found some ground Ivie whereof I gathered some which I stamped and strayned and putting a little fine powdred Sugar to the Iuice I dropped some of it into her eye upon which she received suddain ease and had it not applyed aboue twice more before she was perfectly well But in the meane time her eye was muffled up from the outward ayre Here obserue that the eye must never be dressed with any Oyle or Oyntment because oyly and greasie things diminish the sight But for all the parts of the Head and body beside make use of these two Oyntments following which are approoved excellent for All kindes of Scaldings and Burnings whatsoever The first is my Grand-fathers Master Iohn Banisters TAke of sweet Butter newly charned and never salted what quantitie you will boyle in it a fit quantitie of Goose-dung strayne it into cleare and sweet spring-Spring-water Doe this seaven times and the eight time strayn it into rose-Rose-water where let it remaine for the space of twelue houres Ever now and then crushing it and working it together with very cleane hands After that take it out and put it up in a Gally pot keeping it as a precious oyntment for that use It taketh away the paine presently and healeth with as little blemish as may be The second hath beene often prooved by the Right Honourable the Lady Hastings late deceased TAke the leaues of the Thorny-Apple of Peru English Tobacco and Ground Ivie of each a like quantitie Chop them small and rub them in a stone-morter as you doe Green-sauce Then in a fit quantitie of Hogs-grease boyle them very leasurely on a gentle fire till it begin to looke green Then strayn it coole it and reserue it When it is cold while it standeth to settle you shall see a thin part aboue seperate it selfe from the thicker part underneath every day therefore as it setleth poure gently of that thin part as of no use and keepe onely that which is thicke This healeth grievous Burnings and Scaldings without scarre But the part when it is dressed must be left bare that no linnen or woolen touch it Thus haue I endevoured a common good And I beseech our Lord Iesus Christ so to blesse all his servants that either by his Providence they fall not into any of these Accidents or els by his blessing upō these or the like meanes they may safely escape them An Advertisement to the Reader IN this whole Treatise the Quantities of the Inward Medicines must be balanced with the Age and Strength of the Patient For the Doses that I haue set down are intended for those that are in full ripenesse of years in the vigorous strēgth of their age Those that are by age or nature more tender or feeble must take lesse quantities at a time according to the differēce of their Age and Strength FINIS Common Antidotes Mithridates Antidote Another way The Authors Antidote How to know if one be poysoned or no. Vomits A Glyster These Purging Medicins may be had at the Apothecaries A Purging Potion Pills A Gentle Potion for weak ones A milde Glyster Note A Suppositorie VVhat is to be done after Purging A Plaster A Fomentation Antidotes against any kinde of Poyson A way of Sweating described by Mathiolus A Night-cap to preserue the Braine What Diet he is to use His meate Ayre Sleepe Drinke Distinction of Poysons In Hot Poysons A Gentle Glyster Diet. Sleepe Antidotes Cold Poysons Waking Neezing Frication Stirring Sweate Antidotes Meate and Thirst Mushroms A Storie teaching the Cure Muskles Perewinckles A Snake Est or Siowworm crept into the stomacke A Viper A Horse-leech Earewigs Blistering of Gnats Ants and Nettles What Beasts are most venomous The Snake doth no harme Living are more venomous than dead Beasts More or lesse venomous by Sex Age Place of living Feeding Ingendring Time of the Yeare Aptnesse of the Body offended Fasting make these Accidents the more dangerous Prevention The first poynt of Cure Actuall Cautery Sucking of the wound 1. Caution 2 3 4 Application of Pullets How to heale the wound Stinging of Hornets Of Bees Wasps Stinging in the Eye-ball Bitings of Spiders Bitings of Adders Slow-worms or Efts. Bitings of the Shrew-Mouse The cause of a Dogs Madnesse The Signes that a Dog is madde The Symptoms or Accidents that follow such Bitings Incurable Curable Reade the 7. Chap. An excellent Causticke One way of Cure Galens way A Famous Medicine Stockers way of Cure The cure of Hydrophobia The reason of Hydrophobia The mayne Remedie The Authors Invention Evacuations Diet for those that are bitten with a mad Dogge The reason why some