I seek in this book is to eschew prolixity and because heerin I would not willingly exceed the bounds of a preface making the porch bigger then the house the world daily produceth a sort of criâ—icks that rather will carp at a fault then amend it and regard more the letter then the Authours intent which indeed were lets sufficient to have staied me from publishing any thing had not the reasons aforesaid mightily importuned me hereto for he that sets forth any thing to the world must frame and fashion it just as Solon did his laws frame them rather to the content and willing observation of the vulgar then to the rule of equity and more to satisfie the opinions and fantasies of men then to serve the time For my owne part I have not heerby sought any vaine glory and praise by shewing the manner of compounding and the nature of medicines which I have done more faithfully and more amply then ever any hath done heertofore in English and this is comfort sufficient to me though the world yield me not their approbation that I have done something whereby others may reape profit And if my book chance to come under the censure of the learned all I demand is that if they cannot afford it their good wills and words let them in like manner adventure themselves to be judged by others as I have heer done and thus Reader I end only craving thy favourable acceptation which will encourage me if not to hazard the like again yet at least to amplifie and enlarge the next impression heerof and also to consecrate all my studies only to thy commodity T. B. A Catalogue of such Authours whose helpe I have used in this worke ALbertus magnus Aristoteles Arnoldus de villa nova Avicen Aelius Bartholomeus Banister Baptista porta Bodinus Bayrus Cardanus Co Celsus Clemens Alexandrinus Cornelius Agrippa Dodoneus Fallopius Fernelius Fuchius Galenus Guydo Hippocrates Iesus filius Hall Ioel. Iohannis Lebot Iohannitius Iohannis Vigo Mesue Parreus Paracelsus Petrus Low Philip Barrow Ptolomeus Rasis Reolanus Trallianus Weckerus And divers old Manuscripts both Greeke Latin and English of sundry approved Authours for Iudgement and Practice Hunc Librum perlegi in quo nihil invenio Med. Arti contrarium IOHANNES FRIER 19. May 1640. Imprimatur IO HANSLEY The Marrow of Physick THE most glorious and great Workeman who excels all Wisedome and is beyond all understanding the most potent wise and mercifull Father who is the uniter of all creatures and by whom they have their being who is the most potent and most excellent being before all things and having no need of any thing but being sufficient in himself and remaining in the most unsearchable closet of his Divinity and out of his aboundant goodnesse willing to bring foorth things thought and determined on from all Eternity did in the beginning create a certain essence of things being as it were scarce fashioned into any shape which by some is called the fountain or head from whence all other things flowed by others an empty plot of earth producing nothing at all by others a Chaos by some the mother of the world the foundation of nature but certainly the first he created was four Simples which are the four Elements of one and the same essence or matter but of divers formes or qualities and these as I will shew heerafter more at large are called Fire Water Earth and Aire and out of these he created all the rest that now are both the things that are above and also those beneath us and that for this reason because the creatures intended to be made might be extracted from a certaine root whereby they might multiply and increase in the world Therefore first of all God created the four elements out of which he afterwards created what he pleased to wit divers natures as the elements are divers for if the elements had been made all of one nature then had all creatures been so likewise Now of this first matter he created the Angels which he made only of Fire not of firm substantiall fire for then it must have been necessary that they had eaten drank and slept but he made them of the most purest and thinnest part of pure thin and simple fire and therfore they neither eat drink nor sleep God created the Sun Moon and Stars of two elements Aire and Fire and therefore are the Angels more bright then either the Sun Moon or Stars because they are created of one and that the most rare element the other of Fire and Aire compounded God made the Heaven of Water and Aire so it is compounded of one rare or light element that is Aire and of another heavy that is Water but he created the Fowls and brute Beasts of three elements and also the Vegitables that is to say of Aire Water and Earth certain are of the Earth and Aire others of Fire Aire and Earth of the last are the Fowls and all things wherin remaineth a spirit of the first are the vegetables but all bruit Beasts are of Earth Aire and Fire but the Vegetables of Earth Water and Aire and they likewise partake of a kind of thin Fire brought in with the Aire and therfore when we say that Fire is in the Vegetables we mean that thin fire that being in the aire is carried by it and with it into them God made Man of the four elements as the most excellent peece of all his workmanship he made him according to his own image naturally according to his similitude spiritually and from hence the Ancients gathered that there were four worlds the first whereof was ultra mundanum which the Divines call Angelical and the Philosophers Intellectuall The next was the Celestiall The third the Sublunar which we inhabit The last was Man in whom all the rest were found whereto the Schoolmen alluding call Man the Microcosmos or lesser World in whom there is a mixture of the four elements a spirit celestiall a vegetable soul and the sence and reason of brute beasts an angelicall minde and finally the whole similitude of God Now as God hath made Man in this excellency so he hath subjected all these things under him and so fitted them to his use that there is no disease can happen to our bodies whereto the earth brings not forth a convenient medicine and from hence sprung the originall of Physick whereof divers have attained to such excellency as that they have been worshipped for Gods therefore for the further instructing of those that shall practice any of these my experiments I have thought it convenient to publish such notes as I have in my Studies gathered from the best Authours that have written concerning the laudable Science of Physicke and the Practice thereof which shall serve as a compendious Introduction to my Booke Physick defined Hippocrates called physicke an addition and a substraction an addition of things necessary and a substraction or taking away of the superfluous Wherein
