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
is the sap of the trée from which the gum Arabeck is taken Notwithstanding if any man would make a mixture that might haue the same vertues with Acatia Valerius Cordus doth teach it him thus Take the kernels of sower Dates séede of Sumach of each one pound bruise them and put vpon them three or fower pints of raine water let them stéepe togither fower and twentie howers then straine them thorow a cloth boyle that is strained till one third remaine clarifie it with the white of egs set it on the coales againe and let it boyle softly till it be as thicke as the iuice of Sloes which then may boldly be vsed 〈◊〉 Brimstone is thus prepared Melt thy Sulphur or Brimstone at the fire then powre it into the water of Lettice this reiterate eight or nine times when it is dry beate it to powder This is commonly vsed to stop the bloud as hereafter shall be shewed Sene leaues Sene leaues with the huskes and their séede is a common purgation for euerie man for that it purgeth all bad humours and especially choler and flegme Great store of it is brought from Florence It is also set in our gardens but the verie best is brought from Alexandria The huskes of them are of more force and vertue than the leaues Two dragms of them in powder is a sufficient dose at once but either stéeped or sod an ounce is little inough as in this booke shall appeare They are corrected with Ginger or salt Gem and may be giuen in the decoction of Borage Buglosse Violets Mastix Cloues and Cardimonie or else being powdered may any of these be admixed with them and so exhibited White Mustard seede White Mustard séede may in no wise be inwardly vsed except it be first corrected as followeth Stéepe it one day and a night in good Aqua vitae and then euaporate or drie it away from it then powre vpon it fresh Aqua vitae that hath bene made of the best Malmesey or of some other strong wine with Lauander flowers in it then let it stand and soke as before and afterwards also euaporate then is thy séede prepared This seede may be made vp in Sugar or confected and so vsed or by it selfe but very little of it at once It is verie good to be mingled with any stomachical powder it drieth vp all moistures of the braine it helpeth the swimming in the head falling euill and the dead palsie but vnprepared may it in no way be vsed 〈◊〉 Mezercon of some Spurge or Chamelaea of the Apothecaries Coccognidion The auncient Phisitions were wont to giue seuen or eight of the séedes of it wrapped vp in a greene fig or date but experience doth teach vs that thrée of the séedes are sufficient inough to purge the bodie Sops of bread may be vsed in stead of the figs or daies for it is onely done to the intent that they by reason of their extreme heat should not harme the throte They also commanded a good draught of water to be presently drunke after them But flie the vse of such medicines which are described for none other cause than that we might know shun them let Empericks and the outcasts of phisicke vse them Take the filings of Stéele cast them into faire water Steele rub them well betwéene thy hands in the water powre away the vncleane water from thy Stéele remaining on the bottome this washing reiterate so often that the water come cleare from it Then put the Stéele into a well glassed earthen pot powre strong wine vineger vpon it as much as will onely moisten it and not couer it let them so stand together thirtie dayes but in the mean while oftentimes stirring it afterward beate it to powder and mole it on a marble as is before said of the pearles Turbith is the barke of a roote and at the Apothecaries well knowne and very common Turbith for that it is added vnto many purging confections It is thought to be a kind of Wolfes-bane It is giuen in powder from one dragme vnto two at once but being decocted halfe an ounce euerie time It purgeth flegme mightily All his maliciousnesse is corrected by the addition of one third part of Ginger and so either with honie of Roses or the water of grapes exhibited When it is vsed in powder it must not be beaten very small Tutia Tuttie is commonly vsed for the eyes Tuttie and in all kind of infirmities where exsiccation is required and is thus prepared Make it red hote in a Goldsmiths crusible or melting cruse then extinguish it in the vrine of a male child this reiterate the seuenth time afterwardes also fiue times in Fennell water then powder it as thou didst the pearles Item glow it as is now said fiue or sixe times and euer cast it into rose-rosewater and powder it as aboue This is the common preparation of Tutia Wolfes-liuer must be taken fresh out of the wolfe and be washed with good warme wine Wolfes liuer cut it into little péeces put it into a pot and set it into a warme bakers ouen kéepe it in a drie place well wrapped in wormwood lest the wormes do spoile it Esula is taken for the roote onely at the Apothecaries It is a strong purging roote Esula and ought not to be vsed vnaduisedly being prepared not aboue the waight of a dragme or lesse as occasion serueth There be seauen kinds of it called Tithymalus and are all more fit to be vsed outward then inward in the bodie It purgeth choler and melancholie Take either the bigger or the lesser rootes of Esula stéepe them foure and twentie houres in wine vineger and let them dry againe When thou wilt vse them cut off and cast away all the hairie and hard parts of them and beate the rest to fine powder The seede of Palma Christi or Ricinus being purified Palma Christi seeds doth by his purging vertue driue out choler and flegme The auncient Phisitions do command not aboue ten in number at once to be exhibited but because they are very greatly hurtfull to the stomacke they shall in no wise be vsed but in place of them other things which are lesse hurtfull There is a false opinion amongst the common sort of this Palma Christi to wit that if the séede in the gathering of it be plucked vpward it prouoketh vomit if it be plucked downward it should mooue stooles but howsoeuer they be gathered by reason of their venimous and hurtfull qualitie they may purge both vpwards and downwards Laureole Daphnoidis and Laureola Laurell These leaues haue a sharpe purging qualitie Laurell to driue out flegme and choler Of the powder of them prepared may be taken from foure grains vnto sixe and no more and with other spices and simples corrected not aboue one dragme There is nothing of it in vse but onely the leaues it is prepared by stéeping of it foure and twentie houres in wine
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
things that in any way might either procure or continue it as hot wines the sent of hot and strong things the vse of meates hot in operation then to beginne not onely in this but in all other infirmities whatsoeuer with the easiest remedies at the first and most of all if this hote paine of the head be but new and of no continuance at which time to delay the heate thou mayest safely vse these things that follow Applications Ointments Plaisters Lotions OXyrrhodinum applied outwardly is greatly commended that is oyle of roses water and vineger of roses of each a like quantitie in this mixture dippe double linnen clothes and lay them so cold and wet to the forehead from one temple to another and as often as it drieth must it be refreshed againe Others make it stronger thus Take of Rose water fiue ounces of Melilot water foure ounces water of Nightshade two ounces oile of Roses one ounce and a halfe Rose vineger one ounce vse it as the other before These two compositions by reason of the Oyle and vineger of Roses which are in them are called Oxyrrhodina vnto which if the heate be very extreame thou mayest adde one dragme of Camfere Also take the white of an egge well beaten Rose water one ounce water of Elder and Fennell water of each halfe an ounce fiue small Nuts well beaten in a mortar a little Saffron lay this to the forehead with wooll Another that is more stronger the water of the white water-Lilly water of Endiue of each three ounces red white and yellow Saunders or one of them of each one dragme beaten Rose leaues halfe a dragme beaten Camfere halfe a dragme mixe them all together and vse them as is aboue shewed This cooleth greatly and easeth the paine of the head The ointment of Roses described by Mesues TAke fresh or new hogges grease as much as thou wilt wash it very often with warme water afterwards with cold water then take as many Roses in weight as thy grease weigheth beate them both together in a morter let them so rest the space of seuen dayes then straine it through a cloth and beate as many Roses with thy grease as before and so let them stand other seauen dayes straine them againe and adde to thy grease halfe the weight of the iuice of Roses and the sixt part of the oyle of swéete Almonds and boile them together vntill all the iuice be consumed which thou shalt know thus put one or two droppes of it into the fire where if it make no noise or hissing like vnto water then it is sufficiently boiled then take it from the fire stirring it continually with a woodden pestell vntill it waxeth stiffe and white some adde a little Opium vnto it to make it coole the more but it is néedlesse for if it be necessary thou mayest adde it at all times afterward This ointment is an especiall good remedie in Cephalalgia and heate of the head it stayeth flegmaticall rheumes and flegmons it mitigateth the canker it is also good for the heate of the stomacke liuer kidneyes c. A cooling vnguent Infrigidans Galeni TAke two ounces of white or virgine waxe melt it easily and wash it often with faire water and at the last with white vineger then adde vnto it foure ounces of the oyle of Roses which also hath bene washed as before It may also be made vp in forme of a plaister or Ceratum It easeth both the heate of agues of the head being applied to the forehead and temples it is also very good against the paine of the kidneys If thou wilt vse it for the paine of the head melt it on a litle fire then wash it with vineger and with the iuice of Plantaine Nightshade annoint the forehead with it especially on those seames of the scull then lay vine or willow leaues vpon it thou shalt find great ease To the same intent is the Poplar vnguent or Vnguentum Populeum also vsed which is found readie made in all Apothecaries shops Likewise take Rose leaues Willow leaues water Lillies Mallowes of each one handfull boyle them in water and irrigate thy head with it Also take Violets Barley beaten in a morter beaten Gourd séeds or the barke of Gourds Poppy heads seedes of Hollihocke Purslaine seedes Lettice seedes of each one handfull boile them in water and let the decoction being warme drop from on high vpon thy head Note also that if necessitie and the violent paine should require stronger remedies then vse the iuice of such herbes as are cold and drie as of Plantaine of Shepheards purse of Nightshade of Housleeke of Pomegranates and in the greatest extremitie adde a little Opium vnto it of Henbane adding the iuice of Southernewood or of poppie vnto it and applying them to the head as is aboue sayd Here is also to be obserued that these stupefactiue or narcolicall things are not to be vsed but onely in the greatest extremities Neither may any such cold remedies be adhibited to the back-part of the head but only to the forehead In fine wheresoeuer these such like may be omitted there are they not at al to be vsed notwithstanding if the extremitie be such that no other remedies would serue the turne any danger might ensue of any obstupefaction or numming of any one part this shall be sometimes vsed Take the wood of Cassia small beaten one dragme mixe it with oyle and drop it into the eares and nostrels and if peraduenture the patient should loose both sense and féeling then mixe halfe a dragme of Beuer Cod a scruple of Saffron and a little oile of Oliues or rather oile of Chestnuts together Also make this emplaister Take of the Vine buds beate them small and adde as much oile of Roses and Barley flower as shall suffice then lay it plaisterwise to the forehead in the want of Vine buds take Housléeke or the iuice of Nightshade of Shepheards purse or of Lettice Or else take yellow Saunders Roses water Lillies of each halfe an ounce Camfere one scruple Spica of India halfe one scruple wet them together with Rose water boyle them and receiue the vapours at your nose through a funnell likewise take Roses the blossomes of the Pomegranate trée shels of Pomegranates séeds or berries of the Mirtle trée shels of Citrones of each one dragme Agarick as much boile them in lie a little while and wash the head with it This cooleth drieth and strengtheneth the braines Otherwise take Venice hard or cake Sope slice it smal into a flat earthen pan powre a good strong ley vpon it couer it with a linnen cloth and set it in the warme sunne while the Sope be molten stir it oftentimes til the ley be euaporated or dried away then put Rose water vpon it and let it drie againe this reiterate so often till the Sope haue lost her strong and vnsauorie smell and imbibe the swéete smell of the Rose water Take of
this prepared Sope one pound white or yellow Saunders Roses of each halfe one ounce water Lillies two dragmes Camfere one dragme being all beaten to powder mixe them with the Sope and make it vp in little cakes drie them and reserue them for thy vse Of the paine in the head with agues and laske or flixe of the bellie §. 3. WHereas this paine of the head is oftentimes cause of diuers other maladies it shall not be amisse to describe that headache which raigned in the yeare of our Lord 1564 in Mosbach and in the whole Dukedome of the Palsgraue of Rhene at which time I compiled this present worke This paine began with a shiuering cold presently ensued an ague with a little heate but with great drithe and thirst which continued about one fortnight or more It returned vnto diuers after they had bin cleare of it a moneth or twaine and that twise or thrise togither others were intolerably troubled in the head and some so vehemently vexed with a flixe of the bellie without bloud that it could by no meanes by stayed yea they oftentimes very miserably perished with it In this headach were these remedies found very effectuall and good First if nothing do disswade from it thou shalt open the head veine especially if the patient be yong full of bloud and be of body strong and able inough to beare it Children shall then purge with easie medicines as Cassia Manna sirupe of Roses Sene leaues decocted with some cooling herbes The bigger sort shall be purged with sharpe pils and other purgations if they haue no laske withall and if nothing else could be had out of hand thou shalt make this decoction or drinke Take Sena leaues one ounce Cinnamom Annise and Fennell seedes Currans of each as much as thou canst hold betwéene two of thy fingers Licorise the length of thy finger if it be a thicke sticke take lesse of it one fig both cut small swéete Marioram Rosemarie as much as thou canst take vp betwéene thy fingers Sugar one ounce boyle them all in a quart of water till halfe be consumed of this giue to a child to drinke two ounces to an old body fower ounces to a strong body mayest thou boyle half an ounce of Sene leaues with it For women childrē to be boxed on the sholders and legs is very good or to rub their arms and legs with warme clothes downwards It is also good for them to bathe their féete in the decoction of Cummomill Roses and Betonie Wines of all sorts must be shunned in this infirmitie and all things that are hot as Spices Onions Garlicke and such like for daily drinke take two handfuls of Barly Anniséedes halfe an ounce Raisins one ounce and a halfe boile these together in a pottle of water till the Barly do burst then adde thrée dragmes of Cinnamom grossely beaten and let it boile a little so coole Séeing then this sicknesse prouoketh thirst thou maiest not altogether bar the diseased from any kind of drinke but let him take inough of the prescribed decoction with the sirupe of Roses of Violets or of Citrones admixed Thou mayest also giue him the conserue of the same flowers with the water of Endiue Succorie Borage and of Lettice for that it doth comfort the heart For his meate he shall commonly vse French Barly boiled with a hen in broth veale kids flesh or stewed Prunes and such like light meates But if a flixe or loosenesse in the bodie be adioyned to the former infirmitie the affected partie shall in any wise take great héede of such light and loosing meates and onely vse rosted veale pullets rosted and other small birds stewed Quinces or any such like thing Or if he would haue any other meate dressed it shal be done with stilled water which is made as followeth Take as much faire water as thou wilt set it on the fire and cast a good péece of steele into it being first made red hot thrée or foure times together then let the water coole and vse it as thou wilt In like sort also mayest thou prepare water of iron of gold of siluer and of flints for the same purpose thus is wine the milke of a cow and of goates also stéeled But to come to our purpose again as long as this loosenesse of the bodie doth continue thou shalt annoynt the stomacke twise a day with the oyles of Mastix and of Quinces If it be about the time of the yeare that Sloes be ripe take as many of them as you please put them into a pot and powre boyling water vpon them stop or couer them very close giue vnto the infirmed bodie three or foure of these a litle before his meate noting alwaies that in foure and twenty howers he vse not aboue twenty of them at the most Contrariwise if the bodie be bound thou shalt seeke by all meanes thou maist to loose it otherwise many vapors ascend vp into the head and there augment both the heate and the paine yea oftentimes bereaue the patient of his wittes Wherfore first of all thou shalt trie to open the bodie by suppositories which if they will not suffice vse common Clisters which herafter in the third part for the binding stopping of the bodie are prescribed Otherwise if these do not please thee vse some cooling purgation or else that purging potion aboue described There be aboue set downe many vnguents salues and waters but all are very good for the paine of the head But in this kind of head-ach this remedie that followeth is expresly described Take of the water of Lettice Nightshade and of Housleeke of each two ounces water of Camomill an ounce and a halfe good strong vineger one ounce Camfere beaten foure graines mixe them all together or take Rose water Rose vineger Melilot water Betonie water of each or of as many as are to be had what quantitie thou please wet linnen clothes in them and lay them to the forehead In this infirmitie oftentimes is both the toung and throate very raw and sore by reason of the great heate for the which looke the remedies that are set downe in the Chap. 13. § 6. of this first part for the infirmities and heate of the toung and the gargarismes for the paine in the throte in the first Chapter of the second part The sirupe of Mulberies with Plantaine Knotgrasse and Selfeheale water admired conduceth and helpeth very much likewise take the seede of Quinces and the seede of Fleawoort then take a litle sticke and tie to the end of it a little skarlet or linnen cloth with one dragme of these seedes in it steepe it in the water of Selfeheale when thou wilt cleanse thy toung rub it easily with that cloth so steeped it cleanseth moisteneth cooleth and healeth all the chops or clifts in it To comfort the heart vse Manus Christi with Pearles conserue of water Lillies Pomegranates preserued Citrons and others such like This binding water
Frankinsence of each one drag Plantaine the iuice of Sloes Acorne cups of each one quarter of an ounce Licorice an ounce Pieretrum Pomegranate pils of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them together in a quart of sower red wine vntil the third part be sodden away put thereto prepared Bolus Armenus half an ounce burnt Allume one ounce a half Lay this plaister following then vpon it to heale it withall Take oyle of Roses eight ounces oile of Masticke one ounce sheepes and calues sewet of each twelue ounces siluer litharge bruised small two ounces red lead one ounce and a pint of wine then let this boile softly vntill it be browne or blacke then put thereto foure ounces of Turpentine Masticke two ounces Gummi Elenij halfe an ounce white waxe as much as is néedful for to make a plaister This plaister is especial good to cure a wound in the head although one vsed nought else yet is the wound oftentimes to be washed with warme water and if it were wholy impostumated then in stead of water vse wine wherein Mirtle séeds and blossomes of Pomegranates with a little Allume hath decocted Another plaister which is also commended for good and to haue bin approued Take Gummi Elenij one ounce and a halfe white rosin two ounces Waxe two or three ounces oile of Roses two ounces and a halfe Ammoniack one ounce Turpentine one ounce and a halfe make a plaister or salue of it some adde Rie meale vnto it others blacke Beane meale the third sort beate Plantaine séeds some also vse wine in stead of oile A salue Take white rosin fiue dragmes powned Aloe halfe an ounce An especiall salue for the fracture of the skull oile of Roses and waxe as much as is néedfull let it melt by a mild fire when it is cold put thereto halfe an ounce of Gummi Elenij with boiling may be made a tough plaister thereof It draweth the matter out of the broken skull and from the bottome or depth asswageth the paine Yet one more that is stronger Take the vpright Balsame or in stead thereof oile of Cloues Bdellium Ammoniacum of each thrée ounces white rosin Gummi Elenij of each one ounce Frankinsence Myrrhe Sarcocolla beaten small of each one dragme and a halfe oile of roses two ounces waxe as much as is néedfull make a tough salue thereof and séeth it in foure ounces of the iuice of Woodbinde vntill all the iuice be consumed Of the skins or tunicles of the braines called Dura and Pia mater when they be perished §. 3. THese two skins or tunicles that couer the braines vnder the skul do the Gréeks call Meninges the vpmost is called Dura mater the hard Mother for that in comparison of the other it is very hard and full of holes where the veines passe thorough Pia mater the good Mother is very spare and thinne therefore also very dangerous if the same be wounded for which these salues following are ordained and found requisite Take Woodbind Betonie Pimpernell of each two M. Gummi Elenij Dragon blood of each three quarters of an ounce seeth them together in two ounces of oile of roses and sufficient quantitie of red wine vntil all the moisture be consumed wring it out and let it be cold make it as thicke as you will with molten waxe Or take Turpentine Rosin Wax of each one ounce Frankinsence one quarter of an ounce oile of Roses thrée ounces Cummi Elenij three dragm Mastix one quarter of an ounce Betonie Wood bind of each three drag These herbes must be sodden in red wine vntill all the moisture be sod away afterwards wring it out temper the other things with it stirre it wel about vntil it be a salue But if the skull onely be broken whether it be by falling throwing or beating and a swelling withall then take Wormewood Roses Cammomill of each one M. séeth them in red wine and oile of roses as much as is needfull temper a good quantitie of Beane meale with it and so applie it Item take Wormewood Cammomill Melilot of each one ounce Stechas Betonie Woodbind Bolus Dragons blood of each halfe an ounce Barley meale two ounces oyle of roses as much as will suffice for a plaister or salue yet if you would haue it hard adde waxe vnto it The triall when the plaister is sodden inough §. 4. IF any will put iuices wine or any other moisture in plaisters then are you to let the iuice be sod away and when they be sufficiently sodden you shall know it hereby let a drop or twaine fall vpon the fire if it do not sisse as water is wont to do then it is inough The fift Chapter The face a part of the head IT is before declared in the beginning of the fourth Chapter that in diuiding of the head the face is the sixt part beginning and ending from the eyebrowes vnto the end of the chin of which parts disease we will now discourse As much as concerneth the face in generall man hath purchased the same aboue all liuing creatures for it cannot be said of any beast that it hath a face Faciem but only of mankind and it is also to be wondred at that nature hath planted so many parts in so small a compasse for that there be eyes that sée and leade the whole bodie a mouth that speaketh and taketh in meate for the sustenance of the whole bodie a nose that smelleth and can discerne what is pleasant or vnpleasant in smell or sauour that also doth discharge and vnburden the braines of all superfluous moisture eares for to heare whereby men may vnderstand one another a beard for to distinguish one man from another eyebrowes to the garnishing and defence of the eies cheekes wherewith to manifest and shew shamefastnesse feare peace and friendship as shall be more at large shewed hereafter consequently the face is a looking glasse of the mind of the inward intention and vnreuealed thought But we wil not make long discourse thereof at this present but onely to discourse of the diseases of the face and how to cure them Of all staines or spots of the face §. 1. FOr to take away this disorder or misfiguring of the face may these remedies following be vsed make a little cruse of dow as it were a small pastie meetly thicke put therein sixe ounces of Cerusse make it fast on the top that there flie no vapor out of it let it stand so in an ouen the space of an houre that it be not too hote and when it is waxen cold take it out and bruise it small and put thereto a sufficient quantitie of Elderne water and so set it in the Sunne close stopped stir it euery day about foure or fiue times wash the face therewith foureteene dayes long or as long as is needfull with a cloth which is wet therein This is oftentimes approued Item take fresh roots of Salomons seale beate and annoint it on the spots or
béen sayd before mixe Well water with the iuice of Pomegranates or wine likewise the decoction of Barley mixed with Sugar cleanseth the mouth The water of Sage healeth all exulcerations if the mouth be renced oft therewith Also in a hot cause are very good all fruits that are sower cold astringent being chewed as Medlars Mulberies Choke peares Quinces Seruices Framboies and such like especially if they be not ouer ripe Also the iuice of Vine leaues and sower and tart herbes may be vsed for gargarismes But if these gentle remedies do no good then purge the patient as the cause requireth as before hath often béen shewed But bicause this is for the most part caused through heate he is to be purged with Cassia sower Dates or with the Electuarie of Roses afterwards open the veine vnder the tong or those that appeare on the inside of the lower lip which is very commodious for all hot infirmities of the lips If sucking children be troubled with it then is the nurse to be fed with cooling things for by the alteration of their milke they are easily restored to health againe for this purpose is the oyle of Sulphur very good as well in yong children as ancient people but there are many common things that are altogither as good as that Item take the yellow seedes of white Roses blossomes of Pomegranates Starch burnt Iuorie milke of Lentils Purslaine séedes Coriander Sene huskes of each a like much and a little Camfere make a powder of them and rub the vlcer easily therewithall or hold it in thy mouth with vineger of Roses Rose water and oyle of Roses Item for this hot exulceration thou shalt take the water of Shepheards purse of broad Plantaine of Roses and of Purslaine of each two ounces the iuice of Mulberies hony of Roses of each one ounce mixe them wel togither and gargarise with it often Item take Gals Pomegranate blossomes and Cypers nuts of each one ounce Roses white Bryer two dragmes Acorne cups halfe an ounce beate them grossely and boyle them in water and wash thy mouth with it When by these meanes the paine is somewhat abated then mixe fresh butter with hony of Roses and annoint the place therewith this mayst thou well account one of the best remedies Or stampe a fower Pomegranate with the pils wring it out hard and adde as much hony to the iuice let them séeth togither vntill it be thicke If thou wilt haue it stronger adde the third part of beaten Acornes with it The application of boxing cups is also very meete and fit for it and if the patient be ful of bloud then is the head veine to be opened But if the blisters be white then is the patient to be purged with Diaturbith or with their pils following Take Species Hiera Picra two dragmes Species medicaminis turbith two dragmes and a halfe Coloquint halfe a dragme make pils thereof with wine take of them one dragme or one dragme and a halfe at once It is also very good to rub them with hony and salt but these things following are more in vse and more fit for this purpose Take Allum one ounce boyle it in Plantaine water you may also put Plantaine leaues vnto it and wash the mouth often therewith Take hony of Roses warme water a little Allum halfe as much vineger as water vse it as before it is very good Take Roses one ounce a halfe Plantaine one ounce burnt Allum halfe a dragme Mirtle seedes halfe as much Pomegranate blossomes and pils of each one scruple let them seeth well togither vse it as the other Item take one pinte of water and a good peece of Ireos cut small and asmuch Allum hony of Roses 2. spoonfuls let it boyle away two fingers bredth In fine whensoeuer Phlegma is cause of the vlcers then must drying and astringent remedies be vsed Cypers nuts barkes of the Frankinsence trée Frankinsence Masticke and although one should mixe these warme things with others that are cold and astringent as Gals Pomegranate pils Roses Mirtle séeds such like yet is not that any errour at all but rather a helpe Also of these things following may gargarismes be made or little bals with the iuice of Peares or Quinces to hold in the mouth There is in the seuenth Chapter and fourth § a water described for the eyes beginning Take broad Plantaine water with Verdigrease and Dragons bloud This may you vse if the sore run much and were very vncleane for it drieth and healeth much Take Plantain water boyle therein grosse beaten Myrtle séedes This cleanseth the sores and cureth them Conserue of Roses held in the mouth long doth cleanse the same Oxycraton that is wine water and vineger mixed together is also very good If this exulceration of the mouth procéed of Melancholy then shalt thou purge as followeth Take Currans one ounce Burrage flowers and of Buglosse Epythimus and Sene of each one drag boyle them in water wherein Mirobalani Indi and Chebuli of each halfe an ounce haue bin stéeped and decocted giue thrée or foure ounces therof in the morning In like manner may you purge with Hiera Ruffi you shall also vse a gargarisme made with Currans and Annise séedes and mixed with honie Hereafter do diuers good things ensue for the infirmities of the tongue that are also very good for this present purpose Of the swollen Almonds §. 2. IT chanceth also sometimes that in these infirmities the Almonds or the pallet in the throate do exulcerate of this pallet shall hereafter especiall mention be made But for the tumor of the Almonds and other exulcerations in the throate are these remedies following ordained Take a quart of red wine Roses thrée M. peeles of two Pomegranates foure Gals grosly beaten Licorice halfe an ounce Currans two dragms boyle them together vntill the fourth part be wasted before thou doest adhibite this wash thy mouth with a cloth dipped in wine then vse it warme if it be with any exulceration then adde honie of Roses vnto it and wash it euery day fiue or seuen times Aqua Iohannis THis water is very good and effectuall to gargarize withall both in blisters and vlcers Take Sulphur vife red Mints Allume Sugar of each half an ounce Mastick Frankinsence of each two drag Pieretrum halfe a dragme Aqua vitae thrée ounces beate all what is to be beaten and temper them together Take Allume Sugar of each halfe an ounce boyle them together in Plantaine water mixe it with the iuice of Mulberries wash the mouth therewith it asswageth the swelling dryeth and healeth The same doth also the sirupe of Mirtle séedes and of the iuice of Nutshels that hereafter are described In like manner also Milke and the iuice of Lettice each by it selfe If the throate be exulcerated within then take Frankinsence Sandaraca Masticke of each one drag red Stirax halfe a dragme beate them together and receiue the fume therof at the mouth oftentimes
expelleth all stinking humors of the stomacke that are caused of the gall if it be vsed in hot feuers otherwise it doth cleanse the stomacke of all sliminesse prouoketh sweate That which is made with the iuice of Roses looseth and outwardly it clenseth all vlcers stinking wounds and such like If any man had taken phisicke and would not willingly vomit it vp againe he shall take a little of this hony of Roses after it There is yet another manner of making this hony of Roses Take sixe ounces of dry Rose leaues put 15. ounces of boyling water vpon them in a pot that may be close couered let it infuse so eight howers then wring it out hard and take as many Roses more make the liquor boyling hot againe put it on the Roses and let it infuse as before this reiterate thrile and no more afterwards weigh the liquor and to fiue ounces of it put thrée ounces of hony boyle and clarifie it this bindeth the body and comforteth the stomacke The sirupe of Nut shels THe Apothecaries do call this sirupe Rob nucum and Diacaridion which is thus prepared Take the gréene shels of Nuts beate them presse out their iuice of this take one pound clarified hony halfe a pound boile them to a sirupe Some do take of the iuice and hony of each a like quantitie this sirupe is very good for women and weake folkes troubled with hot rheumes that swell You may adde other things vnto it according as the accident requireth The gargarismes which are most méete for the mouth the throte and the adiacent parts are these Take Rose water PlaÌ„taine water of each foure ounces hony of Roses one ounce sirupe of Mulberies halfe an ounce burnt Allum one dragme white wine eight ounces let them seeth togither as long as you would do an eg gargarise therewith warme it drieth and cleanseth Take Plantaine Knot grasse Barly of each one handfull boyle them vntill the Barly burst straine it through a cloth and adde to it hony of Roses sirupe of Mulberies of each halfe an ounce vse it as aboue Item take Barly halfe a handfull rootes of Buglosse as many iuice of Quinces one drag and a halfe Violets Currans and Stauesacre of each two drag boyle them in a good pinte of water vntill the Barly swell this healeth and alayeth the paine Take Pomegranate pils broad and long Plantaine of each one handfull let them boyle togither in a pinte and a halfe of water being strained ad to it Vnguenti Aegyptiaci sirupe of Mulberries and Nut shels of each halfe an ounce temper them all togither this drieth maruellously and healeth all stinking exulcerations But you may not swallow any of it down by reason of â—he Verdigrease which is in the â—â—lue In great heate of the mouth and throate with a sharpe matter adioyned which excoriateth this place Take water of Nightshade and Purslaine of each thrée ounces water of Burrage and of Violets of each two ounces séedes of Fleawoort halfe a drag Quince kernels halfe a drag Dragagant a drag and a halfe stéepe it in Rosewater presse out the slime or muscilage and mixe them all together Take Plantaine water and wine of each foure ounces burnt Allume halfe a drag honie of Roses sirupe of Mulberies of each one ounce boile them a little and gargarise often therwith this is especiall good in all tumors of the throate and also in the squinancie There are many more such like gargarismes prescribed for many other diseases as euery where may appeare There are also diuers Phisitions which without any exception vse in all gargarismes Scrophularia and that not amisse for it hath a wonderfull vertue Of the Pallet and the falling downe thereof §. 5. IT is called by the Grecians Epiglottis that is the little toung by the Latinists Lingula Vuula and by vs the pallet It is also a very néedefull part and member of the toung it hath fiue seuerall parts first the two almonds Tonsillae that engender the spettle and moisten the toung and if they waxe drie then do they hinder the speech Secondly the Aspera Arteria or Trachea and Oesophagus Lastly the pallet it selfe This is the onely instrument of the voice wherby the same is fashioned and for that cause it is placed in the middest of the throte because it shold couer one part of the throte and preserue the brest hart and lights should direct the meate and drinke receiued to the mouth of the stomack It befalleth often that it hangeth downe and so troubleth one very much which he is not accustomed to haue before as may be séene when the toung is pressed downe If this procéed of heate then is the pallet red the veines about the eyes swollen the face red and the spettle swéetish all which are signes of ouermuch bloud But if it be white theÌ„ it is caused of a cold rheume which falleth into the mouth aboundantly the voice is hoarse the face pale the pallet white and much longer than it ought to be Of the tumor and falling downe of the pallet through heate IF the pallet be red then is the whole backe bone from the very necke downwards and both the armes to be rubbed with warme clothes the legs are to be tyed hard and vntied againe afterwards boxing cups are to be fastened on the thighs against the fire also if neede require the head veine may be opened vpon the right hand Item a visicatorie vnguent shall be applyed to the shoulders which is diuersly described in the twelfth Chapter and 16. § and so let it remaine thereon two houres long Item take Roses Gals and Pomegranate pils of each one drag Allume one scrup Salt halfe a scrup make them into powder and beare vp the pallet with it Or take Rosewater and vineger mixt together gargarize with it or in the stead of Rosewater you may take Well water Water of Plantaine and Nightshade is also very méete for the same but it must not be taken downe Item mixe the sirupe of Mulberies and a little vineger with water and gargarize therwith Another Take the yellow séedes of Roses and a few Citron séedes boyle them in Plantaine water afterwards mingle some honie and a little vineger with it This following is of no lesse vertue then the former Take the sirupe of Nutshels one ounce and a halfe the decoction of Sumach two ounces temper them together and vse it certaine daies continually if you will haue it milder then take Barley water in stead of the other and mixe some Pomegranate wine with it Item another that is stronger and especially at the first Take two ounces of Rosewater one ounce of red vineger Acorne cups Hypocistis iuice of Sloes calcined plume Allume of each one scrup mingle them together for a gargarisme A Powder TAke the gréen shels of Nuts dried beat them small and take a little spoonfull of the powder hold it to the pallet and beare it vp therewith continually this hath
is very common at some Apothecaries and is thus prepared Take Turbith halfe an ounce Cinnamom and Ginger of each one quarter of an ounce Galingall Masticke Cardamome Cloues of each halfe a dragme Annis one dragm Hermodactyli Diagridion Sene leaues of each halfe an ounce Sugar three ounces temper these together and giue him a drag of it at the most Medicamen de Turbith Medicamen de Turbith is also common whereof here do follow two sorts Take white Ginger Masticke and Turbith of each halfe an ounce Sugar one ounce and a halfe mixe these to a subtill powder The other Take Turbith halfe an ounce Ginger one quarter of an ounce Masticke tenne graines Sugar three dragmes this being beaten small and tempered well together purgeth slimie humors of the which may well be giuen to yong children women in child bed old folks and all dainty persons one dragme at the least at one time Of which may all be giuen according to the abilitie of the person more or lesse Sene powder called Puluis Senae praeparatae is not onely laxatiue Puluis Senae praeparatae but also purgeth maruellous well the head Take Sene leaues one ounce and a halfe Ginger and Nutmegs of each two dragmes Cinnamom and Argall of each one dragme and a halfe make a powder of it and giue one dragme of it at once A powder Take Turbith one quarter of an ounce Ginger Cinnamom Mastick Galingal Cardamome Cloues Annis Hermodactyli and Diagridij of each one dragm Sene leaues halfe an ounce Sugar one ounce or put vnto them as much Sugar as you thinke good for without Sugar it is not to be taken aboue one dragme Item take Sene leaues halfe an ounce Ginger and Cinnamom of each one dragme Sugar one quarter of an ounce take the halfe thereof and strewe it vpon a slice or shiue of tosted bread that hath bene stéeped in wine and so eate it But if it do not loose then eate another slice of bread and the rest in a morning It is surely good Amongst the things that one doth eate some mixe Mercurie leaues in a Sallad for they do easily loose them that be apt to go to stoole Item Dates Mirobalanes stued Prunes strewed well with Sugar do loose the body very mildly Likewise also Damaske Prunes stewed with Raisins do loose also if one sup vp the broth withall fiue or sixe Figs eaten before meate do open the bodie Item Currans washt in swéet Wine and stéeped therein and afterwards dried and strewed with Sugar are also very good for this purpose Or take Raisins as is said which be steeped half a pound beate them and wring them thorough a hairen strainer Sugar two ounces Sugar of Roses and Hony of Roses of each one ounce and a halfe seeth them well by a mild fire vnto a confection then take of it as often as you will the quantitie of a nut Also you may steepe these Currans in oyle of swéet Almonds strewed with Sugar and then eaten for much Sugar hath a laxatiue nature and especially in young children Now will we write of certaine laxatiue potions of which be diuers readie at all well furnished Apothecaries to be had and albeit you may vse the same alone yet notwithstanding haue all Phisitions ordained that the same shall be commonly tempered and taken with purging medicines whereof here shall follow some which the Apothecaries at Augusta haue at all times in a readinesse First they haue a drinke which they call Decoctionem communem Decoctio communis which is a common decocted potion made after this manner Take ten or twelue Prunes Licorice Currans Annis séede and Fennell of each half an ounce floures of Burrage and Buglosse of each one dragm and a halfe powre a quart of water vnto it séeth it so long vntill a third part be wasted then straine it thorough This drinke ensuing is of a temperate nature for it is somewhat more cooling and the same is to be vsed in Sommer Take Currans Licorice Prunes Iuiubes Violets Barley péeled Melon séede Pompeon séede Gourd séede and Cucumber seede of each one quarter of an ounce boyle them together in water like as is said before Take Fumitorie Betonie Mints Mugwort of each halfe a handfull floures of Burrage and Buglosse of each halfe a dragme Annis Fennell Asarabacca of each halfe an ounce wild Saffron seede thrée quarters of an ounce Calmus one ounce Polipody rootes Agaricus of each one quarter of an ounce Sene leaues one ounce the seeds and rootes must be beaten grosse letting them séeth first a little afterwards put vnto it the herbs floures and Agaricke and so let them seeth again when it is then cold wring it out hard kéepe it well very close stopt in a coole place In like manner there is prepared a stronger which is called Decoctio aperitiua maior Decoctio aperitiua maior and is made thus Take Endiue Cicorie Fumitorie of each one handful Agrimonie Windweed and Harts toong of each half a handfull floures of Burrage and Buglosse of each one quarter of an ounce Thime and wild Thime of each two dragmes and a halfe rootes of Fennell Smallage Parsly of each halfe an ounce Annis Fennell séede Melon séed of each one quarter of an ounce sliced Licorice halfe an ounce rootes of Cipers rinds of Tamariske of each thrée dragmes Sene leaues two ounces Polipodie rootes one ounce Agaricus halfe an ounce seethe them all together in water like as is said before then wring it well out You are to steepe in this decoction Rubarb thrée dragm and a halfe Indy Spica one scruple Sal Gemmae halfe a scruple Cinnamome two scruples let them stand together to stéepe all a whole night afterwards séeth it once in boyling water straine it very well out and put sixe ounces of Sugar vnto it Decoctâ—o Senae A decoction of Sene leaues called Decoctio Senae Take Sene leaues two ounces and Sene husks one ounce rootes of Cicorie Agrimonie Hyssope of each half a handfull Polipody roots one ounce séeth them together in a quart of water vntill the third part be decocted away then wring it out and kéepe it in a coole place I susio Senae Another Insusio Senae This decoction is much vsed for the Pockes at Augusta in Germany for which it is most méete Take the huskes and leaues of Sene of each fiue dragmes Ginger two scruples Burrage flowers Violets Roses of each one scruple Polipodie one quarter of an ounce Currans halfe an ounce ten or twelue Sebesten sliced Agaricus halfe an ounce powre vpon them sixtéene ounces of boyling water and let it be stéeped the space of ten houres by the warme ashes afterwards wring it out and kéepe it well whereof is commonly thrée or fowre ounces taken and sirupe of Fumitorie or De Bizantijs one ounce and a halfe or two ounces tempered together three or fowre dayes one after another There be also vsed many other
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
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
wels thereby to coole themselues and quench their thirst To coole the same and to allay it you may vse this Iulep following Take water of Sorrell of Scabious of water Lillies and of Endiue of each sixe ounces Granado wine foure ounces Vineger two ounces the iuice of Limons two ounces and a halfe white Sugar as much as you will séeth it for a Iulep and then let the patient drinke hereof as much as he thinketh good Another Take Buglosse water and of Sorrell of each sixe ounces water of Cicorie Endiue and Willow leaues of each foure ounces sirupe of Citrons two ounces sirupe of Vineger and of Oxysacchara of each one qunce Granado wine eight ounces let them boyle a little all together except the Granado wine this being clarified put the Granado wine vnto it In like manner is also good the sirupe of Citrons Limons S. Iohns grapes or berries Roses and Endiue being mingled with some cooling water or else with well water or Barley water Item Well water which hath bene once distilled but aboue all things that can be deuised is nothing better to quench the thirst to withstand poyson to comfort the heart than the iuice of Limons or the same being pared and cut in slices and strewed ouer with Sugar and so to vse them and to take the liquor of them with a spoone Item take Quince kernels one ounce let them mollifie one whole night in eight ounces of Sugar water then straine them this being done then temper therewith one ounce of the sirupe of water Lillies and oftentimes vse it As for the thirst you haue diuers remedies thereto in the third part the twelfth Chapter and 10. § which are altogether very good And afterwards yet more to wit in the seuentéenth Chapter in Diabete aad also in the description of the Agues Of the bitternesse in the mouth §. 10. THe third accident is the bitternesse of the mouth which procéedeth of an inflammation of the Gall whereof we haue written more at large in thrée other places to wit in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and sixt § Also in the fiftéenth Chapter and tenth § Item againe in the third part the twelfth Chapter and sixtéenth § in which places you may reade it All such patients must often hold the leaues of Sorrell in their mouths or chew the séedes of the same They may also very wel hold in their mouth Gum Arabiack and swallow it downe by little and little Of the want of Appetite to meate §. 12. THe fourth accident in this Ague is the losse of appetite whereas this sicknesse requireth that the patient in this maladie more than in any other should be fed and kept in full strength and power therefore it is néedfull in this disease that the appetite be stirred vp whereof we in the third Chapter and fift § and before that in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and ninth § haue treated at length Especially you may prepare this stomachicall vnguent for it Take Marmalade two ounces Mastick Spica of Indy Roses red Corall of each one dragme Agaricus one dragme and a halfe beate them well all together and then annoint the stomacke therewith or lay it on plaisterwise Make also these Sugar plates following take Marmalade made with Sugar two ounces burnt Iuorie Mastick water Lilly flowers and Roses of each one scruple rubbe the Marmalade in a mortar with sirupe of Citrons and forme the cakes of the waight of halfe an ounce then take hereof at all times to wit morning and euening Of the weaknesse and sleepinesse §. 12. THe fift accident Albeit we know well that nature grieuously striueth with this maladie and thereby is wearied weakened and void of all strength that is no wonder for that cause it is highly commaunded that men must haue especiall regard to the strength of the patient for the which also are diuers meanes set downe how to preserue his strength so that it is néedlesse to rehearse the same at this present Also it hath bene shewed in the fift Part the seuentéenth Chapter and in mo other places Of the binding in the bodie §. 13. THe sixt accident is the binding of the bodie which is augmented by the heate And to remedie the same are no strong things required for strong purgations are not good in this sicknesse yet if great néede be you haue had before in the seuenth § also in the third part eleuenth Chapter and 20. § of the binding in the bodie diuers fit remedies amongst which many easie and â—ooling purgations may be chosen wherfore those that will cure this sicknes let them beate 4. ounces of Sebestes and stéepe them in water and then giue to the patient many times of it to drinke But if you will haue it more forcible then stéepe with them the leaues of the lesser Iuie Of the losse of sleepe §. 14. NOw the seuenth accident of these pestilent Agues is losse of sléepe For this must you take Violets water Lilly and Elecampane rootes of each one drag séedes of Dill and Saffron of each one scruple make them into powder then bind them vp in silke and hold it continually before the nose and smell to it But of this haue you further discourse in the fift part the twelfth Chapter and sixt § the which you may reade ouer and vse it for this purpose When a Plague sore appeareth §. 15. WHen these foresaid meanes haue bene vsed and that there appeare a Plague sore then must you follow such things as hereafter shall be set downe but before we intreat of that it is not demaunded in vaine whence this Plague sore Anthrax procéedeth and of what nature it is whereof the learned do write in this manner Anthrax procéedeth of grosse and hot humors which when they begin to putrifie then do they alter into a very hurtfull poyson sometimes it is red otherwhiles yellow and sometimes blacke which is the very woorst and most venimous For this manifesteth that nature is not strong enough to expell the venimous matter into the vtmost and furthest parts whence of necessitie followeth that the foresaid venimous humors are dispersed in the noble parts of the bodie inwardly To remedie the same you shall begin with the letting of bloud and that vpon the same side where the Plague sore is Afterwards you must vse boxing and pricke the same déepe whereby the grosse bloud may be drawne out Lastly you must purge the patient with some of these foresaid purgations that are set downe before in the seuenth § And speciall héede is to be taken that for this Plague sore men lye not thereon as men vse to do in other swellings that the matter might be repelled but attractiue things are to be vsed in this for to draw the matter outwards and that chiefly in the onely place of the plague sore In like manner you must lay no hot nor moist thing theron that ingender matter or corruption but rather such things as drie greatly
consumeth the Phlegma Another Take Species de gemmis frigidis thrée dragmes Aromatici Rosati one dragme Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce white Sugar seuen ounces good strong wine one quart stéepe them therein and powre it oftentimes thorough as is said before Of this Claret wine are they to drinke oftentimes which haue a weake stomacke and an obstructed Lyuer or to stéepe sometimes therein a péece of bread A common Claret wine Take Cinnamom Pepper and Greines as much as you please clarified Hony also as much as you list powre it then all together thorough a woollen bagge as before You may also take Cloues Nutmegs and other Spices in like manner also Sugar in stead of the Hony You haue also in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and 5. § a Claret wine called Stelladia which is much vsed in Italy There is also another sort made which is almost like vnto some of the former but there be not so many spices taken for it to wit but halfe an ounce of powned Ginger Cardamome one dragme and Sugar halfe a pound or more vnto a quart of wine and so filtred together There is also an aromaticall wine which is called Hipocras made thus Take Cinnamom 2. ounces sliced Ginger one ounce Greines one quarter of an ounce Galingall Cloues Nutmegs Cucubes and Cardamome of each one drag of these grosse powned spices you shal take vnto a quart of wine one ounce and a halfe according to that you will haue the Hippocrasse strong Sugar halfe a pound or more then set it in a warme place to stéepe a whole night and afterwards powre it thorough the bag as al the rest There is commonly taken for this red wine This Hipocras hath the same vertue as the Claret wine hath yet are all young people to refraine from such like drinks and from Malmsey and Muscadell to the end that they do not increase heate by heate This Hipocras and Claret wine may also be well made for all weake bodies that it be somewhat laxatiue But if so be that there be any sick persons which be forbidden wine or if that he drinke not the same willingly by nature and that neuertheles the decoctions did not agrée with him then may this potion following be made called Hippocras fontis Take Cinnamom Figs Cloues and Ginger of each one quarter of an ounce Graines one dragme good well water a quart which is coloured well with red Saunders and then put the spices beaten grosse into it and let it boyle a little If you will haue this potion swéeter then put in some Sugar in the seething or some Hony and then let it distill thorough the bag as is said before You haue also in the third part the twelfth Chapter and 4. § another aromaticall Wine which might be placed among these In the end of this part shall moe aromaticall wines be described Of Clisters and their vse §. 2. IF one know how to vse these Clisters aright and to prepare them then can there be no more profitable nor yet safer medicine inuented Therefore there be before and almost in all sicknesses so many kinds ordained and thereby taught how that the same shall be prepared that it is almost néedlesse to write any more of them Neuerthelesse to prosecute this our methode we will here discouer certaine common and mild Clisters In smal Agues and when the patient is weake or scant as yet recouered of some long sicknesse then are these ensuing to be vsed Take Mallowes and Violet leaues of each one handfull boile them well together take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces mingle Cassie Honie and course Sugar of each thrée quarters of an ounce with it oyle of Oliues thrée ounces Salt one dragme or somwhat more temper them all together and minister it reasonable warme for such like Clisters may you take Hen or Mutton broth Another that relaxeth and cooleth Take Violet leaues and Mallowes of each one handful Mercurie Béetes and water Lillies of each halfe a handfull Lettice and Purslaine of each somewhat lesse séeth them in sufficient water and take thereof as much as is before oyle of Violets foure ounces Salt one quarter of an ounce and minister it méetly warme In hote Agues Take Béetes Mallowes Mercurie and Violet leaues of each one handfull boile them all together in sufficient water and then take thereof twelue or sixtéene ounces Cassie Hony Sugar Salt and Oyle as is said before When the patient doth complaine of great paine and wind in the belly then boyle therwith grosse powned Fennell séed Annis Comin and Caraway There is also an especiall Cassie prepared for a Clister in this manner following Take Violet leaues with the flowers Mallowes Mercurie Béetes and Melilot of each halfe a handfull seeth the same in a little water straine it and wring it out then wash therewith the Cassie out of the Pypes for to get all the black out of them and then afterwards séeth it short vntill it be thick when as then you haue sixe ounces thereof then put nine ounces of Sugar vnto it and let it séeth vntill it be thicke enough This Cassie doth loose very mildly Of confected Seedes §. 2. HEre we will now speake onely of all séedes which be confected with Sugar as Coriander séede Fennell séede Annis Comin Caraway and such like Item of some Fruits as Almons Pingles Pistaces Hasell nuts Cucubes and of other mo confected rootes which may be confected with Sugar and because the same by reason of the Sugar and otherwise are very pleasant whereby they will not onely serue for the Kitchin but also for Phisick wherfore we will here describe the nature and operation of them all We haue in the seuenth part often admonished of Coriander and giuen a caueat of his venim that the same ought not to be vsed vnprepared otherwise it is by all Phisitions aduised that morning and euening confected Coriander should be vsed for it dryeth vp the ascending vapors of the stomacke it strengtheneth and dryeth the brains it is good against all swimming of the head and against the Palsie it is good for the stomack and procureth sleepe insomuch as then these vertues be ascribed to the Coriander to which the Sugar addeth only the pleasantnes you may looke what the Table saith of all the other seedes The confected Annis séedes are good for them which haue a stinking breath and cannot sléepe it prouoketh vrine it quencheth naturall thirst it taketh away the windinesse of the belly it is good for all paines of the stomacke against all diseases of the Liuer of the Lights of the Matrix and it helpeth the digestion It is also good against all hoarsnesse shortnesse of breath and especially for all cold diseases of women and for all them which be much plagued with the Whites Lastly it augmenteth also much the milke in women The confected Fennell seede is good against all poyson and especially against the venime of Snakes it moueth
thoroughly and well dried or preserued and confected in honie or sugar as is taught in the 8. part of this booke Séedes are ripest and of most vertue when the fruites are full ripe Seedes and when herbes are at their full growth all dust shall be sifted or fanned from them then bound vp in paper which longest kéepeth them good Some séedes may be kept longer in their full vertue and strength others must be new gathered euery yeare but easily it may be discerned by the tast which of them hath lost his vertue and which hath not Addition For the gathering of simples and their partes there be almost as many mindes and diuersities of opinions as Authours that write of them The one will haue them gathered when they beare their flower the other before or when the leafe is at the biggest and they readie to haue flowers the third sort when they are but young and new come foorth of the ground Some do gather one and the selfe same hearbe at sundrie times as when it first springeth out of the earth when it beareth his flower and when it beareth seede adding that the first is for children and young folkes the second for middle aged and the last for old men Other some would haue the leafe the stalke the roote the flower and the seede each gathered and reserued apart affirming each part of them to serue for sundrie vses There are yet others that gather all manner of hearbes in their seuerall moneths beginning the moneth still when the Sunne entreth into one of the twelue celestiall signes saying that euery hearbe hath most vertue when it most flourisheth some adde vnto this the full Moone But howsoeuer it be this I knowe by experience that not onely the diuersitie of the time in gathering them in preparing and in reseruing them but also the manifold vses of them are iust causes of sundrie nay cleane contrarie effects and operations in them For this I haue seene that one and the selfe same Simple being gathered at sundrie times in one and the selfe same place shall purge and bind which are quite contrarie effects And therefore it is no maruell if sometimes we misse of our expected purpose and hope in not finding those vertues in the Simples that by Hippocrates Galen Dioscorides and others are ascribed vnto them seeing they are of diuers men gathered without regard of time or place prepared without care reserued and kept they passe not how nor how long I remember that as I trauelled through the Dukedome of Brownswicke I heard of a woman that was very famous in the towne there called Gosler for womens diseases but especially in staying and prouoking their menstruall fluxes with whome when I had conferred about her art I found that it was one onely hearbe but gathered at sundrie times The reason of all these opinions and sundrie operations because it is not our intent nor meaning here to recite them we will deferre them till a more fit oportunitie be offered The sixt Chapter Of the preparation of some things for Phisicke as followeth The preparation of simples IT is also very necessarie and conuenient to knowe the true preparation of diuers and sundrie things and simples that are vsed in phisicke and to take away or diminish or at the least correct that which is and might be hurtful in them For if this should not be done they wold oftentimes by reason either of their sharpnesse or venimous nature do a great deale more harme than good Neither shall it be amisse to shew and declare the nature and properties of the principall simples and drugs in phisicke What Aloes Hepatica is Aloëpatica is the iuice of a very sappie hearbe which groweth in the countries that lie Eastward and is in tast maruellous bitter The best is that which glistereth is light cleare like a liuer without sand or grauell admixed and as yet cleauing to the skin wherein it is brought There is another kind of Aloes called Aloes Caballinum which in colour is very blacke and not vsed in Phisicke The vertues of 〈…〉 Aloes is hote in the first and drie in the third degree purgeth gall or choler and waterish flegme It is corrected two sundrie waies as followeth Hisp◠〈◊〉 Take of very fine powdered and sifted Aloes as much as thou wilt put twice as much raine water to it stir and mixe them well together let it then rest all a night that the sand stones and other filth may fall to the bottome in the morning after straine of the clearest couer it with a linnen cloath and set it in the hote Sunne or in some other warme place till it be somewhat dried then make litle rowles of it The other manner of washing Aloes is done with spices thus Take of Aloes as afore powdered and sifted six ounces of the swéet wood called Cassia Lignea Spikenard of India Asarrabacca swéet Cane Cubebes Lignum Aloes Cinnamom Xylobalsami Saffron Mastick prepared Lacca of each one ounce and a halfe Boyle all these together in a glasse or pot in water vntill all the vertue be boyled out of the ingredients and gone into the water then straine it through a cloth after this dissolue your Aloes in this water stirring it continually and at the last straine and drie it as is aforesaid This is called of the Apothecaries Aloe Lota or washed Aloes either with or without spices of this may boldly without any danger be giuen a quarter of an ounce at once To make burned Allume How to calcine Allume Take of the best Allum as much as thou wilt beate it not very small put it into an earthen pot vpon a litle cole of fire boyle it till it be thicke white and light and stir it wel in the boyling if it were not altogether drie then take it out by péeces and lay it in the hote fire and it will be dried incontinently Ammoniacum Ammoniacum and such like gums that cannot be beaten small and are very vncleane are clensed as followeth Put strong vineger vpon them and let them melt together on the fire straine and presse them through a strong linnen cloth to separate péeces of wood strawe and whatsoeuer else is with it let it afterwards boyle till it be thicke powre it out on a stone that is be-oyled and make it vp as pleaseth thée best Oile of oliues Sallet Oyle or Oile of Oliues it is oftentimes commanded to vse old oile of Oliues in place of which if it be not to be had thou shalt take one part of Oyle and two parts of water and let them boyle together easily on the fire till the Oyle become as thicke as honie and so vse it Others adde more water to their oyle but that cometh all to one end Pitch Pitch is sometimes vsed in forme of powder and is prepared on this manner Take one part of Pitch and twentie parts of water let them boile together in a great pot til
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
hath done very many much good Take a hote wheaten loafe new taken out of the ouen take out all the crum of it put a good quantitie of stéeled water vnto it with one ounce and a halfe of Nutmegs stop it close and let it so stand one whole day in a warme place then still of the water in a glasse Lembecke giue of this to the patient euery morning two ounces and let him fast two hours after it two hours after his meate giue him as much more not forgetting first to warme it alwaies and let him then fast till night The third potion or draught he shall take the next morning fasting as before after the same this is not only in this kind of flixe but in all other flixes experimented and approued Note also that if the flixe be without heate thou maist take red wine in stead of the water for then will it be of better force and vertue Heate of the head with melancholie §. 4. THis infirmitie is described by these signes following the paine is not so great as the former but with a drinesse and sadnesse the heate is more euident in the left side of the face than in the right it causeth disquietnesse and albeit the sicke sometimes taketh rest yet it is an vnnaturall sléepe it maketh the affected faint harted fearefull and carefull the color of the face is red and blew with a sower taste in the mouth if the patient be old if it be about the Autumne then are the signes the surer Thou shalt vse those remedies for this maladie which are prescribed against melancholie as sufficiently shall appeare hereafter Also vse this Clister Take Mallowes Violet leaues Buglosse Fumitorie Bran of each one M. Polipody Epithymus or Dodder of each one drag boile them together in a sufficient quantitie of water take twelue or sixtéene ounces of this decoction oile of Oliues thrée ounces Stronger Clisters shalt thou find elsewhere described Thou maist also make these or the like suppositories Take Coloquint Salamoniacke of each one dragme Oxe gall two dragmes sodden or boyled hony three ounces make them reasonable thicke and long they are very effectuall and strong Head-ach proceeding from emptinesse of the stomacke §. 5. IT befalleth oftentimes that this head-ach vexeth many euery day especially before they eate or drinke any thing and presently after meales departeth wherefore to auoide this emptinesse of the stomacke thou shalt euery morning take one bit of bread dipped in vineger or in the iuice of Pomgranates or veriuice The order of diet in hote head-aches THose that are troubled with a head-ach that procéedeth of heate must altogether abstaine from wine as hath bene alreadie said and not eate any flesh at all or very little for both of them do ingender much bloud Their meate must be thinges cold by nature as Lettice sodden and stewed Spinage Purslaine Panadoes broths béere and bread sodden together Apples and Peares stewed broths of veale of hens being sharpened with a litle veriuice Their drinke shall be small beere whay of milke Barley water with a little of the iuice of Pomegranates or Limons Of Cephalaea and Hemicrania certaine paines of the head §. 6. IF this head-ach do come with quicke and hastie puls and with heate then shall it séeme good first of all to purge the bodie and if the circumstances of the infirmitie permit it the patient shal vse this lenitiue medicine which is thus prepared Take of the greater and lesser Endiue Lettice of each one handfull Poppy heads two ounces séedes of Melons Gourds Cucumbers and of Pompions of each two dragmes grosly beaten halfe an ounce Violets Roses white and yellow Saunders of each two dragmes boyle them all in a sufficient quantitie of water till the third part be consumed then adde twelue ounces of Sugar boile it to the consistence of a sirupe and then clarifie it with the whites of egs Of this giue to the sicke one ounce and a halfe at once with the water of Borage or Endiue or Buglosse vse this thrée or foure times euery morning Because there is a great vse of sirupes in this booke How to make sirupes I will now shew and set downe the perfect order and way how to make and prepare them First sée thou haue fresh and cleare water with which thou wilt make thy sirupe put into it those things first which are hardest as rootes woods and such like let them boile as long as thou wouldest séeth a couple of egs then cast into it thy séedes grosly beaten then thy hearbes being cut after them thy flowers and Currants let them boile well together that their strength may come foorth and if Epithymus be one of the ingredients let it be put in last of all when it is sodden sufficiently adde thy hony or sugar vnto it and clarifie it with the whites of egs as hath bene taught in the Introduction namely in the clarifying of Sugar after this manner maist thou also deale in the purifying of hony But to come to the purpose againe thou shalt note that if the choler be supple and thin then shalt thou take sirupe of Endiue of Violets of water Lillies of each three drag admixed with the aboue named waters if the choler be grosse and thicke then take in stead of the sirupes the like quantitie of Oxysaccharū compos Rasis counselleth to giue this purgation after it Take Damaske Prunes ten drag sowre Dates one ounce boile them in a sufficient quantitie of water in this decoction steepe the rind or barke of yellow Mirobalans two dragm grosly beaten the next day strain and presse out all the liquor and giue three or foure ounces of it in the morning Others boyle Violets and water Lillies of each one ounce Stechas or French Lauander two ounces with halfe an ounce of Mirobalans this alwaies giue at the first They are both of them easie and safe purgations for which cause also it is found good sometimes according to néed to adde thrée graines of Diagridium to them or else to mixe with them of the conserue of Prunes or of Electuarium de succo Rosarum thrée dragmes Also in stead of the foresayd potion or drinke thou mayest vse this confection that followeth Take of both the confections before named of each halfe an ounce sirupe of water Lillies as much as sufficeth to mixe them withall and cast some Betonie rootes powdered and a little Sugar vpon it Likewise if thou hadst rather vse pils take two dragmes of Rubarbe Mastix one scruple Scammonie halfe a dragme make pils of them with the iuice of Rue or with wine and take a dragme at one time of them For the same purpose are sower Dates approued to be an especiall good remedie and may in this hot kinde of headache very safely with very great effect be adhibited But thou must take thrée or fower ounces of them at once as thou mayest behold their description and vertues in our Introductiō This manner
with the white of an egge Lastly put thereto two graines of Muscus and one dragme and a halfe of Camfere make a salue thereof and therewith annoint the face But this following is aboue all other to be commended Take Litharge of gold which is well decocted in vineger and well cleansed bruse it very small and temper with it oyle of roses but amongst all the rest this is to be noted for a rule that the vse of this foresaid nointing is not to be done but onely at the euening For to make a cleane face §. 4. IF any one haue a dark and sad countenance he is to be purged with Hiera piera afterwards he must euery morning fasting take Gentian Wormewood bitter Almonds of each one drag beaten small together with thrée ounces of Wormwood water certaine dayes together he is to wash the face oftentimes with vineger tempered with Rose water This following is also very sure Take Litharge of siluer an ounce and a halfe Sulfure viue halfe an ounce Camfere half a drag burnt Allume half an ounce make a fine powder thereof put thereto the water of Lillies and of Liriconfansie of Beane blossoms Salomons seale of each one ounce and a halfe keepe it in a close stopt glasse and when you will vse it stirre it well about Item take Beanes as many as you will steepe them all a night in sharp vineger take off the péeles drie them in a warme place beate them to powder and put some of it in warme water when you will go to bed and wash thy face therewith It is counselled for women that if they wil haue a wel colored face to eate oftentimes course Marierom for this it is also good to drinke wine for it maintaineth a liuely colour In like maner are much commended for this purpose the Aromaticall wines that haue rosemary in them not onely to be drunken but to wash the face also with them Betonie infused a whole night in wine maketh a good colour For congealed bloud after any blowes remaining §. 5. TAke Comfrey daisie leaues of each thrée ounces Cammomil Melilot of each one ounce Beane meale two ounces boile them together and beate it to grout when you wil vse it adde oile of Roses to it Item this following is very good take Comfrey Daisie leaues of each thrée ounces Cammomill Melilot of each two ounces Saffron one drag Beane meale foure ounces fresh butter two ounces Fenegréek meale one ounce and a halfe boile the rootes in water beate them and make a plaister of it this is very good for bruised members with congealed blood it suppleth and swageth the paine put also Wormewood and Comin vnto it of each one ounce then hath it not his like How to make a good colour §. 6. TAke the roots of Cuccowpint Ceruse of each half an ounce beaten small mixe them with Rose water and annoint the chéekes with it or take the lesser thrée leafed grasse beaten rub the face therewith it maketh a faire face and a cléere skin It is also ascribed to the Mithridate that it should also beautifie the face but yong hot folkes are not to vse it The sixt Chapter Eyebrowes Eyelids with all that appertaineth vnto them IN the beginning of the description of the face in the fift chapter is shewed that the same hath his entrance at the eyebrowes therefore doth the diuision of mans body require somewhat to be written of the same This is here specially to be noted that prouident nature doth wonderfully defend the eyes not onely with these but also with other members mo from many kinds of externall accidents for first there be Cilia the haire of the lids placed on the edges of the vppermost and vndermost ey-lids which stand out before with hard and stiffe haires whereby all smal things as flies dust and such like that might fall into the eyes should be therewith withstood Afterwards are both the eyelids Palpebrae whereof the vndermost standeth very fast and the vppermost most swiftly moueth so that it couereth the eye against all that might fall into it they do thus preserue and keepe the eyes in the sléepe they couer them from the ayrie light to the end that the whole body might the more commodiously take rest Thirdly they haue aboue in the end of the forehead as is said Supercilia eyebrowes set vpon a high bulke garnished with much haire to the end that all things that might fal downe and specially the sweate which thorough his salt nature might do the eyes much harme should be kept of these as it were with a bulwarke or fortresse And in like sort haue both the chéekes also two bunches in the midst of the two sides separated defended with the height of the nose like as also the outsides both of them with hard bones preserued and prouided for called of the Anatomists Ingales the temples so that the eyes are on euery side fortified that they might lie the surer in the depth It is not néedful to speake more ampler thereof but onely to discourse of those things which are conuenient for the healing of the maladies that are incident to those members Of the swelling of the eyelid §. 1. THere do fall many maladies into the eylids as swellings impostumes blerednes and other mo which maladies also oftentimes with the falling away of the haire are augmented But we wil begin with the swelling these haue many causes first that the defluction of the eielids cometh of a grosse and tough humor their rednes itch and smart make manifest whereby they be exulcerated and the haire falling away by no meanes groweth againe as long as this disease endureth the which doth hurt the sight and the eyes This patient first of all if he be full of blood is to haue a veine opened afterwards to prepare the matter with Oxymel compositum and sirupe of Fumitory and afterwards to purge with these pils following Take yellow Mirobalan barkes halfe an ounce Aloe one quarter of an ounce Turbith one drag Dragagant Roses Diagridiō Sene the iuice of Fumitory temper them all together and giue thereof one dragme at once or foure scruples They do purge the burnt matter and salt flegme water baths are also very profitable for this wherein Mallowes Sorrell Docks and Verueins are decocted vsed oftentimes At night lay this plaister following thereon take Endiue Purslaine Priests crowne of each a like much beate them to pappe and temper them with the white of an egge and with a little oile of Roses you may also wet a cloth in the iuice of those herbes and so lay it thereon Item take sodden Lentils powre out the broth bray them with a little Rose water and lay it thereon like as the former Or take Lentils Pomegranate pils Roses Sumack of each one ounce beate these together and make a pap thereof with Rose water make the eyes often moist with stilled Rose water or well water wherein Sorrell is decocted Or do thus
Take Dandelion Sorrell Roses Docke leaues and Lentils of each a like much Item take prepared Sarcocolla and bruise it in the iuice of Celendine and annoint the eies therewith is very good The order of diet is like as hereafter in Ophthalmia shall be shewed But if this defluxion or rednesse of the eylids be of long continuance then must one let blood and purge the oftener and outwardly vse the stronger things as this ensuing called Sieff viride Take Verdigrease one drag burnt Vitrioll one quarter of an ounce Orpiment Seafome Saltpeter of each one scrup Sal Armoniac two scrup temper them together with the iuice of Rue and annoint it vpon the eylids This is very good indeed to expell all such diseases but it is very strong and somewhat perilous to be vsed in the eyes yet outwardly not a whit This following is somewhat milder Take Verdigrease one dragme Dragagant thrée drag Saffron and Pepper of each one drag make it as thicke as hony with sowre wine and vse it as before Item take white Wine Rose water of each two ounces Aloe Saffron of each one dragme wherewith wash the eyelids take water wherein Sumacke is decocted Rose water and white Wine of each thrée ounces Vitrioll Verdigrease and burnt Aloe of each one drag wash it cold therewith or take Roses one quarter of an ounce prepared Tutia thrée drag Antimony burnt Copper of each halfe a drag Wine six ounces Fennel water one ounce and a half temper them and wash the eyes therewith The other manner of swelling or distension of the eyelids and browes doth come of subtile moisture or vapors Also if there be something throwne into the eye stung of wasps or perished through any other inconueniences In like manner if one rub the eyes with any strong herbes as Nettles Rue Esula c. Also these accidents may procéed of a bad digesture of the stomack of ouermuch watching or sléeping like as it commeth to passe in the Lithargy and also in the Dropsie Item if the swelling be caused through stripes or hurt then take the white of an eg brayed temper it with Rose water or oile of Roses and lay vpon it as often as it is dry two or three dayes after put Cammomill in a little bag and let it seeth in Wine and wet the swolne eyes therewith Item if this swelling be caused through wind or vapors then take powned Millet Cumin of each a like much make a plaister thereof with fennell water and lay a rosted apple vpon it You may annoint it also with the iuice of Sloes But if the swelling do come through the stinging of Waspes or Bees then take Theriaca Mithridate or the confection of Triphera tempered with a litle Aloe bruised with Rose water and annoint it therewith Some do temper salt Gemme amongst it You may reade further thereof afterwards in the seuenth part of the stinging of Bees Or if this swelling be caused through rubbing of hot hearbs or such like annoint it with Populcon oyle of Roses tempered with the white of an egge for this also the iuice of Housleeke tempered with oyle of Roses or with iuice of Plantaine making clothes wet therein is good If it be caused by much watching then is sléepe requisite and also for a bad digesture to suffer hunger and thirst c. If the same be caused through cold then take Asarabacca Daffodil of each halfe an ounce prepared Tutia and annoint the swelling therewithall there may also oyle of roses and white waxe be molten amongst it that it may be like a salue The third sort of swelling of these members is like as it were a fatnesse that sheweth it selfe throughout the browes where the same aggrauateth and hindreth the lids that one cannot well open them This distension is without paine and if one presse his finger vpon it then is the mark séene stand a good while afterward therein The occasion of this is dry or grosse slime and withall some moisture of the eyes it doth matter in the corners of the eyes that sticketh so fast to the eyelids But one must first try to remedy it by fomentation to take for it the decoction of Wormwood Cammomill fennell Annise and such like afterwards make a plaister of prepared Ammoniack or Diachylon and some salt Armoniack and Ireos tempered amongst it and if it wil not away therewith then is it certaine that it procéedeth not of moisture or vapors but of rottennesse for which many strong things are to be vsed for that will not easily be consumed euen as you may apparantly perceiue if you let water and fat seeth together that the water is much sooner wasted than the fat therfore we are also to vse the things following that are rehearsed hereafter in the first place of this distension Especially if the premisses will not help he is to purge like as is said in the first swelling or distension of the eyelids but if so be that the water be subtile and fluxible with choler then is a purgation to be tempered with yellow Mirobalans and Woodbind water and also to let blood if it be needfull Warme clothes wet with well water are also very good layd thereon also to bathe otherwhiles And when one goeth to bed to lay vpon it the white of an egge brayed well In the morning are the eyes to be fomented againe with warme water if then the matter be grosse and the swelling be any thing big then take Fenegreeke and Linseed lay them to steepe in womans milke then wring out the muscilage but foment the eyes with warme water before and lay the foresayd Muscilage vpon it if there be then paine with it annoint the place with the fat of a hen This doth also the Muscilage of Linséeds alone tempered with a little Waxe and oile of Roses and layd thereon This tough matter we must seeke to consume with the foresaid Collyrium of Tutia Pepper and such like and therewith continue somewhat because health cannot follow so soone after it There cometh also other whiles paine of the eyelids which presseth none otherwise than as if one were constrained to hold his eyes shut for which the Mithridate is very good layd vpon the eyes and the forehead and held in the mouth The fourth kind of the swelling is called Hailstones by reason of their hardnesse which is not throughout like to the fat swelling but onely in one place whether it be within or without the eyelids for this is first to be sought to mellow it as shall be hereafter taught If this cannot be effected then if it may be come by outwardly it is to be cut out The fift kind receiueth her name of the Barly which it resembleth for it is such a swelling of the eyes that stretcheth him from one corner of the eye to the other and is greatest in the middle and smallest in the corners and hath this difference with the aforenamed Hailstones that they remaine hard throughout but this not
that there may be a plaister made of them lay the patient vpon his backe and apply some therof vpon his eye Or take a whole Pomegranate betwéene sowre and swéet séeth it in a little Vineger A drying and astringent Collyrium stampe it and vse it as before Item take the yolke of a rosted egge lay it with towe vpon the eye Item vse also waters for the eyes that are drying and astringent as hereafter followeth take powned Bloudstone that is nine times washt in the vrine of a man child or boy one quarter of an ounce Gummi Arabicum Dragagant burnt Copper of each one dragm burnt and washt Pumis stone Opium of each a scrup Fennell water as much as is néedfull for to forme small trocisces thereof when you will vse them then stéepe them in white wine The eyes are also to be often washed with water wherein Roses are decocted or well water tempered with Vineger and foure Wine for this is also fit Oliue leaues and if they cannot be had then in the stead of them is the iuice of Shepheards purse vsed wherein burnt lead brused smal is to be tempered also the iuice of Quince leaues and Medlar leaues and then sallad oile must be put amongst it and so lay it ouer the sore eye Where the eyes do bake together in the sleepe TAke the iuice of Housléeke and annoint the eyes therewith it doth soke them softly and coole them Item take iuice of Agrimonie alone or tempered with womans milke also Rosewater and other waters for to soke therewith the dryed matter of them Of Aegylops a certaine swelling betweene the nose and the corner of the eye §. 9. THere commeth otherwhiles a small impostume betwéene the nose and the corner of the eye the which the Phisitions call Aegylops If the same be not holpen betimes then doth it infect the bone The Chirurgeons do heale the same in this manner they cut vp the vppermost skinne and wring out the impostume which lyeth lockt in a little bladder and cut it off as neare as may be the rest do they take away with an actuall or potentiall Cauterie The same swelling doth settle it selfe otherwhiles in the length of the eyelids yet both are to be holpen with Oatmeale Wine and Tutia tempered together in manner of a Salue Of Blemishes or spots in the Eyes §. 10. THese are two speciall kindes red and white The red are caused thorough bloud when there appeareth in the eye a red drop or a darke like as a congealed bloud which at times is also blacke that is woont to be caused of blowes falles great labour much wéeping and such like In like manner also of inward causes as hath bene said of Ophthalmia and of red or ouerheated eyes For this is also much commended the bloud of Turtle doues wild Pigeons or if one cannot haue them of common house Pigeons being let bloud vnder the wings like as is alreadie rehearsed and chiefly in the beginning if one temper some fine Bolus among it and the eyes to be fomented with warme water wherin wild Time Marioram Fennel and Barley is decocted A water for the eyes Take the séede of Ameos Comin Fennell rootes and the séedes sodden together and a little Salgemmae tempered amongst it you shall oftentimes let some thereof drop into the eyes If it be néedfull to vse any stronger thing for it then take one quarter of an ounce of Orpiment put eight ounces of water vnto it stir it well about then let it settle powre the water cleare from it that no substance of the Orpiment run with it and drop thereof in the eye But good héed must be taken in the vse of this sharpe venime that there follow no bad accident after it therefore it is more sure to vse this following Take prepared Bloodstone thrée drag burnt Copper one quarter of an ounce red Corall Pearles of each halfe a dragm Gummi Tragacant of each two dragmes and a halfe Pepper the waight of thirtie graines washed Ceruise one drag Orpiment Dragon bloud Saffron Amber of each halfe a drag make a dough thereof with the blood of Turtle doues of Hennes or common Pigeons bloud and forme Trocisces thereof about the waight of one dragm When you will vse these bruise them in womans milke and put a drop thereof in the eye It is also very good for the skinnes of the eyes whereof we purpose to intreate hereafter A plaister Take Doues dung make it with wine and vineger into a plaister and apply it lukewarme vpon the eyes Or take that which followeth which is most certaine Take Raisins put out the stones powne them and put vineger to it vse it as before Item take fresh chéese méetly salted Radishes rosted in ashes Melilot Cammomill of each one ounce rosted Lillie rootes meale of Lentils Dragon bloud of each halfe an ounce Saffron one quarter of an ounce temper them all together with the brayed white of an egge vnto a plaister In like manner it is also good to foment the eyes with the decoction of Coleworts and the leaues thereof sodden together in wine in manner of a plaister with Cammomill laid vpon the eyes Now concerning the white spots which do come commonly after the Impostume of the eyes Of these some are thin and some are thicke But they that stand vpon the white and be thin do the sight no hurt but those that are thicke and lie vpon the apple of the eye they remaine and are almost vnpossible to be healed but to be somewhat eased and rather in children then in aged folkes Now albeit that this is hardly effected without the manuall operation of an Occulist yet neuerthelesse are these things very good for it and especially if the same be white and thin First of all he is to bath oftentimes in water or at the leastwise to foment his face and eyes so long with warme water vntill the face be thorowly red and sweating and if that therby be caused a rednesse or paine of the eyes it is to be omitted certaine dayes and afterwards begin againe Also you may vse water wherein Mallowes Hollihocke rootes Oaten straw Barley Otes and chiefly Fenegréeke are decocted for this is a certaine and approoued receipt After this fomenting strew this powder therein take Sarcocolla white Sugar Spuma maris of each a like much and bruise it very small Item take Cuttle bone powdered small and temper it with womans milke Take swallowes dung honie as much as is needfull and if you will make it soft mixe it with Fennell water But the storie of Tobias doth shew that this medicine is especially perilous Make the eyes oftentimes moyst with fresh womans milke but if you cannot get it then vse the waters wherein Mallowes Hollihock rootes be decocted afterwards you may put thereto the Sieff de Thure the which you must prepare like as hereafter followeth Take Frankinsence fiue dragmes Ammoniacum Sarcocolla of each two dragmes and a halfe
be growne or crept into them as fleas or earwigs The same doth also the iuice of Wormewood of Lupins of Caper roots Coriander roots which haue therein an especiall property and also the iuice of gréene nut shels some do decoct in wine a little Hellebore and so drop it therein But if these maladies may otherwise be cured then is the vse of these rootes to be omitted Item take burning nettles stampe them and straine out the iuice put it into the eares and giue him to eate of the root it will help immediatly Take Aloe halfe an ounce Coloquint Agaricus of each half a drag beate them togither and temper them with hot water bruse them and vse as aforesaid Take a slice of well tosted bread hold it to the eare then wil the wormes fleas earwigs and such like come out or hold the eare wherein the wormes be on the vapor of hot new milk then do the wormes créepe after the vapor of the said milke Another Take one quarter of an ounce of Wine Hony and oyle of Roses of each thrée drag temper them together with the brayed whites of two egs make cotton moist therein and stop the eare therewith lye about an houre on that side afterwards pluck it suddenly out then will the worme hang vpon it the same doth also the wooll steeped in hony Item set a great boxing cup or glasse on the eare then will it be drawne out whatsoeuer is within it Obstruction or stopping of the Eares through inward and outward causes §. 7. IF the eares be stopt and thereby the hearing hindered the same must procéed either through an inward or outward cause The inward cause may be some tough slime or moisture wormes growing in them congealed bloud matter impostumations excrescence of flesh warts and such like Outward causes are if there come any thing into them whereof we will speake seuerally Do now these obstructions procéed of excresceÌ„ces warts and such like which one cannot see nor come at with the hand then is it taken to be incurable as contrariwise if it may be seene it may very well be cured the which is committed to the Chirurgians otherwise the oyle of Bay Oxe gall Hemp oyle are very good each vsed apart If then the stopping be through slime matter or any other vncleannes mollifie it with oyle of bitter Almonds or drop hony water warme into it two dayes together and oftentimes vse the one in stéed of the other afterwards take a warme tile sprinkle it with wine couer it with a cloth lay the eare vpon it to the end that the matter may runne out For this is also good Goats gall tempered with oyle or Scorpion oyle for the stopping with wormes you haue heretofore in the sixth § the remedies If any thing be gotten into the Eares from without §. 8. THese things are of two sorts as it also happeneth that the one child doth put peason smal stones or cherrie stones into the eare of another the other be soft things as water Fleas Earewigs and such like If this happen then is not the same to be slept vpon or delayed for thâ—â—e things require helpe and aduice with all spéed for there is great danger imminent especially if that which is cropen therein be of any bad nature for of that commeth great paine and consequently great sicknesse For this accident first one of these foresaid Oyles is to be dropped therein afterwards to bath and to sit there a good while moue néesing and to hold in the breath for to driue out whatsoeuer is in the eares but if this will not helpe then is the same to be done with manuall operation with instruments But if that which is gotten in be liquid and soft as water then vse oile againe and bend the necke alwaies towards the side of the disease and exercise your selfe with leaping and iumping and if so be that it come not out thereby then indeuor your self againe to néesing Also you may often cleanse the eare with an eare picker couered with wooll or with a peece of a spunge or to tye the pith of Elderne wood at a thrid and so to thrust it into the eare or through a little pipe let the moisture be sucked out the which in like manner may be done with the woormes One may also hold the eare ouer the vapor of hote wine wherein Cammomill Linséede Annis séedes and such like are decocted But if fleas or wormes be gotten into them they do raise great paine through their iumbling especially the fleas for the which take a Taint and annoint it with a little cleauing salue made of Turpentine and Rosin to the end that the fleas being fast thereat may remaine hanging at it and so be drawne out If this cannot be effected then vse that which is heretofore described in the 6. § of the wormes in the eare and wherewith they be to be destroyed Of the diminishing of hearing §. 9. THe diminishing of hearing may procéede of many sundrie occasions the outward causes are these strong fumes vnexpected vehement and sudden noise as when the thunder striketh one oftentimes hath bene seene that some thereby haue lost their hearing and haue bene starke deafe In like manner the South wind doth also cause it by reason that it filleth the braines with moisture whereby the sense of hearing is inféebled What now concerneth deafenesse and the diminishing of the hearing thereupon do all learned men first conclude That if we be borne with it or that it continue the space of two yeares that there is no hope at all left for to cure the same and if the same do procéede of any moisture water matter or other cause whereby the hearing is weakened that may be knowne by these meanes ensuing Take a spunge make it very drie and warme bind it in a double linnen cloth and when you go to bed lay it vnder the eare if you then in the morning see the cloth spotted then may you well adiudge that there is some matter in the eare whereby the hearing is hindered but if the cloth be cleane and faire then dependeth it on another cause If that this disease do then come through heate yet without any impostumation the which thereby may easily be discerned if the patient complaine of no heauinesse but much rather of lightnesse in the head the heate perceiued in the féeling may well abide cold things and hote things very ill where this is found and perceiued then to take away the great heate is first to be endeuored and to drop those things ensuing into it lukewarme The oile of Roses oile of Violets oile of water Lillies temper them together or vse each alone Item take a Pomegranate wring out the iuice put vineger and oile of Roses vnto it of each a spoonefull powned Frankinsence one drag and a halfe let it séeth a litle and droppe it therein Take the water of Lettice the water of a cut Vine mixe them together or vse each alone
these sicke persons fall not in any déepe sléepe through the strong binding of the outward members like as is taught in the ninth Chapter and second § and in other places of the Hissing of the eares frothing and rubbing the same hard also the plucking by the nose or beard and women by the haire of their priuities lowd crying and making great noise yea if it were néedefull by fearing them to the end they may be sorrowfull Some Phisitions begin first the cure with letting bloud and opening of the head veine and if there be no other occasions which may let and hinder it few dayes after the veine on the forehead aboue the nose They also do further the bléeding at the nose by thrusting in of swines bristles and such other Afterwards they vse strong Clisters two or thrée dayes afterwards néesing powder for to expell sléepe therewith and if all these will not helpe then is one to looke if he can bring the patient to parbraking vomiting whether it be through thrusting in of his fingers feathers plumes or waxe candles into the throate or through the iuice of Radishes tempered with Oxymel or taking a Radish sticking here and there into it péeces of blacke Hellebore layd al night in a celler taking out the rootes in the morning and boyling the Radish in water and straining it through a cloth tempering therein one dragme of Saffron and foure ounces of vineger whereof two spoonefuls are to be giuen him immediatly after meate The order of diet BIcause that this maladie is short and inclineth spéedily to life or to death therefore is no great héede to be taken for meate and drinke in this sicknesse but thin Meade must be his onely drinke for it digesteth and expelleth Also he is to occupie the broth of Fitches and Barly decocted with Hen broth it is a commodious meate for him but of all fruites and meates of cold nature he must beware But as much as concerneth the foresayd Clisters we shall speake thereof when we discourse of the Apoplexia for thereby be the braines discharged from all that hurtfull matter You must also in stead of the same vse these suppositories Take stone salt and beaten Beuercod of each one dragme clarified Honie two ounces make méetely thicke and long suppositories of it For to purge this ensuing is very requisite Take Hiera Picra halfe an ounce Honie water three ounces it is thin and bitter or breake the Pils Cochiae one dragme sirupe of Roses one ounce in thrée or foure ounces of hony water also he must drinke sometimes of this hony water following Take foure parts of water and one part of hony séeth it so long as it will cast vp any scum The aboue mentioned Oxyrrhodinum thrée dayes together laid vpon the head is also much commended Or make this water Stechas Rue Marioram gentle Marioram Bay leaues Hyssop and Nep of each halfe a handfull séeth them all together in sufficient water vnto the halfe dip a spoonge therein and apply it warme to the head This foresaid water may from on high be irrigated vpon the head and the hearbes being wrung out to be layd in a little bag on the top of the head Item take Pigeon dung temper it with Hony and so lay it vpon the head you must rub well the necke with Lilly rootes or with Squils For this are also good all these oyles ensuing vsed each by it self or mixed together as the oyle of Beuercod of Spike of Piretrum of Mustard séede and oyle of Bayes the iuice of Rue or the hearbe decocted in Wine and laid in the neck is very highly commended Because then the causes require like as is said that the head be purged through néesing take the things whereof we haue at sundrie times spoken like as the first Register shall shew thée if it be néedfull to purge yet more you haue further instructions for it in the foresaid places where we haue discoursed of the Palsey Lastly the patients haire is to be shorne off and afterwards he must haue the head annointed with a salue of Mustard séede Beuercod and Vineger tempered together for it is strong and hote for to consume all melancholicke humors in the hinder part of the head There may also those things be vsed for it which are ordained for the Palsey which be worthie of obseruation Of Numnesse and Astonishing which is Stupor Congelatio whereon dependeth Tremor which we call trembling §. 11. THe second kinde of this sléeping disease haue we ascribed to Stupor and Tremor that is the numnesse and trembling which commonly follow each other What the first is for a disease that is discouered in the beginning of this our booke viz. a strong cold which comprehendeth the hinder part of the head like to Lethargus and maketh vnmoueable and senslesse the partie affected and therefore is likened therein to the Paralysi for that also as is sayd it is called a small Paralysis or Palsey In this sicknesse the patient lyeth none otherwise then as if he slept but hath the eyes open and stirreth neither the eye lids nor any other member of the bodie If they do get this numnesse as they stand they remaine standing or as stiffe as a sticke if they get it writing so do they continue sitting as if they wrote or if they get it with looking into the Skie so they also remaine séeing without any alteration whereby then the common people do get an vnbeléefe saying that they be taken away and that they speake with God or with an Angell amongst which otherwhiles Sathan doth mingle his wilinesse whereby some do take and hold them for Saints like as they sometimes shew foorth that they haue seene maruels in Purgatorie and in heauen In fine these be likened to Idols that do not see with open eyes do not smell nor heare do not speake with open throate neither go on their legs like as the Psalme saith This numnesse or stifnesse doth also most commonly take one in their sléepe that is if any one haue a leg or a foote stiffe like as the learned and we also call it stéeping and hath lost for the space of a certaine time his féeling and motion the which hapneth if that one member lye too hard vpon the other whereby the vitall spirits are kept backe but with what infirmities of the braine this numnesse agréeth is sufficiently before rehearsed and shewed This disease is to be holpen as the sléeping sicknesse Subet is cured as you find written in the first Chapter § 6. and afterwards of Cephalaea but for this is especially commanded not to tarry long from taking of good aduise for that if one let this numnesse grow old then followeth after it a perfect palsey Therefore if any bodie haue their féete or other member benumned or will waxe stiffe then are the remedies to be vsed for it which are good for the palsy and those that shall be hereafter described and a good diet to be
opened boxing cups to be set on the thighs and legs and on al other parts of the body Thrée ounces of oyle of Roses mixed with an ounce of Vineger and other cooling things more are to be applied to the head also to beware of these meates that fume into the head and that ingender much bloud as hath bene said neither may the patient vse any Wine sower Fruites as Citrons Lemons Veriuice Pomegranates may he measurably vse either raw by themselues or mixed with his drinke Of the Friction THe patient is to be rubbed downwards to wit from the necke to the very rump from the brest to the legs and from the thighes to the féet the lower the better with rough cloths warmed thereby to draw the matter downwards after that he is to vse a reasonable motion walking and kembing of the head Some counsell to rub the pulses with Strawberry water and if all this will not helpe then is an actuall Cautery to be vsed for the extreamest and last remedie whereof hath sufficiently bene spoken before Of the Apoplexie or dead Palsey §. 18. EVen as we haue generally spoken of this fearefull disease in the 9. § this Apoplexia is the most vehement and last of all the former fiue infirmities because it is more hurtfull and perillous then all the rest for it often befalleth that these Apoplectici do not only lose their speech senses and memorie but also all motion naturall warmth and nourishment yea remaine wholly dumbe which happeneth by reason that all the passages of the braines are obstructed whereby the vitall spirits cannot be spread ouer the whole body and because they are without sense without féeling and without all motion do the Latinists call them Attonitos This Apoplexia is described after two manner of waies the one bereaueth a man of all sense and féeling and that otherwhiles so long that the patient séemeth to be dead wherefore it is also commaunded that he should not be buried before the fourth day and to be assured that there is no life more to be expected thou shalt hold a litle feather at his mouth which if it neither moue nor wagge and that the bodie waxeth stiffe then is he departed Likewise a glasse of water is to be set vpon his breast and if the same be not stirred then it is a sure signe of death The other Palsey is somwhat easier it doth first infect the breast wherby all the sinewes are constrained to moue immoderatly and to hinder respiration and this is rightly called Apoplexia Others do diuide it into thrée kinds whereof the first is when the patient doth drawe a little breath but with great difficultie as also when he fometh his breath is not heard but his voice a little as if he were choked and this is the worst and deadliest Palsey The second hath a variable respiration or breathing sometimes not perceiued at all and anon returning to his former course without fome at the mouth this also is not without great danger and albeit that it were cured yet doth it turne to some other sicknesse The third kind is when the breath remaineth in due order The causes of these sicknesses are superaboundant humors either in the braine or in the bloud ouercharging the stomacke with meate or drink ouerwatching debility of the braines drinking of cold water coole winds rainie weather blowes fals vse of many cold meats as fruits fishes lettice ouermuch sléepe carnall copulation presently after meals long rest or quiet binding in the body ouermuch bléeding either by opening of a veine or otherwise This disease is both very common and very dangerous for old folkes especially if they haue kept an immoderate diet before The common and surest signes of it are these to wit if the patient be quickly snorting and not sléeping be handled or pinched without sense or féeling Likewise the vehemencie or debilitie of this disease may be discerned by the snorting also it is to be taken for a most sure and infallible signe thereof if he fome at the mouth and is by no meanes possible to be cured so that all Phisitions herein agrée that nothing can be done but onely to satisfie his friends yet without all hope of recouerie But if the patient snort not hard then is the Apoplexie the lesse and to be briefe a strong Apoplexie maketh quicke dispatch of the patient or else there ensueth a dead palsey which is much easilier cured wherfore it is altogether néedlesse to make any great discourse of this Apoplexie and the rather because that all the remedies seruing for cure of this sicknes are declared in the treatise of the falling euill and of the palsey Afterwards héede is also to be taken whether the face waxe red blacke or gréene as it commonly befalleth if some part be tyed or bounden about hard for this are both the Saphaenae to be opened on the féete and awhile after both the head veines afterwards in the forehead aboue the nose This being done the armes aboue the elbowes and the legs beneath the knees are to be very strongly bound that the bloud might be drawne to the paines yet as it hath oftentimes béen sayd before not to let them be bounden too long without vntying them then afterwards tying them againe Also you are to pinch the fingers of the patient very hard and rub both his eares and his nose so roughly that it might be painefull vnto him Some do counsell that the outward parts should be stroked downewards with wine wherein Ireos or Calamus hath béen decocted also suppositories Clisters and boxing cups and such like not to be omitted nor yet the application of Oxyrrhodinum to the head But if none of the foresayd signes do appeare in the patient but onely a little ratling in the throate when he breatheth then it is an infallible signe of many watrish humors for the which this Clister following is to be vsed Take Centory wild and garden Sage Rue Southernewood Marioram white water Mints of each halfe a M. a little Bran and halfe a Coloquint tyed vp in a cloth boyle them al togither in sufficient water Take of this decoction 16. ounces and mixe with it mel anacardinum and oyle of Costus of each one ounce and a half Sal gemmae one dragme Hiera Picra 7. dragmes stirre them well togither this is very méete for the Apoplexie To draw the phlegme out of the head shalt thou prouoke néesings with Ellebore for the which this roote is very appropriate or vse this following Take white Ellebore or néesing-woort one dragme Beuercod halfe a dragme Lignum Aloes one scruple beate them to powder and blow it into the nose and if he could abide vomiting the vse thereof will not be vnprofitable for him open his mouth and powre therein Oxymel of Squils with warme water oyle of Roses of Lillies Item boyled Radishes or horse radishes in water Also this vomiting may be prouoked by putting a feather into the throate giue vnto
him not much meate and if it be possible giue him nothing to drinke but Meade and the next day let him drinke one dragme or one dragme and a halfe of the decoction of Annis seedes Thou shalt call alowd and make a great noyse about this patient also vse musicke thereby to awake him out of his deadly sléepe which if it will not helpe then is he to be pulled pinched and very roughly to be handled It is also very méete that this patient take euery day one dragme more or lesse of the confection Anacardina with Oxymel thereby to bring an ague according as the cause requireth for it is very hot wherefore the learned dispute greatly whether an ague be a good or a bad signe in the Apoplexie Of outward applications TAke Cammomill Melilot Penniroyall wild Thyme Marioram Baulme Marioram gentle of each one M. boile them in water and bath or foment the head therewith warme stampe the herbes put to them oyle of Rue and of Lillies of each one ounce and a half and apply them warme to the head if it be cold weather then annoint the head with oyles that are warme of nature and with the oyle of Daffodils of Beuercod of Pieretrum and such like and not onely the head but also the necke and the whole backe bone Or make this salue following Take Calmus bitter Costus rootes of each halfe an ounce Siluer mountaine Basill séede of each an ounce oyle of Spikenard of Cammomill of Lillies of each two ounces white Wine thrée ounces melt all that is to be molten and boyle them togither on a small fire of coales vntill the wine be consumed then mixe the oyle amongst it annoint the whole head therewith and the backe bone downewards to the very end thereof And if this will not helpe then shaue off all the haire on the head and apply this plaister following being spread on a péece of leather or a peece of fustian and make it as big that the whole head may be couered therewith Take Galbanum Sagapenum Opopanacum of each two dragmes Sulfer vife one dragme and a halfe Turpentine one ounce melt and mixe them well togither Now to finish this part of the braines we must first remember two things briefly First that it is most necessarie for this patient altogither to forbeare wine and to drinke some small béere or to continue with this Meade following which is made of twelue quarts of water and thrée or foure quarts of Honie being well sodden and scummed Concerning his meate hath sufficiently bene spoken before Secondly if his speech be altogether or very much decayed then is the water of Liriconfansie to be vsed as it is described in the 5. § before and with it all manner of waters of life which are specified in the eight part Also Wormewood wine Lauander wine Spikenard wine and the conserue of the same but remember alwaies that all other wines be streightly prohibited wherefore these ought also very circumspectly to be vsed The thirteenth Chapter Of the Mouth and all that appertaineth vnto it AFter the description of the Braines which are the vppermost inward member of the head we will now speake of other parts as of the Mouth and Lips In the mouth first is the pallet the toung the gums the roofe the téeth the almonds with all the other adiacent partes as the voice which is made and brought foorth with the lips toung téeth and with other parts more After them follow all manner of accidents that are incident vnto thē Now to speake of the whole mouth it is to be admired as also al other parts that are created by God for aboue all that it containeth it is the onely meanes wherby euery liuing thing receiueth foode for the whole bodie Also by this the nostrels the heart and lungs receiue aire without which it is impossible to liue Thirdly out of this procéedeth the voice and spéeches whereby one man vnderstandeth an other and whereby a man is different from all other beasts which haue nothing common with vs but onely the voyce These things are manifold as hereafter shall appeare more at large Of the outward parts to wit of the lips hath bene spoken in the tenth Chapter but before we come to this particular treatise we will first of all shew all that belongeth vnto the mouth Of putrifactions and exulcerations in the Mouth §. 1. THese exulcerations or putrifactions of the mouth are of many sorts one déepe an other not some perurulent some corroding virulent as wel in the toung as in the gums consuming and spoiling them otherwhiles wholy They procéede of diuers causes and amongst all other of these to wit if one scald his mouth with hote meates or vse any thing which is hote by nature likewise also hote vapors which ascend from the stomacke and vlcerate the mouth If these exulcerations be red the face also red and inflamed and especially about the place where the sore appeareth thereby may be adiudged that it proceedes onely of the bloud but if the colour in the face be yellowish with heate and drith in the mouth rednesse in the eyes of the throte and with blisters in the mouth without any great swelling and that the patient cannot abide any hote thing in his mouth then procéedeth it of Cholera but if the vlcers be white without great paine without any great swelling of the lips and gums and if the spettle be saltish then riseth the same of Phlegma The melancholike humor bringeth her own signs with her to wit obscurenesse hardnesse and blacknesse These infections are thus described The putrifaction in the mouth is when many blisters and vlcers are ingendred which do arrode the gums toung and throte painfully running from one place to another and so spoile the mouth Before thou take these exulcerations in hand looke whether they be déepe eaten into the flesh or not new or old If they be not big but fresh and not ouerladen with much moisture then vse these things following which may suffice with some astringent and binding things admixed as to wash the mouth with Well water Plantaine water and Rosewater wherein the blossomes of Pomegranates and their pils and also Gals haue bene decocted You may also vse Rose water mixed with vineger Item the decoction of Fleawoort séedes or of dried Prunes by it selfe or tempered with vineger Item take raine water boyle therein the yellow seedes of Roses with Galles as much as you please and wash the mouth therewith or extinguish Stéele made red hot in milke and wash thy mouth often therewith Item take Gals one dragme Rose water sixe ounces vineger one ounce and a halfe put them together Or take Roses burnt Iuorie Coriander Sumach Lentils Purslaine seedes péeled Gourd séede Cucumber séedes of each halfe an ounce beate and mixe them togither and lastly adde a little Camfere vnto them Take of this powder half an ounce Rose water vineger of each two ounces vse it as hath
afterwards gargarize with Barley water and hony of Roses For all impediments putrifactions and exulcerations of the mouth are thrée diuers gargarismes prescribed and ordained whereof some are specified hereafter wherewith is also declared how that commendable iuice of Mulberies honie of Roses and moe other things are to be prepared Of outward exulcerations and contractions of the mouth hath bene spoken in the twelfth chapter and § 14. Of a stinking mouth and breath §. 3. THis infirmitie procéedeth not onely from the mouth but of many other accidents moe which the learned comprehend in the number of eight first when the gums doe putrifie and stinke secondly bad and hollow téeth thirdly stinking humors that fall down from the head into the pannicles of the mouth and there make the spettle to stinke fourthly stinking slime of the stomacke fiftly the corruption of the lights sixtly stinking matter and purulencie as in Phthisi seuenthly stopping in the nose or some exulceration of the same as in Ozena eightly the corruption before mentioned of the mouth Of the foresaid infirmities haue diuers Authors sufficiently spoken as also hereafter in many places shall appeare Here we intreate onely of the corruption of the mouth in the which we may comprehend the three last causes And first of all if this stench procéede from the braine and settle it selfe in the tunicles of the mouth which most commonly commeth of heate then is there present a great itch heate thirst and drought For this shalt thou open the head veine set boxing cups in the neck purge the head with Pillulae aurea or Cochiae wash thy mouth often with Plantaine water or water of shepheards purse receiue the vapor of decocted Mallowes or Lettice and smell of Roses Violets Waterlillies Willow leaues Saunders or of Cammomill If it procéede of cold then vse some daies together potions of Oxymel Compositum or Oximel of Squils purge with pill Cochiae and gargarize with this water following Take Ireos Cypers rootes Iuniper berries Marioram gentle field Mints wild Time garden Mints all of them or as many as you please vse it often you may also draw it vp into the nose you must beware of Fruites Fishes Beanes all hard meates and such as putrifie spéedily in the stomacke If the corruption of the mouth do cause this stinking breath then shall you gargarize very often with the decoction of Agrimonie and Oliue leaues adding as much Honie vnto it as you thinke good Item take Vineger and extinguish it in gold made red hote a good many times with Cloues decocted in it wash the mouth with it this taketh away the stench also gold only held in the mouth is very good so likewise doth chewed Ireos Take gréene oken leaues beate them to powder and take of this one drag euery day fasting with Wine it taketh away the stench In the 12. Chapter and first § in the description of the Memorie you may find a good powder which beginneth Take Sene leaues Seduarie c. Item take Cinnamome Cloues Sage Marioram gentle Balme Nutmegs Angelica rootes and such like odoriferous things eate and chew them in thy mouth spet them out and take in fresh they take away all bad sauours and stenches Of what cause soeuer this infection procéede these simples following are very commodious for it each by it selfe to wit Auence Cypers rootes Frankinsence Lignum Aloes Cinnamome Citron séeds Rape sédes Cloues Myrrhe Blatta byzantia Mastick Cardamome Agnus castus Spica Squinanth Citron leaues Roses Saunders Campher water Lillies Rosewater prepared Coriander odoriferous apples Quinces Tormentill rootes and such like Take white Saunders Roses of each fiue drag red Saunders Citron pilles Squinanth Gallia muschata of each two drag make a powder or little bals thereof to hold in thy mouth A Gargarisme for all infections of the mouth §. 4. GArgarismes are commonly made for all infirmities of the mouth throate and lippes to cleanse to heale and to cure them but because we haue described many such accidents and haue promised to shew some gargarisme for them which shall be done at this present and for that in all gargarismes thrée principall things are tempered as the sirupe of Mulberies hony of Roses and the iuice of Nut shels we will therfore first of all shew how they are to be prepared The Sirupe of Mulberries Diamoron THis Sirupe is diuersly prepared The common people take halfe Mulberries and halfe Blackberries and boyle them like to a Conserue of this do they giue in hote diseases to comfort Others take onely the iuice of blacke Mulberies wringing them through a strainer as soone as they are gathered and so with Sugar make it to a sirupe The Apothecaries prepare it thus Take sixe ounces of the iuice of Mulberies 12. ounces of the iuice of Blackberries both the berries as yet being not full ripe clarified hony 11. ounces swéet wine three ounces let them séeth together ouer a gentle fire till it be reasonable thick and kéepe it in a pot The fourth and best meanes Take iuice of Mulberries Blackberries Framboys and of Strawberries of each foure ounces clarified Honie eight ounces boyle them with a mild fire till they waxe reasonable thick But note as alreadie hath bene said that the berries be not altogither ripe and bicause the Framboyes Strawberries be ripe before the rest their iuices are to be sodden with halfe as much Sugar and so to be kept vntill the rest be red all these sirupes haue an especiall vertue to cure all infirmities of the mouth to cleanse to coole and to dry for which cause also they are good to be vsed against the Squinancie and all infections of the throte But if thou wilt make it stronger then temper Allume Myrrhe Saffron and Veriuice of which thou wilt amongst it according as the cause requireth Honie of Roses THis hony of Roses is also made diuersly but commonly as followeth Take Roses that are not fully blowen cut off the yellow tops and to one pound of Roses put three pound of hony which hath bene clarified very well and so place it in the sunne One that is stronger Take Rose buds as before one pound beate boyle them in a pinte and a halfe of raine water wring it out hard ad to the expressed liquor foure ounces of the iuice of Roses clarified hony two pound boyle them togither till it be thicke inough The third manner Take clarified hony two pound and a halfe iuice of Roses new made foure ounces set them on the fire when it beginneth to boile mixe one pound of chopped Rose leaues amongst it let them boyle till all the iuice be consumed afterwards straine it through a cloth and kéepe it close stopped for the older it is the better it is This hony of Roses hath an easie astringent vertue it cooleth and is very good in all sharpe rheumes that fall from the head into the mouth it withstandeth all putrifactions corrosions and white exulcerations in the mouth it
bloud then is first the head veine after the veine vnder the tongue to be opened and a good diet to be kept and all manner of cooling things to be vsed He is also to be purged with a potion of the sirupe of Roses of yellow Mirobalans or with these pils following Take of the Species Hierae one dragme and a halfe shales of yellow Mirobalans thrée drag Diagridij and Annise séede of each halfe a drag temper them with sirupe or the iuice of Roses and giue a dragme of them at once more or lesse according to the ability of the patient Or take fiue dragmes of the Electuarie of the iuice of Roses or some such like matter afterwards is he to hold in his mouth vineger mixt with the iuice of Pomegranats otherwhiles also the iuice of Lettice of Purslaine muscilage of Fleawoort and of Dragagant made with Rose water held in the mouth a long time somtimes Rose water by it selfe vsed as before These pils following are also to be made and holden continually in the mouth Take Roses burnt Iuorie and Bay-berries of each a quarter of an ounce pilled Melon séedes Gourd seedes Cucumber seedes Pompeon seedes Lettice seedes Purslaine seedes Endiue seedes Dragagant of each one drag make it into pils with the Dragagant dissolued afterwards he is to gargarize with the iuice of Endiue and of Nightshade or with the decoction of Roses Verueine and Myrtle séedes Thou shalt rub his tongue with péeces of fresh Melons or Gourds All these things alter the bad sauour and tast of the mouth in a hote cause But if the losse of tast procéed of heate and drought with any humor with it which may be perceiued if the tongue be drie red and without any spettle then are contrarie things to be vsed for it to wit cold and moist remedies Contrariwise if it be caused by cold then note if there be any affluxe of humors with it or not if there be as commonly it befalleth any superabundant humors with it and if the bodie be full of bloud then is purging and letting of bloud as oportunitie serueth to be vsed if not minister vnto him Oxymel compositum or of Squils with the decoction of Hyssope Marioram Sage and Stechas afterwards purge him with the pils Cochiae A Gargarisme for the same TAke Hyssope and Licorice of each an ounce twenty sappie Figs Honie sixe ounces boile them in water and gargarize therewith and hold it a good while in thy mouth If there be no agues with it vse this gargarisme Take the iuice of Squils one ounce Vineger twelue ounces Well water and Honie of each sixe ounces let it boile a while scumming it If the patient do abhorre euery thing supposing them to tast very vnsauorie then he is to be purged with an ounce of fresh Cassia with Oxymel and with the afore mentioned water For this purpose serue also sharpe meates as Onions Garlicke Leekes Mustard séedes with vineger iuice of Limons iuice of Citrons mixt with other meates also otherwhiles salt meates Of a heauie and slow Tongue THese infirmities are of two sorts the one naturall and the other accidentall as when the tongue cannot pronounce the letters aright but in pronouncing the vowels A E I O V is no want in it because that the tongue then néede not much to be stirred also in the saying of B M P Q wherein the lips do the greatest labour But in these letters following must the tongue be most of all vsed to wit in C D G H L N R S T X Z. In the naming of F must the breath be blowne out betwéene the vpper téeth and the lower lippe If any of these be any hinderance then may the same be ascribed to the tongue especially if the same be inueterated through a long custome which after remaineth for euer incurable The other that procéedeth of outward causes and lurketh in the sinewes of the tongue may be cured by Phisicke Both these infirmities are caused of foure sundrie occasions The first af a cold matter that lieth in the sinewes of the tongue which is to be perceiued if they cannot pronounce perfectly the letters aboue shewed in the third row and especially the R. Besides this also their sight and hearing decreaseth or when one would speake hastily and therewithall dribbleth against his will the which is a messenger of the dead Palsey Secondly it is also somtimes caused of hote agues then can the patient not draw his tongue backward and it waxeth blacke and rough Thirdly this infirmitie may procéed of the toughnesse of the humor that stayeth the tongue as if it were fastened vnderneath and therefore could not be put foorth by the patient Fourthly it is otherwhiles caused of certain flesh that groweth vnder the tongue the which if the tongue be lifted vp apparantly may be séene The first which groweth of cold and without an ague is thus to be cured to wit that after the patient hath bene purged he open also a veine and afterwards wash his tongue with this water following but he is to take great héed he swallow none of it downe Take Salarmoniacke Pepper Ginger white Mustard séedes Pieretrum Licebane Borras Salt salt of Indie Marioram séeds of Nigella Marioram gentle of each one drag boile them al together in a quart of water vnto the halfe and vse it as hath bene said Item boile Pieretrum in vineger and gargarise therewith Looke also that these things do not excoriate the throate and make it raw for the Pieretrum is very strong and therefore it is commaunded as often hath bene said to tye it in a fine peece of cloth and to chew it A Powder AFter the long continuance of this gargarization take Salarmoniacke Pieretrum Pepper and white Mustard séedes of each a like much make it into powder and rub the tongue often with it but childrens tongues may you rubbe onely with the powder of Sage or wash it with Oxymel Item take honie of Roses two ounces Sal gemmae two drag mixe them together and rub the tongue often with it Also make this gargarisme following Take Sage Hyssope Calmus of each a like quantity boyle them in water Take Costus rootes that are swéet white Pepper Ginger Licebane Rue séedes of each one drag Pieretrum thrée drag Graines halfe a drag Masticke dissolued in vineger one ounce temper them together and make pils of it of the bignes of small Nuts Take one of these in thy mouth otherwhiles and chew it they are very méete to draw the phlegmaticke matter out of the tongue which there hindereth the spéech But of the bereauing of the spéech by reason of the dead palsey haue I shewed before how the partie so troubled is to be purged and dealt withall yet notwithstanding that I will procéede in teaching all what might happen vnto the tongue If the same séeme to be caused of a cold and moist matter then is the tongue to be often rubbed with Hiera Picra tempered with a