mens flesh is easily and some mens hardly cured Nepenthes Bradwelli For Swoūdings acōmon Accident Inward Bruise Too much bleeding from within Bloud congealed within Outward meanes Outward Bruise Simple With a wound Bradwells Balsam for Greene Wounds and Bruises Paine in the Head Dr. Guyn A good way of help but hard to performe A more easie way Question about Foaming at the mouth A Caveat The way of Recovery The Cure after Recovery For Water gotten into the Eares A Modern Story of an old Gentlewoman The Cure An Infant drowned in Soap-suds Observ li. 2. Observ 18. The Cure Note A Story out of Vega The Cure Another Story out of Ambrose Parey Amoderne Story A Story out of Vega The Cure Sharpe Things Blunt Things Toremoue things in the meat-pipe To remoue Things in the winde-pipe For Scaldings For Burnings For Burning Lime c. in the Eye A True Story Note Two Excellent oyntments for all Scaldings and Burings Banisters The Lady Hastings oyntment
loafe newly drawne out of the Oven make it hollow in the middle of the crummy side and fill it with Treacle and Vineger while it is hot apply and tie it to the Navill It both preserveth the body and draweth out the venom if any be within be it of what kinde soever I haue an excellent Antidote of mine owne if any will be pleased to come to mee for it CHAPTER II. A generall way of Curing such as are hurt by inward Poysons IF any be Poysoned Aëtius Tetrab 4. Serm. 1. cap. 47. saith it wil appeare by these signes Not long after the taking of it there will come either a suddain coughing or vomiting of bloudy and stinking stuffe or trouble in making water or some paine within the body or vehement heat or gnawings within the stomacke or guts or els some suddain numbnesse also prickings in the flesh trembling of the limbs Hicket or Yex Convulsions or Cramps breakings out of the skin into blisters biles or scabs filthy spots or foule and unnatural colour of the skin swelling either all over or els of some part of the body streitnesse of breath much filthy vomiting and in those vomits somtimes the very plain appearance of some part of the Poyson If any of these saith he happen to a healthy man suddainly upon his meate this man is to be judged infected with Poyson And then must this course following be observed First you must endevour to fetch the Poyson out by the same way it was taken in As if it were eaten or drunke by vomit If in a Glyster or Suppositorie by a Glyster againe it must be purged out If by a Fume by a cordiall Perfume it must be encountered and conquered If by the mouth it were received whatsoever kind of Poyson it be before it be digested further than the stomacke if it may be time enough found giue the partie a great draught of some fat broth or Oyle and childs urine or els Sweet Butter and Water with two or three spoonfulls of the juice of Radish roots in it Giue one of these bloud-warme to make him vomit If the first vomit fayle giue the second and so the third if the second fayle And if they worke not of themselues quickly provoke them further by putting the finger into his throat or a feather dipped in ranke Oyle or in Oyle of Linseed But if it haue gottē into the guts which will appeare by the gnawings and gripings giue him a sharpe Glyster As Take Mallows Violet leaues Mercurie Beets of each a handfull Aniseeds Fenell-seeds Caraway-seeds of each a spoonfull bruised the flowers of Violets Bugloss Borrage Damask Roses and Camomill of each halfe a handfull Boyle all well in a sufficient quantitie of fayre Water Then strayn it and to three quarters of a pint of the liquor put an ounce of Diacatholicon and three drams of Diacolocynthis Three ounces of Honey and a knifes poynt-full of Salt Mix all together and giue it Lukewarme And if while it is yet in the stomacke a vomit or two or at the most three bring not away the Poyson which will appeare by the ease the partie receiveth then giue him a strong Purgation such as this Take of Mallowes Violet leaues of each one handfull The flowers of Violets Borrage Bugloss Damask Roses of each halfe a handfull Aniseeds and fenell seeds bruised of each halfe a spoonfull Liquorice scraped and sliced a quarter of an ounce Boyle all together in a sufficient quantitie of halfe Water halfe white wine Then having strayned it Take a quarter of a pint of the liquor to which put Hiera of Coloquintida and Diacatholico of each three drams Syrup of Roses solutiue and Syrup of Wormwood of each halfe an ounce or a little spoonfull Mixe all well together