he includes two principall offices of a Physitian for a disease proceeds either from too much emptinesse or from too much fulnesse The first whereof is cured by adding what is wanting end the latter by taking away that which exceedes Galen calls physicke a science of the healthfull unhealthfull and neuters which are neither well nor can properly be said to be sicke and this is made good three waies as the body as the cause and as the signe that body is counted healthfull that enjoyes his perfect health that cause is healthfull that procures health and is the meanes of preserving it The healthfull signe doth show or indicate the present health the unhealthfull body is affected with a disease which is generated by an unhealthfull cause and the manner and greatnesse of the griefe is showne by the unhealthfull signe a body is said to be neither healthfull nor sicke when it is as it were declining and cannot be said to be perfectly well nor altogether sicke But the more vulgar and common definition of physicke is this Physicke is an art which preserves health in the sound and restores it to the sicke and preserves the neuters that are neither well nor sicke and from hence it is said to be an art of things naturall not naturall and against nature the former were according to the theory these are according to the practique Things naturall doe agree with our nature and are those things whereof our body is compacted and made and are in number seven viz. Elements Temperaments Humours Members Faculties Operations and Spirits Things not naturall are those meane and indifferent things whereby the body is preserved in health and are six in number Aire Meate and Drinke Sleepe and Watching Labour and Rest Fulnesse and Emptinesse or repletion and inanition and perturbations of the minde Things against nature are those that doe destroy our health and are of three sorts A Disease the cause of a Disease and a Symptome Hereby you may understand the two parts of Physicke Theoricke and Practique and by the Theoricke know every disease and the quality thereof and by the Practique to preserve health and cure a disease by the due administration of things not naturall and by removing of those that are against nature Things naturall and which properly belong to the constitution of our body are as I said before in number seven Elements Temperaments Humours Members Faculties Actions Spirits whereto are annexed Sex Colour Composure Time or season Region Vocation of life CHAPTER I. Of Elements An Element what it is AN Element is the most least and simple portion whereof any thing is made and in the destruction thereof is lastly resolved which to say plainely the foure first and simple bodies which accommodate and subject themselves to the generation of all manner of things be the mixture perfect or imperfect Thus Aristotle called the Heaven an Element counting five parts of the world Heaven Fire Aire Water and Earth Of Elements we reckon foure whereof two are grosse and heavy and move downewards as Earth and Water and two are light and strive upwards as Fire and Aire Earth is a simple body whose naturall place is the center of the universe in which it naturally remaines solid and still round as an apple in the middle whereof as the antient Philosopher writes is the pit of hell like as the blacke kernels lyeth in the midst of the apple and at the day of doome when all things shal be renewed then shall this Element be made a thousand fold more transparent and brighter then the Christall or any pretious Stone that they that are in the bitter paines of hell to their encrease of torment shall through it behold the blisfull joyes of heaven which will be more paine to them then all the torments of hell Earth is of nature cold and dry Water is also a simple body whose naturall place is to compas the earth it is light in respect of the earth but heavie in respect of the fire and aire therefore Reolanus saith that the earth holds the lowest part because of it's heavinesse and the fire because it is absolutly light hath the highest place the aire and water because they are as it were equally heavie or light have the middle place water being heavier then the ayre lighter then the earth the nature of water is cold and moist Aire is a simple body whose naturall place is above the Water and under the Fire and is by nature hot and moist Fire is also a simple body whose naturall place is above all the elementary parts because it is a hollow superficies of the Heavens and by its absolute lightnesse striveth upward even to Heaven its nature is hot dry these are so contrary in nature that they cannot be joined without a meane which is a temperament which fals out next to be treated of CHAP. II. Of Temperaments What is a Temperament A Temperament therefore is a concord or mixture of the former disagreeing elements or a mixture of hot cold moist and drie Of these temperaments which are in number nine eight are called distemperate and one temperate The temperate is also devided either to temperature of weight or temperature of justice but we call it not a temperature to weight wherein the elements are mingled by a like heape or weight but where it is exquisitely made temperate by the equall mixture of the foure first qualities wherein no quality exceeds but wherein all equality is included and that as if it were put in a ballance it drawes downe neither to this nor that parte Secundum justitiam A temperament to justice is that which is conveniently temperate to the vse that nature hath appointed and destinated it therefore all those things that have taken from nature a mixture of the elements though unequall yet agreeable to motion and use are called temperaments secundum justitiam as if wee see any living creature that performes the functions of nature aptly and as is ought to doe we say he hath a temperament secundum justitiam according to justice The distemperate temperament is double simple and compound the simple wherin one only quality exceeds the other two contemperate as hot cold moist dry hot in which the heate hath the dominion over the cold the moist and drie being temperate cold in which the cold excels the heate the other two being temperate The compound in which two qualities exceed and this is hot and moist or hot and drie cold and moist or cold and drie for the first qualities may be joyned within themselves six manner of waies but heate cannot be joyned with cold nor moisture with drinesse because they are in themselves contrary neither can they remaine together in one subject Heere may be added the temperatures of the seasons of the yeere which are four Spring Summer Autumn and Winter and are in nature hot cold moist and drie Spring The Spring is the most temperate as being neither too cold and moist
Brasse Marble the Loadstone Chalke Limestone Mettalls and Minerals are Gold Silver Brasse Iron Lead Tinne Steele Brimstone Litharge of Gold and Silver Antimony Cerus Verdigreace Allome Vitrioll Salts of sundry kindes From Water From Fresh water Raine water Spring water River water water Lentile common Flags Water-Lillies and all such creatures as live therein from the salt Water Salt Corrall Shels Sponges and all Sea creatures from Waters mixed of salt and fresh Asphaltum the herbe Androsace c. From the Aire Medicines from the aire are Manna Honey Dew and the like Now all these sorts of Medicines are endued with one or more of the foure faculties The simple quality is either to Heat or Coole Humect or Dry. The compound arising from two joyned qualities either Heates and dries Heates moistens Cooles and dries Cooles moistens The effect of these qualities is distinguished into these orders which we terme degrees that they may resist a disease in the same measure and proportion The first degree doth alter and change somewhat obscurely The second manifestly The third with great efficacy and vehement labour The fourth excessively alters and