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A88617 Panzooryktologia. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A compleat history of animals and minerals, containing the summe of all authors, both ancient and modern, Galenicall and chymicall, touching animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, insects, and man, as to their place, meat, name, temperature, vertues, use in meat and medicine, description, kinds, generation, sympathie, antipathie, diseases, cures, hurts, and remedies &c. With the anatomy of man, his diseases, with their definitions, causes, signes, cures, remedies: and use of the London dispensatory, with the doses and formes of all kinds of remedies: as also a history of minerals, viz. earths, mettals, semimettals, their naturall and artificiall excrements, salts, sulphurs, and stones, with their place, matter, names, kinds, temperature, vertues, use, choice, dose, danger, and antidotes. Also an [brace] introduction to zoography and mineralogy. Index of Latine names, with their English names. Universall index of the use and vertues. / By Robert Lovell. St. C.C. Oxon. philotheologiatronomos. Lovell, Robert, 1630?-1690. 1661 (1661) Wing L3245_pt2; Wing L3246; Thomason E1810_1; Thomason E1811_1; ESTC R30507 298,085 412

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which is caused by excrementitious choller putrifying in the mesaraick veines afflicting the third day with rigour which heat and other symptomes follow it 's cured by purgation vomitories venesection preparers and concocters appropriats things acid diureticks sudorisicks roborants topicks things hindering paroxismes and a coole moistning diet as ptisans and other diet of good juyce and easy concoction if it be a notha the diet must be more copious it being longer 2. Quotidian intermittent which is caused by phlegme putrified in the mesaraick veines and invadeth every day it 's cured by clysters vomits preparers purgers sudorificks and strengthners 3. Quartan intermittent which is caused by a melancholick humour in the mesaraick veines and afflicteth the fourth day it s cured by purgers venesection preparation and concoction vomits opening of the haemorrhoids sudorificks specificks humecting and attenuating diet as sorbile eggs chickens goats flesh veale partridges saxatile fishes sweete almonds prunes ptisan apples rapes drinking white wine or beere well defecated with herbs 4. Semitertian which is caused by a continual quotidian and intermittent tertian afflicting continually but the third day with rigour it 's cured by mixt remedies respecting both purgers venesection preparation cold and moist diet Also the compounded feavers are subintrant coalterne or communicant confuse or implicit with a double and triple tertian and quartan and double quotidian and they are cured almost as the simple 3. Hectick which is caused by heate so possessing the parts of the body that though it be chearished by no cause yet it remaineth and continually afflicteth and it is with a tabes or without it also it hath three degrees the first when the rorid humidity is consumed and dryed the second when the carnose and adipose the third when the fibrous is exsiccated it 's cured by things that humect and coole as Juleps and emulsions baths of sweet water and milk tepid inunctions and topicks that coole applied to the heart liver and reines cold and moist diet of good juyce and easy of concoction not soone dissipated sc ptisans new eggs chickens kids flesh fishes almonds the greater cold seedes milk of women asses goats and cows snailes restorative broths collises amygdalats barly water with prunes liquorise and a little cinamō cold water in the beginning if complicate the causes are to be observed 4. Feavers malignant which are caused by somewhat that hath an occult quality and venemous causing symptomes that are more troublesome than ordinary yet not killing many or suddainly and they are cured by clysters sudorificks venesection if need and lenients as also vomitories vesicatories on the armes and leggs alterants preparants diureticks epithems diet of good juyce and easy concoction small drink decoction of harts horne with spirit of vitriol q. s pulp of tamarinds barberries citron-seeds infused in common water As 1. The small-pocks in particular which are pustules caused in the top of the skinn and parts in proportion answering it by reason of a peculiar effervescency and ebullition of the bloud from the expulsive faculty with a continual feaver they are cured by clysters venesection in the adult expulsives refrigerants according to Gallenists moderne writers and defensives the eyes by plantain and cuphrage water with a little camphire and saffron the nostrils by a nodule of saunders and camphire with rose vineger the throat by diamoron decoction of plantain with barley and honey of roses the lungs by the lohoch of poppy tussilage syrup of jujubes and violets the intestines by the syrup of quinces myrtles rob of ribes and plantain and sorrel water and to the pustules some use the rosate unguent and white camphorate and a moderately cooling and astringent diet small beere hordeate water chalybiated with the citron juyce and ribes The symptomes are removed according to their nature 2. The measells which are little swellings red breaking out in the skinn with a continual feaver caused by the expulsive faculty and a peculiar ebullition of the bloud they are cured as the small pocks hereto belong the crystals tubercles rubeols and rossals 3. The spotted feaver which is caused by malignancy in which certain spots like flea-bitings of diverse colours but chiefely red doe appeare in the skin from the thinner part of a putrid humour expelled by the expulsive faculty and is cured by lenients phlebotomy in the beginning sudorificks vesicatories and corroborants as the confection of alchermes using the rosate ointment to the heart temples and pulse with triacle and the juyce of citron 4. The Hungarick feaver which is continual malignant and contagious caused by corruption of the humours with a great quantity thereof about the ventricle and first passages and is joyned with a great paine of the head it 's cured by clysters lenients vomitories phlebotomy if need alexipharmicks topicks fumals and diet as in the maligne 5. The hydropyretos or English sweating feaver caused by a humid and poysonsome constitution of the aire adverse to the spirits and heart with a peculiar influx of the starres it 's cured by sudorificks sc the acetose water scabious and sealed earth using citron juyce to corroborate 6. The spasmatick malignant feaver which is thought to be caused by pestilent ichorous and malignant vapours troublesome to the nerves which arise from evil diet it 's cured by taking away the vitious and venenate matter and strengthning the nerves by inunction of the oile of castor fox and worms c. on the spine with Sp. V. sage rue c. after purgation 7. The malignant feaver with a cough and catarrhe epidemick which is caused as it 's thought by a humid constitution of the precedent yeare and long continuance of the australe winde it 's cured by alexipharmicks and appropriate remedies 5. Feavers pestilential which are continual putrid caused by the aire and contagion destroying most whom it doth infect having heate and putrefaction from a deletery and venenate force of a contagious seminary and afflicteth with greater symptomes than the malignant as also with buboes and carbuncles it 's cured by alexipharmicks as the theriack water bezoardick syrup liberant species mithridar diascordium c. purgation by the pestilential pills de tribus with flowers of sulphur syrup of rhubarb phlebotomy diet without excrements and vitious humours new eggs fishes beere small temperance fontanels suffumigations pomanders liniments for the nostrils balsams vinegers powders fumale candles sweet waters troches sacculs amulets theriacks sudorificks venefection in the beginning if plethorick bezoardicks camphorats vomitories vesicatories alterants preparants things acid diureticks topicks c. as in the malignant If it exceed it 's turned into the plague which is a venenouse disease of the heart caused by a venenate and contagious matter hurting all the actions of the heart suddainly and lethaly with a complication of all kinds of symptomes arising from the aire ill diet venifice imagination feare and contagion it 's cured as aforesaid and chiefely by sudorificks phlebotomy purgation vomitories vesicatories preparants diureticks
and vertebra's muscles of the abdomen hurt narrownesse of the nostrils or mouth obstruction of the larynx and rough artery use changed and vice of the aire c. they are cured according to the cause 2. The asthma and orthopnoea that is a frequent thick and anhelose respiration caused by a great obstruction of the lungs by viscid and serous humours and tubercles c. it 's cured in the paroxysme by frictions ligatures suppositories clysters venesection if need purgers discutient topicks and laxants internal lenients attenuants detergents and expectorants mithridate oxymel millepedes thin diet and ptisan with saffron out of the paroxisme by phlebotomy preparers evacuants inciders abstersives humecters cock broth syrup of tobacco helleborate oxymel attenuants inciding and detersive lohochs with repetition and mutation syrup of elecampane with oile of sulphur diabutyrum rotuls external emollients and discussers attenuants actual cauteries dryers powders the decoction of guajacum if from a serous humour by evacuants and sudorificks if from tubercles stones or drynesse as in the diseases of the breast hot and attenuating diet in the first fumes hysop saffron almonds and other pectorals mellicrat decoction of gua●acum moderate sleepe with the head elevated walking before meate f●ictions much exercise and motion c 3. Suffocation or strangulation which is caused when the aire necessary for the ventilation of the heate of the heart is not attracted and the fumes are not sent forth by reason of obstructions or tumours c. it 's cured as aforesaid and if from hanging by vineger with pepper aromaticks with wine wrapping wool wet in hot irine oile about the neck epileptick waters aqua vitae c. if recoverable if from vapours or fumes by the same as also things to be used in the straightnesse of the brain c. if by water by hanging up by the heeles causing vomit by putting the finger into the mouth the decoction of barley or chamomil mulse aqua vitae and fumes c. if from poysonsome toadstooles by vomitories with the salt of vitriol and oxymel c. 4. The vice of the voice and speech which is caused the beginning of the nerves being affected vocal instruments or matter deficient humectation resolution contusion incision hoarsenesse from asperity obtusenesse from viscid matter trembling from imbecility so abruptnesse slownesse from humours passing into the spinal marrow and thoracick nerves if clangose from siccity so speech also stutting and stammering from humidity they are cured according to the cause and hoarsnesse if from a catarrhe by remotion lenients intercipients arteriacks if cold by calefacients dryers and lenients if thick by inciders abstersives lenients levigants lohoch sanum de pino syrup de erysimo oxymel of squils if hot thin by incrassants lenients lohochs of poppy syrup of violets and diacodium c. if from external heating drying causes by lenients refrigerants and lohoch of poppies c. if from great intension of the voice by arteriacks syrup of licorice dryers discutients if from cold by calefacients extersives if need 5. The cough which is a vehemēt frequent sounding efflation of much breath first attracted by the lungs caused by a contraction of the lungs and breast that what is troublesome to the respiratory organs may be expelled sc cold aire humours vapours or matter c. it 's cured if from asperity by lenients and levigants syrup of jujubs poppies and the laudan opiat c. if from distemper if hot by syrup of licorice and coolers if cold by that of hyssop and inunctions if from catarrhs by evacuants averters derivation and intercipients arteriacks bechicks pectoral syrups and decoctions c. if from a hot thin and sharp matter V.P. by evacuants revellers intercipients stoppers refrigerants incrassants lenients concocters digesters preparants diacodiated conserve of roses c. white bechick troches syrups lohochs opiats and liniments c. if from phlegme V. P. by hot attenuants inciders abstersives hot pectorals syrup of hysop oxymel of squils lohoch sanum c. in children by dryers detersives diasulphur pectoral powders roborants if from matter contained in the breast c. according to the causes as aforesaid using hot diet if cold with aromaticks and hot pectorals mulse butter oile of sweet almonds c. if dry things sweet lenient and dilatant if a catarrhe ptisan emulsions and milk if hot without a feaver hydromel and bread with the seed of fennel and aniseed 6. The paine of the breast which is caused by humours and flatulency sent by the veines and arteries c. it 's cured by remotion of the cause by anodynes fomentations decoctions after venesection and purgation c. discussion suppuration if need scarrification with universals 7. The haemoptysis which is a rejection of bloud with a cough out of the parts belonging to respiration without an inflammation of the same caused by solution of continuity by anastomosis diaeresis or diapedesis it 's cured by revulsion by phlebotomy frictions ligature and cupping-glasses corrigents temperants purgers coolers dissolvers averters astringents agglutinants opiats syrup of comfrey powders clysters frictions ptisan and diaspermaton with rest and quiet c. VII The diseases and symptomes of the heart 1. The diseases of the pericard which are wormes caused by putrefaction and are cured or killed by garlick radish cresses tansey gentian and myrrhe being humected in water used to the mouth of the infant 2. The distempers of the heart which if they are caused by heate they are cured by refrigerants cordial waters and syrups c. topicks diet and purgers if need if from cold by calefacients internal external if moist by diet dryers if dry by humecters if of the whole substance by alexipharmicks if tabid use the juyce of radish 3. The palpitation of the heart which is a composit motion thereof expelling what is troublesome attracting what is profitable and restoring what is deficient inordinate from dilatation and subsidence caused by vapours humours tumours worms defect of spirit and hot distempers it 's cured if from flatulency and vapours by phlebotomy apertion of the haemorrhoids evacuation by epicrasis discutients corroborants oile of citrons electuaries syrups epithems unguents odorats clysters c. if from humours by phlebotomy purgers discutients internal and external dryers vesicatories cauteries and corroborants if from wormes by evacuants and bozoardicks if from defect of spirits by reficients and corroborants if from heate by antifebriticks c. with suteable diet 4. The imbecility of strength which is caused by the defect of spirits innate heate humidity primogenit is cured by temperants cordials odorats and vineger odoriferous and restauratory waters juleps electuaries analeptick polytrophick diet c. 5. The lypothymy and syncope or fainting which is a quick and suddain defect of all the forces chiefely the vital with a pulse almost abolished and cold sweat caused by great debility of the heart
membran 2. The pericranium compassing in the bones of the head its substance number thicknesse sense connexion and consent with the hard membrane 3. The two membrans girding the brain or meninges with their substance figure magnitude number two sc the crasse membran with its situation connexion superficies internal and external foramina two processes foure sinus trunck vessels the thin membran immediately covering the brain 4. The brain with its substance magnitude figure superficies division into the brain cerebel and beginning of the spinal marrow but differs from the cerebel being softer whiter bigger round and full of cavities as for the brain frō the falciform process it 's divided into the right left part with the cortex and marrow also the anteriour ventricles membran girding the ventricles choroid plexus fornix the third ventricle with its anteriour and posteriour meatus infundibulum or pelvis pituitary glandule rete mirabile or retiforme plexus pineal glandule testicles nates and meatus the fourth ventricle is placed betwixt the inferiour part of the cerebellum and superiour spinal marrow 5. The cerebel and its parts it being the hinder part of the brain with its substance magnitude form colour parts lateral anteriour and posteriour globes processes and sinus 6. The spinal marrow arising from the fourth ventricle of the brain is somewhat harder its membran figure filaments and nerves 7. The new way of dissecting the braine sc by taking it whole out of the skull and so beginning at the basis 8. The action and use of the brain sc to refrigerate the heart as some say and yeeld animal spirits to the nerves 9. The internal eye with its muscles fatt vessels sc veines from the jugulars arteries from the carotides and nerves optick motory tunicles sc the dura cornea uvea with the pupil retiforme ad●ate innominated crystalline and vitreous the humours are three sc the aqueous crystalline and vitreous 10. The inward eare in the os petrosum with its three caverns the first tympanum the second the labyrinth the third cochlea membrans three little bones malleus incus and stapes two muscles nerve and action 11. The inward part of the nose sc the cribrose bone towards the brain and mamillary processes 12. The instruments of tasting sc the tunicle of the tongue and from the fourth seventh conjugation of encephalick nerves of feeling sc the flesh that is soft and that hath nervous fibers Thus of the description of mans body Somatologie now followeth Nosologie or his several diseases and these are I. Vniversal sc Feavers and according to the common definition thereof a feaver is a hot distemper of the whole body which ariseth from heate preternaturally accended in the heart and by the mediation of the spirits and bloud is diffused through the veines and arteries into the whole body and hurteth the natural actions by the cōbination of symptomes sc thirst hickets vomiting fluxes drynesse blacknesse and asperity of the tongue lipothymie and syncope the dyspnoea head-ach watching epileptick convulsions c. it 's caused by motion putrefaction contact of hot things pycnosis or constriction of the pores and admixture of hot things And differs by intension and remission gentlenesse and violence hexis and schesis and as primarie symptomatick c. It 's cured by refrigeration and humectation Feavers are 1. not putrid 1. The ephemera which is occasioned by the incending of the vital spirits and lasteth one day it 's caused by what ever too much heateth them it 's cured by a refrigerating and humecting diet of easy concoction and good juyce as the flesh of kids veale with vineger and cooling herbs drinking barley water and small beere If it lasteth more dayes stronger remedies are to be used 2. The synocha simple which is without putrefaction caused by the effervescencie of the spirits and more thin bloud without remission and lasting three foure or more dayes it s cured by phlebotomy and the drinking of cold water with a thin and small diet to refrigerate and humect sc ptisan small beere and things acid 2. Putrid which is caused by hot vapours elevated by the putrefaction of humours which preternaturally torrify the heart it 's cured by phlebotomy vomitories coction purgation and preperation of the humours by things appropriate acetose aperient and corroborative by sudorificks and diureticks and diet sc prisans oxymel emulsions chickens and veale with things acid These feavers are 1. continent 1. The synocha putrid which is caused by bloud putrified in the vena cava afflicting without remission and intension periodical from the begining to the end it 's cured by phlebotomy purgation alterants with things acetose and a thinne diet sc barley water and chickens broth altered by refrigerating herbs 2. The causus or burning feaver which is continual caused by the putrefaction of bloud in the greater vessels and continually afflicts with great thirst and heate it 's cured by venefection purgation vomitories alteration corroboration mitigation of symptomes diet as before 2. Periodick continual and it is caused by excrementitious humours putrifying in the veines that are betwixt the great and capillary remitting by certaine periods without intermission it 's cured as its species 1. The primary continual 1. The Tertian continual which is caused by bilious bloud purrifying in the propagines of the vena cava continually troubling but most on the third day it 's cured by phlebotomy remedies alterant preparant and cathartick whey diureticks sudorificks topicks diet cooling and humecting sc ptisan chickens and things acid If it be spurious the cure is according to the type and complication 2. Quotidian continual which is caused by a pituitous humour putrifying in the propagines of the vena cava having exacerbations every day it 's cured by laxants concocters and alterers purgers diureticks cardiacks an attenuating inciding and abstersive diet chickens kids flesh and mutton aromaticks and capers with ptisan The epiala is cured as other putrids and the syncopal by laxation concoction and thin diet 3. Quartan continual which is caused by melancholick bloud putrifying in the propagines of the vena cava the heate of which doth alwayes remaine but is intended in the fourth day it 's cured by phlebotomy preparation and coction diureticks and sudorificks and diet cooling 2. Symptomatick continual which is caused by other diseases and ceaseth they being removed and it 's typhoid from vapours or lypyrias in which the inward parts are hot and the outward cold or gentle it 's cured according to its cause as from obstruction corruption of parts c. if it be a lypyrias it ariseth from an inward inflammation attracting the bloud from the outward parts 3. Intermittent which is caused by vapours arising from humours in the mesaraick veines by putrefaction and after emitted into the vena cava invading by certain periods and ceasing by excretion it 's cured by purgers alterers sudorificks and topicks It is 1. Tertian intermittent
roots hysop and water of carduus benedictus danewort agarick diacarthamum diaturbith with rhubarb benedicta laxativa pills of hermodactils frictions baths of salt water and laconick cataplasmes of dry cow dung with oxymel and sulphur leven with salt scarrification of the leggs the dryed flesh of land urchins and triacle salts roborants diureticks dialacca diacurcuma and troches of rhubarb and wormwood diet drying heating and attenuating rosted drinking the decoction of guajacum or fassafras drinking little 7. The pain of the liver which is caused by inflammation and flatulency it 's cured by phlebotomy cupping-glasses preparers purgers and topick discutients anointing with oile of wormwood bitter almonds rue and spike using diagalanga diacinnamomum avoiding things flatulent 8. The jaundise which is an effusion of a yellow or greenish humour into the habit of the body caused by much choller hot and dry distemper of the liver inflammation compression and obstruction if from obstruction it 's cured by aperients syrups of rootes tartar vitriolat purgers of manna rhubarb diacatholicon aggregative pills vomitories thin diet and bitter almonds c. if from the heate of the liver with a feaver by venefection if need alterants and roborants if critical in acute feavers by friction sudorificks and looking upon things citrine if symptomatick in feavers by removing the feaver using purgers and diureticks if from inflammation of the liver by remooving the inflammation if from the biting of poyson some creatures and poysons by alexipharmicks vomitories triacle mithridat bezoar extrahents troches of camphire the black as above said XI The diseases of the veines 1. The distemper thereof if caused by heat and drynesse it 's cured by refrigerants and humecters conserves syrups waters and emulsions epithems oiles the rose ointment cerot of saunders a leadden plate there worne diet of ptisan the foure greater cold seeds ribes and barly water if cold by calefacients oiles and the martiat ointment aromatick diet agarick cassia with turpentine and benedicta laxativa 2. The straightnesse of the vessels in the reines which is caused by compression or obstruction it 's cured if from crude and grosse phlegme by vomitories inciders detersives diureticks the syrup of rootes and spirit of salt and vitriol if from grumous bloud by oxymel scilliticum with the decoction of mugwort mumie myrrhe and the curd of a hare c. if from the stone as that 3. Apertion of the vessels which is caused by a hot and moist distemper it 's cured by things adstringent and consolidating as plantaine bole sealed earth coral mumy and the haematite 4. The stone of the reines which is a solid substance mucilaginous limose tartareous having a lithopoietick faculty arising in the reines by the help of heat caused by a lapidescent juyce from the feculency of aliments it 's cured by avoiding grosse meates using that which doth attenuate and incide flesh of weathers calves yolks of eggs bread not without bran saxatile fishes bitter almonds mallows sperage evacuation by often vomiting lenients syrup of roses solutive cassia manna rhubarb turpentine lithontripticks nephritick wood ivy spirit of salt and temperants if coagulated by evacuants clysters venesection if neede unguents plaisters oile of sweet almonds and ointment of marsh mallows inwardly use cassia licorice and marsh mallows diureticks lithontripticks and the nephritick stone c. anodynes diachylon simple with the oile of scorpions and ointment of marsh-mallows c. 5. The wormes thereof which are killed by scolecobroticks The haires thereof generated of a thick humour dryed there are cured by attenuants inciders and a moistning diet 6. The inflammation of the reines or nephritis is a swelling of the same caused by bloud shed into their substance and putrifying there joyned with a vehement paine and fibrous and sandy excretions it 's cured by venesection cupping-glasses friction ligature evacuation by cassia tamarinds rhubarb the lenitive electuary diacatholicon clysters emulsions conserve of violets oile of violets epithems diureticks in the declination suppurants if need using the decoction of barley and applying mallows rumpents using the decoction of liquorice abstersives consolidants thin cooling and moistening diet ptisans juleps of roses or violets or small drink rest and emollients 7. The scirrhus thereof caused by thick humours it 's cured by emollients and digerents fat broths the decoction of mallows using oile of sweet almonds outwardly and of white lillies c. the tabes which is caused by things hot and dry is cured by humectants of good juyce milk baths of sweet water c. as in the hectick 8. The wounds of the reines which are caused by violence they are cured V.P. by glutinants if deepe cast in austere wine using a cataplasme of dates troches of carabe with horse taile water sealed earth turpentine applying oile of scorpions bitter almonds use diet of good juyce emulsions of the foure greater cold seeds ptisans forbile eggs barley water with liquorice drinking little and rest 9. The ulcers of the reines which are caused by an abscesse of a phlegmon or the stone and are cured by fit diet venesection if need mitigants temperants and evacuants mallows hordeats syrup of violets solutive the lenitive electuary turpentine detersives mulse ptisan with honey asses milk consolidants bole coral troches of spodium and sealed earth decoction of guaiacum diet of good juyce easy concoction and not easily corrupted ptisans rice flesh of hens mountaine birds lambs sweet almonds milk and little drink c. 10 The diseases of the ureters which are caused chiefely by the reines if obstructed they are cured as the reines by fomentations with mallows oile of sweet almonds scorpions the ointment of marshmallows and cupping-glasses their wounds ulcers are helped as the former XII The symptomes of the veines 1. The imbecility thereof and the secretion of the serum hurt caused by cold or straightnesse inflammation the stone grosse phlegme clotted bloud or matter it 's cured according to the cause if from cold by warming clysters aromatick consections using unguents and plaisters diureticks if from imbecility and radish wine if from narrownesse as in that of the reines 2. The diabetes which is a most speedy and copious evacuation of drink not altered caused by the intense attraction of the reines and afflicting with great and perpetual thirst it 's cured by temperants venesection if need astringents and roborants red roses plantain coral and spodium opiats if need epithems liniments the cerot of saunders and Gallen's refrigerant c. 3. The nephritick paine which is caused by the stone or gravel and sharp sanies it 's cured by phlebotomy if need emulsions anodynes emollient clysters decoctions of mallows fomentations therewith ointment of marsh mallows and cupping-glasses c. XIII The diseases of the bladder 1. The distemper thereof caused by heat or cold if so it 's cured by calefacients nutmeg licorice and juniper berries applying oile of nard and dill 2. The stone of the bladder which is begotten
with a fit diet heating and attenuating fermented bread with seed of fennel anise and cumin meat of good juyce rosemary and cinamon little sleep and much exercise 2. The paucity of the menses which is caused by the bloud expulsive faculty or passages it 's cured if from defect of bloud by analepticks if from thicknesse thereof by attenuants and inciders and purgation c. 3. dropping of the menses which is an eruption of menstrual blood by drops for more dayes or continually caused from externals feculent bloud or imbecility of the retentive faculty it 's cured by good diet evacuation if need and purgation if from imbecility by roborants dryers and binders c. 4. The excessive flowing of the menses which is caused by anastomosis diapedesis diaeresis or erosion tenuity of the bloud and laxity it 's cured if from the quantity of bloud by phlebotomy cupping-glasses ligatures frictions of the arms temperants evacuants water of plantain purslaine surup of dryed roses conserve of red roses bole and sealed earth norcoticks if need syrup of poppies triacle and the laudan opiat if by a serous humour by evacuants mechoacan rhubarb and china revulsives astringents and emplasticks if need stoppers of bloud syrup of purselane coral troches of sealed earth pessaries of astringent herbs the ointment comitissae injections of plantain and bole fumes of mastick and frankincense astringent cerots baths and fomentations astringent and roborant and myrtine syrup if a rupture by bole dragons bloud in pessaries if frō erosiō by cholagogons aversions revulsions glutinants plantain sealed earth cold diaphoenicon and fit diet cooling and astringent hordeats purselane rost flesh feet of living creatures rice fresh cheese quinces barley or chalybeated water 5. The difficulty of the menses which is a flux of the same with paine griefe and great symptomes caused by the vice of the veines or bloud it 's cured V. P. if from the thicknesse of the bloud by fomentations inunctions and attenuants syrup of five roots diet thin anodynes and laxants 6. The discolouring of the menses which is a declination of the same when they ought to be red to paleness whiteness greenness yellowness or blewness caused by the vice of the blood diet distemper of the parts or mixture of vitious humours it 's cured by evacuants preparants fit diet gentle attenuants if gross sudorificks pessaries fumes triacle mithridate and the decoction of angelica roots if the humours be cold 7. The anticipation of the menses which is caused by things external and internal it 's cured if from irritation of the faculty and plenty of blood by imminution thin diet exercise phlebotomy if from acrimony by temperants fit diet evacuants baths if from the retentive faculty weake and laxity of the vessels by corrigents and astringents if from evident causes it 's to be cured accordingly 8. The stopping of the menses too long which is caused by the paucity or thicknesse of the blood narrownesse of the passages imbecility of the expulsive faculty and torpidity of sense it 's cured if from paucity of blood by full diet and rest if thick and feculent by attenuants and inciders preparants evacuants scarrification friction cupping glasses pessaries if from stupidity of sense by things helping it and paralyticks c. according to the cause 9. The excretion of the menses by other parts which is caused by suppression thereof strength of the womb and vitious conformation it 's cured by venesection in the ankle cupping-glasses scarrification friction baths inunctions injections and pessaries c. 10. The whites or womans flux which is an excretion of an excrementitious humour inordinate out of the womb much differing from bloud caused and collected by the vice of the whole or some particular part it 's cured by evacuants averters good diet preparants if pituitous the decoction of guajacum and china drying and attenuating diet and diureticks if bilious by temperants subastringents succory and endive evacuation by rhubarb aggregative pills and those of rhubarb if melancholick by preparants and evacuants if serose by dryers heaters and hydragogons if from crudity of the stomach by heaters dryers and roborants after emeticks if from choller by refrigerants if from the vice of the womb and distemper by correctors and baths dryers and astringents bole spodium coral after purgation triacle and mithridate with conserve of roses extersive liquours the decoction of barley with rosate honey decoction of wormwood mints red roses and alum c. fumes of frankincense mastick and red roses meat of easy concoction and good juyce and drying abstaining from suppers drinking red wine frictions and moderate exercise 11. The gonorrhoea which is caused by the imbecility of the retentive faculty and laxity of the containing vessels c. as in that of men and it 's so cured and as the nocturnal polution if from the quantity of sperm it 's helped by the seed and leaves of willows if from debility of the retentive faculty by castoreum renal and lateral topicks baths sacculs of astringents using myrtine oile and mastick XXIII The symptomes of virgins and women after twelve years of age from the womb 1. The green sicknesse virgins disease white feaver pallid and amatory is a mutation of the natural colour in the face into that which is greenish and pale caused by the quantity of crude humours from suppression of the menses narrownesse of the vessels or obstruction it 's cured by preparants evacuants clysters venesection in the ankle calefacients attenuants inciders vomitories specificks according to the part affected emmenonagogicks conserve of marigold flowers chalybeats more grosse if in the ventrickle and more fine if the liver be obstructed with spleneticks if the spleen be stopped the syrup powder and wine thereof roots of vipers grasse bezoar roborants sudorificks hot baths corrigents meat of good juyce easy concoction heating with hyssope sage rosemary and cinamon bread with fennel and caraway seed strong beere exercise friction and moderate sleepe 2. The symptomes of the womb and other parts by consent with the brain heart liver stomach spleen duggs hence is caused the syncope suffocation aphony convulsion trembling cachexies hypochondriack melancholy noise and paine of the belly and hysterick passion which are cured according to the cause 3. The suffocation of the wombe which is a congeries of symptomes sometimes hurting the actions natural sometimes vital by periods joyned with a refrigeration of the whole body caused by a malignant vapour elevated from the womb it 's also called the strangulation of the womb and hysterick passion it 's cured in the paroxysme by supine decubiture solution of garments noise pulling of the haires of the pudend pinching the eares ligature and dolorifick friction revulsion by cupping glasses also using stinking things to the nostrils burnt feathers haire castor asa foetida galbanum the fume of horses lichens using odorats to the womb discutient clysters pessaries nascals discutients rue castor
and sternutatories dropping oile of sage into the eares discutient liniments and unguents dilatants oile of nuts rue castor plaisters umbilical of galbanum asa foetida and castor triacle mithridate troches of myrrhe yet with caution in those that are great out of the paroxysme if from corrupted sperm by universal purgation injections pessaries and discutient roborant plaisters unguents thin diet shunning venerious thoughts if from retention of the menses and vitious humours it 's cured accordingly by discutients roborants bryony root hysterick waters castor diagalanga diacalaminth and diamosch fetid pomanders of asa foetida galbanum and sagapenum and outward hystericks with the plaister of bay-berries 4. The uterine fury which is an immoderate appetite of venery making women almost mad caused by the copiousnesse of sperm acrimony and a peculiar quality it 's cured by venesection temperants evacuants refrigerants lettuce violets willow rue hemp-seed coral emerald hemlock chast water inunctions with oile of water-lillies ointment of roses camphorat cataplasmes of lentils pessaries of plantain and purselain thin sparing and sober diet beefe with vineger pompions lettuce purselain and prunes shunning things venerious 5. The melancholy of virgins and widdows which is a delirium with sadnesse anxiety weeping or laughing by intervals troubling without a feaver caused by a melancholick vapour troubling the animal spirits it 's cured by phlebotomy hilarity thin and moistening diet preparants purgers confection of jacinth the letificant species and confection of alchermes c. 6. The epilepsy from the womb which is caused by a malignant vapour and spirit as in the suffocation and is so cured by rue and castor c. in the paroxysme out of it by cephalick antepilepticks and hystericks piony roots galingal zedoary bezoar diamosch and syrup of mugwort c. 7. The headach from the womb which is caused by matter shed out of the womb by the veines and arteries into the membranous parts of the head vellicating and distending the same it 's cured by revulsives repellers evacuants anodynes and corrigents 8. The palpitation of the heart from the womb which is caused by ill vapours elevated from menstruous blood retained and evil humours cumulated in the womb and stimulating the expulsive faculty it 's cured as the suppression green sicknesse and suffocation by discutients and cardiack roborants cinamon bawm water cordial powders and epithems c. as in the palpitation of the heart The pulsation of the arteries in the back and hypochondria caused by inflammation is cured as melancholy suppression of the menses and the hypochondriack affection thence 9. The hypochondriack affection from the womb which is caused by vitious humours chiefely by the suppression of the courses it 's cured by phlebotomy opening of the hemorrhoids evacuants pills of tartar ammoniack and birthwort chalybeats c. as in the hypochondriack melancholy and suppression of the menses 10. The hairinesse and beard by consent of the womb which is caused by the retention of menses and is to be cured by provokers of the menses the same affecteth the liver also 11. The preternatural affections of the ventricle from the womb sc imminution abolition and depravation of appetite hicket vomiting belching and paine which are caused by ill vapours from the sperm blood and other bad and corrupted humours they are cured by evacuants vomitories corrigent and roborant hystericks and stomachicks angelica roots triacle mithridate the rosat aromatick and oile of cinamon and pills of aloes and mastick XXIV The symptomes about conception 1. The appetite of venery hurt which is caused by the defect of sperm heat or spirits it 's cured by spermatogeneticks liniments unguents anointing the genital with civet if there be too much salacity it 's helped by spermosbesticks and things mitigating acrimony as in the uterine fury 2. Sterility and defect of conception which is an impotency caused by the vice of the genitals sperm womb or menstrual blood it 's cured if from narrownesse of the neck of the womb by helping it if from distemper V. P. by roots of satyrion diamoschum diambra triphera magna without opium baths suffumigations fumes sulphureous bituminous aluminous and nitrous baths fumes of ladanum and benjamin uterine liniments sacculs of bawm calamint and feaverfew if laxity by abstersive clysters astringent and roborant topicks decoctions of myrtles wormwood and red roses fumes of mastick frankincense alum and aloes if fat by attenuating diet exercise purgation and sudorificks c. according to the cause and fit diet meat of good and much juyce yolks of eggs sugar cinamon and saffron and hilarity 3. Sterility for a time and infrequent conception which is caused by a morbose constitution c. it 's cured if from want of age by coiture not often good diet and of much nourishment if from drynesse of the womb by baths pessaries and emollient fomentations with emmenonagogicks if from debility of nature by solid diet and roborants if from difficulty of parturition or abortion by temperants and corrigents if from a dead birth by abstersives mithridat injected or used in a pessary and liniments of styrax benjamin and oile of lavender 4. Superfetation which is caused after conception by coiture and attraction of the sperme it 's cured or the foetus is preserved by accurate regimen fit for those that are impregnate and if the venter be weighty it 's to be anointed with laxants and emollients using swathes and bands shunning coiture after conception 5. The mola mhich is a masse without bones and bowels caused by an imperfect conception by the vice of the sperm of both sexes in steed of a foetus the formative faculty being weake and the blood copious or impure it 's cured by venesection purgation emollients laxants clysters fomentations liniments unguents of oile of white lillies sweet almonds butter and fatts emmenonagogicks dittany of creet round birthwort and bryony c. injections of hystericks pessaries of the troches of myrrhe galbanum white hellebore and rue surgery if need separation by the fingers and extraction with an embryulk by the uterine diopter stopping the blood by friction and ligature astringent cataplasmes pessaries and powders anodynes diet of easy concoction good juyce and much nutriment sc eggs broth and flesh of chickens hens capons partridges wine conserves of roses violets borage the species of the electuary of gemmes confection of jacinth it 's prevented by refraining from coiture about the time of the courses or flux thereof and the body being impure also by coiture not too often which also preventeth the generation of monsters 6. False conception and gravidation which is caused by flatulency water purulency thick and viscid phlegme and morbose sperm it 's cured according to the cause as in the distemper of the womb with matter the dropsy and inflation thereof XXV The regimen of those that are great and their preternatural affections 1. Their diet which should be of good juyce and
vapours therein from the earth water and things putrifying they are cured by remooving the causes by the use of fire alexipharmicks sudorificks purgation and venesection if need and the body be strong hereto bolongeth contagion which is a preternatural affection communicated to an other body from a body preternaturally so affected to which belong certain catarrhes malignant and pestilential feavers lippitude phthisicks the dysentery scurvy scab tinea Arabian leprosy canine madnesse and the French pocks 6. The French disease called also Italick Neapolitan Spanish Indian siphylis pudendagra variola magna the venereal plague and it is a virulent contagious cachexy of the whole body for the most part with a hot dyscrasia falling off of the haire spots tubercles contumacious ulcers great pain chiefely in the night hurting the liver and nutrient facultity caused by an excrement infected with a malignant and poysonsome quality by contagion but chiefely by concubiture and hurting by many symptomes it 's cured by phlebotomy cupping-glasses preparants mercurial purgers proper remedies antidots alexipharmicks guajacum sarsaparilla sassafras and china root as also sopewort the antidots of Fernelius and Palmarius also his water and powder the triacle water of Rondeletius the troches cypheos triacle mercurials mercurius vitae it 's diaphoretick spirit inunction therewith mixed with butter oile and turpentine and oile of guajacum V. P. taking ptisan with milk washing after with the decoction of rosemary bayes calamint and organy using nervine plaisters holding gold in the mouth diamoron if hot washing the teeth with Austere wine and drinking the decoction of pock wood applying the plaister of froggs to the hands feet and emunctories mercurial lavatories girdles fumes and salivating pills with conservatory diet of good juyce and single eating little when sudorificks or hydrargyrats are used using bread and raisins if weake a little veale chickens bisket the decoction of the aforesaid woods if salivation use ptisan conserves of roses and violets if hot moderate exercise keeping the belly open The diseases and symptomes conjunct are ulcers chiefely of the genital which are cured by anointing the root with a defensive ointment and washing the ulcer with the decoction of scabious horehound sopewort and guajacum and after with some convenient ointment mercurials if in the prepuce remedies are to be injected with a syringe so if in the genital plantain water with alum litharge and cerusse boiled and mercureals if great if in the womb use injections of aluminous water with guajacum and sarsaparilla or pessaries of the juyce of plantain with the powder of aloes bole and cerusse c. if sordid use aegyptiack that of pompholix and suffumigations if in the jawes use gargarismes of the decoction of sarsaparilla bark of guajacum leaves of plantain scabious myrtle red roses sumach alum using after oile of sulphur with some convenient liquour or alum water compound if in the nostrils use errhines powders and fumes of guajacum and cinnabar Fissures of the hands and feet are cured by the decoction of guajacum its bark scabious scordium five leaved grass and mallows and marsh-mallows if hard after using an ointment of butter fat ammoniacum bdellium apples and quick lime as also by the juyce of tansey Bubones are helped by friction scarrification in the inferiour parts venesection applying strong attrahents thereto purgation apertion maturants to suppurate of the mucilage of mallows wheat lineseed and lard and goose grease or diachylon simple or compounded with gummes if cold use purgation sudorificks and alexipharmicks Gummatous and nodose tumours as in the forehead head and leggs are helped by sarsaparilla and mercurials if after the disease by attenuants and digerents more strong sc the roots of wild cucumbers bdellium sagapenum opopanax ammoniacum diachylon with gummes the mercurial cerot and lavatory and causticks if need Tubercles and pustules are cured V. P. if in the head by the decoction of guajacum chiefely its bark and sarsaparilla oile of scorpions and vipers mercurial ointments and aluminous water if in the mouth by gargarismes of the decoction of guajacum and chalybeat whey roses and plantain if inflammatory if sordid use scabious and alum and aluminous water with that of roses and plantain if in the anus and genital by fomenting with the decoction of guajacum and sarsaparilla with aluminous waters unguents and precipitats exsiccants refrigerants touching with oile of vitriol The falling off of the haires is cured V. P. by shaving discutients and abstersives lixive of guajacum and its bark sarsaparilla leaves of sumitory bettony scabious southernwood wormwood asarum agarick mallows and pellitory if the skin be dry hydrargyrate suffumigations Paines which are remooved by sarsaparilla and guajacum and china root purging every weeke applying fomentations of guajacum leaves of penny-royal sage rosemary flowers of chamomil oile of white lillies rue scorpions vipers and guajacum laudan opiat if need mercurial unguents with castor and arthriticks Vigo's cerot of froggs and that of Plater as also mercurial lavatories The gonorrhoea is helped by decoctions astringent oiles of mastich mints roses myrrses used to the loines perinaeum giving remedies of the seed of agnus castus lettuce hemp with the powder of sarsaparilla or water-lillies or rosin of guajacum and turpentine washed in violet water with the yolk of an egg or decoction of sarsaparill The tabes is helped by specificks sarsaparilla guajacum and Septalius his remedy c. 7. Diseases from witchcraft and inchauntment which may be caused by philtrons and natural causes may be cured by vomitories purgers diureticks alterants alexipharmicks the herb Paris Saxonick powder round and long birthwort hypericon rue unguents fumes of bayes rue sage rosemary roses wood of aloes saunders bark of citton frankincense mastick myrrh benjamin storax ladanum musk and brimstone to roborate and discusse and baths ceruleous fleabane triacle syrup of water-lillies anointing with the juyce of mugwort bugloss fumes of hornes and dungs for preservation and bettony c. but chiefely by sanctity and intercession 8. Poysons which are things having a faculty by themselves greatly and vehemently to hurt the body of man in an occult manner and to destroy the same with a multitude of strainge symptomes caused by things taken inwards or hapning outwardly they are cured in general by expulsion the same way they entred into the body by alexipharmicks and cordials hot cold moist or dry according to the occasion roots of tormentil white dittany leaves of borage buglosse violets roses and water-lillies seed of citrons flowers of borrage buglosse bawm sorrel scabious seed of citrons and basil wood of aloes juyce of citrons oranges quinces saffron cinnamon cloves harts-horn ivory pearles musk amber coral jacinth emerald sealed earth bole syrup of borrage buglosse oranges sorrel violets roses conserves of the same species of gemms letificant temperate diamargariton and confection of alchermes with vomiting c. abstaining from sleepe if taken inwardly they are
decoction of emollient simples and so used it is a most excellent remedie for the same The same vertues also hath that of Rula●dus Greg. Horst The Crocus Regulatus worketh lesse upwards and more downwards the D. is gr x. with raisins The common Antimonium diaphoreticum or diaphoretick antimonie resisteth corruption cleanseth the bloud and removeth all obstructions though inveterate both of the liver spleen mesenterie and of the other inward parts ●●t helpeth the retention of the menses and green sicknesse or cachexi● in maides it cureth the dropsie hypochondriacall melancholy french pocks itch and ulcers inward and outward it is excellent good in malignant feavers the small pocks and breakings out it breaketh inward impostumes yet it worketh not suddainly but by degrees the D. is from g. x. to 25. Basil the Flowers of fixed Antimonie help inward impostumes and the french disease g. 15. being given in the spirit of pockwood foure or five times in a day The tartarised F.F. is given from g. 5. to 10. Tentzel the martiall Regulus worketh gently both upwards and downwards the D. is gr 2. or 3. The antimoniale ceruse taken inwardly is very good to cure old ulcers scabs and troublesome breakings forth being taken every day for 3. 4. or more weeks together but it worketh variously for in some for the 2 or 3 first dayes it causeth a certaine nauseousnesse with a frequent spitting and afterwards worketh in sensibly in others it gently looseneth the body in some it causeth sweating and in diverse it worketh altogether insensibly and not manifestly till at last outwardy it drieth bindeth moderately cleanseth and openeth the D. inwardly is from scrup sem to drach scm four or five houres before dinner The diaphoretick ceruse of antimonie produceth the same effects yet without nauseating and more effectually in the same q. See Sala's Anat. Ant. The Solar ceruse thereof provoketh sweat The red fixed antimonie purgeth equally both upwards and downwards and that not so much by its own nature as the bilious humour remaining about the stomach also in some it worketh as a diaphoretick the D. is from g. 2. to 4. and more That of Basil is very good to resolve congealed bloud break apostumes and cure the french pocks The diaphoretick precipitate of antimonie D. is given from g. 4. to 12. so Sala The compounded flowers cause vomiting but more gently than the simple the D. is from g. 4. to 6. Horst Epist they cure quartane agues and those that are mad or melancholick Two gr hereof being mixed with 12 of mercurius dulcis purge serous and bilious humours scarce causing vomiting The flowers of the Regulus being impregnate by the spirit of Mars and Venus do gently purge and cure all intermitting agues the D. is a few gr So Querc in Tetr Basil the Liquor hereof is excellent in wounds Note in generall the flowers of antimonie doe cause violently to vomit yet neverthelesse some give 2. 3. or 4. g. thereof The flowers of antimonie corrected cure diseases arising from black choller purging forth coplously both upwards and downwards what is hurtfull the D. is from g. 5. to 10. S. Closs the fixed flowers purge more gently and provoke much sweating the D. is gr 8. to scrup sem The powder diaphoretick made of the cinnabaris antimonii is very good in the epilepsie The vineger of antimonie serveth to extract the tincture thereof it powerfully cooleth the bloud especially in the malignant and hungarick feaver being mixed with lapis pruvellae and some convenient distilled water it cureth the inflammation caused by gunpowder being mixed with saccharum Saturni Poter The oile is a great dissolver Begu the Saccharate oile cureth diseases both inward and outward of which may be made pils against a quartain ague That of Senn. gently purgeth and helpeth the dropsie the D. is g. 2. to 6. The white liquor of that of Querc helpeth cancrous ulcers and outward diseases the yellow purgeth upwards and downwards the reddish being rectified by 2 or 3 cohobations and washed in some cordiall water is most excellent to cure the leprosie morphew apoplexie epilepsie and plague being given in some appropriate water Querc in Tetr the D. is from g. 3. to 6. of that of Faus g. 8. to scrup sem in fluid diseases of that of Basil in curr triumph a few drops against the falling sicknesse Sala the oile or honied liquor of antimonie is corrosive and penetrating and very mundifying especially in ulcers consuming excrescencies c. it 's also very good against gangreens and may be used alone or mixed with rosate honey unguents powders or waters c. it may be used in stead of the philosophick vineger in the preparation of the tincture of antimonie called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kesl The Magisterie of antimonie purgeth kindly by vomit the D. is g. 3. The glaciale oile of antimonie or butter thereof is a most excellent and precious remedie for the cure of many and great griefes as tertian quotidian and chiefely quartaine agues for in many it gently causeth vomit in others it purgeth and is of that strength that it quite eradicateth and expels the seminaries of the evil Hart. in Crol Senn. Inst The chrystaline oile of the flowers is the same almost with the former and serveth for the solution of Sol and is the basis of the purging precipitate as also of the vomitorie the D. is g. 1. to 4. Basil The compounded oile for wounds doth mightily mundifie the same though old The balsame of antimonie is of great vertue in old ulcers The vulnerarie balsame of Basil is excellent in inveterate wounds The spirit of the Regulus is good in all intermitting fevers and quartane agues it cleanseth the bloud as a diaphoretick consumeth the stone of the reines and bladder discusseth the matter of the gout and appeaseth the paine being outwardly applied the D. is g. 3. to 5. The antepileptick water of Quercetane of crocus metallorum is most excellent in curing the falling sicknesse The sulphureous water of Stibium or Clyssus doth attenuate the thick tartareous and mucilaginous matter lying in any part of the body and expelleth the same by convenient emunctories sc by the belly urine sweat and spittle therefore it 's a very good remedie in the obstruction of the liver spleen mesenterie and womb in the hypocondriack melancholy and chollick c. especially if acuated with the crystals of Mars it 's to be mixed with spring water or some other convenient liquor to a pleasant sharpnesse and so drunk as often as one listeth The tartareous water thereof is also good in obstructions but it chiefly expelleth by sweat matter lying in the habit of the body S. Closs The compounded spirit of antimonie serveth to fix Mercurie Cinnabar The liquor or balsame of the drosse of the Regulus is of excellent use in chirurgy especially in fistula's and foetid ulcers The liquor of the salt of the glasse of antimonie being taken inwardly doth effectually stay