and giue it as a Purgation Those that are of good abilitie may haue this Masse of Pils made by some skilfull Apothecary for them to keepe by them against a time of need Rs. Alos rosatae vnc ij Myrrhae extractae cum aq vitae drach vj. extracti croci drach iij. rhabarbari electi drach ij agarici trochiscati drach j. ss turbith albi gummosi drach j. scammonij rosati sorup ij ss Ambrae griseae scrup ij moschi grana x. Cum syr ros soluti q. s fiat Massa Take at once the weight of six pence or nine pence as need requireth being formed and rowled into Pills of a fit bignesse for the Patient to swallow If it be a Childe or a weake body make a quarter of a pint of plaine Posset-ale wherein is boyled a few sweet Fenell seeds bruised adding to it an ounce of the blacke pulp of Cassia fistula Mixe all well together and let the partie drinke it off If there be torments in the guts this may be given in way of a Glister also adding onely some course Sugar In this case likewise when the venom appeareth much and violent you must giue a Glyster besides the Purgation yea Glyster upon Glyster as soone as one ceaseth to worke giving another though they be twēty in a day till all complaints cease That is till neither evill taste smell vomitings or gripings within the body remaine to shew that any reliques of the venom are yet left If the stomacke and guts complaine of a burning heat to qualifie the stomacke drinke Posset-Ale boyled with sweet Fenell-seeds and mixed with Cassia as before-said and for the guts this Suppositorie following Take of Hiera of Coloquintida ij drams a little Salt and a sufficient quantitie of Honey He ate them together softly on the fire till the lump come to a sufficient hardnesse then rowle it up in forme of a Suppositorie and annoynting it with Sallet-oyle or sweet-Butter administer it Now when by Vomits Glysters Suppositories and other Purging Medicines before described the venemous matter appeareth drawn away in that the body feeleth no more of those torments and troubles it was before afflicted with then let the partie drinke a draught of warme milke mixed with Honey And if sharp Glysters haue been often used before let him take also one Glyster of milke and Honey or of some fat broth to wash away the reliques of the sharpnesse and biting qualitie left in the guts and stomacke In the meane time to defend the braine heart and liver from infection of the venemous vapours that will hasten to those noble parts Take Conserue of Barrage-flowers Mithridate and London-Treacle of each a like quantitie Mixe them well together and spread all thicke upon a peice of Leather of a hand-breadth every way and lay it well warmed betwixt the Paps Take also of Red Roses three handfulls Sage Betony Rosemarie-tops Rue Wormwood of each a handfull Tormentill-roots and Gentian-rootes of each clensed and sliced thin halfe a handfull Boyle all these in a sufficient quantitie of white wine halfe water till a third part be boyled away In this liquor
dip woollenclouts then wring out the liquor from them and apply one cloth reasonable hot to the mould of the head and another all over the stomach And when these clouts wax dry dip them againe in the same liquor well warmed wring them and apply them as before Thus having rid the body of all evill Accidents you must roote out all the reliques of poyson yet left behinde lest they remaining still beget as dangerous though not so suddain or violent an issue Therefore then betake your selfe to Antidotes Such as are named in the first Chapter for Praevention but their Dose must be doubled In way of Cure these also that follow are especially commended against all kindes of Poysons whatsoever Viz. The Hoofe of an Oxe cut into parings and boyled with bruised Mustard-seed in white Wine and faire Water The Bloud of a Malard drunke fresh and warme or els dryed to powder and so drunke in a draught of white Wine The Bloud of a Stagge also in the same manner The Seeds of Rue and the leaues of Betony boyled together in white Wine Or Take ij Scruples that is fortie graines of Mithridate of prepared Chrystall one dram that is three-score graines fresh Butter one ounce Mixe all well together Swallow it down by such quantities as you can swallow at once and drinke presently upon it a quarter of a pint of the decoction of French Barley or so much six shillings Beere Of this I haue had happy proofe There is also another excellent course to be taken besides all these by those of abilitie and that is Take a