and laide in with pleageants I doe not intend that those pleageants should be verie restringent for so ye might force that blodd to the region of the heart and so suffocate the same as saith Albucrasis Sanguinem reprimere to restraine bloud It is well said of him to restraine or if there be any feare of coniealed or chagulated bloud in the brest Galen exorteth to giue the sicke to drinke much vineger mixt with water commonly called Poscum Signa bure ab auctoribus obseâ—anda traduntur those fignes which of the aucthors are set downe to be obserued Many takens are written of by aucthors namely as for those that are to be marked in the stiuation of the part or of the matter or â—ubstance that comes from thence first whether the hart be in the right or the left side or whether their bloud that issueth forth of the wound be blacke or no or if there come great abundance or whether it be white and thinne or frothie and further it is to be looked into if there bée any difficultly in breathing or whether anie part of the breath doe passe throng it he wounde or no in this the aucthor séemes to imitate Albuerasis Sâ— pinoâ— diebus if in the first dayes If 〈…〉 the parties séemes nothing 〈…〉 and the 〈◊〉 appeare verie 〈…〉 it is an 〈◊〉 that the 〈◊〉 expell his corrupt 〈◊〉 and so 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 of the drest wherevpon groweth a supporated appâ—stâ—… called Empyema Aeganeâ—a in his books vt consumption of the kings handieth this maâ—…er more at large ¶ Of the curing of fistalaes which are woont alwaies to bee left in the woundes of the brest ill healed whereof it commeth to passe that the patientes doe fall into a wasting of the lungs and the feuer Hectica or consumption Cap. ij WE haue found by experience that such hinde of Fistulaes are giuen ouer without all hope of many of but country Surgions and of straungers and these remedies for the sâ—ne which are read of in writers to lebt forly of nond effecâ— And that there hath 〈◊〉 none of these Fistulaes brought to vs this fortie yeeres but that we haue easilie cured them by the helpe of almightie God For many that haue â—…ne diseâ—sed out of â—alin also and Fraunce and from all the pâ—…itâ—es of Spayne haue come vnto vs which through wâ—sids receiued in the 〈◊〉 were now ground into this 〈◊〉 nature of Fistulaes that of the which also great 〈◊〉 continuall 〈…〉 abundance of corrupt 〈◊〉 issue of well out of the wound it selfe as out of thou 〈◊〉 also continuall sewers learnes withall did still accompany them All this affection of the body is cured within festie 〈◊〉 in any manner without any great trouble of the pacient and small trouble to the Surgion and is changed into a verie good health and a strong state of nature both in the coulour of the faâ—e old the good liking of the body to declare the same Neyther let that trouble 〈◊〉 because it is knowen euidently that the natural strenâ—th is almost exhausted and spent through the continuall 〈◊〉 or because that there is some bone of the ribbes corrupted For if that may be conueniently drawen foorth the vlcers witâ—e verie eastly and spoudely restored the flesh being brought ouer the place But if there be no bone corrupted there néedeth no other thing but that that the vlcer bée cured with laying an a blacke plaister or our yellow of â—oonine coulour or with both mixed together The patcieÌ„t himselfe shall cause the same to be oftentimes wiped and by this meanes vlcers are cured but of the inward places this is the order of curing Let the patient which is to be purged of vs drinke of this strope thrée or foure daies in the morning Rec. Sirupi Rosarum ex infusione Millis Rosati Colati ana â„¥ .j. Aquae Scabiosae â„¥ .iij. Missâ— Let these pilles be exhibited Rec. Massae Pillularum Aggregatiuarum et de Agarico ana Ê’ ss Acuantur cuÌ„ diagredij G. iij et pill v. formeÌ„tur Whou he shal be thus purged let this decoction or apozema be made Rec. Polipodij quircinij probe contusi â„¥ .ij. vel iij. Radicum helenij contusarum M.ij. Hysopi capillorum venoris recentium Liqueritiae secundo puluerizati ana M.ij. Folliculorum Sene. p.j. Epithimi â„¥ ss Passularum enucleatarum bene contusarum p.iiij. Let there be made a decoction according to art in xii lib. of water vntill there remaine viii lib. afterward let them he strained with a strong expression to the thing strained let there be added Sachari Rubi lib. ss Mellis Comunis lib.j. Let it boyle a little and skimme it of this being luke warme let there bée drunke euerie morning xii ounces And in the euening as much and when hée hath spent all his decoction he shâ—… purged 〈◊〉 those two pilles defore mentioned But the next day following and afterward he shall vse that kinde of decoction made of that holy wâ—de called Guaâ—aâ—… shaâ—…en wish a 〈…〉 file and so brought vnto pouder Take 〈…〉 of the barke of the 〈◊〉 wood not that which â—…aâ—eâ—h so the wood for the 〈…〉 thereof is drawen 〈◊〉 and exhausted of the verie 〈◊〉 but of that which is parteâ— from she wood and brought 〈◊〉 the newe founde lande df the great Decan â„¥ .x. well podded and fifted with a riddle or line abding therevnto Seâ—…nis Anisi And of Lettice ana p.j. Of Licorize brused â„¥ .ij. And â—et that be put into a poâ— unâ—…sed with nitrum in tée inside containing halfe a Spanish Arroba that is xij li. â— s. with two cuppes of olde white wine of the natural grape which by the measure of the olde Phisitions are viij li. Let there be â—nt therevnto also so much of vsuall water and leâ— them infuse a whole day that is xxiij houres after that leâ— shem bée boyâ—ed with a soft 〈…〉 a thirde part be consumed But at the verie point of the last heate put there to of Roses new or dried p.j. and of Hermodactâ—… in powder desolued in a Morter with some of the same decoction â„¥ .j. And there withall let them beremoued from the fier when they shall haue boyled a little with one boyling And let all stande being close couered vntill if be colde and when they are colde let them be strained and let that which is first powred foorth being pore and without dregges be put in a cleane dessell whereof as often as he eateth any meate be shall drinke certaine cuppes and let the rest be set by sufficiently â—…ained in aâ—other vessell But of this latter drink which is lesse and thicker let the patient drinke euery day xii ounces vi in the morning and vi in the euening And if it be winter let it be warmed if it be Sommer let it bee cold But we meane in the euening the second or iii. houre after noone in the Sommer season But in the Winter in the night season 〈◊〉 thirde or fourth
Allome called Allumen Scissium commonly Allome plome and it hath threds and it may be deuided or clouen a sunder and hath the like vertue to the other and it is burnt thus Take a little stone and sette it on the coles so that the coles touch it not and thereon put the Allom and let it boyle vntill it be dry and waxe verie white then kéepe it in a lether bagge The water of Alom is thus made Take of Allome one part of vineger eight partes séeth them together to the one halfe This auayleth against itching skabbes salt flume c. Of the properties of Verdigrece Cap. 16. VErdigrece est Ca. et sic Hot and dry it is penetratiue and dissolutiue and it pricketh burneth melteth and represseth putrifactioÌ„ therefore an vnguent of waxe oyle Verdigrece is penetratiue dissolutiue vnctiue and liquifactiue and all these repressed and doubled of the wax and oyle added to it For waxe and oyle moysteth much and engendreth putrifaction So they hynder the sharpenesse of the Verdigrece and the Verdigrece doth represse theyr putrifaction and humectation wherefore of those a temperate vnguent is made Of the properties of Arsnicke and Auripigmentum Cap. 17. ARsnicke and Auripigmentum be both one but Arsnicke is not so fayre as Auripigmentum is neuerthelesse both be yellowe but Auripigmentum is greate more shyning and vneasier to grinde but Arsnicke is as it were pouder in respect of the other and is more lighter broken and when it is broken it is like Vermillion within of redde colour which some men take to bée Realger and that is false for Realger is an artificiall confection as Arsnicke sublimed and for certayyne they are not deceaued