and sphacelus in which if the dead part be herewith anointed the putrefaction creepeth no further and it 's more fit for section it also killeth the pestilentiall carbuncle and fits it for other plaisters Chirurgions often use it as a corrosive and hereof is made the mercurius vitae and minerall bezoardick Croll Senn. in I●st Beg. Sala Kest Tentzel Mercurie of life pulvis angelicus or aquila alba cleanseth by stoole and vomit the whole body especially the first region from noxious humours It 's of excellent use in the plague diseases of the head french pocks malignant ulcers feavers joynt ach and dropsie in which for the most part it works strongly without vomiting the D. is gr 2. to 4. or 2. 3. or 4. gr may be steeped in a draught of wine and so taken being filtrated or take mercurius vitae scrup 1. sem of sack unc 18. the D. is unc 1. Note the purging vertue hereof is never exhausted being like the vitrum antimonii as also that it 's not to be used too much it then causing a falling of the fundament The Mercurie of life corrected purgeth very well by stool and bringeth forth any impuritie the D. is g. 4. to 6. Hartm Senn. Tentzel Agric. The cathartick purgeth onely downwards The mineral laxative D. is given from g. 6. to 12. Querc in pharm Croll Senn. Iust Kest Hartm in pract in Croll The mineral bezoardick is a great alexiterie and very whole some medicine for provoking sweat●it is of great effect in all pestilentiall and venenate affections the D. is g. 6. to 12. and more The compound solar bezoardick doth mightily provoke sweat and is good therefore in the apoplexie palsey gout joint ach and trembling of the limbs the D. is g. 4. to 8. The solar bezoardick of Croll is good in the french pocks plague gout dropsie feaver and obstructions of the spleen the D. is g. 3. to 8. yet that of Hartm in Croll Senn. in Inst is more effectuall The Lunar bezoardick helpeth the distempers of the head especially the ●rysipelas in the heads of women the D. is g. 6. to 12. Scheun in hydromant The martiall bezoardic● is specificall in all fluxes of the belly especially such as proceed from the liver The Joviall bezoardick doth strongly provoke sweat and is a polychreston against obstructions of the liver the D. is g. 2. to 8. The Saturnine helpeth diseases of the spleen the D. is g. 6. The spirit or white diaphoretick oile of mercurie serveth to cause sweat the D. is g. 1. or 2. so Rhenan chymotech Hartm in pract The spirit or red oile thereof as the other spirit expelleth by sweat whatsoever is hurtfull to the body and hardly overcome by other remedies it cureth the pustuls and knots of the french pocks easeth paine exsiccates and consolidates stinking and running ulcers the D. is g. 1. or 2. c. in treacle water the spirit of pockwood or some decoction c. The sweet diaphoretick oile cureth malignant and cancrous ulcers especially of the reines and bladder it may be used both inwardly and outwardly Basil The sweet oile called astrum is diaphoretick and a specifick remedie in the french disease and of the same vertue with the salt of mercurie made of the residue That also of Quere in Tetr is diaphoretick The saccharate oile and spirit of mercurie is excellent good in ulcers of the bladder or other affects proceeding from the French disease the D. of the spirit is 3 or 4 drops The sulphur or Tincture of mercurie aquila caelestis Parac is excellent to cure the gout falling sicknesse and french pocks c. the radix whereof it expelleth by sweat the D. is g. 3 or 4. Basil The oile of mercurie antimoniale strengthens the braine cureth the apoplexie and may be used in stead of a panacaea The liquour of mercurie cureth wounds and malignant ulcers being dropped into them That of Vntz. helpeth the gout and those that are infected with the french pocks it cures the canker fistula's and all foule ulcers putrid and inveterate being used inwardly or outwardly the wh●te sweet oil hereof used inwardly helpeth exulcerated reines and the stone and ulcers being applied Hartm in pract The sweet diaphoretick oile D. is given from g. 2. to 6. So the joviall liquour and may be used both inwardly and outwardly Thold ex Basil The salt of mercurie is a great and most effectuall arcanum in the extirpation of the french disease though radicated and inveterate it clenseth the bloud and therefore cureth all kinds of ulcers with and without malignity itch and ringwormes the D. is g. 1. 2. or 3. Caes Waters running by mercurie if drunk are carried to the head and fill the same and thence fall to the gummes hurting them and the limbs as appeares by the ointments of quicksilver Isid being taken in too great a q. it breaketh the intrals by its weight Bras given to infants it kils wormes scrup 1. facilitats delivery it is very cold and moist and causeth congelation of the bloud so Matth. it is to be kept in glazen vessels it consuming other matter except glazed vessels all things swimme therein except gold which it attracts and purifieth it serveth to guild with being mixed with Gold so laid on and put to the fire which disperses the quicksilver and it may after be seperated by aqua fortis it looseneth the teeth The water whitens the face The sublimat in three houres corrodes the body Anon. Mercurius dulcis is excellent against the wormes and it 's used by some against the french disease also Fren. the purgative and diaphoretick water of quick-silver causeth vomit also The fragrant oile helps the filth of the bloud the D. is 4 drops The outward sudorifick water used to the wrists causeth sweat S. Sinople Cinnabaris P. It is to be had in Hungary and Germany M. Of Sulphur and quicksilver with a terrestriall matter N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Minium Diosc Cinnabari SInople Schrod K. as the naturall and artificiall T. Diosc it 's of the nature of haematites V. it 's sometimes used inwardly being mixed with antepileptick remedies outwardly it cureth the french pocks and itch in suffiments c. C. the best is that which is heavy and therefore that of Hungary being of a solar nature and having the best sulphur and Mercurie Hartm The diaphoretick precipitate hereof is an universall remedie fit to be given in any desease helping the inward balsam to expell what is offensive either by vomit stoole or sweating the D. is g. 1. or 2. Diosc Cinnabaris is usefull against diseases of the eyes as the haematite but is more effectuall being more astringent and stopping the bloud in cerots it helpeth burnings with fire and breakings out of pushes being used in cerots also Caes Matth. it helps the fluxes of women dysentery and spittings of bloud it fastneth the teeth and strengthneth the gummes but this as also that of Diosc agreeth
given only in the beginning of pestilentiall feavers but Saxonia attributes little vertue to it Garz. used outwardly to plague sores it sucketh out the poyson thereof being used also inwardly with the conserve of sorrell powder of pearle and harts horne so Wittich and Fallop Ruland it cureth the Hungarian disease yet he attributeth more to harts horne and useth it with other alexipharmick remedies Par. it helps against pushes pocks and measles and St. Anthonies fire 1 or 2 graines being given every day in rose water Garz. others give it in sorrell water carduus or brook-lime water in the juice of limons citrons or syrup thereof yet Crato mai●es no great Caesalp Outwardly it 's used in troublesome scabs the leprosie itch and ringwormes so Garz. Acost therefore the Portugals use it often with bugloss-water Boet. it 's also a present remedie against the crysipelas and other vices of the skinne Acost it helps the Kings-evill being opened Arnold it helps hard collections in the side a small q. being taken daily for 2 or 3 weeks Acost Fragos the Indians use it in old ulcers Rod. à Castr the powder helps an ulcerated cancer Agric. it helps the bitings of poyson some beasts Garz. as of vipers and serpents Acost Cardan with treacle Fabric it helpes the bitings of a mad dog being applied Jordan Ryff also it cureth the same without damage Monard it helpeth wounds made by poysoned arrowes and against toxicum Garc. it helps exceedingly against poyson in so much that other remedies for that purpose are called by its name so Matth. Jordan Par. Forest Ardoyn Acost Amat Rauwolf Crat. Lacun. Ryff Montu Rhas Avenz Conciliat Augen Diomed. and Serapio being either taken by the mouth hung about the neck or the infusion in water being taken or applied it resisteth all poyson both hot and cold and all bitings and wounds of venimous beasts Amat giveth it against all poyson q. gr 3. in the distilled water of orange flowers and Gebelch in that of vipers grasse Caesalp in that of orange flowers Portus tox gr with the sugar of roses Caesalpinus addeth also Bole-armoniack Amat and Mercurialis use it also in vomits with other alexipharmick remedies as harts horne emeralds sealed earth and bole that by the emplastick and alexiterie vertue it may impaire the strength of the poyson Boet. Sarr Card. Augen Garz. also it may be used as an amulet some further affirme it expels all putrid matter out of the body insomuch that it 's of more worth than Unicorns horne Bauh yet though it be alexipharmick it is not sufficient against all poyson but chiefely napellus and a●snick or sublimate Ryff and Linscot preferre it before unicorns horne though Valesius contemnes it and Jordan preferres Earth of Lemnos and others and therefore the rest is left to experience Thus of the orientall bezoar now followes the occidentall or that of Peru. which some say is taken from all beasts there but Baccius saith from the Capricerve Acost out of the stomach or belly thereof containing 3 or 4 thereof and are generated of the same principles and matter as the first and of the same laminate forme they also for the most part are of an ash colour with a certaine blacknesse being lesse elaborated by heat and compacted than the orientall As for tast they have almost none Bacc. T. they are temperate and not drying as other stones and antidotes and are rather eccoprotick than d●aphoretick Monard saith that the occidentall of Peru is equall to the orientall so Salmuth in Pancirol Pet. de Osma Wittich As for the D. Alvar. Torres and Baccius give seven graines in wine when there is no feaver else with an ounce of sorrell water Saxonia giveth twice as much as of the orientall V. The occidentall bezar also Monard hath excellent faculties especially in diseases of the heart as the syncope being drunke in the paroxisme or a little before in the morning the stomach being emptie and then in rose water if there be a feaver or else in the water of orange flowers being powdered to the q. of gr 4. each time Note also it s more effectuall in women than in men It resists poysons by bitings wounds water or the like being taken twice or thrice It helps pestilentiall feavers and spotted the quartan agues symptomes melancholy humours in the whole body or part thereof as also the leprosie scab itch St Anthonies fire and other vices of the skin having a peculiar faculty against the same It helps long diseases especially where there is suspicion of poyson or flatulency being appropriate therefore it 's good to put some grains thereof into purging remedies to correct strengthen and facilitate dejection It killeth wormes especially in children and young people with other elmintick remedies giving it in the morning and afterwards a clyster of milk and sugar it helps the epilepsie in children with milk or with other things in the aged in short we use this stone in all long and difficult diseases in which vulgar remedies do little good and that with great profit or however without hurt thus Monardes Pet. de Osma also used outwardly it resists poyson and intoxication as also wounds made by venomed arrowes all which both affirme out of their own experience it 's to be given pouderod in some liquour as wine vinegar and destilled water of borrage buglosse or other according to the disease and pleasure of the Physitian Note the Spanish are lesse effectuall C. The true orientall may be known by their forme not smooth shels diverse inward hollownesse weight light mixture with chalk tincture and burning being layed on coles blowing in it friability liquation and dissolution in water blacking of the teeth clearnesse of sound when struck to the teeth a needle heated being fastned to it fragments crusty magnitude little vomiting being given after poyson and by experiments on beasts these are the signes whereby to know the true from the adulterate though found salt with by Sylvaticus If any desire the whole History thereof they may read Bauhinus though this is the summe thereof He also reckons other Bezoar stones as the Paxar that of the Aspe Toad gall of a Porsupine the minerall of Serapio Rabbi Moyses and Caesalpinus that of Hercules Saxonia that of the Staggs teares heart that in a Calfes maw in the Roch goat or Germanebezoar that in a Horse and the Arabians and American Much also may be seen in Aldrovandus who hath been as serviceable as some of the Authors aforesaid Schrod The orientall stone is of diverse figures ovall round and hollow within containing a chaffe or haire or the like it 's of a diverse colour most commonly a blackish green green paleish ash or yellowish c. without smel of a diverse magnitude but most commonly lesse than a walnut The adulterated are made of the fragments of the stone and pitch or of chalk ashes of shels and dry bloud or of cinabaris antimony and qu●cksilve● united
V. S. August Albert. being held hard in the hand it burneth it sc the Persick Diosc it purgeth away things hindering the eye sight also it softens and discusseth hardnesses Zanard it serveth to strike fire with C. the best is that which is like brasse Aldr. with the gumme of the pine tree it dissipats tumours and helps fellons it helps the morphew lentils and moistnesse of the skin with vineger it stops womens fluxes Cardan it lessens the spleen Flint Silex P. It is to be had and found almost every where M. It 's generated of earth and much sulphur N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lapis vivus Siliceus Caton Flint Schrod K. as the fusile hard white and diaphanous T. V. the common may be used inwardly to incide a tartareous mucilage dissolve the stone and open obstuctions outwardly it is often used in dentifrices The D. of the Salt thereof is from gr 6. to 20. Of the ●ile scrup 1. Caes waters flowing by flints and other stones caused by cold are for the most part too cold and crude and slowly descend being drunk G. Geodes Geodes P. It 's to be had in Misnia Saxonie so Weck M. Some count it a third species of Aetites N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lapis geodes Geodes Caes Diosc T. it bindeth and drieth V. it cleareth and removeth whatsoever offendeth the sight it being applied with water helpeth the inflammations of the dugs and genitals So Weck Galen Aldrovand Some also affirme that it preserveth the conception and accellerates the birth being of the matter of the Eagle stone and being found in a glutinous earth notwithstanding it is denied by many I. Irish-slat Hybernicus P. It 's brought out of Ireland and is much used M. It 's matter is not much observed N. Lapis hyberniae Lapis hybernicus JRish-slat T.V. it 's often used against bruises and after the travail in women in steed of sperma ceti called parmacity It 's much commended by some as very effectuall against quartam agues as for the way of taking it it may be in posset drink or some other convenient liquour Jewes-stone Judaicus P. It is to be had in Judea and Silesia M. Of a friable and striate matter N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. Hager alieudi Tecolithos Phenicites Syriacus Aet Jewes-stone Diosc T.V. The quantity of a cich pease being grated by a whetstone put into unc iiiij of warme water and drunk openeth the stoppages by the stone and breaketh the stone of the bladder yet as to this Galen saith it doth little but is very effectuall as to the other so Bras Caes Myl. Schrod Some distinguish the sex hereof and call the lesse females serving against the stone in the bladder and the greater males of which some are long and about the bignesse of the little finger serving to expell the stone of the reines and difficulty of urine Qu●rc ph R. the D. of the magistery is a few gr Caes waters flowing from it help the stone L. Lime-stone Calcarius P. It is found and had in diverse places in England M. It is almost like marble N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. Herach Nure Gall. Chaux LIme-stone Schrod T. is fiery biting burning and in progresse of time causeth crusts sc the quick V. being washed it dryeth without biting and is therefore good against troublesome ulcers sc the venereous as also against burnings and other sores that will not be easily cured The lie thereof serveth to wash putrid wounds withall and to make ophthalmick waters of The spirit is a great arcanum in wasting and eradicating the stone of whatsoever kind or in whatsoever place it be it is also used by apothecaries to dissolve crystall crabs eyes and the most hard stones so Kesl Basil in Rep. l. p. it fixeth minerall volatil spirits Caes waters flowing by lime stones do not a little corrode and dry yet without biting Aldrovand being mixed with vineger and oile of roses it cicatrizeth ulcers the powder with hogs grease rosin and honey helps the kings evill when washed it looseth its biting but yet dryeth and is used with oile and wax to cicatrize with vineger and oile of roses it cureth burnings when alive mixed with sope it 's used as a potentiall cauterie the water thereof helps fistula's cancers and rednesse of the eyes with raine water and armoniack salt Load-stone Magnes P. About Iron mines in Germany Italy and Norway M. Of all mixtures of stones with a metallick matter N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heracleus Herculeus Nauticus lapis Sideritis Load-stone Caes T. is attractive V. Port. Ru. it draweth out the iron of arrowes sticking in wounds Albert. Mag. Port. Ru. Myl. it being drunk draweth all humidity out of the body causing a dropsie Port. being applied to the head it helpeth all griefes thereof Myl. being drunk it looseneth the belly and thick humours also some think that being taken in a small quantity it preserveth youth Plin. Ru. it 's used in remedies for the eyes helping the watering thereof being burned and powdered it helps adustions Gal. it hath the vertue of the Haematite Diosc therefore some boile it and sell it for the same Schrod it bindeth and stoppeth thick and melancholick humours yet it 's seldome used Some make a plaister thereof burnt and wax and commend it mightily as helping the paine of the gout it may be corroborated being cemented with live lime and a gentle fire if often quenched in the solution or oile of Mars C. The best is that of the colour of iron Barth Ang. it 's hot and dry 30. Aldrov it helps the gonorrhaea in women applied it helps those that are wounded by poysonsome weapons it 's used in the weapon salve Lynx-stone Lyncis L. P. In Germany Borussia Pomerania and Helvetia M. It is generated of the Lynxes urine N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Belemnites Dactylus Idaeus Lyncurius Lynx-stone Caes T. V. it helpeth the paine of the reines and cureth the jaundise Plin. it helps the stone Diosc drunk in water it helps the stomach and flux of the belly Schrod it helps against the stone as that of the Jewes cureth wounds and helpeth against the pleurisie some think that being drunk it helpeth against the night mare and fascinations as for the smell it is unpleasant some say it helps the travail in women M. Mans bladder-stone Humanus L. P. In the bladder of man sometimes in the reines M. Of a tartareous salt terrene and feculent matter N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ludus Lapis vesicae Arenulae MAns bladder-stone Schrod T. V. it is very good against the tartar in all parts of the body and to dissolve the greater stones expell them and to remove obstructions thence arising Hartm in pract Senn. Inst the D. of the essence is gr 5. to 12. every day in some convenient liquour Marble Marmor P. In Italy and Germany and other places M. Of a well concocted matter N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ophites
Glow-worm Cicindula P. They live about hedges in April May and June M. Their meat is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Noctiluca Nitedula Noctuvigila Glow worm Card. Schrod T. They have an anodyne vertue Some use them against the stone so Rod. Cast made into troches with gumm dragant and a little oile of almonds The D. is scrup 2. Aldrov Some use the juyce thereof to wright in the night with the gall of a Dogg and rotten wood of a willow Weck Their water serveth to catch fish with Reisch They shine by reason of their innate light for being cold their igneous parts gather about the parts of digestion Jonst They are generated of dew And shine under the wing Gnat. Culex P. They live in fenny and moist places almost every where M. They live upon wine things acid and sweet N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gall. Mouscheron It. Zanzara Gnat. Aldrov T. V. They serve as meat for the Crocodile Spider birds and fishes They may be driven away by anointing with wormwood and oile or juyce of cumin seed manna thuris vineger or the fume of fleabane St. Katharines flower cypresse calamint rue juniper wood sulphur or bdellium Jonst They are generated of putrified matter They smell well and love light Gras-hopper Cicada P. They live almost every where in hot countries M. Of dew and leaves of trees N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gall. Cigale Ital. Cicala Gras-hopper Aldrov T. Is of a very hot temper V. Boter Those of the occidental Indies eate them V. Athen. The Ancients did eate them to open the veines Rond They are to be eaten whole tosted to help the bladder and difficulty of urin Gal. Used dry they help the collick with pepper So Schrod The ashes help the stone They are begotten of putrefaction love men and live not long Their description is needlesse H. Hornet Crabro P. They live in hollow trees and holes c. M. Of great flies Grapes flesh and fruit N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Craber Gall. Froilon Ital. Calauron HOrnet Aldrov T. V. The water of their decoction or distillation if touched on the skinn makes the place so swell that there seemeth to be the dropsy or some great poyson medled with yet without paine The remedy is triacle drunke so Mizald. the same is used by some whores to counterfeit a great belly and by beggers to gaine mony by so of that of Wasps Their stingings are to be cured by taking triacle inwardly and mithridate applying outwardly Cows dung and savory and fasting spittle Plin. Or rue bayes watermint salt with vineger sealed and armenian earth Their description is needlesse Jonst They arise out of the harder part of Horse flesh as Wasps out of the softer and as Bees They love Wasps hate Flies and follow their leader which is biggest They sting worst about the dogge dayes and signify foule weather when flying often into their holes in the evening K. Kind Gryllus P. They live in old chimney corners where they make a noise M. Of panick ripe corne and appels c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acheta Gall. Crignon It. H. Grillo Cricket KInd Scalig. T. They are of the same nature as Cantharides V. rubbed on they help the roughnesse of the jaws and tonsills their excrements with oile help purrid ulcers and the holy fire alone Schrod Their powder is said to provoke urine strengthen the sight the juyce helps the tonsills Jonst Some use them to cause sleep They may be driven away by water in which vitriol hath been They help purulent eares Applied They help the parotides In water they help the stone and dysury Hung about the neck they help quartans They fly abrode in July and August and the female is the greatest L. Leech Hirudo P. They live chiefely in muddy places in ditches and lakes M. Of bloud and putrid matter N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Aluka Sanguisuga It. Sanguettola LEech Gadald T. V. Before they are used they are to be kept in water and the place is to be rubbed with nitre clay or to be scarrified and anointed with bloud They being first put into warm and clean water and then cleansed using tepid oile that the parts may not be cold and if they are to be fastened to the hands or feet they are to be thrust into the water in which they are and if there are but few to be used their tailes are to be cut off with a paire of cisers for then they draw bloud till salt nitre or ashes to be cast upon their mouthes afterwards a cupping glasse is to be applied to draw out the poyson else the part is to be fomēted with sponges And if the parts shall water after manna cumin or meale may be sprinkled on them applying wool afterwards with a little oile and if the bloud shall continue still to issue out apply lint or spiders webbs with vineger Or burnt galls or a new spung with tarre binding on a paper moistened in vineger but in the long parts ligature may serve Here note that leeches draw not from deepe parts but the uppermost And they are to be used in such bodies that feare the incisions of scarrifications or in such parts in which cupping glasses cannot be used by reason of their smalnesse gibbosity or inequality And leeches are to be taken away when we think they have drawne half the quantity that is to be taken away the rest is to be let pass and the part after is to be fomented and warmed and the flux to be stopped by things astringent and emplastick They may be applied by a reed also removed by hot oile put upon their mouths they are useful against subcuraneous diseases as ringworms c. And in the remission of diseases symptoms paine griefe swellings and heat that the matter may not be more attracted sometimes they may be applied to such parts as will not beare bloud-letting Albuc The best are those in sweet waters not redd the great headded black green such causing apostumes faintings fluxes of bloud feavers laxity and evil ulcers Those also are bad that live in ill waters black dirty or stinking but the best live where Froggs doe having two lines of the colour of arsnick round liver coloured and like the Mouse taile red bellied green backt if from running waters In Germany they preferre the greater greenish and black spotted Avic They are to be kept a day before use having what was in thē squeezed out having a little bloud then given to thē then they are to be taken in a sponge to wipe off their viscosity and to be put into clear water being stung with a nettle to cause them to vomit They may be made to fasten by milk and to fall off by aloes or vineger and by vineger and salt they may be made to vomit their bloud and then the parts are to be fomented with warme water And after the place may be
same are used in the Booke of secrets attributed to Gallen Plin. Beares eate them against the hurts of Mandrakes and nauseousnesse Plin. Their eggs help dulnesse of hearing Stamped with flies they make black the eyebrows Rubbed on the cheekes of Boyes they keepe them from roughnesse Arnold Vil. unc 2. of their eggs with the juyce of henbane and batt's bloud cradicate haire if used twice or thrice in a day Nightingals use them as physick when they are sick Plin. The ant-hils applied help botches and gouts c. Schrod The best are those that live under resiniferous trees T. They are hot dry and cause venery V. Their acid smell doth much cherish the vital spirits Their hills heate and dry and strengthen the nerves therefore they help the palsey hysterical passions and the cachexy The oile of their infusion causeth coiture the liquour made of them in an oven is a good ophthalmick remedy helping the suffusion of the eyes They generate pustuls by biting and their eggs drunk cause flatulency and paine of the belly They may be driven away by bitumen sulphur and tithymal so Jonst The destilled water of them causeth vomiting Gesn and helpeth fevers A bath made of them expels the stone Brunfels applied with salt eggs and axunge laying a cloth betwixt they help the sciatica Marcel they help the itch Albert. and dissipate flatulencies Non. They helpe cornes and tumours Their description is needlesse They generate in the winter bringing forth little worms which turne inte egges which then bring forth in spring when old they grow winged and live not long after it they live like a common wealth get corne which they dry and bite at both ends that it grow not They ware stones by their assiduity and make beaten paths and bury their dead damm out water and help one an other in the drawing of their burdens Aet The greater lead and the lesser evaginate the corne if dirty they cleanse themselves before they enter into their places They teach the young to labour the idle they expel when they carry in their graine it 's a signe of soule weather They cast up the earth over their dores that the water may not enter in They have three cells in one they live breed in the second and bury there and keepe corn in the third S. Scolopender Scolopendra P. Their habitation is in the bodies of trees M. They live about the trunks of trees N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Porcus lutosus Multipeda SColopender Aldrov T. V. Their poyson causeth putrefaction Diosc The symptoms after their biting is bluenesse about the wound putrefaction and there 's an itch over all the body The remedy is salt finely powdered with vineger or wild rue applied The place is to be fomented with brine drinking birthwort in wine wild time or wild rue also the seed and flowers of asphodil drunk in wine Plin. Also the leaves of horsmint drach 2. being drunk in wine and mints maiden haire wild penny-royall with salt wild cumin vineger drunk childrens urine salt drunk in vineger the ashes of the Sea Crabb and barley meale but some of the Ancients preferre ashes kneaded with vineger and penny royal rue and mints drunk in wine Jonst Boiled in oile they take away haire Their bitings are to be scarified Muff. They differ as to their description from the Gally-worm as the Lobster from the Crevise Scorpion Scorpio P. In Germany Helvetia Italy and the Canary Islands M. Of earth herbs lizards aspes and moths N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Scorpius Satocollos Pandect Hepa Scorpion T. V. Gal. Being rosted and eaten with bread they break the stone in the bladder Plin. So the ashes gr 6. being taken with the syrup of rootes so the water injected by a Catheter with the seed of Macedonian stoneparsly with the tecolite or stones of Crabs so Card. Mes So the oile used to the reines privy parts some adde the oile of bitter almonds or round birthwort gentian galingal and bark of the roots of capers Sylv. It 's used in remedies against poyson and with spices it opens incideth maketh thin cleanseth and breaketh open and breaketh the stone specifically Varig Some by the unction of the oile have been freed from quotidian feavers That of Matthiolus used to the pulsatile veines as in the temples hands feet and region of the heart repeted thrice in an houre frees from all poysons within the body that corrode not also from the bitings of Vipers aspes or any venimous beasts also it cureth and preserveth from the plague It killeth all inward worms and helpeth all paines of flatulency or cold especially of the ventricle the confection of Damascen also breaketh the stone Gal. The Scorpion helps those that are bitten by the Viper Plin. Stamped they help the poyson of the Stellion Stamped and taken with mulse they help the jaundice also often applied with rose vineger they help the gout and inflammations Aldrovand reporteth also other uses hereof which are superstitious Schrod They provoke urine their infusion in oile of bitter almonds drunk helps the collick and stone The compounded of Mesue helps the paines of the reines also venimous bitings paroxysmes in feavers used to the back and helps paines of the eares Pon. Their sanguine oile mightily helps nephritick paines used outwardly So Kief Jonst. As for their description they are of a soutish colour oval forme with little eyes eight feet two arms They touch only the pilous parts Whē they goe they goe trāsversly They love the shade they sting not if not trod on they seeme friends by their head whē they strike with their taile in Aethiopia those that tread on their excrements have exulcerated feet Their poyson is very troublesome and is worst at midde day in summer and it s counted incurable after the eating of basil The symptomes are inflammation hardnesse rednesse and paine of the part inequal temper sweat trembling swellings in the groin flatulency of the belly and distorsion of the face c. The remedies are worm-wood sowthernwood drunk in wine amomum bishopsweed aniseed garlick birth wort asphodil assa foetida atriplex blites marigold calamint centaury ground ivy coloquintida cyperus galbanum barley and flowerdeluce Balsam myrtle rose bramble bayes frankincense vine Mans spittle and urine mummy river-froggs and themselves stamped and applied with salt line-seed and marsh mallows Also Bezoar their oile triacle Diaphantus 's antidote and Scorpiaca and Ardoinus his remedies They are driven away by brimstone Seepadde Stella marina P. They live in the shore of Aquitania and Italy c. M. Their meat is shell-fishes N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sidus marinum Seepadde Bell. T. Those of foure six and twelve rades are edible having a red or luteous flesh in their armes V. Hipp. The black drunk with cabbage in odorate wine helps the strangling of the womb Applied they help the wounds of the Sea-Dragon and Scorpions also against all poysons drunk by byting or
herb and root of mullen and wrapt up in a lease and warmed in the ashes Womens milk cooleth lenifieth maturateth and helps rednesse of the eyes So the distilled water vitriolated and helps inflammations The butter is a very good ophthalmick remedy The menstruall bloud zenith juvenculae dried and taken inwardly helps the stone and epilepsy outwardly it helps the paines of the gout applied with Cows fatt It is also counted good in the plague sc a linnen cloth moistened in vineger or rose-water and impregnated therewith being applied to the apostumes or carbuncles It quencheth the erysipelas and cleanseth pustules of the face The secundine or navil of the Infant much helpeth the swellings of the throat being calcined and taken in the water of sowthernwood daily in quantity unc 3. and that the moone decreasing it helps the epilepsy hinders philtron's driveth out the mola and foetus and killeth living creatures in man though not naturally engendred Hartm It helps maternal moles and the collick used as an amulet The urine heateth dryeth resolveth cleanseth discusseth mundifieth and resisteth putrefaction Therefore it is of chiefe use inwardly in the obstruction of the liver spleen gall dropsy jaundise and to preserve from the plague also the urine of the Husband is said to facilitate the difficult birth of the Wife it being drunk Used outwardly it dryeth the itch resolveth tumours mundifyeth wounds though poysonsome prevents gangreens looseneth the belly in clysters mixt with nitre helps dandriffe in the head and used to the pulses helps feavers that of a boy dropped into the eares helps their exulcerations dropped in it helps the rednesse of the eyes used in lotions it helps tremblings of the joynts in gargarismes it helps the tumours of the uvula Applied with ashes it helps the pains of the spleen The volatile spirit or salt of boyes urine is excellent against the stone being drunk in a convenient liquour but it stinketh mightily It 's very good for the ceruleous tincture of the Emerald it being a menstruum for the same with the phlegme Libavius rectifieth it and useth it in the gout asthma and stone being injected into the bladder with a syringe it being first impregnated by lithontripticks The fiery spirit or salt serves to draw vitriols out of mettals and chiefely out of Luna and gold if further prepared The spirit thereof by putrefaction is an excellent anodyne in paines being applyed with a convenient liquour it opens also tartareous obstructions of the bowels and mesentere so it is of great use in the scurvy hypochondriack melancholy cachexie and yellow and black jaundise it breaketh the stone of the reines and bladder and easeth pains arising thence The same salt if dissolved in the spirit of vitriol and againe destilled in sand yeeldeth a liquour excellent against the epilepsy the same well purified serveth as a chrysolyticon Quercetan de sig rer doth at the same time draw forth an ophthalmick phlegma secondly an antipodagrick remedy And thirdly a glacial spirit by the Retort which he much commendeth for the opening of obstructions of the liver spleen to provoke urine and dissolve the stone as also to extinguish inflammations and gangreens The magistery of urine is more strong incideth the tartar of the body expelling it by sweate urine and the belly it cureth many diseases thence arising or however easeth them sc the atrophy c. also it preserveth from the paines of the stone being taken every moneth before the new of the moone the D. is gr 7. to 10. in a convenient liquour The dayly use thereof may be continued for some time togeather The oleum ludi or of the tartareous matter that sticketh to the chamber-pot is excellent against the stone The D. is scrup 1. Mans dung mollifieth maturats and is anodyne therefore it is of great use to mitigate pains being applied to maturate pestilential biles against the phlegmon of the throat or quinsy sc being dryed stamped and applied with honey as also to help inflammations in wounds Also some use it inwardly in the quinsey being burnt and drunk and in feavers to drive away the paroxismes taken in the same way The D. is drach 2. The powder of that of an Infant taken divers dayes doth eradicate the epilepsy The destilled water helps the haw in the eye and other passions of the annate tunicle sc 1. or 2. dropps being dropped in it causeth a good colour in the face lengthens the haire cureth corrosive ulcers and fistula's and remooveth cicatrizes of the hands Used inwardly it helps the epilepsy and dropsy driveth out the stone of the reines and bladder and helps the bitings of a mad Dogge and poysonsome beasts Poter The oile helps the tinea of the head exulcerated erysipelas tetters and ringworms applied it easeth the gout and mortifyeth the cancer Libav inwardly it helps the jaundise Agric. The occidental civet is nothing else but mans dung made sweete by the mediation of digestion The sperme is used by some to make magnetick mummy of to serve as a philtron And by Paracelsus to make his homunculus of The bloud drunk fresh and hot helps the epilepsy using motion after it and swift running till there be an eruption of sweat drunk fresh or powdered it stops hemorrhages and used outwardly it helps eruptions of the bloud and chiefely of the nostrils sc the ashes being put in or applied fresh to the fore-head but if some drink it it causeth fiercenesse and sometimes the epilepsy Hartm The bloud of Childbirth helps the volatick scabb being applied often with the secundine The destilled water is made with the oile it helps in the phthisis and drynesse unc 1. being drunk or if rubbed on the parts It cleanseth and healeth fistula's and cooleth burnings That destilled with Womans milk also helpeth sports in the skinn The destilled oile is good to eradicate the epilepsy scrup sem being taken every day for a moneth together beeginning from the new moone and afterwards in each new moon once scrup 1. through the year it helps the palsey apoplexy exulceration of the lungs and pleuresy so Beg. Libav Syntag. The rectified oile is excellent to strengthen sick persons The antipodagrick balsame is excellent in the gout being used every day twice or thrice for six dayes together also it stops swellings and helps paines rednesse so also that of the bloud of a Goat or Stag. The antepileptick spirit helps the epilepsy palsey and asthma c. The alexitery mummy of life is excellent to cure carbuncles the D. is drach sem in the water of cinnamon drunk fasting in the morning so Fab. in chirurg he also useth the arcanum of mans bloud in his Myrothecium The stone dissolveth the tartar or stone in all parts and expels it so it helps all obstructions The D. of the powder is drach 1. the D. of the liquour of the salt is gr 6. to 10. of the essence or elyxir gr 5. to 10. The membranye which girdeth the head of some
children when young is good against the collick Mummy resolveth coagulated bloud drach 2. being taken purgeth the head helps prickings of the spleen the cough inflation of the body obstructions of the menses and other uterine affections used outwardly it consolidateth wounds The Arabian is a thick substance sweating out of dead bodies embalmed with aloes myrrhe and balsame the Aegyptian with pisasphalt the factitious kind of which is made of bitumen mixed with pitch which some sell in steed of mummy Some make it of dead bodies torrified by the sun under sand That of the later use is made of the dead body of a red man having thinner bloud better flesh whole fresh unspotted of 24. yeares old dying by a violent death and not by a disease the musculous parts being cut in pieces and strewed with myrrhe and a little aloes afterwards macerating it in the spirit of wine after hanging it up 6. or 10. houres and doing the like againe leaving the pieces at length to dry in a dry aire and shadowy place then will it be like flesh hardned in the smoke without stinking so Crol but the best is the first and last The tincture or extract of mummy of Quercetane is alexipharmick and much resisteth putrefaction also it helps diseases of the breasts the asthma and phthisis c. The remaining feces are anodyne The tincture or extract of Crollius helps poysons and contagions it helps the pestilence as a prophylactick scrup 1. and drach 1. or 1. sem for curation against poysons it may be taken with the oile of sweet almonds to cause vomiting Tentz. in med diastat The alcolisate tincture or elyxir of mumy is excellent against the plague c. Querc Spagir mumiated oile olive hath all the properties of natural balsame and helps poysonsom and pestilential affections Querc The tincture or exalted oile of mumy is counted of such a vivifiek quality that there is no particle into which it doth not penetrate no ulcer nor corruption which it doth not cure gr 4. or 5. being taken with a convenient decoction twice in a day for a certaine time The aqua divina is of a very magnetick vertue The skinn worn about the belly helps difficult parturition and hysterical affections also blastings and contractions of the joynts gloves thereof being worne The fatt strengthens discusseth easeth paine helps contractions and the hardnesse of cicatrices and fills holes after the small pox Used with spirit of vitriol it 's very penetrating Mans bones dry discusse bind and stop all fluxes therefore they are profitable in catarrhs fluxes of the menses dysenteries lienteries and ease paines of the joynts some use them with purgers Hartman saith that the teeth of dead men pulled out and often applied bring out rotten teeth of the truth of which may be suspected The oile of the bones by distillation discusseth and is anodyne so an excellent antipodagrick remedy The marrow of the bones helps contracted members The scull helps diseases of the head sc the epilepsy and is used in many antepileptick compositions Especially the os triquetrum of the temples The D. of the magistery of the cranium is scrup 1. or drach sem Brendel The compounded magistery or essentificated spirit thereof is antepileptick and exceedeth ordinary remedies therein The D. of the oile is gr 4. to 6. The extract or tincture of the cranium being digested and perfectly depurated is excellent against the epilepsy The D. is scrup sem to scrup 1. with its own distilled water So Querc Pharm Rest The extract or Galreda of Theophrastus is used in the quantity of g. 5. or 6. every day The Moss growing upon the scull that is exposed to the aire is very astringent and of great use in hemorrhages sc of the nostrils being put in some say it doth the like held in the hand that also is very binding that groweth upon other bones It 's used in the weapon salve The spirit of mans braine called aqua aurea is an excellent antepileptick the D. is scrup 1. to scrup 4. so Hartm in Pract or that of the Elke so the oile and mightily comforts the braine The extract of Mans gall with the spirit of wine dropped into the eare mightily helps deasenesse The heart dried and taken helps the epilepsy Thus of the medicinal use of the several parts of man's body As for his description it may be seen in the several Bookes of Anatomy the Summe of which is as followeth I. Herein may be considered the general external division of the whole body sc into venters limbs The venters are the inferiour or abdomen the midle or thorax or the supreame which is the head and 1. This is externaly divided into that part which is hairy called the scull the parts of which are the crown hinderpart forepart and the temples Or that which is without haire which is the face the parts of which are the forehead with its wrinkles the eyebrows with their glabella the nose with its ridg nostrils pillar wings globe and vibrissi the eyes with their lids greater and lesser angles cavity and subcavity hall iris with its colours black gray yellow and white cheekes with the upper jaw lipps mouth teeth incisors canine or molar with their gumms and alveols chin with its haire eares with their aurickle its superiour and inferiour part helix and anthelix cavity two eminencies and auditory passage together with the neck with its anterior part containing the node and throat and hinder part with the shoulders and armpits 2. The external parts of the thorax which is the midle venter with its anterior part the breast sternon duggs niples areol and posterior which is the back shoulderblades and spine and the sides with their intercostals 3. The External parts of the lower venter or belly with its anteriour part containing the supreme region midle or umbilical and inferiour with the ilia and pu●es with the site of the pares and posteriour with the loines buttocks and fissure 4. The external parts serving to generation sc in Man the scrotum fistulary nerve glans prepuce frenum and urethra in woman the lips of the matrice great fissure nymphs clitoris external bone of the womb myrtle-like caruncles and hymen As for the limbs may be considered 5. The parts contained in the hand with the shoulders elbow lines eminences carpus metacarpus fingers sc the thumb little finger index midle and anulary with their nodes and nailes 6. The parts contained in the foot with the thigh femen hip perinaeum shank calf knee rotule hamme ankles heele fleshy parts and toes 7. The figure and bignesse of the body with the difference according to age sex countries of which the Danes and Germans are great but the English Scotts French and Spaniards are short for the most part the Italians and Grecians of a midle stature and the Venetians tall and lastly according to diseases 8. The figure and bignesse of the head which ought
