppe them small and séeth them together in the waters of Plantaine and Purslaine vntill it be thick beaten well and mixt with Pomegranate pils Acorne cups Galles and Myrtle séede which haue bene stéeped eight howers in warme water then strained out hard and powred to the rest and boiled vnto a little afterwards mingle it with
part be sodden away in this warme water wet a sponge and lay it fiue or sixe times a day vpon the priuities Secondly set often copper cups which haue narrow mouthes vpon the belly For this is also good all that expelleth wind Of the waterish Rupture Hernia Aquosa §. 4. IF any where in the veines in the pores or in the liuer or other parts do gather some water which falleth downewards then must it at last fall into the cods but the Liuer is alwayes the most principall cause from whence all such moistures haue their beginning Therfore when as all such waterish Ruptures happen to any it is quickly to be discerned by the nauell or cods which immediatly afterwards do swell vp and séeme to be perspicuous whereto these things following are to be vsed First of all the patient must be purged for if such happen not often the matter of the sicknes will not be caried out of the body In like sort if there be not kept a good order of diet and the water be not expelled then runneth it againe downwards towards the cods whereby at length may be caused a greater harme And to purge all those humors take this drink following Take Agaricus and Hermodactili of each one drag and a half Ginger one scrup Ireos one drag Hony water foure ounces then make the Hony water warme and let the foresaid things be steeped therein 24. houres afterwards wring it well out and drinke it warme and sixe houres afterwards eate and drinke warme beere and bread vpon it But if so be this drinke through the bitternesse thereof go against your stomacke then take this ensuing Electuarium Indium thrée drag burnt copper eight graines water of blew Flower deluce two ounces temper them all together and drinke it Or take these pils Take the root of Laureola which hath bin stéeped fiue dayes in vineger one scruple Sulphur vif foure graines burnt Copper two graines Licorice Annis and Dragagant of each foure graines make pils thereof with the iuice of Roses and take them all at one time There must also be giuen to this patient those things to ease and drinke which do moue vrine whereof many are specified where we shall speake of the Dropsie Ascite but of these three things following chuse which liketh you best Take red Pease about sixe ounces two Fennell rootes let them séeth well together and take fiue ounces of this decoction or drinke fiue ounces of Broome water Thirdly take the water of Melilot and water of Smallage of each two ounces and a halfe Sugar as much as you please and drinke this a whole wéeke long A Confection to strengthen the Liuer TAke Trociscos Diarrhodon and Spec. Diacinamomi of each one drag burnt Iuory one scrup foure ounces of white sugar séeth it with Fennel water and make tabulats of it of these take one quarter of an ounce before meate When as then through the foresaid meanes the water be somewhat voided then are these plaisters to be vsed Take Masticke one ounce Cipers nuts half an ounce Dragagant and Gum of each one drag temper these togither vnto a plaister with oile of Roses This stoppeth that there can no more water run vnto it Item take Seseli Comin Cammomill and Melilot of each one ounce séeth these togither in a quart of water vntill the third part be spent and foment therewith the Rupture Then lay this plaister vpon it bounden warme to it Take roots of blew Flowerdeluce and roots of wild Cucumbers of each thrée ounces Pease meale and Beane meale of each two ounces oile of Rue and iuice of Bay leaues of each two ounces let this séeth till it be méetly thicke and so lay it vpon the ruptures and bind it warme vnto it But if this cannot be made then vse the first with Mastick and Cipers nuts The Apothecaries haue also one in vse which they call Emplaistrum ad Rupturas which is also very good and is thus to be made Take Nutmegs the iuice of Sloes Gips Comin Annis Rice Pyrola sower Dates Cipers nuts Sanicle of each one dragme and a halfe fish lime or Isinglasse halfe an ounce Bdellium two ounces but dissolue the two last in vineger and with the rest beaten small make a plaister of it Another Take Bran twelue ounces beate it very small and let it run through a séene put amongst it two ounces of beaten Comin make a plaister of it with Oxymel You may also seeth it well with white wine vnto a plaister Item take Lilly rootes one ounce Linséed meale one quarter of an ounce Beane meale one drag Comin and wild Rape seed of each one ounce Sulphur vif one quarter of an ounce Cipers nuts one dragme Bdellium molten in vineger halfe an ounce beate all that is to be beaten and let it seeth to a plaister with white wine Item take Marioram foment therewith the whole priuities or annoint it with the iuice of Yarrow take also oyle of Pepper and of Saffron of each a like much and therewith annoint the rupture But if so be that this waterish rupture be taken for a species of the Dropsie then must you looke for moe other plaisters which stand described in the treatise of the Dropsie Ascite and choose which you like best But if the water which is so gathered together must be let out then are you after the purgation to lay the foresaid plaister vpon it and open the cod yet let not the water run out all at once and being run out then lay drying plaisters vpon it It is also opened sundry wayes as with a hot yron with a thred thrust through it also with a corosiue and otherwise which we commend to the Chirurgians But if so be that you be once cured and that the same returne againe then is he to be ruled in all things like as is from the beginning hitherto prescribed Of the Rupture through Bloud or Phlegma §. 5. ALthough that out of al the humors of mans body there be specially caused foure ruptures yet notwithstanding is the same very seldom caused through Cholera In like maner also not often of blood vnlesse that such hapneth through strokes wounds fals cariage and through vse of meates which make much bloud that be very hot moist and swéet and such like These ruptures do make shew with notorious swellings with heate many humors which may easily be knowne by their féeling for at the last they will be red and beating or panting The Liuer or Median veine is to be opened of such a patient and foure or fiue ounces of bloud letten out according to the strength of the patient And the next day must he purge with this potion following first Decoctio fructuum must you make ready a decoction which the Apothecaries do call Decoctio fructuum as followeth Take figs and Prunes of each fiftéene Iuiubes and Sebestes of each twenty Hops a handfull and a halfe Endiue Purslaine and Cicory of each halfe a handfull péeled
red Vineger then let it séeth well againe and straine the decoction then stamp that which is boyled with all the rest Lastly temper halfe a dragme of Camfer with it and make a supple plaister of it and lay it ouer the whole Belly If so be that this scouring procéede from the stomacke euen as it may as well as from the Liuer then hath the same the like cause to wit Phlegma and Cholera And hereby it may be discerned that it procéedeth from the stomacke if so be that there appeare no féeblenesse of the Liuer and if so be that which the patient doth auoyd be very white and thin and that the stomacke be grieued The chiefe cause is that many superfluous humors do aggrauate the same or that there is much meate and drinke togither in the stomacke and especially when as both these things do concurre to wit many superfluous humors and much meate and drinke So that then the meate and drinke is of necessitie for a time expelled out of the stomacke be it through weakenesse of the retentiue or through the efficacie of the expulsiue vertue or that the digestion be of it selfe so faint that the meate thereby as halfe digested must passe through the stomacke And to finde good aduice for this the stomacke must be strengthened and heated for which is very méete Marmalade with Spices but especially this powder following Take dry Pomegranat kernels parched and beaten small one dragme Caruway Coriander both stéeped in Vineger dried and parched of each two ounces and a halfe Lignum Aloes blossomes of Pomegranats and Butchers Broome of each one dragme make powder of all these and giue a dragme of it at one time Item take Mirobalani Chebuli which be a little parched one quarter of an ounce Mirtle seede one drag sirupe of Mirtle one ounce vse this as occasion serueth Item take the shales of yellow Mirobalans which be parched one quarter of an ounce beate them small giue them to drinke with two ounces of Plantaine water In fine all sorts of Mirobalans a little parched are good for all scourings of the belly of whatsoeuer cause they do procéede Afterwards you are to vse the confections of Diacalamintha In like manner also Annis séede and rosted hasell nuts Of the foresaid hasel nuts one may make milke with stéeled water and also the same being confected with Sugar Afterwards you must annoint the stomacke with oyle as namely with the oyle of Masticke or Frankinsence so couer it warme The patient must seeth Mastick with red Wine and drinke the same if so be that the same go not cleane against him But if this scouring do come through Cholera it may be perceiued by the yellow excrements which do smart much in the fundament as also by the thirst and by the Ague Then are you to giue him Trociscos de Spodio with parched Barly broth which is made as followeth Parched Barley broth Take parched Barly beaten and powre so much water vpon it vntill it be well couered then let it boyle vntill it be very thicke and afterwards wring it out Of this decoction are you to take foure ounces and two or three dragmes of these Trociscos and then mingle it with so much Iuorie and Gum as one can drinke at one time Item take one drag and a halfe of yellow Mirobalanes Chebuli and Indi of each one scruple parched Rubarb foure scruples Dragagant halfe a drag steepe all these in two ounces of the iuice of Quinces one ounce of Endiue water and halfe an ounce of the water of Pellitory wring it out hard and take it luke warme Item take Rubarb one drag or one and a half parch it and powne it to powder and drinke it with thrée ounces of Plantaine water Take of the best Rubarb one drag and a halfe parch it and beate it to powder the pils of Mirobalans Chebuli one dragme Masticke thrée dragmes the iuice of Quinces halfe an ounce the water of broad Plantaine thrée or foure ounces temper them togither and drinke it fasting in the morning Some that be prone to this scowring do accustome euery wéeke two times to eate one drag of Rubarb parched Item take the confection of Micleta one ounce and a halfe Trociscos de Spodio one dragme temper it with thrée ounces of raine water and drinke it early in the morning Take yellow Mirobalans and Rubarb of each one dragme Dragagant and Gum of each one scruple parched togither Cucubes fine Bolus of each halfe a scruple beaten small togither then temper with it sufficient sirupe of Mirtles and when as then you will vse of it breake it as is aforesayd A powder wherewith the patients meate is to be strewed Take good Rubarb one dragme and a half yellow Mirobalans one quarter of an ounce both parched fine Bolus one dragme yellow Saunders red Coral of each one scrup prepared Pearles one dragme Trociscos de Spodio one dragme make thereof a subtile powder You may also take the waight of one dragme and a halfe with Plantaine water For this be also Clisters requisite as hereafter follow Take the broth of a Lambs head and a Calues head one pinte séeth oaken leaues in it broad picked Plantaine of each one handfull and a halfe parched Barley halfe a handfull let them séeth vnto the halfe then take of this decoction and put vnto it the yolkes of a couple of Egs brayed well oyle of Roses two ounces oyle of Violets two ounces and then minister this Clister warme Item take prepared Coriander Mirtle séede Acorne cups the séedes of Plantaine and iuice of Sloes of each one handfull Fennell Comin Annis of each halfe a handfull pils of Pomegranates two handfuls let them séeth togither in sufficient water then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces oyle of Roses thrée ounces Hony of Roses one ounce Déeres suet two ounces melt it and make a Clister of it Also the decoction of Rice is good if the cause of this laske be in the lower guts Hereafter be described commodious pils Take the stones of all Mirobalanes beate them when they be well parched Rubarb parched fine Bolus and Amber of each a like quantitie make a masse of pils of it with Dragagant and Gum dissolued in Plantaine water but if there be an Ague with it then vse Barley water Or take one quarter of an ounce of Rubarb which is parched burnt Iuorie one dragme make pils of it as is before sayd Item filed steele one dragme Cypers nuts one quarter of an ounce Masticke Amber Comfrey Daisies Plantaine séede of each one scruple Gum and Dragagant both parched of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome Galingall and Graines of each two scruples make pils thereof with the iuice of Plantaine for they do bind much Others mo Take vnsalted Deeres rennet one dragme Trociscos de Spodio De Carabe De Terra Sigillata of each one scruple well parched Rubarb Plantaine séede also parched of each halfe a scruple beate
is described in the first part the fourteenth Chapter and 4. § For this are also sundry pils prepared and that after this manner following Take Bdellium and Aloe which haue beene steeped the space of three dayes in Sheepes milke of each one quarter of an ounce temper them and forme pils of them vse thereof one scruple or halfe a dragme at once they will do you much pleasure Item take before supper one dragme of washt Aloe This salue following is also laxatiue if that the belly and the nauell be annoynted with it Take the salue Agrippa and the confection of Hiera of each halfe an ounce the iuice of Swines bred and Scammonie of each three graynes Euphorbium Turbith Coloquinte of each one scruple beate them all together Item take Pitch and Frankinsence of each a like quantitie cast them on hote coles vnder a close stoole and sit ouer it with the bare buttocks it looseth For a conclusion there is to be found through this whole booke how that the bodie is to be loosed and opened for all manner of sicknesses but this is onely spoken of all them who be in health and cannot go to stoole Of the strayning or vnsatiable desire of going to stoole which is called Tenasmus §. 21. FOr as much as through both the foresaid maladies as well of the excessiue going to the stoole as through binding in the bodie this strayning which the Grecians do call Tenasmus and Tenesmus may be prouoked therefore we can not omit but adde the same vnto the rest and is thus described Tenasmus is a disease or maladie in the end of the Arsegut hard by the fundament with great paine and continuall desire to goe to the stoole where notwithstanding the patient can be discharged and rid of very little or nothing at all We do call these kinds of scourings properly a straining to go to the stoole for it cometh for the most part alway with such a force that it driueth out the Arsegut and the fruit of women conceiued The cause of this scouring may be as well inward as outward cold like as when any one doth sit vpon cold stones or it is gotten of the cold ayre or in the water contrariwise also it may be caused through heate and drought Item of any sharpe rheume of the stomacke or Lyuer of corrupted meates or much moysture through the vse of much fruite through wormes impostumation of the bowels binding in the bodie swelling of the Pyles and also of any tough and subtle Phlegma The signes whereof are easily to be discerned by the report of the patient and view of the place and ordure Now as touching the remedies Clisters are best of all for it If this maladie do come of cold then make the Clister thus Take Mints Marierom Cammomill Melilot field Mints Southernwood of each one handfull decoct them in sufficient water Take of this decoction twelue or sixteene ounces oyle of Cammomill and of Lillies of each one ounce and a half then make this Clister very warme but if there come any binding or stopping with it then temper therewith Benedictam laxatiuam or Hieram picram three quarters of an ounce or one ounce The herbs and all that be decocted for this Clister stampe them all to pap and temper them with oyle of Rue and of Lillies and let it boyle a little while and lay it vpon the place where the paine is and when it is cold then lay on another that is warme doing this 3. or 4. times one after another When as then this strayning of going to the stoole is red then are you to vse this following Take steeled Cow milk or Goats milk Mutton broth or Veale broth twelue or sixteene ounces melt therin one ounce or one ounce and a half of Shéepes suet and two ounces of the oyle of Roses then temper them together vse this Clister oftentimes Item take twelue ounces of Malmesy the yolke of an Egge let them boyle togither in a drinking pot or kan in a Kettle of water vntil it be very hote then giue it afterwards vnto the patient it is a very safe remedie When all necessarie medicines haue beene vsed to this kinde of laske and yet the paine doth not diminish in ten dayes then may one vse the Clister which is described in the 17. § beginning thus Take peeled Lupins c. and that at two or three times as the case shall import If these scourings be of a cold cause then rost Millet or Panick with salt and lay vpon it or fill thrée bags with Bran let them boyle in wine or water lay one of them vpon the belly another vpon the back beneath and the third vpon the fundament as warme as may be possibly suffered and when they be cold make them warme againe Afterwards annoynt the place with warme oyle or with the salue Marciaton and sprinkle wine vpō a hote stone then lay a cloth vpon it against the burning and sit vpon it with the buttocks as hote as may be suffered Others do counsell for to foment the fundament with red Wine wherein the herbe Verbascum hath beene sodden and afterwards to sit vpon a hote Oake or Cipers wooden boord Some do commend for this a Poplar boord or if one cannot get such a one then a Firre boord and as soone as one is cold then to take another warmed againe and vsing this so long vntill he féele the warmth within the belly Then is the fundament to be annoynted with molten Harts suet or to fume it with Pitch like as not long ago hath béene rehearsed Item Holyhock rootes Linseede Fenegréeke Cammomill Melilot the vpper sprigs of Coleworts of each three ounces powne thē all together séeth them in reasonable water You are therewith to wet a sponge wring it out sit theron and lay it vpon the fundament yea to sit also in the water Item take the séeds of Plantain prepared Coriander Mirtle séede Acorne cups yellow séeds of Roses Cipers nuts of each one dragme and a halfe Gum Dragagant both parched of each one ounce beate them together and put them in a bag and séethe them with Wine then must one sit hote thereon Item seeth oaken leaues with water in a bag and hold the fundament vnto the heate of it and when it is cold make it hote againe and do this oftentimes one after another For a salue Take oyle of Roses one quarter of an ounce Saffron xv graines Shéepes sewet Deere sewet of each one ounce make a salue thereof it doth maruellously take away the paine Another Take Frankinsence Lycium Saffron Gum Opium of each one dragme vnripe oyle of Oliues Colophonia of each thrée dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue with it the lard of a Bore and of all fourefooted beasts also the fat of all Foules is especiall good to be vsed for this disease You shall take for a plaister Hollihock rootes Linseede Fenegreeke of each one ounce seeth them