then is the toung to be rubbed so long with the iuice of Onions of Citrons sirupe of Raspes or with sower Pomegranate wine vntill all the spettle and slime be gone away for these foresaid things do separate the matter Item take Ireos white Mustard seede Pieretrum and such like all of them or each a part boyle them and vse it in the washing of the toung Item boile Dates Raisins and Figs of each a like much in swéete wine This gargarisme is also good being vsed oftentimes Take Fenegréeke Raisins Fennell séede Lilly rootes and Figs of each halfe an ounce boile them together in a quart of water vntill the third part be wasted afterwards temper thrée ounces of hony of Roses amongst it Item take Squils and Oxymel thrée ounces mixe them with the decoction of Beuercod Or boyle Rue Cypers rootes and Pepper together or which you please in vineger But if heate be cause of this tumor that will be perceiued by the rednesse and swelling vp of the face and toung without any spettle and with swéetnesse of the mouth for this you shall presently open the head veine then vnder the toung for this asswageth the paine and cooleth the bloud If it be néedfull then purge with the Electuarie de Succo Rosarum sirupe of Roses or with Cassia fasten boxing cups in the necke that the affiuent matter might somwhat be withdrawn Also the patient is to gargarize with sower and astringent remedies as with the iuice or sirupe of Raspes and of Limons the iuice of Lettice is also good for it likewise the iuice or wine of Pomegranates Of the impostume of the Toung THe toung doth otherwhiles impostumate through aboundance of bloud which is knowne by the rednesse the tumour the sweetnesse in the mouth and by the puffing vp of the face with rednesse If it procéede of Cholera then it is perceiued by the great burning vehement paine and bitternesse of the mouth Or if it be caused of flegme that may be séene by the palenesse by the small store of paine and much spettle without any great swelling being spread ouer the whole toung When this infirmitie commeth of Melancholie then groweth the toung hard ash coloured and with small paine But if it procéede of heate then purge the patient as hath bene shewed in the tumour of the toung and Alcola and in the beginning make gargarismes of cold things as of Gourds Shepherds purse Purslaine Endiue and especially of Lettice Milke Rose water or the decoction of Roses and rub the tong with a Peach which is very profitable for this purpose But if by these meanes it do nothing amend then vse oftentimes honie milk and the decoction of Lilly roots and Raisins Fenegréeke and of Fennell séede For his meate he may vse Colewoorts Orage drest with oile of Almonds or of Oliues Figs Raisins and Lineseede chewed and spet out againe with the slime When this tumour or impostume is broken vp then take any one of these things following to wit Butchers broome Barberies Myrtle séede of each halfe an ounce Agrimonie one handfull boyle them in a pint of water vntill the halfe then adde Meade or honie vnto it two ounces and gargarize therewith often It preuenteth great harme that might ensue Old wine is also very good being held in the mouth and spet out againe But if it procéede of cold then purge the patient with pils Cochiae or with the confection Diaturbith and make this gargarisme following for him Take Fenegréeke Lilly roots and Fennel séedes of each one ounce ten Figs Currans one ounce and a half Bay berries one ounce boile them in a sufficient quantitie of water let him hold this in his mouth wash his mouth with it very often It easeth the paine and ripeneth all impostumes of the mouth and throate especially if you adde honie vnto it This impostume is accounted the middlemost thing betwéene the vlcers of the mouth and the Squinancie for they do agrée together both in their causes and their remedies as hath bin shewed before in the first § Of the losse of speech BVt if of any of the foresaid causes the spéech is hindered or taken away and yet the voyce remaine and that the patient could not vtter his mind then is he to take twice a weeke one drag and a halfe of Hiera logodion with the decoction of Rosemarie A Gargarisme TAke a drag of Coloquint Harts toung two dragmes Ginger Galingall Costus rootes Greines of each halfe a drag boile them together in a pint and a halfe of water euen to the halfe wring it out hard and temper with it Oxymel of Squils sixe ounces and let it boile a while longer afterwards hold it warme in thy mouth and wash thy mouth therewith This will not deceiue thée Take Mithridate or Treacle two drag water of Sage of Marioram gentle and Rosemarie of each thrée ounces or which of them you can come by wash thy mouth with it in the morning and at night and spet it forth againe and thus much for the tongue Of the Gums and Mandibles §. 7. IT is sufficiently knowne that children are borne with the Gums and Mandibles whence first the téeth do grow wherefore it is first néedfull to write of the roote and then of the trée These Mandibles haue their situation one neare to the other called by the Latinists Praesepioliae that is little mangers for so in the old time were the mangers of beasts wont to be parted In them are the téeth fastened with veines and sinewes at the bottome These Mandibles or Gums are subiect vnto many infirmities as impostumes putrifactions corrosions aquefactions bléeding increase and decrease of the Gums the which are caused of the rheumes in the head or else of vapors ascending out of the stomacke of the which and first of all of the impostume now shall be spoken Of the impostumation of the Gums IF with this impostumation be great pain admixed so that the impostumated Gums be red then it is caused of heate In this case is the head to be purged with water wherein Prunes haue bene decocted and Rubarbe or Manna mixed with it and afterwards to vse mild Clisters also to open the head veine and to be let bloud vnder the tong lastly to fasten boxing cups to the shoulders and to hold this following in the mouth a good while Take hony of Roses one ounce and a halfe Vineger halfe an ounce when you spet it out you are to take in fresh again If then any other sores do happen vnto them they are to be opened with a fleame and then to wash it thrice a day with water wherein Allume Myrrhe or Salt is sodden Item take halfe a pint of the water of Knotgrasse Allume halfe an ounce dissolue it in the water wash the téeth and Gums with it Afterwards take Pomegranate pils beaten dippe a cloth in them and rubbe them gently with it In like manner you may also find in the first § those things that
gargarize with the decoction of Figs Fennell séeds and séedes of Lillies The rootes of the blew Flower deluce prouoketh the gummes to bléede much whereby the paine is asswaged The decoction of Agrimonie tempered with Allume is approued to be very méete Of this matter looke into the first § where you shall find many good remedies for this purpose Of the Fistula in the gummes WHat a bad accident this Fistula is shall be shewed in the fift part for it appeareth in this place as in all other places with salt and sharpe deflurions you shall cure them with those remedies that haue bene described before in the infections of the toung and putrifaction of the gummes so that at this present time I purpose not to write much of it Take Gals one ounce Myrrhe halfe an ounce make them into powder and strew it on the sore Wash thy mouth often with Vineger of Squils or take Gals Roses Lentils Acorne cups Bedegar blossoms and péeles of Pomegranates of each a like much boyle them all in water if it procéed of a hote cause but if of a cold then boyle them in wine If the Fistula be déepe and the gums corroded then take the blossomes of Pomegranates plume Allume of each a like quantitie make them into powder strew it once in three howers vpon the sore For this serue also the blossomes of Pomgranates boyled in Vineger and Honie and the mouth washt with the decoction Amongst diuers other dentifrices this that followeth is the safest Take calcined Allume Plume Allume blossomes and pils of Pomegranates Ireos Pieretrum Sumach Barbaries Gals Acorne cups and Dragon bloud of each a like much make a powder of them This powder may also be tempered with vineger and honâ— and wash the mouth therewith it is very good for all manner of exulcerations of the mouth When the Fistula is mundified to the bottome then are you to vse incarnatiues Others do commend the vse of actuall and potentiall cauteries but they are nothing commendable but at the last need and in the greatest extremitie Of the wasting away and consumption of the Gums TAke Cinnamome one ounce Frankinsence Roses of each two drag Dragon bloud thrée drag bestrew the gums therewith very often Take Myrrhe Masticke shels of pine apples Date stones burnt Harts horne and Iuorie blossomes of Pomegranats Roses Dragon bloud of each a like much vse it as before it confirmeth the téeth Take Pease meale make it into little cakes with honie and drie them vntill you can powder them againe take of this two dragmes Dragon bloud Frankinsence Masticke of each two drag Aristologie and Ireos of each one drag rub the gums therewith Of the mollification of the Gums FOr this infirmitie are all those remedies very méete that shall be prescribed for the wagging or loosenesse of the teeth For a conclusion ALthough the gums were altogether corrupted and black yea although all the téeth were loose yet these remedies following haue done wonderful much good Take Worm-eaten Gals Sumach Myrtle séedes Acorne cups and Plantaine seede of each one drag white Vitrioll plume Allume of each one drag and a halfe yellow séedes of Roses and refuse of Cloues of each two drag and a halfe beate them all grosly and let it boile in a sufficient quantitie of water when it hath sodden a good while then ad forty young buds of the Mulbery tree and so let them séeth vntill the halfe part remaine Wash thy mouth often with this decoction afterwards thou maist strew this powder following vpon thy gums Take Mastick Sandaraca iuice of Sloes Hippocystis of each one scrup prepared Tuâ—ia one drag white Vitrioll foure scrup make them into powder Of the Teeth §. 8. MAn hath for the most part 32. téeth although some there be that haue but 28. or 30. and they are differing in forme First there are foure aboue and as many beneath that are sharpe and broad therewith to cut and diuide the meate as it were with a knife for the which cause they are called of the Latinists Incisores they haue but one roote onely Afterwards there are on each side of the former foure more aboue and below which are broad aboue and thin below and for that they are called by the Grecians and Latinists Dog téeth because they be most like vnto the téeth of Dogs they haue but one long roote and are made to breake that which the former haue as yet not sufficiently broken Thirdly there are aboue and beneath on both sides commonly twenty téeth albeit that some haue but sixtéene and others but sixe on each side which are called in Latine Molares that is grinding or chéeke téeth Their office is to grind and chew whatsoeuer the former téeth haue not as yet sufficiently broken and chewed Those that are in the vppermost mandible are fastned vnto thrée rootes the lowermost onely vnto two although that sometimes it befalleth that the two former of them haue thrée rootes The Philosophers do write that the foremost téeth are ingendred of a pure and superfluous moisture of the scull the middlemost of a reasonable good humor and the very hindermost of a grosse humiditie of the foresaid scull The paines and griefes of the téeth are diuers insomuch that amongst the Phisitions there are accounted twelue or thirtéene kinds of them of the which we shall speake hereafter These infirmities haue all of them sundry causes to wit outward and inward which difference we purpose also to obserue Of the paine in the teeth through outward causes THis is caused through the continuall vse of sower and astringent things as vnripe fruites through much picking of them with pins and other stinking things that remaine in them also through fals blowes and thrusts sharpe wind too hot or too cold meates but especially of those that be drest with hony which causes must be knowne and inquired of the patient thereby to order and gouerne himselfe Of the paine in the teeth through inward causes THis kind of toothach is of diuers sorts and it hath also sundry causes First if it procéed out of the head or braine then is the patient not without some paine in the head out of which there falleth continually great store of slime If this paine be caused of the mandibles and teeth that doth manifestly appeere But if one doubt which tooth might first haue prouoked this pain then let the patient bite somewhat betwéene his téeth first betweene two then betwéene two more and so from tooth to tooth vntill you come to the tooth it selfe where the paine resteth By this meanes also you may know whether the paine be in the sinewes or no because the other téeth be nothing painfull If it procéed from the stomacke then is there paine felt in the same after which doth insue vomiting and especially of a sower and stinking matter If it be procured by the blood then may it be knowne by the heate and rednesse If of Cholera then is the paine with
pricking and shooting That which commeth of Melancholy is knowne by the great and hard swellings Of Phlegma by the whitenesse of the face and by the small paine If it be caused of many humors then is the patient heauy headed with much spettle in the mouth The paine that procéedeth of drought is thereby discerned if of windinesse then shall you perceiue much beating and stirring with it Wherefore of these inward meanes to wit of the foure humors may this impediment be caused The teeth grow hollow and ful of holes they rot the wormes do spoile them and the sinewes are weakned that at the last they fall away and are so that they may easily be drawne out How to preuent and remedy the same shall be shewed hereafter How to procure teeth in children without paine NOt without reason are we to bethink our selues how to ease the yong and tender babes of that paine and griefe which they do suffer in breeding their téeth especially if the paine continue long as it often hath bin séene that it hath continued three or foure yeeres This is for the most part caused of the debility of their nature or of wormes which do consume the moisture whereby the téeth should grow When this delay in téeth is caused through the debility and weaknesse of nature then must the child be fed with rosted birds bread dipped in brothe of flesh and such like according to the age of the child They haue also a great laske commonly with it which must be staid The mandibles where the teeth appéere are to be rubbed softly and amongst all other remedies that may be inuented for this purpose the braines of a Hare drest with the milke of a Bitch are the best If you cannot get them then take butter oile of Lillies the fat of Hens or of other birds each by it selfe or mixed all together And because that in these remedies following there be many sharpe ingredients as Orpiment Neesing wort Coperas Stauesacre Southernwood Henbane Opium and such like more of which we will make mention but little which are in no wise to be taken downe wherefore here we will admonish and shew how they ought in the greatest need with the most safety to be vsed First they are to be applyed onely to the dolorous and painfull tooth with a péece of Waxe couered about to the end it should touch but onely the place aggréeued Otherwise they might also harme the good and sound téeth The patient must also hold his mouth open and downewards that the spettle and slime might runne out neither are they to be applyed too hot or too cold If this paine procéed of cold rheumes as also of the vse of cold meates then put the patient into a warme place couer his head with warme clothes vntill he féele the warmth apparantly Afterwards annoint his head with the oyle of Cammomill of Rue of Behen of Beuercod and of Spica or in place of them with Aqua vitae thrée dayes together A hard yolke of an egge applied to the tooth is also very good and afterwards is the tooth to be washed with warme wine Or take vineger wherein Pieretrum white Mints and Marioram hath bene decocted Item take Pieretrum white Mustard séed pepper Borras and Ginger of each a like much make a powder of them and rub the teeth therewith or strew it on a litle cotton and apply it to the very roote of the tooth But before you vse any other kind of remedy take héed you purge the head very wel that you draw not downe moe humors out of it vnto the téeth the which may be effected through the pils or potions which euery where are sufficiently described After purging you may vse any one of these things following Take Mastick one ounce Sage a M. beate and boile them in eight ounces of wine or vineger vntill the halfe remaine wash thy mouth therewith Item take good white wine sixe ounces temper half an ounce of Sandaraca with it boile them together vntill one quarter of it be wasted and hold it in thy mouth warme and if you adde one drag of Philonium Romanum then wil it be so much the stronger Or take of the foresaid Philonium two drag red wine foure ounces and hold it lukewarme in thy mouth Gals decocted in vineger are also very good for this purpose In like manner Betony or Plantaine decocted in vineger or water and vsed warme Pellitory of Spaine bound vp in a cloth and chewed in the mouth draweth out much slime Take Assa foetida and Frankinsence of each a like quantity hold it on the painful tooth The decoction of Alehoofe is also very good for it Likewise the conserue of Gilliflowers of Lauander of Spikenard Rosemary wine Sage wine Item take the rootes of Sperage boile them in water and wash thy mouth often therewith Others do commend Garlicke Ginger Agrimony each by it self or mixed together and so applied to the tooth Also the water of Marioram gentle should be very good for this vse In like sort M. Tristrams water which is described in the fift chapter and first § Item take white and long pepper Cucubes Saxifrage the barke of the Mulberry trée Caper rootes and rootes of Southernwood of each a like much boyle them according to the quality of the paine in water wine or vineger tempered together or each by it selfe it is very good and confirmeth the gums Pepper Pellitory of Spaine rootes of Diptamer and Licebane chewed together or each by it selfe are commonly very commodious for the toothach These remedies following are more cooling TAke a little branch of a Cherry trée scrape off the outmost rind take the yellow rind and boyle it in wine take of this decoction in thy mouth as warme as thou canst suffer it In like maner if the rheume fall into the téeth then boyle Oken leaues in wine and hold it often in the mouth it draweth out the slime very well The water that issueth out of a Vine being cut is also very good for the toothach if it be held in the mouth Yet more remedies that are approoued TAke eight ounces of wine boyle it in halfe an ounce of Esula wash thy téeth therewith thrée times in a moneth it preserueth the téeth from paine but it is very violent and dangerous to be vsed but this that followeth is safer and better Take Roses and boyle them in milke hold them a good while in thy mouth and lay the leaues to thy téeth Take Camfere the bignes of a pease boyle it in two ounces of vineger and hold it in thy mouth it is very good for al maner of pain in the téeth Item take of a Harts horne to wit that which hath bin cast off in March cut it into small péeces and boile it in well water take the decoction into thy mouth warme repeate it thrée or foure times and after the vse of it as many men suppose the paine should not returne againe
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
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
Poppey heads although it were but to prouoke sléepe Another Take Endiue small Endiue Liuerwoort Lettice and Venus haire of each a handfull péeled Melon séedes Gourd séedes Cotton séedes Violets water Lilly flowers of each one ounce Sugar twelue ounces make a sirupe thereof and vse it as is afore said wherupon take this purgation to wit new Cassia two ounces of the foresaid broth foure ounces and giue it him in the morning early very warme You may also put thereto halfe a dragme of Rubarbe and halfe a scruple of Spica But in case that the patient be very narrow in the brest as it often hapneth in this sicknes then take Manna and new Cassia of each three quarters of an ounce and make thereof a drinke with the foresaid broth For this are also these confections following to be vsed Take Diapenidion without spices and two ounces of the conserues of Violets mixe them together and vse it often Take sirupe of Iuiubes and sirupe of Violets of each thrée quarters of an ounce temper them with the water of Folefoote and of Buglosse take this also once a day when you please But of the narrownes or passions of the breasts you shall afterwards in this Chapter find many good remedies An expedite cure of the Pleurisie AS soone as the pain of the Pleurisie is felt shal boxes be fastned on the place of the paine for this helpeth maruellously Then open a vein on the contrarie arme and the next morning in the same side where the griefe is Afterwards thou shalt giue him this sirupe following as you find the sicknesse to be either hote or cold And when you find that the matter ripeneth or digesteth a little then apply this plaister following vpon the place affected Take Hollihock rootes Mallowes Violet leaues and Cammomill of each one handfull decoct thē in water and beate them to growt adde as much oile of Almonds as shall be néedfull But if the flegme will not be raised and spet foorth then set boxes on the place againe as before with picking and let them draw well Also adde to fiue ounces of his drinke two ounces of Oxymel of Squils for that it breaketh the tough flegme and casteth it foorth with ease Of the Pleurisie of Cholera §. 7. IF the Pleurisie procéed of Cholera then are soluble medicins to be vsed at the first like as hereafter follow take Endiue small Endiue Lettice Liuerwoort white Diptamus Venus haire all gréene if they can be gotten of each a handfull péeled Melon séed Pompeon séed Cucūber séed Gourd séed séeds of Hollihocks Burrage flours of each half an ounce pilled Barly one ounce Licorice Currans Iuiubes Sebestes of each one drag Violets and water Lillies of each half an ounce séeth them all together and with twelue ounces of Sugar make a sirupe thereof euen as we haue taught before And the common sirupe of Iuiubes is also good for this Item in stead of the foresayd things may you vse this following Take sirupe of Violets three ounces sirupe of Poppie heads of Venus haire of each one ounce and a halfe mingle these togither with sufficient water of Endiue and so drinke it at twice afterwards take this purgation Take Violets Borage flowers and Buglosse flowers of each halfe an ounce Prunes Iuiubes and Sebestes of each ten Spikenard halfe a dragme Licorice and Currans of each fiue dragmes let them all séeth well togither then take foure ounces of this decoction and stéepe therein halfe or a whole dragme of Rubarbe let it so stand in a warme place all night and drinke it warme This being done lay vpon the affected place a sponge that is made wet in warme water wherein Cammomill Violets and Dill are decocted But if these herbes be not to be gotten take warme Well water and wring out the sponge meetely well you may do the like with a bladder that is filled with warme milke and Linseede oyle and so lay it ouer the place of the paine Or you may vse this Take a pinte of milke and two pintes of hony tempered well togither and layd with tow vpon the place Item take Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes of each one handfull chop them well togither and fry it with butter or Sallad oyle and so lay it vpon the paine This following is good to expell the bloud Take Bolus and Salt of each a like much make them to pap with hony and bind it on the place where the paine is Hereafter follow Plaisters Salues and such like TAke crums of white bread about fower ounces fresh Butter or Sallad oyle thrée ounces Hollihocke rootes two ounces Fenegreeke halfe an ounce cut stampe and seeth it well in Goates milke mellow to pap and when it is almost cold then stir amongst it one dragme of beaten Saffron and so lay it warme on the paine Item take beaten Hollihock rootes Mallow seedes and Barley meale of each a like much let it séeth togither in Goates milke vntill it be thicke inough then put thereto sufficient oyle of Cammomill and spread it on a cloth You haue here before in the fift § of the pricking of the pleurisie two plaisters of rosted Hollihocke rootes the which are maruellous good for this This also following is very excellent for the great stitch and oppression of the breast Take halfe a pound of Cassie taken out of pipes as is taught in the Preface temper amongst it one ounce of the salue of Althea oyle of sweete Almonds and powned Hollihocke rootes of each two ounces spreade them on a cloth and make thereof a plaister and lay it on the stitch Item take fower ounces of white bread crum soften them one hower in Goates milke afterwards powne them well then put thereto one ounce and a halfe of Cassie three whites of egges Saffron ten graines and oyle of Roses as much as is needefull for a plaister Of the Pleurisie of Phlegma §. 8. IF the Pleurisie proceede of flegmatick humors and that the paine draw downward toward the lowermost rib then is the patient to take oftentimes halfe an ounce of the conserues of Hyssope tempered with Carduus Benedictus water and a little Saffron Other do take a sweete Apple which they make hollow and fill it with Frankinsence then stop the hole againe with a peece of an Apple cleaued to round about with dow so let it rost a while This Apple is eaten as a preseruatiue against the Pleurisie that people might not be taken with it although they be subiect to it Item take a sweete Apple cut a peece out of it and put therein one scrup of beaten Mastick close it againe with the same peece Rost this Apple in hot ashes and so eate it Take the vppermost crops of Nettles seeth them in Wel water and straine out the iuice through a cloth giue him therof at two or three times in the beginning of the sicknes three ounces at one time For purging of this flegmatike matter prepare these sirupes following
each one drag and séeth it with decocted swéet Wine as thicke as you desire it Or vse this following Take Cammomill Dill seede Venus haire Hollihocke séedes and Folefoote of each two handfuls Currans thrée handfuls sixe Poppie heads sixe ounces of fresh Butter xxxvi ounces of swéet sodden Wine put vnto it when all is well sodden and brayed one dragme of Saffron A good salue Take Althaea salue and Butter annoint the place therewith where the paine is and strew thereon beaten Comin and lay a warme Colewoort leafe thereon When the Pleurisie taketh a woman with Child §. 12. IF it then chaunce that a woman be in doubt of bearing the space of two moneths were brought a bed before her time and brought a dead child into the world or were much inclined to the same and so be taken with the Pleurisie she must not be let bloud but she must haue cups set on her buttockes and be picked well whereby to draw the bloud downward But women that are woont to miscarie in hast they may well be let bloud yet alwaies taking good héed to their strength But for a generall rule all women albeit they miscarie or not or that they haue conceiued are to haue the liuer veine opened But if it be not the right Pleurisie then make a bagge with warme Millet and Bran and lay it where the stitch is felt and annoynt the backe with Althaea salue But they that are not with child and haue the Pleurisie it is much counselled that their Termes be prouoked as much as is possible whereof in the fift part is very largely discoursed And the other euen as is alreadie said are to be holpen according as they be of strength by other medicines Rules for such as are recouered of the Pleurisie that they fall not into it againe §. 13. FIrst all they that be subiect to this sicknesse are to shun all dwellings and principally in winter season that are situate in the North and West and neare the water They must also forbeare all tough slimie meates and all that is made of dough Chéese Milke and such like also from vineger sowre and sharpe and all kind of tart things Capers and Sallad oyle are also enemies vnto him Item from all pottage except of red and white Pease and Beane broth which be good for him and dresse Hennes Pullets Veale and Pigeons with it All cold fruites as Apples Peares Chesnuts c. are hurtfull for him but Figges and Raisins are very méete sodden Colewoorts and all sorts of Rapes and rootes as Parsneps Parsley rootes and such like are very good for him and all Barley paps also His drinke must be thin white and swéet wine or common Béere which is very cleare To drinke water is for this streightly forbidden but if the patient desire to water his wine he may doe it yet with water that is decocted with Cinnamome or Licorice After his meale tide is he to kéepe himselfe quiet one or two houres Watching is very hurtfull for him but to sléepe long is very good and néedfull In eating he must also beware of swallowing downe meate not well chewed and of ouercharging his stomacke with meate and drinke that there follow no harme to the stomacke He must looke well to all these and that he be alwaies merrie and of a light heart Secondly he must take good héede for to haue alwaies an open bodie and before he vse these pils following he must first vse these potions Take of the water of Fole-foote fiue ounces Sugar one ounce drinke it euery morning fasting at one time The pils are thus to be made take prepared Aloe one quarter of an ounce Opopanacum Bdellium and Colloquint of each one scruple make pils thereof with sirupe of Roses sixe of a drag then take euery foure dayes one or twaine according as you are bound and in the euening one before supper A Salue TAke Asarabacca Hyssope Mallowes and Rosemarie of each thrée quarters of an ounce Sandaraca three drag Spica nardi one quarter of an ounce Dragon bloud and the iuice of Sloes of each one drag Starch fiue dragms powne each apart as small as may be then temper it with Malmsey and kéepe this stopped tight Herewith are you to rub the backe bone and shoulders softly and afterwards a Foxe case bound theron And the patient must haue his veine opened on the right hand besides the little finger and let it bléede foure or fiue ounces of bloud These are the most principall meanes wherby these perillous sicknesses may be preuented but we will adde somewhat more to the rest Certaine seuerall remedies against the cold Pleurisie §. 14. FOr the true Pleurisie do serue these compounded Confections and losinges which are prepared two manner of wayes Diaprassium Diahyssopum Diaireâ—â— Solomonis Lohoch de Pino Item all that is prepared against the cold cough as confected Elecampane rootes Treacle Mithridate swéete sirupe of Pomegranates and Parsley rootes sodden in wine tempered with a little vineger and thereof drunken often Also M. Tristrams water and other moe Aquae Composâ—â—e But by reason of the ague some cooling things must alwaies be tempered amongst it For the common drinke you haue here before in the sixt § a speciall Barley water mollists crums of white bread therin bounden in a clout straine it often out and mingle some white wine amongst it Hony water quencheth thirst it prouoketh also the tough humors flegmes to auoide and it is good for all coughes Thin wine tempered with water is tolerable for this if the Ague be not too strong IteÌ„ take Cicera Venus haire as much as you please let it séeth with a little Licorice For common things these following are very good for the cold Pleurisie as Assa foetida Nettles with their séede Balsam wood with their fruites Ireos Myrrhe the right Acornes for which some do take Calmus or great Galingall and Starch The fifth Chapter Of the Lights or Lungs WE haue hitherto spoken of the outward parts of the Brest and discoursed of their infirmities now we will write of the inner parts and will begin with the Lights for that they are made as a separation betwéene the pipes of the Lungs and the Hart also as an instrument of the breath ordained of God for the vse of the bodie thereby to draw in the outward aire thereby to coole and quicken the heart and all inward parts wherewith to forme also and effect the voice and spéech in all that hath receiued life Therefore hath nature made the substance of the Lights light and like a sponge formed with many pipes wherby they might be the more méet to draw the breath out and in Some ancient Phisitions are of opinion that they were without bloud but it is not so they haue their bloud too and are full of it but as soone as it commeth out of the Brests the bodie is void thereof What great difference is betwéene the Lights of men and of Beasts
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
them all togither to powder If you will make Sugar plates thereof then séethe it with Rose water as hath béene taught The like confection or powder may be made also of the Species De gemmis or any other that like you best And alwaies for one ounce of Species you must take 12. ounces of Sugar Of such things as are to be applied outwardly for it FOr this are highly commended the cordiall waters and to that ende we will expresse many Take water of Buglosse sixe ounces water of Cicorie twelue ounces water of Balme fower ounces Species de gemmis the cold Laetificantes Almansoris of each one scrup Species Triasantali one drag and a halfe white vineger halfe an ounce and Malmsey two ounces let it séethe a little and then make a scarlet cloth wet in it a quarter of a yard square wring it out and lay the same on his left breast fower or fiue times before and after meate and twice againe before he go to bed Take Rose water and Sorrell water of each thrée ounces of Buglosse two ounces red Corall red Saunders and Roses of each one drag Muske Amber of each thrée graines Saffron one scruple Vineger one ounce and a halfe temper them together and then lay it diuers times luke warme vpon the left breast Item take Species Diamoschu Laetificantes de gemmis the cold of each two drag Malmesey foure ounces water of Buglosse Sorrell water of Cicorie and Violets of each one ounce temper them together and lay it thereon as before The chiefest Phisitions of Augusta Vindelicorum haue these things following in vse Take water of Burrage Sorrell Buglosse Balme and Rose water of each eight ounces two kinds of Species de gemmis of each halfe a dragme Harts bones and burnt Harts horne of each halfe a dragme Saffron seuen graines Rose vineger one ounce and a halfe temper them all together Another Take Burrage water the waters of Buglosse Sorrell Roses Balms and Violets of each two ounces Vineger of Roses one ounce and a halfe red and white Behen of each halfe a dragme floures of Burrage Buglosse Violets of each one scruple Cinnamome one dragme thrée Harts bones Lignum Aloes yellow Saunders and burnt Harts horne of each one scruple prepared Perles one dragme burnt Iuorie and Saffron of each ten graines Spec. Diamargariton one drag temper them and vse them as aforesaid Another Take two kinds of Spec. de gemmis of each one dragme Diamoschu dulcis halfe a dragme Cordialium one dragme Saffron Indie Spica red and white Behen and Spec. de Canna of each one scruple prepared Perles halfe a drag yellow Saunders two scrup Muscus two graines two Harts bones one ounce and a halfe of Vineger of Roses water of Balme Sorrell Burrage Buglosse Rose water of each three ounces water of Melilots foure ounces temper them together and vse them as aboue Take red Saunders halfe an ounce Citron pils white Saunders Roses red and white Corrall Amber and burnt Iuorie of each one quarter of an ounce Harts bones and Saffron of each halfe a dragme Spec. Laetitiae Galeni Diamargaritonis of each two scruples Camfer ten graines powder these all together and temper them well and when you will vse them then take the foresaid water which beginneth Take Burrage water as much as you please c. Item take Rose water and the water of water Lillies of each sixe ounces the iuice of sowre Apples thrée ounces water o◠Balme Buglosse of each one ounce and a halfe Vineger halfe an ounce red Saunders Citron séede and Sorrell séede of each halfe a dragme Camfer fiue graines Cinnamome foure scruples temper them all together This following is of a temperate nature take water of Balme Buglosse and Sorrell of each foure ounces water of Cicorie Roses and Willow leaues of each one ounce and a halfe Saffron fiue graines Vineger one ounce Malmsey thrée dragmes temper it well and vse it as before These following are more cooling Take water of Buglosse small Endiue Burrage and of Violets of each sixe ounces of Rose water eight ounces Spec. de gemmis the cold one ounce and a halfe Camfer halfe a scruple white Corrall foure scruples prepared Perles one dragme and a halfe beaten Gold leaues eight Malmsey two ounces For shields to lay vpon the out side you may take all the foresaid things For shield◠except the Sugar and Rose water Item take Roses floures of Buglosse and of Burrage of each two dragmes and a halfe Citron séede burnt Iuorie Mirtle leaues white Corrall and Coriander of each one dragme and a halfe Campher one quarter of an ounce red and white Saunders of each foure scruples make a shield thereof to lay vpon the left side of the breast Or take red and white Saunders red and white Corall of each one ounce Balme Buglosse Citron pils Hart bones and burnt silke of each one dragme Spec. de gemmis the cold and Saffron of each halfe a drag Campher one scruple mixe them together The same vertue that these shields haue is also in the Plaisters for which these following are highly commended as well to coole the panting of the hart as the pulse and therewith for to strengthen the breath hart and all naturall powers Take Doronicum Harts bones red and white Behen of each one dragme and a halfe red and white Saunders burnt Iuorie leaues of wild Grapes red and white Corall of each one quarter of an ounce Roses thrée dragmes water of Buglosse and Barly meale one ounce and a halfe Saffron two scruples and sixe graines foure ounces of Malmsey oyle of Saffron halfe an ounce molten Rosin halfe an ounce and make a plaister thereof Another TAke red and white Behen Harts bones Doronicum Iacints Smaragdes Saphires of each two scruples Perles one quarter of an ounce fower leaues of beaten gold Rosin one ounce and a halfe boyle the Rosin in thicke red Vineger make a plaister and spread it on a red woollen cloute and then lay it on the left breast For these sicke persons it is also very commodious like as is already expressed to hold at their noses continually odoriferous things that are cold of nature For which be vsed the Pomanders which are described in the sixt Part or these following Take Basill Roses Violets burnt Iuorie and Harts bones of each two dragmes Camfere two scruples Muske and Amber of each fower graines red and white Saunders red and white Corall of each one drag beate each alone and being tempered binde them all together in a red peece of silke and smell thereon continually These simples also are very commodious especially if there be an Ague with it as Violets Roses Saunders water Lillies Rose water Vineger and such like as hath before béene shewed Clisters to comfort the Hart. It is very profitable also for the patient euery morning to vse these Clisters following for it doth not onely loose the body but also strengthen the Hart. Take Mallowes Violet
the force of the vertue expulsiue which is knowne before by certaine impotency and trouble of these parts But if the same grow through outward accidents that must be vnderstood of the patient And to cure this infirmity first it is to be knowne that albeit this disease procéedeth for the most part through heate yet notwithstanding the same may be caused through cold therefore we will here first write of the running of the Raines which commeth through heate Of the Fluxe of seed or running of the Raines through heate §. 1. THis fluxe of séed is as it hath bin sayd felt with some griefe All cold things are acceptable to the patient and hot things do put him to paine as to a man which is superabounding in seed doth this fluxe of Sperme bring not any feeblenes he waxeth not thereby leane at all but if such come through heate of the seed then feeleth he also heate itching and griefe this must first of all be begun with a good order of diet And first he must chuse for his dwelling a place and ayre which is neither too hot nor too cold neither too moist nor too dry It is also not conuenient for him to stirre or go much neither to ride but rest and sleepe is highly commended for this infirmity and not too long but a little and that oftner Déepe speculations sorrow vexation fright feare and especially all veneriall thoughts must he eschue All purgations and that which abateth the body are very hurtfull and if need require the same is easily to be effected through vomits sweates and Clisters For vomiting take water wherein Radishes haue béene sodden thrée ounces sirupe of Vineger one ounce and a halfe giue the patient this warme after that he hath eaten sundrie meates For to prouoke sweate take Barly water thrée ounces strong Wine two ounces giue it him very warme and let him sweat The clister must be thus prepared Take Beets Violet leaues Nightshade Tassell leaues of each one handfull let them seeth well together and take twelue ounces of this decoction Tho. sugar one ounce and a halfe yolkes of Egs oile of water Lillies and of Roses of each two ounces salt one dragme and a halfe the clister must be set in the euening before meate In eating and drinking must be eschued all that nourish wel except there be great féeblenes approching whereof ought most of al to be aduised Also he must eschue al that prouoketh venenery as all sharp hot meates spices fat and windy meates but much rather may he vse all that are contrary to these as water wherein Lentils are sodden and Waterlillies tempered in al his meates and drinkes also conserues of the same Prepared Coriander is also good be it of what maner soeuer they be eaten These things haue a speciall property to expell incontinency In like sort also Purslaine Endiue Cicory and Lettice But Lettice seed excelleth all these if one eate much thereof it stayeth also excéedingly and spéedily the running of the Raines Item oile Oliue and Nightshade are very good for this All these foresaid things is such a patient to vse continually meetly sower vineger Oranges and the iuice of Pomegranats may he also vse otherwhiles and herewith eate shéepes feet and other beasts feet Fish that are taken in fresh waters are also good for him with vineger and other sower things and dressed with sallad oile All sea fish shall he forbeare Concerning flesh there is good all kind of Venison water Fowles and in fine the flesh of all Déeres that be not fat but in good plight For his drinke must he haue red cléere and pleasant Wines and if he desire to haue them watred then take thereto water wherein Coriander Lettice Purslaine and that which is yet better Gum of Araby and dried Waterlilly flowers haue béene decocted And that we forget not the venerious and lusty women it is specially aduised that for them shall be made a potion of the iuice of Betony and Cicory tempered together with vineger Item yet more against concupiscence of man and woman that are hot of nature may plaisters be made Take Henbane Opium Camfere the muscilage of Fleawoort Purslaine séed and oyle of Poppy seed make a plaister thereof and annoint or lay it vpon the kidneyes Yet must this plaister by reason of the extreme coldnes be vsed prouidently Also to go bare footed is good likewise for this and they that be full of blood are to be let blood These things following do much drie the naturall séed to wit Rue and Agnus castus wild Mints Comin and morsels made thereof But chiefly if one do take the séeds of the premisses with vineger Item take Dill séed thrée dragmes Lettice séed and Purslaine séed of each half an ounce drinke thereof euery time one dragme and a halfe with the water of Lentils Item take Rue séed and Henbane séed of each one quarter of an ounce Roses and flowers of Pomegranats of each thrée dragmes make thereof a powder and giue thereof to drink one quarter of an ounce at one time with water or watered wine But to returne to the léesing of the Sperme it is not amisse to write what is inwardly to be vsed for it First then shall this confection following be necessary for it Take Comfrey roots thrée ounces cleanse them and cut them small pilled Pompeon seed and Waterlillies of each one dragme the iuice of Licorice two scruples prepared Corall fine Bolus Mirtle séed and Roses of each ten graines Gum halfe a dragme beate them all small except the roots and make thereof a powder séeth the rootes in red Wine and stamp them to grout then temper the powder amongst it and put thereto the sirupe of Citron pils and of Orenges as much as you please and then let it séeth together againe to a confection Take euery morning one spoonfull thereof before breakfast Item temper the Conserues of Roses with Marmalade as much as you will or take either apart Another Take prepared Bolus one quarter of an ounce Conserues of Roses thrée quarters of an ounce temper and vse thereof euery time one dragme Or take a whole new layd egge sodden and sugred A famous Sirupe for heate TAke Purslaine séed Lettice seed and Waterlillies of each one ounce prepared Coriander rootes of Waterlillies of Dandelion and of Nightshade of each halfe an ounce Camfere halfe a dragme or fiftéene Iuiubes Dates eight dayes steeped in vineger and chopt small two ounces Rue séeds mountaine mints and parched Comin of each one dragme séeth these all together in two quarts of water vnto the halfe then straine it through being very hard wroong out put more thereto twelue ounces of the iuice of Quinces Sugar six and thirty ounces and let them séeth all together and clarifie them Lastly cast a little Mints into it whereof shall be taken two ounces with thrée ounces of Purslaine water it is very precious and approoued For this is also good these sirupes following
as De succo Endiuiae de Cydonijs de Rosis siccis Rosatus solutiuus and Mirtinus It hath béene also said before that for this disease no purgations are fit But if such were most needfull then is there to be giuen him one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of fine Cassia with Purslaine water Another which is stronger Take Cassia one ounce and De succo Rosarum one quarter of an ounce beaten séeds of Agnus castus one scruple Water-lillies thrée ounces temper them all together Also there is to be giuen him one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassia with hony or milke Afterwards take euery morning a draught of well decocted barly water and temper therewith according as the heate is great a spoonful or twaine of the iuice of Housléeke or Purslaine for it cooleth much Item take one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassia strew it with the powder of Licorice and swallow it downe in the morning fasting Item vse fourtéene dayes continually in the morning early a little Cassia out of the pipes and spet out the kernels A Confection that is very fit for this Take prepared Coriander one quarter of an ounce powder of Mints thrée dragmes Lettice Purslaine and pilled Cucumber séed of each two dragmes and a halfe Gum Comin both parched of each one dragme parched Dragagant one dragme and a halfe Waterlillies one quarter of an ounce all these beaten small together Sugar fiftéene ounces and séeth the Sugar in Purslaine water and then make Tabulates of it Hereafter follow Potions Take Comfrey rootes and seeth them in water drinke thereof thrée or foure ounces with Sugar it is very fit for this disease Item steeled water wherein Mirtle seede hath bene decocted being drunken is also very good For this is also meete Plantaine water Sorrell water Purslaine water and Cicorie water Or take Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes boyle them in water and drinke of it Or take of the Trocisci de Carabe de terra Sigillata de Spodio which you will or of each halfe a dragme for the whole Dose mixe it with whay and so drinke it What ought to be vsed outwardly IF so be that this infirmitie haue long continued then make Smiths Sinders glowing hot and slake them in wine and bath therwithall You must fill the Nauel with Stags suet which stayeth the affluxion of the heate and sharpnesse of the matter If the patient then desire to make water thē must the patient hang his priuities in Plātaine water or Nightshade water Item take old oyle of Roses two ounces oyle of Quinces and Mirtles of each two ounces and a halfe Burnt Lead white Lead Bloudstone both washt in Lettice water of each halfe an ounce Starch one ounce and a halfe Willow leaues and water Lillie flowers of each fiue dragmes Camfere one quarter of an ounce mixe one with another in a leaden mortar with the iuice of Plantaine and make also a salue thereof For this disease shall you finde many remedies both in the auncient and later Phisitions The cooling salue is also very commodious for this like as is the oyntment of Saunders Vnguentum Sandalinum Vnguentum Sandalinum which is made in this manner Take Roses three dragmes red Saunders two dragmes and a halfe yellow Saunders one dragme and a half fine Bolus one quarter of an ounce burnt Iuorie one drag Camfere halfe a dragme white Waxe one ounce oyle of Rose buds three ounces the Waxe and the oyle are to be molten togither and then temper the other things amongst them This is not onely good for this disease but also for inflamed Kidneies and to coole the liuer the stomacke and all other parts With any of both these oyntments annoynt the patients Kidneies and the Cods euen to the end of his Yard Item take oyle of Mirtles Roses Masticke of each halfe a dragme shauen Iuorie one scruple Camfere two graines powne all that is to be powned and with a little Waxe make thereof a salue wherwith annoynt the Kidneies This salue is also good for the whites in women Womens whites It is also much commended to weare vpon the Kidneies a peece of thin beaten Lead Of the Fluxe of Sperme or the running of Reynes through cold §. 2. IN this infirmitie is felt with the paine in the head a distemperance also of the braines a vexation af the whole body with cold euē as in Mania For this be especially Mints very méete Rue also and the seede thereof be highly commended for the same mountaine Mints Agnus Castus Artichockes with the rootes parched Comin Caruway Annis Frankinsence and their barkes Masticke and Marierom This patient must then prouidently as is sayd and mildly purge afterwards euery morning take a dragme of Treacle with Betonie water You may giue him also stued Peares or Quinces to eate Likewise rere sodden egges wherein is a little Masticke powder strewed and red Corall powder Also the Reynes and bladder are to be annointed round about with oyle of Masticke and oyle of Roses Of the Fluxe of the Sperme or seede in the sleepe §. 3. ABoue the afore mentioned fluxe of the seede this yet is to be annexed vnto it when as the seede also passeth away in the sleepe a nights and very seldome by day The cause of this is daily riotting and surfetting and specially meates which are drest with spice and be easie of digestion Secondly the thoughts vpon a faire woman whom one loueth Thirdly to sléepe sound and to lye vpon the backe abundance of bloud abstinence from women haile youth whence all other signes are to be had and taken these are also to be remedied like the former If it be caused of fulnesse it is to be cured by abstinence if through lust after women then will it be eased with a godly Matrimonie as also by the vse of cold and dry things as is already sayd of the running of the Raynes of that which procéedeth not of abundance but maketh a man vnfit to get children as shall be hereafter spoken of Of what and whereby naturall Sperme or seede will be most augmented §. 4. THe cause of the diminishing or increasing of naturall séede may as well procéede of intollerable heate as cold also of inward and outward causes The cold is repercussiue and kéepeth backe the heate consumeth Likewise it may grow by fals and such like other things moe whereby the braines are weakened Item of some kind of lesion of the stones and other parts also of inward as a bad concoction of the séede cutting of the stone or the Piles wherby the generation of the séede is hindred of sore precedent diseases of sorrow heauinesse temptation smalnesse of the humaine member and amongst diuers other causes of age also Now for to helpe this disease euen as is before sayd not to increase lecherie or fleshly lust but in fauour and preferment of Matrimonie For this therefore is good warme and dry weather and also
scruples Pomegranate blossomes Dragagant of each one scrup Mummy Dragon bloud and prepared Tutty of each one dragme Beane meale and Mill dust of each one dragme Plantaine Verbascum Willow leaues Mirtle leaues and Horse tayles of each one dragme and a halfe Camfer ten greines oyle of Roses as much as is néedfull therewith to make a salue spread thereof vpon a woollen cloth and lay it vpon the Fundament the bloud of the Pyles hath therwith bene stanched at sundry times when all other remedies had bene vsed and would not helpe vntill this aforesaid was applyed Item take Gips beate it small and make it to dough with the beaten white of an Egge this stauncheth bloud maruellous well and that in a quarter of an howre in what sort of bléeding soeuer it be Item take Aloe Frankinsence Dragon bloud fine Bolus and small cut haires of a Hare of each one quarter of an ounce beate them all small afterwards take a Cobweb out of a Mill rub it amongst it and make thereof a salue with the white of an Egge and annoynt the place therewith this also stauncheth much It is also good for rent or cut veines where the bloud cannot be staunched Or take the water of Hounds toung distilled from the herbe and root when the Pyles grow inward then are you to take euery morning therof foure ounces but if they be outward then cleanse the same and lay on this water with a cloth it healeth much Another Take the kernels of Abricockes one ounce and a halfe oyle of Mastick and vnripe Sallad oyle of each thrée ounces the iuice of Sloes Dragagant Gumme and Fish lime or Isinglas which haue bene long stéeped and are dissolued in the foresaid oyle of each thrée quarters of an ounce temper them together and dip Cotton therein and hold it continually on the Fundament You may also prepare this following Take Masticke Spica Cypers rootes Squinant Calmus Saffron and Myrrhe of each a like much make a plaister thereof with red Wine and lay it ouer the Liuer Item take the iuice of Plantaine two ounces Rosewater halfe an ounce beaten séedes of Butchers broome as much as is néedfull for to make a mild plaister lay this vpon the Arsegutte Here now follow some Salues TAke oyle of Myrtle and of Masticke of each one ounce Trocisci de Carabe Paper glewe burnt Date stones burnt Iuorie Sandaraca and Bloudstone of each one dragme Waxe as much as is néedefull for to make therewith a soft salue annoynt therewith the fundament Or take beaten Plantaine Verbascum Willow leaues Mirtle leaues and Horse tayles of each a like much to an ounce and a halfe of this powder adde ten graines of Camfere and oyle of Roses as much as is néeedfull for to make salue thereof This stancheth bloud and dryeth gently A precious salue Take Comin Caraway Rue séed Ameos Seseli Galliae Muschatae of each one dragme and a halfe Rosin thrée dragmes oyle of Dill two ounces Sallad oyle one ounce Lignum Aloes and Cloues of each half a dragme melt the Rosin in the oyle and temper it with the other things being beaten small stir it then well about vntill it be a thicke salue This salue verily hath great vertues it stauncheth the excessiue Termes in women if they annoint the raynes and hips therewith being applyed on the Nauell and the stomacke it expelleth wind and taketh away vomiting and parbraking Wil you then haue it stronger to vse for the Pyles then temper amongst it two scruples of Saffron and one dragme of Opium Other good Salues moe TAke dryed Orange péels beate them very small put thereto a rosted Apple and bruise it in a dish then temper the foresaid powder amongst it vntill it be as thicke as a Salue then wash first the Pyles with Plantaine water and afterwards annoint it with the foresaid salue Take two ounces of new Waxe thrée ounces of Hony foure ounces of Butter melt them all together and straine it warme thorow a cloth then set it vpon the fire againe and stir therin as much Wheate floure vntill it be as thicke as pap and then lay it thereon Item take white Dogs dung that hath eaten nothing but bones burne it to ashes and make a salue therof with cleane Barrowes grease and annoynt therewith the Pyles and then strew thereon the powder of Hermodactiles Or take the stones of Indian Mirobalans burn them to powder thereof take halfe an ounce prepared Iron drosse one quarter of an ounce temper them well together with the iuice of Plantaine in a mortar and therewith annoint the Arsegut within and without If so be that these forementioned will not helpe then take two ounces of the iuice of Roses the brayed whites of a couple of Egs Gips thrée dragmes bruse them in a mortar one amongst another and vse it as aforesaid The like is also counselled when as this bléeding commeth too sore that the Basilica is to be opened whereby to deriue and withdraw the bloud and afterwards that he be bathed with water wherein Linséede and the séedes of Hollihocks be decocted or at the leastwise that he be well fomented therewith Lastly like as it is said already there must be layd thereon beaten Parietarie or Pellitorie of the wall For to foment withall take Pomegranate blossomes Roses Cipers nuts séedes of Butchers broome Pomegranate péels Mirtle seed the iuice of Sloes Frankinsence of each halfe an ounce beate them a little and seeth them in thicke red wine and water of each a like much and foment the place with sponges or set the patient in water wherein Gals Pomegranate blossomes butchers Broome Mirtle seede and such like are decocted Item seeth Turnep leaues in water and therewith wash oftentimes the Fundament meetly warme Another Boyle Rose campion in thicke red Wine and foment the Pyles often therewith If so be that through all these remedies the bloud be not stanched then dippe a litle wooll in boyling oyle and lay it hot vpon it then will it cease Afterwards place him in water wherein Gals Pomgranat peels and the blossomes the barke of the Medlar tree Seruises Roses and Allume of ech one ounce beaten grosse were decocted but red wine were more forcible for this How that the inward Pyles are to be staunched OF this hath mention bene made at the first and for this purpose doe serue these foresaid remedies if they be to be had For the staunching of these Pyles if they do bleed excessiuely then is this salue especially to be ordained for them Take Pomgranate blossomes and peels burnt Mussell shels Frankinsence Masticke Dragon bloud sealed earth and Copwebs of each a like much make a powder thereof with dissolued Isinglas and common glew in steeled water make then a taint of Hares haire or at leastwise of wooll and lay it to steepe therein and put it into the Fundament refreshing it oftentimes What is to be vsed inwardly to staunch this bleeding FOr this excessiue bléeding of
oyntment thereof Item take oyle of Mastick and of wormewood of each one ounce oyle of Mirtles halfe an ounce Cloues Cinnamome and Galingall of each halfe a drag Lignum Aloes and Ginger of each one scruple make an oyntment of it with a little Vineger Or take Roses fiue drag Wormewood one quarter of an ounce Spica one drag Cloues two scruples long Pepper halfe a drag Masticke rumpled Mints of each one drag these being well beaten then take oyle of Masticke thrée ounces and a halfe oyle of Roses sixe ounces and a halfe Waxe one ounce and a halfe but the oyle and the waxe must be leysurely molten togither and then temper the rest togither vnto an oyntment wherewith you are to annoynt all the breast very warme And if it be in winter and that the party must go abroade then lay vpon the breast annoynted two or thrée leaues of writing paper for it preserueth naturall heate and defendeth the stomacke from all outward cold Another Take distilled oyle of Masticke or in the stead thereof oyle of Cammomill Wormewood Mints Quinces and Roses of each one ounce and a halfe Mace Masticke Nutmegs Cloues Cardamome Graines Galingall and Lignum Aloes of each one quarter of an ounce red Corall prepared Coriander Roses Mints Wormewood and Cammomill of each two drag and a halfe crums of new Rie bread which haue been stéeped 24. howers in sharp Vineger fower ounces take them out and beate them to pap afterwards melt thrée ounces and a halfe of Waxe in oyle and then temper it vnto a salue Another which is vsed in Italie Take oile of the blossomes of Orenges one ounce powder of Benseine one drag and a halfe Cloues Mace of each halfe a drag Laudanum one quarter of an ounce temper all to a salue Another Take oyle of Quinces of Spikenard and Mastick of each two ounces and a halfe red Styrax Squinant Cipers rootes red and white Corall Roses Masticke of each one quarter of an ounce Cloues wilde Vine leaues of each halfe a drag Waxe and Rosin as much as is needfull for to make a salue This doth strengthen the stomack withstandeth the wambling and is also good for all humidity of the stomacke Item take oyle of Mastick Spike oyle of Quinces of each thrée ounces oile of Wormewood one ounce and a halfe Masticke Cloues Nutmegs wilde Vine leaues Mints and Mirtle seeds of each one quarter of an ounce Wormewood Roses red and white Corall of each one drag with a little Waxe and make an vnguent thereof Another If one can get none other thing then take gréene or drie Wormewood séeth it in Sallad oyle with a little Wine vntill the wine be consumed and annoynt therewith the stomacke Oyle of Masticke is thus prepared Take oyle of Roses sixe ounces Oyle of Masticke good wine fower ounces of grosse heaten Masticke one ounce and a halfe let this séeth togither vntill the wine be decocted This oyle doth not onely strengthen the stomacke but also the braines the sinewes ioynts and the Liuer asswageth all paine and all swellings in all the parts of the body To make oyle of Quinces THis oyle of Quinces is also next to the oyle of Masticke very highly commended for it is costly and good for all debilities of the stomacke it alayeth all wambling it strengtheneth the digestiue vertue and also the sinewes c. and it is thus prepared Take Quinces that be yet scant ripe cut them with the pils in péeces and take out the seeds then take the iuice of Quinces of the one as much as the other in a glasse and powre into it as much oyle as there is of the iuice but rather vnripe oyle then other this being bounden tight then set the glasse the space of fiftéene dayes in the Sun afterwards let it boyle two or thrée howers in water and then wring it hard through a cloth this must be done thrée or fower times one after another and so kept close stopped For a conclusion of this weakenes of the stomacke through cold some do vse this briefe meane First they do ordaine a Clister made in this manner following take Lineseed and fresh butter of each sixe ounces of well washed Turpentine dissolued in wine or any decoction wherein be much Annis seed sodden one ounce let the patient also drinke much of some decoction of Cloues Galingall Cinnamome Balsam fruits and Calmus Lay then lastly this plaister following vpon the stomacke Take Rue one ounce Wormewood fower ounces this being beaten togither temper it with hony and then lay it warme vpon the stomacke Of the debilitie of the stomack through heate §. 6. IF so be that this weakenes of the stomack and bad digestion of the same be with great thirst without appetite with sowre foule belchings and with great drouth of the mouth it is then very easily to be adiudged that the same is caused through heate If there be Cholera mingled amongst it then followeth wambling and parbraking and that after the taking of light meates as egs fowles and other good flesh The mouth is bitter and sometimes there commeth a shooting paine he desireth all cold things and all which is hote goeth against him The digestion of the stomack is strong if the heate indure not too long which otherwise spoileth the same These are the signes of the Gall or Bilis which troubleth or inflameth the stomack and as is said molesteth the same with vomiting and a sharpe scowring Now for to remedie this paine of the stomack it is to be marked whether the sick person were not wont to cast and if he were he is then to vse this sirupe which is necessarie for it Take the iuice of sowre Quinces eight ounces white Sugar fowre ounces Vineger two ounces seeth them to a sirupe this sirupe doth not only coole vnnaturall heate of the stomack but also strengtheneth it for to effect her worke and expelleth the windines of the same For this is also very commodious the sirupe of Veriuice or De Agresta which doth also the same Item the sirupe of Peares Peaches and especially of Apples which is described in the second part the sixt Chapter and 4. § which be also these following that be made of the iuice of Bayberies Sorrell Roses water Lillies Limons Citrons Mirtle séeds and of the iuice of Pomgranats Item Oxysacchara Iulep of Roses and Violets sirupe of Orenges are also highly commended for this which be euery where described Item sirupe of Roses laxatiue Oxymel sirupe of Endiue and of Vineger or these following Take Endiue small Endiue and Lettice of each one handfull the séeds of Melons Cucumbers Gourds and Pompeons of each one quarter of an ounce Wormewood one handfull Roses Violets of each one ounce péeled Barly one handfull the iuice of Pomegranats fowre ounces Vineger thrée ounces Sugar as much as you thinke good make a sirupe thereof Item Hony of Roses expelleth all cholerick matter from the stomack and doth strengthen the same and if it be
powder Confections Plaisters Oyles and all whatsoeuer one will It hapneth also sometimes that with this vomiting a laske or flixe is adioyned For to stay the same are these things following good parched Cresses séede Cypers Nut leaues Mirrhe Lignum Aloes red Styrax Amber Laudanum Indis Spica Spica Romana Calmus Cloues Mints Wormwood Citrons Limons Oranges Frankinsence Mastick Rue Agnus castus tosted bread Gallia Muscata and Alipta almost all kinds of Spices Also Treacle taken with the iuice of Mints stayeth vomiting Item make a plaister of Mastick with a little sodden Turpentine and lay it on the stomack for this also are you to set boxing cups vpon the shoulders For this also is Marmalade with Spices very good and preserued Quinces and these are the common meanes against the vomiting through a weake stomacke be it through heate or cold You shall also finde many mo described in other places of this booke amongst diuers sicknesses as before in the second part the fift Chapter and 2. § is discouered for the spetting of bloud and such like We will now passe ouer to another manner of parbraking through Cholera Of Parbraking or Vomiting with the laske or scouring §. 12. THis maladie do the learned name after the humour whereby it is caused Choleram The later Phisitions call it Cholericam Passionem and it is thus described Cholera is a very sharpe troublesome and heauie disease which immediatly molesteth one with the Rheume whereby vomiting great flixe or scouring Collick paine of the bowels an Ague is bred Or Cholera is a violent sicknes with vomiting great scowring or laske with Cramp in the sinewes Thighes and Legs whereby all outward members are cold and the pulse is small and slow Or Cholera is such a maladie whereby one immediatly doth scowre and rid vpward and downeward many kinds of humors and slime with the meate so that he detaineth nothing in his body This sicknesse commeth first of spoyled and corrupted meate which remaineth to long in some place of the body as in the stomack or bowels and there causeth a bad alteration and also giueth little nourishment Also this sicknesse is sometimes caused of cold and waterish humors which gather themselues togither in the bowels and in the stomack that do debilitate the retentiue vertue of the stomack aboue and beneath But the sicknesse for the most part is caused through much Cholera and red gall that do so lye and bite in the stomack bowels that within the space of one houre the parbraking and going to the stoole do so haunt a body that otherwhiles the strongest body on the third day is depriued of his life and this is worse then all other The signes of a cold cause are these before the sicknesse be vpon one much windinesse is felt in the bowels also some dayes before the sicknesse he féeleth paine and shooting about the Nauell whereupon presently ensueth a vehement laske or flixe with vomiting of much slime and other illfauored matter This is also the sooner caused if the patient haue vsed great store of phlegmaticall meates That which is caused through heate is hereby knowne there falleth much Cholera into the stomack and bowels with great and mightie parbraking and also with great thirst and if one drinke cold water then doth the vomiting stay vntill that the water be warmed in the stomack The Fluxe is so vehement that the patient sometimes thereby swouneth and also vtterly loseth the pulse with an vnstedfast heate and bereauing of his senses When as then it hapneth that one feeleth a continual paine in the stomacke or bowels with great heauinesse of mind and perceiueth parbraking and vomiting then is such verily to be taken for Cholera for this there is to be giuen to the sicke body lukewarme water to drinke very often And if so be that this parbraking and scowring continue still then giue him warme water to drinke againe as before and that so long till you find that he haue auoyded some corrupted meates slime or some of the gall This will frée the patient of mo other sicknesses For this are moe other things to be vsed to wit that expell this sharpe matter so that Phlegma with things necessary for it and Cholera with those that helpe it might be taken in hand because parbraking will be cured by parbraking and scowring by scowring When as then the scowring is stayed of both ends then is the patiēt to bath one houre long afterwards to eate a little and that light meate because the stomacke is very much weakened After that he is to eate a little Marmalade which is tempered with prepared Coriander and so go sleepe He is to vse this Marmalade as long as the scowring or parbraking endureth His diet must be Hen broth decocted with Veriuice steeled Goats milke Barley and Oten paps sodden Lettice and Purslaine but principally if there be any heate and bitternesse of the mouth remaining but if so be that there be any cold in the stomacke then are these herbes at no hand to be vsed When as the patient beginneth againe to féede well then be good for him all field foules and chiefly Partridges which haue a proper hidden vertue to strengthen the stomacke Amongst other meates may well be vsed Limons Citrons Oranges Veriuice such like Item all sower fruits Seruices vnripe Medlars sower Peares Apples and Quinces Also he shal eate although not gladly sops of white bread in the iuice of Pomegranats and if so be that he vomit vp the same yet must he take more againe and do this so long till that he do hold and retaine it As long as he is not through wholethen is he to drinke stéeled water with sirupe of Quinces or old conserue of Roses When he beginneth to be whole then is he to drinke good relished wine which is tempered with the iuice of Pomegranates And if so be that he parbrake it vp then let him drinke of the same againe but a little at once that the stomacke be not ouercharged Here followeth now what is to be vsed for this scowring and parbraking and chiefly when it is seene that these diseases do increase For which one is not to be discomforted but much more bestir him to helpe the sicke person with these remedies following First you must giue him one or two dragmes of Trociscos de Olibano with water or iuice of Pomegranates and afterwards to bind his legs fast like as is taught before against the parbraking when the vomiting getteth the vpper hand so must his armes likewise be bounden when the scowring getteth the mastery But aboue all sleepe is passing good Item Rose water layd very cold ouer the legs or from the vpper part of the legs downward wetted and washed therewith and the féete set in it is also very good In like manner is this plaister ensuing forcible to asswage the paine to warme and strengthen Take rindes of the Medlar tree of Quinces and of an Oaken tree
them small togither make pils of them with the iuice of Plantaine when they be tempered with the sirupe of Mirtles then do they bind the more Item take Hypocistis blossomes of Pomegranates Butchers Broome Barberies Sorrell séede of each one dragme and a halfe Purslaine séede and Plantaine both parched of each one quarter of an ounce Dragon bloud worme-eaten Galles the iuice of Sloes yellow séedes of Roses of each one quarter of an ounce Henbane séede one scruple Opium two scruples and a halfe make pils thereof with the iuice of Plantaine and forme seauen of a dragme But note yet that they be very strong and that one must not vse many This following is more gentle Take Gum Masticke Frankinsence Amber of each halfe a dragme temper them with the sirupe of Roses vnto pils and take alwayes therof twice a day a little or much before meate according as the scowring is violent For this scowring is alwayes good all rost meate fryed Egs Rice and Lettice if it be with great heate Calues féete conserue of Rosser fruits Muske Peares before meales old conserue of Roses conserue of water Lillies Marmalade preserued Bayberies and also preserued Sloes The drinke for this patient must be stéeled water wherein Mirtle séede is decocted also Harts tong Wine drunken warme These Sirupes following are very good as namely sirupe of Mirtles dried Roses Mints also hony of Roses for it hath a mild binding and an astringent vertue like as veriuice hath also The smoke or reke of Frankinsence is also very good Milke put into Clisters when it is stéeled is commended for this purpose Note ye that all that we haue sufficiently written of before is also good for the red or bloudy flixe whereof we will shortly hereafter speake and discourse Of the scowring which proceedeth of the Liuer and Stomacke §. 16. IT commeth also verily to passe that the Liuer and the Stomacke do cause this scowring which is then very dangerous so that the dropsie called Tympanites is wont to follow it Therefore is an order made an ordained what one ought to obserue for this Wherein first it is néedefull that he forbeare all meates and drinks which be laxatiue or do in any wise molest the body as Spinage Béets Mallowes Mercurie well boyled Colewoorts and such like He must also be restrained from new wines and them that be not very old Likewise also of all sharpe salt and sower things as Radishes Onions Garlicke hard meates vnleauened bread and that which is not well baked And he must eschue fruits and specially them that be laxatiue as Figs Grapes Prunes and such like In fine for this sicknesse the patient is to be kept very sober in eating and drinking and to féede onely vpon that which is light of digestion He must also abstaine from all violent motions and that chiefly after meate from venerie much watching and anger All his meates be they soddē or rosted must be drest with Deeres sewet Secondly he must beware of many kindes of meates especially against night Thirdly before euery meale he must eate a rosted Quince peare or foure or fiue Medlars Fourthly Lentils are very haile meate for him if they be drest after this maner Let them first séeth a little in vineger after that boyle them with two parts of water and one part of vineger Fiftly euery euening he is to take three of these pils ensuing Take parched Dragagant and Gum of each one dragme Butchers Broome séede Mirtle séede Acorne cups burnt Iuorie Squinant Roses Cypers rootes of each two scruples whereof make pils with the iuice of Daisies before noone He is to vse this confection ensuing Take Marmalade without spices thrée ounces prepared Coriander and Mastick of each one dragme temper them with the iuice of Quinces and vse each time halfe an ounce or more Also once euery eight dayes take two of these pils Take Trociscos de Spodio one quarter of an ounce parched Rubarbe halfe a dragme burnt Iuorie and parched Dragagant of each one scruple Hares rennet or the rennet of a yong Goate or Kid one dragme and a halfe make pils thereof and vse them as all the rest This plaister also following is to be made and worne vpon the nauell Take two ounces of Rosin Cypers nuts one dragme a halfe Plantaine séede the iuice of Sloes burnt Iuorie Roses Irō drosse that is prepared of each one dragme Mace two scruples but the Rosin must be boyled in red vineger When it is sufficiently sodden and almost cold then temper all the foresayd Species with it spread of it vpon a péece of leather the quantitie of a quarter of a yard foure square and lay this plaister vpon the nauel downwards As often as the patient goeth to stoole he is to fume his fundament with this powder ensuing Take Colophonia Gallia Muscata and red Styrax of each halfe a dragme Lignum Aloes one dragme red Corall burnt Iuorie Sandaraca of each two scruples powne them all togither and temper them all togither Afterwards strew some of it vpon hot coales It is also good aduise that there be alwayes boyled in his meate as much Comfrey as the bignesse of a great finger Lastly he must continually weare this bag ensuing vpon his stomacke Take Mirtle séede prepared Coriander Marierom and Nep of each one handfull Mace halfe an ounce Masticke Gallia Muscata red Styrax red Corall and Sandaraca of each one quarter of an ounce Lignum Aloes one dragme and a halfe parched Comin half an ounce temper them vse it as aforesayd Thus far haue we spoken of this Scowring and of both the causes of it as of the stomacke and of the liuer and also how they both do come togither The third cause of this Diarrhaea is the obstruction of the small veines and are called of the Grecians Mesenterion or Mesaraeon for that as the stomacke and the entrailes haue done their duties so if these veines do not sucke out the nourishment then doth nature expel the meate in manner of a thicke pap with paine in the right side and in the bowels and so out of the body especially if one haue eaten much grosse and swéete meate before Also this scowring may be well caused of an impostume which might be about the small veines or about the vpper guts at which time is commonly perceiued an ague heate and paine which obstruction doth also procéede for the most part of grosse and tough humours For this disease vomiting is one of the best remedies Also this sirupe following is to be vsed Take the rootes of Smallage Parsley Butchers broome Sperage grasse and Cicorie of each one dragme the séedes of Smallage and of Parsley Comin and Fennell of each one ounce let this séeth well togither and wring it out and to this Colature adde halfe a pint of hony and boyle it againe and clarifie it as behoueth Giue thereof to the patient euery morning foure or fiue ounces Also the séedes of Smallage Ameos and Parsley
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
the meate oftentimes with vehemencie or that the expulsiue force be too extreame strong This maladie commeth commonly after a feruent Ague and much vomiting It doth also happen through ouermuch heate of the stomacke that is long continuing whereby it digesteth much and alwaies desireth more The other principall occasion is cold which sticketh fast in the mouth of the stomacke wherof commeth also an vnnaturall desire of meate And how much greater that the cold is so much the greater is the hunger and that so long vntill all the vertues of it be weakened The third occasion may be some sowre humor or of Phlegma and Melancholia which may be retained in the mouth of the stomacke and doth there prouoke this lust and desire of meate The signes of this vnnaturall hunger which is caused through warmth of the time through great labor and such like are discouered before also through vnnaturall cold much watching c. and all other outward accidents which are to be demaunded of the patient himselfe Or if this disease be caused through wormes such hath likewise his sure signes which be mentioned in their place If so be that this hunger then do procéede onely through heate of the stomacke or through heate of the whole bodie then is there great thirst with it And if it be caused through any humors debilitie of the retentiue or vehemencie of the expulsiue vertues it may be to be séene by the meate that auoideth vndigested through the stoole But if this disease be caused through melancholy then is there with it a pricking or gnawing with a drouth of the mouth the patient sléepeth but little and that with terrible dreames and hath ill fantasies in his head When as then this maladie cometh through cold then doth the patient alwaies féele himselfe troubled after meate and he must by and by vomit vp the same againe or the same passeth from him downewards vndigested Present regard is to be had that the body be not filled ful of bad humors wherby the Consumption might at last ensue and Lieuteria yea the Dropsie it selfe And if this should so continue a certain time then followeth at last Bulimos and afterwards Syncopalis whereof we haue spoken before which taketh people out of the world If so be then this vnnaturall hunger be caused through any outward or accidentall occasion the same are to be preuented with contrarie remedies to wit with alteration of cold dwellings into warme of great labour into rest and sléepe c. In case then that this hunger be caused through coldnes of the stomack then are warme things for purging and other warme remedies to be vsed which might expell the cold matter from the stomack wherof we haue written herebefore in the 5. § and of all that strengtheneth the stomacke For this it is also required by all the learned that these kinds of patients should eate boyled Rice with the fat of Mutton stued or that is dropt off from rost meate All fat things moderatly vsed are very good for him as Sallad oyle and such like But if this maladie do come through cold sowre Phlegma then it is good that he boyle Marioram in all his meates He may also vse Mustard Honie Nuts Almonds Onions and Garlicke he may also the space of certaine dayes eate Goates milke with the oyle of Violets because that these fat meats do driue aboue in the stomack therfore they do supple the mouth of the stomack and do make a lothsomnes to feeding The second It is then passing good that such do drinke much old and strong red wine at their meales which is also very good to slake hunger with Also for this Dogges hunger are warme Confections to be vsed as namely Letitiae Galeni Diapliris cum Moscu Diatrionpipereon Triphera magna good confects Ginger Hippocras and other spiced wines moe made sweete rather with Honie than with Sugar But this is not spoken of the hunger which commeth through long fasting of great scouring of the bloudie flixe or of strong purgations but onely of this vnsatiable hunger which is called Dogs hunger If so be then euery such patient shall obserue this decréed order then will this hunger abate very much and also be thoroughly cured in time But in case that this hunger procéed of heate and the meate do not molest him neither yet is cast out aboue nor beneath like as it was wont to be if after a lingring sicknesse he were ouercharged with meate and if the stomack and all the whole bodie be waxen hote they are to be fed with meates which be not easie to be digested as namely old Béefe Mutton Porke and also all kind of pottages of Pease and Beanes of Rice and Wheate boyled in milke great fishes Tripes féete and Liuers of all beasts also hatd sodden Egs and in fine with all that is hard of digestion which lyeth long in the stomacke and wherewith the stomacke may be cloyed Also his meates ought to be drest with some cold things for which Melons Cucumbers and Gourds be very good He is to kéepe himselfe also in the cold ayre His drinke must be alwaies good Claret wine And for a conclusion he must eschue all spice and strong wines But if so be the stomacke be too much ouercharged and too much burthened then is the patient to be forced to vomit through such meanes as be herebefore oftentimes expressed The stomacke is outwardly to be annointed with cold oyles likewise also with vnguent of Roses with the cooling salue Galeni with the white Camfere salue with Vineger and rose-Rose-water wherein is a litle Allume dissolued And if so be that the same be not any thing which hindreth it then let the patient bathe in cold water And if so be that this hunger be caused through melancholy then prepare this sirupe following Take the rootes of Sperage Fennell Parsly Smallage Butchers broome Thyme Comin Burrage Buglosse Harts tongue Raisins the stones taken out flowers of Burrage and of Buglosse of each halfe an ounce Fumitorie halfe a handfull Hony eightéene ounces make a sirupe of them and giue him each time one ounce and a halfe or two ounces For to purge vse the Confection of Sene leaues or this potion following Take Sene leaues Polypody roots Annis of each half an ounce Currans one ounce let them seeth together in eight ounces of water vnto the halfe then temper therein beaten Epithymum one quarter of an ounce Sene powder and prepared Agaricus of each halfe a dragme Cloues halfe a scruple make thereof a potion And if neede be open the Saluatella vpon the right hand He is also to be ordered in his diet as is before rehearsed and all things are to be forborne which may prouoke appetite as hath bene shewed before in the 9. § It is also said that hard rosted Egs after other meate be very méet for this purpose And it happeneth also very well like as is briefly spoken of before that if one recouer after
of great endiue of Agrimonie Smallage and Fennell of each thrée ounces water of Parsley rootes of Smallage and Venus haire of each two ounces cleare wel water twelue ounces Sugar eightéen ounces white vineger two ounces Séeth them al togither and clarifie them well then put vnto it Squinant Spike burnt Iuorie Melon séed Gourd séedes Cucumber séede Pompeon séede and red Saunders of each one dragme Wormewood three dragmes then make a sirupe of it take at each time two ounces of it with the decoction of Pease or with Endiue water The third day after that such impostumes be knowen then is the soft pap to be layd vpon it Take Barly meale stewed Figs Dates beaten to pap and tempered all togither with oyle or Roses and Vineger For this sicknesse one must not purge at the first without great néede be But when the sicknes is at the prime or declining then are you to do the same with Manna Cassie sowre Dates and to exhibite it with the decoction of Violets Squinant Prunes and Wormewood In like manner vse loosing meate drest with Burrage Mallowes Hops and such like herbs But if the impostume be broken out and that there do come a gentle laske or scouring wherewith corruption also auoydeth then is nature to worke But in case this scouring get the maistrie then is the same to be stayed with the Trociscis de Berberis and de Terrasigillata But if these impostumes do come of thrusts or such like occasions then open a veine as is sayd already and lay this plaister following vpon it Take Mirtle seed Roses and Bayberies of each halfe an ounce Calmus Mirrhe Mastick of each one quarter of an ounce Saffron one dragme oyle of Lillies and Waxe as much as is needefull and if you feare any hardnes of the Liuer then vse the mollifying things whereof we haue spokē in the 5. § Or make this following Take Cammomill Melilot Rue Wormwood Ireos Marierom Calmus Hyssop Roses of each one ounce and a halfe Endiue Hollyhock rootes Lineséede and Fenegréeke of each one quarter of an ounce let them boyle all togither in wine and water make a sponge wet in it then lay it warme vpon it Item in the declination of the sicknesse is this plaister following to be vsed Take liquid Storax and Waxe of each one ounce and a quarter Masticke Saffron Ameos of each half an ounce oyle of Mastick and of Roses of each fiue dragmes Wine six ounces temper and vse it warme the Barly for his meate the water for his drinke is amongst other cooling things verie necessarie meate and drinke But if so be that these impostumes do proceede of cold then do they make shew with intumifactions and debilities they bring also rather heauinesse and oppression with them then paine For this take héed of letting bloud and strong Clisters but mild Clisters may be vsed and also milde purgations Amongst other is good for these Clisters Wormewood Barly field Mints Centorie or which you will decocted with a little Coloquint You may also vse well suppositories for to keepe the body soluble and to draw downe the tough and grosse slime Prepare also these Trocisks following Take Roses fiue dragmes Barberies halfe an ounce Annis Smallage seede Squinant Cassie wood and Calmus of each thrée dragmes Mastick Spike Cinnamome Asarabacca Rubarb Mather and Lacca of each one dragme beate them all togither make fouresquare Trociskes thereof with the iuice of Fennell the waight of a dragme and giue thereof one in the euening with this potion following Take the rootes of Smallage Parsly and Fennell of each one ounce séedes of Smallage Annis Fennell and Comin of each halfe an ounce Squinant Agrimonie field Cipers Germander Mather Cassy wood and Balsam wood of each one quarter of an ounce white Vineger one ounce and a halfe Hony thréee ounces séeth them all together in sufficient water clarifie it as behoueth Further annoint the place with oyle of Spike oyle of Sesamum or oyle of the séedes of Manus Christi and lay this plaister following vpon it Take the séedes of Smallage Ameos Annis and Cardamome of each halfe an ounce Squinant Aloe of each thrée dragmes Spike Amaranthus Mastick Saffron and Mirtle séed of each one dragme and a halfe Turpentine Rosen of each three dragmes Waxe as much as will suffice for to make a plaister with melt it with a little oile of Spike and of Costus and then temper the rest amongst it But if so be that you will you may take and put vnto it Oxe dung and Goats dung When the impostume breaketh that may be perceiued if the patient about the same time fall a shiuering and quaking with a swouning and vomiting and that bloud auoyd both through the stoole and the vrine then is this plaister following to be vsed and if peraduenture the opennes be not yet explete yet doth it ripen and asswage the paine and strengtheneth the Lyuer Take Barly meale Fenegréeke meale of each one ounce Linséede meale three dragmes Mill dust Elecampane roots the roots of Smallage and of Wormewood of each fiue dragmes Cammomill Melilot Violets Roses of each thrée dragmes white Lillie roots Pigeon dung Spica Romana of each one dragme oyle of Cammomill and of Violets as much as will suffice for to make therewith a plaister afterwards giue him a drinke for to cleanse him decocted of Barly and Figs or let him vse Mellicraton which is Meade Of the laske of scouring through weaknesse of the Liuer §. 8. WE haue sufficiently written thereof before in the eleuenth Chapter where we haue spoken of all manner sorts of Lasks and bloudy Flixes Of diuers things which be very commodious for all infections of the Liuer §. 9. HEre before in the 3. § is highly commended the water of Venus haire for all diseases of the Lyuer For this is also good M. Tristanis water for it doth preserue and cure the Liuer from all diseases Item take the séede of Endiue of small Endiue and of Lettice water of Venus haire and Liuerwort red and white Saunders of each one dragme seedes of Melons of Pompeons and Gourds of each one quarter of an ounce shauen Iuorie halfe a dragme burnt Iuorie one dragme roots of Fennell of Parsly and Smallage of each one quarter of an ounce rootes of Endiue three dragmes and a little Vineger Sugar one ounce and a halfe let them seeth all togither in three pints of water vnto the halfe This is especiall good for a stuft Lyuer which is caused through heate and also for the yellow Iaundies Many kindes of golden waters and vitall waters be also good for this and especially for cold causes Looke also in the first part the 12. Chapter and 1. § where you haue a very good powder beginning thus Take the iuice of Wormewood c. mixe it with Sugar and vse it ten dayes togither it helpeth all maladies of the Milt and Lyuer it preserueth also from the yellow
them one amongst another but first of all annoint your hands with the oyle of Barberries Another Take the muscilage of Fenegreeke and of Lineséede of each one ounce the grease of Hens Geese and Duckes of each thrée ounces washt Butter Swines grease Neates féet oyle of each one quarter of an ounce beaten Tamariscus Willow leaues Harts toung the middle rind of the Ash trée Capers rootes Rue leaues and Nep of each one dragme oyle of Capers one ounce and a halfe a litle Waxe and Vineger then make a plaister or salue of it Item take an Onion cut off a peece at the top and make it hollow within and fill it with oyle of Lillies and let it rest vncouered in the ashes so long till it haue soked vp all the oyle afterwards stampe it and lay it warme ouer it All these plaisters following are also good for it as namely De Meliloto Diachilon magnum De Muscilaginibus and others Take of the plaister De Muscilaginibus two ounces Ammoniacum dissolued in Vineger and Marcasite beaten small of each fiue dragms temper it on the fire and spread it on a leather cut after the fashion of a halfe Moone and so lay it warme vpon the spléene it is very good and approued We haue promised herebefore to describe the salues of Dialthea It is also made after sundrie fashions like as we shall also teach here Take cleane Hollihock rootes eight ounces Linséede and Fenegréeke séede of each foure ounces Sallad oyle sixtéene ounces Turpentine halfe an ounce Rosin one ounce and a halfe the rootes and also the seedes shall you steepe three dayes and three nights in a quart of water the fourth day seeth them so long vntill they yeeld from them a thicke tough slime or muscilage wring them hard out and take eight ounces thereof and seeth it with the oyle vntil all the moisture be decocted Afterwards put the Turpentine Rosin and foure ounces of Waxe vnto it When all these things be molten and well tempered then take it from the fire and stirre it well about vntill it be cold The second Take eight ounces of faire sliced Hollihocke rootes Linseede and Fenegreeke seed of each foure ounces stampe them and wring them thorough as before then put vnto it foure ounces of Barrowes grease two beaten Onions one ounce and a half of Gummi Arabicum and let them seeth all together vntill that all the moisture be decocted afterwards take foure ounces of molten Waxe and then temper them together and stirre it well about vntill it be through cold The third Take faire cleansed Hollihocke rootes twelue ounces choppe it very small and powre two quarts of water into it sixe ounces of Linseed three ounces of Fenegreeke seed and three ounces of Lilly rootes then powne them all together and when they be boyled to a tough slime or muscilage then straine them thorough a cloth and take twelue ounces of it and séeth the same with 24. ounces of Barrowes grease vntill the iuice be all decocted afterwards put vnto it foure ounces of Waxe Fenegreeke meale two ounces Galbanum dissolued in Vineger Gummi Hederae and Turpentine of each one ounce But if you cannot get the foresaid Gum then take three ounces of Turpentine temper them all together as before this salue is good for all swellings for the shrinking of the sinewes for all tumors of the breasts it looseth phlegme asswageth the Cough and all stitches in the sides as also the paine in the Raynes of the grauell and is good for all extenuations The fourth and last Take fresh Hollihocke rootes twelue ounces Linseede and Fenegreeke seede of each sixe ounces Squilles three ounces Sallad oyle 24. ounces yellow Waxe sixe ounces Turpentine Gummi Hederae and Galbanum of each one ounce and a quarter Colophonia and Rosin of each three ounces powne all that is to be powned and let it steepe together three dayes in water afterwards seeth them all together and straine them thorough a cloth and then take foure and twenty ounces of the muscilage thereof and let them seeth all together on a soft fire with the foresaid oyle vntill all the moisture be decocted afterwards put Waxe vnto it and then a little of the Gumme and lastly the Colophonie and Rosin When it is boyled ynough then stirre it well about and let it coole Of the Melancholia and moisture of the Spleene §. 5. FOr as much as the Spléene as is said is the true receptacle of the blacke and melancholicke bloud therfore reason requireth that we should write of what nature the same is whereby other things may also be discerned which be incident to the Milt First we haue in the first part the 12. chap. and 8. § described many kinds of causes of Melancholy and in other places moe especially in the beginning of the former § and taught of the Milt of her beginning causes what hurt might procéede thereof to wit if the same got the masterie that there may follow not onely heauines of mind frighting and such like but also it might depriue the whole body of his liuely colour and cause also black vlcers leaprie the canker quartaine agues and such like and lastly all manner of distraction of the mind raging madnes and inhumane beastlinesse Therefore because this booke euery where maketh mention of them it is not néedfull to discourse more at large thereof at this present But we will onely describe certaine remedies which be fit for it Wherefore it is first to be noted that all preparatiue and purgatiue things are to be vsed that the matter may be auoyded through going to the stoole and not through vomiting by reason that these melancholick humors are very ponderous and heauie and will not be expelled but onely downwards Before we then come to any particular remedies we will first discouer what simples there be that do prepare these melancholicke humors and whereby the same may be expelled viz. Burrage Buglosse Thymus Epithymus Capers rootes Tamariscus Harts tong good Wine bathing in swéet Water Licorice Currans Polipody rootes grasse Chamedryos Cuscuta Asarabacca Gentian Lupines Fumitorie Calmus Spicanardi Agnus castus bitter Almonds Cicorie Rosemarie Radish séede Burnet sea Crabs and aboue all a chearefull courage or light hart The compounded medicines are Oxymel of Squils hony of Roses sirupe of Vineger Sirupus acetosus compositus de Fumo terrae and other moe But chiefly this following is to be prepared for it Take Cicorie Rosemarie Burnet Hops Cincfoile Endiue with the roots Fumitorie the rootes of Buglosse Burrage flowers Liuerwoort Chamedryos field Cipers Capers rootes Tamariscus rootes and Harts toung with the roots of each two ounces Prunes and Sebestes of each twentie or fiue and twenty Sene leaues Cuscuta Thymus wild Thyme and Fennell of each halfe an ounce Licorice Raisins Stechas of each two ounces Séeth them all together in thrée pints of water euen to the halfe adde to this decoction being strained Buglosse and the iuice of
and all his whole gouernment cooling and moistening as followeth hereafter Take Mallowes with the rootes Hollihocke rootes Bearefoote and Violet leaues of each one handfull Burrage flowers and flowers of Buglos of each halfe an ounce foure or fiue Prunes séeth them all together in a pot of water euen to the halfe and then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéen ounces and temper with it two ounces of Cassie oyle of Violets thrée ounces of Hony one ounce then make a Clister of it This is also especially commended being made with Gotes milke Cassie and oyle of Almonds When as then the impostume is broken vp then are you to vse for to cleanse it Clisters Barly water and Hony and afterwards consolidating medicins But if so be that one perceiue any parings of the bowels in the stooles and that with great paine then are these following to be vsed Take somewhat lesse then a pound of stéeled water and séeth therin broad and picked Plantaine and Roses of each one M. euen to the halfe Take twelue or sixtéene ounces thereof and melt therein one ounce of Deere suet thrée yolkes of Egs well beaten oyle of Roses two ounces Thomas Sugar one ounce and temper them all together Another Take broad Plantaine wild Tansie and Comfrey of each one handfull Pomegranat pils one ounce seeth them all together in a pot of steeled water euen to the halfe then melt in this decoction two ounces of Deere suet Trociscos de Carabe De Terra sigillata of each one quarter of an ounce then make a Clister of it For plaisters take the sodden hearbes and the other things of the former Clisters powne them to grout and temper therewith halfe an ounce of powned red Saunders Barly meale two ounces and oyle of Violets as much as doth suffise for a plaister and then lay it warme ouer it it doth abate the paine very much Another Take Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes with the herbes of Nightshade Violets Cammomill and Melilot of each halfe an ounce beate them all together and temper therewith oyle of Violets of water Lillies and Ducks grease of each thrée dragmes Linseed meale one ounce and then make a plaister of it If need require to purge more then may the same be done with the conserue of Prunes But if so be this paine of the bowels be with a cold tumor then must stronger Clisters be vsed as there be sundrie set foorth in the 6. § against the paine of the bowels through Phlegma But first are the oyle of Cammomill with Vineger and the oyle of Roses that it may pierce and strengthen the bowels for to be vsed after the Clisters expressed before in the fift § may this plaister following for mollification be vsed for to ripen and asswage the paine Take Linseede meale Fenegréeke meale Wheaten meale and Barly meale of each two ounces sixe yolkes of Egs oile of Cammomill and good wine as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister this must be laid warme vpon it Another Take eightéene or twenty Figs séeth them well in water crums of white bread two ounces White meale one ounce and a halfe vnsalted Barrowes grease and oile of Cammomil as much as is néedful for to make a plaister let them all séeth a litle together and then lay them warme vpon it you may also put warme vnto it one ounce of beaten Cammomill It happeneth also sometimes that in these impostumes the vrine is retained backe because that the conduits are stopt through the tumor therfore if that befall the Saphea must be opened and the kidneys and the priuities annoynted with the oyle of Cammomill and oile of Violets and also are Clisters and Plaisters to be vsed like as shall hereafter be further spoken of in the prouocation of vrine Of the paine in the bowels through heate and Cholera §. 10. THis is the last cause whereby as is discoursed before in the fourth § the paine of the guts may be ingendred and when it commeth with heate and an ague it is not then so hurtfull or lingring as that which procéedeth of Phlegma For this must the patient first of all be purged with sirupes and such like things as do coole and further be kept with necessarie meate and drinke He is lastly to vse clisters in this manner following first of all he is to take certaine daies together preparatiue sirupes as both the sirups of Vineger Oxysacchara sirupe of Violets of Roses of Endiue and of water Lillies with some decoction wherein the same herbes haue bene decocted wherof diuers be described in the thrd Part. For purging TAke fresh Cassie one ounce or one ounce and a halfe the iuice of Endiue well clarified and skummed thrée or foure ounces then make a potion of it and giue it him warme or in stead of the iuice if one cannot get the same then take Endiue water Another Take eightéene or twenty Prunes and fiue or sixe fat Figs seeth them all together in sufficient water and take of this decoction thrée or foure ounces temper Cassie therein and oyle of swéet Almonds fiue or sixe ounces tempered with Sugar and the same drunken at once loose the bodie very gently and is also most sure that one may giue to the children newly borne Likewise Manna decocted with sowre Dates Prunes and with Sugar is also very requisite to loose and coole Concerning the meates he must be restrained like as in other hote sicknesses and must chiefly eschew alwaies meates which make wind But oyle of Almonds vsed in his meate be very meete for him All his Clisters must be made soluble and cooling like as be these following Take péeled Barly Mallowes Hollihock roots and Violets of each one handfull Prunes Sebestes of each eight or ten the séedes of Melons of Purslaine of Gourds of each one ounce Branne halfe a handfull Séeth them all together and take of this decoction and put vnto it oile of Roses and of Violets of each one ounce and a halfe Cassie for the clister one ounce Electuarium de Succorosarum fiue dragmes then make a Clister of it like as hath bene sufficiently shewed But here is to be noted that if any parings auoid with the guts then must oyle of Roses be most of al vsed yet oyle of Violets doth asswage the paine of the guts if the same come through any sharpnesse or any heate Or take Mallowes Hollihocks Bearefoote Violet herbes and Béetes of each one handfull Barly and Branne of each halfe a handfull let them seeth all together and then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces and temper Cassie in it one ounce Hiera Picra three quarters of an ounce Benedicta Laxatiua three dragmes oile of Violets thrée ounces Salt one dragme or twaine minister it as is accustomed This ensuing is also speciall good if any bodie haue bene bounden certaine dayes together Take twelue or sixtéene ounces of Cow milke temper one ounce of Cassie amongst it and minister it warme There
Poppie seed Tassell iuice of Quinces broad Plantaine and such like The compounded things are the sirupe of water Lillies of Vineger and all that cooleth the liuer and the spléene whereof is written before Afterwards you haue in the third part in the beginning of the eight Chapter sundrie things which are also good and verie méete therefore are you not to leaue them vnread But if you will haue yet more then looke what is written of Diabete If any body then do méete with this disease or feare to get the same then must he take the vtmost gréene pils of Beanes and distill water of them and drinke thereof two ounces tempered with Sugar Other do temper amongst it as much water of Hounds toong and so vse it euerie daie Take oile of Violets of water Lillies and such like cooling things and annoint therewith the kidneies You haue also in the beginning of the foresaid eight Chapter a salue called Anodyna which asswageth all paines Item Take the oile of Violets two ounces oyle of Sesamum and of swéet Almonds of each one ounce and a halfe Butter one ounce Saffron one drag and a halfe Waxe one ounce and a halfe Dill séed Cammomill Ducks grease of each halfe an ounce thrée yolks of Egs temper them all togither and make a salue thereof Another Take Elderne oyle one ounce oyle of Roses and of Violets of each halfe an ounce Ceruse one ounce and a quarter Rose water one ounce two yolks of Egs Waxe fiue ounces The oyle and Waxe must be molten togither and let them séeth a little when it is almost cold then mixe the other things amongst it and at the last the two yolks of egs and ten dragmes of fine Bolus and afterwards stirre it well about This salue is maruellous good for all ouer heated Kidneies and especially if one after the annoynting do lay water Lilly leaues vpon it Likewise doth the Saunders salue expell all hot matter and distemperature of the Kidneies like as the same is described in the sixt Chapter and 1. § Item take the Saunders salue and of that which is called Comitissae of each halfe an ounce oyle of Violets one quarter of an ounce temper them all togither and annoynt the Kidneies with it twice or thrice a day The Rose salue which is described in the first part the second chapter and first § and other moe which be noted in the second part the fourth chapter and 3. § are altogither méete for this purpose Item take Roses Purslaine of each one handfull séeth them in Cow milke and stampe them to growt ad vnto it red Saunders powdred two dragmes oyle of Roses as much as you will for to make a salue of it Item take oyle of Oliue and fresh Butter of each halfe an ounce the iuice of Veronica of Milium Solis and Marierom gentle of each thrée dragmes let them séeth togither vntill the iuice be consumed This salue is much commended Or take the foresaid herbs and séeth them in oyle or grease and wring them through a cloth Take Rose water and oyle of Roses of each one ounce Vineger one spoonefull the white of an egge and bray them well togither and lay it blood warme ouer the Kidneies If the paine will not thereby be eased then let him weare a leaden plate full of holes vpon the Kidneies continually it taketh away the heate and venery If one perceiue any grauell in the Kidneies then cut a Radish in thin slices and frie it in Goose grease lay it on the kidneies In fine for all such enflaming of the Raynes there is nothing better then to bathe and chiefely in all such waters as do run ouer iron mines You are also to looke how to strengthen the stomacke in this disease looke for that in the eleuenth Chapter and the 4. § vnto the end thereof where is shewed at large what strengtheneth the stomack with heat or with cold For this also is conuenient all that hereafter shall be written of the grauell and the stone of the Kidneyes Of an hard Impostume in the Kidneies §. 6. THe Grecians do call this disease Scleros The same may also be caused through two manner of meanes First if the matter of the impostume begin to harden through great heate and to alter into a stone Or that at the first it be an impostume of Melancholicke humours which is especially caused of cold that hardneth the matter The signes of the said impostumes are sorenes or heauines about the place of the kidneies with little or no paine at all whereby the members do grow leane The vrine is wholly cleare rawe and verie little and although it be as many famous Phisitions do affirme that this disease is not to be holpen yet are you to vse all things for it which be here before described for the hardnes of the Milt and Liuer And first of all he is to be purged the Saphea or Liuer vaine is to be opened and afterwards the kidneies to be annointed with Hens grease with the marrow of Neats féete or with the salue Althea And afterwards this plaister following is to be applied vpon it Take Linséed and Fenegréeke of each fiue dragms Mallowes Hollyhocke seed Dill séed and Cammomill of each halfe an ounce Gum Bdellium and Turpentine of each thrée dragmes First dissolue the Gum in warme water afterwards temper the rest amongst it and so make a plaister of it If so be then the patient haue any went of stooles then is Cassie or Manna to be vsed for it This disease of the kidneies doth make also oftentimes that one cannot hold his water yea that otherwise it passeth away from the patient vnwittingly in his sléepe whereof we will hereafter speake and discourse a part Of impostumes and vlcers in the Kidneies §. 7. WHat difference is betwéene the impostumes and vlcers of the kidneies it is sufficiently declared in the eleuenth chapter and twentie nine § bicause that the kidneies be subiect to both of these maladies Therefore we will discourse of them seuerally and speake first of the impostumes and therewith also shew all that concerneth both these diseases Notwithstanding that both these diseases of Hippocrates of Galen and of all other learned be thought to be incurable or that at the leastwise the same could not without great industrie and long time be holpen for which they alleage many reasons yet are there neuerthelesse many kind of meanes found whereby the paine may be asswaged And if so be that the same maladies thereby could not be thorowly and perfectly healed yet may one staie them that they do not grow and waxe worse Now then concerning the outward remedies of this disease you haue for it salues plaisters and other meanes before for to laie vpon it wherewith is this remedie also much commended which is that one is to laie tow ouer all his priuities being wetted in the braied yolks of egs and to refresh and renew the same often We must also speake
the masterie But in this it chiefly consisteth that one kéepe a good order of diet and eschue all that may cause that grosse matter as milke and all that is drest with it fresh Chéese Cow béefe Swines flesh Goates flesh Géese and all water fowles all grosse fish all other that be without skales all that is not well baked sandie or is ground with a new sharped stone Rice Pease Beanes Coleworts sower fruites vnripe apples and peares Citrons c. and hard sod egs be also very hurtfull troubled water red thicke wine Must and Béere are also to be eschued But to the contrary all light meates are to be vsed as light and hard baked bread which is a day or two old wherein Fennell Annis Caruwayes or Nardus séedes are baked Hens pullets Partridges Capons yong mutton Goats Turtle doues Doues and al wild fowles but especially Wagtailes are very méete for this sicknesse He may also eate all riuer fish which haue skales as they that are prepared with parsley in like manner also poched egges For his drinke he shall take faire white wine tempered with a little water wherein the seed of Smallage and Fennell séed is decocted Meade may also be vsed in stead of his drinke and for a medicine He may also drinke sometimes pease broth and the broth of Lentils wherewith parsley is decocted but he is not to eate the pease at all The kernels of bitter Almonds of Peach stones of Prune stones Pingles Pistacies and Raisins is he to eate in fine he must eschue all which causeth the matter of the stone to increase and vse al that cooleth the vnnaturall heate and expelleth the matter of the stone for which these things following are fit and be very good as Agaricus Hermodactili Turbith wild Saffron séed rootes of Polipodie and the smell of the wine Hellebore and also a little roote thereof stéeped a day and a night in water and the same water drunke also otherwhiles Amongst the compounded things there is Benedicta laxatiua or Inda which cleanse the Kidneyes the Bladder and Vreters of all phlegme The same doth also Cassie giuen with diureticall things and with beaten Licorice for the same drieth not onely the grauell but hindereth letteth also the growing of the stone and allayeth the heate and if so be that one giueth it him with the séede of Agnus castus or Licorice then doth it help the raines maruellously and stirreth no other humors then those whereof the stone doth grow Further there be other things moe which do cleanse the vreters or conduits of vrine and open them as the water of Hyssop of white water Mints and of Marierom of Smallage of Parsley of Betonie of Penniroial of Milium Solis and aboue al other the water of Hollihocks Of Sirupes which be most vsed are the sirupes of Hyssope de Calamintha Acetosus compositus Oxymel compositum and al other Oxymels but especially the Oxymel of Squils and for example these compounded things ensuing may be made Take Oxymel of Squils one ounce sirupe of Hyssope halfe an ounce water of Harts toong and of wild Cucumbers of each one ounce and a halfe This drinke is to be taken certaine dayes together vntill one may euidently sée in the colour of the vrine and in other signes that the disease apparently frameth it self on the better side by the which the Phisitions haue their especiall markes and signes And in case there be such matter present which may cause the stone to grow then are they prepared through the first recited waters sirupes and such like for expulsion and when now the matter is prepared then is the patient to be purged which may be done through this ensuing or such like meanes Take the confection Benedicta one ounce or one ounce and a half or somewhat lesse according to the importance of the cause then temper them together with thrée ounces of parsley water Or prepare this following which clenseth much the kidneys and expelleth the matter of the stone maruellously Take Centorie péeled with Saffron séed of each one dragme prepared Agaricus powned Hermodactili of each foure scruples Diagridion sixe graines Annis Fennell Licorice the séede of Smallage and Ginger of each halfe a scruple Sugar pennets one ounce stéepe them all together the space of foure and twentie houres in foure ounces of the water of Maidenhaire afterwards wring it out and drinke it Lastly you are to gouerne your selfe as in all other purgations This following is also much commended for to preuent the grauell Take about Saint Iohns tide Millet as it standeth and bloometh then burne it with herbe and roote and drinke thereof euening and morning two or thrée ounces with wine and then fast two houres vpon it and do so fiue or sixe dayes together it is said and also taken for to be certaine that doing this one shall be cléere and frée from the grauell halfe a yeare Against the paine of the Grauell §. 3. BVt if in this disease there happen great paine with it through which the Phisitions are much hindered that they cannot vse due remedies then do they notwithstanding aduise first of all that at the first one is to begin with things which allay the paine or at the least doe ease it for which are clisters to be vsed made of these herbes following as Mallowes Hollihockes Béetes Bearefoot Pellitorie and such like with the oile of Violets with Cassie with Hiera picra or the confection Benedicta tempered amongst it Secondly when the foresaid paine is a litle swaged then are these things following to be vsed Take water Cresses Mallowes Hollihocks Mercury Parow Cinkfoile Peucedunum the herbe of Mew and Rue of each one handfull Calmus Barley of each three ounces Bran Linséede of each a little let all these séeth together in sufficient water and take twelue or sixteene ounces temper amongst it Hiera picra Benedicta and Lithontribon of each halfe an ounce oile of Cammomill and of Rue of each one ounce this Clister looseth expelleth wind and also the paine Item take aftewards of the foresaid herbes but somewhat more Watercresses and a few Marigolds and make a bath thereof and let the patient in it euen vp to the nauell you are also to put some stalkes of Rapes vnto it then will it be the better Thirdly take Mallowes Hollihock roots Water cresses Cammomil Maidenhaire Linséed and Fenegrake seed of each two ounces let them al seeth in sufficient water wet a woollen clout or sponge therin and lay it continually warme vpon the place of the paine The sodden herbs are you to powne small and temper with Cammomil oile and so lay them vpon it The place of the paine is sometimes also to be annointed with these things following Take the grease of Hens of Géese Hogs grease fresh butter oile of Camelina and of Violets of each halfe an ounce oile of Cammomils Waxe of each two dragmes then let them melt together by the fire But this is
euery time a dragme or more fasting in the morning with the water of Lillies and women may drinke it with wine or any thing else in stead of Lilly water The stone which is cut out of one beaten small and halfe a dragme thereof taken euery day with the water of Saxifrage or Radish water doth also breake the stone of the bladder Item take Licorice one quarter of an ounce Sponge stone and Iewes stone of each ten graines Fennell seed Ameos Mirrha Annys the seed of Mallowes péeled Melon seed Pompeon séede chopt small together of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome one dragme beaten small together there is the waight of a dragme thereof to be taken with any of the foresaid waters There may also be prepared for this these pilles ensuing Take burnt glasse ashes of a Hare Sponge stone and Iewes stone of each a like much make pils thereof with the water of Saxifrage also thrée round slices of Radishes eaten euery morning be very good In like sort also the small bird the Wagtaile rosted powdered or taken as one will is maruellous good for this like as here before is specified already It is also taken for a certaine experiment if one do accustome to eate Nettles that thereby he should be freed of the stone and grauell Now we will write of certaine potions which be méete for the stone and the grauell Potions for the stone Take Turpentine which is washed with Mallowes water thrée quarters of an ounce Species Iustini two scruples Benedicta Laxatiua halfe a dragme let the Turpentine and decoction melt afterwards temper the rest with it and so drinke it as warme as you can Another Take Rubarbe one quarter of an ounce Iuniper berries one ounce the barke of the Cassie thrée dragmes Iewes stone halfe an ounce Agaricus Ginger Cinnamome Galmgall and Masticke of each one dragme Mithridate thrée dragmes Mace Cloues of each halfe a dragme spirit of Wine one pint and Malmsey three pints set them all together the space of three moneths in the sunne there to distiâ—l and of this distillation giue two ounces early in the morning or being in the bath it is a maruellous and approoued remedy Another Take Rubarbe Gâ—nger berries Cassie wood and Fennell of each one quarter of an ounce Annis one dragme Licorice fiue dragmes Iewes stone halfe an ounce Agaricus Ginger Cinnamome and Cloues of each one dragme Mithridate thrée dragmes Mace and Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme Mastick one dragme put all these together beaten in a glasse and poure thereon thrée pound of the spirit of Wine or Aqua vitae then stop it tight and set it the space of fiue dayes in the sunne stirre it all together very well then poure as much Malmsey vnto it and let it stand againe eight or foureteene dayes in the sunne stirring it euery day well about afterwards straine it and kéepe it well when as the grauell beginneth to pricke then take a spoonefull thereof euery day and you shall find amendment out of hand This same may be distilled like as the former Another Take a pint of Aqua vitae more or lesse as you will Malmsey foure ounces Sugar-candy eight ounces the water of Strawberries foure ounces Parsley water two ounces mixe them together and take a spoonefull thereof or as much as you please It is also here to be marked that you need not be afraid of Aqua vitae burnt Wine or any other strong wine for all learned do require to drinke strong wine as Vinum punicum Malmesey Muscadell and such like against the grauel or the stone yea when the paine is at the extremest yet with moderation Some that loue distillations do very much commend this potion following against the grauell Take oyle of Mace and cléere Turpentine of each ten or twelue drops Annis water and Fennell water of each one quarter of an ounce the sirupe of Licorice one ounce oile of Vitrioll thrée or foure drops then temper them well together afterwards proue it and if so be that it be not so sower that it set the téeth on edge then it is méetly and if it be not sower enough then put two drops of the oile of Vitrioll more into it It is somewhat perillous to deale with the oile of Vitriol therfore good héed is to be had and taken like as is declared in his description Take Nettle seed two ounces and a halfe poure wine vpon it and drinke thereof This wine is accounted maruellous good for the grauell and for the stone Here before is oftentimes admonshed of Beane water which is thus made The water of Beanes when they begin to be ripe or when they be in their full iuice then is onely the outtermost gréene pods or péeles to be taken where the Beanes do lie and the leaues and all their moisture is to be distilled out of them in séething water This being done then take one ounce and a halfe thereof prepared Bucks blood one dragme or foure scruples and giue the patient therof in the morning when he riseth and at night when he goeth to bed And this is he to obserue and continue so long vntill that the stone or grauell be cleane expelled and no more grauell can be perceiued this is of all auncient and latter Phisitions taken to be a famous and certaine experiment Item take womans milke about two ounces stéepe therein cut sprigs of Cipers and let them stand and stéepe the space of thrée or foure houres in a warme place and then drinke it Item take Knotgrasse halfe an ounce red Pease and peeled Melon séede of each one ounce let them séeth in twelue ounces of water euen vnto the halfe and giue thereof one ounce at once tempered with a little Sugar the meade or honywater is an especiall medicine against the grauell and the stone In like manner also wine or water wherein Harts toong and Mallowes be decocted and also of both these distilled waters Item take a good handfull of Watercresses séeth them in a pint of water vnto the halfe and drinke thereof morning and euening each time thrée or foure ounces and do this the space of eight or ten dayes together Some do also much commend Limons water Take the rootes of Cheruill and Saxifrage of each a like quantitie séeth them in wine and drinke oftentimes thereof it breaketh the stone and causeth well to make water Or take Maidenhaire one handfull winter Cherries and Gromell séed of each two dragmes boile them in a pint of white wine vntil two thirds remaine take three or foure ounces at once and especially after a bath the water of Larkes spurre Likewise also the water of Carduus Benedictus if one do drinke thrée or foure ounces of it is very good for the stone Item so are all these waters insuing good therefore viz. the water of Saxifrage of Pellitorie of Cinqfoile of Watercresses of Fennell of Radishes of Maidenhaire of Strawberries and of Cammomill Item take a fresh Radish