sound horse open his belly aliue take our all his entrayles quickly and put the poysoned partie naked into it all saue his head while the body of the horse retaines his naturall heate and there let him sweat well This may be held a strange course but the same reason that teacheth to divide liue Pullets and Pigeons for Plague-sores approveth this way of Sweating as most apt to draw to it selfe all poysons from the heart principall parts of the Patients body But during this time of Sweating he must defend his braine by wearing on his head a Quilt thus made Take Cynnamom Nutmegs Cloues all the Saunders of each halfe an ounce Roots of Angelica Tormentill white Dittany and Valerian of each one ounce Dryed Sage Rosemarie Balme of each halfe a handfull and of Red-Rose leaues dryed two handfulls Make all these into a grosse Powder and Quilt them up in Sarsnet or Calico and let it be so big as to cover all the head like a Cap Then binde it on fast with a kerchief In all this time the Patients dyet is not the lest to be thought upon which must be new Milke from the Cow fresh Butter Sallet Oyle fat Broths of Mutton or Veale or of fresh Beefe For fat things stop the vessels hinder the course of the Poyson to the principall parts In his broths also boyle these hearbs Burnet Buglosse Borrage and wilde Tyme He must reside in a cleare ayre or els haue the Ayre rectified with perfumes and those must be temperate and milde not too full of fume lest they suffocate his Spirits I need not set downe any every one knoweth the use of Rose-water Iuniper Rosemary Bayes and Frankincense Let him be ever smelling to Rosemary rubbed in ones hand to Iuniper berries a little bruised Lemons stuck with Cloues Myrrh Storax or Lignum Aloës He must sleepe little for sleepe draws the venom to the center of the body but watching driues it to the outward parts As for Thirst let him beare it as much as he can But if it afflict past sufferance let him drinke now and then new milke turned with Vinegar into Posset-drinke CHAPTER III. A more Particular way of Cure wherein is touched the eating of Mushroms Muskles and Perewinckles THough I intend not to discover the particular nature of every Poyson which might be a way to instruct evill minds in evill purposes yet without some distinction I shall take much pains to little purpose Therefore this generall difference must be made knowne namely that there are Poysons both Hot and Cold and their Cures are as different as their Complexions Therefore if the Poyson taken be hot as will appeare by the Accidents that will follow viz. Bitings Prickings and Gnawings within extreame Heats Burnings inflamations and Hot Swellings Inward or Outward Then the Glysters must be gentle As thus Take Mallows and Violet leaues of each two handfulls French Barley one handfull Camomill-flowers halfe a handfull Boyle them in a sufficient quantitie of faire water till the third part of the water be boyled away Then srayne it to three quarters of a pint of the strayned liquor put an ounce of Diacatholicon or for the richer sort an ounce of Cassia Fistula newly drawne and three ounces of Course Sugar or else Honey of Roses two ounces and a little Salt Eate fat Broths with coolehearbs boyled in them as Borrage Bugloss Violet leaues likewise French Barley with juyce of Lemons the tartnesse being taken off with Sugar or Honey as also Sorrell so corrected Giue the Patient leaue to sleep if he can but enforce it not And for his Antidotes use Mithridate mixed with Conserue of Roses Or els Take of Diamargariton frigidum one dran of oxymel fimplex one ounce and Carduus water three ounces Mix them together and let him drinke it In all other poynts keepe him as is taught before But if the Poyson be of a Cold nature which will appeare by coldnesse within or without or both numbnesse fullnesse dulnesse and drouzinesse Then use Vomits shape Glysters and the like as are appointed in the precedent Chapter Keepe him from Sleeping Make him neeze often with powder of strong Tobacco blowne up into his nose with a quill or if the Tobacco alone will not doe it mix a little powder of Euphorbium with it Rub his Brest Sides Backe and Limbs with warme woollen Cloaths Speake much to him and enforce him to stirre his body as much as may be Endevour also to make him Sweat to which purpose you may use this Medicine following Take one dram of Gentianroote in fine Powder with two or three graynes of Bezoar-stone Giue it in a little draught of Carduus Posset-drinke made with white wine and a little Vineger Giue it hot and cover him well with cloths ordering him so before in and after sweating that he take no cold neither eate nor drinke in fiue or six houres after Let his Antidotes be Andromachus or London-Treacle With his meate boyle Garlicke Onions Balm and Sweet Fenel-seeds And let him endure Thirst as long as he possibly can In all otherthings order him as occasion shall serue or require according to the prescriptions in the Chapter before Some out of wantonnesse and apish imitation of Strangers haue learn'd
