radishes Physitians doe hold that among other discommodities the radish is an enemie vnto the teeth and they make hard and stonie places in the mouthes of such as vse them but this inconuenience may be amended if presently after you eat some certaine slips of Hyssope or Thyme or Organie or if they be eaten with oyle and againe in stead of this one discommoditie they bring a thousand profits for the health of mankind The roots of radishes being new chopt small and sprinkled with white wine that is neat and warmed in a frying-panne and applied vnto the stomach canseth a man to pisse aboundantly the water which he could not auoid of a long time the juice of the same root drunke to the quantity of two ounces with Malmesey worketh the like effect take an ounce of the rindes of radishes as much of the leaâ—es of Mercurie foure graines of saffron one dram of sweet Cassia and two drams of the juice of sauin poune them all together in a mortar and put them in a linnen cloth which being put vp into the matrix is a singular remedie to helpe them that traâ—ell of child-birth The juice of the root of radishes mixt with oyle of sweet or bitter almonds a little white wine and a little coloquintida all heated at the fire and strained and afterward dropt into the eares doth take away the windinesse and noise of the â—ares being drunke with honied water it cureth the jaundise The leaues boyled in pottage in stead of coleworts do take away the obstructions of the liuer spleene Their seed bruised and strayned with white Wine is soueraigne against all 〈◊〉 of poysons and other dangerous diseases The roots eaten fasting do preserue and keepâ— a man from venime and poyson Some hold it for a certaine truth that turneps 〈◊〉 in stinking and ill-sauouring wine doth take away altogether the ill tast thereof They wipe away the spots of the face heale the places of the bodie raced with the twigs of rods and couer the places with haire which are bare and should not But aboue all the rest theâ—e is no more certaine a remedie for the griefe of the reines the stone grauell or difficultie to make water than to drinke euening and morning going into bed or comming out of it a small draught of white Wine warme wherein haue beene sleeped the space of eight houres the rindes of radishes with the fourth part of the kernels of medlars made in powder For the same matter there may be prouided a Wine to vse a long time wherein hath beene infused a certaine time thâ— powder of the roots of radish dried I cannot forget to set downe that the often vsing of radishes bringeth vnto nurses great store of milke And that water how stinking soeuer it be wherein radishes haue beene boyled will become better and thâ— they may not be eaten in the later end but at the beginning of meat whatsoeuer 〈◊〉 pleaseth Dioscortdes to say that so they may goe presently out of the stomach and nothing hinder the digestion of the rest of the meat CHAP. XXXV Of Parsneps Mypes Carrets and Skirworts PArsneps Mypes Carrets and Skirworts are sowen all after one fashions in a ground well digged freed from stones clensed and scoured from all weeds and vnprofitable roots being also manured and rilled well before they may not be sowen thicke that so they may grow the longer and thicker They must be watered as soone as they be sowen and if the time proue drie once a weeke so long as till they be well sprung vp They are set also after one and the same fashion The time to sow or plant thâ—m is in Autâ—mne and in the Spring but Autumne is the better that so you may haue them in Lent time He that desireth to haue their roots great faire and thicke must often plucke away theâ— leaues they must be gathered halfe a yeare after they be sowen and then their leaues taken from them and they kept vnder sandie grauell especially in Winter for 〈◊〉 causeth them to corrupt Pâ—rsâ—eps may be kept a whole yeare or two in the earth so as that one may know by the falling of the flowers both the old and the new and which are good in Winter and Lent whether they be fried or otherwise All of them haue vertue to expell vrine to asswage the paine of the colicke and to prouoke womens termes their leaues stamped and layed vpon wounds which happen in the legges are verie profitable for them CHAP. XXXVI Of Mustard and Poppie SEnuie Mustard delighteth in a fat ground and is â—owen with mouldâ— before and after Winter and it must be often weeded and watered buâ— it would not be sowen too thicke for it spreadeth very easily insomuch as it is hard to destroy it where it hath beene once sowen the seed will keepe 〈◊〉 yeare but the newer that it is so much the better it is either to sow or â—at It is discerned to be good when being broken or crackt with the teeth it appeareth greene within but not white for and if it be white it is old and not worth any thing either to sow or eat That which is intended to be kept to eat shall be good to be remoued when it is growing for so it will yeeld a greater and fairer top but that which is intended to vse for seed must not be remoued or haue his place and habitation changed The seed of Mustard chawed and holden vnder the tongue is of great force against the palâ—ey of the tongue as also against all other manner of palsey if vpon the grieued part there be applied a bagge full of the said seed hauing beene first boyled in Wine The powder thereof cast into the nosthrils causeth neâ—sing and purgeth the braine from superfluities The decoction of Senuie or Mustard doth asswage the tooth-ach comming of a cold cause and being drunke breaketh the stone and prouoketh the termes of women It keepeth the haire cleane and from falling The oylâ— of Mustard is soueraigne against the ach of the hips and weaknesse of the sinews Mustard seed brayed and put into sweet wine preserueth the same in his sweetnesse so that it shal not loose it the reason is because it keepeth it from taking of a heat thâ— same made in powder and mixt with vinegar doth heale the stingings of serpents and scorpions being drunke it ouercommeth the venime of Mushromes that haue 〈◊〉 eaten mingled with the vrine of a young child and rubbed vpon the bellies of such as haue the dropsie it causeth them to auoid water of you temper it with water and rubbe your hand or any other part that hath need to be made cleane therewith you shall perceiue the benefit thereof The white poppie which is sometimes vsed in pottage and clensed barly cartes and other confections for to quench the thirst prouoke sleepe and coole the great heat of agues neuer groweth of
mornings Water of horse-taile Take horse-taile plantaine red roses Winter-cherrie-berries rootes of holihockes and scraped licorice of each an ounce of bole-armoniacke halfe an ounce of the seed of gourds and cucumbers of each three drams of the seede of white poppie six drams of the seed of quinces halfe an ounce Infuse them all in vvhay made of goats milke the space of two daies afterward distill the vvater which will serue for the vlcers of the reines and bladder if there be foure ounces of â—â—taken vvarme in the morning Water of corneflag Take equall parts of corneflag hyssope and southernewood stampe them throughly and leaue them so a certaine time afterward distill them this vvater prouoketh womens termes and killeth wormes in young children burnet-Burnet-water burneâ—- Take the seed of burnet parsley smallage the leaues and rootes of clotburre and smallage of euerie one equally stampe all together after put thereto of draggons bloud an ounce and a little good vinegar â—et all to infuse together a certaine time afterward distill it this vvater hath a meruailous vertue against the stone and grauell A singular vvater for the grauell vvhich the deceased Monsieur de Tillet had great vse of vvith happie succesâ—e Take the rootes of parsley and fennell made verie cleane and the vvooddie part taken out of each â—oure handfulls boyle them in twelue pintes of riuer water vvhen they are halfe boyled put thereto of the tender buds of Mallows holihockes violets and sea-weed of each foure handfulls boyle all together to the consumption of the halfe after straine them through a white napkin distill them putting thereunto two pound of Venice turpentine A singular water for the eyes Take celandine veruaine betonie eye-bright rue and fennell all new and fresh of each two handfulls stampe them together sprinkling them with halfe a pound of white Wine presse out the juice and afterward infuse in the same pepper and ginger made in powder of each halfe an ounce of saffron three drams of myrrhe aloes and sarcocol of each one ounce of verie good honie a pound distill them all in a glasse stillitorie at a small fire and keepe the water for the spots of the eyes Take foure ounces of the pills of Oranges dried in the shadow of the Sunne sixe dayes nutmegs and cloues made into powder either of them by themselues of each foure ounces infuse the said aromaticall powders in a glasse viole with rosewater the space of seuenteene dayes in the Sunne after cast vpon the said powders the rindes of oranges vvhich you shall let steepe there a certaine space of time Afterward take of new red roses gathered two daies before a pound of the roote of cypeâ—us halfe a pound of the leaues of rosemarie hysâ—op balme roses of the bush of each two handfulls of bay-leaues a handfull lay them all to drie in the Sunne for two houres after infuse them in rose-water the space of three houres this done put them all into a Still after this manner In the bottome of the Still make a bed of one pound of new red roses then next a bed of aromaticall powders and the rindes of oranges in the third place a bed of Violet flowers and in the fourth place the last and fourth bed of the afore named hearbes distill them all in Maries-bath with a gentle fire Adde vnto the distilled water two pound of rose-water or thereabout so that it may be in proportion equall to the third or fourth part of the water drawne out by distillation This vvater taken in the morning the weight of a dramme keepeth the bodie sound lustie and reneweth youth It is singular for the paine of the head tteeth bellie gripings palsie conâ—ulsions apoplexie faintings and other such cold diseases This is the vvater that is so much esteemed in the courts of kings and princes and amongst the great and renowned ladies An allome-Allome-water Take Verjuice the juice of Plantaine and Purslaine of each a pound seuen whites of egges ten ounces of Roch-allome mingle them together and distill them Otherwise take plantaine purslaine sorrell gourds nightshade and verjuice of each a handfull