from the application of those remedies as may séeme méete for him wherefore it is specially aduised first to delay the paine or at the least to diminish it for the which these remedies following are especially commended All gentle Clisters easie purgations and aboue all others baths of warm◠water wherein Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Nettle rootes Gromell séeds or any such like mollifying things and Saxifrages are decocted wherein these patients are oftentimes to bathe themselues euen to the nauell Item take Colewort leaues Southernwood Rosemary pigeon dung wild Saffron séedes beaten grosly séeth them all together in water for a bath Or take Mallowes Hollihock leaues Pellitorie of the wall Southernwood Creta Marina Fenegréeke séed Hollihock séed of each two handfuls séeth them all together vnto a bath Afterwards annoint the kidneyes with the oile of Scorpions or with any of the foresaid salues With this bath may this powder following also be vsed with the decoction of pepper Take the séeds of Purslaine and of small Endiue of each halfe a dragme Dill séed two scruples Marierom halfe a scruple giue this to the patient when the paine is present Note also that these two meates be very good both for the retention of the vrine and also for the strangurie And if so be this be holpen then will the paine which is in the end of the Yard seene cease In the description of the kidneyes there may you sée many plaisters salues and oiles as that of Anodynum and others moe which are very méete for this purpose Of the stopping of the vrine through the debilitie of the vertue expulsiue §. 3. IF any one be hindered in the making of his water or that the same be altogither stopped without any swelling vlcer or paine of the Kidneyes it is then to be censured that the same should come through the debility of the vertue expulsiue against the which such things shall be vsed as are diureticall or that do prouoke vrine as these pils following Take the seeds of Smallage Saltpeter Madder great Smallage Iuniper berries Asarabacca Ameos Fennell Spica and bitter Almonds of each one ounce and a quarter Melons fiue dragmes Cantharides the heads and wings cut away halfe a dragme Ammoniacum one dragme and a halfe dissolue your gum in wine and mixe all the rest being beaten small amongst it then make pils of them of the bignes of peason giue thrée of them at one time These pills haue an especiall efficacie for to drie the bodie so that they are accounted very good for the Dropsie The Electuarium Ducis is also very good for this purpose if thou giue one quarter of an ounce of it with pease broth or wine which thou wilt There was not long since one cured with this remedie following who for the space of fiue dayes could neuer make his water first he tooke this clister Take Pellitorie of the the wal two handfuls Mallowes and Cammomill of each one handfull boyle them together then take of this decoction the accustomed quantitie and temper amongst it one ounce of Cassie oyle of Cammomill thrée ounces Turpentine one ounce Licorice one quarter of an ounce minister it warme Secondly this following was also ordained for him take Cassie and Turpentine of each one quarter of an ounce Benedicta Laxatiua two dragmes prepared Iewes stones one dragme make an Electuarie thereof with Oxymel At night he tooke two ounces of Oxymel with the water of Maidenhaire and presently after this he made water Item take foure or fiue ounces of the iuice of Pellitorie of the wall and clarifie it with the white of an egge then séeth it with sugar to a sirupe and vse three ounces thereof euery morning with the water of Mallowes or with any such like distilled liquor This done giue vnto the patient a purgation of Cassie Thirdly take Coriander séedes halfe an ounce Mallowes one handful one head of Garlicke powne them altogether and séeth them with good white wine vntill that one third part be consumed and giue him thereof thrée ounces to drinke Peach kernels and the kernels of Cherrie stones do also prouoke vrine Item preserued Pimpernell rootes Calmus and the rootes of Eringus are also very good for this purpose confected Louage séede Annis séedes Fennell séedes Caruway séedes Comin séedes and Saxifrage séedes these do expell all vrine grauell and stone Treacle and Mithridate do also cause one to make water Item the confection of Cherries with their kernels beaten in péeces and rubbe it through a strainer is also méet for this vse also halfe a dragme of dried Grashoppers is very fit and a great secret in this disease Item the stone which is cut out of a liuing bodie and vsed as before hath bene shewed in the expulsion of grauell is also very conuenient and commodious for this intent Take Tormentill Pionie Bistorta Acornes and wild Flaxe of each a like much powne them all together and take thereof in the euening and morning one dragme with wine The Spanish flies do expell vrine most violently but beware of them because they be very sharpe and exulcerate the vreters but the Grashoppers are somewhat milder Item take the rootes of Pimpernel beaten small as much as one can containe betwéene his two fingers and drinke it with wine The powned shels of Hasell nuts do the like also and the iawes of Pickerels if thou take of each of them a like quantitie But if the vrine be stopped by reason of the stone in the bladder then giue vnto the patient two small drops of the oile of Sulphur with wine or Agrimonie water or beate a Radish very small presse out the iuice of it and take halfe an ounce thereof with wine it prouoketh vrine immediatly and breaketh the stone also Item drinke in the morning thrée or foure ounces of Radish water very warme and fast two houres after it In like manner also two in the euening two houres before supper and walke after it Another Take Mallowes and Garlicke of each a little séeth them in wine vntill the third part be wasted away drinke thrée or foure ounces of this decoction at once Or take Balsamina altera and the lesser burre leaues boile them together in wine and drinke it as before Take a great Onion cut it small and Mallowes one handful boile them in wine and drink oftentimes of the decoction being warmed If a child could not make his water then take ten or twelue bitter Almonds and ten or twelue Peach kernels and two ounces of Currans stampe them all together straine them through a cloth with water like to Almond milke and giue it the child to drinke like Almond milke Amongst the herbed wines are especially commended for the prouoking of vrine the wine of Elecampane of Harts toong of swéete Marierom of Cherries of Assarabacca and of winter Cherries which are also mentioned before in the treatise of the grauell But if any one might not drinke wine at all or that he had it not
made to vse in the wombe also plaisters salues powders oiles potions and baths all as the cause requireth and that necessitie compelleth like as there be many sundrie described hereafter and now we will procéede The first meanes for to prouoke the Termes is to be described somewhat at length wherein there be many sundry medicines of diuers and sundry Phisitions ordained and added together out of which each may choose what is méete for him but in the other twaine we will be somewhat briefer therefore one may take out of them all that might be wanting in this and so first begin with those things which be méete for this to bring the bodie vnto health and to shew therwithal how such obstructions and hinderances of the termes may be taken away for which this sirupe following is to be prepared Take Mather two ounces Louage rootes the rootes of Sperage Cipers rootes and Grasse rootes of each one ounce and a halfe Siluer mountaine two ounces Baulme two ounces Balsam wood and the fruites of the same of each one ounce Spica of Indie halfe a dragme Licorice Currans Rosemary flowers and Stechados of each one ounce Honie sixe ounces white Sugar nine ounces boyle a sirupe of it clarifie it and giue thereof two ounces tempered with the decoction of Céeres Another Take Mather two ounces Sperage rootes the rootes of Butchers broome and Cypers rootes of each one ounce Corne mints Valerian Sauine white Water mints and Penniroyall of each one handfull Baulme two handfuls Siluer mountaine two ounces Balsam wood and the fruites of the same péeled Melon seede of each one ounce Spikenard halfe an ounce Licorice Currans of each halfe an ounce Honie and Sugar of each sixe ounces make a sirupe of it and giue thereof at each time one ounce and a halfe or two ounces with the broth of Céeres Another Take the water of Smallage water of Lupins of Sperage and of Fennell of each sixe ounces Indie Spica one quarter of an ounce Cinnamome one dragme Ammoniacum and Opopanacum of each one dragme and a halfe Parsley séed Fennell séeds Ameos wild yellow Rape seede and Caruway of each one quarter of an ounce Gromell seed stone Parsley seed and Agrimonie of each one handfull Galingall Cinnamome and Saffron of each halfe a dragme sirupe of Violets two ounces Quince kernels Mallowes séede of each halfe an ounce seeth them al together in two quarts of Gourds water vntill the third part be wasted straine it thorough and then temper it with a litle of the foresaid water and the sirupe of Violets amongst it and boyle it with so much honie as you please Last of all strew some Cinnamome in it and as much vineger of Squils vntill it be somewhat sourish then vse it as the former this forceth very vehemently the Termes For this is also very good the common sirupes which be alwayes prepared at all substantiall Apothecaries as the sirupe of Mugwort of Maidenhaire of Cicorie with Rubarbe and the sirupe of fiue rootes When as now this sirupe hath bene vsed like as behooueth then must be procéeded and for to procéed orderly it is very needfull that women be purged of all superfluous humours which may be done very commodiously with the confection Benedicta or Hiera picra tempered with the decoction of Madder and of the foresaid confections you may vse thrée quarters of an ounce or an ounce each a part or together Afterwards are these laxatiue things to be vsed Take Sene leaues Penniroyall and Madder of each a like quantitie séeth them in small white wine and giue thereof about thrée ounces at once Or take Penniroyall Nep Southernwood Rue Centorie and Hyssop of each one handfull Sauin Feuerfew of each one handfull and a halfe Opopanacum Ammoniacum Galingall of each one dragme Cinnamome Madder of each one handfull Myrrhe one quarter of an ounce seeth them all together with a quart of water vntil the third part be wasted then take thereof two or thrée ounces fasting at one time Item take the rootes of Smallage of Sperage of Fennell of Parsley of Carduus Benedictus and of Butchers broome of each one ounce and a halfe Annis Fennell Caruway and Ameos of each one dragme and a halfe Mugwort Penniroyall mints Horehound Feuerfew and Asarabacca of each halfe a handfull séeth them all together in two quarts of water vnto the halfe wring it together through a cloth and mixe therewith the sirupe of the fiue rootes de Calamintha de Artemisia of each a like quantitie drinke thereof in the morning and at afternoone Another Take mints Balme Penniroyall Marierom and Southernwood of each one handfull Annis Fennell Caruway of each one ounce the rootes of Polipodie one ounce and a halfe Cicorie rootes one ounce cut the rootes of the herbes very small and séeth them in a quart of water vntill the third part be consumed afterwards straine it through and make it as swéete as you please Another potion with Wine Take Sauine and Mugwort of each one handfull put two quarts of wine vnto it and let them seeth together vntill the third part be wasted take thereof in the euening and morning at each time two spoonfuls Do you now desire to make a common potion then take Wormewood and Rue of each one handfull fiue or sixe pepper cornes séeth them all together in a quart of Wine straine it then through and drinke thereof In like maner may you séeth Mallowes in wine and drinke thereof it is also very good This potion following is very good and pleasant Take a pint of good Wine Sage halfe a handful Cloues Saffron and Mace of each halfe a scruple stamp them all together and bind it in a fine cloth and hang it a night and a day in wine wring it out oftentimes deuide it into three parts and take one draught of it fiue houres before meate the other draught after noone and the last after supper But this is to be done in the wane of the Moone and eate very little Item take Hartwort and Pepper of each one dragme poure a pint of wine vpon it and drinke thereof in the euening and morning it moueth much and clenseth the womb or Matrix from all bad humors Or take the herbe Caruway one handfull Mugwort one handfull and a halfe Arsmart one handfull Asarabacca one dragme séeth them together in two quarts of water vntill about the halfe and drinke thereof in the morning fasting a good draught Another Take Penniroyall one handful Marierom gentle as much also Mace one dragme and one quarter of an ounce of Bayberries beaten grossely bind them all together in a cloth and poure thereon twelue ounces of wine but let them séeth together in a Can in hote water the space of an houre afterwards wring out the cloth and drinke the halfe of this Wine in the morning and the other halfe in the euening after the mealetide Item take Mugwort Feuerfew Penniroyal Baulme and Mallowes of each one handful séeth them
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
in sufficient water then make thereof a bath for the raines of the backe or a fomenting for the bottome of the belly The boxing cups whereof wee haue also spoken before draw the blood downewards Like as doth also the strong binding of the legges The third meane is as hereafter followeth thrée houres after the rising of the Sunne shall the Saphea of them be opened on the right foote which haue not the flowers and about fiue ounces of blood drawne The next day after is this purgation following to be giuen Take Agaricus Turbith and Rubarbe of each one dragme Indy Spica Ginger and Mace of each sixe graines Salgemmae one graine Agrimonie Mugwort of each one ounce and a halfe let them be stéeped foure houres afterwards wring it through a cloth and temper amongst it thrée dragmes of Benedicta Laxatiua and then drinke it betimes in the morning The third day afterwards you are to begin to vse this potion Take Fennell rootes Parsley rootes Sperage rootes the rootes of Butchers broome and of Smallage of each halfe an ounce these being all cut smal together then séeth them in a quart of well water vnto the halfe afterwards swéeten the decoction with Sugar and then drinke thereof fiue ounces and so continue this the space of eight or ten dayes In the meane time is the body to be kept open with gentle clisters or else they are euery euening after supper to swallow a pill of Alephanginae or of Aloes Afterwards it is very good that thrée times in foure and twentie howers all the backe bone be annointed with this salue ensuing Take the oile of wallflowers two ounces oile of Saffron one ounce the grease of Badgers and of Hens of each halfe an ounce Saffron Indie Spica Lignum Aloes and Mugwort of each halfe a scruple Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue After the foresaid potions are these pils following to be vsed Take Pillulae foetidae two scruples de Hiera composita one scruple make seuen pils of it with the confection Benedicta And if so be that through all this aduice the termes do not appeare then are the tops of the thighes hard by the priuities to be bounden hard but if that will not helpe set immediatly hot cups behind on the calues of the legs setting them vp and off Lastly then make this bath following Take Penniroyall white water mints Marierom and Smallage of each thrée handfuls Sauine sixe handfuls Opopanacum Myrrhe of each halfe an ounce Hartwort Rue of each thrée handfuls séeth them all together in sufficient water vntill about the halfe but leaue the herbes in it and then make a bath of it for the raines euen to the nauell and sit therein the space of halfe an houre or as long as you can When you haue rested somewhat then put some cotten being dipped in the iuice of Mercury vp into the place and without doubt it will prouoke the termes Euery such woman is also to beware of all slimie meates which is from all hard meate like as all that is made of Dough of Pease of Beanes of Chéese of Milke and all that is drest with them from all salt cold and binding things and from thicke raw red Wine but Cinnamom Saffron Ginger and Smallage séedes and rootes Annis Fennell Parsly séed or any of all these is she to vse alwayes with her meate But if so be that this retention of the termes be caused therof for that a woman had but little blood did great labour were weake leane not long recouered from a long lingring sicknesse or had liued a long time in hatred malice great sorrow and such like then is such to haue those meates which nourish much and she shall omit all hatred sorrow and such like She is to bathe oftentimes in water to sléepe much to take rest and to be merrie She must also refraine from letting of blood except it be a very little But she is to vse Pistacies Pingles Almonds and other nutritiue things as is before said And although it appeared that her termes must be alwayes quickened through Phisicke yet it must be begun with the mildest meanes like as hath bene counselled before How that the excessiue course of the Flowers is to be stopt §. 3. WHen this course of womens termes getteth the mastery then be there very heauie sicknesses to be feared to wit the dropsie the consumption Hectica the paine of the backe the paine of the stomacke feeblenesse of naturall digestion lacke of appetite and such like diseases moe This issue is commonly caused of outward or inward occasions the outward may be fals blowes thrusts great running leaping dauncing walking in great heate and such like all which maketh the blood subtile and fluxible Item if there breake a veine open in the matrix or wombe through vnnaturall and vntimely birth through any vlcers or through any other brusings in the neck of the wombe through long vse of many hot spices or of any subtile meate and drinke The inward causes may be the strength of the expulsiue or the debilitie of the retentiue vertue This may also be caused of some disease of the Matrix and through the moisture of the same But concerning the part it selfe the same may be too féeble too slippery too wide and too much open yet in case the moisture of this part be caused of it then is the fluxe of blood so great that the Matrix and the parts adiacent cannot containe the humors or these humors be so sharpe so subtile so hote so venemous so salt so biting so cold or so waterish that the same cannot be retained The outward causes may be enquired of the patient her selfe But if this disease be caused of the debilitie of the retentiue vertue then is the woman bleake or pale of colour and weake The signes of the same part be when as it waxeth leane and consumeth each humor may be adiudged out of the propertie of the body like as we haue taught the same elsewhere as heate of the fulnesse of the veines thirst itch ilfauoured or lothsome colour of the face and of the whole bodie If then such procéede out of blood then doth the colour of her termes alter and will be whitish or if the same procéede of Cholera then are the flowers somewhat yellowish and if of Melancholia then darkish blew or black By the foresaid colours one may easily come vnto the full knowledge what humors might be the only cause of this excessiue moisture whereby may be knowne how to choose of these remedies following wherwith the excessiue course of the termes may be stayed But first of all there be for this purpose certaine rules to be noted First you must neuer bathe for this excessiue course of the termes neither yet vse any kind of things which bringeth heate with it Secondly when this kind of issue commeth by reason of the fulnesse of the bodie as it were an vnburthening and cleansing of the same
make a soft plaister thereof Fiftly she is to vse this bath ensuing for the raines thrice a wéeke twice a day Take Galliae Muscatae one quarter of an ounce Colophoniae halfe an ounce Saint Iohns wort flowers Betony Mugwort and Feuerfew of each thrée handfuls Bistorta fiue handfuls séeth them together in sufficient water vntill it sauour well she is to sit therein vp to the nauell These be very excellent remedies for to bring the mother to good health againe to strengthen all the parts of generation and to ease their maladies In fine all those things may be vsed for this intent which are prescribed for the expulsion of the dead child out of the mothers body and for the secundine and such like things moe What commonly is good and profitable for the Matrix §. 15. ELecampane rootes the greater Pimpernell rootes the rootes of Eryngus and Ginger all preserued conserues of Betonie of Gilloflowers of Spikenard of Lauender and of Pionie wine of Elecampane rootes of Auence of Betonie and of Rosemary The oyles are these oyle of Lillies of Rue and of Bayes Item the iuice of Gentian and of other rootes which are described in the twelfth Chapter and 11. § We haue now almost written of all especiall accidents and diseases of the wombe whereon naturally dependeth the whole state of humane generation But if so be that this part of the bodie be not sound and without all infirmities then is the humane séede be it as commodious as it will neither rightly conceiued nor duly contained and though it be receiued and contained yet doth either a mischance follow after it or at the least a féeble and weake birth Vnfruitfulnesse ensueth also thereby as we very largely haue shewed in the seauenth Chapter before so that it séemeth not to stand without reason that many Philosophers and learned men haue disputed and concluded By what meanes this part once infected might be eased and prepared to fruitfulnesse to which end it was first created whereof as also of the conception of fruitfull women of their infirmities of their deliuery and of all that concerneth them shall be spoken in this Chapter following The twentith Chapter Of all that concerneth fruitfull and child-bearing women WHen as in women as oftentimes hath bene sayd this vessell of conception is by their termes well clensed and fréed of their forementioned and all other diseases or if some disease now present can be remedied then néede not any one in this place take care for barrennesse What might moue their termes is sufficiently shewed before in the seuenth Chapter yet notwithstanding we purpose here to speake of diuers things which are very commodiuos for conception amongst which the first is sirupe prepared as followeth Take Madder Mugwort Sauine of each halfe a handfull Mints Wormewood Fennell rootes Squinant Marierom Calmus Nep Annis of each halfe an ounce Cloues Buglosse flowers and Balme flowers of each thrée dragmes Cypers rootes Galingall Fennell Ameos and Siluermountaine of each one quarter of an ounce Cinnamome and Raisins of each fiue dragmes Hony as much as is néedfull séeth them all together and make a sirupe thereof as hath bin taught in the first part the fift chapter and 6. § Lastly put vnto it Masticke Ginger Mace Cloues scraped Iuorie Saffron Nutmegs Doronicum Zeduary and Basill of each halfe a dragme and beate them all together small The second is a powder which they may vse with their meate Take Nutmegs Cucubes and Ginger of each halfe a dragme long pepper Mastick and Cinnamom of each one dragme Galingal two scruples the séeds of the Ash trée scraped Iuory Siluermountaine red and white Behen of each one scruple beate them small and mixe them all together The third is this salue folowing Gallia Muscata Nutmegs Beuercod Hares rennet and Laudanum of each one quarter of an ounce oile of Spikenard oile of Masticke and oile of Mirtles of each three dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue annoint the place of the mother with it euery other day The last is a confection prepared as followeth Take wild yellow Rape séed and tame Rape seed scraped Iuorie white and red Behen Siluermountaine and séedes of the Ash of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome Doronicum Mace Cloues Galingal long pepper Rosemary flowers Balsam wood Blattae Bisantiae Penniroyall and Marierom gentle of each two scruples Balme Buglosse Citron pils of each one scruple Indy Spica Ambra and pearls of each halfe a scruple these being mixed and powned all together very small take eight ounces of sugar or somewhat more séeth it in Malmsey and make an electuary or tabulates of it To know whether a woman be with child or no. §. 1. WHen a woman hath layen with a man if that her places after the action be drie the Labra and sides of the same smaller and harder then is it a signe that she retaineth the receiued seede and if the same passe not from her in seuen dayes she remaineth with child Item take Lettice seeth it in water and let her drink three or foure ounces of that decoction if so be that she parbrake the same vp againe then hath she conceiued Take a steele needle stick it in a new wooden dish and let the woman make water in it if there hang a little cloud at the néedle then is she with child Or let her drinke Meade fasting if so be that she vomit the same vp againe she will proue with child Another Take Mace one quarter of an ounce Saffron beaten smal one drag wel water sixtéene ounces Hony two spoonfuls boile them all together as long as you would boile an egge hard let her drinke the third part therof when she goeth to bed and continue it the space of three dayes together if so be that thereby she get not her termes then is she vndoubtedly with child which of these thou mayest best beleeue experience will teach thee The common signes that a woman hath conceiued be these to wit when her termes without ague and cold be stayd for then the blood is deuided thrée maner of wayes the subtillest doth féed the fruit the middlemost doth by certaine veines passe towards the breasts for a preparation of the milke the grossest remaineth in the Matrix which wil be expelled in and after the deliuery Item when a woman is conceiued then doth she find great wambling and distemperature in the stomacke inappetencie to meate vomiting with other symptomes more as hath bene shewed in the former Chapter the 14. § of Mola She findeth also commonly the tenth day great headach giddinesse and darknesse of the eyes It is also sayd if a woman perceiue immediatly after she hath layen with a man small paine and cold about the raines that it is a sure signe of conception To know whether a woman be with child of a Boy or a Girle §. 2. ALbeit there be diuers signes whether a woman be conceiued of a Boy or a Girle yet are they
halfe and if one will drinke wine then is there one halfe of this foresaid water to be tempered amongst it or to drink some middle sort of cleare Beere Further he must forbeare all Hony meates and all flesh Also he is to eate and drinke very litle but he is to sustaine himselfe with Barly pap Oaten pap bread and butter and such light meates But what greater damages be found in this disease through surfetting is sufficiently shewed before The members also which are accustomably plagued with this paine are to be restrained from ouermuch motion or from wearying himselfe too much and that especially if the patient be grosse and full of bloud and hath not a long time bene let bloud nor purged Of diuers meanes whereby to free one from the Podagra §. 2. THese Pils following are very highly commended as that through the vse of them many gouty people be not onely fréed but also healed altogether Take Myrrha Aloe Lignum Aloes Cinnamom Masticke and Rubarbe of each one quarter of an ounce Muscus fiue graines make 36. or 40. pilles with Oxymel or as many as you please whereof you are to take two or thrée euery other day and to continue thus the space of thirtie daies afterwards take euery wéeke once as much more But if so be that the Podagra do come in the meane while then are the pils to be vsed after the first manner First take Aloe Rubarbe Species Hierae Galeni Pillulae sine quibus of each one dragme and a halfe field Cipers foure scruples stéeped in wine make pils thereof with Lauander water and vse them as all the rest they be stronger than the former These Pils following hath the Emperor Carolus vsed against the Podagra Take yellow Mirobalani Chebuli and Indi of each one dragme oyle of swéet Almonds one quarter of an ounce the iuice of Roses of Burrage and of Fumitorie of each two ounces temper them together and let them stand in stéepe 24. howers afterwards make it hote and wring it well out This being all well done then stéepe therein againe half an ounce of Rubarbe Indi Spica halfe a scruple Malmsey a spoonfull Woormwood water one ounce let it then stand thus together stéeped the space of ten howers and afterwards wring it out hard Thirdly take Agaricus one ounce stone salt foure scruples Ginger one scruple Hony of Roses thrée scruples Oxymel of Squils one quarter of an ounce stéepe all together 24. howers in white wine and wring it well out Fourthly take Aloe which is washed with Endiue water and Manna of each one ounce fresh Cassie two ounces Bdellium two scruples temper them well together in the foresaid boyled and stéeped Colatures Lastly all being well tempered then set them all together in the Sunne stirring it often about and when it is well dried then forme pils thereof Of these pils shall you take one euery morning they haue a maruellous efficacie in preuenting the Podagra so that it is said if one do not ryot that one shall be holpen thereof in fiftéene dayes In the first part of this booke in the twelfth Chapter in the description of the Balsam you haue a very costly salue beginning thus Take Bayberries c. which fréeth one maruellous much of the Podagra Item if one set his féete in warme Smiths water or foment them ouer the vapor of the same water it is also very good to chew euery morning a litle Masticke How the Podagra is to be purged §. 3. IF so be that the Podagra be caused only through Cholera and heate then is this Sirupe following to be prepared Take Endiue three handfuls Roses one ounce and a halfe red white and yellow Saunders all together one ounce seeth it well and wring it out then put vnto this decoction twelue ounces of Sugar and séeth it to a sirupe like as all other sirupes be decocted giue thereof one ounce and a halfe with Endiue water foure or fiue times together and then take these purgations ensuing after it Take of the Electuarie of the iuice of Roses fiue dragmes with the foresaid water which is especiall good for the ioynts Or take fresh Figs halfe an ounce Currans fiue dragmes the rinds of yellow Mirobalans one ounce let them stéepe a whole night and seeth them a little then take of this decoction three ounces and temper therein of the foresaid confection of Roses and giue it very warme early in the morning Or if you had rather haue pils then take Aloe one dragme Diagridij fiue graines Roses thrée graines Hermodactyli halfe a dragme make pils of it with the iuice of Roses they be much commended If there happen great paine with this kind of hot gout then may two kinds of plaisters be prepared for it whereof one is to be layd vpon the place of the paine therewith to stop the defluxion and the other on the top of it for to asswage the paine The first is thus made Take Mirtle séed the séed of Ruscus and Bolus of each halfe an ounce red and white Saunders the iuice of Sloes Pomegranat blossomes and péeles Gals of each one dragme Rose water and Plantaine water of each thrée dragmes oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe Barly meale as much as will suffice for to make a plaister or pap The other Take red and white Saunders Starch and washt Ceruse of each one quarter of an ounce Poppie séed halfe an ounce Camfer one scruple oyle of Roses thrée ounces vnsalted Butter one ounce and a halfe the séed of Fleawort one dragme and a halfe and two yolks of egs temper them all together and lay them vpon it as is before said An easier Take the oyle of Roses thrée ounces Vineger halfe an ounce temper them all together and annoynt the place of the paine with it it asswageth the paine and hindereth the defluxion Now when as these defluxions do first of all begin then be Salues Oyles and other things moe vsed and applyed vnto it for which you may take one of these ensuing which you please Take small pouned Bolus two ounces Rose water and the water of Nightshade of each one ounce two or thrée drops of Vineger temper them well together and strike it thereon with a feather or dip a cloth in it and lay it ouer the swelling when it is dry then take fresh but alwayes warme Item take oyle of Roses seeth Earthwormes in it Mastick is also especiall good This following should be a speciall secret seeth Earthwormes and Frogs in oyle of Roses vntill they be almost all consumed then wring them out hard through a cloth and annoynt it very warme on the place of the paine This ensuing is not vnlike to the former Take of the oldest Sallad oyle that you can get twelue ounces and twelue water Frogs chop them very small and seeth them well when they be almost sodden ynough then temper therewith the iuice of Housleeke and the iuice of Stonecrop of each two
annoynt you therewith it causeth a man to sweate Further these things following are to be vsed before one go to bed therewith to expell the sweate to wit halfe a dragme or a whole dragme of Treacle or Mithridate Item take an Onion and put good Treacle into it afterwards rost it soft in hote ashes and eate a good deale thereof then lay you in bed to sweate therewith and afterwards drie your selfe cleane with drie clothes For bathing he is to take the quantitie of a nut of conserues of Rosemary or conserue of Fumitorie both of them do expel sweate the conserue of Elderne berries is the common peoples physicke for this purpose Item take Rose water Wormewood water and Rue water of each a like quantitie and vse thereof euery morning a good draught or take one ounce of Ginger and séeth it in a pint of red wine afterwards straine it without wringing and then drinke fiue ounces thereof it causeth also to sweate well and that especially in quartaine Agues Now to the end to abate the heate then temper amongst it iulep of Violets Oxymel compositum doth also moue sweate But if one cannot sweate then take two or thrée bricke stones and make them very hot and wrap them in a wet cloth and lay first one and then another to the féete vnder the arme-pits or the sides of the patient or betwéene his legs then will the vapor cause the patient to sweate And if so be that there be a stinking sweate instant like as the stench of the arme-pits whereof we haue written in the fourth part the first chapter and the second § and in the second chapter in the third § then may one with the foresaid vse this ensuing Take white Coperas halfe an ounce let it boyle so long in a pint of water as one would seeth an egge hard or somewhat longer and wash you therewith Also the sweate will be expelled by annointing with oile of Quinces or by taking of Marmalade made with spice Of the sweate-bath and other §. 2. IT is very common that sweate is vsually prouoked by bathes which is attempted after diuers maners and must be done for many kinds of maladies as we haue declared in many places for which now that bathing is noisome and bad we haue also taught here and there as the same may be looked for in the Table The thirteenth Chapter Of the Sinewes IT is a question amongst certaine learned men whence the sinews which the Latinists call Neruos haue their beginning Aristoteles was of opinion that they came from the heart although it cannot be perceiued that there hence any should come but Galenus with his followers do say that the sinewes take their beginning in the braines and the backe-bone And this opinion is not without a foundation and sure ground because that as soone as the sinewes be inflamed with any vnnaturall heate the braines thereby are so infected that commonly these men be distraught of their wits and vnderstanding yea waxe childish and as the Phisitions name it Deliri Albertus doth reckon to be in mans bodie 77. sinewes as wel great as small hard soft and other and therein do all learned agrée that they be all of a cold nature yet the one lesse than the other and also without blood wherefore some call them the white veines Amongst these be thrée principall sorts the first which we chiefly call Neruos which is sinewes the second Tendones which be the tendones the third Ligamenta which be ligaments or binding sinewes The first sort haue their beginning in the braines of both the skins of the braines in the back-bone the which Albertus calleth the vicegerent of the braines for that they be both almost of one nature These Nerui or sinewes the which by the Grecians is as much to say as bending be by nature a little warmer and also drier than the veines or any other sinewes they are also more sensible than the arteries and of such power that they franke and fréely impart vnto the whole body all motion and féeling These foresayd sinewes are by nature so placed in the back bone and his holes which be 60. in number and that they be spread ouer the whole bodie giuing each part his sence and action so that each may adiudge what is hurtfull for him or paineth any whit They do spread themselues abroade ouer the whole bodie to wit out of the backbone as it were a spring which with many sundrie spouts or gutters is deriued hither and thitherwards in a pleasant garden for to moisten the same and to impart her water vnto it So is also our bodie naturally nourished with these sinewes and all other veines which like as is sayd receiue their beginning out of the braines and so descend euen to the féete beneath And although this dispersion be so bountifully and pleasantly performed notwithstanding there come no sinewes into the bones except the téeth neither yet in the gristles nor in the fatnesse nor in the ligaments which be the knitters of the members or ioynts therefore all these foresaid parts haue no féeling or motion neither néede they any When as now the foresaid sinewes are spread abroad euery where in the muscles or lacerts which as is sayd are instruments whereby we haue all our motion yet in other places where need requireth the other sort are to wit the tendones These be of a tight compacted substance easily cut in the length ouerthwart very hardly or scant at all When as they also like as is oftentimes admonished be wounded then are they healed with great trouble They can also abide no fire like as the sinewes do for whensoeuer one is wounded or hurt then doth the same member loose his accustomed action or will at the least be much weakened It is also much to be wondered at to wit when a sinew is hurt that then there followeth much paine and mishap after it and being hewed or cut quite asunder that then the patient knoweth not of any paine The tendones or lacerts be amongst these thrée sorts of sinewes the most hardest contrariwise the ligaments be the most softest as shall be shewed hereafter These tendones be also not so sensible as the right sinewes and be also much bigger The third sort of sinewes the Grecians doe call Syndesmos the Latinistes Ligamenta which be bonds or knitters Albertus doth call them Cordàs that is cords these haue no féeling where they hold fast in the muscles or bones but they bind onely the muscles and bones together Let this now suffice of the nature of the sinewes and they that desire to haue ampler direction thereof let them looke into Aristoteles Galenus Albertus and other Anatomici which haue written thereof very largely Of hurt and wounded sinewes §. 1. COmmonly the perished sinewes do require such remedies as are wont to be vsed for the increase of the inféebled warmth and do drie hard and draw yet without any corroding and bad propertie
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
haue letten themselues downe by one of their threds vpon the heads of such beasts and leaue them not before and vntill they haue killed them Other are deadly enemies to the yong Euets which through their spinning do bind the mouth too and do smother them and hale them into their nets that thereby they might sucke out all the moisture of them and by the diuersitie of the venemous nourishment altereth also their venemous nature whereby the same is sometimes more forcible or more milde Also their manner of dwelling is not all one there dwell many in houses other in the fields and in the hedges some dwell willingly by the water sides but we will not write here any more of their natures but discouer their venomes Of all the venomes of the Spiders that which the Greekes call Phalangium is the most renowned and albeit that the same is not knowne in England nor Dutchland yet we will describe the nature of this venome whereby one may be taught to asswage all the lesser stingings and the harme that may come thereby and how the same may be cured The Greekes call this species of Spiders the Wolfe for a difference from other Spiders that are not so noisome These Spiders are hairy and haue a great head The shée Spider which onely spinneth bringeth thrée hundreth yong ones at one time and she receiueth also the reward of her noisome fruitfulnesse to wit that she is killed of her owne yong ones and afterwards sucked out which they would also do to their father if he with might did not withstand them If then any body be stung with this Phalangia then wil the place of the stinging be red neuertheles without paine or heate howbeit that it yeeldeth some moisture and as soone as there is vsed any medicine against it then beginneth the body to shake the sinewes of the knées and the inward parts wil be féeble and they will be conuulsed as if it were the crampe they take a great anguish in the members the patient can scarcely make water nor go to stoole he getteth a sweate throughout all his body his eyes runne and are dimme Against this must the ashes be vsed that are burnt of the Figge trée tempered with salt and wine and so laid thereon Item Hartwort Barly meale and Vineger tempered to pap You are also to wash the sting with some water wherein Smallage was sodden To bathe often is also very good For this one is to take a quarter of an ounce of any of these séeds following with wine to wit the séed of Southernwood Annis seed Hartwort seedes the rindes of the trée Platanus or the seede of Melilot Item the fruite or rinde of Tamariscus or wild Cipers sodden in wine Some wil say if one take the iuice that is strained out of Crabs with milke and séeds of smallage that thereby the patient will immediatly be whole Plinius writeth of the water of Smallage that the same hath a special vertue against the stinging of the Spider And there may be vsed against the Spider Marierome Nardus séede Southernwood Hyacinthum iuice of Mulberies field berries and Framboyes being tempered with hony and wine or each also alone Woodlice albeit that they be good against diuers other venomes yet neuerthelesse are they very lothsome to all men shrewdly biting and bloudthirsty whereby they take away a bodies sweete sleepe and spedially vexe the young children for which there hath bene much counsell sough to driue them away For this is very good the smoke of the great Ferne. Item if Horseleaches be cast on the fire and they be fumed with it Birchboyes set in the chamber driue them also away The water that we vse dayly for our necessitie hath by nature no venome in it yet if one drinke it too colde likewise strong Wine and by and by after bathing or after that one hath runne hard then doth there ensue great paine and stitches which diseases may be expelled thorough letting of bloud and purging Of the wormes that bréede in the belly grow diuers diseases In like manner also of such that grow in the fingers in the arse-gut in the wounds and other places moe What is to be done thereto that haue we sufficiently declared elsewhere Thus for a conclusion of these venoms of beasts and of the seuenth part of this booke there is yet somewhat to be added that some account for witchery to wit when there is giuen to any body that which excitateth loue by which commonly such miseries do follow that they that receiue the same become mad and foolish like as dayly experience doth teach vs. Ouidius writeth that Philtra doe weaken the wits and by their vertues they make men foolish and mad This do we call the louers herbe as if witchery had power to commaund one to loue another This witchery or rather this poysoning do women vse most of all intending thereby to constraine men that they should loue them The vngodly heathen that haue excelled therein and chiefly the Thessalonians haue taken great delight therein and also strange misbeléefe that are rather to be concealed than disclosed It is very difficult to ordaine any certaine remedie for it because it cannot well be knowne for that there be so many kinds of them by what meanes it hath bene put in practise so that the same must rather be iudged by the signes apparant to the eyes than by any other signes yet haue I found out two things described by famous Phisitions which are very good for this purpose but the first thereof is very strong and is not be vsed without counsell but the other is somewhat safer and easily approoued Take a Valerian roote with the herbe fiue or sixe rootes of Gentiana Cruciata a small handfull of the rootes of wild Cucumbers and a quart of Wine with halfe as much water afterwards seeth it softly about a quarter of an houre and drinke thereof morning and euening And you are to séeth therewith a little Cinkfoyle The other Take the middlemost gréene rindes of Elderne shread small one handfull let it drie well afterwards séeth it in a pint and a halfe of Goates milke till about the halfe straine it and drinke it as aforesaid Hereof will some say that the same purgeth all things whatsoeuer hath bene giuen vnto any body by women to this intent although it had bene done thrée yéeres before The end of the seuenth part The eight and last Part of this Booke containeth sundry things THe eight and last part of this generall Practise of Phisicke is ordained for those things that do not concerne any speciall diseases which are before sufficiently described but that are méet and good for to helpe sicke persons to strengthen the weake and to maintaine health which also may be vsed in the kitchin for pleasure and for other purposed mo as Electuaries Potions Conserues and Confections of all kinds of Fruites of Flowers of Rootes and of other Plants Oyles Sirupes and Iuices
Golden and vitall Waters Hearbed and Aromaticall wines and such like whereof otherwhiles hath bene admonished how that the same may be prepared and to the end that the vertue of all them might be knowne Wherfore we will also declare their vertues and operations The first Chapter The Confection of Calmus THis very precious and necessarie Confection is prepared after sundry manners for besides this that it is very common it is also very pleasant and acceptable But first of all there is to be noted that the auncient Phisitions had another roote and not the yellow Lilly roote which we haue now in vse yea ours is not to be compared to the old Acoro neither in vertue nor in operation The learned do estéeme the Calmus to be the right Acorus which is also very requisite for this Confection Other be of opinion that it is the great Galingal which is also good for it Wherfore in mine opinion this first Confection is to be vsed rather than the other following And if so be that you had rather haue it with the tast of Sugar than of hony then boile Sugar to a sirup First we will describe one of the Confections of Mesua wherof there is alwaies one found ready in all well furnished Apothecaries shops and afterwards one other sort more whereof each one may take that likdth him best Take the roote Secacul or in the stead of it take of our powned Calmus and prepared Pingles of each sixe ounces séeth the rootes in faire well water and stampe them to grout afterwards put sixe pound of the best well scummed hony vnto it then seeth it all together by a soft or gentle fire vntill the moisture of the rootes be all consumed and stirre it about to the end that the rootes burne not when as it is decocted thick enough then take it from the fire and temper these things following amongst them powned very small to wit Pepper one ounce long Pepper Cloues Ginger Roses and Mace of each half an ounce Nutmegs Galingall and Cardamome of each thrée drag temper them well together This Confection is maruellous good against all diseases of the sinewes it sharpeneth the wit it aswageth the headach and is also good against all old sicknesses but especially against all rheumes which fall out of the head into the breast The second Take Calmus which beareth the yellow Lillies which groweth in moist places and is faire and of a horseflesh colour 16. ounces make it very faire and cleane afterwards cut it in thin slices and seeth it so long in faire water vntill they be mellow then straine the water well from it and powre a pot of red wine vnto it and let it boyle well then powre the wine from it and stamp it all to grout and put sixe pound of clarified Hony vnto it and let it séeth well with the wine vnto a Confection at last put vnto it sixe ounces of Ginger Cloues Nutmegs Mace Cardamome long Pepper and Galingall of each one ounce and a halfe Pepper thrée quarters of an ounce beaten all together very small The third Take Calmus prepared as before and chopt small two pound clarified Honie foure pound séeth the roots very well in red wine afterwards put them to the Hony let it so seeth by a mild fire vntill it be very thicke then temper therewith small chopt Almonds eleuen ounces Ginger foure ounces Pepper halfe an ounce long Pepper and Cloues of each one quarter of an ounce Cinnamom one dragme and a halfe Galingall Cucubes Cardamome Nutmegs and Mace of each one dragme stirre them so long together with a woodden pestle vntill that it be cold The fourth Take drie sliced Calmus one pound and séeth it in two quarts of small wine afterwards powne it to grout and take Hony or Sugar two pound let it séeth till it be thicke when it is a little cold then temper with it small cut Ginger sixe ounces powned Cloues Nutmegs Mace and Cardamome of each one dragme and a halfe long and common Pepper of each three quarters of an ounce Galingal one drag and a half Greins one quarter of an ounce temper them all together The fift Take Calmus cut it in shiues and take twenty ounces of it séeth it in thrée pints of red wine so long vntill all the wine be consumed stampe it but not too small then take a pint of clarified Hony and let it boile by a small fire afterwards put the prepared rootes vnto it and 8. ounces of small sliced Ginger then let it boile againe by a mild fire vnto a confection when it is lukewarme then temper with it common long Pepper Cloues Cinnamom Nutmegs and Ginger of each halfe an ounce Galingall Mace Cardamome Cucubes and Greines of each a quarter of an ounce beaten small together temper them so long vntill they be all waxen cold The sixt with Sugar Take Calmus as before 12. ounces séeth it in Muscadell vntill that the wine be all wasted stampe it to grout and put thereto foure pounds of common clarified Sugar with as much wine or water then put the roots vnto it and let it seeth vntill it be thick when it is a little cold then temper amongst it Ginger cut very small foure ounces Cinnamō Cardamome Nutmegs Mace Cloues Calmus and Cucubes of each thrée drag temper them well and let them seeth so long as one would séeth Egs hard then kéepe it in a gally pot How to make Veriuice for the Kitchin and for Phisicke §. 1. VEriuice is to be prest out of the best Grapes a good while before they be ripe and if so be that one will kéep it long then must the same be sodden but if so be that you will vse this Veriuice in the Kitchin then temper a good deale of Salt amongst it and stir it the space of an whole houre afterwards put it into a small vessel and cast some vnripe Medlars into it then shake it well about to the end it may worke and be cleare But if so be that you will kéepe the Veriuice for Phisicke and without salt then fill a glasse with a narrow necke and powre vpon it some Sallad oyle then will it remaine good the space of a whole yeare There may also be made of this vnsalted Veriuice a sirupe called de Agresta to wit in this manner Take the iuice of vnripe Grapes when it is first prest out fiue parts white Sugar 3. parts and let it séeth softly vnto a sirupe further then clarifie it with the white of an Eg. This sirupe is maruellous good in great heate it swageth thirst allayeth all wambling parbraking and laske which is caused of the gall it is also very méete in hote cholericke Agues and aboue all measure good for all women with child which be inclined to vomiting for that it strengtheneth the stomacke and withstandeth all venime The 2. Chapter Of the artificiall Balme which may be vsed in steade of the right Balsamum
one part of wine and let them séeth so long vntill the wine be thoroughly sodden away afterwards lay the Sloes in a pot with the stalkes on high and powre the same Hony vpon it and couer it with a trencher and lay some heauy thing on them to the end that they may be couered with the liquor and then set them in a sellar Another way to preserue Sloes take vnripe Medlars ripe Sloes ripe and pared Quinces when the coares be cut out of each as much as you please if you will you may sticke them about with spice likewise also the Medlars which you shall séeth with the Quinces in Hony like as is first of all said of Sloes and lay some heauie thing on the top of it Conserues of Cowslips §. 38. THere be two kinds of these flowers whereof the one is wild and without smell which is méete for nothing but take of the yellow that smels well and cut thereof behind the long pipe and with Sugar make a Conserue thereof This Conserue is of a warme and drie nature it is very good for the head it strengtheneth and warmeth the braines it is also good for the Palsey for which cause it is also called Herba paralysis This conserue is also of all them which be inclined to the Palsey much vsed and it strengtheneth also the heart but it is perchance not much vsed for that it is a kind of Betony or of Gillowflowers which be more acceptable Conserue of water Lillies §. 39. LIkewise there be two sorts of these flowers to wit yellow and white take thereof the white and the white leaues onely of the flowers make a conserue thereof â—ike vnto all other conserues This conserue strengtheneth much and cooleth in very hote agues and also in pestilentiall agues It is also very good for them that consume away and that haue the Pleurisie It taketh away all drie coughes for that it cooleth and moisteneth the breast the throat and the dry tongue it quencheth thirst it cooleth through her cold the Liuer the Milt and all inward parts and it prouoketh sléepe All haile people and they that be cold of nature may not vse the same for that if the same be vsed too much then taketh it away the fleshly desire and it obstructeth also the spermaticall fluxe if it be heate Conserue of Violets §. 40. TAke blew odoriferous Violet flowers plucke the flowers from their huâ— and powne them to a pap Vnto a pound of flowers put two pound of Sugar and then stampe them well together and so set them in the Sunne This Conserue is cold in the first and moist in the second degrée It cooleth and moisteneth with mildnesse and it asswageth also the paine of the guts but it is not so good for the stomacke It allayeth also the cholericke heate which cometh through moisture It looseth and also taketh away thirst It may well be giuen to young children in all heate very fréely for that it is good against their pangs it kéepeth the belly open it strengtheneth the braines and the heart and it taketh away all stitches The yellow Violets are also preserued otherwhiles Conserue of the flowers of Cicorie §. 41. TAke the leaues of Cicorie flowers and make a conserue thereof like as is taught of all other This conserue is especiall good for the Liuer it openeth the obstruction of the same it cleanseth all inward parts and also the intrailes of all cholerick humors it expelleth them out thorough the stoole and withstandeth thereby all putrifying agues therefore this conserue is also to be vsed in the beginning of the Dropsie it reuiueth the weake and ouer-heated heart and also the stomacke In fine it is very good in all hot sicknesses The roots of Cicory are also preserued which are digged vp before that they begin to sprout out Being digged vp make them cleane and cut them the long way and then take the innermost hart of it Afterwards cut it in péeces the length of a finger and then let them boile well in fresh water that the bitternes may come out and the rootes may be mellow When as they be meetly drie then powre thicke boyled Sugar vpon it and if the rootes be still somewhat hard then let them boile in the Sugar vntill they be mellow and let them be cold But if that the sirupe be thin through the moisture of the rootes then séeth the same thicke againe and that so often vntill it remaine stiffe These rootes be of a cold and dry nature and they haue the same vertues with the conserue How red Cherries are preserued §. 42. REd Cherries be preserued like as we haue taught before of the blacke They haue also one kind of operation and are thus preserued Take picked red Cherries which be not brused put them in a small Oaken vessell afterwards take clarified Honie and let it seeth with a little wine vntill all the moisture be consumed and powre then this Honie warme vpon it otherwise would they break through heate This being now done then stoppe the vessell tight and lay it in a Sellar and rowle it daily from one place to another and do this the space of fourtéene daies or thrée wéekes There is also made of these Cherries a conserue as hereafter followeth Take Cherries as many as you please stampe them a little and then powre yet moe other Cherries vnto it and boile it without any other moisture all that which will remaine thicke is to be rubbed thorough a sieue to the end that there do not remaine any other thing in the sieue than skinnes and stones then séeth it in an earthen pot You may also put Sugar vnto it as much as you please and then séeth it vnto a conserue For this is no kind of Spice méete if so be that one desire not to put a little Cinnamom vnto it This conserue is very good against all drith of the mouth throat and toung if sicke persons be washed with it It quencheth thirst in all hote Agues and otherwise It is also good for all Cholera of the stomacke it maketh appetite to meate and it cooleth the hote reynes the kernels do expell grauell In Summer time is wine to be mingled with this conserue and to be vsed for sauce with rost meate If one desire to kéepe Cherries long fresh then are picked Cherries to be taken for it and to dip the same in molten Waxe viz. when it beginneth to be cold to let them be well closed in Waxe and afterwards to sement the same with Lome vntill it be throughly closed then are they to be hanged vp in a coole place and they will remaine fresh a very long time How ripe and vnripe Grapes are to be preserued §. 43. THe vnripe Grapes shall be confected like to all Barberries but you must cut euery berrie from the Cluster to the end that they may kéepe their stalkes and put therewith like as is said of the black Cherries then let them
séeth well and stirre it well about vntill that it be strong as soone as you take it from the fire then powre presently water vpon it it will boyle together and then powre the rest vnto it straine out the herbes and then keepe it in a sellar The common vertues of these Meades be that they quench thirst It is also good for all cold diseases of the braines of the backbone of the sinewes and for all other diseases for which wine is hurtfull by his penetrating vertue and force it cleanseth and openeth the breast it taketh away the cold drie cough it cleanseth the kidneys the raines the conduits of vrine and the bladder of al cold slimie matter wherof the grauel and the stone doth grow and it expelleth also all hurtfull matter out of the guts wherefore the same is to be vsed in all diseases of the braines as in the giddines in the falling sicknesse and in lamenesse which is cause thereby In like manner it is good for them that be plagued with the Crampe and the hote Podagra The 12. Chapter THis twelfth Chapter hath no more than two sorts of compounded things as oyls and some other which be made with vineger which be therefore called Oxymel Oxycraton Oxysacchara and such like First we will write of Oyles whereof there is much declared and adde thereto for what they are to be vsed amongst which there be some first of Plants of Fruites and of Seedes as well prest as beaten out other by the addition of certaine herbes flowers rootes and other things which be decocted therewith Some are distilled and by force of the fire be drawne out of Rootes out of Mines out of Mettals and such like things and the manner of making them is diuers wherof we will write hereafter and also declare thereby for what each of them shall be good Oyle of Poplar buds §. 1. BEcause that in the making of all oyles there must héede be taken that the herbs flowers rootes and such like be not put too moist into the oyle the same must first of all be withered a little and afterwards be chopt small to the end the vertue and force may come the better out of it If you haue not the hote Sun then let it séeth in a narrow pot in hote water If so be that you renew the herbes or the flowers two or thrée times then is the oyle the more forcible And now to come to our oyle of Poplar buds Take Sallad oyle 12. ounces white wine twelue ounces fresh Poplar buds which be powned nine ounces then let them stéepe the space of seuen daies in the wine and oyle and stirre them oftentimes about afterwards boile it in a narrow pot in water vntill all the wine be wasted and afterwards wring it thorough a cloth It is also to be noted like as is beforesaid that if so be you do renew the Poplar buds two or three times that then the oyle will be the more forcible which may also be well done This oyle is very good against headach paine of the ioynts of the raines of the kidneys and against the paine of the Gout with other paines moe Oyle of Mandragora §. 2. IT is oftentimes before declared what force the Mandragora hath to wit that it causeth sléepe and causeth insensiblenesse This oyle is prepared and made in the same manner as al oyles of other rootes are made but it is very seldome vsed but when great need doth require Oyle of Amber §. 3. ALl they that delight in distillations and haue indeuoured themselues to draw out the purest and cleanest out of all things they haue also found great vertue in the oyle of Amber for which there hath bene made especiall ouens glasses and other preparations c. which were here too long to discourse but we wil onely declare her vertue vse First there is nothing more forcible against all venimous ayre if one rub a drop thereof in the nostrels In like manner the losinges are also good amongst which two or thrée drops of this oyle is tempered The same is good against all sicknesses of the head as against the Palsey and against the falling sicknes if one take it with Betonie water or with any such like water and annoint it outwardly vpon the necke but that is especially good which is distilled of the white Amber It is also very good for all diseases of the sinewes as for the cramp the lamenesse and such like it expelleth the stone and the grauell if the same be giuen with the water of Parsly it furthereth also Child birth if it be giuen with water of Verueine so doth it also if one annoint the nauell on the outside with Snakes grease and it together It is also very commodious against the suffocation of the moother if one annoint the same in the nostrils and vpon the pit of the heart The losinges wherein this oyle is baked be speciall good against all cold rheumes they strengthen the braines they be good against all swouning and heartbeating and they do also strengthen the digestiue power of the stomack In fine this oyle may be vsed in stead of the true and naturall Balme Artificiall Balme §. 4. OF this artificiall Balme and how the same is made after diuerse manners and distilled we haue declared before in the second Chapter sufficiently Sallade oyle or oyle of Oliues §. 5. THis Sallade oyle is of all people so well knowne that whereas oyle standeth without any surname thereby alwayes Sallade oyle is vnderstood and it is also a gracious gift of God that people may vse the same for sundrie necessaries which were too long to discourse for how many kinds of Plaisters Salues Oyles and Clisters c. be prepared of this oyle But as much as concerneth this Sallade oile there be thrée sorts of the same vsed for Phisicke to wit one that is thorow ripe the second that which is not thorow ripe the third which is very old for that each one of the thrée hath his proper nature that which is cleane ripe is of a warme nature so that it defendeth the bodie from all cold being annointed thereon it refresheth all the members and maketh them fit for labour it suppleth all the whole bodie and the skinne it asswageth all paine of the ioynts it cleareth the sight it is good against all venime if one drinke the same often and vomiteth it vp againe so that the ancient Phisitions haue left a prouerbe behind them Wine sustaineth the bodie within and Oyle outwardly When the oyle is aboue a yeare old then doth it lose much of her pleasantnesse and the best driueth alway aboue which is contrary in Hony wherein the best doth lye alwayes vnderneath and the best of the wine is alwayes in the middle The oile which is prest out of the vnripe Oliues that is called Omphacinum the same hath power for many kinds of things and especially in Salues it is also verie méete for the stomacke
for all agues which procéede of it Item for the yellow Iaundise and dropsie looke in the register for Agrimonie Trocisci de Lacca §. 14. THey are verie troublesome to be prepared they open the obstructions of the liuer and spleene and cure the agues that are caused thereby they do also expell the dropsie Ascites by vrine as hath béene shewed in the name Lacca Trocisci de Myrrha §. 15. TAke Myrrha one dragme and a halfe Lupins two dragmes and a halfe Rue white water Mints Diptamus of Candy Comin Madder Assa Foetida Sagapenum and Opopanacum of each one dragme then make thereof Trociskes with the iuice of Feuerfew These Trociskes do mooue womens termes and asswage all paine which may be caused by their obstructions such like Trociskes of Myrrh haue you described in the third Part the 19. chapter and 2. § looke further in the Table of Myrrha Trocisci de Olibano of Frankinsence §. 16. THe description of these Trociskes you haue in the third Part the 11. chap. and 12. § looke further in the Table vnder the name of Frankinsence Trocisci de Rhabarbaro §. 17. TAke good Rubarbe fiue drag the iuice of Agrymonie and bitter Almonds of each one quarter of an ounce Roses Indy Spica Annis Madder the séed of Smallage Wormewood and Asarabacca of each halfe a dragme then make Trociskes therof with water of Fleawort These open the obstructions of the liuer they take away all paine and swelling of the same they be good against the dropsie and the yellow iaundise and also against all distemperance of the bodie like as you may reade in the Register vnder the name of Rubarbe Trocisci Diarrhodon §. 18. THese Trociskes doth Nicholaus describe and they be easily made Take fresh Rose leaues halfe an ounce burnt Iuorie and red Sanders of each one dragme and a halfe and seuen graines white Sanders one dragme and twelue graines Saffron two scruples and seuen graines Camfer two graines make Trociskes of them with Rose water They be verie little vsed like as is admonished in the Table of Roses Trocisci de Rosis of Roses §. 19. BY Rasis these be described in this manner following Take Roses halfe an ounce Lignum Aloes one quarter of an ounce Masticke one dragme and a halfe Wormewood Cinnamom Indie Spica Cassie wood Squinant flowers of each one dragme fashion them with â—ld Wine They be verie good against all paine and bad digestion of the stomacke against all cold agues and the beginning of the dropsie but especially they be very good for all them which lose their naturall colour looke further for this in the Table of Roses Trocisci de Santalis of Saunders §. 20. THese be not made but when the same be prescribed of purpose they be very good against the diseases of the liuer and against the dropsie like as our table of Saunders doth shew Trocisci de Spica §. 21. THese Trocisks be not vsed and there is mention made but once of them in this Booke and that onely against the pursiuenes of the breast Trocisci de Spodio of Iuorie §. 22. THese be prepared as they are described in the third Part the eleuenth chapter and fouretéenth § and ordained for the laske Lienteria for which they be further necessarie that doth the Register make mention of Iuorie Trocisci de Terra sigillata §. 23. OF more than twentie things be these Trocisks made wherefore we do leaue them to the Apothecaries They be very much vsed for that they be forcible against spetting of blood if the same be giuen with the water of Knotgrasse they be also good against the bleeding at the nose if the same be annoynted on the forehead and also for womens flowers if they passe away too excessiue fast likewise for the bléeding of the pyles and for pissing of blood if it be spouted into the yarde like as the same is mentioned in the Register vnder the title of sealed Earth Trocisci de Violis of Violets §. 24. YOu must take Violet leaues which be somewhat withered one ounce and a half Turbith one ounce the iuice of Licorice Manna and Diagridion of each halfe an ounce make Trocisks thereof with the sirupe of Violets They are very seldome vsed alone but sharpned with thrée greines or with any other pils if they be giuen to any bodie that is hard to be purged They are made also without Diagridio and they be also otherwhiles mixed with some other Trocisks looke further for it in the Register of Violets For to make writing Incke §. 25. WE must not pretermit the description of this Incke being a necessarie matter It is also made in sundrie manners but this is the commonest manner for to make Incke Take pouned Gall nuts one pound Coperas halfe a pound raine water fiue quarts seeth them all togither vntill the third part be wasted then let it settle afterwards straine it thorow a cloth put foure ounces of Gum vnto it and then stir it oftentimes about Some do not boyle it but let it stand and stéepe stirring it very often and well but take for it no more but thrée quarts of water and let the Gum be first dissolued in good wine Vineger vntill it be all dissolued and then put the other substance vnto it thus it is also best of all doth remaine alwaies without moulding For to make common Vernish §. 26. VErnish is made after sundry waies and there are also sundry sorts of them each for an especiall vse the one is made thus and the other so But we will here describe onely and teach how that it shall be most fitly made and for what it shall be requisite for each one First take olde Linséed oyle and séethe it so long vntill it be as thicke that if you do take a drop of it out and let it be cold when you presse vpon it with your finger it spinneth two or three threads or glueth to the finger This oyle being now so sodden put Rosin vnto it as much as shall suffice for to make the Vernish thicke enough then let the Rosin decoct togither with the oyle so long vntill it do stand wholly still This Vernish is good for the Smithes for the Trencher-makers for the Trunck-makers and further for to Vernish all slight things Of Painters Vernish §. 27. TAke olde Linséed oyle and séethe the same as is aforesaid afterwards put amongst one pound of the oyle halfe a pound of Masticke or somewhat more and so let it séethe togither a good while This being done then set it in the sunne in a leaden Basen and power one part of water vpon it and stirre it well togither then will the oyle come vpon the top and let it stand so clarifying in the sunne and ayre the space of two or thrée moneths But it is to be noted that you must alwaies take good héede of the faire weather and of the raine and also of the night for if so be that
superfluities and corruptions should be expelled and banished out of the bodie which for the most part is perfected by drying or purging medicines whereof now shall be mentioned The best counsell therefore is that not vnaduisedly but very warily thou meddle with strong medicines For as in all infirmities purgings are very needful and profitable so also the vse of bad and too strong purgations is very hurtfull and dangerous Wherefore in sharpe and perillous diseases shall the aduice of a learned Phisition be asked or else in his absence to choose and vse things that are easie and safe of which in this booke euery where mayest thou haue choise What persons shall abstaine from purging and the impediments thereof §. 2. ALL such as vse a moderate diet What persons are to refraine from purging and eate nothing but that which ingendreth good bloud they haue no néed of any purgation Those that do abound in bloud may in like sort omit purging but good it is for them to be let bloud If any matter or bad humour do settle it selfe in the concauitie or hollownesse of the articles or ioynts and is inherent as in the Leprie and such like happeneth in vaine it is also for them to purge for if such humours be mooued onely and not wholly expelled they might easily be drawne to some noble and principall part of the body whereby the diseased might be greatly weakened and fall into a worse incouenience than before In great heate or cold mayest thou not purge for the heate diuideth and spreadeth the matter ouer all the body and weakeneth greatly at which time if thou purge thou doest stir and moue the humor and doest ouerthrow the strength of nature In great cold is the matter tough and thicke and altogether vnapt for Phisicke to worke vpon It is also forbidden in weake persons whether their weaknesse procéed from nature or some other accidentall cause to purge strongly although gentle purgations for their ease in some sort be allowed Hote and drie natures must forbeare purgings for all purging medicines for the most part are hote and drie and by that meanes do they augment heate and drought and hurt the bodie Very nice and daintie persons shall not take any strong purgation for in them are the humours easily moued In like sort might fat bodies which commonly are but weake by strong purgations incurre the danger of stifling Young children and old men shall shunne purgations and those also that labour much and cary great burdens for they are alwayes weary which is contrary to all purgations What is to be obserued in and after the taking of a purgation §. 3. 〈◊〉 and after purguing AFter the taking of a purge is a moderate motion vp and downe and stirring of the armes commodious that the matter fall and remaine not all vpon an heape in the body But if thou feare that thou shalt cast vp the purgation thou shalt be at rest and quiet till thy stomacke be stayed If the purgation that thou hast taken be gentle and a little potion or drinke thou shalt forbeare to sleepe after it but vpon hard or solide medicines as pils tabulats and such like is sléepe and rest graunted that by the inward and naturall heate the substance of the pilles might the sooner be dissolued and dispersed The purgation being taken it is not amisse to vse some sower thing after it as a Pomegranate vnripe Grapes Oranges c. for that strengtheneth the stomacke that it draweth no ill humor to it and it stayeth all the vomiting It is also good after the taking of any purgation to drinke a draught of whay or warme béere it helpeth the operation of the medicine and dulleth her sharpnesse It is also good to kéepe the belly warme least by force he draw away the medicine from the stomack To this end is nothing more commodious than warme water to set thy féete in for that warmeth all the bodie The belly may also be couered with a little bagge and some bran in it When the medicine beginneth to purge it is not much amisse to mooue the bodie somewhat for by that motion descendeth it downewards and all the harme or badnesse which the medicine hath with it is thereby taken away the motion helpeth also to expell the humors Whilest the medicine doth yet purge thou shalt neither eate nor drinke least it hinder the operation thereof Notwithstanding if the patient cannot forbeare so long let him vse the broth of a hen or some such like thing or else the sirupe of Violets to delay the heate of the stomacke and to preserue him from an ague For a great quantity of choler being drawne into the stomacke by reason of hunger might easily cause such an accident as might be very hurtful for the diseased Secondly if a great hunger should ouertake him he may boldly take a péece of a toast and dip it in good wine or any such like liquor but not so much in quantity that the medicine might be hindered of her operation Sleepe after the operation of the purge is permitted for as the purge doth weaken and distemper the body so doth rest and sleepe strengthen it againe After thy sleepe thou shalt make but a small and easie meale for considering that the natural powers and vertues of the body be somewhat weakned they might by too much and too hasty eating be quite ouerthrowne so that this is a generall rule The more the medicine hath purged the lesse ought to be eaten after it The next day after purging is good to bathe in warme water if at the least the féeble estate of the patient do not disswade from it for thereby are the relikes that are left after purging moistened and digested and it suppleth also the drie body On the third day shall a veine be opened by the which the vapors of the humors that were mooued and expelled are taken away which otherwise would be no small hurt vnto the body This shall suffice as concerning the rules and ordinances that ought to be obserued in purging An addition for the better and more expedite vnderstanding of this Chapter Purging is an euacuation of humors that abound and molest one wherein is to be noted Who Are to be purged to wit they that be Full of corrupted humors Not crude First concocted Strong Vsed vnto it Not as they that be In health without any bad humours weake women with child leane not accustomed of a drie complexion old fat troubled with the bloudie flixe or any laske conuulsed empty of bodie subiect to sowning women that haue their flowers children labourers c. How The braine by the Eyes Nose Pallate Lungs by coughing Arteries of respiration by coughing Stomacke by vomite Conuexe part of the liuer by vomite Humours tending vpwards by vomite Concaue part of the liuer by stoole Humours descending by stoole Kidneyes by stoole Wombe by vrine How much Age. Strength Complexion The disease Time Custome Place of
ceasing of paine diminishing of flegme dissipation of windines to prouoke hunger to withdraw and to stay rheumes and to stanch bleeding He aduiseth also to vse it in a great paine of the belly procéeding of wind as the most true and present remedie namely to fasten a great box or cup on the place pained and often to renew it for thereby is the wind maruellously drawne forth and dissipated and not only for this but for the hardnes and other accidents of the spleene but without picking or opening of the skin But note that this boxing or cupping ought not to be vsed except the patient haue first of all throughly bene purged otherwise it doth draw the superfluous humiditie which lieth deepe vnderneath outward to the skin These boxes also are not to be set iust vpon the place affected but hard by it thereabout that by them the matter might be dissipated and withdrawne As for example if a woman had too many of her flowers continuing the cups or boxes shall be set vpon her brests In too much bléeding at the nose vpon the nauell and so in more places contrary still to the course of the blood or else vpon the veines whence the cause procéedeth likewise to prouoke or moue the termes in women the cups shall be fixed vpon the thighes in sore eyes behind the necke as in many places in this booke shall be shewed Thus much for the cupping without opening the skin .. But if thou wilt open the skinne also as commonly is vsed in diuers parts of the bodie and especially in any hard tumor or Schyrrhus or other swellings with a great distention and paine In like manner when thou wilt draw the peccant matter from the infected place to another as to remoue head-ach the cups are fixed on the caues of the legs with opening of the skin which also is done if the termes or flowers in women be stayed and in such like other accidents as hereafter in this booke at large shall appeare The tenth Chapter Of the diminishing of the bloud by Horsleaches THe third meanes whereby the blood is drawne forth of the body is that blood sucking water worme which the auncient Phisitions by their experience for the helpe of man haue found out These Horsleaches are of diuers and sundrie colours some blacke some red some gréenish and of many other colous They are all of them somewhat venemous but especially those that be partie coloured with greene stripes big and liue in stinking pooles which altogether are to be auoided Others that appeare in May and most of all about noone abide in other pooles and waters where also they are taken how to prepare them for to vse hath bene shewed in the sixt Chapter Before they be fastened the place must first be well chafed with water moistened and well scratched with the nailes then take they the better hold When they are fast annoint the place with warme oyle that it coole not and if they be fixed to either hands or féete then put that part into luke-warme water whereon they be fastened but if they draw or sucke not strong inough câ—â— off a litle peece of their tailes that the bloud may passe through them for they will not leaue sucking for all that vnlesse a little salt or a few ashes be cast vpon their heads or that they be stricken on the head with a little wand or rod or that they be burnt with a waxe candle After they be falne off thou shalt fasten a boxe or cup vpon the same place to draw out the remaining bloud and venome or else moisten it with a warme sponge and if it continue bléeding cast some meale on it and lay shéepes wooll dipped in oile vpon that or some other thing as in the fift part of this booke is taught how to stanch blood Here is also to be obserued that these horsléeches do not draw the blood out of the inward parts of the bodie but onely that which lieth in the flesh thereabout so that they can onely be vsed in place of boxes and especially in blacke melancholy blood which by nature they only suck forth And this is all the difference betwéene the vse of them and of cups In the application or fastening of Horsleaches they must be put into a quill réede or cane that they take hold of no other place but where they should It is furthermore well knowne that great store of superfluous humidities are expelled by baths sweat rubbing vomiting and such like but because these things must be altered augmented and diminished according to the estate of the person great héede ought to be giuen what here and there in this booke is spoken of them The eleuenth Chapter Of the sixe things not naturall called of the Phisitions Res non naturales THe cause why we make no mention of these sixe things is for that by them a generall rule of the life is to be obserued but most of all in the time of sicknesse when euery one according as necessitie requireth is taught what order is to be kept in euery of them The first is aire to wit what aire ought to be elected what to be refused and if neither of these may be by what meanes to correct it The second is mouing or motion which is not a litle to be regarded because some diseases require much mouing others litle and some none at all The third is sléepe and watching which is of no lesse account than motion The fourth is fulnesse and emptinesse which teacheth what order is to be followed in meate and drinke as also in hunger and abstinence the meanes also to restore that which either is wanting in the one or in the other The fift the accidents or motions of the mind as anger feare gladnesse sorrow loue hatred c. which oftentimes cause great chaunge and alteration both in sicknesse and in health The sixt is meate and drinke which is méete for euery disease which vnméete Of the which in euery particular disease seuerall instructions shall be giuen this generall rule presupposed that no man diseased shall ouerlade his stomacke with meate or drinke except it were to vomit it vp againe It is also better to eate thrice a day and a little at once than but twise aboundantly If of all these things thou wilt haue a more iust explication looke in the second part of the wheesing and stopping of the breath by the which thou mayest also rule thy selfe in other infirmities Furthermore whatsoeuer might be said of the foure complexions or humors of mans body as bloud choler flegme and melancholy with their incompassed mixtures called Intemperies which are eight fold and what else doth appertaine vnto them shall sufficiently as oportunitie serueth hereafter be declared The twelfth Chapter An explication of all the weights and measures which commonly are vsed in Phisicke THere be two sorts of pounds the common pound containeth sixtéene ounces but the phisicall pound hath but twelue ounces It
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
purge therefore both head and bodie in manner as followeth Take Sage Lauander gentle Bayberies wild Mints Hysope Marioram sweet Marioram garden Mints Calmus of each one M. seedes of Fennell Persley Sparage Endiue of each two dragmes Raisins Nux Pinea seedes of Melons of Pompions of Gourds and of Cucumbers Roses rootes of wild Smallage Annise seedes of each halfe an ounce Cubebs Pionie seedes Cloues Nutmegs of each a drag and a half Spikenard of India Ginger Cinnamom Pepper of each halfe a drag boyle these things in a sufficient quantitie of water then presse out all the moisture from them boile it the second time with honie or Sugar to the consistence of a sirupe This if thou wouldest haue to purge adde vnto it seedes of wild Saffron Hermodactils of each half an ounce Agaricke six dragmes Salt gem halfe one scruple Turbit two dragmes knit vp these togither in a little bag boyle them in the foresayd liquor Afterwards sharpen thy sirupe with the vineger of Squils as followeth Of this sirupe thou mayest giue one ounce and a halfe or two ounces at once mingled with good wine or else with some other distilled waters that may serue to the same end thrée or fower dayes continually togither â—â—nell of Squiâ—omâ—â—â— The composition of the vineger of Squils is as followeth Take the Squill called in Latin Scilla take away the externall shels from it till thou come to the white these white ones take off by themselues seuerally with thy haÌ„d or else with a wooden Spattin or knife and not with iron for that is hurtful also leaue out the hart the innermost part of the Squill and take onely the middle white shiuers of it fasten all these on a thred that the one touch not the other and hang them vp to dry fortie dayes in a coole place and in the shade But this way that followeth is much better Take away all the vttermost parts vntill thou come to the white then wrap it vp in dow and bake it in an ouen afterwards part it in shiuers as before drie it as is already sayd Take of this dried Squils as much as thou wilt cut it into little péeces with a woodden or bene instrument put fower times as much vineger vpon it in a glasse and let it so continue fortie dayes in the sunne Hauing taken the foresayd potion as hath bin taught before thou shalt giue him Pillula Cochiae If thou wilt haue them strong take two dragmes of them Coloquint Bdellium of each one scruple make them into pils with the water of Sage of these giue but one dragme at one time bicause they be very strong to the same purpose likewise serue the pils Alephangina Aureae Aloes prepared being taken a dragme at once But if the sicke would rather take a potion than these pils Take Lauander gentle flowers of Borage and Buglosse Currans of each one ounce Basill séede one dragme Agarick Turbit of each one dragme boyle them in a sufficient potion of water vntill there remaine about ten ounces steepe in this liquor one ounce a halfe of the barkes of Mirobalans called Chebuli set it so in warme ashes all one whole night then presse it out hard and giue three ounces of it at once Also take Hiera picra Agarick of each one dragme Lauander Saffron of each one scruple Salt gem two graines mixe them with some broth that Nutmegs Sage hath bin boyled in In like manner mayest thou vse this that followeth Take honie of Roses sirupe of Stechas of each thrée dragmes Agarick Turbit of each two scruples Spica three graines prepared Turpentine halfe an ounce beaten to powder all what thou canst beate melt thy Turpentine in some hot broth when it is as cold that it may be drunken mixe the powders and sirupes with it giue it early in the morning This must be either diminished or augmented in qualitie according to the abilitie of the patient If the diseased can beare no kinde of Phisicke then vse this Clister Take Mallowes herbe Mercurie Dill Rue Bran of each one handfull boyle them in a sufficient quantitie of water take of Colatare twelue or sixtéene ounces mixe with it of Hiera picra of white Sugar of each halfe an ounce or somewhat more Salt two dragmes oyle of Dill and Rue of each one ounce and a halfe and minister it warme Gargarismes also are very good for this maladie bicause they draw forth a great deale of slime and filthinesse from the head Take Mastix Calmus Licorice Currans of each halfe an ounce Hissope Ireos of each two dragms Pellitorie of Spaine Saxifrage Ginger Mustard seedes of each one dragme beate them all togither and boyle them in fresh water vse it thrée or fower times a day warme Some do counsell to take a vomit of Radish water and Oxymell but it is not without some danger for that it doth oftentimes greatly disturbe the head otherwise it might do some good There are also diuers confections Electuaries made for the same which might warme and drie a cold and a moist braine Take conserue of Roses two ounces and a half conserue of Betonie one ounce and a half gréene Ginger half an ounce Cinnamom one dragme Cloues Annise seedes of each one dragme beate mixe them all togither and if it be too dry adde as much of the sirupe of Citrons vnto it as shall suffice or as much of any other sirupe Of this eâ—hibite euery morning the bignesse of a nut in quantitie Another Electuarie of life This is described by Paulus Riccius Paulus Riccius Phisitiâ—â— to the Emperour his Electuarie head Phisition to the Emperour Maximilian and is very comfortable for the head for it doth both warme and dry it Take Currans six ounces Licorice two dragmes boyle these in the waters of Buglosse Scabious and Betonie of each twelue ounces then straine it presse out all the humiditie in the which being yet warme stéepe one dragme of Rubarbe Lauander fiue graines being bound vp togither in a cloth put them togither in a pot and stop it close and boyle it a good while in a kettle with water presse it out and put into it as much Rubarbe and Spike as before letting them there remaine all a night presse it out againe as before and steepe in it the barkes of Mirobalans to wit Chebuli Indi Bellirici and yellow Mirobalans of each one ounce Emblici two dragmes boile them al togither and straine them through a linnen cloth then ad Sugar six ounces Manna two ounces and let it boyle to the consistence of a sirupe when it beginneth to coole mingle in it Cinnamom halfe an ounce Cloues Galingale Nutmegs of each one dragme Lagnum Paradisi halfe a dragme séedes of Fennell and Annise of each halfe an ounce mixe them well togither and reserue it in a gally pot This following is likewise greatly commended for the same Take conserue of Betonie thrée ounces and
a half conserue of Sage two ounces and a halfe conserue of Rosemarie one ounce and a halfe conserue of Borage and Buglosse of each one ounce of the foresayd confection of life two ounces Cinnamom two dragmes preserued Chebuli halfe an ounce preserued Emblici two dragms sixe leaues of beaten gold ad as much sirupe of Betonie as may suffice This confection also comforteth the hart Calamus Aromaticus The right Calamus Aromaticus of the ancient PhisitioÌ„s as it is described in the beginning of the eight part of this present booke taketh away all cold headaches and sharpneth the wit Another conserue which is greatly commended for this kinde of headach Take Cinnamom one ounce Cubebs Mirobalans Chebuli and Emblici of each two dragms red Rose leaues red Saunders red Corall of each one dragme Cardamonie Mace Cloues Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme Sugar sixteen ounces dissolue your Sugar in rose water and Lauander water boile it till it be hard and make it vp into a cake or Manus Christi What vertues the confects of Coriander Annise séedes Fennell séedes Commin séedes bitter Almonds Haselnutg and such like haue to helpe comfort and strengthen a cold braine as also how they kéep backe and hinder the fuming vapors that would ascend from the stomacke into the head is at large declared in the eight part An especiall medicine of the ancient Phisitions for the cold headache CUt the rootes of Horseradish small drie them and beate them into powder giue of this one spoonefull in wine or broth and let him sweate in his bed very well and fast two howers after it Let his meate be light of digesture as pullets and such like But I must needes mislike of this remedie for that the Horseradish is very strong and doth more harme than good to the braine neither séemeth it any way conuenient to sweate vpon Certaine wines composed for the cold headache TAke Rosemarie two M. Nutmegs one ounce dried Betonie 2. ounces Cloues two dragmes being cut very smal put vpon them eight quarts of good Rhenish wine let them so stand togither three or fower dayes For the weaknesse of the stomacke drinke a good draught of it in the beginning of thy meales but for the headach at the latter end This wine is very good for a cold and moyst braine and hurtfull for yong folkes and hot complexions Another for the same Take rootes of Buglosse one M. rootes of Cicorie halfe as many flowers of Buglosse of Borage of Roses of Rosemarie Harts tong of each halfe a M. boyle them in fower quartes of wine the space that thou maiest boyle an eg hard let it coole straine it and then take fower quarts of wine more and stéepe in it sixe Sage leaues and as much Rosemarie long Pepper one ounce Galingale one ounce and a halfe Cloues Cubebs of each halfe an ounce Cardamonie two drag Cinnamom Currans prepared Coriander séeds of each one ounce these things being well beaten tye them in a cloth and boyle them with the wine but not aboue twentie bubbles then put both wines together in a little rundlet and let the spices stéepe in them eight dayes together pressing them out once a day If this wine be too strong for thy drinking as it is most like to be then mixe other wines therewithall before thou drinke it Of other Cephalicall herbes and spices thou shalt find a description in the eight part of this booke Hitherto we haue aboundantly treated of cold headaches with their appropriate remedies internall now because that outward applications oftentimes are of no lesse effect than the inward medicines I do purpose at this present to set downe diuers externall remedies â—â—manders 〈◊〉 the cold 〈…〉 A Muske ball for the same Take Laudanum halfe an ounce Lignum Paradisi Styrax Calamita of each one drag Cloues Nutmegs Basill séedes of each halfe a drag Rose water with which a little Muske is dissolued make it vp into a ball if thou adde a small quantitie of Amber it will be the better Thou shalt find diuers sorts of these sweet smelling bals in sundrie places of this booke described These bals are made after this manner Take a warme mortar and pestell and put into it a little of the foresaid rose-Rosewater with the Laudanum and Waxe stir them with the pestell together till they be molten then mixe the other powders with them except the Muske Amber and make it vp in bals of what bignesse thou please last of all pricke them full of litle holes but not very déepe into the which thou shalt put the Muske and Amber mixed first with Rose water then take some finely prepared Cotton wipe the mortar with it and wrap the swéet ball in it or kéepe it in a little red péece of sindal It is also good to snuffe vp some of the foresaid powder into the nose or else a little muske To perfume with all Take Frankencense wood of Paradise Mastix Nutmegs Styrax Calamita of each by it selfe or of them all as much as thou wilt Also take Frankencense Sandaracha wood of Paradise of each a like quantitie throw it on glowing coles and receiue the vapor or smoke The manner of making lyes and sopes for the same with which the head being washed the braine is comforted her moisture dried and her ouermuch cold changed into warmth for which purposes thou shalt vse these things following Take Roses Sene leaues Betonie Marioram Agaricke of each one drag steepe them in hote lye the space of foure or fiue houres others first boile them in wine and afterward mingle it with lie Take Mace thrée drag Stechas Marioram of each one drag blossomes of the wild Vine Roses of each two drag Spica one drag cut them all into small péeces put them into a litle bag and then steepe them in the ley this comforteth the head braine and memorie and helpeth also the swimming or giddinesse of the head Also take Spica halfe an ounce Lauander flowers Roses Marioram Rosemarie rootes of the blew flower deluce of each two drag cut them into péeces and being put into a bag stéepe them in ly and wash thy head with it this strengtheneth the braine all the senses and the memorie very much Also take wild Mints Nep course Marioram Hyssope Bay leaues of each sort two M. Rosemarie blossomes Stechas Gold flowers of each halfe a M. and séeth them in ly take also Marioram Sage Cammomill Bay leaues Stechas of each a M. lay them in stéepe in the waer of ly as is aforesaid Washing bals for the cold paine of the head Here followeth diuers sorts of washing bals very méete and necessarie for the cold and humors of the head Take Venice Sope halfe a pound bruise it and stampe it in a warme mortar with a hote pestell and make it somewhat moist with Rosewater or Lauander water vntill it be like vnto dowe then beate one ounce of Ireos roots Cloues Nutmegs Cinnamom Cardamonie Stechas of
this purpose Of the scales of the head of the beard and eyebrowes §. 7. THe Latinists do call the scales of the head Furfures which is bran well knowne of all people and are very common in al mens heads They grow there through a hot complexion and when they abound much aboue custome then were they wont to be messengers of leprosie They that haue them so excessiue do get them through a licentious life and surfetting in eating and drinking through incontinencie strong wine much vse of garlick onions and mustard whereby the blood is burnt to ashes For this must one begin with purging like as in all drie itches shall be expressed But if the person haue much bloud then is he to be let bloud if not then are to be vsed neesing powders gargarismes and boxing cups are to be set on the shoulders and necke and afterwards these things Seeth Mallowes or Venus haire in water wash therewith the head and face and alwayes rub well the head or boile fennell séed Licorice Fleawort Lupins Hollihocke rootes take out the muscilage as shall be taught hereafter and temper them with the iuice of Melons Item take Nuttrée wood or Nut shels burnt to ashes put them in the ly and wash you therwith Item take Charuill Southernwood make a lie thereof with a little vineger Item burne Hay flowers to ashes and poure ly vpon it Item take Elecampane rootes and infuse them a good while in ly Or take Storkes bill let it séeth in water and foment well the scales therewith that they be well frothed and afterwards lay the herbes on the top of it and they will weare away Will you yet haue stronger things then take the gall of a Bull Coloquint Sal Alcali Boras of each one drag Gals pils of Pomegranates and their blossomes of each one scrup and temper them together Item take narrow Plantaine Henbane séeds and salt of each a little séeth them in water and rub the scales therewith the same also doth Aqua vitae with Brimstone amongst it Heretofore in the second chapter § 1. you haue a bag for ly which beginneth Take Spica c. you may vse the same also for the scales and put therto two ounces of Orenge péels whereof some of the white is cut away For to draw the muscilage out of the séedes and rootes the Apothecaries do call the slime drawne out of all séeds and rootes Muscilagines it is much vsed in this matter and is thus prepared Take rootes and séeds chop and stampe each according to the qualitie How to make the slime or muscilage of seeds root seeth them vntil the liquor be very slimy muscilaginous this being done poure it al together into a long bag that is piked beneath and bind it hard to a staffe afterwards take two little boordes and fasten the said bag betwéene them wring it hard from aboue downewards then runneth the slime or muscilage out of it receiue it in a cleane porrenger and after this fashion wring or presse out all the slime that will come forth For to driue away Lice and Vermine §. 8. Lice THis lothsome and especially to children troublesome worme hath his most abode in the foresaid haire of the head and they do grow through moisture of the flesh or to speake properly of a grosse and moist vapor that fumeth out at the pores and through naturall warmth becometh outwardly a Louse and receiueth also a vital spirit and is altered into a litle worme with sixe feete increasing and seeking their meate in the place of their generation therefore are children and women more plagued then men that are drie by nature and be much lesse hurtfull to yong children then to full growne persons yet they haue this commodity thereby that they that haue most lice be wholly fréed from the headach Their cause The cause whence they are ingendred may be ouermuch eating and small digesture or eating of meates that be very moist as diuers fruites and especially figs and chestnuts also ouermuch carnall copulation vncleane clothes and such as are worne ouerlong Their remedies Now that one may be rid of this vermin annoint the head with the broth of Salt fish with the iuice of Alehoofe the iuice of Fumitory mixt with Vineger take Gentian and séeth it in ly and wash the head therewith Take Bay berries or if you haue them not the oile of Bay Vineger powned Bay berries burnt Harts horne seeth them together in water or ly and wash the head therewith Salues Take halfe a pound of Barrowes grease mixe and temper amongst it one ounce of Quicksiluer and one ounce of the oile of Bay Licebane and white Hellebore of each halfe an ounce Salgem one dragme and a litle vineger temper them all together and therewith annoint the head and put a kercher on the head and in the morning wash the head with lie Another Take Barrowes grease halfe a pound beaten Liuer foure ounces Wolues bane and white Hellebore rootes of each halfe an ounce oile of Bay one ounce temper amongst it one ounce and a half of quicksiluer so wel that one cannot sée it salt one drag vse a litle thereof for it is strong Item take vnprepared Coriander séeth it in water wash therewith the head and all places where there are any lice and wash the clothes in like maner it driueth away lice and fleas you may also try the same with Coriander leaues Crab-lice Against Crab-lice you are to vse all the former things They grow of a stinking matter that nature expelleth through the hairy skin as in the eybrowes beard priuities they are most plagued with them that eate many kinds of meates vse small exercises and much bathing For to consume this vncleane matter he is to be purged with Pillulae Cochiae and to vse oftentimes gargarismes with the sirupe of vineger and a litle mustard séed and to wash the place with Allume water and salt water or that wherein Stauesacre is decocted Iem take Stauesacre and Allume of each one drag beate them together temper it with hony and annoint therewith Others do take Salarmoniac Aloe and Borras amongst it and in stéed of hony vineger of Squils also the white of a rosted egge is commended for it wrapt vp in a cloth and held as hot vpon the place as may be suffered This being done thrée or foure times they will fall away Lice in childrens feete Somtime yong children haue also lice growing in their féet for them take new laid hen egs let them be sodden hard cut the white in péeces in the breadth beate then the yolks and with fine linnen rags lay it on the feet and then the white vpon it and so being well bound certaine houres the lice will créepe to the white of the egge The Lowsie euill Phthiriasis a miserable sicknesse §. 9. EVen as we haue written of the Lice so we wil adioyne thereto the Lowsie euil which
take Goates milke wherein Salomons seale roots are decocted and vse it as is aforesaid The water of distilled honie doth take them also away Maidens milke Lac virginis the which the ancient Phisitions do so name Lac virginis or maidens milke is a good and sure water not onely for staines in the face but also for many other diseases as shall be hereafter more at large declared and the same shal be prepared thus take half a pound of litharge of gold beate it small and put it into a pot poure halfe a pint of vineger vpon it let it séeth a litle afterwards when it is setled poure of the cléere into another glasse and kéepe it you may preserue the litharge for to make a plaister with it afterwards Secondly take a good handfull of salt put foure ounces of water vpon it séeth it to the halfe and kéepe it also in a glasse by it selfe whensoeuer you will vse it then take three parts of salt water and one part of the foresaid vineger temper it well then will it be as milke will you haue this better then put a little Rose water and Sal Armoniack vnto it It is good for all scurfes some do vse it in the eyes also but it is very sharpe chiefly if one take Sal Armoniack with it Tristrams water TAke twelue ounces of Nutmegs Mace Ginger Graines Cloues of each halfe an ounce Rubarb one ounce Beuer cod Spikenard of each halfe an ounce oile of Bay two ounces leaue the spices vnbeaten poure to it foure quarts of wine couer it close and let it stand so the space of foure wéekes afterwards poure away the wine powne all the spices to pay and put it againe to the foresaid wine let it stand well stopt thrée dayes stirre it well about then distil it in hot water without séething and preserue it well Besides that this water doth take away all spots of the face and of the bodie there is ascribed more vnto it these wonderful vertues to wit some holden in the mouth taketh away the toothach Also venison laid therein should continue good a yeare and a day Also al maner of fruites and flowers laid therein do the like a litle thereof put into faint wine maketh the same fresh and quicke a little drunke thereof doth breake all inward impostumes it kéepeth a man in good constitution also the stomacke the liuer the milt the lights and the bowels a cloth dipped therein put on wounds doth heale the same it preserueth from al dead palsies it drieth al moist and rheumaticke braines if any drinke the same or annoint the head therewith it taketh away a stinking breath also it kéepeth one long youthfull if one drinke a litle of it in the morning as many times hath bene proued A salue for the spots Take oile of Roses vnguent of Roses of each halfe an ounce oyle of Violets one quarter of an ounce the iuice of Plantaine halfe an ounce Muscilage of Fleawort of Mallowes of Violet leaues of each one ounce and a halfe let it séeth till the Muscilage be consumed afterwards with molten waxe make a salue thereof For the freckles which one getteth by the heate of the Sunne Take a little Allume beaten small temper amongst it a well brayed white of an eg put it on a mild fire stirring it alwayes about that it waxe not hard and when it casteth vp the scum then it is inough wherewith annoint the freckles the space of thrée dayes if you will defend your selfe that you get no freckles on the face then annoint your face with the whites of egs Of the rednesse of the face §. 2. TAke the whites of two egges brayed well with Rose water temper the iuice of Plantaine and of Docks amongst it of each a like much afterwards thrée graines of small powdered Sublimate also mixed amongest it annoint the rednesse with it Afterwards take about eight ounces of vineger and rose water temper one quarter of an ounce of Brimstone amongst it Allume one quarter of an ounce let it séeth softly vntill about one third part be sodden away wash therewith the red face It is also good that the bad blood may be drawne out to set a horsleach or twaine to it for it is found that the rednes of the face and the pushes can neuer be better taken away than with this fastning of the leaches but one must alwayes purge beforehand A water Take Sulfure viue half an ounce salt one drag Camfere half a scruple rose water the water of blew Flowerdeluce of each two ounces set it fourtéene dayes wel stopt in the sun stir it oftentimes together make a cloth wet in it and therewith wash the face Another Take one ounce of Ceruise Masticke one quarter of an ounce Myrrhe halfe a drag let them be sifted through a lawne searce together put them into a mortar and poure thorough a little sallet oile and vineger and with long stirring it about make a salue thereof For all white pushes of the face §. 3. FOr this is first of all good the water of broken Ceruise with Elderne water which is described in the first § This salue may be also vsed for it Take shéepes sewet fresh marrow out of the stags bones melt them together on the fire and annoint the face therewith Item take Camfere halfe a drag grind it small with three ounces of rose water stir it often and wash the face therewith For this is also highly commended the oile of Spike besides the good sauor it giueth the face a good colour With the white pushes of the face we do also vnderstand all scabs blisters and other spices of leprosie in the face Montagâ—a which the Grecians do call Lâ—chenas and the Latinists Montagram for that all such diseases do commonly appeare with drie white scabs and itching scurfe about the chin the which doth at length spred it self from thence ouer the whole body for which these remedies following are very good The Goates milke that commeth warme from the beast the water of Liriconfansie of each eight ounces the whites of three new laid egs which come warme from the neast the crusts of two warme white loaues Salomons seale one M. Camfere halfe a drag This shall be distilled together in séething water then temper the Camfere amongst it and wash oftentimes the face therewith The face commeth also otherwhiles full of little red blisters whence issueth a sharp moisture mixt with blood the which if it be not remedied in time it will degenerate into the right leprie against which these meanes following are to be vsed Take water distilled of water-snegs or of muscles thrée ounces Ceruise washed with Harts toong water one ounce and a halfe the iuice of wild cucumbers or the water thereof as much as is needfull for to make a salue thereof but this following is more forcible Take Sarcocolla Ceruise Starch that is stéeped foure dayes in ly of each thrée ounces al these are you to temper
Saunders Camfere and such cooling things like as also the Pomanders are commodious for these causes ordained in the discourse of the Plague When the patient is purged and the pain of the eyes be yet in the beginning then take like as is is oftentimes aduised at the first the brayed white of an egge and drop a drop thereof in the eye Take also milk of a young woman which hath a daughter sucking vpon her put it fresh into the eye or take two ounces of Rosemarie amongst it then beate the white of an egge and drop a drop or two thereof in the eye Some do take onely fresh water mixt with vineger and vse it as is rehearsed specially after bathing and haue thereby found great amendement This is also much praysed Take vnripe Grapes burne the same to ashes bruse them very small and blow somewhat thereof into the eyes it dryeth the running and doth driue away the rednesse Or take the slime of Fleawoort Quince kernels or Dragagant one quarter of an ounce the white of an egge well brayed womans milk that hath a daughter sucking half a drag tempered well if the paine be very great then draw out the slimes or muscilage with water wherein before Poppie heads haue béene sodden You may also vse Sieff de Rosis which followeth hereafter Take fresh Rose leaues halfe an ounce Saffron Spica of Indie Gummi Arabicum of each one quarter of an ounce beate all small and make cakes thereof with raine water and when you will vse them then take one dragme thereof and lay them to stéepe in the beaten white of an egge This is speciall good in the beginning of the hote Ophthalmia for it repelleth the matter backe it consumeth and asswageth the paine In like manner is this also following much commended Take washt Ceruse prepared Sarcocolla Dragagant Licium Acatia pils of Pomegranates and Frankincense of each one dragme Pearles Opium of each halfe a scruple and the iuice of Pomegranates which is very cleare as much as is néedfull for to make cakes or troscisces thereof when you will then vse thereof Then lay a dragme thereof to stéepe in Rose water this hath a constringent vertue it drieth cooleth all hot humours but when the paine is at the most then temper among the foresayd medicines two or thrée graines of Opium or of Sieff album called Sieff Rasis Take washt Ceruse one ounce Gummi Arabicum halfe an ounce Opium Dragagant of each halfe a dragme this must you bruise verie small and temper it with the well brayed white of an egge and womans milke Take also the iuice of Fennell well scummed one ounce and a halfe Aloe two dragmes and a halfe a leafe of well beaten gold temper them well and afterwards put vnto it the waight of seuen graines of Frankinsence dissolue them in good white wine and mixe them all togither with Fennell and Rose water you must drop of this water twise a day in the eyes Item take good Aloe stéeped in the iuice of Fennell put thereto the waight often graines of Frankinsence burning therein kindled at a candle vse it as afore Other waters moe Take Rose water fower ounces quench therein glowing gold afterwards put thereto Aloe Frankinsence Masticke Litharge of siluer of each one drag let it séeth vntill a third part be consumed afterwards straine it through a cloth and vse it as it is néedful Item take Dragon bloud Aloe Sarcocolla of each halfe a dragme Saffron Camfere of each halfe so much prepared Tutia one quarter of an ounce bruise it very small and temper amongst it wine of Nutmegs fower ounces and as much Rose water also let it séeth in water in a glasse vntill about thrée parts be consumed it drieth and healeth without any danger Item take Aloe Tutia hony Rue Fenegréeke Fennell seeth it in wine it is especiall good for all ouerhote eyes This water following is also verie appropriate for the same disease Take prepared Tutia one ounce prepared Bloudstone one dragme Frankinsence Mastick Pepper of each a scrup Fennell water Eyebright water of each one ounce Rose water and Violet water of each two ounces old fine wine thrée or fower ounces put it into a glasse and let it séeth in water euen to the halfe afterwards straine it through a cloth A salue Take the iuice of Rue of Framboyes oyle of Mirtle of each one ounce let it boyle vntil all the iuice be sodden away then wring it through a cloth and set it againe vpon the fire mixe amongst it prepared Saphire halfe a dragme Iacint one scruple Antimonie one dragme burnt Copper one scruple prepared Tutia thrée dragmes let it seeth softly with the foresayd fire put thereto thrée dragms of Waxe be it more or lesse accordingly as you desire to haue it hard wherewith annoint the eyelids This swageth the paine stayeth all defluxions in the eyes and taketh away the cause of them wonderfully In running and ouermoyst eyes take Myrrhe halfe a dragme Bloudstone one dragme the vppermost sprigs of Framboyes and of the Rose trée of each one ounce seeth them togither in a glasse in water vnto the halfe afterwards straine it forth through a cloth and drop at least fower times a day one drop in the eyes Secondly the forehead and temples of the head are oftentimes or at least against the euening to be annointed softly with the iuice of Roses But if this rheume be but in his increasing or in Statu which is at the highest then may he very fréely put therein all the foresayd things and chiefly womans milke which is much commended for this also temper Dragagant amongst it and drop in them In like manner take prepared Tutia Camfere of each a scruple tēpered with halfe an ounce of white wine It drieth and swageth all paine This is also very good Tutia tempered in Fennell water in water of Celendine of Rue of Verueine and in Rose water and a gal of a Pickerell or a Partridge put thereto and the same kept in a Copper vessell vntill it be to be vsed or take prepared Tutia one quarter of an ounce white Amber one drag Fennell and Rosewater of each foure ounces take also washt Ceruise one quarter of an ounce prepared Sarcocolla Dragagant Opium of each half a drag Gummi Arabicum Saffron of each halfe a scrup This being altogether beaten as smal as may be temper it with raine water and let it drie And when as you will vse it mixe it with womans milke Here is to be noted that raine water for all paine of the eyes is very méete for that it is subtile But whensoeuer this Ophthalmia cometh to abate then may bathing be vsed or that which is more sure séeth Cammomill Melilot in water and make a spoonge wet therein wringing it out a little and so hold it warme vpon the eye and when it is cold to make it warme againe Or take fresh Wormwood Lycium Fenegréeke of each two ounces Sarcocolla one
thereof the waight of halfe a dragme Afterwardes dissolue one of them in Fennell water and when you will vse it put some therof into the eyes it cleanseth them and taketh away the skin from the eyes Item make this powder following which is good to take off the white skin when it is but new the same is also good for running and sore eyes Take Ginger Pepper Mirobalani Indi and of the yellow Mirobalans of each fiue drag Aloes one drag and a halfe Cuttle bone three quarters of an ounce Antimonie thrée drag Cassia wood and Cloues of each halfe an ounce make all this vnto a subtill powder let it be blowne into the eyes And if so be that these foresaid things do not helpe then must the skin be pluckt off whereof it is not our meaning here to shew the manner Vngula Now as concerning the white skin of the eyes which the Phisitions do call Vngulam which is a naile for that it is likened to a naile of the finger which is of nature betwéene skinne and flesh and groweth from the corner of the eye towards the middle of the same Of these some be hard and some be soft yellowish darkish and reddish and haue some societie with the foresaid Sebell whereof some be light and others very hardly cured by manuall operation They do grow out of all corners and sides of the eyes vntill that in part or in whole they couer the apple of the eye The cause of this are many tough and thicke humors like as one may sée in horses and foure footed beasts mo which are fed with grosse food Now what one is to beware of in this sicknesse hath bene before beclared at large in the 12. § For this like as also in all other is very good the letting of bloud and purging with al other things which repell this defluxion for the beginning of the cure like as is sufficiently shewed in the former instructions Now hencefoorth we will go and discourse of the smallest and newest skinnes Take Mallowes Cammomill Hollihocke rootes Lineseede of each halfe a M. let it séethe well and receiue the vapor into the eyes afterwards vse the Collyrium which is described before in the eight § and beginneth thus Take beaten Bloudstone c. Item take Vinum Punicinum put a good deale of Rue therein and let it stand in a glasse the whole Sommer in the Sun drop thereof into the eyes The same doth driue away the new skin and all darknesse of the eyes The iuice of Celendine of Beetes of Fennell of Verueine each a part or mixed being put into the eyes do take away the heate of the eyes and all darknesse of the same Or take the flowers of Cicorie as many as you will put them into a glasse stopt couer the glasse with thicke dow put it then into an ouen The water which runneth from these flowers vse to the skin of the eyes This also may be approoued Take Iuniper leaues and the berries that growe thereon distill water thereof and put it into the eyes Item take fine honie bruise some Camfere amongst it and vse it as all the rest Breake a fresh péece of Beuer cod in péeces wherein you shall find some moisture temper this with wine and put it into the eyes For this is also good great Ants bruised in péeces and made to pap with the fat of Quailes Myrrhe and Fennell water Take sixe graines of Pepper and as much Allume vineger one ounce seeth it vnto the third part and kéepe it for daily vse Take Grashoppers but not the gréene nor them that be big nor too little bind them on a thréed and drie them in the Sunne then beate them to powder bind them in a cloth and lay it all night in wine drop thereof into the eye it is very sharpe Others do but make a cloth wet therein and so lay it vpon the eye and that is surer Some do vse Elderne pith Item take the innermost skinnes of the mawe of a Sparrow halfe an ounce Verbascum séeds thrée drag beate them very smal and make it into a salue with the oile of swéet Almonds afterwards take Verdigrease white Vitrioll Salarmoniacke burnt Copper of each halfe a scrup long white and black Pepper gréene earthen potsheards Sagapenum Galbanum of each one dragme Bucks gals one quarter of an ounce Powne very small what is to be powned temper them with some honie and put of the iuice of Marioram or water vnto it that thou maist vse it for a Collyrium There may many be found wherein the venime Orpigmentum is put the which I do not willingly rehearse because that where any thicke and old skinne doth couer the eye it is to be taken off with the néedle so that it is vnnecessarie to vexe the eyes with any such perillous things Of the mists and cloudes of the Eyes §. 14. THe Nebula which is also called by reason of her whitenesse Albugo is diuers Nebula Albugo it hath also other causes than the foresaid white eye skins There be two sorts of these the first is méetely thicke like the white of a sodden egge to looke vnto the other is much subtiller and is like to a cloud and it is also easier to cure than the other both procéed through the defluxion of moistures out of the head and wil be according to the nature of that moisture thick or subtill There commeth also otherwhiles a third sort into the eyes as of some kind of bruse or old impostume or of any blisters of the eyes which are a long time in curing Neuerthelesse it hath bene found if young children through the pockes do retaine any such cloudes and the eyes with the bodie be waxen greater that the same clouds do lessen in time The thicke whitenesse is thus to be cured Euery morning fasting are the eyes to be fomented with cleare warme water or with water of these herbes following whereof we meane to vse the iuice Take the iuice of corne Roses the iuice of Centorie temper them together or vse each by it selfe Item take the dried iuice of Celendine thrée dragm Ameos one quarter of an ounce make a powder thereof Item take white Sugarcandie each put apart in the eye is very good Take Pumicestone prepared Sarcocolla Aristologie white Sugar of each a like much make a powder therof Cuttle bones alone or tempered with one of the foresaid are also very profitable womans milke after the foresaid bones milkt in the eyes and vsed often mollifieth the white skins This following is also highly commended Take Pumicestones Cuttle bones prepared Sarcocolla Aristologie red Corall Boreas of each one drag Sugarcandie thrée quarters of an ounce make thereof a subtill powder Take the burnt shels of Sea crabs prepared Tutia and Sugar beate them as small as may be Now to the end the eyes may be cleansed and the clouds taken away this hony following is to be put therein Take clarified hony
laid vpon it like as vpon other tumors The same being healed the vents and pores will be open againe and the smelling restored yet it is alwaies good aduice to set boxing cups vpon the necke and shoulders and to lay vpon the brest brayed whites of egges tempered with some Camfere But of this stopping shall be spoken more at large hereafter especially in the losse of the smelling Of the Vlcers in the nose §. 2. THese impostumations do the Writers diuide into Vlcera Apostemata which we do english Vlcers and Impostumes the Vlcers are alwaies drie or moist drie when they make hard scurse and contrarily when they yeeld out much moisture like as if the nose were rubbed on the inside and thereby bled and yeelded yellow gréene or blacke matter both procéeding of sharpe salt and burnt matter that descendeth out of the head into the nose The signes thereof may one easily discerne if there be paine in the nose then is to be séene against the bright Sunne where the disease is For this accident the patient is to be purged with the Pils Cochiae or Hiera and such like This is also a common rule in the curing of all Vlcers to wit that it be begun with no strong medicine or that the partie be purged before Like as for example if the patient be plethoricke in bodie and the vlcer be great open the Median and let out foure or fiue ounces of bloud according to the strength of the patient but if the disease be not so great then open the head veine vpon the arme or vpon the hand at all times vpon that side where the disease is not and somtimes very well in the veines of the nose In like manner also are cups to be set in the necke thereby to seduce the matter This being done the patient is to vse the space of eight dayes or sixe dayes this preparatiue potion take Oxysacchara which shall be immediatly hereafter described the sirupe of water Lillies of each thrée quarters of an ounce Sorrell water and Fennell water of each thrée quarters of an ounce drinke it lukewarme in the morning The purgation vpon it is this Take halfe an ounce of the confection De succo Rosarum Cassia prepared with the water of Violets one ounce temper all together with thrée ounces of Barly water méetly warme for otherwise it is too thicke Immediatly after purging lay this plaister following vpon the nose that it may be couered euery where with it Take small Housléeke and the iuice of Plantaine the iuice of shepheards purse of each one ounce the whites of two egges Camfere brused small foure scrup prepared Tutia and Butchers broomeséedes of each one drag burnt Corall and Amber of each two scrup Starch one ounce and a half bruse these together in a leaden mortar some houres together this is to be vsed thrée or foure times a day Another PVt the iuice of Tassell leaues thrée or foure times a day into the nose it may be drawne vp into the nose but if you feare that it will coole too much then temper the third part of the iuice of Betonie amongst it Oxysacchara THis kind of Sirupe may easily be made by all housekéepers it hath also great vertue and operation for it doth consume the mixed and flegmaticke humidities which do pinch or annoy the vppermost parts and cause the vnruly double Tertian and quartaine Agues Take sixe ounces of white Sugar the iuice of Pomegranates foure ounces sharpe Vineger two ounces seeth them in a little pot by a mild fire vntill they be of the thicknesse of a common Sirupe Item if there be scurfe in the nose Then take Sallad oile the grease of a Capon as much as you please and powre a little molten waxe amongst it and annoint therewith the scurfs likewise take warme water draw it vp into the nose certaine dayes together in the morning it is also good Item take the gum of a Cherrie trée the gum of a Palme trée or Dragagant dissolue them in Rosewater which thou wilt annoint the Muscilage or slime in the nose with a feather Or take the marrow of an Oxe bone new waxe of each half an ounce oile of water Lillies one quarter of an ounce melt and vse it as before Or you must in stead of the oile of water Lillies take also the oile of Roses Another Take Dragagant and the séede of Fleawoort stéepe them in Rosewater and cile of Violets annoint the nose oftentimes with this muscilage You may also make this salue Take Duckes and Hens grease the fatnesse of Shéepes wooll Harts sewet honie of each halfe an ounce burnt Mirobalans Gals of each a drag temper them together This asswageth and drieth much In like manner this salue following is very conuenient Take oile of swéet Almonds one ounce oile of Roses one ounce washt Butter Hens grease the Muscilage of Dragagant of each one quarter of an ounce and a little waxe Or take fresh marrow out of the Calues bones and gum of each one quarter of an ounce oile of white Camelina one ounce and a halfe waxe as much as is néedfull The same doth also butter washt wel with faire water likewise also decocted Hollihocks Nightshade or Malows Another almost as the former Take the marrow of Calues bones the yolks of egs Dragagant and gum of each one quarter of an ounce oile of Camelina one drag and a litle waxe But if the impostume onely beginneth to run then dip Cotton in strong and well salted vineger put it into his nostrils herewith they will be dried But this following is better Take prepared Tutia which is slaked in the vrine of a man child of two yeares old and Ceruse of each two drag and a halfe the iuice of Housleeke fiue ounces rub this at the least the space of thrée dayes together the space of thrée howers euery day in a leaden mortar set it afterwardes well stopt in the Sun when it is too drie then powre againe other iuice vnto it and bruise it as before do this so thrée or foure times together with this salue are you to annoint the disease thrée or foure times a day This salue is so forcible that many people which haue had the canker and Polypum Canker Polypus thereby haue preserued their life a long time And if so be through the great vncleanesse of this vlcer there behooueth stronger things and the disease be also old then make first of all the scurfes moist with wine wherein Agrimonie Verueine and honie is decocted drie it and make it moist again afterwards vse this following Take Vitrioll red and yellow Orpiment of each halfe a drag beate and steepe it in the gall of a Bull or Oxe and refresh it daily vntill the matter be white then put thereto Antimonie and Myrrhe of each one quarter of an ounce Waxe as much as will make an ointment annoint therewithall and stop it in the nose if you will haue this somewhat milder then