If the wound be big it must be healed up with some good Balsam as a greene wound But if it be but a pricke it will soone heale it selfe so it be but kept from the ayre But besides these outward Helpes the Patient must taken inward Antidotes also And of such I haue spoken in the first Chapter This is sufficient for the generall course Now wee must come to a more particular way of Cure CHAP. VIII Stingings of Hornets Bees and Wasps SOmetimes these creatures leaue not their sting in the place but when they doe the first course is to picke it out And then if it be a Hornet as it is the more dangerous so there must be the more care had of it If the Sting will not easily be gotten out lay to it a poultis made of leaven wood-ashes and sallet Oyle mixed together Or bath it with Childes urine good and hot And when it is out wash the wound with a little water salt mixed with the juice of Rue Then burne it or els sucke it as was sayd before and after that apply to it a little lint dipped in old Andromachus Treacle mixed with Honey and over it as also over all the swelling lay a poultis made of fresh Cow-dung mixed with Barrowes grease or sallet Oyle Bees and Wasps though they seldome endanger life yet they swell and enflame the part stung by them and cause a great deale of paine which somtimes is followed by a Feavor therefore it is necessary to find a Cure for it And some constitutions receiue also deadly mischiefe by such stinging As some thirtie yeares agoe appeared by the Lady Walsingham wife to Sir Francis Walsingham Secretarie to Queene Elizabeth who as I haue often heard it related by my Father who was her Physition being stung in the hand by a Wasp at dinner time the venom presently swelled up all her arme to her shoulder and thence to her throat that had not speedie meanes beene used and as God would her Physition bin there present it was thought snee would haue dyed within lesse than an houre First therefore the Sting is to be taken out as is said and presently the place to be annoynted with Honey and covered from the ayre If this prevaile not as with the most it doth burne it or sucke it and applie Treacle of Andromachus or Mithridate mixed with Honey Or for the poorer sort fresh Cow-dung or dogs dung mixed with sallet Oyle And if need be giue the partie some inward Antidore such as haue beene before commended Or els for present speed Take Garlicke boyled in white wine or strong ale Or els the seeds and roots of Lillies boyled in Beere Or the seeds of Mallowes boyled in water and white wine with a little Vineger Not long agoe I saw a young man stung in the eye-ball with a Bee while he was too closely looking into the doore of the hiue But the Bee left not her sting there Vpon the place I applyed this Playster I tooke a handfull of Carduus benedictus newly gathered pounded it in a morter very fine and mixed it with the white of an egge so spreading it upon a pledget of flaxe I laid it to the eye and as it waxed dry renued it twice This Playster of Carduus is excellent to recover the eye if any venomous juice be spurted into it or if the eye be hurt by a corrupt ayre which the common people call blasting It easeth paines taketh away bloudy spots in the eyes and is good for all burnings in or about the eyes To this let me adde the bitings of Spiders the garden ones are the worst for they are of the kinde of Phalangiae The Inward Antidote for them is a draught of New milke wherein the inner meate of River Crabs is boyled Or a spoonfull of the braines of a sheepe boyled in water and Vineger Outwardly apply the Cobweb of the same Spider binding it on with a fine linnen rag CHAP. IX Bitings of Adders Slow-wormes Efts the Shrew-Mouse and other such venomous Beasts REmembring what I sayd before in the sixt Chapter to begin the Cure The flesh of the same beast that biteth boyled or rosted as they dresse Eeles and inwardly taken helpeth much Or a dram of Gentian root powdered drunke