poune them grosly mixe therewith ten or twelue whites of egges put them all in a glasse stillitorie to distill mingling amongst them halfe a pound of Allome as you lay bed vpon bed this water is good for caâ—kers for the rednesse of the face and for vlcers applying linnen clothes thereunto that haue beene wet therein You may likewise distill purging waters in infusing purgatiue medicines both simple and compound seeing that they be as new as may be and that in Aqua-vitae wine milke whay distilled waters or conuenient decoctions and such waters vvill haue the like vertues as the purging medicines haue thus you may distill Catholicum Diaphoenicon confectio Hamech and Electuarium de â—ucco rosarâ—m Thus you may distill rhubarbe agaricke hellebor scammonie and such other purgatiues that are sound and new The maner of distilling rhubarbe may be this take a quantitie of new and greene Rhubarbe vvhether it be a pound or halfe a pound more or lesse make it â—â—to small pieces or make it into grosse powder and vpon it cast of the iuice of Borage and Buglosse of each two pound for one of Rubarbe infuse them all together for the space of foure and twentie houres vpon hot ashes then distill them in a Stillitorie in Maries bath This distilling of purgatiue Medicines is for such kind of people as are verie delicate and cannot abide the smell of the purging medicine to be ministred otherwise vnto them CHAP. LXX Of sweet Waters particularly described SWeet Waters serue to wash the hands face haire of the head and beard as also to make Linnens Garments Gloues and such other things to smell sweet Water of Lauander Take the flowers of Lauander new or drie beâ—prinkle or infuse them in Rose-water Wine or Aqua-vitae afterward distill them The water will be sweeter if you drie the flowers in the Sunne in a Glasse-violl close stopped and cast vpon them afterward some white Wine And if in the time of want and lacke of distilled water you would haue a water presently made which should resemble the smell of the water of Lauander cast a drop or two of the Oyle of Spike into a good sufficient quantitie of pure water and swill them well together in a bottle or Glasse-violl with a narrow necke This water though it be not distilled yet it ceaseth not to haue the sweet smelling sent and sauour that the distilled hath Water of Cloues Take halfe an ounce of Cloues well bruised set them to infuse in a pound and a halfe of rose-Rose-water the space of foure and twentie houres after distill them in Maries bath The water of sweet Smells Take Basill Mints Marierome rootes of Corneflag Hyssope Sauorie Sage Balme Lauander and Rosemarie of each a handfull of Cloues Cinnamome and Nâ—tmegs of each halfe an
faithfull or that she her selfe be present with them Let her compell her sonnes to be formost at worke and let her shew them the example of their father that this may be as a double spurre vnto the men seruants Let her not endure them to vtter or speake any vnchast word oath or blasphemie in her house and let her cause Tale-bearers to be silent and not to trouble themselues with other folkes matters Let her keepe close vp her Stubble and lopping of Trees for fuell for the Ouen Let her not suffer the stalkes of her Beanes Peason Fetches Thistles Danewort the refuse of pressed things and other vnprofitable hearbes to be lost for in winter they being burnt into ashes will affoord prouision to lay Bucks withall or else be sold by little and little vnto the Towne Let her giue good account vnto the Mistresse or Lord of the Egges and young ones as well of Birds as of other Beasts Let her be skilfull in naturall Physicke for the benefite of her owne folke and others when they shall fall out to be ill and so in like manner in things good for Kine Swine and Fowles for to haue a Physition alwayes when there is not verie vrgent occasion and great necessitie is not for the profit of the house Let her keepe all them of her house in friendly good will one toward another not suffering them to beare malice one against another Let her gouerne her Bread so well as that no one be suffered to vse it otherwise than in temperate sort and in the time of Dearth let her cause to be ground amongst her Corne Beanes Pease Fetches or Sarrasins Corne in some small quantitie for this mingling of these flowers raiseth the paste maketh the Bread light and to be of a greater bulke At the same time she shall reserue the drosse of the Grapes shee presseth affoording them some little corner for the imploying of them in the deâ—raying of some part of charge for the seruants Drinke that so the Wine may serue for her husband and extraordinarie commers But the naturall remedies which shee shall acquaint her selfe withall for the succour of her folke in their sicknesses may be those or such as those are which I shall set downe by writing in manner of a Countrie Dispensatorie leauing the other more exquisite Remedies to bee vsed by the professed Physitions of the great Townes and Cities CHAP. XII The Remedies which a good Huswife must be acquainted withall for to helpe her people when they be sicke FIrst for the Plague shee shall make a distilled water of the hearbe called Regina prati after that shee hath caused the same to be steept in white Wine or else shee shall cause to lye to steepe in the iuice of Citrons a peece of Gold or the powder or leaues thereof for the space of 24 houres and afterward mixe that iuice with white Wine and the powder or decoction of the root of Angelica and so giue it to drinke to the infected Or else let her take two old Walnuts one Figge tenne leaues of Rue one graine of Salt powne and temper them altogether and rost them vnder the ashes and afterward being sprinkled with Wine let her giue them to be eaten Or else let her take one head of Garlicke twentie leaues of Rue as many of Clarey and powne them altogether with white Wine and a little Aqua vitae afterward let her straine them out and giue the partie to drinke thereof a good draught The water of Naphe drunke to the quantitie of six ounces causeth the malignitie of the Plague to breake forth by Sweats the iuice of Marigolds Scabious and of the flowers of Betonie doe the like Apply vpon the swelling a loafe very hot or a Henne â—ut through the middest or a white Onion made hollow on the root side and filled vp againe with good strong Treacle or Mithridate softened with the iuice of Citrons it hauing all this within it and being well stopped must be rosted vnder the ashes till it be rotten after that powne it well in a Mortar and apply it or else if it be strained the iuice drunke and the drossie part applyed to the place you shall perceiue the like effect For a continuall Feauer which is otherwise called the hot Disease shee shall apply vpon either wrest of both the armes the iuice of the stinging Nettle mixed with the oyntment of Poplar buds or two springs of new-layed Egges Soot taken off from the Hub of the Chimney and well beaten togethâ—â— and mixt with salt and strong vineger let her bind the whole vnto the parties wrests with a Linnen Cloth or else in place of this shee shall take away the heart of an Onion and fill it with Mithridate and apply it fast bound vpon the wrest of the right arme or else shee shall take the heart of a water-Frog and apply it vpon the heart or backe bone of the sicke partie or else she shall apply vpon the region of the Liuer or vnto the soles of the seet quicke Tenches Many for this cause doe stampe the small Sorrell and make a drinke for the great heat thereof as also make a Cataplasme thereof to apply to the wrests of the sicke partie Others doe the like with the water which they straine out of a great Citrull Others cause to steepe in water the whole seed of Flea-wort for the space of a night and minister of this water with a little Sugar to the sicke partie to drinke For a Quartane Ague take of small Sage or for want of it the other Hysope Wormewood Parsley Mints Mugwort white spotted Trefoile stampe them all together with the spring of an Egge and the grossest Soot that you shall find cleaâ—ing to the Chimney and of the strongest vineger that may be found infuse them altogether and make thereof Cataplaâ—mes fit to be applyed to the wrests of the hands To the same purpose steepe the crummes of two white Loaues as they come from the Ouen in a quart of Vineger afterward distill the same by a Lâ—â—becke and giue thereof a small draught to the sicke partie to drinke about some two houres before the fit come Some hold it also for a singular remedie to take the iuice of the female white Mulleine before it put forth his stalke pressed or drawne forth with white Wine and drunke a small space before the fit The like effect hath the iuice of Folefoot the decoction of the leaues and rootes of Veruaine boyled in white Wine the decoction of Calaminâ— Peniryall Organie Burrage Buglosse Languede-boeuf the rind of the root of Tamariske Ash-tree Betonâ—e Tyme Agrimonie and the roots of Sperage all boyled in white Wine the iuice of Wormewood and Rue powred from their feelings and drunke before the fit the iuice of Plantaine drunke with honied water Some doe make great account of the powder of the root of Asarum otherwise called Cabaret dryed in the Sunne or in