expells sense by its violence As for an example of Heat warme water is temperate that which is a little hotter is in the first degree of heat if manifestly hot it is in the second degree but if heat more vehemently it may be thought to come to the third but if it scald then it is arrived at the fourth degree of heate Temperate Medicines be such as doe manifestly neither Heate Coole Moisten nor Dry intemperate Medicines are those that are plainly hot or cold 2 The second faculties of Medicines depend upon the first as of heate to rarifie attract open attenuate levigate cleanse on the contrary as of cold to condense repercusse shut up incrassate exasperate constipate of moisture to soften and relaxe of drinesse to harden and stiffen 3 The third faculty of Medicines is to agglutinate fill with flesh to cicatrize asswage paine move or stay Vrine Milke Seed Courses Sweate Vomits and the like The generation of flesh proceeds from two of the faculties drying and cleansing heate only mittigateth paine 4 The fourth faculty of Medicines is that which causeth the Medicine to worke upon one part or humour and not upon another as some purge the head some the stomack some the gutts some phlegme some melancholy and the like CHAP. XXVI The forme of making Medicines Of Clisters Clisters A Clister is a Medicine cast into the bowels by the fundament and is made of Roots Seeds Fruits Flowers flesh of Beasts Oyle Honey and the like the quantity is according to the disposition of the Patient as halfe a pound one pound or three quarters of a pound As for example Take Mallowes Violets Althaea leaves of Willow water Lillies seethe them and put to the decoction Cassia fistula Sugar oyle of Violets and of Roses which profiteth much in Strangury The manner of giving a Glister is thus when it is strained and cooled sufficiently you shall have the pipe ready with a bladder and a corke fitted to the pipe with a thred to pull it out when you have put up the pipe then stop the pipe with the corke and poure the decoction into the bladder and tie the bladder fast and let the Patient put it up into his fundament lying on his bed on his right side and nothing about his belly to gird it then pull out the corke by the thred and with the hand by little and little crush up the Glister and let him retaine it about halfe an houre if he can CHAP. XXVII Of Suppositaries Suppositaries A Suppositary is a certaine long round Medicament which is put into the fundament to provoke the expulsive faculty their forme is round and longish like a waxe Candle and are made of weake things as the rootes of Beets the stalkes of Mallows or of strong purging Powders as Hiera without salt or sharpe as with Scamomy or with Honey as for example boyle Honey untill it waxe thick and hard and make thereof a Suppositary in forme aforesaid and let the Suppositaries be foure five or sixe fingers in length CHAP. XXVIII Of Nodules Nodules A Nodule is made up in the forme of a Filbert or Beane and is used against clefts and swellings in the fundament they are made of gentle Medicines as the yelkes of Eggs with a little Salt and Butter tied-up in Cloth or Wooll and a thred left to draw it out by they are used as Suppositaries are CHAP. XXIX Of Pessaries Pessaries A Pessary is thicker and longer than a Suppositary is appointed for the wombe it is made of Wax or of Cloth or Cotton or of Lint first dipped in an ointment and wound about with silke and a thred hanging thereat that it may be easily drawne forth they are used in all diseases of the wombe and for the stopping of the monthly visits as for example a Pessary against the suffocation of the Mother is made thus R. Benioini Styracis Carioph ana Ê’ i. gal mosch â„¥ ss moschi gr vi Fiat pulvis this being made up with Cotton may be put into the body CHAP. XXX Of Iuleps Iuleps A Iulep differs from a Sirrup only thus a Sirrup is more boiled than a Iulep is and a Iulep is only simple without the permixtion of any other decoction with it also a Iulep is any kinde of Sirrup dissolved in sodden water as the Sirrup of Roses Violets c. CHAP. XXXI Of Pills Pills PIlls are easily made by putting together the ingredients according as you shall finde fitting to the disease and so with some convenient Sirrup as Maidenhaire or with Hydromel or some other Liquor they are formed to the bignesse of a small Pease As for the rest they are so easily made as that I need not prolong my selfe in treating of them these I have only shewed the meaner sort of people and such as I know though they had the simples ready yet could not tell how to compound them as they ought to be Next I shall shew you the making of all kindes of Vnguents Oyles Emplasters Sirrups Electuaries c. which are necessary to be used in any private house And also the nature and effect of every Medicine which many that have published them have neglected to doe and also have failed in the true setting of them downe which might drive the practiser into a great errour Vnguents CHAP. XXXII To make Vnguentum aureum 1 R. Yellow Waxe â„¥ vi good Oyle lib. ii Turpentine â„¥ ii Rosin and Colophoni â„¥ i ss Olibanum Mastick ana â„¥ i. Saffron Ê’ i. make an Vnguent First dissolve the Waxe in the Oyle then put in the rest of the things finely bruised when they are dissolved take it from the fire and put in your Turpentine It doth mildly deterge wounds agglutinate and safely cure them Vnguentum Enulatum 2 R. Roote of Elecampane sod in Vineger and bruised lib. i. Hogs grease
Distill all these together with a little Vrine of a Man childe and a little Frankincense and drop it into the Eyes at Night A Water for a Sore Mouth 8 R. Red Fennell red Sage Daisie rootes Woodbine leaves ana m. i. Roche Allome Ê’ i. English Honey one spoonfull boile them together in a pinte of Water and wash the mouth therewith A precious Water for Sore Legs and for the Canker in the Mouth or any other place 9 R. Of Woodbine leaves Ribwort Plantaine Abinte ana m. i. English Honey purified three spoonfulls Roche Allome a quantity put all these into a quantity of running Water and let it seethe to a Pottle or lesse then keepe the Water in a pure Earthen vessell well glased and wash the Sore therewith twice a day A Water for a Canker 10 R. The Barke of an Elder tree Sorrell Sage ana beate them and straine them and temper the Iuice with White Wine and wash the Sore therewith A Water to take away Pimples or Heate in the Face 11 R. A spoonfull of burnt Allome and put it into a sawcerfull of good white Wine Vinegar and stir it well together and when you goe to bed dip a linnen Cloth in the Vinegar and wet your Face therewith and it will dry up the Wheales and take away Rednesse A Water for to cleare the Face 12 R. Limons n. ii slice them and steepe them in a pinte of Conduite water let them infuse foure or five daies close covered then straine them and dissolve in the Water the quantity of a Hasell Nut of Sublimate some hold a Dram a good proportion finely powdered let the Patient wet a Cloth therein and rub her face every Morning and Evening untill the hewe doe please her you may make the same stronger or weaker as you please A Water for the Morphewe 13 R. White Wine Vinegar q. i. Distill it to a pint then put therein Egges with the shels n. ii râ—d Docke rootes scraped and sliced n. ii three spoonfulls of the flower of