and diet as in the malignant As for the symptomes of feavers sc the headach watching sleepinesse raging epileptick convulsions haemorrages coughs drynesse of the tongue thirst hickets paine of the heart vomiting flux of the belly lypothymy and syncope c. see after in their places Thus of the universal disease internall of the body Now follow the particular II. Particular with their symptomes they are I. The diseases of the head 1. The distēper of the head without matter it is caused by external causes hot cold moist or dry causing it to decline from its natural temper and it 's cured if hot by alteratives emulsions juleps epithems irrigations embrocations oxyrrhodines oiles liniments unguents cataplasmes cerots plaisters saceuls powders odorats gargarismes and cooling diet barley water c. with evacuation If cold by evacuation and alteration by hot cephalicks clarets mulse decoctions hydromel distilled waters and spirits oiles tinctures syrups conserves condites confections powders boles electuaries rotules morsules and troches and outwardly by epithems fomentations embrocations and lotions oiles balsames unguents liniments emplasters cerots facculs pouders cucupha's sinegmes troches fumale candles noduls masticatories phoenigms and diet seasoned with sage rosemary marjerom hysop spices c. so if humid by alteration and drying diet and a little drink using the decoction of guajacum and drying simples and the contrary remedies as before So if dry by humectation and a humid diet sc fatt broth forbile eggs chickens veale boiled flesh rather than rosted barly water with liquorice and syrup of violets much sleepe living neere rivers and shunning venery labours and using other contraries as in the rest If complicate it's to be cured accordingly They are known by the pulse sleepe leanenesse and ingenuity c. 2. The distemper of the head with matter which is caused by things internal and external sc humours and vapours causing it to decline from its due temper it is cured as the former by evacuation by errhines sternutatories apophlegmatismes cauteries setons topicks c. and correction of the distemper and pills If by consent from the stomach intestines spleen reines lungs womb external parts or heart it 's cured accordingly by revulsives intercipients repellents as oxyrrhodines c. the place is known by the site of the parts and paine If flatulent by discussers averters revulsion expulsion and evacuation avoiding flatulent diet If from bloud by phlebotomy repellents intercipients diet cold and dry hordeats saxatile fishes prunes quinces c. if from choller by venesection preparants purgation evacuation clysters vomitories diureticks and cooling and moistening diet using barly water or small beere cold water and long sleepe If from phlegme by preparers appropriate purgers evacuants sc errhines gargarismes masticatories topicks cauteries corroborants hot and dry diet little of easy concoction rosted with aromaticks exercise moderate sleepe aire hot and dry wine and frictions c. if from a serouse humour by evacuation by purgation phlebotomy sudorificks diureticks and correctives by masticatories apophlegmatismes and vesicatories with a drying aire and diet henns partridges c. if from melancholy by preparers purgers corroborants a letificant and hot and moist diet sc new eggs the flesh of young creatures especially cockrels kids flesh ptisan borrage sweet apples long sleepe c. if from atra bilis by preparants purgers topick alterants venefection leeches cold and moist diet saxatile fishes barly water whey with epithyme and sleepe long avoiding things of grosse juyce 3. The vices of the animal spirits which are caused by heate coldness thickness impurity darkness paucity agitation motion are cured according to the cause by unguēts corroborants sc the confectiō of alchermes the water of Matthiolus carfuncle a fit diet c. 4. The diseases of composition and first of figure which are caused in the womb by reason of ill matter or errour of the formative faculty after birth by the nurse by ligature or compression c. are cured by compression ligature 5. The straightnesse of the passages of the brain which is caused by obstruction or compression it 's cured if from vapours by intercipients repellents revellents discutients If from fumes suffocating by discutients as aqua vitae with triacle vomiting with oxymel sternutatories the balsam of rue revulsions frictions If from phlegme by evacuants revulsives discussers heaters If from compression by elevation if of the sutures by discussers 6. The diseases in number and they are wormes which are caused by the corruption of malignant humours and are cured by errhines sternutatories with scolecobroticks the juyce and fume of tobaco taken and plaisters 7. The commotion of the braine which is caused by external violent causes which moove it out of its natural place it 's cured by revulsion of the bloud repulsion evacuation and discussion by pigeons c. the depression of the cranium is cured by the cephalick cerat c. 8. The contusion of the head which is caused by percussion or falls c. it 's cured by repellents and astringents using oile of roses and the white of an egge with rose water vineger tow afterwards by austere wine with chamomill flowers the alabaster ointment a thin diet and Vigoes cerot de minio diapalma Gal. and the barbarum plaister c. 9. The wounds of the head without hurt of the cranium membrans and brain which if caused without contusion of the outward parts it 's cured by the white of an egg the ointment of cerusse alabaster rosate and Galens refrigerant If with contusion of the outward parts by defensives oile of roses turpentine honey of roses diapalma and the bettony plaister c. 10. The solute unity of the cranium without wound of the meninges and brain which is caused by fissure contusion depression session and contra fissure frō evident violent causes which are known by symptomes condition of the blow subject sight specillum or inke mixed with a plaister which applied will remaine black there c. it 's cured by phlebotomy purgation section with defensives detersives sarcoticks epuloticks as diapalma c. 11. The fracture of the craniū with hurt of the meninges brain which is caused by outward violence is cured by ischaimes anodynes sc oile of roses universals the betony plaister cathereticks c. vulnerary potions thin diet ptisans quinces and things like in substance c. 12. The fungus of the brain which is caused by vitious humours slowing to the part it 's cured by evacuation revulsion dryers cathereticks excision and ligature by silk 13. The rottennesse of the skull which is caused by the erosion of sharp humours and is cured by seperating the corrupted bone from that which is sound by medicaments or the hand or use the betony plaister c. 14. The inflammation of the brain which is a tumour of the same caused by bloud effused out of the vessels into the spaces of the part
and putrifying there by reason of things too much heating it 's cured by venesection purgation cupping glasses discutients revulsives derivation interception and thin and cooling diet as ptisans emulsions juleps and sleep 15. The hydrocephal which is a tumour of the head caused by a collection of a serous humour in some part of the members constituting the head it 's cured by evacuants heaters and dryers with correctors c. Now follow the symptomes of the brain and 1. Those of the sensus communis 1. The want of sleep which is caused by a continual influx of the spirits into the organs preternaturally troubling the common sense and those external it 's cured by the remotion of objects inviting the sense to one that is pleasant and tempering hot dry and sharp vapours sc by hypnoticks internal and external if from vapours deficient use ptisan sorbile eggs amygdalats lettuce or violet water so if from heat and drynesse if from hot dry and sharp vapours by evacuation refrigerants sc barly water emulsions and opiats if from cold and drynesse by things hot and odoriferous if from paine straightnesse of the breast and objects of enteriour senses by narcoticks anodynes lenients and remotion of objects c. if from affections of the mind by correction thereof and evacuation c. 2. The coma somnolent or cataphora which is a deepe sleepe and is caused by a torpidity of the common sense and hinderance of the diffusion of the animal spirits to the senses that it cannot know the objects received from them or judge thereof it 's cured by alterants evacuation discussers revulsion and restoratives with oxyrrhodines acid things suffumigations apophlegmatismes errhines ptarmicks hot topicks rue balsam friction and fit diet 3. The dreaming immoderately which is caused by impure vapours sad and melancholy arising copiously from meats of the same nature infecting and exagitating the animal spirits or distempers of the braine it 's cured by abstaining from meate bad flatulent and taking it in too great a quantity by venesection purgation pepticks cold water alterants discutients and stomach plaisters c. in children 2. The symptomes of the imagination sc the Vertigo which is caused by an inordinate and circular motion of the animal spirit in the fore part of the brain which causeth a false imagination of conversion and circumgyration it 's cured by discussion venesection revulsion diet without flatulency diacydoniats pepticks and moderation c. if by essence by evacuation discussers and roborants if from consent by preparation evacuation revulsion interception discutients roborants if from the liver spleen womb or whole body according to the mittent and recipient part by phlebotomy catharticks revulsion and roborants if from the narrownesse of the pores of the brain as before if from the agitation of the spirits from evident causes by quiet and sleep and frictions of the extreame parts 3. The symptomes of imagination and ratiocination hurt 1. The memory hurt which is caused by things hurting the siccity of the brain joyned with moderate heate which is necessary thereto and so making the animal spirits either too torpid or mobile and so causing imminution or abolition it 's cured by contraries evacuation instauration excitation alterants roborants internal and external hot cephalicks diet hot and dry and of thin substance with aromaticks easily concocted and not vaporous and according to the cause 2. The delirium which is a depravation of the phantasy and ratiocination caused from the oblation of an inconvenient and absurd phantasme it 's cured by alterants revulsives repellers intercipients and discutients venesection refrigerants astringents vesicatories hypnoticks the alabaster ointment and pigeons applied the paraphrenitis caused by the inflammation of the diaphragme is cured by averters and repellers Ebriety is helped by vomit things acid prunes quinces butter milk lettuce cabbage oxyrrhodines and sleep 3. The phrensy which is a perpetual madnesse caused by the inflammation of the membrans of the brain and afflicteth with a continual feaver it 's cured by phlebotomy hypnoticks oxyrrhodines revulsion coolers clysters epithems diureticks and diet as in the inflammation of the brain 4. Melancholy which is a madnesse caused by a melancholick phantasme with which the patient sticks upon one cogitation without raging and a feaver and with sadnesse and feare it 's cured by the generation of thin cleare and subtile bloud ceasing from perturbation reduction to the contrary diet thin easily concocted and not flatulent sc chickens partridges flesh of kids lambs veale saxatile fishes sorbile eggs borrage almonds c. if essentiall to the brain by alteration evacuants discutients roborants corrigents and diet as before if from love sicknesse by society mirth spermosbesticks rue porcelain mints camphire sugar of Saturn and thin diet if from philtrons by alexipharmicks and vomitories if by consent of the heart whole body by preparation evacuation revulsion alterants and roborants phlebotomy and diet as aforesaid if hypochondriacal by lenients vomitories preparants attenuants aperients purgers chalybiats topicks roborants and diet as aforesaid if from the womb by phlebotomie preparants purgers alterants specificks confortants topicks fontanels and humecters if errabund by alteration evacuation roborants humecters and correction if attonit as the rest but by stronger remedies 5. The mania which is a long emotion of the mind with boldnesse and fiercenesse without a feaver caused by a fiery fervor and heate of the spirits it 's cured by phlebotomie preparation purgation aversion repulsion alteration mutation roborants hypnoticks specificks topicks cauteries lotions and frictions if from the womb by spermosbesticks refrigerants society sleepe diet as before and the rose julep c. 6. The rabies which is a madnesse caused by some peculiar poyson ingendred in some creature and communicated to the patient with a great hatred to all liquids especially water and it 's called hydrophobie it 's cured by interception extraction ligature scarrification cupping glasses attrahents amputation cauteries venesection purgation preparation alexipharmicks sudorificks and diet of rams crevises chestnuts cabbage walnuts garlick onions radishes and succory c. 7. The tarantats which are caused by bitings and are cured by antidots attrahents cupping glasses vesicatories the Q E. of rosemary and musick c. 4. The symptomes of more of the internal senses 1. The coma vigilant which is an exstatick drousinesse and propension to sleepe and impotency thereunto caused by narcotick vapours causing sleepe and troubling the mind it 's cured as the lethargy and phrensy by phlebotomy revulsion oxyrrhodines clysters preparants evacuants discutients roborants inunctions and fomentations 2. Somnambulants whose distemper is caused by humours yeelding narcotick vapours moving the locomotive faculty they are cared by castigation increpation purgation corroborants and diet of good juyce not flatulent supper smal and sleepe not soone after meales 3 The lethargy which is an inexpleble propensiō to sleepe with a gentle feaver oblivion torpor caused by pituitous bloud putrifying in the posteriour sinus of the braine it 's
5. The hordeol which groweth in the upper eye-lid and is like a barley corne caused by a pituitous and grosse humour mixt with bloud it 's cured by universals by fomenting with hens fat fasting spitle oile of eggs c. 6. The chalasion or grando which is a round translucid moveable tuberculum caused by a hard lapidescent matter and is cured by emollients discutients and section so also the lithiasis is cured 7. Nodes and excrescencies caused by humours and are cured by emollients resolvents discutients and section 8. The cancer which is caused as the rest and so cured by evacuation universals particulars and section 9. Inversion and contraction which is caused by the increase of flesh and is cured by purgation washing with roch alum and section if from ill curing of a wound or ulcer by liniments if from resolution by removing symptomes and emollients if from contraction if of the superiour eye-lid it 's called lagophthalmy arising from evil conformation c. and is helped by objects fomentations emollients section 10. Their coalescency or sticking together which is caused by ulcers and is cured by section if from a pituitous and viscid matter by purgation vesicatories averters and lotion with rose-rose-water or oile of roses 2. Those of the cilia 1. The phthiriasis which is caused by the want of washing ill diet sordes and contagion causing lice it 's cured by washing with sea-sea-water the decoction of beete aloes and honey 2. The phalangosis when the haires are not seen except the eye-lids are lifted up caused by pituitous humours loading them or exsiccation of the cartilage it 's cured by universal evacuation fomentation section c. 3. The trichiasis when haires grow under the natural and prick the eye caused by humours flowing to the extremities of the eye-lids by reason of tumours or deligation it 's cured by evulsion corrosion and section 4. The madarosis or falling off of the haires caused by vitious and sharp humours flowing to the roots often after malignant feavers it 's cured after purgation by unguents 5. The softnesse thereof caused by a pituitous humour seising on the cartilage of the eye-lids and roots it 's cured by evacuation vesicatories corroborants and gum arabick c. 6. Ptillosis having also thicknesse callosity and rednesse of the lids caused by adust bloud salt phlegme choller or melancholy or mixture hereof it 's cured by evacuation humectation emollition corrigents and capillaries Note also the wounds of the eye-lids are cured by the white of an egge and rose water diapalma and lac virginis c. the blacknesse thereof by contusion and percussion by the camphorate white ointment c. and their combustion by mucilages c. The symptomes thereof sc the difficulty of apertion and shutting caused by a thick viscous and drying humour is cured by universals fomentations rosate oile and mucilages If instability which is caused by flatulency or convulsion and refrigeration it 's cured V. P. by evacuation of the head roborants topicks If things fallen into the eye they are got out by doubling one lid over the other and blowing the nostrils by injecting faire water with sugar hydromel or milk retention of the breath till the eyes water sternutatories cotton and turpentine instruments and the white of an egge if corrosive 3. Those of the annate tunicle or conjunctive 1. The ophthalmy which is an inflammation thereof caused by sharp bloud distending its veines it 's cured by venesection preparants catharticks diversion derivation revulsion particular evacuations errhines topicks temporal repellents and astringents anodynes emulsions sarcocol and tuttie c. if from cold and thick humours by universal and particular purgation diversion phlebotomy friction ligature cupping-glasses resolvents lenients and diet that is not vaporose sharp or filling the head salt or aromatical in the choletick by the decoction of barley hydromel in thick humours and things acid sleep moderation if a taraxis or perturbation if from heate by camphorats milk the white of an egge and rose-water if from cold by thin wine if from wind fumes or dust by water milk rose-water and saffron and sleepe if from a blow or chance by phlebotomy anodynes repellers womans milk rose-water the white of an egge c. if a chemosis the white swelling above the black and the eye-lids being as it were inverted by stronger remedies phlebotomy purgation scarrification cupping-glasses setons and cauteries c. if a dry lipitude caused by a drying salt and nitrous humour as the rest by appropriats temperants alterants evacuants revulsion derivation and topicks with emollients butter and oile c. 2. The pterygion or unguis which is a nervose membran fibrous and whitish arising from the angles of the eyes especially the greater and sticking hard to the aduate sometimes reaching the cornea and covering the apple of the eye caused by bloud mixt with thick and tough humours intercuraneous it 's cured V. P. by revulsion by vesicatories extergents alcohol of egge shells fomentations fieffs anodynes section defensives and diet thin and inciding not vaporose c. 3. The pannus which is red somewhat like a pannicle caused by the exuberancy of bloud in the exteriour veines of the eyes it is cured by universals topicks abstersives and dryers by the marcasite and sarcocol c. as also by section and diet as before 4. Those of the cornea 1. The thicknesse thereof caused by corrugation and exsiccation it 's cured V. P. the head and body being evacuated by the juyce of celandine and spirit of wine dropped in and tartar of malmesey 2. The leucoma which is a white spot making the cornea so thick that there cannot be a passing forth of the visible spirits caused by a cicatrice phlegme or inequality it 's cured by emollients abstergents or also chromaticks sc the juyce of the punick apple c. 3. The pustules of the cornea and adnare which are common to both caused by a thin sharp and serous humour elevating the tunicles they are cured by universal evacuants and revulsions as in lippitude gentle discutients astringents resolvents and diet as aforesaid c. 4. The ulcers of the cornea and adnate caused by things external or internal affluent or congest they are cured V. P. by temporals and frontals and the precedent ophthalmicks exsiccants sieffs emollients maturants astringents glutinants decubiture on the other side in the beginning and diet as before 5. The cancer of the cornea which is caused by an atrabilary humour it 's cured or mitigated by palliatives catharticks corrigents and extirpation c. 6. The wounds of the cornea c. which are caused by extrinsicals c. and are cured by phlebotomy purgation alterants refrigerants repellers detersives sieffs exsiccants and cicatrizants c. 7. The rupture of the cornea which is caused by externals or internals as the afflux of humours or bloud the veines being opened it 's cured V. P. by astringents fomentations c.
8. The hyposphagme or contusion being a red or livid spot caused by bloud flowing out of the veines opened by reason of internal or external violence it 's cured V. P. by discutients and astringents c. 9. The paine of the eyes which is caused by the solution of its continuity by humours or external causes it 's cured according to its cause by evacuation diversion anodynes sc the white of an egge with rose-rose-water a sweete apple with sugar womans milk and opiats c. 10. The hypopyon which is caused by purulency betwixt the tunicles it 's cured by evacuants V. P. collyries gentle discutients and resolvents c. 5. Those of the uvea 1. The proptosis thereof or its falling down which is caused when there is a solution of the unity of the cornea by wounds or ulcers it 's cured by astringents without asperity and manual operation 2. The platycoria or dilatation of the pupil towards the circle of the iris which is caused by the tension of the uvea from internal or external causes it 's cured if from humidity by phlebotomy cupping-glasses leeches purgation frictions resolvers gentle astringents if from flatulency by discutients and astringents if from drynesse by humecters sc milk c. if from stroakes by the plaister of beane meale pigeons bloud myrrhe phlebotomy derivation repulsion and roborants 3. The myosis or narrownesse of the pupil when too little which is caused by the contraction of the uvea it 's cured if from humidity V. P. by exsiccants if from defect of the aqueous humour by humecters c. 4. The h●pochyma or suffusion which is an obstruction of the pupill caused by a humour in that part of the eye hindering vision it 's cured by phlebotomy if need preparants evacuants ophthalmicks with guajacum lixives revulsion by cupping glasses vesicatories setons topicks discutients fumes extersives fomentations chirurgy and thin diet diacydoniats and moderation if a notha it 's usually from the stomach and it 's cured by evacuants and roborants 6. Those of the aranea sc thicknesse caused by the afflux of humours it 's cured V. P. by attenuants ophthalmicks c. 7. Those of the angular flesh and 1. The aegilops which is a tubercle betwixt the greater angle of the eye and root of the nose caused by bloud flowing thither from the adjacent veines it 's cured by venesection purgation apocrousticks discutients apertion if need abstersives if fistulous sarcoticks and cicatrizants and section in the anchilops and thin and cooling diet 2. The encanthis which is an excrescency in the greater angle of the eye caused by the afflux of bloud and humours thereto it 's cured V. P. by cathereticks aegyptiack section and cauteries 3. The rhyas which is diminution of the lachrymal flesh in the greater angle of the eye caused by the defect of aliment corrosion or incision it 's cured by instauration sarcoticks and consolidants 4. The itching of the lachrymale caruncle which is caused by the afflux of matter it 's cured by frigid and humid topicks oile of roses and violets phlebotomy and purgation if need and collyries 8. Those of the humours of the eyes 1. The aqueous and it is thicknesse thereof caused by the admistion of grosse humours or vapours it 's cured as suffusions if effusion by the rupture of the cornea by surgery diet of good juyce if there be imminution by heate drynesse evacuation dissease it 's cured by meat of good juyce and generating much bloud and humecting fomentations if by obscurity alienation of colour by evacuants according to the peccant humour 2. The cristalline sc the glaucoma which is caused by exsiccation occasioned by age or some other exsiccant drying cause so that things seem as if seene through a cloud causing whitenesse about the ball it is not cured easily if too thin it 's helped by the contrary if the site be changed upwards or downwards all things seeme double if to the sides all things seeme so if towards the center things are seen neere if beyond the center they are to be held close if towards the pupil further off 3. The vitreous and they are augmentation when the spirits are obtunded diminution causing winking or thicknesse thereof caused by the permistion of humours or some other substance and is cured hardly 9. Those of the optick nerves sc obstruction caused by pituitous humours and bloud c. it 's cured by evacuation phlebotomy vesicatories setons and discutient lotions their convulsion is dangerous and deepe wounds incurable 10. Those of the optick spirits sc thicknesse thereof caused by the comixture of thick and troublesome vapours also too much agitation and defect thereof they are cured by ophthalmicks and oxydercicks nutmeg the electuary humaim and Occo's species c. according to the cause 11. Those of the muscles mooving the eyes sc the paralysis or resolution thereof caused as the palsey and is cured by cephalick evacuants and things consuming the pituitous humour and the bloud of a turtle dropped in If there be a convulsion it 's to be cured by relaxants and humectants c. if instability it 's hardly helped so its wounds 12. Diseases troubling the wholl eye 1. The defect thereof which if caused cannot be cured but the deformity may be helped by one that is factitious as may be seen in Paraeus 2. The atrophy of the eye when all the parts thereof are diminished which is caused by too much evacuation or exsiccation by weeping sharp humours watching feavers and obstruction it 's cured by humecters and womans milk c. 3. The ecpiesma or falling out thereof which is caused by external violence resolution of the muscles and nerves wounds of the annate tunicle or tumours it 's cured V. P. by reposition ligature cupping-glasses in the neck repellents roborants and defensives if from resolution by apophlegmatismes odorates astringents and section if need with traumaticks 4. Strabisme which is when the ball declineth from the midle so that more white appeareth in one part of the eye than in the other therefore such looke on one side and it 's caused by conformation custom or convulsion and resolution of the muscles it 's cured in infants by putting somewhat before the eyes with a hole in it in the opposite part and placing the light on the other side that the infant may turne his eyes that way If it be from a spasme or resolution it 's so to be cured 13. The symptomes troubling the eyes 1. Blindnesse and debility of sight which is caused by the vice of the brain not yeelding spirits or of the animal spirits not being lucid thin or many or of the optick nerves humours and tunicles it 's cured if curable by cephalick purgers masticatories gargarismes apophlegmatismes vesicatories cauteries c. oxyderkicks topick roborants sapphir water and other ophthalmicks 2. The depravation of sight as duplication of the species caused by an unlike position of the eye Also things seeme
inverse by reason of the mutation of the site of the crystalline humour and of an other colour when the cornea or aqueous humour is tinged false visions are from the vice of the aqueous humour inquinated by vapours or humours light appearing before the eyes is by the reflex of the animal spirits when the waterish humour is condensed above the crystalline Things seeme perforate if there be a little suffusion in the center of the ball they are cured according to the cause as aforesaid 3. The vices of the excrets of the eyes sc the lema or copious sordes issuing out of the eyes chiefely in the night and time of sleep which glew together the eyelids as it were caused by the afflux of humours incrassate they are cured by evacuation of the body averters abstersives and convenient topicks rose and eyebright water c. The ephiphora which is an impetus of a thin humour made into the eyes either cold and aquose hot sharp or salt from the braine to the annate tunicle and chiefely to the angles causing involuntary weeping is cured by phlebotomy purgation revulsiō discutients roborāts exsiccants astringents cauteries vesicatories the white of an egge in the hot with a linnen cloth austere wine in the cold if the teares are bloudy use venesection in the foot emmenonagogicks astringents alterants catharticks fontanels in the armes leggs III. The diseases and symptomes of the eares 1. The distemper of the eares cold hot and often cold and moist caused by humours c. it 's cured if from cold by heaters liquours vapours hot oiles if from heate by tepid refrigerants oiles purgers topicks discutients if frō humours by purging after preparants apophlegmatismes gargarismes errhines and lixives 2. The inflammation of the eares which is caused by thin and bilious bloud issuing out of the small veines of the brain into the membrans of the eares it 's cured by revulsion by venesection of the cephalick veine cupping-glasses frictions purgation repellers anodynes refrigerants discutients suppurants abstersives and dryers c. 3. The ulcers of the eares which are caused by things causing purulency or corroding by acrimony they are cured by detersives restauration and consolidation If old by aegyptiaacum the excrescencies with alum c. if fistulous by white hellebore with honey if stinking by aegyptiacum and honey c. if sordid with burnt alum c. if from the head V.P. by evacuation diverters gargarismes apophlegmatismes errhins sternutatories and roborants 4. Wormes in the eares c. which are caused by corruption and are cured or killed by brimstone wormewood white hellebore castoreum and mercurius dulcis put in water c. is drawn out by putting in oile of bitter almonds and a syring 5. Wounds of the eares which are caused by things external and are cured by future dryers and binders c. The symptomes of the eares are 1. The sounding and ringing of the eares which is a preternatural sound therein perceived in the instrument of hearing and cavity of the os petrosum caused by vapours shut in and-moving there and it 's idiopathetick or sympathetick from external causes or internal a pituitous or bilious humour sordes or impostumes it 's cured if from heate by refrigerants and humecters and opiats if need if from a thick and viscous humour V. P. by attenuants and discutients castor onions fume of vineger oile of bitter almonds and sternutatories if by consent it 's so cured The diet is to be suitable with carminatives diamoschum and frictions Hereto belongeth the pa●acousis the hearing being confused which is caused by wounds not well cleansed or consolidated by feavers sending vapours thither or without a feaver from other parts 2. Deafenesse which is caused by diseases of the brain vice of the auditory nerve animal spirit not generated or impure defect of congenit aire vices of the auditory passage tympanum three bones in the eare and chiefely from a pituitous humour and it 's then cured by phlebotomy if need preparants purgers apophlegmatismes gargarismes errhines dryers discutients masticatories topicks distilled oiles galls c. if from choller by purgers oiles phlebotomy topicks used tepid roborants and lying on the other side and using fit diet 3. The pain of the eares which is caused by things distending the membrans vesting the cavity of the eare and of exquisite sense it 's cured if from flatulency by expurgation and discutient topicks else with anodynes narcoticks opiats concocters and resolvers c. 4. The preternatural excrements and flux thereof which is caused by a humid and impure brain and is cured by purgation sudorificks vesicatories issues dryers if a flux of bloud it 's cured by astringents and roborants IV. The diseases and symptomes of the nostrils 1. The ulcers of the nostrils which are caused by contusions falls wounds and acrimony of salt phlegme c. they are cured by venesection purgation cupping-glasses averters dryers roborants detersives consolidants if they are old and putrid stinking and filthy they are called ozoenae arising from sharp malignant humours and are cured by mixt remedies dryers repellers astringents and discutients detersives consolidants after universals gargarismes masticatories and sternutatories if corrosive by the aegyptiack cerusse unguent the decoction of guajacum diet without sharp and bilious juyce avoiding calefacient causes 2. The cancer of the nostrils which is caused by the ulcers thereof and cured V. P. by mitigants and liquour of arsnick c. 3. The polypus which is a carnose excrescency in the nostrils hanging by certaine little roots and sometimes out of the nostrils or descending by the pallat caused by thick and viscid humours chiefely phlegme mixed with bloud it 's cured after universal evacuation of the body as in all affections of the head by roborants dryers astringent frontals cucupha's section defensives cauteries discutients escaroticks c. as in the ozaena attenuant discutient and drying topicks corrosives aegyptiack with a turund of gentian root and palliatives c. if it be hard and painful without a certain figure it 's called sarcoma and is neere the nostrils or pallat 4. The narrownesse of the nostrils which is caused by compression constipation or obstruction it 's cured if from catarrhes by evacuation attenuants aperients castor with vineger errhines odorats c. 5. The wounds of the nostrils which are caused as others and so cured with fistules c. The symptomes of the nostrils are 1. Smelling hurt the abolition of which is caused by the distemper of the brain or processes of the olfactory nerves the same are the causes of imminution the depravation is from putrid vapours it 's cured if from distempers by contraries if from a cold and thick humour by preparation evacuation apophlegmatismes gargarismes errhines and ptarmicks sinapismes c. 2. The stinck of the nostrils which is caused by a putrid vapour it 's cured if from putrid humours V. P. by revulsions by
errhines abstersives odorats wine with myrrhe c. myrtine oile c. if from the polypus ozaena or ventricle it 's to be cured accordingly 3. The haemorrhage of the nostrils is an immoderate excretion of bloud by the veines of the nose divided rarefied or opened preternaturally and is caused by whatsoever occasioneth the same by anastomosis diaeresis or diapedesis it 's cured by phlebotomy cupping-glasses ligatures frictions application of cold water purgation coolers opiats cerats astringents internal and external crocus martis with plantain water sperniol frontals epithems glutinants frankincense aloes and the white of an egge with hares furre specificks causticks alum c. and diet coole and binding thin little with rest the feet of animals they being glutinous hordeats amygdalats emulsions avoiding things that increase heate sharpen attenuate and make the bloud fluxile 4. Sternutation or sneezing which is an expulsion of flatuous spirits and sharp vapours offending the brain violent and involuntary through the nostrils and is caused by things external or internal sc humours and vapours it 's cured by evacuants butter milk oile the white of an egge washing with cold water ligature friction revulsion retention of the breath c. 5. The coryza which is a defluxion of the humours of the brain and excrements crude and thin like water to the nostrils together with much sneezing caused by a hot or cold distemper of the brain it 's cured by universals and diet as in the catarrhe the fume of rose vineger taken marjerom water attracted if cold by the fume of frankincense if sharp by pomatum c. V. The diseases symptomes of the tongue 1. The asperity and roughnesse of the tongue which is caused by hot sharp and putrid vapours drying and burning the tongue it 's cured by remotion of the causes by cooling waters diamoron hordeats and things acid c. 2. The tumour of the tongue which is caused by things external or internal sc the afflux of hot matter cold poysonsome or putrid and cancrous it 's cured by averters evacuants repellers discutients suppurants if pituitous by oxymel spitting often if with inflammation as aforesaid if venenous with the decoction of plantaine hony of roses if stony by emollition section if ulcerous as other ulcers 3. The wounds of the tongue which are caused by violence and cured by lohochs liniments of the syrup of dryed roses and colate rasate honey and gargarismes c. 4. The ranula under the tongue which is a tumour in forme like a frog and is caused by a soft flesh under it upon which the tongue lyeth and to which it is tyed as it were by a band and ariseth from a viscid and pituitouse bloud flowing thither it 's cured by universals phlebotomy diversion purgation lotions made of inciders resolvers salt organy c. apertion mulse gargled c. 5. The ancylosis or tongue-tiednesse caused by the vinculum it 's cured by cutting the same with a paire of cisers or sharp knife washing the mouth after with posca after which sprinkle on manna thuris or use rosate honey c. 6. The taste hurt the imminution of which is caused by the refrigeration of its nerves from the third conjugation of the brain and emollition of the same obstruction or ill conformation it 's depraved by external causes or internal sc humours and vapours it 's cured if from hot humours by evacuation vineger gargled and juyce of limons if from cold by preparation evacuation gargarismes of hysop liquorice honey and robs if from pustules ulcers or consent according to the cause 7. The motion of the tongue hurt which is caused by the affection of the nerves of the seventh paire of the brain by the vinculum tumours ebriety concussion wormes it 's taken away by conformation obstruction c. it 's depraved by humidity and ficcity c. it 's cured if from the palsey by universals cupping-glasses scarrification diversions by clysters frictions and ligatures if from a cold pituitous matter by preparation purgation and other diversions lotions gargarismes apophlegmatismes castor with oxymel of squils c. inunctiōs with nard oile phoenigmes cauteries if from convulsion by antispasmaticks in the neck if by the vinculum by section if by tumours as before if stammering or aphony as aforesaid VI. The diseases and symptomes of the lipps 1. Their tumours which are caused by inflammation c. and are cured if from stingings c. by the decoction of marshmallows with vineger or milk triacle if from inflammation as others if hard by-section if from cancers as the rest and the rest according to their causes 2. Fissures or chaps which are solutions of the continuity of the lipps caused by too much drynesse and tension and are cured if from outward cold by pomatum oile of wax and fatts c. if from heate and drynesse by the juyce of sempervive and goose grease rose-rosewater mucilages and humectation with mastick c. 3. Vlcers of the lipps which are caused by sharp bilious and serous humours they are cured V. P. by the rosate unguent and liniment of litharg and the fume of the seeds of henbane shunning sharp and salt meates spices and much talke if cancers they are cured as others 4. Their wounds which are caused by violence c. and are cured by future glutinants and honey of roses and syrup of dryed roses inwardly if flesh be wanting by digerents incarnants and consolidants c. if hare lipps by excoriation conjunction future with unguents plaisters c. if curt it 's to be cured by insertion 5. Their trembling which may be caused by cold anger debility of the nerves vellicant humours and wormes c. as also perversion of the lipps caused by the affection of the nerves of the third conjugation feavers And bleeding thereof caused by sharp serous and salt humours and blewnesse caused by cold c. all which are cured according to their causes VII The diseases and symptomes of the face c. 1. The apertion of the mouth hurt which is caused by wounds of the nerves in the neck and tumours about the juncture c. it 's cured by remotion of the causes 2. Oscitation which is a vehement distention of the mouth caused by vapours collected in the spaces of the muscles of the lower jaw and cheekes inclining them to excretion it 's cured by exclusion discussion of vapours and revulsion by wine drunk with water eating of acorus and long spiration 3. The distortion of the mouth which is a distention of the same caused by the affection of the muscles of the face or nerves of the third and fifth conjugation or those which descend from the first vertebra's of the neck from convulsion or resolution and it 's called spasmus cynicus if both sides are affected it 's cured by phlebotomy cupping-glasses ligature frictions sinapismes phoenigms dropaces errhines apophlegmatismes gargarismes masticatories resolvers
roborants castor the martiat unguent oile of castor vapours exsiccant lotions the flesh of wild beasts as hares foxes staggs goats c. boiled and applied to the parts affected and the head and inward remedies as in the palsey and convulsion and diet as in them looking on the deformity and altering it by care as also playing upon a pipe c. the exercise reducing the parts 4. The ptyalisme or often spitting involuntary caused by too great a quantity of spittle from humours distilling a humid ventricle intestines breast and lungs and mercurials c. it 's cured by exsiccants if from a catarrhe as catarrhes if from the ventricle by phlegmagogons exficcants aloeticks diagalanga diatrion piperion vomitories and fasting if from the spleen or lungs it 's cured accordingly and by drying and strengthning the tonsils and astringents If there bee a salivous defect which is caused by the drynesse of the brain ventricle tongue and tonsils c. it 's cured by humecters c. according to the cause VIII The diseases and symptomes of the teeth 1. The corrosion and rottennesse thereof which is a diminution of their magnitude caused by things corroding so that they breake and fall out by peeces and sometimes causing fistula's it 's cured by exsiccants as bay berries c. things hindering putrefaction as brimstone camphire liniments mastick frankincense wiping alum cauteries use myrrhe if they stinck and aloes if worm eaten and if need evulsion c. 2. Mobility and loosenesse which is caused by blows falls ill juyce humidity and defect of aliment it 's cured if from violence by astringents so if from defect of aliment and by dryers if from humidity as alum and austere wine waters and powders if from erosion of the gumms by such things as restore them strengthen and bind them if wanting it may be helped by the factitious their sordes are remooved by washing and cleansing them and their blacknesse by dentifrices The symptomes of the teeth are 1. The odontalgy which is a sad sense of the teeth caused by the solution of their continuity by humours or distempers in the membrans nerves or body of the teeth it 's cured if from plethory by phlebotomy scarrification cupping-glasses derivation and revulsion by frictions ligature lotions vesicatories flammula applied to the hand astringents roborants erthines temporals of tacamahaca mastick c. discutients stupefacients if the matter be hot vineger rose and plantain water oile of vitriol and the alabaster ointment if cold by burnt alum and salt camphire chymical oiles tobaco laudanum opiats philonium washing after with the decoction of rosemary c. and extraction if need after preparation with the milk of tithymal c. and fit diet abstaining from sweet things acerb and very acid hard and very hot or cold it 's prevented by theriack salt astringent lotions and dentifrices In the dentition of infants use rarefacients and emollients the braines of young creatures and birds butter with line seed and that of marshmallows and section if need 2. The stupidity thereof which is caused by acid sapours altering the temper of the teeth vapours and imagination it 's cured by purselane eaten bitter almonds salt new bread licorice walnuts fresh cheese and lotions c. it 's algor if from cold is helped by the hot rosted yolk of an egge eaten hiera treacle bayberries if hot by camphire and purselane 3. The gnashing of the teeth which is caused by an imbecility of the muscles of the jaw from cold worms or vapours it 's cured according to the cause 4. The blacknesse c. of the teeth which is caused by vitious humours vapours eating of sweet things and black c. it 's cured by dentifrices abstersives odorats alum water rosate honey with spirit of vitriol juyce of limmons washing oile of sulphur c. and their bleeding is helped by astringents c. IX The affections of the gumms 1. Their excrescencie which is caused by serous vitious and corrupted bloud flowing copiously thither and laxity it 's cured by repressers and astringents alum water burnt salt myrrhe c. 2. Their bleeding which is caused by sharpnesse of the bloud and is cured as laxity 3. The consumption of the gumms which is caused by an ill and sharp humour flowing to them and corroding the same it 's cured by sarcoticks powders and liniments c. 4. The parulis which is an inflammation thereof so prominent at the roots of the teeth both inwards and outwards that the next parts are distended hot and red caused by thin bloud or other humours it 's cured as other inflammations by phlebotomy gargarismes of plantain water diamoron rob of barbarries discutients resolvents and apertion if need lotions and dryers c. if ulcerose by exsiccants astringents gargarismes and those that are stronger if fistulous by the green water so in the epulis or caruncle and section X. The affections of the jaws 1. Their luxation which is a depulsion of the same either in one part or both to the fore part but seldome caused it 's cured by reposition emollients and laxants if long after by astringents with the white of an egge and swathing 2. Their immobility which is caused by luxation fracture and distillation c. it 's cured according to its cause XI The vices of the mouth 1. The inflammation thereof which is caused by bloud and hot and bilious humours c. it 's cured as other inflammations by phlebotomy purgation refrigerants repellers astringents discutients whey the decoction of plantain diamoron maturation if need figgs and honey c. 2. The aphthae which are certaine fiery exulcerations in the upper superficies of the mouth caused by sharp meates bad humours and vapours they are cured by astringents repellers discutients maturants if need by extersives if sordid stronger astringents and escharoticks stronger or weaker according to the patient For if in infants from sharp or salt milk by cydoniats purselane diamoron astringent syrups if pituitous by astringent discutients frankincense mastick c. rosat honey if livid if adult they are to be stronger with phlebotomy evacuation stomaticks astringent and drying diamoron alum spirit of vitriol mucilages and saccharate water if putrid as ulcers by the green water alum aegyptiacum with rosate honey and plantain water quinces lettuce and cold dier avoiding things sharp salt or acid 3. The corruption of the bone of the pallat which is caused by wounds or corrosive humours it 's to be cured by abste●sives and dryers and helped by a golden plate if need 4. The stink of the mouth which is a stinking of the breath caused by a foetid vapour passing out thereof by reason of meate excrements of the intestines faetid humours and wormes it 's cured by odorats nutmeg myrrhe muske pills troches and rosate honey if from the stomach by evacuants corrigents roborants aloephangin pills aromaticks diacydoniats dianisum if frō wormes c. according to the cause
XII The affections of the uvula 1. The laxation thereof which is when it swelleth preternaturally without inflammation is extended which is caused by a humour chiefely phlegmatick sent to it from the brain it 's cured as its inflammation by venesection cupping-glasses after purgation diversions evacuations by errhines consumers of phlegme and correctors of cold and moist distempers astringent and repelling topicks in the beginning afterwards by dissolvers and dryers plantain and rose-rose-water oxycrat and viniger diamoron gargarismes the conserve of roses vitriolated powders long pepper with alum bole and myrrhe coronal plaisters a hard hot egge with frankincense and ginger so used c. and if need by extersives consolidants 2. The inflammation of the same and exulceration that is a swelling thereof caused by bilious bloud flowing in with rednesse heate paine danger of suffocation and sometimes with a feaver it 's cured as other inflammations by venesection cupping-glasses scarrification diversions by clysters frictions ligatures evacuation repelling topicks gargarismes powders diamoron plantain water rob de ribes c. discutients anodynes milk ptisans emollients if need maturation section extersives and exsiccants mulse water rosate honey the green water if exulcerated aegyptiack section if need and diet as in other inflammations with the juyce of quinces c. abstaining from talking c. XIII The affection of the tonsils sc Their inflammation which is a swelling of the same caused by the afflux of humours it 's cured as other inflammations by astringent gargarismes in the beginning phlebotomy cupping-glasses friction clysters lenients repelling topicks astringents oile of sweet almonds melilot plaisters suppurants if need emollients and resolvers if hard album graecum if ulcerose milk exsiccants c. abstaining from things that may cause a flux of humours c. II. The diseases of the midle venter I. The disease of the gullet sc the quinsey which is a stopping of the upper parts of the throat through which the meate drink and breath passeth causing a difficulty of breathing and swallowing caused by inflammation luxation or defluxion it 's cured by phlebotomy scarrification cupping-glasses purgation sharp clysters repellers gargarismes of diamoron dianucum the myrtine syrup and plantaine water c. by derivation digesters discutients mucilages exsiccants resolvers plaisters of swallows nests and melilot c. suppurants if need album graecum apertion detersives consolidants of bole and myrrhe c. specificks laryngotomy and thin diet sc ptisan broth sorbile eggs prunes lettuce the foure greater cold seeds barley water with surup of violets small drink and temperance II. The diseases of the throat 1. Strumes or scrofuls which are tumours in the glandules caused by tough phlegme shut up in its proper membran they are cured by evacuation discussion maturation section purgation dryers scrophularia powders emollient resolving topicks suppurants apertion mundificants the apostles ointment or de apio and cicatrizants section and septicks 2. The bronchocele which is a tumour in the throat extuberant in the large space caused by flatulency and joyned with tension from violent motion c. it 's cured by astringents and the plaister against ruptures inward astringents and dryers as the powder of burnt alum c. discutients c. as in strumes If hydropical it is to be cured by incision III. The diseases of the rough artery And 1. The diseases of distemper which are caused by the aire meat and drink humours c. these are cured by the contrary sc by evacuating matter that is troublesome if hot by syrup of violets c. if cold by syrup of hysop c. if humid by diacalaminth c. if dry by syrup of licorice and emulsions c. if it be with matter it 's to be cured as catarrhes 2. Asperity which is a defect of natural smoothnesse caused by things immoderately corrosive salt sharp acid humours vapours much talking c. it 's cured by lenients and levigants and things emplastick syrup of liquorice jujubs diacodium c. arteriacks lenients abstersives dryers discussers sublingual troches c. 3. Straightnesse of the rough artery caused by compression inflammations tumours and obstructions it 's cured by remotion of causes inciders attenuants extersives and knocking on the back if by externals 4. Wounds and ulcers thereof those are caused by violence these by sharp salt and poyson some humours the first are cured by conjunction and conglutination by diacodium and diatragacanth and lohochs c. The ulcers are cured by detersives and dryers and cicatrizants c. IV. The diseases of the lungs 1. The distemper of the same which is a deflexion thereof from the natural temper to that which is preternatural caused by things external and internal sc potions and humours c. it 's cured if from heat by refrigerants as syrup of violets c. epithems barly water refrigerating herbes and temperance if cold by corrigents syrup of hysop hot oiles mulse and well seasoned flesh if humidity by corrigents dryers decoction of guajacum salt and sulphureous baths aromaticks suffumigations aromatick wine dry diet mountain birds exercise and talking c. If drynesse by violets melons tepid water barly water emulsions sorbile eggs veale saxatile fishes chickens shelfish milk sleepe and quiet 2. The peripneumony or inflammation of the lungs caused by the effusion of bloud into the substance thereof with a narrownesse of the breast difficulty of breathing acute feaver and coughing it 's cured as other inflammations by averters evacuation maturants resolvers discussers phlebotomy cupping-glasses scarrification ligature clysters lenients pectoral decoctions expectorants inciders topicks as in the pleurisy plaisters fomentations inunctions extenuating diet ptisan with honey after defluxion ceasing fat broths hydromel oxymel or hydrosaccharate c. 3. The straightnesse thereof which is an interception of the vessels caused by obstruction compression or exsiccation occasioning a cough oppression and difficulty of respiration it 's cured if from a cold and thick humour by preparers inciders detersives evacuants violet troches medicate wines revulsives derivation vomit clysters diureticks humecters oxymel liquorice turpentine lohochs inunctions liniments exsiccants absorbents syrup of tobaco pectoral waters rotuls fumes diet with hysop melicrat and mulse with thoracicks if from flatulency by discutients with pectorals if from tubercles by attenuants and dryers mithridat and chymical salts if from the stone by wood lice and honey if from bloud by stoppers and oxymel if from drynesse by almond milk and syrup of violets c. 4. The apertion thereof when the vessels that ought to be shut are opened caused by anastomosis diapedesis rexis and diabrosis it 's cured by phlebotomy purgation scarrification revulsion leeches frictions ligatures corrigents dissolvers oxycrat oxymel mumy sperma ceti consolidants astringents emplasticks glutinants lambatives sealed troches powders myrtine oile frankincense mastick if from catarrhs by diaspermaton cerot of thapsia the hematire with bole and syrup of purselain diet thin astringent and emplastick ptisan conserve