Mithridate and vpon the right arme the head of a Bat. To cause them to sleepe which cannot well slumber it is good to make a Frontlet with the seed of Poppie Henbane Lettuce and the iuice of Nightshade or the milke of a woman giuing a girle sucke or with the leaues of ground yuâ—e stamped with the white of an egge or put vnder the pillow a Mandrake apple or the greene leaues of Henbane and rub the soles of the feet with the greaâ—e of a Dormouse For the swimming in the Head there is commonly vsed the conserue of the flowers of Betonie or Aqua vitae or the confection called Electuarium Anacardinum To preserue such from the Apoplexie as are subiect vnto it let them drinke in Winter a good spoonefull of Aqua vitae well sugred and let them eat a bit of White bread by and by after or in stead of Aqua vitae let them drinke the Claret water which I will set downe hereafter or of the water of the root of the wild Vine or of the powder of the root thereof continually for the space of a yeare For the Palsie rub the place afflicted with the oyle of Foxes Bayes and Castoreum mixing therewith a little Aqua vitae vse likewise oftentimes the water of Cinnamon and of S. Iohns wort or the conserues of Sage Rosemarie Cowslips Baulâ—â—e and Mithridate make him drie Bathes with the decoction of Lauander Coastmarie Danewort Sage and Marierome To preserue one from the Falling sicknesse otherwise called S. Iohns disease it is a soueraigne thing to drinke for the space of nine dayes a little draught of the iuice of the hearbe Paralysis or Cowsâ—â—ps or of the distilled water of the Linden tree or of Coriander or to vse euerie morning for the space of fortie dayes a powder made of the seed of Pionie and Missletoe of the Oake or of the skull of a Man and more specially of that part of the skull which is neerest vnto the seame of the crowne with neat Wine or with the decoction of Pionie as also to hang about his necke the Missletoe of the Oake or some piece of a mans skull or of the root or seed of male Pionie or of the stone that is found in Swallowes neasts or to weare about his necke or vpon one of his fingers some ring wherein shal be set the bone of the foot of the Oxe called Elam or Alce and that so as that the bone may touch the flesh or bare skin you shall deliuer them that are in that fit if you tickle them and pinch their great toe or rub their lips with mans bloud To take away the rednesse of the Face it is good to wash the face with the decoction of the chaffe of Barley and Oates and to foment it afterward with the iuice of Citrons or else take foure ounces of Peach kernels two ounces of the husked seedes of Gourds bruise them and presse them out strongly to the end they may yeeld their oyle rub or touch with this liquor the pimples or red places To take away the spots of the Face make a composition of the flower of Lupines Goats gall iuice of Limons and verie white Allome touch the spotted places with this oyntment or else make an oyntment with the oyle of bitter Almonds Honey Ireos and Waxe or else rub your face with the bloud of a Cocke Henne or Pigeon or foment it with the water of the flowers of Beanes Orenges or Mulberries For the Kings euill take Leekes with the leaues and roots of the hearbe Patience presse out about some pound of the iuice thereof in which you shall dissolue an ounce of Pellitorie powdred and a scruple of Viridis aeris mixe all verie well together and herewithall you shall daily foment the said disease Hang about your necke the roots of water Betonie and the lesser Plantaine If you cut the foot of a great Witwall or Toad when the Moone is declining and beginneth to ioyne it selfe to the Sunne and that you apply it round about his neck which hath the Kings euill you shall find it verie soueraigne for the said disease The dung of a Cow or Oxe heated vnder the ashes betwixt Vine or Colewort leaues and mingled with Vineger hath a propertie to bring the swelling to ripenesse Or else vse this remedie which is alwayes readie singular good and well approued Take a sufficient quantitie of Nicotiana stampe it in a verie cleane Mortar and apply both the iuice and drossie parts thereof vnto the said tumour together and doe this nine or tenne times The Rheume falling downe vpon the eyes is stayed by a Cataplasme applyed to the browes made of the muscillage of shell-Snailes and corporated with the flower of Frankincense and Aloes well stirred together vntill that the whole become to the thicknesse of Honey For a weake Sight take Fennell Veruaine Clarey Rue Eye-bright and Roses of each a like and distill them all in a Limbecke of this water distilled put three or foure drops in your eyes morning and euening Also the water of young Pies distilled in a Furnace is verie good in like manner the water of rotten Apples putting two or three drops thereof into them It is good for the same disease to take the vapour of the decoction of Fennell Eye-bright and Rue to drinke euerie morning a small draught of Eye-bright wine or to prepare a powder with dried Eye-bright and Sugar to take thereof euerie morning the weight of a French crowne two or three houres before meat There is a stone found within the gall of an Oxe which put into the nosthrils doth maruellously cleare the sight â—o doth the wine made of the root of Maiden haire if it be oft vsed in the morning For the paine of the Eyes it is good to make the decoction of Camomile Melilot and the seed of Fennell in water and white Wine and dipping a foure-fold Linnen Cloth therein and after wringing it well to apply the same oftentimes to the eye or else to lay vpon it womans milke and the white of an egge well beat together The rednesse of the Eyes is amended by the applying of Linnen Clothes or Plegets of Flaxe moistened in the whites of egges well beat together with Rose or Plantaine water or else boyle a sowre and sharpe Apple take the pulpe thereof and mix it with Nurce milke afterward make a little Liniment to be applyed to the red eye-lids In the meane time you may apply to the temples a frontlet made with Prouence Roses or conserue of Roses and other astringent things to the end that the â—heâ—me falling from the braine may be stayed seeing it is the cause of such rednesse Other cause small thinne and daintie slices of Veale or of the necke of an Oxe newly killed to be steeped in womans milke and lay them vpon the eyes laying againe aboue them stupes of Flaxe Some cause little children to
boyled in honied water and putting thereto the Muscilage of Fleawort seed and the oyle of Lillies A Cataplasme made of the dung of Goats fresh Butter and the residence of the oyle of Nuts doth digest the swellings vnder the eare Against the stinking of the Nosthrils it is good to snuffe vp into the nosthrils of the decoction of Marierome Calameth Cloues Ginger and Nutmegs made inwhite Wine or else of the vineger of Squils To stay bleeding at the Nose you must by and by lay your thumbe vpon that side of the nose that bleedeth and you must put about your necke a neck-lace of Iaspar stone you must tie the vttermost parts of the bodie so strait as you can and put in the nose a tent of dead Nettles and hold in your hands the leaues and rootes of Agrimonie or else hold in your mouth verie cold Cesterne water and change it oftentimes Some doe much approue the vse of Camphire the flowers of Willow the mosse of Quinces and other hoarâ—e fruits put into the nose and to apply vnto the Browes Camphâ—re with the seed of Nettles or with the iuice of Plantain or of Nightshade or else to apply vnto the Temples and about the necke especially oueragainst the iugular veines hearbes of a cooling facultie as Nightshade Plantaâ—ne Lettuce dead Nettles or pricking Nettles pouned with salt and vineger Peruincle others Peruincle also put vnder the Tongue hath the same vertue Some doe make in like manner Neck-laces and Bracelets of the hearbe S. Innocent Some hold in the hand that is on that side that the nose doth bleed of a branch of Holihocke Diuers Countrie folkes to stay any kind of bleeding in any part doe wrap of Hogs dung in Cotton and apply it to the place from whence the bloud commeth Others snuffe vp into the nose the powder of a three-cornered stone found in the head of a Carpe dried and made into powder Against the ach of the Teeth you must boyle in Vineger and Rosewater the root of Henbane or of the Mulberrie tree and to hold this decoction in the mouth otherwise take a Cloue of Garlicke and rost it a little vnder hot embers afterward bray it and lay it vpon the pained tooth as hot as you can in like manner put one in the eare of the same side that the paine is Some doe bray a Cloue of Garlicke with Salt and lay it to the pulse of that arme that is vpon the aking side Otherwise take two drammes of the rootes of Pellitorie bruised of the leaues of Sage Rosemarie of euerie one halfe a handfull Three fat Figges and you shall boyle them all in tenne ounces of Wine vnto the consumption of all the Wine afterward you shall take a quantitie of the said Figges and apply it to the aking tooth as hot as possible may be or else wash and gargle your teeth with the decoction of ground Yuâ—e made in Wine and to the consumption of the third part of the said Wine After the same manner you must apply vpon the pulses of the Temples a playster made of Pitch the powder of Allome and a Gall verie hot It is good also for the ach of the teeth to put thereupon the iuice of Garlicke Motherwort Rue or some hot oyle as that of Sage which is singular in this behalfe Some hold it for a secret to weare about the necke the tooth of a man knit within a piece of Taffata or a Beane found in which there is inclosed a Lowse taketh away the most strong paine of the teeth that may be endured It is good to foment the loose teeth with the decoction of Rosewater and Allome or else of the rootes of Cinquefoile and Allome and in case you would cause them to fall out put in their hole or hollow place of the ashes of Earth-wormes or of the dung of Mice or of the tooth of a Hart for such ashes will cause them to fall out by and by without any Iron or Instrument Or else apply thereunto the stone of a Mulberrie or else steepe the root of Mulberrie tree stampt and bruised the space of fiue daies in good strong vineger in the Sunne and there let it drie so as that you may make it into powder and then apply the same powder Vnto your tooth or else you shall apply thereto the braines of a Partridge or the iuice of water-Cresses in the place or else put into the hollow of the tooth the iuice of great Celandine To keepe the Teeth cleane and bright and to preserue them from the falling downe of all manner of Rheumes take a pint of Fountaine water a third part of Rosewater put therein two drammes of Allome as much of Cinnamon boyle them softly together in a Viall or earthen Pot well Leaded vnto the consumption of the third or fourth part wash your mouth and teeth therewith euening and morning or else wash your mouth and teeth in the warme decoction of small Sage Rosemarie and great Marierome boyled in white Wine to the consumption of the third part To stay the Canker of the Teeth hold in the morning a great graine of Salt vnder your tongue vntill it be there melted then rub your teeth therewith To take away the stinking of the Mouth it is good to wash the mouth with Wine wherein hath boyled Anniseed and Cloues or to chaw the root of Acornes or else to chew Masticke long ynough For the stinking of the Teeth it is good to rub them with the leaues of Sage and the rinde of a Ciâ—â—on or with the powder of Cloues and Nutmegs in the meane time there must be auoided the vse of Milke-meats raw Fruits sharpe things and such as are hard to chew all victuals of ill digestion and all vomiting To white and take the wrinkles out of the Hands take the drosse of oyle of Linseed steepe it in raine water and wash your hands therewith or else wash your hands with the iuice of Citrons alone or some graines of Salt mixed therewithall For the Cough take Hysope and Folefoot of each one handfull Figges of Marcellis damaske Raisins and Licorice of each an ounce boyle them all in water vntill the third part be consumed vse this decoction twice a day two houres before dinner in the morning and at euening one houre before supper It is good likewise to take red Coleworts and to make them boyle two or three boyles with an handfull of Folefoot and a slip or two of Hysope and to vse this broth twice a day For the Squinancie or sorenesse of the Throat you must take a whole Swallowes Neast boyled with white Wine and with the oyle of Camomill and sweet Almonds therewith to make a Cataplasme and to apply it vnto the throat or to drinke by and by the weight of a French crowne of the tooth of a wild Boare powdred with the water of Carduus Benedictus or to touch the diseased