Cicorie and of Buglosse of each one ounce three mornings togither and one of the foresayd purgations after it The Oxymel is highly commended for this sicknesse These pils following are verie forcible for to auoide water take the iuice of wild Cucumbers which is Elaterium and the iuice of Swines bread of each one dragme and a halfe Rapontica one quarter of an ounce Aloe one dragme Diagridion one scruple Pease meale Cinnamom Spica Lignum Aloes of each halfe a scruple make pils thereof with the iuice of Smallage and giue him one dragme at once thereof at the most Now for to cleanse the head you are to vse these things following which you can get as the iuice of wild Cucumbers and of Swines bread of garden Cresses Horehound tempered with womans milke and drawne vp thorow the nose and afterwards to lye downe vpon the backs These things following do cleanse the grosse Cholera which remaineth still in the head doth take away all the yellow iaundise with them For this are verie necessarie all cooling and preparatiue potions with sirrupe of Endiue and of Purslaine tempered togither and chiefly if any obstruction of the liuer be present for which this sirrupe following is also verie fit Take Endiue small Endiue Lettice Cicorie Melilot Harts tong and Venus haire of each one handfull twentie or fiue and twentie Prunes séeds of Melons of Pompeons Cucumbers of Gourds roots of Cypresse of Capers Dragon rootes of each one dragme beate them all grosse and let them séeth togither in six and thirtie ounces of water euen to the halfe Afterwards séeth in this decoction fower and twentie ounces of Sugar or Hony and clarifie it vntill there be a sirrupe of it Another Take Endiue Harts tong and Cicorie of each a handfull wild Endiue and Priest crowne of each two handfuls séedes of Melons Pompeons Cucumbers and Gourds Lacca Spiknard Wormwood and the rootes of Smallage of each halfe an ounce burnt Iuorie red Sanders of each one dragme and a halfe Roses one quarter of an ounce white Vineger thrée dragmes Sugar twelue ounces and then make a sirrupe of it Another Take Endiue Harts tong and Venus haire of each two handfuls Fennell séed Parsley séede and Cuscuta of each halfe an ounce Spicanardi Spica romana of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as you please make thereof a sirrupe For the obstruction of the liuer in the beginning of the 4. § there is also a confection which is verie fit for this purpose Of all drinkes which this patient may drinke there is nothing more méete for this sicknesse then the whaie of milke whereof he is to drinke euerie morning three weekes togither a good draught at each time for this whaie doth clense the bloud especially if there be mixed with it the iuice of Fumitorie And the same is also good for all itches scurffes Item that the innermost skinne of a hens gissard also a Partridge dried and beaten to pouder giue him the waight of a dragme thereof in wine or Cicorie water and let the patient fast fiue howers after it Another The innermost skinne of a pullets gissard or crop and the rootes of Auence of each a like quantitie seeth them in wine the space that you would seeth an egge and drinke thereof morning and euening and fast an howre vpon it Item take fower ounces of Gentian Fennell rootes fiue ounces Smallage rootes two ounces and a halfe wash the same verie cleane and cut them in peeces let them séeth al togither with sufficient water afterwards wring them wel out through a bag and then let this decoction boyle vntil it be as thick as hony then giue therof two ounces at each time This medicine is also especiall good for all phlegmatick Agues wherewith the yellow iaundies be mixed Item for al dropsies all paine of the Kidneies paine of the wombe for all venome and it is to be giuen them that haue an Ague with any kinde of cooling water and when there is no Ague with a little Wine Some do séeth it also with Sugar the which is best of all Item there be moreouer good to drinke for this yellow iaundies the waters of Cicorie of Sorrel and of Wormewood but the iuice of these herbs be much more forcible These herbs be also decocted togither or each apart and the decoction dronken warme Item the yellow seede of the white Lilie dryed and powdred and one dragme thereof taken is an especiall thing in this disease The same vertue hath grated Iuorie After purging and the vse of all these foresayd things then may any outward things be vsed whereby to weare away the yellownes of the body and to consume it For this is also much aduised that all yellow colours are to be fixed before the patients eyes for nature doth the easier expell the yellownesse out of the bodie Also take Endiue water and Rose water of each foure ounces red and white Saunders of each one dragme temper them lay them ouer the Liuer Item vse the Saunders salue which before in the sixt Chapter in the end of the first § is described Or take a spoonefull of good Honie and boyle the same in a little pot in hot water and stirre it well about then put as much wheaten floure vnto it as you can take vp with two fingers and temper a good deale of Saffron amongst it yet more alwayes for an old man then for a young man spread of it vpon a cloth and lay it vpon the Nauel when it is then dry take afresh againe And you are to continue this certaine daies togither to wit when the yellow iaundies be at the chief highest but one may not lye longer vpon it then vpon the other For bathing take wild Thyme watercresses Alehoofe Iuniper rindes Elderne floures let this séeth well togither and make thereof a sweating bath with hote stones Item take Mugwort Marierom wild Thyme Iuniper sprigs of each one handfull chop them small and let them séeth in two bags then lay one vpon the belly and another behind vpon the raynes and therewith let the patient sweate Also this Lie following may be vsed for the head Take Betony Cammomill and Sage of each one handfull Marierom Spica Romana of each halfe a handfull Sene leaues thrée ounces Stechas two ounces chop all small and séeth them togither in a good deale of water and make Lie thereof it will continue good a whole moneth For this hote yellow Iaundies is good al that which penetrateth cleanseth and openeth the Liuer to wit Sorrell Endiue Nightshade winter Cherries Orage the iuice of Wormewood Venus haire roots of Cicorie and Sperage Verueine and the water of the same herbs decocted in well water and clarified with Hony or Sugar and so made into a Potion And for conclusion of this heate there is good heede to be taken whether the patient be abounding of bloud and hath full veines and also hath not bin let bloud
hath an especiall propertie in deopilating of the obstructed kidneis to wit Miua citoniorum Aromatica and Oxymel of squils with other moe described before The Simples which do open these obstructions be Agarick Saxifrage Milium Solis Parsly of Macedonia or stone Parsley white Mustard séed Nettle séed red Pease porrage Fennell rootes Parsley rootes and rootes of Sperage of Smallage and of Butchers broome Spicanardi Spica romana water Cresses garden Cresses and Pingles the compounds are Diacalaminthum Electuarium Ducis and Philantropon Of the paine in the Kidneies through heate and drieth §. 4. THe signes of these hot diseases of the kidneies are such as that they may be perceiued by the heate in féeling and all cold things are welcome to the patient and hot things contrarie vnto him vnlesse the fulnesse of the bodie doth hinder and let them The patient hath also great thirst at all times and a bad stomacke his vrine is verie little and high coloured there swimmeth otherwhiles some fat vpon it and the rather in yoong cholerick and hot men with the hot paine of the kidneies is more danger than with the cold Therefore must one without all delaie proceed forward with all necessarie remedies and that much rather for that through the foresaid heate which is mixed with a tough thicke phlegmaticke matter the stone of the kidneies might easily grow wherein first the liuer veine is to be opened afterwards the Saphea and such clisters to be ministred as may clense the guts that is such as be decocted with Quinces and dates This following is to be oftentimes vsed Take Goates milke twelue or sixteene ounces melt in it Goates suet one ounce oile of Roses two ounces and vse them as the other For preparatiue potions you are to make this Take Lettice Purslaine Liuerwoort shepheards purse of each one handfull the seeds of Lettice of Purslaine Endiue Roses Butchers broome séed Barberies water Lillies burnt Iuorie red and white Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar twelue ounces then make a sirupe of it You are afterwards to purge with sower Dates with Cassie with Manna and with Succo Rosaram Also for this like as in the paine of the kidneies through cold is néedfull a good order of diet Therefore is his dwelling to be high from the ground and not on the water but to open towards the East and the North and not towards the South or against the West His clothes are to hang loose on his bodie and not girt tight or hard Venery is also very hurtfull for this disease Out of these foresaid reasons may easily be noted that sore labor is hurtfull as to ride hard trotting horses to goe vp hils and staires and that chiefly after meate Notwithstanding moderate exercise is more commendable than to sit still vtterly vnoccupyed Also anger heauines of mind and all other motions of the same are to be eschued One must not eate too much for this sicknes is caused most of all through ouercharging of the stomack or gluttony sléeping or waking must also be moderate for to vse too much of either of them is hurtfull But one must chiefly refraine from lying much vpon his backe for thereby will the humours sincke much towards these partes therefore is the first sléepe to bee done on the right side and then finish it on the left side To his meate and drinke must bée taken some more héede he must eschue all olde and vnleauened bread olde flesh and all hearbes which make grosse humors as Béetes Colewoorts c. All hot and tarte meates as salt flesh Garlick Onions Léekes and Radishes shall he forsake In like maner must he not vse the things that doe vehemently force vrine as Fennell Parsly Smallage and such like But he may not eate bread which is light and leauened and is two or thrée daies old Hens Pullets wild Ducks yoong Pigeons Fesants Partridges c. will be his best meates but he must forsake all water foules Yoong Bucks flesh Veale Lambe young Mutton Conies Hares and wilde Swines flesh may he eate very well and especially yoong Hogs flesh is much commended for this disease The fruits and herbs are Barly pap wheaten pap Colewoorts Spinage Gourds Cucumbers Melons Abricocks greene Fennell and aboue all Sage and Betonie And in fine all that hath a saltish and opening power and not hot aboue the second degrée all sorts of Cherries and especially the kernels of the same be good for to cleanse the kidneies and to breake the stone In like manner also Hasell nuts fresh Almonds and Figs that be well dryed and Raisons be altogither much commended This patient may eate sower Apples but no swéete and also Peaches He must refraine from Peares if they be not very sweete and the stones taken out of them Pistacies Pingles and sometimes nuts be commended but Chestnuts Medlars and Seruices are hurtfull Of all milke Shéepes milke is the very best for the kidneies and next to that Goates milke but aboue all other the whay of milke But the first milke after caluing or Colostra must be eschewed except that of shéepe and goates Butter is not much commended but Sallad oile is much more requisite Cheese is vtterly to be refrained for it hath an especiall nature to ingender grauell vnlesse that it be permitted otherwhiles for custome sake and that it be Cheese of a yéere old which is drie well salted and not rotten And alwaies in the end of the mealetide of confected fruits Oliues and Rapes of Brimswicke are most healthfull and Sisarum Quinces Ginger Walnuts conserues of Pionie of Burrage Buglosse of Roses water Lillies and especially of Cicorie which do open the obstruction and clense Item Vineger the iuice of Citrons of Limons halfe sower halfe swéete Pomegranates be also verie meete for this maladie but veriuce is forbidden Of spices and séeds these are good Cinnamome Pepper Ginger Saffron Annis Caruway Louage séed Ameos Rue seed but a little of each for meates The drinke for this patient shall be white wine or light red wine which is not hard nor sower but of a good and pleasant taste The Cherrie wine doth not onely coole and moisten alone the kidneies but also the inward parts of the bodie therefore may the same be fréely drunken Preserued Cherries do also the same Thus much haue we meant to speake of the order of diet for those that be plagued and vexed with the Grauell which may be augmented or diminished according to the qualitie of the cause How to asswage the paine in the Kidneies §. 5. WE will speake now first of all of some particular things which haue a secret vertue for to conueigh the medicines into the kidneies and bladder viz. Saxifrage Milium Solis Parsley of Macedonia and stone Parsley Cantharides the rootes of Fennell Sperage and Butchers broomeseed of Melons Gourds Cucumbers and Pompeons These following haue power for to coole the kidneies viz. Lettice séeds the séeds of Purslaine Endiue white
beforesaid But if there be any impostume or vlcer of the kidneyes with it that may be séene by the matter and blood therefore haue you hereafter all that is requisite for the pissing of matter If any man pisse matter §. 12. THe pissing of matter must proceede out of the bladder kidneyes or some of the vppermost parts as from some vlcer of the sides vlcer of the lights the liuer c. the which may procéede from some outward causes as of blowes falles wounds strong diureticall medicines and such like The inward causes may be vncleane impostumes vlcers superfluous tough and grosse humors wind or stone which do settle there and make some excoriation The signes of these accidents may be perceiued easily by the paine of the same place and by the declaration of the patient This infirmitie is thus to be holpen Take peeled Melon séede Cucumber séede Gourd seede and Pompeon seede of each one ounce and a quarter fine Bolus Gummi Arabicum Frankinsence and Dragon bloud of each fiue dragmes Opium one dragme and a halfe the seede of Smallage one dragme make Trociskes thereof with the muscilage of Quince kernels and giue the sicke folkes euery day the waight of one quarter of an ounce with the sirupe of Poppie heads For this is also to be vsed consolidating and mundifying things as hereafter followeth Take péeled Melon séed the seed of Hollihockes and Nightshade of each halfe an ounce bitter Almonds Pompeon seede fresh Maiden haire Ireos and Licorice of each halfe a dragme make a confection thereof with Sugar or with cleare honie For mundification are also fit Barley water meade the decoction of figs of Horehound and Maiden haire decocted with milke Now for to heale you are to take great and small Comfrey of each one quarter of an ounce Dragon bloud Frankinsence Masticke and fine Bolus of each one dragme parched Rubarbe the iuice of Sloes and Mirtle seede of each halfe a dragme Indie Spica halfe a scruple Sugar as much as you please make a confection thereof This sirupe following may also be prepared Take Licorice one quarter of an ounce Maidenhaire and Hounds ribbe of each two handfuls peeled Melon séede Pempeon séede Cucumber seede and Gourd séede of each one dragme white Poppie séede Hollihocke seede and muscilage of Quince kernels of each halfe an ounce Dragagant and Gum of each thrée dragmes Rubarbe Roses of each one ounce and a halfe white Sugar nine ounces make a cleare sirupe of it The Trocisci de Alkekengi which is of winter Cherries are surpassing god in this disease and not onely for this but also for all other diseases of the kidneyes giue one dragme thereof or one dragme and a halfe with Goates milke or Plantaine water Also for this disease is Hony water to be spouted into the yard and when the patient hath kept it in a certain season and pist it out againe then is this following to be vsed Take Ceruse Sarcocolla Gum Frankinsence Opium Dragon blood of each halfe a scruple temper it with foure ounces of womans milke and spout one ounce thereof at one time through the yard In like manner shall he drinke Radish water and water of Horse radish or spout it in For this must also this order obserued to wit that he now vse consolidating then againe mundifying things and do alter them according as occasion serueth Item take oile of Roses two ounces oile of Myrtle and the iuice of Plantaine of each one quarter of an ounce Trociscorum de Terra sigillata de Carabe of each one dragme Vineger one quarter of an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue This salue for the pissing of blood and water is to be rubbed on the place of the Kidneyes and also round about the priuities aboue and beneath begin rubbed well in and then well couered with warme clothes Of outward vlcers of the Kidneyes §. 