an ounce séeth these vpon a mild fire and therewith annoint your taints which you thrust into the nose it hath a speciall vertue of healing and drying The other meanes if this were not sufficient then burne the disease with an iron that is flat before thrust it through a copper pipe which is wrapt in clothes wet in Rose water to the end that the sound part of the nose be not burnt do this so long vntill one can perceiue no remanence of it more Afterwards annoint the cauterized place with butter vntill that the escarre falleth off heale it with Basill and the ointment of Ceruse or with the salue that is described in the 2. § in the vlcers of the nose with Tutia The third meane to expel this accident Take a long and strong horse haire thrust it into the nose vntill you bring it out of the mouth againe fasten it on both ends and plucke it hitherwards ouer the accident and that so often times til it be cut out at the bottome This being accomplished stanch the bloud with this powder take Mirrhe Sarcocolla fine Bolus Dragon bloud of each one dragme prepared Tutia halfe a dragme this powder must be blowne in the place where it bléedeth or strew a taint with it and stop it into the nose now the bloud being stanched heale it with the foresayd salue Of the Canker in the Nose §. 5. THe causes of this Canker in the nose and the signes thereof are discouered before First it sheweth it selfe small like a corne of wheate but afterwards will be as big as a hazle nut or almond it yéeldeth seldome matter and remaineth alwayes as is said hard and dry it will abide no strong things as actuall or potentiall cauteries but it must be softly medled with and easie remedies vsed thereto as to let blood laxatiue things and Master Tristrams water which is described in the fift chapter and first § Also oile of blew Flowerdeluce annointed thereon and chiefly Treacle and Mithridate thrust into the nostrils and to hold the same in the mouth eate it Also it is very good to purge the head with this potion Take Mirobalani Indi one ounce and a halfe Sene Epithymum of each one quarter of an ounce Sugarcandy foure ounces séeth them together in nine ounces of water euen to the halfe straine it then through a cloth and temper it with Manna and sower Dates amongst it of each one ounce In like sort may one purge also with the Pillulis foetidis or Siomachicis The place of the accident is also to be twise a day at the least strengthened with the oile of Roses wherein Camfere is tempered and lay a cloth therein dipped in them or made as it were into a salue and annointed therewithall Yet in stéed of this he may vse the iuice of Nightshade The patient must much beware of all pottages chéese hard flesh and all which ingendreth melancholike blood but must vse drying meates His drinke must be wine tempered with water For the defluxion Ozena which the Canker bringeth with it is this following very meet Ozâ—â—a Take one ounce and a halfe of oile of Roses halfe an ounce of white Waxe a little vineger and the brayed white of an egge milke one ounce washed Ceruse one quarter of an ounce the iuice of Lettice of Plantaine of Nightshade of each halfe an ounce stir them together the space of two or three houres in a Leaden morter Of the Murre §. 6. WE haue taught in the description of the Nose that it is by nature ordained for a channel thereby to cleanse the moisture of the head and of the braines like as is brought to passe through this course of the Murre the which the Grecians do call Catarrhum especially this murre which falleth downe into the nose do they call Coryzam of the other two kinds whence commeth so much badnes which be salt catarrhes or rheumes which descend into the throte and vpon the brest shall be taught at large in their places We will onely here now discourse of all those maladies that concerne the nose that this course or running procéedeth out of heate and cold which is Cholera and Phlegma that shall be shewed at large in the discourse of the paine in the throte in the second part where is spoken of the catarrhe or rheume Here is no other thing discouered but onely of the murre how that that is most caused when one commeth suddenly out of great warmth into cold and to the contrary out of great cold speedily into warmth like as when one runneth bare headed out of the bath into the wind or as one runneth out of the great cold into the warme stew and this is also the cause wherefore the people for the most part in the latter end of winter or summer are plagued therewith Now when this murre or sniuell is salt and biting then doth it soone cause these accidents Ozena Cancer or Polypus therefore the sniuel is not to be estéemed so smal but rather endeuor by and by to prouoke and moue this defluxion to the end the matter may be caried out whereto this fume following is conuenient Take Cloues Myrrhe Frankinsence odoriferous fruites and herbes as Quinces and their parings Rue Marioram gentle and such like Lotions for the feete are also very fit for this purpose like as followeth Take Sage Lauander Betony field mints or any other thrée or foure handfuls séeth them in water and put the féet therein vse it oftentimes and méetly deepe The cleansing of the head IN all the former cases the most principall remedy was alwayes to cleanse the head and the braines whereto this water following is very good Take foure ounces of the iuice of wild Cucumbers Salarmoniacke powned small halfe an ounce tempered in a glasse and fill it halfe ful with water stir it oftentimes about and snuffe it vp into the nose in the morning fasting fiue or sixe times together warme and do this alwayes about the second day This openeth all obstructions that hinder smelling whether it be in impostumes or vlcers of the nose it draweth also the matter out and consumeth it and it strengtheneth all the instruments that are created for smelling Item take the iuice of Marioram and Penniroyall of each one ounce Muscus two graines vse it as before Make also this powder following Take Penniroyall Marioram and Nep of each one drag Graines thrée drag powne all and bind them in a fine cloth and smel oftentimes to it Take oile of Violets oile of Saffron of each thrée drag Ireos long Pepper Euphorbium of each two graines make a salue thereof with a little waxe whereof you shall take the quantity of a pease and annoint it in the nose when you go to bed it purgeth and clenseth the braines Some do vse Hellebore or Pepper for the nose but it is not without danger for it troubleth too much the braines but how and through what meanes the head is to
of the nose be caused and procured The signes of the obstructions are that no moisture commeth out of the nose without paine vnlesse the braines had some impediment but if any moisture doth appeare without paine then doth the same moisture obstruct the conduits of smelling If it procéed of heate and drought then may you perceiue the heate in the forehead and nose if of cold it is also discerned by the same places or if it be some stinking moisture then doth all stinke that he smelleth vnto and all what is neare him also his breath is vnsauory and stinking Other infirmities or lets are knowne by sight they may also be discerned by the paine and by the matter The cure of them all consisteth especially in comforting and cleansing the infirmities of smelling and the braines whence most commonly all these infirmities do proceede It may also be perceiued by the former reasons that all these obstructions and sorenesses the diminishing and losse of smelling doth procéed of humors now to remedy the same are you to begin the cure by a good diet wherefore all meates easie of digestion are best as broths yolks of egs Hares braines which haue a proper and secret vertue for this infirmity Pullets yong Pigeons Partridges Fesants Veale Cawdles and all of them distilled with Sage Marioram Rosemary and Betony parched hasel nuts are also very good for this purpose smal white wine shall be his drink neither may you omit to purge the body if the sicknesse be caused of cold then is he to be purged as hath bin said in the second chapter and first § of the cold paine of the head but if blood and heate do cause it then are you to procéed as hath bin shewed in the first chapter and sixt § Afterwards you are to cleanse the head with néesing in them that haue lost their smelling without any excrescence of flesh or sorenesse of the nose for which purpose you may looke the second chapter second § also in the sixt § of this present chapter but these simples are especially to be vsed for it to wit Amber Rosemary Cinnamom Cloues Lignum Aloes Nigella to which he must smell often and long for they open the obstructions of the head which is also effected with these dried herbes following namely Rue Germander field Cipers Nep and Marioram but for to prouoke sternutation or néesing take Lignum Aloes pepper and Stauesacre Also the vapor of boiling vineger receiued into the nostrils very oftē is of good effect for because the same hath a biting nature it doth moue néesing Also you may seeth one of these things following in wine and receiue the vapor as is said into the nostrils Take Calmus Gentian Bay leaues Penniroyal field mints Annise and Fennel séeds parsly and roots of Smallage or receiue often in one day the vapor of warme water wherein Melilot or Fumitory be decocted the water of Asarabacca or of Elder is also good for this vse Also the séeds of Nigella bounden in a cloth caried with him and smelt oftentimes vnto it the same strewed vpon hot coles and to receiue the fume of it Item take the powder of Nigella Ireos of each 3. quarters of an ounce Marioram gentle Cammomill Bay leaues Nep Stechas of each halfe a handfull séeth all in sufficient water vntill about the third part be wasted mixe the powders amongst it and draw thereof into the head it doth clense the head very wel Also this pouder following may be prepared Take Nardus seed which hath lyen a day and a night in sharp vineger and is dried againe one ounce Beuercod and Nutmegs of each one drag and a half red and white Behen Galingal white pepper Marioram and Nep of each a scrup Costus roots Sagapenum the seed of Rue and Basill of each one ounce stampe each apart and bind it being tempered in a péece of Syndall and smell oftentimes vnto it This is good against all hinderance of the smelling which commeth through coldnesse be it with or without obstructions Pomanders TAke red Storax Nutmegs Cucubes Cloues Nardus séed Lignum Aloes Indy Spica and Cinamom of each one drag Muscus and Amber of each one scruple Laudanum one ounce make a Pomander thereof like as there be many described in the sixt part and is also taught how the same is to be made Or vse Cammomil Melilot Rue Marioram decocted in half wine half water But if these things will not helpe then take the iuice of blew Flower deluce and a little beaten Piretrum annoint that or stop it into the nose do the like with oile of Spike wherin is tempered a litle Euphorbium and Muscus for both of them be strong and hot This following is commended for a worthy receit whereas the smelling is lost Take small powned Nardus séed temper it with oile of Oliues bend the head backward as much as is possible and let thrée or foure drops fall into the nose but take the mouth full of water to the end the oile may run the lesfe into the mouth Item take Nardus séed which hath lyen thrée dayes in vineger and is dried againe one quarter of an ounce stéepe them in thrée ounces of the iuice of Marioram gentle or at the least in faire water and vse it as aforesaid thrée or foure times betwéene day and night and so shall you see maruels Take oile of Tiles like as shall be described hereafter halfe an ounce Muscus two graines stroke them in the nose being made warme The gargarismes are also commodious like as here followeth Take Radish Marioram Calmus Betony Penniroyall of each halfe a M. let them seeth in a pint and a halfe of wine vntil about the third part be sodden away put thereto as much hony as you please Mustard séed Piretrum of each one drag vse it in the morning The like also gargarized with decocted Rue and Hyssop also Piretrum Masticke and Zeduary or one of these are to be taken and chewed in the mouth and to spet out the moisture likewise is also very good to strew this powder following vpon the head Take Briony Lignum Aloes graines of each one drag Marioram gentle Cloues of each one quarter of an ounce Beuercod one scrup Muscus Amber of each one graine and a halfe powned apart and then mixed of this powder take foure graines and strew it vpon the head before where the haire beginneth to the crowne of the head For conclusion because amongst the foresaid remedies there be some violent which may prouoke much paine in so precious a member as the nose is therefore droppe therein when the paine is too great the oile of Gourds séed and poure warme water vpon the head that will asswage the heate and paine so will also all whatsoeuer cooleth and moisteneth whether it be vsed inwardly or outwardly or stopt inwardly into the nose like as for example a cloth made wet in Rose water and laid vpon the nose or Rose water drawne
ouermuch vomiting great stirring of the head and the whole body great cold or heat wind moisture of the head or the impostumation of any other member but the principallest cause of this sissing is that the vapor and winds of the braines do fall into the eares and according to the importance thereof do forcibly rush like water which either continueth alwaies without intermission or at some times also ceaseth Now pretermitting many subtil differences this hissing procéedeth most through the feeblenes or imbecility of hearing by reason it is not throughly cléere and cleane so that it may be thereby knowne to wit that it is lesse perceiued fasting and when one is hungry than when one hath eaten for that the ascending vapors of a full stomacke do much take away all such purenesse in hearing This hissing must be preuented betimes for that when it endureth continually it is not to be cured through good gouernement and necessary medicines then commonly followeth after it a perfect deafnesse and for this are commonly vsed these following Pillulae de Hiera Mastichinae Cochiae Sine quibus de Agarico and Trocisci de Agarico These diseases of the head be cleansed with the things which are described in the first § of the paine of the eares through neesing and otherwise Certaine auncient Phisitions haue more violently dealt with it and aduised to temper two graines of Opium in oile and to put it into the eares but the same is so perilous that some therby haue remained vtterly deafe but if Opium must needs be vsed then is this more safe Take Opium Beuercod of each one graine breake them with one quarter of an ounce of vineger and drop a drop or twaine into the eares yet is this following much safer Take Sallad oile wherein Poppy séed and Mirtle séed are decocted and vse it as is expressed But if the sissing come with anguish of the head and specially through cold causes féeblenesse of the hearing and windy vapors whether it be from the stomack the wombe or any other parts of the body then vse for it the iuice of Marioram with womans milke Vse also which of these oyles you will as the oile of Radish séed of Bayes of Roses wherein some Beuercod is mixed of Mustard séeds Costus and of Sesamum and aboue all is the oile of bitter Almonds commended In like sort these things following which haue the same efficacy are to be vsed temper Radish water with oile of Bayes the iuice of great Harts toong with hony the iuice of an Onion alone stéept well in Rue water afterwards take bitter Almonds and the iuice of Rue of each halfe an ounce and prepared Euphorbium bruised small and tempered amongst it but if so be that these foresaid things do not helpe then it is a token that this sissing of the eares proceedeth of a great moisture which lieth inclosed in the pannicles which couer the braines And then must the braines be oftentimes purged with the pils of Hiera cum Agarico and Pillulae Cochiae and to take them in the euening after meate Will you then according as it is aduised vse preparatiue potions before then take Oximel and Oximell of Squils hony of Roses sirupe of Betony and of Stechas which you thinke good each time one ounce and a halfe or two ounces tempered with the water of Baulme or such like continuing this thrée or foure mornings one after another After the purging take Marioram gentle Stechas Sea-mints Wormewood Marioram of each half a M. seeth them and let the warme vapor go into the eares Item take Rosemary Sage Betony Cammomill Marioram gentle of each a little sodden together and vsed as aforesaid Item for this is also good the vapor of vinegar wherein Wormwood is decocted also the iuice of Onions and of Rue decocted in oile and two or thrée drops put into the eare boile the Betony alone in wine and let the vapor go into the eare the iuice of Marioram put into the eare oftentimes in the day driueth away all sissing of the eares which cometh through any wind or cold matter and hindreth sléepe We haue before shewed how to mixe Euphorbium in the oile of bitter Almonds for which one may take the oile of Elderne of Rue of Cammomill and Dill also of Licebane Peach kernels oile of Walnuts of Bayes or which you will or you may vse one of these foresaid which you will alone or with oile of Beuercod and of Euphorbium which is not so hot Item take the gall of an Oxe or of a Shéepe the oile of bitter Almonds of each half an ounce the iuice of onions or of garlik and hony of each one quarter of an ounce temper them and vse them as is aforesaid Take oile of Spike at the Apothecaries and the iuice of Onions of each a like much vse it warme as before it is very forcicble Item take one dragme and a halfe of Aristologie temper it together with the iuice of Bayes and vse it as before Hissing in the Eares with bad hearing TAke white Hellebore Beuercod of each one dragme Rue Saltpeter long Pepper of each two scruples Euphorbium one scruple the iuice of Radish and Garlicke the oile of sweet and bitter Almonds oile of Dill of Cammomill and Nardus of each one ounce let them séeth alone in a pot of water vntil the iuice be consumed afterwards straine them through a cloth and drop two or thrée drops in the eare with a chip or slice of Cipers wood whereon is laid a good deale of the stamped leaues of Maioram These little Cipers boordes are very highly commended of famous Phisitions made warme and laid alwaies before meate vpon the diseased eare and temples vntil it be cold and this continued so long vntill the hissing be gone away also when one goeth to sléepe he may lie downe vpon his eare putting alwaies the stampt Marioram vnto it And if any body through the great hissing cannot sléepe then is he to prepare this bagge following and after that it hath layen certaine howers in lie to wash and rubbe himselfe therewith Take the innermost of the Coloquint field Cipers Asarabacca Centory of each one handfull Maioram field milts Penniroiall of each two handfuls water mints one handful and a halfe chop it small and make two bags thereof lay them in lie and wash your head therewith afterwards wring them out wel and lay them warme vpon the head or on the hissing eare It is an approoued remedy Item in like manner may you take a drie bag for to hold before the eare to wit of Betony Stechas Marioram gentle and Cammomil lay these warme vpon the eare Take Mastick half an ounce Piretrum one drag beate it smal and temper it with as much hony of Roses that you may forme Trociscos thereof chew it in the mouth and spet it out againe they do draw much slime out of the head Treacle and Mithridate are not only good against this hissing but also against
the braied whites of egs with womans milk mingled together or each vsed alone that giueth suck to a maiden child are also very good the iuice of Housléek alone or tempered with other things is also good Take Mallowes Hollihocke rootes Lettice Purslaine Willow leaues Nightshade of each halfe a handfull let them séeth together and receiue the vapor But if this deafnesse as it chiefly happeneth through cold matter which cannot be without wind then is the patients head alwaies heauie the face puffed vp or swolen casteth out much moisture through the mouth and nose For this is the head veine to be opened certaine potions to be vsed as Oximel of Squils or sirupe of Stechas one ounce and a halfe in a broth wherein Marioram gentle Hyssope and Fitches be decocted and afterwards to purge with the pilles Cochiae euery 14. day once in the weight of a French crowne Some do vse the Hieralogodion two daies after purging he is to gargarise with this decoction following Take Hyssope Marioram field Mints of each halfe a handfull Calmus Mustard séede of each three drag stampe and beate it with honie vnto a confection take thereof one quarter of an ounce temper it in eight ounces of water wherein Dane wéede Fullers grasse or Licebane is decocted Also to prouoke néesing is very méete how that is to be effected looke in the first Register In like maner Masticke doth draw out much slime Also Ginger and Pieretrum oile of bitter Almonds alone is to be dropt into the eare oile of Bay tempered with a little oile of Roses some Pepper amongst it or the iuice of an Onion of Radish of Garlicke of Daffadils which you wil as much strong vineger with it and for euery ounce foure graines of Euphorbium tempered amongst it The vapor of water wherein woormwood is decocted and the warme vapor of Vineger receiued into the eare openeth all obstructions and consumeth all moistures Take Hares gall Foxe fat molten Pitch of each a little quantitie temper them together it is very good for deafenesse In like sort Shéepes gall Sallad oile the oile of bitter Almonds and wine decocted together vntill the wine be cleane euaporated Of this ensuing it is said that it hath holpen deafenesse which hath continued thirty years and they that find it so may iustly say Probatum est Fill a hottell with the blossomes of Walnuts stop it fast with waxe that it do not putrifie that there come no vapor out of it burie it in horse dung that it stand couered all about thrée quarters of a yard let it stand so a whole yeare when you then open it then shall you finde therein a kind of oile or moistnesse that must you straine out and set in the sun certaine daies together then put a drop thereof into the eare and you shall quickly find amendement At the first opening it hath a lothsome stench therefore must the eares and nostrils be stopped and to eschew as much as is possible the receiuing of this vapor But if the infirmitie of the hearing do come out of any vncleanesse then is the same to be remedied with the things described in this Chapter in the § 3. of the impostume of the eares or else if it be néedfull to vse the manuall operation for it and if so be that there be no matter appearing and that the disease doth bréed through repletion or of some great former sicknes then are the eares to be fomented with the water wherein Marioram gentle Wormwood Stechas Mints and Marioram is decocted for that this vapor doth consume and expell all winds and thicke vapors which do stop the conduits of the hearing Also one pound of fresh or new Sallad oyle sodden and the vapor thereof receiued into the eares is also very conuenient Trocisces FVrther you are to prepare these Trocisces Take Coloquint halfe an ounce Boras one scrup Beuer cod Aristologie the iuice of Wormwood of each halfe a dragm the roote of Costus 1◠gra Euphorbium ten graines Cowgalles as much as is néedfull for to fashion Trocisces thereof when you will vse them then breake it with the oile of bitter Almonds and drop thereof into the eare This medicine is very fit for all infirmities or diminishing of the hearing which procéedeth of wind and flegmaticke humors Item take Aloe Coloquint Euphorbium of each one scrup temper it all together with Cow-gall afterwards diuide it in small péeces and let them drie when you will vse this then bruse it on a stone and mixe it wit the iuice of Radish and so drop it lukewarme into the eare and annoint it also therewith Item take oile of Bay and séeth therein a cast skin of a Snake Take beaten Bay berries halfe an ounce seeth them in the oile of Lillies afterwards wring it through a cloth and vse it as before Or take Balsam oile of Iuniper the oile of bitter Almonds temper them together or vse each alone Item take the iuice of Sage as much as you please temper it with Oxe gall or Goose grease or the fat of an Eele Item take oile of Scorpions of swéet Almonds and Wormwood of each a like quantitie mixe them together or vse each alone The same doth also the hearbe Coriander decocted with Onions and water Or take Ants egs powne them and put thereto a fresh hares Gall as much honie as both of them temper them together and vse them lukewarme Item take a reasonable big radish wind it about with wet towe rost it vnder the ashes cleanse it and afterward stampe it wring out the iuice then put as much Sallad oile vnto it and vse it as the other Take Oxe gall the iuice of blew flower deluce oile of bitter Almonds of each a like quantitie drop it warme into the eare Take also the iuice of Peach leaues the iuice of Wormwood of each a like much This is very forcible for the impostumation of the eares and paine of the same Master Tristrams water described before in the discourse of the face and 1. § is very good for this infirmitie of the hearing being dropt into them and vsed otherwise But if this disease be caused of too much fasting or too much watching whereby the face is cleane fallen away and waxen leane and the eyes stand déepe in the head then must one bathe oftentimes eate well and drinke more then before sléepe longer to powre oftentimes vpon the head warme water and oile and to keepe it moist The tenth Chapter Of the Lips IN the face is comprehended the mouth that outwardly doth not appeare in sight but onely the lips which do hide all that is contained therein and accordingly are described among the inward members The vse of the foresaid lippes is diuerse First and before all they are most néedefull for the spéech therefore they also by nature are wholy mooueable and light yea made more swift to mooue then any other muscle of the bodie so that iustly they may be called neither
TAke the flesh of a rosted Partridges brest twelues ounces the rootes of white Behen the flowers of Borage Buglosse Seduary of each one dragme Saffron one scruple Mace Saxifrage of each one scruple Iacint Smaragd Saphires and Harts bones of each halfe a scruple three leaues of beaten gold fired gold halfe a dragme prepared pearles one dragme three ounces of fresh Pine apple kernels let this steepe 24. houres with the flesh in foures ounces of white wine and two ounces of the iuice of Quinces powne them all small and seeth 12. ounces of white Sugar with the foresayd liquor temper it all togither giue therof euery morning halfe an ounce and drinke thereupon two ounces of Buglosse water afterwards take before dinner and supper one quarter of an ounce of it for besides that it is good for the giddinesse it doth also strengthen all the members of the body In like manner marke that all which strengtheneth the heart whether it be hot or cold the same also strengtheneth the braine Of Phrenitis or franticknesse with an Ague §. 5. WE will now discourse of that kind of franticknesse which the learned call Phrenitis which we define thus Phrenitis is a frensie or bereauing of the wits with an hot Ague or Phrenitis is a doting and distraction or spoyle of the vnderstanding which endureth not alwayes and that assaileth one with quiuering small voyce and with an ague which doth also most procéed of some inflammation or swelling in the braines And although there be many kinds of franticknesse yet may they be deuided into two principall sorts the one which is caused of bloud the other of Cholera out of both which the third kind which is Melancholia as a mixture doth sprout and spring They that be burdened with the first kind they may adiudge all things like as they be know what it is but how to thinke of it and vse it do they know nothing at all They that haue the second kind of franticknesse they do know in their thoughts or forecast nothing at all but adiudge much otherwise of all that euer they sée then it is For both these sorts haue you a notable historie recited of Galen They which be charged with the third sort they be so distraught of their wits that they can neither discerne right nor adiudge right And now for to come to the right signes of the foresaid diseases we will rehearse these following The signes of 〈…〉 First inward Agues heauinesse of the head drought rednesse of the eyes and face paine of the head shunning of light and strong motion of the pulse Item vnquietnesse much and filthy talke drith and blacknesse of the toung tumbling vp and off from the bed their vrine white quicke and strong breathing crying out in the sléepe feare impudencie do not couer their priuities being vncouered forgetfulnesse of all that is passed terrible dreames c. And if besides the foresaid signes the tongue be red and yellow and the vnderstanding enféebled with much watching then it is a perfect Phrenitis that is franticknes with a strong Ague For this the remedie is not to be delayed but before they which do procéede of bloud do take roote he is strongly to be let bloud in the head veine euen till he swoune if nature may abide and suffer it But if so be that the sicknesse haue indured alreadie past the fourth day and setled it self then is the veine of the forehead also to be opened on the top of the nose and to be diligent for to open the Hemorrhoides the which is very requisite and sure And if so be that for some causes the opening of a veine be hindered then is bloud to be forced out of the nose or at the least to set boxing cups on the shoulders But if the cause be of Cholera then is the bodie to be purged through Clisters as hereafter followeth Take two handfuls of Lettice Barley halfe a M. Mallowes Mercurie Violet leaues of each halfe a handfull the flowers of water Lillies one ounce and a little bran séeth these together in a sufficient quantitie of water then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces put thereto Sallad oyle and prepared Cassia of each one ounce extracted Prunes fiue dragm set this Clister fasting Another Take Mallowes Blites Mercurie Violet leaues and water Lillies of each one M. let them séeth together in sufficient water afterwards take twelue ounces therof and temper amongst it Triphera Sarrecenica one ounce strained Prunes an ounce and a halfe oyle of Violets two ounces Salt halfe a drag Further to purge withall sowre Dates are especially fit for they do not onely expell the bad humors but also alter them These are thus to be prepared Take twelue ounces of sowre Dates séeth them in 24. ounces of water vntill the fourth part be consumed this decoction is to be strained through a cloth and to giue him fiue ounces thereof at once Item take thrée ounces of Manna temper it in the decoction of Prunes and giue it him in the morning But if so be that the humors be burnt then séeth with the Prunes a few Sene leaues a little Fumitorie and Epythimum of each one quarter of an ounce the roots of Polypodium one ounce and in foure ounces of this decoction temper the Manna and sowre Dates Another Take yellow Mirobalans one ounce and a half stampt Prunes two ounces séeth them together in ten ounces of water vnto the halfe or till that there remaine foure ounces ouer then giue it so Or take one quarter of an ounce of Rubarbe decoction of Prunes foure ounces beate the Rubarbe and so temper it amongst the decoction adde vnto it two ounces of sirupe of Violets let this stand together the space of twelue houres and giue it him early in the morning But if so be that the humor be burnt then put some Sene leaues vnto it Epithymum and the rootes of Polipodie of each one quarter of an ounce After the foresaid purging may the head veine vpon the hand or in the elbow be safely opened and boxing cups fixed vpon the shoulders Also to open the Saphea and to moue the Hemorrhoides if so it séeme requisite If this sicknesse be caused of bloud TAke twelue ounce of the iuices of Plantaine iuice of Shepheards purse and Rosewater of each foure ounces Vineger two ounces make clothes or two wet therein and then lay them on the forehead and so ouer halfe the head Item take Violet leaues Lettice and powned Barley of each 1. M. Poppie heads rootes of Southernwood and water Lillies of each halfe a handfull Henbane Poppie séeds and Lettice seede of each halfe an ounce Cammomill Melilot and Mallowes of each halfe an M. Séeth them all together in a sufficient quantitie of the water of Sage afterwards take a Spunge and therewith moisten from the forehead or from thence where the haire beginneth vnto the necke behind as often as you please Item take the iuice of Housléeke
do we here describe to be made after thrée manners the which also is a sure signe that the same as well by the auncient Phisitions as of later time is of estimation and price The first maketh Rasis thus take Mirobalans Indi one ounce and a quarter the rootes of Polypodie fiue drag Sene leaues nine drag Turbith halfe an ounce Epithymus 10. drag séeth them all together except the Epithymus in 36. ounces of water then at last cast in the Epithymum afterwards take it from the fire and let it coole straine it and reserue it The second manner Take Epithymum Stechas Mirobaloni Indi of each one ounce Mirobalani Chebuli Emblici Bellirici Turbith the hearbe Pyony and Agaricus of each two dragm and a halfe Polypody rootes and Sene of each thrée drag Fumitory Squinant of each one drag and a halfe rinds of black Hellebore roots one drag Salgemme two scrup Corants thrée quarters of an ounce séeth them all together except the Epithymum in a pot of water a good space then put thereto the Epithymum at the last and let them séeth vntill thrée parts remaine when it is luke-warme then straine it and kéepe it in a cold place couered The third manner Take Fumitorie Endiue Cicorie of each one handfull rootes of Polypody thrée quarters of an ounce Cuscuta Sorrell Buglosse of each one handfull Thymus Epithymus of each one ounce and a quarter Corants one ounce Dates Figs of each one ounce Sene leaues 7. drag Turbith thrée drag Agaricus halfe an ounce séeth them altogether in a pint and a halfe of water of Fumitorie vntill the third part be spent then straine it and lay to stéepe in this warme decoction two drag and a halfe of good Rubarbe Rinds of Mirobalani Chebuli one drag and a halfe Indi one drag let them stand together wring it oftentimes out and kéepe it vntill you haue néede of it But before this potion these pils are first to be vsed Take Agaricus two scrup Aloe one dra Indy salt halfe a drag black Hellebore half a scr make as many pils as you will with it for to take at twice Three howers before the potion also you may in stead of these pils vse the confection Hamech or Diasena When as now it hath thus bene continued certaine dayes according to the abilitie of the patient then let him rest thrée daies and liue soberly drinking small white wine and then purging againe as before and so vntill foure times one after another for as is said before melancholy is wonderfull hard to be purged In fine delay is in no wise méete and the Phisition is to do his very best for to make the sicke person fat for if that can be effected then shall he quickly recouer his health And if it chaunce that he could not vse this potion then may he take in stead therof the pils which expell blacke Choler yet to vse alwaies before some preparatiue medicine for which you are according to the importance of the cause to follow the aduice of a learned Phisition This potion following is very conuenient take Mirobalani Indi one ounce and a halfe dried Prunes one ounce séethe them together in 8. ounces of water euen to the halfe afterwards straine them through a cloth then dissolue therin two ounces or two ounces and a half of Manna and vse it in the morning betimes All the time that he shall rest may he vse these things as Laetificans Almansoris Laetificans Almansoris the which is thus prepared Take Balme the pils of Citrons Cloues Galliae Muscatae Mace Cinnamome Nutmegs Cardamome red and white Behen Pionie seed pilled Seduarie great and small Basill seede of each one drag and a halfe Muscus nine graines afterwards 20. Mirobalani Chebuli and 30. Emblici powre twelue ounces of water theron bray them so long in a mortar vntill the fift part remaine afterwards straine it through a cloth and mixe therewith sixe ounces of cleare honie seeth it so long vntill all the water be consumed waigh that which is ouerplus and temper alwaies with twelue ounces of this decoction one quarter of an ounce of the foresaid spices or one ounce and a halfe in the whole quantitie and then make a confection of it But if you will haue tabulats or rotuls take vnto twelue ounces of Sugar one ounce or at the most nine drag of the foresaid spices you shall take of the confection the quantitie of a Hasell nut it strengtheneth all the principall parts of mans bodie and helpeth much the naturall warmth and concoction it withstandeth all grieuous thoughts and maketh also merrie and a good colour A very precious Confection TAke Lignum Aloes Cloues Cardamome Amarantus which is burnt to powder Roses Burrage and flowers of Buglosse of each one quarter of an ounce parched Hasell nuts halfe a dragme sweete Almonds and Iuiubes of each one ounce prepared fine Bolus 3. drag Annis Fennell of each two ounces Saffron two scrup Doronicum Harts bones Seduary Iacinth Smaragd and Saphires of each one scrup prepared pearles one quarter of an ounce Basill séede one drag 8. leaues of beaten gold you are to séeth this together in the iuice of Chamaedrios of field Cypers and iuice of Buglosse of each thrée ounces vntill all the iuice be consumed But note that the precious stones gold and Saffron must not be sodden with it but be at the last tempered amongst it Of this is to be giuen in the morning early thrée dragm in a draught of wine before dinner and supper one drag and a halfe to eate and halfe an ounce of conserue of Buglosse after it This is especially fit for the burnt melancholie of whatsoeuer occasion the same doth procéede If you will vse it also in Mania minister it with the water of Violets and of water Lillies Now for to prouoke sléepe you are to giue the decoction of Poppy heads or lukewarme water of water Lillies one quarter of an ounce and that two houres after supper Another Confection TAke burnt silke prepared Corall of each halfe a scrup burnt Harts horne two scrup prepared Pearles one drag Cardamome foure scrup prepared Pingles two ounces Hyssop and Licorice of each two scrup Nutmegs Cloues Mace Indie Spica Cypers roots Cucubes and Galingale of each one drag and a halfe Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce Saffron one scrup white Sugar 24. ounces séeth this with Buglosse water vntill it be as thicke as honie and then temper the rest with a little Muske amongst it A Powder which is much commended IT is said that it hath bene many times found that they which had this melancholike passion haue onely through this powder recouered health both of bodie and mind Take Epithymum one ounce and a halfe Azure stone Agaricus of each one quarter of an ounce Diagridion one drag 20. Cloues this being beaten together and tempered you are twice a wéeke to giue thereof but at the most one quarter of an ounce at
together in sufficient water for to bath therein put the patient into it and afterwards lay him in a bed that he may sweate In like manner is méete for this a drie bath but one must not abide in it long for auoyding of swoâ—ning you may also vse the bath which is discouered before in the 13. § Also gargarismes and néesings Of the Crampe through emptinesse and heate IF this contagion assaile one not suddenly but by little and little as after an Ague through great scowring vomiting or through much bléeding then it is very hard and almost incurable by reason that it is caused through emptinesse to wit of Exinanitione neuertheles necessarie meanes are not to be omitted First Barly water is good for this patient especially if there be Crabbes or prepared wood-Snailes decocted therewith for that this drinke will almost wholly and throughly turne to nourishment Secondly he may drinke well watered Wine reare egs and Henbroth prepared as hereafter followeth Take a Hen chop her small and put her in a Can powre Rosewater vpon it and Wine of each a good spoonefull stop it tight that there can come no vapour out and so put the Can into a Kettle of séething water and take cleane away the fatnesse But if the patient be very weak theÌ„ take a Capon and rost him a little afterwards drip it with vnsalted Lard A comfortable broth beate him and presse out hard the iuice temper it amongst the foresaid Henbroth then will the same be the stronger A better Broth. LAy a drest Capon in wine powned and distilled in a glassed helme that water strengtheneth much in extreme debilitie temper also amongst it the yolke of an egge Item chop a Pullet hang the péeces on thréeds in a great glasse or pot stop it tight and seethe it thrée howers long in a Kettle of water and vse the liquor that hath dropped out of it If you will make it more cordiall then lay therein ten or twelue péeces of gold For this is also milk méete first womans milke secondly Asses milke thirdly Goates milke as new as you can get it If so be that there come a scowring with it then steele the milke with stéele or flint stones The meate which he is to vse and take wheÌ„soeuer there is an ague with it ought to be Kids Lambes and Hens wherein Spinage Mallowes Béetes Purslaine Lettice or such be decocted Watered wine is also permitted if there be no heate perceiued For Strengthening TAke Pullets or Kids flesh which is méetely sodden seuen ounces chop it small temper amongst it Cardamome Cloues Cucubes Galingall Ginger Nutmegs Dragagant and Gum of each one drag Mace Saffron of each two scrup Starch Licorice Currants pilled Almonds Pine apple kernels Sebestes Pistacies pilled Melon séede Pompeon seede Gourds and Cucumber seedes white Poppie seede Lettice seede and Purslaine seede of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar pennets foure ounces dissolue it in Buglosse water with other Sugar as much as is needfull for to make a confection thereof Of Bathing FOr this disease is also commaunded for to bath in luke warme water But to the end it might be the more forcible cooling hearbes may be decocted therein as water Lillies Violet leaues and Willow leaues For this purpose also bathing in milke is much commended Item at last shall the beginning of the sinewes be annointed with warme oyle of Violets oyle of Pompeons and such like thereby to stay the exsiccation of them This salue following is also maruellous good Take Hens and Ducks grease and the marrow of Calues bones of each halfe an ounce the muscilage of Fleawoort Dragagant and Gum of each three drag oyle of water Lillies and Willowes of each one ounce and a halfe Waxe as much as is needfull for a salue annoint therewith all the backe bone It is also good for all other members Crampe through wounding BVt if this Crampe or contraction of the sinewes do come through any wounds then are the oiles of Cammomill Dill and Flaxe tempered together or each alone requisite fit for it Item take wine lées temper some beaten Allume amongst it this is of a maruellous force and operation Take Linseede and Fenegréeke meale powned Dill séede Henbane rootes and Annis séedes of each a like quantitie temper them with the foresayd oyle and lay it warme vpon it Here be also two experiments which euery one may proue Take Victorialis longa otherwise called Allium Alpium and weare it alwayes hanging about the necke it should defend a body from the crampe The second Plucke off an Eeles skin and let it be dressed like leather when you be plagued with the crampe then lay it vpon it and when the skin is warme then ceaseth the paine Of the hag or mare Ephialte and Incubus § 16. ALthough that we haue reckoned among the fiue species of the palsie or Apoplexy the falling sicknesse Epilepsia to be the fourth yet doth method first of all require to write of this sicknesse the which through vnbeléefe is with vs called the hag or mare bicause that this Incubus is a messenger of a future falling sicknesse The vnbeléeuers make thereof Daemonium insultans which is an vpstarting and pinching Deuill the which we also in this country as is sayd make one another to beléeue that they be witches But in truth it is none other but a naturall sicknesse as hereafter shall more euidently appeare The Incubus is thus described Incubus is a sicknesse which vexeth the body whereby both motion and speach is taken away Or more larger Ephialtes is a sicknesse when a body is in his first sléepe lying on his backe doth suppose and also beléeue none other but that somewhat créepeth vpwards from his féete vnto the brest the which wringeth vexeth him there as it were a ghost so wholy hindreth his breath voyce that he cannot call for any helpe yea it séemeth that it would murder him therefore is otherwhiles heard of them that be vexed therewith such a kinde of groning that as soone as the vexation or torment is past they awake with great feare and trembling And albeit that this disease of it selfe alone is troublesome inough neuerthelesse somewhat else is to be feared thereby viz. the conuulsion or madnesse which is Mania and like as it is already sayd the falling sicknesse Epilepsia and especially of them which haue great head veines bicause that the braines as the place of the vnderstanding are thereby enféebled Now when as such accidents come then is there no long delay to be looked for therefore it is méete indéed that there be aduice taken for it out of hand first of all to take good héed whether the sicke person haue a good colour And if so be that also his veines be full then is the Saphaea to be opened secondly if néede require the Cephalaea thirdly the veine of the forehead or vnder the tong And if great heate of the time or any thing else
do hinder it then set thereon two boxing cups with picking the one vpon the right brawne of the leg towards the héele the other hard by the ham but if it amend not thereby then set two vpon the shoulders Also it is very néedefull to obserue good order in eating and drinking and to refraine from wine swéete things and especially of all that engendreth bloud Some allow wine yet that which is thin white cleare and well watered drunken soberly For his meate are all fowles good which haue abode in hillie countries better than any foure footed beasts yet of these the wild are alwayes better than the tame Item new layd egs sodden reare Capers with Oxymel are good for him in the beginning of supper he is to eschew fish and especially sodden fish he is to shun all fruit except Raisons Pingles Pistacies confected Peares Quinces and such like All herbes be also forbidden him except Fennell Dill and Buglosse but Rue Sage Marierom gentle Hyssope and Rosemarie are especial good for him which are rather to be reckened for medicine than for nourishment Furthermore he is to refraine these things as the Sunne cold winds the fire the smoke incontinencie bathing wearinesse care much vexation déepe speculation and especially two howers after meate all great noise to looke from any height to looke vpon whirling things or that turne suddenly about and all that shineth much all strong sauors long sléepe especially after noone much watching and such like but méetely mouing after dinner is very good Also he must be rubbed otherwhiles from the shoulders to the brest vntill beneath vpon the legs with warme clothes And when that is done then is the head to be kemmed and wel rubbed Piony rootes worne about the necke and smelling oftentimes vnto them are also very good 15. Piony kernels péeled and drunken in honied water do much hinder and let that the vapors which might obstruct the braines should not ascend vpwards and do also strengthen the braines Confected Mirobalani Chebuli taken euery morning doth strengthen the head the braines and driue away the mare If the sicke body looke bleake in the face then it is a signe of Melancholie Therefore is he to vse the pils Cochiae oftentimes to the end he may be well purged Further he is no otherwise to order himselfe in eating and drinking than as is shewed in Epilepsi◠for that Incubus is none other than a small falling sicknesse or Epilepsia This water following is very good for to purge Take Hyssope two handfuls Currans one ounce seeth this togither in a pint and a halfe of raine water vnto the halfe take thereof three ounces of Oxymel of Squils one ounce and a halfe drinke it euery morning continuing the space of eight or ten dayes méetely warme When the body is purged then is the head also to be purged with this gargarisme ensuing Take Hyssope Currans and Oxymel sodden togither with water gargarise therewith Néesing is also behoouefull like as hath many times béene expressed In like manner may you carrie these little bals or pellets in the mouth Take Penniroyall one ounce seuen fresh Figs long Pepper one dragme Pieretrum halfe a dragme powne them all togither and make pellets or round bals of it It is also maruellous good twise a wéeke in the euening and morning to take a halfe a dragme of Treacle or Mithridate with thrée ounces of water wherein Piony rootes are decocted If this disease be caused through great cold of the head then it is to be annointed with the oile of Costus of Rue or oile of Bay But if it be caused through ouercharging of the stomacke then it is to be holpen with vomiting clisters and such like For this is also to be sought to strengthen the hart and the braines which is very conueniently done with this confection following Take red Corall Harts bones Pearles and burnt Silke of each halfe a dragme Galingale Cardamome Graines long Pepper Cloues Nutmegs cleansed Mirtle and Piony kernels of each one ounce and a halfe Cinnamom one ounce Mace Saffron of each one dragme white Sugar thirtie foure ounces séeth it vnto a sirupe in Buglosse water and make an Electuarie of it In the winter hony is to be vsed in stead of Sugar whereof you are to take in the euening and morning the quantitie of a great nut and thereupon to drinke a draught of water wherein Piony rootes are decocted The confection of Diathamaron and Diambrae are also very méete for this purpose For a conclusion if so be that these foresaid remedies brought not health with them then are they once againe to be vsed At the last cast or néede there must be plaisters layd vpon the head that corrode the flesh and skin on the forehead wherin the scul is ioyned togither which is to be made with Mustard séed or Cantharides as is taught in this Chapter in the second § and in other places or to open it by an actuall cauterie Of the falling sicknesse called Epilepsia §. 17. WE name this sicknesse with sundry names And albeit that it be but one kind of sicknesse notwithstanding it séemeth by diuersitie of the names to haue some smal difference The Grecians do call it Epilepsia the Latinists Morbus Comitialis Caducus Herculeus and Lunaticus the which we haue comprehended all vnder foure kinds of Apoplexies and taught also therby that this falling sicknes as also all other is an infection of the braine This is a quicke and spéedy distraction of the vnderstanding whereby the partie is so spoyled and robbed of all his wits powers remembrance and all the vse of his members that he must suddenly and vnawares fall downe to the earth some and lye a certaine space without motion séeth not heareth not neither féeleth and somtimes also doth forcibly stir and cast him selfe about when he commeth to himselfe againe he knoweth nothing of it what is happened vnto him although there be some that know all that was done with or about them The causes of this sicknesse are diuers for that it proceedeth of the foure humors of the bodie and doth chiefly take his beginning of Phlegma next of Melancholia sometime of the bloud and seldome of Cholera This is also increased by excessiue eating drunkennesse all sauors of meates and of all things which fume vp into the head as Onions Garlicke raw fruites and such like that be of a cold and moyst nature wormes of the belly whereof the venimous vapors ascend vpwards out of the stomacke towards the head putrifaction of the detained naturall seede of obstructed termes in women like as oftentimes also happeneth to women which haue first conceiued to sit long in the Sunne with a full stomacke to eate or smell to Bucks liuers Also thunder and lightening do hurt them whereby they are wont quickly to fall as also long and much sleepe and all that increaseth Phlegma There hurteth them also who are infected with this sicknesse the South
wind cold moist countries and the smell of these fiue things following as Goates hornes which is so forcible that they that suppose to be cleane rid of this sicknesse receiuing the sewet therof must immediatly fall to the ground Item Galbanum Myrrha Benzuin and aboue all the herbe Smallage like as it is found that it hath caused one to fall only through looking vpon it therfore such persons must and are to be kept from them Youth is also more subiect to this disease than age but it is easier to be cured in young persons than in old like as shall be more at large taught hereafter The signes of one that hath the falling sicknesse are these if he fall suddenly to the earth bendeth him beateth or striketh from him loseth his vnderstanding and tometh at the mouth if thereby his vrine nature or excrements passe away then it is a signe that the sicknesse is the stronger Order of Diet. IT importeth as well young as old people in this sicknesse like as in all other sicknesses but for this sicknesse must regard be had especially of the age and youth nature custome and abilitie of the patient In common falling sicknesses is first to be eschewed all cold moist and watrie places in like sort also all meates cold of nature all that bringeth with it slime and obstructions as Dow Milke Fish Gourds Lettice Béetes Spinage Purslaine Cucumbers and fat flesh Item all strong things as Onions Garlicke Scallions Radishes Coleworts Mustard séede all that is much salted and all Spices Item fresh water all strong wine be it red or white and chiefly sweete they are very hurtfull like as is also to eate too much and to swallow downe meate vnchewed and to eate againe before the former be digested long sléepe and principally to sléepe by day he is vtterly to eschew But on the contrarie all his meates are to be drying as Mutton Partridges Pheasants all wood Fowles with some Pepper Zeduarie and Galingall prepared and alwaies rather rosted then sodden his drinke must be thin cleare small red wine but if the wine be somwhat strong then it is to be tempered with the water of Buglosse or the water wherein Betonie rootes are decocted Great motion is not fit for him but rather much rest The remedies which are to be vsed for this falling sicknesse are most of them here before where we haue discoursed of the hag or mare described which according to the importance of the cause must be vsed for old folkes which be burthened and troubled with this disease And because like as before is discouered the young children by reason of their moisture whereof they be full are more subiect to this sicknesse therefore we will first as much as shall concerne that describe these meanes and remedies following Of the Falling sicknesse in children VVIth sucking children nothing is safer to be taken than that the mother or nurse doe obserue a good order of diet eate meate that is light of digestion and that moderately warmeth that she refraine man and all that maketh grosse bloud And if she be conceiued then is the child to sucke no more at any hand before meate she is to moue and stir well and to drinke watred wine or small Béere she is to refraine and leaue all fruits and especially those that be cold and moist In fine she is not to gouerne her selfe otherwise than if she were her selfe infected with the falling sicknesse When as the child doth waxe stronger and beginneth to féede on other meate then it is to be gouerned according to the importance of his age and of his sicknes like as by this prescription and other Chapters written to this end may be seene These are alwaies the remedies which by the auncient Phisitions be commended for young childrens falling sicknesse and are found profitable Take water of Rue May Lillies of each a like quantitie giue a spoonefull thereof or more according to the bignesse of the child make péeces of Tiles hote lay chopt Rue theron sprinkled with vineger hold him that before his nose the same is also good for ancient people Temper Conserue of Violets in Endiue water or Pyony water this is very good if there be any heate mixt amongst it Make thicke Almond milke temper therein as much Sugar that it be as thicke as pappe wipe thereof in the childs mouth it nourisheth well bringeth sléepe with it and defendeth the stomacke from all foule stinking humors the water of Chickwéeke is also very requisite for this Others do commend much for this the water of Cowdung and if it cannot be had then is the Cowdung to be broken into faire water and strained through a cloth and to giue thereof halfe an ounce at least Item take the water of blacke Cherries water of Tillet blossomes of each a like quantitie giue it in the time of sicknesse or when it is thought to be at hand The fish that is called Mustella Fluutatilis or Trinca called Trisca in Latine hath two small bones lying vpon the braines which are to be dried and powdred and giuen to the child These are maruellous good but these small bones are to be taken out of an vnsodden fish for when they be sodden they haue lost their vertue It hapneth also that children when they be full of wormes do get the falling sicknes which is very dangerous against which you shall find hereafter in the third part where we shall discourse of the wormes sundrie good aduises Take young Magpies out of the nest distill water of them and giue to young children a spoonefull for the Falling sicknesse Another Take three young Magpies that cannot flie Vngula Alcis thrée drag Harts horne shauen one drag and a halfe distill them together and vse them as before it hath bene often prooued Item take Carduus Benedictus water two ounces Lauander water halfe an ounce when you perceiue that the falling sicknesse will assaile any bodie whether they be young or old then looke that you get a young hare which sucketh still take the maw out of it hang it in the aire that the milke may drie in it wherof giue to the sicke person one drag or lesse according to the importance powdred with fresh water for this are Pyony kernels good worne about the neck and also the powder thereof taken the roote sodden and dronken thereof and the powder strewed vpon the meate is also very good A good Powder TAke prepared Pearles one drag red Corall halfe a drag Miscleden one drag and a halfe prepared Amber two scrup Harts bones one drag Pyonie séede and the rootes of each halfe a drag white Sugar one ounce beaten gold sixe leaues of this powder is euery wéeke one drag to be giuen with Betonie water Sometime also halfe a dragme or a dragme tempered with a little broth A Powder TAke halfe a drag of the scull of an executed man prepared Pearles one drag Harts horne two scrup Tormentill Seduarie of each two
scrup Sugar candie one ounce and a halfe fiue leaues of beaten gold temper them all together and giue it to the sicke body with Pyonie water and such like A Confection FEtch these things following at the Apothecaries take Diapenidium at the Apothecaries thrée drag Pliris Arcoticon one drag Diambra halfe a drag Cinnamome one drag and a halfe Nutmegs Cucubes of each two scrup Ginger one drag Sugar eight ounces melt them in Pionie water and make a Confection thereof All that is before written of yong children is also to be vsed for aged people taking alwaies good héede whether the sicknesse be great or small and also with that which followeth hereafter Yet more of the Falling sicknesse BVt if so be that the Falling sicknesse doth assaile young full growne or auncient people then besides all that is already discouered this is one common and necessarie rule that euery one which is infected with this sicknesse kéepe himselfe at home in rainie weather in places which be warmed with fuming workes and fire and be also drie The chamber is to be strewed with herbes which are necessarie for the falling Euill as Rue wild Time Rosemarie of each halfe a M. powne them and make them in a bagge thrée quarters long at night lay it on both sides vnder the head If there be then any one infected with this sicknesse that perceiueth something to ascend or clime vp out of any member of the bodie towards the head then must he as soone as is possible and before that he falleth or goeth beside himself bind hard the place where he féeleth it créeping vpwards wring hard the fingers and rub the féete set boxing cups behind on the neck without picking thereby to suppresse the ascending vapors and afterwards if it may be possible for to set or minister vnto him this Clister following Take Swines bread black Hellebore Centorie fresh white Daffodill of each one drag wild Saffron séede halfe an ounce seeth this in a quart of water vntill the halfe Take 13. ounces of this decoction temper therein Hiera logodion one ounce oyle of Euphorbium 10. drag Salgemme one drag and a halfe temper all these together it is a very strong Clister for to draw the matter out of the head Set also great boxing cups on the inside of the thighes besides the buttockes and rub well his armes and legs downward Take the iuice of Swines bread the séede of Rue the Rennet of Hares mawes of each one quarter of an ounce stirre them together in a mortar blow that into his nose through a Vultures quill there haue bene before times maruels wrought thereby There is also a great noyse to be made about the patient to open his eyes and hold great light before them when he is come to rest againe then is he to purge often with these pils Cochiae or some other but vsing alwaies before certaine Iuleps thereby the more easily to take away the humor Whilest that he vseth these potions he must presently vpon it likewise also two howers before meate take and vse the quantitie of a Nutmeg of this conserue following Take Pistacies shaled which haue bene stéeped one night in Pionie water thrée ounces Doronicum Harts bones Burrage and Buglosse flowers Violets Roses of each one quarter of an ounce red and white Behen of each one drag and a halfe Basill red Corall of each two drag and a halfe Iacint Smaragda Saphir of each one scrup Graines Lignum Aloes of each two scrup water Lillies and Yuorie of each foure scrup fiue leaues of beaten gold Muscuâ— Ambra of each fiue graines Honie of Roses sirupe of Citron peeles of each fiue ounces Sugar thrée ounces you are to séeth the sirupe and Sugar in foure ounces of Buglosse water vntill the water be cleane consumed breake the Muske and Amber in a litle Lauander water and temper all the rest amongst it This may be also vsed whensoeuer he vseth not the other potâ—ons and so forth now the one and then the other It is also aduised to couer the place whence the disease is caused with plaisters which make blisters and to let them lie so long vpon it vntill the blisters be drawne full of water and break of themselues and runne out the which are not to be suffered to shut in ten daies to the end the moisture haue his full course for this is one of the most principall remedies that is méete for this maladie Plaisters which raise and draw blisters TAke Mustard séede Pepper and Euphorbium beaten small of each one drag Honie of Anacardio as much as is néedfull for a plaister spread this vpon a cloth the bignes of a Doller and lay it on the place where you desire But this ensuing is generally vsed Take Cantharides heads and wings broken off one quarter of an ounce Honie of Anacardio and sowre dowe of each one drag strong vineger as much as is néedfull for to temper it together lay this vpon it as is said when the blister is full open it with a needle with a thréed in it and leaue the thréed behind that thereby the humidity may be let out Item take blacke Sope quicke Lime of each one quarter of an ounce mixe them together A Stronger TAke Cantharides prepared as before quicke Lime of each a like quantitie temper them with the iuice of Daffodils some do burne it with iron or gold When as these blisters haue run enough they are to be healed with this salue Take Aristologie Ireos Myrrhe Frankinsence Sarcocolla of each one drag oile of Roses foure ounces Waxe as much as is néedfull make a salue thereof For this also is aduised to set boxing cups with small picking vpon the same place And if the patient before the sicknes assailed him were grieued with any kind of vomiting with griping and panting of the heart and came thereby to fall then is the vomiting or casting to be furthered by all manner of meanes Take blew flower de-luce rootes one ounce Aristologie halfe an ounce Centorie garden Mints Wormwood Rue Sage Hyssope Polypodie Mallowes Mercurie of each a M. Siluer mountaine Ameos Dill séede wild Rape seede and Basill séede of each one quarter of an ounce beaten Pionie seede and a little Bran séeth these all together in a good deale of water of this decoction you are to take 14. ounces temper therein one ounce and an halfe of Honie salt one quarter of an ounce Hiera Picra three quarters of an ounce oyle of Rue two ounces make a Clister thereof For to Purge HAlfe an ounce or one ounce of Hiera Picra taken oftentimes is very conuenient But it is better to vse first some preparatiue potions which are thus to be composed Take blew flower de luce roots or Ireos Pyonie roots Fennell rootes and Aristologie of each one ounce and a halfe prepared Squils one ounce garden Mints and Wormwood of each one handfull and a halfe wild Thyme Miscleden wild and tame Sage and Rue of each one M.
oftentimes bin approued Another Take Allume that is called Allumen lamenum burne it and vse it as before or burne Salarmoniacke and vse it as the other Note also that all the powders may most conueniently be vsed after that the patient hath gargarized neuerthelesse they may be vsed when one thinketh good Of swelling and falling downe of the pallet through cold IF the pallet be white then take Cinnamome Ginger Pepper Pieretrum Pomegranate pils Gals and Roses of each a like much make them into powder and hold it to the pallet as before Item take long Pepper thrée drag Ginger one drag and a halfe Album Graecum that is a white Dogs turd of a dog that eateth nought else but bones one drag Allume foure scruples Sal gemmae halfe a drag vse it as all the rest abhorre not the dogs turd for in this extremitie it hath a maruellous operation Item take Sage Mustard séede of each one drag boyle them together in water vntil there remaine about eight ounces then adde one ounce of honie of Roses vnto it Take Album Graecum being well dried fine Bolus of each one drag Allume halfe a dragme Pepper and Salt of each halfe a drag make them into powder and vse it as aboue Take Oxymel Mustard séede beaten and vineger of each a like quantitie annoint the pallet therewith Item shaue off the haire that groweth on the future of the scull called Sagittalis apply a great boxing cup vnto the bare place and let it there remaine a whole hower long This may you reiterate thrée or foure times a day it draweth the pallet vp againe What is to be done in the greatest extremitie IF the patient haue long haire then let a strong man take hold of it and pull it vpward violently vntill such time as one may perceiue that the skin is seuered or parted from the scull then also doth the pallet ascend because it is fast to the skin it hath bene found by experience that it hath holpen immediatly and hath preserued the patient from choking But if this infirmitie be of long continuance and that the pallet séemeth to hang onely at a little skin and the neather end of it is much swollen then there can be no other meanes vsed although one is loth to follow it but by incision to take it away afterwards you are to vse this gargarisme following Take the decoction of Ireos and Licorice of each a like much mingle as much honie with it as you please and a little vineger Item vineger and water wherein the blossomes of Pomegranate trées haue bene decocted The order of Diet. IN this infirmitie procéeding of cold vse excalefactiue meats drinks and habitations beware of all manner of violent motions anger vexation of mind feare and such like The confections Diatrion Pipereon Diamoscu Diambra and Mithridate are very commodious in this maladie or else to gargarize with Miua Citoniorum and the water of Sloes Take beaten Cucubes halfe a drag make thereof with the iuice of Roses or their water two pils they are very effectuall These pils following do also hinder the falling of the rheume into the mouth Take Pill Elephanginae one drag Mastick one scruple make eight pils of them take twaine after supper at each time Of the Tongue §. 6. THe parts of the tongue are flesh muscles veines and sinewes combined together spoongious and soft which member amongst all liuing creatures or amongst them that haue a tongue is most different not onely by reason of her forme but rather by the voice and indeed it is no lesse for by her wonderfull motion whereof there be thrée in generall doth she bring maruels to passe First by the manner of the wordes and speech whereby we can declare whatsoeuer we conceiue in mind and make it knowen to another body By this groweth wars and peace friendship and enmitie concord and discord by this is both God and man praysed and dispraised In fine by this is done both good and harme as that merry Aesopus saith in his fables that the tong is the best and woorst péece of flesh The second is the taste whereby it can discerne which is bitter which swéete sower tarte sharpe cold hot or any such like also it adiudgeth what is good or bad for the stomacke The third is the sense of féeling whereby it perceiueth what is hard or soft hot or cold c. Besides all this it helpeth to hold the meate receiued betwéene the teeth that there it might be chewed and thence conueyed into the stomacke Also it serueth to gather the slime and moisture of the mouth togither to spet it out which by no meanes can be effected without it as it euidently appeareth in those that haue a dead palsie and cannot wag or moue their tongue This member is subiect to diuers sundry infirmities as when the tong is heauy and flow hard and immoueable hot and dry for which cause it is especially infected of Alcola which causeth it to swell harden and exulcerate c. whereof we purpose to speake hereafter Of the losse and vnperfectnesse of tasting AMongst the before mentioned infirmities this is also to be placed that in the taste as in the sight and hearing oftentimes hapneth that it be quite cleane decayed so that there remain not one whit of taste otherwhiles also is the tasting onely diminished as when one can perceiue some taste yet not perfect and to the ful Also it is oftentimes quite spoyled as when one taketh sower for sweete c. As it befalleth to them that haue the yellow Iaundies or to them that are troubled with a hot ague wherein the patient adiudgeth all what he tasteth to be salt bitter swéete or without sauor according to the qualitie of the disease The signes of the humor that causeth this infirmitie are these The bloud yéeldeth a swéete taste Phlegma also somewhat swéetish with much spettle humiditie of the head of the tongue and of the whole body Cholera causeth bitternesse saltnesse and giueth a salt fleame If there be no tast at all then is the mouth of the stomacke pestered with many bad and superfluous humours If it procéed of melancholie then is the taste tart and astringent of all that he taketh into the mouth There may also very sure signes be taken of the tongue the which if it be white then it is not onely a signe of cold but also that the stomacke head and liuer are full of Plegma If it be red then doth it signifie that this maladie is caused of bloud of hot rheumes The yellownesse is a signe that Cholera is cause of all If it be of the colour of lead and blackish it sheweth Melancholie to be the cause of it vnlesse it should procéede of some vnnaturall heate as in hot Feuers it commonly chanceth Now concerning the remedies for this lost bad or corrupted taste If it come of a hot sicknesse or Feuer and the patient be full of
little Stauesacre Mustard séede and Pieretrum but this is very hote and bitter so that the patient shall hardly be able to abide it but this following is milder Take Salarmoniacke and Ginger of each a like much temper them with the iuice of Squils and rub the tongue with it Item Oxymel of Squils and water wherein one or moe of the former things haue bene decocted is very commodious but annoint the necke and the hinder part of the head with oyle of Bayes and of Beuercod afterwards apply this plaister following vpon it being spread on Leather Take Gumme thrée drag Stechas and Marioram gentle of each one drag oyle of Marioram gentle and waxe as much as is needfull for a plaister Take Beuercod wet it with the iuice of Sage and make pilles of it and hold them in thy mouth or else take Nutmegs Indian Nuts Cloues Pieretrum Assa foetida of each one scrup Laudanum Dragagant of each one drag make them into pils with wine and hold them in thy mouth So also may you hold a péece of a Nutmeg in the mouth and chew it Treacle Mithridate and such like confections are commended in this infirmitie The patient must also speake much and plainely But if it come with the infection of any other sinewes then it is to be cured by the meanes that are prescribed in the Palsey But if it procéede of an Ague with a contracture of the tongue then must you irrigate the patients necke and shoulders from on high with warme water for that moisteneth and warmeth the same place and the tongue also afterwards annoint it with oyle of Oliues How to moisten the tongue IF then a great drith of the tongue happen with it as it commonly befalleth in hote Feauers then is the patient to hold in his mouth oyle of Roses or of Violets but especially ought that to be obserued which hath bene said before in the losse of the taste where it beginneth thus Afterwards he is to hold in his mouth c. For this vse serue also these things to wit preserued blacke Cherries preserued Raspises and whatsoeuer else is made of them preserued Peaches Barberries and their sirupe the preserued red Cherries with their sirupe and such like moe sirupe of Mulberies of Nutshels conserue of Roses conserue of water Lillies and many more such like as is shewed in hote diseases and pestilentiall Feuers Diatragacanthum frigidum is very good in this and in all other hote diseases whatsoeuer For this purpose serueth also Sugarcandie the muscilage of Fleawoort of Quince kernels and to wash the mouth often with warme water Vineger and Rosewater If there be any tumour with it then vse the Iulep of Violets and of Roses dried Prunes dryed Cheries iuice of Licorice sowre Dates Manna or which of them you please but if the toung were fast some where then is it to be loosed with some instrument and afterwards to bestrew the place with Ginger and Allume Lastly if a péece of flesh should grow vnder the toung as if it were a frogge then doth the same procéede of a grosse and tough humour when the tongue is lifted vp then may you sée it very red and it is otherwhiles little or bigge like vnto a little toung It is also somtimes round like a Hasell nut and bigger whereby both the speech and eating is hindered Here must the patient first be purged let bloud vnder the toung and obserue a good diet as in any other impostume of the head that might also procéede of fleagm Afterwards is the frogge to be rubbed with Salarmoniack Gals Salgemmae or parched salt or else you may prepare this for it Take Pieretrum Ginger of each two drag Salarmoniack Salgemmae of each a drag and a half Marioram Calmus Ireos Daffodils Mastick of each halfe a dragm make a powder of them Of this powder may you take one part and with the white of an egge make it into Trocisces and when thou wilt vse them dissolue them in Aqua vitae and so annoint the frogge vnder the tongue with it With this water following may you also wash the mouth very often Take Marioram Mints Penniroyall Nettle rootes of each one M. Piâ—retrum two drag boyle them together in a pint and a halfe of water till the third part remaine But if this maladie do once inueterate and waxe old then it is to be cured with those things that are described hereafter in bleeding of the gums amongst which this following is rehearsed Take Sugar Allume Verdigrease of each a like much mixe them with honie and rub it therewith Item if this infirmitie waxe too big then it is to be cut taken away and healed as all other sores of the mouth Some do counsell to burne it which is vncertaine in this place but this is to be obserued if this frog be hard and blacke then it is doubtlesse the true Canker which is altogether incurable For the Alcola or hardnesse and cliffes in the tongue THis Alcola of the tongue procéedeth of the foresaid hote and drie causes when the toung waxeth blacke drie hard and full of cliffes For this must the patient first be purged with this purgation following Take Rubarbe thrée drag Spica halfe a drag Squinant one scrup of the decoction of fruites called at the Apothecaries Decoctio fructuum which shall hereafter be described eightéene ounces let them infuse in this decoction a whole night in the morning presse it out take foure ounces of the Colature sirupe of Pomegranates one ounce sirupe of Limons halfe an ounce temper them together and so take it thrée mornings together If these potions haue not sufficiently purged for they be very gentle then take of these pils Cochiae Foetidae Aureae of each one scrup and of them all one dragme make seuen pilles of it gargarise after that purging with warme Goates milke and eate fiue or sixe Cherries after it And because wine is very hurtfull in such a heate this water following shall be very méete for it Take halfe a handfull of Barley thirtie drie Prunes Barberies Cinnamome of each halfe an ounce boyle them in foure pintes of water vntill the fourth part be consumed In like manner may you vse this potion for to coole Take the iuice of Quinces one ounce and a halfe Rob de Berberis halfe an ounce water of Purslaine thrée ounces temper them together For this purpose serueth also whatsoeuer hath bene written in the first § of the corruption of the mouth but especially the gargarismes Of the tumour and swelling of the Toung THis is caused of bloud or of flegme that falleth downe out of the head It happeneth somtimes that the toung doth so swell that it lyeth before in the mouth wherby the spetting and all other her actions are hindered In this you are to purge the head with the foresaid pils If it then procéede of cold flegme which is discerned that the toung or face are alwaies white and the mouth alwaies full of moisture
are very méete for this purpose because both these infirmities do proceede of one cause Item wash the mouth often with vineger and Allume afterwards with the wine of Pomegranates with a little Allume dissolued in it Looke the description of the sirupe of Mulberries in the fourth § before Item rubbe thy gums in the mornings with the vnguent of Egypt but swallow none of it downe and gargarise often with hony of Roses and sirupe of Mulberies of each a like much mingled with the water of Plantaine For all impostumes and corruptions of the gums or téeth which procure a stinking breath and if there be much bloud and moysture with it then is the party to be purged according to his abilitie with yellow Mirobalans and sower Dates then to open the veine of the head and to apply a great boxing cup in the necke to rub the gums vntil they bléed and to wash the mouth with this water following Take blossomes and pils of Pomegranates Acorne cups and Roses of each halfe an ounce Stauesacre two dragms boyle them very well togither This following is to be vsed for to heale and to dry it Take Roses Cypers nuts Gals and burnt Allume of each a like much boyle them togither in Vineger and water ad vnto this decoction as much hony as you please After the vse of this Gargarisme strew this powder vpon the sores Take burnt Allume two dragmes blossomes of Pomegranates plume Allume Mirtle séeds of each one dragme and a half burnt Harts horne one dragme mixe them well togither He is also often times to be purged with the foresayd capitall pils Cochiae Of the bleeding of the Gums THis may happen of some outward accideÌ„t as of blowes fals and such like the which must be knowen of the patient The inward causes are either heate or cold of a sharp matter falling downe out of the head corroding the gums and the sinewes of the téeth and making them to impostumate in somuch that if it once begin to inueterate it soone changeth into the Canker whereby all the téeth fall out But if this bloud be thin and subtile then are these fower things following to be put in practise First to take away the corrupted gums Secondly to mundifie and cleanse that which is infected Thirdly after mundification to astringe or draw togither and heale them Fourthly and lastly to confirme and strengthen the gums and iawes that the matter may not haue recourse thither againe First there are many kinde of powders in such vehemencie vsed that the venime Orpiment is added thereto but my counsell is to omit it and to vse this following in stead thereof Take rootes of Daffodils and Pomegranate pils of each a like much make them into powder and rub thy gums therewith and an hower after wash thy mouth with warme wine or vineger Secondly you may make this decoction following Take Oliue leaues one M. and a halfe Pieretrum half an ounce Ginger Masticke Ireos of each one dragme Hony two ounces boyle them togither in a pinte of water to the halfe wash thy mouth therewith This following is very good for all infections of the gums and iawes Take hony of Roses thrée ounces warme water one ounce dip a cloth in them and rub the gums with it an hower after wash thy mouth with Wine or water wherein dried Roses haue bene decocted In like manner this following mundifieth very well Take water of Cammomill one ounce hony of Roses thrée dragmes temper them togither and wet the place infected with it afterwards wash thy mouth with wine wherein dried Roses haue bene decocted Thirdly they are to be cured with this powder Take Frankinsence Aloes Sarcocolla and Dragons bloud of each one dragme beate them small and strew them in the gums Item take Laudanum Masticke Frankinsence Corall of each a like much make them into fine powder and apply it to the place infected it confirmeth hardneth and clenseth the gums iawes and when the sore is well mundified then it doth also incarnate and ingender flesh Fourthly this following is highly commended Take Cypers leaues or nuts half an ounce Well water a pinte boyle it vntill the halfe part remaine dip a cloth in it and apply it to the griefe this doth not onely confirme and strengthen the gums but defendeth them also from all bad rheumes Another TAke blossomes of the Pomegranate tree Allume Roses Hounds tong Acorne cups and Plantaine of each a like quantitie boile them all in wine and wash thy mouth therewith it strengtheneth the gummes and téeth and hindereth the bléeding Item boyle Gals Oliue leaues Lentils Mugwoort and Pomegranate pils of each a like much in water and wash thy mouth with it Another that is stronger TAke Pieretrum Lilly roots of each one drag the outward â—ind of Gals and blossomes of the Pomegranate trée of each two drag beate them small and rub the gummes therwith Take the same ingredience but in greater quantitie boyle them in red Wine and adde the fourth part of vineger vnto it with this thou shalt wash thy mouth By all these former things is easily to be séene that many remedies there be for the former infection of the téeth and gummes which are also very good for all vlcers and corruption of the gummes Of the outward applications FOr both the former infirmities and for all paine and griefes of the gummes these things following are very good which may be outwardly applyed Take Linséede oyle Cammomill beaten Hollihocke rootes meale of Fenegreeke Butter of each halfe an ounce oile of Dill or of Cammomill foure ounces this asswageth the paine maturateth and digesteth Item shéepes wooll vnwashed wet it in the iuice of Roses of Violets or of Willow leaues Or make a bagge the breadth of ones hand full of dried Roses decoct it in vineger and water wring it out hard and then apply it outwardly Take cold water onely or vineger mixed with Rose water or wine of Pomegranates and wash the mouth therewith Item vse the iuice of cold herbes as of Nightshade of the bigger and lesser Housléeke of Plantaine of Purslaine or which of them you can get For this purpose serueth all the wine wherein Gals haue bene decocted If then neither the paine nor bléeding will cease then is the same place to be opened with a Lancet or Horsleaches to be fastened vnto it But if the gummes be not apt to bléede not exulcerated nor painefull nor the face any thing swollen and that the patient be not well after meate but when he hath eaten meates cold by nature then may you easily gesse that this infirmitie procéedes of a cold phlegme Wherefore euery such patient is to be purged with Pil. Cochiae Hiera Picra exacuated with a little of the trocisces of Coloquint or Diaturbith Afterwards he is to wash his mouth with astringent decoctions as of the blossoms and pils of Pomegranats Akorne cups Allume Salt iuice of Rue and such like Also for a change he may
whosoeuer shall approoue it and find it true may commend and loue the experiment Others do counsell to take of the skin of a Snake that hath bin cast off by her one drag and to boile it in three ounces of vineger vnto the half to take it into the mouth it should also be an approued remedy Oile of Roses lukewarme only held in the mouth asswageth the paine Boyle a Frog in water and vineger vntill the flesh part from the bones wash the téeth therewith The iuice of Béetes dropped into the contrary eare of the paine is also counselled of some men likewise of Cichory of Daffodils and of earth wormes But if this toothach procéed of a hot cause then hold any of these things following warme in thy mouth as the oyle of Willow leaues oyle of Poppy heads and oyle of Roses as hath bin said before The iuice of Sorrel slaketh the heate greatly You may also annoint the place with the iuice of Nightshade of Purslaine of Lettice of Endiue Item boyle the rootes of Nettles and Sage in wine Henbane séed and Opium mixed with oyle of Roses do make the tooth insensible If Cholera be admixed then is the patient to be purged with the Electuary of Succo Rosarum with Cassia sower Dates or yellow Mirobalans If it be caused of ouermuch blood then is the head veine the veine in the lips and that vnder the toong to be opened or the gums made to bléed boxing cups to be applied behind in the neck What else may be vsed for the paine in the teeth ABoue in the twelft chapter and first § haue I described a good powder which beginneth Take Sene leaues c. which is also very cōmodious for this purpose Item take Myrrhe two drag Frankinsence halfe a drag Mastick one drag and a halfe Cuttle bone and red Corall of each 15. graines Argoyle two drag Glasse small powdered fiue drag Lignum Aloes Cinnamom Cloues Sarcocolla of each halfe a drag make them into powder it confirmeth and whiteneth the téeth and it cureth the sore gums being rubbed therewith Item take Pellitory of Spaine Licebane of each a like much beate them and temper them with a litle white Waxe and couer the tooth therewith of all sides A wonderfull remedy Take the liuer of a gréene Euet and the fruite of Tamariske rootes of wild Cucumbers Propolis which is taken out of the hole of the Bée-hiues of each a like quantity This may you vse for all manner of toothach either in washing with it or applying it to the tooth or in vsing it outwardly Of the outward applications PArched Millet applied vnto it is very good Item take Mallowes fry them in butter vntill they be soft and so lay it outwardly vnto the paine Item toast a slice of bread vpon hote coales and apply it to the chéeke where the paine is and renewing it still being cold with another that is hot do this eight or ten times together for when the paine is departing then it is most grieuous wherefore leaue it not off But if the foresaid means do not ease the paine then make this composition Take Beuercod Pepper Ginger red Storax Opium of each halfe a scrup this being beaten temper it with hony of Roses and put the quantity of a Hemp séed vnto the roote of thy tooth Item take Opium the bignes of an Hemp séed warme it in thy hand vntill it be soft and apply it to the painfull tooth it asswageth the paine If you will forbeare the Opium then vse any of these iuices following to wit iuice of Southernwood of Henbane of Poppy or to vse the Philonium Romanum as hath bene before sayd yet are you alwayes to adde vnto them a litle saffron Cassia wood or Cammomils to mitigate their great cold For this purpose serueth also Mithridate either inwardly or outwardly adhibited for it is very good for all infirmities of the téeth It is also aduised that the patient abstaine from meate as long as is possible and that he vse a drie bath to sweate and méetly exercise But if the paine be not mitigated by all these meanes then is the roote of the tooth to be seared with a hot yron or to be drawne out altogether Of the tooth-ach in the Poxe MIxe the iuice of Wormewood with the white of an egge and apply it to the paine For the same vse serueth the decoction Guaiac holden in the mouth warme and all those things that haue bene mentioned before Of hollow and rotten teeth THe cause why these téeth waxe hollow and rotten is some stinking matter adiacent vnto the tooth the which doth putrifie the same To preuent this impediment is the putrifaction to be taken away which hath bin shewed before and shall more largely be declared hereafter You shall in no wise omit to picke and cleanse your téeth after meales with a toothpicker and afterwards to wash thy mouth with wine The remedies that hinder the putrifaction of the téeth are these namely Lycium Frankinsence Mints Mirtle séeds Spica Gallia muscata Cypres roots Masticke Gals Turpentine Pepper Campher and séeds of Nigella if there be heate with it This water following should also preuent this putrifaction or if it were once entred take it away alay the paine Take of the middle rind of the Mulberry trée one ounce and a half of the best Ginger one ounce boile them in strong vineger vnto the halfe and wash thy mouth therewith in the morning Item take the ashes of Rosemary bind them in a cloth and rub thy blacke and putrified téeth therewithal Take Aristology beaten temper it with hony and vse it as before Take the water of wild thrée leafed grasse mixe as much Allume and Hony vnto it as thou please and wash thy rotten téeth with it Or take the inward part of gals and as much Pellitory of Spaine beate them to powder and adde some Stauesacre vnto it and lay somewhat of it on the rotten téeth Item Borras Stauesacre decocted together or each by it selfe This remedy following is no lesse commended than any of the former Take Pellitory of Spaine one drag Ammoniacum and Opium of each one drag melt the gum and mixe the rest being beaten small with it thrust some part of it into the hollow tooth it taketh away the sense and féeling of the same Item take prepared Corall blow it through a little quill into the hollownesse of the tooth it taketh away the paine and preuenteth the putrifaction of the tooth Al these things may be mixed with Treacle and so vsed We haue also shewed diuers and sundry remedies before in the 13. Chapter and the 1. § against the corruption of the mouth which may also be vsed very well in this necessitie Wash thy mouth often with the decoction of Roses Nep and a little Pellitory of Spaine Thou mayst also put a little of the spirit of wine into thy hollow tooth also any of the waters of life that shall be
broome burnt Iuory Roses Saunders Ambers Mirabolan stones Date stones red Costus pils Hypocistis sealed earth fine Bole burnt Harts horne sea Muscles and al that may be made and sodden with these things But if these procéed of cold then vse Laudanum Frankinsence and her bark parched Cumin séed Cresses séeds parched Annise séeds Allume pitch Myrrhe parched salt Cipres nuts and leaues Mastick Sarcocolla Sandaraca and all that may be made with it Here now do follow some things that confirme and fasten the téeth gums and their sinewes Take garden Mints fresh Oliue leaues if they may be had of each an ounce Roses Mirtle seed Butchers broome séed wood of the Barberry trée and the fruite of the same of each halfe an ounce beate cut and boile it in vnripe wine and hold it in the mouth Water of Nightshade of Plantaine and of Shepheards purse do fasten the téeth and if in this water and vineger together you boile the blossomes of Pomegranates and Mirtle séeds then will it be the better In like maner you may boile Gals Medlars Lentils and Seruices of each halfe an ounce For this purpose serue also Cipres nuts and leaues Acorne cups and Sene leaues al together or each by it selfe decocted in wine and vsed as the former Item take Allume Frankinsence Masticke Cypres nuts Rosemary flowers of each a like much boile them together in a sufficient quantity of raine water and red wine and wash thy mouth with it very often warme Item take Harts horne salt and Myrrhe all of them burnt of each two drag boile them in hony and rub thy gums therewith within and without Item take burnt Allume halfe an ounce Rose buds halfe a handfull Bedegar red wine one pint boyle them vnto the halfe take of this being warme into thy mouth often and hold it a good while therein for it is very good Another Take Ireos Corall and Frankinsence of each halfe a drag temper it with hony of Roses to a confection annoint the teeth therewith and in the morning wash them with wine wherein hath bene decocted Sage Rosemary and Roses of each a like much Item take Allum burnt Harts horne Roses Dragon blood Acorne cups Hyppocistis blossomes and pils of Pomegranates Gals of each a like quantity boile them in strong red wine or in vineger and wash thy mouth therewith Vineger and Oxymel of Squils are also especiall good for this vse To wash the mouth oftentimes with Rosemary wine confirmeth the gums and fasteneth the téeth Of the falling out and drawing of the teeth THe last and extremest meanes for the toothach is that the téeth might either fall of themselues or be drawne out To preuent the falling of them is vnpossible to many men yet are these things following prescribed for it amongst which this that followeth is very sharpe and yet for all that very safe and good to be vsed Take the barke of a Mulberry trée Caper rootes Pieretrum the bigger and the lesser Esula red Orpiment rootes of Coloquint of each two drag put as much vineger on them as wil couer them let it so rest eight dayes and euery day put a little more vineger vnto it and vse it as hath bene said Open the gums round about the tooth as much as is possible with some kind of instrument then rub them ten times in one day with the foresaid water it maketh the tooth loose and separateth the roote Item open the gums as before annoint it with oyle wherein Frogs haue bene decocted when the tooth is very loose then take it out You may also do as hereafter followeth Take Pellitory of Spaine Scammony white Hellebore Euphorbium of each one drag beate and stéepe it in vineger open and loose the gums about the tooth and rub it often therewith it is very forcible and therefore to be the more regarded Item take Nettle séeds roots of the Mulberry trée and roots of Celendine of each a like quantity boyle them in wine or vineger this should haue the same operation with the former and it is much safer Another Open the gums and lay bare the roote of the tooth and strew Euphorbium in it this will doubtlesse loose the tooth that it may easily be taken out afterwards wash thy mouth with the decoction of Myrrhe for thereby will the place or hole be drawne together and all paine abated Take the dregs or lées of strong vineger and apply it to the tooth many dayes together afterwards draw out the tooth But if it will not stirre then rub the place with fresh butter or some other grease of birds and especially with the braines of a Hare sodden which haue a hidden vertue and operation for this purpose as before hath bene said This remedy following applied to the tooth maketh the same to fall out without any paine Dissolue two drag of Ammoniacum in vineger temper Henbane séeds beaten amongst it and annoint the tooth and the roote thereof Item take the iuice of Esula with meale make a dow of it temper it well and let it boyle a while and apply it to the tooth Of the double tooth OTherwhiles two téeth grow vnnaturally one before the other which is not onely vnséemely but hindereth also very much wherefore it must be taken away with an instrument and with applications If you will take it away by application then are you first to loose the gums from it and make a little ball of Waxe and mixe the iuice of Esula or of Néesewoort with it The same doth also the blood of a leafe frogge Or take the roote of a Mulberry trée and Pellitory of each halfe an ounce wet them in vineger and dry them in the Sun vntill they be as thicke as hony then temper them with the foresaid iuice of Esula and annoint the tooth thrice a day with it and it will easily fall out The iuice of the rootes of Nettles mixed equally with Galbanum should do the same In like manner also beaten Fig leaues applied to the tooth To make and to keepe the teeth cleane TAke Cuttle bone white sea Muscles Spuma maris Allume Aristology parched Barley Sulfer vife Cinnamom and long pepper of each a like much temper it with hony and rub the téeth often therewith Or take Argoile two drag beate it small and searce it wash it with good wine rub the téeth once a day with it and afterwards wash thy mouth in the winter with warme and in summer with cold wine This following is highly commended Take two drag of Date stones red Corall prepared thrée drag Lupins and the rootes of the yellow Flower deluce of each thrée drag beate all that is to be beaten and afterwards make a confection of it with clarified hony which must be so hard that you may make small placents or trocisces of it dry them in the shadow when you wil vse them then dissolue one of them in wine or vineger and wash thy téeth therewith euery morning when thou hast first
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
small mingle it with egs and meale bake cakes thereof and take alwayes thereof before meales especially one houre or more before noone about one quarter of an ounce If one haue something sticking in his throate §. 2. IF one haue a great bit of meate sticking in his throate then are you to clap him behind aboue and vnder his necke that thereby the meate may be remoued either by vomiting it out or swallowing it downe towards the stomacke In like manner also you are to giue him water oftentimes or rather oyle of Roses to gargarize therewith and let it downe for it dilateth the throate and maketh it slippery whereby the same bit will sinke downe the better And this is also good for all slimy things as Raisons and Figges sod in Meade Item take bread chew it not too small and swallow it downe Do the like with Figs for they are very commodious for this purpose Item take a bit of hard sodden flesh bind it on a strong thréed and slide it downe and afterwards plucke it out againe if the bone or any thing else that sticketh therein cannot be forced downewards then with a mullet or other instrument draw it out But if so be that all those things will not helpe then may you vse a leaden pipe which is thoroughout full of holes somewhat smooth without and somewhat bent which you may thrust into his throate to the neather part by force Take the muscilage or slime of Linséed Butter prepared Cassia oile of Almonds of each a like much lay them on the throte The vomiting after meate is also found good for this intent and is therefore to be moued When a Horsleach taken in drinke remaineth sticking in the throate §. 3. ONe shall perceiue this not onely by the place where the same was drunken but also by the biting and tickling in the throate and by the cleere blood that he auoideth and by the wambling and vomiting For this you are to presse his tongue downwards and to looke into his mouth whether the Leach can be séene or not if yea to take it by the head with a mullet and draw it out if not then must you make a gargarisme with Mustard séed vineger or with vineger Assa foetida or with vineger and salt which you will and gargarize therewith Or you may blow beaten Mustard séed and Nigella séed into his throate Also you may gargarize with Onions or the decoction of Garlicke The ashes of our Ladies thistle blowne into the throate is commended aboue all the rest The roote of Gentian beaten and all that is bitter When as the Horsleach is fallen away then séeth the blossomes of Pomegranates in water and gargarize therewithall To stay the blood take the blossomes of Pomegranates Frankinsence Sang. Draconis and Starch of each one drag blow this powder into his throte Item take the blossomes and pils of Pomegranates Sumach séeds and Sang. Draconis boile them in water and gargarize therewith You may also blow the foresaid things into the throate or boyle them in Wine and drinke it Another Take Garlick Lupins and Coloquint of each one drag Gith séeds halfe a dragme Mustard séeds one drag and a halfe boile them all together in sixtéene ounces of vineger till the fourth part be consumed then dissolue thrée drag of Salarmoniack in it and gargarize therewith But if the Leach be gone downe into the stomacke then are you to vse the same remedies that are prescribed against wormes and there kill it Or take meale of Lupins Turbith Stechas Penniroyall Gith of each one quarter of an ounce mixe it with the iuice of Wormewood and make trociskes of it of the weight of a drag of which dissolue one in thrée ounces of the decoction of Gith and take it fasting It is very forcible but fafer and easier things may be vsed for it Of the Squinancie or swelling in the throate §. 4. THis Squinancie haue the learned giuen many kinds of names and that of the place in the throate where it appeareth or according to the qualitie and nature of it as Angina Cijnanche or Synanche which last name the Phisitions haue altered naming the same Squinanchem or Squinantiam And with all these names haue they meant but one sicknesse to wit a tumor in the throte euen as they call Pleuritis the pleurisie They describe the Squinancie thus Angina is a strong perillous sicknes that ariseth about the throte in the mouth and about the throte boll and very quickly stoppeth the breath Or Angina is a flegmaticke defluxion that sinketh into the outward part of the throate and there swelleth so that all the inward parts of the throate are thereby shut vp and the breath hindered The causes are diuers for it is ingendred as wel through great heate as through great cold and also through sharpe Northerne winds but especially when the same bloweth presently after a South wind Likewise also if one sit bare headed in the Mooneshine a long time But this sicknesse doth chiefly come and procéed of defluxions that fall out of the head into the throate and there cause a swelling and chiefly in the falling of the leafe or haruest when the rheumes are most of all mingled with sharp Cholera like as the same are in winter for the most part mingled with Phlegma Sléeping also immediatly after meales with hanging of the head increaseth the same Fat meate and all that is drest with milke Melons and violent motions straight after meates cause also this sicknes The same do also denimous things as blacke Hellebore and all Toadstooles So are sometimes blood Cholera Phlegma and Melancholia occasions of this sicknes which neuerthelesse do seldome strangle a man The signes of Angina are a short breath with bad swallowing otherwhiles blistering of the toong so that the drinke taken wil be driuen out at the nose againe the spéech goeth through the nose more or lesse as the sicknes is of importance If the blood be cause of it then is the pulse strong the face eies and toong red the mouth swéet great paine and retaining of the breath If it come of Cholera then is there great heate with litle spettle thirst blistering and drought of the toong bitternes of the mouth and great paine with it the breath is not so short as of blood the toong is yellowish this is also augmented in haruest and in summer and if one be cholericke also If this sicknes procéed of Phlegma then is there too much tough moisture in the mouth sometimes salt and of an euill tast the face is bleake and the toong also then is but litle paine little thirst and a little tumor But if it procéed of Melancholia then is therewith sowernesse in the mouth the swelling is hard his face ashcoloured Also this Squinancie commeth by litle and litle and not so sudden as the other Now to ease this disease there is nothing better then to eate and drinke but little the drinke shall
following Take the salue Dialthea one ounce and a halfe muscilage of Fleawort and of Quince kernels of each one quarter of an ounce prepared Cassia fresh butter of each one drag Leuen and Dates of each half an ounce oyle of Violets two ounces and make a salue of them Item take a Swallowes neast and seeth it in Well water straine the same through a narrow seeue and in this water boyle the rootes of Lillies Mallowes Hollihockes Violet leaues Pellitory Cammomill Adiantum of each one handfull stampe them all together with Barly water and Linseed meale of each one ounce Cammomill two ounces and thereof make a plaister Another of Montagnana Take a Swallowes neast Mallowes and Hollihock rootes of each one handfull Cammomill Adiantum of each two handfuls barly meale thrée ounces oyle of Cammomill one ounce and lay it warme on the throte Afterwards if any impostume appéere then take Figs Fenegréeke and Squils of each halfe an ounce séeth them together in a pint of water till but halfe remaine temper it with thrée ounces of Oxymel and then gargarize with it And if you thinke that it be too mild then open the swelling if you can come to it and wash the mouth often with wine and hony For purging thereof THis purging must be effected with coole things as sower Dates Prunes Confections Cassia and Manna as shall seeme good also mild clisters are to be vsed as hereafter followeth Take Mallowes Hollihock roots Violet leaues and Orage of each a handfull of the séed of Melons Cucumbers Gourdes and Pompeons stamped grosse together of each one drag and a halfe seeth them all together in sufficient water take of this decoction 12. or 16. ounces Cassia one ounce salt one drag minister it warme Good héed is also to be taken that the patient haue a soluble body and to that end serue suppositories made of Venice sope vsing the same oftentimes If the same ach of the head be mixed with Cholera the which may be knowne hereby that is if with the swelling there be a pricking and gnawing paine yellow colour bitternesse in the mouth also if that he in time of health haue eaten such meates as augment Cholera then is the sick body to be purged with the abouesaid things Rubarbe is also very commodious for it in this manner following Take one ounce of Manna Rubarbe one dragme or twaine steepe them in sixe ounces of prune-broth sixe houres long then straine it out hard afterwards vse the Clister which is described in the twelfth Chapter of the first part 5. § for madnes or frenzie which beginneth thus Take Lettice c. Hereupon you are to open the head veine on the hand and set cups on the necke and shoulders Vse also these aforesaid gargarisms or this following Take the iuice of Nightshade that is well settled sixe ounces Roses sliced Licorice and Fitches of each halfe an ounce good white wine thrée ounces let it seeth méetly well then temper it amongst one ounce and a halfe of Cassie and gargarize therewith often This helpeth and easeth the paine In the increase of the sicknesse there is sometimes vsed Myrrhe sodden with wine In like manner also the muscilage of Barley tempered with Goates milke Sugar Nightshade and a little Saffron Thus may then the bad matter be drawne outwardly Take Shéepes wooll dipped in oyle of Cammomill and Sallad oyle and lay it vpon the sore Or if one can get it take one quarter of an ounce of Snakes skins which the Snakes do cast euery yeare and seeth it in an ounce of oile of Almonds then wet a cloth therein and lay it on the place where the sore is a whole day and a night This plaister following is to this end also much commended Take Fenegréeke and Linséed meale of each one quarter of an ounce Hollihocke séedes Cammomill Hyssope of each one handfull These thrée last séeth and stampe to pap and then mingle it with the foresaid meale and with two ounces of Cammomill oyle and two ounces of the oyle of Lillies afterwards seeth it all together vntill it be somewhat thicke and then lay it warme on the necke In like manner are highly commended the swallowes with their young ones burnt in a pot to ashes and the same blowne into the throate or tempered with honie and the throat annointed therewith or gargarized which is a passing good remedie But aboue all other is Oxymel with Rosewater and vineger in the beginning most commended Likewise the sirupe of Mulberries and gréene Nut shels so that the skilfull Phisitions do write that those thrée last are the best remedies of all others Prepare also these pilles to hold vnder the tongue Take Assa foetida one drag Ireos halfe an ounce make them vp with the iuice of Colewoorts If you thinke that the patient will be strangled and cannot swallow then take Hemlocke séede Radish séede Assa foetida Borras Myrrhe Ammoniacum and common Salt of each a like quantitie of these altogether or of some of these make a powder and blow thereof into the throate A great boxing cup without pricking or otherwise set behind in the necke helpeth that the meate and drinke will be the easier swallowed downe But in case that the impostume be broken then are you often to gargarize with Meade and wine wherin Sugar and Ireos be sodden Iulep of Violets is very good for these kind of pains Paine in the throate through Phlegma and cold taking §. 6. IF the face and the eyes be not red nor fierie and that the patient haue his mouth alwaies full of spettle and is hoarce without great paine with other signes moe of Phlegma then shall Treacle and Mithridate be vsed for that they mitigate the pain expell all swellings and cleanse all exulcerations wonderfully Further you may vse this gargarisme following Take Ireos halfe an ounce Hyssop Adiantum of each one drag Licorice Currans and Figs of each one ounce Fenegréek and Lineséede of each half an ounce Barley one ounce and a halfe let it séeth together in sufficient water vntill the halfe be spent Also you may make choise out of the last mentioned gargarismes in the 13. Chapter and 4. § of that shall best like you and that is speciall good which is prepared of the sirupe of Mulberries and sirupe of greene Nut shels for a foule mouth for both of these are specially commended for all paines of the throat as daily experience teacheth The roote of Diuels bit sodden in water and therewith gargarized doth maruellously ease the squinancie For to purge are very requisite the pils Cochiae Foetidae de Hiera and the powder Medicamen de Turbith according as neede shall require And if neede be let a strong Clister be made and ministred as you shall find in the twelfth Chapter and the 17. § that which is very meete for this which beginneth Take Centorie c. There are Trocisces also vsed that are to be holden in the mouth and are to be
one side than the other and when the rheume is almost stayed For it hath bene often seene that they that haue bene let bloud in the beginning of the rheume haue alwaies remained and bene the hotter But to diminish all such subtill courses of the rheume and to make it thicke then must he hold in his mouth these gargarismes and losinges Of Gargarismes TAke sirupe of Iuiubes of Violets and Poppie séeds of each a like much temper them with Barley water Or take Iuiubes Sebestes Violets white Poppie séedes and Quince kernels decocted with Barley water vse it in the euening after meate it is passing good Item take sirupe of Poppie seedes sirupe of Mulberries of Roses and Well water of each thrée ounces wine of Pomegranates one ounce make it warme and gargle therewith Losinges TAke white Poppie seeds Purslaine seed and Lettice seedes of each one dragme Dragagant Gummi Arabicum and Saffron of each halfe a drag Opium fiue graines powne all that is to be powned and make it with the sirupe of Poppie heades to a dow then make losinges thereof as big as small beanes and hold one of these in thy mouth And for this also are commodious these common losinges Diapapauer and the cold Diatragacantha Item take Gummi Arabicum Dragagant Starch Licorice Quince kernels and séedes of Fleawoort beate all these small together make thereof as aforesaid losinges with the muscilage of Fleawoort and hold them vnder thy toung Also there may otherwhiles be made for a change the small losinges called Bechion of Diachodion Diamargariton and all the sorts of losinges which are here worthy to be described The preparation of the losinges for the cough and rheume after diuers manners THe blacke losinges are called at the Apothecaries Bichion or Bechion the which are made after two sorts to wit as followeth Take the iuice of Licorice and Sugar of each half an ounce Starch Dragagant pilled Almonds of each one quarter of an ounce the Muscilage of Quince kernels as much as is néedfull for to make losinges with it these do thicken al subtill rheumes and delay their sharpnesse Another sort Take Pine apple kernels that haue bene stéeped a whole night in Rosewater and bitter Almonds pilled of each thrée quarters of an ounce iuice of Licorice two ounces beaten Licorice three drag make a dow with Rosewater and then make thereof losinges they are very good against the Cough and against all raw swellings of the throate The white losinges are thus prepared Take white Sugar and Sugar candie of each a like Starch the fourth part beate them all together and with Dragagant dissolued in Rose water make losinges of them Item take sixe ounces of white Sugar Sugar candie and Sugar pennets of each two ounces beaten Ireos thrée quarters of an ounce Starch almost fiue drag beate these all together with Dragagant dissolued in Rosewater and make losinges of them The third manner is this Take Sugar pennets one ounce Sugar candie thrée quarters of an ounce Manus Christi without pearles and with Rose water halfe an ounce fine Bolus one drag and a halfe white Sugar one ounce and a quarter make losinges thereof with Dragagant as aforesaid If that then neede require that these rheumes must be yet more suppressed and made thicker then take Starch Dragagant pilled Almonds Beane meale blacke and white Poppy séede Gum and fine Bolus of each a like much this must you beate together with the muscilage of Fleawoort or Quinces and make losinges thereof For to Purge NEcessitie also requireth in this sicknesse for to purge Decoctio pectorales the which is to be begun with the sirupe of Iuiubes and Sebestes or with the drinke at the Apothecaries called Decoctio pectoralis the which is thus prepared Take Burrage Buglosse Violet flowers of each one drag Iuiubes and Sebestes of each fifteene Venus haire Scabious Folefoote leaues of each a handfull Annis seedes two ounces Figs and Dates of each fiue Licorice cut smal three drag husked Barley halfe a handfull let all these seeth together in a pint and a halfe of water vntill the third part be sodden away straine it and take the clearest of it and keepe it in a coole place Take small cut Licorice one ounce Iuiubes and Sebestes of each ten seeth them all together in sufficient water and make it as abouesaid In this manner are there many moe made but these are the commonest For purging take three or foure ounces of the first mentioned decoction breake therin Cassia and Manna of each one ounce mingle them together and drink it warme and you may drink a good draught of the two foresaid pectorall decoctions Another purgation Take Violets and water Lillies of each one quarter of an ounce Damaske Prunes ten or twelue sower Dates one ounce seeth them all together in eight or tenne ounces of water till the halfe part be consumed you are to take three or foure ounces of this decoction temper therein one ounce of new Cassia confection of Succo Rosarum or conserues of Prunes three dragmes mingle them and giue them early in the morning The third purgation Take foure ounces of broth wherein Prunes are sodden steepe therein a quarter of an ounce of grosse beaten Rubarbe all night and in the morning straine them and temper therewith two ounces of the sirupe of Roses and giue it fasting in the morning in the sommer cold and in winter warme But if you had rather haue pils then prepare them thus Take the shales of yellow Mirobalans halfe an ounce Rubarbe one ounce Aloe Diagridion of each fiue drag Masticke and Licorice of each one scrup beate them all together with the muscilage of Quinces vnto a masse you are to take thereof a dragme at once After Purging HAue regard whether the matter be yet waterie and thin then are you to giue to the sick bodie somewhat that is made with Poppie séeds For this is also good cold losinges of Dragagant conserue of Roses and water Lillies also he must smell to things that are cold of nature as Rosewater the which he must also draw vp into the nose Camfere Roses Saunders Pomanders of cold natures whereof some are described in the sixt part But if the rheume be tough and thicke then is all that to be forborne that is made of Poppey heads and make this water following Take dried Hyssope Licorice Venus haire Figs Hollihock séeds and séedes of Mallowes of each a like much and he shall hold in his mouth Dragagant with a little loch de Pino Because these salt rheumes haue some communion with the liuer then is highly commended for this strange bathes that flow from iron or other mines in the ground When this patient will go to bed then is he to take a quarter or halfe an ounce of the conserues of water Lillies and vse also one of these two capitall powders following Take Mace one quarter of an ounce red Corall burnt Iuorie red and white Saunders of
fresh Butter wherin Almonds and Sugar are mixed stewed Gourds Iuiubes Spinage Endiue Lettice Purslaine oile of swéet Almonds Kids flesh Pullets and such like It is also good that the patient alwaies keepe somewhat in his mouth sometimes one thing and otherwhiles another to wit losinges of Dragagant Sugar pennets Licorice the iuice of Licorice Sugar candy or such like and for this you may prepare this confection following ℞ Specierum Diapapauere vnciam vnam Diatragacanthi frigidi Diapenidionis sine speciebus 〈◊〉 dragmam vnam Sacchari violarum vncias duas Species Diaireos vnciam vnam fiat mixtura Or take that which followeth Take Poppie séede beaten small one ounce and a quarter Starch Dragagant and Gum of each halfe an ounce pilled séedes of Gourds and of Quinces of each thrée dragmes then make thereof a powder Item take Sugar pennets sixteene ounces séeth it with water of Folefoote vnto the thicknes of honie or somewhat stiffer and take thereof oftentimes in the mouth Item take a little pan and frie Currans therein stirring them still about that they burne not and eate thereof euery morning a full spoonefull Item take halfe an ounce of Manna dissolue it in fresh oyle of sweet Almonds if there be any drest therin strain them thorough oftentimes For this also is meete a bath of faire water wherein are decocted Violets Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes Because that this kind of drie Cough hath neede of moisture and mellowing potions for which these things are noted downe Take of the blacke losinges and temper them with the sirupe of Violets and with the foresaid decoction and drink therof as often as you wil it is maruellous good And you may also vse it with the sirupe alone Item take new milke temper it with sweet butter and sugar and drinke when you go to sleepe it easeth the Cough aboue all measure Or take foure pints of water and the fourth part of a pint of honie sixe Figs cut smal one ounce of Licorice seeth them together vnto a pint scum it well and drinke thereof euery morning a good warme draught and delay also the patients wine therewith This is also maruellous good against all hoarsnesse Another Temper faire Well water with any of these sirupes following and drinke thereof to wit with sirupe of Violets of Poppie heads or of water Lillies Item take Barly water one pint séeth therein foure or fiue Crabs according as they be big or in their stead hedge Snailes for they are speciall good against all drie Coughes This potion following is called at the Apothecaries Decoctio pectoralis The pectoral decoction and is much vsed and had in all the Apothecaries shops at Ausborough and also very commodious for it scoureth the stomacke melloweth the Cough cleanseth the tough slime in the breast and moisteneth also the same Take new Figs half an ounce Dates and Iuiubes of each one quarter of an ounce Mallowes Hyssope Currans sliced Licorice Annis séede Fennell séeds and Barly of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them all together in thrée pints of Barley water vnto the second part but if there be much flegmaticke slime with it then let there be sodden therewith one ounce or twaine of Honie The like remed haue you also here before in the second Chapter and the second § Of that which may be vsed outwardly TAke Cammomils alone or with Roses and Thime sodden together and receiue the vapor or fume thereof into your nose Hereafter follow diuers Salues and such like TAke the muscilage of Dragagant and of Gumme of each one quarter of an ounce oile of swéet Almonds and of Violets of each one ounce Hens grease and Calues marrow of each halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is néedefull to make a salue Or take oile of Violets foure ounces as much white waxe as will make it thicke spread thereof vpon a cloth and then lay it vpon the breast Item take the muscilage of Lineséede and of Hollihock rootes oyle of Lillies and Goosegrease of each halfe an ounce Saffron ten grains and a little molten Waxe make a soft salue of them and therewith annoint the whole breast This is speciall good for young children and not vnprofitable for people in yeares The things hereafter following are excéeding good to annoint therewith the breast if so be it be vsed alone or tempered with other things like as the oile of Cammomils oile of yellow and blew Violets oile of Lillies and Poppie heads Item all fat of Hens and Ducks of which two fats take one ounce of Saffron one scruple tempered together and the breasts annointed therewith There are at the Apothecaries two kinds of brest salues which are called Vnguenta Pectoralia Take muscilage of Fleawoort Dragagant Gumme Linséede and Fenegréeke séede of each one dragme Hens grease marrow of Calues bones fresh Butter thrée quarters of an ounce washed together with the water of Violets oile of swéet Almonds and of Violets of each halfe an ounce Waxe as much as néede requireth and so tempered all together into a salue This swageth not only the Cough but also all paines of the breast Another Take oile of Violets two ounces oile of swéet Almonds one ounce and a halfe fresh Butter two ounces Ducks grease one ounce Muscilage of Hollihocke rootes Linséede and Fenegréeke of each halfe an ounce let these seeth all together vntill that the muscilage be consumed Take molten white Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue but stirre it well about vntill it be cold this hath the same operation with the other Of a moyst and cold Cough §. 6. VVHen the Cough commeth with much slime and moisture and will not be remoued and that therewith be no Ague nor Lask then are these losinges following to be giuen him with water wherein Venus haire and Hyssope is sodden Take Fennell séede Smallage seed iuice of Licorice Venus haire and péeled Almonds of each a like much make trocisces or losinges thereof with the muscilage of Linséede You are also to prepare these Sirupes following which are passing good Take Ireos and Elecampane rootes of each one ounce and a halfe Hyssope and Venus haire of each two handfuls white Mints Pimpernell Mallowes Marioram of each halfe a handfull fried Linséed one ounce raw Barly one ounce and a halfe Licorice Currans of each two ounces Hony and Sugar of each sixe ounces make of them a sirupe For this is also méet the vsuall sirupe of Licorice also Stechados Oxymel of Squils and sirupe of Venus haire three or foure dayes one after another with water of Venus haire or Scabious drunken When as then the matter is prepared with the foresaid things then purge the patient with pils Cochiae and Aureae of each halfe a drag Or take one ounce of Cassie Agaricus one drag and a halfe Turbith also one dragme Sal gemmae and Ginger of each three graines giue it him with foure ounces of water wherein are sodden Venus haire Hyssope Scabious Licorice