place with a Liniment made of Linseed and the powder of the tooth of a wild Boare or else to apply vnto the place a Cataplasme made of the dung of a young boy of a good constitution fed for the space of three dayes with Lupines and well baked Bread leaâ—ened and salted and hauing Claret Wine to drinke and no other eyther meates or drinkes and adding to the foresaid childs dung an equall quantitie of Honey Against the Pleurisie drinke presently with the syrrup of Violets or some other appropriate to the Breast whatsoeuer the weight of a scruple of Nettle seed or of the Ash Trees or take three ounces of the distilled water of Maries thistle or of Carduus Benedictus or of Broome a spoonefull of white Wine six springs or straines of Egges that are verie new the weight of a French crowne of the shells of French small Nuts made into powder eighteene graines of red Corall powdred all being mixed together let it be giuen warme with as much speed as may be mundified Barley and the seeds of Melons Gourds Cucumbers and Poppie are in that case highly commended roast a sweet apple vnder the embers mix therwithall when it is roasted the iuice of Licorâ—ce Starch and white Sugar giue thereof vnto the diseased twice a day two houres before meat or else take the weight of a French crowne of the powder of a wild Bores tooth and cause him to swallow it either with the iuice of sweet Almonds and Sugar Candie or with the broth of red Coleworts or decoction of the water of Barley or some other such like which is appropriate for the Breast or else burne to ashes the pizzle of an Oxe and giue a dram thereof with white Wine if the ague be but small or with the water of Carduus Benedictus or Barley water if the ague be strong and great and assure your selfe that such remedies are singular if they be vsed within three dayes of the beginning of the sicknesse The manner of making these ashes is to cut the pizzle of the Oxe in gobbets and laying it vpon the harth that is close layd to set a new pot ouer it and afterward to lay hot burning coales or hot embers about the pot which must be oft renewed vntill one be assured that it is burnt into powder and the better to iudge of the time he must thinke that this will not be done vnder a whole day It is good to lay a playster of blacke Pitch vpon the grieued side and where it commeth to passe that the paine of the side continueth and that the sicke partie cannot spet cause him to vse the decoction of the flowers of red Poppie or of the powder of them the weight of a French crowne with the water of Scabious and Pimpernell and syrrop of Hysope if there be no great Feauer or Violets if it be great Furthermore for a Pleurisie which is desperate and past hope take a sweet Apple euen a verie excellent one and take the kernels forth of it and fill vp the hollow place with fine Olibanum rost it couered ouer and rolled in stupes vnder the hot embers throughly and then giue it to the sicke of the Pleurisie to eat For the spetting of Bloud cause him to drinke the distilled water of the first little buds of the leaues of the Oake or the decoction of Comfrey or of Plantaine Horse-taile or Knot-grasse otherwise called the hearbe of S. Innocent or to swallow downe some small drops of Masticke or Harts horne or Goats horne burnt or Bole Armoniake or Terra sigillata or Corall or Amber or the powder of the innermost rind of Chestnut tree or of the Corke tree or frie the dung of an Hogge with fresh Butter and of that cluttered bloud which the sicke partie shall haue spet and so giue of these thus fried together to the sicke partie to eat For the beating of the Heart it is good to hang about the neck so much Camphire as the quantitie of a Pease or to drinke two or three ounces of the water of Buglosse and of Baulme some hold the distilled water following for a singular and soueraigne remedie Take two Hogs harts three Stags harts or the harts of three Bulls Nutmeg Cloues and Basill seed of each three drams flowers of Marigolds Burrage Buglosse and Rosemarie of each halfe a handfull steepe them all in Malmesey or Hipocras for the space of a night after distill them with a Limbecke and reserue the water for vse which shall be by taking three or foure ounces when necessitie doth require The conserue of Betonie and Rosemarie flowers Cinnamon water Aqua vitae and Imperiall Waters which wee haue set downe in our worke of the beautifying of mans bodie For the faintnesse of the Heart or Swouning it is good to straine and wring the ioynt of the Ring or Physitions finger as also to rub the same with some piece of Gold and with Saffron for by the meanes of that finger his neere communicating with the heart there is from it conueyed and carried some vertue restoring and comforting the heart For the flagging and hanging breasts of Women make a liniment with the drosse of the oyle of Linseed a little gumme Arabick Tragacanth Mastick and Camphire or with the iuice of Succorie or apply thereunto ground Iuie or the egges of Partridges which you shall change oftentimes or small Basins of the distilled water of young Pine-apples or the iuice of wild Pine-apples To procure much Milke vnto Nurses they must vse the fresh and new-gathered iuice of Fennell oftentimes or the iuice of Smallage or of Beets or the powder of the rootes of Maries thistle adding thereto the seed of Fennell and a little Pepper the fore-hoofes of a Cow burned and drunke with Wine or Broth or other conuenient liquor or the powder of Crystall powdred very finely and drunke with Wine or some broth or let them eat of boyled Coleworts seasoned with Pepper or of the roots of Rapes boyled with Pepper To cause Women to loose their Milke you must apply vpon the nipples of their Breasts the roots of great Celandine â—odden and powned or vse a fomentation of verie sharpe Oxicrate vpon the Breasts or else you shall apply a Cataplasme of the flower of Beanes or an emplaister of Rue Sage Mints Wormewood Fennell Branne boyled and mixed with Oyle of Camomill or the leaues of young and verie greene Gouâ—ds or of Cray-fishes all to brayed and stamped in a Mortar For the inflammation of the Breasts comming of the great aboundant store of Milke take the dyrt found in the bottome of the Troughes of Cutlers or Grinders and therewith couer the Breast and so you shall asswage the paine in one nighâ—â— you may adde thereto a little of the Oyle of Roses or if the Milke be much curded without any great inflammation in the Breast you may apply vnto it a Cataplasme of the flower of Rice or of
pure Wheat boyled till it become like pappe with thicke red Wine and apply it vnto the teates vpon plageats as hot as may be endured For belching at the mouth it is good to take fasting a Dredge made of Annise Fennell Caraway and Coriander seed or else to drinke Wine in the morning two or three times and that such as wherein hath beene boyled Bay-berries Annise Coriander and Fennell seed and apply vpon the stomacke a bag full of Rue Wormewood Marierome and Mints For the Hicket it is good to keepe ones breath oftentimes and long to stop both his eares to hold his head awry and his mouth couered and vpward to procure himselfe to neese to labour much to endure thirst to cast cold water in his face which hath the Hicket thereby to cause him to feare Some are of opinion that if he which hath the Hicket doe count and reckon the first saying one or borrowing hee shall haue no moe but that one Against Vomiting take a tost of bread and steepe it in the claret water hereafter described or in the iuice of Mints spread it ouer with the powder of Masticke apply it warme vnto the stomacke renewing it euerie three houres Otherwise take two handfuls of Mints and one of Roses boyle them in Wine take afterward two ounces of tosted bread and let it be well steeped in Wine and afterward compounded with Masticke and the said Mints and Roses make thereof a playster to lay to the stomacke before you goe to meat It is true that if the vomiting be with an ague it will be good to boyle the Mints and Roses and to steepe the tosted bread in vineger In like manner Mints brayed and mingled with oyle of Roses applyed vnto the stomacke is a singular helpe for any kind of vomiting it is good likewise at the end of meat to swallow downe one gulpe of Water or a morsell of Marmalade of Quinces not drinking afterward and in the morning two houres before meat to swallow fiue or six Pepper-cornes whole with Wine or the sirrup of Mints or of Wormewood or greene Ginger preserued It is also good to set cupping Glasses vpon the bottome of the Stomacke or vnder the Nauell and then chiefely when the partie eateth to take rest after meat and to talke or cough any thing at all For the paine of the Stomacke fill a dish with hot ashes sprinkle them with Wine oueâ— them cast a Linnen cloth which may couer all the dish apply this vnto the pained place or else put vnto the stomacke a hot bagge full of fried Salt or else take the crums of a good thicke Loafe and being dipt as it commeth hot out of the Ouen in the Oyle of Camomill and wrapt in a Linnen cloth let it be applyed vnto the paine or else fill a Swines bladder with the decoction of the leaues of Bayes Organiâ— Marierome Mints Time Camomill Calamint Melilote Annise and Fennell seed apply it to the paine warme it againe when it shall be cold or else make a cake with a handfull of Wormewood Mints and Roses kneaded with Rye Leauen and Wine and apply it vnto the stomacke For the obstruction of the Liuer vse a decoction made of Succorie the roots of Parsley Smallage Fennell Dogs grasse Patience Butchers broome Cich pease Capillus Veneris Hoppes and Fumitorie vse-likewise oftentimes the shauings of Iuorie For the heat of