for they are one in operation but Reagler is redde of coulour and Arsnicke sublimed is white but there is no difference so that we vnderstand them Auripigmentum est ca. fic in iiij Gradu of the which there bée two kyndes yellow and redde Yellowe is dissoluatiue attractiue and mundificatiue and hath in it a vertue putrifactiue by which he putrifieth strong humors comming to a wound or an vlcer that ingender proude or deade fleshe It auayleth in medicines agaynst skabbes tetters white Morphew mingled with blacke sope and because we make mention of Arsnicke sublimed I aduise that no Chirurgion vnlesse he bée expert presume to woorke with Reagler or Arsnicke sublimed for of them are bredde many inconueniences by meanes of theyr violence for they cauterize more woorse then fier If any presume to vse it let it bée in verie small quantitie Auripigmentum is dissiccatiue consumptiue euaporatiue erradicatiue putrifactiue ruptiue and cauteratiue And this lesson learne of me In the beginning of my practise when I knew not the violence of them I put in the pouder of them both in the legges of two men which being done they were almost madde for the payne they sustayned two dayes together and their legges swolne out of measure The thirde day the place where the pouder was put was verie blacke and the patientes were so féeble they were almost deade Then I anoynted their legges with oyle of Roses and Popilion And I fomented the legges with hotte water to euaporate the huâ—…ors contayned in the members and vpon the sore I put rawe Larde cutte thinne with oyle of Roses Vpon hat I put the yolkes of egges spred vpon a cloth to holde on the other thinges and about the fourth daye after the place combust beganne to dissolue in the circumference and to cast foorth matter and the place was vndressed from thrée dayes to thrée dayes Thus I continued the cure in the sayde manner vntill all the mortified shesh fell out Which being remooued the bone of the shinne was bare and the woude most horrible which when I sawe I filled the wounde full of Stuphes cutte small and I put vpon the bare bone the yolke of an egge mingled with Sanguis Veneris and I filled all the wound therewith And so euerye daye repayring it vntill the matter began to cease the sides of the wound beganne to incarnate And when the sides of the wound came to the place of the bone mortified they would goe no further which I séeing I shaued the bone daylie with an instrument thinking to haue engendred flesh vpon the bone and put regeneratiues to it as Licium with Mell RosaruÌ„ Aloes Masticke Myrrhe Sarcacolle Sang. Drac And they profited nothing but neuerthelesse in my ignoraunce still shauing the bone vnder the instrument I perceyued the bone mooued by and downe wherat I meruayled But I perceaud the shauing did no good The I ceased putting nothing in the wound but Licium with Mell Rosarum and the yolke of a raw egge mingled iwth Carpit And so continued from day to day vntill the bone was raised aboue the wound and was more loose When I saw it I put vnder the poynt of a knife and raysed it a little and all the bone start out and redflesh growen vnder if the bone was in length foure inches and in bredth two and verie thicke After the seperation f the bone I cured the wounds with Licium and Mell Rosarum and the yolke of an egge and Puluis sine parie And the patient recouered his going verie well he was a young man and as it fell to the one so was it with the other And this note I put not of Arsnicke so much as the quantitie of a fich pease and the wound that Arsnick made was the bough and bredth of a mans hand Therefore beware of the vsing of Realger and Arsnicke sublimed and especially in the face and legges and sinowie places and bonye and in a mans yarde and in the fundament For vnlesse they haue great resistance they woorke in great extremitie Of the properties of Licinm Cap. 18. LIcium is the ioyce of Caprifolium Mell Pulueris vitae Alb. Ana Misceantur Et. fiat VnguetuÌ„ This â—ureth cancer in the matrix in other inwardmeÌ„bers For it hath vertue to mundifie consolidat comfort and regenerate flesh on bare bones and generally it auaileth in all fretting griefes As Cancer Lupus Fistulae and Nolimetangere And against the Cancer in the mouth it is a present remedy The ioyse of Caprifolium dried in the Sunne poudred auaileth in darke eyes if it be put in them it is called Oculus Lucidus Bright eyes j. But it may be made profitable auailing in chirurgira in this wise Take the ioyse of Caprifolium pressed out by it selfe boyled with as much clarified hony vnto the consuming of the ioyce and kéepe it to your vse This auaileth against the Cancer in the mouth and in the fundament in the matrix and to all cancrouse and fradulent vlcers of the legges If the ioyse for his thicknesse will not easily come foorth as oftâ— it happeneth infuse the leaues in white wine and it may be lightly gotten foorth For ye ought not to wash Caprifolium before the straining and inspecially when ye make Licium for the eyes
terrestris M.j. Bruse them together then take Déere suet or wethers suet or both as much as suffiseth to the quantitie of the hearbes of oyle olife as much as halfe the tallow boyle all together vntill the hearbes goe to the bottome and become blacke afterward let it coole and kéepe it to thy vse This preuayleth about wounds or vlcers where the skin is chafed with heat or where ther is pustles or smal wheâ—ks first foment the place with a spoonge and hott water and after the well drying thereof anoynt it with this vnguent warme This dryeth and siccatrizeth It is good in chappes of the lippes handes féete or any other place comming eyther by winde or fier It is verye good agaynst the Hemâ—roydes Emplaistrum Nerbon Cap. 22. REt Lithargi Aâ— Cerutae PluÌ„b Al. et Ru. ana lib. ss OleuÌ„ Ros libi iiij Cerae lib.j. Aced Fortiss lib.j. Let theÌ„ be finely powdred then take it of the fier putting in your Vineger by little and little then stirre it vntill it bée colde And if you will haue it verie blacke séeth it much If thou will haue it lesse blacke séeth it lesse And when you haue done make it in rolles This is a right good plaister although it be black for any sore legge and especially if it bée enflamed with heate which I haue well prooued Of the properties of Wallworte and the making thereof Cap. 23. EBulus i. Wallworte is an hearbe commonly knowen with vs whose rootes rindes braunches flowers and leaues be profitable in medicines It hath vertue to dissolue and consume Viscous fleume It auayleth against the goute of ioyntes and contraction of sinnowes of handes or féete and it auayleth agaynst swellinges and for bruses the place being fomented with the decoction thereof It strengtheneth the sinowes and ioyntes it auayleth agaynst swelling of the bellie in colde Dropsies If the ioyse bée drunke with honye and Cumyne thou mayest prepare it as Licium to haue in redinesse for restrayning of bloud or otherwise The making of Valence of Scabiose or Matfellon Cap. 24. VAlence of Iacea Albai Stabiofe is thus made Take the ioyce of Seabiose and straine it throughs cloth then take swines greace clensed from the skinnes and beate it in a morter reasonably then put in your iuyce and albour them together vntill the greace become gréene then couer it and let it stand ix dayes then take and labour it as you did before putting foorth the thin water and so let stand for fiue dayes then take newe iuyce and labour it agayne as aforesaide which done let it stande for a fortnight then take and labour it agayne powring foorth the thinne water and this shall you doe vntill it hath purchased a verie gréene coulour then kéepe it to your vse This profiteh against Anthrax it swageth and breaketh it This may you kéepe many yéeres but it is better to renewe it yéerely This note that Iasea Alba is Scabiose but Iacea Nigra is Matfellon The making of Valence of wormewood Cap. 25. TAke the iuyce of wormewood Smallage and Plantaine and with Swynes greace worke them as is saide before which kéepe to your vse This auayleth to all bruses of the legges and shinne bones and to wouÌ„ds made in the Muscles of the armes legges with Arrow or knife and to other woundes for it kéepeth them