13. THese vlcers outwardly in the Kidneies are wont to be cause if one lie vpon his backe then are the places of the Kidneyes red and do come to exulcerate Now when this is perceiued then is there a plaister to be made with the meale of Millet and with Pannick meale and be laid thereon and then are you to strew it with Willow leaues and to moisten the heated place with cold Rose water or to lay any cooling things vpon it These salues following are also méete for this viz. salue of Ceruse Poplar salue Sanders salue other cooling salue of Galen vine leaues stéeped in Rose water and thinne beaten Led also which is full of holes worne vpon the raines Item take oile of Roses tempered with a little vineger and laid often vpon it If that there do then appeare bladder or blisters which do breake open then are they to be cured with cooling salues and dried vp with the salue of Ceruse or Album coctum All these foresaid sicknesse and diseases are the true messengers of the most grieuous disease of the Stone or grauell of the Bladder and the Kidneyes whereof we will hereafter further discourse and write But we will first of all prescribe a briefe order of diet for all them that be infected with these terrible diseases as the paine of the Kidneyes impostumes and vlcers The ordre of diet §. 14. ALl meates of milke or wheate meale of the crums of bread barley paps oaten paps are very commodious for this disease In like manner all field fowles which are to be eaten as Partridges Phesants Doues Turtle doues Kids and yong mutton if it be vtterly without an Ague but if so be that there be a great heate with it then is he to vse Melons and Peaches which be very ripe Hasell nuts Almonds Pistacies Pingles and such like may he also eate Item yong hens rere egges hen-broth wherein purslaine Lettice Melon séede Pompeons Gourds Cucumbers or any other cooling things haue bene sodden all riuer fish that haue scales frayed are to be tolerated Gréene herbes as Orage Mallowes purslaine and Lettice are also very méete for him His best drinke were indéed Barley water but if he will drinke Wine and so there be no Ague with it then may he drinke good thicke red Wine tempered with water Asses milke is maruellous good for him and if the same cannot be gotten then may one take Goates milke It is before admonished that euery such patient is to beware of all sharpe hote bitter and swéete things and chiefly of all fruite whether they be gréene or dried The seuenteenth Chapter Of the Grauell Sand or Stone of the Kidneyes and of the Bladder THis stone or grauell hath his principall ofspring in the Kidneyes in the Bladder and seldome in the hollownesse of other inward parts as of the Liuer c. The cause of it is commonly by inheritance like as the Gout or Podagra the Leprosie and other moe Also these disease do come through a weake Stomacke and Liuer that ingender much tough and grosse slime
parched before What further is requisite for this purpose it may be sought for in the third part the 11. Chapter and also in the 12. chapter in the first part and 13. § For the affluxion of vrine through heate §. 7. IF so be that there be with this vnnaturall affluxion of the vrine an vnnaturall thirst and the drinke forthwith pist out againe then are these meanes following to be vsed first in case that the body be bounden then minister to the patient laxatiue clisters of the common cooling herbes wherewith Hiera picra or Benedicta with the oyle of Violets be tempered and immediatly afterwards open the liuer veine whereby all the ill accidents of the body may be defended and auoyded And if it be néedful purge the patient with yellow Mirobalans and with Cassie which both do coole But if you will make it that it be good for the grauell then mixe things amongst it which expell the grauell afterwards cause the patient to vomit when he hath drunken much water like as is taught in the sixt rule Otherwise is this ensuing especially commended for this disease Diabetes Take Acacia one quarter of an ounce Rose leaues thrée dragmes fine Bolus Gum and Dragagant of each half an ounce powne them all small together and let it passe through a small sieue afterwards make it into small Trocisces with the muscilage of Fleawort and giue thereof the waight of a dragme with Endiue water Burrage and Cicorie water Item take fine Bolus and Sealed earth of each one scruple the iuice of Sloes Pomgranate flowers Mirtle séede red Corall and Roses of each one dragme make a fine powder thereof when he goeth to rest with thick red wine or take the innermost rinds of hens mawes wash them cleane with wine and dry them the powder of a burnt Hares head and Mastick of each half an ounce Agrimony fiue dragmes burnt powder of an Hedge-hog halfe an ounce temper them all together and powne them all small to powder afterwards giue thereof one dragme and a halfe with red Wine when he goeth to sléepe Another Take Nettle rootes one handfull Veruaine and Caruway of each one handfull and a halfe séeth them together in steeled water and drinke thereof Item take Sorba and peares stampe them together distill a water thereof and drinke often of it or mingle any other drinke amongst it Outwardly may these things following be vsed stampe cooling herbes viz. Lettice Purslaine Nightshade Housléeke Rose leaues and Willow leaues Or cut fresh Pompeons or Citrons in broade peeces and lay them thereon you may also weare a beaten plate of led vpon the raines the which may be made oftentimes wet with Vineger Also prepare this salue ensuing Take thrée ounces of Poplar salue oile of Roses and oile of Mandâ—agora of each halfe an ounce the muscilage of Fleawort one quarter of an ounce Vineger one dragme Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make therewith a salue Item take the iuice of Lettice of Purslaine and of Nightshade of each one dragme and a halfe Rose water one ounce Vineger halfe an ounce white beaten Poppie séede one ounce Waxe as much as sufficeth for a salue and annoint the raines with it After the annointing lay then this plaister following vpon it Take Barly meale Vineger and oile of Roses let them séeth together and lay it thereon Or take Vine leaues Willow leaues Quince leaues Tassell leaues and Housleeke of each one handfull stampe them well together and put vnto it sixe ounces of Barley meale oile of Roses and Vineger as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister then lay it cold vpon it The order of diet ALl meates that do coole are good for this patient as Veriuice the iuice of Ruscus Barley and all that is drest with Barly Almond milke and Rice all fruits which coole and bind as Medlars Sorba Sloes Cherries sometimes also plums Mulberies Pomegranates and Strawberries are also good for him If there be neither heate nor Ague with it then may he haue the foresaid things drest as Barly Rice and Almonds with fresh broth He may also vse otherwhiles Neates feete and riuer fish but very little salted Also hen-broth decocted with cooling séedes is very good for him His best drink shall be Barly water wherein a little Fleawort is decocted Buttermilke is also good for him The iuice of the first mentioned fruites may be mixed with fresh Well water and so drunke in like sort also the Rose water of it selfe alone Thicke red wine is also as before to be tempered with fresh well water For this is also méete the sirupe of Violets or Iulep of Violets with some cooling waters or tempered with some well water You haue also herebefore in the twelfth chapter and 3. § other Iuleps and Confections moe which be also very fit for this vse as Triasantalon and Diarrhodon Abbatis therefore is he to take now the one and then the other to the end that nature chance not to abhorre and loath that which is to be taken For an intolerable thirst may this following be vsed Take burnt Iuorie ten dragmes Lettice séed and Purslaine séede of each fifteene dragmes Coriander séede yellow Rose séedes and fine Bolus of each fiue dragmes Pomegranate blossomes one quarter of an ounce Camfer halfe a dragme then make a powder of it and vse one dragme thereof or one dragme and a half at once with the iuice of pomegranates What is further good for the thirst looke for it in the twelfth Chapter and 10. § in the third part of this booke This patient must restraine and kéepe himselfe from all labour and conuersation or companie of women Also to eschue all sower things and to performe and do in all things like as herebefore in the sixt Chapter and 1. § is taught of the eftluxion of humane séede The eighteenth Chapter Of the Bladder THis inward part the Bladder is common to all humane bodies it is made of two strong skins or membranes whereof the innermost skinne is twise as strong as the outmost and that not in vaine but to the end it might the better withstand the sharpnes of the vrine Both these skinnes are formed of a slipperie white matter and betwéene both the skinnes or membranes there runne many veines sinewes and arteries euery way whereby they do draw the moisture of the Vreters which do come from the Raines and do carrie it into the Bladder For the foresaid Vreters be so small and so narrow that one cannot in a dead bodie discerne nor find the same like as also the bladder of beasts doth manifest the same which is so tight and so shut vp that no water nor wind can pierce through In men doth this Bladder lye with his necke which is fleshie very hard besides the Arsegâ—t crooked and almost like this letter S great and long euen to the beginning of the Yard But in women the necke of the bladder doth lie somewhat higher then the necke
rootes of Smallage of Parsley of Sperage or of Ruscus be decocted Of the retention of vrine through some obstruction of the conduits §. 5. IF so be that it happen that this retention or painful making of water do vexe or paine a bodie and yet neuerthelesse the bladder is ful of vrine that the patient had pist any blood or matter before then are those remedies to be giuen him which do open and which do attenuate the clotted blood and corruption in the bladder and make it fluxible therfore one must first begin to wring the priuities hard that thereby the lowermost passages may be opened and the vrine may run out Now if so be that this obstruction do come of clotted blood of matter or of slime then are Sperage water Saxifrage water and Radish water especially good for it In like maner is also very good the broth of red Pease of Fennell rootes of Parsley rootes and of Smallage of each apart or boiled together Also Limon water is very much commended for this vse Item Treacle good Mithridate and most of all that which is declared in the retention of the vrine Also Salt water or this following may be spouted into the Bladder which may draw out the vrine through their sharpnes take burnt ashes of Ferne Vine ashes and lime of each a like quantitie poure as much water vpon it vntil it be couered let it stand so the space of thrée daies afterwards poure it through a tight cloth and spout a little thereof into the bladder This can also be done with the oile of Scorpions Item take the séeds of Carrots the séed of stone Parsley and of Parsley of each one quarter of an ounce Hermodactyli thrée dragmes make a powder thereof and giue one dragme thereof at each time Or take the séed of Smallage of Parsley of Pionie of Broomes and of Saxifrage of each one quarter of an ounce Fennell seed Caruway and Annis seeds of each half a dragme Gromell seedes Spica Cinnamome péeled Melon séedes Pompeon séedes Gourd séedes and péeled Cucumber séed of each one dragme Licorice thrée dragmes Sugar one ounce and a half make a powder thereof and giue of it euery day one dragme with some diureticall decoction If so be that the sicke person haue no stooles then is the matter first to be prepared with Oxymella diuretico or with Oxymel of Squils and afterwards to purge with Medicamine Turbith and with Agarico or with Benedicta Laxatiua whereunto are added Hermodactyli also these ensuing clisters may be vsed Take Pellitorie of the wall water Cresses Saxifrage and Cammomil of each one handfull séeth them all together in water and take twelue or sixteene ounces of this decoction Benedicta Laxatiua one ounce Cassie and Hiera piera of each one quarter of an ounce oile of Rue thrée ounces make a clister thereof For an outward application take two handfuls of Rue leaues powne them a little and frie them with butter or with oile of sweet Almonds or oile of scorpions and lay it on the priuities Another Take Dock roots as many as you please seeth them in wine frie them and vse them as before Or take wheaten bran let it séeth to pap with oyle of Nuts and vse it warme Item take Pellitorie of the wall water Cresses Saxifrage and Diptamus of each one handful Fennel and Annis séeds of each half an ounce séeth them together in white wine and wring it out hard put it betwéene two clothes and lay it on the priuities You may also put the same decoction into the bladder and so apply it warme vnto it Of the first mentioned may also a bath be made whereunto diureticall medicines shal be added as Cammomill Stechas Marierom Mints the buds of Colewort stalkes Pigeon dung and let the sick person bathe therein as long as he can suffer it Another Take Colewort leaues Hollihock leaues water Cresses and garden Cresses Pellitory of the wall Clauicularis Cammomil Smallage and Parsley rootes of each three handfuls seeth them all together vnto a bath and then lay the decocted herbes vpon the priuities For a salue you are to vse Dogs grease and wild Cats grease of each one ounce Ammoniacum halfe an ounce oyle of Lillies two ounces oyle of Scorpions one ounce make a salue of it with Waxe and vse it like as the other salues Or take the salue which is described in the 3. § beginning thus Take oyle of Scorpions c. Item temper Balme and oyle of Roses of each a like much with Waxe Further of all these oyles following may also salues be prepared as of the oyle of Scorpions of bitter Almonds of Lillies of the kernels of Cherries and of Pepper or one may also vse them as they be For this disease are all things meete that be ordained for the stone of the Bladder and of the Kidneyes Of the hote and scalding vrine §. 6. THere happeneth also otherwhiles such a burning with the vrine that the patient thinketh none other than that fire passeth through his yard The cause of this is that there be mixt with the vrine some hote cholerick or salt humors which make this scalding in the passage This cometh commonly of great labour of much and long walking or trauelling through heate of the Sunne through much venery through long vse of many hot meates or for that the conduits of the yard haue such exulteration within This infirmitie is indéed not to be regarded slightly for if it continue long then doth it excoriate the yard within The signes thereof be sundry to wit when the patient auoideth in his water sometimes matter small skales like bran and otherwhiles also blood These kinds of sicke persons are to beware of all sharpe salt sower and such like meates because that thereby the paine will be augmented But he shall contrariwise vse all cooling and moistening things as well boyled Barley Spinage Lettice Purslaine Mallowes Apples Melons Pompeons Gourds Prunes Peaches and Cherries c. Item Lambe Hens and Partridges drest with the foresaid herbes are the best meate for him Buttermilke and that sodden is also very good for him He is to take for his drinke Barly water Buttermilke watered wine and fresh water tempered with sirupe of Violets or sirupe of Roses Almond milke or Shéepes milke which is most méete for him if there be one dragme or two of fiue Bolus tempered amongst it Item giue him sirupe of Violets with water of Melons or if you haue it not then beate the séedes and make thereof a decoction afterwards drinke it with the other meates in the morning and euening vse this powder following Take péeled Melon séedes fiue dragmes péeled Cucumber séedes Citron séeds and péeled Pompeon séeds of each one drag and a halfe Henbane séed one dragme Sugar the waight of all the rest then temper them all together take thereof euery morning and euening the waight of thrée dragmes with Iulep of Roses Another Take péeled Melon séeds séeds of Pompeons of