the Liuer there is nothing better than to vse Lettuce Sorrell Purcelane Hoppes in pottage and sometimes to drinke the water of the said hearbes fasting or the water of Endiue Against the Iaundise drinke fasting of the dung of Ganders the weight of a French crowne well mingled with white wine for the space of nine dayes or else of the decoction of the leaues and roots of Strawberries or else take Missletoe of the white Thorne gathered before the Sunne rise about a handfull three or foure roots of Parsley bray them all together with white wine let them runne through a linnen cloth or strainer and drinke of this euening and morning a reasonable draught This is a more excellent remedie than many others which notwithstanding women with child must not vse but in place of it you must apply to the wrists and soles of their feet the leaues of Missletoe of the Oake of great Celandine and Horehound the whole being brayed with a little wine and made in forme of a Cataplasme Some commend highly against the Iaundise to take of the wormes of the earth to wash them in white wine and after to drie them and making a powder of them to giue thereof a small spoonefull in white Wine or the decoction of Wormewood or of Horehound or to drinke fasting ones owne vrine certaine dayes or to drinke for the space of eight mornings with white wine fasting fiue trottles of â— Goat Some say that to carrie in the left hand three leaues of wild Rocket doth cure the Iaundise Some also hold that to weare vnder the soles of the feet the leaues of Shepheards purse or of great Celandine next vnto their bare feet doth the like For the Dropsie it is good to make a drinke with the seed of Broome pouned and brayed in white wine or to make a drinke of the iuice of the root of Gladiolus or Asarum with white wine or to drinke fasting his owne vrine for the space of certaine dayes to apply in like manner vnto the moist places a Cataplasme of Cowes dung warme with which as Galen testifieth a Physition of Misia did maruellously heale all manner of Dropsies or to apply vpon the swolne place shell-Snayles aliue not washed but carefully bruised A secret remedie against the Dropsie is to drinke with honied water the powder of Glasse seuen times burned and seuen times quenched in the iuice of Flower-de-luce or white wine For the paine or heauinesse of the Spleene drinke wine wherein hath boyled Scolopendrium Sperage and Hoppes or else drinke oftentimes fasting of the broth of red Coleworts halfe boiled or of the decoction of Romane Wormwood or of Pauls Betonie or of small Centaurie or Smiths Forge-water For the paine of the Collicke there is nothing more soueraigne than to weare about him a Ring or Boxe of siluer in which is inclosed some part of the nauell of an infant newly borne and that the Ring do touch the flesh There is also nothing more singular than to drinke in a pretie draught of white wine the red pill which is to be found in the space and cartilaginous gristles of Walnut kernels dried in the moneth of August and made into powder or to drinke foure or fiue ounces of the oyle of Nuâ—s or of Linseed or of the shells of ripe Nuts or the water of Camomill or the decoction of the seed of Hempe or Wine wherein hath beene steept for the space of tenne or twelue houres the root of Enula campana bruised or the powder of a Stagâ— pizzle drunke
defend the parts of the bodie from all cold and staruing how great soeuer it might proue to be if so be that you rub the ridge of the backe the soles of the feet and the wrists of the hands therewith Likewise the iuice of this Neule mixt with a little Populeon and applyed vnto the wrists appeaseth the great heat of Agues The leaues beaten and mixed with oyle of Violets and Poppies and applyed vnto the wrists doe alike The vapour of the decoction of Nettle seed doth take away the stuffing of the nosthrils Such as haue the Cough with a great ratling in the throat cannot meet with a better medicine to make them spit out lustily than to take with some pâ—ctorall syrrop or decoction the weight of halfe a French crowne of Nettle seed finely powdred You must furthermore obserue this vertue in Nettles as that if it be put into a pot wherein is flesh boyling it will cause the flesh to be the sooner boyled Stauesacre must be sowne in a place reasonably drie and shadowed The seed chewed and held in the mouth draweth vnto it by his heat great quantitie of moisture stamped and mingled with oyle it driueth vermine out of the head and other parts of the bodie it cureth scuruinesle and itch sleeped in vineger and held in the mouth it assuageth the tooth-ach There is not anie need of great care to be taken in sowing the great small or middle Plantaine for they grow euerie where and yet they must be esteemed by reason of their vertues The iuice of Plantaine leaues or rootes pressed out and 〈◊〉 two houres before the fit to the quantitie of two ounces doth assuage the 〈◊〉 Feauer The leaues of Plantaine stamped with the whites of egges doe 〈◊〉 burnings An emplaister made of the iuice of Plantaine the white of an egge and Bole-Armoniacke and applyed vnto the brewes doth stay the bleeding of the nose Horse-taile as well the great as the small requireth a verie moist ground as neere to some poole or shadowed place The decoction thereof in wine or water doth stanch bleeding and all other fluxes whether it be the bloudie or anie other such The iuice put into the nosthrils doth stay the bleeding of them and with a Pessarie put vp into the necke of the Matrix it stayeth the flux thereof Pellitorie craueth no great care or tillage for it groweth naturally neere vnto walls A Cataplasme made of Pellitorie and the grease of a male or female Goat is a singular remedie for the gowt and slidings or falls The leaues of Pellitorie fried with fresh Butter or Capons grease and laid in forme of a Cataplasme vnto the bellie doth assuage the paine of the Colicke The iuice mingled in like quantitie with white Wine and oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawne doth assuage the paine and torment of the stone A Cataplasme made of greene Pellitorie stamped with crums of Bread and oyle of Lillies Roses or Camomile doth resolue Apostemes happening in the breasts It is good also for mollifying Clysters and Bathes that are deterging Shepheards Powch groweth in all ground but principally vpon the ruines of old walls and neere vnto walls The decoction of this hearbe in raine water with Plantaine and Bole Armoniacke being drunke certaine mornings or taken in Clysters doth stay the bloudie flux and the spitting of bloud A bath prepared with the decoction of the leaues stayeth the excessiue flux of the termes But if you take it and boyle it in red wine with a little Cinnamon and Tanners barke and so giue it the patient to drinke it will stay the most dangerous bloudie flux that can be possible It is verie good also for the same disease if it be giuen in milke The iuice doth heale greene wounds and being dropped into the eares doth drie vp the vlcers of the same The leaues stamped and applyed in forme of a Cataplasme doth kill inflammations and the wild fire The leaues eaten doe stay all sorts of bleeding being put into the nosthrils as also holden in the hand they stay the nose from bleeding Sow-bread desireth a shadowed ground as vnder some tree or bush which must notwithstanding be fat and well tilled to feed the root thereof which is full grosse solide and as it were like vnto the Turnep The Forest of Orleance is well stored and replâ—nished with this hearbe This is a thing to be maruelled at that the iuice of the root of Sow-bread snuffed vp into the nose purgeth the head and the distilled water thereof snuffed vp also into the nosthrils doth presently stay their bleeding The same water drunke to the quantitie of six ounces with an ounce of Sugar doth presently stay the bloud running downe from the breast stomacke or liuer and knitteth together the vessels therein if anie be broken which I my selfe haue proued and tried Two drammes of the iuice drunke with honied water doe loosen the bellie and free the liuer from obstructions as also the spleene in respect whereof it is singular good for the Dropsie and Iaundise but you must mixe with it a little Mallicke or Nutmeg or Rhubarbe for to correct the vehemencie thereof It is incredible what ease the iuice thereof worketh in the Colicke and other such like griping pangs if it be put into Clysters how greatly also it profiteth in Oyntments Liniments and Cataplasmes appointed for the hardnesse and swellings of the spleene and liuer If you infuse the roots chopped small in the oyle of Roses or Camomill or sweet Almonds and afterward boyle them together putting thereto a little wine in the end you shall presse them out This oyle dropped by two or three droppes into the eares doth driue away the noyse and deafenesse of the eares especially if vpon the eares you apply the drosse of these rootes at night at the parties going to bed or else chop small the rootes stampe them with Peaches and bitter Almonds steepe them all in Aqua vitae afterward straine them and drop certaine drops of that which shall be pressed out into the eares this is verie soueraigne for deafenesse and the noyse of the eares Crowfoot although there be six kinds of it yet they all loue a moist and marish ground and whereas the frogges delight to liue which also take pleasure in and 〈◊〉 themselues about this hearbe It is true that some of the sorts doe loue these 〈◊〉 places more than other some for the Crowfoot that hath a double flower not 〈◊〉 yellow but somewhat red and which appeareth onely in Autumne cannot grow in a verie moist place so as it doth in the drie medowes and in places a little 〈◊〉 contrariwise that which beareth a single flower of a yellow and golden colour cannot grow but in some watrie medow-plot and neere vnto standing water The other which beareth a double flower not verie yellow hath a bulbous and whitish root of a sharpe tast This same as well the leaues but