Brimstone so let it stand three dayes before you use it you must tye a little Wheat Bran in a Cloth and wash therewith Night and Morning nine daies together Another Water for the same 14 First to bring the Morphewe out R. every Morning fasting the quantity of a Nut of Treacle either in Strawberry or Fumetary water for nine or ten Mornings together Then R. Sulphur vivum â„¥ ss and as much Camphire finely beaten and searced infuse both in a pinte of the strongest white Wine Vinegar shake it twice or thrice for one day then use it to rub the place tainted A Water for heate in the Face and to cleare the Skin 15 R. The Iuice of Limons and therein dissolve common Salt and with a Cloth wet your Face when you goe to bed A Water to preserve the Face young a great while 16 R. Of Sulphur vivum â„¥ i. white Olibanum â„¥ ii Myrrhe â„¥ ii Ambre Ê’ vi make them all into fine powder and put them into one pound of Rosewater and distill them in Balneo Mariae and keepe the Water in a close vessell when you would use it wet a linnen Cloth therein and wash the Face before you goe to bed and in the Morning wash it with Barley water or Spring water The Water of Beane flowers Lillie flowers Water Lillies distilled Milke distilled Water of young Whelpes are good to wash the face and procure it lovely A Water to make the face Smooth and Lovely 17 R. Of Cowes Milk lib. ii Oranges and Limons ana n. iiii of the whitest and purest Sugar and Roche Allome ana â„¥ i. distill them together let the Limons and Oranges be cut into slices and infused in the Milke adding the Sugar and Allome then distill them all in Balneo Mariae and you shall have an excellent Water to wash the Face and about bed time you shall cover your face with clothes dipped therein Another for the same 18 R. Snails gathered in a Vineyard Iuice of Limons the flowers of white Mullaine mixed together in equall proportion with a like quantity of the Liquor contained in the Bladders of Elme leaves distilled all together is very good for the same purpose Also this 19 R. The crummes of white Bread lib. iiii Beane flowers white Roses flowers of water Lillies and Flower de luce ana lib. ii Cowes Milke lib. vi Egges nu viii of the purest Vinegar lib. i. distill them all in an Alimbeck of Glasse and you shall have a most excellent Water to wash your Hands and Face Another 20 R. A live Capon and the Cheese newly made of Goates Milke and Limons n. iiii Egges n. vi Cerus washed in Rose water â„¥ ii Boras â„¥ i. ss Camphire Ê’ ii Water of Beane flowers lib. iiii infuse them all for the space of foure and twenty houres and then distill them in a Limbeck of Glasse Also take Mutton bones severed from the flesh by boiling beate them and boile them in Water and when they are well boiled take them from the fire and when the Water is cold gather the fat that swims upon it and therewith anoint your Face when you goe to bed and wash it in the Morning with the formerly prescribed Water A Water for Rednesse and Pimples in the Face which for the Milky whitenesse is called Virgins Milk 21 R. Litharge of Gold â„¥ ii Cerus and common Salt ana â„¥ ss Vinegar and Plantaine water ana â„¥ ii Camphire Ê’ ss steepe the Litharge and Cerus severally in Vinegar for three houres and the Salt and Camphire in what Water you please and like best for your purpose then Filter them both severally and mixe them so Filtered when as you would use them To make a pretious Water 22 R. Cloves Cinamon ana â„¥ i. Mastick Mace Camphire ana â„¥ ii beate all these to fine Powder and let them stand in sixe spoonfull of good white Wine Vinegar the space of foure and twenty houres then put it into a Pottle of good Rose water and so let it stand two dayes in some warme place then put thereto three quarters of a pound of good hard Sugar and distill it with a gentle fire This Water is pleasant and good for the mouth it preserveth the Gums and scoureth the Pallate and keepeth white the Teeth and free from all corruption it maketh sweet the breath being gargarized in the Mouth wash the Face and Hands therewith and it will cleare the skin and adde much beauty to them and if you sprinkle a toste of wheaten Bread with three or foure drops of this Water and eate it a few Nights together last to bedward it will make the breath very sweet To make Aqua mirabilis 23 R. Galingale Cloves Quibibes Ginger Mellilot Cardemony Maces Nutmegs anaÊ’ i. of the Iuice of Celandine â„¥ viii powder the Spices and mingle them with the Iuice and adde thereto Aqua vitae one pinte and white Wine three pintes then put them all in a Stillatory
of Glasse and let them infuse all Night and in the Morning distill it with an easie fire This Water helpeth much the Lungs and healeth them if they be much wounded or perished it suffereth not the Blood to putrifie so that there shall be no need of Phlebotomy it is good against Phlegme and Melancholy and expelleth Rheume mightily and purgeth the Stomack it comforteth youth in his owne estate and gendreth a good colour and conserveth their Visage and Memory it destroyeth the Palsey of the Liver and Tongue and if the said Water be given to a man or woman labouring towards death one spoonfull relieveth of all Waters artificiall this is counted the best and in the Summer use once a weeke fasting the quantity of a spoonfull and in Winter as much more A Water for a Canker in the Mouth 24 R. The inner barke of an Elder tree and boile it with white wine Vinegar then straine it and put into it a good quantity of Honey and a race of Ginger grated boile them together a pretty while then take a Cloth and wash the Mouth therewith and it will heale the Canker A Water for sore Eyes 25 R. A good handfull of yong red Fennel as much Eyebright Sugar candy the quantity of a Walnut as much white Coperas as a Beane boile all these in a pint of running Water till halfe be consumed in a well leaded Earthen Vessell then straine it and let it settle then put the clearest into a Glasse and drop it into your Eyes as you have need For sore Eyes 26 R. An Egge and roste it hard then cleave it and take out the Yolke and fill the hole with white Coperas and presse it hard in a cleane Cloth and wash your Eyes with the Water A Water for a Webb or Pearle in the Eye 27 R. Strong Eysell or Vinegar and put it in a vessell of Brasse with black Sloes of the hedge Lead and Wormwood and let them stand well covered nine or ten daies then draine out the Water and keep it to your use and when you have occasion put a drop into the corner of the Eye To make Eysell 28 R. A quantity of Beane flower and knead it with Vinegar and bake it then take it out of the Oven and wash it all over with Vinegar and bake it againe doe thus twice or thrice and when it is well soked with Vinegar put it into Wine and it will turne it into Eysell A precious Water for dimnesse of Sight 29 R. Roche Allome and powder it small and put it into a quantity of faire running Water and let it stand an houre to dissolve then put a little Brasse pot into the Earth to the brim and cover it with a cleane linnen Cloth and let the Water with Allome run through the Cloth into the pot and then put to it a little quantity of Quicksilver to a pinte of Water halfe an ounce and alwaies keepe it covered then put another little vessell on the top of the Cloth and make in it a little easie fire with Coales for