Cinamome and Fennell are baked Of flesh is to be chosen good Mutton Veale Lambe Kids Hares Conies Roe buckes and the lungs of a Foxe Of Foules these are very commodious Hens Pullets Capons yong Pigeons Phesants Partriches Blackbirds wild Ducks rather boiled than rosted Also there be good for him Broths Coleworts Parsly Fennell Mints Sage and Hyssop which are to be vsed often but Turneps and Spinage very seldome drie Figs Raisins and Currans eaten before dinner and supper are much commended And his meate is to be drest with Fennell séedes Annis seede Comine Carawayes Pepper and such like things moe Pease porredge Beane broth is also good for him to vse likewise Raisins decocted in Almond milke or Goates milke To haue his meate drest with Sugar and honie is very good Vineger or Veriuice tempered with any kind of Spice as Saffron Ginger Nutmegs Cloues Cinamome or Cardamome In stead of Sallad oile is fresh Butter Barrows grease and Goosegrease good for him Further all that be grieued in the breast shall occupie much these hearbs in their drinks and otherwise as Venus haire Hyssope Horehound Elecampane and Saffron For his drinke Wine is not vtterly forbidden but he may drinke some small draughts and that the oftener Swéet and pleasant Wine is most wholesome for him tempered in the Sommer with Well water and in Winter with decocted water notwithstanding that good swéete red Wine were as good But if the patient will not gladly drinke Wine then is this meade following to be prepared for him Take three quarts of the water of Cinamome and Saffron of each one dragme and a halfe Hyssope one dragme seeth it so long vntill the fourth part be sodden away then put thereto twelue ounces of honie and seeth it againe till the third part be sodden away skumme it and then let it runne through a cloth Of all wines the Renish wine is most commended brued a little with water for it fumeth not into the head but hasteneth towards the bladder and caryeth the matter with it Sweet Limons Pomegranates and Quince peares being well sugred are also permitted for the appetite but Marmalade strengtheneth much the breast and lights This is then the order to be obserued in this sicknesse chiefly when as it proceedeth of flegme and not for any short time but the same is stil to be continued for as we haue alreadie shewed this sicknesse is of long continuance and perillous so that if one do his very best therein yet it is in young persons very hard and in old folkes almost vnpossible to be cured And although there be many sicknesses of the breasts like as is alreadie rehearsed and shall be yet againe spoken of hereafter yet is there no euidenter meanes for to know whether the Lights be infected or fraighted then through the Cough and by that which is cast vp in coughing It is also to be noted whether the breathing be vneasie slow and wheasing c. For the troublesomnesse of the paine and of the fetching vp of the flegme do bewray the matter which causeth the disease and vlceration of the Lights therefore must all Phisitions looke diligently vnto it for when the matter is knowne then is it easily to be discerned whereof this griefe in the breast is caused This may suffice for this present Of the breast oppressed with Phlegme §. 11. WHen any such sicknesses do light vpon men then must they be knowne and discerned as is alreadie recited therefore we will write first of Phlegma as of the most common infection of the breast In this sicknesse is first the Basilica to be opened in the right arme letting out foure or fiue ounces of bloud and afterwards this drinke following to be vsed Take tenne or twelue Figs Dates Smallage seedes Fennell seedes Venus haire Hyssope and Horehound of each fiue dragmes seeth them together vnto about the half take about three ounces thereof and temper therewith this Confection following and take such once in euery three dayes or once in euery foure fiue or sixe dayes for it exceedingly expelleth the superfluous matter from the breast Take the iuice of Licorice Hyssope and Venus haire of each tenne dragmes Pepper bitter Almonds Aristologie Cresses séedes and Nettle séede of each three dragms Hony as much as is needefull for to make a confection the Hony must be boyled and clarified But aboue all it is to be aduised that after letting bloud he take one dragme or foure scruples of Pillulae de Agarico which are much commended for this sicknesse Or vse these pils following Pillulae de Hiera compositae Aurearum of each two scruples make therof seuen or nine pils with sirupe of Roses and take therof twaine early in the morning and fiue houres after that take a draught of leane Hen broth and then one houre afterwards breake your fast The next day take in the morning this preparatiue Syrup de Bizantijs de Calamintha de Glicyrrhiza of each halfe an ounce water of Cicorie of Violets and Balme of each one ounce temper them all together and drink thereof eight daies long fasting When this is done then take this purgation following Take Electuarij Indi two dragmes De Psyllio half an ounce temper them all together in a little warme wine and drinke it in the morning early Some do counsell also that after purging héede be taken that one vomite with beaten Mustard séede and Honie for that doth vehemently expell the matter off the stomacke And if that you perceiue the matter be to be cast vp then take the water of blew Flower de luce Hyssope and Marioram of each one ounce water of Folefoote two ounces Sugar halfe an ounce temper and vse them euery morning for the space of one whole wéeke afterwards take thrée ounces of new Cassie and water of Folefoote wherein two scruples of Rhapontica and Spica halfe a scruple were stéeped drinke it warme and fast sixe houres after it This vnguent following may also be vsed euery day annointing the belly warme therwith couering it with a peece of warme fur Take oyle of Saffron oyle of Cammomill of each thrée quarters of an ounce Ducks and Badgers grease of each one quarter of an ounce Saffron half a scrup white Pepper Ireos and Rue of each one quarter of an ounce white Waxe as much as is néedfull thereof to make an vnguent or salue Here is also to be noted that all sowre and egar things and all that is drest therewith as sowre Pomegranates Orenges Limons and such like are very hurtfull In like maner is also grosse sowre wine and Sallad oyle very hurtfull These pils following are to be prepared Take good pot Aloe thrée dragmes Agaricus and the roote of Polypodie of each one quarter of an ounce Coloquint one drag Spica Ginger and Indie salt of each halfe a scruple beate them all together and steepe them in the iuice of Roses and of Endiue of each two ounces keep it in a warme place stirre it
in his breast and in all the bodie Yet do these signes alter through diuers occasions so that you must note the meate and drinke that the patient hath accustomed himselfe to vse before time How this disease is to be remedied and cured you shall find in the first part the twelfth Chapter § 8. of Madnes of Melancholia and all that is said in the third part of the foule melancholicke bloud Of the shortnesse of breathing or Pursiuenesse through wind §. 16. WHereas there is any short breath or heauinesse in the breast through wind the same will be alwaies augmented through meates and medicines that ingender wind as may well be noted through the rumbling and course of the wind in the breast and other places more For this must be vsed Rue and Penniroyall of each one ounce and a halfe Serapinum Opopanacum of each one dragme Comin one ounce and a half all this being beaten together make therof a salue with molten Waxe and annoint the breast therwith very warme This salue is also very good for all heauie breathing that proceedeth of grosse tough matter and that is impacted into the Lights for it separateth and consumeth the same What further might be done for this that may you sufficiently perceiue by all the forementioned Treatise wherein hath bene spoken of this sicknes For this short and sore breath through wind cannot be alone by it selfe but there must be with it either Cholera or Phlegma or Melancholia or bloud of all which there is sufficiently written Of the spetting bloud through some disease of the Lights §. 17. THe spetting of bloud may come of many occasions of the braines which are woont to be eased through bléeding at the nose whereof is written in the first part the eight Chapter and 7. § Secondly through any hurting or brusing of the throte or the mouth for which you are to looke in the first part the 13. Chapter Thirdly through hurting of the gums whereof we haue sufficiently mentioned in the first part also the saâ—e is sometimes caused of the Lights brest and stomacke also of the Liuer and of the mother c. This spetting of bloud do the Greeks call Hemoptoin whereof we will write at this present The cause of this bléeding may happen through falling thrusting and such like outward occasions of the breast or of any horsleach drunken through great heate or great cold strong coughs to crie loud to vomit much and vehemently through long vse of hote peppered meats or through vse of onions and garlicke through much subtil bloud through neglect of accustomed letting bloud and through some disease of the lights or when a veine chanceth to breake whereof hereafter we shall discourse in particular The signes of this spetting of bloud that commeth out of the breast or out of the Lights are that when the same procéedeth out of the breast then will there be felt great paine in the same and contrariwise when it procéedeth out of the lungs there will be felt very little paine the spetting bloud out of the breast is not so perilous as that from the Lights But when there is a veine broken opeÌ„ then runneth it most abundantly If it be caused of any other inconuenience as of impostumations bruses or hurts then commeth vp but little bloud and that full of scum When as then a sick man through haking without coughing fetcheth vp bloud it commeth from some little veines about the throate where you may easily come by it with any kinde of remedies but the patient for this disease must forbeare to eate excessiue meate and drinke by reason that thereby much bloud is engendred whereby through the superabounding in the veines the throate openeth but if he be prouoked to such bléeding through vomiting then it is a signe that it commeth from the stomacke the which is not much to be feared for that the same is to be easily preuented through letting bloud setting boxing cups opening the mother veine or opening their termes or flowers in like sort by taking some astringent things as the seedes of Sumach sower grapes and such like Item through this potion following Take fine Bolus Gum Dragon bloud Pomegranate blossoms Frankinsence of each a like much powne them togither to powder and take thereof thrée dragmes and temper it with sodden iuice of Quince peares For meate is very good Starch péeled Beanes Lentils Pease vnleauened bread Turtle doues and common Pigeons Of fruites all that binde as Medlars Seruices Quince peares Prunes Peares and such like For drinke milke wherein are quenched glowing pibble stones steeled water thicke red wine a little now and then sirupe of Poppie heads tempered with water wherein Quince kernels and Myrtle seedes are decocted It hapneth oftentimes that such spetting of bloud commeth of it selfe without any cause at all wherby the patient is neither hindred nor harmed at all and is to haue his course but if the same do chaunce through coughing which is a signe that the same ascendeth from the lights and the breast then is it to be feared that it will be Phthisis that is the coÌ„sumption which then ensueth bicause one cannot come to this place with necessarie remedies Then for this sicknesse it is best to let bloud immediatly at the first and that in the Liuer veine whereby the bloud may be deriued from the Lights Others do first of all open the Saphaea on the feete that the bloud might be drawne downwards and alwayes on the same side that it is adiudged the disease to be The third sort counsell for this disease to set boxing cups on their buttockes This being all done the patient is to be layd in a coole chamber where he may be as quiet as may be without much stirring of himselfe and must keepe from him all that might inflame his bloud as anger crying copulation laughing hot couerings hot and salt meates and drinke bathing and such like There are also no red colours to be brought in his sight Aboue all this binding is one of the principallest remedies against abundant bléeding therefore is that also here to be vsed as in other places is sufficiently taught There are ordained many mo remedies against this spetting of bloud euen as hereafter followeth whereof you may choose that which liketh you best Take Frankinsence and Dragon bloud of each thrée dragmes and one scruple of yellow Amber one dragme prepared Bloudstone and sealed earth of each ten dragmes Allume two dragmes and a half flowers of Pomegranats thrée dragmes Opium two dragmes Rubarb one quarter of an ounce make thereof 18. trocisces with sirupe of Poppie heads then temper euery day one in Purslaine water and so drinke it And if this spetting of bloud be too violent then may the patient take one more at night These things following are more certaine because of the Opium Take Mumia Mastick fine Bolus and Dragon bloud of each alike much being all beaten small togither make trocisces thereof with
Purslaine water for this is also good Trocisci de Carabe and of Terra Sigillata Now follow certaine confections and such like wherewith the cause of this spetting of bloud will be taken away for the which this following is a certaine remedie Take a dragme of Egshels beaten small and temper it with halfe an ounce of the sirupe of Poppie heads or sirupe of Iuiubes temper also with it the confection of Philonium Romanum halfe a scruple and so take it if you had rather drinke it then mixe it with some Purslaine water Item take conserues of Roses and Violets of each one ounce the cōfection of Triasandalon thrée ounces prepared red Corall Purslaine séede broad Plantaine seed of each one quarter of an ounce temper them togither with Rose water Or take the spices of cold Dragagant cakes halfe an ounce yellow Amber prepared red Corall Bloudstone fine Bolus Plantaine seedes and Housleeke of each one dragme a halfe Gumme broad Plantaine séede of each halfe a dragme Mastick Frankinsence of each thrée graines Raisins one ounce white Sugar as much as is néedefull Purslaine water and Rose water of each two ounces séeth therewith the Sugar vntill it be as thicke as Hony and temper the rest being beaten small amongst it Item take Pingles one ounce Currans one ounce and a halfe beaten Licorice halfe an ounce Ginger one drag Cinnamome two drag as much Sugar as the rest seeth them with the water of Plantaine and temper the rest being chopt and beaten amongst it Take Henbane seedes tenne graines prepared Corall one scruple two or thrée ounces of Plantaine water temper them together giue it him to drinke put also therto the tabulats of Diatragacanthum the confection of Diacodion Looch de Portulaca each alone or tempered to a confection with the sirupe of Myrtles the red losinges are also to be holden in the mouth that stand described with other Treacle or Mithridate do maruellously withstand the spetting of bloud if there be taken of them one dragme and a halfe tempered with Vineger and Purslaine water The confection of Foxe lights described here before in the 12. § are also highly commended aboue all other remedies Against all clodded bloud in the breast be it of any wounds or otherwise you are to drinke this take field Cypers stampe it small and lay it 24. hours to stéep in Scabious water wring it well out and drinke oftentimes thereof warme Item take the herbe Horsetaile beate it to powder and drinke thereof euery time one drag with Plantaine water twice a day This powder may you also cast vpon the meat and a little Bloudstone mixed amongst it Item take prepared Bloudstone mixe it with water or iuice of Purslaine and swallow it downe for this stone hath a special force to stanch bloud like as experience bringeth with it Or take two scruples of prepared Bloudstones and temper it with the renning of a young Déere and make pils thereof and hold them awhile in your mouth Item take Iuiubes Sebestes Dragagant Gum of each one quarter of an ounce Annis séede and seedes of Hollihockes of each one drag one quart of steeled water séeth these together to the third part whereof the patient is to drinke foure times a day Item take sirupe of Poppie séedes of Iuiubes and Myrtle séede temper them together or take each alone make a drinke thereof with water wherein Quince or Myrtle séede is boyled Another Take Myrtle séede broad Plantaine seede both beaten small of each one dragme temper them with Purslaine water and drinke it treatably Or vse this following in this manner also take beaten Lupins one quarter of an ounce prepared Bloudstone one dragm tempered with Purslaine water and drinke it as is said Betonie laid in Wine is also many times approued in the spetting of bloud There may also salues be vsed outwardly vpon the breast yet here is to be noted that it is very commodious for the spetting of bloud but for the cough very hurtfull therfore this following is rather to be vsed take oile of Roses or Myrtles of swéet Almonds iuice of Prunes of each a like much and make thereof a salue with molten waxe Item take beaten Frankinsence temper it with the white of an Egge and lay it on the breast Or take the iuice of Sloes Hyppocystis Dragon bloud blossomes of Pomegranats Gals Mastick and Roses of each foure scruples Turbith fine Bolus of each one dragm oile of Roses of Myrtles of Masticke of each halfe an ounce the white of an Egge well beaten and Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue The black Tabulates described in the second part the second Chapter and 2. § shal the patient hold vnder his tongue And if this be desired to be more forcible then is it to be prepared as herafter followeth take Dragagant Plantaine séeds a little parched and Gumme of each half an ounce Bloudstone the yellow seedes of Roses fine Bolus sealed earth Amber and red Corall of each one dragme muscilage of Fleawoort seed tempered with Purslaine water as much as is needfull for to forme therewith these trocisces vse them as is said It is also needfull that the body be purged For which this sirupe following may be vse◠Take Myrtle seede and the seede of Butchers broome Roses blossomes of Pomegranates the yellow seedes of Roses Acorne cups Gals iuice of Sloes and Hippocistis of each halfe an ounce white Saunders Quinces and burnt Iuorie of each one quarter of an ounce Dragagant Gum fine Bolus and Dragons bloud of each one drag and a halfe sealed earth and Masticke of each three drag Frankinsence white Poppie seede of each two drag and a halfe prepared Bloudstone halfe a drag the iuice of Plantaine and iuice of Quinces of each sixe ounces You must straine and scum the iuice then powre thereto as much raine water as will serue to seeth it together and make thereof a sirupe with Sugar whereof giue one ounce and a halfe tempered with thrée ounces of Purslaine water during certaine daies early in the morning This sirupe doth not loose but stoppeth much rather and stancheth bloud For the purging vse these pils de Agarico two scrup Cochiae one scrup make thereof seuen pils Or make the sirupe of Roses laxatiue with Rubarbe in an astringent decoction and Purslaine water wherein the shels of yellow Mirobalanes be decocted and this is a soluble and good purgation it cleanseth well the bloud But if the cough be with it then against night giue him a pill of Cynoglosso and let him hold one in his mouth by day For a broken Veine in the Lights or breast §. 18. THe signes of a broken Veine in the Lights are as is alreadie said if the bloud be suddenly spet out or powred out by heapes and that cleare cleane bloud and not clodded then is present remedie to be looked for before it turne to an impostume or that the bloud be congealed and turned into matter For if so
be that there be neglect thereof then is there danger of neuer more to be holpen And if so be that such forcible bloud will not be stayed then are you to open out of hand the Liuer veine in the arme of the same side where you thinke that the veine of the Lights is broken and then to let no more but two or three ounces of bloud And if you perceiue that there is any Cholera run out with it then is the bleeding of the nose not bad for the same But if this wil not helpe then is the head veine to be opened betweene the thombe and the first finger and let out about two ounces of bloud There is good for this to purge choler with Cassia soure Dates Manna and such like To draw the bloud downward the patient is to be rubbed softly with warme clothes in the outward members also to set great boxing cups vnpickt on the top of the buttocks and if the piles could be made bleede that will do it much good Salues TAke beaten Gals Acornes Butchers broome seedes and the iuice of Sloes of each halfe an ounce Myrtle séede séedes of Plantaine and of Purslaine of each thrée drag Dragagant Gum Isinglas Glew of each fiue dragmes Barly meale one ounce and a halfe Starch Mill dust of each one ounce Saffron one drag séeth it in red wine which is somewhat mild and make pappe thereof and lay it vpon the breast and renew it once euery foure and twenty houres And in case that the pap cleaue hard on the breast then must you lay a fresh thereon Item take Sorrell water water of Balme Cicorie and Rose water of each sixe ounces Trociscos de Spodio de Rosis of each two scrup red and white Behen Doronicum Harts bones and Pearles of each one scrup Malmsey halfe an ounce temper it together and seeth it a little then dip a foure square wollen cloth in it and lay it lukewarme ouer the left breast in like manner one more on the same side of the backe bone and refresh it euery day once For stanching of bloud there are many sundrie remedies described in the first part the eight Chapter in the 7. § where we haue spoken of the bléeding of the nose yet is there here cammanded to be vsed if néede require these things following Take Henbane seede and white Poppie séedes of each fiue drag sealed earth and red Corall of each two drag and a halfe prepared Bloudstone one drag and conserue of Roses foure ounces temper them all together and make a confection thereof Vse a little thereof and that with great héed For this also may be taken the oile of Rosin distilled with Ireos and prepared Sulphur two ounces Ireos one drag beate it together very small and vse thereof euery day three or foure graines Yet it is to be vnderstood that this is not to be done but after all the foresaid things as letting of bloud and such like Afterwards it is very good once in eight daies to take one quarter of an ounce of Turpentine with a little Ireos rowled with powder of Licorice This following is to be laid vnder the tongue Take cold Dragagant tabulats two ounces prepared Bloudstone Amber Glew red Corall and Pearles of each one dragme temper them all together with Looch de Papauere as much as all the rest and hold at all times therof in the mouth the bignes of a Beane Order for meate and drinke IT is very néedfull in this disease to obserue a certaine order in eating and drinking therefore he is to feed with that which cooleth measurably which thickneth the matter and draweth it together From the first day to the fourth the sick body is to be kept soberly afterwards is his meat to be drest sod with one of these things following as Dragagant Gum or a little cleane Glew or a pappe of Starch of Mill dust or at the leastwise other meate strewed therewith Pap of Goats milke that is prepared with pibble stones or stéele is good for him Sodden Calues féete or Lambes feete Pullets broth or Capon broth drest with Isinglas are very commodious for him There may also sometimes a péece of a Tench or an Eele with other intrailes of fish be sodden in other meates for it is certaine that those things for this sicknesse are very commodious In like manner are the Lentils sodden with Wheate and drest for this sicknes very méet for this is also fit Iuiubes Dates Barly thick milke fresh Cheese all kind of flesh wherein is little bloud as Wood Pigeons turtle Doues and Partridges prepared with binding things as with Quinces Barberies Raspes and such like If this spetting of bloud be caused through heate then dresse his meate most with Lettice Purslaine Gourds Melons Daisies Shepheards purse and such like For his drinke this following is very good Take twelue ounces of very good Hony foure pints of water that is twice stéeled with steele being well sodden together temper amongst it Dragagant and Gum of each one drag and a halfe Saffron one scrup let it seeth againe vntil the third part be sodden away But if one will not drinke thereof alone then is good red wine to be tempred amongst it But let him drink what he will if Isinglas be sodden in all his drinks or the powder thereof be mingled amongst his drinke it is the better He may also otherwhiles take a draught of Rose water or Purslaine water Raine water is commended aboue all other sorts of drinks if a veine be broken in the breast and chiefly if there be a little fine Bolus or burnt Iuorie tempered amongst it This following is praised for a precious and an approued powder Take the seedes of Plantaine Butchers broome seeds and the iuice of Sloes of each one drag prepared Pearles red Corall Amber Blondstone and Dragon bloud of each one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus three quarters of an ounce Dragagant Gum and Frankinsence of each three drag temper and beate it together You are to take one scruple of this powder with Purslaine water foure times a day one houre before breakfast one houre before supper and likewise two houres after For congealed bloud §. 19. WHen it is thought that after the veine is stopt in the brest there is yet stil a little clotted bloud behind then are these things to be vsed thereto For which is fine Treacle highly commended if thereof be taken one dragme or a dragme and a halfe with three ounces of water wherein Licorice and Venus haire haue bene sodden Or take old Treacle one drag one ounce of Vineger two ounces of Rosewater temper it together and giue it him For this is also good the water of Larks spurs billet coles one quarter of an ounce beaten smal and giuen to drinke in Vineger is a generall medicine for all clotted or brused bloud So is likewise the renning of all young beasts especially good for all clotted or brused bloud If then any body
hath caught a great fal or is hard strucken or thrust and afraid of any clotted bloud then giue him euery morning and euening each time two or three ounces of the iuice of Cheruill Item take Cheruill water and Louage water of each one ounce and a halfe or two ounces drink it at a draught Or take of Rubarbe halfe an ounce Lacca one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus sealed earth of each one dragme Rubarb halfe a dragme if you put thereto some burnt Sponges it wil be so much the better make a powder therof and vse it as is aforesaid Another Take fine Bolus halfe an ounce sealed earth one dragme Dragon bloud and Spermaceti of each half a dragme make a powder thereof and giue him a dragme of it with white wine This plaister following may also be made Take Goates milke hony let them be well warmed togither then temper amongst it as much fine Bolus vntill it be as thicke as a plaister and so lay it vpon the breast it wasteth the clotted bloud If any be afrayd that through falling or thrusting he haue broken any thing in his body or feare to haue any clotted bloud within him then is he to drinke one dragme of this following with warme wine or beere Take foure ounces of the roots of red Bluglosse cut them in péeces and let them séeth in a pot of red wine vntil they be soft then take them out and beate it to pap put thereto two ounces of Spermaceti and one pound of fresh Butter let them melt togither with a smal fire and therewith annoint the place where the paine is greatest and chiefly about the breast Lastly in the middle of the spetting of bloud take one ounce of the iuice of Plantaine tēper therein two or three graines of Opium and giue it to the patient Or make these conserues following Take white Pepper and Henbane séede of each fiue dragmes sealed earth and Opium of each one quarter of an ounce péeled Hempe séede and Saffron of each foure scruples Beuercod Spica Euphorbium Pieretrum Pearles Amber Zeduary and Doronicum of each one scruple Campher sixe graines sodden hony as much as is néedful giue of this halfe or a whole dragme with one ounce and a halfe of Plantaine water tempered with halfe an ounce of wine Comfortable things in and after the spetting of bloud §. 20. FOr to kéepe nature by her might and power these confections following are to be vsed Take the flesh of Capons that are sodden with Dragagant in stéeled water sixe ounces white and red Corall Dragagant Gum both a little tosted of each one dragme and a halfe fine Bolus Amber sealed earth Mumia and Bloudstone of each one dragme Purslaine séede and Plantaine seede of each three dragmes Almonds steeped in the iuice of Quinces three dragmes Iuiubes Sebestes so drest also of each one ounce Specierum Electuarij Regum one quarter of an ounce Species of the cold Dragagant Tabulats foure ounces white Sugar and Sugar candy of each one pound and a half or so much as you please seeth the Sugar with Pullet broth and mixe all the rest amongst it and make of them morsels Another TAke Species de Gemmis which are set foorth in the description of the hart one dragme and giue it with sirupes of Apples this strengtheneth the hart and the Lights it is very good for those that after spetting much bloud be so faint harted that they seeme to haue no more pulse For conclusion for this spetting of bloud we will here present some particular things to be vsed for the same where there is neither Phisition nor Apothecary neare hand bitter Almonds with Starch are passing good for this and also for all cold coughes Agaricus one quarter of an ounce steeped in sixe ounces of Purslaine water and wring it well out and so in one day at two times taken Flowers of Pomegranates Hippocistis and prepared Corall of each one dragme with the white of an egge and Gumme tempered togither to Trocisces and so holden vnder the tongue The iuice of Quinces Centorie burnt and washed Harts horne prepared Amber Lycium sealed earth fine Bolus Myrtle seede Myrrhe or a little of all of them thrée or foure graines at one time taken with wine is passing good Likewise the iuice of Mints or of Purslaine is highly commended for this disease For this is also good the white Henbane seede but not aboue three graines at once to be taken The yellow seede of Roses white Brier and many other things moe that are aboue rehearsed amongst other compounds which are to be vsed alone are very good Of the infection of the Lights which is called Peripneumonia §. 21. THis name is as much to say in Gréeke as Phlegma which is phlegme slime or corruption of the Lights which matter infecteth the lights maketh them swell and bringeth an hote Ague with it This is caused chiefly of Cholera or of Phlegma that which falleth through the veines or out of the head into the lights and may be caused of the matter that prouoketh the Pleurisie or Squinancie and falleth into the lights And although the Peripneumonia as an impostume of the lights hapneth to breake out whereby the lights are wounded yet is it notwithstanding therein seuered from the Phthisi that this infection of the lights is rather placed betwéene the small skin which couereth the lights than in the substance of them where it can procure an exulceration where contrariwise the Phthisis which is the right consumption harmeth impostumeth and rotteth the very substance of the lights The signes of this Peripneumonia or maladie of the lights are these namely a troublesome breath as if one would choke whereby the sicke body is compelled to lift vp himself his breath is alwaies hote so that he doth alwayes cal for cold ayre This phlegme is somtimes somwhat browne and otherwhiles pure red and sometimes greene and blacke and scummy They do feele a wringing and paine in the breast that reacheth from the ribs to the backbone There is also a strong Ague commonly therewith the tongue is red and will be in time slimy and black so that when one toucheth it with the finger it cleaueth thereto They cannot lye neither on the backe nor side but must sit alway vpright the chéekes are alwayes so red as if they were painted If then these signes all or in part do appeare then is it most certaine that there is an impostume in the lights the which otherwhiles causeth such a strangling and Apnaea that the patient can get no more breath and that it cannot be thought otherwise but that the patiēt must stifle and all this without any great stitch or féeling of great heate which neuerthelesse is very great ouer the whole body The remedies for this sicknesse are that the head veine be opened and afterwards the meanes be vsed which here before in the fift Chapter in the 5. § are prescribed The remedies for this
therefore are these things following to be vsed which do strengthen and warme the hart as Balme Burrage Rosemary Basill Penniroyall Marierom Wormewood and specially marrish Mints Of rootes Cipers rootes Zeduary Costus Ginger Elecampane rootes both the Béetes rootes and Doronicum Of seedes Ameos Smallage seede Annis seede Of Spices Cardamome Nutmegs Lignum Aloe Saffron Cucubes Cloues Item take Muscus Ambra Harts bones Citron pils Mastick Myrrhe Blattae Byzantiae good and pleasant tasting Wine Item take these warming confections following as Diamargariton Calidum Diacinamomum Diapliris Laetificans Dia Moschu Diambra Aromaticum Rosatum which is of a temperate nature Treacle Mithridate confected Citron pils confected Elecampane rootes and other things moe that do follow afterwards These things are of a temperate nature as Iacint Smaragdes Saphirs Rubies Perles Corrall Gold Siluer Amber Mirobalanes Bellerici Buglosse silke wormes nests burnt Iuorie Barberies Tormentill Harts bones and Saffron To coole the hart take Melon séede Pompeon séede Cucumber séede Gourd seede the seedes of Fleawort Sorrell séede prepared Coriander Pomgranats Lymons Citrons and their iuice Quinces sowre Apples Peares Raspes new and dry Prunes and all pleasant sauouring fruites water Lilly floures the iuice of the Vyne Vineger Roses Violets shauen and burnt Iuorie all kinde of Saunders Amber and sealed earth Of compounds is the confection of Diarrhodon Abbatis Triasantalon Manus Christi with Perles Diamargariton frigidum Trocisci de Camfora conserue of Roses of Violets Sirupe of Raspes Lymons Violets Roses water Lillyes Vineger and Oxysacchara and all that you shall finde written hereafter Moreouer there are hereafter set downe diuers confections that comfort the hart in heate and cold The order of life or diet for this faintnes of the Hart. A Bad stomacke is otherwhiles no small cause of this swouning for it procureth before the swouning come a heate ouer the whole bodie As soone as this shall be perceiued it is not amisse to vse for it confected Balsam wood but in the stead thereof take Tabulates of Xyloaloe which are very requisite for this Secondly he is to take euery morning one dragme of fine Treacle which must be twelue yéeres old with Rose water of the confection of Muscus Diamoschu dulcis he is to drinke of it oftentimes with Basill water one quarter of an ounce at a time but that which concerneth the stomack shall follow hereafter Fourthly this patient is to haue hanging about his neck a good Smaragde stone or at the least selected Corrall Fiftly take one dragme and a halfe of Rose buds which are not fully blowen Vine leaues red and white Behen floures and séedes of Basill barke of Frankinsence Marierom gentle of each one dragme Balme one dragme and a halfe Camfer one scruple Amber halfe a scruple Muske two graines each beaten by it selfe and being bounden in a péece of silke are to be smelt vnto oftentimes but if the faintnes be not holpen thereby and that it be feared that he will be more fainter then must those things be vsed against the swouning that are described hereafter But for the first you are to vse these cordiall waters and plaisters following Take Balme water twelue ounces Rose water Violet water the water of Willow leaues and of wilde Vine leaues of each sixe ounces burnt Iuorie Roses red and white Saunders Harts bones seeds and leaues of Basill of each two scruples Muske two graines Amber fiue graines Muscadell two ounces let all these séethe togither about one quarter of an hower except the Muske and Amber make then a péece of red Scarlet cloth wet therein one quarter of a yard square wring it warme out and lay it fower or fiue times in an hower vpon the hart A spoonge may also be laid in this water and smelt vnto oftentimes for both of them do maruellously comfort the Hart. If so be that the swouning doth not yet cease then take two ounces of this foresaid powder and temper amongst it as much Barly meale one scruple of Saffron and séeth it with good old wine vntill it be reasonable thick temper it well in a morter with foure leaues of beaten gold and one dragme of prepared Pearles spread these vpon a péece of red Scarlet cloth and then lay it on the left breast This is approoued to be maruellous good and to haue sometimes holpen such a griefe within one quarter of an hower and sustained the sicke person by his strength Of Syncope the great Swouning §. 2. THe second and sorest swouning of the Hart is called Syncope and is thus described Syncope is a distraction of all féeling and stirring of the whole body with extreme faintnes Amongst many other inward causes whereof are these receiuing of any pestilent or other stinking aire whether it be in time of the plague or of the stench of any hollow caues or of the byting of any venemous beasts as of Scorpions mad dogs and venemous fumes of mettals like as in the melting often happeneth of great feare and frighting of former diseases as of the dead palsie the pleurisie inflammation of the lights suffocation of the mother of wormes of ouer-watchings of many laskes of much bléeding of great hunger of much smarting of great paine yea also of great ioy other strong motions of the minde So that this great swouning hath great familiaritie with the dead palsie albeit there be a difference whereof we are to speake If any get the palsie then remaineth his face by good semblance but in this swouning it is like to a dead bodie For in this swouning all the blood runneth towards the Hart so that the patient remaineth without any feeling and in such an estate that no man can tell whether he be dead or liuing so that there is a common prouerbe of it That such dead men ought not to be buried in thrée daies Secondly they are like one to the other in that neither breath nor pulse is perceiued Thirdly in the palsie the patient féeleth before a heauinesse in the head but not in the Syncope neuerthelesse they accord in this that the affected partie lieth as though he were dead But in this swouning it is certaine if it come after a long panting of the hart and continueth long then it is a messenger of death and chiefly if there be Ellebor blowen into the patients nose and it doth not stir and mooue him at all The signes of the swouning to come of what cause soeuer it be prouoked are sweating and panting of the Hart a slowe and feeble pulse bleaknes of the lips and face chilnesse of the outward members numnesse of the sense of féeling and moouing where these signes appéere there a strong swouning draweth néere and there is néede of good counsell First and with spéede when the swouning approcheth or is extant then is the patient to be spouted in the face with Rose water or if that be not ready to be had with cold Well water and it will be the better if there be a little
Muske tempered amongst it for thereby will the naturall heate be driuen inwardly and the vital spirits reuiued Stop also his nose and his mouth a little while for if the breath finde no vent then turneth it backe and thereby quickneth the naturall heate Secondly his armes are to be bound hard and then made loose and bound hard againe The palmes of the hands and plants of the féete are well to be rubbed with rawe clothes salt and vineger to the end that the matter may be drawen from the hart Thirdly his stomacke and about the mouth of the stomacke is also to be well rubbed whereby the naturall heate may be quickened All fragrant herbes which are hot of nature are to be holden before his nose as all kinds of Spice Muske and Amber if so be that the cause of this matter be cold But for women that do fall into swouning through the suffocation of the Mother it is another case as shall be shewed elsewhere for that all odoriferous things are hurtfull to be holden before their noses A graine of Muske dissolued in Wine and then giuen is passing good And if the patient haue vehemently closed his mouth then is the same to be broken open with a wooden sticke and his toong téeth and roufe of the mouth to be annointed with Treacle or Mithridate But if the cause be through heate then must the patient haue cold things giuen him to smell vnto as Camfer Saunders Roses and such like here before expressed And of what cause soeuer this swouning doth come yet is it alway good that there be made a great noyse about the patient and that he be called vpon by his name and blow Campher in his nose or Saunders in stead thereof these are now the commonest meanes if the swouning be procured through heate or cold that are to be vsed at a sodaine Secondly all the windowes are to be set open that then the patient may be refreshed with the fresh ayre and they are to speake very friendly vnto him Also you are to annoynt his pulse nose and temples with the foresaid things and giue him all comfortable things as is before sayd that nature may thereby be strengthened and quickned An order of life for Swouning FIrst all men that are subiect to this swouning must beware of all cloudie moyst and cold ayre and shun such like dwellings must suffer no sweate vpon the head must cast off all sweatie shirts and put on cleane he must forbeare all moyst and cold meates as Spinage Béetes Lettice Purslaine Endiue Cherries hasell Nuts Abricocks Cucumbers and such like but new Figs are good for him Further he must be kept from all grosse binding meates from all that is made of dough from all Fish as Eeles Tenches and all great corpulent Fish But Crabs and small Fishes which are taken in fresh waters he may eate being a little broyled He must also eschue all old and fat flesh Chéese and such like He must vse for his drinke all cléere white Wine that is not swéete or a good old mild sort of Béere he must wholly forbeare drinking of water he must not ouercharge his stomacke with eating and drinking but chew his meate well and leaue off eating with appetite He must not sléepe after meate or at least not too long He must walke well two howres before meate yea runne vp hils for that consumeth well the moysture whereof the swouning is prouoked He must specially flye all anger sorrow vexation and other troubles of the minde as is sufficiently declared before But what medicines are to be vsed for the swouning shall be héere taught the patient must as soone as is possible take these pils following in the morning betimes Take pils of Rubarb one dragme Hiera composita one scruple make nine pils thereof with Rose water afterwards giue him this drinke following 6. daies one after another Take halfe a drag of Agaricke Hermodactili and Rubarb of each one scruple Diagridij and Sal Gemmae of each two graines Ginger Squinant Spica and Annis séede of each thrée graines Hony of Roses halfe an ounce let it stéepe one whole night in thrée ounces of water wherein Woodbinde is sodden afterwards let it séethe a walme and straine it out For to make pils take good Aloes two ounces Mastick Saffron Violets and floures of Buglosse of each halfe a scruple burnt Iuorie and Roses of each three graines Diagridion seuen graines Agaricke Turbith and prepared Asure stone of each halfe a dragme stéepe it all together with Cicorie water thrée daies long and being well stopt let it dry in the Sunne or in another warme place yet stirring it often about vntill it be méetely thicke take then a dragme thereof and make thereof seuen pils whereof euery euening you are to take one pill a certaine time long afterwards a whole yéere thorow take one pill about the fift day but if the patient be full of bloud and of sufficient strength then are you after purging to open the Liuer veine in the elbow on the left side and to let him bléede about fiue ounces For to kéepe open the body you are to vse this powder Take Epithymum rootes of Polipody Thymus Harts toong and Cuscuta of each one dragme Argall and Seny of each halfe a dragme Mace foure scruples stamp and mingle it all together take one dragme thereof at the least twice a wéeke at one time tempered with a little wine or some fresh broth it purifieth breaketh winde and clenseth the hart and stomacke Item take at the least once a wéeke as much Pieretrum as the bignes of a Pease chue the same and spet the moysture out of the mouth Another TAke a good péece of white bread mollifie it in good Muscadell or Malmsey if so be that the cause of this swouning be of cold but if it procéede of heate then mollifie the same white bread in Rose water in iuice of Pomgranats in iuice of Quinces in the iuice of Citrons or any flesh broth and so eate it Also this patient may vse conserue of Roses Burrage Buglosse and Rosemary and other things moe which shall be expressed hereafter in the trembling of the hart after that heate or cold hath the vpper hand There are yet many moe confections and cordiall things prepared which are very profitable for this purpose and do remaine described before in the discourse of the cold paine of the head where it beginneth Take conserues of Betony c. Item take Pistacia thrée ounces white Sugar sixe ounces sirupe of Roses fower ounces séeds of Basill red and white Corall Roses burnt Iuory red and white Behen of each one drag Zeduary Amber and Saffron of each two scruples Iacint Smaragde and Saphire of each halfe a scruple Mace Cinnamom and Cloues of each one drag sixe leaues of beaten gold Pearles fower scruples the Pistacia stéepe being cut small thrée dayes long in Malmesey afterwards séeth the sirupe and the Sugar thicke enough and first temper
therein the moist Pistacia and afterwards the rest beaten small whereof is to be taken the space of sixe weekes euery morning the bignes of a Walnut This powder following is to be strewed vpon the meate Take Cinnamom halfe an ounce Saffron one dragme Zeduary thrée quarters of an ounce beate and mixe them all togither The Zeduary hath a speciall power for to strengthen the Hart. And there is to be drest alwaies in his meate Buglosse and Baulme Cordiall waters To this end are prepared diuers cordiall waters as hereafter followeth Take Cinnamom and Cloues of each one ounce and a halfe Nutmegs one ounce red and white Roses of each ten handfuls Lauander flowers seuen handfuls hyssope two handfuls powre then thereupon a quart of Malmesey temper them all together cut them small and let it so stand nine daies together and afterwards distill it Item take good wine fiue quarts two rases of Ginger fortie Cloues Cinnamom thrée quarters of an ounce Mace one quarter of an ounce Spike two handfuls If you will haue it more forcible then put two Nutmegs cut vnto it let it steepe all togither sixe or seuen wéekes long and afterwards distill it Thus haue the auncient Phisitions done Or take fower quarts of good wine Spike thrée handfuls gréene Marierom gentle two handfuls Mace Cloues Cinnamom and Nutmegs as much as you thinke good temper them togither and set them a whole moneth long in the Sun in a glasse This may you kéepe so or distill it Another Take Lauander thrée handfuls stéepe it in a pint of wine or Malmesey stop it tight then set it for the space of thirty dayes in the Sun and afterwards distill it Of all these foresaid waters may a little be giuen him when he beginneth to get the swouning or hath the same already This iuice following is iustly praised Take a Capon or a Partridge rost it leisurely baste it with Rose water and Muscadell or any other good wine wherein Cloues haue béene stéeped then presse the iuice out of the said bird and giue him some thereof and the rest let him eate now and then some And that this iuice may continue good the longer temper it with as much hard Sugar as you thinke good But will you haue another then wring likewise as much iuice out of a Pullet or out of yoong Kids flesh take two ounces thereof new pressed iuice of Quinces one ounce and a halfe and one ounce of good milde wine temper them all togither and giue the patient to eate thereof For this is also commodious all Aquae Compositae which are described in the eighth Part. For this swouning may be vsed outward remedies after many maners first through shields Take Burrage flowers and Violets of each one handfull Cordiall shields red and white Saunders red and white Corall red and white Behen and Roses of each one dragme Saffron halfe a dragme burnt red Silke 15. graines Camfers Muscus Ambra of each two graines poune them all together and mixe them in a red silken bag and so lay it on your left breast Another Take Ireos halfe an ounce tame or wild Baulme Citron pils Buglosse flowers of each one dragme Mace one quarter of an ounce yellow white and red Saunders and Lignum Aloes of each halfe a dragme temper them with the powder of the capitall bags which are described in the first Part the twelfth Chapter in the beginning where is mention made of the Braines take thereof as much as is néedefull for a bag to lay on the Hart. The same is also wonderfull good in time of the plague being laid vpon the Hart. Item take Ireos three ounces and a halfe Damaske Roses sixe ounces Marierom Cipers rootes and red Styrax of each halfe an ounce Cloues one quarter of an ounce Calmus halfe a dragme Muscus two graines vsed as aboue This following is a very precious cordial shield Take Burrage flowers Buglosse flowers red and white Saunders red and white Behen Nutmegs and Couchenell Lignum Aloes Saffron Seduary white Diptamus Cucubes Basill seede Baulme and Citron pils of each halfe a dragme Galliae muscaâ—ae one scruple Muscus and Ambra of each sixe graines beate them all together grosse and put it into a red Crimson bag and lay it ouer the breast Here follow diuers moe Take Iuniper berries powre thereto water of Sage poune them to pap and then bind it luke warme vpon the Pulse Item take Cinnamom Mace Saffron Cloues as many as you will put Malmesey vnto them and lay it all vpon the Pulse Take vnpouned Saffron fasten it in the left hand one hower at the least it strengtheneth much the Hart. Take cleane burnt Baulme Peniroyall Cloues water of Sage and Roses temper them and annoynt therewith the patient especially on the Pulses vnder the nose and vpon the temples of his head The auncient Phisitions do rub the hart with fresh Burrage flowers it is very good but it is very weake All odoriferous things which are hot by nature are to be vsed against the swouning through heate But Hyssope is chiefly to be commended for it and all those who are subiect to this swouning are counselled to smell oft vnto it This Baulme following was ordained for the Emperor Ferdinandus A precious Balme to comfort the Hart first ordained for the Emperor Ferdinandus Take a pound of Turpentine sixe ounces of Virgin honie twelue ounces of water of life euen as hereafter be diuers described in the eight part Lignum Aloes Turbith yellow Saunders Sage rootes of blew Flower deluce and Chamedrys of each one dragme Nutmegs Galingall Cucubes Cinnamom Masticke Frankinsence Cloues Spica white Mustard seede Saffron Ginger Rue séedes and Costemary rootes of each thrée dragmes Muske one dragme Amber one quarter of an ounce beate them all grosse togither and let it stéepe all togither one day and a night in the water of life But the Muske and the Amber are to be broken alone in some Muscadell wine Lastly temper the Turpentine therewith and distill it in séething water A good Salue TAke Amber Zeduarie red and white Corall Blaettae Bysantiae Basill séede red and white Behen and Rosemary flowers of each one dragme and a halfe Mace one quarter of an ounce Sorrell small Endiue and Cicorie of each halfe an ounce Roses and water Lillies of each thrée quarters of an ounce Rosin one ounce and a halfe Laudanum halfe an ounce white Waxe thrée dragms melt the thrée last things togither and as they begin to be cold then mingle the rest amongst it afterwards let it be spread on a round cloth and layd vpon the left breast If it be too hard then make it softer with oyle of Roses both which are good as is said against the swouning and faintnes of the Hart. Yet is the Balsam much hotter then the salue for it is temperate and therefore you may know how to vse it accordingly When you haue made it softer then annoint the whole breast therewith
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
leaues Linséede and Fenegréeke of each one handfull and a halfe séethe them in broth wherein hath béen sodden a Lambes head then take twelue ounces of this decoction oile of Violets and swéete Almonds of each one ounce the marrow of Calues bones Duckes grease Hens grease and swéete Butter of each thrée dragmes Tho. Sugar one ounce all this being made then set it warme In like maner may this salue be coÌ„tinually vsed Take oyle of swéete Almonds Ducks grease and swéete butter of each one ounce the iuice of Mercury fower ounces séethe these togither till the iuice be throughly sodden away with this oyntment annoynt from the Nauell downewards vnto the Hips in the euening when you go to bed This Clister may be vsed both in cold and hot causes of the panting of the Hart. Now as concerning the order of life especiall care must be â—aken that he be not ouercharged with eating and drinking In the beginning of this sickenes Barly paps are very commodious Also Hens or Pullets drest with Vineger or Veriuice In fine he ought not to order himselfe in this sicknes then according to the custome of other hot diseases It is very good to séethe or stéepe in his drinke Burrage or Buglosse with the flowers He must refraine from all clowdie cold and moyst ayre his bed and his chamber shall he hang and strewe with Willow leaues Roses water Lillies and Vine leaues and that principally when it is hot weather Also he must beware of all windy and flatulent meates as Milke Pottage Honie fruit and especially grosse slimy meates as those made of dough grosse fish vnleauened bread old Chéese Chestnuts and such like In like manner also from all sharpe and heady things as Onions Garlicke Radishes Léekes and such like All grosse wines are naught for him and water also decocted with Licorice Of the panting of the Hart through cold §. 5. WHen as there is no Ague with the panting of the hart then is it a signe that the same procéedeth of cold which is caused for the most part of a watery Phlegma whereby the breath is hindered yea sometimes is stuffed with such force in the breast that it séemeth that they will stifle This hath also a slow inconstant Pulse with an heauy breath and sluggishnes of the whole body and mind and with an ill fauoured colour of the face This is to be remedied as hereafter followeth Take water of Baulme water of blew Flower deluce and Agrimony of each one ounce and a halfe and a little Sugar and then drinke it fower or eight mornings togither very warme But if the patient cannot goe to stoole then is this Purgation following to be giuen him Take Electuarij Indi one ounce De Succo Rosarum halfe a dragme temper this with thrée ounces of good wine and giue it him in the morning betimes And if the body be bound at the time when the foresaid drinke is to be vsed then must the patient take alwaies one hower or twaine before supper one or two of these pils following Take Pillulae de Sarcocolla one dragme Alephanginae one quarter of an ounce make thereof fower and twenty pils with the iuice of Roses Also he must drinke this euery morning Take Treacle or Mithridate one drag or one and a halfe according as you thinke best and temper this with good wine Some do aduise that at the first yea forthwith you do giue with wine one dragme or a dragme and a halfe of these Tabulates following Take Masticke Indy Spike Lignum Aloes Cinnamome Cloues Cardamome and Citron pils of each one drag and a halfe Muske halfe a scruple make a powder thereof and giue it him as aforesaid But the principall things seruing to this panting of the hart we will briefly expresse to wit all that is warme of nature and smelleth swéete as Amber Muske Saffron Lignum Aloes red Styrax Cloues Citron pils Nuts Cinnamom Marierom gentle Basill Spike of Indie Baulme Burrage red and white Behen Doronicum Zeduary Cardamome Rosemary and Basill séede Of all these things are made confections powders other compositions as shall appeare hereafter Of compounds these are commonly made at the Apothecaries as Diambra Dianthon Diathamaron Laetificans de Gemmis calidis Aromaticum Rosatum de Xylo Aloes Diapliris and confected Citron pils Here followe certaine Electuaries for to vse inwardly Take Masticke Cinnamom both kinds of Basill Mints Marierom gentle and long Pepper of each a like much when you haue ten dragmes of this powder then mixe therewith prepared Pearles red Corall Amber burnt silke red and white Behen and Indy Spike of each halfe a dragme afterwards mingle it with Honie vnto an Electuary wherein Mirobalans Chebuli be put This is good not onely for the panting of the hart swouning and for faintnes of the hart but also for a cold and féeble stomacke for it strengtheneth the same excéedingly This must also be noted Nota. when any confection is to be made wherein there is no certaine quantitie of Honie then are you to take alwaies for one ounce of powder thrée ounces of Honie and then mingle them well togither Item take the flowers of Burrage Buglosse Rosemarie red and white Behen Saffron Doronicum Lignum Aloes Licorice and Basill séede of each one quarter of an ounce Iacint Smaragde and Saphire of each halfe a scruple Sugar thrice as much as the other make a powder thereof whereof the patient is to take a scruple at the least at meale tides Conserues of yellow Violets are very much vsed and also highly commended for this panting of the hart You haue also before in the first Part the twelfth Chapter a good stomachicall powder in the first § which serueth for this purpose Item there is in the 5. § a water of Lillies of Conuallies Also in the eight part many sundry waters of life hot of nature which are for this very commodious Confected Nutmegs do strengthen all inward members and consume all superfluous humors Conserue of Buglosse Burrage Marierom gentle Rosemarie Cowslips Cicorie mingled with other or each of it selfe do much strengthen the hart In like manner are good for this all Pomanders which are hot of nature and are to be sought for in the Register and those are speciall good wherein Muske and Amber are put Item steepe the space of certaine howres Baulme in Malmesey and besprinkle therewith a hot brickbat and then receiue the vapor into the nose There may also be laid outwardly cordiall waters vpon the left breast which are thus to be prepared Take Baulme water Buglosse water of each sixe ounces Vineger one ounce Cloues one dragme Saffron halfe a dragme Muske halfe a scruple lay it with a cloth vpon the left breast Some do vse the iuice of the herbes when they be setled in stéede of their waters which are also very forcible Item take Buglosse water and the water of Sorrell of each thrée ounces water of Willow leaues Rose water and
Wormewood water the water of Grasse and of Baulme of each two ounces Spec. cordiales temperatas one dragme and a halfe Saffron eight graines Myrrhe Diptamus Gentian Lignum Aloes yellow Saunders Basill séeds red and white Behen Iacint and Smaragde of each halfe a scruple the iuice of Limons thrée ounces Vineger one ounce and Malmesey thrée ounces temper them all togither it is wholly temperate so that it may be vsed for the comforting of the Hart in cold and heate Another TAke fresh Rosemary floures thrée ounces Sage floures Buglosse floures Burrage floures of each one ounce and a halfe Saffron one scruple séethe the floures in sufficient Muscadell and then stamp them well together and lay it warme vpon the left brest this doth not only strengthen but maketh also a light breathing There may also shields be made for this euen as héere do follow two sorts Take floures of Burrage and Buglosse of each one handfull red and white Behen and Saffron of each one dragme burnt red silke one scruple Cloues Cinnamome red Corrall and Roses of each halfe a dragme Harts bones Muske and Amber of each thrée graines put all these in a red silke bag then must you besprinckle them with warme Buglosse water and so lay them to the left breast Item take Zeduary red and white Behen Rosemary Indy Spica Roses red and white Saunders Burrage floures burnt Iuorie Mirtle leaues Buglosse floures and Camfer of each two scruples Saffron and Gallia Muscata of each one dragme Ambra halfe a scruple Muske foure graines and make a bag thereof This is very temperate There are also these plaisters and salues that hereafter follow to be vsed Take Laudanum thrée ounces Cloues Citron pils of each one dragme Muske one scruple Turpentine halfe a dragme melt then the Laudanum with the Turpentine in a warme morter temper the rest amongst it and so make a plaister thereof spread it on a red clout and so lay it on the left brest For to make a salue or oyntment take vnripe oyle of Oliues and oyle of Roses of each two ounces Sandaraca one dragme and a halfe parched Salt thrée dragmes Roses and Cypers rootes of each halfe a dragme beate them all small together and kéepe and preserue it vntill occasion serue to vse it For it hapneth oftentimes that such humors do draw downewards and fall in some place of the hip the knee or ancle the which must be kept warme Lastly you ought not to rest vntill the patient be frée of this panting of the hart without vsing any medicine vnto it or that the disease may with all diligence be diminished if the same could be perfectly cured Therefore must alwayes a little Saffron be mixt amongst all his meates and if that cannot be gotten then is the dry powder to be drest amongst his meate All these confections may be made thus Take the Spec. Laetificantes Almansoris Dia Mosch◠dulcis De gemmis temperatis of each thrée quarters of an ounce red and white Saunders red and white Corrall of each one dragme Sirupe of Citrons sirupe of Roses and of Vineger of each fiue ounces white Sugar thrée ounces séethe the sirupe and the Sugar vntill it be thicker than Hony and when it doth begin to be cold then mixe the powder amongst it and vse thereof in the morning and two howres before supper about the bignes of a Walnut Thirdly make two bags in this manner Take Basill séeds floures of Buglosse of Burrage Marierom red and white Corrall red and white Saunders of each halfe a dragme Iacint Smaragdes and Saphir of each fiue graines Campher one scruple wilde Vine leaues one quarter of an ounce Mace one dragme and a halfe stamp them all small and fill herewith as is sayd a little bag and lay it on the hart The rule of life for this sicknes consisteth in light meates as in all field Foules in meates that be drest with odoriferous spices yolks of new layd egs are very méete for him further behold what is taught in the discourse of the cold braines and cold head For his drinke white Wine soberly drunken is good For Wine be it as strong as may be if one drinke too much thereof then doth it cause cold diseases and if one desire to delay it then is it to be done with water wherein glowing Gold hath béen extinguished This Wine following doth strengthen the hart and the stomacke also Take Ginger two ounces Galingall one ounce Cinnamome two ounces Zeduary one quarter of an ounce Roses one ounce Burrage floures one ounce and a halfe and rootes of Buglosse beate them togither grosly and steepe them in eight quarts of Must or new Wine These spiced Wines are also good for the hart if the disease do come through cold in like manner Wine of Burrage of Harts toong of Rosemary of Buglosse and of Hyssop of Marierom and of Asarabacca all which haue power to warme the panting of the hart and also to strengthen it Item take Balme water and Buglosse water of each sixe ounces Sugar nine ounces séethe them to twelue ounces and then vse it as a Iulep Or take water of Buglosse alone wherein Cloues were sodden and drinke sometimes thereof for it comforteth maruellously Item take Parsly with the roote boyle them in Wine according to that you will haue it strong temper therewith a little Vineger and drinke the same It taketh away the panting of the hart and all paine of the same Besides all this the patient is to forbeare all milkie doughy moyst and windie meates to arise from meales with hunger and halfe a thirst he must after meate not moue nor stirre much nor yet sodainly giue himselfe to sléepe he must also according to his old wont not sléepe too much whereby he might consume and diminish the humidities of the bodie he must also for the most part lye on his right side and flie all anger sorrow and all other vexations Of the panting of the Hart through a bad stomacke or Appetite §. 6. HEre before amongst the signes of this sicknes we haue taught also that the panting of the hart and the swouning are caused oftentimes through a bad stomack But if this disease come of a full stomack then must the cure begin with refraining from meate and drinke and first with opening the Liuer veine afterwards the Median But if this be not very néedfull then are you to minister to the patient a milde Clister for that all strong purgations are enemies to this disease Further he must obserue for his meate and drinke euen as is shewed hereafter in the description of the stomacke Now for to strengthen the stomacke through outward things choose for it out of the foresayd remedies that which best liketh you Of the panting of the Hart through frighting §. 7. IT is also admonished in the beginning that the Hart may come to much distemperature through fright and feare and that through the concourse of bloud for which
Melon séed Pompeon séed Cucumber seed and péeled Gourd seed of each one dragme sower Dates one ounce Violets halfe an ounce séeth these all together except the Dates and breake them into this decoction it is very good for the breast and cooleth naturally take of it thrée ounces Rubarb two scruples Spica foure graines conserue of Prunes halfe an ounce temper these well together and drinke it warme and fast thereupon the space of sixe houres The same day lay vpon the rupture sixe ounces of greene Nightshade but if you cannot get it then take dried Roses and broad Plantaine of each two ounces Linseed sodden in vineger twelue ounces barly meale fiue ounces oile of Roses foure ounces let all these séeth together vnto a thick pap by a mild fire treatably and then lay this vpon it twice a day Item take water of Endiue Nightshade barly water and beane water of each a like much temper amongst it a litle saffron and oile of Roses make it wet in a cloth and lay it theron Or take Barly meale Lentil meale Beane meale and Violets of each a like much temper these all together with the iuice of the herbe of winter Cheries vnto a plaister or salue and vse it as aboue But if so be that the paine of this accident wil not stanch then powne Henbane amongst it The third day must two cups be set behind on the buttocks and that at such time as the patient hath least paine letting them draw much bloud His meates must be cooling and drying as Veriuice the iuice of Pomegranats c. His drinke must be sower and thin wine This is also to be noted that this kind of rupture is of that nature that it may be cured in eight dayes But the rupture which is caused of phlegmatick humors is much more common and they that gladly haunt strange women are more subiect to these ruptures Also all they that liue riotously eate hard meates and haue sate vpon a cold stone with their naked body which may be knowne through the coldnesse of the disease when it beginneth to mollifie and when one doth thrust his finger into it that the dent of the finger tarieth a good while in it which in the windy rupture nor in the water rupture hapneth not to be Also the place is not perspicuous and the swelling remaineth at a stay This disease is to be cured with these purgations following Take Turbith one quarter of an ounce Ginger one dragme white sugar thrée dragmes temper them together of this must the patient euery fourth day take one dragme with Wormewood water and betwéen them must he euery morning take this potion Take water of Balme Betony and Wormewood of each one ounce and a halfe Sugar halfe an ounce Vineger of Squils one ounce mixe them together Now for to strengthen the parts wherein the phlegmatick humor ingendreth it is very good euery morning to take one dragme of Treacle which is ten yéeres old This plaister following is also maruellous good for to consume all such matter Take Sandaraca two ounces Sarcocolla one ounce ashes of Beane straw or Vine stockes sixe ounces Vineger of Squils two ounces as much water as is néedful let these séeth together vnto the thicknesse of a plaister and lay it vpon the sore as aboue Some do take in steed of common ashes the ashes of Saponaria which may be well done Of the fleshie Rupture §. 6. THis rupture may also ingender of good bloud for that the nourishing operation doth works so vehemently therein that the bloud turneth into flesh It may also be caused through great heate of the cods When as then this excrescence of the flesh doth much increase then will this member be much féebled and the new flesh which at the first was not hurtfull will be vtterly destroyed This excrescence of flesh or fleshy rupture is first of all knowne for that therewith is no paine at all The heate is to be knowne by the rednesse of the place where the disease appéereth and by the hardnesse it is also knowne for that it agreeth with other flesh Lastly it is also to be discerned and knowne by the speedy increasing by reason that sometimes it will be as big as ones head The outward causes of the fleshy rupture are all that ouerheate and ouermoisten whereby the bloud inflameth and will be fat euen as all delicate meates yolks of egs good fresh broth swéet Wines Dates Sugar and all that is drest therewith and such like For to remedy this first the Liuer veine or the Median is to be opened and that at seuerall times first one then another Secondly you must looke to open the hemorrhoides in the fundament through continual rubbing it with Oxe gall or with water wherein Sulphur vif is decocted Thirdly through often applying great cups vpon the buttocks hips and other fleshy parts He must eate no other meates than that are cooling and drying thereby to hinder the generation of the bloud for which this plaister following is also to be layd therupon Take Lentil Nightshade Roses and broad Plantaine of each sixe ounces Barly meale twelue ounces three whites of egges seeth these all together in sufficient vineger and thrice as much water then make thereof a plaister and lay it vpon the whole cod fiue or sixe dayes one after an other Now when as this patient hath purged and done all that is prescribed then is this plaister following to be layd vpon the rupture Take Bolus two ounces sealed earth and starch of each one drag Mil dust one ounce and a half Sandaraca and Mastick of each one quarter of an ounce make a salue thereof with the iuice of Roses in a leaden mortar and lay thereof twice a day ouer the rupture Afterwards vse this corroding ointment Take blacke Sope two ounces Orpiment one ounce and a halfe Sulphur vif halfe an ounce burnt Copperas one dragme and a half temper all together in a mortar with water wherein Sal Armoniack is dissolued lay this vpon the lower part of the cod about the breadth of a groate and let it lie therein about one houre but no longer so that it may not bite in too déepe When there is any vlcer then lay easie things thereon as Barrowes grease or butter vntill that the escarre fall off When this is all done then take for this the salue of the Apostles afterwards are you to lay this biting salue againe vpon another place of the cod so that it may be opened in sixe or eight places yet so that one may commodiously come to it with the foresayd things When you then sée that such excrescens be consumed which may be discerned and knowne hereby that the cod is come to his wonted bignesse againe the which sometimes hapneth to endure halfe a yéere before it come thereto then must you procéed with incarnatiues which things require an expert and patient Chirurgian Of the Rupture which is caused of broken veines called Varicosa
there seeketh issue and to tell the truth this is very hardly to be healed especially when all such diseases do stand deep in the necke of the mother But these clefts are to be healed with the same remedies which shortly hereafter in the treatise of the Arsgut shall be described yet if there be no Ague nor sharpnes present then may these pessaries following be vsed Take Ducks grease and the marrow of a Stags bone of each halfe an ounce Saffron one scruple oyle of Lillies and of white Daffodill of each one quarter of an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull wherewith to frame pessaries These pessaries must be put vp into the place yet bounden at a threed they draw the clefts together Item take Frankinsence and Hypocistis of each halfe a dragme Aloe halfe a scruple Dragon blood three dragmes the iuice of Sloes one dragme dried Asse dung one ounce dried Mints a scruple burnt Egshels one dragme and a half three whites of Egs burnt paper two scruples thrée ounces of the iuice of broad Plantain Vineger one quarter of an ounce temper them all together it is especiall good for all clefts of the whole body But if so be that there be any heate or sharpnesse therewith then is oyle of Roses to be vsed for it and the pessaries must be annointed with this white vnguent or make a pessary of Cotton stéeped in Rose water or Plantaine water But if the heate therof be great take the iuice of Purslaine muscilage of Fleawort and iuice of Housléeke worke this the space of certaine houres in a leaden mortar and temper a little oyle of Roses amongst it this healeth and cooleth It is also very good against the Canker of the Mother and such like diseases Item take Dragagant and Gum dissolued in Rose water washed Aloe Ceruse Frankinsence and Dragon bloud of each one dragme litharge of Gold halfe an ounce oyle of Roses two ounces waxe as much as is néedful stamp all that is to be stamped and make a salue of it Also this hereafter following may with a Siring be squirted into the place Take washed white bread Frankinsence Bolus and Dragon blood of each one ounce powne it and séeth it in foure ounces of Goates milke vnto the half then straine it through a cloth and vse it as hath béene sayd Of the Vlceration in the priuities of Women §. 3. AL that is ordained herebefore for the clefts is also good for all vlcerations of the priuities in women so is also in like manner that which followeth hereafter Take fresh butter Badgers grease and Deeres suet of each one ounce the marrow of a yong Steere halfe an ounce fiue beaten yolkes of Egs temper them all together ouer a mild fire and stirre it continually when as it is almost cold then put thereto Violets Cammomill and Roses of each one ounce oile of Oliues one ounce and a half let this séeth softly one quarter of an houre stirring it alwayes about afterwards straine it through a cloth Item take Barrowes grease wherin Dill hath bin fried May butter and Harts suet of each two ounces Sallad oyle one ounce and a half the marrow of a yong Stéere and Roses of each one ounce Violets Cammomill of each one dragme and a halfe sixe yolkes of egs well beaten temper it as before you may put thereto a little Beuercod this is the elder the better For a generall rule note that whereas any vlceration or clefts do show themselues outwardly that for the same these foresaid remedies are commodious if so be that they stand déepe in the neck of the Mother then vse the foresaid pessaries and thrust them in déepe inough for which cause the pessaries must be reasonable long Also for all swellings and exulcerations vse the oyle of white Daffodill for it is very much approoued for it When any body catcheth any sore through carnall copulation §. 4. THis is to be vnderstood of any sore which commonly commeth through copulation or venery For this you shall take Calues suet letting it melt treatably vpon hote coles then temper therewith the marrow of an Oxe when it is molten let it be cold when you will vse this then take a little of it and annoint the sore therewith But if it hapned that one haue his ordure to come forth before then take a small Tunnell and stick it into the fundament like as it were a Clister pipe then poure therein the molten fat but not too hot The patient must also keepe in his breath and afterwards plucke out the Tunnell and so stop the fundament with Cotton that the same fat might not run out againe And two or thrée dayes after he must bathe in warme water or foment with a bag that is filled with Oken leaues Plantaine and Roses and is decocted in water For to make a Woman to be as narrow as a Maiden §. 5. TAke Consolida Saracenica Plantaine red Roses and Shepherds purse of each a like much and chop them small when you haue two handfuls of them then take a pound of May butter melt it and put thereto the sayd herbes then let all séeth softly together halfe an houre long afterwards straine it through a cloth and therewith annoint the place Item take Coperas and let it dissolue in well water wet a cloth therein and lay it in the place but it must otherwhiles be refreshed If then one be troubled with the Crablice looke the first part in the third Capter in the 8. § where is sufficiently written of Lice For to speake then more at large of this matter and to declare like as is said already how much importeth mankind in the soundnesse and health of these parts of generation therefore we will first speake of the Spermaticall fluxe or running of the raines be it by day or night afterwards of the impossibility of the veneriall act Thirdly of the barrennesse both of man and woman and how to redresse it Fourthly what belongeth to the Secundina or Skin wherein the child is wrapt we will shew hereafter The sixt Chapter Of the Spermaticall Fluxe or running of the Raines THe Grecians do call this infirmitie Gonorrhaeam which is when one against his will without the erection of the Yard hath his séed running out through the losse of his strength and vnnaturall heate This is caused through the féeblenesse of the vertue retentiue which is in the instruments of the séed which may happen through any ouercoldnesse be it by sitting on cold stones or otherwise It is else daily séene if any beare this mischiefe too long that he waxeth leane thereby and falleth away And it is also no wonder that by reason of this fluxe of the seed which sometimes ten yea twenty times hapneth betwéene day and night that therby the best nourishment of the body is withdrawn If so be then that this Spermaticall fluxe is caused through weaknesse of the retentiue vertue then hapneth it without féeling or if it happen through
also such power that it openeth like a purse shutteth fast again that it might not receiue any wind or any thing else Vnto these priuy places do there come sundry accidents amongst which the most manifest is when this gut doth fal out of the body therfore we wil first of al write therof Of the going out or hanging downe of the Arse-gut Procidentia Ani. §. 1. THis may be caused by two maner of meanes to wit when the Muscles and Lacerts which do open shut this gut with two sinewes which presently deuide themselues into two parts do giue relent through some falling downe of humors or thrust the same out through some impostume Of the said sinewes that which openeth the Arsgut is outward and that which shutteth the same inward If so be then as it is said that any of these sinewes be too sore feebled or slacked through any humors then followeth immediatly the Procidentia or hanging out of the Arsgut The signes that this is hapned through some resolution of the sinewes are that it may easily without paine be brought again into the body like as contrariwise if there be any impostume with it then wil it not be done without griefe Also there is alwaies a hardnes with it an apparant distemperature Now for to remedy this cause first that the patient may haue his going naturally to the stoole that he be not suddenly forced for to open the gut But if there be no swelling with it and that you haue no other thing néere hand which is fit for it then let the patient sit in common warme water Otherwise it may be made stronger as thus Take Acorne cups Gall nuts flowers of Pomegranats and Mirtle leaues seeth them together in water vntil it be a litle red and sit therein The same do Cipers nuts alone or the iuice of Sloes wherin Mirtle séed and the seeds of Verbascum are decocted After this bath then foment the dependant gut with warme oyle of Roses and afterwards strew this powder thereon Take white led blossoms of Pomegranats Antimony and Allume of each a like much make thereof a subtill powder Item take Butchers broome halfe an ounce Gals the yellow séeds of Roses Cipers nuts Myrrhe and Frankinsence of each one dragme beate them to powder and vse them as aforesaid Another Burne Dates to powder and strew that powder thereon as is said Or take Mumia Lycium Hypocistis and beaten Gals of each two scruples burnt Oistershels two drag and a halfe and vse it as before This following is also very good for this Take Hypocistis Masticke and Myrrhe of each one dragme beate it méetly small first annoint the gut with oyle of Masticke and Roses strew it then with this said powder this being done thrust it softly into the body lay a cloth thereon wetted in grosse wine and it is good to put a little Sandaraca vnto it It is also very good to annoint the place oftentimes with stéeled wine for the same and in like maner Sauine dried beaten and strewed vpon it Item after the annointing with oile annoint the gut with the iuice of Sloes when as then through any superfluity of humors this gut doth fall downe in children then take Myrrhe one dragme and a half oile of Roses one ounce annoint it therewith and then put it vp again softly into the body This Procidentia Ani or falling downe of the Arsegut hapneth for the most part in the Piles with an excrescence of flesh the which the Grecians do call Condyloma for which Parietaria is very good layd often vpon it whereof we will write more at large hereafter Of the relaxation or slacking of the Arsegut §. 2. THis disease doth manifest it self sometimes through the first recited falling downe of the Arsegut and otherwhiles without the same is such an infirmity as hath bin told already that the sinewes which do shut it are become altogether without might insensible and lame insomuch that he cannot perceiue his Ordure and doth it without any sense or féeling also oft times so contracted and made so senseles that it holdeth vp and stayeth the Ordure altogether wherby cometh gripings in the belly and other great inconueniences The causes of this are somtimes fals thrusts or blowes behind on the back and especially on the place whence the sinewes haue their ofspring whereby the power of the opening and shutting of the Arsegut is infeebled In like manner when any body hath the Piles opened whereby the Piles are in that place spoyled This infirmity may also be caused by sitting too long on cold stones and by suffering too much cold in the feete But if this disease do come through cutting or any other bruising of the sinewes then are all remedies in vaine If it come through cold which taketh away all motion then is the place to be kept alwayes warme for which this bath following is very good which is thus prepared Take Cipers nuts and the leaues Mints Sauine Costus rootes Sage Bay berries rindes of the Pine trée and the leaues of each one handfull séeth them all together in a good quantity of water so that the sick person may sit therein when he hath béene bathed then lay a péece of felt in this water and lay it to the patients Arsegut he must vse this bath twice in foure and twenty houres it warmeth and strengtheneth the sinewes of the Arsegut Also he must séeth therewith Rue Scenanthe Allume garden Mints field Mints and if it wil not alter therewith then vse these clisters following Take sixe ounces of this foresaid decoction and oyle of Spike two ounces and mixe them together and annoint the Arsegut outwardly and all other places adiacent with oile of Lillies Beuercod and of Euphorbium tempered all together or vsed each apart If there be any flegmatick moisture with it then put vnto it halfe an ounce or thrée quarters of Hiera Picra if that there be heate with it let the patient after the vse of all necessary medicines take a bath of water wherein hath bin decocted the rinds of the Medlar trée and the leaues the rinds of Oke Seruices Pomegranate rinds and blossomes Chestnut shales or those that may be gotten of them yet alwayes putting some warming things vnto it For this is also especiall good all naturall bathes which are Sulphurish Allumish yea there is also good for this Sea water or salt water Of the Impostume of the Arsegut §. 3. IF there happen then any vlcer or impostume in the Arsegut whereby one can not get it into the body and the same is caused through heate there is nothing more fit than to open a veine and afterwards to prouoke vomit whereby the matter may be deriued but for this is no purging good and especially because the disease is in the fundament but lay this following thereon Take peeled Lentils thrée ounces Roses and the iuice of Sloes of each one ounce the iuice of Nightshade thrée ounces beaten
Hollihock rootes Figs cut Linséed and Fenegreeke beaten small as much as you thinke good let this séeth all to pap and at the last temper therewith thrée or foure yolks of Egs and as much Butter as you thinke good and lay it warme vpon the place where the paine is If so be then this be caused through cold then put vnto it a litle of the rootes of Lillies Cammomill Melilot and such like And if so be that this Arsegut by reason of the impostume will hardly be put vp againe into the body then must the patient be set oftentimes in warme water and afterwards annoint the Arsegut with oile of Cammomill and of Dill which are molten with a little Waxe this swageth the paine In like sort also descendeth the neck of the Matrix in women and is in such sort to be cured like as hereafterwards amongst other infirmities of the wombe shall be written more at large Of the Piles called Haemorrhoides §. 4. AFter the foresaid falling downe of the Arsegut there commeth one disease more in the fundament the which we call the Piles and the Grecians Haemorrhoides which is a fluxe of blood and Sycoses that are Figs which the Latinists do call Ficus Figs and Mariscas All these are Accidents and Tumors which do come behind in the Fundament or in the lowermost part of the Arsegut And they do appeare by their swelling and otherwise whereof they get their name sometimes with blood and otherwhiles without blood but seldome without paine but vexeth folkes with great trouble They take their beginning from some small veines which spread themselues into the vttermost parts of the stomack and are thereof called the Pile or Emroyd veines When as these be then ouercharged with blood or any other humors then do they open themselues and expel the melancholick blood from them sometimes in great quantity whereby nature is much vnburthened and getteth great health therefore it is often commaunded for to open the same euen as hereafter shall be admonished also they bléed otherwhiles so excessiuely that great trauell is taken before they can be stopped wherof we shall speake hereafter There be also some of these veines which lie somewhat deepe vpwards and therefore are called the blind Piles These Piles are properly the Hemorrhoides like as by their name may appeare Others be without blood of the which they that make shew outwardly on the Arsegut are first of all the Figpiles by reason that in their whole substance and quantity they be like vnto figs and also are therfore called Verrucales the which are much worse than the other whose cause is only melancholick blood Other do shew themselues like to a black ripe grape so that they be called Vnales which haue their matter from blood mingled with melancholy The third are like to Mulberies red and blackish coloured wherein the blood doth apparantly excéed The fourth kind is like to the bladder of a fish which is extended very much without blood filled or stuft with melancholick humors but these sorts are seldome séene The first sort are the secret Piles which do come within the Arsegut and be very hurtfull especially those which extend towards the priuities for that through their hot tumors they hinder the passage of the vrine whereby the strangury is prouoked and especially when they do not bléed Now for to know these hidden Piles and diseases there is nothing more certaine than to set a great boxe or cup on the Arsegut without pricking the which will draw the Arsegut outward so that it may be apparantly séene how that the case doth consist within The sixt kind of Piles are the Figs a certaine excrescence vpon the Arsegut outwardly who with a little veine like the stalke of a fig is fastened to the gut formed as it were a small dry fig from thence a little bigger and is pressed downe on the top like a Fig which is called of the Gréekes Condyloma which is an excrescence of flesh for it hapneth sometimes that round about the roundnes of the Arsegut or fast besides it there do come great scabs which sometimes yet vncertaine whether it be first or last according as the patient ruleth himselfe do happen to bléede sometimes much and sometimes little These figs and swellings are tempered also with bloud and melancholy a little red outwardly and perilous ynough euen as hereafter shall be further expressed In all these Species of the Pyles the learned haue a generall rule that they estéeme them for an accident that can hardly be cured They recite nine causes of these accidents albeit we will recite but fowre First for that it is in an vncleane place and no man medleth willingly therewith Secondly for that this place is very hard to be séene Thirdly for that it is a place whither all vncleannes of the bodie doth descend Lastly for that it is a place cold by nature and therefore voyd of strength notwithstanding there be many good remedies prouided and ordained for them as hereafter followeth But before we discourse of the foresayd remedies for the Pyles Blathers Figs Warts Tumors and their accidents we will first of all shew their causes and teach how the same may be cured for which the principallest is to obserue a good dyet in meate and drinke and such like Of the Dyet IT is sufficiently declared before that the greatest cause of these accidents is the heauie melancholick bloud which is mixt with the pure bloud and perisheth the same which all other members expell from them like as it were a poyson and so falleth downewards from the other bloud into the veines openeth them through his heate and maketh them bleed This is altogether caused of a bad digestion of the stomack and other members and of all such grosse meates whereof there can be none other ingendred but melancholick bloud the which must be altogether left off as Beanes Lentils and other Pottages Item Coleworts Chéese old Beefe Harts Hares Goats salted and smoked flesh sodden Wheate Rice vnleauened bread which bring much moysture with them Also all water Fowles Eeles and other Fish without scales féete heads and all entrailes of Beasts grosse Wine Must and Béere Item all things which burne the bloud as much Mustard Pepper Garlick Onions Léekes All things which be very cold do also increase melancholie as Melons Cucumbers and such like Amongst the medicins which are contrary for this disease are Coloquint Centorie Scammonie and chiefely Aloe very hurtfull for the Arsegut for it openeth the Pyles Euen as we haue recited what is hurtfull for this disease so will we also teach what manner of dyet might be commodious and profitable for the same The dwelling of this patient must be a warme and dry place which is close and toward the South But if the house be not of it selfe fit thereto then is it to be prepared for the same with fire and fumes yet is alwayes to be eschued things which be too hote and must
yolk of a rosted Eg one dragme of Saffron Opium halfe a drag Linséede meale Wheate meale the muscilage of Linséede Butter and Goats suet of each halfe an ounce a fresh yolke of an Egge Roses one dragme and a halfe Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make therewith a soft plaister Item take Hollihock rootes sixe ounces Lilly rootes one ounce and a halfe great Mallowes and Henbane of each one dragme and a halfe Cammomill one ounce Melilot and Dill séede of each one quarter of an ounce let these séethe well all togither and stamp them to growt then temper therewith Fenegréeke meale Linséede meale and Barly meale of each thrée quarters of an ounce oyle of Sesamum one ounce and a halfe Opium halfe a dragme make thereof a soft plaister with the decoction wherein they were boyled Many kindes of Salues against the paine of the Pyles TAke oyle of the kernels of Abricocks one ounce oyle of Roses halfe an ounce Ducks grease and washt Butter of each thrée dragmes Bdellium one quarter of an ounce melt it in the foresayd oyles Waxe as much as is needfull therewith to make a soft plaister Or take oyle of Peach kernels and oyle of bitter Almonds of each one ounce liquid Styrax Bdellium of each one dragme temper them well together and therewith annoynt the griefe Item take oyle of Roses oyle of the yolks of Egs Ducks and Hens grease of each halfe an ounce Waxe thrée quarters of an ounce melt them all together and vse it like as the rest couering it with warme clothes Item take of that well knowen plaister Diachilon one ounce oyle of Roses halfe an ounce the yolke of an Egge Saffron and Opium of each one scruple temper it well togither and therewith annoynt the place where the paine is Another Take Opium one dragme dissolue it in Rose water make Cotton wet therein and lay it vpon the Pyles and kéepe it a little while therein it doth presently asswage the paine But note that all these narchotick and stupefactiue remedies must be applyed warme vnto it Item take oyle of Roses and Violets of each a like quantitie and lay it warme vpon it with a woollen cloth Or take oyle of Roses and fresh Butter one quarter of an ounce the iuice of Garlick one dragme Bolus Dragon bloud Gum Roses Myrrh and Pomegranat blossoms of each two scruples powne all that is to be powned and temper them all togither Item take oyle of Roses the white of an Egge of each a like much with a few crums of bread stéeped in Milke and a little Saffron tempred amongst it and so vse it Item take Vine cute two quarts and the yolks of two Egs well brayed Saffron halfe a dragme Cammomill powder and Dill powder of each one dragme temper thē togither Or that which is more maruellous and better take the yolks of fowre Egs oyle of Roses three ounces Saffron one dragme temper them together this is somewhat stronger Take the oyle of water Lillies Cammomill and Dill of each one ounce Saffron one dragme the yolks of thrée Egs Barly meale two ounces let these séethe together in two ounces of the iuice of Lettice vntill the iuice be wasted then put thereto Henbane séed and Opium of each one dragme and lay it vpon the Pyles Item take the middle of corne roses and temper it with the oyle of Abricock kernels vnto a soft salue and vse it as the rest for it is very good and approued Philonium Romanum rubbed on the Pyles asswageth the paine greatly Item take fresh Butter and oyle of Violets of each halfe an ounce and beate amongst it the white of an Egge Or take oyle of Roses and Linséede oyle of each one ounce oyle of Abricock kernels one ounce and a halfe muscilage of Fenegréeke and of Linséed Butter and Goats suet of each one ounce the yolks of thrée Egs and Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue Another Take Linséede Hollyhock seede Fenegréeke Verbascum séede S. Iohns Woort Mallowes and Hounds toong of each one handfull séethe them together in water and foment the place infected with a sponge afterwards annoynt the foresayd place with oyle of Egs for euery ounce and a half whereof haue one graine of Opium Or take Sallad oyle as much as you thinke good powned Chalke as much as is néedfull therewith to make a plaister it dryeth well and cooleth much This can oyle of Oliues do also alone being made warme and Shéepes wooll vndrest dipped in it and so applyed vnto the Pyles Item take Verdigreace one quarter of an ounce burnt Allume one ounce dissolue them in Wine then vse it with Shéepes wooll Or take Ducks grease the fat of Shéepes wooll Goats suet and white Waxe of each a like quantitie molten together Item take Harts suet one ounce a half the grease of a Heronshaw halfe an ounce melt and stirre them togither vntill they be very white This next following is passing forcible for to asswage the paine Take a great Onion make it hollow within and fill it with Sallad oyle or fresh Butter afterwards close it againe and rost it in the ashes vntill it be mellow then binde it on the Pyles Also you must boyle Onions to growt and temper them with Sugar and vse it as is said they be both very good Item annoynt the Pyles with the iuice of Rosemary or Cloues and lay a Peach leafe vpon it this asswageth much the paine This following dryeth and easeth also the paine Take powned Housléeke two ounces small brused litharge of Gold one quarter of an ounce séethe them with fresh Butter to the thicknes of a salue These two salues ensuing do mollifie the hardnes and take away the paine Take Ducks and Hens grease of each one ounce oyle of Roses two ounces Waxe as much as shall suffice let them melt togither and coole afterwards then mixe the yolke of an Egge amongst it and one dragme of Opium and halfe a dragme of Saffron Item take fine Bolus Gum Mastick Dragon bloud Roses and Pomegranat blossoms of each three dragmes powne them all small Butter one ounce oyle of Roses three ounces iuice of Garlick thrée ounces iuice of red Saxifrage fowre ounces melt all that is to be molten and temper the rest amongst it this alayeth the swelling asswageth the paine dryeth and healeth all vlcers and it is also especiall good for all clefts of the fundament Certaine Powders for the same TAke Garden Snailes as many as you please put them into a pot stopped tight and burne them at a potbakers ouen to ashes strewe these vpon the Pyles it asswageth the paine forthwith also it is to be asswaged with Egge shels wherein Chickens haue béene hatched or with dried Cipers nuts powned to powder and strewed thereon as before Of fomenting bathing and such like TAke Mallowes Hollihocke leaues Violet leaues Bearefoote Garlicke and Parietarie of each two handfuls Cammomill Amaranthus of each one handfull chop the
cure Take burnt lead Cypers nuts and prepared litharge of Gold of each one dragme Rosin one ounce oyle of Mastick halfe an ounce Waxe thrée quarters of an ounce first melt the Rosin with the Waxe and when it beginneth to streame then mingle the foresaid powder amongst it you may also strew the powder of Knotgras vpon it for it dryeth much and causeth great alterations Of the Clefts that are called Rhagades §. 11. WHat manner of infirmitie it is is sufficiently declared in the fifth Chapter 2. § These may procéede of fiue sundry causes in the Arsegut as of the bloudie â—lix called Dysenteria of too hard excrements of heate and drought of the Arsegut otherwhiles also of the Pyles that corrode inward lastly of some outward inconueniences that cleaue the Arsegut the signes are paine and burning and sometimes such clefts as may be séene and do yéeld a blacke greene or red stinking matter There are also two sorts the one with matter and the other without matter whereof shall seuerally be spoken First for to cure those that are without matter the partie is first of all to be purged if néede do require the same and to open a veine like as it is told of the Pyles and especially with Epithymo Polypodie and Whay by reason of the melancholick bloud also in like manner with the pils of Bdellio or with Clisters and other like purgations Afterwards when these clefts do yéeld matter then are they often to be washed with water wherein are sod Roses Polypodie and Allume and afterwards annoynt theÌ„ with this salue following Take ashes of Muscle shels and rootes of Polypodie of each two ounces leaues of the Oliue trée halfe an ounce poune them all small and temper them with oyle of Roses and if they be with inflammation then vse salue made with Ceruse and Campher and other salues that follow hereafter This following is maruellous good for it dryeth cooleth and also healeth Take litharge of Gold white lead and burnt lead of each alike much bruse it in a leaden morter with Rose water oyle of Roses and whites of Egs as much as is néedfull and with a little Campher vntill that it be wholie black annoint the clefts therewith and lay a cloth ouer them If there be no heate thereby but only a manifest drought then take Hens and Ducks grease marrow of Harts bones and Calues bones and the fatnes of Shéepes wooll of each halfe an ounce fresh Butter oyle of sweete Almonds oyle of Poppie séeds Dragagant oyle of Lillies and oyle of Peach kernels of each one quarter of an ounce Myrrhe Starch Mill dust Momy Frankinsence Mastick Dragons bloud white lead and burnt Allume of each one dragme Waxe one ounce and a halfe melt all these in the foresaid oyle and fats and make thereof a salue this salue asswageth the paine moystneth and causeth the flesh to grow Item take yellow Waxe oyle of Sesamum Ducks grease Marrow of Oxe bones the fat of Cammels feete or in the stead of them Goats suet or Hens grease and Bdellium of each a like much melt these together in Muscilage of Linséede temper them together for it is very commodious Item take Turpentine Ducks grease oyle of Violets of each two ounces dissolued Dragagant and Waxe of each one ounce pouned Dragagant two ounces temper them by the fire vnto a salue Or take muscilage of Licebane one ounce Hens grease one ounce and an halfe the yolke of a new layd egge Saffron one dragme temper them one with an other and annoynt the clefts therewith Another Take Dragagant and Gall nuts of each a like much temper them with molten Oxe suet and a little oyle of Roses vnto a salue But if the vlcers be déepe and yeeld much stinking matter then are both outwardly and inwardly sharp waters to be vsed for them and especially dresse it with the remedies that are described in the first Part and the eight Chapter of the vlcers of the Nose or strewe them with Verdigrease and powned Anacardus for to clense them But note that this corrosiue inwardly in the Arsegut is not wholly without danger vnlesse the Arsegut be drawen out by a boxing cup. Afterwards coole and heale them with white lead or any other cooling and healing salue Item take washed white lead Aloe Masticke Frankinsence and Dragon blood of each three dragmes oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe Waxe as much as is needfull For this you may also vse the salue that was before described and made in the leaden mortar or prepare this following Take Pomegranate blossomes and the pils Mirrhe washed white Lead burnt Lead washed Aloes séeds of Roses Frankinsence Masticke Dragon blood and burnt Mussell shels of each one quarter of an ounce Oliue leaues burnt Allume Alumen plumosum Verdigrease and Litharge of Gold of each one dragme and a halfe Waxe one ounce melt this in as much oyle of Roses as is needfull to make a salue vse this often times and wash the vlcers twice or thrice a day with water wherein Gals burnt Allume Oliue leaues and Roses are decocted These are very good for all such like diseases being holden ouer the vapor or dampe of water wherein Mallowes Hollihock rootes Violet leaues and Beare foote is sodden Of the Fistula and Canker in the Arsegut §. 12. THis infirmity commeth very sodainly into the Arsegut and albeit it hath béene accustomed like as in other the like diseases in the body to vse incision or an actuall cautery notwithstanding in this place it must be vtterly omitted that there be no sinewes hurt For it might easily thereby befall that the patient afterwards should neuer stay his ordure but against his will to let his excrements passe from him The cause of these Fistulaes may be the bad healing of the diseases in the Arsegut be it of what cause soeuer it may procéede In like manner also through vsing of the Pyles badly or any other impostume that hath not béen opened in time but that the matter was left to stinke or putrifie therein all which may cause fistulaes as is aboue said amongst the which there are some that penetrate the Arsegut others the necke of the bladder and some that remaine alwayes at a stay These are hereby discerned that either the vrin the ordure or winds passe through the Fistula Also if the Muscles be therewith infected then can he not retaine or stay his excrements but as soone as it descendeth to this place it passeth from him If then these Fistulaes be moyst and matterie and the matter sharpe and stinking and waxeth from day to day bigger then it is a signe of a depascent Fistula for the which strong remedies must be vsed to stay the same that they corrode not déeper for it hapneth otherwhiles that these depascent vlcers will consume the whole buttocks and all parts adiacent and bring a body at the last after many miseries to his liues end But if so be that this
Trocisci are very good taken with halfe an ounce of the spirit of wine They are also to be fed with light meates which haue but little moysture and superfluitie Also their meate must be strewed with Galingall Pepper Ginger Cloues Ameos and such like Before meate the patient is to exercise himselfe well they that vse this water must alwaies drink more thereof after meate than before After meate he must sléepe much drink neate old Renish wine but eate lesse than he was woont for the weaknes of the stomacke cannot digest much meate Meates which be requisite for him are Muttons Kids Hens Pullets fowles Partridges Fesants Pigeons Quailes and such like yet rather rosted than boyled and drest with spice also rere egs and such like But if this weaknes of the stomacke hath long continued then may be vsed one of these Sugar plates following which one will one quarter of an ounce or more at once Or if so be that it be made after the maner of a conserue then to take one ounce at a time daily with wine viz. Diatrion Pipereon Diagalanga Dianison Diamentha Caryophilatum Rosata nouella Diacyminum Diaolibanum also the warme Dragagant cakes the which also do strengthen the stomack and procure digestion But especially is the Confection Diacinamomum commended for a blessed medicine for all moyst bad and spoiled stomacks as that consumeth all superfluous humiditie helpeth digestion and strengtheneth the eyesight therefore be there two sorts here described Confectio Diacinamomi Diacinamomum TAke of the most purest Cinnamom fiftéene drag grosse Cinnamom Comin and Elecampane of each halfe an ounce Galingall seuen drag Cloues long Pepper Cardamomum Greines Ginger Lignum Aloes Mace and Nutmegs of each thrée drag Saffron one drag white Sugar fiue drag When you will make Tabulats thereof then take one pound of Sugar one ounce and a quarter of the foresaid spices and séeth the Sugar in Wormewood water as behooueth Another with Rubarbe Take excellent Rubarbe one quarter of an ounce Angelica Rapontica of each halfe a drag Cinnamom thrée drag Nutmegs one drag and a halfe Cardamome long Pepper white Diptamus and Zeduary of each halfe a drag Galingall two scruples Calmus halfe a drag Ginger two scruples Pimpernell rootes Masticke and Cucubes of each one scrup Saffron ten grains Sugar eight ounces boyle the Sugar with Wormewood water and cast a plate of Sugar of it In like manner is the confection of Aromaticum rosatum not only commended for the debilitie of the stomack but also for many other diseases like as here and there the same be discouered for which purpose it is also prepared after sundry sorts like as be some héere expressed Confectio Aromatici rosati TAke fifteene dragmes of red Roses Licorice seuen dragmes Lignum Aloes and yellow Saunders of each thrée dragmes Cinnamome Mace Cloues of each two drag and a halfe Gummi Arabicum and Dragagant of each one quarter of an ounce Nutmegs Cardamome Galingall of each one dragme Muske one scruple Indie Spica and Amber two scruples temper them all together and if you will then cast a plate of Sugar of it take one ounce of these Species and twelue ounces of Sugar decoct them in Rose water as is accustomed Thus is this confection at the Apothecaries made and not only for his pleasantnes but also for his commodiousnes vsed daily for that besides that it doth strengthen the weake stomacke and comforteth the hart the braines the head and the Liuer it driueth out also the bâ—â— and superfluous humors of the stomacke it helpeth the digestion of the stomacke and especially in them which be a foote againe after a long continued and lingring sicknes Another which is common at Augusta Vindelicorum TAke Roses one ounce Licorice thrée dragmes Cinnamome two dragmes and a halfe Cloues Mace of each one dragme and ten graines red Corall Cardamome Galingall of each halfe a dragme Spec. Diarrhodon Abbatis one scruple Indie Spica long Pepper of each ten graines Lignum Aloes one dragme and a halfe Greynes eight graines shauen Iuorie one dragme Gum Dragagant of each thrée scruples and a halfe Nutmegs 2. scruples Muske ten graines Amber one scruple make a subtle pouder thereof Or if you will haue Sugar plates of it then do as before Item take beaten Calmus halfe an ounce the iuice of Wormewood as much as is néedfull to make plates of Sugar and if you desire to haue this strong then séeth it in Wine and giue it him at two or thrée times Or take Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Ginger Nutmegs Cardamome Galingall Cloues of each one dragme Mace Lignum Aloes of each halfe a dragme Annis one dragme the skins of Hens mawes washed with Wine and dryed thrée dragmes white Sugar 34. ounces séeth the Sugar in good Wine and thereof cast Sugar plates Another TAke Cinnamome thrée dragms Galingall one dragme Sugar sixe ounces but boyle the Sugar with one ounce of Rose water this Confection doth make also good appetite to meate In like manner you haue also in the first part the twelfth Chapter and 12. § a confection Diamargariton calidum which is very good for this Item take Ginger one dragme Cloues and Galingall of each halfe a drag Pepper prepared Coriander of each one scruple Annis Fennell Ameos Spicanardi Cardamome of each thrée scruples and a halfe confected Citron pils one ounce Rose water one ounce and a halfe Licorice halfe a dragme Sugarcandie halfe an ounce Currans one ounce powne all that is to be powned but chop the Citron pils and Currans very small then seeth the Sugarcandie and ten ounces of white Sugar with Rose water and so make tabulats thereof Confected Annis seeds are also very good for all debilitie of the stomacke it helpeth digesture it expelleth the paine and winde of the stomacke the same doth Fennell séed also But there is yet a better for this to wit confected Comin and Caruway seed for that the same haue also power to warme the stomacke Certaine Powders for meate TAke prepared Coriander and Cinnamome of each halfe an ounce long white and black Pepper Cloues Galingall and Ginger of each one dragme and a halfe Annis Fennell of each thrée dragmes Saffron one dragme Sugar as much as all the rest make a powder thereof or a confection which you had rather haue Item take Cinnamome Mace Cloues Pepper Cypers rootes of each alike much Sugar as much as you please Item take Cinnamome two ounces Nutmegs one dragme prepared Coriander séeds Roses red Corrall of each one scruple Sugar fowre ounces temper them all together it is of a temperate nature For this may also things be vsed which are described in Aromatico rosato beaten to powder Heere follow now certaine stomachicall medicines against all coldnes windines and humidities of the stomack and all other inward parts of the bodie Take Annis Fennell and prepared Coriander of each one ounce Caruway halfe an ounce Licorice beaten small one ounce
this time Now we will proceede to prepare remedies for those lost appetites whereby otherwise people might perish at length First if so be that this lost appetite procéedeth through heate and Cholera then is the patient to be brought to vomiting for that by reason that the matter is light and liquid therefore may it easily be expelled and for to prepare for the same let the patient take Oxysacchara and sirupe of vineger which shall immediately hereafter be described and thereupon vse this milde and gentle purgation Take Fumitory and Wormewood of each two ounces put them in water vntill that there remaine about fower ounces then stéepe therein one ounce of grosse beaten Mirobalans one whole night afterwards wring them well out and so giue it him Also one may purge with the confection of Triphera Rubarb This sirupe following is very much welcome vnto the stomacke Take the iuice of Apples that be somewhat sower and the iuice of Quinces of each eight ounces both well clarified then séethe them togither with eight ounces of Sugar vnto a sirupe whereof euery morning euening giue him two ounces at one time Also Marmalade may be vsed alone But if you will haue it stronger then take eight ounces of the foresaid confection and temper it with a little wine and when the same is a little cold againe then mixe amongst it one ounce of beaten Roses Species Triasandali halfe an ounce Spica and Lignum Aloes of each one quarter of an ounce For this be also good Seruices Peares sirupe of Mulberies sirupe of Vineger Oxysacchara Oxymel confected Coriander Melon seede and all that is sower On the outside shall you apply as followeth Take a Quince peare cut it very small and take out the coare and let the same boyle in oyle of Roses afterwards beate it very small and temper therewith the séeds of Butchers broome Barberies Roses and red Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce the pils of Grapes thrée dragmes beaten small then spread it on a leather and weare it on your stomacke Vineger eaten with Lettice is also very good so are also Quinces a little Sorrell Veriuice Limons the iuice of Citrons Orenges sower Apples Pomegranates and Mulberies that are and all yet scant ripe Also all they that haue lost their appetite of eating must beware of all fat flesh and meate that is drest with much oyle and butter You shall haue also a further resolution or aduise in the sixt part where we speake and discourse of Agues what is néedfull to be done for the defect of appetite But if so be that this lost appetite do procéede of cold then are these preparatiues to be vsed The sirupe of Citron pils Wormewood and Mints of each halfe an ounce tempered in Barley water and so dronken fower or sixe mornings one after another For to purge vse Pillulae stomachicae Hiera Picra sharpned with a little of the Trocisci Alhandali this is passing good if one haue a fowle matter stinking in the stomacke Afterwards he may take any of these confections ensuing Diacyminum Aromaticum Rosatum Diatrion pipereon Diacalamintha and sometimes some Treacle also Marmalade with spices greene Ginger and Chebuli The stomachicall powder which is described in the first part the twelfth chapter and first § Salsamentum Regium In like maner also the Salsamentum Regium which is thus made Take Fennell Parsley séed Cinnamom Cloues of each a like quantity let them séeth well in Vineger then put vnto the broth a good deale of Sugar and so vse it for all other meate in stead of a sauce This hath an especiall operation to quicken the appetite For this may also be vsed Onions Garlicke spices confected Cinnamom and Annis séeds rosted and stued Peares stucke full of Cloues And this salue for the stomack may also be made thus Take Sallad oyle sixe ounces Mints Wormewood Marierom gentle marsh Mints of each one ounce Nutmegs Cipers nuts of each one quarter of an ounce Annis Fennell Cloues of each halfe a drag white wine sixe ounces cut and beate all grosse togither and so let it seeth vntill the wine be decocted away afterwards wring it out hard through a cloth and annoint the place therewith warme Afterwards strew this powder following vpon it Take Frankinsence and Masticke of each halfe an ounce Cipers rootes one quarter of an ounce Mints Wormewood Nutmegs of each one dragme and then apply vnwasht shéepes wooll vpon it méetely warme Forasmuch as not onely here but in other places moe the sirupe of Vineger is specified therefore we will here describe it after two sorts like as the same is vsed at the Apothecaries the first is called Syrupus Acetosus simplex Syrupus Acetosus simplex and is thus prepared Take good sharp Vineger thrée ounces Sugar fiue ounces clarifie it with the white of an egge and let the Vineger be decocted to a sirupe This sirupe is very good against all corrupted humors for it doth attenuate all thicke slime and causeth all tough matter to auoid softeneth the hard and expelleth all bad humors it openeth all obstructions and prouoketh vrine in fine it is good for all bad corruptions of the body and is also very good for all pestilent Feuers for it quencheth the thirst Compositus vel cum Radicibus The other sirupe of Vineger do the Phisitions call Syrupum Acetosum compositum or Acetosum cum Radicibus and is made thus Take faire Well water about one quarte the rootes of Fennell Smallage and Endiue well clensed of each one ounce and a halfe Annis Fennell and Smallage séeds of each halfe an ounce beaten grossely let them séeth vnto the halfe then wring out hard all the liquor and put thereto eightéene ounces of white Sugar twelue ounces of strong Vineger séeth them to a sirupe This sirupe doth cause grosse humors to auoide and chiefly the cholericke slime which will hardly be expelled from the Lights It openeth also all the oppilations of the Liuer Lights and Kidneies Of the wambling and the loathing of meate §. 10. ALl they that haue lost their desire and appetite to meate haue commonly such a loathing of all meate that they can neither abide to see nor to smel it This debilitie of the stomacke do the learned call Subuersionem Fastidium Nauseam and the Grecians Anorexian which is when all things do go against the stomack and hath no delight in any after which followeth wambling and then Atrophia when the patient cannot sustaine himselfe any longer Also when one careth for no meate and when the stomacke is molested with continuall wambling and parbraking and yet notwithstanding cannot cast vp the body falleth away and doth vtterly come to the Consumption Tabes for this Atrophia is a spice of a Consumption So that these things as inappetencie or losse of appetite wambling and lothsomnesse do commonly depend on each other and are almost caused of one manner of cause therfore haue
beginneth to expell by vomit all that is hurtfull for her that then it is yet more to be procured Thirdly persons that be narrow in the breast and haue a long leane necke weake sight and feeble braines they are by no meanes to be brought to this vomiting Fourthly if one would haue any body parbrake which is very hard to be brought vnto it then is he first to eate much meate other things which causeth the humors to be loose and also to drinke much whereby the vertue retentiue is weakened and the expulsiue strengthned whereby the vomiting may be the more easily effected but this is of no value for the Ague Fiftly rough and grosse things taken are not to be expelled through parbraking that the throate through which the same is to passe be not thereby brused Sixtly the vomiting is very dangerous for the stomacke Seuenthly in them that haue an impostume in the stomacke it is very dangerous to prouoke vomiting Eightly odoriferous things be very acceptable vnto the stomack and assisting especially when they be admixed with alimentall meates therefore be they commonly ioyned with those things which prouoke vomit Ninthly to withdraw the matter and humors of these excessiue vomitings are the outward members to be bounden to wit the armes and legs and also to set the féete in warme water Tenthly when it is seen that this vomit hapneth in a violent disease after the manner of a Crisis or ending of the disease then is the same not to be stayed at any hand if it so be that it come not too vehemently whereby nature might be weakened but then is the same to be cured with his contraries Eleuenthly for this vnmeasurable and excessiue vomiting may the matter be conueniently drawne downwards by Clisters These now be rules which are to be obserued in all manner of vomiting When as the vomiting procéedeth of hote causes which is presaged by the bitternesse of the mouth desire and longing for cold things then is the matter to be prepared with Oxysacchara or such like sirupes and to prouoke vomiting by drinking warme water and oyle of Violets and by putting a feather into the throate But if the same will not be then are you to purge especially with yellow Mirobalans and afterwards to strengthen the stomacke whereof we haue giuen good aduice before If the patient be of a plethoricke constitution then must there be no neglect of opening the Basilica for thereby shall the matter be diminished and the whole body cooled But the principallest things that be requisite for this are Roses Saunders prepared Coriander Violets sowre Apples and Peares Peaches Quinces Camfer blossomes and pils of Pomegranats Corall Bolus Dragon bloud the rindes of a Medlar trée Quince trée Oke Plum trée Vineger the iuice of Sorrell sodden iuice of Quinces the iuice of Medlars and of Seruices sirupes of Roses Violets Raspes Citrons Limons Oranges and such like Of the foresayd things you may if you please make Confections Conserues Sirupes Potions or any thing else what you please It is especially obserued that Purslaine eaten with Vineger taketh away the parbraking through heate But there is to be layd vpon the outside of the mouth and the stomacke and pit of the hart this plaister following Take the pils and blossoms of Pomegranats the seeds of Butchers broome and of Mirtles of Roses and Bayberies of each half an ounce Mastick Mints of each two dragmes and a halfe Lignum Aloes one drag the iuice of Quinces and of wild Peares of each alike quantitie or so much as is néedfull for to make a plaister with it And to the end this may be the more piercing mixe therwith one ounce and a halfe of Vineger and then spread it on a cloth and lay it thereon as is sayd But if the iuice of Quinces wild Peares be not to be gotten then take the iuice of Plantaine in stead thereof Or heate Vineger and wet therein a péece of felt or a sponge and so lay it ouer the stomacke either hote or cold and then lay on the top thereof a Rosecake which is made wet ouer the vapor of Vineger but annoynt the stomack before with the iuice of Mints and then strew the powder of Roses and Mirtle séede vpon it Here before in the twelfth rule is spoken of a Clister whereof you haue one here for example Take Mallowes Hollihock rootes Violet leaues and Beetes of each one handfull péeled Barley and Bran of each halfe a handfull eightéene or twentie Prunes let them séeth then take 16. ounces of this decoction and put therein an ounce of Cassie and of Succo Rosarum half an ounce temper all togither and vse thereof two or thrée one after another vntill that the body be well opened But if the parbraking be caused through cold Plehgma and the patient do not vomit much nor often and that nature be not much diseased then must be giuen to the patient Oxymel of Squils Syrupus de Calamintha or warme water wherein Dill field Mints and Sage are decocted And afterwards he is to purge with Hiera Picra which is sharpned with a little of the Trocisci Alhandali or with pils of Aloe lota or Stomachicis tempered togither or each apart Vomiting must be furthered or procured and although that to this end there be many medicines described notwithstanding is this hereafter following not to be omitted Take the iuice of Squils the iuice of Onions of each one ounce and a halfe Sugar thrée ounces seeth these so thick that it will make Tabulats or Sugar plates each of the waight of thrée dragmes When you will vse them then dissolue them and drinke them and then looke if you can vomit afterwards the Squils haue an especiall power to moue vomite When as then the matter is throughly purged then to comfort the stomacke with sirupe of Quinces with Miua and with sirupe of Mints and Wormewood His meate must be drest with good Spices his drinke shall be good old and pleasant Wine He must annoynt the stomacke with the oyle of Mastick and with the oyle of Spike tempered togither or each alone then strew thereon powder of Mastick and lay a cleane cloth vpon it This plaister ensuing may also be made and prepared for the same Tost white bread so hard that you may powne it and temper it with Vineger and the iuice of Mints put thereto one ounce of Mastick more or lesse according to the quantitie of the white bread make them warme then temper therewith a little oyle of Spike and Mastick and so lay it warme on the pit of the stomacke Or take tosted bread as before and temper it with the iuice of Mints and strew halfe an ounce of this powder following vpon it Take Mints Ginger Wormwood Cypers nuts Cinnamome and Spike of each one dragme Frankinsence Mastick of each half an ounce and make a powder thereof it warmeth strengtheneth and astringeth There may also be made of this foresayd
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
decocted in wine may be vsed for this being giuen the patient to drinke in like manner parched Rubarbe with wine or Endiue water This patient shall also oftentimes but at each time eate a little take euer after it some penetrating things as Diacalaminthum one dragme and a halfe before meate and halfe a dragme after meate His drinke must be likewise old white wine Also to take otherwhiles some Treacle is very commodious It is also very good that the belly be strōgly rubbed before and after noone with a rough cloth The fourth cause of this laske procéedeth from the milt the which may be knowen hereby to wit when his excrements are a blacke and darke gray if the paine be in the left side if the patient be melancholicke quiet and tractable When the matter is very sharpe and blackish then is there great danger with it But if it happen in the end of a quartaine ague or of any other sicknesse then doth it bring ease with it and is a signe of health What is fit for this you may sée hereafter where we shall discourse of the Milt The fift cause procéedeth from the braines which may be discerned by the paine of the head also by the rheume and by the slime of the mouth which after sléepe runneth out of the same is also expelled by stoole These diseases are to be cured like as all other rheumaticke diseases whereof you finde sufficient discourse in the second Part the 12. Chapter and 2. § But it is especially commended that parched Melilot shall be layd vpon the forehead Otherwhiles a bag with Cammomill and Roses and so to gouerne himselfe as abouesayd in the second cause of the stomacke The last cause is windinesse which puffeth vp the stomacke spoyleth digestion and prouoketh a scowring like as hereafter shal be taught in the description of windinesse of the stomack It is also counselled to euery such patient like as is often shewed before that he must be very sober in eating and drinking yea he must suffer hunger as much as is possible and that he exercise himselfe well before meales and vse the Confection Diacyminum or Diacalamintha which do strengthen his stomacke and let him gouerne himselfe in all things else as hath bene sayd before in Lienteria Of the Laske Dysenteria called the red Flixe §. 17. THis name Dysenteria is of the Grecians so called being an vlceration or excoriation of the Entrailes and is thus described Dysenteria is a paine of the Entrailes which enflameth fretteth and excoriateth the same so that with the matter of the scowring bloud is auoyded and it causeth much gnawing which maketh the patient to go often to the stoole Or thus Dysenteria is a scowring with an exulceration of the bowels which is increased through outward causes as heate cold drinke hard meate The causes of this noysome scowring are sharpe humors which passe through the bowels and there exulcerate the same fret take away their fatnes Item by the taking of too sharpe medicines as Diagridion Esula and Néesing woort or when too much of these hath bene taken at once Also this scowring is occasioned when the body is ouercharged with Cholera Melancholia or Phlegma of which superfluities if the expulsiue vertue be strong nature séeketh to vnburthen her selfe Likewise also when the meate in the stomacke or humours in the veines do putrifie In like manner also of great and long alteration of the ayre be it in hote ayre dry ayre or when these méete togither like as dry ayre it selfe is wont to cause Choleram Item of the vse of such fruits which do quickly putrifie therefore it is not commendable and especially that children should eate the same The signes of this red scouring or bloudy Flixe are these which do not come suddainly vpon one also before it getteth the masterie it prouoketh paine and gripings in the bowels and also round about the stomacke This scouring likewise burneth and pricketh sore whereupon doth first follow the scraping of the bowels mixed with a little bloud vntill it corrode somewhat deeper into the bowels then is the paine felt most aboue the Nauell and if so be that the disease be in the great guts then is the paine felt most vnder the Nauell Also the scraping of the lowermost guts are much fatter then of the vppermost and it doth come also in greater abundance with many moe such like demonstrations But there be discribed two sorts of Dysenteria wherof the first is here before discouered The second hath the name of Dysenteria vniustly by reason that it without scraping of the bowels and very sodainly falleth vpon one with much bloud This with good right is to be called rather an Hepaticall Flixe than Dysenteria but we will here first of all write of the right Dysenteria and afterwards of the Flixe of the liuer If we desire to preuent this red Flixe or Dysenteria then is the same to be done both through outward and also inward meanes But first we will shew what is best to be vsed inwardly for it wherefore you are first to keepe in your memory the common rules which haue bin rehearsed before in the Laske Lienteria to wit that all those things wherewith you will stay this scouring be alwayes ministred before meates for that after meate these binding medicines cause a sicke body to scoure the more For this scowring or red Flixe all expert Phisitions do vse commonly at the first parched Mirobalanes and chiefly the yellow stéeped in Plantaine water and put also vnto it parched Rubarb beaten to powder But the same must not be infused but in substance and powder like as you haue séene before in some potions for the scowring of Cholera Item take parched seedes of Fleawoort two ounces and a halfe séedes of Plantaine one ounce and a quarter Gum fine Bolus of each thrée dragmes in the iuice of Quinces defecate Or take dried Quinces beate them to powder and giue thereof one dragme and a halfe with Plantaine water once or twice a day wherewith you may also temper parched Nutmegs and the séedes of Plantaine Item take parched Gum one ounce sealed earth three quarters of an ounce fine Bolus halfe an ounce make powder thereof and giue of it one dragme and a halfe at once Item take Shepheards purse S. Iohns woort and Penniroyall of each a like quantitie make a powder of it and giue two dragmes thereof at once in the morning early with a new layd eg this stayeth the scouring euidently Burnt Harts horne washt in Rose water or Plantaine water a dragme or a dragme and a halfe taken with wine wherein a little Dragagant is dissolued is a very expert medicine if it be takē twice a day The like also of one dragme of the rennet of a yong Hare taken with wine Another Take broad Plantaine séede and Colombine séede both parched and beaten to powder of each a like quantitie and giue each time thereof two scruples