of roses hogs flesh milk soft cheese lettuce purselain hordeate water with sugar to cleanse and chalybeat to glew almond milk and rest 5. Stones c. which are caused by thick humours dryed hardened there they are cured as the asthma if caruncles by lohoch sanum and flowers of brimstone c. 6. The tubercles of the lungs which are caused by the afflux or congestion of matter they are cured by evacuation and agglutination as in their ulcers The cure of its ●r●ps● see in that of the breast afterwards 7. The coalescency thereof to the side by viscid phlegme chiefely or external causes it 's cured by preparers evacuants concocters lenients dryers baths laxants concussion ptisan and surgery 8. The wounds of the lungs which are caused by violence and cured by sistents evacuants glutinants phlebotomy astringents emplasticks coolers topicks bole mastick powders vulnerary potions diaspermaton lohochs section if need thin diet astringent emplastick ptisan quinces and rest c. 9. The phthisick or ulcer of the lungs which is an exulceration of the same by which the whole body is extenuated and wasteth away caused by a sharp corroding matter with a gentle feaver cough and bloudy and purulent spitting it 's cured by evacuation by gentle purgers clysters averters detersives saccharate water turpentine glutinants the conserve of roses myrtine syrup lohochs syrups sulphur fumes of frankincense odorats topicks colleticks epuloticks analepticks refrigerants h●mecters amygdalats antifebriticks milk Haly's powder baths diet of good juyce of easy concoction much nourishment abstersive glutinative and consolidating broths hordears snailes mulse water with honey for abstersion and barley water with sugar of roses as glutinative V. The diseases of the breast 1. The inflammation of the mediastin which for the most part is caused by bilious bloud and as the peripneumony and is almost so cured by evacuants revulsives repellers phlebotomy topick repriments sc oile of violets tepid and cold if erysipelatode with milk mucilages alterants expectorants the decoction of barley liquorice and jujubes discutients oile of chamomile section if need and diet as in the peripneumony and pleurisy 2. The tumour of the diaphragme which if hot is caused by hot and bilious bloud it 's cured as inflammations by emollient and cooling clysters phlebotomy topicks oile of roses epithems revulsives repellers hypnoticks c. If cold from a thin and crude matter by prepares evacuants corrigents V. P. discutients emollients fatts oiles melilot plaisters sacculs inward digerents and discutients of hyssop sarsaparilla and pectorals attenuating diet of good juyce easy concoction and lenient 3. The wounds of the diaphragme which are ca●s● by violence they are cured as those of the lungs and med●astin 4. The pleurisy which is an inflammation of the pleura and adjacent muscles caused by the influx of a hot humour with a pricking paine in the side cough difficult respiration acute continual feaver and a hard unequal and frequent pulse it 's cured by venefection fomentation cupping glasses purgation alterants specificks expectorants incrassants inciders if need lohochs anodynes resolvers sudorificks chamomel water c. topicks oile of violets dialthaea mucilages hypnoticks syrup of poppies maturants rupture by sternutatories vomits bechicks detersives as the pectoral decoction consolidants sc the conserve of roses chalybeat milk section diureticks clysters thin diet melicrat ptisan emulsions after use eggs fishes drinking barley water oxymel and the pectoral decoction c. avoiding things cold acid salt exasperating astringent c. 5. The wounds of the breast which are caused by violence if not penetrating they are cured as other wounds by ischaimon's ligature digestives turpentine oile of chamomil roses about it after use the barbarum plaister basilicon or diapalma If penetrating by things stopping bleeding prohibents evacuants phlebotomy purgation consolidants tents with digestives attenuants and inciders if need melicrat and hot topicks c. diet thin hordeats almonds and rest 6. The fistula's of the breast which are caused as the rest and cured by tents externals of hydromel or mulse c. injections exsiccant unguents glutinants and vulnerary potions c. 7. The empyema which is a constipation of the cavity of the breast caused by a copious purulent matter occasioning a difficulty of respiration with a cough and virulent spitting it 's cured by maturation if it may not be hindered by noise sternutation to cause rupture by evacuants abstersives consolidants ptyalismes expectorants inciders attenuants humecters diureticks clysters section ustion if need evacuants discutients fomentations diet dry attenuant and abstersive ptisan with honey broths and hydromel c. 8. The dropsy of the breast which is caused by the descent of a serous matter or collection there the nutritive viscera being scirrhous c. it 's cured by evacuation prevention purgers of gialap c. diureticks apertion cauteries fontanels and diet as in the dropsy 9. The luxation of the vertebra's of the back and gibbosity caused by causes external and internal it 's cured by restitution plaisters inunctions of roborants and consolidants and surgery putting the hands behind the back c. 10. The fracture of the spine and wounds of the spinal marrow which are caused by causes external and cured by cataplasmes c. as in the wounds of the brain 11. The dorsale tabes which is caused by too much venery too much bloud oppressing the insite heate of the spinal marrow exsiccation of the passages and distillations it 's cured by fluid decoctions purgers fomentations frictions inunctions baths inciding and attenuating diet and moderation c. asses milk and soft meate 12. The wormes of the back which are caused by a viscous matter in the capillary veines shut under the skin and turned into wormes by reason of transpiration hindered they are cured or removed by sudatory baths and frictions with bread and honey using a razer after it when they have put forth their heads c. 13. The luxation of the ribbs which is caused by violence above below or inwards it 's cured by restitution if upwards by suspension and compression if downwards by prone incurvation and compression if inwards by attrahent plaisters and if with inflammation by the ireat diachylon 14. The fracture of the ribbs which is caused by violence and cured by conjunction colleticks averters and attrahent plaisters ligature diet thin and rest c. 15. The falling of the mucronate cartilage which is caused by external violence distillations and humours c. it 's cured by elevation evacuation inferiour ligature compression and turning the head downwards with concussion cupping-glasses humectants exsiccating strengtheners roborants astringents and cerots c. VI. The symptomes of the lungs and breast 1. The vices of respiration which are caused by distempers of the lungs straightness of the breast defect of animal spirit hurt of the thoracick muscles and diaphragme pain wounds of the lungs inflammation moving muscles luxation and fracture of the ribbs
vice and defect of the vital spirits the rest of which flow from the body to the center It 's called also eclysis leipopfychy and asphyxie c. it 's cured in the paroxysme by conservation and cherishing of the spirits applying rose-rosewater vineger and cordials irrorating the face and temples epithems fomentations sacculs inunctions wine aqua vitae if cold frictions concussion of the body noise friction of the tongue if from dissipation by rest if from defect of spirits by wine having bread dipt in it if from corruption of the spirits by friction cupping-glasses vomitories purgers cordials alexipharmicks If from evacuation by friction ligature cupping-glasses stoppers if from sweating by astringents irroration with rosewater using the oile of roses and quinces to the breast armepits and groin c. smelling on cooling things taking syrup of limmons wood sorrel if from suffocation by frictions ligatures cupping-glasses if plenitude by phlebotomy if from the quantity of crude juyce by friction using oile of chamomile after it oxymel fasting in feare by evacuation out of the paroxysme by analepticks and corroborants if from paine by lenients stupefacients and cordials with things respecting the cause if from a thin matter troubling the stomach by aloephangin pils tamarinds laxative syrup of roses contrary diet gellies and broths with the juyce of citrons c. according to the cause III. The diseases and symptomes of the lower belly I. The diseases of the oesophagus 1. The distemper thereof which is a recesse thereof from the natural temper to that which is preternatural caused by heat cold moisture or drynesse it 's cured by contraries as that of the ventricle if hot by refrigerants as by the syrup of violets water of purslane c. buttermilk refrigerating drinks if cold by heaters if dry by ptysans broths butter and oile of sweet almonds if moist by heaters and dryers fumes and topicks 2. The swelling thereof which is an excesse in magnitude and caused as other tumours and is so cured by things pleasant repelling topicks avoiding vomitories except to break abscesses using phlebotomy if hot clysters lenients diet of refrigerants with coolers resolving topicks in the increase and discutients in the state using inwardly the lohoch of pine and syrup of jujubes c. things fat and emplastick if suppurating and abstersives so if cold with resolvers and maturants c. 3. Straightnesse there being an imminution of its meatus caused by things external tumours wormes vapours and luxation it 's cured if from tumours as others if from externals by vomit or detrusives concussion of the back coughing oxymel oile o● sweete almonds fat broths buttered ale emollient and humecting cataplasmes probes sponges oleated and instruments if inflammation by suppurants if from wormes by scolecobroticks if from phlegme by evacuants scillitick oxymel and vomit if from depression of a vertebra by restitution 4. Relaxation which is caused by a moist distemper catarrhs and vomiting and cured by astringents taken and applied quinces peptick powders sacculs liniments and plaisters 5. Wounds thereof caused by things dilacerating and are cured as those of other parts using syrup of dry roses and the myrtine with bole and digestives c. 6. Vlcers which are caused by sharp humours and vapours c. and are cured by abstersives melicrat hordeat water with red sugar mucilages goats milk chalybeated and consolidants as syrup of dryed roses c. if by aqua fortis by syrup of violets c. if from poyson by vomitories mucilages fat broths and lenients 7. Deglutition hurt which is caused by resolution thereof the faculty being hurt by the resolution of the nerves of the sixth and seventh conjugation also by defluxion disease convulsion or from parts affected it 's cured if from resolution by paralyticks used to the neck and spine mustard with vineger taken and gargarismes if from other causes it 's cured as aforesaid 8. Things by chance swallowed down are to be removed by lenients the decoction of mallows oile fat broths purges using things viscid if the thing be sharp c. II. The diseases of the ventricle 1. The distempers thereof which are a preternatural constitution of its similar parts in the first qualities caused by inward or outward alterants they are cured by venesection contrary alterants grateful in smell and taste and solid used some time before drinking and then not drinking what is tepid too much relaxing or attenuating and with astringents avoiding things acrimonious too salt or corrosive strong purgers using coral the inward tunicles of the ventricles of henns and other birds myrobolans condite avoiding great quantities of meat or drink things ungrateful lubricants and relaxers and frequent vomiting c. if without matter and cold it 's cured by heaters with broth and humecters internal and external flesh of good nutriment with aromaticks wormwood wine oenomel mulse shunning cucumers barley cold meats long sleepe and idlenesse c. if hot it 's helped by inward and outward refrigerants and cooling meate and drink of easy concoction ptisan hordeats things acid without aromaticks not salt or sweet and cucumers c. being easily corrupted but sharp things using the hordeat decoction vitriolated juleps emulsions buttermilk c. if humid by dryers without much heate and coldnesse external and internal mountain birds rosted flesh with vineger and salt red wine absinthiated and exercise If dry by humecters of easy concoction and distribution internal and external aliment of easy concoction much and good juyce not excrementitious and humid ptysan fresh eggs fishes chickens veale lamb and other soft flesh almonds sweet apples milk shunning things austere and astringent moderate meate and drink eating thrice in a day at first if complicat it 's cured accordingly if with matter it 's cured by evacuation alterants preparants emeticks mild catharticks as aloes agarick mechoacan rubarb and sena if with choller by coolers humecters and cholagogon's if thin by emeticks manna tamarinds and solutive syrups and aloes and thubarb if thick c. hiera topicks ptysan things acid chicken broth with lettuce barley water and smal beere if cold and moist with phlegme by heaters calefacients and dryers vomitories lenients oxymel if grosse preparers alterers diatrion piperion diacalaminth stomach pills roborants aromatick diacydoniats pepticks topicks sack and mulse c. 2. Inflation which is caused by flatulent matter and debility of heate c. it 's cured by discussers of flatulency used inwardly and outwardly vomitories purg●●s preparers if grosse cupping-glasses castor with oxycrat topicks attenuating and discutient diet meate of good juyce easily concocted and little in quantity long sleep drink little and hypocratick wines c. 3. Inflammation which is caused by bloud preternaturally shed out of the veines it 's cured by venesection revulsion by cupping-glasses frictions clysters pulp of tamarinds whey repellers internal and external resolvers anodynes emollients maturants rumpents sternutation vomit concussion abstersives hydromel the
hordeat decoction consolidants conglutinants thin diet ptisan chicken broth with lettuce juyce of quinces things astringent cooling at first barley water with cinamon 4. The oedema which is caused by a cold thick pituitous matter is cured by oile of roses with that of wormewood used taking syrup of wormwood colat rosate honey inward outward resolvers maturants rupture abstersives cōsolidants 5 If deglutition of things offensive they are to be expelled thence by lubricants the decoction of mallows common oile fat broths buttered ale purgers lying on the right side and walking if living creatures by the fume of tepid milk or fume of shooe soles carduus benedictus water vomiting with milk if generated there of the sperme taken with water use dittany with gentian water and zedoary and citron seed centory triacle with spirit of wine and alo●ecticks c. 6. The wounds of the ventricle which are caused by violence they are cured by phlebotomy clysters and future if penetrating with tents unguents and liniments taking the myrtine syrup and that of dryed roses troches of sealed earth applying the barbarum plaister eating a thin and sparing diet of much nourishment easy concoction and good juyce abstaining from things acrimonious and biting 7. The ulcers thereof caused by things external acrimonious apostumes and ruptures of veines c. and are cured by phlebotomy lenients sc the syrup of roses solutive hiera picra detersives dryers barley honey and saccharate water mulse glutinants and cicatrizants applying the plaister de crustapanis c. abstersives with the meat drink after use consolidants and astringents the juyce of quinces meat of easy concoction good juyce and drying shunning things bitter acrimonious salt acid and too sweet and fat using ptisan amygdalats yolks of eggs c. III. The symptomes of the ventricle 1. The anorexy or decay of appetite which is caused by the defect of the sense of sucking in the superiour orifice of the ventricle it 's cured according to the cause if their be no sucking by removing the cause if from humours by fasting exercise friction v●mit purgation aloetieks if from rest by exercise if from cold moisture by heaters and dryers if by constipation of the pores by laxants baths frictions in obstruction by aperients if from the vice of the sentient faculty according to the cause if from the hurt of the nerve of the sixth conjugation by strengthners of the brain using things salt acid and sharp vineger and things pleasant if from heat and corrupted humours by correctors and evacuants shunning things laxant fat oleous unpleasant using capers wormwood wine if cold water if hot meat drink heating drying and attenuating if cold and moist sleepe not long and eating with appetite 2. The loathing of certain meats which is caused by idiosyncrasy custome and imagination c. it 's helped or cured by customary use by degrees and compulsion c. if from imagination 3. The boulimos and dog like appetite which is a continual and unsatiable desire of eating caused by a vehement sense of suction in the mouth of the ventricle joyned sometimes with vomiting sometimes with a diarrhoea arising from indigence of aliment and cold acid and austere humours it 's cured if from a vellicant humour by vomit purgation using anorecticks fat grosse oleous fat broths narcoticks if need spirit of wine triacle mithridate abstaining from things acid and astringent alterants preparants salviate wine evacuants hiera roborants bacon topick densants and much sleepe The boulimos is a great periodick appetite often ending in nauscousnesse with lipothymy and weakenesse caused by cold c. it 's cured in the paroxysme by frictions the smell of bread wet in wine and vineger and taking thereof and after with sorbile eggs and broths c. as in the cold distemper of the ventricle by heating topicks 4. The pica or depraved appetite which is an absurd desire of some substance liquid or solid as aliment besides nature and reason caused by a sad sense of suction and corruption of the judgement discerning things fit and unfit to be eaten from a bilious excrement imbibed by the tunicles troubling the mouth of the ventricle by a peculiar propriety of its substance it 's cured by evacuation vomits preparants purgers if not great by venesection below roborants and consumers of humours diamoschum diambra triacle mithridate rue quinces applied with oile of roses pleasant meats capers bitter-almonds broths things acid strong subastringent wine in some measure gratifying those that are great 5. The appetite of drink lost which is caused by a cold and moist temper of the ventricle or a sweet cold humour sticking in the orifice of the ventricle c. hindering the sucking thereof it 's cured if from moisture and coldnesse as appetite so lost if with madnesse obstruction or distribution hindered it 's to be observed and more is to be drunk as for hydrophoby it may be seen above 6. Polydipsy or excessive thirst which is a greater and more frequent desire of accostomed drinking by reason of a sad sense of sucking in the mouth of the ventricle caused by the defect of humidity and alteration of proper humidity it 's cured if from a defect of rotid substance by humecters and coolers mucilages emulsions prunes quinces crystal coral rob of ribes cold water if need vineger if from heate and oxyerat if with drynesse spirit of vitriol nitre if without it by acid syrups lotions epithems if without a feaver by purgation with hiera and mastick pills and correctors if with a feaver by hypoglottides collutions and potions in the declination if from heate of the lungs by aire altered with cooling flowers and violets c. smelled to if from the dropsy nitrose and corrupted humours by mucilages and fat things diet cooling and moistening ptisan if bilious shunning things sharp salt and bitter if in the night by sleepe 7. Symptomes in the retention of meat and drink which are palpitation caused as the inflation of the ventricle and cured so The convulsion thereof which is caused and cured as the singult and dry distemper thereof It s trembling caused from quantity of meat or cold distemper as aforesaid and the convulsion caused and cured as the bilious distemper and they are all cured according to their causes 8. Chylosis hurt or the imbecility of the stomach which is a vice of the concocting faculty by reason of which it concocteth not at all slowly or depravedly and it 's called apepsy bradypepsy or dyspepsy and diaphthora the two first are caused by cold chiefely and the third by heat when the corruption is nidorous and cold when acid it 's cured by remotion of the cause if from cold by heaters alterers cinamon water spirit of mastick if nidorose by vomit and purgation with things acid and a fit diet moderate drinking sleeping first on the right side c.
9. The singult or hicket which is a convulsive motion of the stomach consisting of the tension and dilatation of the fibres of the superiour part by which the expulsive faculty being irritated it tryeth to expel things hurtful to the tunicles of the stomach chiefely of the mouth and oesophagus and that with a noise and vehement contorsion caused by an adverse or vellicant matter it 's cured by milk purselane syrup of violets and laudan opiats if vehement if from cold by retention of the breath c. as in the cold distemper of the ventricle cinamon water and castor applying oile of pepper and using aromaticks if from flatulency by heaters bayberries dianisum and mithridate c. if from too much evacuation by humecters coolers hordeats emulsions ptisans and broths c. if from sharp things by oile of sweet almonds and ptysans if from corrupt meate and repletion by vomit or purgation with aloes and rubarb with detersives and resolvers if from hot and sharp humours by vomit or purging with lenients ptisan goats milk syrup of roses purslane emulsions almond milk manna and cerot of saunders if from a cold humour by extenuants inciders melicrat oxymel syrups of roots diatrion piperion mastick pills plaisters cupping-glasses sternutatories vociferation and motion if from malignant matter by triacle water sealed earth c. if from wormes with scolecobroticks c. if with a feaver by removing the cause by vomits lenients stupefacients alexipharmicks clysters ptisans emulsions c. if from inflammations as aforesaid and diet according to the cause as in distempers of the stomach 10. Ructation or belching which is a depraved motion of the ventricle caused from the expulsive faculty excited by which vapours and fumes from meat not rightly concocted are expelled by the mouth it 's cured by remooving the cause as in distempers of the ventricle altering hot or cold distempers evacuating remedies discussing flatulency evacuating corrupted humours and helping mittent parts Hereto belongeth rugitus 11. Nauseousnesse and vomiting that is a vaine desire to vomit with molestation violence and anxiety by which the ventricle contracting the inferiour parts and dilating the superiour endeavoreth to expel things troublesome unto it but by reason of imbecility paucity or contumacy of the matter it expelleth nothing out of the mouth except a thin and waterish humour thus also is vomit caused when matter is expelled it 's cured by revulsives and roborants by clysters suppositories purgers phoenigmes synapismes hot lotions of the extremes using the rob of ribes barberies myrtine syrup that of dryed roses diacydoniats fomentations plaisters of the crust of bread stomachick cerots if the matter be crasse and viscid by attenuants with abstersives mithridate the conserve of roses vitriolated cinamon water c. as in the cold distēper of the ventricle using the aforesaid plaister cupping glasses used to the bottome of the stomach opiats if need if from debility by roborants and astringents if from the inflammation of the inferiour orifice as the rest if from narrownesse by eating and drinking little if from quantity of meat and drink by fasting and sleepe with a vomitory if need if from humours by preparers and evacuants using salt broth if sharp pils if melancholick antidots if venenate c. according to the cause if of bloud by phlebotomy mulse oxymel ribes syrup of dryed roses and troches of sealed earth c. with fit diet abstergent and roborant if there be superfluous vomiting quinces rost meat and astringent wine c. using various meates fat and sweet if vomiting be to be caused 12. The cholerick passion which if humid and true is a continual and immoderate rejection of an ill humour both upwards and downwards with a vehement perturbation and violence caused by the expulsive faculty greatly irritated by a sharp and corrupted matter it 's cured if from meat corrupted or ill choller by promovents temperants and abstersives if not excessive it 's to be committed to nature else it 's to be helped by tepid hordeat water if excessive it 's helped by purgation stoppers sudorificks ligature frictions alterants if the matter be hot by diacydoniats rob of barberies and ribes c. if not so hot by the rotate aromatick using outwardly refrigerants astringents juyce of purslane plantain plaister of the crust of bread c. anodynes and narcoticks if need using sweet smells meat of good juyce and easy concoction with coral crystal and mace ribes wormwood and things actually hot if dry and notha or spurious it 's an excretion of a flatuous spirit upwards and downwards with an inflation of the belly noise and paine of the loines and sides caused by fiery heat sharp and flatuous aliment and black choller it 's cured by eduction ablation discutients alterants clysters lenients ptysans and fit diet 13. The paine and anxiety of the ventricle with a painful sensation thereof caused by things distending or biting and so dissolving the continuity thereof sc flatulency humours and external causes it 's cured by narcoticks and anodynes if need mucilages things fat and emplastick emulsions and roborants if from externals by vomiting and purging roborants cydoni●ts robs conserves fomentations and good diet if from phlegme by vomitories purgers and heaters if from flatulency as the inflation of the ventricle by discutient clysters cupping-glasses triacle alexipharmicks if malignant averters if sympathetick if syncoptick sweates by inunctions of myrtine oile and coral and if from the xyphoid cartilage as before meat of good juyce astringents austere wine heaters and dryers if cold rue c. 14. The heat of the stomach which is an ebullition of humours therein caused by preternatural heat so that the heat thereof reacheth to the throat from sharp and bilious vapours and humours it 's cured by alterants acid fruits chalk and bole c. 15. The preternatural excrets thereof and it's qualities changed which are helped according to the cause IV. The diseases of the intestines 1. The distemper thereof which is caused by coldnesse heat moisture and drynesse it 's cured by things moderately astringent potions clysters if cold by heaters wormwood diatrion pipe●ion electuary of bay-berries sacculs hot oiles plaisters of bay-berries heating clysters and contrary diet if hot by coolers purslane barley and clysters c. if humid by dryers coral sumach chalybeats the myrtine syrup oile of myrtles diaphoenicon plaisters and fit diet if dry by humecters clysters milk and butter c. if with matter by corrigents lenients appropriate for each humour taken by the mouth or in clysters before meat with a sparing and contrary diet roborants averters frictions cupping-glasses repellers derivation sensible and insensible evacuation c. 2. The inflammation of the intestines which is a tumour of the same caused by extravasate bloud flowing thither and putrifying there it 's cured by clysters phlebotomy anodynes refrigerants inunctions of oile of roses austere wine and vineger cooling clysters revulsives
retentive faculty weake by preparants syrup of wormwood vomitories mastick astringents galingal theriack salts oile of wormwood outwardly sinapismes dropaces meate of easy concoction good juyce and dry and red wine c. if from the expulsive faculty irritated by the syrup of roses solutive with the decoction of tamarinds abstersives dryers and astringents vomitories if need rhubarb hordeats cydoniats fomentations unguents plaisters refrigerants little drink and long sleepe c. so also is the coeliack affection helped differing only in degree from the other and is a quick passage of things eaten and drunk out of the stomach to the intestines by reason of which they passe out like chyle or cremor 5. The diarrhaea which is an immoderate frequent and long dejection of the belly by which the excrementitious and purer humours stimulating the expulsive faculty of the stomach and intestines by quantity or quality doe flow out without phlegmon lientery exulceration tenesmus or much sense of paine caused by things irritating or debilitating it 's cured by evacuants revulsives and stoppers phlebotomy purgers rhubarb myrobolans tamarinds vomitories friction ligature diureticks sudorificks roborants astringents and narcoticks if need if there be a chylous flux by aperients rotules of diarrhodon abbatis and diachylon applied c. according to the part affecting if a toto and with a feaver by alterants and roborants if excessive by abstersives temperants abstersives evacuants revulsives outwardly by oile of quinces and stomachick cerots friction and venesection if symptomatick if colliquative by refrigerants and humecters with astringents ptisans cold water syrup of ribes purslane and quinces buttermilk clysters cooling epithems refrigerating humecting and astringent meats hordeats amygdalats and coral if from the whole without a feaver by lenients roborants tamarinds thubarb syrup of roses solutive coral oxysaccharats vomitories diureticks abstersives if serous by wormwood wine and chalybeat water applying the plaister of the crust of bread if from the ventricle corrupted meats by evacuants roborants vomitories clysters adstringents stomach pills if from worms by scolecobroticks if from the liver and a bilious humour by evacuation with rhubarb abstersive clysters syrup of succory alterants and astringents troches of sealed earth and spodium astringent epithems cerot of saunders and hydroticks c. if from the spleen and melancholy by venesection polypody diacatholicon temperants the byzantine syrup clysters astringents fit diet aperients and scorbuticks if need if from the womb by aperients evacuants astringents and roborants if from the brain by preparants evacuants diversion by frictions ligatures cupping glasses errhines sacculs not sleeping soon after meat roborants vesicatories about the first and second vertebra of the neck setons issues in the armes triacle decoction of guajacum and sudorificks if in infants breeding teeth if from phlegme by purgers and stomachick cerots if from corrupted milk by syrups anointing the gumms with butter if from hypercatharsis and poyson taken by abstersives chalybeat milk ligatures frictions fomentations cupping-glasses below the stomach astringents taken rob of ribes opiats if need clysters bezoarticks and cardiacks c. 6. The dysentery which is a frequent bloody and purulent dejection with paine of the belly and exulceration of the intestines caused by sharp corroding matter peculiarly troubling the intestines it 's cured by venesection purgation by tamarinds tosted rhubarb diacarholicon potions boles syrups clysters vomitories diureticks sudorificks alexipharmicks mitigants roborants anodynes abstersive clysters narcoticks opiats if need astringents emplasticks conserves of red roses rob of barberries emulsions electuaries micleta rotules troches of sealed earth topicks saccules insessions mundificants sarcoticks and cicatrizants if from purgers by abstersives theriacks stomachick cerots vomits if from poyson fat broth ptysans antidots and cristal c. fit diet meat of easy concoction milk barly water hydromel sealed earth partridges hens hares conserve of roses diacydoniats drinking little red wine sleep and rest 7. The bloody flux and hepatick that is caused by fulnesse or acrimony and heate and is cured by slender diet frictions cupping-glasses and venesection temperants juyce of plantain troches of sealed earth c. if hepatick it 's caused by the imbecility of the liver and defect of innate heate if legitimate it 's cured by roborants the liver of geese ducks hepatick herbs with astringents rubarb conserve of roses topicks heating diet of good juyce and easy concoction and raisins c. VI. The symptomes of the anus which are 1. The paralysis which is caused by the affection of the nerve of the sixth paire from which the intestines receive nerves the same is cured as that of other parts The itching of the anus is caused by a salt viscid and biting humour wormes and ulcers if with a tenesmus it 's so cured if from a salt humour by evacuants washing with plantain water a little alum or juyce of dane-wort if from faeces they are to be washed away with the decoction of mullen if from wormes by clysters terebinthine suppositories if from ulcers by mundificants The paine of the anus is helped by washing with milk anodynes and narcoticks if need 2. The tenesmus which is a continual cupidity of evacuation by the belly with paine in which nothing or very little is evacuated caused by too much refrigeration the stone or wormes and bilious pituitous and salt humours it 's cured by universal evacuation abstersion roborants lenients fomentations common oile syrup of poppies and the laudan opiat if neede suppositories of fat and powder of frankincense abstersives the decoction of barley if bilious if from hardned faeces by emollient clysters if from wormes by clysters of hiera and wormewood if from refrigeration by sacculs of mints c. if by consent it 's so cured 3. The hemorrhoids being a flux and excessive dejection of bloud through the hemorrhoidal veines caused by things irritating the expulsive faculty and hurting the retention they are cured if swelling by friction and anodynes revulsives laxants the rosate and poplar unguent as also scrophulary mullein sealed earth laudan opiats if need derivation manna frankincense the rupture plaister the white of an egge thin and humid diet cassia barley water and bole c. the suppression thereof is helped by mitigation of pain and apertion after universals and friction c. VII The diseases of the mesentery 1. The distemper of the same which for the most part is hot and dry caused by a like matter and is cured by purgers and clysters 2. The obstruction thereof which is caused by gross and viscid chyle flatulency and humours it 's cured by moderate aperients preparanes purgers tartar vitriolat vomitories diureticks and chalybiats 3. The inflammation which is a tumour of the same caused by humours carried out with the nutrient bloud into the spaces thereof or such as is impacted in the glandules and putrefying by external heate it 's cured by phlebotomy if need moderate refrigerants lenients rhubarb with whey diureticks abstersives anodynes thin
diet cooling abstersive aperient ptisans emulsions barley water and sleepe c. 4. The tumours c. thereof which are caused by crude thick and tartareous humours they are cured if turned into abscesses by cyprus turpentine with rhubarb exsiccants and consolidants meat of good juyce and easy concoction temperate abstersive smal beere the decoction of china with licorice and asses milk c. 5. The paine of the mesentery which is a troublesome sense thereof caused by a hot and sharp matter driven into its membrans with a continual paine of the belly and loins by intervals afflicting chiefely in the autumn and sometimes it 's distributed into the head and whole body it 's cured by clysters vomitories drinking oile of sweet almonds with manna applying oile of violets and white lillies c. and anodynes and narcoticks if need As for the diseases of the pancreas sc the obstruction scirrhus thereof they are cured as those of the spleen And the tumours situation changed putrefaction and wounds of the omentum they are cured accordingly VIII The affections of the spleen 1. The distemper thereof caused by things too much heating cooling moistning or drying it 's cured by contraries and helped by things bitter nitrous and having a certain astriction the hemorrhoids opened preparants pills of tartar troches of capers the oile thereof melilot plaisters shunning viscid meats and using thin wine c. 2. The obstruction of the same which is a stoppage thereof caused by thick humours and it 's cured by aperients attenuants inciders evacuants tartar vitriolat caper troches pills of tartar vomitories chalybeats roborants topicks oile of capers and diet not obstructing or viscid capers aniseed mustard and drinking out of tamarisk vessels 3. The inflation of the spleen which is an elevation of the same into a tumour caused by flatulency from viscid humours c. it 's cured by evacuation if need inward and outward discutients as diacyminum diacalaminth oile of capers and bayes and cupping-glasses 4. The inflammation of the same which is a swelling of it caused by bloud flowing into the substance thereof it 's cured by phlebotomy repellers with inciders preparants evacuants resolvents suppurants if need diachylon detersives and consolidants and fit diet as in other inflammations 5. The scirrhus thereof which is a hard tumour of the same caused by a thick glutinous and hard humour it 's cured V. P. by emollients attenuants and aperients things bitter purgation with sena and mercurius dulcis c. as in its obstruction troches of capers chalybeat electuaries outwardly by emollients digerents the plaister of ammoniacum and meate of good juyce attenuating hysop capers tamarisk wine c. 6. The ulcers of the spleen which are caused after wounds not well cured they are cured by expurgation abstersion and consolidants using hydromel if evacuated by vomit or the belly with emulsions if by urin frankincense mastick c. to consolidate 7. The wounds thereof caused by violence they are cured by vulnerary potions clysters and diureticks if need 8. The proper actions of the spleen hurt which are caused by external errour or diseases and are so cured 9. The paine of the spleen which is caused by the solution of continuity and tension of the membran it 's cured according to the cause by anodynes and narcoticks if need 10. The black jaundise which is a mutation of the skinn of the whole body into black and is caused as the yellow and it 's cured if from yellow choller corrupted as the yellow with things purging melancholy if from the vice of the spleen by correctors aperients evacuants chalybeats discutients with diaphoreticks laconick baths and tenches applied to the abdomen and soles of the feet 11. The hypochondriack melancholy or affection which is a collection of vitious humours in the rami of the vena portae coeliack artery and mesenterick caused by reason of coction hurt without putrefaction and causing many symptomes by the emission of vapours with crudity of the ventricle paine stypticity of the belly flatulency anxiety palpitation of the heart pulsation in the left hypochondrium drynesse of the tongue difficulty of respiration and perturbation of the brain c. it 's cured by phlebotomy opening of the haemorrhoids lenients vomitories preparants purgers sena and diacatholicon c. mallow seed taken tartar vitriolat refrigerants attenuants aperients diureticks the extract of black hellebore chalybeats wormwood baths cephalick averters dissipants frictions lotions scarrifications issues the confection of alchermes and of hyacinth meat of good juyce easy concoction temperate and not viscid lamb veale soft eggs saxatile fishes capers barly succory white wine wormwood wine and mean sleepe avoiding passions 12. The scurvy which is a cachexy caused by a melancholick humour corrupted in a peculiar manner with a debility of the leggs spots swelling of the gums and bloudinesse loosenesse of the teeth and other symptomes it 's cured by the hemorrhoids opened phlebotomy after a clyster preparants tartar vitriolate purgers confectio hamech antiscorbutick pills powders boles specisicks sc scurvy-grasse cresses brooke lime decoctions potions waters electuaries chalybeats diureticks sudorificks baths things roborating the ventricle liver spleen heart and lungs as for its symptomes they are cured accordingly sc difficulty of respiration and narrownesse of the breast by thoracick antiscorbuticks fumitory scurvy grasse pleres archonticon and the confection alchermes if laxity putrefaction and stinke of the gumms by abstersives things hindering putrefaction astringent drying diamoron oxymel scilliticum spirit of vitriol collutions waters of the aforesaid herbs liniments powders and dentifrices if exulcerations of the jaws by washing with scurvy-grasse water and roborants if spotts by resolvers discutients and emollients if paines by anodynes with antiscorbuticks resolvers and discutients emollient and humecting clysters if an arthritis with appropriats if stupidity trembling the palsey and convulsion by emollients resolvers and discussers if contraction and rigidity by emollients and discutients if excesse of sleepe by water cresses if lipothymy by antisyncopticks with antiscorbuticks if stink of breath by things hindering putrefaction and antiscorbutick discutients if vomiting by milk if too much spitting by avoiding things sharp and hot if flux of the belly by wormwood diversion by sudorificks wormwood wine syrup of roses solutive and rhubarb c. if heate in the night by butter milk with unctions if feavers by scorbutick universals inciders and digerents c. if hard tumours by fomentations emollients discutients if an erysipelas by the water of elder flowers c. in the dropsy by inciders and attenuants c. if ulcers by evacuants temperants scorbuticks and the tutty ointment c. if an atrophy by the resumptive ointment goats milk red french wine c. with antiscorbuticks avoiding a melancholick thick and tartareous diet of hard concoction and old using ptisans broths goats milk with scorbuticks the rosat aromatick things acetose in feavers rheinish wine with moderate exercise sleepe watching it
s prevented by observing the same diet and shunning society with the affected and the causes c. IX The diseases of the liver 1. The distemper thereof which is a deflexion of the same from the natural temper caused by things external and internal and is cured by the livers of living creatures and moderate astringents if hot by refrigerants phlebotomy cooling hepaticks ptisan limmons small beere barly water and whey if cold by heaters specificks meat of good juyce and hypocratick wine if moist by dryers astringents diatrion santalon c. if dry by humectants emulsions and marsh mallow ointment c. if compound by composit remedies if with matter by revulsives repellers and roborants evacuants alterants diureticks epithems derivation and discutients 2. The obstruction of the same which is a straightnesse of its vessels caused by matter filling their cavity and hindering the distribution of aliment it 's cured by phlebotomy lenients preparants aperients syrups and unguents c. according to the cause and attenuating diet with capers c. if the vessels are opened they are shut by astringents ribes quinces troches of sealed earth and mastick plaisters c. 3. Inflation which is caused by vicine parts or flatulent meats it 's cured by discutients and repellers diacyminum discutient fomentations and oiles and attenuating diet 4. Inflammation which is a hot tumour thereof caused by impacted bloud putrifying in the substance thereof with a continual feaver gravative pain and sense of pain in the right hypochondrium it 's cured by clysters phlebotomy repellents discutients cupping-glasses lenients preparants evacuants topicks astringents roborants resolvents diaphoreticks maturants if need rosat honey hydromel vomitories if need and ustion and incision thin diet ptisans chicken broth with the foure greater cold seedes and barly water c. 5. The scirrhus of the liver which is a hard swelling thereof without paine caused by a thick humour impacted in the substance thereof it 's cured by preparers and purgers emollients inciders attenuants and moderate discutients if in the flat part use pills of ammoniacum and rue with syrup of eupatorium chalybeat wine attenuating diet shunning things thick and viscid using thin drink and capers c. hereto belongeth the tumour of the liver caused by a viscid humour and crudity c. it 's cured by aperients inciders purgers discutients and almost as aforesaid 6. The stone of the liver which is caused and generated as that in other parts and cured as that of the reines and scirrhus of the liver And the hydatides thereof caused by an aquose and serous humour generated by the sanguification of the liver hurt are cured as the dropsy 7. The wounds of the liver which are caused by violence and cured by venesection if need clysters rhubarb astringent and glutinative potions troches of spodium roses and rhubarb myrtine syrup with bole c. using outwardly astringent and glutinative plaisters ointments of bole mumy and turpentine and cataplasmes so in the contusion of the liver using dissolvers rhubarb parmacity mumy bole sealed earth with vineger with myrrh and other roborants thin diet glutinative rice jujube water and sugar of roses c. 8. The ulcers of the liver which are erosions thereof caused by purulency or humours and are cured by phlebotomy catharticks mundification by a hordeat ptysan the decoction of china or sarsaparilla exsiccants sc scabious sage the cyphoid troches and consolidants X. The symptomes of the liver which are 1. The imbecility thereof which is a hurt of the faculties of the same caused by distempers sanguification hurt attraction or retention it 's cured by roborants livers of living creatures snailes raisins and contrary hepaticks if hot by roses and saunders if cold by agrimony and wormwood rhubarb to strengthen with diarrhodon abbatis juyce of quinces c. 2. The cachexy which is a diffusion of the whole body into an aquose and tumid softnesse by reason of the vice of nutrition caused by pituitous crude and serous bloud from impure aliment and vessels it 's cured by phlebotomy if need purgation vomitories roborants and laxants troches of wormwood rhubarb and lacca dialacca and diacurcuma c. cachectick powders chalybeats cauteries cachectick pills hot and dry aire diet thin drying of good juyce and easy concoction attenuants and abstinence avoiding things cold thick and aquose and long sleepe keeping the belly open 3. The dropsy which is a tumour of the body or part thereof preternatural caused by a collection of an aquose and serous humour or flatulency from a cold distemper of the liver extinction dissolution or dissipation it 's cured by lenients remedies continued and varied sometimes abstaining from them 4. The ascites which is a distension of the abdomen caused by an aquose serous and salt humour shed into the capacity of the abdomen by reason of the vice of the liver spleen and reines with a swelling of the feet thighs and sometimes of the scrotum it 's cured by preparants purgers tartar vitriolate jalap pills of rhubarb diacarthamum diaphoenicon juyce of elder diagridium elaterium crocus metallorum diaturbith pills of mechoacan and mezereon medicate wines the spiritus aureus of Ruland and his hydragogick extract antihydropick clysters external purgers Agrippa his ointment and that of sowbread diureticks sassafras diacurcuma dialacca troches of capers cantharides sudorificks loconick baths paracentesis cupping-glasses used to the navil apertion of the scrotum scarrification of the leggs cauteries veficatories theriack salts triacle mithridate oile of elder the martiat ointment fumes washing the leggs with salt water friction with oxyrrhodine alterants aperients troches of rubarb wormwood with syrup of eupatorium chalybeats if from colliquation it 's cured by alterants refrigerants and evacuants cataplasmes epithems inunctions diureticks discutients dry diet and aire moderate sleepe bread well fermented branny with aniseseed fennel seed and cumin mountain birds roste meat the livers of living creatures and aromaticks hopps cresses mustard raisins bitter almonds capers olives white diuretick wine wormwood in thirst washing the mouth with vineger chalybeat water 5. The tympanites which is a distension of the abdomen caused by much flatulency excited by weake or torrefacient heate shut up in the capacity thereof it 's cured by evacuating the matter and remooving the cause by discutients dissipants pills of hiera with agarick stomachick aggregative and of rhubarb dianisum diacalaminth electuary of bay-berries discutient clysters cupping-glasses plaisters of bay-berries friction with the juyce of garlick oile of rue and bayes sacculs of anise and cumin-seed plaisters diet not flatulent and sassafras wine 6. The anasarca or leucophlegmatia which is an equal increase of the quantity of the whole body preternatural caused by the vice of the aliment by reason of immoderat refrigeration of the liver and veines with a concrete water it 's cured by venesection if need evacuation by vomit and purgation also by urin syrup of two and five
and caused as that of the reines and it 's so cured sc by prohibents fit diet necessary evacuations abstersives lithontripticks and expulsives millepedes diuretick decoctions injections and section c. as in the stone of the reines 3. Wormes of the bladder which are caused by a pituitous humour and are cured or killed by abstersive diureticks with scolecobroticks 4. The distension of the bladder which is caused by obstruction or too long retention of urin it 's cured by emollients and laxants use of the catheter its inflammation is cured by phlebotomy refrigerants repellents after using anodynes laxants clysters syrup of violets poppies conserve of violets applying oile of roses chamomil maturants if need emollients if scirrhous sc cassia c. the cath●ter if need 5. Wounds thereof caused by violence they are cured by glutinants anointing with oile of white lillies mastick c. 6. Scabbednesse of the bladder caused by sharp and salt humours it 's cured by evacuation with the syrup of roses solutive manna cassia temperants the four greater cold seeds applying things cooling consolidating The ulcers thereof are helped by temperants syrup of violets diverters cassia turpentine abstersives barley water and honey injections consolidants of bole sealed earth mastick troches of winter cherries juyce of horse-taile Gordonius his troches milk and emulsions if from cantharides amygdalats mucilages diet of good juyce easy concoction and glutinative milk barley and rice c. its fistula's are helped by cassia diachylon with gumms cyprus turpentine abstersives and epuloticks c. 7. The refrigeration of the sphincter which is caused by external refrigerating causes it 's cured as the resolution of other parts 8. The narrownesse of the urinary passage which is an interception of the same caused by obstruction constipation and compression occasioning a suppression of urin it 's cured according to the cause if from the stone by concussion the catheter compression downwards a cochleary probe and section if from clotted bloud by oxymel mulse syrup of maiden haire if from thick phlegme by attenuants and inciders insessions oile of rue scorpions and the catheter if from compression according to the cause if from a caruncle or callus it 's to he remooved 9. The caruncle callus and excrescencies therein caused by viscid humours and are cured by consumers of flesh and consolidants V. P. the decoction of china and sarsaparilla drying it with a dry wax candle and injections c. XIV The symptomes of the bladder 1. The stupidity of the sphincter which is caused by the affection of the nerves of the sixth conjugation refrigerated obstructed or compressed it 's cured by fomentations oiles unguents and plaisters c. 2. The ischury which is a suppression of urine caused by the frustration of the expulsive faculty so that none thereof can passe out from diseases of the bladder sc stupidity distemper narrownesse too much extension and vices of the reines and ureters it 's cured according to the cause if from stupidity the heat is to be excited and suppositories are to be used and the cathether or a cerare candle with honey of roses injections mulse water fomenting with the decoction of chamomil anointing after with the oile of scorpions nard and rue drinking little and using liniments c. 3. The diminute excretion of the urin when in a lesse quantity caused by crisis laxity of the belly it 's cured by foments cataplasmes loosening unguents violets feed of fenigreek c. if slow by diureticks stimulants quickners 4. The strangury which is an excretion of urin made by drops with or without a feaver with a continual stimulation to evacuate caused by a continual stimulation of the expulsive faculty by reason of the affection of the sphincter or debility of the retentive faculty it 's cured if frō biting humours by universal gentle purgations syrup of roses solutive manna diaprune diacatholicon cassia turpentine temperants syrup of roses violets poppies licorice baths insessions emulsions whey if from salt phlegme with sugar of roses if putulent if from new drink by oxymel if from refrigeration by diagalanga triacle and mithridat applying oile of rue and mastick plaisters if from consent by fomentations other topicks ptisans milk fresh eggs flesh of good juyce and easy concoction white wine the decoction of barley and licorice shunning what may cause acrimony 5. The dysury which is an excretion of burning urine sometimes of little sometimes of much with torment without interruption caused by things external and internal affecting the urinary passage it 's cured by remotion of the cause lenients syrup of violets decoction of mallows jujubs liquorice using outwardly the oile of sweet almonds poppies clysters injecting new milk and emulsions and using narcoticks if need if from poyson by cassia mallow water and alexipharmicks if from cantharides by milk mucilages emulsions syrup of violets and poppies c. 6. The involuntary excretion and incontinency thereof caused by the relaxation and imbecility of the sphincter it 's cured if from resolution by contrary corrigents diacyminum frankincense drunk in wine calamint mints sulphurious and aluminous baths anointing with oile of wormwood in incontinency drinking little at night abstaining from diuretick wine and whatsoever may moove the urin to the bladder 7. The rednesse of the urine which is caused by a thick and crude humour if without heat it 's cured by heaters and wine if bloody caused by anastomosis erosion or diapedesis it 's cured by remooving the cause by astringents if from laxity if erosion by occludents if rupture by consolidants if from the quantity of blood by phlebotomy using astringents condensants obturants and consolidants medicines of red roses plantain acacia bole sealed earth coral troches of spodium sealed earth and those of Gordonius applying the cold diaphoenicon plaister that against rupture c. if from the bladder by injections if bloud be coagulated by oxymel and mummy meat of good juyce mixt with astringents red austere wine mixed with chalybeat water abstaining from things sharp c. if black it 's helped by fumitory diureticks if pilare it 's helped by clysters potions 8. The excretion of urine by other passages which when accidentally caused may be cured by diureticks turpentine oxyrrhodines and lotions c. XV. The diseases of the genitals in men 1. The distemper of the testicles which if caused by heate it 's cured by internal and external refrigerants lettuce violets endive purslain poppies emulsions fomentations fit diet ptisan and juyce of citron and limons if cold it 's helped by internal and external heaters betony calamint marjerom cinamon pepper cubebs the rosat aromatick diasatyrion diambra and the sweet diamoschum anointing with oile of spike nutmeg mace and pepper c. meat of good juyce much nourishment moderately hot and moist sorbile eggs parsly and onions c. if moist or dry by humectants and dryers 2.