an houre then put this Water in a Glasse and put away the Quicksilver and with this Water anoint the Eyes A Water for the Humour which falls into the Eyes 30 R. Of red Rose water â„¥ vi white Wine â„¥ vi Eye-bright water â„¥ vi Lapis TutiaeÊ’ iii. Aloes Epaticke Ê’ iii. fine white Sugar powdered Ê’ iiii put all these in a Glass with a narrow mouth and Sun them for one Moneth and shake them once or twice a day make it in the hottest time of the yeare A Drinke to purge away Gravell breeding in the Kidnies 31 R. Greene Parseley white Saxifrage Pairestone hearbe Ashen leaves ana m. i. Eringoe Rootes m. ii sliced and pound beate all together in a Mortar and boile them with sixe Gallons of Ale or Beere wort as Beere and Ale is boiled then worke it as Beere and tunne it up in a vessell to draw out and after it hath stood three or foure dayes drinke a pinte every Morning only if it be too sharpe sweeten it with Sugar A Water to be used in extremity of the Stone when it stoppeth the Water 32 R. The small River fish called a Gudgin wash them cleane and boile them in Water with Parseley Harts tongue browne Fennell and Way-broad leaves till they be all to pieces then straine it upon a Table Napkin held between two men rubbing it up and down upon it till the Iuice be fully out set the Liquor on the fire and put therein a pennyworth of round Pepper two pennyworth of Sugar and a little sweet Butter boile it againe very well and give the Patient to drinke in extremity or take a little thereof Mornings and Evenings if the body be subject to Gravell A Water to destroy any Pearle or Webb or any Blood shotten in the Eyes 33 R. Of Maidenhaire Ground Ivy ana m. i. Archangell flowers a quarter of a handfull wash them and swing them cleane from the water and stampe them small and straine them with a little strong Ale and with a feather drop three or foure drops into the Eye three times a day at Morning Evening and Night A Water for the Stone 34 R. Halfe a Gallon of Milke from the Cow then take Saxifrage Parseley Pellitary of the Wall Mothertime greene Sage Radish rootes ana m. i. steepe them over Night and distill them in the Morning and take hereof vi spoonefulls as much white Wine and the third part of a Nutmeg rosted and drinke it in the Morning fasting Doctor Stevens his Aqua composita 35 R. A Gallon of Gascoigne wine Ginger Galingale Nutmegs Cinamon Cloves Mace and Graines Aniseeds Fennell seeds and Carraway seeds anaÊ’ i. Sage red Mints red Rose leaves Time Pellitary of Spaine Rosemary wilde Time Camomill Lavender ana m. i. beate the Spices small bruise the hearbes letting them stand in the Wine twelve houres then distill them in a Limbeck and keepe the first Water by it self which will be about a pint then take the second Water which is good but not so good as the first This Water comforteth the Vitall spirits and cureth inward diseases engendred of cold and helpeth the Palsey the Contraction of Sinewes it maketh women apt for Conception and killeth Wormes in the body sendeth forth the Stone in the Bladder cureth the cold Cough and Toothache and calefieth a cold Stomack it is good against the Dropsie Stone in the Kidnies stinking Breath and preserveth youth and good colour very long if it be not used too often To procure Beauty and cleanse the Face or Hands 36 R. An olde Capon pluck him and take out his Garbage and make him very cleane within with a dry Cloth but wash him not then fill the body full of the Iuice and Meate of Limons then R. of Fennell m. i. Cloves nu xii bruised Camphire â„¥ i. lay your Camphire in water till it be dissolved then put one spoonfull of Water with all
then put to it foure penniworth of Treacle and a quarter of a pinte of the best Angelica water Take every Morning and Evening halfe a spoonfull at a time for a preservative against infection and if you be infected take two spoonfulls and sweat thereupon A pretious Water for the Stone 52 In May take the hearbe called Ramsins and distill it put unto your Water the same proportion of white Wine and distill them againe together A Water to make the Face and Hands white 53 R. The leaves of Nettles dry them and make thereof Powder and put that Powder in Water and boile it and therewith wash your Face and Hands gather your Nettles in May before the Sun riseth and you may keep them all the yeare A Water for Pimples and heate in the Face 54 R. A spoonfull of burnt Allome put it into a Sawcerfull of white wine Vinegar and stir it well together and at Night when you goe to bed dip a Cloth into it and wet the Sore places A Water to make the Stone slip and to provoke Vrine 55 R. Halfe a pinte of white Wine and boile it and in the boiling put in half an ounce of castle Soape sliced thin when it is dissolved drinke thereof blood-warme For a Pearle or Web or Blood-shotten Eye 56 R. Of Maidenhaire and ground Ivy m. i. Archangel flowers pu i. wash them cleane and swing them dry then stamp them and straine them with a little good Ale and with a feather drop a drop or two into the sore Eye thrice in a day if the Eye be much Blood-shotten take more of the Ivy. A Water for an olde Sore 57 R. Flint stones nu iii. vel iiii burne them to Lime and slake them in Running water then take Allome and doe the like therewith boile them two houres then put thereto Bolearmenick greene Coperas Camphire ana q. s boile them all one houre after they are dissolved and then straine it and put it up To make Aqua coelestis the Celestiall Water 58 Aqua coelestis is of two kindes if you mingle with it as much of the Water called Mother of Balme and distill it againe you have the Treasure of all Medicines First of the Vertues of these two Waters the first Water is of such Vertue that if you put it into a fresh Wound it healeth it in foure and twenty houres so it be not Mortall and it healeth maligne Vlcers Cankers Noli me tangere and olde Wounds within the space of fifteene dayes if you wash it with the said Water every third day and if you put a drop of it upon a Carbuncle it mortifieth the malignity thereof shortly also if you put of the same Water into the Eye that hath lost his sight if not utterly it shall be recovered within eight daies at the uttermost and if a Man drink a drop of it with a little good Wine it breaketh the Stone in the space of two houres in the Reines or Bladder it mollifieth hardened Sinewes if you wash them therewith This Water must be used from November to April and but halfe a spoonfull at once once a weeke It is thus made First you must have a vessell of Glasse a Cubite high or thereabouts and fill it with Aqua vitae made of good Wine and see that it be well luted and then cover it in Horse dung or Doves dung so that it be not too moist nor too hot lest the Glasse breake leave the neck of the Glasse without in the aire this will boile mightily and so let it stand thirty daies then draw out the Glasse and put these things following into the Water and stop the mouth close and so leave it eight daies lastly put the Glasse in Balneo Mariae with Sand setting on a head with a receiver well luted and make a slow fire and gather the first Water whiles it seemeth to drop downe cleare but when it turneth red then change the receiver for this is the second Water which you shall keep in a Glassewell stopped The Spices to be put in are these good Cinamon Cloves Ginger