waume or two Lastly slake three or fower times in it glowing stéele afterwards straine it cléere out and make Almond milke with it Item the iuice of Sloes and of Barberies are very commodious each apart or mingled togither or drunken with wine like as is taught in the 15. § of the scowring Diarrhaea and of the Sloes You haue also in the first part and 3. § another water of Sloes which may be vsed also for this red or bloodie flixe Sirupe of Mints is much vsed for all loosenesse of the belly Sirupe of Mints therefore it is not amisse to shew at this present how it is made after two manner of wayes Take the iuice of ripe Quince peares the iuice of swéete méetly swéete and of sower Pomegranates of each foure ounces and a halfe infuse therein foure ounces and a halfe of rumpled Mints the space of foure and twentie houres with halfe an ounce of Roses afterwards séeth them all together by a mild fire vntill the half be boyled away then wring it through a cloth Further put good honie vnto it or Sugar sixe ounces and let it séeth well and thicke lastly hang in it a péece of silke with Lignum Aloes fiue graines Amber thrée graines Muske one graine This sirupe doth not onely stop all scowrings but is also good for all diseases of the stomach which procéede of cold and it doth also take away all wambling and vomiting The other is made thus Take clarified iuice of Mints swéete and sower iuice of Pomegranates let this séethe all togither with sufficient Sugar vnto a sirupe The sirupe of Quince peares is also of the same efficacie which is also made diuersly Sirupe of Quinces as followeth hereafter Take the seedes of broad Plantaine two ounces Cipers nuts the middle rinds of an Oken tree Chestnut tree and Butchers broome of each two handfuls Mirtle seed one handfull sower Quinces Seruices and Medlars of each sixe the iuice of Sloes halfe an ounce Hypocistis one ounce seeth them all togither in Plantaine water and make thereof a sirupe with sirupe Another Take raine water or Rose water sixteene ounces and seeth therein one ounce of Mirtle seede Roses Sumach the iuice of Sloes Hypocistis blossoms of Pomegranats burnt Iuorie of each halfe an ounce ten or twelue vnripe Seruices Licorice Dragagant and Gum of each halfe an ounce powne all that is to powned and when it is sodden away vnto twelue ounces then straine it thorowe a cloth and put a pound or twaine of Sugar vnto it then let it seeth againe togither clarifying it vnto a sirupe The third sort of sirups is called at the Apothecaries Miua Miua which is also made two manner of waies as followeth Take of the iuice of Quinces strained well twelue ounces seethe it away vnto the halfe and then powre good wine vnto it and nine ounces of Sugar then let it boyle againe vnto a thicke sirupe This sirupe staieth the laske and comforteth the stomacke The other sort of Miua is called Miua Citoniorum aromatica for that it is prepared with good spice like as followeth Take the iuice of sower Quinces seuen common pounds old wine halfe as much clarified hony two pound and fower ounces or one may take Sugar in stead of hony let them seethe away scumming it and afterwards hang in this sirupe bounden in a cloth Cinnamome Cardamome of each one dragme and a halfe Cloues one dragme Ginger Mastick of each two scruples Saffron one dragme Mace two scruples Muske halfe a dragme Gallia Muscatae one dragme this being all beaten grosse togither wring it often out that the force of these may come into the sirupe This sirupe is much warmer than the other and therefore it is not to be vsed for the loosenesse of the belly which commeth through heate otherwise it strengtheneth the stomacke the lyuer and all inward members it causeth appetite to meate it helpeth digestion and taketh away the vomiting Sirupe of Mirtles The sirupe of Mirtles will we adde vnto it for that the same is very fit for all scowrings or flixes Take Mirtle séede twelue ounces the iuice of Sloes and Butchers broome séede of each fiftéene graines Roses one ounce burnt Iuory and Hypocistis of each one quarter of an ounce Mints one dragme séeth them all togither in raine water vnto the halfe then straine it thorow and put vnto it sixe ounces of the iuice of Quinces hony twelue ounces but clarifie it wel and let it boyle vnto the consistence of a thick sirupe Another which is very common at the Apothecaries Take Mirtle séede ten dragmes white Saunders Butchers broome séedes blossomes of Pomegranates of Barberies of each fiftéene dragmes Medlars sixe ounces and two dragmes iuice of Pomegranates iuice of Crabs of each twelue ounces boyle the foresaid simples in these iuices and with thirtie ounces of Sugar make a sirupe of them For this is also fit these vsuall Sirupes following viz. the sirupe of Raspes Oxysacchara of dry Roses and of Peares for therewith will the sharpnes of the matter be delayed Clisters are also fit for this disease whereof some be héere set downe First they are to be made which the Phisitions do call Lauatiua which be those that do wash the bowels for which there is none other to be vsed but Barly water onely Secondly if it be desired to haue them clense more then temper with it some hony of Roses or a little slight Sugar The third sort is binding and asswaging the paine Take a handfull of parched Barly séethe it well in water take of this decoction twelue or sixteene ounces slight Sugar thrée ounces oyle of Roses two ounces and two yolks of Egs. This Clister may be often vsed It is to be noted that there is to be taken for it oyle of Roses which is made of Rose buds for that it is better for this purpose You haue also a Clister before in the fiftéenth § which was made of the broth of a Lambs head For such a one you may vse steeled water and to séeth therein the séedes of Plantaine But if so be that then the scrapings of the bowels passe not away withall there must be tempered amongst it one ounce of Déeres suet and a dragme of Dragons bloud For to know whether the vppermost or the vndermost bowels in the red or bloudie flixe be perished take a handfull of Dogs dung and dissolue the same in steeled Milke and giue this to the patient then if so be that he presently with paine with purulencie and bloud auoyd the same againe downeward and be mixt with the excrements then it is a sure signe that the disease is in the lowermost bowels But if he goe much to stoole after the paine the bloud being separated from the excrements and if the paine be about the Nauell then it is a signe that the place of this flixe is in the vppermost bowels If you desire to stay this bloudie flixe then are
places been séene yet hereafter ensueth a very notable and safe confection of Cassie and Manna for to kéepe the bodie open Take Damaske Prunes one ounce Violets one dragme and a halfe faire well water nine ounces séethe them together vnto the halfe and temper in this decoction Cassie two ounces sowre Dates halfe an ounce Manna one ounce sirupe of Violets two ounces Sugar candie and Sugar pennets of each halfe an ounce bruse the sowre Dates in the decoction and then boyle them thicke with other confections powre then the dissolued Manna vnto it that through séething it lose not the force This confection is requisite for all daintie persons which be bounden in the bodie for it hath no vnpleasant taste it doth loose very gently expelleth Choleram and asswageth an Ague Also for a gentle laxation one may eate Cassie out of the pipe one ounce casting away the stones For the same purpose are these Confections following also fit Take a quart of good Rhenish wine stéepe therein the space of sixe howres halfe an ounce of Sene husks and one ounce and a halfe of Sene leaues let them boyle well temper afterwards in this wine Currans pouned small one pound fat Figs three ounces rub these thorough a Strainer which being done put foure ounces of Sugar candie vnto it and then let it boyle vntill it be méetly thick Lastly you are to mixe with it halfe an ounce of Cinnamome whereof you are to vse halfe an ounce at a time These laxatiue confections following are commonly ordayned in Minerall bathes Take ryndes of yellow Mirobalanes of Indie of each one ounce bruse them well with Currans Sene husks two ounces Polipody rootes one ounce and a halfe let this seethe together vnto the halfe in the water of Betonie Sage and Buglosse of each sixe ounces water of Mints thrée ounces temper amongst them Agaricus one dragme and a halfe Rubarb one quarter of an ounce Ginger one scruple Thyme and wilde Thyme of each halfe a handfull When it hath sodden méetly well then let it stand a night and in the morning wring it out then mixe foure ounces of Cassie amongst it the iuice of Currans which is Looch de Passulis two ounces beaten Cinnamome one ounce Spec. laetitiae Galeni one quarter of an ounce Sugar sixe ounces séethe them with Betonie water vnto a sirupe and make a confection of it Sowre Dates be also a blessed medicine for they purge very mildly and therefore they be seldome vsed alone but what force and vertue they haue is sufficiently shewed in the first part of this booke The laxatiue confection of Prunes called Diaprunis lenitiua is very pleasant and méete Diaprunis lenitiua it doth not only loose the belly but delayeth Choleram it quencheth thirst and is good for all heate but especially when the Ague is in his prime and it is thus prepared Take fiftie Prunes the stones pluckt out seeth them in sufficient water then bruse them thorough a Strainer that the skinnes may tarie out afterwards put the broth or liquor into the same pot where they were sodden on the fire againe and put vnto it thrée quarters of an ounce of dryed Violets and let it séethe vp twice or thrice then strayne out the decoction and put it vnto the foresayd brused Prunes This being done put sixe ounces of Sugar vnto it and let it séethe againe vntill it be thickish and then take some of the liquor remaining and therewith temper Cassie and sowre Dates of each one quarter of an ounce lastly mixe all together and let it boyle softly vntill it be as thicke as a confection Item take powned Rubarbe halfe an ounce fresh conserue of Roses two ounces temper and vse thereof about one quarter of an ounce at a time There is scant any confection which is not onely more méete for this matter but in many other causes moe then that which is called at the Apothecaries Electuarium de Sebesten and is therefore worthie to be rehearsed Electuarium de Sebesten Take Sebesten and Prunes hauing both of them their stones taken out of each two ounces and a halfe Violet water sixe ounces water of blew flowers deluce and Pompeon water of each thrée ounces Mercury water two ounces Sugar pennets foure ounces Rob de Prunis six ounces péeled Melon seede Pompeon séede Gourd séede and péeled Cucumber seede of each one ounce Diagridion one dragme and a halfe beaten small boyle these fruites in the waters then driue them thorow a strainer and boyle them with the Sugar and when it is almost cold then adde the séedes cut very small and the Diagridion beaten finely This confection is very good for all hote Agues for it easeth thirst watching and bitternesse of the mouth and doth cause much vrine to be auoided Diaturbith cū Rhabarbaro There be also many kinds of Spices prepared wherof Confections other things be made of which we wil here describe some to wit Diaturbith cum Rhabarbaro which is thus prepared Take Turbith and Hermodactyli of each one ounce Rubarbe one quarter of an ounce Diagridij halfe an ounce white and red Saunders Violets and Ginger of each one dragme and a halfe Annis Masticke Cinnamom and Saffron of each one dragme and a halfe Sugar foureteene ounces and a quarter of an ounce make of all these premisses a powder or Confection Another Take Rubarbe halfe an ounce Cloues and Galingall of each one quarter of an ounce Hermodactyli and white Sugar of each thrée dragm Diagridii sixe ounces Sene leaues one quarter of an ounce Indy Spica Saffron Ginger Annis and Masticke of each one scrup lastly make a powder of it Both these are fit for to purge all bad humors be they Cholera Phlegma or Melancholia Tabulats of Ginger laxatiue The purging Tabulats of Ginger be made thus Take beaten Ginger one quarter of an ounce Cinnamom and Cloues of each one dragme Nutmegs and Galingall of each one scruple Saffron fourtéene ounces Turbith halfe a dragme Diagridion one dragme Sugar two ounces make Tabulats of it exhibite not aboue one quarter of an ounce at once for they be meetly strong The like purging Confections you may find very many at well furnished Apothecaries to wit Diaphoenicon de succo Rosarum c. Take Epithymum Polipodie rootes and Thyme of each one dragme Sene leaues thrée quarters of an ounce Argall thrée dragmes Cinnamom and Annis of each one dragme the powder of Dill leaues one quarter of an ounce make them into powder take a dragme of it tempered with fresh broth The powder Pasaphan In Italy they haue a powder called Pasaphan which is there much in vse and is thus prepared Take Sene leaues thrée dragmes Turbith one quarter of an ounce good Rubarbe one dragme Licorice Annis Fennell of each halfe a dragme Indy Spica fiue graines these being all powdred and then giuen one dragme at the most with wine or with any kind of water This powder
laxatiue potions like as this Wine following Take Sene leaues two ounces Tymus and Epithymus of each one ounce and a half flowers of Burrage and Buglosse of each thrée handfuls Harts tong and rootes of Cicorie of each two handfuls Rosemary Stechas of each one handful Roses and Balme of each thrée handfuls these are to be put drie and flixed into a litle Runlet and powre fiftie quarts of Must vpon it and then let it stand and clarifie when as néede doth require then may you take a good draught of it before meate Item drinke Pullet broth wherein Prunes are decocted and to eate the Prunes is very commodious But this broth relaxeth better when it is boiled with Currans and much Sugar In like manner new Whay well salted and drunken warm doth loose but better if it be sodden with Prunes In like manner also are you to take Wormewood Hony and Sugar according to the abilitie of the person séeth this together in water and drinke a good draught thereof Item take Sanicle with the rootes séeth it well and drinke of it the quantitie of foure ounces tempered with Hony of Roses If so be that pilles can not be vsed then take foure ounces of water wherein Mallowes were before decocted and dissolue Sugar therein or Hony of Violets and so drinke it Or take Linséede Hops Burrage al together or each apart decoct them to a potion this looseth also The same doth also one ounce of Polipodie and halfe an ounce of Fennell séedes decocted together Item take conserue of Eldern one ounce or one ounce and a half dissolue it in fresh broth one pound and drinke fasting a good draught thereof Fumitorie and Goats milke boyled together doth not onely loose the belly but also cleanseth the bloud The decoction of Charuill and of Larkes spurres do also open the bodie Item the decoction of Coleworts of Béetes and of Lentils in euery of these are you to temper the quantitie of an hasell nut of fine Turpentine and to drinke it warme which is also good for the excoriation of the guts The decoction of Creuises and of all other fishes are also very good for relaxation but swéet oyle of Almonds is most commodious for this purpose more sure and most pleasant being taken with Sugar It asswageth all griping of the belly and of the breast which oyle is thus to be made Oyle of Almonds Take Almonds as many as you please make them clean beate them small rost them a litle on hote ashes or on a small fire stirring them alwaies about put them afterwards very hote into a strong bag which is made wet in Rosewater and presse it out forcibly then haue you a fine and cleare oyle whereof may be vsed for aged folkes foure or sixe ounces tempered with course Sugar for children and also for the first borne each according to his age Thicke or puddle Wine doth not onely bind the bodie but doth oppilate also the Liuer the Milt and the Kidneys this do they which drinke much of it therefore it is to be refrained Of all laxatiue medicines and potions Manna is not the basest but is highly commended aboue all other things for it is one of the blessedst medicins like as is mentioned more at large in the Introduction This Manna is ministred diuersly according to the abilitie of the person like as water of Burrage fresh broth and such like You may also giue of this Manna to yong children The vse of Cassie to each one according to his age be it in their Drinke Milke or Pap. In like manner is Cassie also a very notable and laxatiue medicine euen as is shewed herebefore at large in the introduction for it is much more commodious to be taken after the forme of a conserue than in any kinde of potion by reason that there must be put vnto it so much moysture thus will we heere prescribe for an example how the same is to be vsed Take the rootes of Polipody chopt small one ounce seeth them in the water of Burrage eight ounces and dissolue therwith one ounce and a half or two ounces of Cassie letting all that is black be washed cleane off and then drinke this warme it looseth very gently Héere before in the first part in the first Chapter and 3. § you haue a good mead of Sene leaues for children and other persons very necessary to be vsed yet this following may be prepared Take Sene leaues half an ounce Ginger and Annis of each one quarter of an ounce beaten Licorice thrée dragmes séethe them all together in sixteene ounces of water euen to the halfe drinke the one halfe in the morning and the other halfe in the euening Also there be certaine Sirupes vsed for the loosing of the bodie whereof the chiefest is the laxatiue sirupe of Roses which is before described in the first part Also there is made a sirupe of Sene leaues as hereafter followeth Take right Endiue Sirup of Sene leaues Cicorie Agrimony of each halfe a handfull Venus haire Harts toong of each halfe so much seedes of Melons Pompeons Cucumbers Gourds of each one dragme wild Saffron séede Polipody rootes seeds of Endiue Cicorie and Licorice of each two scruples Barly one ounce winter Cherries Windweed of each one quarter of an ounce Fearne rootes Smallage Fennell and Sperage of each halfe an ounce Currans three dragmes sixe or seauen Prunes floures of Burrage Buglosse and Violets of each halfe a dragme seeth them all together in a quarte of water almost vnto the halfe wring it well out and then lay to steepe in this decoction one ounce of Sene leaues prepared Agaricus half an ounce Rubarb three quarters of an ounce When it hath stoode so one night and is wroong out then temper with it Syrupum Capillorum Veneris which is the sirupe of Venus haire the sirupe of Violets of each one ounce white Sugar thrée ounces let this séethe by a soft fire vnto a sirupe lastly put more vnto it halfe a dragme of beaten Cinnamome and one scruple of yellow Saunders and so kéepe this sirupe vntill that you will vse it Of this sirupe you may boldly giue one ounce or an ounce and a halfe or more vnto all delicate persons yea to women also with child and that with fresh broth or any distilled water for it is very safe Another Syrupe Take Endiue Liuerwort Venus haire all greene of each one handfull red and white Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce Melon séede Gourd séede Cucumber séede Pompeon seede and Burrage of each halfe an ounce Sene Epithymum of each one ounce Rubarb three quarters of an ounce Turbith halfe an ounce Indie Spica halfe a dragme Ginger one dragme Sugar twelue ounces dissolued in Endiue water make a sirupe of it like as is taught in the first part the first Chapter and 6. § Hony of Roses looseth also very well especially that which is made of the iuice of Roses euen as it
wel and powne them togither and temper amongst it half an ounce of powned Cammomill the yolks of two Egs and lay it against the fundament For this may you also take Garlick boyled to grout the heads of Leekes fryed in Butter with oyle of Roses and a little Waxe made into salue may also be vsed for this purpose For this is also requisite the fume and vapor of diuers things as the leaues of a Pearetree of Medlars Quinces Dragon bloud fine Bolus blossomes of Pomegranates and sealed earth whereof you may seeth which you please with Wine When as then the patient hath bene at stoole then is he to receiue beneath the vapor of this wine powred on a hote stone Item take a hote brick sprinkle it with Wine and Mastick vse it as before Or make a fume with Colophonia or Pitch This confection also following may be vsed Take Mirtle séeds Pomegranate blossomes Roses and Pomegranat pils of each halfe a handfull Butchers broome seedes Sorrell seedes the séed of Plantaine yellow Rose séedes Barberies white Saunders Mastick burnt Iuorie of each one quarter of an ounce Annis séedes of Endiue Cypers rootes and Frankinsence of each one dragme and a halfe prepared Coriander Cinnamome red Corrall of each halfe a dragme the iuice of Sloes Hypocistis Storax Cypers nuts parched Gum of each one drag white Poppie séede thrée dragmes powne all that is to be powned and with dissolued Sugar make thereof a confection you are also to put vnto it some iuice of Pomegranates Item take the bones of the head of a fresh taken Pickrell the waight of a dragme and a halfe stamp them small and drinke them with Wine or any fresh broth This is taken for to be a most sure experiment Suppositories which are to be vsed are these Take Frankinsence Myrrhe Gum Linséede of each one quarter of an ounce Opium Saffron of each halfe a dragme temper all these with the white of an Egge and make thereof short suppositories then bind theron a strong threed so that you may pluck them out whē you wil. Some do put Smallage vnto it These are now the principall remedies for this scouring but if so be that there be other causes with it as wormes obstructions and swellings wherof we haue here before made mention you may reade of either in his proper description And for a conclusion all bitter sharpe and sowre things are to be refrained for that all such make the going to the stoole gnawing excoriating painfull Pullet broth Barley pap oaten pap and such like light meates are very commodious for him and aboue all things must he beware of cold Of the paine in the stomacke in generall §. 22. THese kinds of lasks and bloudy flixes haue awhile seduced me from the infirmities of the stomacke and because these lasks as hath bene shewed for the most part procéede from the weaknesse of the stomack with an infection of the Liuer other parts moe it would in no wise haue bin decent to haue treated of them elsewhere But now we purpose to procéede with our intent and write of the paine in the stomacke and of all that appertaineth vnto it This paine of the stomacke may be caused of diuers and sundry meanes to wit of some outward blowes fals wounds of a pirrcing cold or extreame heate of a bad digestion that hath long continued of ouermuch meate or drinke eating either too hote or too cold things or of windes contained in the stomacke and in fine of all the foure humours of the body also with or without an impostume And indéed in this paine of the stomacke and also in all paines of the Liuer it were very needfull to vse the counsell of an expert Phisition that might discerne and know whence these infirmities procéede and whereon each symptome dependeth For if in this point any error be committed then is this maladie imparted vnto all the parts of concoction Wherefore great héed must be taken what ought to be vsed in euery accident for as their causes be diuers so also do they differ in their signes If this infirmitie be procured by some outward occasion that is to be knowen of the patient himselfe or if the cause be a bad digestion of the stomacke that is perceiued by the sower belchings If it come by ouerlading of the stomacke and bad digestion then doth the patient find a heauinesse in the stomacke with wamblings and vomitings and good ease after them If it be caused of heate then feeleth he a gnawing heate drought and sweetenesse in the mouth because it procéedeth of bloud If it be procured of choler then hath the patient a bitternesse and a tast of Verdegreace in his mouth The paine that commeth of phlegme hath alwayes a salt tast with it Also the spettle may shew what the cause is whence this infirmitie might procéede Melancholie is knowen hereby that there is neither heate nor paine with it but onely a sower and a bad sauour in the mouth which also otherwhiles is perceiued by that which is brought vp by vomit vnto this is commonly adioyned a hardnes in the spléene and a paine in the left side But if this paine of the stomack procéede of winds then may you perceiue a wambling and belching or breaking of wind vpward These are the commonest signes of all paines in the stomacke and first we will write of the paine in the stomacke that is without an impostume Of the paine of the stomacke without impostumation through heate §. 23. FOr all paines of the stomacke where there is great perturbance great wambling parbraking and vomiting it may be iustly adiudged that it doth procéede of an hote occasion for which vomiting by taking of lukewarme water is to be prouoked or if the same be too weake then to put some Sallad oyle vnto it or oyle of Dill or oyle of Violets the same doth also the séede of Orage tempered with Vineger But there be in other places other remedies moe described for to purge the patient by vomiting and if this ease him not then it is néedfull that the patient be purged but first he is to take some preparatiue potions euen as hereafter follow Take husked Barley two ounces Endiue and small Endiue of each one handfull Roses seede of Melons Gourds Cucumbers and Pompeons and the iuice of Pomegranats of each one ounce Sugar nine ounces make a cleare sirupe of it vntill there remaine about twelue ounces giue alwayes two ounces of it at once with Barley water or Endiue water For this is also Oxysacchara good made with the iuice of Limons or the iuice of Roses wherein is decocted a little of the iuice of Wormewood taken with Barley water When as these potions be taken then is to be giuen for a purgation one ounce of Hiera Picra with Endiue water or if the patient feare the bitternesse then may he take this following Take Violets and Burrage flowers of each halfe an ounce nine or ten Prunes
a long continued sicknesse that there doth follow a very great hunger but they are to haue no hard or grosse meates giuen them as Béefe great fishes vnleauened bread or such like because that their digestion is as yet very féeble whereby they might easily fall againe into a new disease but then are they to be kept with subtill meates as with fat Pullets Capons Fowles Butter and such like and all vnnatural and vnmeasurable eating is to be withstood and repugned as much as is possible Of the Cow hunger which is called Bulimos THis vnnaturall and insatiable hunger Bulimos is as much to say with the Grecians as a very great hunger which name the successors haue somewhat altered and haue made thereof Bulismos And it is thus described Bulimos which is a hunger of the members whereby the stomacke is satisfied And this is also a great disease of the stomacke which taketh his beginning from the stomack it selfe But it is contrarie to Dogs hunger in these things following to wit although they haue both of them an insatiable lust and desire of meate yet with the Dogs hunger is not onely a desire but also the feeding it selfe but in the Cow hunger it chaunceth that the patient who hath lately eaten is moued immediatly to eate againe where neuertheles all lust to eate and to cast it vp is taken away But there is no such hunger in the stomack which is to be satisfied with a bit but in the inward parts which be desirous of meate without interceasing and when the stomacke is against her will ouerburdened and cloyed then will it be ouermuch disordered and out of quiet or square for to discharge her dutie of digestion Secondly in the Dogs hunger the vertues of the stomacke and other parts be for a while strong and able but in this Cow hunger are they withered and weake And because that such sicknesse is caused as well through heate as through cold therefore must we seuerally write thereof The greatest occasion of this Bulimia is when winter time is the stomack is cooled too much with cold then driueth the humors towards the stomacke out of the veines in the inward parts filling them therwith spoiling the appetite and also depriuing the stomacke therewith of all her force and vigor in the meane while the other parts remaine emptie and hungry desiring much their foode and sustenance Hence then this insatiable hunger doth procéede so that this is properly an hunger of the members and is no hunger at all of the stomacke If so be that then any one as is said be so extreamely cooled and although there come such a lust of feeding vpon him yet it is very quickly slaked This disease bringeth otherwhile such a quaume with it that the patient is caused to cast out some tough slime or corruption and then will all outward members which be defrauded of their nourishment be enfeeled impotent ouer cold and the pulse very small The sicke person hath soure belchings from the stomacke and a fowle smatch in the mouth The vrine is bleake likewise the ordure blacke coloured thin and also otherwhiles hard because that the patient can eate very litle or nothing at al. Now then whether this disease be caused or not through great cold of Winter time or cold slime of the stomacke the patient is certaine dayes together to take morning euening a draught of Oxymel Compositum or of Squils with water wherein Galingale is decocted afterwards he is to vomit and purge with Mirobalani Chebuli Bellirici and Emblici The like also with the pils Foetidae stomachicae or with these following Take Turbith Agaricus of each one dragme Spica and Ginger of each one dragme temper them together and take one dragme of it at once and afterwards he is to vse this confection following namely Diamoschu Diambra Trionpipereon Diacymino Diagalanga and that especially after purging All his meate must be also drest and strewed with spice and also be rather alwaies rosted then boyled Rue water drunken is also very necessarie but chiefly good old wine which is somewhat binding by nature Before dinner and supper the stomacke is to be well annoynted with the oyle of Masticke and of Spike tempered together Also to bath in water wherin Wormwood Melilot Cammomill and Butchers broome hath bene decocted What is more to be vsed for this looke in the same Chapter in the 5. § which remedies be most fit for it These kind of patients are also to be sprinkled oftentimes with Rose water or faire Well water vpon their bodies and their faces that the naturall heate may be driuen inward and the inward members may be strengthened They are also to hold oftentimes spice before their noses and to vse it in their meate His wine must be alwaies strengthened and enabled with Cinnamom Pepper Cloues and with Spica and with them and with vineger is he to sprinkle a hote stone and to receiue the vapor of it The chamber is to be fumed with Lignum Aloes or with Muscus Ambra blacke and white Frankinsence Laudanum Masticke Galingale with Citron péeles and Orange peeles Gallia and Alipta Muscata with each alone or with which you please But if this disease come through heate then is this vnnaturall hunger of the members caused of the resolued humors of the veines other members which passe into the stomacke and there oppresse the stomacke with lothsomnes and irksomnesse of feeding But they are to wash their mouth very often with a litle Oxysacchara or with veriuice Likewise also to vse Iulep of Roses with a litle Camfere or sirupe of Roses mixt with Saunders For this is also meete all cooling things and especially them that haue a binding operation whereof there be many discouered in the same Chapter and the 6. § Afterwards the patient is to be purged with Mirobalans with Rubarbe or sowre Dates stewed in the decoction of Prunes as also with Hiera Picra or sirupe of vineger tempered with the said decoction Afterwards he shall vse the confection Rosata Nouella or Triasantalon His meate must be drest with veriuice and with Butchers broome séedes and strewed with odoriferous cooling things For his drinke he is to take good cleare wine delayed meetly well with water It is also good for this patient that he bath in water wherein Roses Mirtle séede and Endiue be decocted and afterwards annoint the stomacke euen to the nauell with the oyle of Mirtle and oyle of Roses wherein is a little vineger tempered In like manner may he irrigate the members from on high with Rosewater or cold Well water Of the swouning Hunger called Syncopalis THe third vnnaturall hunger hath his name as is said of the swouning which it bringeth with it and the same commeth commonly after the first described Bulimo or such like sicknesse for that the naturall powers are very faint and debilitated Also because this hunger is so neare vnto the hart that it cannot tolerate such debilitie euen
Also there is paine in his right side and he féeleth a debilitie in the whole bodie which may best be knowne when one must ascend staires or hils and that then the breath is very short with other signes moe wherof we shall admonish where we shal write of the impostume of the Liuer Albeit that we shal hereafter make mention of the order of dyet in a hote or cold Liuer and that we here but in generall do write of the disease of the Liuer yet will we here notwithstanding briefly rehearse this rule To wit that all they that haue any obstruction in the Liuer are not to eate any thing but light meates as young Mutton Hens and such like which is often shewed before and shall be hereafter shewed againe Also all their meate is to be drest with Parsly roots and herbs They are also to vse much Pease porredge And if this disease proceede of a cold cause then are you to adde Parsly Fennell Southernwood Sperage or Capers His meate must be boyled rather then rosted Also he must beware of all grosse meates old flesh great fishes of all fishes which haue no shels He is to vse no bathes plaisters nor any thing else vntill the second digestion be past All strong motions or exercises immediatly after meate must he eschue And although he were verie thirstie yet must he forbeare as much as is possible and chiefly from drinking of Wine howbeit neuerthelesse a cleare white and well sauoring Wine is in some sort permitted This may suffice at this present The causes of a hote Liuer are many as namely the hote time great labour in the heate of the Sunne especially without drinking excessiue Venerie application to hote medicines suffocation of the mother or wombe continuall vse of all hote meates as Spices or Wine made with Spices These are now the signes of a hote Liuer to wit a red yellow vrine yellow ordure great thirst loathing of meate a swift pulse All cold things are acceptable to the patient warme things be noysome He is much enclined to vomiting and that which he parbraketh is lead coloured and sometimes yellow and gréene Also the heat of the Liuer may be felt with the hand They which be of hote nature and young withall and in a hote time of the yeare are most subiect to this disease And when to this heat there commeth drought that the mouth the tongue be dry then is it well to be séene that this disease procéedeth of an vnnaturall heate whereby there followeth forthwith Obstrutions Impostumes Exulcerations Tumours schirrosities of the Liuer and such like diseases Of the oppilation or obstruction of the Liuer through heate §. 3. FOr this obstruction of the Liuer these simples are good amongst which notwithstanding some be moderately warme but they can thereby do no hurt bicause that they be forcibly deoppilate They may be mixed with other things viz. with tame and wild Endiue small Endiue Priests crowne Lyuerwort Melon seede Pompeon séede Gourd séede Cucumber seede Lettice seede séedes of Purslaine of Endiue and small Endiue water of the rootes and herbe of Cicorie Sorrell Cicorie Burrage Venus haire small Houseléeke Harts tongue and field Cypers of all which one may prepare what he will Item the sirupe of vineger drunken with Endiue water In like manner may be giuen to the sicke person to drinke Barley water the iuice of cooling herbes as of Endiue Nightshade and Cuscuta with the sirupe of Sorrell and Sugar for that these things do open the obstructed Liuer and coole the same You may also vse for this purpose these things ensuing Take Oxysacchara and sirupe of Violets of each thrée ounces sirupe of Endiue twelue ounces temper them togither and if you thinke that the choler is tough and thicke then temper amongst it one ounce of vineger and vse therof as often as you please each time one ounce a halfe with some of the foresayd waters Or take the sirupe of vineger the sirupe of Endiue of each six ounces temper them togither If the body be sore bound then put therto one ounce of the sirupe of Violets Or if you thinke that the Cholera be burnt then put the iuice of Burrage and of Fumitorie vnto it And if there be any Ague with it as it commonly doth happen then is this obstruction not onely commodious but also most necessarie that the bad cholerike humours may the easier be expelled for which these things following are very méete viz. the sirupe of Diarrhodon de Byzantijs de Radicibus de Cichorea taken with the distilled waters méete for them to wit water of Venus haire of Harts tongue of Agrimony of Wormewood of Endiue of Cicorie or with the waters wherein the foresayd herbes are decocted Item Cassie with Hiera Picra Electuarium lenitiuum Rhabarbarum Agaricus sirupe of Roses laxatiue Pillulae de Rhabarbaro But seriously to take in hand this matter it is aboue all workes néedfull to purge which is thus to be effected Take the flowers of Burrage of Buglosse Violets Currans and Endiue séedes of each halfe an ounce boyle them togither as behoueth of this decoction take thrée or fower ounces and temper therein thrée dragmes of Cassie sower Dates fiue dragmes beaten Rubarbe one dragme these being tempered take them in the morning early Sower Dates are especiall good for this bicause they cleanse the hot Liuer and also coole it Or take the flowers of Violets of Burrage Prunes and sower Dates of each halfe an ounce Spicanardi one scruple let them seeth togither in sufficient water Then take thrée or fower ounces of this decoction and temper amongst it one ounce of Cassie and one dragme of Rubarbe steeped in Endiue water make a drinke of it If so be that the sicke person be méetely strong then in steade of the Rubarbe you may temper with it three or fower dragmes of the confection Succo Rosarum Another Take sirupe of Violets halfe an ounce Barly water three ounces Rubarbe one dragme stéeped in a little Endiue water Spica thrée dragmes confection de Succo Rosarum one quarter of an ounce temper them togither and giue it him in the morning betimes If the humor be grosse then take in the steade of the Rubarbe Agaricus and Rubarbe of each halfe a dragme for the Agaricus hath an especiall operation in the opening of the obstruction of the Lyuer For this is also requisite diuers Sirrupes which be daily vsed at most Apothecaries and also described in this booke to wit aboue all other both sorts of Oximel the Oximell of Squils sirrupe of Endiue of Barberies their confections and all that is made of it Oxysacchara sirrupe of Violets and of Ribes and principally if there be tempered with Roses burnt Iuorie and Saunders Item take sirrupe De Bizantijs two ounces Hony of Roses one ounce water of Endiue Fennell and of Wormewoode of each two ounces make a Iulep of it to take at two seuerall times
of an ounce Masticke two scruples Waxe as much as is needefull for to make a salue of it Item take oyle of Roses two ounces oyle of Violets and of Spica of each one ounce Vineger halfe an ounce Roses burnt Iuory Squinant red and white Saunders of each halfe a dragme Camfere two scruples then make a salue of it with molten Waxe The Saunders salue described before in the sixt Chapter and first § Also the cooling oyntment and that of Roses are maruellous good for this disease Yet another Take the oyle of bitter Almonds and white wine of each a like quantitie stéepe Cicorie in it Wormewood Cammomill and Agrimonie and chafe it warme vpon the place of the Liuer Another which is very forcible Take the salue of Saunders and the cooling oyntment Galeni of each one ounce and a halfe oyle of Roses one ounce If it be too soft then make it as hard as you will with Waxe It is also necessary to obserue therein an order of dyet If with this heate of the Liuer there be an Ague then is he to be kept as one that hath an ague that according to the importance of the cause like as may be discerned in the sixt part Generally Lettice Purslaine Veriuice and Cucumbers are very good for him with Vineger and other meates moe that may be drest with them And although the inflammation were without an Ague and yet there be some dry itch and scabs with it then be the foresayd herbs very wholesome for him In like maner also Pullets Hens Partridges small birds Kids Mutton Veale drest with Vineger Veriuice Orenges or Limons Barley pap and Oaten pap are also very fit for his meate The Vineyard Snailes are also very good for them The fishes that be takē in cleare grauel waters drest with Parsley and vineger may he very well eate Melons Almonds Peaches stued Peares and Apples Cherries Strawberries and Raisons a little of each eaten are also very good Wine is altogither repugnant to this disease yet being well watered or Cherrie wine may he drinke in some respects moderately Also all grosse meates are very hurtfull for him as vnleauened bread grosse flesh Chéese Milke Starch Rice and in fine all that bindeth is hurtfull for the liuer But Buttermilke is not ill for this maladie Of the obstruction in the Liuer through cold §. 4. IF so be that the oppilation of the Liuer be caused through cold then is the whole body bleake and lead coloured and chiefly the face the toong the lippes and the vrine is not coloured the pulse is slow there is little thirst slow digesture lead coloured and white excrements that stinke not much All warme things are very méete for the patient but colde things are vtterly against him first if this obstruction be without an Ague but in case that it continue long then must an Ague ensue by reason that the bloud putrifieth in the Liuer But if there be any humors with this cold that is to be perceiued by the thicke water also by the moisture and thinnesse of the ordure by the smal thirst slow pulse by the swelling of the eyes and of the face softnes of the flesh and loathsome colour whereby they do come quickly to the yellow Iaundies or Dropsie With this commeth also oftentimes a laske or scouring swelling of the eyelids of the fingers of the toes all outward members If so be then that these signes chaunce to be or may be perceiued then may easily be adiudged that this maladie doth procéede through cold causes The patient is for this aboue all other things to be purged and the flegmaticke matter is to be expelled for which this preparatiue sirupe ensuing is to be vsed Take the rootes of Parslie and of Fennell one ounce and a halfe the rootes of Smallage one ounce Agrimonie Venus haire and Harts tong of each one handfull Mace Cuscuta of each two ounces Licorice Currans of each one ounce white Vineger one ounce Honie Sugar of each six ounces make a sirupe of them vntill there do remaine about fiftéene ounces clarifie it For this is also good the sirupe of Eupatorio of Acetosa Diarrhodon de Bizantijs and Acetosus Compositus Item take Fennell roots the roots of Parsly of Smallage Sperage Butchers broome of each halfe an ounce Agrimonie one ounce Annis Fennell Cuscuta of each three dragmes Harts tong Venus haire herbe Bennet of each a handfull Vineger one ounce Sugar as much as you will and make a sirupe of them And of one of the foresaid sirupes you are to vse certaine dayes one after another euery day two ounces at once This being effected then the patient to be purged with this purgation following Take flowers of Burrage of Buglosse of each one ounce and a halfe Spica one scruple Agaricus and Polypody rootes of each halfe a dragme let them séeth togither and put vnto it one dragme of Turbith You are to giue him about foure ounces of this decoction Or take Pillulas de Agarico or such like which purge the flegme Whē the patient is well purged thē is he to vse some of these Trocisks following dissolued in water of Wormwood to wit de Rhabarbaro de Absinthio and de Eupatorio Amongst the Confections these are good Diacostu Diacalamintha Dianisum Diacyminum Aromaticum rosatum Diagalanga Dialacca and such like Item take Pistacia two ounces stéepe thē two dayes in warme water of Agrimony chop them afterwards small and séeth two ounces of Sugar in two ounces of Agrimonie water which is méetely thick Then temper the Cuscuta and half an ounce of Cinnamom with it wherof make losinges thē take therof morning and euening at least one quarter of an ounce Hereafter now follow confections and other things which one may eate Take one pound of well washt Currans when they be dried méetely wel then temper therewith one ounce of beaten Rubarb and eate therof when you will a good sponfull at each time then kéepe it close stopt This is very good for all diseases of the Liuer and chiefly to preuent the yellow Iaundies Another Confection Take the muscilage of Hollihock rootes 12. ounces clarified Hony 12. ounces Licorice 9. dragmes Betony Balme of each thrée drag Cuscuta rinds of Tamariske of each half an ounce Annis Couchenel of each one quarter of an ounce Ginger one drag prepared steele two ounces a halfe one dragme of the muscilage of Hollihock roots you must seeth the Hony to the thicknesse of Hony then temper the rest amongst it and vse it after you haue well stirred your selfe walked or run Annis seeds confected be good for cold obstructions all old disease of the Liuer Item Comin and Caruway haue great power to heate a frozen Liuer and to open all her obstructions Also bitter Almonds confected or otherwise Likewise Elecampane roots Calmus Eringus Nutmegs Walnuts all of them confected Item conserue of Eiebright of Fumitory of Elderne
tempered with Agrimonie water Wormewood water is also good He is certaine dayes afterwards to take one dragme of prepared Wolfs liuer tempered in foure ounces of Agrimony water to vse this certaine dayes one after another It is also good aduise that this sicke person do vse things which do prouoke much vrine and do breake the stone in the Bladder whereof shall good instructions be found in his proper place For it is consonant to reason that such things will also resolue and deobstruat the hardnesse of the Liuer Also he is to drink daily a dragme of the séed of Agnus Castus tempered with Comin and Fennell water Outwardly be the forementioned plaisters and especially the plaister de Meliloto and Diachilon to be applied vpon it Also you may make if you will a plaister of these things following Take Cammomill one ounce Roses marrow of Oxe bones or of Harts bones Ducks grease Hens grease and oyle of Spike of each halfe an ounce beaten Wormewood thrée drag Fenegreeke Linseede meale of each one ounce swéete Costus rootes thrée dragmes and Waxe as much as sufficeth Or seeth Figs and Raisons poune them to grout and temper amongst it Fenegreeke meale beaten Cammomill Rue and Melilot afterwards mingle it with the oyle of Cammomill as much as will suffice for a salue Item take Barly meale two ounces Cammomil and Melilot of each halfe a handfull the muscilage of Hollihock roots fiue ounces Cypers rootes Squinant Mastick and Spica of each one quarter of an ounce red Saunders Calmus Agrimonie and Wormewood of each two scruples burnt Iuorie one scruple Saffron halfe a scruple Vineger halfe an ounce oyle of Roses one ounce foure or fiue dry Figs oyle of Wormewood and of Spike of each one quarter of an ounce make a plaister thereof Some haue taken the venemous herbe Hemlock and layd it as pap vpon the Liuer for it doth mollifie schirrositie and hardnesse By this is also to be vnderstood that all which is good for the obstruction of the Liuer is also very méete for this disease Of a cold Liuer without obstruction §. 6. THere befall also cold diseases in the Liuer without any obstruction of the same yet are all the forementioned remedies verie good for this intent by reason that they do all heate the Liuer and other inward parts but these Plaisters Salues and other things ensuing are especially ordained for this Take Mastick Spica Cypers rootes Squinant Calmus Saffron and Mirrhe but the Mastick and Mirrhe are to be dissolued in Wine then temper the rest amongst it vnto a plaister and lay it vpon the Lyuer Item take the iuice of Agrimonie twelue ounces Vineger one ounce Spike and Cinnamome of each one dragme and a halfe wet a cloth in it and lay it also ouer the Liuer You may also put vnto it foure ounces of Wormewood water Or take oyle of Quinces oyle of Mastick halfe an ounce oyle of Spike one ounce burnt Iuorie Roses Squinant Cuscuta Cinnamome and Spike of each halfe a dragme Saffron fiue greynes and Waxe as much as is néedefull Lastly stirre a little Vineger amongst it and with this salue annoynt round about and vpon the Liuer twice or thrice a day that is vpon the right side euen to the ribs Another Take oyle of Roses halfe an ounce oyle of Wormewood and of Spike of each one ounce red and white Saunders burnt Iuorie Squinant and Comin of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome one dragme Agrimonie and Calmus of each two scruples Masticke and Indie Spica of each one scruple Saffron halfe a scruple Vineger one spoonfull Waxe as much as is needfull for a salue But if so be that there do remaine any paine then may you vse these things following take Wheatē bread which is well boulted put it into a bag and so lay it warme vpon the liuer But if the paine will not be as yet asswaged with it then take two parts of Milet and thrée parts of Bran and one part of Salt make them togither warme and vse it as aforesaid Or set a great boxing cup vpon the same place Item Take Cammomill Balme Dill séede and Annis séede of each two handfuls Mace Fennell Mallowes Hollihocke séeds of each halfe a handfull and two or thrée Poppie heads Séeth all these togither in a good deale of water vntill the third part be decocted and fill a great bladder or twaine with this decoction and lay it on the place of the paine and when one is cold then lay another Lastly Take foure ounces of Brand Venus haire Dill séede Burrage séede and Comin of each halfe an ounce Cammomill and Melilot of each thrée handfuls Seeth them al togither in white wine then poune them to grout and temper therewith one ounce and a halfe of Barly meale oyle of Cammomill two ounces then make a plaister of it and lay it warme vpon it it is very good to asswage and delay the paine Of the impostumation of the Liuer §. 7. THe Liuer may be also annoyed through many kinds of impostumes inwardly or outwardly which be ingendred of many causes as through falles thrusts or by going too narrow girt whereby all such issues and impostumes are caused Also these impostumes may be well caused through some cholerick humour through an ouerhot stomacke through the vse of too much spices or any other hot meates whereby the digestion of the stomacke is inféebled and wholly spoiled For this is especiall good all swéete things as Honie Sugar Figs c. But if this moisture be through cold then doth there come a cleane contrarie cause The commonest signes of al the impostumes of the Liuer be these paine in the right side tending vpwards towards the ribs and shoulder blade as it were the Pleurifie The sicke person can hardly lye vpon his sides especially on the right side his face is very blacke he léeseth appetite his vrin is bloud-red especially if the impostume be hot otherwhiles the cough cometh with it as also the hickcough parbraking short breath retention of vrine and great thirst Now for to the cure these impostumes we will first discourse of them that come through heate for this is first the liuer veine to be opened if the patient be able and to let out much bloud but if the partie be weake then but a little and then the oftener If so be that he be hard bound then be gentle clisters to be ministred and this thing insuing to be layd vpon the liuer Take red Saunders Roses of each thrée dragmes the iuice of Endiue and Nightshade of each two ounces Rose water one ounce Vineger halfe an ounce make them togither luke warme and then wet clothes therin and apply them vpon the liuer and renew them once euery thrée or foure houres and continue this thrée or foure dayes This sirupe following is also to be prepared which is as well good for the ague as for to open and loose the body Take the iuice of small Endiue
Iaundies and Dropsie Of the thirst through drouth and heate of the Lyuer §. 10. ALthough the thirst be a common drouth of the inward members yet neuerthelesse it is caused for the most part from the Lyuer which also dryeth away through the heat or if the body be burthened with any sicknesse or Ague which verily is such an intolerable trouble that it excéedeth all other like as may be seene by the wretched people that be set on a whéele who do more complaine of thirst then of their disioynting broken bones which thirst is thus described Thirst is a desire of cooling and moysture which is quenched with drinking The learned do also make three kindes of differences of the thirst the first do they take for the thirst which is gone cleane when one hath lost his thirst and when he is afrayd of drinking The second is the diminished thirst when one drinketh seldome The third is the spoyled thirst like as when any body desireth out of measure any vnaccustomed and hurtfull drinke without measure to wit if one would drinke puddle water vrine or such like This thirst is to be likened vnto the strange lust after meate which is caused through a bad stomacke which hath beene spoken of in his place The causes whence this vnnaturall lust ariseth are many as great labour long conuersing in the Sunne about the fire a strong Ague through drinking of strong wine through eating of salt and smoke dried flesh of Fish Cheese Pepper Ginger Cloues and other Spices sorrow and anger do also extenuate the body and increase thirst the like also do hote venims cause Item if any inward parts be ouer heated like as hath béene sayd before in the 3. § hereby the thirst is also prouoked and especially the thirst is thē great about measure in the disease of the kidness which is called Diabetes and when one goeth ouermuch to the stoole It happeneth also that some that haue had great thirst would tollerate the same without drinking and are fallen into such thirst which could not afterwardes be quenched and haue fallen thereby into Phthism Hecticam and other consuming sicknesses The same signes and differences of all these causes may be demaunded of the patient himselfe or the standers by The inward causes doth euery inward part yéeld as the Lyuer Hart Lights and the Midriffe sufficiently of it selfe to vnderstand For this thirst are applyed certaine common rules which may be well marked First how that if one haue a moyst body or stomacke to him is the thirst profitable for if he refraine the same then is the moysture of his body thereby consumed Secondly if the thirst be by reason that one hath dronken ouermuch Wine then is the thirstie person to endeuour himselfe to much sléeping and that will quench the thirst Thirdly a body is thirstie because he is dry by nature and then he is to quēch his thirst through drinking Fourthly healthfull folks that haue thirst anights are to be weaned from drinking Fiftly healthfull folks who haue thirst anights are to be weaned from their drinking anights Sixtly if so be that one haue gotten an vnnaturall thirst through eating ouermuch hote meates he must quench his thirst by drinking water Seuenthly the thirst which proceedeth of a hote hart and lights is to be remedied by taking in of fresh ayre or by receit of any cooling Léekes called Looch and through much watching for that drinking much water and sleeping much cause more harme then good Eightly if the thirst do come onely through drouth of the mouth and the throate then is he to addict himselfe to sléepe after reasonable drinking and to forbeare talke Ninthly if any body be a thirst after much purging he must not drinke too much least that the naturall digesture be thereby enfeebled or that the naturall heate be therewith dissipated and extinguished Tenthly all they that haue accustomed to drinke much anights they do in time spoyle all the humors of the whole body whereby they do fall at the last into Cacochimian or the Dropsie if so be that they do remaine long aliue But now as concerning the particular remedies of the thirst The most of them are discouered in all sicknesses that cause thirst Neuertheles we cannot here omit to declare in general all that withstandeth thirst And we will first begin with the potions Iulep of Roses and of Violets are much vsed in all heates Iulep of Roses is made thus Take one pound of Rose water halfe a pound of white Sugar séeth them togither by a gentle fire and clarifie them with the white of an egge vntill they be as thicke as a sirrupe This Iulep quencheth all that is of flegmatike Agues of the Pleurisie and also of all kind of thirst In the same manner is the Iulep of Violets to be made and hath the same operation It is also good for all rheumes of the breasts and of the throate against the cough and the thirst Item take fresh Well water or decocted Barley water tempered with Iulep of Roses or Violets and the like also with the iuice of Pomegranates The same doth likewise quench the thirst very much These distilled waters following do also quench the thirst very much viz. the water of Endiue of Buglosse of Sorrell and such like wherewith a little Sugar is decocted It is also sayd that the Cherrie wine is of a temperate nature therefore doth it quench the thirst in great heate it cooleth and moysteneth all the inward parts Item Meade doth also quench thirst like as the same is to be seene in the last part of this booke If so be that you desire also in quenching of the thirst to loose and make soluble then take thrée or foure ounces of Endiue water and with this water draw as much Cassia out of the canes as you thinke good and so drink it It doth quench the thirst maruellous much like as is also shewed sufficiently in the description of Cassia in the Introduction These sirrupes following which be here and there described may also very well be vsed for great thirsts as sirrupes of Violets of Vineger of Citrons of swéet and sower Pomegranats especially the laxatiue sirupe of Roses For hote Agues you may also vse the sirupe of Oranges of Barberies of Cherries of Prunes and the iuice of them all The same confected dryed and all that may be made of them There be also many things moe ministred against the thirst as fresh Cucumbers Gourdes and Pompeons the same being eaten or the iuice dronken For this is also Lettice good being eaten with vineger and oyle Item blacke Cherries S. Iohns grapes and Barberies The confection of Prunes described before in the eleuenth Chapter 20. § is also good and certain for the thirst Item confected Peaches conserue of Roses of Violets and of water Lillies A peece of Sugar dipt in water and suckt in the mouth asswageth also thirst Vnripe Grapes chewed contained in the mouth do the
a long time so there be nothing which hindreth the same then is the Liuer veine to be opened and to let it bléed according to his abilitie But if the yellow Iaundies be without heate and without Ague then is it a signe that it is caused of Cholera Phlegma togither you are first to giue to this sicke person preparatiues with Syrupo Acetoso composito or De Byzantijs He is also to drinke water of Carduus Benedictus with a little Saffron and afterwards purge with these things following or such like Take Aloc one dragme Diagridij fiue greynes Agaricus two scruples dryed iuice of Agrimonie one scruple then make it into pils with the iuice of Endiue or vse in the stead of it one dragme of the pils of Rubarb These pils following are not to purge but to open obstructions Sulphur vif one dragme the iuice of Swines bred halfe a scruple Euphorbium fiue greynes the iuice of Smallage halfe dragme make pils thereof and giue him halfe a dragme of it at once When he hath purged then let him take Trociscos de Lacca with the decoction of Fennell Parsly rootes of Smallage and such like For this is also good Troscisci de Rhabarbaro Radish water and Agrimony Item the iuice of Swines bred made to a sirupe with Sugar which is found to be special good and it moueth sweate In like manner be méete for this the great Treacle Diatessaron and Mithridate somtimes one dragme taking more or lesse thereof according to the importance of the case The simples which are méete for the yellow Iaundies when there is neither heate nor Ague with it be Mather if one take a dragme thereof euery day Item Gentian rootes of Smallage of Pennyroyall Diptamiu Rosemary Centorie Agrimony Annis Fennell Licorice Rapontica of Costus Aristologie Alehoofe and Piony The compounded things be conserues of Eybright of Fumitorie of Elder floures Piony and Rosemary The herbwines are the wine of Betonie of Gillyfloures of Harts tong of Tamariske of Asarabacca and of Wormewood The Oxymel alone openeth all obstructions But if so be that the yellow Iaundies do remaine long in the eyes then the sick person is to smell often vnto sharpe Vineger for it prouoketh the expulsiue power whereby the braynes may be vnburthened of all their superfluous humours or receiue the vapor into your eyes of the decoction of Hyssop Marierom Mayden haire Cammomil Dill of all them or which you please You may also wash the face with it And it is very good to smell vnto Rose water or Rose vineger Item you may sometimes drop into their eyes one or two drops of the iuice of Citrons of Limons or of Oranges But if these iuices be too sharpe then mixe them with the water of Cuscuta which water alone is verie effectuall in this matter Also for the yellow iaundies whether the same procéede of heat or cold néesing is highly recommended especially if the same can be procured and effected with the iuice of Horehound Also all such sicke persons must wash themselues with water wherein Cammomill is decocted chiefly at the beginning of the yellow iaundies The face is often to be washed with Rose water to the end that the yellownesse might the lesse infect the eyes As much as concerneth the blacke iaundies the same is to be cured with the selfe same things wherewith all the maladies of the milt are to be cured whereof shall be spoken hereafter to wit with clisters letting of bloud and other meanes moe which may there be read Of the Dropsie in generall §. 12. THe Dropsie is a sicknesse which is caused of a cold humour that doth penetrate throughout all the members in such manner that they thereby are all puffed vp and swollen Or the dropsie is an errour of the nutritiue vertue throughout the whole body which errour is prouoked by those causes which do hinder the naturall concoction of the liuer The common signes and right embassadours of the Dropsie are first of all these following swelling or puffing vp of the féete and the legs afterwardes of the face in men of the cods and a little ouer all the whole body Secondly the alteration of the colour of the body into a white colour Thirdly when all the humours in the whole body be corrupted the which the Grecians do call Cacochymian Fourthly great thirst Fiftly lost appetite through continuall desire of drinke Sixtly retention of stooles of sweate of vomiting of the flowers or termes in women and such like Seuenthly small store of vrine Eightly that these sicke folkes are verie slow and vnhandsome for all workes Chanceth it then as it is wont to happen that there be any vlcers or sores with it then be the same by reason of the corrupted humours which be in this place verie hardly to be healed And although this sicknesse be very hard and dangerous to be cured yet neuerthelesse must the sick person not therfore be vtterly discouraged In like manner also the Phisition is through all possible meanes to endeuour himselfe to withstand this sicknesse The totall summe for to rid this sicknesse dependeth on three points to wit the mollification of the indurate tumours which be in the bowels and other places or the vse of all manner of things for to expell the humours Lastly he must be diligent to driue out the same by going to stoole and chiefly through the vrine So that the principall meanes consist in this that one do drinke but little do liue soberly and orderly vse reasonable exercise that one do sweate much purge often and vse Clisters for if all this be not diligently obserued then is there not much good to be expected For notwithstanding that all these things be adhibited and permitted yet be there neuerthelesse very few holpen of it These common rules alwayes take place in all sorts of dropsies The learned do make thrée Species of dropsies as Anasarca also Hyposarca albeit some do make difference betwéene them so make foure kindes of dropsies Ascites and Tympania or Tympanites of which we will seuerally write hereafter But first we will then briefly declare thus much When as any one is thought to haue gotten the dropsie or that the same is yet in the beginning for it is the conserues of Fumitorie highly commended for it cleanseth the bloud For this is also good the golden water which is described in the eight Part. The conserue of Eyebright doth open much all obstructions For this is also very méete all that is ordained herebefore for the obstruction of the Lights and Liuer Of the Dropsie Anasarca §. 12. THis spec of dropsie doth Galen also call Leucophlegmatia Hydrops as a white waterish dropsie and is such a dropsie wherin the water which lyeth betweene the skin and the flesh is dispersed through the whole body through each member and in the face and maketh them swell so that the belly and the nauell do not swel alone in which swelling if that
it be pressed with the finger then doth the dint or pit remaine long after in it The priuie members do swell also a waterish scouring or laske The pulses will be slow and do beate longsome and leysurely The causes of it are bad digestion so that all the meate and drinke is at least the halfe part turned into a flegmaticke matter whereby the same cannot as behooueth the assimilated to the other parts When as then these foresaid signes be perceiued in the face and in the priuities then may the sicknesse be taken well to be Anasarca the which also of all other dropsies is most easiest to be cured because that it diuideth it selfe into all the parts of the body and for that cause may be the easier ouercome by nature For this are these remedies ensuing to be vsed First if it be a woman and that the same sicknesse is fallen vpon her and caused through retention and let of her termes or obstruction of the Hemorrhoides then is care to be had through all meanes to helpe and to prouoke them And in case that the same cannot be compassed and effected then is the Saphea or Milt veine to be opened and likewise to set boxing cups on the thighes and legs But for all other species of Dropsies letting of bloud is very hurtfull for that they haue but little bloud yet very much moisture whereby the good bloud being drawne out the water will be left behind For this is to be giuen to the patient this sirupe following for to open him like as is taught in the 4. § of the diseases of the liuer Item Trocisci de lacca are especiall good for this and afterwards he must euery wéeke be purged with pils of Rubarbe Or take these pils ensuing Agregatiuae two scruples Ammoniaci one scruple and make seuen pils of it with Oxymel The pils de Hiera de Aloe de Mezereo Foetidae de Agarico are altogether very méet for this vse It is also admonished before to vse reasonable exercise hunger and thirst More waking than sleeping is very commodious Item water bathes if one can come to them are also very good for this which be by nature warme or in the stead of them to bathe in drie baths and then to sweate well Such persons must also in warme seasons and when the wind is downe lye with their bellies towards the heate of the Sunne and let the same be well rubbed Some do aduise also that the armes and the legs must be well rubbed This confection following is very fit to purge and expell water Take Turbith halfe an ounce Hermodactili one ounce péeled wild Saffron séedes thrée quarters of an ounce Ginger Cinnamom and Annis of each one scruple Violets Cuscuta Sorrel seede of each one dragm hony of Roses foure ounces Sugar two ounces séeth the Hony and the Sugar with a litle of the water of Fumitorie vntill you may scum it when it is sodden enough then mixe the rest with it vnto a Confection Giue thereof halfe an ounce at once Another TAke one dragme of Rubarbe Annis wild yellow Rapeséede and Indy Spica of each one scruple Licorice one dragme Asarabacca half a drag Conserue of Marioram one ounce Conserue of Roses thrée ounces Miua cydoniorum and Oxymel as much as you will for to make a Confection This Confection strengtheneth and expelleth much the water Yet another Take Elecampane rootes Ireos and Gentian of each one dragme Ireos losinges one ounce sirupe of Horehound one ounce and a halfe then make a Confection therof Take thereof as often as you please it strengtheneth doth quench thirst and lengthen the breath The auncient Phisitions do aduise much for to vomit to wit at the first in the beginning of the sicknesse whilst that the patient is in state of strength but not otherwise Some do write that dried Hedgehogs flesh doth maruellously ease in this sicknesse if one take of the same one quarter of an ounce in wine The like is also reported of the Wolfes Liuer if the same be taken with Rubarb Rapontica with water wherin Wormwood is decocted Of the Dropsie Ascites §. 14. THis Dropsie some do call Ascliten and Alchiten In this Dropsie the belly doth onely swell and the legges and contrarily the vpper parts of the bodie do dry away This name is giuen to this species of Dropsies of a hyde wherein men do cary Wine or Oyle Of all other signs this sicknes is a great trouble in the belly when one clappeth or soundeth vpon it he doth heare a rumbling or a noise of water which is forcibly stirred about the which also happeneth if the sick person do turne himselfe from the one side to the other the bodie is not so swolen throughout like as in the foresaid Dropsie neither do there remaine therein any dents or pits if one presse therein with the finger The nauel doth not stand so puffed vp as in the Tympanite the pulse is féeble swift and small The cause of this Dropsie is féeblenes of the Liuer which hath not a sanguification or concoction and altereth all her moisture into water This infection of the Liuer may be caused as well of heate as of cold also of the water which is ingendred in the Lyuer that falleth downe afterwards into the lower parts and hollownes of the belly If this Dropsie do come through hote causes after any paine of the Lyuer after an Ague by swelling vp the belly beneath the Nauell euen to the very hip also if one turne the sicke person about one heareth the water he hath an intolerable thirst auoideth but litle vrine which is fierie red with some clots as it were with smal stones then is there great danger and but smal hope of life to be had For if so be that one giue to the patient medicins which do coole the heate then is the Liuer enféebled the water and wind augmented if that warme and drying things be vsed for it then doth the heate and excessiue thirst increase But not to leaue this sicke person vtterly comfortlesse and to please his friends you may vse for the lengthening of his life moderate cold and warm things like as is this sirupe following Take Endiue foure handfuls Maiden haire and Harts toung of each one handfull Fennell séede Parsly seede and Cuscuta of each halfe an ounce Spica Nardi Spica Romana of each one quarter of an ounce and Sugar sixe ounces make a clarified sirupe of it In like sort may also this cooling confection following be vsed as Diarrhodon Dialacca Diacrocoma Diatrisantalon and Aromaticum Rosatum and other such like cooling things mo Also the Wolfes lyuer like as herebefore for Anasarca is said is very highly commended for this if the same be giuen with Endiue water for it should euen as many thinke reduce the Lyuer to her right state Also for to coole the heate of the lyuer may this plaister following be made and applyed vpon it Take the iuice of Endiue of
small Endiue of Agrimonie of Liuerwort of each two ounces Barly meale as much as will suffise to make a plaister withall It happeneth also very often that in this Ascite the patient is hard bound in body who if he be knowne of sufficient strength then is he to be often purged as is already said that which may be effected through sundry meanes as through Pils Potions and through Clisters whereof there be many herebefore described for the obstruction of the Lyuer and are also very requisite for this purpose and amongst the rest these following may also be vsed First let pils be made with Rubarb which be acuated with a litle Mezereo and be giuen vnto him once a weeke Also the pils of Mezereo are very good for this vse but they must be taken in hand very circumspectly for that the Mezereon is maruellous sharpe as herebefore in the introduction you may well perceiue Item Take of the foresaid Mezereon leaues which haue bene stéeped two daies and two nights before in the iuice of Quinces and Vineger dried againe half a drag make small pils thereof it expelleth water wonderfully The like haue you before in the 4. § good pils in the obstructiō of the liuer beginning Take Spica c. The iuice of wild Cucumbers or Elaterium is also good for this but it must be giuen with great circumspection for there is no man so strong that may take aboue halfe a scruple Our Phisitions do seldome take aboue foure graines at once as is amplier spoken of in the Introduction Item take clouted Goats milk thrée ounces the iuice of blew Flower-deluce halfe an ounce séeethe it on a small fire vnto the halfe or more strain it temper it in a litle Suger so take it Or take the iuice of blew Flower-deluce which is very cleare one ounce drink it with some Sugar or with some Goates milk once in euery 4. daies the daies betwéene both is he to drinke a good draught of Béere decocted with Wormewood or Wormwood powder with 2. ounces of Sugar cast into sugar plates eate therof In Italy they haue an herbe called Soldonella the iuice wherof is much vsed for the dropsie also the water powder of the herbe or in stead thereof may be vsed for the dropsie of the said blew Flower-deluce for that Soldonella with groweth neare the sea all salt places is giuen with wine wherein Rapontica with a litle Wormwood is decocted What force Wormwood hath in this disease is sufficiently shewed in the end of the 9. § Also what vertue the wild Saffron séed hath for the Dropsie looke for the same in the Introduction the like also of the éedes of Manus Christi A powder to purge withal Take beaten Ireos thrée dragmes Ginger two scruples Annis Masticke of each one scruple white sugar Candie one dragme Turbith one quarter of an ounce Diagridion sixe graines take one dragme therof it expelleth the water and the going to stoole very vehemently But if there be any heate withall then are these mild purgations to be vsed Take the flowers of Burrage Violets Fumitorie of each halfe an ounce Licorice Iuiubes Currans and Wormwood of each one quarter of an ounce eight or ten Prunes Spicanardi one dragme séethe them all in whay of Goates milke and stéepe therein halfe an ounce of the shels of yellow Mirobalans for a potion Item take sixe ounces of the whay of Goates milke and fresh rootes of the Flower-deluce which be well cleansed from their shels halfe an ounce séeth the same vntill two parts remain then temper them together for a purgation Clisters as is before discoursed are also maruellous good for all such dropsies whereof certaine do follow Take Ebulus Cammomill and S. Iohns wort of each one handful Let them séeth sufficiently in water then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces Sallad oyle thrée spoonefuls halfe an ounce of Hiera Pachij or Hiera Picra Salt one dragme temper them then together Item take the broth of Tripes or any other fresh flesh broth Pease pottage or any other that one hath readie in the stead of common water and in the stead of Hiera take prepared Cassie for Clisters This following doth loose more Take Mallowes Hollihockes Beetes Cammomill and the herbe Mercurie of each one handfull Seeth it in water or in any of the foresaid brothes and take thereof twelue or sixteene ounces Salt Oyle Hiera or Cassie Hiera Picra Benedicta Laxatiua of each halfe an ounce temper them together and minister this Clister very warme This following draweth from the head Take Rosemarie Betonie Cammomill and Saint Iohns wort of each one handfull Polipodie wild Saffron seede grosse beaten of each half an ounce and seeth them well This being done take as much broth and do as is beforesaid there may also be vsed in stead of common oile the oyle of Linseede If there be great griping of the belly with it then may also be vsed with the foresaid herbes Annis Fennell Caraway all together or those that one can get Take the waight of an ounce thereof beaten all together grosse Clisters are not onely good for the Dropsie but also against all griping of the belly against the grauel against the obstructions against the yellow Iaundise shoorings and such like But in case that with this Dropsie there be any scouring or red flixe then are Trociskes to be giuen to the patient of Barberies with Vineger for these Trociskes do coole supple and strengthen the liuer and stay the scouring The same do also Trocisci de Spodio de Sandalis and the iuice of Quinces and all that is made thereof Item the Conserue and confected rootes of Cicorie by reason that they a binding and cooling operation But if so be that the Ascites be without an ague and there be no rednes séene in the water then may these pils following be giuen Take prepared leaues of Mezereon and Sagapenum of each one scruple and make this to pilles with the iuice of Wormwood but giue no more at once then the fourth part onely for they expell and purge very forcibly What things do moue Vrine IN the beginning of the description of the Dropsie it is amongst other things thus declared that the chiefest meane for to cure this sicknesse is to expell vrine and to auoide the same in great abundance the which may be atchieved through these meanes following Take Rue S. Iohns woort Peniroyall Sage Marioram gentle Wormewood Licorice Annis Fennell and Elecampane roots of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them together in a quart of Wine but not too long then drinke thereof in the morning thrée ounces and as much more in the euening Item take Garlicke and S. Iohns woort of each one handfull séeth them together in a pint of Wine vntill a third part be decocted afterwards straine it thorough and when you please drinke a litle thereof at one time it dryeth vp the water and expelleth the
rest through the vrine Item take the whay of Goats milke foure ounces séeth three dragmes of Spica nardi in it vnto thrée ounces and giue it him to drinke fasting Or take one ounce of the iuice of Nep. Also white Wine wherein the flowers of Rosemarie and the herbe be decocted is very méete for this Item the vineger of Squils is also very good The Trociscide Lacca or Crocoma one quarter of an ounce giuen at one time with any of the foresaid iuices be especiall good for this Item Rubarb Asarabacca Diptamus Cinnamome Agrimonie Marioram gentle Rue Myrrhe all together or each alone stéeped in Wine are very fit for the Dropsie or any other maladie In the description of the yellow Iaundise in the eleuenth § haue you also amongst other potions a very good potion fit for this beginning Take Gentian c. These things following do also expell vrine namely Hermodactili Indie Spica Licorice Cinnamome Fennell Betonie Vineger Parsly rootes Sage and Rosemarie séeth any of these things in Wine and in three or foure ounces of the same Wine dissolue one dragme of the trociskes De Lacca but aboue all other these here be very commodious Item the rootes of Nettles of Parsly Fennel Elecampane roots Asarabacca powned all together or each alone taking one dragme thereof or wine drunke wherein the same hath bene a while decocted The rootes of great Ferne boyled in Wine and drunke expell vrine very much Of all herb wines are commended aboue all other things for the Dropsie to wit wine of Gilloflowers rootes of Marioram gentle Betony Asarabacca and of Hyssope but all troubled wines are contrarie to this disease Outwardly are sundrie plaisters vsed and it is reported that they do bring foure kinds of commodities first they do supple drie expell wind and do strengthen the belly and all the intrailes like as these following are Take Coloquint Hollihocke séedes Diagridion Aloe Myrrhe roots of Mallowes and Bdellion of each one dragme and a halfe Ireos three dragmes séedes of Mallowes wild Cucumbers Cardamome and Euphorbium of each thrée drag Boreas Sal gemmae of each one quarter of an ounce Goose grease Duckes grease Calues Hogs suâ—t as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister or a salue lay this plaister vpon the belly it doth supple much The plaister of Bayberries is also speciall good for the Dropsie moreouer much mightier for it if the same be tempered with Goates dung or Cow dung If the priuities be much swollen then make this plaister following Take Annis Fennell and Comin beaten small together of each one ounce and a halfe Beane meale Ebulus the iuice of Elderne leaues and good Wine as much as will suffise lay it vpon the belly and ouer the priuities Another Take Barly meale Cypers rootes dryed Shéepes dung Borace and Bolus of each a like quantitie beate them together make a plaister thereof and apply it to the belly This plaister hath great force to exsiccate and drie the water Item take Cow dung or Goats dung and temper them with the vrine of a man child vnto a plaister Or take Oxe dung which is dryed in an ouen powne it to powder and make thereof a plaister with Wine and then lay it on the belly Another Take fat Figs thrée ounces Pigeon dung halfe an ounce Masticke and Spikenard of each halfe a dragme powne all that is to be powned and then make it to a plaister with Goates pisse Of all other salues is that of Agrippa much commended which is knowne at all Apothecaries for it is maruellous good for the Dropsie There is also another made that is Arthanita of Swines bred which is not so common For a common inunction the oyle of Cammomil and of Rue tempered together is very commodious But it is also to be noted that if so be that the Dropsie do come out of any cold occasion that then this foresaid plaister is to be layd vpon the whole belly and the cooling things vpon the Lyuer Sweating is very good for all Dropsies §. 15. IT is shewed that among other releuations and expulsions of superfluous moistures of mans bodie sweating is accounted one therefore it is very néedefull to write somewhat thereof and how that the sweate especially for Dropsies is moued We haue also written in another place of a drie sweate bath the which for the difference thereof we will rehearse here againe Take a flat tub turne the same vpside downe ouer a hote harth and make vnder this tub a small fire of Elderne wood or Iuniper wood without smoke vntill it be thorough warme When it is then hote set hoopes about it that it may be couered close then set the patient in the same tub couered euery where close yet so that his head be without Afterwards he is to rub him well to the end he may sweate well drie away the sweate and let him sit in it as long as he can abide it Item take Ebulus Beane straw of each a like quantitie séeth them together and make thereof a sweating bath with hote stones as is accustomed It is also good to drinke a dragme of the powder of Bayberries with Wine and chiefly after the sweating Conserue of Elderne taken fasting before sweating after purging causeth abundant sweate and doth expell the fountaine or beginning of the Dropsie This following should be maruellous auailable for the Dropsie through sweating Take of the middlemost gréene rind of the Elder eight good handfuls Carduus Benedictus sixe handfuls Rosemarie thrée handfuls the vppermost sprigges of Elder thrée handfuls choppe all these small together then put them into a glasse and powre vpon it two quarts of white Wine then stoppe it very fast and so set it the space of fourteene dayes in horse dung and afterwards distill it in séething water whereof giue the patient one spoonfull twice a day But at the first time giue him very litle of it and if he can abide it then giue him more This hath bene tryed in a thicke fat woman that she must be laid vpon a leather bed that the sweate through this medicine hath runne so extreamely from her that it must be laden vp with dishes The great Treacle Diatessaron and Mithridate one dragme or a dragme and a halfe taken with Wine or any of the foresaid waters do vehemently expell sweate In like manner is very commodious for this all that is set downe for the yellow Iaundise for prouoking vrine and expelling of grauell Certaine famous auncient Phisitions do aduise that vnto them that haue the Dropsie shal Treacle be giuen and that thereupon they should be made sweate vpon a boord in a warme Ouen hauing their head out But I cannot much approue the same The like grosse meanes like as to burie the sicke person warme in the said and other things moe there be of many men many described But I will not rehearse them all because I haue declared some that be more necessarie and tolerable Of
the Dropsie Tympanites §. 16. THis Tympania or Tympanites is also properly called Hydrops which is a Dropsie because that it is rather caused to wind then of water and hath therfore her name for that the belly as in other Dropsies is here also puffed vp higher the Nauell is thrust foorth on high and because all other members do consume and waxe very leane yea for that the belly is hard swollen that one clapping or knocking vpon it ◠giueth a cleare and hollow sound In these sicknesses the patient ought not to eate at any hand any gréene herbes nor yet any thing else which maketh or ingendreth wind as Spinage Béetes Coleworts new fruites Pease Beanes Turneps boyled Rice or any such like He must also beware of milke Cheese Chestnuts vnleauened bread and Must He must also eschue all cold and keep himselfe alwaies warme and to sweate if it be possible euen as we haue said before And the belly must be daily well warmed with warme Panicke or Millet wherewith is mixt a little Salt for this causeth the wind to breake away In like manner shall boxing cups also be set vpon it vnpickt All these things following are good for him to wit the Confection Diacyminum or de Baccis Lauri vsed often and other mo that be written hereafter for the griping of the belly But aboue all and for all Dropsies the prepared Wolfes lyuer is very much commended be it powdered or eaten otherwise amongst other meate for it hath an excellent and priuie vertue to expell the Dropsie Item these things following may be vsed for all Dropsies if there be no heate with it as Conserue of Elderne leaues of Betony Gilloflowers and of Rosemarie Fennell Annis Cathirst and much watching are also good for this These suppositories also following are very méete for this purpose Take Sal gemmae Rue Beuercod Euphorbium and Nettle seede of each one drag decocted Hony about thrée ounces and make thereof suppositories These following be not so strong Take Comin Boreas Rue-séede of each a like quantitie Hony as much as is néedfull for to make suppositories Also let the belly be rubbed with rough linnen vntill it be red And when the wind doth not blow let the Sun shine vpon it This plaister following is maruellous good for this Take dryed Goates dung twelue ounces rootes of wild Cucumbers and rootes of Ebulus of each two ounces Barley meale twelue ounces steeled Vineger foure ounces make a plaister thereof boyled well with sharpe Lée this plaister consumeth all windie matter openeth the pores and draweth all wind out of the body if it be laid warme thereon The belly is also to be annointed with oyles which be of a hote nature to wit with oyle of Dill oyle of Rue of Costus and of Bayberries Of Clisters we haue spoken before but for this are such chiefly to be vsed as do expell the winds as this following is Take Ireos Hyssope Smallage Rue Bearefoote of each one handfull Annis Fennell Ameos Bayberries of each half an ounce let them séeth well Take afterwards of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces if the patient be méetly strong then put vnto it clarified Hony and oyle of Rue of each one ounce and a halfe and stone Salt one drag There may also Hiera Picra be put vnto it for the same is maruellous good for to driue out all bad humors and to leaue the good Here do now follow certaine Sirupes moe which are to be vsed for all Dropsies like as the common sirupe of Eupatoriae which is good for all cold diseases and obstructions of the Lyuer and therefore is good for the dropsie it extenuateth all tough and grosse humors it comforteth the Lyuer it expelleth water and hindereth all swellings of the inward parts In Italy is the ensuing sirupe of Ireos much vsed Take gréene rootes of Ireos fowre and twenty ounces cut them in péeces steepe them the space of thrée dayes in as much wel Water as will couer them stir them about twice a day but that they may be couered vnder the water afterwards straine the water frō them and powre other water vpon them as before keepe the first water in a cleane pot and do the second time as you did at the first Then temper both these waters together or seeth each alone with a little Sugar Afterwards mixe these things following with it to wit Scabious and Maidenhaire of each one handfull Sperage rootes Fennell rootes Ireos rootes of each halfe a handfull péeled Melon séede Gourd séedes Cucumber seedes and peeled Pompeon seedes séedes of Purslaine of Cicorie of Endiue and of Lettice of each one quarter of an ounce Fennell Annis Sperage séede and Smallage séede of each halfe a dragme Millet and winter Cherries of each thrée dragmes fatte Dates and Figs of each sixe Liccorice Madder of each fiue dragmes let them séeth all together vnto the halfe and afterwards séeth the decoction with sufficient Sugar vnto a sirupe Some do giue this sirupe a pleasant tast with Cinnamome Other do stéepe therein one quarter of an ounce of Rubarbe against the obstruction and debilitie of the lyuer The Italian Phisitions do giue thereof when they will prepare any bad humor not aboue one ounce at the first and afterwards a little more vntill they be wholly purged with it It is also to be noted that when this Sirupe waxeth old it looseth the purguing vertue Also we will now speake of the iuice of the blew Flower-deluce When it is giuen alone it annoyeth the stomack and causeth the red or bloudie flixe Further for this sicknes is to be vsed the sirupes de Radicibus de Absynthio Capillis Veneris de Betonica and such like moe When it appeareth that the swelling of the belly of the legs and of the priuities doth decrease be it in whatsoeuer Dropsie it will the boyle Ebulus with the root herbe and bathe or foment therewith the swolne places or wash it with common Lye which is somewhat salted Other do aduise this following Take Marioram Wormwood field Mints Parietarie the rootes and leaues of Ebulus Marioram gentle Cammomill and Maydenhaire all together or which you will séethe them in Wine or Lye and therewith bath the members but alwaies after purging for otherwise it is not requisite Marke also that for all sorts or kinds of Dropsies the remedies are often to be altered taking now one sort and another time another sort and that for this is alwaies a good order of dyet as we shall here briefly note and set foorth The order of Diet. WE haue heretofore sufficiently shewed that sobrietie is good and néedfull for all Dropsies It is therefore required that one do eate but once a day Partridges are good for him Turtle doues and other young Pigeons Kids rostmeate Pullets Fowles drest with Veriuice and the iuice of Limons Barly or Spelt dread which is raised and well-baked are also good for him He may also eate sometimes Endiue Sorrell and Cicorie with
Vineger or a Sallad with Sorrel and Parsly And for a conclusion we are to say somewhat more for opening the skin in this Dropsie therby to let out the water The which the learned do permit at the last when the patient hath his legs and priuities full of water that the same be then opened with a Lancet thereby to let out the water but not much at once But in truth this is a slender helpe and féebleth the sicke more then it doth strengthen for inwardly as much water hath a course vnto it as may be letten out Other do open the legs with Cantharides The third sort do cauterise the belly two or thrée fingers broad beneath the Nauell so that there as much as may be they do draw ouer and open the skin and that chiefly in Ascite where it ought most to be vsed We will also note at this present that because oftentimes before the hote Euphorbium hath bene remembred the same is not to be vsed but in the greatest extremitie euen as his nature and operation are at large described in the Introduction The thirteenth Chapter Of the Gall. WIthin the middest of the Lyuer is a bladder established by nature wherein is kept and gathered all bitter and sharp humors which are separated from the bloud which humors the Grecians do call Choleram the Latinists Bilem and we call the Gall. The nature of this humor is described after thrée kinds of waies to wit light gréene Cholera yellow Cholera and lastly black Cholera like as before is sufficiently shewed This black choler by reason of her colour is also called of the Grecians Melancholia and is cold drie sharpe and heauie and also none other then dregs and yeast of the grosse bloud for it is nothing else but a yellow Cholera that is Oxymel burnt whereby the yellow and gréene Cholera are easily altered into black Cholera How this blacke Cholera doth make men mad and raging in the first part in the twelfth Chapter and 8. § is sufficiently declared and also shall be taught hereafter It happeneth either through extremitie of heate or cold that the black Cholera appeareth rather in the winter and the yellow Cholera in sommer time For when as the conduits which do carie those superfluities into the Gall are obstructed then is the yellow Cholera dispersed through the whole bodie with the rest of the bloud which causeth the yellow Iaundise and otherwhiles by reason of their sharpnesse and heate a certaine Ague Or if it get wholy the vpper hand then doth it cause many kinds of ill and sharpe exulcerations wherof we are to write more at large in other places Thus for to remedie this Cholera and the foresaid Ague thereby is this generall rule prescribed by Galen At the first it hapneth otherwhiles that the Gall doth send her superfluitie to the stomacke whereby the digestion is hindred and spoyled and the patient getteth great infirmitie for this there is no fitter meane to exonerate him thereof than by vomiting and that chiefly when one is fasting Contrariwise is the Melancholia which through her heauinesse descendeth downewards to be purged through the stoole which may be most commodiously effected through Clisters afterwards through sweating and through the vrine And how this ought to be put in practise is sufficiently declared before in the Dropsie and yellow Iaundise In like manner it is especiall good to bath in swéete water for thereby will both the said cholericke humors be moystned and cooled if it be done in due time This patient is also to forbeare Wine euen till the declination of the sicknesse And when the sicknesse beginneth to decline then is he to vse small watered and but a litle wine All meates that moisten and coole are good for these Aguish folke if the same be soberly vsed These herbes following may also be drest in his meate as Orage Béetes Sorrell Mallowes Lettice Gourds Also Barly paps which is Ptisana and fish which is caught in grauelly waters All Fowles are good for him which haue a soft and tender flesh or the pinions of the grosse and hard fowles The braines and feet of Swine small birds and rere sodden 〈◊〉 be good but chiefly the yolkes which are more nourishing and lighter to be digested He may vse all fruites that remaine not long in the stomacke but he must refraine Hony Mustard salt and sharpe meates This may suffise of the Gall of her bladder nature of the tertian Ague which is caused by it Of which Ague amongst other shall be further written in the sixt part The sicknesses besides which be caused through Cholera shall be described more at large in their due places The fourteenth Chapter Of the Milt or Spleene THis third part of mans bodie containeth also in it the Milt which the Grecians do call Splen and the Latinists Lien a knowne and necessarie part of mans bodie It hath his place in the left side ouer against the Liuer and the Gal next of all to the stomack And if this were not found in the left side but in the right side like as the same before time hath bene séene then is it reputed to be against nature This Milt is fastened to the backe with certaine sinewes where the ribs do take end and with one end it stretcheth to the Lyuer in the right side Her substance and essence is a tender and soft flesh like to a sponge yet to be compared to the Lights it is so much harder and faster as she is softer and tenderer then the Liuer She hath also many veines and arteries whereby she draweth easily vnto her the grosse melancholicke humors out of the Lyuer by which she is fed and sustained She is different in colour to the Milt of beasts for it is blacke gray of forme long and thin and of all fourefooted beasts there is none which more agréeth with the Spléene of a man then that of a Hog The office of this Milt is none other but to cleanse the liuer from all melancholick humors and that is brought to passe through the said veines whereby she draweth vnto her the same grosse humours where she keepeth and retaineth the cleanest and driueth from her the rest through certaine passages and conduits which if it be not performed the spléene is so weakned that it cannot perfectly draw vnto it the same melancholicke humors and then there proceede out of it diuers melancholick sicknesses as namely heauinesse of mind desperat madnesse and such like This disease of the spléene hath his certaine and outward signes as when one is sorowfull then doth he commonly feele paine about the Spleene where melancholie hath her residence Yea there is also written thereof beleeued by many that if men were depriued of their spléen then they should thereby loose all their laughing and that their laughing and mirth doth augment according to the increase of the spléene Also the foresaid feeblenesse of the Milt causeth exulcerations swellings leaprie
the canker and such like And albeit that it do draw the melancholicke humors vnto it yet neuerthelesse can she not by reason of her féeblenesse expell the superfluitie of the same but swelleth wherby an Impostume may easily follow If then it force the biting and sharpe matter excessiuely into the stomacke then doth it there cause the insatiable Dogs hunger whereof we haue written in the eleuenth Chapter and fiue and thirty § Or if the same harden in the stomacke then doth it cause vomiting the bowels will thereby be made sore and deadly annoyed and also afflicted with moe other perillous accidents by all which it may easily be perceiued how much the health of this part importeth Therefore it is to the contrarie much to be maruelled at that certaine Beasts can be wholy without it And so daily experience sheweth that how much the lesse a mans spléene is so much the faster may one run and do the more labour The chiefest diseases of the spleene be inflammations obstructions and schirrosities of which the obstructions and hardenings do depend so fast one vpon another that the one cannot be well without the other And the Phisitions haue also no other difference in vse than that there be vsed for the obstructions mo inward medicines than for the hardnes or schirrosity for in the hardnes of the same must outward things be vsed whether the same be caused through heate cold or wind which do come commonly with it So that the spléene in all these diseases hath great affinitie with the Liuer and so all that which is ordained for the Liuer is also seruing for the spléene And now to write briefly of the occasions of these maladies whether the same be alwaies moued through inward or outward causes The outward causes may be such meates and drinks as do ingender melancholicke bloud as Chéese Coleworts salted flesh and such like according as hath bene said in the first part of Melancholia The inward causes do come of the Liuer or when the melancholick humors be too in any or when the spléene hath a bad complexion whether it procéede of Cholera Phlegma wind or any other occasion Of the obstruction of the Spleene with heate and an ague §. 1. THe obstructed Spléene hath these signes to wit an hardnes which one may féele outwardly with paine swelling thirst thin and il-fauoured colour of the vrine a heauie ratling breath bad colour of the face and of the whole bodie heauinesse of mind terrible dreames and such like But with the impostume is alwaies this difference that the paine is in one place onely but in the hardnes of the spléene without impostumation the paine is ouer all the whole spléene These diseases do also make the whole bodie leane because that the Liuer doth not performe her naturall digestion and in stead of good bloud doth ingender bad humors wherewith the whole bodie is fed and nourished If with this paine of the spléene through heate be Agues and a red vrine adioyned then are these cooling things to be vsed for it to wit Lettice Endiue with their séede Saunders burnt Iuorie the séedes of Melons Pompeons Gourds and of Cucumbers Vineger such like Of compounded things the confection Trisantali c. These things following are temperate and not onely good for the Milt or Spléene but also for the Stomacke Liuer Gall and for all inward parts as Cammomill Melilot Lilly rootes Burrage water Lillies Fumitorie Maidenhaire and Hares toung But to procéede methodically then is the patient first to vse these things following Take Caper rootes rindes of Tamariscus the innermost gréene rinds of the Ash tree and the blossomes of Broome of each one ounce Endiue Purslaine small Endiue Maidenhaire of each one handfull the seedes of Pompeons of Cucumbers of Gourds and the séede of Melons of each one ounce Hony thrée ounces Sugar nine ounces let the foresaid roots be stéeped a whole night in Vineger then afterwards make a sirupe thereof and giue two or thrée ounces of it according as the cause requireth with Endiue water and that for the space of foure or fiue dayes in the morning fasting For this are also these Sirupes good to wit the sirupe of vineger of Oxymel simplex and Compositum Oxysacchara Vineger of Squils and his Oxymel Acetosus Diarrhodon de Fumo Terrae de Epithymo de Pomis de Duabus 5. Radicibus of Burrage and of Buglosse of each half an ounce Currans one ounce Annis one quarter of an ounce Polipodie rootes halfe a dragme seeth the foresaid all together in sufficient water vntill there remaine about foure ounces Stéepe therein a whole night Mirobalani Indi then wring them wel out and drinke it bloud warme early in the morning You may also for both of them in stead of the Mirobalani temper amongst it one quarter of an ounce of the confection of Sene leaues or Hiera Picra Also this following may be vsed to purge withall Take Confectionis Hamech halfe an ounce or Diaphoeniconis thrée quarters of an ounce Item pils of Indie called Pillulas Indas one dragme the Sene leaues may also be well taken but hereafter followeth a briefer safer and a more méete way Take the confection of Sene leaues and temper it according to the strength and age of the partie with Rubarbe and Burrage water giue it him warme fasting and afterwards vse these Pils Take Ammoniacum one dragme Tamariscus Harts toung and the séede of Agnus castus of each halfe a scruple make nine pils thereof with the sirupe of Vineger whereof the patient is to take a litle for the space of eight dayes together before supper and one or twayne after supper and then afterwards take this potion Take the water of Tamariscus of Harts tong and Cicorie of each one ounce and a halfe Vineger of Squils one quarter of an ounce white Sugar halfe an ounce then temper them together this are you thus to drinke in the morning fasting and then take of the foresaid pils twaine and so continue it during the space of ten dayes But especially you are to vse the potion for it is the most forcible medicine for the Spléene that may be found In like manner is this also excéedingly commended Take the whay of milke stéepe Harts toung Epithymum and Calmus in it and so let it stand a whole night afterwards you may seeth this a little while and drinke often thereof Likewise the séede of Purslaine Calmus and the rootes of Cicorie of each a like quantitie is very good being taken with the sirupe of Vineger Of those things which conuey the medicine towards the Milt IT is of no small importance to know the vse of those things which may conuey the preparatiue and purgatiue medicines towards the Spléene like as hath bene said elsewhere This doth Tamariske Harts toung Caper rootes Mather burnt Squils Scordium wild yellow Rapeseede Nep Spica of Indie Calmus Ireos Horehound Wormewood Agrimonie Annis Fennell Cuscuta the seede of
pot of Water and stéepe a sponge therein and lay it very warme on the left side when the place is then very warme couer it with a woollen cloth which is made wet before in stéeled Vineger decocted water of Hony succles and of Tamariscus And if so be that this swelling do not asswage thereby then vse this plaister following Take the prepared marrow of an Oxe Badgers grease and the oyle of a Foxe of each halfe an ounce Tamariscus Harts tong Wormwood Caper rootes Spica of Indy and Spica Romana of each one dragme Ammoniacum one ounce and a halfe Bdellium halfe an ounce oyle of Behen two ounces Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister with it then make it like to a halfe Moone and lay it on the left side and then shall you sée in short time that the hardnes will weare away Of hardnes or Schirrus of the Spleene §. 4. ALthough the auncient Phisitions were of opinion that this hardning of the Milt were not difficult to be healed at the first but were in déede if the same had long continued and were neglected like as Galenus writeth that he knew not how to cure it neither had knowne any that could heale the same Neuerthelesse one must not despaire but administer fréely vnto it all strong outward and inward remedies For how much the longer that this accident continueth so much the lesse vexation hath the patient with it But it is not to be neglected for this danger is with it that if the same do inueterate then the patient might happen to fall into the Dropsie whereby afterwards they commonly one more another lesse happen to die with a laske or scouring The signes of this hardnesse are the same that herebefore in the 2. § and afterwards in the obstruction of the Spléen are discouered There is alwaies a heauines in the left side the whole body and especially the face getteth an ash-coloured and il-fauoured colour all the members will be weake as if they were beaten in péeces When the patient will do any exercise then séemeth it as if his breath would depart The signes of the impostume of the Milt are also described yet the same may be well knowne by the féeling All that be sicke of the Milt wil also be leane very lither out of courage do get heauie legs a heauie tong and a thin vrine If with the paine of the Milt or the swelling and hardnesse of the same there be no Ague then is the patient againe in the beginning of the cure to haue a veine opened and especially if it be discerned that the veines be full of bloud then is the Saphea on the foote to be opened and after certaine dayes the Milt veine on the left hand Afterwards are certaine sirupes to be vsed which do purge melancholy For which this following or such like is to be prepared Take Ireos Fennell rootes and Parsly rootes of each one ounce and a half the inside of Squils one ounce Capers rootes the gréene rinds of an Ashen trée and Broome rootes of each one ounce Maidenhaire Harts tong field Cipers Germander and Rosemarie flowers of each one handfull Annis Fennell Cuscuta Asarabacca seeds of Purslaine of each one dragme Licorice and Currans of each ounce Tamariscus flowers of Burrage and of Buglosse of each half an ounce Hony sixe ounces Sugar nine ounces make thereof a sirupe and vse the same as hath bene said of others This following is to be prepared for a purgation Take Burrage Buglosse Tamariscus flowers of each halfe an ounce Annis and Cuscuta of each one quarter of an ounce Thyme Epythimus and Agaricus of each an ounce Currans one ounce seeth these all together in tenne ounces of water vnto the halfe then take of this strained decoction thrée or foure ounces and temper therein one quarter of an ounce of Hiera Picra and also prepared Azure stone halfe a dragme or in stead of this one dragme of Bolus prepared temper them together and giue it him earely in the morning Also you may make pils of the other things without the water Another Take Capers rootes Harts tong Asarabacca Lupines Cipers rootes and Endiue of each one quarter of an ounce Epithymum half a dragm Barly Prunes Violets of each three dragmes let them seeth all together Lastly put the Epythimum and one quarter of Sene leaues vnto it then seethe it vntil the third part be decocted Then take foure ounces of this decoction and temper therein halfe an ounce of fresh Cassie beaten pils of Azure stone one scruple last of all temper it together vnto a potion But if the patient had rather vse pils then take pils De Lapide Armeno or Indo one dragme at one time The Lupins sodden alone in water should be also good for this But if this hardening of the Milt be of wind and cold as it otherwhiles befalleth it is thereby to be perceiued to wit if one presse vpon it that then the wind will rumble For this amongst other things may be giuen Trocisci de Capparis and to let the sicke bodie drinke old Wine but water must he wholly forbeare But if one will vse water with it then is the same first to be steeled and all his drinke to be tempered with it or any of these things following to be decocted in it as Rue Costus rootes Cinnamom Annis Spica of Indy Squinant c. We haue also a litle before declared how that Ammoniacum is to be vsed for this is also good rosted Millet Salt and Comin layd warme vpon it Item boxing cups vnpickt set vpon the Milt But if it be discerned that there be any moisture in the Milt which may be perceiued by rumbling if it be wrung hard then is the patient to be purged as aforesaid For this is also good the sirupe of Acetosus Compositus and this fomentation following is to be vsed with it Take Annis Fennell Caraway wild Thyme Violets floures of Burrage Calmus the roots of blew Flower-deluce and Agrimonie of each one ounce Cammomill one ounce and a halfe let them séeth all together in Vineger and wet a sponge in this decoction and kéepe it very warme vpon the Milt before meate afterwards lay one of these foresaid plaisters vpon it Aboue all those which we haue hitherto rehearsed there be yet mo good things whereof we will first discouer the simples as namely Agaricus which doth open al obstructions of the Milt and other parts Sene leaues Epithymus and black Hellebore or Néesewoort The compounded medicines be Pilulae Indae whereof we haue spoken so often which are worthy to be described here which be prepared as followeth Take Mirobalani Indi blacke Néesewoort and Polipody rootes of each two dragmes and a halfe Thymus Epithymus Stechas of each thrée dragmes Agaricus washt Azure stone Coloquint Indy salt or Sal gemmae of each one quarter of an ounce Cloues half a dragme powder of Hiera Picra Galeni three quarters of
may also a cooling plaister be laid vpon the belly whereof there be diuers discouered against the heate of the stomacke and the Lyuer yet must alwaies some Cammomill Wormwood and such like be tempered amongst it For a cooling you may also take preserued Ribes or any such like as in the eleuenth Chapter § 6. is shewed Of the paine of the belly mixt with grauell §. 11. FOr this disease is much aduised to take thrée dayes one after another a good draught of the water of Elderne flowers which helpeth maruellous well Item take the iuice of Pellitorie eight ounces oile of Rue two ounces séeth the dung of a Dog in it which hath eaten nothing but bones straine it thorough and vse it for a Clister It is also much aduised for to take for purgation halfe an ounce of Diaphoenicon and Sebestes one dragme and a halfe Philonium Romanum one scruple Species Iustini halfe a scruple temper them all together and drinke it and then a little fat broth after it But how easily an error is committed in distinguishing the paine of the guts from the paine of the raines and the paine of the grauell it shal hereafter be declared where we shall speake of the grauell Of the paine in the bellies of young children §. 12. WE haue here briefly shewed of the oyle of swéet Almonds which is to be tempered with Sugar and may be giuen boldly to new borne children for the paine of the belly This is alwaies found to be good The water of Larks spurres is also good for the same as well in old folkes as in young children For a small Clister take Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Pyrola of each halfe a handfull Melilot and Rosemary of each halfe so much séeth them in a pint of water and then take of this decoction litle or much according to the bignes of the child Hony of Roses halfe an ounce oyle of Cammomill two ounces Salt halfe a dragme temper them all together Item take vnto small children alwayes a spoonefull of the water of black Cherries in their pap for it asswageth the paine Oyle of Nutmegs annoynted about the Nauell and a warme cloth laid vpon it and in like manner the oyle of Scorpions is also very commodious for this infirmitie Also Chickweede fried in oyle and applyed warm on the belly Also take Mints Mallowes fried in fresh Butter or Cammomill and Wormewood of each a like much cut them all together méetly small and put them in a little bag then make it meetly warme in hote wine wring it well out and so lay it ouer the childs belly Item cut an Onion very small frie it in oyle and bind the same vpon the Nauel of yong children and old folkes Albeit that it be not now our intent to write much of Chirurgerie yet neuerthelesse we can not let this escape viz. if any be wounded in the belly that his bowels issue foorth and then happen to swell that they cannot be put backe into the body then warme them with warme milke or wine After that may the Chirurgion well know what he hath to do Of the Wormes in the belly §. 13. FIrst of all there is not any thing more certaine than that in mans bodie like as in stinking kennels in chéese and in stinking flesh worms do grow and that out of a putrified matter But in man do they chiefly procéed through vnaccustomed meates that cannot be digested also of surfetting and ouercharging of the stomacke Item through bathing and vse of venery with a full stomacke through eating of fresh Beanes of salt fish that is without scales through Swines flesh and such like things moe Also these wormes do grow by eating much fruite Therefore haue children most annoy thereby about haruest These wormes do ingender sometimes in the stomacke and otherwhiles in the bowels and some suppose that they onely grow in the blind gut but they which haue somewhat more carefully beheld them do write that the long Wormes do ingender in the vppermost bowels and the small like vnto chéese Magots onely in the arsegut and in the middlemost guttes should round wormes ingender called Ascarides Some do take it otherwise In fine we will let them dispute thereof for they do accord herein that there be three sorts of wormes which may grow in mans body like as is shewed before And to the end that somewhat be discoursed of these kinds of wormes The long ones be knowne to be in yong children through their gnawing in the bowels through a small dry and troublesome Cough Moreouer they do awake suddenly out of their sléepe sometimes with an outcry afterwards they do quickly hold their peace and haue an vnequall pulse Also they haue vncertaine Agues with coldnesse of the outward members which accidents do happen vnto them without any cause thrée or foure times a day Such children haue an vnnaturall desire of meate they let out their toung gnash with their téeth sweate about the eyes they be gladly quiet they be also very quickly angrie and snappish or testie on them that do awake them and as now they be ruddie and immediatly bleake againe they talke in their sléepe be frighted in their dreames and do lye very vnquiet When they awake they do then rub their nose the eyes sinke into their heads they will be very hard fauoured in their face they féele great paine in the belly they haue much fome and spittle their mouths will be drie yet more by day then by night and their breath stinketh much In like maner it happeneth very well that they auoide the wormes at the nose at the mouth and through stooles but amongst people in yeares there be besides these signes such an extreme paine of the belly also that they cast their hands and féete from them like as it were a collicke And as they come into their stomacke then do they get a great wambling and loathing of all meates And when one forceth himselfe to eate yet can he not swallow the meate but must cast vp againe presently the meate which he hath taken their ordure is very stinking their belly swelleth on high like as if it were full of wind These be now the signes of the long wormes which signes though they be not alwayes apparant yet neuerthelesse this disease may be knowne by some of these The broad wormes be as well in them that haue no Ague as in them which be troubled with lingring Agues they do also bring some of the foresaid signes with them and especially these will be knowne as well through the great gnawing in the stomacke as through the vnmeasurable desire of meate And although they haue eaten inough and do not by and by eate againe yet then do they séele that gnawing and biting againe as before They will be also very leane and dry of bodie But this is the very surest signe that the patient doth auoid through the stoole small things like to the kernels of Gourds It is
also found that some not estéeming this gnawing of the wormes and taking no aduice for it that the guts be bitten asunder and that the wormes are got into the hollownesse of the belly whereof doth follow afterwards a great calamitie as madnesse the falling sicknes dogs hunger swouning paine of the belly obstruction or binding of the body and lastly a painefull and bitter death Therefore is this disease not to be accompted small but rather men are betimes to vse all requisite remedies for it But if the worms be not in the bowels but in the stomack and in the mouth of the stomack then be they commonly vomited vp they that be in the bowels are rid and dispatcht through the stoole Of the third kinde of wormes which kéepe themselues in the Arsegut shall immediately hereafter be discoursed I haue therefore the longer discoursed of this for that it is a common disease amongst children and common families whereby common housholders might know their right difference afterwards we will write of the remedies seruing for these common sorts of wormes but aboue all there be prescribed by the learned certaine common rules of them The first is that the lower the wormes be in the bowels whether they be there growen or descended out of the stomack thither so much the bitterer and stronger must the medicine be which is giuen from aboue because that she may not lose her vertue through so long a passage Secondly the wormes Ascarides are not so easily killed through Phisick as other wormes therefore must stronger remedies be vsed for them Thirdly to preserue himselfe frō wormes he is to beware of all such meates as do increase Phlegma and to purge out the same in aged folks like as we shall speake more at large thereof Fourthly the first intention of the Phisitians is to kill the wormes afterwards to expell them least that through their stench they do infect the hart the stomack and the whole bodie Fiftly as soone as one perceiueth the wormes then must he indeuor to expell them and so to frée himselfe from great distresse Sixtly all remedies which be hote in the third degrée are very fit for this purpose if there be not a strong Ague or impostume with it Seuenthly if one will expell the wormes through any meate or drinke then is the same to be done with an emptie stomack and fasting Eightly the wormes are most fittest to be killed through hote and very bitter things as to the contrary through sweete and fat things they are fed and sustained Ninthly all they that haue the wormes may be fed two dayes with sweete and fat things but the third day when they be hungrie and emptie are bitter things to be giuen Tenthly if one take any thing to kill the wormes then must the belly and the stomack be annoynted or plaistred on the out side with astringent and bitter things Eleuenthly if so be that the wormes be in the vppermost guts or in the stomack then will they be more easily killed and expelled through that which is taken at the mouth But if they be in the nethermost guts then are they killed with Clisters Suppositories But if in the middlemost guts are to be vsed both these remedies The order how a man may preserue himselfe from wormes ALl those that are to be preserued from wormes are of thrée sorts as children which do yet suck children of the age of fouretéene yéeres Now for to free the sucking children the Nurse must eate all light meates and refraine from all Fruit Fish and Milke but especially from ouercharging her selfe with any kinde of meates The children which do not suck must be kept after the same manner and be restrained from all that is slimy and also beware of Fruit and especially of those which be not ripe and those that be wormeaten for they also ingender wormes in the belly The youths and people in yéeres are to be kept likewise as we haue said Also twice or thrice a yéere phlegme ought to be prepared in them with Oxymel of Squils or Compositum or with the sirupe of Calamintha and such like Afterwards they are to take Hiera Picra with the decoction of Polipodie rootes Mirabolani Chebuli of a little Colomint for to purge They are also to vse rather rosted meate then sodden They must eschue all grosse and fat meates for thereby do the wormes grow especially Also he must eate euery day a little Mustard séed But if so be that the wormes be present then must one looke to kill and expell them by all meanes for which purpose these hote things following be fit viz. Wormewood Bay leaues Peach kernels Rue white Mints bitter Costus Centorie Horehound Lupins Annis Smallage séed parched Nardus seed Mints Elecampane rootes dry Bayberies Southernwood Comin Cresses séed Caruway bitter Almonds Diptamus Penniroyall Gals of old beasts and chiefely Oxe gals or Wolfs gals the common Wormeséed Cinnamome Gentian the rootes of the femall Fearne and Agrimonis of all which foresayd things one dragme or a dragme and a halfe is to be taken in winter time with wine and in Sommer with some cooling waters and that chiefly with Purslaine and Endiue water These things following do not only kill the wormes but also expell them forcibly to wit Aloe rootes of blew Floure de luce the iuice of wilde Cucumbers Agaricus Coloquint wilde Saffron the fresh iuice of Elecampane rootes Turbith and Rabarbarum One may vse some of these foresaid things if there be no Ague with it Cold simples which doe kill the wormes are these viz. prepared Coriander Butchers Broome seede Hypocistis sealed earth Purslaine séed seeds of Endiue and of Lettice the iuice of Plantaine rinds of Pomegranats sowre Pomegranats Oranges and their séed Citron séed burnt Harts horne Asses milke all that is sowre bread infused in vineger Broome séeds Colewoort séed dry Plantaine séeds of Orage and vnripe Sallad oyle a good deale of it taken at once You may boldly take these things where as heate and the Ague is And further to speake of the compounded things we will first of all take the things in hand which may be vsed inwardly and in heate Take the sirupe of vineger one ounce and a halfe temper it with Endiue water and Purslaine water and drinke this certaine dayes together alwayes fasting Item take the seeds of Butchers Broome sealed earth Hypocistis the iuice of Sloes of each one quarter of an ounce boyle them all together in sufficient water euen to the halfe and drinke thereof certaine daies together thrée or foure ounces at once Or take Grasse-rootes and Butchers Broome séed of each one ounce séeth them all together in a pot of water euen to the halfe and drinke thereof as before Another Take eightéene or twentie Sebestes Purslaine séed one dragme Grasse rootes and Millet of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar foure ounces Veriuice and the iuice of Pomegranates of each two spoonfuls let them seeth together and skumme