open and mittigateth all payne and when you wyll vse thereof in woundes put into the wounde first two or thrée droppes of oyle of Roses or Violetts and anoynt all about the wounde with the same oyles then lay vpon the same Valence vpon Stuphs or Lyntes and bynde it competentlie letting it lye so for a naturall day This repelleth swelling and aking and holdeth the wound open and engendreth matter and draweth foorth venum of the wounds delayeth inflamatious with many other good vertues This medicine I loued much and did wish it many good cures which for breuity I leaue to rehearse which the practicioner in proofe shall finde Pilles or pouder of Antioche REc Consolida Ma. et Mi. Buglosse red Colewortes Strawberie leaues Sanicle Tanfie hearbe Robert Auens Rubi Tinctorum of the greater sumitery of Sommer hempe ana M.j. of Orpin red Bréere croppes red Nettles ana p.j. of Sengreene Let these bée brused and made in bales and dryed in the shadow when thou wilt vse it make it in pouder and giue it in Ale or with wine It casteth foorth all filth When you will make the drinke of Antioch take all the foresaide hearbes and séeth them in a gallon of Gascoine wine white vntill halfe be consumed then let them be strained with a strong expression adding thereto as much hony as is of the decoction then let them séeth gently vntil the skomme bée all clensed then take it from the fier and kéepe it to your vse When you will vse it giue thrée spoonefuls of it in the morning and so at night with fiue spoonefulls of luke warme water or water of Fumitorie Bales of Antioch is thus made Take Mouse eare Auence Egrimonie Daysles Veruaine Fumitorie Hempe red Coleworts Bréere croppes of ech like quantitie stampe them verie small then make them as great as an egge and drye them in the Sunne and giue the sicke to drinke thereof Ê’ j in the morning and so much in the euening with wine or cleare Ale and put vpon the wound or sore a red colewort leafe or a bréere leafe and this do vntill the paâ—… be thoroughly whole To drawe out Iron or scales of bones thornes and such like REc Magentis Galbani Serapini Hammoaci Ana. Ê’ j Misce Item Rec. Magnetis Propoleos Terebin Ana. Misce Item Succi apij li.j. Melis li. ss Séeth them together to the thicknesse of an 〈◊〉 putâ—ing therto of wheat or lye flower and pouder of sawe dust li. ss this mundifieth olde wounds and new and draweth foorth broken bones or scales and it is good for womes brests being conuaied vnto the bottom of the wouÌ„d except they be very horryble stinking Then take white wine a quart pouder of sawe dust â„¥ .iii. cropes of Madder â„¥ i. of roche Allum â„¥ ss Séeth them and wash the wounde therewith then dry it with a soft cloth laying thereon the mundificatiue and vppon that this plaister Rec. waxe â„¥ ss Tailowe per Rosin ana â„¥ .i. oyle of Cammomill as much as suffiseth make an emplaister this is one of my secrets Item sower dough and temper it with hony and put thereto misselto of the One 6 partes Hammoniaci 8. parts desolued in water of Femcriicke and a little seces of oyle this emplaister draweth foorth Scales and smal péeces out of a wound as thornes or such like Item the rootes of Ferne clensed from their rindes and stalke and â—oden in white wine and Elder leaues and the hearb Persicana soden in water and beaten with the ferne rootes and the grease of an Hare lay to the wound and the same night the paine shall cease and in the
with water of Plâ—…eine and if the case shall so require purge let hun vse a thinne diet all those dayâ—… as Raisâ—ns Almonds and a little bred costed Apples or the Apples called Pepins which thou mayest giue him raw 〈◊〉 and other meates 〈◊〉 like sortes but giue him water decoct with Barly and put in the decoction Anise and let him drinke after dinner and after supper onely But if the man shal be of a weaker nature he may eate once a day of a Cockrell or a Pullet But the curing of the wound is of this sort First of all Dry stitching let there bée laide thereto plaisters which the next day after they shal be drie and cleaue fast let them be sowed together and at the second you shall vse your flaâ—…a dipt in that our Buâ—…e liquified and put into the orifice which is leâ—t for the purging of the wound laying theron the plaister Basâ—licon 〈…〉 being spred vpon a linen cloth or that plaiâ—ter which is called Gracia Dei. And so let the cure procéede vntill the seuenth or eight day For in this time the concoction clensing and bringing together of the flesh is woont to de finished But when the flesh is brought ouer and the brimmes of the woundes doe conioyne on both sides we remooue the plaisters that which remayneth in the cure wee finish with a plaister of Sinople or the blacke plaister or of Leonine coulour so called or which is best in this kind with like portions of blacke and Leonine mingled together And ye must clense the wound ond plaister tenne or twelue times euerie day according to the quantitie of the matter that is made but the skarre is to bée couered as it is accustomed with the pouder of burnt Atome and dry lintes And when the skinne is nowe perfecte and the skarre abated it shall bée conuenient to comforte the place with the plaister called comfortatiue which is described of Iohn Vigo in hiâ— Autiâ—…rie 〈…〉 doth 〈…〉 this behalfe which thing 〈…〉 in 〈…〉 them all doth not perfoâ—me Therefore in that 〈◊〉 which was haue taught you all woundes as well the small 〈◊〉 also the greâ—… are most casiliâ— cured without much inflamation of the member Neyther is it â—…efull to anoynt the member with oyle of Roses or with any other oyle at all For as I haue sayd there is no cause to feare any ouermuch inflamation But in the beginning ot the cure it shal be expedient to lay therevnto a defensiue of Bâ—…e Aâ—…cke or 〈◊〉 linen cloth wet in vineger adding thereunto a double quantitie of water and when that in dried vp it must be wet agayne If the wound bée made in the sâ—nowie places as are the handes the féete the ioyntes vs the heades of the muskles then is it to be cured in this 〈◊〉 â—ssoone as the gréene wound shall come to â—our 〈◊〉 and ye shall finde that there is too much bloud issue 〈◊〉 of the wounde let bée spred a linen cloch vpon the wines and 〈…〉 your finger let restâ—…nt of the bloud be made so loâ—… vntill it be stayed But if vs perceiue that it hath blâ—d as yet but a little it is profitable that ye let it issue a little more We haue learned that as well by experience as also by c authoritie of 〈…〉 saith he the course of bloud in moderate quantitie is or peâ—ient in vlcers 〈◊〉 by this meanes the member is not inflamed 〈◊〉 Let the woundes after this be set together with néedle and thred but yet so that the néedle â—ée not thrust in déeper then is suffiâ—ient nor yet in much of the shinne taken vp but let them so agrée to that the coâ—…issures may little bée conioyned But if any of the sinewes be cut let theÌ„ be iâ—yned aptly set together but so that they be not fouâ—hed of any neâ—… For ther is danger of most certain grief in the part and also a convulsioÌ„ especally to be feared he shal neuerthelesse be cured nay the member therefore shall lesse escape if the sinewes be sowed And some small orifice is to be left beneth wher you may vse your â—lamula dipt in the white of an egge but vpon the verie stitches let there be layd péeces of linnen cloth dipt in the whites of egges and so bound vp But if it be the hand or the finger some flat thing is to be made fit in such wise that the member it selfe may be left stretched foorth notwithstanding the wound being made in the lower part nedeth not any flat thing or table but the member is so to be ordred that it be suffered to be a little pluckt in the hand halfe closed together For by this meanes the sinewes which are beneath shall more easely ioyne one to another for the hand being stretched on t they neither can be ioyned nor yet made agréeable one with another Furthermore the letting of bloud which shall séeme necessarie is to be procured and the member it selfe because it is subâ—ect to fretting and suffering of griefe bicause the place is full of sinewes is to be prepared with this defensiue Rec. Olei Rosati et Myrthini Ana. â„¥ .ij. Olei Camomillini â„¥ .j. Boli