Inflammation thereof caused by bloud preternaturally flowing thether and is cured as other inflammations by venesection cupping-glasses evacuants repellers cataplasmes of barley and bean meale epithems of rose water plantain and quinces with ligature upwards intercipients defensives of bole the white of an egge plaister against ruptures digerents with repellers afterwards oile of roses chamomil and the poplar ointment diachylon with oile of roses refrigerants and laxants if painful cataplasmes of the leaves of henbane if need aperiēts if suppurating cleansers consolidants if inflation by discutients barly meale with axunge and pigeons dung with the leaves of henbane if need c. if hard swellings and scirrhous they are helped V.P. by emollients and discutients oile of bitter almonds ointment of marshmallows martiat and diachylon simple and compound and section if need or amputation 3. mutation of situation which if caused by laxation cold it 's cured by purgers hot exsiccants applying cataplasmes of sage c. if retracted they are helped by emollients and laxants 4. The wounds thereof are caused and are to be cured as those of other parts by venesection if need clysters inunction with oile of roses ●igerent and roborant cataplasmes and diapalma if ulcerous they are helped by purgation mundification with the ointment of the apostles and the aegyptiack washing with the decoction of roses with frankincense plantain water and red wine ointment of miniū c. 5. The diseases of the scrotū which if it be an inflammation it 's caused and to be cured as that of the testicles so the wounds the excoriation thereof is helped by pompholix myrrhe and frankincense c. the ulcers thereof are helped as those of the testicles the gangreen is helped as the rest 6. The rupture which is a swelling of the same caused by the omentum fallē into it or flatulency water gathered there or flesh there begotten it 's cured if ventose called pneumatocele V.P. by discutients as in the flatulent collick rue aniseseed bayberries sacculs fomentations anointing with oile of rue chamomil bayes discutient cataplasmes plaisters of bayberries or melilore abstaining from flatulent meat if aquose called hydrocele it 's cured by prohibents and evacuants apertion defensives digestives mundificatives discutients fomentations cataplasmes inunctious oile of chamomil rue the plaister of Agrippa and arregon cauteries if need and amputation if carnose called sarcocele it 's cured V. P. by repriments and exsiccants section if need and ustion and cataplasmes if varicose called cirsocele caused by melancholy it 's cured V. P. by melanagogons exsiccants washing often with the water of cypresse nuts with suspension some use emollients and discutients baths oile of sweet almonds with bdellium and cataplasmes stones therein are to be removed by section 7. The diseases of the penis sc the distortion thereof caused by venery and is cured by abstaining from it putting in a leaden or silver pipe with ligature and astringents c. as in the hernia the inflation is helped by dryers and discutients as in the pneumatocele its inflammation is helped as others by phlebotomy and purgation if need using repellers in the beginning resolvers in the augmentatiō which are to be increased in the state and after to be applied alone if tubercles by ligature with silk after applying alum rose-water tutty section stoppers of bloud digestives and defensives if imperforat by apertion and a pipe with oile of roses if wounds as the rest using litharge cerusse washed myrrh sarcocol tutty prepared and tragacanth used as a powder or unguent with oile of roses if ulcers by abstersives and dryers aloes pompholix water of roses plantain hydromel alum water the white ointment camphorat diapompholigos if in the glans if old putrid by hydromel with alum the Apostles ointment and aegyptiack if virulent by precipitate c. if betwixt the glans and prepuce by the green water or wine with honey of roses if the ulcer be creeping by incision if neere a gangreen by defensives aegyptiack and the Apostles ointment and amputation if need if an ulcer in the passage it 's helped by ptysans amygdalats shunning things sharp acetose salt and diuretick temperants evacuants injections of abstersives and glutinants plantain and horse-taile water and troches of winter cherries with cicatrizants 8. The diseases of the prepuce sc the phimosis or too much covering of the glans caused by conformation or ulcers c. it 's cured by section dry liniments the white of an egge with rose-rose-water if callous it 's to be mollified with the oile of sweet almonds putting in a pipe and making it larger by degrees if with a defluxion by emollients and discutients and tepid milk if a paraphimosis or retraction of the prepuce use a thin and cooling diet purge with cholagogons if need use phlebotomy and refrigerating ointments and the laudan opiat if need if from an impure congresse by cold thin diet evacuants and cataplasmes if there be a coalitus of the frenum it 's helped by section applying the white of an egge digestives and drying plaisters if there be a fissure of the prepuce use oile of roses amylum and frankincense XVI The symptomes in the genitals of men 1. The generation of sperme hurt which is when it is not generated or such as is not prolifick caused by vice of the matter or faculty hurt c. it 's cured according to its causes if by the vice of the whole body or any principal part it 's helped accordingly if distemper by correctors and specificks c. the greater roots of satyrion artichoacks sperage rapes garlick onions dates sweet almonds cubebs oisters diasatyrion diambra and sweet diamosch syrups eryngo roots applying oile of mastick bread of wheat rice almonds sorbile eggs veale kids flesh weathers hens partridges pheasants young pigeons sparrows shelfishes figgs pease beanes garlick carrots mirth shunning ebriety refrigerating meats 2. Erection and ejaculation of sperm hurt when the genital cannot be erected or extended caused by the defect of vital spirit or resolution it 's cured if by defect of sperm or distemper by heaters inunctions with oiles and unguents oile of costus and musk c. if from distorsion according to the cause as aforesaid if a node by astringents and fomentations if a double foramen by scarrification of one and occludents if laxity of the passage by dryers and sulphureous baths if the sperm be aquose by incrassation 3. Salacity priapisme and satyriasis the first is too great a propension to venery caused by the vice of the sperm and sometimes so great that it 's turned into fury The second is an erection of the pudend about the desire of venery caused by a flatuous spirit filling the fistulous nerve of the genital The third is a palpitation of the pudend following an inflammatory affection of the spermatick vessels with tension the first is cured by phlebotomy temperants and evacuation of sharp humours spermosbesticks
and refrigerants agnus castus lettuce purselain hempseed coral chrystal camphire chast water epithems fomenting the loines Galen's refrigerant cerot of saunders fasting abstaining from aromaticks so also the satyriasis and priapisme is cured sc by venesection purgation spermosbesticks refrigerating topicks repressers of flatulency the rose cerot and avoiding venerious imaginations 4. The running of the reines or gonorrhoea which is an excessive and involuntary profusion of sperm caused by its proper vice and that of the spermatick parts it 's cured V. P. if from imbecility of the retentive faculty by dryers and astringents sumach sealed earth c. if cold by mastick and frankincense astringent baths if the sperm be hot sharp by phlebotomy rhubarb myrobalans succory the foure greater cold seeds anointing the spine and loines with refrigerating unguents the cerot of saunders and comitissae if the sperm be thin and aquose by dryers and roborants the rosate aromatick syrup of mints eating rice incrassants evacuants if cacochymick if passing out too soone in the venereal act it 's to be helped as imbecility and too much aquosenesse if corrupt and virulent by dryers triacle and mithridate after purgation and astringent powders 5. Nocturnal polution which is caused by the irritation of the expulsive faculty by copious sperm c. it 's cured by abstaining from spermatogenetick meat using that which is refrigerant and astringent and phlebotomy if the body be plethorick hindering the motion of the sperm shunning imaginations sleeping on the back using lettuce blites pompions cucumers rue troches and liniments there are diverse other accidents which are helped according to the cause 6. The emission of bloud which is caused by the apertion of the mouths of the spermatick veines it 's cured by abstaining from venery use of the aforesaid astringents 7. The paine of the testicles which is caused by inflammation frigidity ulcers and external causes it 's cured according to the causes if from percussion by phlebotomy things hindering the flux of humours sc violets and roses using discutients lenients sc dill chamomil leaves of henbane bean meale and milk The paine of the genital ariseth from the same causes and is cured as its inflation inflammation wounds and ulcers by anodynes fomentation with the decoction of mallows camomil melilot plaisters thereof white bread boiled in milk yolks of eggs oile of roses saffron and opium or henbane leaves rosted 8. The itching of the scrotum and prepuce which is caused by sharp humours it 's cured V. P. by what helps it in other places abstersives anodynes washing with the decoction of sage ammoniack salt with vineger and that of the prepuce by the decoction of lentils with the barks of pomegranats XVII The diseases of the navil 1. The apertion thereof caused by much blood and acrimonious c. it 's cured by the juyce and leaves of plantain purging with rhubarb agarick and sena c. 2. The umbilical hernia or exomphalos which is caused by an emollient laxant humour c. sc falling down of the intestines and omentum into the navil it 's cured after purgation by adstringent and consolidating remedies as in the rupture of the intestines reposition and convenient topicks plaisters abstaining from flatulent meat and excessive motion using a girdle with a globule over the navil applying a cerot of bole mastick and the white of an egge c. if aquose it 's cured by prevention and remotion exsiccants and discutient topicks lunate section if need cicatrizants roborants if flatulent by discutients decoctions fomentations sacculs if carnose by causticks and traumaticks ligature with a mercuriate thred using burnt alum c. 3. The inflammation of the navil which may be caused by percussion falls or section it 's cured by lenients prohibents discutients and digerents c. as in the inflammation of the testicles and duggs if abscesses they are to be opened and cured as other ulcers 4. Wormes there caused as the rest and are cured or killed by applying venice glasse with honey and savin giving harts horn with tansey water XVIII The diseases of the abdomen 1. The inflammation of the muscles thereof caused as the rest it 's cured as the rest by venesection clysters cholagogons and phlegmagogons sudorificks plaisters of cows goats dung in vineger 2. The spasme which is caused by flatulency is cured by melanagogons phlegmagons discutients and anodyne oiles 3. The tumours of the abdomen are caused by flatulency or humours and are cured as those of the mesentery and omentum 4. The wounds of the abdomen which are caused by violence and are cured as others with ligature in the forme of a crosse if not penetrating if penetrating with future also after reposition turning the opposite way c. 5. The fistula's thereof caused by wounds or ulcers they are cured by natural baths or artificial of sulphur alum and salt if outwardly by incision c. XIX The diseases of the pudend and neck of the womb 1. The narrownesse thereof which is a shutting of the same or of its orifice caused by compression or coalition and amplitude is caused by frequent coiture and parturition it 's cured by astringents purgation fomentations baths astringent pessaries alum water astringent decoctions if there be a rupture of the perinaeum by emollients reposition future tarre and consolidating powders 2. The feminine mentula which is caused by too much afflux of nutriment to the part it 's cured by evacuation section dryers discutients and astringents causticks burnt alum aegyptiack ligature with silk and restrictive powders The caudate affection or carnose excrescence is so helped also 3. The shutting of the womb which is caused by conformation wounds and ulcers it 's cured by section V. P. by retraction and opening of the leggs if from flesh by dryers and discutients if need cathereticks burnt alum aegyptiack if from a hard tumour by emollients and resolvents if from astringents by emollients as butter and oile of sweet almonds 4. The pustules roughnesse of the pudend which are caused by an adust malignant and sharp humour and are cured by preparers borrage fumitory and endive c. evacuants sena syrup of apples R.S. of violets and roses solutive diacatholicon confectio hamech pills of fumitory and tartar phlebotomy if need decoction of guaiacum and sarsaparilla using oile of roses and yolks of eggs antipsoricks and meat of good juyce shunning things sharp salt and acid 5. The condylomatae of the neck of the womb which are swellings of the wrinkles with heat and paine caused by a sharp and malignant humour they are cured V. P. by remedies against the french disease topicks anodynes if with inflammation repellers dryers discutients emollients if hard digerents ficcants scrophularia powder of eggeshels burnt misy with turpentine and balsam of mercury 6. The warts of the pudend and neck of the womb which are caused by thick feculent and malignant
humours they are cured V. P. by medicaments section and ustion exsiccants discutients erodents and adurents with defensives of bole sealed earth rose water vineger using corrosives in shells and ligature with horse haire c. 7. The hemorrhoids of the womb which are tubercles like those of the anus in the neck of the womb caused by the afflux of feculent bloud they are cured V.P. by purgation revulsion derivation anodynes if need fomentations unguents butter oile of roses poplar ointment yolks of eggs saffron and opium if need if they bleed not they are helped by scarrification sprinkling on a sharp and drying powder bole and alum c. if bloody by emollients aperients and discutients leeches section and extirpants if the flux be great by revulsion cupping-glasses frictions ligatures and stoppers of bloud with the white of an egg 8. The ulcers of the neck of the womb which are caused by sharp humours and things corrosive they are cured by evacuants anodynes emulsions astringents and dryers if pure if deepe by injecting the decoction of red roses detersives if sordid whey barly water with honey wormwood myrrhe turpentine alum if sordid by aegyptiack or ointment of the Apostles if creeping by abstergents dryers and astringents alum water sarcoticks and cicatrizants fumes drying sulphureous and aluminous baths traumaticks turpentine with sugar pills of bdellium and milk and the conserve of roses if tabid 9. The rhagades of the neck of the womb or fissures which are caused by laborious birth afflux of sharp humours and viscid they are cured if from violent coiture by the decoction of roses plantain bole and frankincense with the white of an egg if from the flux of sharp humours V. P. by topicks if from inflammation accordingly by topicks c. according to the cause and the fissures are to be cured by things binding without biting oile of lineseed and roses with the yolk of an egge ointment of mucilages with pompholix and burnt lead if callous by oile of lillies turpentine and wax if malignant by things helping fistula's if itching and painful by ointment of mucilages white camphorat pomatum or diapompholygos moistening diet of good juyce chickens veale broths sorbile eggs mallows borage ptisan and sweet almonds abstaining from things sharp salt 10. The fistula of the neck of the womb which is caused when the matter of abscesses is not evacuated and corrodeth it 's cured by universal evacuations palliatives sudorificks detersive and roborant injections diapalma drying potions of centory agrimony and betony c. topicks gentian roots and bryony used as tents things taking away callus section ustion remedies aegyptiack sublimat causticks detersives incarnants cicatrizants 11. The cancer of the womb which is caused by menstruous adust bloud and torrified humours flowing thether it 's cured by a fit diet universal purgations and melanagogons taking the powder of bozoar sapphir and emerald cooling astringent topicks fomentations of plantain and night shade water diapompholigos herb Robert fomentations of mallows c. if painful by corrosives of antimony and arsnick if need and chickens dissected applied 12. The gangreen sphacelus of the womb which is caused by inflammation cancers and ulcers it 's cured by things hindering putrefaction scarrification washing with the decoction of wormwood lupines and myrrhe using aegyptiack the powder of aloes and myrrhe amputation ustion ligature cordials external and internal injections of night shade and plantain taking the decoction of sorrel scabious and damask prunes little refrigerating acid diet and cathereticks c. XX. The diseases of the womb it selfe 1. The distemper of the womb which is a deflexion of the same from its natural temper so that which is preternatural caused by things external and internal it 's cured if hot by refrigerants cold hystericks endive violets lettuce diatrion santalon the rose ointment Galens refrigerant the cerot of saunders cataplasmes of barley meale baths fomentations abstaining from hot meats and aromaticks using barley water c. if cold by heaters mugwort savin rue spices diamoschum triacle mithridate oile of bayes rue nutmeg and diet of easy concoction and good nourishment with aniseseed fennel and aromaticks if moist by dryers sulphureous baths and drying diet if dry by humecters borrage mallows satyrion eryngo roots conserves emulsions baths fomentations oile of sweet almonds and the resumptive ointment moistening and humecting diet of good juyce easy concoction much aliment not excrementitious fat broth veale hens weathers flesh sorbile eggs milk fresh cheese almonds dates sweet wine rest if with matter sc if cold moist by fit remedies preparants purgers syrup of mugwort betony hissop agarick turbith sena aloephangin mastick pils cochie diaphoenicon dacarthamum purging pessaries dryers heaters consumers discutients sudorificks the decoction of guajacum china and sarsaparilla thin diet rosted birds veale and sweet almonds chalybeats insessions baths plaisters of caranna sulphureous drying baths bread seasoned with anise cumin seed meat rosted with aromaticks strong wine if hot dry with choller by preparants alterants evacuants syrup of citrons violets roses solutive manna tamarinds rhubarb and sena c. as for the temper of the womb it 's known by the gynaecomystax on the lip genitals menstruals venery conception they all being soonest in those that are hot prolifick 2. The narrownesse of the womb and its vessels which is an interception thereof caused by viscid humours inflammation astringents compression and cicatrices c. it 's cured according to the cause if by obstructon by evacuants aperients attenuants abstersives things mooving the courses chalybeats fomentations baths oile of rue and dill fumes and pessaries if from diseases according to the cause 3. The opening of the vessels of the womb preternaturally which is caused by anastomasis diaeresis and diapedesis it 's cured according to the cause by astringents agglutinants sarcoticks condensants incrassants not viscid if an anastomosis as roses saunders coral viscid if a diaeresis sc comfrey plantain the whites of eggs troches of carabe bole macilages c. 4. Things troublesome in the womb sc wormes generated caused as the rest are cured or removed by the powder of illyrick flowerdeluce with the juyce of pomegranats made into a pessary fomenting with the juyce of ivy metrenchyts of the decoction of wormwood hiera picra Stones in the womb are removed by clysters the decoction of fenegreek mallows and oile of roses resupination depression and extraction by the two longest fingers 5. The inflation of the womb which is a distension of the same caused by flatulency from a cold pituitous flatulent matter begotten by the vice of deficient heate it 's cured by discutients evacuants temperants hiera diaphoenicon with castor hystericks diagalanga oile of aniseseed cataplasmes of rue chamomil plaisters of bay-berries or caranna carminative metrenchyts pessaries fumes of aloes myrrhe
nutmeg cupping-glasses sulphureous bituminous and salth baths if from cold after childbirth by heating discutients inciding and attenuating diet 6. The dropsy thereof which is an impotency of the same caused by water collected there by its own vice or that of other parts it 's cured if from suppression of the courses by the apertion of a crural vein preparants purgers heaters dryers dialacca diacurcuma tobacco water dianisum diagalanga pessaries fomentations oile of elder and aniseeds plaisters of bay-berries or goats dung hysterick roborants anodynes decoction of chamomil flowers hydropick clysters issues and drying diet 7. The tumour of the womb caused by bloud contained in the veines thereof it 's cured by things provoking the suppression of the menses 8. The inflammation of the womb which is a tumour of the same caused by the putrefaction of blood shed into the substance thereof troubling with diverse symptomes and sometimes turning into a scirrhus sometimes into an abscessus it 's cured by phlebotomy if there be no prohibents cupping-glasses evacuants syrups of roses and violets solutive manna rhubarb the lenitive electuary diacatholicon vomitories alterants refrigerants emulsions hypnoticks V.P. repellers rosate ointment Galens refrigerant the cerot of saunders oile of quinces cataplasmes of purselane endive and night shade pessaries of their juyces with oile of roses new milk with rose water injected refrigerating clysters anodynes the yolk of an egg with fatts saffron poppies womans milk and mucilages cataplasmes of white bread and milk discutients oile of chamomil butter and fats suppurants if need apertion by motion sternutation cupping-glasses detersive and attenuating injections evacuation of purulency detersives consolidants section if need washing with mulse water or that of barley or plantain with sugar if towards the bladder by emulsions and whey with syrup of violets thin diet ptisan broths lettuce and decoction of barley somewhat tepid 9. The scirrhus thereof which is a hard swelling of the same and troublesome without paine caused by a thick terrestrial and faculent humour it 's cured by evacuants preparation by moisteners and heaters borage buglosse fumitory polypody sena black hellebore emollients and discutients insessions diachylon ireat metrenchyts if not legitimate by heaters digesters if from things too much heating and discutient by humectants emollients and moderate heaters mallows and oile of sweet almonds increasing discutients in the declination bryony roots chalybeats abstaining from cold drying and viscid meats beefe bacon geese and ducks c. using diet of good juyce moist and moderately hot 10. The rising of the womb which is caused by corruption of the sperme and ill vapours it 's cured by evacuants and dissipants c. as in the suffocation of the same 11. The falling down of the womb which is a propension of the same out of the abdomen caused by the solution of the unity of its ligament it 's cured by reposition clysters resupination and elevation of the inferiour parts fomentations of mallows and lineseed if swelled holding a red hot iron neere and sprinkling astringents and glutinants thereon a fumigation of salted and dryed eele skin cupping-glasses applied to the navil piriforme pessaries of astringents ointment comitissae the same used to the back as also that against ruptures or diaphoenicon fomentations of astringents sulphureous baths roborant decoctions of oake mosse lying with the leggs extended wearing a pessary of cork and the Hypocratick zone if need and excision rest dry astringent and glutinative diet rice quinces pares fresh cheese and red wine if the womb move to either side it 's helped V. P. by cupping-glasses decubiture on the other side rectification by the finger humected with oile of sweet almonds and fumes of fetid things using sweet to the nostrils 12. The wounds rupture of the womb which are caused by violence and are cured by consolidants anodynes pessaries injections wax candles or plaisters with vulnerary unguents hydromel agrimony and plantain c. decocted 13. The ulcers and corruption of the womb which are caused as those of the neck of the womb and so cured and as fistula's taking cumfrey roots rhapontick plantain and sealed earth c. injecting hydromel frankincense myrrhe the lesser centory and alum using aegyptiack consolidant decoctions syrup of dryed roses powders of myrrhe aloes bole and unguents of turpentine honey spirit of wine XXI The symptomes in the womb 1. The imbecility thereof which is a slowness defect thereof in its action caused by distemper vice of the native heate c. it 's cured by things restoring heat spirits things aromatick which hinder the effluvium of heat spirits strengthen the substance of the womb sc aromaticks diacalaminth the rosate aromatick diamosch mithridat and oile of lavender and the like heaters and dryers meat of good juyce much nourishment chickens capons partridges pigeons veale new eggs almonds dates sack and strong beere 2. Itching of the womb which is caused by a salt serous and adust humour it 's cured by evacuants phlebotomy temperants with fumitory borrage polypodie and sena abstergents with plantain c. Galens refrigerant or ointment of roses and aegyptiack or the enulate ointment with mercury if need and meats of good juyce moistening and refrigerant 3. Paine of the womb which is a painful sense thereof caused by solution of continuity from erosion or distension it 's cured by anodynes narcoticks if need if from flatulency as from inflation if from grumose bloud by calefacients and attenuants evaporations baths and inunctions triacle rue with honey clysters of rue and seed of fenegreek and triacle water if from narrownesse of the vessels by phlebotomy purgation laxants dilatants insessions inunctions and discutiens if from flatulency and phlegme injections hysterick plaisters cupping-glasses suffumigations of laudanum storax and musk pessaries if from malignant matter by bezoar stone angelica triacle and mithridate if from corruption of sperm as suffocations c. according to the cause XXII The symptomes about the menses and other fluxes of the womb 1. The defect and suppression of the menses which is a retention of the menstrual bloud caused by the narrownesse of the passages or vice of the bloud it selfe it 's cured by phlebotomy in the ankle if need scarrification cupping-glasses ligature friction apertion of the hemorrhoids lenients hiera picra preparants calefacients inciders and attenuants calamint mugwort and borage if melancholick the decoction of guajacum if pituitous evacuants agarick turbith foetid pills vomitories if need moovers of the menses castor myrrh galbanum bryony root medicat wines decoctions of red cicers syrup of mugwort and calamint troches of myrrh leven baths of emollients and laxants oiles cataplasmes fumes of aromaticks and savin evaporations injections clysters pessaries of honey wax and emmenonagogick powders if from obstruction in the bowels coldnesse of the aire hardnesse of the womb distortion tumour or disease the cure is to be accordingly
easy concoction temperate or such as may correct distempers often eating quinces sweet almonds with honey raisins peares sweet apples rosted figgs before parturition abstaining from things sharp bitter and salt sc garlick onions olives mustard parsly fennel pepper and too much use of aromaticks using cinamon and saffron moderately in the last month shunning horary fruits and pulses but using copious diet and good beere avoiding violent motion and venery to the first months as also baths passions vain imaginations too much watching foetid smells and strong as that of rue pennyroyal mints castor and sulphur the sight of unpleasant things and great noises using lenients prunes broths with manna things strengthning the womb and foetus diamargariton and diambra without musk rotuls and clarets applying outwardly to the navil sacculs or plaisters of nutmeg cloves mace coral and mastick bread with honey or a crust with malago As for conception it 's known by retention of the sperm drynesse of the pudend rigor titillation of the womb retention of the menses loathing of meat the pica and vomiting elevation of the belly towards the ventricle motion of the infant about the fourth month swelling of the duggs milk therein blewnesse of the nipples want of appetite to venery and shining of the eyes lost and litle worms in the urin after three dayes standing which may be seen by colature and there is a male if the woman hath a good colour if the right dugg is biggest and fullest of milk and the nipple is blackish and if the veines and arteries of that side are more full with agility and fewer symptomes 2. The symptomes which happen in the first months in those that are great which are caused by the retention of the menses sc the loathing of meat which is cured by gentle vomitories if need aloephangine and stomach pills rhubarb quinces rotules of the rosate aromaticks and diarrhodon abbatis anointing the ventricle with oile of mastick mints quinces wormwood and myrtles using the stomach cerot plaister of the crust of bread things astringent and austere meat that is rosted avoiding fat things The pica is helped by the miva of quinces Vomiting is stopped by a gentle vomit and roborants rhubarb aloes sena and peptick powders Paines of the belly are helped by discurients sacculs inunction with oile of rue and bayes plaisters taking cinamon and aniseseeds cinamon water or aromatick wine The flux of the belly is stopped by gentle abstergent and roborant remedies syrup of roses solutive myrobolans rhubarb roborants quinces rice almonds conserve of roses umbilical cataplasmes of quinces with mastick nutmeg mace and cloves The toothach is helped by astringents plaisters of mastick and tacamahaca holding in the mouth the decoction of ferne roots red roses sage five leaved grass and bistort The paines of the head are eased by repellers and anodynes The vertigo is helped by temporal repellers discutients roborants peptick powders if from the stomach and quinces 3. The symptomes which happen in the middle months of women which are caused as those aforesaid sc The cough which is cured by evacuants rhubarb or agarick roborants errhines thoracicks rotuls and troches The palpitation of the heart is helped by cardiacks bezoar the electuary of gemms confection of alkermes applying roborants discutients oile of bawm and cordial spirits and phlebotomy if need Watching is prevented by averters frictions lotions for the feet syrup of poppies or dryed roses and emulsions of sweet almonds poppy-seeds Paines of the loines and hips are helped by phlebotomy if need swathes if from burden rest sleepe and anodyne oiles Hemorrhages are stopped if from quantity of blood by phlebotomy and astringents umbilical roborants frictions ligatures and cupping-glasses used to the arms if there be a cacochymy by temperants and evacuants if a flux of the haemorrhoids by anodynes drinking red wine with nutmeg 4. Symptomes happening in the last months which are caused as the rest and so cured sc The suppression of urin which is helped by fomentation cataplasmes baths pellitory stone parsley lineseed c. and the catheter if need Stopping of the belly is cured by temperants liquid and moistening meats purgers butter mallows borrage sweet prunes rosat honey humecting and emollient clysters Distension of the veines of the hipps and leggs is cured by abstaining from much walking laying the leggs higher than ordinary Inflation and swelling of the leggs is helped by digerents discutients fomenting with lixives the decoction of organy chamomil pennyroyal and calamint sacculs of salt and ashes and salt water and hepatick roborants if the liver be weak Fissures of the belly are removed by laxant unguents and liniments calves marrow oile of sweet almonds hens fat pomatum and dogg skinn applied with oile of sweet almonds The effusion of water out of the womb is helped by good diet and roborants 5. Debility of the foetus which is caused by debility of the sperm and defect of aliment it 's known by falling of the duggs flux of the menses sicknesse fluxes and cessation of the motion of the foetus it 's cured by roborants good diet of good juyce and easy concoction chickens flesh eggs sweet almonds raisins quinces pearls coral mace cinamon zedoary aloes and hot roborant hystericks diamargariton balsam of infants and the embryon water fennel and cumin seed in the water of honey sweet bread used to the navil the ointment Comitissae and astringent sacculs XXVI Symptomes about parturition 1. Abortion when the infant is borne before the fit time caused by too much cold suddain terrour lipothymy anger and fluxes want of aliment and diseases of the womb c. it 's cured by laxants irritation of the expulsive faculty preservation is by removing diseases cocochymy and plethora if from too much blood by phlebotomy if from cocochymy and cold humours by evacuation purging pessaries heaters dryers and roborants decoction of china and sarsaparilla avoiding internal and external causes ill smells heat and cold using temperate meats of good juyce and easy concoction not using much motion of the body or mind venery alterants roborants astringents coral conserve of roses myrobalans dates syrup of quinces magistery of coral taken in a sorbile egg using the ointment Comitissae to the loines reines pecten and perinaeum and astringent plaisters wearing a load-stone at the navil 2. The regimen of those that bring forth who when neere the time of parturition should shun stinking smells and strong astringent vapours sweet smells using meat of easy concoction and good juyce abstaining from astringents and densants sc rice hard eggs birds and hard flesh using broths with cinamon and saffron lenients repid baths of sweet water with mallows seed of faenigreek lineseed and camonil flowers afterwards anointing the belly loines and uterine parts with a liniment of the mucilage of the seed of marsh mallows lineseed oile of white lillies sweet almonds violets fresh butter and henns fat the signes of parturition neer are paine from the navil
to the groin falling of the upper parts and extension of the lower and it is natural when the head is downwards and the membrans are to be broken by the midwife putting her finger into the mouth of the womb the patient being placed in a semilunate chaire leaning backwards and opening the leggs wide is to retain the breath when the womb openeth it selfe and is to strive to expel the foetus then is the midwife to comfort hir and anoin the womb with oile of white lillies in those that are fat that have narrow pudends dry and at the first time of parturition sitting on a low chair and so receiving the infant in a fine linnin cloth pressing the bloud in the umbilical vessels towards the navil and cutting it foure fingers off the belly tying it gently an inch off applying a dubled cloth wet in oile of roses also the secundine is first to be drawn out putting in the hand anointed with hot oile if need those that stand by are to encourage presse down the belly preventing fainting by giving wine distilled waters and odorats and they are to be such as are old and have had experience of the pains of childbirth 3. The difficult natural birth which is caused by the debility of the expulsive faculty and infant or bignesse thereof or the membrans of the womb if thick and the womb and fissure are narrow and not slippery it 's cured by things facilitating almost like emmenonagogicks sc round birthwort dittany of creet seed of lavender thyme saffron cinamon cassia lignea myrrh oile of amber mineral borax cinamon water and oile thereof vervain water powder of the secundine sweet fumes pessaries unguents of savin myrrh and galbanum sternutatories eagle stone and coral strengthning the patient with wine and nutmeg confection of alchermes diamoschum and hot diamargariton if there are twins the midwife is to order them by her hand if large the ways are to be laxed and lubrified by oiles and emollient decoctions oile of sweet almonds fatts and mucilages so if there be tumours if fatt the site is to be directed if the membrans are strong they are to be broken by the fingers anointed with sweet oile and if the foetus be weake they are to te breathed into after chewing aromaticks anointing the mouth with honey dropping aquavitae on the tongue using the same to the pulses and nostrils washing the foetus in wine or milk putting a sacculus upon the head made of nutmeg mace cloves cinamon wet with malmesey fomenting the navil with the same the diet about the time of parturition ought to be of easy concoction and good juyce little in quantity taken often chicken broth dates raisins using laxant baths anointing with oile of white lillies and sweet almonds using in travel sorbile eggs and citron pills c. 4. The vitious birth or difficult preternatural which is caused by the amplitude of the womb and inordinate motion of the patient and thicknesse of the involving membrans it 's cured or helped by the hand of the midwife anointed with oile by putting the foetus back into the womb if with the feet foremost or else taking by the hands lubrifying the passages and giving a sternutatory to the patient if the armes and leggs are distorted the patient is to be moved about and the womb to be pressed till there be a more fit site if the armes are stretched upwards the patient is to be supinated and the lower parts elevated removing the pillow pressing up the belly and putting back the foetus till the head be turned so also if onely one foot appeares and the hands are joyned to the thighs or else they are to be pressed together by the midwife so if the knees are foremost using volutation if the hands are foremost they are to be reduced to the sides as before and the parts are to be relaxed if only one hand be foremost the foetus is to be put back till the site be natural if the feet and hands be joyned the feet are to be put upwards and the armes to be reduced so if the posteriours move to the mouth of the womb or the site be transverse or lateral if the belly be forewards the armes are to be taken hold of by the hands and so the head is to be turned or else the patient is to be had to bed as in the rest that the position may be natural by concussion and motion if there bee twins rightly mooving that next the mouth of the womb is first to be taken yet the other is not to be let goe lest the site becom worse if the feet be forewards one is to be taken by the arm and the body is to be inverted and so the other afterwards if only one moove regularly that is to be taken and the other is to be reduced by volutation c. as aforesaid till there be a precipitant and fit site 5. Defect of parturition and the dead foetus which is caused by weakness of the mother foetus or narrownesse of the passages and death by defect or plenty of aliment percussion coughing sternutation and diseases c. it 's cured by surgery or section and if dead it 's to be expelled by savin dittany of creete round birthwort gentian myrrh castor borax powder of horses testicles after emollient baths sternutatories anointing the pudend with oile of sweet almonds chamomile and goose grease purgers external ocytocions ointment of sowbread pessaries suffumigations of asses hoofes galbanum and castor extraction after supination as aforesaid using fat injections insessions irrigations and cataplasmes dissection of the dead foetus and eduction thereby with analepticks anodynes prevention of symptomes keeping the bed using hen broth eggs cold diamargariton diambra electuary of gemms with wine borage water roborants fomenting with the decoction of mugwort mallows rosemary wormwood and hypericon using the ointment Comitissae 6. The caesarean birth which is to be preserved by keeping the mothers mouth open and the womb warm then is section to be made as in lithotomy beginning at the top of the womb and avoiding the spermatick vessels and testicles so taking out the foetus and secundine wiping away the blood and fomenting with an astringent decoction then using gastroraphia speedily and so curing it as green wounds preventing cold by unguents cataplasmes plaisters and fomentation c. using pessaries and injections those may be made of wax candles or linnen covered with butter hens fat oile of roses and the yolk of an egg these may be abstersive roborant and consolidating of the decoction of mugwort plantain wormwood marsh-mallowes red roses roots of birthwort and salsa-parilla sod in chalybeat water with hydromel and austere wine with meat of good juyce corroborating clysters of red sugar simple diaprune fresh butter rosate oile and hens broth c. XXVII The regimen of breeding women and their affections after child-birth 1. Their rule after child-birth at which time the
secundine also is to be drawn forth and the aire is to be temperate avoiding odorats and anointing the belly and sides with the oile of sweet almonds and white lillies with a little warm wine using meat of good juyce easy concoction sc broth of hens and their flesh with white bread panadoes sorbile eggs chickens capons kids veale drinking water boiled with cinamon or coriander seed eating sparingly avoiding noises and passion And if they will not be nurses the blood is to be diverted from the duggs by repellers under the armpits the rosate ointment cerot of saunders cataplasmes of bean meal oxymel mints and parsly baths of mugwort agrimony borrage rosemary lineseed faenigreek and hempseed c. before going abroad using suffumigations of frankincense saunders kermes nutmeg cinamon cloves to dispose to conception 2. The secundine retained after the birth and mola which may be caused by their thicknesse rupture of the navil smells cold and feare c. it 's cured or remooved by attraction sternutatories fumes of burnt feathers and asses hoofes used to the nostrils specificks some what like those that expel the dead foetus sc dittany of creet the secundine prepared troches of myrrh borax and castor powder of horses testicles onions and warm wine pessaries of mugwort sage savin coloquintida hellebore honey and bulls gall fumes of cassia nard savin mugwort penny-royal and dittany injections of the same suppurants if need detersives expulsives the mola is remooved as aforesaid 3. The purgation after child-birth retained or lessened which is caused by narrownesse of the vessels or the blood is diverted by reason of thicknesse thereof or perturbations c. it 's cured by frictions ligatures cupping-glasses and scarrifications phlebotomy in the foot and other revulsives laxants and reserants inward and outward anointing the region of the womb with oile of white lillies sweet almonds oily pulse ointment of marsh mallows hens fat saffron oile of angelica spike cinamon fomenting with the decoction of plants as in the suppression of the menses emollient and laxant clysters purging with rhubarb agarick or sena emmenonagogick pessaries things attenuating and diffusing the blood juyce of borrage and stone parsly with wine c. as in the narrownesse of the womb 4. The excessive flux of blood after child-birth which is caused by the quantity of bloud thin and acrimonious opennesse of the vessels and violent extraction of the secundine it 's cured by revulsories roborants rosted hens almonds rice quinces conserve of red roses red wine mastick water friction of the extreams anointing the belly with oile of roses and myrtles cupping-glasses used under the duggs and to the hypochondria cataplasmes of red roses bole and rose water used to the region of the liver if violent by astringents and stoppers sc syrup of dryed roses myrtles purselain coral comfrey conserve of red roses bole troches of carabe purselain and plantain water ointment Comitissae using astringent oiles and unguents astringent fomentations fumes of frankincense mastick red roses tragacanth horse hoofes phlebotomy in the arm if need if there be grumous bloud in the womb the patient is to walk and the decoction of barley oxymel or honey of roses is to be injected c. as in the flux of the menses 5. The pains after child-birth and tormina which are caused by external aire grumous bloud retained and sharpnesse thereof they are cured by extenuation and evacuation of what doth irritate diacyminum and diagalanga cardiacks if need if the humour be thin sharp it 's cured almost as the collick from choller using external extenuants laxants and anodynes fomenting with betony mugwort bawm penny-royal bayes calamint seed of cumin caraways wild carrot or cataplasmes of white lilly roots onions cumin seed and oile of white lillies and fumes 6. The rupture of the womb to the anus which is caused by narrownesse thereof and is cured by fomentation with hot wine and butter reposition of the matrix future tarre and consolidants it 's prevented by putting a role into the anus if there be a falling of the womb it 's helped by rest using foetid things to the pudend and sweet to the nostrils and astringents after the menses if there be inflammation it 's helped as aforesaid carefully using coolers least the courses should be stopped if there are ulcers they are to be helped after the courses are past if there be suffocation the belly is to be swathed or girt with a girdle made of mans or staggs skin with friction and ligature of the leggs cupping glasses castor and rue applyed to the nostrils and sweet things to the pudend c. as aforesaid 7. Watching delirium's and the epilepsy of childing women are caused by vapours c. and are cured by revulsion and evacuation of the courses c. 8. The swelling of the belly which is caused by cold it 's cured by hysterick fomentations a warm sheeps skin and wine the swellings of the leggs arising from flatulency are cured by hysterick fomentations and if from viscous humours by good diet and little drink evacuation after the courses and discutient fomentations of wormwood southernwood mugwort flowers of chamomil and betony c. as in the inflation and dropsy of the womb 9. Their vomiting which is caused by retention of the menses c. and is to be cured by stoppers if the meat also be evacuated a good diet is to be used of easy concoction and in a little quantity with roborants if vitious humours they are to be remooved by abstersives if bloud it 's to be revelled by friction cupping-glasses phlebotomy in the ankle topicks mooving the courses anodynes asses milk if there be an opening in the liver and the oily pulse If there be a flux caused by meat not well concocted there must be a good diet external roborants abstersives after the courses decoction of barley syrup and honey of roses temperant and abstersive clysters gentle astringent purges syrup of roses solutive pulp of tamarinds and rhubarb astringents of roses plantain tormentil quinces and coral c. topicks eating quinces peares almonds and rice using emmenonagogicks if the courses be retained pessaries evaporations and unguents if the belly be bound it 's helped by suppositories of figgs and white sope c. clysters of pellitory mallows line-seed with common oile and that of sweet almonds cassia and manna taken if there be incontinency of urin it 's helped by baths of betony sage laurel rosemary penny-royal and organy and the citrine and rose ointment 10. The wrinkles of the belly after child-birth which are caused by the extension of the skin and are cured by the juyce of the roots of white lillies honey and wax and when great it 's to be laxed if need with oile of sweet almonds oily pulse or white lillies after delivery oile of mastick and roses also may be added to the former and baths detersive may be used if the pudend be