Nardus séed Gallia Muscata Southernwood Oxe gall Lignum Aloes of each one scruple burnt Harts horne one quarter of an ounce Endiue séed one dragme Waxe as much as sufficeth for a Salue Another Take oyle of Wormewood and of Mirtles of each halfe an ounce beaten Aloe prepared Coriander sealed earth and Nardus séed of each fiue dragmes the iuice of Quinces and Oxe gals of each halfe an ounce séeth them with the oyle vntill all the moysture be consumed afterwards temper the other ingredients amongst it This Salue following is very good and common at the Apothecaries Take the oyle of Wormewood thrée dragmes oyle of bitter Almonds one ounce oyle of Mastick one quarter of an ounce Mirrhe Aloe and white Diptamus of each one scruple Waxe as much as néedeth The salue of Oranges whereof we haue spoken before is thus prepared Take a sowre Orange cut it vp at the top and wring out the iuice then annoynt the temples with it the hart and the stomack the same is especiall good for yong children Item take oyle of bitter Almonds of Wormewood Oxe gals and white Diptamus of each one dragme Mithridate and the iuice of Oranges of each one quarter of an ounce temper them together and annoynt the Childe therewith vpon the Hart Stomack and Nauell Put also vnto it one dragme of Aloe it is a good and safe salue especially if there be an Ague present with it Another Take Southernwood one ounce Wormewood and the rindes of the Bay trée of each one dragme Sugar Colewoort séeds of each halfe a dragme Bayberies one quarter of an ounce Aloe halfe an ounce burnt Harts horne one dragme white Diptamus two scruples seeth them all together in Vineger and Oyle then strayne it thorow a cloth and vse it as the other Or take Linséed oyle one ounce Rosen more or lesse according to the age melt it at the fire and annoynt therewith the temples of the head the stomacke and the belly Some do much commend the same although it séeme slight Item take Aloe halfe an ounce white Diptamus and Saffron of each one scruple mingle them with a little sharpe Vineger afterwards spread it on a leather and binde it on the Nauell Take fresh beaten Wormewood wet it with Vineger and lay it warme vpon the stomacke Take the marrow of Stags bones temper it with a little molten Waxe and annoynt therewith the whole back bone and then lay it beaten vpon the Nauell The iuice of Radish spread vpon the Nauell is also good for wormes In like manner the oyle of Wormewood rubbed into the Nauell chiefely of yong children is also good for wormes Item there is also often to be vsed Petrolium for the same Héere do also follow certaine plaisters which be good Take Wormewood two ounces Euphorbium one dragme burnt Harts horne and the gall of a Hare of each halfe an ounce Hony as much as sufficeth for a plaister Item take Nardus séed two scruples Aloe and red Corall of each one dragme Wormewood and Mastick of each one quarter of an ounce prepared Coriander one ounce make powder thereof Item take Rye meale thrée ounces Lupin meale fiue dragmes Saffron one dragme Vineger and the iuice of Rue of each two ounces the iuice of Wormewood foure ounces then make a plaister thereof Another Take Mirrh Gentian Aloe and Diptamus of each two dragmes and a halfe Wormewood seeds of Purslaine and of Orage Lupine meale filed Iuorie and burnt Harts horne of each one dragme Saffron one dragme Barly meale one ounce the iuice of Garlick foure ounces temper them all together and put two graines of Muscus vnto it Item take Mints and Wormewood of each two ounces Centorie Agaricus of each halfe an ounce Aloe one quarter of an ounce Rose water one ounce Lupine meale as much as all the rest make a plaister of it for to lay vpon the stomacke Another Take Lupine meale the iuice of Wormewood Mints Peach leaues and the iuice of Quinces of each two ounces sealed earth prepared Coriander Mastick Mirtle séed and Aloe of each halfe an ounce Oxe gall one ounce and red Wine Item take Nardus one scruple Aloe one dragme prepared Coriander two scruples and a halfe Wormewood Masticke of each one quarter of an ounce red Corrall one dragme make a powder thereof and temper it with the iuice of Wormewood and with Vineger wet a cloth in it and lay it vpon the belly Another Take the water of Mints and of Hyssope of each sixe ounces the water of Grasse twelue ounces Malmsey eight ounces Gentian Mirrhe Saffron of each one drag Lignum Aloes Wormeséed of each three quarters of an ounce Muscus fiue graines Vineger fiue spoonefuls vse this as is aforesaid If it be so that the patient be very weake then may this following be vsed Take Sorrell water and the water of Buglosse and of Grasse of each thrée ounces Spec. Cordialium temperatarum one dragme water of Wormewood and of Hyssope of each two ounces the water of Broome floures three ounces Gentian and Diptamus of each halfe a dragme Saffron halfe a scruple mingle them together One may also vse these bags following Take Mints Penniroyall Wormewood white Mints Southernwood Roses and Plantaine of each halfe a handfull beate them all grosse afterwards put them into a little bag and weare it on the stomacke The patient may also smell oftentimes to black Nardus séed and likewise to tosted bread which hath béene steeped in Vineger Of the wormes Ascarides which do keepe in the Arsegut §. 14. MOreouer we will héere for a conclusion of this Chapter discourse of the small wormes Ascarides which do kéepe themselues in the Arsegut These wormes may be perceiued by the great itch that they cause there And for to remedie this dip a little wooll in the oile of Abricocks or the iuice of white water Mints Also you may mixe Aloe and Oxe gall amongst it and so thrust it into the Arsegut But first the bodie must be purged with Rubarbe afterwards are Suppositories to be made of fresh Porke and put vp into the Arsegut and all the little wormes will stick fast vnto it Some doe take for this poudred Porke Also one may annoynt the stalke of Coleworts with Oxe gall and vse the same as a Suppositorie But aboue all other things is much to be commended Quicksiluer mixed with Barrowes grease and to dip the finger in it and so grease or annoynt the Arsegut within with it But for Children may Suppositories be prepared with Hony and Salt peter putting them vp and plucking them foorth againe immediatly Also there may a small Clister be ministred of Milke with Hiera Picra and Cassi◠Olde folks are to haue Clisters after this manner following Take Southernwood and Wormewood of each one handfull the séeds of Cuscuta parched Comin and the séeds of Smallage of each one ounce Wormeséed one quarter of an ounce Bran halfe a handfull oyle of Peach kernels one ounce and a
halfe Salt one ounce Hiera Picra fiue dragmes the iuice of Léekes one ounce Of this decoction take not aboue eight ounces and make of it a Clister The sixteenth Chapter Of the Kidneyes IN the left side right vnder the Milt in the bodie of all beasts is the one Kidney placed and the other in the right side a little higher so that otherwhiles it doth touch a great part of the Lyuer The Kidney which lyeth in the right side is also in all beasts somewhat greater and fuller than that which is in the left side and is not couered with so much fat For because it is hoter than the left therefore doth it consume the same fatnes which groweth through moysture like as it is very néedfull for there is no part which sooner waxeth fat than the Kidneies Both of them be made fast very strongly to the back bone They haue sundry veines from the Lyuer whereby they draw bloud with water and also some part of the gall vnto them separating the same bloud from the water and keeping as much of the bloud as sufficeth for their sustenance collecting also the water together in their concauities like as in a pot which the gall dyeth yellow and then through the Conduits Vreters whereof each Kidney hath one by it selfe descendeth into the Bladder and from thence is eiected by the yard These Conduits or Vreters are whitish hard somewhat fleshy and of the nature of the Bladder whereby they may not suddenly be brused through the sharpnes of the vrine or through some other occasions The substance of the Kidneyes is of a tight well compacted flesh fashioned partly round and not vnlike to Oxe kidneyes the greatnes excepted These Kidneyes be also through many causes and sundrie sorts of sore diseases infected which the Grecians do call Nephrites which is paine of the Kidneyes But this paine of the Kidneyes doth come of many causes as of impostumes with heate and cold of the grauell and the Stone and further of many diseases and sharpnes of the vrine whereof we will hereafter directly write and discourse But héere before we goe any further we will make a generall declaration thereof First the learned do deuide all diseases of the Kidneyes into thrée principall sorts to wit if they be subiect to any bad complexion whether they haue it of themselues or be compounded with other diseases Secondly if they be not as they ought to be by nature If they from the time of their birth be too great or too small or fraughted and laden with grosse tough slyme which do oppilate and stop vp the conduits that do descend into the Bladder Thirdly there may be also impostumes and vlcers These thrée things may be very well compounded together whereby diuers diseases and paines of the Kidneyes may be caused The causes of these foresayd diseases may be as well outward as inward The outward may be blowes falles vnaccustomed exercise hard riding much going a foote great heate or cold about the Kidneyes to drinke puddle water to carie vnused packs excessiue lecherie long vse of diureticall meates and drinkes The inward causes are a bad complexion as if it be too hote or too cold too dry or too moyst the putrification of naturall seed or sperme impostumes and other paines of the Kidneyes The signes be apparant of themselues and to be knowne by the paine of each place as if the same be small meane or great This doth otherwhiles appeare through pissing bloud or the water which is like bloud euen as there were flesh washed in it But if these diseases assaile one with heate or cold therefore we will also according to our custome discourse a little of it and comprehend them in two especiall points Of the paine in the Kidneyes through cold and moysture §. 1. THe signes of the cold diseases of the Kidneyes are they which haue neyther heate nor thirst nor great paine and their water is not high coloured but is much in quantitie because the same could not be wasted through vnnaturall heate which Ague winter and the grauell augmenteth For these diseases must first a good dyet be kept All grosse slimy hard meates and all cooling things are to be eschued as Endiue Lettice Cicorie Spinage and Béetes c. vnlesse there be some hote things drest with them as Parsly Fennell Comm and such like Fish that he sodden are not good for this neither that which is drest with dough or milke Cheese is also herein forbidden Also cold cleere water thicke red wine and all fruits which make grosse bloud as Peares Apples Quinces Chestnuts Dates and such like In all other things he may direct himselfe according to his old custome but he must not swallow downe his meate gréedily nor vnchewed that the stomack be not cloyed Great exercise immediatly after meate is hurtfull vnto him He is to kéepe himselfe quiet one howre and a halfe after meate at the least without sléepe Also all moyst and cold dwellings are to be shunned like as néere to the earth or such as be vnder it or do lye néere vnto the water But he is to prouide himselfe of good clothes and of a good dry chamber He must forbeare all sorrow vexation anger lying long vpon the back riding and such like Concerning the remedies héed is first to be taken whether the Kidneies be obstructed but if so be that this be and that the patient be yong full of bloud and strong then is the Median veine to be opened on the right foote and to let out aboue foure ounces of bloud And afterwards this Clister following is to be set according to his age Take Béetes and Colewoorts of each one handfull boyle them as is accustomed then take thereof about sixteene ounces and temper in it Benedicta Laxatiua and the confection of Bayberies of each one quarter of an ounce course Sugar and Cassie halfe an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce oyle of Sesamum and of Lillies of each one ounce and a halfe temper them all together and then minister this Clister one houre before supper This foresaid Clister is alwayes to be vsed euery other day according to the abilitie of the person After letting bloud or after the second vse of Clisters then may this purgation following or such like be vsed Take the confection De Psillio and Sebeste of each two dragmes and a halfe temper them in thrée or foure ounces of the decoction of Parsly rootes and fast after it at the least fiue houres Or if you had rather haue pils then is the patient to take the pils Foetidae one scruple de Hiera Composita two scruples make fiue or seuen pils thereof and take them early in the morning Immediatly after purging is the patient to vse this following one whole wéeke or twaine alwayes betimes in the morning Take Syrupum Acetosum Compositum one ounce Syrupum de Calamintha halfe an ounce Fennell Annis and Wormewood water of each one ounce
bloud he must first haue his Lyuer veine and afterwards the Saphea to be opened For his drinke the patient is to vse Hony water or to make this drinke following Take twelue ounces of peeled Barly Fennell rootes Smallage rootes and Maydenhaire of each one handfull séeth them all together in two pots of water vntill that the Barly be well swollen Afterwards take twelue ounces of Hony and boyle it all together with the foresaid decoction but scumme it well and drinke thereof If so be that the vlcer be great and that there be néede of stronger things then put Ireos Hyssope and Horehound of each two ounces and a good pints of water more But if there be but a small vlcer which hath not long continued then take Mallowes Hollyhock séeds the séeds of Melons and of Pompeons of each a like much But you must péele the séeds and giue thereof thrée dragmes at one time tempered with Meade Afterwards shall he vrge himselfe to vomit once euery fourth day Let this much suffice as briefely spoken of the vlcers of the Kidneyes Of the pissing of Bloud §. 11. FOr as much as this pissing of bloud may be caused as well of the vlcers in the Kidneyes as in the Lyuer therefore we will describe it héere in this Chapter The pissing of bloud is of two sorts the one when one pisseth faire cleane bloud the other when the same is mixed with matter or corruption This pissing of bloud commeth of inward and outward causes The outward may be caused through falles blowes strong riding insatiable venerie great labour of certaine meates drinks wounds of a concourse of melancholick humors which are wont to be driuen out through womens Termes or through the Pyles Of the inward causes are superfluitie sharpnes of humors and of the vrine winds tumors impostumes debilitie of the Kidneyes and of the Bladder then doth he féele the paine aboue the priuities and the bloud is congealed and separated from the vrine In case that the bloud be much and runneth out swiftly then doth it signifie a broken veine but if it come out slow or longsome then an vlcer but if the vrine be like water wherein fresh flesh is washed then it is of a weakened Lyuer and if so be that it do come of a superfluous bloud then is the same to be séene by the fulnes of the bodie but if it come through the sharpnes of the humors then doth the patient féele a continuall burning But before we do come to the particular remedies it is néedfull that we do make declaration of certaine common rules First if so be that the maladie be new then aboue all things is the liuer veine to be opened and afterwards if the cause require and that the patient be strong inough the Saphea is to be opened thereby to driue the blood to another place Secondly in the beginning are not astringent nor binding things to be vsed that the blood may not congeale and coole but he must first beginne with such things as do cleanse the water conduits Thirdly if this pissing of blood do come as an expulsion of superfluitie or Crisis then is it not to be stayed if it be not so that thereby the naturall powers be ouermuch weakened Fourthly whensoeuer the pissing of blood whether it be caused of the Liuer Kidneyes or Bladder is thoroughly cleansed then is the same blood to be holpen with cold and astringent things and to mixe amongst them Anodines Fiftly all such patients are to eschue great labor venery hot drinks all spices and all hote things Now for to come to the remedies of the same then it is to be considered whether this pissing of blood do procéed of outward causes which may well be perceiued by the sicke person and is also to be remedied First of all whether this pissing of blood haue continued long or not Of the pissing of blood which hath not long continued we haue hitherto spoken But in old pissing of blood one must begin according to the contents of the other rules with the clensing of the vreters which is to be done through these meanes Take Maidenhaire foure handfuls Melon séed one ounce and a halfe Sugar and honie of each nine ounces make a cléere sirupe of it and giue it with water wherein Melon séede is decocted Another which is very good Take foure handfuls of Cinkfoile Sugar 9. ounces séeth the herbes in sufficient water then wring it out with sugar make thereof a sirupe This sirupe is to be giuen with water wherein Plantaine is decocted this sirupe healeth cleanseth certainly If any one fall or be beaten whereby a veine is broken in the bodie the liuer veine is then to be opened for that thereby the blood will be drawne backe which doth run out of these places But if that the blood do auoide in abundance and that the patient be strong enough then is the Saphea to be opened the second day afterwards and to the end that the blood which lieth clotted in the water conduits might be caried forth then giue to the sicke bodie a potion wherein Fennell rootes the rootes of Smallage Dragon rootes Ireos Hissope Maidenhaire and Ciceres be sodden afterwards one dragme or one dragme and a halfe of Trociscis de Carabe may be giuen him with water wherein the seedes of Butchers broome and such like is decocted or the Trocisci de terra sigillata For this is also méete the confection of Philonium Persicum but it is not to be vsed without the aduise of a learned Phisition Some do also take thrée quarters of an ounce of the conserue of Roses and temper amongst it seuen graines of Henbane seed and two scruples of prepared Corall which may be vsed with stéeled water It is also very fit to vse otherwhiles one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassie and chiefly if there be heate with it We haue spoken before of the letting of blood and therupon are to giue to this sicke person a profitable purgation of Rubarbe in substance which is beaten and not wrong out but in powder with plantaine water afterwards giue him one dragme of beaten horsetaile and one quarter of an ounce of plantaine water and strew all his meates with the same water All his flesh is to be sodden with Butchers broome séed and vnripe Grapes He is alwaies to beware of all sharpe tart and salt things and lay a plaister on the place of the maladie made of Bolus and the iuice of Sloes Aloe Lycium Vineger and Rose water If you will haue moe remedies then looke into the former § of the impostumes and vlcers of the kidneys And although al the same were caused of other meanes yet shall you find also thrée remedies méete for the same And if so be that this bléeding be caused through any sharpe meate or any composed wind then is the patient to order himselfe as of the letting of blood and taking of the foresaid Trociscis is
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
the seed of Purslaine of Endiue of small Endiue of Lettice and Cretae Marinae of each one drag Lapis Lyncis Sponge stones and burnt Glasse of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as is needfull for to make a Confection One may take a dragme or two thereof with a little water all according to the importance of the cause The Confection of horse Radishes is thus to be prepared Take well clensed horse Radishes The cōfectiō or electuarie of horse Radishes cut them in round slices and let them stand a steepe in Vineger vntill that they be very soft Or poure strong wine vpon it and renew the same euery day and that the space of fiue or sixe dayes at length seeth them away therewith and rubbe them through a strainer Afterwards take thereof one pound and one pound and a half of clarified honie then let them seeth together by a gentle fire stirring them alwayes about vntill they be decocted as behooueth for a confection Afterwards let it be somewhat cold and put the spices vnto it which hereafter in the eight part in the first chapter of Calmus are described Or take in the stead of the same halfe an ounce of Cinnamom Ginger three quarters of an ounce Cardamome Cucubes Cloues and Nutmegs of each one drag and a halfe temper them together therewithall the fuming of the horse Radishes in the head is abated and taken away This confection is not onely good for the stone and grauell but also for the stomacke it warmeth the inward parts and delayeth the paine in the belly which proceedeth of cold it is a right Treacle for the common people and an especiall medicine for the Scuruie There is also another confection prepared for this called Electuarium de Cineribus The confection of ashes which is a confection of ashes as followeth hereafter Take ashes of burnt Scorpions one quarter of an ounce Cantarides without heads and wings one dragme prepared Buckes blood one quarter of an ounce burnt glasse ashes of vnset Coleworts Hares ashes ashes of Wagtayles and ashes of egshels whereof Chickens haue bene hatched or each two dragmes Iew stones stones of Oxe galles Pepper wild yellow Rape seede Caraway Hollihocke seede Gum Saxifrage and Gromell seedes Seseli Balsam fruites and the wood India Spica Maidenhaire Mallowes Pompeons Cucumbers and Gourd seedes of each one dragme of Roses as much as sufficeth for to make a confection of it take thereof morning and euening the quantitie of a hasell nut at once tempered with the decoction of Cicers Item take Mithridate or new Treacle halfe or a whole dragme with the decoction of Cicers they expell and breake the grauell and the stone and also ease the paine especially if it be vsed after bathing Amongst all other confected things are especiall good for the stone and grauell chiefly if one want warmth the preserued Elecampane rootes Pimpernell rootes Calmus yellow Rapes Parsneps conserue of Gilloflowers and of Pionie the water Cresses eaten for a sallad expelleth the stone the grauell and vrine There be diuers powders made for this which follow hereafter Take prepared Buckes blood halfe an ounce Lapis Lyncis Lapis cacrorum and peach kernels of each one dragme the seed of Parsley and Smallage of each halfe an ounce beate them all together and temper them all together vse thereof in the morning at noone and in the euening halfe a dragme or more at once with that kind of Beane water which immediatly is described hereunderneath and that so long vntill the stone auoid and that you perceiue no more grauell Item take Saxifrage Annis Pepper the seed of Smallage Gromell séed and Sperage séede of each a like much beate them all together very small and let them passe through a scarse then take thereof halfe a dragme or a whole dragme with honywater or with wine This following hath oftentimes bene approoued Take parched Peach kernels halfe an ounce Medlar stones one ounce powne them very small and then giue him a dragme thereof with the water of Saxifrage wherein Cinqfoile hath bene decocted There is also one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Oximel to be put thereto and to temper the same with any water that also expelleth the stone but one must beware therein for vsing any hote things This drinke is also very requisite for this Take wild Thistle rootes which be the rootes of Tassel and rootes of Smallage of each one handfull Annis halfe a dragme seeth them all together in a quart and a halfe of water vnto the halfe Item take Sponge stones Iewes stones burnt glasse prepared Buckes blood and Sugar of each a like quantitie giue one dragme thereof with Oxymel or with the water of Smallage when he hath the paine Both these foresaid are by reason of the great help and cure that they do called the hand of God Item take the rootes of Burres one dragme and a halfe burnt glasse one dragme rubbe the same with vineger with the water of Smallage or with any other such like distilled waters this is maruellously praised of all auncient Phisitions Another Take Gromell seed one dragme Licorice one quarter of an ounce péeled Melon séed halfe an ounce gum of the Cherrie tree one ounce powne them all to powder and giue thereof at each time halfe an ounce with a little distilled water Or take Gromell seed Annis Fennell Parsley seeds and péeled Melon seed of each one dragme Lignum Aloes winter Cherries red Saxifrage Sponge stones and Iewes stones of each one scruple the seed of Broome and of Saxifrage of each halfe a dragme Cinnamom prepared Coriander and red Saunders of each thrée quarters of an ounce Cloues Galingal Ginger of each thrée dragmes white Sugar two ounces make a powder of it and take one dragme at once thereof with Mallowes water and pease broth Another Take Gromel seed and the seed of Saxifrage of each one dragme the séeds of Lettice of Henbane of Pompeons of white Poppies of Melons of Cucumbers of Gourds all together péeled of each two scruples powned Licorice foure scruples Trocisci Alkakengi which is of winter Cherries one dragme and a halfe the seed of Pimpernell of Broome of each two scruples Sugar two ounces make a powder of them In like manner there be good for this disease powned Medlar stones and powdred Earth-wormes of each one dragme and a halfe well weyed and take Fenelike with Saxifrage water Item séeth a Crabbe like as they be vsed to be sod and wash the same with Wine and let it drie then beate it cleane to powder with his shels and take one quarter of an ounce thereof with wine Or take the powder of Maidenhaire one quarter of an ounce and drinke it with the water of Strawberries or the water of Mallowes or the water of Parsley it is also especiall good Take halfe an ounce of the shales of hasell nuts beaten small Sugar also as much temper them together and vse thereof
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
then may he drinke Meade or Hony water which is also very good What sirupes and other things might be vsed for the prouoking of vrine that hath sufficiently bene shewed before in the discourse of the grauell But Oxymel compositum and the sirupe of Vineger are for this vse very highly commended Clisters are of no small force in this disease but especially when they be made with Benedicta and the oile of Scorpions Amongst the outward remedies are the forementioned bathings the especiallest and the most highly commended Hereafter follow the descriptions of salues and plaisters Take a sliced Radish séeth it to pap and temper amongst it the oile of bitter Almonds and the oile of Scorpions with a little waxe then spread this very thicke vpon a cloth and so lay it vpon the priuities Item take Turpentine oile of Scorpions and of bitter Almonds of each a like quantitie and a little molten waxe then temper them together and therewith annoint the whole priuities Another Take the oile of Scorpions of Costus of Lillies of Dill and Duckes grease of each halfe an ounce Pellitorie of the wall and Saxifrage beaten of each one dragme Comin thrée dragmes waxe as much as sufficeth for a salue For this you may also vse the balmes and oiles which are described in the eight part like as shall be shewed there more at large Here before in the affluxion of the humane séede is also admonished that the nauell is to be filled with a little old suet either of an Oxe or of a Hart the which is also an expert remedie for the making of water but that is oftentimes to be vsed The oile of S. Iohns wort should also expell vrine if one be annointed warme with it If now there be any bodie which cannot make water then cut two great Onions and put a spoonfull of Caruways vnto it poure then thereon some Sallad oile afterwards frie them all together and spread it on a cloth two handfuls broade and méetly long and so lay it as before vpon the priuities as warme as can be suffered do this sixe or seuen times together it helpeth euidently Item take Pellitorie of the wall frie it in oile and so lay it warme on the priuities Some do write that the fat of Conies annointed on the priuities on the kidneies should maruellously expell vrine Likewise also the oile of Bayberries of Cammomil of Scorpions The detension of the vrine of what cause soeuer it be caused this ensuing is good for it take liue or dead wood lice lay them ouer the priuities before then plucke ouer the foreskin these Cony fat are by some very highly commended also the foreskin is to be put ouer the annointing with cony fat This ensuing is also highly commended for women when they cannot make water Take fled Goates horne and Maidenhaire of each a like quantitie make them to powder and strew them on a new hot tile put this into a close stoole and set the woman vpon it then sprinkle wine â—n the tile to the end she may receiue the vapor beneath this is to be done twice or thrice a day according as the obstruction of the vrine is great But if this maladie séeme wholy to get the maistery then take the water of picked Plantaine make Almond milke with it and drinke thereof twice or thrice a day it is also especiall good And if so be that the sharpnesse of the vrine had made any excoriation then annoint the place with the oile of Egges And if a woman with child cannot make her water then is she to take yellow Rose seeds and seeth them in wine when the paine is somewhat asswaged then giue thereof to drinke afterwards make a little oile of Lillies warme and annoint therewith the Raines and ouer all the belly Item take Sage and Wormewood of each one handfull Rie meale one spoonefull seeth them all together and let the woman sitting on a close stoole receiue of the vapor You haue also in the fift Chapter and 1. § somewhat else which is also méete for this purpose Of the retention of vrine through falles or blowes §. 4. IF the retention of the vrine come of any outward cause as of fals or of blowes then must good héed be taken if so be that therby any coagulated or clotted blood not onely in the bladder but also in any of the inward parts came to putrifie like as in the stomacke in the breast and elsewhere then may great sorrow and trouble procéed of it yea death it selfe for that there follow great faintnesse after it great weaknesse of the whole body and the pulse will be so small that one can scarse féele it And to remedie the same is the Liuer veine of the sicke person to be opened and the brused place irrigated from on high oftentimes with warme water wherein Cammomill Melilot and Roses be decocted Afterwards is the sicke person to be annointed with this salue ensuing Take Myrrhe and Masticke of each one dragme oile of Roses one ounce oile of Dill halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull But if the paine will not abate and cease and that it appeare that the bruise will come to an impostume and heate and an ague sticke vnto it then open the Saphea If the patient be bound then are milder clisters and purgations to be vsed and the patient is to kéepe himselfe as sober in eating and drinking as may be possible the space of two dayes and afterwards to diet himselfe like as one that hath an Ague is wont to do The place is to be fomented with the foresaid herbes and thereupon to annoint it with warme oile of Violets and with oile of Cammomill The bladder is softly to be wrung from the top euen to the priuities also an Oxe bladder may be filled with this decoction following laid vpon the priuities Take Mallowes Cammomill Rape leaues Melilot Violet leaues and Linséede séeth them together and make a felt or sponge wet in it and lay it warme vpon it You may also make a bath for the loines thereof putting thereto some Hollihocke rootes Onions Garlick and Colewort leaues powned all together séeth them and wring them out well then put them in a bag which hath a hole in the middle to put the yard therein and that he may lie vpon it Item take Wormwood put it in a bag séeth it in wine and wring it well out then lay it vpon the priuities as is expressed and admonish the patient that he endeuour himselfe to pisse oftentimes This ensuing is not only good foor the clotted blood in the bladder but also for all other places of the body be it of whatsoeuer occasion it may be Take Wormewood Fennell Smallage the séed of the yellow roote red Storax péeled Melon seed and Radish leaues of each a like quantity make a powder of them and giue thereof betwéene one and two dragmes with Asses milke or with water wherein Fennell rootes and the
not only stay the fluxe in women but also expelleth the wind of the stomack and hindereth parbraking Or take Sandaraca one ounce and a halfe pouned Cypers nuts one ounce fine Bolus foure ounces Plantaine seed and Pimpernell rootes of each two ounces and a halfe Starch three ounces then make it with water wherein Akornes were decocted vnto a plaister or salue and vse it as is sayd There may also be made a bathe as héere followeth Seeth the rootes of Curcuma in sufficient water and make thereof a bath for the raynes It is also good to make a bath wherein Allume is decocted or any of these things following which one will as Mirtle séed the rinds and rootes of the Elme trée the rinds of the Oke tree Pomegranat blossomes and the péeles Akornes Medlars Lentils and such like Item it is sayd that if one do burne Ranam Arboream to ashes and the ashes worne on the neck that womens termes will be stopt thereby but it is to be proued In like manner do some aduise that the mosse of the blacke or Slo-thorne worne in ones shoes should also stop the same Item take Shepherds purse and binde it on the soales of a womans féete Others aduise also that boxing cups should be set vnder her breast vnpickt for that they draw the bloud vpwards and it is also a very good remedie for to stop therewith the flowing of the termes Likewise it helpeth also excéedingly to binde the armes hard to the end that thereby the bloud might be drawne vpwards Further this setting of cups binding and all these things that are to be put into the places admonished before be especially to be vsed if it be perceiued that through such superfluous courses women be impotent and were afraid of present falling into a swoune In like manner also it is very requisite that she smell oftentimes to cold things and vse other moe binding things which be described in the first part the eight Chapter and the 7. § For a conclusion it is to be noted whether there be heate or cold in this woman that the medicine may be ordained accordingly These be all warming things and they also which stop bloud which do héere follow viz. Frankinsence Mastick Cypers nuts Sandaraca Laudanum Mirrha Storax Annis and such like Cold stopping things be these as Camfer the iuice of Sloes burnt Iuorie Coriander Dragon bloud Saunders bloud stone Hypocistis fine Bolus Ruscus seed Mirtle séed Gals Pomgranat blossoms the seed of Plantaine the seed of Melon of Cucumbers of Gourds of Pompeons and Pimpernell rootes c. whereby all tempered medicines may be adiudged Of the whites or white fluxe in women §. 4. THe disease which women do call the whites and the Phisitions Menstrua alba hath a great acquaintance or fellowship with the auoidance of humane séed or the running of the raynes whereof we haue written at large before in the sixt Chapter and it is also very euidently declared that such kind of fluxes be caused through hot and through cold causes which is héere also to be noted But aboue all that which is there discoursed do all famous Phisitions commend that if it procéed of heate women be first of all to be purged for which Cassie is passing good afterwards giue her euery other day one drag of Trociscos de Carabe tempered in Plantaine water or a quarter of an ounce of Triphera ex parte Phenonis tempered with a little fine Bolus The raines are to be annointed with the salue of Roses and with other things moe which be prescribed in the spermaticall fluxe There is also to be giuen her euerie second or third day one dragme of the filing of Iuorie to drinke with Plantaine water and the cold loosings of Diamargariton is she also to vse oftentimes Item Take Camphora ten graines bruse it small beaten Amber one scruple drinke them togither with Plantaine water it is a very good medicine For this is also estéemed to be a sure remedy the first buds of the Blackberrie bush and the berries thereof dried pouned drunken euery day one dragme with red wine or twise a day There may also be made a confection of the said berries when they be ripe seething the same with hony or Sugar and to vse thereof daily But in case that this disease procéede of cold whereto some do make sixe kindes of bathes which are to be vsed one vpon the other which me thinketh to be much too strong for that they take Sulphure Allum stéeled water and strong Menageges as Feuerfew Mugwoort and baiberries afterwards againe all things which be contrarie as Oken buds Knotgrasse Squinant c. Therefore will we leaue the same vnmentioned but for this must be taken the flowers of dead Nettles poudered the waight of a dragme with wine Confected Annis seed is also very commodious for this But in case that the issue be very sharpe then beate whites of egs with Rose water and make clothes wet in it and put it vp into womens secrets Of the suffocation or ascension of the Matrix §. 5. THis terrible sicknes is in many things most like to the falling euill Epilepsiae and the great swouning Syncopi because the Matrix hath great sympathie with the heart the arteries braines and with the two membranes which do couer the braines This maladie commeth to women through diuers causes and especially when there is retention of their termes or flowers yea also through the retention of their naturall seed especially to them that be accustomed to haue the company of a man and must then forbeare it as widowes and aged maidens for that in case the foresaid séed be retained then causeth it many kinds of winds in the Matrix which do compell it so to ascend that otherwhiles it oppresseth euen the Diaphragma This is then the opinion of diuers learned men in this case but Galen doth dispute against it with strong reasons that the foresaid naturall séed doth much rather cause this sicknes than the retention of the tearmes chiefly in women which also are burthened with many bad humours be full of blood and brought vp in idlenes haue accustomed to accompany with a man like as is expressed and now suddenly are constrained to want it Therefore is commonly séene saith he that this suffocation for the most part troubleth widowes He maintaineth also and that by good reason that the mother doth not ascend euen to the Diaphragma which is the midriffe and there doth abridge the breath Thus may be caused through the retention and putrifaction of the seed all manner of troublesome accidents as giddines and paines of the head madnes short breath and panting of the hart their natural colour doth alter into a yellow pale yea somtimes into rednes of the face of the eies they gnash with their téeth draw their hands féet away they do also feele that there ascendeth somewhat vpwards out of the belly and commonly then do they presse downe their belly
temper the rest amongst it and then make it with oyle of Cammomill and Waxe into a méetly hard plaister The plaister of Melilot is also good for this vse Item séeth Figges and Fenegréeke as much as you please in Barley water and make thereof a Semicupe This foresayd bath is good both for the paine and the heate also There may also be vsed all that is before admonished in the sixtéenth Chapter and first § These herbes following do cary all other medicines towards the Matrix as Penniroyall Rosemary Sauine trée Iuniper Rue Beuercod Yarrow Cinquefoyle Myrrha Sage Madder and Lupins But because that all these foresaid things do also leade all things towards the Bladder and the Kidneyes so do they the same also to the Matrix Of the Impostume in the Mother or in the necke of the same §. 12. IF so be that these foresaid diseases as the retention of the termes of natural séed or any other sharpe humor whether it be blood Cholera Phlegma or Melancholia winds or any other cold moisture the which falleth downe to the Matrix then may they soone cause an impostume notwithstanding the same can procéed well of any outward causes as of blowes falles leachery through a mischance through the ignorant dealing of the Midwife and such like things moe the which do bring with them either heate or cold The signes of a hote impostume be Agues great paine betwéene the nauell and the priuities and round about the raines much watching vnquietnes and paine in making water and going to stoole swift pulse paine of the head and of the eyes heauy breath paine of the stomacke with much parbraking These impostumes will be very hardly cured and the harder if they are situated déepe in the Matrix but generally they are to be cured like as the impostumes and vlcers of the raines are taught to be healed viz. as in the sixtéenth chapter and 6. 7. 8. 9. § hath bene shewed But here be first certaine rules to be noted whereof the first is that one must endeuour to cary away the matter from thence which descendeth thitherwards Secondly the Liuer veine is to be opened and afterwards the veine in bending the knée or if one can neither see nor find it then is the Saphea to be taken Thirdly if so be that this impostumation be in the Matrix or in the necke of the same then be the termes in no wise to be moued but onely like as is sayd to withdraw the matter into another place Fourthly after the letting of bloud is the patient to bo purged Fiftly vomiting and parbraking is very commodious Sixtly if it be possible she is to refraine the space of thrée dayes from eating and drinking or at least keepe her selfe very sparingly and especially in drinking Seuenthly she must watch as much as is possible Eightly after that the bodie is wel purged then is the Matrix in the beginning of the sicknesse to be delayed with such kinds of plaisters as deriue the matter from that place Ninthly amongst these foresaid remedies temper alwayes somewhat which may asswage the paine Tenthly in the declination of the disease are those things good which do ripen and mollifie the matter vntill it issue and breake out Eleuenthly if so be that this impostume would not be maturated and brought to matter then is the same to be effected with Fenegréeke with Hollihocke rootes with Cammomill with Wheate flower with Pigeon dung and with some Saffron being made to a plaister and layd thereupon Twelftly the astringent remedies are not to be long vsed to the end the impostumes be not hardned according to all these foresaid rules euery one may know how to order her selfe in the curing of this disease If this impostume do come through heate then is héede first to be taken whether the sicke person be bound in her bodie if it be so then are mild clisters to be set or Suppositories and afterwards to open a veine as hath bene shewed in the second rule She is also to be fed with Barley paps stued Spinage and such like things and to prepare the matter giue vnto her the iulep or sirupe of Violets at certaine times to drinke and afterwards purge her with Cassie sower Dates or Manna and also moue her otherwhiles to vomit Afterwards vnto the raines the kidneyes and the hips are cooling salues plaisters and such like things to be applied and so to coole them as much as is possible for which you are to vse this salue following Take Dragagant and Gum of each one ounce dissolue them in wine and temper therewith washed Ceruse the Litharge of Gold Starch Dragon blood fine Bolus and Roses of each one dragme burnt Copper two scruples oyle of Roses and Waxe as much as sufficeth for to make a salue therewith but if so be that one cannot apply the same to the maladie then seeth them all together with milke except the Waxe and then dip a cloth therein or a sponge and lay it vpon the disease If you had rather haue somewhat else then take the muscilage of Fleawort alone or temper it with oile of Roses with broad Plantaine water with the water of Nightshade and with the white of an Egge There may also a great tent of Cotton be made and the same dipt in this receipt following and put into the necke of the Matrix Take Waxe and oyle of Violets of each halfe an ounce let all melt together and whilst that it is yet warme put thereto the iuice of Plantaine of Nightshade of each one ounce Camfer halfe a dragme then temper them well together in a morter and vse it as is aforesaid If so be that there be any great paine with it then vse oyle of Roses brayed with the white of an egge and tempered with hens grease but if the paine will not asswage and cease therewith then is the veine in the ham to be opened and with the foresaid decoction Poppie séed is to be tempered In like maner Sief Album is to be tempered with womans milke which giueth sucke to a daughter or maiden child and to be iniected This plaister is also very good for it Take Cammomill Melilot Hollihocke rootes Linséede and Fenegréeke of each one ounce eight or ten Figges sixe or seuen Dates stampe and sharpen this all together and make a plaister thereof with water wherein Violets be decocted and with oile of Roses At the greatest extremitie there is to be put vnto it a little Opium Poppy séede and Henbane séed If so be that the impostume will be long a breaking then temper amongst it one ounce and a halfe of powned Pigeon dung Mustard séed halfe an ounce Fennell seede thrée quarters of an ounce But if this impostume be in any place where it may be seene or where one may come by it then is it to be opened through other meanes when it is open then clense it with Barly water or Hony water wherein Hyssop Sauine Madder Mugwort and
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
of Mugwort and so drinke it For pils Take Trociscos de Mirrha one scruple Galbanum halfe a scruple make fiue pils therof with Penniroyall water Another Take the fruite of the Sauine trée one quarter of an ounce Assa foetida Ammoniacum and Madder of each halfe a dragme make eleuen pilles thereof then take thereof at each time one and that thrice a day For to vse outwardly take these things following fume the woman beneath with the horne of the Asses foote which hath an hidden nature for to expell the fruit but if so be that one can get no horne of the Asses foote then is horne of a horses foote to be burnt The same operation hath also the séed of Basilicum if it be fumed and receiued beneath likewise also the fume of Laudanum or take Mirrha Galbanum and Beuercod of each a like quantitie One may also hold before the priuities swines bread or cotten wooll made wet in the iuice of the same and to put it before into the bodie is also maruellous good for this purpose Item take blacke Hellebore Licebane Hartwort Coloquint and Ammoniacum of each one quarter of an ounce Oxe galles one ounce the gum is to be dissolued in the water of Mugwort afterwards temper the rest sodden well amongst it Or take Opopanacum and Hartwort of each a like quantitie and make a plaister therof with the iuice of Mugwort if it be too soft then put a little waxe vnto it and so lay it warme vpon it Out of all these forementioned things may you also make pessaries and put them into the bodie before For this is also good the plaister de Galbano whereof there be two kinds in the nineteenth chapter third § Another Take vnkemmed shéepes wool spread butter and hony vpon it and apply it Some do aduise to hold a Snakes skin to the priuities for they say when it beginneth to warme that nature will cause the dead fruite to follow presently For this are also bathes prepared Take Mints ten handfuls séeth it in sufficient water and sit therein vp to the nauell this worketh maruellously especially if thereupon be vsed the iuice of Swines bread as is before said likewise doth also driue out a dead child the plaister de Radicibus layd vpon it and the decoction of Garlicke A preparatiue for an easie child-birth and deliuerie §. 12. AL creatures haue their certaine time of bearing except a woman onely for that women may be deliuered of a child in the seuenth or eighth moneth also in the ninth and tenth moneth as we haue sufficiently written before yea it hath bin also found that they haue deferred both to the eleuenth moneth and also sometimes to the twelfth moneth It is also read of a woman that hapned to lie in of child in the thirtéenth moneth after that she had conceiued yet it oftentimes cometh to passe that they be deceiued in their reckoning therefore it is not néedful to dispute much of the time for when the Peare is ripe as is commonly said then doth it fall off Our purpose is here onely to discourse and shew through what meanes a fruitfull woman is to be prepared for to beare easily and with small paine For because that on the child birth dependeth the maintenance of humane kind and that women in their child birth are to expect all sundry mishaps therefore haue many famous Phisitions thought thereon and diligently studied how fruitfull women might be prepared vnto their child birth and therfore haue described these notable meanes first how the obstruction is to be opened and how the paines are to be prouoked Afterwards if a child in necessitie of birth or deliuery chance to die how the same shall be expelled whereof also hath bene spoken in the former 11. § and of other accidents moe which are to be expected after child birth When as now the time of childbirth is at hand that a woman is almost past her reckning then is she to eate and drinke well without excesse and to vse such meates which might nourish well viz. good Mutton Veale Hens and Capons all kind of field Foules egs good brothes with spices as with Cinnamom Saffron c and to drinke good wine But she must especially take care that she alwaies haue an open bodie therewith she is to bath certain dayes together in this bath following Take Hollihock rootes with the leaues two M. Mallowes and Betony of each one M. Mugwoort Marioram Mints and Cammomill of each halfe a M. grosse beaten Linséede two M. make two bagges thereof and seeth them in a great kettle with water afterwards let it be méetly cold and then set the woman in it the one bag must lie behind vpon her backe and she must sit vpon the other or hold it vpon the Nauell After bathing take oyle of sweet Almonds of Lillies and of Violets of each halfe an ounce Linséede Hollihocke roots Fenegréeke Butter and Hens grease of each one quarter of an ounce Quince kernels and Dragagant of each one ounce you are to stampe the séeds and cut the rootes afterwards seeth all together in raine water and take out the muscilage temper the same with oyle then let the powned Dragagant and Hens grease séeth so long vntill the muscilage be consumed and then make a salue of it with this salue are you to annoint warme beneath the whole backe both the sides and all the whole belly euen to the priuities Another Take oyle of sweet Almonds of Lillies and of Violets of each halfe an ounce Ducks and Hens grease of each three dragmes white Waxe as much as is needfull but if these salues cannot be gotten then is oyle of Lillies alone to be vsed in their stead Also this ensuing may be prepared Take the muscilage of Linseede and of Hollihock roots fresh Butter the grease of Hens of Geese and of Ducks oile of Lillies and of sweet Almonds of each halfe an ounce let them melt by the fire and temper it well together Or take Hollihock rootes with the leaues one handfull cut it small Venice sope one ounce and a halfe and one pot of good fresh Beere let it seeth together vnto the halfe then will there be a Salue of it with this foresaid salue is a woman to be annointed about her priuities fiue or sixe weekes before her time euery day after bathing These and such like meanes do open and soften the obstructions of the matrix so that thereby in necessitie of birth the throwes will not be so great nor yet any thing like so painefull When as now the time of childbirth and the throwes be instant then may one choose of these things following that which according to the importance of the cause is supposed to be most requisite first of all outwardly There be sundrie famous Phisitions which account it greatly auailable to hold certaine things before the priuities or bind the hippe with many strange ceremonies mo which are therewith to be vsed But if these
in these odoriferous herbes as Mints Melilot Lauander Ireos and such like This being done the Aâ—meholes and the whole bodie are to be fomented with these things following Take Annis Comin Roses of each 2 ounces Cipers roots one ounce Spiknard Spica Romana of each one quarter of an ounce powned Ireas one ounce séeth these all together in two quarts of water vntill about a third part be consumed then vse it warme with clothes wet therein and keepe the bodie very cleane with clothes and linnen Afterwards vse some of these things following Take the Litharge of gold one quarter of an ounce Allume one drag Roses and Myrrhe of each half a drag beate them all to powder and wash the Armpits with wine and then strew the powder vpon it the Litharge of gold doth the same of it selfe tempered with Rosewater in like manner also the Myrrhe Item take Coperas one ounce séeth the same in three ounces of water let it be cold and annoint the stinking place with it Take Thistle leaues one handfull seeth the same in a pint of wine and drinke thereof it taketh away the stench throughout the whole bodie Item take litharge of gold one ounce Frankinsence halfe an ounce powne all together small when you go to bed and temper a little thereof with wine and annoint therewith the place and then in the morning wash it with Vineger You may also vse for this the oyle of Spike And if so be that the humors then be so sharp that they excoriate the place and bite open the skin then wash it with warme water and afterwards strew the place with burnt Allume Marmalade with spices doth also expell all stench Of the hands §. 3. ANaxagoras was wont to say that men aboue all creatures were most reasonable for that they only had hands But Aristotle contrarieth this with great reasons and saith because that mankind is the most sharp witted amongst al creatures therefore hath nature giuen him hands which be none other than instruments of a reasonable creature for to vse them wherto he desireth so that these most noble and necessarie members be made for to comprehend to hold to cast and to labour c. In like manner also through their féeling to adiudge all that is hard soft hote cold thin thicke and such like Besides this in stead of all weapons wherewith all other beasts be indued that they may therby seize vpon all manner of weapons wherewith either in time of peace or warre to guard and defend the bodie Item with these hands be all renowned feates and cunning and also all hurtful works atchieued and brought to passe as is daily séene It appeareth also by daily experience that commonly the right side is more forcible and much nimbler than the left not that it is so in euery bodie or must be for that it is oftentimes found to the contrarie whether it be through the custome or otherwise that some do most of all helpe themselues with the left hand and be much nimbler and actiuer with it Further the hand is commonly deuided into two parts as the palme the fingers and one may if he will accompt the nailes with it They be filled euery where full of sinewes wherewith they most commodiously and speedily be readie to all manner of actions Inwardly in the palme of the hand be many kinds of lines or strakes séene the which like as the Chiromantici do say be signes of good and bad luck or fortune wherof we will not here write any further because that these Southsayers art is by many learned regarded as lies for that they haue no foundation therefore be they also iustly to be mocked and scorned like as they be also taken and acknowledged of all vpright Christians to be vngodly and adiudged to be an illusion of Sathan Thus may this suffise of the Hands For to keepe the hands cleane §. 4. IT becommeth all men very well with honestie that they haue alwaies cleane hands and that chiefly when they sit at table whether it be that they tast any meate or carue for others and for to come vnto it the same are oftentimes to be washed with faire water and Venice sope If you will make them smel wel then looke what is written thereof in the first Part in the first Chapter â—nd 2. § Or prepare in stead of the sope this ensuing Take one spoonfull of Hony two yolks of Egs well brayed and a litle Rosewater and Lilly water temper them and séeth them to pap rub the hands therewith and afterwards wash it off with faire water Item take the whites of Egs well brayed stirre therein a litle wheaten flowre Rose water and Orange péels powned small as much as you will The iuice of Citrons is also very good for it or if one cannot get it then may the iuice of Limons or of Oranges be taken in stead of it Let the same séeth alone in a glased pot and stirre it about continually It is also especiall good against all itchinesse of the hands and all other parts of the bodie Or take the water of Louage and powned Argall temper them together with the white of an Egge as much as you please of each bray them well together and vse them as before is specified For to make perfumed hands and gloues §. 5. TAke clean Barrows grease as much as you please and lay the same eight daies in water or in lye putting euery day fresh water or lye vnto it and wash it well Afterwards fiue other daies in fresh milke washed also daily Then after that wring it out cleane and put it into a pot and put Rose water vnto it the water of Elderne flowers of Plantaine and of Lauander of each a like quantitie Afterwards put odoriferous spices vnto it as Cloues Cinnamon Nutmegs and so let them seeth together softly vntill the water be wasted away At the last you are to put vnto it Muscus Ambra golden waters or any other well sauoring things stirre them a long time well together This salue is also good for all scabbinesse and scurfe c. For scabby Hands §. 6. FOr this may the foresaid salue or Pomander be vsed which is described in the first Part the tenth Chapter and first § For this is also very good the Gum of Dragagant dissolued in Rosewater and the hands rubbed with it It happeneth also many times that the hands be full of the drie scurfe like to that kind of itch which the Latinists do call Impetiginem for which this following is to be vsed and not onely for the hands but also ouer the whole bodie where as is the drie scurffe Open some egs put out the whites and yolkes the egge shels are to be laid in a coole place where they will not be bedusted then will there gather amongst it a little water which you are to put into a little glasse and to annoint therewith the place that is scabby Item séeth Elecampane in
you put Annis vnto it then will it be the better Certaine later Phisitions do aduise and that with good reason that these patients should drinke the decoction of Guaiacum and how the same is to be prepared that shall you find described hereafter in the fift part in the discourse of the Pocks Out of these forementioned reasons is it easily to be noted and marked that it were very good vtterly to forbeare wine but if it cannot be then to chuse a thin red wine or the sirupe of Betonie and Oxymel of Squils decocted with Annis water Further it is not very good to sléepe much and chiefly in the day time immediatly after meate for that ingendreth much slime and other tough moistures One hower and a halfe after supper is he to go to bed to lie first vpon the right side afterwards vpon the left Through much lying vpon the backe do the defluxions fall to great preiudice behind in the necke and in the backe bone His sléepe shall also not indure longer than seuen or eight howers and the rest of the time is to be spent in watching Of the paine in the Hippes or Sciatica through heate §. 1. TO remedie the manner of this paine is but a little different from all other ioint diseases because that they alwaies for the most part procéed of cold and do lie déepe in the ioynts of the Hippes For the which in this disease all diureticall medicines be hurtfull because that therby the matter will be made so much the grosser and tougher so that afterwards it can by no meanes be consumed Now when this disease is caused through heate wherein commonly a cold flegmaticke matter is mixed with Cholera yet notwithstanding Phlegma getting the maisterie the same may easily be perceiued by the high coloured vrine and other signes moe Therefore for a beginning is the liuer veine to be opened in the arme and that in the same side where the pain is afterwards the veine which is named of the disease Scia and standeth as is described in the Introduction vpon the foote and to let out foure or fiue ounces of bloud But good héed is to be taken therein vnto the strength and power of the patient for that like as we haue said in other places the veines in the lower parts do weaken the bodie more when they be opened than those in the vppermost parts Other do counsell that first the veine in the foote is to be opened and if so be that the paine do not cease in some dayes after it that then the same veine should also be once opened in the other foote and beware of going the space of eight dayes Likewise is also much commended to set boxing cups vpon the Hips or aboue the Hips according to the importance of the disease Of the paine in the Hips or Sciatica through cold §. 2. BVt if so be that this paine of the Hips procéed through cold like as for the most part it is wont to do the which the bleaknesse of the face the lingring paine the belching of the stomacke the wambling and the falling downe of all cold humors doth shew then is the patient to be respected and taught to order himselfe accordingly yet haue you for an example this ensuing For a preparatiue of the matter make this sirupe following and then take thereof about two ounces at once according to that one is bound or loose of the bodie and so fast foure houres after it Take Fennell rootes Sperage rootes Parsly rootes Smallage rootes and Polipodie roots of each one ounce the séede of Ruscus wild Sage Gromill seedes Nettle seed the roots of Sarifrage and the séedes of stone Parsley of each one ounce Harts tongue two ounces Iuniper berries thrée drag Hermodactyli and Turbith of each halfe an ounce Hony 18. ounces Radish water 24. ounces make a sirupe thereof Item take all the foresaid things and put vnto it Ginger wild Saffron séede of each one ounce and a halfe Agaricus thrée dragmes stone Salt two scruples Mace two scruples and a halfe Sirupus de Stechade thrée ounces Honie as much as before Rosemarie water of Calmus and of Sage as much as will suffise afterwards séeth a sirupe thereof At the last put a little Cinnamom Masticke Cloues Nutmegs and Mace vnto it also a little Muske and Amber For to purge Take the Confection of Inda thrée dragmes or halfe an ounce de Succo Rosarum one dragme and a halfe water wherin Ginger is decocted thrée ounces giue this betimes in the morning and then sléepe one hower after it afterwards take a draught of Barly water after it But if you had rather take Pils then take Pillulas foetidas and Hermodactylorum of each apart one dragme or mixed of each halfe a dragme This also ensuing is to be prepared Take the water of Pionie rootes and the rootes of Narcissus of each two ounces drinke this for the space of certaine daies early in the morning Thereupon you are thrée howers after it to swallow these pils following take Pillulas foetidas and de Sarcocolla of each halfe a dragme Swines bread one dragme make thereof twelue pils with the iuice of Smallage Other do take washt Aloe halfe an ounce Agaricus one drag make thereof with the sirupe de Acetoso composito 35. Pils then take of it about the third or fourth euening iust before supper according to the qualitie of the cause Sharpe Clisters with Salt with Hiera with Coloquint and other appropriate things be excéeding requisite for this as also are these ensuing Take vnwormeaten Hermodactyls one ounce field Cipers Stechados Saint Iohns woort Carui and Rue séede of each one handfull and a halfe Cammomill Melilot and Dill séede of each one handfull Saffron flowers one dragme seeth them all together in sufficient water and take twelue or sixtéene ounces of this decoction Beuercod oyle thrée ounces Indie salt one quarter of an ounce Hiera Colocynthidis halfe an ounce temper them and set it meetly warme These Clisters are very méete for to draw the cold matter from the hips and to expell wind Another Take Coloquint halfe an ounce Turbith wild Saffron séede and Polypodie rootes of each halfe an ounce Asarabacca field Cipers Stechados Pionie white Pepper and Rue séede of each one dragme and a halfe seeth them all together and take of this decoction as before and put vnto it oyle of Costus and of Beuercod of each one ounce and a halfe Saltpeter foure scruples but vse it not too hote The third Take the pickle of Herings or salted Limons twelue ounces oyle of Beuercod thrée ounces minister this Clister like as the rest These Clisters be much commended of all later and auncient Phisitions but they bruise otherwhiles the Arseguts within which are hardly to be healed afterwards The fourth which is not too strong Take S. Iohns woort Cammomill Centorie Dill Malowes Brionie rootes and Fenegreeke of each one ounce Annis three dragmes Coloquint one quarter of an
small Pockes in generall §. 3. CHildren are for the most part subiect vnto these diseases and also auncient folks otherwhiles And like as the same be perillous in yong children so be they more perillous in ancient people They do come also through many kinds of meanes sometimes like red spots also with waterish blisters which outwardly appeare cleane ouer ones bodie vpon the skin as big as Millet seede which at last drie away and fall off These be also to tell the troth not without great danger especially if they happen through cold not to breake out or if they haue appeared alreadie vpon the skinne on the outside and be strucken in againe for thereby do they make a narrownesse of the breast a short breath hoarsenesse disease of the throate or of the mouth and anguish of the whole bodie with great Agues The learned haue sought out the causes of this breaking out of the small Pocks Measels and such like therefore be they of opinion that one bringeth the cause of this sicknes with him out of his mothers wombe when he is borne For that because as the fruit is nourished of the finest bloud of his mothers Termes so doth the vncleanesse of that bloud remaine in the pores of the children and in other places mo which nature afterwards driueth out in due time And because that all humane creatures be through such meanes and nourishment sustained and fed in their mothers wombe therfore doth it seldome happen that any kind of people can be old without getting these Pocks or Measels wherof this cōmon false opinion is spread and growne amongst many people that all children must once haue these Pocks or Measels wherby many mothers which haue many children if any of them get the Pockes or Measels let them runne one amongst another whereby one child is infected of another and so do catch the Pocks or Measels saying besides the truth that it is better that they get them in their childhood than when they be growne in yeares But this is none other like as I haue said but a false opinion for one may be fréed of this sicknesse through a good diet There be also other causes mo concerning these maladies viz. stinking ayre which doth heate the bloud and other humors of the bodie and troubleth them Like as to be long conuersant in the warme Sunne also to ouercharge him with such meate which quickly corrupteth in the stomacke as fish and milke eaten together through much bad bloud through omitting an accustomed letting of bloud and such like causes moe The signes of these sicknesses be paine of the backe itch of the eares and of the nose which come of the vapours of the corrupt matter and are partly pestilentiall therefore they haue a frightfull sléepe and the pricking may be felt ouer the whole bodie With this they haue also a slothfulnesse in all parts rednesse of the face and of the eyes and somewhat swelling and they be so long pinched with sléepinesse vntill the Pockes do breake out vpon them euery where And although like as we haue admonished the Measels and the Pocks haue one kind of cause yet we will discourse of each apart as much as is possible Of the Measels §. 4. THis is as we haue said a common infirmitie of children and it also assayleth auncient and full growne people so that they ouer the whole bodie some lesse othersome more are besprinkled with red spots There is also great heate oftentimes with it and a pursiuenesse in the breast In this sicknes must one beware especially of cold yea of open ayre and of hot meate and drink And auncient persons are to order themselues as we shall shew in discourse of the small Pocks Common people do especially commend the Conserue of Eldern flowers and the same rubbed vpon the heated parts But what is further conuenient for this purpose you may make choice thereof according to the importance of the cause out of the description ensuing of the small Pockes what shall like you best Of the small Pockes §. 5. WHen as Children be assayled with these foresaid Measels or Pockes and they will not breake out then take oyle of Cammomill and good Wine of each one ounce and a halfe Saltpeter one dragme séeth it together vntill all the Wine be wasted and annoint the whole bodie with it when it is very well warmed This potion following is very good for all aged people and also for all young children Take Citron péels one quarter of an ounce sower Dates one quarter of an ounce Cicorie roots halfe an ounce the flowers of Buglosse and of Burrage of each halfe a handfull séeth them together in a pint of water vntill about the third part be consumed afterwards straine it and temper amongst it Sir Acetositatis Citri two ounces de Corticibus Citri de Succo Acetoso of each one ounce giue oftentimes a little of it for it is very méete and pleasant Item take Oliue leaues two handfuls Agrimonie one handfull séeth it all together in good Wine and drinke thereof euery morning thrée or foure spoonfuls it drieth vp all affluent humors But when these Pockes begin to fal away then are these means following to be vsed according to the importance of the cause Take Ceruse halfe an ounce oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe Camfere the quantitie of a Pease Saltpeter halfe a drag and two or thrée péeled Almonds wherewith you are to chafe the Camfere Afterwards temper one amongst the other and therewith annoint the place of the Pockes Or take Sallad oyle and Ceruse as before then temper them together with a little Vineger and Rosewater and vse it as before Some do also aduise to take strong lye which is hereafter described against the burning of gunpowder Another sort of small Pockes which be called Swine pockes §. 6. LIke as we haue said before these kind of Pockes be much like to the other before mentioned and proceede also of the same cause sauing onely that these wherof we now write be bigger broader and also with greater anguish of the breast and of the breath therefore may all be vsed for this that is expressed for the trobled breast in the second Part the fift Chapter and 9. § aswell in old as in young people But especially is this salue following to be ordained for it Take fresh Butter oyle of sweet Almonds and Goose grease of each halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull Some do put vnto it halfe an ounce of Turpentine and one ounce of liquid Storax this is especiall good and also approued oftentimes Aged people be much aduised to eate none other thing but Barley pap or Oaten paps and to drinke Barley water Take fourtéene or fifteene Figs Pistacies one quarter of an ounce Fennell seede the seedes of Smallage and Lacca of each thrée dragmes Lentils one ounce and a halfe Dragagant halfe a dragme Roses Saunders burnt Iuorie and Quince kernels of each halfe an ounce
séeth them all together in three quarts of Water vntill a third part be wasted and then drinke a good draught thereof in the morning and euening He is also to vse oftentimes Oxysaechara conserue of Roses conserue of Rasps the sirupe of Sorrell of Veriuice and of Quinces to make the bloud thicke with it and to coole it There is especially commended for this the water of Lentils when it is boyled in the third liquor to wit the two first being powred out If now it be feared that the Pockes should hurt the eyes then is this following to be vsed for it Take Lycium the iuice of Sloes and Saffron of each one dragme Camfere one scruple temper this all together in Rosewater and drop it oftentimes into the eyes If so be that now any Pocks or any rednes be perceiued on the apple of the eye then vse Sief album and that according to the qualitie of the cause for which you may looke into the Register where you shall find also the manner to make it But if there do come any exulceration in the throate or mouth then cleanse the same with Barley water wherein sirupe of Mulberries wine of Pomegranates and such like be decocted and drinke the same also softly The iuice of Mints is also to be drawne vp through the nose tempered with Saunders Veriuice Vineger the same also fumed is good for it Now when as the Pockes do anguish the Lights then vse Diapapauer If there be any hoarsnes or roughnes of the throate then looke what is good for it in the place where we discourse of it For which is also this gargarisation to be made with Licorice Iuiubes Sebestes and Figs decocted in water and a litle Dragagant dissolued in it and then to cleanse the mouth with it and sometime to swallow downe some of it When as there is no ague with it then is it very good that one drinke warme Goates milke Now for to free the intrailes from the Pockes rosted Quinces are to be taken with Sugar or the sirupe of the same If a scowring happen with it looke what is described in the third part the eleuenth chapter and 13. § Lastly all renowmed and famous Phisitions do aduise against the opinion of the common people that one should about the seuenth day open the Pockes if they be ripe with a golden néedle for to let out the matter to the end that through their sharpnesse they should not eate inward and leaue great Cicatrises behind them Make also a powder with Salt Lentils meale Beane meale Pease meale litharge of gold and Ceruse strew the parts with it to the end that thereby the matter may drie All which cannot be hurtfull If so be that after healing of the Pockes there do remaine great dents pits or scars then may these things ensuing be vsed Take Sarcocolla Melon seede washed Rice whites of Egs Chalke Bolus or white Sugar temper them with the oyle of Roses or the oyle of Lillies and therewith annoint the Cicatrises Or in stéede of the oyle take Hens grease Item take the Caule of a young Goate or Kid powre Goates milke vpon it then set it so in the Sun and powre fresh milke euery day vpon it the space of one wéeke afterwards lay it the space of foure daies in Rosewater and then hang it vp to drie This being done shread it small and put it into a siluer beaker and set it in boiling water when it is molten then straine it thorough a cloth and annoint therewith the markes and small Pockes Of clefts in the Skin §. 7. YOu haue in the first Part the ninth Chapter and 1. § of the clifts in the lips Item in the third part the fift Chapter and 2. § in the description of the places in women And in the tenth Chapter and 11. § of the clifts in the Arsegut Also in the fourth part the first Chapter and 7. § of the clifts in the hands all which remedies there described may be vsed for this our intent and also all these that follow Take the gréene rind of the Elder stéepe it in a sufficient quantitie of Sallad oyle boyle them together wring them out hard and with Waxe make a salue of them This salue is also very good to be vsed against the burning fire Item take oyle of Roses white Waxe Frankinsence Masticke and Hens grease of each halfe an ounce Ginger halfe a dragme melt the Waxe the oyle and the grease together and temper the rest amongst it Of the itch in the skin §. 8. BEfore we begin to write of the Scabs we will first intreate of the drie itch of the skin This is called in Latine Pruritus which is a desire to rub and scratch either the whole bodie or some part of it by reason of the great itch which is caused of some sharpe humors which do yet lie vnder the skinne Also if the humors which are stirred vp either by heate or by labour be so tough that they cannot transpirate through the skin and the pores of the same then do they cause an itch Also Lice Fleas Ants and Woodlice do cause an itch Item if one do but seldome change his apparell The inward causes may be an ouer great heate of the liuer which doth ingender sharpe and adust humors also debilitie of the vertue expulsiue as doth appeare in aged folkes The signs of this itch are manifest as that a bodie cannot sléepe for it and is hindered from doing his businesse aright Now to come to the remedies of the itch the patient shall haue a veine opened be purged and almost obserue the same order which hereafter is prescribed against scabbednesse A sweating bath and water baths are specially commended for this purpose which being once vsed and not turning away the itch shew that the humors in quantitie do abound which cause the same This bathing is to be reiterated and the bodie to be rubbed where it itcheth most with this receipt following Take white Roses two ounces beate them thoroughly with Vineger and adde one ounce of Bran vnto them The next day following bath againe and rub your bodie with powned Smallage with gréene Nutshels or with Fenegréeke These itchie patients are to forbeare all manner of Salt and hote things and especially all that might inflame or burne the bloud If this itch be about the yard or member of a man then take a quarter of an ounce of Ceruse Sulphur vife one dragme and a halfe Opium halfe a dragme make a salue of it with Vineger some do adde two scruples of beaten Licebane vnto it If this itch be in the Arsegut or in the wombe then take burnt Allume one quarter of an ounce Argall one ounce temper them with vineger spread it on a cloth and so apply it Of Scabbednesse §. 9. SCabbednes is of diuers kinds some with scales some with blisters some with matter and some without matter some dry and red but all of them with an intolerable
itch according to the nature of the humors which cause the same and are mixed with the bloud The cause of this infirmitie are the vses of all kind of hot sharpe salt and bitter meates as spices strong wine oyle hony want of change in apparell to lye or deale with them that be scabbed with many other inward causes that procéed of an inflamed and corrupted bloud The signes of all manner of scabbednes are apparant but of what kind of humor the same is caused shall appeare by these reasons following If it be caused of bloud that may be known by the repletion of the bodie rednes of the parts and if the bloud or matter do issue forth in the scratching The patient hath also commonly a swéet tast in the mouth But if this scabbednes be caused of a salt phlegme then is the skin yellowish scaly and reasonably full of matter the patient cannot be quiet for the itch and after scratching findeth great paine and smarting If it procéed of Cholera then perceiueth he not onely a great drought in the ioynts but also in the scabs themselues with pricking burning and small store of moisture or if it be caused of Melancholy then is the skinne blackish drie with many scales and without matter Now for to cure this common and well knowne griefe are these rules following to be obserued diligently First because the common cause of this disease is grosse and foule bloud first of all a veine ought to be opened Secondly after the letting of bloud is the bodie to be purged and especially with Mirobalans and Fumitorie Thirdly because the itch and scabbednes are ingendred of salt sharpe swéet and spiced meates are the same wholy to be forborne Fourthly venery is to be shunned because thereby the humor is drawne to the outside of the bodie where it doth raise hote and stinking vapors that disperse themselues vnder the skinne Fiftly bathing inunction and whatsoeuer else may be vsed outwardly doth smal ease vnlesse the bodie be first throughly purged Sixtly in eating and drinking refraine all salt sharp swéet and hote things Seuenthly sowre and moist meates that do not suddenly putrifie in the stomacke are good for him Eightly because Peaches and some other herbes also fish milke and such like do corrupt the bloud they are to be shunned Ninthly the patient must forbeare scratching as much as is possible for thereby little pushes are turned into great scabs Tenthly the moister that the scabbednes is the stronger remedies doth it require As concerning the cure of this infirmitie the opening of the Median or Lyuer veine is not to be omitted and that as long as the patient can indure it Then is the humor to be prepared with Oxysacchara sirupe of Fumitorie and Pease broth afterwards to purge with Cassy with sowre Dates with Mirobalans with Dodoer or with Rubarb infused or sodden in whay of milke but aboue all other things is Fumitorie commended whether it be the iuice the sirupe the conserue or decoctiue potions or whatsoeuer else may be made of it Sene leaues do the same whereof thou maist vse those two kinds of potions in this scabbednes which are described in the third Part and 20. § Item take powned Sene leaues one drag strew them vpon stewed Currans and so eate them daily vse them so long till thou be loose in bodie and as thy stomacke will suffer thee Some do commend the golden water which is described in the last Part if a little of it be taken either inwardly or annointed on the scabbednesse outwardly After that the bodie hath bene throughly purged it is a cōmon order to bath otherwhiles in faire water otherwhiles also in naturall drie baths each as you like it best But those that cannot intend to trauaile to the dry bathes may take Salt Allume Brimstone Argall and such like according as the scabbednes doth require and so with water make a bath of them There are also many kinds of salues and oyles ordained for it whereof diuers shall be specified at this present Take litharge of Siluer finely powdered two ounces Vineger foure ounces boyle them together vntill one third part be wasted then adde two ounces of oyle of Oliues vnto it one ounce of Ceruse then boyle them together vntill they be thicke stirring them continually Another Take Ceruse two ounces litharge of Siluer one ounce Masticke and Frankinsence of each two dragmes beate them all together to fine powder and mixe them with three ounces of the oyle of Oliues and in the tempering of them powre now and then foure or fiue drops of Rosewater and Vineger vnto them In like manner you haue also in the fourth Part the ninth Chapter and 1. § fiue kinds of white salues which one may also vse with all securitie for scabbednesse Item in the first Part the third Chapter and 10. § there is a good salue beginning thus Take Turpentine c. Item take Bayberries Vineger oyle of Oliues as much as you please and temper them all together to a salue it is very good and safe Take the rootes of Bistorta one dragme prepared Sarcocolla two dragmes and a halfe Sandaraca foure scruples prepared Tutia one scruple Turpentine washt with water of Fumitorie foure ounces Camfer halfe a scruple temper amongst it sixe ounces of the next following salue of Elecampane rootes Take the iuice of Elecampane rootes and of Dock rootes of each thrée ounces Saltpeter Sarcocolla the lytharge of Siluer and Masticke of each fifteene graines Coperas and Allume called lamemum of each two scruples mortified Quicksiluer one dragme Butter two drag and a halfe Turpentine one ounce and a halfe Pitch one ounce the Butter Pitch and Turpentine must you melt together and afterwards temper the other ingredients amongst it and let it seeth with a soft fire vntill all the iuices be consumed you are then to annoint the patient therewith by a good fire and that especially on the places where the most scabbednesse is this salue draweth the corruption outward Another take washt Turpentine two ounces washt Butter one ounce Salt halfe an ounce the iuice of three Limons two yolkes of Egs brayed oyle of Roses halfe an ounce or as much as is néedfull for to make a thin salue then temper it all together it is a safe salue In the fourth Part the seuenth Chapter and 3. § you haue also a good salue beginning thus Take Sage Mallowes c. which one may vse very safely for all manner of scabs Or take Dock rootes powne them very small temper vineger amongst it and salt it well with this are you to rub your selfe well in the bath when you will go out of it without wetting your selfe after it Item take Dock rootes and Hollihocke rootes of each two ounces and a halfe Hellebore rootes one ounce Smallage halfe a handfull séeth them all together in fresh well water vntill the third part be wasted straine it and put into this decoction one ounce and a halfe of
vlcers saith Galenus be these which are wont to be vsed for the corroding Erisypelas wherefore we may write so much the lesse thereof But if it be perceiued that it begin to putrifie then temper sealed earth and fine Bolus with Vineger together and spread it round about the vlcer and also in it But if this wil not help then be the corners round about the vlcers to be scarified or lanced and also to set boxing cups and horse leaches thereon which may suck out the bad bloud and this plaister following is also to be laid vpon it Take Pease-meale or Beane meale and sall temper all together with the sirupe of Vineger and lay it as a pap vpon it the scarificed place must also be washed twice a day with Vineger and then to annoint this salue following ouer it Take Assa foetida Nettle séed and Hartwort rootes of each halfe an ounce Verdigrease one quarter of an ounce temper it with vineger to the thicknes of Hony and annoynt therewith the whole disease and the places about it And to the end that these vlcers may not corcode any further then take Verdigrease Allume Hony of each a like quantitie and vse it as is before said The selfesame taketh away all bad flesh sustaineth the new flesh But in case that through these foresaid things the rotting ceassed not but dayly did corrode more and more and the stench increased then shall you strew thereon this powder ensuing to wit pouned Hartwort and Gals of each a like quantitie Or take Dragagant and Coperas tempered together with vineger and if so be that this foresaid do not profit then are the edges yea the whole accident to be cauterised with corrosiues or hot yrons then take the rootes of Celendine vnsleckt lyme Eoperas Mirthe Hartwort and Verdigrease of each alike quantitie tempered with the iuice of Plantaine or pouned Orpiment alone tempered with the foresaid iuice When as then the corosiues haue done their worke and the crustes or stakes be yet hard then must they be annointed with fresh butter vntill they do fall away of themselues and afterwards those things to be vsed which are wont to ingender skin and flesh The other sort of these vlcers is Herpes miliaris whereof we haue admonished before Some do call it Formica that is the Ant. This vlcer is also of sundry natures and that according to the nature of the humor whereof it is caused It is also comprehended in thrée sorts or species the one which runneth hither and thither which is caused of a subtile moysture and is also quickly consumed the second that créepeth forward hither and thither which is very hurtfull the third is of a grosse and hot Cholera which entreth somewhat déeper into the flesh and is mixed with some Phlegma and thence commeth the Formica miliaris which is hotter and harder to be cured Out of all these foresaid reasons be the signes apparant and before sufficiently rehearsed and discouered Now for to remedy this accident is this the briefest way that first of all be prescribed to the patient a good order of dyet like as is done in the Agues For purging is he to vse sower Dates Cassy Epithymum with Rubarbe stéeped in Endiue water or whay of milke If it be Herpes miliaris then take Diaturbith Further you are to take Gals Pomegranate pils and fine Bolus of each a like quantity afterwards temper it with Rose water and a little Vineger and then annoint it thereon with a feather Item take the heads of salted fish rost them in an earthen pot vpon the fire vntill they be almost burnt and then mixe them with strong wine spread it vpon the disease or take shéepes wooll and frie it vntill it be blacke then poune it and temper as much Rose water amongst it vntill it be thicke and annoint therewith the foresayd accident cleane ouer twice or thrice a day and then lay a white or blow cloth vpon it There be yet diuers other sorts of impostumes and vlcers which be of the same nature differing in names and causes but because we do comprehend them amongst the forementioned therefore will we omit them and especially because they may all be cured and holpen with these foresaid remedies Of the hard Tumor Scirrhus §. 4. BEfore we come to the third corroding vlcer namely the Canker we must first of all admonish of this tumor which the learned do call Scirrhus of some Schrosis whereof we haue also made mention before in the third part the twelfth chapter and the fift § and that by reason that this Scirrhus hath great alliance with the Scirrhus of the Liuer This Scirrhus is of two sorts and both those are of the vnnaturall tumors of the body whereof one is so hard that it yéeldeth at any hand yea it is without paine and féeling which is also accompted for incurable This swelling is of colour like lead or ashes and is caused onely through Melancholy the which is as it were dregs of all humors The second hath but a little sense and also some paine for it procéedeth out of Melancholia and Phlegma which be tempered togither and is of colour like to the other The same may also be cured but not easily as before we haue sufficiently written in the first chapter and 11. § This foresaid hardnes may be well caused of some former impostume which is not well clensed or healed whereas the corruption remaining doth clod and harden The difference betwéene this Scirrhus and the Canker is that in the compasse of the Canker there is heate beating and opening of the veines whereof there is none with this Scirrhus for that Scirrhus is without heate without paine and without any sense or feeling and also incurable But forasmuch as this Scirrhus doth appeare as well in other places of the body to wit in the liuer milt and stomacke c. and that we haue written sufficiently in sundry places thereof therefore it is not néedfull for to discourse here any further of it but to procéede with the Canker Of the Canker §. 5. THis corroding vlcer which is taken to be a kind of Fistell hath her name of the sea Crab which men call in Latine Cancer which the Italians call Granizo and the Grecians Carcinoma not onely for that it créepeth hither and thither but also like as Galenus witnesseth for that many times this Canker hath béen séene and especially in womens brests in all sorts like vnto the sea Crab for the veines do reach into the Canker being filled with blacke blood no otherwise but as they were the feet of the sea Crab. This Canker is in the beginning very easie to be healed but if it grow old and hath rooted in too long then hath it neuer béen seene that the same could be healed without incision The cause of this Canker is a superfluity of melancholicke humors Other do suppose that it is caused of melancholicke humors which be burnt
Béech tree of each halfe a pound let this stand so the space of eight dayes in a woodden vessell stirring it about euery day three or foure times afterwards filter it so long vntill it be very cleare This Lye are you then to séeth in an iron pan vpon a good fire so long till it be sodden thicke enough Now for to know whether it be enough sticke a quill into it and if the fethers do fall off then take the pan from the fire and hold it on one side to the end it may run all together and may be hard It is also here to be marked that when as in seething it beginneth to make bladders or bubbles like as pappe is wont to do then is it a signe that it is sufficiently decocted and then cast it on a boord and cut it parcel wise When it is thorough cold and waxen hard then kéepe it in a glasse stopt very close and tight in a drie place Another Take vnslect Lyme Vine ashes Willow ashes Argall and burnt Saltpeter of each a like quantitie powne it all small and put it in a new pot afterwards powre sharpe Lye vpon it and so let it stand three dayes space but stirre it oftentimes about filter this Lye so often that it be very cleare at the last seeth it and kéepe it as before For all open sores in the Pockes §. 9. TAke Ceruâ—e as much as you please and Sallad oyle as much as is néedful and a little Vineger and rose-Rosewater bruse them together vpon a rubbing stone and annoint therewith the running sores of the Pockes and other Item Take oyle of Roses Saltpeter and péeled Almonds of each a like quantitie Camfere a little then rub it all together as before For this may you also according to the importance of the cause temper small brused Tuty for that this healeth maruellous well all sores and especially those which do stand about the throate but if it be feared that they eate too deepe inwards then are they to be annointed before and after meate For the Scales and other spots §. 10. TAke oyle of Camelina and oyle of swéet Almonds of each foure ounces Butter and marrow of Oxe bones of each thrée ounces the grease of Géese and of Ducks of each one ounce white Waxe two ounces make a salue thereof This salue hath a maruellous vertue in mollifying all scales impostumes and other scirrhosities which procéede of melancholie and all hardened sinewes Will you then haue this salue to asswage the paine more then temper the brayed yolkes of three egges amongst it and one dragme of Saffron If you then desire to haue it pierce more stronger then take Bdellium and Ammoniacum of each one ounce dissolue them in Vineger and put them amongst it then séeth them vntill that all the moisture be consumed and stirre it together one amongst another Now for to heale all cicatrices markes and spots vse this ensuing Take a pound of Sulfure beate the same grosse and séeth it with water in a couered pot but looke to it that there go no vapour out of it afterwards hold the member ouer it and receiue the vapour thereof afterwards annoynt it with swéete Butter You shall also find good things for this in the description of burning The fourth Chapter Of the Leprosie AL famous Phisitions do estéeme no disease vpon earth to be more terrible and hurtfull than the right Leprosie for this malady doth so vehemently infect the bodie that it not onely inféebleth all the members of the whole bodie but spoileth and putrifieth also the same on all sides that the members will fall parcelwise from the bodie and it taketh away vtterly his whole naturall essence for that his nose will be crooked broad and falne downe his lips great thicke and swolne and his eares sharpe so that these people besides that they be disdained and despised of all the world as if they were the filthiest creatures on earth they must liue and die in misery And to the end that we might partly learne to know the misery which is caused through the Leprosie these are the most common signes the falling out of the haire of the beard the eybrowes hoarse spéech a short heauie and stinking breath great continuall thirst hardning and swelling of the spléene vnnaturall heate of the liuer and of the kidneyes wherewith is commonly grauell also the patient will be vexed with terrible dreames and will be much plagued as it is commonly sayd with the night-Mare He will also be vexed with much wind of the belly with great binding Also the fingers and toes do rankle and swell the nailes do sliuer and cleaue and spoile that at last they do fall out Wheresoeuer they haue any opennesse there runneth out alwayes a black loathsome and stinking matter Otherwise they haue ouer the whole bodie a hote irksome and itching scabbednesse with blisters and scales which for the most part do appeare in the throate and in the nostrils whereby they do take away the breath from the patient He getteth thicke cornels or knobs on the skin of the thighes legs and féete which do get a numbnesse whereby the naturall liuely colour is altered into a dead blacke and blew colour The eyes do also get another forme or fashion whereby their sight is darkned These be now like as is sayd and shall yet be sayd the most common signes of the Leprosie especially of that which the learned do call Elephantiasin whereby all the foresaid signes do shew themselues not all at one time but alwayes a good part of them It hapneth also wel that otherwhiles but one member only or some part of the bodie is infected with this disease and not the whole bodie We will also discouer somewhat here of the causes of this sicknesse It may be caused of a bad aire as in time of the plague by conuersing or dwelling besides Leapers or by much speech with them for that through their venemous breath may one be easily infected And this is such a disease whereby the one is not onely infected of the other but the children also do inherite the same from their parents so that whether the man or the woman be infected with it the other will soone take it also This miserable sicknes is wont also to be caused of great anger long sorrow feare and faintheartednes whereby much melancholicke blood is ingendred and then out of it the Leprosie Item of the long vse of melancholick meates as Pease Beanes c. old chéese Goates flesh Beares flesh Foxes Asses and measelly Swines flesh all old salt flesh grosse fish milke and fish eaten together and such like things moe Item through too hote a liuer whereby the blood is burnt The Leaprosie is diuided by the learned into foure parts and each species of the same called after a certaine beast for that it hath a little likenesse to the nature of the same beast whereof the first is Leonina of the Lions the
the healing of Elephantiasis than to any of the other kinds neuerthelesse the same is méete to heale all Species of Leprosies An order of diet §. 2. FOrasmuch as melancholy is of a drie and colde nature therefore must to the contrary warme and moist things be vsed for to mitigate the matter according as the humor is waightie meane little and venemous First then concerning the ayre the patient is to kéepe himselfe in a méetely warme and moist ayre and that especially about rockes that are lying towards the East the South or towards the North and also about some springing fountaines But if the wind commeth to blow ouer some odoriferous trées or flowers then is it the better but if one cannot get such an aire and that the time of the yeare be very hot then sprinkle the chamber with fresh water wherein Violets Waterlillies and Lettice be decocted Also lay these Trociskes insuing vpon hote coales therewith for to fume the chamber Take Violets and waterlillies of each one ounce the séeds of Lettice of Endiue and of small Endiue of each halfe an ounce the seeds of Melons of Pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers all together péeled of each one dragme and a halfe Starch halfe an ounce Camfer one dragme make Trocisks thereof with the iuice of Lettice each about halfe an ounce in waight When the same be dried then powne them to powder and let the patient therewith fume his dwelling viz. in the morning at noone and in the euening Although now his dwellings were situated towards the North and towards cold winds yet is this fumigation very requisite for him but the leaues of apple trées or of swéet Pomgranats or of Almonds or such like decocted amongst them are to be put vnto it also all his linnen and especially his shirts are to be washed with the same water In like maner also are his clothes to be fumed Further this bag insuing is to be prepared for to smell vnto it Take sealed earth and fine Bolus of each one quarter of an ounce the flowers of Burrage of Buglosse of Basill of each one dragme and a halfe Violets and Waterlillies of each one quarter of an ounce Camfer halfe a scruple wild Vine leaues Broome flowers and Lettice séed of each thrée quarters of an ounce powne each alone temper them very well one amongst another and then bind it in a fine cloth He must also beware of all such clothes as do wring the head and the breast too hard or be too narrow The hands and the féete are in sommer with linnen and in winter with good warme shéepes pelts to be kept warme and also the head preserued from all cold Concerning his meate it should be very good that all his bread were kneaded with water of Purslaine of Lettice of Endiue or with some such like waters a little salted but meetly baked and not eaten before it be two dayes old All his flesh must be light for to be digested as namely Pullets field fowles fat Duckes Partridges Phesants Finches wood Pigeons and such like Amongst all other flesh is good for him the flesh of yong Goates Lambs Calues yong swine of yong Muttons Harts and especially of yong Conies yong house doues and Hares shal he not eate because that the melancholicke humors by them are ingendred All riuer fish which is not slimie is very good for him rather sodden than rosted All fruit that is sweete as Cherries Cresses hasell nuts Almonds Muscadell grapes and other sweete Grapes shall not onely be permitted but much rather be aduised for to vse them In like manner fresh Figs and water drunken vpon it Peaches sweete Apples and swéete Pomegranates are very good in this sicknesse but all sower fruite is to be forborne for that vineger and all whatsoeuer is sower doth harme much the melancholicke persons Walnuts Chestnuts Quinces Seruices and such must he forbeare The decoction of red and white pease and these gréene herbes viz. Spinage Lettice Beetes Endiue and Purslaine be very good for him and especially if some Fennell be chopt amongst them Item ripe Melons because they coole and moisten are not ill for him Milke is also for this sicknesse not discommended All hot spice as Pepper Cinnamome Galingall and Ginger are hurtfull vnto him for that the matter thereby is the more burnt But for to preuent the consumption this powder following is to be prepared Take Saffron one dragme Cinnamom two dragmes Mace thrée dragmes the séed of Violets of water lillies of Sorrell and of Endiue red and white Coral red and white Saunders of each one dragme powne each alone and temper them together Item he may also vse Hens grease Duckes grease Calues sewet Mutton sewet if it be not much salted for all these sewets be much better in this sicknesse than butter Léekes Garlicke Siues and Radishes are to be refrained or at leastwise vsed very seldome In like maner also salted fish salted flesh and such like The stomacke the liuer the heart and chiefly the spléene of what beasts soeuer they be is he not to eate howbeit the braines of beasts being sodden are not ill As concerning his drinke he is to beware drinking of all kind of red thicke wine and also of all white wine which is strong and ascendeth or climeth into the head but a mild white and swéete wine which is not strong And if this kind of wine cannot be had then is his wine to be tempered with good well water or fountaine water When it is cold weather then may he vse Hony water which from twentie quarts of water and one quart of Honie is decocted vnto the fourth part When the Grapes be ripe in the forepart of winter then is alwayes this wine following to be prepared Take one hundred quarts and a halfe or two hundred quarts of sweete Must and stéepe therein twelue ounces of gréene small Endiue cut very smal Elecampane roots eightéene ounces the seede of Docke and of Sorrell of each one ounce then put it all together in wine and let the wine stand ouer a yeare and be very cléere If the wine be now too strong then temper in the drinking good well water with it or let it séeth together Of this wine is he to drinke all the whole winter euen to the end of March but from the moneth of March vntill the end of the moneth of September then take Must and fountaine water of each one hundred quarts Liuerwort water Cresses and garden Cresses of each sixe ounces gréene Citron leaues twelue ounces cut them very small and let it séeth all together When this potion is cleansed then drinke it as before The patient is also to sée to it that he eate not without hunger nor drinke without thirst and and especially if his stomacke be not well framed To the contrary he is not to fast any longer than till he féeleth that the meate in his stomacke be cleane spent Many dishes or messes be not good for him
Sene leaues of each one dragme Fennell water and water of Hyssop of each two ounces make it warme and stéepe the rest the space of 24. houres in it afterwards drinke it warme in the morning early Or if so be that these melancholicke humors do bruise the Liuer most of all and the rest of the intrailes then is this following to be vsed Take Annis Spica Violet séede Cuscuta seed Sorrell séed and Masticke of each halfe a dragme Roses and the leaues of the wild Vine of each foure scruples séeth them all together in sixe ounces of water euen to the halfe take of this decoction and temper therein of the confection ad melancholiam Auicennae These be now the things whereby all such noysome humors may be diminished First it is to be considered how the grosse melancholike blood might be drawne from the vitall parts to the outside for this is very good after the vse of the former purgation that the patient do forcibly stir and exercise himselfe viz. to go a foot and to clime vp to the mountaines whereby natural heate might be prouoked and the matter consumed Secondly it is very good that he be rubbed from the necke along the backbone downewards and from the shoulders to the hands and from the thighes to the féete with hote clothes vntill the skin be very red Thirdly he shall bathe in this bath following morning and euening Take fresh or drie Fumitorie twelue ounces the Elecampane leaues Violet leaues and small Housléeke of each sixe ounces Cammomill Melilot and Spica Romana of each eight ounces séeth them together in so much water as is néedfull in this shall the patient bathe and be softly rubbed Fourthly prepare this salue following Take oyle of Sesamum sixe ounces Cammomill Dill séed Burrage flowers and Fumitorie of each one dragme flowers of Elecampane Dock seed of each one dragme and a halfe powne them all small steepe them and seeth them all together in the foresaid oile vnto the halfe afterwards annoint therewith the bodie twice or thrice a day and especially the whole backbone and also all other parts which are infected There is also vsed for this hote and blistering herbes viz. pouned wherewith the members may be rubbed whereby the bad humors be drawne outward toward the skin these herbes be Marierom Penniroyall wild Thime Nepe and Crowfoote which haue an especiall power for to draw out the melancholike humors towards the skinne changing them into water through the blisters which appeare after this chafing Some do vse Cantharides but they are too strong for they expell vrine very violently yea that the blood followeth with it and do excoriate the conduits of the vrine if the same be vsed at any one time in many places For this is also good boxing cups set on the outward members and the skin picked If so be that there be any other sorenesse or impostumation with it then haue you before in the second § how the patient is to parbrake the which is very méete for this But in these cases there is nothing better than to open the hemorrhoides which may be effected by the rubbing of fig-leaues or by the rubbing with the leaues of Comfrey also with rubbing with an hairen cloth which is stéeped in an Oxe gall There may also a small boxing cup be set vpon the fundament and when as the arsegut doth appeare and come forth then may the veines which do as then appeare be opened with a lancet and to let them bleed so long vntill that the thicke and grosse bloud do alter into cleare and thin bloud This is also to be done foure times a yeare for it is very commodious For to expell the matter of this sicknes by vrine §. 5. AFterwards it is also verie méete that this noysome matter be driuen out thorough the vrine for which you are to vse one ounce or more of the potion of Epithymo or of the water wherein Epithymus is decocted whereof the patient is in the morning and also at afternoone to drinke for that it driueth out a blacke and melancholike vrine Or take in the morning early one ounce of the iuice of Smallage Item take three ounces of the iuice of Pease or the decoction wherein Pease be boyled There is also Azure stone sodden in the water of Millet and take thereof three ounces Take Indie Spica one quarter of an ounce Mirobalani indi thrée dragmes séeth them in nine ounces of Fennel water euen to the halfe afterwards straine it through a cloth and wring it out hard and then drinke it The floures of Broome be also taken for this Madder Valerian and Mew of each one handfull let them séeth all together in eightéene ounces of water vnto the halfe and then drinke thereof foure or fiue ounces with powned Licorice and Gromell seed of each halfe a dragme tempered therewith Wherewith the Mouth and other parts are to be washed §. 6. TAke the decoction of Linséede foure ounces and Oxymel compositum two ounces temper them well together and wash the mouth ofteÌ„times with it alwaies twice before supper and two houres before diner You may also after the same manner chew Swines bread and spit it out againe or in stead thereof chew Agaricus which is more forcible and more safe Item prepare this gargaâ—isme ensuing Take Mirobalani Indi Violets Burrage floures and Buglosse floures of each one dragme the rootes of Polipodie one quarter of an ounce Indie salt one dragme the huskes of Sene one quarter of an ounce seeth them all together in twelue ounces of water euen to the halfe and vse it warme alwayes one houre before noone and an houre before supper to wit ten or twelue times together This ensuing is also much commended for the Leprosie if it be often washed therewith in the beginning Take Mirrhe and Sarâ—ocolla of each thrée dragmes Ireos rootes of Fumitorie of Mew and Hartwoort of each thrée quarters of an ounce blacke Helleâ—ore two ounces the séeds of Mallowes of Hollthocks of Fumitorie and the leaues of Elecampane of each thrée handfuls cut them and stampe them together afterwards let them séeth in two quarts of water vnto three pintes In like manner there is also much commended for this the golden water if that one do take a little and oftentimes thereof and do annoint the Leprosie therewith The oile of Tiles is also much commended in the beginning of the Leprosie But because the most principall cure of this Leprosie consisteth in consuming of the melancholike matter of this sicknesse and that the bloud must be well cleansed therefore will we to that end describe certaine good things beginning first with the least Whereby the bloud in the Leprosie shall be cleansed §. 7. TAke the water of Hops and of Fumitorie of each one ounce and a halfe temper them together and giue it in the Sommer cold and in the Winter warme Item Take the whay of Goates milke or of Sheepes milke and drinke thereof
Rubarbe of each one ounce and so continue euery other day Afterwards annoint the place of the disease with oyle of Roses or oyle of sweet Almonds The fift Chapter Of outward infections and woundings of the Skin IN the beginning of this fift Part we haue before declared many things whereby the skinne is infected and annoyed within Now doth our methode require that we should write somewhat of the outward accidents of the skinne which be hurtfull to the same and also to the flesh vnderneath it and we will also begin with the least which is of burning or scalding Of burning or scalding with fire hot water and of burning with Gunpowder §. 1. IF there be any burnt with fire or scalded with hot water then haue the things or medicines whereby both these are to be cooled and healed small difference but concerning the burning with Gunpowder of that we will write after another manner Of the burning of fire or scalding with hot water there commeth at the first an excessiue paine and diuers blisters whereout water doth run Secondly if one will heale these sores then is there first to be spread thereon a pap of the powder of Saunders with Rosewater and tempered with a litle Camfere or with the water of Nightshade Or temper fine Bolus with vineger with Rosewater and with water of Nightshade these things are to be laid vpon it so long vntill the paine be almost gone For this may also be vsed the salue of Poplar mixed with the white of an egge And if so be that the blisters do not break of themselues then are they to be opened with a needle to the end that the flesh next vnderneath be not harmed thereby This is now a necessarie and common maner of doing viz. at the first but what is méete to haue more done in it that shall hereafter follow And because that such kind of diseases may be rather healed with salues than otherwhise therefore will we first of all begin with them These things following are to be vsed immediatly after the burning and vntill the paine be at the extreamest Take oyle of Roses and vnripe Sallad oyle of each thrée ounces white Waxe washed Litharge of gold and Ceruse of each one ounce Starch three quarters of an ounce melt the oile and the Waxe together and then powre it hote vpon cold water afterwards wash it three times and that with Nightshade water at last temper the other things amongst it But if you will haue it more drying then may you mixe powned Cipers nuts amongst it as many as you please Item take Butter or Swines grease eight ounces let it be hote and powre it vpon cold water afterwards let it be stiffe againe and then put it into a dish stirre it well about and powre of the water vnto it vntill it be thorow white at last stirre one ounce and a halfe of Peter oyle in it and therewith annoint the burning But if so be that the burning be two or three dayes old then take of the foresaid salue and spread it vpon linnen as a plaister and lay it sixe or seuen times a day vpon it according to the importance of the burning for that how much the oftener it is refreshed so much the better and sooner is the same also to be healed If so be that the burning be great and deepe thē do not bind it tight to the end the heate may passe out the better Item Take Butter wherein an egge is baked and burnt powre it vpon cold water when it is stiffe then wash the same eight times with cold water and at the last twice with vineger now take two ounces and a halfe of this Butter put therto the whites of two egs wel brayed Linseede oile halfe an ounce then annoint it on the burning Commonly the oyle of Roses is good for burning being tempered with salt Linséede oyle Inke and Oxycraton Item take oyle of Roses one ounce thrée yolkes of egs mixe them well together you may also adde fower or fiue graines of Saffron vnto it Another Take oyle of Roses three ounces Bolus one dragme make it verie hote afterwards dip a cloth in it and lay it thereon as hot as the patient can abide it But if the paine be abating then is there a salue to be chosen of this Lyme ensuing Take vnslect Lime powre water vpon it but thrust not the hand into it but stirre it well about with a spoone vntill that it scum afterwards strike it off with a feather and temper it with Sallad oile at last annoint it in the burning the same is very highly commended Or take vnslect Lyme and with Sallad oyle make a salue of it as thicke as pap and annoint therewith Item Take oile of Roses two ounces vnripe Sallad oyle one ounce a halfe white Waxe halfe an ounce let it séeth a little all together afterwards powre it on cold water and wash it therewith This being done temper small brused Ceruse amongst it thrée quarters of an ounce Frankinsence and Sarcocolla of each one dragme prepared Lyme half an ounce Saffron halfe a scruple washed litharge of gold thrée quarters of an ounce then temper them all together This following is a well approued salue for burning Take quicke lyme which is slaked with good wine let the lyme drie well and put in as much Linséede oyle vntill it be as it were a dough afterwards annoint the burning with it and then lay none other vpon it But if so be that it waxe drie and hard then spreade more vpon it and take it not off for that the burning will be suddenly whole and when it is healed then falleth it away of it selfe This is thus by some to be assured neuerthelesse it is perillous not to looke to it in long time for that there might some other thing sticke vnto it For this is also fit the oyle of Saint Iohns wort alone or tempered with washed lyme and so spread vpon the burning for it cooleth maruellous much Item take oile of Roses thrée ounces white Frankinsence one ounce Ceruse three ounces the whites of thrée Egs Camfer one dragme make thereof a salue Another Take oyle of Oliues foure ounces powned frankinsence halfe an ounce the innermost rinds of Elderne one quarter of an ounce seeth them all together with a little Vineger vntill that the Vineger be throughly wasted then straine it thorow a cloth and vse it as before Item Take old candle tallow Goates suet and Linséed oyle of each a like quantitie let them melt together and put therto the white of Hens dung as much of the one as of the other things let it seeth well together and then straine it through a cloth afterwards lay it vpon the burnt place and let it lye thereon a day or twaine then wash it off with lukewarme water and lay againe a fresh plaister vpon it For this is also good all the white salues which are described in the fourth part the ninth chapter and
first § Item yet another salue which is to be found in the first part the seuenth chapter and 17. § This salue following is also very good for all sorts of burning Take oyle of Roses two ounces the yolkes of sixe Egges stamped well together and temper some Saffron amongst it afterwards spread it on a cloth and lay it vpon the burning it healeth very spéedily Another Séeth Mustardséede in the creame of milke then powne it to pappe and wring it through a cloth afterward annoint therewith the burning After the same maner is Linséede also to be sodden strained and vsed Or take Oaten meale boyle it in Creame and vse it as the rest this is especiall good for scalding with hote water Item take the iuice of Rapes or of Onions each apart or mixed together and annoint the burning oftentimes with it and lay the leaues of the Cherry trée vpon it Take the iuice of an Onion and oyle of the kernels of Abricockes halfe an ounce temper them together The sirupe of Oxycraton doth coole much the burning Inke tempered with the water of Carduus Benedictus is much commended for this if one make a cloth wet therein and lay vpon it Item the leaues of Waterlillies layd vpon the burning do coole and also heale Of the inflammation and heate of the vlcers which is caused within you haue heard before in the second chapter and sixth § Of burning with Gunne-powder §. 2. IF any haue a shotten pellet cut out of his bodie then is this oyle following to be layd vpon it Take oyle of Elderne flowers twelue ounces oyle of Saint Iohns wort one ounce Turpentine halfe an ounce temper these together and set them certaine dayes in the sunne this hath a maruellous efficacie and vertue Another Take oyle of Roses Nightshade water Rose water water of Lillies and oyle of Saint Iohns wort of each a like quantitie and wash therewith the wound oftentimes Item for to coole the inflammation take the water of Nightshade and of Saint Iohns wort of each eight ounces Allume halfe an ounce Ceruse Litharge of siluer and Verdigrease of each one dragme powne them all small together and temper them well together and then lay it as warme vpon it as may be suffered thrée or foure times together Or take Linséede oyle vnsleckt lime fine Bolus and Rie meale of each like quantitie stirre them well together and then spread it on the burning it draweth out the heate and the powder Item take good hony eight ounces let it séeth and be well scummed then put thereto halfe as much sharpe vineger of Roses and séeth it all together vntill it be browne afterwards put a spoonefull of beaten Allume vnto it and kéepe it well for the elder it is so much the better it is There is also prepared for this two kinds of ley the one which is made of quicke lime and layd vpon it with a wet cloth the other is if one temper strong ley with Sallad oyle and lay it theron this ley is very good for al heate whether it be through burning with gunpowder or otherwise for all inflammation which doth appeare outwardly For all scalles of burning §. 3. TAke Ceruse one ounce and a halfe Camfer halfe a dragme Rose water thrée quarters of an ounce Starch halfe an ounce bruise it and temper it well together in a mortar with the white of an egge vnto a thinne salue spread it thereon and round about the scalles and they will drie and fall off Before in the third Chapter and tenth § you haue yet moe other fit remedies for it The sixt Chapter For to draw Splinters and Thornes out of the skin IF that any Splinter or Thorne do sticke in the skin then must one looke to pull out the same immediatly otherwise it must ranckle out with great paine Thus for to remedie this Take Oxe suet Waxe and Rosin of each a like quantitie Pirola Béetes Louage Ladymantle and Sanicle according to the quantitie of the former powne them together and wring out the iuice afterwards put it amongst the molten Waxe Rosin and suet and then boyle it vntill all the iuice be wasted and there become a salue of it Another Take two parts of Sallad oile and one part of Rosin or Turpentine and as much Waxe let it melt together and stirre it well vntill it be cold For this is also good the plaister Apostolicon and Gratia Dei that are described before Item the iuice of Barberies tempered with Barley meale is also good for it Sief de Thure draweth out the arrowes like as before is shewed The rootes of Béetes of Polipodie decocted with their leaues and layed thereon drawe also much If so be that any body in spinning get a shiue in their finger then take picked Plantaine leaues wring out the iuice and lay it vpon it it will quickly draw out the shiue that sticketh in the hand and heale it The seuenth Chapter Of wounds and all that concerneth them AMongst all outward accidents which harme the skin and the parts adiacent are the wounds also to be accounted for which you haue before in the common description of vlcers certaine rules which be also necessary for all wounds and may be applied vnto them therefore they are to be added here In all wounds whereof soeuer they be caused whether it be of pricking cutting shooting or falling the Chirurgian must first looke that he cause the bloud to be stanched but if that be not performed then doth the patients strength and power weare away and at last his life also Therfore will we first of all write and discourse thereof For to stanch blood §. 1. TAke Gum of Arabia and Dragagant of each one dragme red Corall Bloud-stone burnt Iuorie and Camfere of each halfe a dragme make this powder with water of Plantaine vnto a dough and lay it vpon the wounds Some do also temper it with Bolearmoniack and Momy which is not amisse Item take Frankinsence Masticke and small cut Hares haire of each a like quantitie make a soft salue thereof with the white of an Egge and lay it vpon the bléeding Or take Dragon bloud vnsleckt Lyme and Frankinsence of each a like quantitie this are you to vse if there be any great veine perished but if the great veines be hurt the long way then vse burnt Coperas with it Item Take the white of an Egge fine Bolus Dragon bloud Bloudstone and Frankinsence of each a like quantitie make a plaister of it and then spreade it vpon Tow and so lay it vpon the wound Or stampe Peach kernels and make a plaister of it with the white of an egge Item take yellow Rose seed powne it to powder and temper Vineger therewith vnto a pap and so lay it vpon the bléeding wound it will stop it Resolue Coperas in Vineger and set it certaine dayes in the hote sunne or let it séeth afterwards wet a cloth therein and so lay it vpon it The parings of
counsell is to arise presently and walke and to kéepe the foote warme Cramp rings are also worne for it but I finde no great good in them These oyles following are very commodious for the Cramp to wit oyle of Lillies of Rue of Wallfloures and of Turpentine which is made as followeth Take Turpentine 3. pound put it into a body make fast the head and the receiuer vnto it very close distill it in sand or ashes with an easie fire First there commeth ouer a cleare water with the oyle next a yellow oyle lastly a darke and grosse oyle kéepe each apart for they are good for all cold griefes and especially for them of the sinewes There is also good for it the oyle of Tyles oyle of Quinces which also comforteth the sinewes The oyle of Cammomill is not only good for the sinewes but also for all the ioynts The oyle of S. Iohns wort is especiall good for the same The ridge in the back being annoynted with the oyle of Iuniper restoreth motion into all parts Oyle of Bayes of bitter Almonds and of Beuercod haue an especiall vertue to soften the hard and contracted sinewes Now follow those things which may be vsed inwardly BOth the kinds of Treacle and the Mithridate are maruellous good for the infections of the sinewes Item take Calmus floures of Stechados of each thrée ounces Currans Fennell rootes Parsly rootes of each one ounce Centory Coloquinte Hermodactilis of each halfe an ounce boyle them in a quart of water vnto the halfe and straine them out hard then put 12. ounces of Hony vnto it and let them boyle together againe vntill they be reasonable thick afterwards put vnto them fine powder of prepared Agarick one ounce Turbith halfe an ounce Ginger and Diagridion of each one drag and a halfe Spike of Indie one drag make an Electuary of them This Electuary purgeth all plegmatick tough gréene and waterish matter from all the parts of the body both inward and outward It asswageth all paines of the ioynts sinewes and such like Giue of it at once foure or sixe dragmes with the decoction of Ginger if phlegme do abound Contrarywise in a cholerick bodie giue it with the water of Succory very warme and let him fast sixe houres after it and before he be set downe to dinner let him drinke a good draught of Meade For the same purpose also serueth the confection of Diacorum and especially the first of them which are described in the last part Likewise the conserue of Lauender of Spikenard of Sage and the preserued rootes of Eringus His common drinke shall be Meade or Honywater Amongst the herbed wines are these commended the wines of Elecampane rootes of Rosemary of Sage and of Wormewoode These wynes are all very good for the sinewes not only taken inwardly but also the infected places chafed and fomented outwardly Common clisters are sometimes vsed for to comfort the sinewes wherof there be diuers described almost euery where and such as may be vsed according to the place infected But a little Coloquint is for the most part added vnto them all This contraction and induration of the sinewes doth in time turne to a perfect lamenesse whereof hath bene spoken before in the fourth part the seuenth chapter and second § and after that in this fift part in the second chapter of the Pockes in which places you may find sufficient store of remedies to content your selfe These things following are very hurtfull for the sinewes the continuall vse of strong wines â—enery idlenes slothfulnes warme water and especially in them that are wounded in the sinewes The fourteenth Chapter Of the flesh and Muscles or Lacerts WE must now speake of the flesh of the body which couereth the bones veines sinewes and in fine all that is comprehended in the skin First in respect of those parts which we call Muscles or Lacerts the flesh in Latin called Caro is very little in quantitie for the number of Muscles is so infinite that it hath béene vnpossible for the auncient Phisitions to name them all Some did take them to be in number fiue hundreth Albertus 529. The flesh and muscles are ingendred of the bloud they are warme and moyst by nature and soft in handling and those that are coldish by nature without any euident heate they haue much and very soft flesh That which we call flesh is placed euery where betwéen the muscles only differing in this that the muscles are contained in a thin subtill membrane to the end that the sinewes with their small twigs might the better passe through it impart their motion vnto the muscles This flesh is otherwhiles changed into fat to wit in fat men or in them that liue delicately or else sometimes it decreaseth and the muscles also vpon diuers occasions They that are very fleshy haue also big veines full of black bloud with great entrayles and a big belly These persons are especially commanded by all learned Phisitions that they shall not purge themselues in Sommer time The other kind of flesh namely Muscles and Lacerts are peraduenture so called because they are not vnlike to the Euets for Lacerta in Latine is a Lyzard or Euet in English Aristotle Albertus Galenus with diuers others haue written very curiously of the veynes and sinewes and haue shewed how they are dispersed and spread abroade ouer all the body and how by the Muscles they moue and stirre euery member seuerally whereof we néede not at this present make any further mention But to speake of them in briefe the bodie of the muscles is made of thrée seuerall kinds of substance for their beginning and the very head of them is full of sinewes Their middle which is called the belly of the muscle is flesh Their tayle or the ends of the muscles is harder and more sinewie then the head whereof the Tendons are made In fine these Muscles do consist of sinewes of flesh of ligaments and velmes so that by the multitude of these sinewes are all the parts of the body moued inward and outward vpwards and downewards quickly or slowly too and fro all as a man will himselfe Besides this they are according to their situations of diuers proportions as long thick broad c. and so strangely coadunated and conioyned that their vse may easier be perceiued by their motion than by sight or by any other meanes whatsoeuer but especially in the face in the forehead and in the lips These muscles may not be wounded without great danger for by reason of the sinewes which passe through them by those wounds very great and heauy accidents must needs ensue But the greatest danger is wounding hurting or in any way harming them of the back for then can the patient neither make water nor go to the stoole nor do any other busines at all aright By these meanes commeth the Cramp the falling sicknes I wil not speake of the great misfortune that might follow if the same do putrifie Because