Armoniaci â„¥ .ij. ss et cum cera q. s fiat Em This is to be laide to that it be distant from the wound foure fingers but beneath there is none to be laide too For they which shall lay any to beneth shall erre greatly After this the wound is to be bound vp as we haue taught you That oyntment of Balme shall addresse the second cure a little linnen cloth dipt in the same and put in by the orifice and the whole wound anoâ—…ed with a â—ether with the same Balme liquified And vppon all this a cerote to be put being spred vppon somewhat a broder porcion of linnen cloth in which kinde and also in others we finde this of all others to be a most present remedie Rec. Olei Rosati Violati et Cammomillini Ana. â„¥ .ij. Axungiei Galinaâ—…i Medulle Crunâ—m Vituli Ana. â„¥ .j. Vermium TerestriuÌ„ Vinu Nigro Lotorum â„¥ .ij. Butiri Recentis â„¥ j.ss Mucilaginis Althec lib.j. Let them all boyle together to the consuming of the mucilage then let them be strained adding therevnto Lythargirij Subtiliter Triturati â„¥ .v. Minij â„¥ .vj. et cuma cere alâ—e fiat Eempl cum Terebinthinae â„¥ ij.ss Mastiâ—is â„¥ .j. fiâ—t It is very profitable for all gréene woundes And by this meanes the corrupt matter is best concocted and drawen foorth and the flesh at length agiane without any daunger or displeasure of violent pangs and without all ranckling also of those parts where the wound is made When the wound shal be now sufficientlie mundified and the fleshe well brought againe let there be put to the blacke plaister or the Leonine plaister or both comâ—…ed together which is to be made cleane oftentimes euery daye And by this meanes the skinne is conioyned most easily and also most spéedely
vntill all be drunke vp An order of diet is to be kept at what time the bodie purged and prepared with â—…upes then do we graunt to the pacient at noone Weather 〈◊〉 â—oâ—de and raisons at night But at what time he doâ—… drinke the decoction of Guaiacum and entreth sweate he must lye in his bedde dulâ—e couered and shall eate and suppe with raisons a little bread if his strength be able to â—…ide it But if the 〈…〉 and more delicate then â—e is able to 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 a dyet the pacient may dine with a 〈…〉 without potâ—… but let him sup onely with 〈…〉 By this onely dyer the 〈◊〉 is to be gouerned to the xxx day which pasted ouer hée may eate 〈…〉 a day That is to say at dinner and supper to the 〈◊〉 â—ay more or lesse according to the condition of the dissease Let heede be taken notwithstanding in the meane time that the pacient doe not drinâ—… wine or any order water And if it shal please him when the wether is warme to rise out of his bed let him rise when xx dayes bée passed ouer and two houres after his sweate For thus it shall come to passe that the said order being kept the paâ—ient shal be restored to his â—ealth with a very good temperature of his members and an excellent faire state of body And in like order wée may redute to â—ealth such as bée troubled with the Goute the Paâ—…ey and also the convulcion or Crampe so that we haue this in rememâ—rance that is that the barke of this Lignum sanctum is to be barked off among the Indians because that which is barked with vs is of lesse verâ—…e Likewise the wood which is brought to vs without the barke is not allowed because the strength thereof is exhausted and being dare without the barke is â—oone corrupted and the wood also without hart is not allowed for the same cause Annotations of the xi Chapter When this disease began first the common practicionerse vsed presently for the cure therof vnctions which are made of caustick medicines Being instructed as these learned of the Arabians that those cacoethicall vlcers and such like are cured by such kind of medicines But I truely do thinke it far better to applie such remedies which our later Phisitions THis 〈…〉 to make the â—…doction as méete is For they erre greatly 〈…〉 in lib.iij. of water to the consuming of 〈…〉 â—…thers bid boyle 〈…〉 which thinges in my iudgement eyther the Physitions and not 〈…〉 coÌ„tent with 〈…〉 Who if they 〈…〉 I haue 〈…〉 v. lib. of water to the 〈…〉 By whiche 〈…〉 they get a hot disteÌ„perature of the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 and for that cause doe easilie reuerse into the disease againe For this Rubus is of a hot and drie temperature almost to the third degâ—… which 〈◊〉 it is boyled in to small a quantitie of water and 〈…〉 long a time and the thing so ponderous it doth 〈◊〉 a great deale more And therefore is not so good in the healing of this disease now become so melancholicke But if as we shall declare vnto you it be boyled in a lesser dose and a greater quantitie of water and lesse time they may vse the decoction as well in the euening as in the morning aswell lying as walking without swet or sweating in hot weather or colde so that they abstaine froÌ„ other drinks and be content with that onely at dinner supper And furthermore by this onely order of boyling Rubie it shall easily come to passe that the pacients may be healed with one onely lib. although they be loosed in all their ioynts with lesse cost Without the vs of bisquet bread and without the kéeping of so slender a diet as that is which others doe vse First of all therefore the bodie being prepared with the order aforesaid and purged according to the state of the pacient and qualitie of the disease ye shall giue him the Apozema set foorth in the former chapter and shal be purged the second time also These things being finished he shall begin to drink the Decoction prepared of Rubie Vittigine otherwise called Sarza parille Rec. Rubi parille â„¥ .iij. cut into small péeces and brused Sene. â„¥ ss brused of water lib. xii in a cleane vessel in which let them be soked xxiiii houres And afterward let them be boyled with a soft fier to the consuming of iii. lib. of the water or more at what time put to the same decoction Hermodactilorum tritorum et subactorum â„¥ .j. And mingle it together with the other things couering the pot let them coole being remoued from the fier and let this decoction be giuen to drinke of dinner and supper as ye think best and if thirst shal be great at other times also but in lesse quaÌ„titie When thou wilt make the pocion somewhat stronger boyle againe in a pot full of water that léese of the first decoction which remained after the 〈◊〉 to the consuming of ii lib. And 〈◊〉 the rest of the thingâ— as aforesaid And the other decoctions shal be made in this sort vntill he be perfectly cured Which the pacient shall attaine vnto within the space of xx daies eating the fodde flesh of Mutton or Hen supping alwaies with raisons and drinking the aforesaid decoction Annotations of the xij Chapter Salsa parilla taketh his name of the Spaniards in their natiue tongue of a certaine likenesse it hath with rough Smilax and for as much as it is of the same force and doth resemble the nature of Smilax I can the easelier consent to referre it to some kinde thereoff Mathiolus thought it to be the rootes of Eâ—…us but he doth not constantly affirme it neither is it to be affirmed For as much as the rootes of Ebulus is more thicker as in Dioscorider may apeare Neither was there euer brought vnto vs of so great a â—…nesse The vse of this roote is so common the medicine so vsuall that you may finde the decoction made of this roote as common among the Spaniards as the water or decoction of Licoriâ—… And now men are of opinion that it is not onely of force against the French pox but also doth cure singular well all affects or sicknesses which procéede of colde matter It is brought foorth of new Spaine albeit the kinde of Salsa parma is now refused and ther fort farre better being sould out in the same counâ—…ie which the Spaniards do call Honduras For this kinde is more thick is not so white but more yellowish and is more bright within That is best liked which is newest and not putrified or corrupted and being broken in ones hands is not brittle Our auctor both 〈◊〉 this roole to be hot about the third degrée But Monaâ—… which hath written at large of this matter sayth it 〈◊〉 no 〈◊〉 then to the second â—…grée whose iudgement in my 〈◊〉 iâ— the better For being fasted there is felt no sharpnes at all neither when