dilated it 's to be helped as aforesaid 11. The lecteal feaver which is caused by the suppression of the menses or vitious humours it 's cured if from the generation of milk by good diet and sudorificks if from the suppression or imminution of the courses by emmenonagogicks venesection and purgation if from vitious humours by venesection purgation and hystericks if their feavers are putrid they are cured by phlebotomy in the foot if need purgation with care and in the beginning with cassia manna syrup of roses solutive rhubarb and sena alterants of endive borrage barly water and juyce of sweet pomegranats with moderate attenuants avoiding things very cold or acid and using thin diet at first of ptisan and chicken broth c. if there be a pleuresy caused by the retention of the menses or vitious humours it 's to be cured by phlebotomy in the ancle revulsive clysters gentle purgers in the remission c. as in other pleuresies so in the quinsey if inflammation of the liver by phlebotomy in the arm c. as aforesaid using attenuants that the courses may not be stopped Hereto may be reduced the affections of the duggs being chiefely in those that are newly delivered XXVIII The diseases of the duggs 1. Their vitious magnitude which is caused by a great quantity of aliment and attrahent heat rest retention of the menses and handling c. it 's cured or prevented in virgins by fit diet repelling cooling and astringent topicks linnen cloths applied humected with water of plantain roses mints and hemlock or the leaves thereof applied with vineger as a cataplasme powder of whetstones applied with oile of roses and the same used under the armpits in those that are delivered it 's helped by exsiccants and discutients the smalnesse thereof is caused by things hindering diverting and intercepting the afflux of blood it 's helped by good and copious diet white wine removing the intercipient repellent and averting causes using fomentations of warm water with emollient herbs anointing with oile of sweet almonds or the Indian nut frictions and gentle dropaces if there be softnesse and flaccidity thereof it 's helped by copious aliment afterwards using astringents c. 2. The swelling of the duggs by milk which is caused by reason of too great quantity of blood and retention of milk the infant not drawing it out or after weaning it 's cured by sucking or the suctory instrument hindering the afflux by epithems of rose-rose-water rose-vineger and alum resolvers and consumers mints parsly corriander red cabbage and bryony or cataplasmes of barly meale beans lentils lupines chamomil-flowers wormwood and mints 3. The inflammation and erysipelas of the duggs which are caused by blood and quantity of milk c. it 's cured by venesection in the ankle if the courses are stopped gentle purgers alterants refrigerants lettuce endive plantain and water lillies gentle repellers posca and oile of roses with a cloth lettuce oile of roses and vineger afterwards adding discutients and using only discutients at last if hard it 's helped by emollients and attenuants album graecum with turpentine and oile of earth-worms and suppurants if need diachylon simple or white bread boiled in milk with saffron apertion in the lower part mundificants with turpentine and honey of roses oile of roses and myrrh The erysipelas is helped by sudorificks harts horn sealed earth carduus benedictus and water of elder resolvent topicks applying scarlet or barly flower wet in elder water avoiding external coolers and binders and after curing it as the inflammation 4. The ●●demd of the duggs which is caused by a pituitous humour and suppression of the menses it 's cured by a heating and drying diet purgation resolving discutient and roborant topicks not too hot or strong fomentations of sulphur hysop sage organy and chamomil flowers anointing after with oile of chamomil white lilles and bayes cataplasmes of bean meale chamomil flowers and cumin-seed the melilot plaister great diachylon and that of bay-berries and suppurants if need roots of white lillies bryony and the ireat diachylon 5. The scirrhus thereof which is caused by pituitous and melancholick humours incrassated it 's cured V. P. by remotion of the cause emollients attenuants and discutients avoiding what may too much heat attenuat humect or mollify using the decoction of mallows faenigreek and chamomil flowers anointing with the oile of sweet almonds chamomil fats calves marrow and ointment of marsh-mallows the great diachylon Vigo's plaister of frogs or that of ammoniack if it be illegitimate and degenerat into a cancer it 's cured by universal evacuation by venesection or purgation emollients with exsiccants oile of roses juyce of plantain the plaister of frogs adding juyce of night-shade if there be pain causticks and section if need aegyptiack and stoppers of blood c. as in wounds 6. The swellings of the glandules of the duggs scrofula's and strumes which are caused by a thick humour and retention of the menses c. they are cured after universal purgation by emollients and discutients that are more strong suppurants if need section and causticks c. 7. The cancer of the dugs which is caused by vitious humours regurgitant and adust it 's cured by phlebotomy purgation anodyne specifick topicks the juyce water of night-shade boiled snailes oile of green frogs remedies of lead agrimony blessed thistle taking the powder of burnt crabs herb robert by extirpation defensives of oile of roses wax bole balsams basilicon and plaisters of gum elemi if exulcerated it 's to be extirpated as before with ustion if great things remooving the malignant matter and stoppers of blood often purging opening the hemorrhoids and provoking the courses taking triacle mithridate with borrage sorrel water chickens dissected and applied Fuchsius his powder precipitate ointment of turpentine and the yolk of an egg the ammoniack plaister when young and palliatives when old and plates of lead c. 8. The ulcers and fistula's thereof which are caused by abscesses they are cured by universal evacuations dryers of the milk bands and rest from motion of the next arm abstersives cleansers the roots of rhapontick zedoary and leaves of agrimony boiled in white wine with a leadden pipe in the bottom of the ulcer consolidants injecting astringent wine boiled with cypresse nuts sumach and agrimony if fistulous the orifice is to be inlarged the callus to be remooved and then it 's to be cured as other ulcers 9. The narrownesse of the vessels in the duggs which is caused by thick humours tumours ulcers and conformation it 's cured by attenuants fennel dill stone-parsly anise-seed earthworms cataplasmes and fomentations thereof and friction 10. Haires therein which are caused by putrifying blood and are cured by applying the flesh of sea crabs or those of the river c. 11. The diseases of the nipples sc the shortnesse thereof which are helped by the suctory instrument and sucking by whelps applying
walnut shells halfe full of the rosin of the larch-tree if the perforation be small it 's helped by often sucking if fissures therein they are prevented by wearing coverings of wax with rosin of the firre-tree and cured by oile of wax ointment of lead or tutty populeon and pomatum and the paine in sucking may be prevented by an artificial nipple covered with that of a young heifer c. XXIX The symptomes of the duggs 1. The defect of milk which is caused by the defect of blood or debility of the galoctopoietick faculty it 's cured by remotion of the cause by aliments of good and much juyce and easy concoction galactogeneticks the udders of beasts sorbile eggs milk pulps thin puddings almonds sugar rice butter fresh cheese raisins of the sun analeptick broths ptisan with fennel and anise-seed new bread with fennel-seed strong drink avoiding passions and great evacuations using powder of earth-worms chrystal prepared lac lunae fomentations of the decoction of fennel parsly cataplasmes of barley meale and leaven dropaces and sinapismes 2. The redundancy of milk which is caused by the quantity of blood and a good constitution it 's cured by thin diet that is of little nourishment barley smal drink exercise watching phlebotomy cupping-glasses repellers astringents resolvents mints calamint coriander and hemlock applied anointing the armpits with myrtine and rose oile vineger bole plantain oxycrat exsiccants and discutients repellers if hot lettuce water lillies poppies and house-leek 3. The vices and coagulation of the milk which is caused by the exhalation of the thinner parts it 's cured as the scirrhus in the beginning by prohibents oile of mints chamomil dill and rue resolvents seed of fennel cumin parsly sage mints saffron myrrh fomenting with the decoction of fennel dill southernwood chamomil flowers melilot lineseed applying parsly and butter c. 4. The evacuation of the menses by the duggs c. which is removed by phlebotomy in the ankle 5. The pain of the duggs which is caused by solution of continuity distension inflammation erosion and vellication by sharp humours c. it 's cured according to the cause if from milk and inflammation by anodynes lettuce chamomil crumbs of bread with oile of roses water of night-shade in the cancer applying green pimpernel IV. The diseases symptomes of infants 1. Their regimen and diet which should be answerable to their age as for the nurse shee should be healthfull of a good habit of body ruddy colour and good temper young of good manners quiet and ingenious that hath had children and having mean duggs using a good diet of good juyce and easy of concoction veale chickens hens capons partridges and eggs shunning intemperate meats salt and hot as also immoderation in diet and drink c. abstaining from venery but it 's better to be nursed by the mother except the former qualifications are wanting and the milk be not good which ought to be of a mean consistence white colour sweet and pleasant taste and smell which if it be thin and aquose it 's helped by drying and heating diet bread seasoned with anise and fennel-seed rostmeat rice almonds strong drink purgation if need with the syrup of roses solutive mechoacan and rhubarb and sudorificks if thick it 's corrected by meat of good juyce and easy concoction chickens veale heaters moisteners and attennants fennel hyssop succory and evacuants if need if acrimonious of a vitious taste smell and colour it 's helped by correcting the vice of the blood good diet odorats abstaining from that which is sharp salt of ill juyce by alterants lenients syrup of roses solutive and rhubarb if bilious agarick if pituitous sena if melancholick not giving suck that day when newly borne after cutting of the navil and washing if in health which is known by rednesse loud crying and health of the mother all the parts are to be viewed and cleansed and the infant is to be swathed after salted giving it a little honey oile of sweet almonds diamygdale or sugar before sucking keeping it in a temperat aire if temperate before the light avoiding frights rocking it in a cradle and bathing it daily in tepid water and rubbing it after which it is to be swathed up that it may not move the hands or feet the belly also is to be kept open anointing below the navil with oiles and fats or using emollient clysters after some months it 's to be fed with bread and milk till dentition after which they are to be fed by masticated bread and flesh and then they are to be let stand or goe according to their strength having a prominent cap for defence also they are to be washed every other day from the third month to the seventh and after twice a weeke at which time if they use the left hand it is to be tied that they may use the other and they are to be weaned after the number of teeth is almost perfected but it 's better to continue their sucking longer if they are weake and to take them off by degrees using them to broths of henns flesh of easy concoction and good juyce halfe chewed then the niple is to be anointed with the juyce of wormwood or aloes with absence of the nurse and they are to be fed with pulps broths and panadoes and after weaning for the first seven years they are to have meat often and their passions are not to be moved but corrected and they are to be exhilerated by exercise 2. As for their diseases in general they are to be cured by gentle remedies sc suppositories clysters of the decoction of mallows violets and syrup of roses solutive unc 4. or 5. according to the age or they may take syrup and honey of roses and violets solutive syrup of succory with rhubarb and sena manna cassia and laxative raisins mechoacan in broth and gentle alterants 3. Their fevers c. which are caused by the corruption of milk and breeding of teeth they are cured if from corrupted milk by coolers and moisteners lettuce endive sorrel emulsions and ptisans given to the nurse also manna cassia lenitive electuaries diacatholicon and solutive syrups giving to the infants the juyce and syrup of violets citrons water of succory endive and violets edulcorated anointing the spine with the mucilage of psyllium and quince seeds with a little oile and wax and applying a plaister of houseleeke plantain night shade rue barly meale and the white of an egg and coolers and binders to the ventrickle to prevent the corruption of milk if from dentition by things to facilitate anodynes and the precedent alterants as for the pocks and measels they are cured as aforesaid 4. The lacteal crust achores and scaule which are ulcerose tubercles chiefely in the head sometimes in the whole body yeelding matter out of the holes caused by excrementitious and serous and sharp humours they are cured by expulsion with fumitory scabious blessed thistle and harts horn
the nurse abstaining from things salt sharp and of vitious juyce using evacuants if need alterants and preparants borage buglosse fumitory hopps and roots of polypody purgers of sena epithymum rhubarb black hellebore diacatholicon and triphera persica and roborants giving to the infants syrup of borrage fumitory polypodie hops evacuating with clysters manna laxative raisins syrup of fumitory compound and of sena if corroding by washing with the decoction of mallows and barley wormwood lupines and beanes or of the roots of marshmallows in boyes urin anointing after with oile of roses bitter-almonds and a little litharge sope sudds if the cranium be hurt the crust is to be mollified and remooved by herbs boiled in axunge then the ulcers are to be dryed by the ashes of vines beech ash with butter the cranium appearing use honey of roses with spirit of wine after adding the powder of round birthwort and balsam of Peru. 5. The tinea which is caused by salt and sharp humours and contagion it 's cured by detersives corrosives to remoove the crust humecters laxants and aperients cabbage leaves or those of beete applied with butter after evacuation with sena rhubarb and agarick cresses applied with axunge as a cataplasme to take away the crust psilothrons cutting of the haire anointing with honey and meale then using emollients aperients and discutients brimstone scabious chamomil rubbing with a rough cloth or the oile of staves acre radish or juyce of onions and quicksilver killed by fasting spittle using diet as in the achores abstaining from salt meats and sharp garlick onions pease cabbage pork c. of ill juyce 6. The phthiriasis or lousy evil caused by sordid matter and putredinal heat excrementitious and promiscuous meats they are cured or remooved V. P. by abstersives and enecants which are hot dry of thin parts attrahent and for the most part bitter sc wormwood staves acre scordium rue roots of elecampane long birthwort lupines nettle seed black hellebore coloquintida and sulphur bulls gall sope and salt water white hellebore salivated mercury which is not to be used in the weake They are prevented by good diet change of garments washing abstaining from figgs using things cooling drying or hot dry and of thin parts and not fat 7. The hydrocephalus which is caused by water collected betwixt the cranium it 's cured by evacuants and dryers a cataplasme of house-snailes marjerom mugwort camphire saffron and oile of chamomil using balsam of marjerom cloves nutmeg with musk and amber to the nostrils and putting hot oiles into the eares by apertion if need The inflation of the head is helped by rarefacients and discutients chamomil rue organy cumin-seed and anise-seed c. 8. The siriasis which is an inflammation of the brain and membrans after which followeth a cavity of the sinciput and eyes caused by phlegme and choller it 's cured by refrigerants discutients clysters syrup of roses or violets solutive coolers sc the juyce and water of lettuce gourds and melons and oile of roses and poplar ointment afterwards using discutients chamomil oile and that of dill and water of the same the nurse using good diet and cooling ptisans emulsions and small beere c. 9. Fearfulnesse in sleepe which is caused by impure and filthy vapours mixed with the animal spirits and troubling the same from the ventricle and depraved coction and plenitude it 's cured the nurse observing a good diet the infant sucking sparingly and not being suffered to sleepe presently after it giving if need oile of sweet almonds and honey of roses solutive roborating the ventrickle with the magistery of coral diapliris and the confection of jacinth applying outwardly oile of wormwood mints nard mastick and nutmeg and giving troches of diamosch if from feavers and wormes it 's cured accordingly 10. Watching too much which is caused by the vice of the milk and corruption of the same in the stomach from which sharp vapours ascend to the brain and trouble the animal spirits it 's cured if from corrupted milk as aforesaid if a feaver or dolorifick affection it 's to be taken away and all things are to be looked too and shifted and hypnoticks are to be given to the nurse sc sweet almonds lettuce and the seed of white poppies using outwardly lotions of the feet of the decoction of mallows chamomil vine and heads of poppies anointing the soles of the feet with the marrow of staggs-bones and the temples with the fresh oile of dill oile of roses with a little oile of nutmeg by expression or a cataplasme of white poppy-seed with womans wilk or water of roses and night-shade with a little saffron and the nostrils with the oile of violets and juyce of lettuce if there be drynesse of the brain apply a linnen cloth moistened with cold water or that of violets and lettuce 11. The epilepsy and convulsion which is caused by the consent of other parts worms vitious humours and aliment the toothach feare it 's cured and prevented by giving the root of male peony and magistery of coral in milk the nurse is to use good diet and the infant to be caused to vomit if the stomach be too full putting a feather to the throat with oile of sweet almonds or olives if from wormes they are remooved by scolecobroticks with antepilepticks if with a feaver by temperants coral emerald and the Elks claw c. in the paroxisme use epileptick waters using water of lavender and oile of amber to the neck and tying the remedies aforesaid about the neck c. as aforesaid As for the convulsion which is caused by matter in the spinal marrow it 's cured by washing the body and spine with the decoction of marsh mallow roots white lillies piony and chamomil flowers anointing with liniments of mans fat goose grease oile of worms flowerdeluce white lillies foxes turpentine mastick and washing with the decoction of tornesole 12. The strabisme or squintnesse caused by evil conformation custome or disease is cured by placing a light in the opposite part or some delightful object or putting somewhat before the face with a hole therein 13. The paine of the eares inflammation humidity ulcers and worms that is caused by the collection of excrements it 's cured if the paine be great by the oile of roses and violets or decoction of the heads of poppies or the white of an egge with milk and a little saffron put in if the eares are moist they are to be cleansed by honey of roses and water of honey put in or wooll with alum and wine or myrrhe and nitre 14. The aphthae bladders of the gumms and inflammation of the tonsils which are caused by vitious milk and corrupted and the aphthae are cured as aforesaid the vesicles of the gumms are so cured by lentils meale of millet rose-rosewater and oile omphacine The inflammation of the tonsils is helped by repellers after clysters resolvents gargarismes or anointing the gumms with honey of
roses syrup of dryed roses myrtles pomegranats diamoton and the rob of nuts and outwardly using oile of sweet almonds chamomil and hypericon c. as aforesaid 15. Dentition which is about the seventh moneth and first the incisory then the canine and the molar after from which many symptomes doe arise it 's cured or helped by laxants and emollients with refrigerants rubbing the gummes with honey and butter or a wax candle the emulsion of the seed of quinces made with mallow water or hares braines fomenting the jawes with the decoction of marsh-mallows flowers of chamomil and dill if there be inflammation adde the juyce of night-shade and lettuce anointing the jawes therewith and oile of roses the nurse using a good and temperate diet and cooling broths sorbile egges prunes lettuce and endive abstaining from things sharp and biting 16. Tongue-tiedness and the ranula under the tongue that is cured by section and a liniment of barly meale despumate honey yolks of egges frankincense mastick and burnt alum with honey of roses as for the ranula caused by a pituitous humour transuding it 's helped by salt armoniack salt and frankincense or powder of sage and organy with honey of roses and spirit of vitriol applying a plaister under the chin of goose dung and honey boiled in wine 17. The catarrhe cough and difficulty of respiration which are caused by excrementitious humours and cured by temperants and impedients the infant being kept from plenitude and the nurse abstaining from things sharp salt and acid or vaporose using a pectoral decoction keeping the body loose with honey syrup of roses solutive cassia manna clysters or oile of sweet almonds with sugar if from repletion it 's helped by line-seed with honey and a little cumin-seed juyce of fennel with milk syrup of jujubes and maiden haire and if the matter be thicker by syrup of hyssop and horehound or emulsion of almonds lohochs in those that are bigger rotuls of diaireos cold diatragacanth with the extract of licorice and oile of fennel if the catarrhe be hot by the emulsion of the foure greater cold seeds with cold diatragacanth applying hempen towe heated with the powder of red roses and frankincense to dry fomenting the feet with a cephalick decoction and anointing them with oile of bayes or costus if the nostrils are stopped by anointing with butter and oile of almonds or sternutatories of basil cloves or marjerom anointing the breast with butter hens fat or oile of chamomil and sweet almonds 18. The singult which is caused by the corruption of aliment repletion or refrigeration it 's cured if from corruption of aliment by vomit with an oleated feather calefacients and subtraction of milk if from corruption of milk it 's to be corrected and what is corrupted is to be remooved by the syrup or honey of roses solutive giving after the conserve of red roses with the powder of coral or bole if from refrigeration by heaters giving to the infant syrup of mints and betony fomenting the ventricle with the decoction of mints organy and wormwood after anointing with oile of mints mastick and dill or applying of mints and anet-seed with oile of mastick or applying mastick and frankincense with the white of an egge to the navil if it be with calling the back of the infant is to be knocked with the hand 19. V●●ting which is caused by quantity of milk pravity worms phlegme debility and laxity of the stomach it 's cured if from quantity of milk by subtraction of milk if from corruption thereof by correctors abstersives syrup or honey of roses solutive roborating the ventricle if moist laxe by syrup of mints quinces if the humour be sharp hot by syrup of pomegranats ribes coral using outwardly the plaister of the crust of bread stomachick cerot or a crust of bread moistened with malmesey if the milk be too hot by anointing with oile of roses myrtles and quinces wearing coral about the neck 20. The tormina of the belly which are caused by the corruption of milk and wormes c. and cured if from flatulency and crude humours by clysters oile of sweet almonds and sugar and powder of anise-seed using outwardly heaters attenuants dissipants and laxants as also anodynes oile of dill and chamomil to the belly if from corrupted milk and sharp humours by abstersives syrup of roses solutive honey of roses solutive syrup of succory with rhubarb or a clyster of bran and the decoction of pellitory using outwardly oile of dill roses and chamomil 21. The inflation of the belly and hypochondria which is caused by too much milk taken it 's cured by subtraction evacuation with honey of roses solutive water of motherwort powder of piony-roots cumin-seed honey oile of sweet almonds and sugar fomenting the hypochondria with the decoction of motherwort chamomil-flowers and cumin seed anointing with oile of chamomil rue and bayes 22. The flux of the belly which is caused by dentition watching paines feavers refrigeration humidity and laxity of the intestines it 's cured by correcting the vice of the milk cleansing the vitious humours by the syrup or honey of roses solutive conserve of roses with manna using after if the matter be hot syrup of dryed roses quinces myrtles coral ribes or powder of coral mastick harts horn and red roses fomenting the belly with the decoction thereof plantain and red wine applying the plaister of the crust of bread or the stomachick cerot if the cause be cold by syrup of mastick and quinces with mint-water and hares curd applying mints wormwood mastick and cumin or sacculs thereof 23. The astriction thereof which is caused by a cold or dry distemper viscid humours and vice of the milk c. it 's cured by remooving the cause if cold by frequent washing in baths of stomachick heaters if dry by humecters of mallows pellitory branck u●f●● anointing the belly if cold with heaters if dry with humec●● as oile of white lillies ointment of dialthaea hens fat and butter the nurse not using astringents sc quinces medlars peares services barberries and ribes but mallows raisins prunes and broths if the infant be stronger give him the decoction of colewort with a little salt or honey if there be viscid phlegme in the intestines use inciders abstersives and honey of roses solutive if any of the intrals be hot and dry use syrup of violets succory decoction of barley and emulsions if the biliary meatus are obstructed use the decoction of sennel sperage and maidenhaire using suppositories of honey salt lard sope and mallow roots with butter clysters epomphalia butter oile of sweet almonds with a grain or two of scammony or coloquintida bulls gall or juyce of sowbread emollient unguents aloes if strong and not very young give cyprus turpentine syrup of violets and roses or their honey solutive laxative raisins cassia or manna and honey and milk and sugar if young 24. The worms which are caused by too
much eating a hot and moist constitution sweet things and fruits and are cured and expelled by coralline wormeseed roots of white dittany harts-horn gr viii of mercurius d. infused in the grasse water water of fearn or the powder thereof if there be a feaver use the juyce of limmons pomegranats orenges vineger harts-horn bezoar and the confection of jacynth and spirit of vitriol giving a clyster of milk and sugar applying worm wood and lupines to the navil with bulls gall triacle aloes myrrh mithridat and oile of rue and wormwood they are prevented by diet of good juyce seasoned with juyce of pomegranats orenges or citrons shunning things that are sweet fat and viscid using harts-horn drink use of aloes hiera picra rhubarb if elder else use clysters rotuls of diaturbith with rhubarb sena and agarick wormwood scordium or the juyce of limons and citrons with spirit of vitriol 25. The hernia which may be caused by crying coughing and astriction of the belly c. it 's cured by laxation of the belly moderate diet rest reposition after resupination convenient astringent plaisters and trusses red roses frankincense the white of eggs myrrh bole rupturewort and ichthyocolla giving powder of mouse eare decoction of cumfrey rupturewort and roots of cumfrey if there be a tumour of the scrotum from an aquose humour it 's helped by consumers and discutients anointing with oile of elder bayes rue or cataplasmes of bean meale line-seed powder of chamomil flowers and cumin-seed 26. The prominency of the navil which may be caused by the fault of ligature laxation of the peritonaeum weeping and coughing c. it 's cured if from laxation of the peritonaeum by astringents roborants rest abstaining from things flatulent and keeping the belly loose if there be flatulency use cataplasmes of the powder of cumin-seed bayberries and meale of lupines with red wine after using astringents with binding if there be a rupture of the peritonaeum it 's helped by reposition and remedies as in the intestinal hernia applying plantain and mosse of sloe-trees sod in red wine or mints with the white of an egge giving powder of comfrey root coral mastick and scrosulary if the womb be exulcerated apply oile of roses with cerusse or the gryseum plaister c. as in the hernia intestinal 27. The inflammation of the navil which may be caused by paine and external aire it 's cured by anodynes of mallows barley meale and oile of roses repellers powder of frankincense and the white of an egge if suppurating use turpentine yolks of eggs and oile of roses 28. The falling of the anus which is caused by the laxity of the sphincter from emollition or humidity and tenesmus c. it 's cured by reposition and retention if there be a tumour by fomenting with the decoction of mallows marsh-mallows and oile of white lillies astringents afterwards of red roses sumach frankincense and mastick and fumes thereof as aforesaid in the falling of the fundament 29. The stone of the bladder which may be caused by corrupted milk grosse viscid mear heat of the reines it 's cured and prevented by abstinence abstaining from things viscid and gross sc both the infant and nurse keeping the belly loose baths of the decoction of mallows pellitory stone parsly dill line-seed and saenigreek anointing with ointment of marsh-mallows oile of white lillies scorpions and cataplasmes of green pellitory with oile of white lillies or chamomil giving the power or magistery of crabs eyes white amber goats bloud prepared with water of stone parsly and spirit of vitriol and cypresse turpentine c. 30. The difficulty and r●tention of urin which may be caused by a thick humour or the stone it 's cured almost as the stone abstaining from things engendring thick humours by evacuants honey of roses solutive flowers of cassia and turpentine and the remedies aforesaid water of rest-harrow dropwort saxifrage if from the stone by concussion the catheter c. 31. The incontinency of urine which is caused by the imbecility of the sphincter from a cold moist distemper c. it 's cured if from ill custome by threatning if from cold moist distempers by consumers dryers the nurse using hot and dry aliment seasoned with sage hyssop marjerom and fennel the infant drinking little anointing outwardly with dryers oile of costus and flower deluce haths of sulphur nitre oake leaves giving the powder of a boares bladder egges cocks throats accorns and mace with the water of oake leaves c. as abovesaid 32. Galling which may be caused by the acrimony of urin c. is cured by often shifting their linnens lotion abstersion baths of marshmallows pellitory roses and bran sprinkling with the alcohol of white pompholyx or spume of silver burnt alum and frankincense or anointing with the ointment of white litharge and diapompholigos 33. The leannesse and fascination of infants that may be caused by the vice of milk worms of the back and fascination it 's cured by correcting the vice of the milk killing the worms by baths and friction with honey and rubbing with a crust of bread if from drynesse by bathing with the decoction of mallows and branck ursin anointing with oile of sweet almonds if with heat by the bath of lettuce endive violets and poppies oile of roses and violets if with cold by flowers of chamomil melilot and oile of dill and chamomil 34. The rickets which consist in the natural constitution as similar and the first and radical essence in a cold and moist distemper with a defect and torpor of the insite spirits concurring in the insite constitution of the affected parts the parts first affected are the spinal marrow entring the scull and all the nerves arising from the same and all membranous and fibrous parts to which those nerves are extended the secundary essence is in the vitiated tone too laxe flaxid soft lubricous internal from a preternatural aquose lubricity from whence there is a vitiated generation of vital and natural spirits from alogotrophie and of the animal caused in respect of the parents by cold and moist distempers want of insite spirits torpor and vitious disposition of the parents after the birth by errour in the six things not natural precedēt diseases the internal are humours and the causes of antecedent diseases cold and moist emaciating and torpefying the signes are laxity debility sluggishnesse increase of the head protuberances narrownesse of the breast the cough and losse of appetite The diagnosticks appeare out of the signes of other diseases the prognosticks from the degree and increase it 's cured by scarrifying the eare issues in the neck vesicatories and ligatures below the remedies are such as cleanse the first passages clysters emeticks catharticks lenitive as manna cassia aloes tamarinds polypody of the oake raisins of the sun jujubs sebestens prunes figgs flowers of mallows violets pellitorie roots of marsh-mallows and licorice c. the compounds
are cassia extracted with or without the leaves of sena diacassia the passulate electuary diaprune lenitive the common decoction syrup of violets honey of the same syrup of roses solutive mercurial honey and passulate and conserve of pallid roses c. preparāts are the capillary herbs wall-rue polypody of the wall spleenwort liverwort agrimony scabious bettony dodder tamarisk caper roots endive sperage liquorice raisins anise-seed sweet fennel-seed seed of coriander carawayes dill The compounds are syrup of maiden haire bettony simple and compound succory agrimony of the five roots miltwast and stoechas Elective purgers sc rhubarb agarick seed of bastard saffron Jallap turbith and epithymum c. the compounds are syrupe of roses solurive of succory and rhubarb of dodder of time and fumitory diacatholicon confection hamech and benedicta laxativa also manna cassia Mercurius d. syrup of apples the lenitive electuary diaprune by specifick alterants the roots of osmond the royal cryngo tamari●k sowthernwood sea wormwood saffron maddir roots sarsaparilla sassafras china the three saunders guajacum and it's bark flowers of brimstone steele prepared sperage maidenhaire spleenwort harts tongue liverwort bettony sage rosemary steele prepared chalybeat wine and syrup parmacity musk amber greese and castor c. hereof may be made potions powders and electuaries c. if there be a flux of the belly purge with rhubarb use diacodium if great use syrup of sloes if obstructed use chalybeat salt if immoderate sweat use rhubarb and chalybeat wine and roots of marshmallows to facilitate dentition using fit decubiture agitation gestation sedentary sports walking suspension friction muscadine red wine aquavitae fomentations oile of earthworms foxes castor capers wormwood and elder balsam of Tolu the nervine ointment aregon and martiat and pectorals applying plaisters of betony and diacalciteos with mastick and olibanum Thus of the universal and particular internal diseases common to both sexes and propper to each as also those that belong to infants There yet remain 1. The arthritis which is a pain of the parts about the joynts caused by the defluxion of a serous and sharp humour shed out of the veines and arteries into them invading by periods and having a conjunct impedite motion the membrans being affected it 's cured by phlebotomy cupping-glasses leeches purgation alterants succory endive purselane sorrel conserve of roses diatrion santalon defensives of bole flowers of roses rose-rose-water vineger and the white of an egge red roses oake mosle and the ointment Comitissae purgers of serous and bilious humours syrup of roses solutive purging thorn or domestick manna mechoacan sena seed of bastard suffron diacatholicon triphera persica and of the juyce of roses and caryocostinum vomitories sudorificks harts horne diaphoretick antimony decoction of sassafras sarsaparilla or china with succory and endive topicks anodynes goats milk white bread yolks of eggs saffron mallows mucilages cassia with night-shade water and that of roses and oile of chamomil water lentils water of frogs chamomil flowers if cold melilot and wormwood and plantain and rose water if shot narcoticks if need henbane opium repellers lettuce purslane violets plantain roses and houseleeke discutients salt of urine mustard and figgs if cold antipodagrick waters oxycrocium fomenting with mugwort organy wormwood bettony calamint flowers of lavender chamomil melilot decoction of foxes if tophous by ammoniacum dissolved in vineger diachylon simple lute of baths and the decoction of ground pine taken if a sciatica by phlebotomy purgation caryocostinum pills of hermodactils arthritick and foetid attrahents and resolvents elder danewort bayes rue bettony chamomil melilot rosemary cantharides pitch sulphur turpentine ammoniacum bdellium galbanum winter cresses dittander ants earth cupping-glasses and vesicatories c. it 's prevented by using a temperate aire sparing diet little supper not various weather mutton veale cabbige avoiding things fat fryed and aromatick as also wine and fruits little drink using moderate sleepe and rest and exercise c. phlebotomy purgation taking scrup 1. of pills twice in a weeke before supper syrup of roses solative aloes agarick rhubarb and caryocostinum antipodagricks vomitories triacle the antidots of foure and seven things as also of centory hypericon that of Heraclitus and diacorallion pulvis Jovis and Saracenicus decoction of germander aqua vitae if cold ground pine S. Johns wort round birthwort and long centaury rhapontick gentian spignel root of mugwort coral and crabs eyes the arcanum of tartar issues things roborating the joynts baths of betony sage ground pine roses cranes-bil oake leaves and juniper berries baths sulphureous salt nitrous vitriolat and aluminous anointing after with oile of myrtles or roses with salt of juniper diacalciteos diapalma cerot of bryony excision of the veines mithridat and arthriticks 2. Occult diseases in general which are caused by malignant and pestilent humours aire contagion poysons taken and externally communicated they are cured by purgation sudorificks vomitories clysters attrahents ligature corroborant alexipharmicks common and proper if sharp poyson by things sat and unctuous with specificks and appropriats and the common if need sc roots of angelica tormentil divels bit vipers-grass gentian white dittany round birth-wort bark of ash carduus benedictus rue dittany of creete scordium wormwood plantain sage scabious vervain flowers of marigolds roses borrage bugloss orrenges juniper berries walnuts seeds of cirrons ash basil sorrel balsam juyce of citrons bezoar unicorns horn harts horn pearls bole earth of Lemnos sealed earth coral jacynth mithridat triacle the Saxony powder diascordium with conservant diet corrected with juyce of citrons pomegranats sorrel coral pearles and milk if poyson be taken abstaining from sleepe and motion they are prevented by things hindering putrefaction evacuants and alexipharmicks sc malignant epidemical and pestilential feavers the plague scurvy elephantiasis and french pocks c. 3. Malignant occult and venenate diseases from an internal vice of humours which may be caused by disposition of the body peccant meat and drink influence of the starrs aire imagination and affections of the mind and ill matter sc the epilepsy hydrophoby chorea S. viti the mania epidemick and malignant catarrhes coughs quinsies pleuresies the scorbute malignant colick dysentery uterine suffocation elephantiasis malignant gangreen bubones malignant and pestilent feavers they are cured by evacuants pills of three things rhubarb syrup of roses alexipharmicks absinthiat wine carduus benedictus scordium citron pills zedoary elecampane root and the elixi● proprietatis 4. Occult malignant and venenate diseases from water which are caused thereby they running by minerals or having a malignancy from venimous creatures c. they are cured by alexipharmicks c. note the vices of waters may be corrected by boyling or quenching hot stones or iron therein also by colature through a handkercher if nitrous and bitter by barly meale if unwholsome by horsemint or spirit of vitriol and by percolation through sand 5. Malignant diseases from the vice of the aire which are caused by malignant
evacuated by gentle emeticks of fat broths oile butter milk decoction of broom-flowers and radish c. with harts-horn and bezoar by clysters if descending gentle purgers of cassia manna and agarick with roborants diureticks emulsions of melonand citron seeds cassia with liquorice powder common and proper alexipharmicks applying compound oile of scorpions to the pulse in the hands feet temples and region of the heart or put the patient into the belly or skin of a horse c. newly killed using sudorificks with a fit diet milk meat fat and unctuous sc butter oile borrage bugloss and figgs with cardiacks and alexipharmicks harts-horn coral pearls jacynth emerald zedoary saffron and citron pils if admitted outwardly it 's to be helped by extrahents or epispasticks sc mustard-seed pyrethrum birthwort sowbread pepper bryony bulls gall live lime goats dung galbanum opopanax euphorbium sulphur and leven young creatures dissected applyed hot oile of scorpions spiders and the venimous creatures themselves applyed also by intercipients ligature amputation alexipharmicks the patients drinking their own urin and if there bee an ulcer it is long to be kept open using scarrification if from venenate unguents by those that are extrahent and oile of scorpions aforesaid if from suffumigations or odours by the contrary of myrrh amber musk civet rue aspalathus roses gum animae wood of aloes saunders cloves saffron storax receiving the odours by the nostrils the mouth being shut using balsam of rue odorate masticatories and the precedent alexipharmicks and particular specificks which relate to peculiar poysons as amongst animals to that of the aspe horned serpent hemorrhe seps dipsas water-snake double head scytal millet dryine cockatrice viper scorpion land dragon crocodile lizard stellion salamander leeche scolopender toad shrew-mouse spider tarantula spanish flies burn-cow caterpillers flies bees wasps mad-doggs c. braines and blood of a cat menstrual blood buls bloud coagulated milk staggs tailes pairing of the nailes sweat of beasts cramp-fish lamprey sea hare fork-fish sea scorpion sea dragon and dogg-fish's gall c. amongst minerals to that of quick lime plaister vitriol aqua fortis antimony load-stone diamond azure-stone arsnick sandaracha and realgar brass burnt it's squams flowers and verdigrease copper filings of bels iron its dross and rust lead cerusse minium litharge quicksilver crude sublimate and precipitate sinople c. of which in their proper places amongst vegetables to that of opium road-stooles helmet flower wolfsbane toxicum pharicum hemlock quickfading flower henbane deadly nightshade dorycniū mandrake apiū risus coriander chamelion yew-tree euphorbium nut methel rose-bay walnut-tree spurge vomiting nut hellebore African flower darnel juyce of Indian bread and other exoticks c. which see in my Pambotanologie These are the internal diseases c. that belong to the body of man The external maladies are 1. Tumours which are recesses of the parts of mans body from the natural state the magnitude being increased caused by humours flatulency and solid substance they are cured by imminution subtraction of aliment digestion and discussion c. if from humours and by congestion it 's helped by alteration and evacuation sensible and insensible if by affluxion and flowing by evacuation revulsion derivation repulsion and incerception after flowing by emollients and maturants if impacted if from humours included in a peculiar membran and malignant it 's helped accordingly if from flatulency by evacuation discussion and roborants if in solid parts it 's cured accordingly and they terminate by discussion suppuration induration or corruption 2. Vlcers which are solutions of continuity with imminute magnitude caused in a soft part by an eroding matter external or internal they are cured by evacuation and venesection if need suppuration turpentine oile of mastick c. abstersion sarcoticks and cicatrizants if from hot distempers by coolers anodynes astringents plantain roses saunders bole turpentine plantain water if cold by heaters oile of S. Johns wort nard flowerdeluce and rue if dry by tepid water if moist by squams of iron and horehound if from afflux of humours by revulsion interception repulsion sarcoticks epuloticks if sordid from humours by evacuation detersion if from unctuous medicines by gentle abstersives if from strong medicines by gentle coolers diapompholigos c. if livid by scarrification and exsiccation and the green water if callous by emollients corrosives section if with tumours it 's so cured if with hypersarcosis from blood by dryers if from debility of sarcoticks by wood of aloes if sinuose it 's so cured if verminose by extraction and enecation if varicose by sublation if with rottennesse of the bone by denudation with the root of gentian causticks or section ablation by euphorbium or surgery ustion and anodynes if with a fistula V. P. by remooving the callus aegyptiack and the Apostles ointment apertion by cauteries and consolidants c. 3. Wounds which are solutions in soft parts caused by things sharp cutting or pricking they are cured by remotion of things therein conjunction of the lipps digestion turpentine gum elemi and hoggs fat conglutination traumaticks balsam of sulphur and aversion of fluxion by phlebotomy and purgation if of the vessels by conjunction of the lipps obstruction of the orifice by vitriol myrrh camphire revulsion interception and dissolution of the blood if of tendons as those of the nerves if of the nerves by venesection evacuation apertives temperate exsiccants and fomentations if from puncture by purgation anodynes attrahents and moderate heaters dryers and diet if by incision in longitude by bands traumaticks and diapalma if transverse by future if in the joynts without luxation by conjunction prevention of afflux by evacuation interception and right situation if with luxation as the rest preventing fluxion by purgation and sudorificks if with contusion by preventing afflux by revulsions defensives and repellers and suppuration of the contusion and the wounds by digestives of rosin turpentine and yolks of egges abstersives and consolidants and scarrification if tending to a gangreen if of the nerves and tendons by discutient oiles lenients of the white of an egge and oile of roses emollients and digerents if hard if of the ligaments by heaters and dryers if by gun-shot by extraction suppuration abstersion and sarcoticks if venenate by preclusion extraction by cupping-glasses deligation excision washing with wine and triacle causticks alexipharmicks and traumaticks c. 4. Fractures which are divisions of bones caused by externals violently forced on them they are cured by repellents hindering inflammation and the fracture by extension right conformation deligation applying defensives of the white of an egge with bole c. elevated collocation venesection and purgation if need colleticks ostiocolla and comfrey water remooving symptomes sc inflammation and gangreens by appropriats itching by the white comphorate and rose ointment pain if from too much adstriction of the bands by laxing them if from pungent bones by reposition remotion or precision if from afflux of homours