one bathe and foment with all that which here ensueth Take Asarabacca halfe a handful Ebulus leaues one handful and a half Feuerfew Mints Mugwort Agrimony Marierom and Betonie of each one handfull Cammomill Melilot and Roses of each halfe a handfull cut all the herbes and séeth them like as hath bene taught oftentimes It is also very commodious and good to sit in warme water wherein Mallowes haue bene decocted Or take Mugwort and Sauine of each thrée handfuls Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Bearefoote of each one handfull Fennell seeds Parsley seedes Annis Dill séedes Orage seedes wild yellow Rape seedes and Asarabacca of each halfe a dragme Cammomill Elderne flowers Rosemary and Stechas of each one dragme make a little bag thereof and séeth it in water and then sit vpon it Another Take Mugwort Sauine trée of each thrée handfuls swéet Costus roots Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Bearefoote of each two handfuls the séed of Mallowes of Hollihockes of Southernwood of Linséed of Fenegréeke of Cuscuta mustard séede of Lauender and of Siluermountaine of each one ounce and a halfe Parsley séed Fennell Dill séed wile yellow Rape seede and Asarabacca of each halfe an ounce Cammomill Elderne flowers Stechas Rosemary flowers of each one ounce séeth them as before and then sit vpon the bag For fomentation you are to vse that which followeth hereafter Take Cammomil Mugwort Sauine and Nettle roots of each one handful séeth them together in water and receiue the vapor from beneath Item take Rue Sage Southernwood and Sauine of each one handful put them together into a new pot and close it tight but leaue a hole open aboue on the couer wherein a tap may be put whilest it boyleth afterwards draw out the tap and receiue the warme vapor from beneath as is sayd before Or take Myrrhe as much as you will temper it with the iuice of Mugwort and let it drie afterward put filed Harts horne vnto it to wit the third part as much as there is Myrrhe then strew this pouder vpon a hot tile and receiue the smoke beneath but round about couer you close You may also take for it Penniroyal Rue Sauine leaues and vse them alone Item take Violet leaues two handfuls Myrrhe halfe an ounce let them séeth together in raine water and foment therewith as warme as you can abide it Take Penniroyal Nep Southernwood Rue Centory and Hyssope of each one handfull Sauine Feuerfew of each one handfull and a halfe Cinnamom Galingall of each one dragme Siluermountaine and Mather of each halfe a handfull Myrrhe one quarter of an ounce beate them all grosse together and séeth the same in a quart of water euen to the halfe and then vse it as before this also prouoketh vrine Or take Penniroyall Marierom Sage and Mugwort of each one handfull séeth them all together for a fomentation for to fume you are to take a little Coloquint cast it vpon a hote stone and receiue the fume from beneath it greatly prouoketh womens termes but note that Coloquint is very sharpe and that the sayd well sauouring spices and other things be much safer for to fumigate withall Or take Dill Cammomill Melilot Squinant Cassie wood Costus rootes Sulphur Rue Marierom Stechas Southernwood any of all these or part of the same To set boxing cups vpon the thighes is also very behouefull and auailable Plaisters and Vnguents TAke the muscilage of Fleawort and of Linséede of each one ounce vnsalted butter two ounces Hens grease Duckes grease Goose grease and the marrow of Calues bones of each halfe an ounce Ammoniacum one quarter of an ounce oyle of Sesamum and oyle of swéete Almonds of each fiue dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue then annoint you therewith behind and before from the nauell downewards but not before that you haue vsed all other meanes of bathing letting of blood potions c. Item take of the confection Benedicta halfe an ounce Turbith one quarter of an ounce Nigella séed thrée dragmes decocted Hony as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister This is to be layd ouer the priuities as before If so be that one perceiueth the termes after the vse of this foresaid meanes some do aduise and that very well that this potion ensuing is to be made Take Mugwort Sene leaues and Penniroyall of each halfe a handful Cinnamom halfe an ounce Mace thrée dragmes séeth it al together in thrée pints of good wine vntill about the fourth part be wasted and this in a Canne stopt tight in séething water this expelleth the termes vnto her due time The other orderly meane for to preferre the termes is that first of all the Saphea or Median shall be opened and that afterwards a long bag is to be made and to be filled with any of the foresaid herbes which you like best and then put vnto it one quarter of an ounce of Gallia Muscata and weare it so vpon the priuities Afterwards make of one quarter of an ounce of the foresaid Gallia with the water of Mugwort nine pils and take three thereof at once in the morning early then make a pessary of the length of a finger and fill the same with pouned Mercury and put it into the place Set boxing cups also vpon the thighes and in the hams and then rub the legs downewards with warme clothes Squinant and Madder decocted also in the water of Maidenhaire and drunken are also highly commended Item take the pipes of Cassie when the Cassie is taken out and let them be well scraped on the outside as many as you will Cinnamom Mace Saffron Diptamus and Baulme of the one as much as of the other make a powder thereof and take a dragme thereof euery morning with water of Mints the same moueth them very gently But as much as concerneth letting of blood whereof mention is made before some do aduise and not without reason if in case that a woman hath not had her Termes a long time that her veine is to be opened besides her little toe and the next day afterwards on the other foote The words of Hippocrates and of his expounder Galen be true that the letting of blood and hunger do cause women with child to miscary for that thereby they say will the nourishment of the child be withdrawne Therefore good héede is to be taken in these things for that many women haue this for a custome whether they be fat grosse strong or leane that they alwayes open a veine at the halfe of their going with child like as we also haue before admonished in the first § But if one will néeds be let blood then must after the same or else without letting of blood bathings be oftentimes vsed for which is Penniroyall to be taken field mints Southernwood Centorie and Hyssope of each one handful Sauine and Feuerfew of each one dragme Siluer-mountaine Madder of each one handfull Myrrhe one quarter of an ounce stampe and choppe them all small and let them séeth
to grow then haue they it most grieuous Also it is the more troublesome for that as then all strange lustes do come vnto them Neuerthelesse it oftentimes hapneth not long after they haue conceiued that they as then are most inclined vnto it It is also otherwhiles commodious for them as we haue shewed before But if so be that it do get the mastery and that thereby the foode be drawne away from the fruite then must one do his best for to strengthen the stomacke and to remedie the vomiting for which there be many remedies in the eleuenth chapter and eleuenth § described against the debilitie of the stomacke out of which may easily be chosen what is méet for women with child but especially these things following be aduised for safe things as the sirupe of Raspes Marmalade and sirupe of Quinces which the ancient Phisitions do so highly commend if a woman with child do vse the same much then wil the fruit be subtiller and whiter Annis Fennell Coriander whether they be confected or not are good against vomiting Item take a hard sodden egge and kéepe it very warme vpon the mouth of the stomacke For this is also passing good the sirupe of Veriuice When a child is weake in his mothers wombe §. 8. FOrasmuch as there is no doubt that the conceiued children be also sicke in their mothers body therefore it is no small question how they are to be holpen For séeing all sicknesses are knowne through féeling and sight the which cannot be done by children in their mothers wombe for this cause this matter is troublesome to the Phisitions But amongst other signes whereby it may be knowne whether the child be sicke in his mothers body or no it is the very certainest if that the woman with child haue her termes oftentimes and much for that there can follow none other thereof but a debilitie of the child because that his sustenance and nourishment is taken and drawne from him Secondly when the milke runneth from women with child then is it a sure token of the debilitie of the child also that the child is not strong enough for to draw his nourishment vnto it Thirdly if a woman do get a strong scouring then is it much to be doubted of a mischance but it dependeth specially on two things vnder which al other accidents be they how they wil are contained which is heate and cold by which all the rest may easily be adiudged First for to write of the debilitie of the child through heate and dryth is the mother to be purged of Cholera viz. with this following and such like Take conserue of Prunes without any other addition halfe an ounce warme whay of milke thrée ounces giue it vnto her in the morning betimes and let her fast vpon it the space of fiue houres Or take prepared Cassie one ounce with foure ounces of Sorrell water or Barley water If you will haue it stronger Take two ounces of Manna temper them together in thrée or foure ounces of whay and vse it as before Or if you wil you may stéepe in the former a dragme of Rubarbe and wring it out well or halfe a dragme of Rubarbe beaten to powder giuen without stéeping All these medicines be very safe for the child and the mother Concerning the order of diet it is to be cooling and moistening as with Lettice Béetes c. like as is oftentimes admonished Also Barly water and Barly paps are to be vsed the fresh is to be drest with vineger and veriuice with the iuice of Limons and such like that she eateth Afterwards she is to drinke euery morning a good draught of whay in sommer colde and in winter warme Or take water of Endiue and of Violets of each two ounces Or if you will haue that which cooleth more take sirupe of Roses of Endiue of each halfe an ounce Succorie water two ounces temper them together These things following are yet more forcible than the former Take sirupe of Vineger half an ounce sirupe of Citrons one ounce Buglosse water and water of Sorrell of each one ounce and a halfe temper them all together You may also drinke one ounce of the conserue of Violets tempered with thrée ounces of Endiue water The clisters with those things which force vrine and blood and also all things which cause vomiting must be forborne But if it be néedfull that one purge more then shall the former suffice But these thrée things are especially to be shunned One must also do his best for to defend resist all bad properties and to strengthen the same which may be done in this maner following to wit that the woman euery day thrée or foure times do drinke halfe an ounce of the sirupe of Limons with Barley water it cooleth and quencheth thirst Item take water of Citruls and of Violets of each sixe ounces water of Sorrell twelue ounces red Saunders Roses burnt Iuorie and séed of Sorrel of each one scruple Saffron halfe a scruple Vineger thrée spoonefuls temper them all together and make a cloth wet therein afterwards lay it beneath on the priuities and behind on the rump Also take then one ounce of small cut Pompeon péeles oile of Roses and of water Lillies of each one ounce and a halfe small fresh Housléeke one ounce temper them all well together and annoint the foresayd places with it thrée or foure times a day But if this debilitie do come through cold and moisture then is this thus to be remedied Take Buglosse water the séedes of wild Saffron grosse beaten Agaricus and Hermodactils of each one scruple Cinnamom Ginger Roses and prepared Coriander of each foure graines let them stéepe together one whole night afterwards wring it out and drinke it in the morning early Another Take the water of Feuerfew and of Balme of each one ounce and a halfe Benedicta Laxatiua one ounce white sugar halfe an ounce temper them together and let them stand the whole night afterwards straine it through a cloth and vse it as the other For this is also a good order of diet to be obserued wherefore these patients are to vse nothing else but that is warme and drie of nature And she is to boile in all her meates Sage Mints Rosemary and such like which haue no nature of opening Their drinke is to be méetly strong red wine tempered with a little stéeled water for it hath power to strengthen all the inward norishing parts and all veines One must also deuise how to amend and clense these bad humors which is thus to be effected Take Sage water foure ounces Miua of Quinces one ounce then mixe them all together Item take Sirupum de Myrto one ounce water of Baulme wherein Masticke is decocted thrée ounces temper them together and so giue it her to drinke A better Take Miua Citoniorum aromatica one ounce water wherein Mirtle séed is decocted thrée ounces temper them to a potion There may also be vsed
Afterwards is this potion following to be vsed at least eight daies togither early in the morning and to fast fower houres after it Take one ounce of the honie of Roses the water of white water Mints and the water of field Cypers of each one ounce and a halfe temper them togither He may also take to prepare the humour honie of Roses Syrupum de Stoechade and some of the foresaid waters The ninth day shall he swallow these pils following Take Pillularum de Hermodactilis and Foetidarum of each halfe a dragme make thereof seuen pils with the sirupe of Roses and take them early in the morning And if so be that one would take no pils then take fiue dragmes of Hieralogodion and Turbith beaten small halfe a scruple Diagridion two graines Ginger three graines temper them togither and take it so or put some distilled water vnto it Some expert Phisitions do aduise much to this Clister Take Ireas the rootes of wilde Cucumbers field Cipers Saint Iohns woort of each two handfuls seeth them all togither in sufficient water then take of this decoction twelue or sixteene ounces and temper therewith Hieralogodion one ounce oyle of Rue thrée ounces honie of Roses one ounce the yolke of an Egge well braied Salt one dragme vse it once a day In Haruest is the patient once euery fourtéene dayes to take one dragme of these pils following Take Aloe two ounces Agaricus and Hermodactyli of each one quarter of an ounce Coloquint one dragme and a halfe Ginger Cinnamome Asarabacca Cloues and Mace of each one scrup Turbith and Epithymus of each one drag Saffron one scruple stamp each alone afterwards temper them togither and powre sufficient field Cipers water vpon it and then set it out to drie in the Sun Lastly powre more of the same water vpon it and let it drye againe to the end you may fashion Pils of it Secondly there is to be considered how that next after purging betwéene the spring and haruest the matter might be deriued towards another place and so to expell it which may be best of all done by those meanes which force vrine whereto these things following are to be vsed First the patient is to drinke about the space of fourtéene dayes euery morning fiue ounces of Asarabacca sugred or in the stéed thereof the water of Madder which is better There is also good for this both these things following Take Pease meale one scruple old Treacle halfe a dragme temper them togither with two â—â—nces of Smallage water and so drinke it and fast fiue howers after it Item take Trociscos de Eupatorio halfe a dragme Gromell séed Cinnamom and Carui of each fiue graines Benedicta laxatiua one dragme and a halfe temper them togither with two ounces of strong white wine then drinke it and fast fiue howers after it All that shall be hereafter mentioned consumeth the defluxions which be still setled in the ioynts then is the place of this disease to be rubbed softly and annoynted with this following according as the patient can suffer it Take vnripe Sallad oyle two ounces well parched salt one ounce annoint the ioints very warme with it and then wrap them in warme clothes The ioynts are to be also fomented with light red wine and vineger powred on hot stones that they may sweate well They are also to be annointed with this following Take Sagapenum one ounce Bdellium and Ammoniacum of each halfe an ounce Sandaraca one quarter of an ounce the Gum is to be dissolued in a little red Vineger and with Waxe make a salue thereof Another Take oyle of Roses and of Cammomill of each one ounce thrée yolks of egges Saffron grains temper them vse them togither After the annoynting you are to strew the powder of earthwormes vpon it and couer it close with shéepes wooll Or take oyle of Foxes oyle of earthwormes and washt Turpentine of each one quarter of an ounce Salt thrée dragms vse theÌ„ as before You are also to annoynt the same places with warme oile of Roses This following is also very highly commended Take Venice Sope three ounces and a halfe cut it verie thin and then let it seeth a waume or twaine in sixe ounces of the water of Fumitory afterwards you are to put vnto it the oyle of Euphorbium and of S. Iohns woort of each halfe an ounce oyle of Iuniper one ounce and a halfe oyle of Earthwormes one ounce let it then seeth vntill that the water be sodden away afterwards you are to put vnto it Mastick and Frankinsence of each one quarter of an ounce Sulfure vif Euphorbium and Pieretrum of each two drag and a halfe vse it as is aforesaid Oile of earth wormes The oyle of Earthwormes is especiall good for all paine of the ioints and for all frozen sinewes the which is made thus Take Earthwormes thrée ounces wash the same with Wine and powre vnto it twelue ounces of Sallad oyle Wine sixe ounces seeth them togither by a gentle fire vntill the Wine be sodden awaie afterwards strayne them thorough a cloth For this disease be all warme baths also requisite And if they cannot be gotten then are the same to be made by the aduice of a learned Phisition yet the most commodious time of bathing is from the middest of April to the end of May. And because that these defluxions be more manifest in the Spring and Haruest than in any other time of the yéere vnto which times we haue appropriated all these foresayd remedies therfore will we now teach what is to be done vnto it in winter For this is purging to be vsed againe and that in this maner following When as September is halfe past then are these pils to be taken once in the morning Take Pillulas de Agarico de Hermodactylis of each halfe a dragme Indy salt two graines make seuen Pils thereof with the Confection of Roses The day after is this following to be dronken the which is thus 8. or 10. daies togither to be coÌ„tinued Take the sirupe of Wormwood and Syrupum de Eupatorio of each thrée quarters of an ounce water of Hops or field Cipers of each one ounce and a halfe temper them together afterwards is this following to be drunken Take the Confection Benedicta three dragmes Inda two dragmes and a halfe water of blew flower deluce two ounces temper them al together make it warme and drinke it Afterwards are the foresaid pils which be ordained to be vsed in Haruest beginning Take Aloe c. to be vsed throughout all the Winter As much as concerneth other things those remedies are to be vsed which be ordained to be vsed in Summer onely that they must be vsed in more quantitie like as it is aduised in Summer to take one dragme in Winter one dragme and a halfe so also with bathing otherwise You shall hereafter haue many sundrie things which may be vsed against the Gout or ioint diseases viz.