Galingale Nutmegs Zedoary long Pepper and round rootes of Citron Spikenard Lignum Aloes Cubebs Cardamomum Calamus Aromaticus Germander S. Iohns wort Maces white Frankincense round Turmentill Hermodactills the pithe of white Wallwort Iuniper Laurell berries the seed of Mugwort Smalllage Fennell Anise flowers of Basile Rosemary Sage leaves Margerome Mints Penniroyall Sticados flowers of Elder red Roses and white Rue Scabious Lunary Centaury the lesser Egrimony Fumitary Pimpernell Dandelion Eufrage Maidenhaire Endive seeds of Sorrell yellow Sanders Aloes Epatich ana â„¥ ii Ambrosine fine Rubarb ana â„¥ ii dry Figs Raisons Dates without stones sweete Almonds Pine kernels ana â„¥ i. Aqua vitae made with good Wine to the quantity of them all and foure times as much Sugar as they be all of white Honey lib. ii then put to the underwritten Rootes of Gentian flowers of Rosemary Nigella that growes in the Corne Bryony roote of the hearbe called Panis Porcinus Hogs bread seed of Wormwood anaÊ’ ss before you distill the Water you must quench in it a hot plate of Gold oftentimes and put to it Orientall pearles which must lye covered with Water else they lose their colour and so distill it Cataplasmes or Poultisses CHAP. XXXVII An excellent Cataplasme for any Swelling Apostume rankling Wound or broken Bone R. Of new Milke one pinte seethe in it untill it be thicke the crums of fine white bread then take it from the fire and put into it the white of an Egge and one spoonfull of Sallet Oyle first well beaten together and stir it well and lay it to the place as hot as can be suffered it will serve twice A Poultis for a sore Breast 2 R. Of Neats foot Oyle pi i. of Marigold leaves m. i. make it thicke with wheaten Bread and put into it a little Saffron and boile it to a Poultis A Poultis for a sore Throate 3 R. A Swallowes nest and boile it in Water to a Poultis and binde it to the Neck and Throate as hot as you can A Poultis for any Swelling that comes of a hot cause 4 R. A Lapfull of wilde Mallowes boile them in running Water untill they be tender then swing them in a Cloth and chop them small then take a penniworth of sweete Butter and the crums of Manchet and put the Mallowes and all into a quart of Milke and boile it untill it be thicke and lay it to the griefe as hot as can be suffâ—red A Poultis to be applyed to the bottome of the Belly to breake Winde and move Vrine 5 R. Figs and the herbe Grownsell ana m. i. boile them in running Water to a Poultis Another for the same 6 R. The dung of a Ston'd horse boiled in white Wine to a Poultis and applyed to the bottome of the Belly Another 7 R. Hemlock boile it in a sufficient quantity of fresh Butter and lay it to
purely Vesalius his Balsame 5 R. Of the best Turpentine lib. 1. Oyle of Bay â„¥ iiii Galbanum â„¥ iii. Gumme Elemi â„¥ iiii ss Frankincense Myrrhe Gumme of Iop great Centory wood of Aloes ana â„¥ iii. Galingale Cloves Comfrey Cinamon Nutmegs Zedoary Ginger white Ditanie ana â„¥ i. Oyle of Earth-wormes â„¥ ii Aqua vitae lib. vi beate all these small and infuse them three daies in Aqua vitae then distill them in a Retort of such largenesse that three parts thereof may remaine empty then place the Retort in an earthen Pan filled with sifted Ashes and set it upon the Fornace and to the neck thereof fit and closely lute a Receiver Lastly kindle under it a soft fire at the first from hence will flow three Liquors the first waterish and cleare the other thinne and of a pure golden colour the third of the colour of a Carbuncle which is the true Balsame the first Liquor cuts flegme and discusses Flatulencies is good against the weaknesse of the Stomack comming of a cold cause the second helps hot and fresh bleeding Wounds the third is chiefly effectuall against these same affects Fallopius his Balsame 6 R. Of cleere Turpentine lib. ii Linseed Oyle lib. i. Rosin of the Pine â„¥ vi Frankincense Myrrhe Aloes Masticke Sarcocoll Mace Wood of Aloes ana â„¥ ii Saffron â„¥ ss let them be put in a Glasse retort set in Ashes and so distilled there will come forth a cleere Water and presently after a reddish Oyle most profitable for Wounds A very good Balme 7 R. Of Turpentine lib. i. ss Galbanum â„¥ ii Aloes Cicatrine Masticke Cloves Galingale Cinamon Nutmegs Cubebs ana â„¥ i. Gumme of Iop â„¥ ss beat them all and mixe them together and distill them in a Glasse with a slow fire first and receive the first Water severally by it selfe then encrease the fire and you shall have a Water more reddish then encrease your fire and you shall have a red Oyle your Receiver must be thrice changed This Oyle hath all the vertues of true Balme for it burneth in the Water and curdeth Milke the first Liquor is called the Water of Balme the second Oyle of Balme the third Balme Artificiall the first is good against the running of the Eares if two drops Morning and Evening be put into them dropt into the Eyes it helpeth the Blearednesse and consumeth the Teares it is good to wash the mouth against the Toothache and Wormes in the Teeth the third Liquor is good against Venome and poyson if two or three drops be laid upon it and if you inclose any venemous thing within a Circle made herewith the Creature will rather die then come out it is good against Impostumes Fistulaes and Noli me tangere and all cold Flegmaticke humours if a cloth be wet therein and laid upon it it availeth against the Palsey and trembling of the Members Bathes CHAP. XXXIX A Bathe for a Rupture 1 R. Of the Barke and Flowers of Pomegranates Cups of Acornes Shumac ana â„¥ i. Larkes spurre Comfry ana m. i. Hypocistis Galls Allom ana Ê’ ii Roses Camomill anise ana p. ii boyle them in equall portions of Red Wine and Smithes Water with the Decoction Bathe the place affected A Bathe for Diseases in the Legs called Malum mortuum 2 R. Of sowre Sorrell of Fumetary ana m. ii nip m. i. Barley Branne Lupines ana m. i. ss Violets Mallowes ana m. ss white and black Elebor ana â„¥ i. ss Hony â„¥ ii let them boyle in a sufficient quantity of Water till the third part be consumed A Bathe for the Stone 3 R. Of Hyssop Mallowes Parseley Pellitory of the Wall ana m. i. Linseed â„¥ ss Saxifrage m. i. put them in a cloth and boyle them in a sufficient quantity of Water and make a Bathe A Bathe for a Consumption 4 R. Of new Calves Heads nu vi with the Gathers and Feet as many Sheepes Heads all as well dressed as if they were to be eaten boyle them in Water in a great Vessell or for need in two and make a Bath which let the Sicke use every other day at Evening and Morning an houre at a time thus use it every time fresh for nine times together A Bath for the retention of Womens Visits 5 R. Of Mallowes halfe a Pecke as much Plantaine as much of Elder leaves Mugwort and Motherwort ana m. iiii Wormwood Rue Featherfew ana m. ii Camomill halfe a Pecke as much Red Sage boyle them in Water untill they be soft then put into it Bay-berries â„¥ ii Cominseeds â„¥ ii make a Bath wherein let the Patient sit up to the Pappes A Bathe to soften and mollifie the Skinne 6 R. The Rootes of white Lillies and Marshmallowes ana lib. ii Mallowes Pellitory of the Wall Violets ana m. ss Linseed Fenugreeke Marshmallowes ana lib. i. Flowers of Camomill Melilot and anise ana p. vi boyle them in a sufficient quantity of Water after adde Oyle of Lillies and Flaxe ana lib. ii make