farther out somewhat and vpon that part as it is equall with the skinne of the bellie it is to be bounde fast with a sure thred with that knot that is called Suillus or the swines knot or the chifterling knot for it is a very sure knot the which doth not slip at any time but aboue the knot let the zerbe be out off halfe a singers bredth and let the section be cauterized with a hot iron vntill it almost touch the knot and let it be put in againe straight waies and some parte of the string be left hanging foorth but if the Orifice of the wound be somewhat great let it be artifically stitched vp leauing an orifice whereby the ligature may come foorth and the cure finished But of the foure waies whereby writers doe teach how those parts called Mirach Sipach ought to be sowed vp all that is most allowed of vs and by daylye practise and vtilitie most commended that is to say that first Mirach and Siphach being thrust through with the néedle on th one part Mirach onely be thrust through on tother part and let these thrée be fastened with a knot and then let the thrid be cut and of that part where their worke is begun let Mirach onely be thrust through Siphach being left but on the other part Mirach and Siphach being thrust through let the second knot be made and the third stitch and then the fourth and so foorth vntill the worke be finished And so by this meanes Mirach and Siphach are ioyned best together so that neuer afterward the bowells can start foorth any moore vpon that part which thing oftentimes hath bene founde to happen except the cure be done as we haue toulde you When these thinges are thus dulie done the white of eggs well beaten together is to be put thereto neither shall it be néedefull to vse any tent the place whereoff that Ligature wherewith Zirbus is bounde vp together doth supply But the next daye after the wound is to be dressed with a Flammula dipt in that our balme whose force is to concoct to munditie and to bring ouer the flesh Laying thereon the emplaister Basilicon Macistrale or Minium for both those are very good But this is to be confidered both in great wounds and also in small for those that are somewhat narrow must be concocted and digested also as well within as without But it shall not be néedefull to vse either oyle of Roses or any other oyle The third day after or at the farthest the fourth day the Ligature doth slake of his owne accord And if then the corrupcion doe not abound it shal be sufficient to vse one of those emplaisters if there shal be any matter it is to be wiped away oftentimes in the daye and by this meanes the cure shal be dispatched within the xv day but in the very first beginning of the cure it shal be conuenient to let bloud according to the disposition or state of the pacient and to giue him Sirupi Rosarum ex infusione cum Aqua Plantaginis let the order of his diet be sleÌ„der with a little bred but not very much water is to be giuen him the same to be decocted with an hot glowing iron But if besides the wound of the bellie if shall happen any of the bowells to be broken and the same of the smaller forte which are on the right side aboue the nauill all those things which soeuer they be are iudged of all auctors deadly and so for the most parte we must beleue of the which sorâ—e it happened â—ée to haue one onely he therto in â—ure whose small guttes were broken but he dyed the fourth daye but of ohters to whome it happened the greater guts to be perished we haue cured thrée being wounded in the gut called Colon. And the fourth the gut Longanon being hurt Of these one had the gut Colon broken in thrée places yet all of them by Gods help were restored before the tweneith day All these bowells we did soâ—e vp with a needle and thriâ— with that kinde of stiâ—ch which the glouers doe vse I did vse also towards them all that kinde of curing which is deliuered vnto vs by Iohn Vigo which we doe iudge best of all others if a man vse it well and with a pleasant delicate hand We haue therefore folowed all his precepts this onely thing excepted that wee haue giuen no meate and haue vsed the Pocion onely â—este foorth by him for that wée did consider those whome we hadde in cure to be somewhat strong and of a more â—ustie nature and able enough to abide from meate For out of Spaine we would not enterprise to vse so thinne a dyet where both the meates are weaker a great deale and their bodies more delicate And lesse apt either to take much meate or to take none at all But the decoction is of this sort Rec. Pomor citonior muÌ„datoruÌ„ et subtilite incisoruÌ„ N. iiij Caudae equâ—nae lumach myrtillorum Ana. M.iij Rosarum p.ij. Baulastiarum â„¥ ss Lette them be boyled in sixtéene pounde of Raine water to the consuming of a third parte then sette be added therevnto Thuris Masticis Sarcacollae Ana. Ê’ iij Croci ℈ .ij. Then lette them be strained with a strong expression adding thereto Mellis Rosati colati et sirupi Rosati Ana. â„¥ .vj. Tragaganti puluerizati â„¥ ss Sirupi Mirtillorum â„¥ .iiij. Fiat decoctio S.A. This Pocion wée vsed for meate and drinke and also for medicine to consoldiate the inward parts On certaine of those men wheras he nothing else for the space of twelue dayes did notwithstanding easily beare it After these things we did giue the broth of a bird boyled in the same water many times we did alow also to the broth a little cromme or porcion of bread the Italians call it Panatella when we did perceiue it to be néedefull by this meanes we did cure a certaine priest also whiles he was in the Church recaued a wound with a Lance méeting by chaunce certaine men which sought another being their enimie and lying hid in the temple and thought the priest to be the same But the wound was made in the bellie in the vppeer parte on the right side Wée cured two also one hauing his Liuer broken the other his Spléene and a third hauing his bladder broken which dyed the third daye All the rest by Gods help were saued who himselfe is the author and helper of medicine But there séemed to vs a certaine thing worthie which wée should not passe ouer with silence For it maye minister argument and matter to sette foorth the wisedome and mercie of God as all other things doe which haue so great force of nature and so great efficacie to be in his creatures There happened a thing at Guadalupa I my selfe being preseÌ„t in the yéere of our Lord God 1516. And thus it was There came a certaine foolish desire vppon one of the seruants
you shall by your owne discretion make diuers compositions to serue your turne For if of eche of them you mingle equall proporcions then shall your medicine rise of equall strength and facultie betwéene both And looke how much more of the one or of the other you doe mingle together by so much shall your medicine either rise or fall in strength and sharpe facultie For example sake the strongest compositions and therefore fittest for the strongest bodies is this When ye take of the foresaide pouder so prepared â„¥ .ii. and lykewise â„¥ .ii. of Litharge and with â„¥ .ii. of oyle of Roses bring them to an Emplaister Againe the gentlest is this When ye take of the foresaid pouder ounces two and of the Litharge and oyle put to twise as much that is to say foure ounces and a meane betwéene both is when you take two ounces of the pouder and put thereto foure ounces of Litharge and lykewise of oyle of Roses and so of those two well and sufficiently labouned together and wrought into a plaister to make one bodie Now sir If ye stand in doubt which of these it were best to vse in this case the habite and the temperature of the bodie will help well to direct vs. But alwaies the best rule is to begin with the miledest so to encrease by little and little till ye come to the strongest if the case so require Since therefore we cannot apply neither liut not pledget vnto vlcers which be hidden in the inner parts of the body so as we might doe if they were in the skinne and vtter parts and therefore cannot conueniently apply any plaister either therefore that commoditie is supplied by the waxâ— candle for the medicine being put thereon it doth leade it as it were with a line to the place affected But