Confected Quinces Marmalade and all that may be made of Quinces except that there be no spices with it if the disease be with heate For this be things also good which shal shortly after be ordained for the Gout Podagra If so be that there be no speciall heate with it and that wine may be vsed without any great danger then is it his nature that it strengtheneth all outward members if the same be moderatly drunken Amongst herbe wines are these following much commended for it viz. of Rosemarie of Wormwood of Sage and of Clarie all which not onely drunken but also the ioynts annointed with it or the vapor thereof receiued into the diseased ioynts do also strengthen the same When one is come to his former health then must one looke to it and also beware and take héed frō all those things which are wont to cause those kinds of defluxions into the said ioynts To which end you may looke all the rules in the first Chapter which be described in the first § Take good Turpentine the quantitie of a Beane or in stead of that Opopanacum or Sagapenum which you will in the like quantitie There is very méete in like manner if one take early in the morning halfe a scrup of Lignum Aloes with an ounce of the water of field Cipers It is also much aduised to take twice euery wéeke one dragme of good Mithridate or in steade thereof one Mirobalan Chebuli chewed and eaten or one day Mithridate and the other day one Mirobalan All these foresaid things be not onely commodious but also very safe Let this suffice now generally spoken of the ioynt disease Arthritide and we will now proceede with the Chiragra The fifth Chapter Of the Gout in the hands Chiragra FOr the second sort of the Gout will we describe the Chiragra the which we do properly call the hand Gout But because that betwixt the Gout of the hands and that of the féete there is none other difference but that the one commeth in the hands and the other in the feete therefore will we here referre vs to the Gout of the féete where we will thoroughly discourse of these two kinds of infirmities The sixt Chapter Of the Gout of the Hips Ischia commonly called Sciatica BEfore in the first Chapter and first § in deuiding the sorts of the Gout and in the description of Gutta is this kind Ischia taken for the third sort the which of the Phisitions that do not well vnderstand the Gréeke spéech is called Scia and Sciatica This Gout of the hips is a long lingring paine and especially when it commeth into the bones of the hips notwithstanding that it doth otherwhiles appeare in the vppermost parts which is caused of a cold moisture that falleth downe from aboue And because that her grosse toughnes cānot easily be cōsumed but much rather augmented from day to day and made worse then falleth it at the last into the knées the legges into the féete and so out at the toes The same tough humors do cause also oftentimes through their great grosse and tough sliminesse that the hip bones be eluxated although otherwhiles they returne againe to their naturall places and that when the ligaments of these ioynts through this waterish moisture happen to be loosed or resolued and afterwards waxe hard againe and shrinke vp as before But if this foresaid hip bone be long eluxated then doth it come easily to passe that thereby the whole leg commeth to extenuate whereof then a meere impotencie or lamenesse might follow so that this disease afterwards very hardly but by actuall cauterization may be holpen whereby the matter may be drawne out with cautery which when one is minded to vse it is to be done beneath the knées in the Calues and that in the leg so diseased But before and ere we come to the remedie we will first prescribe a generall rule how to gouerne himselfe in his order of diet which not only in this but also in other sicknesses according to the importance of the cause and place may be diminished augmented and altered This that followeth here is ordained for them in whose bodies all grosse cold tough and flegmaticke humors tempered with Cholera do abound But these must first eschew all cold ayre low dwellings and especially they which do lie neare the water side The windowes of his dwellings are also to open against the South and East if it be faire weather and the rest remaine shut And if so be that the time of the yeare wil permit it then is his chamber to be alwaies kept warme with a continuall fire and to be hang the stone wals with Tapestrie or to let it be wainescoted or fenced with boords In like maner he is also to kéepe his head well from cold and to beware of great exercise especially if he féele any paine and that so long as any paine is instant and vntill the ioynts be strengthened What concerneth further the meate and drinke one is to kéepe himselfe therein moderatly and to vse all such sorts of meates and drinks which do yéeld small sustenance or nourishment and be méete rather to make one leane than fat and especially if there be any debility of the stomacke or any wambling with it He is also to chew his meate well and to eschew the varietie of drinkes Otherwise he is to vse those meates which be warme and drie and that are drest and strewed with any drying and warming things as with Pepper Salt Cinnamom Nutmegs Fennell Parsley Annis Hyssope Mints Thyme and such like things moe His bread must be a little more than common bread leauened and salted He is also to eate no other flesh but Hens Pullets Pigeons Fesants and all kind of field Fowls yet for the most part rather rosted than sodden Veale and Mutton is also very healthie for him Amongst herbes be Colewoorts Fennell yellow rapes c. very good for him but all cold herbes must he eschew or at least vse them very seldome litle and being alwaies tempered with some warme herbes red Pease Lentils and Rice drest with fresh flesh may he eate Amongst fruits there be none that be more requisite than Figs Raisins Hasell nuts Almonds such like The swéet odoriferous Grapes be not much forbidden him He is also to be restrained from butter as much as is possible because of her slime and moist nature but rather in stead thereof to vse the oyle of swéet Almonds Sallad oyle or oyle of Walnuts Vineger Veriuice Limons Oranges or their iuice be not much commended and if one will euer vse them then must some other warming things as Salt Pepper Cinnamom be tempered with it in eating of other meats All fish doughie meates be very hurtfull vnto him The best drinke that he can drinke is Hony water which may be prepared as followeth Take twelue quarts of water and one quart of Hony let them séeth together vntill eight quarts remaine if
Ague requireth great abstinence if nature may abide it Ninthly when this Ague procéedeth of surfeting in meate then must the letting of blâ—â— not be vsed before the 2. or 3. day notwithstanding that the malady is such wherin the opening of a veine may not be omitted for that it quickly annoieth wherfore must the first rule be forth with applied by letting him blood in the Median so long til he begin to swonne And if the same cannot be effected at one time then is the same to be done at sundrie times euery time a little Afterwards let the patient vse cooling things as namely sirupe of Veriuice of Purslaine of Pomegranats and of Limons or of Sorrâ—ll much cold water is also to be giuen to the patient to drinke yet with such direction as before in the description of the Ague Causon hath bene shewed Let him haue bread to eate that is stéeped in the iuice of Pomegranates or Veriuice Barly water is the most commodious drinke that he may drinke and sirupe of Roses may be mingled amongst it if he go not to the stoole then make him a chicken broth wherein Mallowes are sodden Purge the patient also with sower Dates with conserue of Prunes Cassie or with Manna and so procéed with cooling things till the heate be cleane extinguished Of the Ague Synochus with putrified blood §. 1. THe other sort of this continual Ague is also very strong procéeding of a putrifactioÌ„ of the blood And hereof is a disputation also amongst the learned for some say that when as the blood commeth for to putrifie that then it is no longer blood and therefore this Ague Synochus cannot be ingendred of blood The causes are the same that are of the other but that onely with the former there are many inward vapors without any putrifaction of the blood In like maner the signes of both these Agues are the same but that in the first the heate is greater all other symptomes more violent than in this In fine herein do they both agrée that there is neuer any increasing or abating of the fit as may be obserued in other continual agues Now to cure this ague the patient must be let blood out of hand if the stomacke be not ouercharged with meate and that the age and the strength wil permit the same and therupon purge as is taught for the former ague And if it fal out as it accustometh to fall out that with this ague there were adioyned a féeblenesse of the liuer then must these Trociskes following he prepared for it Take burnt Iuorie Dragagant and starch of each a dragme séeds of Purslaine one quarter of an ounce Licorice one quarter of an ounce and one scruple make thereof then Trociskes with Dragagant dissolued in Endiue water they do coole and comfort the stomack and also the liuer Another Take two scruples of Roses two scruples and a halfe of Berberies séeds of Melons Cucumbers Citruls Purslaine and burnt Iuory of each a scruple Dragagant Gum and Almonds of each half a scruple Rubarb Saffron and Camfere of each seuen graines make thereof Trociskes and minister one dragme of them at once with Barley water you may also mixe the aforesaid Trociskes with conserue of Roses and so vse them For this are also commodious the losinges Diatrionsantalon Diatragacanthum frigidum and that for both sorts of these Agues because both of them do aske one and the same kind of remedies Of the order of diet §. 2. BOth of these Agues do require a sparing diet as Barly pottage Oaten paps Hen broths wherein Lettice or Veriuice is sodden and such like One may also seeth Lentils by powring out the first broth therof and dressing the second with Parsley and a little vineger or iuice of Pomegranates The broth of red pease with sugar stewed apples peares and fresh Gourds drest with Almond milke are speciall good He may also eate otherwhiles Melons Citruls Endiue Lettice Purslaine But if the patient be bound in the body then may you séeth in the Almond milk Spinage Mercury and such like or take conserue of Prunes sower Dates Cassy and Manna of which you will also mild Clisters may be vsed and taken for this purpose And if the patient haue great head-ach then delay the same with oyle of Roses vineger or with Oxyrrhodino In like maner may you also vse a little oile of Violets or oile of water Lillies being dropt into his eares and to hold Roses Camfere or Saunders before his nose If the patient cannot take any sléepe or rest a … that no lithargy be feared then is the iuice of cold moist herbes to be vsed and in like maner of small great Mousléeke of Nightshade Lettice Purslain and of Poppie leaues or Poppie heads Poplar salue and such like dip a cloth therin and lay it vpon his forehead The very best and most vsual drinke that can be vsed in this sicknes is barly water but in great heate you must mingle therewith as is said the iuice of Pomegranates or veriuice Item cold water with sirupe of Pomegranats or any other cooling sirupe And if there chanceth any swouning called Cardiaca with it wherof we haue admonished in the second part the sixt Chapter then is the same to be holpen with cooling and fragrant things euen as hath bin shewed in the foresaid places and especially apply this plaister following to the liuer Take red white and yellow Saunders of each thrée drag Roses and Barly meale of each one ounce Camfer a quarter of an ounce make a plaister therof with Rose water If so be that he fal into a great sléep then must you chafe the hands and the féet very vehemently with vineger pouring the same also vpon a hot stone that the vapor thereof may ascend into his nose You must also cal earnestly vpon him pul him by the haire or by the nose and vse such like things more for the same as be shewed in the first part the twelft chapter 10. § for whenas these vapors do ascend forcibly into the head then is the dead palsey to be expected Whereas is vnquenchable thirst there must the water be mingled with vineger hold these losinges following vnder the toong Take the iuice of vnripe Grapes of Sorrell of Lettice wine of Pomegranates and white vineger of each an ounce put thereto white sugar and sugarcandy as much as is thought méet letting it séeth so long together as shall suffice to make losinges of it Here is now sufficiently intreated of this Synocha and of other hot Agues The ninth Chapter Of the Quotidian Ague Quotidiana THe cause of this dayly Ague procéedeth of a putrified Phlegma and slimy corruption which nature forceth towards the exterior parts of the bodie and there ingendreth such a cold which may be called rather a shaking than right cold wherwith it so burtheneth and suppresseth nature that thereby the pulses are faint and vnnaturall heate stirred vp and the pulses are
And although this sicknesse when it hath long endured and is once rooted into the body be thought incurable yet neuerthelesse men must not disdaine the helpe and meanes which God the Lord hath ordained for the vse of man but pray hartily vnto him that he wil blesse them for the glory of his holy name Wherefore these rules following are to be obserued and imitated for thereby may be gathered a perfect cure of this sicknesse First it is néedfull for the languishing persons that they vse all things that may moysten and coole Secondly because these diseased persons must neither be purged nor warmed therefore the warme bath is also hurtful for thereby the heate is increased Thirdly al their meate and drinke must be cooling and moistning or at the leastwise temperate as barly pap Ptisana henbroth and Panada Fourthly the curing of this Hectica is like to that in the drouth of the stomacke whereof we haue written in the third part the second Chapter and seuenth § yet are cooling things hereto required by reason of the great heate of the Ague Fifthly if néede require that other meates are to be ministred vnto him which are not cooling as namely Wine and fresh broth yet neuerthelesse therewith are cooling things to be vsed Sixthly if the Ague proceede of any impostume or bruise of some other part then must speciall regard he had for the healing thereof and that the liuer be cooled and brought in good course Seuenthly a good coole aire is one of the principall helpes and therewith fresh linnen also that is washed in water where Roses Willow leaues or Trocisci de Camphora be steeped In like maner Rosewater is very commodious for it Eightly the smell of Campher Rose water fresh Poppie heads Roses Saunders and such like is very requisite and profitable for this patient Ninthly all cooling plaisters wherein no astringent things are intermingled are to be layd on his brest Tenthly if this diseased person desire to haue health then must he so far as is possible incline himselfe to sléepe and to all quietnesse and rest and keepe himselfe from thirst hunger pensiuenesse anger hatred and much sorrow Eleuenthly he must not sleepe vpon any thing but a mattresse Twelftly it is also maruellous good for this sicknesse to sléepe by the noise and rushing of waters or by springing fountaines It is very good to hang vp all gréene things about his bed or to sprinkle his chamber with the water wherein such herbes are or shall be sodden Thirtéenthly Goates milke or Asses milke whereof that is best of them that are fed in a medow where coole herbes grow is a most soueraigne medicine for this malady Fourtéenthly womens milke surpasseth all other milkes Fiftéenthly buttermilke is likewise very good for this sicknes Sixtéenthly to conclude for consumptions are all manner of milkes from the beginning to the ending thereof very excellent good and all good fresh henbroth sodden with Lettice Purslaine and veriuice is excéeding profitable for the patient But aboue all things speciall care is to be had that he obserue and kéepe a good diet wherefore he is to eate and drinke but little vsing alwayes such meates as do nourish wel to wit Fesants Partridges yong Quailes and such like as hens flesh Veale Mutton and Lambs broth c. wherein Lettice Purslaine and such like cooling herbes are sodden And as we