which you distill because the â—legme commeth forth sometime first sometimes the last in the distillation as in the distilling of Aqua-vitae is stayeth the last notwithstanding that it be distilled diuers times in the distilling of the most part of other things it commeth forth first as in vinegar honie and such things and the thing is discerned by tasting of the first and last distilled waters And if it happen that the flegme be not seuered in this sort as indeed it is not in some such as with which it is mixt then the next course is to set such vvaters in the Sunne certaine daies in vessells couered with linnen clothes or parchment prickt full of small holes that so the excrementous part by such meanes may be consumed and wasted or if the Sunne faile as in Winter time then you must set your vessell contayning your distilled waters in other vessells full of vvater and cause them to boyle to the consumption of the third part The distillation is to be judged to be in good state and case if betwixt the fall of euerie drop you can account to the number of twelue and hence also is the judging of the force and quantitie of the fire to be learned and fetcht If any man desire that waters should haue some smell taste or other qualitie of something as of honie cinnamome camphire muske or other like sweet smelling thing whether it be to giue such smell to the thing that hath none at all or vnto something that hath a bad and vnpleasant smell as we will speake of by and by in the water distilled of mans dung it vvill be good to annoynt and besmeare the head of the still vvith these things or else to tie vp the same in some little knot of linnen cloth and hang them at the verie poynt of the spout or pipe to the end that the vvater distilling through this matter may retayne that smell or other qualitie intended And vvhereas distilled vvaters by force of the fire are euermore seene to retaine some impressions and printes of the heat it will be good presently after they be distilled to let them stand some time vncouered in the vessells wherein you meane to keepe them hauing yet therewithall regard that neither their small nor any part of their force doe vvaste or spend and therefore to take the fittest course it will be best to set your vessell close and fast stopt in some cold place in moist sand to diminish and take away the great heat of the same Notwithstanding you must marke and know that cold waters vvhich shall be distilled in Maries-bath will haue no great need to be so vncouered but that they rather must be set in the Sunne in a glasse vessell not altogether full or else that they with their vessell be set ouer head and eares in hot sand for the space of fortie daies to the end that their flegme and thickest humour may be consumed If your distilled vvaters become troubled you shall restore them to their clearenesse by putting thereinto some one or two drops of Vinegar for euerie pint of water CHAP. LXV Of the particular manner of distilling of Hearbes Rindes Flowers and Rootes DIstilled vvaters are of diuers sorts and vertues some are physicall or medicinable as the water of roses sage marierom and such like Others are nourishing as restoratiues and many both medicinable and nourishing as nourishing restoratiues vvhereinto are put medicinable things Others are purgatiue as the water or liquor of rhubarbe if it were new and greene Others serue to grace the face and hands and to make beautifull Others for to gratifie the nose by yeelding a sweet smell as those which are drawne out of spices and sweet smelling simples vsed also to vvash the hands face and whole bodie and againe all these waters are either simple or compound but we will first speake of the simple medicinable ones Wormewood must be distilled in Maries-bath to draw out his vvater in such sort as that it may expresse by smell and taste from whence it came and for the better doing of it you must see that you distill it not verie new but somewhat dried and afterward infusing it a little in wine to distill it in Maries-bath or in hatâ— ashes Mugwort Agrimonie Sorrell and such other like plants are thus distilled also but with obseruation had of the generall things specified before Thus the water of Winter cherries is distilled seruing against the stone and grauell as well of the reines aâ— bladder The vttermost pilling of common vvalnuts vvhether it shale willingly or no may be distilled in the moneth of September and the water drawne from them drunke in small quantitie with a third part of Vinegar is a certaine remedie against the plague if before drinking of it you cause the partie to be let bloud it is singular good also to make gargarismes of for the vlcers of the mouth it is good also to foment goutie places withall and good to colour the haire blacke Water distilled of the leaues of the Walnut-tree in the end of the moneth of May is singular for to drie and cicatrize vlcers if they be washed euening and morning with a linnen cloth moistned therein To distill strawberries you must let them putrifie in a glasse vessell putting thereto a little salt or sugar and then afterward to extract and draw out their water which is verie soueraigne against venime as also to take away spots to prouoke the termes and drie vp weeping eyes it will performe all these vertues in admirable manner if there be mingled with it a little Aqua-vitae The inward rinde of the ash-tree being distilled doth yeeld a singular water against the plague if it be drunke in equall quantity with aqua-vite as three 〈◊〉 of either especially if the same drinke in the same quantitie be drunke againe vvithin three houres after it is good also being dropt into the eares for the noyse in them The stones of blacke cherries being broken or the kernells alone distilled make a vvater vvhich doth quite take away the fit of the Falling-sicknesse in young children presently after that there hath beene put into their mouth about an ounce The distilled vvater of new filberds drunke the weight of two drams is a present remedie against the collicke and gripings of the bellie a thing that will not failâ— hauing beene proued and tried The vvater vvhich is distilled of the barke of Danewort or Elder-tree being oftentimes drunke doth euacuate and draw the vvater out of such as haue the dropsie The vvater of betonie You must stampe the leaues of betonie and infuse them a certaine time in Wine and after distill them The vvater of balme and sage is distilled in like manner The vvater of betonie is good for the diseases of the head reines and bladder The water of balme rejoyceth men keepeth away the fits of the Apoplexie and Falling-sicknesse
Maries-bath or vpon hot ashes after the manner of Roses Thus the young and tender storke which did neuer flye is distilled but he must first be bowelled and stuffed with an ounce of camphire and a dram of amber the water that commeth thereof is excellent to make liniments and fomentations in palsies and conâ—â—lsions After the same sort is the pie frog snailes ants liuers and lungs of calues of a Foxe and other such like beasts distilled howbeit vvithout any such long and teadious preparation they may be distilled by and by after the manner of other vvaters as vve vvill forthwith declare in the distillatioâ— of restoratiues The vvater of Swallowes Take Swallowes the weight of sixe ounces and castâ—reum an ounce let them infuâ—e a whole night in vvater and put into a Limbecke be distilled This vvater is singular to preserue one from the Falling-sicknesse if it be taken but once a moneth to the quantitie of two spoonefulls and that in a morning fasting The flesh of beasts is distilled on this manner Cut and chop the flesh small incorporate and stampe it vvith a tenth part of common salt after put it in a 〈◊〉 like vnto a gourd vvell stopped that so you may burie it in the earth set and 〈◊〉 passed round about with vnquencht lime and dung of horses halfe rotten to be digested in the same for the space of a moneth or thereabout during vvhich time you shall vvater the said vnquencht lime and dung often with vvarme vvater to stirre vp their heat and you shall renew the lime and dung three or foure times euerie weekeâ— for you must thinke that for vvant of heat the flesh might putrifie in steed of digesting And after they haue beene sufficiently digested vvhich you may know by seeing the grosser parts seperated from the more thinne and subtile the vessell shall be taken out of the dunghill and the head of a Still set thereupon the nose or 〈◊〉 being vvell luted and so it shall be distilled in Maries-bath diuers times ouer powring the distilled vvater againe vpon the residence or drosse remayning in the bottome so oft as you redistill it And after the fifth distillation you shall set aside the water to keepe if so be you had not rather circulate it to giue it the nature as it vvere of a quintessence As well the vvhites as the yolkes of egges are distilled after the manner aboâ—â—sayd but they must not be digested in the dung aboue fiue or sixe dayes at the most The vvaters thus distilled are more than restoratiues hauing the vertue to encrease the substance of the bodie and members as naturall flesh and nourishment doth CHAP. LXVIII Of the manner of distilling of restoratiues REstoratiues are prepared after diuers sorts notwithstanding the most vsuall and best is thus Take the flesh of a Veale Kid or Weather cut and chopped as small as possibly may be or else take musculous flesh which is called the vvhites of capons pullets fat and well fleshed hens after they haue beene well hunted and tired cut likewise and chopped small put vnto this flesh calues feet peeces of gold or rather the thin beaten leaues of gold put all in a glasse Still well luted with mortar made of flower whites of egges and a little masticke into this Still you shall cast for the giuing of some grace vnto the distillation and somewhat to mitigate the heat which it might get by the fire halfe a handfull of cleane barley a handfull of drie or new red Roses which haue beene infused in the juice of pomegranates or rose-water and a little cinnamome place them all in the Still as it were after the manner of little beds and strew thereupon the powder of the electuarie of cold Diamargariton or of precious stones and a little coriander prepared and finely powdred to discusse and waste all windie matter If you would make your restoratiues medicinable you may adde thereunto things concerning the disease that presseth as rootes and hearbes respecting the head in the diseases of the head as betonie penniryall staechados organie sage and others such like for the diseases of the reines the rootes and plants that are good to breake the stone for the Falling-sicknesse the seed of pionie and misletoe of the oake for the quartaine ague polopody scolopendrum and the rootes of Tamariske for the French disease the rootes of gentian enula campana and the wood guajacum and so of other things yet it seemeth vnto me that it were better that the cordial powders 〈◊〉 not be mingled among the rest for feare that their force which is thin subtile and verie fragrant should euaporate through the heat of the