the candell must be something hollowed and pretely pared away in that place where the medicine must be placed Least if it beare out and be not euen and equall it cannot then get through to the place where the Caruncle is Ye may also if you please put the plaister at a leaden instrument in case that the vrinary condit be narrower then that the candle may be admitted Some vse when they canot passe through to the bladder to take the medicine and put it to the top or ende of the candle and so to conuay it in thinking to were away the sore by the continuall touching of it so But séeing that the top of the candell cannot in that order continually cleaue to the sore for that it giueth back and resisteth in my iudgement they doe either no good at all or else very little that way To conclude our chiefest care must be to get the medicine to stick finely to the place For so in fiue or sixe daies it will consume it by little and little and conuert the sore into a certaine mattery substance Prouided alwaies while these things be thus a doing if any intollerable paine or vnaccustomed sheuering or cold or ague or any other greuouse accident do chauÌ„ce to molest and torment the pacient straight waies the candell is to be taken out and the vrinary condit to be washed with Goates milke or Rose water wherein a little Camphere is to be mingled and so long you must ceasse from all other actions of Chirurgery till such time as all such accident and impediments be remoued and taken away to know wheÌ„ the caruncle is spent and consumed You shall know when the Caruncle is fully rooted out partly by the byting which will be about the partes exulcerated and partly by the abundance of the flux of matter with the which the Caldle it selfe when it commeth foorth will in part be be rayed The which if it can once goe in with such ease that with the greater part it can get euen as farre as to the bladder then may you thinke that the Caruncle is not onely rooted out but also vtterly consumed and spent And againe if beside this the partie make his water fréely and abundantly and that also with a straight and direct toorse and stream and if his nature also doe come from him with some spéede and roundlye then without doubt at all the vlcer is consumed The Caruncle being thus spent and consumed the vlcer is then to bée clensed Iniecting this colliry following with a siring of some good reasonable length Rec. Centauri minoris ana M. ss Apij ana M. ss Candae equini ana M. ss Hordei contusi â„¥ j. Aquae lib.ij. Let them be boyled to the consumption of the halfe then being strayned put there vnto Mell Rosarum or els Mell Centaur and so vse it Also the destilled water of snayles gréene leaues into the which is put a little Mel Rosarum is singularly commended to skoure filthie and rotten vlcers in the vrinarie passage and necke of the bladder If the foulenesse of the vlcer be so great that it can scarcely be clensed it shal not bée amisse to vse with those foresaide thinges a little Vnguentum Egiptiacum When the vlcers are become cleane and pure then you may fall to cicatrizing with this receipt following being iniected Rec. Aquarum Plantaginis ana â„¥ .iiij. Rosarum ana â„¥ .iiij. Whey of Gotes milke â„¥ .ij. Cerucae Ê’ vi Allumims to ana Ê’ j ss Alabastri ana Ê’ j ss Spodij ana Ê’ j ss Cristalli ana Ê’ j ss Camphorae ℈ .j. Let those thinges that are to be powdred be brought to verie fine pouder and searsed Then let them bée well and diligently mingled and as it were incorporated with the waters When the Caruncles be gotten away and consumed then must the course of his diet be altered by little and little For then must it be something more thinne and more â—riticall or tending to prouoke vrine then before now especially when there is no fears that such humors as passe vnto the bladder by the medicines vreticall moderatly vsed shall any more stoppe and choke vp the necke thereof which by this time is reasonable wide and cleare from such impediments as might hinder the voyding and passage of such excrementes as resort thether be they neuer so grose and thicke By these few notes and instructions any skilfull Chirurgian may be able to iudge and diserne a caruncle and be also sufficiently instructed by the might and power of GOD to cure the same Who as he is woont to punish mankinde with innumerable diseases to the ende to abate his pride and to make him to know himselfe so is he also accustomed to helpe and succor those who flis vnto him for comfort and doe trust in his mercy There be certaine other waies and deuises belonging to the cure of the caruncle and seruing to the good conueyng in and apt applying their medicines As for example sake some doe vse the long tent othersome the short one made conueniently to that intent and purpose But these and the like deuices I commit to your owne good discretions
the middest with a casour and in the wound I put a cloth dipt in the white of an egge in the morning I remoouing the plaister put in this pouder Rec. Vnidis Eris Vitrioli Auripigmenti Alluminis Missâ— And vpon that this emplaister Rec. Apij Ebuli Artemesiae As is before taught and with this pouder and emplaister he was soone after cured But this note that in making your incision you beware least you cut the vaine Saphena that commeth 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 a great 〈…〉 that the 〈…〉 Of the manner of a full harde cure in swelling of a mans arme Cap. 10. IN the arme of a certaine man began sodenly pricking and aking and both the armes afterwards began greatly to swell from the shoulders vnto the verâ—e â—…gers endes the patient â—singe the 〈◊〉 is of women and their medicines the space of a moneth but 〈…〉 at the last hée 〈◊〉 my 〈…〉 when I â—… was him armes greatly 〈◊〉 with 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 heaking I madely 〈…〉 Tâ—…an ale grounds Malâ—… hony 〈…〉 and théepes fallow boyled together to a thickenessâ—… applyed plaâ—ther wise whereby he founde great â—ate the 〈◊〉 day I 〈◊〉 the plaister and the swelling was well 〈◊〉 But in the bought of the arme all the collection â—…ode 〈◊〉 she wing as it 〈◊〉 gather to a 〈◊〉 which when I 〈◊〉 â— put to a plaister maturatiue of Mallowes 〈…〉 with greace thrée or foure daies 〈◊〉 I saw 〈◊〉 to suppuration neuer the sooner but the swelling abode still and in the bought of the arme the skinne appeared round with diuers coulours to the likenesse of a Tode shewing no token of breaking and in the bottome of that gathering was a hard thing as it were a Nut right vnder the bought vnder Vena Hepatica Which I perceiuing put to doues Dung Léekes â—garlicke and brused them with the ioyce of smallage and salt And in the morning when I remoued it was full of Pustules and it gaue â—…orth a 〈…〉 Then I laide to the place 〈◊〉 oyntment made of blacke sope Brimstone and Arsnicke and the second day I remoued the plaister and the oyntment and the skinne was vtterly broken and there issued foorth of the hol◠〈◊〉 blacke matter then I put aboue the place shauing of lard and aboue that this plaister Rec. Succi Artemesiae Apij Aosmthij Vitica Ebuli Mell. Albuminiâ— Ouorum ana Missâ— And tompeâ— it with 〈◊〉 if you cannot gette all these the ioyce of Apium with 〈◊〉 the white of an egge and meale prusiteth much 〈◊〉 the applying of these the dead flesh began to disseuer and there ranne foorth bloud with water and in the greatest bole appeared tetes of flesh with 〈◊〉 in the skinne And ther to I made this pouder Rec. Veridis eris Vitrioli Auâ—…pigmenti Albo. ana Missâ— And I put euerie second day thereto Pulueris Carpe and vpon that a cloth dipt in Vngurento Fusco or Albi Oruiride the rednesse and the watrie places I anoynted with blacke sope and the pouder of Sulfer and aboue that a drie linen cloth which I let â—ée vntill it fell off then the place began to 〈◊〉 day â—…ally which I 〈◊〉 with the foresaid vnguent vntill the rednesse and watrynesse was vtterly gone and by this meanes I cured the pacient And this nota that this vnguent is profitable to al spots and filths of the skin which yéeldeth foorth water with rednesse for it drieth much and putteth away rednesse in all partes of the body except yâ— eyes But after the putting too of this vnguet of sope sulphere