hereof a Bath that the Sicke may swimme therein a good while You may see the Figure of your Bathing Tub in Parreye's Chirurgery with the double Personated Bottome to which I referre you Observations for those that Bathe 7 It is not good to use Bathing too often for it offendeth the Heart causeth Sincope taketh away the Appetite looseth the Ioynts resolveth the Spirits and moveth the Humours After what manner soever your Bathes be made they must alwayes be warme for warm Water humects and mollifies the solid parts if at any time they be too dry or hard it is good against Sun-burning and Wearinesse also if we finde our selves too hot or too cold or loathing of Meats we find great profit in Bathes made of sweet warme Water Herein wee usually adde Oyle because Water alone will not so long adhere to the Body they are good in Hecticke Feavers and in the declension of all Feavers and against raving and talking idlely for they procure sleepe against inflammation of the Lungs and Sides for they mitigate paine For Bathes we chuse Raine Water rather then River Water so it be not muddy and then Fountaine the Water of Lakes and Fennes is not to be used First you must fill your Vessell with your Decoction warme almost full and so let the Sicke goe into it in the Morning fasting or sixe houres after Meat cover the Tub close with a Goverlet or Blanket all but the Patients Head that he may take breath For the time of the yeare chuse the Spring and latter end of Summer a cleare warme day a close quiet roome and warme Whiles the Patient is in the Bathe he must abstaine from all meate unlesse to comfort his heart and keepe him from fainting he take a little sop in Wine or the Iuyce of an Orenge or a stewed Pruine or the like to quench his thirst The strength of the Patient will shew how long he may stay in the Bathe for he must not stay in to the
halfe a pinte be consumed straine it and with one pound of white Sugar candy powdered make a Sirrup A Sirrup for the cough of the Lunges 27 R. Leaves of Harts tongue nu iii. Liverwort Lungwort unset Hyssope wilde Time ana m. i. boile all these in a pottle of new Wort to a quart make a thin Sirrup with Sugar candy and drinke of it when you goe to bed and in the morning before you rise Another Sirrup for the same and to open Obstructions and help a short breath 28 R. Of unset Hyssop and Penyroyall m. iii. wash them and stamp them and to the strained juice adde the like proportion of English Honey boile it in a Pewter dish on a Chafingdish and Coales the space of half an houre untill the Iuice and Honey be well incorporated hereof let the Patient take two spoonefulls at Morning three of the Clocke and bed time and use it as long as need shall require A Sirrup for a Cold. 29 R. Of Cetrack one ounce Coltsfoot and Maidenhaire ana â„¥ i. Elecampane rootes sliced lib. i. boile them in three quarts of Water till it be wasted to one quart then straine it and with a pound of Sugar make a Sirrup secund art take of this Sirrup every night and morning Ê’ ss and as often as you cough Pilles CHAP. XLIII To make Pilles of Aristolochia 1 R. The roote of round Aristolochia â„¥ i. roote of Gentian Myrrhe anaÊ’ iii. Aloes Cinamon ana â„¥ ss Ginger Ê’ i. beate them very fine and make them up with new Oyle of sweete Almonds the dose is Ê’ i. ss they may be drunke but they are so bitter that they are more easily swallowed These Pilles are of an opening vertue scouring the Liver and Reines and are good in an olde Cough and in the suppression of womens visits also they expell the after birth and dead childe Pills of Agaricke 2 R. Of Agaricke Mastick anaÊ’ iii. root of Flower-de-luce Horebound anaÊ’ i. Turbith Ê’ v. powdered Hiera Picra â„¥ ss the pulpe of Coloquintida Sarcocoll anaÊ’ ii Myrrhe Ê’ i. Sapa as much as shall suffice to make them into a masse They purge very strongly from all parts of the body both Choler and Slimy humours but especially from the head and breast and are good against Catarrhes and old Coughes Pills called Without which I would not be 3 R. Of the best Aloes Ê’ xiiii yellow Mirabolanes Mirabolanes of India Mirabolanes Chebules Rubarbe Masticke Wormwood Roses Violets Sene Agarick Dodder anaÊ’ i. Scammony Ê’ vi ss dissolve the Scammony in the Iuice of Fennell as much as shall suffice and straine it through a Cloth and with the same Iuice mingle the said Powders finely beate These draw Choler Phlegme and Melancholy from all parts of the body but especially from the Head Eyes and Sences they preserve the sight and take away the paine and noise of the Eares Stomack Pills 4 R. Aloes Ê’ vi Mastick red Roses anaÊ’ ii make them up with the Sirrup of Roses or Wormwood These are to be taken before meate and doe purge the Stomack gently and mildly and help concoction Pills of Ruffus called common Pills or Pestilentiall 5 R. Of the best Aloes â„¥ ii of the best Myrrhe and Saffron ana â„¥ i. mingle them with Aromatick Wine and make a masse They doe much help the concoction and will not suffer the meate to putrifie and availe much against pestiferous contagions Those that would purge twice or thrice in a day or keep their bodies soluble let them take two or three little Pills as big as a Pease every morning of Aloes Rosatum or at any time when they will also there is a way to wash Aloes and so to make it into Pills very excellent to purge the Head of Phlegme whereof I shall speake hereafter As for Antidotaries Trochiskes and the like because amongst those for whom I intend this Booke such things are seldome used and therefore may more better be bought at the Apothecaries if occasion shall serve I have omitted them and considering also that so little cannot be made as sometimes is used the residue oftentimes corrupted and lost the strength before they use any againe moreover I doe not finde any but such as are in Print at large already and therefore needlesse to be here inserted Next I will shew you some things that are set downe in this Book amongst divers Simples which you cannot know unlesse you runne to the Apothecary to buy them CHAP. XLIV First Of the foure cordiall Flowers which are 1 Roses 2 Violets 3 Borage 4 Rosemary or Bawme 5 Buglosse The five Emellient hearbes are 1 Marsh-mallow Mallow 2 Beets Brankursine 3 Mercury hearbe 4 Violet Plants 5 Pellitary of the Wall The foure great hot seeds 1 Aniseed 2 Fennell seed 3 Carraway seed 4 Cummin seed The foure lesse hot seeds 1 Ammi 2 Our Ladies rose 3 Smallage or Sage 4 Daucus or wilde Carrets Pimpernell The foure great cold seeds 1 Gourds 2 Cucumbers 3 Citrons 4. Mellons The foure lesse cold seeds 1 Endive 2 Cichory 3 Lettuce 4. Porcelaine The five great common Rootes aperitive and diuretick 1 Smallage 2 Asperagus 3 Fennell 4 Parseley 5 Kneeholme or Butchers broome The two Rootes 1. Fennell 2 Parseley The foure Pleuretick Waters 1 Our Ladies Thistle 2 Sowthistle 3 Holy thistle 4 Scabious The five lesse opening Rootes 1 Grasse 2 Sea Holly 3 Capers 4 Cammocke or ground Furze 5 Madder The three Stomachiall Oyles 1 Wormwood 2 Quinces 3 Mastick The five Capillar hearbes 1 Adjanthus Black or Venus haire 2 Adjanthus White or Wall Rue 3 Golden Polytrichon 4 Common Maidenhaire 5 Scolopendria The foure hot Oyntments 1 Agrippa 2 Marshmallowes 3 Arragon 4 Martiatum The foure cold Oyntments 1 White Oyntment with Camphire 2 Of Popular Buds 3 Galens