in a little draught of white wine Or halfe a dram of Terta Sigillata in the same kinde of wine Or els the same wine with Opoponax and Aristolochia rotunds Outwardly the best thing to be applied is the flesh of the same beast that did the hurt pounded in a morter and applied in manner of a Poultis Or a Poultis made of Cocks-dung and Vineger Or an old Walnut beaten with Salt an Onion and a little Honey and applied Or take Peny-royall and Fenell of each a like quantitie boyle them in water and white wine bathe the place with the liquor Or els drop into the wound the liquor that sweateth out of the greene ashen wood while it burneth on the fire Or Oyle of Bay and oyle of St. Iohns Wort of each a like quantitie Or els a little Tarre mixed with a little salt spread on a peice of Leather and applyed playster-wise This is for the Adder Slow-worme or Eft. Now the Shrew-mouse is a little kinde of mouse with a long sharpe snout and a short tayle It liveth commonly in old ruinous walls It biteth also very venomously and leaveth foure small perforations made by her foure foreteeth To cure her biting her flesh roasted and eaten is the best inward Antidote if it may be had Otherwise a dram of the seeds of Agnus Castus beaten and steeped in white Wine Or els some of the other Antidotes described at the beginning of this Booke And outwardly apply her warme liver and skin if it may be had Otherwise Rocket-seeds beaten into powder and mixed with the bloud of a Dog Or els the teeth of a dead man made into fine powder CHAP. X. The Biting of a Madde Dogge ALthough in this our countrey of England I haue neither seene nor heard of any such terrible dangers happening to people by a mad-dogs biting as in other Regions yet I haue seene Dogs mad But the care that hath been used for prevention hath perhaps hindred the sight of those Accidents which old Authors haue so laboriously Commented upon And besides that the temperature of our Climate keepeth the Dogges of our Countrey from prooving altogether so pernicious as in Graecia and Arabia For Aëtius saith that the mad Dogs are worst in intemperate Climates where the Winters cold Summers heate are extreame Tetr 2. Serm. 2. cap. 24. Howsoever I will set downe a briefe course of helpe to prevent the incurablenesse of the mischiefe as I haue it from the best Authors This kinde of madnesse proceedeth from blacke Cholerick juices wherewith a dogge more than other Beasts aboundeth For he is of temperament hot and drie as appeareth by many proofes As
this time be brought to him CHAP. XIIII For such as are almost Drowned and stifled in VVater MAny take great delight in swimming and bating themselues in Ponds and Rivers in the Summer time some to clense and coole their bodies some for pleasure of their skill in swimming others either for company or meere wantonnesse And many of these adventure into places past their depth where I haue knowne some taken with the Cramp on the suddaine that if there had not beene many helpers at hand they had speedily perished Some happen into whirlepools wherein they haue been violently drawne and immediatly drowned while their companions might looke on with sorrow but could lend no helpe to saue them Others in a great River haue beene carried away by the strength of the streame in spite of their skill in swimming whereupon before they had so much presumed Others floating among slags and weeds haue had their feete so entangled by them that neither the strength of nature nor the sleights of Art could keepe them from being cast away And here by the way let me insert a counsell to such as are Fathers and Mothers or Masters and Tutors to yong Boyes Some use to keep their children in so strictly that the unfortunate poore fooles longing after such forbidden pleasure and fearing to make others privie to their purpose steale out by thēselues and run into some river or pond without discretion or election where having neither guide nor helper but such as themselues some of them somtimes proue by the losse of their liues that while they beguiled their governours too much they deceived themselues most of all To prevent this therefore it were good in my judgement to giue way to these desires of children at fit times of the yeare and in waters whose bottoms are even and sandy with cleare gentle streames fit for their strength and stature and free from flags weeds holes and whirlepooles having also with them some discreet man skilfull in swimming that if any danger should happe may speedily