fire and that it would be farre better to straine the distillation through a linnen cloth that is verie cleane and which should haue the cordiall powders in the bottome of it there may likewise be added a quantitie of Treacle with some conserues as occasion shall be ministred the matter thus disposed of it shall be distilled in a stillitorie of glasse well luted as we haue said and in Maries-bath or else in ashes grauel or hot sand for by this meanes the distillation vvill taste least of the fire It will be good before the flesh be put into the still to be distilled that they should haue boyled a boyle or two in a new earthen pot to take from it the grosse excrements hanging about the same Againe it must be remembred that if there be any gold put into the distillation that it will be better to put in such as is wrought into leaues than grosse peeces because that grosse peeces in respect of their solidenesse consume but a verie little and with much adoe This is called a diuine restoratiue and must be giuen vnto the sicke partie prettie and warme Another manner of restoratiue after the Italians fashion Take a Capon or a good Henne which yet neuer laid egges let her or him be pulled aliue that so the bloud may be stirred and dispersed throughout the bodie after you haue pulled them â—â—ke â—out the guts and afterward stampe bones and all together in a Mortar putting thereto as much â—rummes of new bread as there is stamped flesh pound all together with a handfull of Seabious either greene or drie and the weight of a French crowne of the leaues of gold let it all settle a whole night after distill it adding thereto three pound of verie good Wine such as is of a ripe Grape Another manner of restoratiue Boile a Capon or some such other flying fowle whole and entire with Borage Buglosse Scariole Endiue Lettuces or other such like hearbes as shall be necessarie in respect of the disease and when it hath boiled till it seeme as rotten with boiling take the broth or supping and put it into the stillitorie afterward put thereinto also the flesh of partridge hen or other such flying fowle cut and chopt small and adde vnto these such other
matter as you shall know to be necessarie for the present disease as conserues of roses and buglosse damaske raisins the powders of the electuaries of precious stones aromaticum rosatum and such like things and finally distill them after the manner aboue specified Some there are vvhich vvill not make any restoratiues but of capons-flesh the oldest they can get such they strangle and plucke by feather and feather not vsing the helpe of any hot vvater then they take out the entrailes and chop them small adding thereto flowers or conserues of buglosse burrage damaske raisins mundified barley whole coriander-seed pearles powder of the electuarie diarrhodon or some other like vnto it and the leaues of gold they distill all together and cause it to be giuen to sicke persons women in child-bed and old folke To make a restoratiue in shorter time and that vpon the sudden with lesse cost charges as also paine and labour chop your flesh small after the manner alreadie deliuered put it into a glasse viole or bottle of a sufficient bignesse and in such sort as that all your peeces of flesh be strung or put vpon a double threed and hold one by another and the double threed vvhereupon they hang be vvithout the bottle which must be well stopt aboue with a linnen or cotten cloth wet in a mixture made vvith whites of egges and barley â—lower set this bottle in a caldron full of water boyling at a small fire and there let it stand foure houres more or lesse vntill such time as a good part of the flesh bee conuerted into moisture See that the bottle stand in the vvater vp to the necke and that it touch not the bottome of the caldron and vvithall vvell stayed vp on euerie side that so it may not slip or bend more one vvay than another When the foure houres are spent rebate the fire gently that so the bottle also may coole by little and little vvhich if so bee that you should take all hote out of the water it vvould breake presently Afterward vnstop the bottle vvith vvarme vvater if you cannot vvell otherwise and then draw forth the string and the flesh softly that so the liquor may remaine alone straine the vvater after the manner of Hypocras and aromatize it vvith Sugar and Ciâ—â—â—mome that so it may be giuen to the sicke that are vvasted You may after this manner make restoratiues such like as you shall thinke good either cheaper or dearer more or lesse pleasant and delicate and more or lesse medicinable as occasion may require CHAP. LXIX The manner of distilling compound waters WAters are not onely distilled of one onely or simple plant liquor or other matter but also of many mixt together and such vvaters are called compounded vvaters by reason of the mixture of many things These compound vvaters are of three sorts some are for physick othersome for sweetnesse and the other for â—ukes and painting as ornaments to the bodie vve vvill first and before the rest speake of those which serue for medicine and physicke Sage water compounded Take equall parts of sage and penniryall stampe them in a mortar and distill them This water taketh away the paine of the bellie and stayeth cold rheumes if it be drunke with a little quantitie of castoreum Water of turneps compounded Take turneps either garden or wild ones or both together the roots of smallage and parsley and anise-seed infuse them all in white wine or vinegar and distill the vvater as good against grauell Angelica water Take equall parts of Angelica as well the rootes as the leaues but especially the rootes and the flowers of lauander infuse them in Wine there will distill from them a singular water against the Falling-sicknesse if it be taken in the quantitie of two or three spoonefulls Water of Celandine Gather in the beginning of the moneth of May the leaues of celandine veruaine rue and fennell pound them and draw from euerie one of them three ounces of juice vvhich you shall mix together put vnto them some buds of roses of sugar-candie three ounces of verie good Tutia foure ounces and as much of dragons bloud distill them all in a stillitorie This vvater taketh away the rednesse and spots in the eyes Water of the Vine Take the vvater that distilleth from the vine-stockes at such time as they are cut vvhich is in the Spring-time distill it with like quantitie of honie this vvater healeth itchings heat and rednesse of the eyes the verie vvater of of the vine alone vndistilled doth the like Rose-water Take roses three parts fennell and rue of each one part shred them small and mingle them verie well together afterward distill them and let the distilling vvater fall into a vessell wherein is a handfull of the foresaid hearbes this vvater preserueth the sight if the eyes be vvashed therewith in Sommer Water of Eye-bright Take Celandine Fennell Rue Eye-bright Veruaine red Roses of each halfe a pound Cloues and Long-pepper of each two ounces bruise them all and distill them in a glasse stillitorie This vvater is singular good for a vveake sight Water of Rosemarie Take Aqua-vitae distilled of white Wine the distilled vvater of rosemarie and sage of each fiue pound of sugar two pound in these infuse of the flowers of sage and rosemarie for the space of eight daies of each two ounces straine them and keepe the water to heale the fistulaes of the eyes Water of Treacle Distill in a glasse stillitorie Treacle with a like quantitie of Aqua-vitae and Vinegar This vvater is good to touch the vlcers and rawnesse of the mouth vvithall especially if there be added vnto it a little bole-armoniacke Another Treacle water Take old Treacle a pound of the rootes of Enula campana Gentian Cypers Tormentill of each an ounce of blessed Thistle halfe an ounce of conserues of Borage Buglosse and Rosemarie of each an ounce infuse them all together in three pints of white Wine a pint and a halfe of Cesterne water and two pints of Rose-water distill them Water of Cloues Take equall parts of Cloues Ginger and flowers of Rosemarie infuse them in verie good Wine the space of eight daies distill the whole This vvater comforteth the stomacke assuageth the paines and vvringings of the bellie killeth vvormes and maketh fat folke to become leane or maketh fat the leane if they drinke it mixt with sugar Water of Saxifrage Take of the juice of Saxifrage two pound of the juice of Pearlewort Parsley Anise and Clotburre of each halfe a pound of vvhite Vinegar eight ounces distill them all This vvater drunke in the morning breaketh the stone Water of Swallowes Take Swallowes and drie them in an ouen make them into powder mixe it vvith a little Castoreum and a little Vinegar distill it all this water cureth the Falling-sicknesse if it be drunke foure
Beanes infuse them a day or two in white Wine in a Glasse-violl in the Sunne afterward distill them This water taketh away the spots of the face if it be washed therewith morning and euening The rootes of great Dragons distilled maketh a singular water to take away the prints and marks which the pocks haue left behind them so doth likewise the distilled water of the root of wild Vine of Corneflag Sowbread Costmarie Angelica Elicampane Tutneps wild Cucumbers white Onions Gentian Capers Lillies Madder Alkanet Cinquefoile Crowfoot Tasell and manie other hearbes Water of Guaiacum Take Guaiacum and cut it in small pieces infuse them a certaine time in the decoction of other Guaiacum and a third part of white Wine afterward distill them in a Glasse-Stillitorie The water that shall distill thereof is singular for the taking away of all spots out of the face especially if you ioyne with it in the distilling of it some Lillie rootes The water that is distilled in equall quantitie of the leaues of Peaches and Willowes taketh away the red spots and rubies of the face The water that is distilled in equall quantitie of the whites of egges and iuice of Limons scoureth the face and maketh it faire In stead of this water if you haue not the fit meanes to distill it you shall take seuen or eight Limons or Citrons which you shall cut into quarters and after infuse them in white Wine in the Sunne Another water Take six ounces of the crummes of white bread infuse them in two pound of Goats or Asses milke mingle them diligently together and afterward distill them Water of Snailes Take white Snailes about thirtie of Goats milke two pound of the fat of a Pigge or Kid three ounces of the powder of Camphire a dramme distill them in a Glasse-Stillitorie Water of the whites