haue declared before let him vse alwayes Goates milke or Asses milke and aboue al womans milke for all these are so highly commended for this disease that it is not possible to tell of any thing that may excéed them to helpe and cure this malady For if he vse any of these or any other good milke yet in such measure that he be not cloyed by taking too much thereof at once but to take it the oftener and namely betimes in the morning méetly warme or when it is new milked and that about two ounces thereof at once and then afterwards in the day time foure times more about three or foure ounces at once so that fiue draughts be taken within 24. houres His meate must be as is sayd Barley pap that is drest with fresh broth and pap of starch or that is made with grated bread and wherin also one of the foresayd herbes are sodden sometimes one of them and sometime another Pease broth wherein hens or any other thing is sodden or of it selfe is passing good The very best drinke for this disease is Barley water wherein sugar pennets is dissolued and to retaine the patients strength you are to permit vnto him thin white Wine that which is very cléere being mingled with faire water when he sitteth at meate but the mealtide being past let him drinke nothing but barly water They that are quelled with this maladie haue for the most part alwayes a very drie mouth drie toong and great thirst whereto prepare these confections following and hold them in his mouth to refresh the same therewith Take the séedes of Fleawort and Quince kernels of each thrée ounces steepe them seuen or eight houres together in luke-warme water presse out the muscilage put thereto afterwards the iuice of Pomegranates two ounces sugarcandie one ounce and a halfe starch as much as is méete for to make it in forme of a confection If you will haue it to drinke after the maner of a Iulep then leaue out the starch and put thereto the water of Purslaine and of Citruls of each eight ounces and so let it séeth a little together and lastly clarifie it with the white of an egge If one hold gréene Lettice or Purslaine in his mouth that refresheth it much You haue also in the third part the twefth chapter and tenth § and afterwards in the seuenteenth chapter and 7. § very many things which are all good against the thirst where you may haue choise of that which is best for this malady These cooling and comfortable medicines following are to be dayly vsed for refreshing and comforting namely conserues of Roses conserues of waterlillies and the sirupes of them both conserues of Cicorie In like maner also the rootes of the same in a sallad or confected are very meete for it The confected Citrons and the iuice thereof the iuice and sirupe of Orenges conserues of white Roses and all that is made thereof is for this purpose highly commended for they coole more than red Roses Secondly the kidneyes and backbone are also through this malady very much tormented with a great heate whereto is very commodious the salue of Roses wherewith he must be annointed six or seuen times in 24. houres Also it is very good to moisten the backbone often with milke and also to annoint it with oyle of Roses or with oyle of Violets Thirdly there happeneth otherwhiles to this patient that is féeble already a sore sweate which may cast the patient altogether downe which may by the foresayd meanes be hindered But if that will not helpe then besprinkle the face
rest being drest in meates is wonderfull good and much estéemed for a preseruatiue against this kind of infection Therefore it is commaunded that men dip their bread in Vineger wherewith the iuice of wild Thyme and of Garlicke is tempered also to eate the kernels of two or thrée Nuts dipped in the same And you may vse this sauce following with your meate Take Vineger and iuice of Limons temper it as you thinke good with powned Walnuts and with a little grated bread and and you may also if you please put thereto some Saffron and Cinnamome And you may make a temperature also with Currans and Vineger flesh broth Cinnamom poched egges are also permitted if they be vsed with veriuice Of fruites all that be sower are onely tolerated And you may strew this powder following vpon the meate Take prepared pearles one quarter of an ounce red Corall and fine Bolus of each half a dragme Cinnamom two dragmes and a half and then mingle them all together The meates that are forbidden to be vsed for the healthie are these to wit Milke and all that is drest therewith all swéete fruits stewed apples and peares are allowed muddie or slimy fish are especially prohibited as Eeles Tenches and such like but such fish as are taken from sandie ground are not bad old powdered flesh or salt fish are also suspected But be it flesh or fish let the same be alwayes drest with some sower thing as with Vineger the iuice of Limons Veriuice and such like Or you may vse these sawces following Take the iuice of Pimpernel of Sorrell Buglosse of Scabious of Rue of Lettice of Endiue of Baulme of Elecampane al together or some of them as it pleaseth you and mingle them with vineger and bread as you thinke good Item Capers with the iuice of Limons or of Citrons is also a healthie sauce to be vsed All water fowles as Duckes Géese Hernsewes and such like let him not eate notwithstanding that the Duckes blood is thought to be a preseruatiue against venom And for your drinke you must not vse any but onely to flacke thirst withall or according as the partie hath eaten the best drinke is white cléere and thin Wine which is not swéete being tempered with stéeled water or that wherein Gold hath bene extinguished But there can be no better thing than to drinke faire fountaine water which is tempered with vineger and sugar or water wherein the iuice of Pomegranates is mixed You may also make a drinke of Barberries and Iuniper berries whereof you néede to take but now and then a little draught And you must also note here that it were not amisse to drinke euery mealetide a draught of Wormewood or Sage wine or in stead of them to take a bit of bread that is stéeped in the wine of Elecampane and wine of Zeduary These are the ordinances that in the time of the plague are to be kept and obserued in meate and drinke hauing alwayes a good regard as we haue already sayd of the time of the yeare of the constitution of the patient of his accustomed manner of diet and so forth whereby either of the foresaid things may be vsed or omitted How their dwellings ought to be §. 5. IT is also very néedful for a preseruation against this sicknes that the house and all the chambers as wel as the body be kept neate and cleane Therefore euery housholder ought if he loue the health of himselfe his family to looke diligently that his house or place of his dwelling be kept very cleane All tame beasts and especially swine ought to be kept far apart from all your dwelling houses Your house is to haue many windowes in it and that such windowes as do stand towards the West and South must you keepe close and shut but the windowes that be towards the East and North must be opened wide so that the plague be not in those quarters néere hand Warme stoues are very vnhaile and especially if they do lie low but in the chimney it is best to burne drie wood and most of all Iumper wood drie Vine branches Firwood Ash Okes Cipres wood Bay trees and Rosemary stickes and that according to the nature of the place where euery kind of wood is best to be had and chiefly the Béech trée for that there is no kind of wood that more taketh away the venemous vapor or infection of the plague than the Béech trée doth Moreouer you must cause the house to be swept wherein you dwell at least twice a day and besprinkled with vineger or Rose water and then to smoke it with some of these things following to wit with Iuniperberries Hyssap Marierom wild Thime Mints Rosemary Mariâ—rom gentle and Basil with Lauander Penniroyal and apple parings or such like And for rich men you may make diuers compounded things whereof we wil write at large which you may vse as néede shall require First there are perfumes which the Apothecaries do cal Ozyletes for this must you vse Iuniper yellow Saunders Paradise wood Frankinsence and Iuniper berries of each thrée dragmes Amber Iuniper Gum Sandaraca and Rosemary flowers of each one dragme Nutmegs and Cloues of each one dragme and a halfe powne them all together to powder and then put to it of Laudanum one ounce and a halfe Benzoi and red Storax of each a quarter of an ounce blacke Frankinsence thrée dragmes Tilly coles that are to be sprinkled and moistened with Aqua vitae being beaten small halfe as much as all the rest afterwards make the morter and the pestell very warme and then put therein the Laudanum with a little Turpentine temper them together till they be as soft as dough and mixe then therwith all the foresaid things and make hereof a strong dough with molified Dragagant and roule it on a table that is rubbed ouer with oyle of Spike and make the candles as great and as small as you list to haue them making them vnderneath with thrée féete that they may stand and let them drie in the sun and when you set those candles in a close chamber to fume they wil for certaine expell all the venemous aire of the Plague These things following are vsed for this at Augburch in high Dutchland to wit Laudanum two ounces black and white Frankinsence of each one ounce red Storax half an ounce Benzoi three quarters of an ounce Cloues Roses Cinnamom blacke Coriander Masticke Sandaraca Cipres wood Bayberries yellow Saunders and Nutmegs of each one dragme beaten small liquid Storax two ounces Waxe one ounce Turpentine two ounces and a halfe burnt wine or Aqua vitae as much as is needfull the Laudanum Storax Waxe and Turpentine is to be molten iâ— a warme mortar and hereof may you make candles as is before taught if the dough be hard then make it soft with burnt wine Another Take Paradise wood Saffron Cinnamome Cloues yellow Saunders and Roses of each halfe a dragme Masticke red Storax and
sirupe and Sugar with water enough till it be as thicke as Hony and afterwards temper the spices therewith then beate it well together and put thereto Rubarb one quarter of an ounce that hath bene steeped foure and twenty howers in Malmsey Lastly adde thereto Muske and Amber of each foure greines this being done mingle them all together and keepe it safe being well stopt in a glasse Item take Mithridate and Treacle that at the least is ten years old of each half an ounce Citron seede and fine Bolus of each halfe a dragme Rose water with the which Muscus is dissolued as much as is needfull for a confection hereof may you vse euery day one dragme Also that are sound and whole as also those that are infected may vse the waight of a quarter of an ounce of this confection following morning euening without any daunger Take Iacincts Granadoes Smaragds Saphirs Pearles bones of a Stags hart Paradise wood of each halfe a dragme red and white Saunders red and white Corall burnt Iuory Tormentill fine Bolus Terra sigillata Camfer small filed gold of each one scruple beate them all together very small and then take Sugar sixe ounces that is sodden with Rose water to a sirup then temper it so thicke as you will haue it with sirupe of Citrons Men may vse also otherwhiles in stead of this confection two or three dayes together of this drinke following which also is a wonderfull preseruatiue against the plague and may be vsed as well of young as of old folke yea also of young children and women with child Take fine Bolus a dragme and a halfe beate it to fine powder and drinke it with white wine and Rosewater very warme in the morning and eight daies after you must take a dragme of Treacle or Mithridate in the winter with wine and in the summer with Rosewater These foresaid medicines are not onely good against the plague to come but also against that that hath alreadie infected And forasmuch as those foresaid confections are made of many costly things that may be too deare for the common people for this cause haue we of purpose described the confection of Nuts and Rue which they may vse in stead of these Or take the kernels of Nuts Rue and Iuniper leaues of each a like quantitie powne them all well together and with Vineger make thereof a confection whereof euery morning you may take the bignes of a Nutmeg In like manner may one also prepare this following take eight and twentie or thirtie Nut kernels and forty or two and forty Figs Wormwood Rue Scabious and Sorrel of each half a M. Aristologie two dragmes and a halfe Tormentill Pimpernel and white Diptamus of each one dragme fine Bolus halfe a dragme red and white Corall Sorrell seedes of each halfe a dragme Citron séedes one dragme Iuniper berries thrée dragmes chop and stampe all that must be stampt and hereof with clarified Honie make a confection hereof may one take at one time the bignes of a Walnut Also make another which is called the confection of Iuniper berries as followeth Take Nut kernels Iuniper berries of each two ounces beate them wel together put thereto foure ounces of clarified Honie and temper with it Cinnamom Ginger Mace and Cloues of each a dragme white Diptamus Tormentill Zeduarie Citron peels Rue Carduus Benedictus and S. Iohns woort of each a quarter of an ounce Cardamome Paradise wood blacke Coriander Angelica white and red Behen fine Bolus and sealed Earth of each a drag then mingle them all together If the quantitie of Nut kernels Iuniper berries and Hony be too little then may you take twice so much And for the common sort it is also excellent good that euery morning he do take eight or ten Iuniper berries that haue bene steeped in Vineger Now follow certaine powders that preserue men from the Plague but as hath bene said before great regard is to be taken in time of the plague that the heart may be defended from al pestilent infections as much as is possible To this end are all the bouesaid medicines also many powders confections cordiall waters and other such like as herafter follow prescribed Take Rubies Granats Iacincts Smaragdes and Saphires of each half an ounce white and red Corall and shauings of Iuorie of each three quarters of an ounce shauen Harts horne and Sorrell séedes of each halfe an ounce prepared Pearles a quarter of an ounce Saffron ten greines beaten gold foure leaues mingle them all together Item take prepared Rubies Saphirs Iacincts Emrodes and Pearles of each halfe a dragme red Corall burnt Iuorie shauen Iuorie Vnicorns horne Diptamus Zeduary Cinnamom and Tormentill of each two scruples Doronicum Aristology red white and yellow Saunders Citron péels and Sorrell séedes of each halfe a dragme Saffron two scrup white Amber one scruple red and white Behen of each two scruples and a halfe Sugar sixe ounces and a halfe mingle them all together and then take halfe an ounce thereof euery time These following do the Apothecaries call Species liberantes that are very much esteemed and much vsed at Ausburg by reason they defend the heart and all inward parts very maruellously against all venimous ayre they are made in this manner Take prepared Bolus and sealed Earth of each thrée quarters of an ounce Tormentill Sorrell seede séede of Endiue péeled seedes of Citron and prepared Coriander of each three dragmes red white and yellow Sanders prepared Pearles red and white Corall yellow Amber shauen Iuorie bones of a Stagges hart that hath bene stéeped a while in Rosewater red and white Behen Doronicum Cardamome Mace Paradise wood Cinnamom Saffron Zeduarie and Cassie wood of each a dragme Emrodes Saphires Granates and silke Wormes nests chopped as small as may be of each a scruple Camfer fourteene greins Muske and Amber of each sixe greines Sugar candie and Sugar pennets of each a quarter of an ounce beate all very small and mingle it together ye shall giue one dragme of this powder in the winter with wine and in summer with Sorrell water The Emperours powder against the Plague Take Pimpernell Gentian Tormentill Dragon Rue Wormwood Nut kernels prepared Granats and Iuniper berries of each a like much make them into powder and vse it vpon a tosted péece of bread If you will make a confection of this powder then put thereto Rose vineger and Treacle as much as shall suffise Another powder Take fine prepared Bolus one ounce and a halfe Cinnamom one ounce Tormentill and white Diptamus of each halfe an ounce Pimpernell Angelica and Gentian of each a quarter of an ounce prepared Coriander thrée dragmes Saffron Sealed earth Citrō péeles red and white Behen red Corall yellow Saunders shauen Iuorie prepared Pearls of each a quarter of an ounce burnt Iuorie Paradise wood and bones of a Stags hart of each two scruples Granates Saphires Iacincts Emrods and Rubies of each halfe a dragme Spike