and Arsnicke blacke a little cruit appeared to the thicknes of a seame of a shooe that was hard to depart with the foresaid Coâ—rosiues to the wich I applied an actuall cauteris but the pacient skant féelt it after that I applied lard to cause the escar to fal off then finished the cure Of man that had his legge swollen the which I cured on this wise Cap. 11. THere was a man which has his legge swollen from the knée so the ancle with rednes and great inflamation so that he might not stande I anoynted his legge on ech side and fomented it with the ioyce of Solisequium i. Marigoldes and a little vineger and made it lake warâ—…e dipping a â—…n cloth in the same and wrapt it about his legge and brought hiâ—… to â—…bed and or â—…onâ—ght the payne was eased and within thrâ— dayes he was perfectly 〈◊〉 without any other medicine to the great 〈◊〉 of many Also the 〈◊〉 of Marâ—goldes by it sene or with â—…eger â—…royerâ— greatly Apostumed in womens broathes the Câ—…iter Fâ—lâ—… 〈◊〉 akings repâ—… and 〈◊〉 Of the curing of a man that was smitten on the shinâ—… bone Cap. 12. THere was a man 〈◊〉 on the shine but the 〈◊〉 was not broken but 〈◊〉 the third bay it 〈◊〉 and dâ—gan to grâ—…e him then he went vnto â—… vnsâ—…fall 〈◊〉 there he had in his leggo a greâ—… lounde hole and deepe and full of blacke filth like vnto burnt â—eth So when he come to me I cured him thus 〈◊〉 I washed yâ— place â—… white wine wanded as which was 〈◊〉 yâ— troppes of yâ— herbe â—olwoorâ—s 〈◊〉 of â—…lanten afterward I put to an 〈◊〉 made of Psantâ—… Ruberbe Apij Hony Rye Meaâ—e and whites of egges mingled together or the emplaister Sangiboetas the place being mandisted I put to pouder Creoâ—erobero with the medicine of Arsnicke before taught with the other thinges in the cure of the arme if any Pustles arise on the legge you may vse VnguentuÌ„ Album If any man be smitteÌ„ on any part of the legge violently without wouÌ„ding as it often happeneth either by a horse or a stone or clubbe or such like It is good in the beginning to anointe the place and bringe out the bruâ—…d â—lood thereof and after to applie emplaisters repressinge the paine and swelling Of the manners of Marmolles and the cure of them Cap. 13. THere was a Chanon fell sicke and when he began to recouer the humour descending into his legge and after a while there arose pustles of broune and clayishe coulour Hée put thereto the oyle of Tartar to drie it But it auailed him noihing At length there grewe on the one side of his legge a large orifice and about his anckel thrée or foure small holes to the breadth of a halfe pany and the legge euill couloured as yeloish red from the calfe of his legge to his anckle the skinne casting off certaine wales and when he had vsed diuers medicines and none prauailed then he vsed a blacke plaister made of white and red leads and common oyle of Tartar c. But nothing preuailed so that it came to a Marmolle Which when I sawe I began the cure in this order First I sowed the pacients legges strongly in a cloth of linnon after I washed the begge so sowed with hot water and let it lye so 24 houres keeping it from aire and from colde Then I remoued the cloth and mundified
it letteth much and restrayneth not a little the generation thereof And therefore as I haue saide many that cut Hernies vse the same by and by not once molesting the wound before and besides all this to vse it vpon contusions to fractures and to all sortes of woundes if it be laide to them liquid it is a present remedie so it be applied artificially with conuenient rowling or ligature such as commonly are vsed in ruptures moreouer it helpeth all oedematus tumors and inflamations when the body aboundeth with euill ioyce or else it is of much sence laying the same as soone as may be to the beaten and contused partes and you shall put therto of fresh Henbane which if by reasan either of the time of the yéere or of the place it be not to be hadde then shall ye vse that which hath béene gathered and preserued in the Summer And also the ioyce of Mandnragora mixed with the medicine maketh it the more milder and pleasant And of this liquor or ioyce it shall suffice to temper or mixe â„¥ .i. thereof with a pound of the emplaster being liquified with oyle putting in sometime more and sometime lesse as néede requireth It is also requisite that in such bodies the medicine should be melted with oyle of Roses But vnto such parts as are hurt by a fall or brused with a staffe clubbe or stone although there happen a congelation yet may this medicine euen the beginning commodiously be applyed therevnto being mixed with wine as we haue before taught Which wine must bée left out the third day or at the farthest the fourth day if the part bée voyde of inflamation and then must you liquifie the emplaister with olde Oyle For if the humor be much conâ—ealed and the partes constrayned they may hardly afterward be digested into vapours Moreouer I doe vse this medicine agaynst Herisipelas and chiefely vnto those that be conioyned with inflamations Laying it on at the first melted with oyle of roses which is made ex Olio Omphasini which is gréene or vnripe oyle and without salt for such oyle vnto Herisipelas is most commodious and when it is therewith liquified the ioyce of nightshade or Solatrum is most diligently to be mixed therwith throughly and well wrought in a Morter If that be not to be had ye shall vse the ioyce of PsylliuÌ„ or if it be in sommer the ioyce of Grapes with the ioyce of Purcelane or of fingréene or house leeke for the liquor of sower grapes by it selfe bindeth or restraineth more then is requisite For Herisipelas requireth not so great astriâ—…ion but hurteth for by hardening the skinne it incloseth the heate and hindreh euaporation Moreouer the ioyse of purcelane of it selfe cannot so conueniently be vsed because of the toughnesse and thicknesse of the same and therefore the best way is that you take the ioyse of the sower grapes and commixe it with your ioyse of Purcelane and so bring them into one body or forme and then to straine it out And in like sorte shall ye straine out the ioyse of Singreéene for alone no man can straine foorth any store of ioyce nor of Peneworte But the new fresh ioyse of gréene Mandrage Appls put thereto maketh this medicine the more conuenient For the which if the time of the yéere serue not thou shalt not doubt to vse that which is brought from Candy or some other place Also we haue vsed to temper therewith the ioyse of Henbane and sometime Meconium which is the ioyse of Poppie and it will do well together with the same to put some Glaucium much weaker then these And yet is the oyle of Leâ—tuce easier to be had I meane as well the wilde as the garden Lettâ—ce But lesse effertuous in iooling then these are too ioyces of Poligonum Aurculâ— Muris and such like And yet they doe also coole But more euidenly doth the kinde of Lenticula coole that groweth in fenny places But for waÌ„t of al these you shal mixe therwith vineger water And this medicine must artificially be brought to a cooking qualitie That is by setting them on vessells of excéeding colde water or on â—…e And let your Phenichinum be in like manner cooled and then laye to Herisipelas vntill the vehement heat or burning doe ease But it is euident that those medicines that by an outward cold qualitie doe helpe the affects of Herisipelas must be chaunged and that chiefly when it is an exact Herisipelas without inflamation And after that the same sharpe inflamation is cessed or els if that it were not from the beginnining a perfect Herisipelas But either an Herisipelas ioyned with Flegmon or a Flegmon ioyned with Herisipelas then must be applye therevnto no extreme cold thing But abstaine therefrom 〈◊〉 with the liquid medicine such things as de◠〈◊〉 coole And in this case we vse the musselage of linséedes and the ioyse of Camomill And then afterward we vse onely the melted medicine putting thereto no other thing Now if the Herisipelas shall at time by the force of coâ—ing modicine waxe blew then is the same no longer to be 〈◊〉 And you must abstaine from the mixture not onely of the wine but also of oyle of Roses and all astringent oyles For Phâ—nichinum onely liquified with