refrigerative 4 Mesue his Rosate The common hot Flowers 1 Camomill 2 Melilot 3 Flower-de-luce or Lillie The foure Ointments wherewith a Chirurgion ought to be stored 1 Basilicon which digests and ripens 2 Greene Oyntment of the Apostles to Mundifie 3 Golden Oyntment to Incarnate 4 The White to Cicatrize CHAP. XLV Notes for those that shall practise the compounding of Medicaments THose Sirrups that you make by infusion of Flowers to every pinte of Water you must adde foure ounces of Flowers and these must be done in Pipkins of earth well glased or in Vessels of Pewter or Silver with narrow mouthes that may be stopped close and not in Brasse nor Copper In making Sirrup of Roses and Violets c. which are made with many infusions it will be good that the first infusion be made with scalding water powred on them the rest of the infusions with warme water Boile your Sirrups softly upon a cleere Charcoale fire taking it from the fire when it is boiled and with a Spoone full of holes scum it cleane you shall know when it is boiled enough by the breath which comes out very strongly at first but when it is almost enough the fume
or three daies untill they come out then have a great care to keepe the Chamber warme but not too hot in any case let them eat no fresh meat if a Feaver accompany the Poxe untill it be past nor any broth with Spice but thinne thicken'd broth boiled with a white Crust when the Feaver is past and the Poxe begin to fall let them eate Bread and Butter or a potcht Egge in all this time let their Beere be warmed with a Toste and sweetned with Sugar and when they have drunke let them eate the Toste to cleanse their mouth and throate if the Poxe be in the Eyes then take red Rosewater and womans Milke ana and a little loafe Sugar finely beaten everyday fresh and with a feather dresse them often in a day or you may tye a little bruised Quince seed in a cloth and soake it in white Rose water and wash the Eyes but not above thrice a day lest you feed the Poxe neither wash the Eyes except the Poxe be in them deny them not drinke at any time when the Poxe begin to look black on the heads then minge Parmacetae and Oyle of sweet Almonds together to an Ointment and with a feather anoint the Face at night therewith being a little warmed this will cause them to scale then anoint the Face every night with the Ointment of Bacon described before in the Vnguents and in the morning wash your Face with water of Beane flowers when they are quite well it is good to give them an ounce or two of Cassia newly drawne in some Posset drinke to purge them if the Poxe come not out kindly at first you shall give the Patient of Bezoar powdered small in Posset drinke according to the strength and age of the Patient from three to eight graines For a Fellon 12 R. Fine Malt flower m. i. Sope as much as a Wallnut boile them together in some Beere untill it be thicke lay this to the place and change it twice or thrice in a day For buzzing in the Eares 13 R. A clove of Garlick pill it and pricke three or foure holes in the midst of it and dip it in fine English Honey and put it into your Eare and stop your Eare with a little blacke Wooll and lie upon the contrary side thus let it rest seven or eight daies To stay a Laske 14 R. A good quantity of Burre rootes and wash them cleane with running Water then seethe them in faire Water till halfe the Water be consumed when you goe to bed wash the soales of you Feete herewith and if that stay not enough then wash higher and it will stay it For the Goute 15 R. A gallon of thy owne Vrine and a pound of Virginwaxe and of houseleeke lib. v. set those on the fire together and let them scald untill the Houseleeke be tender then bathe thy legs and feete therein thus take a dishfull of this decoction and by the fire wash thy feete with this Liquor very hot and let the remnant of the Liquor stand on the fire to keepe hot when that dishfull is cold put it into the hot Liquor and take another dishfull and bathe as you did before doe this for halfe an houre alwaies with hot broth then take the residence in the bottome of the Pot and lay it upon a blew Cloth that is well Woaded either Woollen or Linnen and lay it to the soare place and wrap it well up and let it lie a day and a night doe thus untill it bee whole this will drive the paine downewards and when it is in thy foote lay the Plaister all over the Foote and Toes if the disease be in the Hands doe as you did to the Feete For Earewigges or any Worme crept into the Head 16 R. Of the Garlicke that is called S. Mary Garlicke three or foure Cloves stampe in a Mortar and lay them in a little cleane Water a good while then wring out the Iuice with a Cloth very hard then put of that Liquor into the Eare and hold that Eare upwards and it will kill the Worme or else cause him to come out at the Nose For a Fellon 17 R. Smallage pu i. wheaten Leaven black Sope and the white of an Egge and wheate Flower stampe them together and lay them on a Cloth to the Fellon For the stinging of a Waspe or Bee 18 If the Sting sticke in the flesh pull it out and then take an Almond and cut it over-thwart and lay the one halfe upon the Soare and it will cease the swelling and ease the paine For a Stitch in the Side 19 R. A pretty big Dish fill it full of Embers and lay the reon a handfull of Rosemary leaves and then lay a Cloth on the Rosemary to keepe it close and so lay it to the grieved place as hot as can be suffered To stay the immoderate Fluxe of Women 20 R. A good piece of Allome and seethe it in faire Water till it be dissolved then take sodden Milke and with the said decoction make a Posset presse the Curde from the Whey and lay the Curde to the secret place and it will stay it A speciall Medicine for the Goute 21 R. A spoonfull of bay Salt and as much gâ—ay Sope and the quantity of a Wallnut of Boares grease Rue and the hearbe called Rage ana m. ss beate all these in a Mortar untill they come to a Salve then lay it on a Cloth to the griefe and renew it once a day For the Megrim 22 R. Of the Iuice of Seagreene Aquavitae and the Gall of a Steere ana put together on the fire to warme then take a linen Cloth and bathe your forehead therewith and your Temples at night when you are going to bed then dip a double linnen Cloth therein as much as will cover the Forehead and binde it to the Patients head all night for two or three nights together To stay the bloody Fluxe 23 R. A great red Onyon take out the coare and fill the hole full of Frankincense and English Saffron ana then put on the top and set the Onyon in the Embers and when it is tender spread it on a linnen Cloth and lay the one halfe to the Navill and the other to the Fundament as hot as may be To cleare the Eyes when they are blood-shotten or sore 24 R. Of Lapis Calaminaris â„¥ ss Sugar Candy â„¥ ss white Wine â„¥ i. heate the Stone almost red hot in a cleare fire then beate it very fine in a cleane Mortar and mingle it with the Wine and straine it through a linnen Cloth then put in the Sugar Candy very finely beaten put this Water in a Glasse and when you would use it shake the Glasse that it may mingle and so drop a drop or two into the Eye lying upwards Evening and Morning and lie so a while after Note that this Stone must bee cleare without red spots or else it is hurtfull For wilde Fire 25 R. Olde hard