sulphur bay berries and filii zachariae Cold. Simple roots of marsh-mallowes and liquorice Leaves of venus-haire and lungwort Seeds the foure greater cold ones mallowes white-poppy fleabane bombax and barly Fruits jujubes sebestens sweet almonds and sweet prunes Flowers of violets water-lillies and red-poppy Gumms arabick and tragacanth Juices amylum or juyce of wheate juice of liquorice Animals womans asses goats milk flesh of lobsters and river crabs Compound Waters of lettice purslain water-lillies red-poppy and barly Syrups of jujubes violets venus-haire and white-poppy which is narcotick Sugars of roses and penids Conserves of roses violets borrage lettice and inside of gourds candied Electuaries diatragacanth cold diamargarite cold and diapenidion without species Externals Oiles of violets water-lillies and sweet almonds Greases of hens ducks calves and new butter 20. Cardiacals Hot Simple Roots of dittany cinkfoile vipers-grasse setwal gentian masterwort and doringium Barks cinamon and drie rind of citron Wood xyloaloes Leaves of bawm scabious carduus benedictus basil polley mountain southernwood rosemary and lavender Seeds of carduus benedictus basil and citron Fruits dyers-grains juniper-berries nutmegs and cloves Flowers of rosemary borrage buglosse mace saffron and spikenard Gumms frankinsence myrrh and mastick Juices of bawm scabious and borrage Animals musk civet bezoar-stone and raw-silk Minerals amber succinum Compound Waters of orange flowers bawm rosemary carduus benedictus scabious aqua vitae imperial treacle coelestis and cinamon Oiles Chymical of cinamon cloves and nutmegs Syrups of the conditure of citron peel and byzantine Conserves of the flowers of citron pils candied nutmegs candied and mirobalans candied Confections alkermes and treacle Electuaries aromaticum rosatum diambra de gemmis laetificans Galeni and diamoschum dulce Cold. Simple Roots of sorrel buglosse bistort and tormentil Woods all the sanders Leaves of borrage buglosse sorrel and sharp pointed-dock Seeds of quinces plantaine and sorrel Flowers of roses violets borrage buglosse and water-lilly Fruits citrons limmons soure cherries ribes soure granats sweet apples and quinces Gumms camphire Animals pearl unicorns horne the bone in the heart of a stag ivory spodium harts-horn and bezoar-stone Minerals terra sigillata bole armoniack precious fragments gold and coral Compound Water of roses borrage buglosse and sorrel Syrups of granats limmons violets of the juice of sorrel dry'd roses and fragrant apples Conserves of the flowers of borrage buglosse roses violets and leaves of sorrel Confection of hyacinth Electuaries cold diamargarite and diatriasantalum 21. Hepaticals Hot. Simple Roots of calamus aromaticus cyperus and elecampane Leaves of agrimony wormwood mint germander ground-pine betony and lesser centaury Seeds of anise fennel carawaies and bishops-weed Flowers of rosemary mace squinanth and spiknard Fruits cloves nutmegs and raisins Compound Waters of wormwood mint and betony Syrups of mint wormwood byzantine and the five roots Conserves of the flowers of sage rosemary pil of citrons root of elecampane acorus walnuts nutmegs and mirobalans all candied Confections treacle and mithridate Electuaries aromaticum rosatum diambra and diarrhodon Troches of wormwood rhubarb and eupatory Externals oile of wormwood mint and nard Cold. Simple Roots of grasse asparagus succory sorrel and knee-holly Woods all the saunders Leaves of endive succory scariola chondril liverwort maiden-haire sorrel lettuce and purslain Seeds the foure greater cold ones and foure lesser and the seed of sorrel Flowers of roses water-lilly and succory Fruits soure prunes soure granats gourds ribes and cucumers Juices of limmons granats quinces endive sorrel succory vineger and soure grapes Animals ivory and spodium Minerals coral Compound Waters of succory endive grasse sorrel roses and agrimony Syrups both simple and compound of succory of the juice of sorrel granats limmons and dry roses Conserves of flowers of succory leaves of sorrel roses barberries and soure cherries preserved Electuaries diatriasantalum diarrhodon abbatis and cold diamargarite Troches of spodium and caphura Externals Oiles of roses soure grapes and water-lillies Ointments of roses santaline cerecloth and refrigerans Galeni 22. Stomachicals Hot. Simple Roots of ginger cyperus calamus aromaticus and galanga Rindes of dry citrons and cinamon Wood xyloaloes Leaves of mint both wormwoods sage betony and rosemary Seeds of anise fennel coriander citrons and pepper Fruits cloves and nutmegs Flowers of sage rosemary betony mace and saffron Gumms mastick Minerals succinum and amber Compound Waters of betony wormwood mint and sage Syrups of mint and pontick wormwood Conserves of flowers of sage rosemary flowers of wormwood pils of citrons nutmegs mirobalans ginger and acorus all candied Confections treacle mithridate and alkermes Electuaries aromaticum rosatum diambra and diagalanga Troches of wormwood and of rhubarb Externals Oiles of nard wormwood mint nutmegs mastick and myrtle Emplasters of mastick Cold. Simple Roots of plantain and sorrel Woods red saunders Leaves of plantain and myrtle Seeds of plantaine and quinces Flowers of red roses and pomegranates Fruits quinces pears medlars and myrtle-berries Juices acacia and hypocistis Minerals coral Compound Waters of roses plantain and sorrel Syrups of dried roses quinces granates myrtle the juice of sorrel and agresta Conserves of red roses and the leaves of sorrel Electuaries diatriasantalum Externals Oiles of roses mastick and soure grapes Ointments santaline cerecloth and of roses 23. Spleneticks Hot. Simple Roots of smallage elecampane orrice calamus aromaticus and birthwort Rindes of the roots of capers of the middle rind of ash-tree as also of tamarisk and cinamon Leaves of germander dodder spleenwort heads of hops tamarisk penniroyal tyme water-cresses fumitory centaury the lesse and bawme Seeds of agnus castus water-cresses anise smallage and carduus benedictus Flowers of broome marigolds tamarisk and saffron Fruits capers Gumms ammoniack bdellium and myrrh Minerals steel Compound Waters of fennel fumitory bawme carduus benedictus and cinamon Syrups of fumitory of five roots simple oxymel oxymel of squills Conserves of flowers of tamarisk broome acorus candied ginger candied and citron pil candied Confections alkermes Electuaries de gemmis and laetificans Galeni Troches of capers and of cuphorbium Externals Oiles of capers tamarisk orrice and rue Ointments of sowbread and of marsh-mallows Emplaisters of mucilages melilot and diachylum with gumms Cold. may bee fetched from those before mentioned that attenuate choller 24. Nephriticks Tempering the heat of the reins and urine Simple Roots of althaea and liquorice Leaves of mallows lettuce purslain endive sowthistle and scariola Seeds of mellons pompions cucumers althaea mallows lettuce white-poppy fleabane and barly Fruits sweet prunes raisins jujubes and almonds Flowers of violets and water-lillies Gumms tragacanth Animals milk and butter Compounds Waters of lettuce purslaine and water-lilly Syrups of liquorice jujubes and violets Conserves of violets water-lilly and candied lettuce Electuaries cold diatragacanth Externals Oiles of violets roses and water-lilly Ointments refrigerans Galeni and of roses Stone-breaking Simple Roots of cammock great burdock saxifrage golden-rod and caltrops Wood nephritical wood Rindes of dry beanes and of laurel
oiles tinctures essences elixirs solutions syrups emulsions conserves conditements gellies flowers magisteries confections tablets rotuls troches odorates and all internals Outwardly epithems oiles balsams liniments unguents and periapts To the ventricle all inward remedies Outwardly oiles inunctions liniments epithems fomentations cataplasmes plaisters sacculs tosted bread irrigated with wine and applied warm To the liver all internals Outwardly those that agree to the stomach sc inunctions plaisters cerots cataplasmes epithems sacculs So to the spleen the same internals and externals To the reins almost all internals and Outwardly clysters insessions baths fomentations oiles liniments unguents cataplasmes plaisters periapts c. To the bladder almost all the same internals Outwardly injections insessions baths fomentations oiles liniments and unguents c. To the spermatick vessels internals oiles liniments insessions and baths So to the womb as also injections pessaries fumes evaporations plaisters sacculs and odorars to the nostrils To the intestines internals and externals suppositories clysters injections umbilical inunctions To the joynts outwardly agree spirits oiles balsams liniments unguents baths lotions fomentations cataplasmes plaisters and smegmas Of these some are more liquid as apozems emulsions infusions juleps and potions Some are a little thicker as syrups eclegmas electuaries and boles Others are more solid as troches powders rotuls morsuls and pils c. The external are either liquid as waters oiles epithems clysters Or thicker as liniments and unguents Or harder as ●erots emplasters cataplasmes sacculs As for the Forme to be prescribed it 's according to the manner of using adaptability of the matter and nature of the patient Therefore some are prescribed in a potable forme as apozems waters emulsions infusions and other potions Others are lingible as lohochs syrups and sublinguale troches Some masticable as boles conditements conserves confections marchpane marmaleds electuaries rotuls and trageas c. Others deglutible as pills and powders c. Some are used by immission into the cavities sc The mouth eyes nostrils eares womb anus genital Others are applied to the superficies by inunction as oiles liniments unguents as emplaisters plaisters cerots dropaces as cataplasmes cataplasmes sinapismes phoenigmes by irrigation epithems and embrocations by washing waters lixives and baths c. by tepid imposition and fomentation sacculs cucupha's and the warm flesh of animals or by fume as suffumigations Here Note as to the Quantitie or Dose that a compact body hath need of a great dose and an open laxe body of a smaller if stronge a large dose and if weak a small one A thick and tough humour wants a large dose and small if gentle and fluxile if to be evacuated from the next direct common parts small if indirect a mean dose Those that are of a full age and young want a great dose and children and old men a small one men a large and women a small dose the great a small and the fat a great dose the red a small and black a large one but the white require a mean dose Those that are of a hot and dry temperature a small one the cold and dry want a large dose and the cold and moist a mean one In the time of heat a small dose and great when cold in the time of showers small great in the time of squalidity great in autumne small in summer mean in winter In a hot and dry region small and great if cold and dry but mean if cold and moist If the diet be hot and dry it requireth a small dose if cold and dry a great one if cold and moist a mean dose The condition of life if sedentary requireth a great dose if laborious a small one If the urin appeare thin and sharp the dose must be small and mean if obscure large and white If the belly be bound a great dose is necessary and lesser if moister If the sweat be sharp the dose must be small and great if lesse sensible It must be small in the irefull and great in the mild If dreames of fier the dose must be small mean if of rain snow and great if of sad things If feavers especially the burning and exquisite tertians and diseases if hot they require a small dose and quartans continual and intermittent a mean one The affection of the gall requireth a small one the scirrhus elephantiasis cancer black jaundise and melancholy require a great one and the oedema and dropsy a mean Those that are thirsty watching and weake require a small dose and the hungry troubled with acid belching and strong a great one If the mouth be bitter and the mouth of the stomach troubled a small dose is needful if the mouth be insipid and the stomach oppressed a great one Therefore a small dose is prescribed if all these indications doe concurre with many or the chiefest of a small quantity mean if all those indications concurre and great if all concurre or most and those the chiefest Thus of the dose which is small mean or great Now followeth the Quality of the compound which is vehement weake or mean The humour therefore indicateth first which is in the ventricle intestines and mezereum that there is need of a more weake remedie but those that are in the joynts brain and breast of a stronger The sense of the intestines if exquisite wants a more gentle remedie and if dull a stronger Also the senses of the intestines are perceived by the course of diet for those that feed upon mustard or the like biting and more sharp meat without trouble are of a most obtuse sense but those of an exact sense which presently perceive the mordacity and those that are of a mean sense want a mean dose The humours which easily follow the attrahent medicament or are bilious also want a weaker medicine but those that follow hardly a more strong one as the melancholick but the pituitous a mean one The age of children hath need of a most gentle remedy youth of a gentle and young men of a mean one and the midle aged of the strongest The sexe of men requireth a more strong remedy that of women a weaker the reddish a weaker and the white a stronger The temperature of the cold and dry wants a stronger of the hot and dry a weaker and of the cold and moist a mean The time of cold requireth a stronger of heat a weaker of rain a mean of autumne a stronger summer a weaker and winter a mean The region if cold and dry wants a stronger remedy if hot and dry a weaker and if cold and moist a mean one The diet if cold and grosse in the strong requireth a more strong medicament if thin hot and weake a mean one The condition of life if sedentary and idle wants a stronger remedy if laborious a weaker The urin if yellow thin and sharp sheweth need of a weaker medicine and of a stronger if dark and thick The vomiting of bitter matter indica●s a weaker
made one serving instead of vitriol Note mettals are hard bodies that may be melted and begotten of a saline juice or Mercury coagulated in the earth by the vertue of their own sulphur both which are founded in vitriolated salt S. Closs The green caustick oile of brasse cureth venereous pushes and consumeth warts Note Verdegrease is made by the vaporose calcination thereof Aldrovand brasse is hot and dry initio 4ti and so poysonsome H. causing paine of the stomack and belly vomiting and fluxes ulcers and difficultie of breath and is worse if burnt but is to be helped by warme water oile or butter and clysters Rhas and Avic use those remedies against arsenick and the Conciliator the juyce of mints or acorus drach ij being taken in wine or drach 1. of sealed earth or red corall pp. yet it 's good for the eyes therefore burnt together with the floures rust and squamms it 's kept by apothecaries to dry and bind Diosc the flouers bind represse excrescencies and cleare the eyes so the squamme and helpes their flux and asperity of the eyebrowes the rust is sharp and digesting therefore mixed with oile and wax it cicatrizeth ulcers when burnt it mightily bindeth drieth and easily cureth ulcers Caes aeruginous waters drunk cause vomiting and their baths help creeping ulcers Those of brasse help ulcers of the mouth and genitals as also distillations to the eyes and jawes Aldrov T. brasse is hot and dry 3o. and very hurtfull to man G. Gold Aurum P. In India Scythia Spaine Italy Asia c. M. Of principles exactly digested and fixed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sol. Chym. ☉ Rex metallorum GOld Schrod K. as the Arabian Hungarick and Rhenish T. is cordiall and mundifying V. it doth very much strengthen the heart and naturall balsame or heat and is therefore given with good successe in all diseases in which the strength is to be repaired it doth also cleanse the bloud discussing humours and being diaphoretick The Aurum Fulminans is used to provoke sweat the D. is from gr 3. to 4. The Diaphoreticum is given with malmesey or some other liquor against sundry diseases especially such as arise from obstruction it is also very cordiall H. yet naught for women troubled with the fits of the mother by reason of the musk and amber in it The aurum potabile by the spirit of wine acuated with the salt of urine D. is given from 3 gr to 8. or more So Hart. Senn. Kest● Gluckr in Beg. That by the glaciale oile of antimonie from 3 drops to 5 and is an excellent diaphoretick also the oile of antimonie coming from the Gold in the first distillation doth gently purge and open obstructions c. so Hart. in Crol The aurum potabile by the oile of Saturne doth resist poyson D. and given from 4 drops to 8 in wine doth revive those that are even at deaths doore it is also very good against the falling sicknesse apoplexie palsie and other diseases of the head So Hart. in Crol Kesl The compounded aurum diaphoreticum of Poppius helpeth the shrinking of the limbs the D. is g. 8. so Popp. in Thesaur The aurum potabile by the spirit of manna expelleth sweat and is most prevalent to carry forth the seminarie of any malignant and poysonsome disease so Cl. Helv. the D. is a few drops The D. of that of Dr. Antonie of London is g. 6 7 8 c. The aurum vitae of Quercetane is of incredible vertue against a multitude of diseases The D. of the mercuriale laudanum of Bayer is from gr 2. to 5. Unicornu solare or manna solaris D. is given from gr 1. to 5. and the Flores solis from 6 gr to 9. The Salt from 2 gr to 4. and is an excellent diaphoretick remedie that of Basil from 2 gr to 4 c. Aldrovand T. gold is hot and moist 2o. having antipathie to lead yet others count it cold and dry V. it hinders ill exhalations and resists putrefaction held in the mouth it helpeth the breath boiled with meats it resists putrefaction Plates thereof being heated hot and often quenched in wine help the splenetick and obstructions Lemn and its good against the plague and also good mixed with tartar against blemishes of the face Lang. the pla●e thereof held upon the tongue quencheth thirst in feavers Mizald. and the same applied to the reines helps the paine thereof Villanov and on the head strengthens it and on the heart it causeth mirth Alex. Ped. used hot it prevents the grouth of haire Mizald the leaves steeped 24 houres in the juyce of limmons with white-wine and powder of angelica cure the plague also the leaves applied to ulcers consume the flesh without biting and cauteries are best made by gold The Scobs thereof Diosc helps those that are hurt by quicksilver taken inwardly or used outwardly it attracting it to it selfe Renod. the filings thereof help the evill colours of maides as steel Matth. the scobs helpeth the eye-sight as an alcohol Gold being applied helps the pocks in Children the powder helps the alopecia drying the same and the elephantiasis scab or leprosie in electuaries some use it against melancholy the ointment thereof helps the hurts of quicksilver The oile helps the elephantiasis phagedens and cancrous ulcers and the leprosie strengthning the heart refreshing the vitall spirits and expelling all kinds of sicknesses and it preserveth youth notwithstanding these Chimists scarce outlived the same Caes the powder blowed into the eyes strengthneth them it helps and consolidates the complexion I. Iron Ferrum P. Almost in all countries in England c. M. Of sulphur and salt mixed with the cruder parts of earth N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mars Chym. ♂ if purified Chalybs IRon Schrod T. it 's both astringent and opening V. its opening quality resideth chiefely in the more volatile part and therefore in the salt the astrictive in that which is more fixed sc in the earth Querc Sena The Crocus martis obstructivus is drying and therefore helpeth the dysenterie lienterie and gonorrhoea c. outwardly it 's used to dry up ulcers and wounds Querc Begu The aperitivus doth reserate open and attenuate Note the first is made by reverberatory calcination and the second by fusorie Querc The crocus made by calcination of illinition is a very great opener and excellent against the cachexie the D. is gr 3. or 4. The white oile of Mars openeth obstructions but chiefly of the liver spleen meseraick veines and womb the D. is some few graines Helvic Dieter The red oile of Mars doth gently bind and strengthen and therefore is Very good in the dysenterie loosnesse of the belly and other fluxes the D. is gr 3. or 4. and more Kell The sulphureous oile of Mars is very fat and fragrant and is very excellent in obstructions and weaknesse of the spleen That of J. C. Facis is very obstructive The D. is gr 4. or 5 c. Hart. in pract the D.
of the tincture is from unc sem to unc ij in broth or a draught of succorie water Finck the tincture helpeth all diseases of the spleen also the menses both to provoke them and correct them when inordinate the D. is from unc sem to unc ij Senn. Inst the D. of the tincture of Mars crude is to scrup 1. of that of Quercitan of crocus martis 9 or 10 drops in the decoction of Juniper against the dropsie being taken morning and evening after universall remedies So Hart. in pract That made of the caeruleous drosse is stronger then the common crocus made by reverberation and serveth to stop all fluxes as the menses gonorrhoea dysenterie diarrhoea and haemorrhage c. S. Closs The Sal Saccharinum and yellow tincture of Mars strengthneth the liver therefore it helpeth those that are hydropicall and have running ulcers in their legs it drieth up the superfluous menses and haemorrhoides taken with fresh treacle it helpeth the dysenterie and openeth the spleen the D. of the Salt is scrup sem with the oyle of nutmeg and of the tincture 6 or 8 drops in wine of the red tincture drach sem in white wine against the ischurie Joel Langel The white magisterie of Mars helpeth those that are hepatick and hypochondriacall c. Kesl The Flowers of the chrystall of Mars are excellent in the obstruction of the spleen and mesenterie Horst Epist The sweetish salt of Mars doth incide and open obstructions though great of the bowels and womb The D. of that of Basil is gr 6 7 8 c. of the purging salt scrup sem or scrup 1. in one or two spoonfulls of the syrup of violets laxative c. Note steele is made of Iron by gradatorie purgation and the vitrioll of Mars by cementatorie calcination Caes waters running through iron mines help the vices of the stomack and spleen flux of the sperme and whites it helps the reines collick paines of the joynts and exulcerations of the bladder Note all waters are of the faculty of the mineralls by and through which they passe The water in which steele hath been quenched helps the dysentery so Plia Myl. it helps the collerick lienose coeliack distempers and resolutions of the stomack also all iron strengthens extenuates and resolveth what is dry Myl. The iron baths help hot and moist diseases as the asthma gout paine of the joints weaknesse of the stomack tendernesse filth of the eares flux of the stomack dropsie collick menses and urines flux hemorrhoids falling out of the fundament and poysons Diosc The rust bindeth stops the termes and hinders conception applied with vineger it helps S. Anthonies fire and pushes whitlowes rough nailes eyebrowes and the alopecia so the drosse Caes drach sem of steel with the sugar of roses prevents the putrefaction of evill humours strengthens the stomach opens obstructions of the bowels and helps the cachexie and obstructions L. Lead Plumbum P. In Lusitania Biscay Spain France Brittain M. Of indigested sulphur aluminouse salt and ☿ emulating ♁ N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Saturnus chym ♄ Plumbum nigrum LEad Schrod T. it 's cold bindeth and incrassats c. V. it represseth lust filleth ulcers with flesh cicatrizeth removeth excrelencies and helpeth cheronious ulcers as also the malignant cancrous and putrifying both used alone and mixed with other things Note hereof is made the minium or red lead of the shops by reverberatorie calcination and the burnt lead by the cementatorie The sugar or salt and magisterie of Saturne are of the same vertue so either of them being taken into the body by reason of its coldnesse doth extinguish venery the D. is from gr 4. to 6. used outwardly it hindereth lust the navil and genital being anointed therewith Note also the same may be helped againe by a Laconick bath anointing the navil with the distilled oile of nutmegs it is also of excellent vertue in the curing of cancrose malignant and corrosive ulcers ringwormes burnings and inflammations it dissolveth hard and scirrhous tumours it 's very usefull in bruises being applied and in inflammations and rednesse of the eyes being used in rose or euphrage water or applied to the eye-lids So Crol Beg. Senn. The salt with that of nitre an crystalizeth and helpeth the asthma S. Closs The milkie Liquour of Saturne for ulcers helpeth those that are dysepulotick and quickly cicatrizeth the same being applied twice or thrice in a day with cloaths wet therein being first warmed Note ceruse is made hereof by vaporose calcination Tentzel The spiritus ardens of Saturne is sudorifick and usefull in the plague hypochondriacall melancholy and burning feavers as also in the french pocks c. the D. is 2. or 3 drops it hindreth venery and is used to dissolve pearles The yellow oile dissolveth gold The red mundifieth and cureth wounds being put thereon so the caput mortuum see Begu Hart. in Crol Senn. Inst Kesl The balsamick oile of Saturne is very excellent in cancrous eating and other malignant ulcers Kell the sulphur of Saturne or supernatant oile is very effectuall in the phthisick and diseases of the lungs the D. of the Tincture is g. 2. or 3. the more elaborate is very effectuall in madnesse melancholy the quartane ague phthisick hypochondriacal melancholy and openeth the spleen The stone helpeth saturnine diseases Basil Thold The true salt of Saturne doth exceedingly coole and dry and therefore extinguisheth sperme the D. is g. 4. outwardly it helpeth rednesse of the eyes and ulcers of the whole body Diosc washed lead doth coole bind soften fill with flesh and stop fluxes of the eyes and blood it removes excrescencies in ulcers and helps ulcers of the fundament haemorrhoides and inflammations with oile of roses also it cicatrizeth those sores that are hardly cured and is in all things like Spodium but onely that it doth not cause crusts and by the rubbing thereof it hepls the wounds of the Sea scorpion and dragon Of the same effect is burnt lead but much sharper so the drosse but is more astringent Caes waters running by lead harden the nerves contract them trouble and fill them with phlegme The plates of lead being bound to the loines and reines resist Venus by their coldnesse so Plin. Albert. Oribas it hindereth the flux of sperme Hereof with vineger is made ceruse which used outwardly helps ulcers Diosc it cooleth filleth mollifieth gently extenuates represseth excrescencies and cicatrizeth it 's used in gentle cerots and plaisters C. the best is that which is first sifted and serveth for the eyes Being taken inwardly it is deadly causing a white colour in the parts it toucheth a cough drinesse and sluggishnesse as also shortnesse of breath It 's used by women as a fucus so Caes Diosc the Antidote is honied water the decoction of figs or mallowes buttermilk oile of flower deluce or marierom pigeons egges with frankincense or the decoction of barley warm water and vomiting Aldrovand the oile helps the
hemorrhoids the plate helps tumours of the ganglion the headpice helps the head-ach Caes Of ceruse burned is made sandix which dryeth without heat or cold if washed it dryeth and cooleth S. Silver Argentum P. Almost in all countries Spaine and the Indies c. M. Of Sulphur and quicksilver So Albert. Myl. c. N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cerebrum Luna Chym. ☽ SIlver Abert Mag. T. is cold and somewhat moist Schrod V. it doth specifically strengthen the head and cherish the animal spirits and is therefore good in all diseases of the head as in the apoplexie epilepsie c. Gluck The Luna potabilis by the simple spirit of wine D. is given from 3 graines to 6. to more if acuated by the salt of urine That by the vitriolate spirit of wine exceedeth the rest in curing the epilepsie Thold the salt cureth diseases of the head especially the epilepsie and dryeth up hydropick water the D. is gr 4. or 5. S Closs the Lunarie spirit is very effectuall in curing the idiopathetick falling sicknesse Caes waters running through silver mines are thought to be cordiall so if by Gold Caes Albert. Mag. Myl. silver is cold and dry yet not without a certaine temperate moisture It helpeth the trembling of the heart in some measure it operates as Gold and is given by physicians in the same diseases especially against madnesse and all melancholick distempers and to comfort and strengthen the braine it is put into diverse remedies with which gold also is mixed it helpeth the palpitation of the heart strengthneth the heart and braine begetteth good bloud consumeth the putrified flesh of wounds glueth the same and with the oile of tartar cureth the troublesome scab so Myl. The excrement or drosse of silver is used in black plaisters and those that cicatrize and that for its astringent and attracting nature so Diosc The spume thereof or Litharge doth thicken soften fill hollow ulcers represse the excrescencies of the flesh cicatrize refrigerate and stop being washed it 's used in collyries for the eyes to take away the unseemlynesse of cicatrices the wrinkles scratchings and spots of the face H. Being drunk it loadeth and tormenteth the stomach belly and intrals and sometimes woundeth them by its weight It suppresseth the urine and maketh the body swell and to be deformed and of a leadish colour The Antidote is the seed of wild clary drunk drach VIII of myrrhe wormwood hyssop parsley-seed or pepper and the dry dung of Ringdoves with spicknard and wine Aldrovand the filings of silver with quicksilver helpe the hemorrhoids The oile helps diseases of the brain as the epilepsie 3 or 4 drops being drunk in the water of betony sage or bawme so the salt The salt taken from gr 4 to 5. in Juniper water helps a weak stomach and the dropsie T. Tinne Stannum P. In Germany and Brittain or England M. Os more soft mercurie fugacious and white crude sulphur N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plumbum album Jupiter Chym. ♃ Plumbum candidum TInne Serap T. is cold and drying Schrod V. it 's appropriated to the liver and also helpeth diseases of the womb The salt of Jupiter is an excellent and present help in the suffocation of the womb which it doth miraculously ease both inwardly and outwardly used it is also commended outwardly against all stinking ulcers phagedens fistula's and cancers the D. is from g. 2. to 4. c. at severall times The magisterie hath the same vertues with the salt Begu the D. of Jupiter diaphoreticus is from g. 4. to 6. The sulphur serveth onely outwardly The spirit cureth gangreens by the very touch So S. Closs The crystall of Jupiter cures ulcers that are scrophulous and cancrouse by causing a deep escharre which being removed they may be cicatrized by the balsame of sulphur Thold The true salt helpeth the falling sicknesse melancholy vertigoes or dissinesse in the head and dryeth up catarrhes especially such as fall down unto the eyes the D. is from g. 6. to scrup 1. or scrup ij Aldrovand the fine powder of tinne helpeth the wounds of scorpions The Arabians use the ceruse thereof in wounds made by the sea scorpion many also affirme that tinne helps old ulcers and eating in short time cicatrizing the same The salt helpeth the falling sicknesse melancholy and vertigo as also catarrhes troubling the head and dryeth those that come from the eyes also gr 6. thereof being taken do wonderfully strengthen the memory HEMIMETALLOLOGIA Of Semi-mettals A. Antimonie Antimonium P. In Germany Hungary and Transilvania c. M. Of minerall sulphur partly pure partly combustible much ☿ crude litle sait N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Zadadah Arab. Aitmad Stibium Chym. ♁ ANtimonie Card. T. it s cold 3º and aqueous astringent and drying Schrod it obstructeth the passages of the body being crude wasts excrescencies of the flesh and cicatrizeth V. it cleanseth the ulcers and filth of the eyes and is therefore much used in collyries some also give it in the fitt against the falling sicknesse Querc in Tet. there are various innumerable and excellent properties herein sc to prepare purge and cause vomiting c. insomuch that it cannot have its due commendation Hereof is made the vitrum or glasse of antimonie which by vomit and purgation bringeth forth thick viscid and superfluous humours out of the stomach and parts nigh thereunto It also resisteth the poyson and infection of the plague especially if taken with vineger it hereby causing sweat furthermore it is usefull in the dropsie putrid and malignant feavers c. D. it 's given from g. 2. to 4. in infusion from 3. to 6. as afterwards sc the white so the Hyacinthine the pouder to g. 8. being infused in wine and taken with the juice of marygolds to cause sweat and to preserve from the plague The black of S. Closse serveth for the purification of mettals The Regulinum may be given in a greater quantity than the former That of the Regulus causeth sweat and is given from gr 3. to 6. P. de Spin. The vitrum or glasse of antimonie corrected is given from g. 2. to 6. The purging from 3 to 5. of which are made pils against agues So Hart. in Crol The purging spirit of Vitriol D. is from 6 drops to 10. The common crocus metallorum is used in paines of the head caused by the foulenesse of the stomach from which they often arise in the falling sicknesse pleurisie hypochondriacall melancholy feavers both continuall especially the hungarick and intermitting as also against the plague coagulation of blood and to preserve from the gout in all which being given in some convenient water it purgeth by vomit and sometimes by stoole the inward D. is from gr 3. to x. yet 6 are seldome to be exceeded it also is sometimes used in clisters against the collick drach sem or drach 1. being boiled in some convenient water or wine and the colature mixed with broth or the
in the water V. Vitriol Vitriolum P. It is to be found neere mettals especially Copper M. Of a minerall salt or humour corroding pyrites N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. Calcantum Alcalcadis Atramentum sui VIttiol Schrod K. as the caeruleous greenish and white T. heateth drieth mightily bindeth constipats causeth vomiting and killeth wormes V. used outwardly as an errhine it causeth sneezing C. the best is the greenish and of that that which participates more of copper than iron which rubbed on a knife colours it red avoiding the subceruleous pale aquose and that which moistens the hands when touched Que. in Tetr vitriol is of so excellent use that Paracelsus counts it the third part in naturals and Phoedro So in Physick yea almost the whole shop Diosc it causeth crusts and killeth broad wormes in the belly drach 1. being taken alone or in honey taken in water it resists the poyson of toad-stooles the same purgeth the head being injected into the nostrils The white emetick or vomitive vitriol causeth vomiting gently and worketh well in feavers distempers of the stomack catarrhes plague and the epilepsie also it killeth wormes c. the D. is scrup 1. to drach 1. in wine broth or some other liquor Croll Begu the water of centorie doth mightily promote its emetick vertue The rest of the Gillae also provoke vomiting Sala Gluck● in Begu The Hermetick purging vitriol evacuates by vomit and stoole and is an excellent remedie in pestilentiall feavers the D. is gr 20 to 31. or more in liquor or an appropriate water The Coagulum of vitriol of S. Closs purgeth and is not so emetick the D. is drach sem to drach 1. in feavers intermitting and to purge out melancholy When defecated it serveth for many preparations The nitrate salt of vitriol of S. Closs helps the cachexie dropsie stone suffocation of the matrice and stoppage of the menses the D. is scrup 1. to drach 1. Sala The ros of vitriol helps hot paines of the head adustion of the bloud and strengthens the bowels the D. is drach ij being continued certain dayes Sala The second water of vitriol purgeth the reines easeth internall corrosions and provoketh urine and sweat being a little heated it helpeth the inflammation of corroding wounds or sores it asswageth and mitigates the griefe and helps towards consolidation one or two drops of the oile of tartar being put in that it may be more biting it helps the dry itch and makes the flesh more solid Hartm in Croll The acid phlegme of vitriol is an arcanum against paine of the head and the epilepsie The volatil spirit of vitriol being mixed with raine water is very penetrating and useth to work most effectually in the hungarick feaver and others that are burning Hartm in Croll Senn. Inst Tentzel it cureth the epilepsie That of Glauber with the sweet oile opens mightily the liver and spleen it helps burning feavers the D. is scrup 1. in a draught of beer also it sixeth Mercurie The spirit of vitriol distilled after the common manner is diuretick diaphoretick inciding attenuating and resisteth putrefaction c. so is usefull in burning feavers obstruction of the liver spleen and mesenterie it helps decayed appetites c. also mixed with wine or some other liquour it helps the toothach being applied to the gums so the tinea of the head and other kinds of the scab and itch being mixed with the water of celandine the D. is g. 3. to scrup 1. in some liquour or so much as may cause a pleasant acidity Tentzel Kest the sweet spirit of vitriol or sweet oile thereof helps the stone and tartareous diseases and catarrhes c. the D. is scrup 1. in some convenient liquour Hartm in Croll Kest The philosophick spirit of vitriol called Cohob antimonii is of greater vertue than that made after the common manner it cureth feavers and mitigateth the french disease it opens the spleen and meseraicks it comforts the weak stomach and when stuffed with thick phlegme it 's very effectuall in hypochondriacall melancholy the epilepsie and all affections of the head thereby may the● tincture of minerals be drawn forth and pearle and corall be dissolved the same also being acuated by the spirit of common salt dissolveth gold the D. is g. 3. to 8. in a small draught of wine or other convenient liquour Tentzel The tartarised spirit of vitriol or liquor Di●nae is very good to cause sweat in all inward obstructions against clotted bloud and itch and to cleanse and smooth the skinne the D. is drach 1. to unc sem w●th broth or a little sack being continued three mornings together Senn. Inst The spirit or opening water of P●notus is of excellent use in obstructions of the liver spleen and mesentery the D. is scrup t. to drach iij. in wine or some other fit liquour So Hartm in pract it 's also called Muffets antihydropicum being excellent against the dropsie the cause of which it expels by urine and siege even the spirit before alcalised one spoonfull being given fasting every one or two houres in a convenient water So Horning in Cist med Med. dest The mellisate spirit of vitriol asswageth the paine of the gout and if there be inflammations it 's to be mixed with vineger else with wine Sala The diaphoretick spirit purifieth the bloud and cures the itch and scabs it opens obstructions provoketh sweat in the plague poyson dropsie jaundise and contractions c. Also it 's very good in cleansing the lungs the D. is scrup 1. to drach sem and the use thereof may be continued according to pleasure without danger The antepileptick spirit of Hartman for children cureth them effectually of the falling sicknesse so also the oile made of the salt of urine dissolved in the spirit of vitriol and distilled through sand Tentzel The antepileptick spirit of Basil doth not only cure the falling sicknesse but is also good against the stone the D. is scrup 1. in peony or fennell water c. The antepileptick spirit of Quercetan called the green spirit of vitriol in his Tetras is most penetrating the D. is 15 or 16 drops The antepileptick spirit of Paracelsus may be given in and before the paroxisme the D. is scrup sem with some convenient liquour See Querc in Tetr The sweet oile of vitriol is an excellent diaphoretick and gently bindeth the D. is 1 2 or 3 drops Gluckr The red oile is used more about mettals than medicine yet it may also be given inwardly see the spirit of Penot before That of calcined vitriol distilled with Lytharge helpeth the gout That of the earth of vitriol D. is given from 6 to 10 drops and is very usefull in diseases of the head Tentz. 15. or 20 drops thereof as some observe cause vomiting The oile of the sulphur of vitriol is good but more effectuall in the same affections in which the sulphur of vitriol is used Sala The cupreous substance of vitriol helpeth putrid wounds also it
the best and most digested and fragrant the next is the yellow pellucid and sweet when rubbed the black is worse The prepared amber is of the same vertue with the first The magisterie being the more pure and resinous part is more strong That made hereof when powdered a little tosted having distilled vineger poured thereon and so extracted and precipitated with the spirit of vitriol is sudorifick and diuretick The sweet fixed magisterie of amber is an excellent sudorifick and very usefull in the measles and pleuresie and comforteth the heart c. the D. is g. 6. to 12. the pills and troches thereof may be seen in the London Dispensatory Callist Caes being drunk it helps the difficulty of urine hung about the neck it helps feavers powdered with honey and oile of roses it helps the vices of the eares and of the eyes with attick honey as also of the stomach being drunk in water so Plin Ru. it 's used as an amulet for children against phantasies it helps fluxes of the stomach and belly Agric it strengthens the bowels and other parts of the body if there be not a plenitude of humours being drunk with wine it prevents the epilepsie resolution convulsion and distension of the nerves and helpes the paines of the stomach especally the o●le and helps the trembling of the heart the fume dryeth the phlegme of the head and helps parturition and infection of the aire so Cardan Aldrov the magisterie helps cicatrices and virtigoes so the oile Amber-griece Ambra grysea P. It 's brought from the Septentrional region M. It 's a kind of bitumen cast from the Sea N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ambarum ambara Amber-griece Schrod T. heateth dryeth resolveth strengthens the heart and braine and restores the vital and animal spirits by its sulphureous and sweet exhalation V. therfore it s often used in balls to correct infected aire and to preserve the spirits from infection which balls are therefore called vulgarly poma ambrae or Pomanders The essence of amber-griece is given in the q. of a few g. Hartm in pract in Croll Essentificated amber-griece is an excellent strengthner of all the bowels especially it provokes procreation the D. is the q. of a small pease in wine or some other liquour C. The best is the amber-griece and that of an ash colour clean sweet light which sends forth a fat juyce being pricked with a needle the black and very white are bad the factitious is known by odour shewing the materials as also by colour commonly black and quickly is disolved in water it 's made of musk civet wood of aloes siorax and ladanum Arsnick Arsenicum P. In Mysia Pontus Cappadocia M. Of a mineral sout or juice fat and combustible N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Auripigmentum Arab. Harnet Arsnick Schrod K. as the white or crystall●ne citrine or yellow called orpine and red called sandaracha Diosc T. it 's astringent and corrosive V. it causeth crusts by it's vehement burning and violent biting it represseth excrescencies and eradicates the haire Sandaracha helps the alopecia being used with rosin● with pitch it helps rough nailes with oile it helps the phthiriasis or lousiness with fat it discusseth knots with oile of roses it helps the ulcers of the mouth and nostrils and other breakings forth of pushes and swellings in the fundament with honied wine it helps spitting of purulent matter the fume taken with rosin through a funnel helpeth an old cough it cleares the voice taken with honey and shortness of breath made into a pill with rosin Schrod arsnick is not the least among poysons being sharp and adverse to the balsame of life insomuch that not only inwardly but used outwardly it often produceth horrid symptomes H. sc convulsions stupidity in the hands and feet cold sweats palpitations and faintings of the heart vomiting corrosions and paines in the intestines thirst and unquietness yet it hath some usefull faculties inwardly in the curing of the plague and other poysonsome affections as also of the malignant itch or scab and cancrose evils being rightly prepared and used outwardly it 's used in cauteries and amulets as for orpine and sandaracha they are almost of the same vertue note the sandaracha of the Arabians is only the gumme of juniper the white arsnick is the best oftenest used the yellow seldome and the red less often of the white crystaline the best is heavy hard pure tending to a milkie colour R. the remedie against orpine and sandaracha which is more concocted in the earth is whatsoever dulleth its ac●imonie and looseneth the belly as the juyce of mallows decoction of lineseed rice honied water fat broth much milk and good juyces so Diosc Querc in Alexicac The sweet arsnick is so farre from hurting those that take it as that it will gently and without any perturbation expell those poysons which will not yeeld to other catharticks D. the sublimate thereof may be given in substance in infusion to 5 6 7. or 8 graines also per deliquium it may be reduced into an oile usefull in ulcers The diaphoretick Rubinus of arsnick is specifick in affections of the lungs from thick catarrhes also it may be used to provoke sweat in mal●gnant and venenate d●seases used outwardly it cureth all malignant ulcers hard to be cured the D. is from 5 gr to 8 Tentzel Querc arsenick thus prepared may be given to scrup 1. after the same manner may be made the rubinus of orpine used in an equal dose and for the same affections The oile of orpine as also the fixed is a sudorifick Mull. in mirac chym Querc in spag The fixed arsnick for sudorificks moveth sweat given with triacle the D. is g 3 4 or 5. The anodyne oile butter or liquour of orpine cureth venemous ulcers in the french pocks the cancer tetter fistula's of the fundament and bitings of a mad dogge used in plantain water so mixed that it may not offend the tongue and so used to the wound S. Closs as for the spirit of arsnick it dissolveth iron radically and affords an ingresse into metallick bodies but the butter of arsnick is a violent septick it eradicates exulcerated cancers yet an equall q. of opium ought to be added to take away the feeling of paine and it 's to be applied with lint and convenient defensives Caes waters flowing amongst orpine or sandaracha heat and bind but they clarifie the voice and help shortnesse of breath Caes The oile is caustick Albert. Mag. arsnick is of a sulphurious nature burning more hot than dry and therefore putrefactive and biting and if burned it 's of more thinne parts Agric. orpine wrapped in a cloath and applyed to the heart freeth a man from the plague Aldrovand the oile of the luteous arsnick applied to the pulses expelleth poyson by vomit stool and sweat it 's used in plaisters with sulphur lime and sope to cure fistula's by purifying and cleansing them so Schol. Salern some use the oile in