therefore the muscles are very sensible they do finde by ouermuch labour by long walking by running and such like a great debilitie wearisomnes and paine so do the sinewes also and the Tendons themselues But it were in vaine to shew at this present how all the infirmities that the muscles are subiect vnto might be remedied because the same hath béene sufficiently spoken of in those places where we haue intreated of Vlcers Wounds Pocks Leprosie and such like The fifteenth Chapter Of the fat of Mans bodie AFter the description of the flesh it is verie néedfull that we write and discourse of the fat in mans bodie This fat is a deuision of the nourishment in the skin and other parts heaped insensibly and tight togither this insensiblenes hath the fat of the blood whence it is ingendred for that the fat is none other thing but digested blood which also is insensible By nature it is most moyst therefore the fat of all beasts and also the fat of men is woont to be vsed for many kinde of diseases as may be seene héere and there in this Booke and as it is said the fat hath his beginning of the fattest part of the blood which runneth through the veines towards the skin and setting it selfe on the same and on the sinewes both which are dry by nature for to moysten them But if it happen to touch the parts that be cold and bloodles then doth it come to congeale and to waxe hard there therefore that doth most of all happen in cold bodies viz. in women and in all such beasts which haue béene kept all winter and be vnmeasurable fat where to the contrarie all that be hot by nature waxe leane and weake Amongst all parts of men and beasts there are none that be fatter than the kidneies and that chiefly on the left kidneies more than on the right yet especially in shéepe wherein that the kidneies be otherwhiles so abundantly couered with fat that they cannot make water but are constrained thereby to die Of the troublesomnes of Fatnes §. 1. THere is no better disposition of bodie as well amongst new borne children as other ancient people but that a man be meetely fat not too leane nor too fat or if so be that any of both must be it is alwaies better to be leane than fat for that if a bodie be ouerburthened with fatnes then happeneth it amongst other inconueniences that a bodie be alwaies slothfull vnfit for labour and for walking I say nothing of other diseases and sicknesses which fat people be more subiect to than the leane This excessiue fatnes commeth of blood whereby all the parts of a mans bodie be fed and sustained the fat bodies haue alwaies narrow veines and arteries and therefore also little blood and fewer vitall spirits so that when they begin to be old the naturall heate is wholly abated and verie lightly might be extinguished or at least wise spilt and lost Wherefore Hippocrates also saith by good right that they that be fat by nature do die much sooner than they that be leane But they that are betwéene both by nature saith he and afterwards waxe fat by their daintie and bountifull diet they alwaies kéepe their great veines although they increase in flesh and fatnes therefore in them is lesse daunger although they be fat and that their naturall heate be corrupted in them Also the Philosophers do conclude like as we also daily see before our eies that both humaine and bruite beasts bodies which are verie fat do remaine vnfruitefull For they haue but little and weake naturall séed bicause that as is said leanenes is to be commended farre before fatnes of the body Therefore must all men which are inclined to be fat vse these things following Take Sandaraca thrée quarters of an ounce drinke it in the morning with water and with Oxymel Item take the rindes of yellow Mirobalanes rost them as though that they were halfe burnt one quarter of an ounce stamp them all to a subtile powder and then giue it to drinke with Plantaine water Looke also into the second part the third chapter and second § for the Pils which maruellously hinder fatnes Item take euerie morning a crust with vineger wherein a little Pepper is tempered drinke it verie warme But if one feare that it might hurt the sinewes then is it to be forborne The sixteenth Chapter For great Leannes THe reason why leaunes is better for a bodie than fatnes we haue discouered before neuerthelesse if the leannes were excéeding much then is it verie daungerous for healthie folkes for it behooueth no great proofe that the bodie waxeth leane when it wanteth food or when the meate doth not digest and is not conueied to the appropriate members or when people be ouercharged with intollerable labour with great sorrow and such like Likewise do some also fall into great leannes for that their bodie is too cold and too dry other will also be leane for that the digestiue and nutritiue vertues or any of both these be weakened Item this extreame leannes is caused also of the consumption Phthisis whereof we haue sufficiently written before and also in the fourth part the seuenth chapter and second § For this may first be vsed all that is forbidden in the excessiue fatnes neither is counsell to be deferred ouer long in this disease of leannes for when as the leannes beginneth to roote then doth the same not onely prouoke Phthisin which is the consumption but also other moe deadly accidents so that not only all the flesh of mans body will be consumed but also all the vertue and strength And what might be vsed for this falling away is to be sought for in the two forementioned places there is especially commended amongst other outward remedies the rubbing with the flat of the hand of all outward members All they that are woont lightly to parbrake may not be purged in winter when this leannes is not caused through some hot agues but that the meat receiued is not by nature conueied towards his due place so that like as it is woont to chance oftentimes the ordure is cast out of the mouth then is the patient to vse good white wine for his drinke yet tempered with water wherein Fennell seed is decocted For his meate be Hens Capons or rather the broth of them that is wroong or stamped out of their flesh This patient is also to foment often his priuities and there about with a spoonge dipped in the decoction of these things following Take Fenegréeke séed and of the white Sesamum of each fower ounces Mallowes and Smallage of each thrée handfuls Bdellium halfe a dragme Comin thrée drag Caruway Dill séed Ameos Fennell of each halfe an ounce field Cipers Centorie of each halfe a handfull cut that is to be cut and stamp the rest let it séeth in sufficient water You are also to vse a warming plaister for the stomacke whereof there be séene in the third
is very dangerous to vse the same This also is a common rule first alwaies to séeke remedie for all those accidents that are most troublesome or to take away the cause of the sicknes by his contrarie as labor by rest wrath sorrow and madnes with mery and pleasant conceits watching with sléepe those that get it through much speculation must wholly leaue it off euen so must it be with the swelling and inflammation of the priuities that the same may heale and the paine be asswaged Here hast thou briefly set downe what order of diet and other things are to be obserued in any accident whatsoeuer Now will we learn you after the briefest maner we can what things are to be vsed in any of the foresaid causes When as then any bodie through the heate of the Sun or through a bath falleth into an ague then must you annoint his head with the oyle of water Lillies Roses Violets mingled together or each alone you may also make a decoction of cold herbes or oyle of Willowes or of any of the foresaid oyles mingled with it and then let it drop from on high on his breast If the patient haue great thirst or drought then giue him to drinke Well water or Almond milke When the ague is past then let him bath as hath bene abouesaid But if the ague procéede of outward cold then is sweating good for it or can he not sweate then may he vse warme bathes wherein hath bene decocted wild and garden Mints Smallage Fennell and Parsly with the rootes Also annoint the head with the oyle of Dill of Cammomill and with oyle of Behen but he must forbeare the drinking of water Likewise lay the patient in a méetly warme chamber annointing his bodie softly and when the ague is past and gone then may the patient vse to eate all manner of land fowles and such like foode Is he then corpulent and full of bloud then open a veine and let him vse in this bath stone Rue Cammomill Fennell and Stonecleuers c. Or come these Agues through the vse of any hot meates then vse cold things as Lettice Purslaine and the iuice of Pomgranates Purge with Cassie Manna sower Dates or with Conserue of Prunes Take also of the Confection Diatriasantalon Endiue water Oxysacchara Iulep of Roses Barley water with a litle Vineger Camfere Lettice Purslaine and such like cold herbes or the iuice of them If this Ague come of drunkennesse of strong wine or such like drinke then must the patient vrge himselfe to vomit or to purge with the foresaid cold things If there be adioyned a great paine of the head then must you annoint it with the oyle of Roses or with some iuice of cold herbes Or if this issueth through great sorrow feare flight ouer much watching madnes wrath or such like then remedie these things as is said by their contraries to wit with mirth musicke comfort sléepe and with such like he must also shake off and forget all causes of sorrow and feare Likewise this patient shall smell vnto Roses Violets and Saunders and wet clothes in the muscilage of Fleawoort and the iuice of coole herbes mingled with a little Camser and lay them vpon his head When the Ague procéedeth of wrath especially in young folkes then is the wine to be refrained These Agues also procéede aswell of exceeding ioy as they do of great wrath albeit the same chaunceth seldome yet it is by the foresaid meanes in like sort healed These agues may also come very easily through excessiue labor by reason that the same heateth the vitall spirits For the same must be prescribed light meates rest bathes measurable sléeping Or if these Agues be caused of ouermuch sléepe and rest as often it falleth out then shall he constraine himselfe to watch and let his bodie be rubbed ouer with hote clothes These agues are very subiect to all fluxes of the belly and dysenteries of what cause soeuer the same doth procéede For this are all astringent and binding things to be vsed and to do all that is fit to be done in such like sicknesses Also Cotton dipped in the oyle of Masticke or oyle of Quinces and laid ouer the stomacke but vpon the liuer and heart coole things If the patient should thirst or hunger then shall he vse and especially at the beginning Barly paps Oaten paps water bathes and rest and for his drinke he shall take water mingled with the iuice of Pomegranates But if he be cloyed with too much meate then causeth it lightly ague to follow for which Clisters purgations and sobrietie are to be vsed but if there be any sower belchings vpward admised then vse Diagalanga or Diatrionpipereon and annoint the stomacke with the oyle of Masticke the oyle of Wormwood or with oyle of Spike laying shéepes wooll thereon Afterwards when the ague hath left him let him vse sléepe and sobrietie The agues which procéede of any impostumes vlcers Pleurisies puffing vp of the Lights swelling of the priuities which is caused of paine Cholera heate and thirst more than the foresaid agues are these shall you remedie thus first search out of what humors they grow if of bloud then must the patient open a veine thereby to ease the impostume or any other hote swellings or do they come of Cholera then must the patient be purged and moreouer the vlcers or impostumes must be cleansed ripened and healed It happeneth also that as young children haue the wormes they also fall into such an ague for this all such things are to be vsed as are ordained and thought most méete for the destroying of wormes and especially a salue beginning thus Take oyle of bitter Almonds c. Thus haue we sufficiently spoken of Diarie agues and mentioned how they are to be dealt withall The third Chapter Of the continuall Ague Continua in generall GAlen termeth these continuall Agues Continuas Febres which from the first time that they enter vpon a man indure continually without intermission if they be not through health or through death dissolued albeit that otherwhiles they waxe a litle fainter or flower yet neuertheles sometimes many dayes yea wéekes indure still Of these are chiefly twaine the one that increaseth the third day which is more perillous than the other to wit than those that change their nature the second day and by reason of this alteration the Phisitions do giue these Agues diuers names wherof the principallest is Typhodes that is burning which greatly agréeth with the half Tertian ague Then is there Synochus which procéedeth of a superfluitie and inflammation of the bloud mixt with Cholera taketh hold most of all vpon the bodies of young temperate and hote persons wherof we shall hereafter speake more at large The signes of these Agues be that 24. houres long their fit continueth inconstantly beginning and increasing The pulses of them are swift and hard the vrine is redder than it was before These things following are also to be
obserued and well to be remembred that in drie and hot weather they are few yet strong and bad Agues do raigne but without any sweat at all In wet weather are these agues most rife and that with sweate For so much as these continuall Agues are first of all described amongst hote agues therefore here will we admonish the Reader that we make this our discourse so much the longer to the end we might declare the matter more openly and that such hote agues as hereafter follow may thereby the better be knowne and easier cured and that especially in this § wherein shall be taught the meanes which are to be kept in meate and drinke in vomiting sléepe also what might reuiue those that are so diseased whereby they should be eased in great heate and after what order they should gouerne themselues their ague being gone The Ague that is continuall Continua §. 1. THe occasion of all such mightie Agues is the putrifying of the humors within the great veines and the cause of the putrifaction aforesaid is a stay and detaining of superfluous tough humors that are caried in the bodie the heate wherof approching to the heart enflameth the same This commonly hapneth in all such bodies that are filled with tough humors or that the veines through heate of the same are ouer dried This Ague also may ingender of venimous ayre as in the time of pestilence is to be séene Item through great cold whereby the pores be shut vp through sore labor in the hote Sun through much watching through great anguish grieuous thoughts and through a great fluxe of the belly The common signes of this mightie ague are paine of the head and great heate easily to be felt watching great thirst swift and vnequall pulse red thicke and yellowish vrine the patient rageth in his sléepe his senses are troubled and complaineth of terrible dreames If he be young and the season of the yeare be hote and that he dwell in a high and hilly countrie then are all these recited signes the likelier to be certaine and true The order of dyet in time of hot Agues §. 2. IF so be that these patients desire to be rid of these Agues then is it very néedful that they haue a good gouernment or order in eating and drinking they must haue speciall care to be fed with such meats through which they may be cooled the bloud purified and moistened whereby the heate and drought may be withstood In like manner shall the patient be kept in the beginning of his sicknesse whilest he is in strength sober in eating and drinking and encrease the same according to oportunitie In like sort with the letting of bloud if the patient be red in the face his veins full young then is he to be let bloud in a very hot ague vntill he fall into a swoune But if the patient be so weake that such forcible letting of bloud may hurt him then let it be done at diuers howers euery time a little two or thrée daies together for some are to be dealt withall more gentlier than other and require that the Saluatella vpon the right hand to wit by the little finger may be opened and that there shall about fiue ounces of bloud be let out We haue before giuen order what kinds of meate this patient is to vse that the same must be cooling and cleansing the bloud as Cicorie and Endiue with the roots water Cresses sodden in his meate and in like sort also a Sallad made of the same herbes and rootes with oyle and Vineger and there is chiefly to be put into the same Sallad Liuerwort that vseth to grow besides the water Cresses which is passing good Also the iuice of Oranges Pomgranates or Limons are to be vsed with his meate and amongst other herbes Spinage Béetes and Turneps with their leaues are excellent good Item Lettice Endiue and Parsley and mingle amongst them sometime a little Marioram Penniroyall and wild Thyme and Hyssope but once for that it is warme of nature Of fruits let him vse Damask prunes Oranges Pomegranates And of flesh let him be serued with that of Calues Hens Capons the which are to be brused eaten with the broth also make sops with Vineger mingling the yolks of egs Sugar amongst it Item Partridges Fesants field fowles and such like are not hurtfull it is also to be noted that with the flesh is to be sodden Parsly roots Cicorie roots Veriuice with a little Marioram and Hyssope Moreouer the séedes of Lettice Melons Cucumbers are passing good yet not all together but somtime of the one somtime of the other Péeled Barly sodden with Hen broth is much set by and also Hen broth alone wherin a litle bread is soked Item shiues of bread soked in water and the water powred out and afterwards the iuice of Pomegranates powred thereon and bestrewed with Sugar is very good meate for all such maladies Some are of opinion that the flesh of a Magpie is a certaine good medicine for the Ague and some suppose that young Magpies with the feathers distilled and the water of them giuen to the patient to drinke and it were not amisse that in the distilling of them there were put the rootes of Parsley and of Elecampane For these hote Agues may fountaine water be drunken or any other cleare riuer water that hath bene sodden once before or powred a good while and often out of one pot into another Or you may mingle with this water iulep of Violets or iulep of Roses and so drinke it vnsodden Barly water is a very fit drinke for al such maladies may be mingled with the foresaid Iulep Wine though very little is otherwhiles permitted and also Sugar water and sodden Hen broth the fat blowne off is very good Common rules for Agues §. 3. ACcording to the prescribed ordinance or gouernment of the life we are to shew in like manner the remedies cures But first we will declare certaine rules which in all hot Agues must be obserued that thereby for all such maladies a better order may be had kept The first rule is how to discerne easily that the patient cannot come to his health vntil the putrified matter of the Ague be purged away Secondly the eyes are to be fixed vpon that matter that ingendreth the ague that the same be prepared for purging the ague which is present be corrected and that which is to come be hindred Thirdly whē this putrified matter is to be taken away then must care be had how to open the obstructions which are the foundations of the ague for otherwise there can no good be done Fourthly if the Ague be forcible hot and the patients strength very small to resist the same that it is impossible for the patient to tolerate the violence of the ague then must the patient not be suffered to vse many cold things before that thereby the naturall heat be
not quite extinguished but if he be strong may withstand the sicknes then cut off the cause expell the matter kéepe the patient sparingly let him not vse ouer cold things Fiftly if naturall strength in the ague be very weake then must the Phisition strengthen the same coole the vnnaturall heat and with méet food comfort the debilitie of the body Sixtly the cooling of the ague is not to be effected with drying or binding things vnlesse it be when the materiall cause is expelled Seuenthly if the nature and qualitie of the ague be doubtfull then must the patient liue sparingly especially when the Ague assaileth that it may find an emptie stomack Eightly all fresh fruit are very hurtfull by reason that they will soone stinke and putrifie in the stomack Ninthly while the patient is in good strength hath bloud enough or is full of humors then first of all let him bloud and especially when as his vrine is red and thicke and when it is doubted that the Cholera wil get the vpper hand Tenthly and if so be as is rehearsed that nature be of abilitie then vse those things first which loose the bodie mildly afterwards open a veine and then purge Eleuenthly in these kind of agues there is no strong purgation to be ministred Twelfthly if by the wambling or paine of the stomack it be perceiued that the corruption falleth into the stomacke then shall you minister to the patient a vomit but if through the rumbling of the belly it be perceiued that the matter be fallen downe into the bowels then is it to be expelled with purgations Thirtéenthly those medicines that might hurt the bowels be noysome not commodious in case that the patient haue not vsed preparatiues before be it in heate or cold or in case that the corruption made not the patient starke mad or that he were in doubt to fall into a greater mischiefe Fourtéenthly as the bloud preuaileth and that a veine must be opened then is the preparation of the matter to be expected by reason that the same concerneth the other bad humors and not the bloud Fiftéenthly when the Crisis is neare hand you must forbeare to minister any medicine But if the same be vnperfect then is it to be ayded and to help nature in that which she can not performe of her selfe that is in strengthening her and in right vse of the medicines Sixtéenthly if the letting of bloud be thought méet then is the same to be done at the first for otherwise it will not do so well for when the patient is ouer weakened then might the same be a meane of his death Seuentéenthly the patient is to be purged when the Ague is weakest Eightéenthly wine bathes and fomentations are to be abstained in forcible and strong Agues and rather drinke cold water which hath great efficacie to coole the heate of the Ague but not to expell the putrified matter through the pores or through the vrine Nintéenthly when the principall parts of the bodie as the Heart the Head the Lyuer be strong and the Ague is vehement and hote then may you boldly giue the patient water to drinke yet not if he be in yeares for those are not very strong of nature Twentiethly if there be much bloud much tough slime or fleame and binding of the bodie present then first of all let the patient bloud afterwards attenuate the matter and lastly open the pores and warme them One and twentiethly aboue all things haue regard to the strength of the patient and if he be strong enough and that he haue neede of purging then is the same to be executed without any care But if his strength be small then let it alone at any hand except it be some gentle thing and after that he be somewhat strengthened Two and twentiethly if in the Febris putrida be any obstruction then héede is to be taken to open the same the which if it be caused of some humours then are they to be euacuated If those humours be tough and grosse attenuate them And if the Ague be mixt then prepare your medecines accordingly Thrée and twentiethly because the cold attracted ayre penetrateth to the heart and other inward parts let him thereby be refreshed opening all manner of windowes about him Foure and twentiethly it happeneth otherwhiles besides the grieuousnesse of the disease and the presence of diuers accidents that sometimes there are those things giuen to the patient that are hurtfull for the Ague as in the swounings in the Ague for the which of necessitie Wine and fresh broth are to be giuen to the patient wherein is to be considered that the greatest extremitie is first to be eased Fiue and twentiethly if néede require that much bloud or humours are to be taken away and that the strength of the patient will not abide it then must the same be done by little and little at diuers times and not at one time euen as is before expressed at large But if the strength of the patient will permit it then is it to be done at once Sixe and twentiethly in these forcible and vehement Agues must the Phisition be prouident and warie how to expell and purge for it is better to leaue one part of the matter in the bodie then to expell it all at one time Seuen and twentiethly the Phisition must alwaies be hold and liberal in comforting the patient for although healthfull meates bréede some inconuenience yet are they better then too much abstinence Eight and twentiethly minister alwayes vnto the patient for his mouth such things as will kéepe his throate moist that through great heate it drie not too sore the which is accomplished by the muscilage of Fleawoort the iuice of Pomegranates the muscilage of Quince kernels by Purslaine and Licorice which things also are good for to quench thirst Of common things for hot Agues §. 4. AFter the description of the common rules which are to be noted wée will nowe treate of this namely when it is found that an Ague doth approch then must the patient take fowre ounces of the water of Carduus Benedictus Item take the rootes of Cicorie cut them powne them and wring out their iuice drinke a spoonfull thereof halfe an howre before the Ague assayleth but it is to be noted that the inward heart of the roote is to be taken away Or take powned rootes of Cicorie as many as you thinke good and powre Wine thereon boyle them in Balneo and then drinke thereof three or fowre times to wit morning and euening it is also passing good for such as are swollen with the Ague Cheruell water is very good to driue away the Ague A maruellous water of the auncient Phisitions Take a spoonefull of Fennell séedes and as much Salt powne them together and let it runne through a Cearse or hairen Sieue then take good Vineger and the vrine of a man child about sixe ounces of each giue to
we will further write and make mention The causes of this quartaine Ague are euen as abouesaid first the melancholike blood time of the haruest and after that the winter for that at these seasons these humors are not onely stirred but also augmented more vehement and durable so that otherwhile they endure vntill winter whereas to the contrary the same are shorter in Sommer and the rather if the nature of the countrey be inclined that way and the time of the yeare otherwhiles is such that it ingendreth foule bloud whereby then such and other Agues are caused Wherefore good héede must be taken to all these foresayd things and in like manner whether the patient be not of a melancholicke nature and hath not vsed before to eate such kinds of meates whereof this melancholicke blood is ingendred or increased as bread of Millet Lentiles Beanes Chestnuts salt chéese salt fish Béefe Hares Harts Cabbages and such like Item all other things that inflame the blood as Garlicke Cresses pepper Mustard strong and spiced wines burnt wine and all kinds of hot spice or fruites but especially great labour trauell in the heate of the Sun long anger great sorrow and long former Agues whereby the bloud and other humors are burnt and putrified and are altered by the great heate into Melancholiam before they be expelled whereof you haue further instruction in the description of Melancholy and of the stomacke Item haue speciall care whether the Milt of the patient be not swolne or haue any other infirmitie Or whether the patient haue before had no erratick Ague for that the quartaine Ague neuer commeth alone but commonly alwayes after another Ague You must alwayes mark wel whether the vrine be white thin and waterish in these things as also in the pulse and cold doth it altogether differ from the tertian but regard not you the vomiting of the gall for that is the onely nature of the tertian ague but if you find by the motion of the pulse or otherwise after that the Ague is gone or if there be any signes of the ague then is there no doubt at all but that it is a quartaine ague Now to cure this Ague we will first of all shew you certaine rules and for the first if the pulse be forcible and beateth swiftly the water be red and grosse the patient be yong and full of bloud then shall you not omit but open the Basilica or Milt veine on the left hand but if the bloud be red and cléere then stop it againe but if it be thicke and black then let it runne and that so long as the parties strength be able to beare it Secondly if so be that the patient haue not much blood let him then not bléede at all Thirdly you must not giue to any that is taken with the Ague any strong purgation at the first by reason that all melancholicke humors are very tough and grosse and the same may not be purged in the beginning but mild purgations must be vsed and gentle Clisters Fourthly all meates and drinkes that are prepared dayly for the patient shall be laxatiue that he may alwayes haue some vacuation Fiftly against such time as the Ague approcheth the patient must at any hand refraine foode that nature thereby may worke the better on the matter of the Ague also the easier expell and withstand it Sixtly he may not bathe vntill the Ague begin to decrease Seuenthly he must forbeare all fruites by reason of their grosse moisture that lightly doth putrifie and may prouoke obstructions Eightly these patients must take héede of the cold aire and settle themselues in temperate dwellings Ninthly they that haue any obstruction in their veines are to vse such meates and drinkes that warme and moisten Tenthly because that this humor is compact and the state thereof a great while after it beginneth the patient is not to be kept ouersparingly but let him be cherished with meate that he may retaine his force and strength and expect the statum of the disease Eleuenthly for this kind of sicknes you must not giue him any ouerhot and dry things for feare that the ague be not thereby doubled prolonged and altered into a continuall ague Twelftly you are not to vse ouercold remedies because they do thicken and harden the matter wherefore â—uld meanes are alwayes to be vsed and taken Out of these foresaid rules it is easily to be vnderstood that no strong medicines are to be vsed in the beginning of this Ague except one sée that there is great store of blood at hand at which time the Median may be opened in the right arme Also if the blood be blacke and thicke as it happeneth to be of such that haue a diseased spléene then may one let it runne the longer but if it be red and cleane then must it be presently stopt The ordinance and gouernement of his life must be such that he feede not vpon any thing that prouoketh or bréedeth wind but vse all meates that ingender good blood and kéepe the bodie open and soluble and if any defect be hereof then must a mild clister be ministred Also he shall forbeare swines flesh and all meates that are slimie and hard of digestion and of all that which might make the body cold and drie His drink must be thin white wine his meate all maner of field fowles but no water fowles fish of light-digestion and not slimie salt meates and mustard may he also vse Also he may sometimes vse the confection Diatrion pipereon or Diaspoliticon and although the patient did drinke eeuery day a little pepper with water it were not amisse This patient shall not wholy forbeare from riding from walking and from baths if he hath bene accustomed to it yet is the bath not very good for him If this quartaine ague be not very strong nor yet continue long then can it not hurt if the patient vpon his frée dayes do execute his affaires and businesse But about the time as is supposed that the Ague is come to the highest state then must the patient féede very moderatly yea more sparingly than euer before keeping himselfe very quiet and annoint the belly with such things as may keepe the body open and soluble and also vse such things as prouoke vrine wherof you shall find good instruction at due time and place And as soone as one perceiueth that the humors begin to auoid then are those things to be vsed that expell melancholy and that not once but as often as néede shall require Also to prouoke him to vomit and that after meate and if néed be let him take a little black Hellebore therewith to ease and further the vomiting But they that cannot vomit must be purged Treacle is also passing good for them yet it is to be noted that none of these foresaid things may be vsed before the sicknesse be at the highest for thereby might of a single quartaine ague be made a double and lastly of
signes to be found than age as are to be séene in very old folkes Now to come to the remedies of this kind of consumption this patient shall vse as néere as he may all warme and moist things He must often bathe himselfe in fresh warme water and vse many moystening clisters as the broth of Lambes heads of tripes of Hens and the like for these are very commodious for him because they moisten the bowels and refresh and nourish the liuer But you must put hereto neither salt nor any spice that they be not too sharp and may be held in the longer You must also take for this Clister not aboue sixe ounces of broth at once but in foure and twentie houres you are to minister thrée or foure Also the rubbing or bathing of the externall parts after meales is greatly commended and as Hony in the Ague Hectica is very hurtfull so is it in this disease Marasmode very commodious Further all light meates are passing good for him that are not slimie as fresh broth reare egges with a thinne and pleasant wine being measurably vsed and such like Item all the salues plaisters and other things which are prescribed for the Feuer Hectica may also be vsed in this sicknesse But for these diseases speciall héed is to be taken of cold and of all things as in any way consume the radicall humiditie Those that wil haue any further declaration of this infirmity let them reade that which hath bene said in the description of the consumption or feuer Hectica The thirteenth Chapter Of the long lingring Agues THe long continuing of Agues dependeth vpon thrée kinds of causes First when any one hath an outward sore which hardly will be cured Secondly if the patient or the Phisition euer mistake or kéepeth some bad order Thirdly this is also procured by some outward occasion as by the time of the yeare by continuall raine by the nature of the countrey by the vnhailnesse of the dwelling place by great care and troubles of mind But when it is knowne that there are none of these foresaid occasions then must it of necessitie depend on the fourth cause that is on a grosse tough and slimie humor If therefore you will haue remedy against the continuing of Agues then must you cure and take away the foresaid causes with their contraries For that these long continuing Agues are commonly caused by an obstruction of the liuer whereto these things following are principally good to wit sirupus Diarrhodon de Cichorio de Lupulis de Eupatorio de capillo Veneris Oxymel compositum de Bysantijs de Radicibus Item the decoction of Adiantum Harts toong Agrimony Wormewood Endiue Cicorie of all or of some of them The common pestilentiall pilles called Ruffi and Rubarbe Cassie Hiera picra conserue of Prunes Agaricus and sirupe of Roses laxatiue are also excellent good Item you must boile also Parsly roots with your meate the wine shal be mingled with water wherein Cinnamome Annis séed Coriander and Fennell rootes are sodden You must annoint the liuer with the salue that is described in the third part the twelft chapter and third § beginning thus Take oyle of bitter Almonds c. in which place you shall find many moe other remedies against the obstruction of the liuer through heate and cold For the liuer being deopilated and opened then will the long lingring Ague be easily mitigated The fourteenth Chapter Of swellings that follow after the Ague IT commeth oftentimes to passe that some haue their féete swolne after the long continuing of an Ague then vse a bath to sweate in and take one ounce of the distilled water of Cammomill flowers which hath bene drawne onely out of the yellow séedes of the flowers You must boyle in the water of this bath Sloe leaues and therewithall bathe and sweate In the bathing you shall forbeare from drinke but this bath is more commodious after some phlegmaticke Agues than after any hote Agues and what order of diet is to be obserued after a lingering Ague when the patient beginneth to recouer hath beene sufficiently shewed and declared in the third Chapter and the twelfth § The fifteenth Chapter Of the Plague THis most noisome terrible and perillous malady of the plague is called of the Gréekes Epidemia and of the Latinists Lues Pestis and Pestilentia which last name we also vse This malady is described by Galen after this manner The Plague is a sicknes that doth infect all or at the least very many men and is caused of the venemous ayre Or thus The Plague is a disease that either spéedily killeth or soone forsaketh a man And where such sicknesses get the vpper hand there distresse and misery aboundeth for it hath bene seene by experience that it hath made away men cattel and fowles of the aire yea many thousands of fishes in the waters and that not onely villages and townes haue bene depriued thereby of all their inhabitants but also great cities and countries haue by the same bene made desolate The causes of the Plague §. 1. OF the naturall causes of the Plague there are as many opinions amongst the Philosophers as there are causes that procure it as namely of venemous vapors of the earth that are infected by some earthquakes or if a countrey be hot moyst full of stenches full of lakes or still standing waters and cloyed with stench of dead bodies as it oftentimes befalleth after great wars and slaughters but especially is the aire infected as is abouesaid through sinne whereby it may diuersly be venomed Also when the aire is warme and moist and that it doth raine much in time of heate with a Southerly wind whereof we will not at this present make any further discourse but they that desire to haue any ampler description hereof may reade ouer the Philosophers and other learned Phisitions But howsoeuer this is the most certaine cause of this sicknesse that God the Lord for our manifold sinnes and wickednesse to wit idolatrie incredulitie and ingratitude hath vsed this Plague and many afflictions moe as hunger warre and shedding of blood to punish the foresaid sinnes and transgressions These are his rods and scourges euen the ministers of his wrath to chastice the wicked world as through his Prophets he hath foresaid and threatned the world and as both holy Scriptures and heathen writers testifie that it hath afterward ensued accordingly Signes of the Plague to come §. 2. FIrst it is a certaine signe that the aire is infected and that a plague is to be expected if in the end of the sommer there appeare Comets or any other impressions which men cal flakes of fire starres that fall or shoote and such like in the element which proceede of vapors that are drawne out of the earth into the aire and there are kindled whereby both men and cattell are infected Secondly when any vnaccustomed heape of beasts are séene as of Frogs Toades Grashoppers Mice and Wormes which oftentimes
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
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
to the patient at one time Another regiment when any one is infected with the Plague §. 6. FIrst these pils following are to be giuen to the patient in the morning betimes Take of the common plague pils a dragme and a halfe that are formed with sirupe of Citrons and then let the patient if the infirmitie may beare it sléepe afterwards a little the next day after shall he thrée or foure dayes after other alwaies in the morning betimes take a dragme and a halfe of fine Bolus powdered either with wine or with Rose water as the time of the yeare requireth This is a maruellous good medicine and without all danger but onely that it somewhat bindeth the bodie which may be preuented with mild Clisters which must be made of oyle onely It is not amisse for this intent to vse these confections following euery other day which strengthen the bodie and make it sound Take good Treacle one dragm prepared Smaragdes seuen greines then mingle it with wine and so giue it him But if the partie can hardly take this then let him vse one of these Sugar plates following Take Iacincts Granats Rubies Smaragdes Saphires and bones of the Stags hart of each one dragme red and white Saunders and red Coral◠of each one scruple burnt Iuorie fine Bolus prepared Pearles Sealed earth and Vnicornes horne of each foure scruples filed gold one dragme Sugar sod in Rosewater sixteene ounces make it vp into Manus Christi or Sugar plates and take two or thrée dragmes of them at one time As soone as the patient féeleth himself infected let him presently take this potion following and if he vomit not the same vp againe but sweateth after it then it is a good signe of amendement and a manifest token of health Take white Diptamus Tormentill white Corall Gentian fine Bolus Sealed earth and burnt Harts horne of each one dragme Smaragdes Camfer and prepared Pearles of each halfe a dragm Myrrhe Saffron Citron séedes of each one scruple beate all very small and take of it a quarter of an ounce Treacle a dragme and a halfe Sorrell water and good white wine of each one ounce and a halfe mixe them for a potion and giue it to the patient warme lying in his bed that he may sweate well and that as long as he may suffer it afterwards wipe him well and lay him in another bed But if the time of the yeare be cold and the Ague not very hote then may you put the more wine to the foresaid potion and contrariwise if it be hote weather and the Ague hote also then let Sorrell water be mingled therewith But speciall care must be had that the patient cast not vp the potion agine for the which it is good that there be a great cup set vnder his stomacke without opening the skin and some good sauour be holden before his nose his hands dipt in cold water or smell to tosted bread that is moistned with Vineger and such like things mo Some forbid that men in sweating shall neither eate or drinke which were somewhat indéed if the patient be strong enough but when he is féeble then haue you for this a good direction before How to purge those that are infected with the Plague §. 7. IN the end of the foresaid fift § we haue declared that purging for this sicknes is not greatly commended neuerthelesse if great néed require then is there nothing more fit than the common plague pils with somewhat tempered therwith This potion following may also be giuen him with all safetie for that it doth cleanse the bloud of all superfluities Take of the confection Triphera Persica and Manna of each thrée quarters of an ounce Rubarbe one dragme then mingle them together in foure ounces of Sorrell water Or take Cassie and sowre Dates of each thrée quarters of an ounce Confection of the iuice of Roses one dragme then temper them together with Sorrell water Item take Tripheram Persicam halfe an ounce prepared Agaricke and Rubarbe of each one dragme and mingle them as before Another Take the confection Diasena and Triphera Persica of each three dragms Confectionis Hamech a quarter of an ounce de succo Rosarum halfe a dragme mingle them with the decoction of fruits or with Buglosse water But if the patient be so féeble that you dare not giue him a purging medicine then let him haue a Clister of fresh broth or herbs with Cassy the yolk of an Eg course Sugar oile of Violets and salt For all such diseases are the Conserue of Burrage and Buglosse very commodious euen as they are also for all pestilent Agues for they are both very comfortable they reuiue the heart resist venime take away all weaknesse make men glad and cleanse the bloud We haue before in the fourth § written of other things mo that also do comfort the patient This shall suffise that we haue spoken of the beginning of the Plague we will now procéede and make mention of other accidents of these diseases and teach their due remedies Of the vnnaturall heate in the Plague §. 8. AMongst the other seuen accidents of this contagion that we haue heretofore spoken of and are alwaies permanent with the pestilent Agues there is commonly great headach adioyned Now to strengthen the head and braines haue we set downe many goodly instructions and directions in the first part the first chapter § 2. and also afterwards in the headach of heate This potion following may you vse for the same Take Tormentill burnt Harts horne red Corall and fine Bolus of each one dragme prepared Pearles halfe a dragm Camfer foure greines beate them all together to powder and then giue thereof the waight of a drag tempered with Sorrell water For this also serueth this Iulep following take the iuice of Balme of Burrage Buglosse Sorrell and of Cicorie of each one ounce and a half Rosewater and white Vineger of each thrée quarters of an ounce the iuice of Citrons or Limons halfe an ounce Sugar as much as you please séeth the sugar to a sirupe and when you will vse the same temper it with Barly water vnto a Iulep Or take Conserue of Roses foure ounces conserue of Buglosse two ounces Species Triasantali one ounce and a halfe burnt Iuorie Sorrell Melon seedes péeled Gourd seedes Citron séedes and Cucumber séedes peeled and chopt small of each one ounce and a halfe Sugar one ounce Pearles foure scruples and sixe leaues of beaten gold then temper them well together for a confection hereof may the patient vse as often as he will For this also is good the Conserues of Burrage and Buglosse of water Lillies of the iuice of Oranges and all that therewith may be made Of the vnsatiable and great thirst §. 9. THe second accident of these pestilent Agues is thirst that by little and little getteth the vpper hand so that the diseased falling into a frenzines thereby séeke to leape into the water or into
soeuer they drinke it it disturbeth their heads and maketh them drunken For this purpose may these things following be vsed to wit iuice of Quinces or raw Quinces well chewed and the iuice taken downe likewise the iuice of Citrons and Limons or of their sirupes do hinder drunkennes Hony is also much commended if it be taken after much drinking of wine for thereby wil the vapors of the wine be so driuen downwards that it cannot weaken the vnderstanding nor the braines Bitter Almonds confected Conserues of Gilloflowers after that you haue drunken much do preuent drunkennesse In the old time men did make a Garland of Saffron flowers and did weare it on their heads the same vertue is ascribed to the blew Violets And it is said that white Colewoorts cut into Sallads and the same eaten or the séeds therof chewed in the mouth shold hinder drunkennes for the iuice of Colewoorts or the pith of the stalkes doth stay the vapors of the wine from ascending into the head The precious stone Amethist shold also preserue men from drunkennesse But for to defend and preuent all contagions that procéed of drunkennes we wil adde some things more First he must be vrged to vomit with Oxymel of Squils with Radish seede with a feather dipped in oyle and put into the throate and thereupon he must fast and sléepe and after he awaketh againe you must froth his members to wit his hands and féete with warme water wherein is sodden Roses Cammomill and a little salt and tempered with some oyle of Violets wherby the vapors may be drawne downwards Item lay a cloth vpon the head that is made wet with the iuice of Cucumbers Purslaine or in any of their waters the patient must kéepe himself herein very sober and vse light meats Colewoorts Lentils young Pullets and young Pigeons drest with the iuice of Limons and Pomegranates the prepared and confected Coriander is also very good and sléeping thereuppon vntill that all the wine be digested which may be séene by the concoction of the vrine It chaunceth oftentimes that drunken folkes haue great thirst which if it commeth not through the abundance of wine then giue them faire fountaine water to drinke and sower fruites to eate You haue also an especiall thing in the first part the twelfth Chapter and fourth § which is good for drunkennesse and thirst after drunkennes There is also a great difference in drunkennes and that according to the nature of them that are drunken He that is sanguine doth sing daunce laugh and is merrie he may be compared to children that soone laugh and for the most part know not why nor wherfore and when as a long time they haue bene merrie then begin they to sléepe till they haue slept it out The cholericke man is in his drunkennesse angry raging clamorous addicted to fighting and will not be corrected nor admonished of any body one cannot bring them to bed they haue much babling and are much bragging The Phlegmatici they will be wearie lazie sléepie and kéepe themselues quiet The Melancholici are sorrowfull bewaile sometimes their sinnes their friends disease and that is the greatest imperfection of their drunkenes they are therein like to the Apes but in this they are all alike that they stammer with their toung they réele and tarrie not by their right wits How hurtfull also drunkennes is doth appeare in many places of this our booke of Phisicke where we admonish all men to refraine it and that not onely of this vnmeasurable drinking whereof we now make mention but also where all expert Phisitions do forbid wine And we will for a conclusion adde this to the rest that the Rape wine and Béere wine drunken after meate doth make one more drunken and sléepie than any other kind of Rhenish wine And it is a common opinion that watered wine doth sooner insect the head than pure wine But this is to be vnderstood of grosse and thicke wine which by the putting to of a little water is the more subtiller whereby the vapour sooner fumeth into the head You haue also many remedies before in the first part the first Chapter and eight § that are commodious for the paine of the head through drunkennes The 20. Chapter Of Frighting and Feare LEt no man wonder that we speake of Frighting amongst other sicknesses for it is not onely found by experience that through many sorts of distemperature of the bloud many sundry sicknesses are prouoked but also a sudden death it selfe whereof commeth not onely the aforementioned but also thereby is caused an inestimable feare and faintnes of â—art whereby they become most vnfit for all worthy and knightly proweâ—â—e and are depriued of all counsell and indeuors Of this faint hartednesse and feare the Philosophers do write that the same for the most part do raigne and dwell in the hart of such as are of a cold nature which being sodainly and hastily set vpon their subtillest bloud runneth with such a streame to the inward parts of the bodie and towards the heart that it séemeth that the naturall heate shold be suffocated whereby cometh such bleaknes and quaking yea somtimes swonnings debilitie of the sinewes and muscles that it makes frighted persons very féeble and weak wherby also the motions of the muscles are so disturbed that both ordure and vrine slides from them their teeth chatter for cold they are thirstie and the whole bodie shiuering and shaking For this are two principall and also certaine remedies euen as Horatius saith to wit that one should build a wall of stéele about him that is shall alwaies haue an vpright conscience that cannot accuse him of any misdealing Secondly that he feare God and haue righteousnes alwaies before his eyes which medicins do so frée men of all frighting that like as Dauid saith it will alwaies go well with him and know for certaine that God of his goodnesse hath with his holy Angels as it were a strong towre compassed him round about wherby he will defend him But the faintnes of heart is also to be holpen with naturall medicines Note therefore that when the bloud through frighting is stirred and runneth towards the heart as it indeed hapneth then must of necessitie the trembling and quaking follow after it for which you haue in the second part the sixt Chapter and seuenth § a very good Elderne water many other things described When a woman with child especially is frighted then do some bid that there should be taken a quarter of an ounce of clarified hony and therewith some scraped Nutmegge and so eate it all together Wine moderatly drunken maketh the fearfull and faint-harted men stout and couragious And it is a common custome if any be sore frighted that he be admonished to make water and if there be any that after such frighting can come hardly to himselfe and fell into a swoune then is he to vse those things that strengthen the hart for which there are many
then the Bées are the readier and gréedier to sting the same partie than otherwise Although that there be no Cantharides or Spanish flies in Germanie yet are they common at all Apothecaries They are also very much vsed of the Chirurgions and of other as may be séene before in many places but by reason that some most vnprouidently take the same in hand and also will vse them inwardly therefore cannot I conceale their poison These Spanish flies bréede of the Caterpillers or little wormes of the Figge tree Peare trée Fir tree and Rose trée c. and when one drinketh them then follow there afterwards all maner of painfull symptomes for that one may feele from the mouth euen to the neck of the bladder a sharpnesse and great exulceration and he supposeth that he alwayes smelleth pitch the right side swelleth inwardly the vrine will hardly voyd and passeth away with blood and in going to the stoole there auoydeth the scrapings of the bowels like to them that haue the bloudie flixe They lie in great smart are also féeble and impotent The head swimmeth so much that otherwhiles they fall to the earth vntill at the very last they are bereft of their vnderstanding And to remedy these grieuous accidents there must be giuen to the patient Sallad oyle or some such thing to drinke for to bring him to vomit and when this is done then are you to minister vnto him a clister that is sodden with Rice Hollihocke rootes Fenegréeke Linseed Mallowes and such like If one may get the right Nitrum then is it very commodiously vsed with Oxymel our Salt-peter is not the right Nitrum whereby the rest that remaine sticking in the stomacke and in the bowels might be washed off and expelled Afterward you are to giue him wine and sodden Must to drinke wherein is sodden Pingles or Cucumber séede This may also be effected with milke or hony water and in like maner also Goosegrease and sodden wine There is a pappe of Barley meale to be layed vpon the swolne place made with hony water It is also to be noted that at the first there must no plaister be layd thereon for that will do more hurt than good When all hath bin done that is abouesaid then are you to annoint the body with oyles that be warme by nature and then to bathe after it so that thereby al that may hurt the body might be drawne out You must also sée that the patient haue alwayes a loose body He may eate Cockrels yong Buckes or Kids and Swines flesh that is very fat And he shall also seeth Linséede with it for that mollifieth and dampeth the eagernesse of the poison He shall drinke excessiuely swéete wine The rindes of Frankinsence and sealed earth the one or the other the waight of a quarter of an ounce taken with Must is also much commended Item there is good for it the decoction of Penniroyall Item Orage stamped Rue and the iuice of the same drunken with wine In like maner also Cow milke that is described in the third part the twelfth chapter and 11. § beginning thus Take Gentian c. But aboue all these are the Antidota good as also both the Treacles the Mithridate Alexipharmacon and such like It hapneth also oftentimes that the people that trauell through the countrey do vnawares drinke an horsleach which according to the olde wont without interceasing sucketh bloud within the body but if it remaine hanging within the throate thou may it be seene But when this hapneth then must good héede be taken that you venter not to get it out with any tongs or other things for that commonly they leaue their téeth sticking in the flesh whereby afterwards grow grieuous impostumes and it booteth not thereto that they be cut off they leaue not therefore their sucking and if they fall deeper into the body and come to hang at the mouth of the stomacke that is easie to be knowne by their drawing Thus for to cure this accident he is to drinke pickle of fish or any other salt water holding it in the mouth and to gargarize therewith Item Angelica sodden with Béetes Further take Rue séeth it in vineger and drinke it or hold it in the mouth according to the place where the worme is fastened Or take Vineger that is heated with a glowing iron melt butter therein and giue the patient to drinke of this vineger For this is also very good the meale of Lupins tempered with water and the same holden in the mouth The Woodlice are a filthy stinking vermine neuerthelesse they are said to be good against all venome which if they be burnt and the fume of them receiued they cause the Horsleaches to fall off The Flea is a vile troublesome and blood thirsty litle beast which vexeth both man and beast To driue them away or to kill them there is no fitter meanes than that you keepe the chamber alwayes very cleanely sprinkle it with water and swéepe out the same cleane for that they do grow of drie dust Item you may also vse these things following Séeth Coriander in water and therewith besprinkle the chamber and also let the linnen be washed therein This same driueth also lice away yet note that of late was written of the Coriander that thereby the head take no hurt Item take Coriander wilde Thyme séede of Tribulus aquaticus and Elderne leaues séeth them in water enough and besprinkle the chamber therewith this driueth away and killeth the fleas The same vertue is ascribed to the smoake of Penniroyall and the powder of Rue strowed in the chamber and all those things that may be vsed for Lice and Wood-lice The Italians and other nations moe haue a minde to eate Frogges which other nations doe abhorre but we will disswade all the world from them and specially such as bréede in stinking pondes and waters and are dunne which are not like the right frogges for they prouoke a swelling of the whole body with a bleake and yellow colour like vnto the Hollie tree thereupon followeth a short stinking heauie breath hoarsnesse and effluxion of the naturall séede Now then for to remedie this mischance you must let the patient vomit mightily and drinke ouer much wine For this also may you giue him of the Cipers roote beaten a quarter of an ounce Further you are then to admonish the patient that he endeuour himselfe mightily to run and walke much or take some other exercise in hand thereby to sharpen the body and he shall bathe euery day We haue said before that there is no more perillous venome than that of a mad dogge And concerning the madnes of a dog it is most perillous in hot times as when the Sun entreth into Leo to wit in the moneths of Iuly and August which thirtie dayes we do not only call the dog daies of the Dog star but also for that dogs in those daies are most inclined to madnes and then hurt men most of all
let it séeth so long vntil that al the wine be wasted then afterwards powre Hony vpon it but not too hote to the end that thereby they be not too hard Before times these were woont to be made in this manner following Take a rough cloth and rub off therewith the vttermost parings of the Quinces or pare them very thin and then cut them in foure peeces and take out the coare within afterwards powre vpon them two parts of wine and one part of Hony which is clarified then séeth them so long vntill the skin do wrinkle then be they enough put them out and let them be cold lay them in a potte and strew some spice vpon each row afterwards powre the decoction sodden short luke warme vpon it Item take Quinces take out the coares and lay them in a pot close one to another and let them stand stewing in an ouen vntill that they be mellow so that they may easily be pricked thorough with bodkins afterwards let them be cold and then put them againe into another pot and powre clarified Hony vpon it lay some heauie thing vpon it that they swim not about then will they remaine good a whole yeare and haue the same vertue of the common Marmalade You haue also before in the description of Peares how that they shall be made close in a pot and should then be laid in a fat of Wine you may also put the same in practise with the Quinces Lay the Quinces all the winter in small chopt straw and couer them well but lay none other fruite with it and kéepe them from the ayre Other do take Flockes some Bran or Hay But the very surest is if one will kéepe them the whole yeare that they be couered in their own leaues and afterwards couer them with Lome let them drie and set them somewhere in a cold drie place There may also be made many kinds of things of Quinces viz. the sirupe Miua and oyle and also the séedes thereof be vsed and the péeles Conserue of Roses §. 33. COnserue of Roses which is ready at al Apothecaries and common in al houses is thus prepared Take red Rose buds which be pluckt in drie weather as many as you please clip them off vnder the white with a paire of sheares then lay them on a cleane cloth and one double cloth ouer them that they may be well couered let them lye so still vpon a table two or three daies that they may wither a little and afterwards stamp them in a mortar to grout and to one part of the powned Roses take two parts of Sugar and stampe them well together afterwards put this Conserue in a glasse and stop it close the space of thrée moneths in the sun yet stirre them about once euery day with a woodden spatine if so be that you thinke that they will be too hard then set them afterwards in a sellar that they relent somewhat It is here also to be noted that if so be you cannot get the right red Roses then take the Carnation coloured yea also the wild Roses of the which I haue found my selfe that the Conserue it selfe is of very good tast and moreouer very forcible in working This Conserue of Roses hath an especial vertue to strengthen a weake stomacke and to allay all cholericke humors it strengtheneth the braines it quickeneth and strengtheneth the heart it cooleth the heate and all inflammation of the inward parts This Conserue of Roses may well be tempered with Rosewater or Well water and be wrung thorough a cloth and so in all hote agues to comfort the sicke persons with it it moisteneth also the drie toung the throat the breast and the lights and especially that which is new made that which is oldish hath another nature of binding in all scourings and fluxes it swageth the paine and sharpnesse of the same c. The purging Conserue of Roses is made thus Take twelue ounces of Sugar of Roses and temper amongst it at the least half an ounce of small pouned Diagridion This conserue of Roses is also very good in sundrie sicknesses and especially in lingering diseases There is halfe an ounce thereof giuen or at the most thrée quarters of an ounce at once when as the Diagridion hath bene tempered amongst it at the least two moneths before The white Conserue of Roses is made like to the red Some do make all Conserues of Roses with Hony in stead of Sugar but this Conserue is hotter and is seldome vsed There is also Conserues made of Damaske Roses after the foresaid manner which is very pleasant and looseth mildly Conserue of Rosemary §. 34. THis Conserue is very pleasant not onely for Phisicke but the flowers and the herbe is also vsed in the Kitchin with wine and otherwise But as much as concerneth the Conserue the Apothecaries do call it Conserua Anthos and is made thus Take flowers of Rosemary which are to be gathered in the spring and in haruest powne them to pap and to one part of these flowers take three parts of Sugar and powne it very well togther then set it in the Sunne stirring it oftentimes about This Conserue is warme by nature it attenuateth also all tough grosse and flegmatick matter of the inward parts it drieth and strengtheneth the braines it refresheth the heart and maketh it merrie it strengtheneth the mortified naturall heate it expelleth the yellow Iaundise and withstandeth the Dropsie it warmeth and cleanseth the breast it maketh a good breath it driueth out phlegme and strengtheneth digestion it withstandeth all venime that might hurt the heart it taketh away the Chollicke or griping of the belly it causeth one to sweate well whereby it expelleth all bad humors out of the bodie it cleanseth the bloud hunteth away all heauinesse and pensiuenesse and strengtheneth all weaknesse To preserue the rootes of all red Beetes §. 35. YOu are to stew these rootes with a little water when they be mellow then put thereto little péeces of Horsradish and put them in a pot and strew it with Caraway afterwards powre halfe wine and halfe vineger vpon it vntill that they be well couered and then lay some heauie thing vpon them that they may not swim in the same manner may you also prepare all the rootes that serue for Sallads the rootes which are too great are to be cut ouerthwart These and such like rootes are not to be vsed for phisicke but for meate Conserue of Sage §. 36. COnserue of Sage is also made of the flowers like vnto all other it doth strengthen the stomack it openeth all obstructions it consumeth all bad humors of the stomacke it strengtheneth all members and is very good for all diseases of the head which procéede of cold it is good against all Palsies and lamenesse it is also méete for all diseases of the sinewes How Sloes are to be preserued §. 37. TAke very ripe Sloes with their stalks and put thereto two parts of Hony and
not séeth long that they do not breake and get a bad tast They haue the same power as the Barberries The ripe Grapes are to be confected like as we haue written of Peares Of that which commonly keepeth all fruites fresh §. 44. AL that is laid in Honie whether it be Flesh Fruite and Plants or any other thing doth remaine a long time before it spoile therefore haue dead carkasses before time bene powred full of Honie If you haue then any Fruite Fowles Venison or any other such like things that you will kéepe good the space of a yeare or any Plants or Flowers and such like throughout the winter then looke into M. Tristrams water whereof all auncient Phisitions haue had a good opinion The same also do all vitall and golden waters which follow immediatly hereafter The sixt Chapter Of the golden and vitall waters and Elixers of life THese kinds of potions and artificiall waters are ordained most to this end for that they should strengthen the most principall parts of the bodie as the head and the heart to kéepe it from debilitie and swouning especially if the same procéed of cold Thus we will describe some of them whereof there be two which the auncient Phisitions call golden waters for their especiall vertues Take fine Sage seuen ounces Nutmegs Cloues Ginger and Greins of each halfe an ounce Cinnamom péeled Bayberries and Beuercod of each one ounce Spikenard one dragme péeles of Citrons one quarter of an ounce temper them all together grossely beaten then powre two quarts of wine vpon it and so let al together stand the space of fourtéene daies stopped close stirring it well about euery day Afterward distill it in water in an Helme luted well and tight This water doth kéepe all manner of meates by their naturall tast and vertue it expelleth all bad humors of the bodie it maketh all wine cleane and of a good tast if one temper a little amongst it annoynted outwardly vpon one or vsed It is very good for all inward parts as the Stomack the Spléene the Lyuer and the Lights It is also good for all bruses and to annoint the bruses with it In like manner it is good for all falles for all byles and all paines of the head It is good namely at the first against all Dropsies against the Palsey and also against all venime If one haue any thing in the stomacke that he cannot digest then will it be consumed thereby it maketh a good memorie and withstandeth the Leprosie it healeth all scabbines and also all vlcers if one drinke it or lay it vpon them Another Take Lauander flowers Hyssope and Sage of each foure ounces cut them very small Nutmegs Ginger Cinnamom and Cloues of each halfe an ounce Greines two drag beate all small afterwards powre vpon it thrée quarts of the best wine and set it the space of fourtéene daies in the Sunne stopped very close Thus may you vse the first Item take good Malmsey two quarts and stéepe these things ensuing in it being stopt very close and then set it in a dunghill which lyeth in the East the space of thirty daies afterwards distill it as is before said Take fine Sage with the flowers of each halfe an ounce Burrage flowers one ounce one Orange Rue thrée dragmes Rosemarie thrée ounces and a halfe Rosemarie flowers half an ounce the toppes of Marioram gentle foure ounces the flowers of Buglosse thrée quarters of an ounce red Roses two ounces and one quarter Hyssope halfe an ounce Carduus Benedictus halfe an ounce Ireos thrée dragmes Camfere thrée quarters of an ounce prepared Perls halfe a dragme oyle of Spike and liquide Storax of each halfe a dragme powned Cinnamom foure ounces Galingall thrée dragmes long Pepper and Greines of each halfe an ounce Cucubes and Cardamome of each one ounce and a quarter Zeduarie thrée dragmes Ginger one ounce beate this all together grosse Here is to be noted that there will be too little wine and that fréely there may thrée or foure quarts of wine be taken for it Now followeth here a water called the elixer of life and is thus made Take Cinnamom and Cloues of each one ounce and a halfe Nutmegs one ounce red Roses ten handfuls white Roses as many Hyssope two handfuls Lauander flowers seuen handfuls powre vnto it a quart of Malmsey and so let it stand the space of nine daies and distill it afterwards as is said before Now for to distill a common vitall water is thus to be done Take Cinnamom one ounce and a halfe Ginger one ounce Cloues Nutmegs and Greines of each halfe an ounce Lignum Aloes Mastick Mace and long Pepper of each two dragmes Sage sixtéene ounces Cardamome Cucubes and Galingall of each two dragms and a halfe Roses one quarter of an ounce Balme thrée dragmes Citron péels thrée quarters of an ounce Rue Bayberries and Stechas of each halfe an ounce Rosemarie Marioram Lauander and Betony of each thrée quarters of an ounce Spica and Beuercod of each one dragme stéep it in thrée quarts of Malmsey and so let it stand the space of ten daies then distill it like as is taught of the other Some haue also an especiall water which is called Aqua spiritualis for that it strengtheneth much the vitall spirits Take the herb Lauander with the flowers and Liriconfancie of each two ounces Rosemary flowers and Betonie of each thrée dragmes Sage and Marioram gentle of each one ounce Balme halfe an ounce Hyssope Mints the greater Pimpernell Tormentill Rapontica Angelica and Bistorta of each one quarter of an ounce Piony rootes and of Valerian of each one dragme Auence and Iuniper berries of each half an ounce Bayberries and Beuercod of each one drag cut the rootes and powne them grosly The herbs are you to take drie and to cut them small and then put them in a glasse which is narrow aboue afterwards powre fiue pints of the spirit of wine vpon it and stop it tight then set it the space of eight dayes in the Sunne or in another warme place and distill it afterwards as is said in the beginning In all that which is distilled out are you to lay in steepe Ginger and Galingall of each one quarter of an ounce Cloues halfe an ounce Cucubes one quarter of an ounce Cardamome and Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme Greines one scruple Citron peeles one quarter of an ounce Pomegranate péeles halfe a dragme Lignum Aloes and white Mustard séede of each one scruple Saffron halfe a dragme Indie Spica one scruple Annis halfe an ounce Fennell one quarter of an ounce Treacle one ounce Turpentine thrée dragmes prepared red Corall one dragme Manus Christi with Pearls halfe an ounce conserue of Roses one ounce clarified Hony foure ounces then powne it all grosse that is to be powned and so let it stand the space of foure daies in a warme place afterwards you shall distill it and then temper amongst it Muscus and Ambra of
diuers manners and most of all of distilled waters but the commonest and most knowne are to be boiled of Rosewater and Violet water with Sugar as both these in the third part the 12. Chapter and 10. § be described both these Iuleps be very much vsed in hote and drie causes The ninth Chapter For to take spots out of all Clothes FOr to take spots out of all clothes take two parts of Béechen ashes and one part of Lime and make Ley thereof with raine water filter it oftentimes and therewith wash the Spots Item take Argall one handfull thrée Oxe gals Venice sope two ounces Allume halfe an ounce and a pint and a halfe of water séeth it all together vntill that the fourth part be wasted and then wash the spots therewith But aboue all should distilled water of Toadstooles be very good to take all spots out of clothes they may trie that will For to take the spots out of Chamlet and silkes rub it out with Turpentine oyle Spice cakes which be excellent good §. 1. OF fine Hony take a quart clarifie it well and halfe a pint of Malmsey Cloues two ounces and a halfe Ginger two ounces Nutmegs one ounce fine meale or flower fiue pound let the Hony and Malmsey séeth together then knead the Meale in it and make Cakes of it as you desire to haue them then bake them in an Ouen The tenth Chapter Here after follow Confections HEre shall follow now all kind of purging confections which are commended to be vsed in this booke to the end that not onely the bare vnknowne name but also their vertues and operations might be declared therefore we will comprehend them in a short sum and vse the names that are best knowne at the Apothecaries and besides that we will interpret and english their names the best we can Confectio Anacardina §. 1. FIrst of all we will speake of the Anacardina This confection doth sharpen the vnderstanding and the memorie and is also good against all paine of the stomacke which cometh through cold it cleanseth the bloud and maketh good colour it is also called a confection of the Sage men Antidotum Haemagogum §. 2. THis Confection hath her name of the bloud wherein it doth also raigne the which also the Gréeke name doth giue to vnderstand Electuarium de Baccis Lauri §. 3. This is a confection of Bayberries this confection is for the griping and paine of the belly which is caused of wind the vâ—â—â—best medicine that may be deuised and moreouer against all inward maladies which procéed of cold Benedicta laxatiua §. 4. THis confection is called a blessed Laxatiue it is very much vsed and found readie at all Apothecaries it is made of many simples wherefore we omit her description it is very good to purge all tough slimie matter and especially that which lieth in the ioynts as in them which haue the ioynt disease or the gout it cleanseth much and purgeth also slimie matter of the kidneys and of the bladder c. Bezoarctica §. 5. SUch like Confections there are very many prepared in time of the plague for to prouoke sweate of which we haue described one in the sixt part the 16. chap. § 3. Electuarium de Calamintha §. 6. A Confection of the field Mints is described after thrée waies by the Phisitions and when we make it which happeneth seldome it is in forme of Tabulates but that which Galenus describeth is made as followeth Take the séedes of field Mints of Penniroyall of Parsly and Siluermountaine of each one dragme the séedes of Smallage and of Thyme of each one quarter of an ounce the séede of Louage one ounce Pepper thrée ounces make thereof Species You are to take Sugar according as you will make a confection or tabulates and that in such quantitie as thereto belongeth This confection is very good for all them that haue a wambling of their meate for them that haue a bad breath and a bad stomacke and be much plagued with the wind of the stomacke Confection of Cassie after three waies §. 7. HOw highly that the Cassie is commended in Phisicke and especially in hote sicknesses is discouered in many places of this booke and especially in the Introduction where it is also taught how the same is to be driuen through a sieue Secondly there is a confection made thereof to wit Diacassia cum Manna which is to be vsed against the binding of the belly The third is here before in the third Chapter described in the first § where we did discourse of Clisters and in other places moe Electuarium de Castoreo §. 8. THis is the Confection of Beuercod which one findeth very seldome vnlesse it were prepared of purpose for any body Catharticum Imperiale §. 9. THis is as much to say as an imperiall purgation for that especially it is a purger of the head maketh swéet breath and expelleth blacke melancholy and gall out of the stomacke this confection is not common at all Apothecaries Catholicon §. 10. THis Gréeke name is as much to say as vniuersall and the ancient Phisitions haue giuen that name vnto this Confection for that it is meete for all diseases therefore it is also kept prepared at all Apothecaries And because that the same can be made by no housholder therefore we will not set downe her description It is not onely good for all strong diseases but also for all the extreamest sicknesses it allayeth and altereth the same it strengtheneth al them that haue any infirmitie of the Lyuer or in the Spléene it purgeth melancholick cholerick and phlegmaticke humors and is a safe medicine as it is also vsed in many places of this booke Electuarium de Cincribus §. 11. THis Confection of Ashes is hardly to be found readie at any Apothecaries but by reason of her profitablenesse to shew that the ancient Phisitions haue not pretermitted to make it knowne therefore it is described in the third part and hath an especiall vertue in expelling of the stone and of the grauell Electuaria varia de Citonijs §. 12. THere be sundrie Conserues of Quinces or of Marmalade like as you find them before in the fourth Chapter and 32. § Electuarium de Corticibus Aurantiarum §. 13. THe preserued péeles of Oranges doth one find readie all Apothecaries and are good for all paines of the stomacke Electuarium Ducis §. 14. THis Confection was prepared for a Duke and is compounded of many things together wherefore we will not describe the same here for it is found commonly at all well furnished Apothecaries it is also very good for all windy and bad digesting stomackes and against all cold of the inward parts it is also good against all griping of the belly and especially for the stone for which cause it is principally ordained in this our booke of phisicke Electuarium de Epythymo §. 15. THis Confection is very seldome vsed but the flowers and the Thymus is very common in
as much Sugar vnto it as you thinke good If you will vse it for sleepe then pown a little white Poppy séedes and rub that through with the Almonds If you desire that the Almond milke be more cooling then stamp a little Melon séede with it if one will vse it against the fluxe then is the water to be stéeled for the breast be Currans and Licoras to be sodden in it there be also Pingles otherwhiles powned Hasell nuts and such like things with it all according to the qualitie of the maladie And albeit that this Almond milke be vsed for the kitchin yet it is also good for many kinds of infirmities and sicknesses Manus Christi §. 2. HOw these losinges are to be prepared after two manner of sorts with Pearles and also without Pearles that is in the first part the third Chapter and ninth § described and they be very much in vse so that the common people estéeme them onely to be a strengthening of the heart although there are more forcible things prepared for it Marchpane §. 3. TAke good fresh Almonds as many as you please and péele them as we haue taught of Almond milke or if one haue so much leysure lay them a whole night to stéepe in cold water then will the péeles go off afterwards powne them small in a stone mortar and powre a little rose-Rosewater vnto it at last you are to powne amongst it as much Sugar as you please whether it be much or little this dough or past is to be spread on waters But if the dough be too moist then hasten not with baking otherwise will it be full of bladders These Marchpanes be most méetly baked in an ouen the top and bottome couered with a mild fire laying the Marchpane very drie therein and there is laid for the more certaintie a paper beneath vpon the bottome of the pan or ouen Will you haue the Marchpane very white then must you make the fire very slow But if you will make a Marchpane to strengthen one for which it was first of all found out then must you adde Pingles Pistacies and other spices vnto it and also water of Spike of Lauander of Endiue or take any other waters as Cinnamom water and such like The Sugar is also to be sod méetly hard and when it is well clarified then stirre it and mixe afterwards the powned Almonds amongst it For to counterfeit Marrow of bones §. 4. TAke peeled Almonds powne them very small and make them often wet with Rosewater afterwards then temper foure ounces of beaten Sugar amongst it and to the end it may be harder in rolling it put two ounces more of Sugar vnto it and strew that on the outside vpon it then forme it as you thinke good and bake it like Marchpane Medicamen de Turbith §. 5. THe manner to make both these powders and their vertues haue we declared in the third part the 11. Chapter and 20. § Melicraton §. 6. THis do we call in English wine meade whereof the auncient Phisitions do make two sorts for the one they tooke two parts of sowre wine and one part of Hony When this is waxen old then it is nourishing when it is meetly old then it is very requisite for the stomacke and the belly and it expelleth also vrine but after meate it is not very wholesome to be drunken If one will vse the same quickly then must these two things be boyled together Other do take sixe parts of Must and let the same be hot then do they powre a quart of Hony vnto it and when it hath boyled awhile then do they preserue the same This Meluraton is beforetime much more vsuall than now adaies and especially with the Romaines which called the same Vinum Muscum Of Meade a common drinke §. 7. THe Hony water and the Meade are not onely inuented for their vertue but also for necessitie chiefly in such Countreys where no wine groweth or may not be vsed And it is very true that this drinke is more wholesome than sulphured wine for although the Mead be hote by nature yet it is tempered with moisture wherefore it cannot ouerheate nor ouerdrie one And albeit that this Meade may be made according to the fashion of euery Countrey diuersely yet neuerthelesse is this the commonest manner viz. that one take eight quarts of water vnto one quart of Hony and so let it séethe by a gentle fire skumming it so long vntill it begin to be cleare It is also here to be noted that how much longer you thinke to keepe the Meade so much the longer are you to séeth the same When it is cold then put it into a vessell and let it be three fingers emptie to the end it may worke If so be that you desire to haue the same stronger and more forcible then hang these spices following in it viz. Ginger Cinnamom Cloues Galingall Nutmegs and such like and that in waight as we shall write hereafter of the aromaticall wines Some do take also Saffron vnto it not onely for the colour but also for his vertue and for that it yéeldeth a good sauour to the Meade When it hath spurged or wrought then is the same to be letten lye stopped the space of thrée moneths But in case you desire to vse it presently then séeth the same not long and expect not her working but drinke it fréely as soone as it is cold and then the next day make new againe In Liefeland they haue in some places a custome that they hoope their vessels with Iron and so bury the Meade vnder the earth and this will be stronger than any wine but we will permit such Countreys to kéepe their customes If you do desire to make quickly a good Meade then take a good Nutmeg and one ounce of Cinnamom cut small and powre thereon thrée quarts of water then let the third part séeth away and then put vnto it halfe a pound of clarified Hony this being done let it séeth againe together vntill that there remaine about a good quart In old time was this Mead following to be made Take Hony combs wash the same well with lukewarme water and afterwards let it séeth well But if it be not swéet enough then put more hony vnto it and scumme it well afterwards put thereto prepared Coriander halfe a pound Sage and Hops of each one handfull let a third part séeth away and so kéepe it in a firre fat at last hang Valerian Cinnamom Cloues Nutmegs and Mace therein Another sort Take as much skummed honie as you please put the same into a clean leaded pot and powre as much water vnto it as you please then take Sage and Marioram according as you desire it to be strong If you will put any Cinnamom vnto it that is also not amisse then let it séeth together and skumme it well If so be that you desire to haue it browne then take two or thrée spoonfuls of honie and let the same
kept faire and cleane and suffereth no foule flesh to grow in them but healeth them it cureth also all scald heads if the same be washed with it If any one would go to sea then is he to drinke certaine dayes before some of this Wine for that thereby shall he be fréed of the sea sicknesse Moreouer this Wine is an especiall preseruatiue against the Plague and against all venemous ayre if one take a good draught thereof before that such patients be visited it bringeth also sléepe with it and taketh away heauy dreames But by reason the cōmon people haue not alwayes this wine in a readinesse the iuice of Wormwood may be tempered amongst Wine and be vsed in stead of the Wormewood wine This Wine is méete for many moe other diseases like as may be read here and there in this booke Wine of Zeduarie §. 29. TAke in the beginning of winter one barrell and a halfe of Must let it séeth softly like as is described of Elecampane wine afterwards put it into a cleane vessell and then put these spices following vnto it Take good Cinnamome one ounce Zeduary halfe an ounce Cloues one quarter of an ounce Ginger Galingall greines and long pepper of each one dragme poune them all together grosse to the end that when the power of the Zeduary is gone the spices may drie and take out the Zeduary of it and put fresh vnto it if so be that you desire to kéepe this wine long then is the same to be filled vp with decocted wine and not with common wine This wine hath the same efficacie and power with all aromaticall wines and may also be vsed in stéede of them How the infirmities of all Wines are to be amended §. 30. WE are here not to write too largely how all the infirmities of wine are to be amended but are to commend that to the wine sellers by reason that thereof diuers books are written for amendment of all wines doth serue very wel M. Tristrams water which is described in the first part the fift Chapter and 1. § In like maner also all golden and vitall waters which before in the eight part and sixt Chapter are described if there be poured a little of them in wine which is dead or low and stirred well about Item in the moneth of May you are to take a branch of a yong gréene trée shaue off the vppermost rindes and lay them the space of thrée dayes in fresh water afterwards wash them well and then poure fresh water againe vpon them This being done let them lie the space of thrée dayes wash them well againe and then drie them in the shadow If you haue now any wine wich beginneth to be dead then take thrée or foure of these rindes all of a length and bind them to a thred and hang them in the wine it will thereby be very good and cléere There be here and there described diuers sorts of wines which be prepared for sundrie sicknesses and parts of mans bodie viz. for the Head for the Liuer for the Milt for the Heart and for the Raines c. each one may looke for them in their places for which they will vse them Herewith we will in the name of God finish this our Booke of Phisicke and commend the same vnto our most true Father through Iesus Christ our Lord the most true Phisition of all our diseases that he will most graciously extend his blessings ouer it Amen The end of the eight and last part of this Booke The first Table containeth all the names of all diseases accidents and infirmities Also all maner of Compositions Conserues Confections Electuaries Sirupes Iuleps Trociskes Pilles Potions Salues Plaisters Oyles Baulmes Waters and Aromaticall Wines with diuers other things more which are mentioned in this Booke A. ABortus abortion 508 Abricockes how preserued 715 Accidents that may follow after child birth 518 Accidents caused through paine in the hippes 536. Accidents diuers in the Plague 673. 674. c. Aegilops 76 Afterbirth how to expell 516 Afterthrowes how to be eased 517 Agaricus prepared 12 Agaricus vsed ibid. Agues description in generall 622 Ague of one day called Ephemera 623 Ague pestilentiall 668. 673 Ague quotidian 642 Ague quartaine 643 Ague Hepialos 624 Ague Hemitritea 633 Agues wandering 624 Ague Hectica 646 Agues continuall 627. 628 Ague Tertian exquisite 634 Ague Tertian bastard 637 Ague burning called Causon 638 Ague called Synochus 640 Ague Synochus of putrifacted bloud 641 Ague Hectica with an vlcer in the breast 649 Ague Marasmode 646. 651 Ague long lingering 652 Aire conuenient for the sicke of the Plague 679. Alcola and clifts of the tongue 171 Alipta muscata prepared 342 Allume calcined or burnt 8 Almonds confected 710 Almonds swolne 163 Almond milke prepared 739 Aloe how to know it 8 Aloe prepared 8 Ammoniacum prepared 8 Ancome looke Fellon Appetite vnsatiable to meate 38 Appetite lost looke hunger lost 334 Appetite lost in hot Agues 631 Apples preserued 718 Appoplexie 134. 159. 160 Aprecockes preserued looke Abricockes Aqua Iohannis 163 Armes description 519 Armepits description and stench ibid. Arseguts canker looke Canker Arseguts descent or procidencie 302 Arseguts description ibid. Arseguts impostume 304. 314 Arseguts itch looke itch of the Fundament Arseguts paine 304 Arseguts relaxation 303 Arteries description 604 Artificiall Baulme 706. 707 Ascension of the Matrix 489 Asthma pursiuenesse 238 B. BAcke and backe paine 211. 212 Bagge to be vsed in the falling sicknesse 156. Bags to be layed vpon the stomacke 330. 334 Barley water 45. 219 Barley parched in broth 349 Baulme precious to comfort the heart 263 Barrennesse description 295 Barrennesse through cold and moistnesse 298 Barrennesse through dryth 297 Barrennesse through heate 296 Barrennesse through ouermuch fatnesse 297 Barrennesse through superfluitie of blood and obstruction of the termes 299 Bathes so sweating 611 Baulmes prepared 706 Baulmes diuersly prepared 707 Beards description 116 Beards falling out preuented 48. 117 Beards growth procured 117 Beeres description 709 Belching vp of Gall or boyling in the stomacke 369. Bellies paine of all manner 428 Belly bound or obstructed 424 Biles of the Pockes 580 Biles looke Tumors Nodes c. Binding in the body 360 Birth how to aduance 514 Birth vntimely 508 Birth vnnaturall called Mola in the mother 500 How remedied 501 Birth her signes 515 Bladders description 465 Bladder or necke of the bladders infection 473. Bladders necke impostume ibid. Bleeding before and after what ought to be done 23. Bleeding too much how to be preuented 23. 607. Bleeding at the nose 98 Bleeding at the nose remedied 99 Bleeding at the eares looke eares that bleede Bleeding of the gummes looke Gummes that bleede Bleeding of the piles remedied 306. 308 Blindnes looke Eyes that are blind Blisters how to draw them 155 Bloud not to be drawne fasting 23 Bloud in the Leprosie how to be cleansed 588 Blouds nature 605 Bloud when to be drawne 21 Bloud letting signes of the
Herbarists do call it Theriacaria Herba diui Georgij Georgiana Herba diuae Mariae This is commended before the former Valerian if it may be gotten They are hot in the first and dry in the second degrée Venus haire in gréek Trichoman◠Callitrichon Eupteron of Hippocrates Calliphyllon of Apuleius Tricophys Selinophyllon Dyphyes Scholibrochon Amianthon and Adianton although Dioscorides do describe another kind of Adianton to wit Maydenhaire yet notwithstanding is Venus haire the true Adiantum Apuleij in latine Herba Capillaris Barba Herculis and Pinnula of Apuleius Herba crinita Capillus Veneris the Apothecaries call it Polytrichum There are yet two kindes more of it to wit the greater and the lesser Maidenhaire the greater kind is called of the Herbarists Polytrichum aureum Adiantū aureum Capillaris aurea The lesser is called Adiantum aureum minus Some haue taken both these kinds for Polytrichon Apuleij but they erre greatly as doth appeare by the description of it But when thou readest Venus haire in any composition then shalt thou take the common Venus haire Verdigrease in gréeke Chalcou anthos in latine Flos aeris or Aerugo at the Apothecaries Viride aeris Vinum punicum or Vinum Histricum Vinum punicinum Violets in gréeke Ion Ion porphyrion of Theophrastus Ion Melan and Melanion of Dioscorides Dasipodium Priapeion Cybelion in latine Viola purpurea Viola muraria Viola nigra and Setialis of the Herbarists Viola Martia and Viola Quadragesimalis it is also sometimes called only Viola in english a Violet the Apothecaries call it Flos Violae The leaues of the Violets are called Violaria and Mater Violarum There are fiue kinds of them that are all of one the same operation The first kind is common euery where and knowen to all men The second kinde are the white Violets which are verie like to the former but that they be verie white they are set in gardēs notwithstanding that they are foūd in the fields the Herbarists do call it Viola alba and Viola Martia alba The third and fourth kinds are the white and blewe double Violets that growe in gardens The blew double Violets are called Viola multiplex Ion polyphyllon and Viola purpurea multiplex The double white Violets are called Viola alba multiplex The fift kind of Violets are the wilde violets which are like to the tame Violets in euery respect but that the leaues are somewhat lesse and longer and the flowers are of a light or purple blew like the other but without any smell where neuerthelesse all the other kindes are very fragrant The sixt kinde is called Ion agrion Viola syluestris of the Herbarists Viola fatua or Viola canina Viper or Adder in gréeke Echis and Echidna in latine Vipera and of Cicero Excerta the Italians do call it Marassus It is a venemous Snake vnknowen with vs but very common in Italy Virga aurea Solidago saracenica Consolida saracenica Herba fortis and Virga Aurea Vnicorne Vnicornium Cornu Monocerotis Vnripe Grapes in gréeke Omphax in latine Vua immatura and Vua acerba Vulture Vultur and of Plautus Vulturius it is a well knowen rauening bird VV. WAlflowers in gréeke Leucoium Viola lutea Hesperis at the Apothecaries Keyri Keiri and Cheyri Walnut trée in gréeke Caryon Caryon basilicon and of Pollux Caryon Persicon Nux basilica Nux regia Iuglans and Nux Persica There are thrée kindes of it to wit great middle and lesser nuts the lesser may be called stonie nuts because they haue such hard shels The second kinde are the common Walnuts Nuces mediae or Iuglandes mediae The third kind are the biggest and are called Nuces equinae or Iuglandes equinae Watercresse in gréeke and latine Sisymbrium aquaticum Nasturtium aquaticum and Cardamine Water Lentils Lens palustris or Lenticula aquatica Water Lillies in gréeke Nymphaea Rhopalon Heraclion Androgynus of Apuleius Lotometra Madon of Theophrastus Madonias in Latine Clauus Veneris Digitus Veneris Alga palustris Lilium palustre Papauer palustre Claua Herculis Rosa palustris of Apuleius Protea and Mater herculanea The Arabians and Apothecaries doe call it Nenufar or Nenuphar There are fower kinds of it the first kinde groweth in Pondes they are very common and beare a faire white flower knowen to euery man it is called Nymphaea alba of Pliny Nymphaea Heraclia with vs white water Lillies The other kinde is like the former but not so common it beareth a yellow flower and is called of the Herbarists Nymphaea lutea of Dioscorides Nymphon the flowers Blepharon and Blephara with vs yellow water Lillies The third kinde hath small leaues like to Crowfoote flowers and smal white flowers it groweth commonly in swéete and running streames and it is called of the Herbarists Nymphaea minor in English the lesser white water Lillie The fourth kinde is like to the great water Lillie but that it is somewhat lesse it beareth a pretie yellow starry flower it is called of the Herbarists Nymphaea lutea minor we call it the lesser yellow water Lilly Water Torch in gréeke and latine Typha the Herbarists do call it Typha aquatica and Typha palustris to distinguish it from the Turkish Corne and the Ginny wheate both which are also called Typhae whereof shall bee spoken more at large when opportunity shall serue The water Torch is but once mentioned in this whole worke Water Willow in gréeke and latine Lysimachium or Lysimachia Litrum of the Herbarists Salicaria There are thrée kinds of it the first is the common water Willowe which is called the yellow water Willow in latine Lysimachia lutea or Lysimachia melina The second kind groweth in moist places it hath narrow and picked leaues with a pretie purple flower it is called of Pliny Lysimachia for the first kind is Lysimachia Dioscoridis of the Herbarists Lysimachia Pliniana Lysimachia purpurea or Punicea Lysimachia Spicata and Salicaria purpurea in English the purple water Willow The third kinde groweth about the running waters or streames it hath small leaues like to the Willow but a little iagged it beareth a prety small purple flower like to the lesser Roses out of which cōmeth afterwards a little cup which containeth some small séeds It is called of the Herbarists Lysimachia siliquosa and Filius ante patrē in English horned water Willowes that is Salicaria cornuta Salicaria siliquosa and Lysimachia cornuta But if thou finde water Willowes without any addition then shalt thou vnderstand the yellow water Willow or Lysimachia Dioscoridis Waxe in gréeke Ceros in latine Cera Whay Serum Aqua lactis and Aqua Casei Wheasle in gréeke Gale and Spondyle in latin Mustela Wheate in gréeke Pyros in latine Triticum There are three kindes of it the first kinde doe we call Wheat without any addition of Columella Robus of the Simplicists Triticum robum this is the very best in waight and whitenes The second is a kinde of ruffeared Wheate in gréeke Pyros Trimenos
Amomum we may vse Calmus very well in his place Amorgine Perdicium Pellitory of the wall Ampar Ambarum Amber Ampelos vitis the Vine Ampelos agria vitis syluestris a wilde Vine Ampelos leuce vitis alba white Bryony Ampelos melaena vitis nigra black Bryony Ampeloprasum Porrum vineale wilde Léeke Amydum officinarum Starch Amygdalum an Almon. Amygdalus the Almon trée Amygdala amara bitter Almons Amygdalogala Amygdalinum lac Almon-milke Amygdaloides Spurge Amylum Starch Anacardium siue Anacardus a trée growing in India and on the firie mountaines of Sicily so named Anabasis Horse tayle Anagallis Corchorus Theophrasti Sapana Macia Nicteritis Zeliaurus Chickwéede There are thrée sundry kindes of Chickwéede whose leaues are all alike but differ in flower the one hath prettie little purple floures and is called in Gréeke Anagallis phoenice Anagallis punicea Anagallis rubea Anagallis purpurca Paulus Aegineta calleth it Corallium or Corallia this is Chickwéede with the red floure The other is called Anagallis caerulea Anagallis foemina that is Chickwéede with the blew floure The third hath yellow flowers this groweth not about vs except it be set or sowne It is found in the vpper Burgundy in a field betwéene Dolen and Besanson This is called Anagallis lutea Chickwéede with the yellow flower They are all hot and dry and may be vsed in woundes and fractures Anagallis mas Chickwéede with the red flower or Chickwéede male Anagallis foemina Chickwéede with the blew flower or Chickwéede female Anagallis phoenicea Chickwéede with the red flower Anagallis punicea Purpurea the same Anagallis lutea yellow Chickwéede Anactorium Theophrasti wilde flags Anangelos Ruscus Knéehull knéehulme petigre Anastrophe Inuersio ventriculi an inuersion of the stomacke Anasarca Hyposarca the dropsie Anatetamenon Pellitory of the wall Anaxyris Oxalis Sorrell Anasetesis Comfrey Anchmanes Apuleij Dracontium Dragonwort or Dragons Androgynos Apuleij Nymphaea a water Lilly or a water Rose Andrachne Portulaca Purslaine Anesum Anisum Annise Anetum Dill. Anetum caninum Cotula foerida an herbe like Cammomill Anetum syluestre wilde Dill. Anetum tortuosum the same Anetum vrsinum the same Angelica Angelica or Imperiall Angina Inflammatio faucium a swelling in the throate The Angine Anchusa wilde Buglos or Orchanet Animi accidentia troubles of the minde Anisum Anise Anonium a dead nettle Anonium album the white dead nettle or Archangell Anorexia a disease of the stomack Arnium Plantaine Arnoglossa Arnoglossus a kinde of Plantaine Arnachylis Plantaine Anthemis Chamaemelum Cammomill Anthericos the flowers and stalks of Martagon Anthera the yellow séede that is within the Roses Anthracites a gem or precious stone Anthrax Carbunculus a Cole Anthrax Amethystizon Carbunculus lapis a precious stone a Carbuncle Anthora is taken of some for the right Zeduar roote but it is not so Antullia hath no english name it is called in Greeke Anarbo in high Dutch Zuwan Antidotus or Antidotum is Alexipharmacum a medicine against poyson but there are other medicines so likewise named Antidotus Mitridatica Mithridate a medicine like Treacle against poyson Antimelon Mandragora Mandrage Antimonium officinarum a kinde of minerall Antiphthora or Antitora Napellus salutiferus Monks hoode Anthophylâ—us officinarum refuse of Cloues Antora Monks hoode Anthropomorphos Mandrage Anzarot siue Anzarut Arabum Sarcocolla a gum of a trée in Persia like the powder of Incense Apepsia bad digesture of the stomack Aparine Aspergula Cliuers or Goosegras Aphaca Theophrasti a kinde of Cichorie Aphaca Dioscoridis vicia syluestria wilde tares Aphros cicuta Hemlock Aphyllantes Tussilago Fole foote Colts foote or Horse hoofe Apiastrum Melissophyllon Balme Apiastellum Apuleij Bryonia Bryony or the wilde Vine Apium Smallage Apium Alexandrinum stone Parsly Apium Equinum Louage Apium grande called also Smyrnium Apium palustre Paludapium Smallage Apium risus water Crowfoote Apium saxatile the greater Pimpernell Apiophyllon Pyrola wilde Béetes Apoleium Pulegium Pennyroyall Apolegusa Cicuta Hemlock Apolinaris Henbane Apoplecticus one that hath the Palsye Apopleumenum Scammony Apoplexia the Palsye Apostema Abscessus an impostume or byle Appetitus syncopalis appetite with a sowning Appetitus Caninus an immoderate hunger or dogs hunger Apronia Plinij Vitis nigra black Bryony Apseudes Cicuta Hemlock Apyreni Corrans Apyrotus Carbunculus a Carbuncle Aqua aerosa or Aqua aerea water of Copper or that hath the vertues of Copper Aqua exâ—inctionis Argenti water in which siluer hath bin quenched Aqua extinctionis Auri candentis water in the which gold hath bin quenched Aqua casei Chéese-whay Aqua extinctionis Chalybis water in which stéele hath bin quenched Aqua Chalybata steeled water Aqua decoctionis Cinamomi sodden Cinamome water Aqua florum omnium officinarum Aqua stillatitia stercoris vaccini the water of Cow-dung Aqua decoctionis Glycyrrhizae the decoction of Licorise Aqua lactis Milke-whay Aqua marina Sea-water Aqua mulsa Meade or Hony-water Aqua pluuia or Aqua pluuialis Rayne-water Aqua fortis Goldsmiths water Aqua salsa Salt water Aqua saccharata Aqua decoctionis sachari Sugared water or the decoction of Sugar Aqua extinctionis silicum candentium water in the which hot Flint stones haue béene quenched Aqua sulphurea Brimstone water or that hath the vertues of Brimstone in it Aqua vitae in this booke by Aqua vitae are meant the compounded waters or Aquae vitae compositae Aqua vitis Lachryma vitis the water that droppeth out of Vines being cut Aquilegia a Columbine Aquilina the same Arantium an Orange Arbor casta Agnus castus Chaste trée Arbor Iouis Quercus Oke Arbor sapiens Morus the Mulberry trée Arceuthos Iuniperus Iuniper Arceuthis  Arceuthides Baccae Iuniperi Iuniper berries Arceuthites Iuniperinum vinum Iuniper wine Archangelica or Archangelica lutea Archangell with the yellow flower Archangelica alba Lamium album white Archangell Archezostis vitis alba Bryony Arction or Arctium the great Burre Arctotium seu Auricula vrsi Herbariorum Sanicle the great Area Alopecia the fallings off of the haire by the rootes Argentina Herbariorum wilde Tansye Argentum aqueum Quicksiluer Argentum viuum Quicksiluer Argilla Clay Argyritis Lythargyrum Lytharge Aristaltaea Bismalua  Aristolochia longa long Hartwort or Birt-wort Aristolochia rotunda round Hartwort Aristolochia officinarum Hartwort Armoniacum officinarum Armoniack Armala Galeni Ruta syluestris wilde Rue Armoracia Raphanus syluestris wilde or horse-radish Armel Auicennae Ruta syluestris wilde Rue Arnabo Pauli Aeginetae Zurumbetum Seduar Aromaticum gariophyllatum a confection of Cloues so termed Aromaticum Rosatum a confection of Roses Aromatites an aromaticall or spiced wyne Aron Cuccopit priests pintle or wake robin Aronia Athenaei Dragons Arquatus morbus the yellow Iaundise Arsenicum Arsenick or Ratsbane Arectorium  Arthenicum Ratsbane Artecocha Artichock Artemisia Mugwort Arteria arterye or vaine Arteria aspera the winde pipe Arthanita Cyclaminus Panis porcinus Sowes bread or Swines bread Arthetica officinarum Arthritica Cowslips Arthrica alpina HerbarioruÌ„ Sanicle the great Arthritis Morbus articularis the
lyme Carolina Gentian Carota Carotis Parsnep Carotis lutea a yellow Carrot Carotis rubra a red Carrot Carotis syluestris Pastinaca vera a wilde Carrot Carpathon Caprifolium Woodbinde Carpobalsamum Fructus Balsami the fruite of Balsamum But that which is now commonly vsed in the Apothecaries shops is not the fruit of the true Balsamum but it is the séed of Hypericom petraeum which also in the time of Dioscorides was vsed for true séed of Balsamum and the vnskilfull Phisitions as yet vse it for the same in their compositions but indéede with them all is one for so it beare the name onely it is good enough Carphos Fenegreeke Cartamus Cnicus wilde Saffron Cartamus domesticus Saffron Cartamus syluestris wild Saffron Cartilago Chondrus a Cartilage or gristle Carui officinarum Caruwaies Carya Nux auellana a Hasell nut trée Caryon Iuglans a Walnut tree Caryon basilicon Nux regia the same Caryon Indicum Nux Indica an Indian nut Caryon Persicum Nux Persica a Nuâ—trée Caryon Theophr Tithymalus myrtaceus Spurge Caryites Apulei Spurge Caryophyllum Cloues Cariophyllata Auence Caryophyllus flos Carnations and double Gilloflowers Caryophyllus Aruensis Carnations Caryophyllus domesticus Carnations Caryophyllus hortulanus the same Cassamum officinarum Cyclaminus Sowes bread Cassia Cassie Cassia Alexandrina Cassia fistularis Cassie Cassiae flos or Cassiae medulla or Cassia cribrata prepared Cassie Cassia lignea Xylocassia a swéete smelling rinde like Cinnamom Cassia herba Lauendula Lauander Cassuta or Cassyta Bindewéede or Winde Cassia coronata Lauander Castanea a Chestnut Castanea aquatica Tribulus aquaticus water Nuts Castoreum the Beuercod Castrangula Pilewoort the great Catagma Offum fractura a fracture of the bone Catapotium Pillula a Pill or a little ball Catangelus Ruscus Knéeholme Catarrhus a Rheume Catharticum imperiale is a purging medicine so called Cataputia maior Ricinus a trée called Palma Christi Cataputia minor Lathyris Spurge Cataputiae syluestris wilde Spurge Cathaeron Iris Flowerdeluce Catapliris Cicuta Hemlocke Catechomenium the same Cathimia officinarum Cadmia Tuttie Caucasis bastard Parsley Cauda muris Crassula minor Blood strange Caulis a Colewoort Caulis Iouis Housléeke or Sengréene Causon or Causus a hot burning Feuer Ceanothus Theophrasti Gooseberry Ceanothus asper the same Ceanothus leuis Raspes Cedria Theophr the great Iuniper trée Cedromelum malum Citreum a Citron Cedronella Citraria Baume Cedrostis vitis alba Bryony Celidonia officinarum Celandine the greater or Swallowes Celidonia minor Chelidonium minus Pilewoort or Figwoort Celyphos Cochleae domus a Snayles shell Cenchros or Cenchris Milium Mill or Millet Centaurium magnum the greater Centory Centaurium minus the little Centory Centimorbia Centimorbium Herbe two pence Centinodia Polygonum Knotgras Centinodia minor Ruella Knotgras the lesser Centumcapita Eryngium Seaholme or Sea holly Centonica Wormeséede Centumnodia Polygonum Knotgrasse Cepa Crommium an Oinion Cepe the same Cepa Pallacana Plinij Léekes Cepae Africanae Oinions of Africa Cepae Hispanicae Spanish Oinions Cephalaea capitis dolor diuturnus a continuall headach Cephalalgia capitis dolor headache Cepa maris Sea oinion Cephalica the head vaine Cepuli Chebuli a kind of Mirobalans Cera Waxe Cera montana Pisasphaltum a kinde of Lyme or Clay like Pitch Cera terrestris Picibitumen the same Ceraitis Foenum graecum Fenegréeke Cerasa or ceresia Cherries Cerasia amarella or Laurea bitter Cherries Cera Theophrasti or Ceria a certaine drinke Cerasites vinum ex cerasis confectum wine made of Cherries Cerasum a Cherrie Cerasum Iudaeorum or Cerasum terrae a winter Cherry Cerasus a Cherry trée Ceratia and Ceratonia the fruit of the trée Siliqua Ceratum or Cerotum it is called of Galen Cerotum or Cerote This is a plaister made of oyle and waxe and is prepared diuersly Ceratum album Galeni a cold or cooling plaister of Galen Ceratum Sandalinum a salue made of Saunders Cerebrum the braine Cerefolium officinarum Cheruill Cerefolium columbinum Herbariorum fumaria Fumitory Cerefolium Felinum Herbariorum capros Fumitory Cerefolium Hispanicum Chaerephyllon Spanish Cheruill Cerefolium syluestre Pseudomirrhis wilde Cheruill Ceruiocellus Ophioctonum a kind of Parsnep Ceruicornula tenella Harts horne Ceruina radix Siluermountaine Ceruirubus Rubus Idaeus Raspis or Frambois Ceruus volans Escarbot Cerusa or Cerussa PsymmithiuÌ„ Ceruse or white leade Cestrum Betonica Betonie Ceterach or Ceterachum Arabum Scolopendrium Harts toong Chaerephyllon or Chaerefolium Cheruill Chachite Serapionis sea Folefoote Chalcantum Vitriolum Coperas or Vitrioll Chalix Silex a Flint Chalybs or Chalyps Stéele Chalyps the same Chameacte Ebulus Danewoort Bloodwoort or Wallwoort Chamaecissus Haedera terrestris Alehoofe or Harehoofe Chamaecyparissus Heath Cypers or dwarfe Cypers Chamaedaphne Plinij Peruinca Perwinckle Chamaedaphne Dioscoridis Laureola Laurell Lowry or Lorell Chamaedrys aquatica Scordium water Germander Chamaedrys Trissago Germander Chamaeleuce Populago alba Colts hoofe Chamaemelum Cammomill Chamaemelum foetidum Herbariorum Parthenium Feuerfew Maydenweede or Motherwoort Chamaemyrtus Ruscus a prickled shrub of some Butchers broome of others Knéeholme Chamaerhodon a certaine wilde Rose Chamaepitys field Cipers Chamaerops Chamaedrys Germander Chamaeplatanus Spondylium Bearefoote Chamaeleon niger the black Thistle Chamaeleon albus carlina the white or milke Thistle Charabe Succinum Amber Characias Dioscoridis wilde Spurge Chartamus or Cartamus bastard Saffron Chebuli a kind of Mirobalans Cheiri vel Cheyri Leucoium a Walflower Chelidon Hirundo a Swallow Chelidonium minus Pilewoort or Figwoort Chelidonium maius Celandine Chelone Testudo a Tortoise Chelonium herba Cyclaminus Sowes bread Chenanthemum Herbariorum Bellium maius the greater Daisie Chenoglossum Lactuca syluestris wilde Lettice Chenomalacha Malua anserina Goose mallows Chermes Granum tinctorum Couchenill Chermesinum Crimson Cherua Arabum Ricinus Palma Christi  Cheyri Séeke Cheiri Chiliophyllus Supercilium Veneris Yarrow Chiragra the gout in the fingers Chironia Centaurium magnum great Centory Chironios Ampelos vitis chironia Bryony Cholera Cholerica passio is called of Aurelian Felliflua passio that is a great paine in the belly with pricking and shooting and auoiding of Choler both by vomit stoole The vnskilfull Phisitions and others take Cholera for Bilis and ouer all this booke Bilis is taken for Cholera Chondrus Cartilago a gristle Chrysanthemum Goldknap Chryselectrum Electrum aureum yellow Amber Chrysitis Plinij Chrisocome Gold knaps Chrysitis Lithargyrium auri Litharge or burnt Lead Chrysitis gemma Saphyrus aureus a yellow Saphire Chrysocolla Boras Chrysocolla aurifabrorum factitia Boras Chrysocome Amaranthus Galeni Gold knap Chrysolachanum Orage Chrysomela or Chrysonulla yellow Quinces Chrysolithus a kind of Iasper Chrysogonum Tormentilla Tormentill Chrysophorum Dioscoridis Electrum aureum yellow Amber Chyline Cyclaminus Sowes bread Chylus a certaine white iuice that commeth of meate and drinke digested in the stomacke Cicadae Grashoppers Cicer Cich or Cich pease Cicer columbinum Apuleij Tithymalus solisequus Spurge Cicer columbinum Dioscoridis the white Ciche Cicer candidum or album the same Cicerbita Sonchus aspera Sow thistle Cicercula Plinij Lathyrus Cicheling
disease Scrupeum Humorem which is a stonie humour for that the same will in the hands and féete alter into a stone so that the same may at last be taken out without any paine and like as we haue admonished before this disease commeth not onely in the féete but also in the hands which is called by the Grecians Chiragra which is a paine of the hands The causes of this gout are manifold to wit inward and also outward the outward may be caused through great heate which causeth the matter to melt Item through great idlenes or through great labor presently after meate Also through venerie with a full stomacke and that same especially doth cause the Podagra Also the learned do certainely affirme that no man can be plagued with the Podagra so long as he hath not yet vsed the veneriall act Galen doth also confirme the same saying that he neuer knew any man which was infected with the Gout either of the hands or féete before that he hath had to do with women Daintie eating and drinking is also a great cause of the Podagra And that all this is so we will shew an example Plinie writeth that these diseases were very strange and new in Italie in his time for which cause it is named with that outlandish name Podagra But what made them strange at that time and new but that at the same time the Romaines liued very moderately in eating drinking Hippocrates writeth that no Eunuch nor any woman as long as she hath her tearmes can get the Podagra neither yet can be bald Touching which Galen his interpretor saith that the same in the time of Hippocrates was true for that the people in those daies did méetly much labour and did eate and drinke soberly But now he saith that people do lead another life by going idle and rioting for that one doth find now adayes Eunuches which be subiect to the gout without lying with any woman at all which they do get only through their rioting and quaffing And so is it with women which do also spoile themselues through a disordred life that they get their termes very litle or not at all And to the contrarie by measurable labor by moderat eating and drinking yea by hunger and abstinence from wine the Podagra tarrieth away is left behind the which I haue séene by a citizen in my time of Landsborough called Lucas Kesselin who liuing againe according to the pleasure of the world got the Podagra again And when he was best in health then did he ride otherwhiles a horsebacke with two seruants who must lift him vp vpon the horse but when he came in pouertie and dranke no wine and liued hardly then did the Podagra seeke another lodging So that he being past fiftie yeares old was faine to trot vp and downe the countrey with a Pedlars packe on his backe ouer high mountaines for to get his liuing This hath then his originall cause for if there be no superfluous humors fallen downe into those places then would there be no paine nor griefe neither would these defluxions settle themselues in the ioynts if the bodie were not ouercharged with some superfluitie Now the meane to kéepe the bodie frée from all superfluous humors is that the bodie be kept with moderate exercise to the end the meate may be well digested Hereby appeareth now sufficiently that the gout is not caused sooner of any thing in the world than of idlenesse and excessiue riot When as now the Podagra is caused of any inward occasion then doth it happen thereby that one hauing weake legs and feete the matter whether it be bloud Cholera Phlegma or Melancholia each alone or mixed might lightly fall into them whereby it may well be vnderstood that the Podagra can be short long continuing hote or cold It is also sometimes an inheritance of the children from the parents and hath his vertue in both the seedes and is imparted vnto the children so that the goutie fathers and mothers may also ingender goutie children Now may we also write somewhat of the signes which do not onely signifie the goute of the féete or Podagra but also all paine of the ioynts If this disease be caused through bloud then doth it appeare with rednes with great continuall paine and smart the vrine is thicke and red the pulse strong and full and the paine is more in the morning than in the euening And if the patient be by nature full of bloud and sanguine then doth the same paine encrease daily The same happeneth also when the partie is young hath liued easily and if it be in the spring time The signes if the gout procéed of Cholera then is the paine sharpe the place of the paine is yellowish the vrine very red and thin the ordure is also yellow and thin the pulse is swift the heate is great and chiefly on the place of the paine as one may perceiue the same in féeling of it all which doth yéeld more assurance if the patient be young and cholericke of nature and if he haue done great labor before or if the weather be hote he hath taken much hot meat drink If this disease come of Phlegma then is the paine not very great also the part of the paine is not altered of colour the vrine is whitish and thicke the going to stoole is slimie and the bodie in féeling is alwaies cold And this manner of goute is commonly alwaies in bodies which be cold of nature and that in winter time and after a disordered life in eating and drinking In Melancholicke bodies the Gout cometh very seldome wherewith is also great paine the patient will be leane the vrine thin and crude And this happeneth commonly in those bodies which be of a melancholicke nature in the beginning of winter Sometimes this disease procéedeth through wind whereby is a great and excéeding paine the which by windy meates is increased and augmented How the Podagra is to be preuented §. 1. WHen any one doth perceiue and is assured that this his sicknes or disease commeth through heate and that the time be at hand wherein he was wont to be assailed with it then must he before whilest that he is well or in good estate if he will by any kind of meanes be fréed be purged with those medicines which expel Choleram and must refraine wine euen as all Phisitions do aduise and in stead of these vse some thin meade or drinke the decoction of Cinnamom for that meade is not onely good for the Podagra but also requisite for all infirmities of the ioynts But if this gout be caused through hote Cholera then is Barly water rather commended or water wherein Prunes be decocted Item temper fresh well water also with the iuice of Pomgranats This also ensuing may be prepared Take two ounces of Sugar one handfull of Barly Raisins one handfull seeth them together in thrée pints of water vnto the
each one dragme Cucubes one quarter of an ounce prepared Coriander one ounce and a halfe then make thereof round or long Cakes and let them be slowly baked when they be then almost baked then annoint them oftentimes with wine then do they get aboue an orient or pleasant colour The right Sugar cakes be made thus Take a pound of Sugar which is decocted to a sirup and when you haue taken it from the fire then temper amongst it foure ounces of Wheate flowre and about foure ounces of Rie floure and make a past thereof at last put these spices vnto it viz. Ginger two ounces and a halfe Cinnamom two ounces Cloues halfe an ounce Nutmegs long Pepper of each one quarter of an ounce prepared powned Coriander half an ounce Annis also vnbeaten thrée quarters of an ounce and so let them drie together Other which be daily vsed Take Sugar two pound and powre a quart of water vnto it let it séeth together and clarifie it well with whites of Egs when as now the water is sodden to the halfe then kneade amongst it fiue pound of flowre two ounces of Ginger two ounces and a halfe of Cinnamom Nutmegs and Cloues of each one ounce Pepper one dragme and let them drie If you will make them of Hony then take thrée pints of Hony and a quart of water let it séeth and clarifie it then put therewith as is before rehearsed The Bisket cakes be thus made take of the old baked cakes as many as you please and greate them on a grater then put Hony and spices vnto it and then bake them once againe The Noremberger Sugar cakes be made after this manner Take one pound and a halfe of Sugar Cinnamom thrée ounces and a halfe Nutmegs 2. ounces Ginger 3. ounces Cloues and Cardamome of each halfe an ounce cut them but not too grosse and then take thereto one pint of Honie set it on the fire that the Hony may melt and afterwards take the Sugar stirre the same beaten very small amongst it and so let it séeth very softly that it do not burn or run ouer stirring it alwaies well about then mixe therein as much flowre and spice as is néedfull and worke it vpon a table at last make cakes thereof about the waight of sixe ounces worke each a part and bake them afterwards as behooueth Loch Lohot §. 49. THus do the Apothecaries name certaine mild Confections which haue but little difference from other Confections and therefore be they separated from the other that one might know how to aske for them Loch ad Astâ—mâ— that is for a heauie breath this Loch is not much in vse it is good for a heauie wheasing breath for an old cough and it doth cause all tough matter of the Lights to auoid De Cancris of Crabs this Loch is very good in the Consumption De Faâ—fara of Folefoot leaues this Loch is to be vsed as all the rest De Papauere this Loch is somewhat troublesome to be made and is commonly made at all Apothecaries it is good against all coughs and roughnesse of the throate which be cause of a hote defluxion which may be perceiued by the thin and subtill spettle and it maketh the same thicke There be two other Confections mo made of Poppies vnder the name of Diacodion amongst which that is which Mesua describeth and is thus made take gréene Poppie heads that be somewhat withered fiue or sixe in number and faire raine water 10. ounces let them séeth together so that there remaine a third part vnto this colature adde wine and when the two third parts be wasted then put vnto it one ounce and a halfe of good Hony halfe an ounce of soft Acatia Saffron Myrrhe Pomegranat blossomes of each half a drag Trocisci Ramich one quarter of an ounce temper theÌ„ all together as appertaineth but there will be too little Hony therefore must more be taken It is to be noted that this may also be made into losinges they be very good for them that haue any subtill defluxion falling on the brest great coughs and other diseases mo De Passulis of Currans how it is to be prepared and what his vertues are looke in the first part the fift Chapter and 12. § De Pino of Pingles this is to be sought for in the first part the fift Chapter and 6. § which is good for al old coughs for the short breath it causeth all tough fleame of the Lights to auoid De Portulaca of Purslain this is not often vsed by vs but there are two kinds made in Italie which follow herafter take the clarified iuice of Purslain 12. ounces Trocisci of sealed earth and Opium of each one drag Trocisci de Carobe and Dragonbloud of each halfe a dragm burnt Hares haire and Bloudstone of each one scrup white Sugar sixe ounces then séeth it like other Loch This is especiall good against spetting of bloud especially if it be tempered with this confection following take Henbane séed white Poppy séed of each 10. drag red white sealed earth of each fiue drag Conserue of Roses 4. ounces temper them together giue it in the morning euening each time halfe a drag The other Take of the aforesaid thrée quarters of an ounce Philonij Persici 3. drag Trocisci de Carobe one drag and a halfe Species Diatragacanthi frigidi halfe an ounce temper them together with Purslaine water as before De pulmone Vulpis of the Lights of a Foxe how highly the same is to be praised and how the same is to be prepared is to be read in the first part Chap. 5. and § 12. Sanum expertum that is as much to say as healthy and approued viz. for all old coughes and shortnesse of the breath c. De Scilla of Squils how the same is to be prepared and vsed for all old coughes that may you reade in the first part the fift Chapter and 7. § The 11. Chapter WE will discourse in this 11. Chapter of many sundry causes as followeth hereafter Almond milke §. 1. ALmond milke is prepared after many maners and that according to the qualitie of the sicknesse If so be that one will strengthen nature then is the same to be made the stronger and the thicker and one must take the more Almonds and lesse water But this is the common fashion to make it Take Almonds as many as you please put them in hot water and let them stéepe so long therein vntill one can péele them then powre cold water vpon them that through the heate of the water they lose no vertue afterwards powne the péeled Almonds very small and take them in a very cleane cloth powre thrée or foure spoonefuls of faire water vpon it and then with a spoone rub out the strength and so powring only more and more faire water vpon it you are to continue this straining viz. so long as you suppose that there cometh out any whitenes then put