and naturall strength be maintained for the which this water following is ordained for the common sort of people which not onely strengtheneth but also driueth out the sweate Take new distilled water of the kernels of Nuts foure ounces powdered Verueine one dragme good Treacle two scrup Saffron seuen greines then mingle it all together and so giue it warme It profiteth much also that the patient alwaies haue in his hand odoriferous things wherewith the heart the braines and all inward parts may be comforted and the bad vapors taken away for the which this Pomander following is very commodious Take red white and yellow Saunders and Roses of each one dragme Saffron and Campher of each one scruple Muske and Amber of each fiue greines then make hereof a Pomander with Dragagant that is dissolued in Rosewater and then bind it in red sarsnet as is before mentioned Of these Pomanders as well hote as cold of nature are herebefore diuers described where we haue treated of the preseruation of the healthie And these sweating patients must not abstaine from meate for that the emptinesse of the stomacke is very hurtfull for them and what meate and drinke is good for them that shall be shewed hereafter If the sicke person be so weak and féeble that he may not be let bloud nor purged then giue vnto him this drinke following that shall do him good Take white Diptamus Tormentill white Coral Gentian fine Bolus Sealed earth and Verueine of each one dragme beate them all very small together and take therof one quarter of an ounce good Treacle one dragm iuice of Scabious foure ounces Vineger halfe an ounce But if you cannot get the iuice then take the water of Nut kernels and let him drinke it warme yet in winter giue him wine in stead of these waters The next day giue to the patient fine Bolus tempered with as much conserue of Roses and foure ounces of Scabious water after it Sometimes also must the common pils be vsed There is also to be made this cordiall confection as followeth Take prepared Rubies Iacincts Granats Smaragdes fine Bolus Pearles bones of Stags hart fine filed gold and small filed Vnicornes horne of each one scruple raw silk that is cut very small Roses Amber Citron péels and shauen Iuorie of each halfe a dragme white Sugar dissolued in the iuice of Limons as much as you please séeth the same as thicke as honie and mingle the rest amongst it to a confection Giue this to the patient two or thrée dragmes with fresh broth for it strengtheneth maruellous much all the vitall parts it resisteth all vapours and breaketh the force of the Ague In like manner there are cordiall waters to be outwardly applyed whereof some shall be shewed hereafter Take Rosewater sixtéene ounces water of Endiue Buglosse Nightshade Baulme and of Sorrell of each eight ounces Vineger and good white Wine of each thrée ounces red white and yellow Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce Corall and Roses of each one dragm burnt Iuorie Saffron and Camfere of each halfe a dragme then mingle them all together and so wetting in it a double cloth lay it ouer the heart Or take water of Buglosse and of Sorrell of each thrée ounces water of Willow leaues Roses Wormwood Grasse Baulme and of the wild Vine leaues of each two ounces Spec. Cordialium temperatarum a dragme and a halfe Saffron eight greines Myrrhe Diptamus Gentian Paradise wood yellow Saunders Basill séed red and white Behen Iacincts and Smaragdes of each halfe a scruple iuice of Limons thrée ounces Vineger one ounce Malmsey fiue ounces put them all together Item take the water of Buglosse of Scabious Violets and of Burrage of each sixs ounces Rosewater wherein Muske is dissolued eight ounces Specierum Cordialium one ounce and a halfe Camfere halfe a scruple white Corall foure scruples prepared Pearles a dragme and a halfe beaten Gold eight leaues Malmsey foure ounces Note that you must temper the water and the Malmsey together and when you haue taken twelue ounces of the same then must you take a dragme of this powder and mixe with it and vse it as is before rehearsed Another Take Sorrel water and Carduus Benedictus water foure ounces Vineger of Gilloflowers one ounce Species de gemmis frigidis a quarter of an ounce Saffron two greines Camfere fiue greines Malmsey halfe an ounce temper them all together When as these cordiall waters are laid on the heart then may you annoint the sicke bodies left breast pap with this salue following Take one ounce of the best Treacle iuice of Limons and of Vineger of each halfe an ounce Saffron and Camfere of each one scruple then mingle them together and spread it on a cloth or on a red crimson clout This following is stronger Take good Treacle two ounces Rubarbe and Carlina of each one drag and a halfe old oyle of Oliue twelue ounces forty or 45. Scorpions powne all that is to be powned and then let it séeth in water in a pot alone fiue or sixe houres long afterwards straine it through a cloth and first annoint the heart the pulses and the temples of the head Afterward he must be annointed vpon all outward signes or sores of the Plague and at the last round about the necke and this annointing must be done once euery sixe houres very warme the chamber must also be kept fumed and continually sprinkled We haue also made mention herebefore in the sixt part the second chapter and tenth § and shortly after in the Ague Hectica of many things wherwith sicke folkes are to be comforted and reuiued What is to be done after sweating §. 5. WHen as the patient hath sweat is wiped and laid in fresh bedding then do some counsell to giue him out of hand one dragme of fine Bolus to wit with Rose water if a great heate be adioined or with wine if without heate and that not at one time onely but euery day but it importeth very much whether you haue the right fine and orient Bolus or not for there are many kinds of earths vsed in stead of it Further let him take immediatly after his sweating to wit thrée mornings one after another of these sirupes following for the cooling of these hote agues to warme the same first in hot water and in case that he afterwards féele a sweating againe then let him forthwith continue in his sweate if he can abide it Take sirupes of Limons one ounce sirupe of Citrons halfe an ounce water of Carduus Benedictus of Sorrell and of Burrage of each one ounce mixe them all together for a potion And if so be that after the vse of these thrée potions the patient should be purged which in this ague is seldome néedfull then must it be done with this following Take of the common plague pils ten greins lesse than a dragme and ten greines of Agaricus Rubarbe one scruple then make hereof small pils and giue them all
wel afterwards cleaue them in the length and take out the hart then cut them in meane péeces séethe them and prepare them as you did Calmus and the greater Pimpernell rootes or you may leaue them long put only the pith of them out and sticke it about with Cinnamom and Cloues which giueth it a pleasantnesse These rootes be also very good for them that haue any disease in the Liuer they do take away all paine of the Milt the kidneys and backe they driue away the chollicke they mooue vrine and womens termes they be also good against all venime and against all pursiuenesse in the brest they frée one from the crampe and of the falling sicknesse they do warme the parts of generation and be especiall good for a cold stomacke Conserue of Marioram §. 22. OF this herbe are the leaues onely to be taken and powne them with Sugar like the Eyebright this Conserue is of a drie and of a warme nature it is especiall good for all moist and cold diseases of the braines of the head and of the stomacke it openeth all obstructions of the liuer and all inward part it doth strengthen the heart and it hath the same vertue with the conserue of Lauander and of Spikenard Conserue of Balme §. 23. A Conserue of this herbe is especiall good for all biting of Scorpions of Spiders and of Waspes and is also good for all biting of mad dogs the same being eaten or laid vpon it it moueth womens termes it asswageth all tooth ach and paine of the ioynts it fréeth one from the poyson of the Toadstooles it stayeth the scouring Dysenteria and taketh away all collickes it driueth away all pensiuenesse it strengtheneth a cold stomacke it warmeth the breast and giueth a light breath it cleanseth all vlcers and is good against all darke sight of the white flowers of this herbe is also a Conserue made like as of all other flowers which neuerthelesse is not much in vse How Nutmegs are to be confected §. 24. OF Nutmegs take the very best lay them to stéepe in sharpe ley which is made of woodashes and let them lye so long therein vntill they be thoroughly steeped yea mellow and soft afterwards powre away the ley and peele off the vppermost gray skinnes This being done powre fresh water oftentimes vpon it to the end that the sharpenesse of the ley may be drawne away againe then let them drie in the shadow in a Sieue prepare afterwards a sirupe of Sugar which is well decocted and so powre it luke warme vpon them and if it waxe waterish then séeth the same againe and that once euery thrée or foure daies vntill that the sirupe continue thicke These Nutmegges be of a drie and warme nature they strengthen the head the braines the hart and all vitall spirits they increase naturall heate and all naturall powers if so be that one take the same in the morning fasting and in the euening after meate They do consume all noysome and superfluous humors of the inward parts they do strengthen the stomack and make fresh bloud they yeeld a good and odoriferous breath they ease all swellings and hardnes of the spleene and they be especiall good against all cold diseases of the Liuer but they be not so good for the Lights they haue great power for to dry a moist head Now adaies be they brought out of Indy preserued gréene which be much better and forcible than they which be preserued in this countrey Conserues of Gilloflowers §. 25. DIuers kinds there be of these well knowne flowers the red well sauoring be the best to make a Conserue of cut the vndermost white from it and vse the leaues alone and the white are you to cast away the same is to be pouned with Sugar like to other Conserues This Conserue hath the same vertue that the conserue of Betony hath for they are also a kind of Betonie These Gilloflowers are especially commended against all venime this Conserue is also very good for the head and the braines drying and warming the same it allayeth also the shaking and shiuering of the quartaine Ague it is also somewhat bitter and is therefore good against all wormes taken fasting it is good against the paine of the téeth it withstandeth drunkennesse and breaketh the stone This may also be vsed as a preseruatiue in time of the plague How Walnuts are preserued §. 26. ABout Saint Iohns tide take gréene Walnuts and pricke them through with a bodkin and péele off the gréene bitter shales from them afterwards lay them 8. or ten dayes in fresh water or in running water which is more better and they need not so much time also for it When as now they be quite rid of their bitternes then let them séeth softly vntill they be somewhat mellow but not thorough soft and afterwards let them drie in a sieue and then sticke their holes with Cinnamom Cloues and Orange péeles also séeth the Sugar somwhat short as we haue taught in the preseruing of the Elecampane roots Some do pricke it without but they put Cloues Cinnamom Galingall Mace Cucubes and Cardamom in the sirupe each according to his good liking but if so be that you will preserue them with Hony then it is not néedful that one péele them These Nuts be commonly vsed at banquets notwithstanding that they be also good for Phisicke they that be preserued with spices do helpe digestion and do warme all inward parts they close vp the stomacke after meate and do stay the ascention of the vapors yet they are very seldome vsed in this Booke Here we will also admonish and teach how that one shall kéepe ripe Walnuts a long time fresh that the kernels may be péeled for this are you to take good new nuts bury them in sand and when you will vse them then wash away the sand Or take a new pot and strew therein a lay of dried Vineleaues and then a lay of Nuts and so foorth vntill the pot be full wherein they will last long and kéepe their tast Conserue of Buglosse §. 27. WE haue before admonished in the description of the Conserue of Burrage that both of these be of one nature and of one operation wherfore it is not néedfull to discourse thereof more at large How Apples are preserued §. 28. APples may be preserued as we haue written of Pears some do powre vpon them wine-lees and they wash them when they will vse them Apples do coole the hot stomack they do attenuate the tough slime and quench thirst Conserue of Pionie §. 29. TAke the leaues of Pionie flowers which do blow in May and powne them very small vnto a pound of Flowers take 2. pound and a half of Sugar set it the space of thrée moneths in the Sun stirring it about euery day This Conserue is very good against all fantasies against the hag or nightmare as some tearme it against the falling sicknesse and swimming of the head against the
foresaid diseases then the other it causeth the winds to auoid it expelleth all bad smels it maketh a good colour and it strengtheneth the naturall powers For the kitchin and for housekéeping may this ensuing be prepared pare as many Quinces as you please grate them euen to the coare and put all that is grated into a strong cloth afterwards wring the iuice well out and kéepe it in a pot This being done take other Quinces pare them and cut them in foure péeces put out the séede and seeth the same in water vntill it be almost as mellow as pap and all the water be consumed but put out the seedes cleane and put it in a pot apart and powre water vpon it then let it séeth well and straine it through a cloth Tye also a course cloth ouer an earthen pan and lay thereon a good deale of mellow Quinces and rub them through it so that the best may go thorough then take afterwards faire white Sugar and powre theron some of the decoction of Quinces let it seeth méetly hard then needeth not the conserue of Quinces to séeth so much then take of this decoction of Quinces one part and two parts of the other and let it séeth vntil it be halfe thicke enough afterwards put the Sugar vnto it then let it séeth thicke enough stirring it continually when as it beginneth to be cold then put into the boxes And if this Marmalade be not faire enough then take off the vppermost skin with a knife It is also to be noted that if it be not decocted drie enough then can it not last aboue a yeare Now for to make a cleare and perspicuous Marmalade Take faire great Quinces wash them very cleane grate them very small wring out as much iuice as you please take afterwardes other Quinces cut them in sixe péeces put them into a pot let them be vapoured with hote water like as we haue taught before vntill that they be thorough mellow then take half a pot full of the former iuice and powre it vpon the former stewed and cut péeces breake it well together and then put the rest of the iuice amongst it wring it thorough a thin cloth vntill it be cleare Of this iuice shall you not seeth more at once than for to fill a boxe therewith and put white Sugar vnto it beaten very small as much as you please If the iuice be troubled then let it passe once or twice thorough a cloth or so long vntill it be thorough cleare afterwards séeth it spéedily away ouer a slight fire when it is boyled enough then powre it into the boxe or wherein else you will which might be made wet before and when they haue stood one night then may they be taken out Note also here that you must not take too little of the pap of the vapoured Quinces for that the Marmalade should be very tough and if one let the same séeth long then would it be very browne If you will make course Marmalade then take the Quinces that remaine whereof the best is strained out and rubbe it thorough a hairen sieue and afterwards put moe vapoured Quinces vnto it and let it seeth away with Honie or Sugar This serueth to dresse withall or otherwise A Marmalade not sodden