stead thereof Asphalte Asphaltos P. In Judaea being a Country in Asia M. Of the bitumen of the macrocosme N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bitumen Sevum Resina Asphalt Plin. T. Bitumen is of the nature of sulpur it discusseth stopps contracts and gleweth V. Agric. drunk it dissolves clotted bloud and causeth the termes applied it helpes the scab in cattle the Babilonian helps wefts and spotts in the eyes leprosies tetters itch and gouts the fume drives away serpents and discovers the epilepsie it 's hot and dry 2º the black dryeth and digesteth Perer it bindeth wounds and gleweth the nerves Caes bituminose waters mollifie the nerves and heat them but fill the head and dull the senses especially the eyes Diosc C. That of Judea is the best which shineth like purple and that is ponderous and of a strong smell but the black and sordid is bad It is adulterated by pitch and Pissasphalt is used in its steed B. Brimstone Sulphur P. It is to be had in Italy Bohemia and Melos M. Of the resin and fat of the earth full of a vitriolat acidity N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. Cibur Rabrick Chym. Akiboth Ahusal Tin BRimstone K. as the naturall and factitious T. Diosc sulphur heateth discusseth and quickly concocts V. it helps coughs shortness of breath spitting of purulent matter taken in an egge or by fume and so expels the birth with turpentine it helps the leprosie ringworme and scabbed nailes applied with vineger it helps the leprosie and with rosin helps the wounds by scorpions so with vineger and those of the sea-dragon with nitre it helpes the itch breaking out in the whole body it cureth the jaundice a spoonefull thereof being put upon the forehead or taken in a soft egge it cures heaviness of the head and destillations applied it hindereth sweating it cureth the gout being anointed with water and nitre the fume thereof taken in a funnell helpeth deafness and the lethargy it stops bloud flowing out of any part and helps the eares bruised being applied with wine or honey Schrod it dryeth and is appropriated to the breast so it openeth incideth resists poyson and the bitings of venemous beasts provoking sweat c therefore it helps the phthis●ck plague and pestilentiall feavers outwardly it helps hard tumours c. C. the best is the purest greenish that easily inflamed burning bright and yeelding a more skie coloured smoake The vitriolat Flowers of brimstone resist putrefaction provoke sweat and dry c. therefore are good in the plague and pestilentiall feavers either by way of preservation or curation they are also very profitably used in catarrhes diseases of the lungs and coughs c the D. is drach 1. to the strong drach sem to the young and scrup sem for preservation with the extract of elicampane The gummmate or myrrhate flowers are stronger than the simple both in drying and resisting putrefaction Querc in Pharm rest The saccharate are better also than the former against the asthma and other diseases of the lungs Senn. Jnst Tentzel The white flowers of sulphur are in vertue aad operation equall to the milk of brimstone The corallate are better than the common and a balsam made hereof is an excellent balsame for the lungs The benzoinate are preserved as smelling better and of more vertue Milke of brimstone is a balsam for the lungs and is therefore given against catarrhes the flux of the head asthma phthisick cough collick c it helps expectoration intercepts defluxions to the joynts and prevents and discusseth the windiness of the stomach and intestines D. so much of the powder must bee mixed as may colour the vehickle white and one spoonfull thereof may be given morning and evening note the vehicle must be some appropriate liquor as the water of cinamon bawm or spirit of wine c. Quercetan giveth drach 1. as a cathartick The milke thereof of S. Closs operates as that of Crollius but because that it sometimes failes or is but little precipitated this infallible kind was invented The spirit of sulphur as it is scarce any thing else than the spirit of vitriol so also it hath the same vertues furthermore it serveth against the plague and asthma c. and is profitably used outwardly in the falling down of the fundament a little thereof being mixed with plantine water and so applied with a spunge to the place affected see Senn. Jnst Begu Gluckr Tentzel The acid water acidity or phlegme of brimstone works as the former spirit but is less effectuall and seldomer used Croll The water or ens of the balsam of sulphur is of the same use with the flowers in the plague feavers collick obstructions and other affections of the lungs The linate oile of sulphur helps ulcers and ripens pestilentiall botches Tileman The golden oile of brimstone is given with good success in cachexies and obstructions of the bowels and preserveth from the plague The red oile is of great use in ripening pestilentiall buboes The true oile of sulphur of S. Closs is an excellent vulnerary remedy taken inwardly it cureth inward ulcers resisteth the suffocation of the matrix plague collick catarrhs the asthma empyema and provoketh urine the D. is 3 drops in some convenient syrup or the yolk of an egge Querc in pharm rest Hartm in pract Senn. Jnst Begu and others The turpentined balsam of sulphur or rubinus thereof is most excellent against the phthisick for it 's good to consolidate the ulcers of the lungs it preserveth from the plague and other contagious diseases also it serveth for the tincture of sulphur the D. is g. 4. to 7. sc separated from its solver or 20. therewith The compound balsame of sulphur or balsame of life worketh more strongly than the simple That of Rulandus to be used outwardly is used in diverse griefes The tincture of brimstone is more effectuall than the balsame That of S. Closs is used in the plague feavers the scurvey obstructions of the liver and diseases of the lungs the D. is 8 drops The crystals of the tincture of sulphur are given to g. 4. in some appropriate liquour The salt of brimstone is very effectuall against wormes The essence of sulphur is of great vertue to resist putrefaction the D. is 8 drops in which essence if myrrhe aloes or spices are infused and the tincture be extracted by B. M. it 's called the dead man's balsam so Basil in rep lap ph Caes Sulphureous waters heat and greatly mollifie the nerves therefore help resolutions convulsions tremblings stupidity and contractions also they discusse the swelling of the ioints and ease paines of the hip feet or hands used in a bath they cure the scab ulcers leprosie and morphew paines of the liver spleen and womb and wonderfully resolve tumours therein but they laxe and weaken the stomach Falloo the oile operates as that of brimstone Agric. brimstone is of a drawing nature Cardan being drunk or applied it helps the french pocks but the oile is most effectuall
K. is orientall or occidentall c. T. Sarr it 's unpleasant and stinking Rich. or rather not tasting some account it temperate others cold and dry others say it works by it's whole substance or occult quality V. Richard 5. graines help against napellus the same q. in borage water causeth sweat in a continuall ague or feaver Ruland 6 graines with sudorificks help the hungarick disease 24. taken often help the plague so Diomed. Portus 12. gr with sugar of roses help against poyson Arnold and cause sweat some give it to drach 1. but it 's to be proportioned according to the occasion and is to be given at any time against poyson so in putrid feavers except in the declination in a time of quiet the stomach being emptie 3 or 4 houres before meat after universall purgation and that in any forme with things appropriate Fragos the powder applied helps bitings and carbuncles it 's taken inwardly either to preserve health and youth or for prevention of diseases some use 10 or more graines for 4 or 5 dayes together after purgation note the orientall causeth sweat most and the occidentall loosens the belly it 's good against dangerous griefes chronicall and long also to increase strength and flesh some say it may be used in any disease without hurt Monard Caesalp it helpeth the vertigo it cures the epilepsie so Monard Lacun. Caesalp Brud Boet. both in children and in men given to them with milk and to the elder in the water of lillies or piony in the q. of 2. gr to children 8 or 12 men according to the disease and constitution Solenand it mightily strengthens the heart therefore the orientall exceeding the occidentall by having more vertue and influence from the aspect of the sun hath excellent faculties in diseases of the heart and helpeth all diseases thereof being taken from gr 5. to 10 in some convenient liquour so Boet. therefore it 's given in the syncope in the paroxisme or a little before in rosewater if there be a feaver if not in that of carduus benedictus bawme vipers grasse or of the flowers of gilloflowers in the q. of gr 4. or gr 3. in borrage water so Lonic Caesalp Monard Chain and that by comforting the spirits of the heart and strengthning its substance by an acute property or bezoardick quality and helpeth the palpitation of the heart yet not by reason of the tenuity of it's parts but by a certaine property respecting the heart being found in the heart of the Capricerva and it being manifest that some parts of bruites are good for like parts in man by reason of similitude Manl. it roborats the vitall vertue and by helping the expulsive facultie of the heart causeth sweat therefore Heurnius useth it amongst things that strengthen the heart and alter it when moist with Jacinth so Horst and to drive filthie vapours from the heart Rod. à Cast giveth it to women that are troubled with the leaping of the heart melancholy or corruption of the sperme sc gr 5. or 6. every morning being powdered and disolved in some opening or fitt water or mixed with the conserve of maidens haire or borrage a litle of the water being drunk after it also it may be added to chalybeat electuaries or cordiall and opening troches Brud it helps the pleurisie peripneumonie Amat it cures the paine of the side though violent and with a malignant quality being taken with the water of scabious or blessed thistle so Gebelch Lo●ic it cureth the pleurisie though desperate Avenz it cureth the jaundise yellow Crat. and black C. Acost cholerick passions as also the loss of appetite Caesalp therefore it helps the troubles of the stomach so the skin of the beast as Thevet reports Lonic it helps the collick and paines in the belly Sarrac it helps the dysentery though epidemick C. Acost Montan. Amat it killeth wormes both expelling them and freeing from their symptomes and is to be given with wine if there be no feaver else with the water of porcelain so Monard Amat Frag. or with the juyce of limons citron or syrup thereof so Ryff 3. graines being taken by children Boet. prescribeth it in the water of grass or blessed thistle Brud it expels the stone of the reines and breaketh it if in the bladder drunk in wine so Lacun. C. Acost therefore it expels the urine out of the reines and bladder and viscid matter there Caesalp those of Lusitania use it against troubles of the matrice Monard so it helps the obstructions of the menses and strangulation of the womb 6 graines being taken Rod. à Cast the orientall bezoar taken in mugwort water facilitates the birth and expels the secundine C Acost Gebelch 3 graines hereof being taken with the water of white lillies betony or pennyroyall doe the same Garz. Jordan it helpeth all melancholy diseases Ruff. though they affect the head braine or heart Abrahmed lus drach 1. hereof is used by the Indians to purge Brud so by those of Lusitania Monard 3 graines taken in bugloss water help sadness melancholy and fainting thereby so Boet. also it helps against melancholick humours in the whole body or part thereof and diseases of the skinne caused thereby so Solenand Gebelch it exhilerates so Heurn also it cleanseth the bloud with mytobalans or jacinth and to conclude it helps all long and strong diseases and the flatuous being like a panacaea given diverse dayes together after purgation Amat given in feavers it causeth sweat and cureth the same Manl. it 's not to be given in malignant feavers till after universall purgers and openers Augen it 's not to be used in putrid feavers Garz. it helpeth quartans so Ryff Caesalp Boet. however it removeth the symptomes thereof sc sadness anxiety c. Crat. it helps the catarrhose feaver Manard Acost Lacun. it helps malignant and epidemick feavers Caesalp and the Portugals use it in sorrel water so Fragos Amat and that to exstinguish the malignity thereof Manard so the water wherein it hath been infused and helpeth the malignity of all feavers Montan. Amat it cureth the pestilentiall and malignant Matth. it preserveth from the pestilentiall as also triacle and m●thridate Mercat each time 4 or 5 gr thereof are to be given in some water syrup or broth Monard it 's good in the spotted feaver and pustulous so Boet. though Syluaticus denieth it Port. it preserveth from and cureth the plague as also pearles and the bone of a stag's heart Monard therefore many then carry it in their mouth Forness some use it in the water of roses or violets with Unicorns horne whereof Andern and Gebelch may be made troches so Lacun. Lonic Fallop Wittich Rulandus giveth it with the red powder of Caesar and harts horne in scabious or carduus water Mercurialis addeth bole unicorns horne dittany of Creet and red corall thereto against poyson and giveth drach 1. thereof in wine and Gallen with bole in feavers Manl. yet it 's to be
strengthens the heart There are also diverse other fabulous reports made hereof by the Antients as also of the rest of the stones which as not worth writing may be omitted C. the best is the grammatias Aldrov it helps the epilepsie worne on the brest and paine of the stomach collick and nephritick paine L. Ligurius Ligurius P. The place is not much observed M. Some say it is the matter of Lincurius N. The Various names are not much noted LIgurius Caes Riber taketh it for a species of carbuncle others for the lynxes stone Corn. à Lap. for the jacinth Alcasar for amber of which the two last opinions are most probable yet neither certain As for the vertues therefore they are to be sought there whereto it shall be reduced See Isid Albert. Mag. Riber Corn. à Lap. Alcas Maiol N. Nephritick-stone Nephriticus P. It 's to he had in new Spaine and Bohemia M. The matter is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lapis nephriticus NEphritick-stone Myl. T. it expelleth the stone and gravel being tyed to the arme Schrod it 's commended against the paine of the stomach but especially against the nephritick griefe as also the stone and gravel being hung about the hip or neck wherefore diverse have bracelets made thereof for this purpose P. Pearle Margarita P. In the shell fishes of the Sea or ocean in persia M. Of the celestiall dew as some others say as the stone in the reines N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Unio Perla Arab. Lulu Erythraeus Lapis Gall. perle PEarles Caes Aldrovand T. they are cold and dry V. they dry up moisture so Ru. Bras Ru. Myl. Aldrovand they strengthen and confirme the heart Ru. Aldrovand Myl. Albert. Mag. they cherish the spirits and principall parts of the body Ru. Myl. Aldrovand being put into collyries they cleanse weafts of the eyes and dry up the water thereof help their filth and strengthen the nerves by which moisture floweth into them Ru. Aldrovand they are very good against melancholick griefes Ru. Albert. Aldrovand they helpe those that are subject to cardiack passions Ru. they defend against pestilent diseases Myl. and are mixed with cordiall remedies Albert. Aldrovand they are good against the lienterie that is the flux of the belly proceeding from the sliperinesse of the intestines insomuch that they cannot retaine the meat but let it passe undigested Albert. Aldrovand they are good against swounings Myl. they help the trembling of the heart and giddinesse of the head Myl. they are mixed with the Manus Christi against fainting called Manus Christi perlata in the London Pharmacopoea Myl. they are put into antidotes or corroborating powders Myl. Aldrovand they help the flux of bloud Myl they stop the termes and cleanse the teeth Aldrovand they are put into antidotes for the bowels and increase their vertue make the bloud more thin and clarify that which is more thick and feculent Aldrovand they help feavers and make the teeth white Aldrovand Myl. The oile of Pearles or unions helpeth the resolution of the nerves convulsion decay of old age phrensie keepeth the body sound and recovereth it when out of order it rectifieth womens milk and increaseth it corrects the vices of the naturall parts and seed it cureth abscesses eating ulcers the cancer and hemorrhoides Plin. Alcas Maiol they ate soft in the water and harder after Solin Plin. Alcas their whitenesse decayes by age Plin. Solin they wax red by the sun Myl. those taken before the full of the moon never decay Schrod they are either orientall or occidentall C. the best are the first sort especially the Persian they are an excellent cordiall by which the oppressed balsame of life and decayed strength are recreated and strengthned therefore they resist poyson the plague and putrefaction and exhilerate and therefore they are used as the last remedie in sick persons The salt thereof D. is given from gr 6. to scrup sem in the water of May dew distilled with manna or in cinamon and rose water so Hartm in Pract. to which Paracelsus attributes extraordinary vertues The salt or magisterie of Pearles of Riverius besides the former vertues is an excellent preservative in the joynt ach Hartm in Pract. the D. is scrup 1. at the most The vertues of the magisterie of pearles may be known by the properties of Pearles themselves the D. is from gr 6. to 15. The essence tincture or arcanum thereof is also thence known as to its vertues but it is of exceeding strength by reason of its great subtilty Hartm in Croll the D. is gr 6. to 14. Hartm in Croll The arcanum by the spirit of Guajacum or pockwood doth mightily cleanse the bloud and is of excellent vertue in the french pocks the D. is the same The perlate spirit is an excellent secret in the gout C. the best are the greatest and perforated being shining R. Ruby Rubinus P. In Zeilan Calecut and Bisnagar with the sapphir M. Of matter neere the sapphir N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Carbunculus Pyropus Apyrotus Jacut Ar. RUby Caes K. as the white amethistizont sirtite and lithizont T. V. Albert. Mag. Myl. Ru. it resisteth acreous and vaporose poyson Myl. drunk it restraineth lust preserveth the body removes ill cogitations strengthneth the vitall spirits resisteth putrefaction and makes man prompt and cheerfull Ru. Ruby is an amulet against fearfull dreames Rueus Causin affirme it makes it own figure on other stones and none on it Albert. C. if good it shineth in the dark so Isid Ru. Maiol August some say it will not be heated by the fire Alcas wax sealed therewith melteth Plin. warmed by the sun or hand it draweth chaffe to it Plin. it shineth most when lifted upwards and more out a dore than in the house Schrod being carried about one or drunk it resisteth poyson and the plague and driveth away sadnesse he also saith that if a man be in danger it changeth its colour and becomes more dimme and when it 's past recovereth the same again S. Sapphire Sapphirus P. In Calecut Zeilan and neere Bohemia M. It 's the mother of the carbuncles as some think N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Sapphir Gemma gemmarum SApphire Schrod K. as the orientall and occidentall male and female skie coloured and white T. it 's cold and dry astringent consolidating alexipharmick cordiall and ophthalmick V. therefore it dryeth up the moisture of the eyes helps and extinguisheth inflammations being applied in collyries to the upper eyelids or with washed butter it helps all fluxes of the belly the dysentery hepatick flux hemorrhoides and spitting of bloud being taken with the water of plantain or tormentill it cureth inward ulcers or wounds strengthens the heart exhilerates resisteth the plague all poyson and malignant feavers it helps all cardiack and melancholick diseases being taken inwardly The whole stone being applied to the forehead stoppeth the hemorrhage and inflammations being made up into a ball of the bignesse of
of the essence or extract thereof is from scrup sem to scrup 1. The purging Crystals salt or flower hereof will increase the vertues of a panchymagogon or other extracts being mixed therewith B. Bloud-stone Haematites P. In Germany and Bohemia in iron mines M. It is the matter of Iron by concoction N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. Scedenigi BLoud-stone Diosc T. it bindeth gently heateth and extenuates V. with hony it remooveth the cicatrices and roughnesse of the eyes with womans milk it helpeth bleere eyes ruptures and bloudy surfusions in the eyes drunk in wine it helpeth against the retention of urine Plin. drunk it stoppeth the fluxes of women and spitting of bloud with the juyce of pomegranates also it is good in diseases of the bladder and wounds of serpents drunk in wine in womens milk it helps the weeping of the eyes Myl. cast into hot water it cooleth it some say that those that carry it will not be hurt by the sun and that it keepeth fruits from grashoppers and haile which is fond and that being held in the hand it stops bleeding at the nose Maiolus affirms that of Pliny Schrod it cooleth drieth gleweth and therefore helpeth the ulcers of the eyes and lungs and stoppeth fluxes of the womb and belly c. D. the powder is given inwardly from scrup 1. to scrup iiij outwardly it 's used diverse waies Lang●l the powder with a diaphoretick water is given with good successe in gouts C. the best is friable blackish hard equall and without filth chiefely the Spanish Caes waters flowing rom bloudstones bind and stop fluxes of bloud Borax Borax P. In Armenia Macedonia Cyprus in mines M. Of a boyes urine and nitre sc the factitious N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysocolla Auri gluten Jun. Borax T.V. Fallop scrup 1. thereof being taken in the decoction of some heating herb as of feaverfew savin or the like by women that cannot be delivered is a most present remedie to bring forth the birth either alive or dead So Caes The naturall Borax Diosc purgeth cicatrices restraineth proud flesh and gently wasteth the body by its biting quality it 's counted amongst remedies which cause vomiting and may be lethal so Weck C. Calaminare Calaminaris L. P. It is to be had and found in the mines of mettals M. It 's generated of Cadmia without the mettall N. Cadmia Lapidosa Climia Cathimia CAlaminare Schrod T. it gently drieth cleanseth bindeth cicatrizeth and incarnates V. it filleth ulcers with flesh it is used only outwardly and often in the excoriacions of children being sprinkled thereon to dry them It is used also by copper smiths to make lattin it causing the copper to wax pale S. Closs the magisterie hereof evacuates by vomit and stoole more gently than prepared antimonie Chrystall Chrystallus P. In India Asia Scythia Germany and Spain M. Of the same humour as the Berill and Diamond N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Zechuchith Ital. Christallo Gall. Crist l. Chrystall Matth. T. is astringent V. therefore it is given being finely powdered against the dysentery in austere wine it stoppeth the whites and encreaseth milk in nurses hereof may be made burning glasses serving for cauteries Albert. Mag. being held under the tongue it quencheth thirst being powdered mixed with honey and applied it causeth milk in women so Vincent Bell. Agric. it 's used by witches Brasav it resisteth poyson Solin it serveth to make cups of as also the triangulous serving for recreation so Cardan Schrod it helpeth the diarrhoea colick choller flux of the matrix breaketh the stone in any part of the body and helps the gout Boet. Matth. scrup ij or drach 1. of the powder thereof being given in the the oile of sweet almonds cureth those that have drunk quicksilver Hereof is made a nephritick salt by ebullition in the great nettle water being fortified with its own salt and unc ij of the spirit of sea salt sc of the calx thereof the D. is gr 6. to 20. of the oile or liquour of Chrystall gr 15. to 20. Horst the D. of the cremor of chrystall is scrup sem to scrup 1. alone or with that of tartar in the dropsie and stone C. the best for chymicall use is the most pure and pellucid Cleaving-stone Schistus P. In Iberia Germany and Bohemia Agric. M. Some count it a species of talch N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iscistus Isidori Cleaving-stone Diosc T. is of the nature of the bloud stone but lesse effectuall V. with womens milk it filleth up hollow ulcers Plin. it helps against the hemorrhoids so Caes Aldrovand it helpeth against ruptures thicknesse of the cheeks and affections of the eyes Pliny maketh hereof with gold a remedy against lichens Agric. the nodes thereof serve to polish silver withall and bracelets Cocks-gizard-stone Alectorius P. It is often found in the ventricle of cocks M. It 's like dimme christall N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is also called Alectoria Alectorias Cocks-gizard-stone Ru. Albert. T.V. is said to provoke venery and cause agreement betwixt the sexes so Myl. as also that it resisteth dangers makes unconquerable pleasant eloquent constant and that being held in the mouth it quencheth thirst So Weck E. Eagle-stone Aetites P. It is found in the Eagles nest in Germany M. It 's made like the Bezoar-stone N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lapis aquilae Gall. Pièrre d'aìgle EAgle-stone Plin. K. as the soft containing a white clay in it the male or hard having a hard stone that of Cyprus containing sand and the Taphiusus T. V. Diosc bound to the left arme it helpeth against the slipperinesse of the matrix and retaineth the child in the womb the same being tied to the thigh facilitates childbirth Being shaken it causeth a sound having an other stone in it so Plin. Isid there are two thereof found in the nest sc a male and a female without which they bring not forth Ru. being powdered and used in a cerot it helps the falling sicknesse he saith also that a thiefe cannot devoure any thing in which it is Bras those in use are the white and black or ashcoloured Mylius reports that the eagle bringeth them into her nest to temper the heat of her egges least they should be too hot when sate upon There are also diverse other frivelous things reported of it by diverse authors Schrod it is presently to be removed after the birth least it draw the womb unto it Albert. Mag. it being present meat suspected of poyson cannot be swallowed down untill it be removed again Aldrovand hung about the neck it helps affections of the heart melancholy and paines fluxes pleurisies and ruptures F. Fier-stone Pyrites P. It is to be found in Cyprus Goslaria M. It is generated of an aeriall quality N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lapis aerarius Lapis luminis FIer-stone Caes Plin. K. as the golden and silver coloured T. both of them heat dry discusse extenuate humours and soften hard swellings
Cornu fossile Ebur fossile Ceretites lapis VNicorne-stone Schrod T. for the most part they dry and bind V. therefore they stop fluxes of the belly gonorrhoea's whites the bleeding at the nose and hemorrhoides and if the smell be sweet they are pleasant to the heart strengthen it and help the falling sicknesse used outwardly they cicatrize ulcers and in collyries stop the watering of the eyes Aldrovand it helps against all poysons drach 1. or scrup iiij of the powder being taken in cardiack water or in wine if there be no feaver it causing sweat and driving the poyson outwards also it helps the syncope and other affections of the heart scrup 1. being taken having the vertue of the earth of Lemnos W. Whetstone Cos. P. In Germany Saxonie Cyprus and Misnia so Encel. M. Its matter is not much observed N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lapis naxius Coticula Acone VVHetstone Weck T. that which comes off from it by whetting T. is styptick V. it stops the falling off of the haire and causeth it to grow when fallen off it keeps downe the breasts of women or virgins being drunk with vineger it consumes the spleen and cureth the epilepsie so Dioscorides and Wecker Aldrovand the powder is cooling that of the oleary whetstone is of an extersive vertue therefore it is counted good against the alopecia it 's used also by smiths mowers barbers and by all men to sharpen tooles withall as it 's sufficiently known Stones lesse used in Physick STones lesse used in Physick Caes are the Antachates which being burned smels like myrrhe so the Aromatites and Myrrhites The Zanthena smelleth sweet so the Baptes and Atizoe The Libanochron is bituminous The Catochites sticketh to the hand and draweth all beasts after it being burned all these are bituminouse Asbestes being once fiered cannot be extinguished so Isid August Maiol Zanard Myl. Selenites increaseth in its candor according to the moone So Plin. August Isid Diosc Matth. Zanard Maiol Caus Myl. Dionysius being powdered and drunk in water causeth a tast of wine and resisteth drunkennesse So Plin. Maiol Caus Thracius is kindled by water and extinguished by oile so Plin. Diosc Myl. Plin. Gal. the stinck thereof driveth away wild beasts Scyrus swimmeth being whole and sinketh when broken so Isid Plin. Caus Maiol Albert. Mag. Arabicus being burned is used in dentifrices and helps the hemorrhoids so Plin. Myl. Diosc Gal. it dryeth and cleanseth Memphites being powdered and applied with vineger to places that are to be cut or burned maketh them to be so stupid that they cannot perceive the paine so Isid Diosc Myl. Sarcophagus consumeth dead bodies within eleven daies being layed therein sc all but the teeth so Plin Isid Albert. Mag. Androdamas restraineth the wrath and rage of men so Plin. Albert. Mag. and draweth silver or brasse to it so Isid Galactites being powdered yeelds a kind of milkie juyce it causeth milk in nurses being worne by children it causeth spittle so Plin. Maiol it helps distillations of the eyes and ulcers being applied but by reason of it's glutinosnesse it is to be kept when powdered in water in a leaden vessel so Diosc being worne it helpeth the birth so Myl. Mytridas being shined on by the sunne shineth with variety of colours Phengites is used as the specular stone so Plin. Isid Caus Chernites preserveth bodies from corruption contrary to that of the Asian stone consuming all things and reducing them into ashes so Caus Ostracites serveth in stead of the pumis-stone to smooth the skin being drunk it stoppeth bloud and applied with hony cureth ulcers paines of the dugs so Plin. as also inflammations eating ulcers causeth sterility being drunk 4 daies after the birth so Diosc Myl. Gal. it is very drying Smyris is used in plaisters to consume and eat it helps moist gumms is used in dentifrices so Diosc The powder serveth to polish Jewels with and armes also it serveth to cut glasse as the adamant so Matth. it is very abstersive so Gal. Tusculanus breaketh being in the fire so Isid Sabinus yeeldeth a light with oile so Isid Sifnius being heated with oile waxeth black and hardeneth Plin. Thebaicus is used in collyries so Plin. Asius is salt it helps the gout of the legs being held in a vessel thereof mixed with copper it helps vices of the dugs and botches with pitch or rosin also it discusseth waxing kernels and helps the bitings of beasts so Plin. it gently biteth and bindeth the powder eateth flesh and extenuates being used in baths in stead of nitre so Diosc Melitites operates as the Lactarius so Diosc Myl. being powdered it yeeldeth a sweet and hony-like juyce and being mixed with wax it helps eruptions of phlegme spots of the body and exulcerations of the jawes so Plin. Morochthus is used by linnen drapers to whiten garments also it stops spitting of bloud with water it helps paines of the bladder and stops destillations Thyites is very corrosive and it chiefely purgeth those humours that hurt the eyes so Diosc Gal. Assyrius is used for an amulet and being tied to the thighes of those that are great it facilitates childbirth so Diosc Tiburones powdered helpe the difficultie of urine and stone of the reines and bladder the tast is insipid so Myl. Caymanus helps the quartain ague being bound to the temples so Myl. Myexis or that of the toad being worne helps the paines of the reines inflamations of the dugs and generation of the stone also it helpes diseases of the stomach and feavers and venemous wounds so Myl. Chelidonius being worne under the left at me helps old diseases lunacie epilepsies madnesse and languishing so drunk also it makes pleasant and gratefull sc the red The black helps against hurtfull humours anger and feavers also it causeth good successe and helps the paines of the eyes being powdered and used in water so Myl. Ru. Malauar held in the mouth in a certain leafe helps hunger so Maiol Glasse is pleasant for the sight so Maiol Turchois strengthens and preserveth the sight so Ru. Myl. is defendeth from hurt so Ru. Myl. Albert. it strengthneth and comforts the heart so Myl. Ru. and causeth mirth and prosperity used by the unchast it looseth its colour and vertue so Myl. there are also other fabulous relations made hereof Anthracites is quenched by fire and burnes with water so Isid Caus Hexecontalithus hurts the nerves and weake eyes so Albert. Liparia being burned draweth all beasts to it so Plin. Caus Mynda● driveth away wild beasts and defends from them so Caus Spinus Smarillus and Maritha being togeather and sprinkled with water doe burne so Aristot Maiol Nymphaeus is kindled by water so Plin. Maiol Zanard Droselitus sweateth being put to the fire Ephestites by the sun fireth a dry matter worne before the heart it hinders sedition and the furie of wild beasts and being cast into boiling water it makes it cold so Isid Plin. Maiol Albert. Mag. Absicthus being once heated continueth so 7
Melich Melha optimum aroma Basil COmmon Salt Schrod K. as the marine and fountaine T. it warmeth dryeth abstergeth dissolves purges gently binds consumes superfluities penetrats digests opens and incideth provoketh venus and resists putrefaction and poyson therefore it serveth inwardly in crudities of the stomach appetite lost obstructions of the belly and urine and collick c. outwardly it serveth in the mundifying of putrified and creeping ulcers in the discussing of simple and pestilentiall tumors in extracting the fire in combustions in the itch and drying up of the scab in bruises and resolution and discussion of extravasate bloud in the paine of the teeth head collick arthritick paine c. and consumeth the skinne growing over the corner of the eye The spirit of common Salt is diuretick and lithontriptick and strongly resolves a tartareous mucilage and may therefore be given profitably in obstructions of the liver and spleen c. in the dropsie and jaundise it wonderfully quenches thirst and corrodeth without paine whatsoever is corrupted in wounds or other affections mixed with the oile of turpentine wax camomile mullein c. it ●aseth the paine of the gout and discusseth hard swellings c. also it cureth shrinking of the joints and blasting Untz. Agric. The compounded spirit of salt is very good in the dropsie given both inwardly and used outwardly also it helpeth fistulous wounds The corallate spirit is good in affections of the heart as the palpitation thereof c. the D. is scrup sem Hartm in pract Senn. in Inst Tentzel Gluckr The sweet spirit may be taken with white sugar in the forme of an electuary every day fasting and is a very good preservative in the plague for it resisteth all putrefaction and preserveth the stomach and other intrals in a good disposition That of Agricola besides this yeelds a good menstruum for to draw out all tinctures and cureth the carnose hernia being thrice applied every day and taken morning and evening the D. is x. drops Hartm in Crol Tentzel Vntz. The compound sweet spirit doth so quench thirst that by the use thereof for some certaine time the drouth of the hydropick is quenched also it helps the jaundise and powerfully expels wormes outwardly it helps the gout being cautelously applied yea whatsoever is contained in Paracelsus or moderne authors concerning the oile or spirit of salt is chiefely to be ascribed unto this the D. is g. 6. to scrup sem in wine or some other liquor S. Closs G. Horst The diuretick spirit of vitriolated salt is to be given in the morning with broth of the decoction of stone parsly S. Closs The essentiall spirit is said to draw a tincture of gold without dilaceration of the body also it stops vomiting in a moment and that indifferently and in all diseases the D. is 3 drops in some syrup broth or wine The sweet chrystall of salt or coagulated spirit thereof is sudorifick and no lesse quencheth the thirst of the hydropicall than the compound sweet spirit and helpeth the essentiall humidity exhausted also it strengthneth the stomach and other bowels and powerfully discusseth malignity in the pestilence and pestilentiall feavers the D. is gr 5. to 20. The flowers of salt are of various use to incide thick phlegme and to recover corrupt humours from putrefaction The sweet Christals being mixed in a due proportion with their oile or by themselves a part dissolve and are a true menstruum of Sol. augmenting and exacuating its properties and vitall and vegetating virtues The tincture of sa●t is an excellent sudorifick and diuretick remedie it incideth tartareous mucilages resists all kind of putrefaction and therefore strengthneth the naturall balsame and so is to be used chiefely in the plague fevers dropsie stone by wasting it obstructions of the liver and spleen c. also it cleanseth the bloud and so helps the itch and arthritrick paines c. the D. is scrup 1. to drach 1. Caes Diosc Matth. salt is mixed in things that smooth the skinne with oile it helps lassitude and intercutaneous water it helps ringwormes and the leprosie with honey vineger and oyle it helps the quinsey the tonsills with honey and moist gums with barley flower it helps S. Anthonies fire applied with vinegar or hyssop it easeth paine being applied hot in a bag Caes the salt waters purge phlegme dissolve bloud extenuate help the dropsie hurt the stomach corrode the intrals and cause the itch in clysters they cut phlegme purge it and paines thereby in baths it helps the dropsie cold griefe and moist heavinesse of the head and paines of the eares and bruised salt helps against the bitings of serpents Salt Caes extenuates represseth and helps the stingings of insects with fa● in water it troubles the stomach Plin. it dryeth and bindeth the body and causeth appetite with calves fat it helps ulcers and pustules of the head it helps swellings of the gums and roughnesse of the tongue it preserveth the teeth it helps the itch with wine it looseneth the belly it helps kibes and warts the jaundise dropsies and luxations with meale and honey Midwives use it to young children to make their bodies dry and more firme and lesse tender G. Gemme Salt Sal Gemmae P. It is to be had in Hungary in abundance M. It 's a kind of common salt found in quarrios N. Sal fossile Gemmeum Indum Chym. ♉ GEmme Salt T. it hath the same vertue with common salt and may be substituted thereunto yet it 's more seldome used in the practice of Physick oftner in Chymistry excelling the common salt in the solution of mettals yet it 's commended peculiarly by the experience of Forrest to loosen hard excrements and to ease collick griefes used inwardly and outwardly The balsame or liquour of Sal gemme is a great arcanum in ruptures being used inwardly and outwardly the D. is 3. 4. or 5 drops Caes it is a great consumer of thick humours N. Nitre Nitrum P. It is to be had in Nitria a region of Egypt M. It 's sulphurious bitterish and out of a fat earth N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cerberus Chym. infernalis Sulphureus Hermes Anatron NItre Diosc T. it hath the strength and heat of salt so its spume V. it brings forth humours that stick in the belly and easeth the paine thereof if pounded and drunk with cummin seed in hydromel sapes or other things which may discusse inflations as rue or anet It 's used outwardly in intermitting feavers before the comming of the fit It 's mixed in plaisters which draw and discusse extenuate and cleanse the leprosie being infused in hot water or wine it cureth inflations purulent eares and soundings of the same and purgeth forth filth being dropped in with vineger with the fat of an asse or hogge it cureth the bitings of doggs Being mixed with turpentine it opens fellons applied with sigs it helps the dropsie with hony it cleares the eyes and helps the poyson of toad-stooles drunk in posca
or of buprestes biting in water or with laserwort against buls bloud drunk and may be used outwardly in pinings it helps the more remisse opisthotonos and luxations in cerots with bread it helps the resolution of the tongue C. the best is the red or white light and spongious Schrod T. some count it hot others cold V. it resists putrefaction and quenches thirst it incideth a tartarious fulnesse resolveth coagulated bloud and easeth paine which is chiefely attributed to the lapis prunellae it 's used commonly both inwardly and outwardly Inwardly it 's dissolved in liquours and chiefely in spring water drach 1. or drach 1. sem being added to a pint thereof and is so given in burning putrid feavers especially the Hungarick in the pleuresie peripneumonie stone of the reines and bladder and obstructions of the liver and mesaraeum if the belly be too loose or stomach weak the use thereof will not be so convenient Outwardly it 's commonly used in the inflammations of the jawes and quinsey being dissolved in gargarismes It 's to be applied with lint in anodyne and refrigerating topicks being dissolved in some appropriate liquour so in combustions the D. is the same with that of lapis prunellae which is of the same vertue or more effectuall scrup 4. being dissolved in a pint of water for to drink in feavers yet it a little weakens the stomach and some times causeth fluxes otherwise it may be taken from drach sem to drach 1. without hurt especially taken with sugar which mitigates its bitternesse so Senn. Inst Begu Querc Pharm rest and alexicc The other fixed nitre makes mettals malliable Wirtz the mineral saccharate chrystall is an arcanum in the haemorrhage of wounds The perlate nitre is an excellent cordiall and mitigates the heat in feavers The corallate nitre is of the same use with the former in feavers and restauration of the strength The saturnisate nitre helps the asthma the D. is g. 6. or 7. in some convenient water The chrystall of nitre or the fortified dragon of S. Closs expelleth tarrareous matter and provoketh sweat the stoole and urine the D. is scrup 1. in an appropriate water The Terra foliata of nitre S. Closs opens obstructions of the mesenterie and spleen and gently purgeth with the extract of rhubarb and Senne to increase their vertue the D. is drach sem with the aperitive rootes Langel The vitriolate nitre sweet salt Hols panacaea duplicata or duplicate arcanum hath been often tried in melancholick affections feavers continuall and intermitting the stone and scurvie c. also it provokes sleep especially in the melancholick the D. is scrup 1. or 2. it 's called arcanum duplicatum by Mynsicht The chalybeat cachectick salt hereof as also of that of Holsatia is excellent in the decay of appetite cachexie feavers nephritick passion catarrhes scurvie french pocks contractions palsey and wheresoever there is need of the emendation of bloud it povokes sleep and serveth for many other purposes therefore for the most part it doth this by insensible transpiration and sometimes by sweat without trouble in some it gently causeth vomit but seldome in others it gently openeth the belly the D. is g. 6. to scrup 1. in some appropriate liquour Langel The flowers of nitre are good in a tertian feaver or ague and other inquietudes The spirit of nitre represseth and quencheth the effervescencie of the spirit of the microcosmick salt by discussing and resolving the malignant crude nitrose and tartareous vapours it openeth the bowels infringeth preternaturall hea● and causeth sweat therefore it 's of excellent use in the collick pleurisie prunel and feavers especially the maligne the D. is scrup 1. to scrup ij c. it may be used both inwardly and outwardly sc in gargarismes c. in the collick it 's mixed q. an with the spirit of wine to make a mixture scrup ij or drach 1. which may be taken in a draught of spring water also it may be anointed on the navil with the oile of nutmeg and a little civet The bezoardick spirit is a fit menstruum for the solution and volatisation of Sol. The common aqua fortis dissolveth Luna and Venus The aqua regia stygia chrysulca Basilii dissolveth Gold and transports it selfe with it through the alembick So Basil ●● Clav. Tentzel The tincture of nitre is an excellent corroborative and diaphoretick remedie Caes Nitrous waters being drunk trouble the belly make women fruitfull and asswage tumours the baths thereof helpe the cache●ie by phlegme vices of the nerves catarrhes and have the same vertue as the salt but more effectuall yet they do not bind but cleanse therefore they help the skinne and scab also being dropped in they help purulent eares soundings thereof and discusse tumours Agric. Nitre dryeth digesteth and cleanseth its spume is stronger which is light soft and purplish Fallop Niter attenuateth cleanseth the womb and causeth sneezing Plin it causeth sweat being anointed with oile it helps ulcers applied with figs it helps cicatrices of the eyes and roughnesse of the cheeks with wine and pepper it helps the toothach kils nits and helps singings of the cares fellons venemous bitings paines of the belly Plin. it heateth extenuates bites chickens drieth and exulcerates and is usefull to evocate and discusse c. with green oile it stops sweating with dry iris with honey it cleareth the eyes if burned and used in a dentifrice it whitens the teeth with the earth of Samos and oile it killeth nits with wine it helps purulent eares and cleanseth them with vineger with fullers earth an and vineger it helps the vitiligines with rosin it helps fellons it helps the inflammations of the testicles and eruptions of phlegme in the whole body with axunge it helps the bitings of serpents phagedens and ulcers with lime and vineger drach 1. being decoct with rue anet or cumin and drunk discusseth the tormina anointed with oile and vineger it helps lassitude and it helps against honours rubbed on the hands or feet with oile taken with vineger it helps chollerick itch with hony and cows milk it helps ulcers in the face tosted till black and stamped it helps burnings it helps the paines of the belly reines and nerves with ptisan it helps shortnesse of breath and the cough with galbanum and turpentine with tarre in helps the quinsey taken the flower with cyprine oile helps paines of the joints drunk in wine it helps the jaundise and discusseth inflations the vapour taken in hot water helps bleeding at the nose with alum it helps the itch with water it helps the stinck of the arme-holes with wax it helps pituitous ulcers and the nerves it helps the collick taken with oile it helps the leprosie applied in baths it helps the podagrick and a trophy Gal burned it drieth and digesteth and taken is stronger than salt and betwixt it and aphronitrum Agric. which is strongest S. Hieron Nitre it sprinkled with vineger groweth hot and it crackles