olde oyle is of sufficieÌ„t force to discusse the matter into vapors which is waxed blowe But then the affected partes must be fomented with warme water and scarified But if it shall séeme 〈…〉 this to doe then it is coÌ„uenient to 〈…〉 foorth with the moist medicine of Phinichini melted wherevnto you must adde wine and the next day you must leave away the wine And if an Herisipelas shall happen vnto vs to be cured which hath béene made cold by vnskilfull Surgions immoderately cooling the same in so â—…ch that it wareth blacke then must we vse both 〈◊〉 and scarification Which if we doe not we pâ—… into the melted mediciâ—… Calâ— Viua But if the pacient be of a tender and delicate constitution we vse to wash the same Also the ioyse of Coâ—iander moâ—…teth much being â—axed with the Ceâ—ote made of Oyle of Roses And therefore to these and such like affects there shall a number of other 〈◊〉 bée shewed in this treatise following Some of like vertue and diuers of more effecte then Phinichinium More ouer against the griâ—feâ— where there is conflixion or flowing of humâ—…s this may well â—e 〈◊〉 of all 〈…〉 And that which hath 〈…〉 then was hâ—…ed for For it happened on a time a 〈◊〉 thigh was nigh the share impostumed by reason of a rawe infâ—…ation all 〈…〉 the oriâ—…ce that the 〈…〉 to the shâ—…e and so foorth of the plâ—… and the fluxe that was setteled in the thigh was eâ—acâ—…ted in continuance of time But there folowed a 〈◊〉 dispâ—sitiâ—… of a Fiâ—…uâ—… vnder the skinne of the whole thigh In so much that wée deâ—ifed to open the 〈◊〉 nigh to 〈◊〉 Whereby the matter might the better be expelled 〈◊〉 and
aforesaide After that mixe with the Axungia of Chalcidis made in fine pouder the third part of a pound that is after the olde writers â„¥ .iiii. and a quart of oyle putting thereto Argenti Spuma lib.iij. as before is said and when they are all brought to one body by strong laboring in a morter put them altogether into a Cauldron and stirre them with a Spatulae of Palme trée wherevnto one bigg bough will suffice that you may vse the massie part of the woode in the manner of a Spatulae for so men call the instrument wherewith they stirre confections and we likewise for the more plainnesse will vse the same tearme Now that which is next to the massie and woody parts of the bough must be cut off and the small and tender branches on ech part proeéeding foorth must be pluct off and the rindes or barke being first pilled away that the scrappes or small chippes put in way with their ioyce straine and colour the medicine You must therefore vse your Spatulae euen foorth with at the beginning But the tender fragmentes of the Palme must be cast in when the medicine is come to the forme of a Cerote for if you put them in at the first the ioyse of them which we would haue to remaine will in the boyling be consumed Moreouer that part of your spatulae where with you stirre the medicine which is strained after it waxeth so dry that it hath no more moisture must be cut off and cast away and the rest which hath yet ioyse therein must serue your turne So long as it retaineth any ioyse therein and this may suffice for your vnderstanding to consider that your spatulae must be gréene and full of sappe For if it be dry it auaileth nothing Let it be therefore in winter cut from the trée the daye before but in Sommer the same day you boyle your medicine Now when your medicine is boyled and come to that perfection that it will not sticke to your handes then vse this emplaister to vlcers that are hard to Cicatrize called in Latin Vlcera Cruenta and also to bloudy wounds being liquified with oyle it helpeth very well inflamations gouts of the féete and paines of the ioyntes inflamations of the shares and Thima burnings kibes fractures of bonnes contusions and finially all affects that are called Rumatick And many that now adayes doe cut Harniaes straight after their handy worke doe vse the saide emplaister Being first prepared with fomentacions and cataplasmes and yet if you will put therein of Chalciteos â„¥ .vj. which after the olde order is halfe a pound the medicine will thereby bée made the more apt for the conglutination of great wounds And of more effect to such as are hard to be Cicatrized There are also in this booke other medicines of the same vertue And yet vnto this medicine being liquified with oyle is more credit to be giuen in Rumatick affects then to them all It is very good as I sayd at all times for them that haue the goute and griefes of the ioynts when their paines are not great then doe they require fomentacion and liquefiyng Cataplasmes in the beginning therefore of these griefes and while they are yet in their augmentacion when you haue liquified this medicine let it coole then scraping it with a Scise power it into a morter power wine theron and that it may the better drinke in the same worke it well with your handes against the morter The wine must be somwhat tarte and of meane age and of substance not thicke but as cléere as may be For such wine by reason that it is of a subtill qualitie perceth the déeper into the body And so long must you power in your wine to the melted medicine and worke it with your handes vntill it be taken in and tempered with the same and that none of the liquor be left vnmixed with the mollified medicine Also if you will mixe your liquors with the medicine while it is yet warme and molten it will be the better Wherefore in the beginning of inslamations the repercussiue vertue must be the stronger But in the augmentacion the same must be deminished and the vertue digestiue must be increased And moreouer when the inflamed tumor commeth to his proper state and vigor the faculties both repercussiue and digestiue must be of equall proporcion vnlesse some vehement paine shall require a linetiue medicine But when the inflamation once declineth you shall augment the vertue digestiue but then shall you mixe no wine with your medicine Furthermore while it melteth if you will haue it more astrictiue you must adde there-vnto Spanish Oyle or Oleum Omphacinum which wée call Crude or vnripe oyle But when you desire to haue both the faculties equall you may liquifie it with swéete oyle which must neither be too new nor to olde But if you desire to haue it digest you may very well take olde oyle And when you melt this emplaister this rule is to be obserued that ye take more plenty of the oyle then of the medicine So that if you take of the oyle li. i that is â„¥ .xii. it will suffice to put therevnto of the medicines â„¥ .x. So that ye may plainely perceaue that how much the more of the medicine this plaster hath so much the more effectuous it is made thereby And looke how much more liqued it is made by melting it with oyle of Roses so much the more mylder and lenetiue it is But it is brought to the forme of a Cerote when vnto li. i of the medicine ye adde of oyle li. ss and after this sort it is profitable vnto inflamations declining And also healpeth better the inflamed tumors of the fundament and straight gut that spring of themselues then any other remedy But then must it be liquified with store of oyle That it may be conuayed in in the forme of a clister Furthermore we often in such cases liquified the same in oyle of Roses putting first vnder the vessell wherein it melteth a kettell with hot watter therein which must stand ouer burning cooles or a cléere flame without smoke And béeing so melted after the same manner of temperature before mencioned so that it haue forme of a soft Cerote it throughly healeth not onely the vlcers of the preuy parts and the fundament but also all others euen to the vlcerated kibes and burninges For it deliuereth them foorthwith froÌ„ inflamations and maketh them pure and filleht them with firme flesh and espcially when there is in the medicine good store of Chalciteos But note that wine must be also mixt with the medicine that shall worke the effect And if you mixe therwith vineger it is good for burning both at the first and also at any time afterward layd therevnto Whether it bée then bliâ—tered or not And it is of the like effecte to those that are skalded with hot water Moreouer if you laye on this medicine before the inflamation begin