Take twentie or twentie fiue Quinces pare them and cut the halfe thereof in small péeces the rest grate small and presse the iuice well out powre that vnto the cut péeces and stew them vntill all be soft afterwards wring them thorough a cloth and stir as much powned Sugar amongst it as you please and then put them in a boxe and so let it drie vpon an ouen Item take ripe Quinces which be not stony pare them and take out rdund péeces so déepe till you come to the stones You are to grate these Quinces and to wring out the iuice to the end that you may haue a good deale of it then powre this iuice vpon the péeces that you cut out and then let it séeth vntill it be thorough mellow then put cleare decocted Sugar vnto it as much as you please and then drie them with a soft fire then put them in the boxes and let them drie well Another Take foure ounces of fresh Quince kernels let them stéepe a day and a night in Well water or in the iuice of Quinces in a warme place afterwards wring out the slime thorough a cleane cloth and then put thereto foure pound of the iuice of Quinces in a leaded pot and let it séethe all together by a soft fire yet it is to be strained then thorough a cloth againe and afterwards also take two poundes of Sugar and séethe it vntill it be thickt enough Yet another course Marmalade Take of the pith whence the best iuice is wroong out and put warme water vnto it and séeth it well then rub thereof thorough as much as you can and put cleare Hony vnto it as much as you please and then put some Pepper vnto it and séeth it very thicke If you will now know when these Marmalades be decocted enough then let some fall vpon a cold Iron and be cold if it be enough then will it easily part from the iron and remaineth not hanging on the fingers but it goeth cleane and drie off All these sorts of Marmalades or Conserues of Quinces are very good for the stomacke and helpe the digestiue power The same may moreouer be tempered in Malmsey in Claret wine and Hypocras and may also be vsed in stead of a sauce with meate It is also here to be noted that all Marmalades which are prepared with Wine spices and such like are good onely for old folkes and for cold women and for all them which be cold by nature Contrariwise they that be prepared with water and iuice of Quinces be méetely hot because the fruite is cold in the first and drie in the second degrée wherefore they be méete for all people which be hote by nature and for all them whose gall ouerfloweth much in the stomacke Snow-white Marmalade is also to be made in this manner Take pared Quinces cut them in foure or fiue péeces and cut them out within afterwards put hony vnto them and let them slew in a pot vntill that they be mellow then take them out and let them be cold and sticke them about with cut Cinnamom and Cloues put Hony vnto it againe and then set it so in a sellar that it may remaine moist and lay some heauie thing vpon it that they swim not Item take Quinces as many as you please prepare them as before powre wine vnto it but let them not be stewed too mellow especially if one will kéepe them a certaine time let them afterwards drie vpon a cloth if you will sticke them about as before that is wholly in your power if not bind in a cloth Cinnamom Cloues Mace and lay it in the decoction afterwards take one part of wine and two parts of Honie and
vsed in Summer This drinke following hath bene approued of many thousands Take in May the rootes of great Burs called Bardana sixteen ounces of the middle rind of the Ash trée two M. chop it smal together and distill it giue of this water to drinke thrée or foure ounces to wit when he is thought to be infected of the plague it is also wonderfull good against all biting of madde Dogges Another Take Rue Wormwood Roses and Iuniper berries of each a handfull twentie or twentie fiue kernels of Nuts stamp these all together to pap powre wine and vineger theron of each one pint and stop it right then let it séeth in Balneo foure and twenty howers this being done then straine it and of this giue euery morning fasting two spoonefuls to drinke Item take fifteene or sixtéene heads of Léekes peele off the vppermost shales and stampe them small and afterwards mixe thin white wine with them and vineger of Rue of each a good pint or a pint and a half and good Treacle one ounce and kéep it close stopt in a glasse And when you will vse it then giue therof a spoonfull or twaine to drinke in the morning betimes It driueth out sweate and expelleth venimous ayre This sirupe following is highly commended Take Citron péels rootes of Capers Verueine red Saunders and burnt Iuorie of each a quarter of an ounce Cloues Buglosse Balme Burrage Calmus of each halfe an ounce Sorrell Liuerwoort Mallowes of each thrée drag Cicory séeds Melon séeds seeds of Pompeons Gourds of Cucumbers and Violets of each 2. ounces Thymus Epithymus of Polypodie Mirobalani Chebuli and yellow Mirobalanes of each one ounce Agaricus and Rubarb of each halfe an ounce the iuice of Fumitorie of Wormwood of Danewéede and of broad Plantaine of ech sixe ounces the iuice of Quinces eighteen ounces Diagridium a quarter of an ounce white Sugar twenty foure ounces make hereof a sirupe and when it is almost sufficiently decocted then powre thereto foure ounces of the iuice of Quinces and then let it boile till his consistence This sirupe is maruellous good in the time of the plague for it drieth the body moderatly and cleanseth also the same of all superfluous humors it strengtheneth the heart the liuer and also the inward parts You may take of it one ounce and a halfe or two ounces euery wéeke with the water of Buglosse early in the morning and then to sléepe thereupon a while or at the least to lie still an howre after it Hitherto haue we described many medicines whereby the healthie in time of the plague may be preserued All these things must be vsed in good order like as these medicines following also to wit that you vse sometimes the one and somtimes the other and not alwaies one and the selfe same that nature not accustome her selfe to it and in the end do thinke the remedie to be rather a foode than a medicine so that it by that meanes cannot haue her operation The sixteenth Chapter VVhen any are infected with the Plague NOw this Chapter shall onely intreate of those that are alreadie infected with the Plague be it by what meanes soeuer they haue first gotten the same as with Agues swellings plague sore or such like Of the Ague in the Plague §. 1. THe Plague commonly commeth alwaies first with an Ague wherupon presently followeth the Tokens or Carbuncles Of the causes of these twaine hath bene spoken before whereby it hath also bene said that in the time of heate as in the Dog daies when the heate of man is drawne inward that the heart as then is inflamed through an vnnaturall manner of heate then also the outward ayre wherein we continually abide increaseth the heate and the heart is so set on fire that the heate spreadeth ouer the whole bodie and thereby quickly causeth a pestilent Ague especially if there be such humors in the bodie that are subiect to inflammation but if the bodie be not thereto inclined then can there be no cause how violent soeuer it be of such infection Of the signes whereby this sicknes is knowne §. 2. EVuen as all other sicknesses haue their certaine signes whereby they are knowne so is it with this venimous ague which manifesteth her selfe with seuen kinds of accidents whereof the first is an vnnaturall cold and shaking whereupon straight way followeth a great heate albeit the same oftentimes altereth so that sometime first the heate and afterwards the cold insueth Secondly let this happen howsoeuer it will there followeth alwaies after it a great and intollerable thirst Thirdly bitternesse and vnsauorines of the mouth Fourthly losse of appetite Fiftly heauines of all parts of the bodie with wearisomnes and sleepe Sixtly a binding of the bodie and the going to the stoole by constraint and with great stench the vrine also commeth with a great quantitie and stinketh much lastly bereauing of sléepe And albeit these foresaid signes manifest sufficiently the violence that nature suffereth it is to be wondred at neuerthelesse that at the first neither by the nature and qualitie of the ague nor by the pulse nor by the vrine this infection is to be discerned for it often hapneth that the vrine of all men so infected is very like the vrine of the sound and that the heate is also much slower and obscurer than that of any other agues and the pulse also quiet and scant to be felt Now when all these signes or any of them shall appeare or that there be a plague sore or other signes mo then all auncient and later Phisitions conclude with one consent that there is nothing more profitable and requisite than that the patient do sweate well and be delt withall as hereafter followeth By what meanes the patient is prouoked to sleepe §. 3. FIrst they ordaine these confections following whereof shall be taken the quantitie of an hasell nut Take one ounce of Treacle Pimpernell Gentian Bistorta Tormentill Sage Rue Wormwood Iuniper berries and Nut kernels of each one dragme stampe them all together and then with vineger make it into a confection Or vse this confection following called Bezoarctica one dragme warmed in Sorrell water or in water of Carduus Benedictus at what time soeuer you will and then couer him very well and let him sweate thrée or foure howers if he be able for the more he sweateth the better hope is there of his recouerie But if the patient be vnder the age of twelue yeares yet aboue fiue yeares then must you giue him halfe a dragm and further deale as is abouesaid It is also néedfull if the patient may abide it that he sweate morning and euening this confection is made as followeth Take of the best Treacle and Mithridate of each halfe an ounce Pimpernell and Angelica of each tenne greines Cardamome fiue greines Camfer thrée greines Cinnamom ten greines put them all together But if you haue none of this confection at hand then a dragme of Treacle or
Mithridate with any of the foresaid waters or take of the golden Egge which is described after two manner of waies as followeth Take a new laid Hen egge and make a little hole in the top that the white may issue out The golden Egge and the yolke tarrie within then fill it vp with good powdred Saffron and shut too the hole on the top againe with the white of the egge and egshell then rost it by a mild fire so long as the shell will hold and that it be all cleane browne This being done take off the shell and powne the inner part very small then mingle it with white Mustard séedes Diptamus and Tormentill of each a quarter of an ounce Nux vomica a dragme lastly adde good Treacle to it in waight as heauie as all the rest then temper it all together two or thrée howers together and make hereof a hard confection which men call the golden Egge and will remaine good twenty or thirtie yeares The second Take all that is before rehearsed except the quantitie of the Treacle and put thereto Angelica Pimpernell Zeduarie Camfer and good Treacle of each as much as of the other and that in waight but I thinke that there is too much Camfer and too little Treacle Whereas it is not a little auailable to know how this confection is to be vsed therefore you shall vnderstand that whensoeuer this sicknesse first beginneth with cold then must you if it be a man before that twelue howers be past giue to him the waight of a duckat to a woman as much as a Rhenish gildern wayeth and a child or boy half as much with a smal wine But if this sicknes taketh one with heate then take in the place of wine water of Cicorie or if you cannot get it then take halfe wine halfe vineger and sweate vpon it This confection may be vsed at all times against all bad humors and venime yet then must the Nux vomica be left out In the fift part the twelfth Chapter 1. § is likewise shewed how to prouoke sweate The auncient Phisitions accustomed to vse this powder following for to cause sweate take Valerian rootes thrée quarters of an ounce Gentian white Diptamus and drie Rue of each one ounce good Saffron one dragm red Corall and Mace of each a dragme and a halfe temper it and powne it all together and giue one dragme thereof with a draught of wine A maruellous oyle for to procure sweate Take a glasse bottell as bigge as you will fill the same halfe full of Elder flowers put thereon the third part of Hollihock flowers or flowers of Ebulus againe therupon a third part of the flowers of S. Iohns woort so that with these thrée things the glasse be full this being done powre thereo◠old Sallad oyle the older the better and at last stop it very close so let it stand all the Somer a sunning with this oyle must you rub the bodie very warme thrée or foure times a day It hath bene approued that this oile through the abundant sweate that it prouoketh expelleth all contagion of the Plague Here follow now Diaphoreticall potions Take Rue Wormwood and the vppermost tops of the Blacke berries of each a handfull Celandine a handfull and a halfe powre thereon a pint of Vineger afterwards stop the pot very close that there come out no vapor and then let the third part seeth away then straine it out and kéepe it close stopt and when any are infected with the Plague or in any wise poysoned then giue him of this drinke to wit two or thrée ounces and let him sweate after it and not sléepe at all The water of Geranium is also very good against all venime and therfore good to be vsed in time of the Plague whether there appeare any swelling or any other accidents or not Some also commend this composition following to be an especiall remedie and it is indéed not to be disdained Take a great Onion cut off the top and make a hole therein and then fill him with Treacle and the iuice of Rue and Vineger of each one dragme then close the toppe too againe with the péece which you clipt and cut off and fasten it with two sticks wind it in wel towe this being done rost it in the hote ashes till it be very mellow afterwards stamp it to pap and then straine it through a cloth and it will be a broth then preserue this broth till time of neede If one then be found that he be poysoned then giue him a dragm therof and hold tosted bread sprinkled with vineger before his nose that he cast it not vp againe and let him lye downe on the bed that he may sweate But it is to be noted that sléepe in sweating is forbidden and hurtfull wherfore the patient shall not sléepe till the sweate be gone that the venim hasten not towards the vitall parts afterwards he may sléepe that he waxe not impotent and weake yet he is otherwhiles to be awaked And if the age or might of the patient will permit it then ought he to be let bloud that the contagious matter which corrupteth the bloud and hurteth the principall parts might be let out and the inflammation lessened Herein do many Phisitions and Barbers dote and erre very absurdly which straight way as soone as they suppose it to be the Plague not perceiuing any signe thereof begin their cure with letting of bloud For albeit that it may not be delayed too long yet ought it not rashly to be done by reason of the former causes When the patient thus sweateth then must the same be wiped from his face with a cloth and hold before his nose rose Vineger Rose water and such like also let the ayre of the chamber be cleansed and perfumed with fire or sprinkled with Vineger but especiall héede must be taken that the sweate strike not againe into the bodie As he hath now sweat wel and is wiped cleane then must he be laid in another bed for the exchange of beds is very good for thereby they are the lesse infectious which otherwise increaseth stil more and more and is more hurtful for the diseased person Some are of opinion that the patient should not take any thing within an hower after his sweate that nature first might be able to indure and beare it the better Besides the ayring and sprinkling of the chamber it is good counsell for the rich that there be a cloth wetted in Rosewater and hanged in the night before the bed of the patient and when it is drie that it be moistened againe How to comfort those that are infected with the Plague §. 4. FOr asmuch as there are many causes in this sicknesse wherby the patient may be weakened which the disease of it selfe bringeth with it as great heate much watching thirst paine sweate such like things mo wherfore good regard must be had how the heart might be comforted