succour them And the times of the yeare fit for such bathes I hold to be in the beginning of Iuly and in the end of August That is before and in the end of the dog dayes The best time of the day likewise is an houre before Sunne-set And now to return to the point although by the accidents aforesaid as also by violent stormes the darknesse of night too too many following their affayres haue beene woefully wasted to the shore of suddain death yet some haue bin taken up for dead that with carefull and skilfull usage haue recovered both Life the true loue of nature Health the happinesse of Life Therefore when any one is so found the first thing to be done is to turne his feete upward his head and mouth downward so to hold or hang him up by the heels that the water may come out of him againe If this alone cause him not to cast out the water and the partie be without sense or motion then also let some one of the standers by that is of good discretion put his finger into the parties throat or take a feather dipped in Linseed oyle thrust it into his throat turning it round therein to make him vomit And in the meane time let others help forth the water by stroaking crushing and driving his belly and stomacke reasonable hard from the bottom of his belly toward his throat If it be cold weather let all this be done in a warme roome before a good fire After the water is come away it is good to hold strong sweet smelling things to his nose as Muske Lignum Aloës or such like to warme the Braine and comfort the Spirits Also if he remaine senselesse or faynting his Spirits are to be recalled and awaked with Ros solis Aqua Caelestis or some such comfortable water and he is to be handled in all poynts as those use to be that fall in a Swound If by these meanes he recover life sense and speech let him some two houres after eat some meat of a hen or chick if he be able or els suck the juice of them and let them be roasted or broyled rather than any other way dressed for so doth Alexander Benedictus counsell li. 7. cap. 3. De Curandis morbis And with his meat let him eate Pepper and Sùgar or Pepper and Honey as he liketh best He may also eate a roasted egge with pepper in it But let him not drink at all in 24. houres at the least then let it be middle-Beere and white wine mixed together of which let him drinke but 2. small draughts at a meale and betwixt meales not at all This Diet let him obserue for a weeke together keeping himselfe warme and moderately stirring his body immediately before an houre after his meate Also if the Physition see it requisite other meanes may be used to prevent the comming of a Feavor or to mitigate and take it away if it be already come as also to prevent a Dropsie which is a likely effect of such a watery cause The refore by good advise Bloud-letting in the Liver-veyn Glysters and other Medicines may be administred Lastly if any water be gotten into his Eares Take Goose grease and the juice of an Onion mixe them well together and drop a little of it bloud-warme into his Eares Sometime such a sorrowfuli mis-fortune may befall a man in the Winter time or it may happen to an old body as once it did in the North part of the Devonshire to a worthy old Gentlewoman who stepping on a bridge over a gutter her feet slipping shee fell in and through her great weaknesse being aboue fourescore yeares of age because shee was not able to helpe up her selfe again she lay so long till with crying she had no voyce left It pleased God that the water was not so high as to drowne her but the coldnesse of it had like to haue killed her before helpe came for she was not heard into the house though shee strayned her voyce exceedingly and though the house was hard by Onely her sonne comming forth that way by meere chance found and saved her In this case let some cordiall water as my Nepenthes Aqua Caelestis or the like be given first inwardly to helpe naturall heate forth into the outward parts againe Then lay the patient in his naked bed well warmed And if it be a man let a young man in whom naturall heat hath his full force strip himselfe naked and presently goe to bed to him and there embrace him closely keeping in the clothes about him on all sides til he haue brought heat into him againe If it be a woman let some young mayden of a sanguin complexion do the like The patients diet must be of good nourishing and warming things using some cordiall medicine morning and night first and last for ten dayes together Once I knew an