of egges Take the whites of new egges about twelue fine Cinnamome an ounce and Asses milke twelue ounces distill all in a Glasse-Stillitorie This water maketh a woman looke gay and fresh as if shee were but fifteene yeares old Water of Calues feet Take the feet of a Calfe and taking away their skinne and hooues of their hoofes cut the rest in pieces that is to say the bones sinewes and marrow and so distill them This water maketh the face Vermillion like and taketh away the blemishes of the small Pocks A singular water to make one white Take the dung of small Lizards or of the Cuttle fish the Tartar of white Wine the shauing of Harts-horne white Corall the flower of Rice as much of one as of another beat them a long time in a Mortar to make them into fine powder afterward infuse them a night in an equall portion of the distilled water of sweet Almonds Snailes of the Vine and white Mulleine and put thereunto likewise the like weight of white Honey distill all together in a Stillitorie Water of bread crummes compounded Take the crummie part of Barly bread indifferent betwixt white and blacke two pounds of Goats milke three pounds of white Wine halfe a pound of the foure great cold seeds of each two ounces of the flowers of Beanes or dried Beanes and Cich Pease of each two pound of Rice halfe a pound of the flowers of water Lillies and white Roses of each two pugillâ— the whites and yolkes of twentie egges distill them all in Maries bath and the water will be a great deale more excellent if you put vnto the distillation some Venice Turpentine Water of the broth of a Capon Take of the broth of a Capon Henne or Pullet three pound of the iuice of Limons one pound of white vineger halfe a pound of the flowers of Beanes and water Lillies of each three pugills the whites of two or three egges the weight of two French crownes of Camphire distill them all This water is of a maruellous vertue to take away the spots and staines of the face and other parts of the bodie The water of Branne Take Branne the best that you can find sift it diligently and afterward temper it with strong vineger put them into a Still and cast vpon them tenne or twelue yolkes of egges distill them all This water maketh the face cleane glistening and verie faire Another water Take the flower of Beanes and water Lillies of each a pound of bread crummes Rice flower flowers of Corneflags of each six ounces of Honey a pound of white Wine and water of the fountaine of each three pound let all be well mingled together and afterward distill them in Maries bath Take the rootes of Corneflag and wild Cucumbers of each three pound of the rootes of Holihockes and Lillies of each two pound of ripe Grapes halfe a pound of Beane flowers and leaues of wall Pellitorie of each a pugill of water Lillies and Mallowes of each a handfull of the crummes of Barly bread a pound infuse it all in white Wine or in the household store of Goats milke putting to the infusion halfe an ounce of the rootes of Turneps and of the foure great cold seedes another halfe ounce of the vrine of a little girle halfe a pound let all be distilled together This water is singular good to take away freckles scarres the prints of the small pockes and all other spots of the skinne A water vsed amongst the Ladies of the Court to keepe a faire white and fresh in their faces Take a white Pigeon a pint of Goats milke foure ounces of fresh Butter foure pugills of Plantaine and as much of the roots and leaues of Salomons seale 〈◊〉 ounce of Camphire halfe an ounce of Sugar candie and two drammes of Alloâ—e let all settle together and afterward distill it Another wâ—ter Take of the crummes of white bread two pound of the flowers of Beanes one pound of white Roses the flowers of water and land Lillies of euerie one two pound of Goats milke six ounces and of the flowers of Cornflag anounce distill all this water is good to keepe the hands cleane and white Take Cowes milke in the moneth of May in other moneths it is not worth aniâ— thing two pounds foure Oranges and fiue Citrons Roch Allome and fine Sugar of each an ounce cut the Oranges and Citrons into small quarters and infuse them in milke afterward distill them all this water is good to keepe the colour neat fresh Take a certaine number of egges the newest you can get and lay them to steepe in verie strong Vineger three whole dayes and nights afterward pierce them with a pinne in such sort as that you may cause all the water that is within them to come forth and then distilling this water you shall find it excellent to beautifie the face Likewise to wash the face with the water of Almonds or Sheepes or Goats milke or else to lay vpon the face when one goeth to sleepe a white Linnen cloth dipped in these
for their leane dogs which hunt the hare and you must mingle sometimes amongst these pottage a little brimstone to heat them withall As for your raw flesh meate which amongst huntsmen it called ket if you do not eate it all at a meale you shall preserue it in some cleare running streame by suffering it to lie hid in the water till your next occasion to vse it Oates ground hulls and all and so scalded in hot water is a very good mange or meate for hounds and so is also your mill-dust scalded in the same manner But if your hounds happen to fall weake or sicke or bee ouer hunted then you shall take the bagges and intrailes of sheepe hauing turned the filth and excraments forth and washt the bagges well and also the sheepes pluckes and boyle them in faire water with a good quantiof â—atemeale till the pottage bee thicke and so giue it reasonably warme to the hounds this is a soueraigne good meate and it is very comfortable for weake and sicke dogs of what kind soeuer they bee and bring them into lust and strength sodenly Their kennell must be made in some place standing vpon the East through the midst whereof dotâ—â—un some little riuer or spring The place wherein the dogs shall lie shall be builded with very white wals and floores of boords close ioined for â—eare that spiders fleas wal-lice and such like should breed there He that shall be appointed to keepe them must be gentle mild and courteous louing dogs of his naturall instinct and such a one as will make them cleane and dresse them carefully with wisps of straw and little brushes being readie to giue them some prettie dainties to â—ate and to draw them alongst the greene corne and meadowes as wel to giue them appetite to their meat as also to learne them to run and to cause them to passe through the the flockes of sheepe and other tame cattell that so they may bee accustomed vnto them and be made to know them Iâ— the dogs be sicke you must vse the remedies following for lice â—leas and other vermine wherewith dogs are loden oftentimes especially in the times of great heat you must bath them or at the least wash them and rub them with a wispe with a decoction made of large quantitie with ten good handfulls of wild cresses wild marierome sage rosemarie rue patience and fix handfulls of â—alt all being well boiled together to the consumption of the herbs To driue out wormes you must soke perrosin made into pouder aloes poâ—dred vnquencht lime and liue brimstone made likewise into pouder euen all these in one oxegall and with this liquor rub the place infected with wormes If dogs be bitten of serpents you must cause them to take downe the iuice of the leaues of ash tree incontinently or else a glasse full of the decoction of rue white mullein mints and broome whereunto must be added the weight of a French crown of treacle applying treacle in like manner vnto the bitten place When the dogs are bitten of mad dogs they must forthwith be cast into a vessell of sea water nine times one after another or for lacke of sea water into common water wherein hath bin dissolued foure bushels of salt this will preserue them from going mad And if it happen that you haue not prouided this remedie timely inough but that now the dog is fallen mad to the end that you may keepe the other from the same mischiefe you shall be carefull that the mad dog run not abroad and therefore you shall kill him by and by for it is but all in vaine and altogether impossible to goe about to cure such madnesse the signes of such madnesse are the drawing vp of of his taile at the vpper end hanging the rest straight downe a very blacke mouth without any froth a heauie looke and that aside in ouâ—â—thwart and crosse manner Against the scabs tetters itch and gauls of dogs you must take three pounds of the oile of nuts one pound and a halfe of the oile of oile of lees two pounds of old swines grease three pounds of common honie a pound and a halfe of vineger and make them all boile together to the consumption of the halfe of the vineger putting thereto afterward of perrosin and common pitch of each two pounds and a halfe of new waxe halfe a pound melt altogether casting in thereto afterward the pouders that follow a pound and a halfe of brimstone two pounds of reboiled coperas and twelue ounces of verdegrease making them all vp together in an ointment but they must be washed with water and salt before they be annointed with this ointment For the wormes in dogs you must make a drinke of the decoction wherein haue beene boiled wormewood southrenwood and the shauings of harts-horne or else cause them to swallow downe pils made of harts-horne brimstone aloes and the iuice of wormewood When the dogs are tired rub their feet with this restrictiue made of the yelkes of egs the iuice of pomegranets and soot finely poudred all of it being wel mingled together and left to settle one whole day Dogs are often hurt of wild bores in many parts of their bodies and then according to the places where they are hurt they must bee ordered and looked to with dressing of their wounds If the wound be in his bellie and that the guts comeforth vnhurt you must first put them in againe and then afterward put into the bellie in the place where the hole is a slice of lard and so sow vp the skin aboue but the thred must be knit of a knot and made fast at euerie stitch of the needle and withall cutoff the thred at euery stitch so fastened as much is to bee performed in the wounds that shall be made in other places alwaies obseruing to put some lard into them For wounds which dogs shall receiue the iuice of the leaues of red coleworts is a very souerainge balme being applied presently vnto the wound healing them vp very speedily or else take the iuice of Nicotiana whereof we haue spoken in the second booke Against the canker breeding in the eares of dogs taking a dramme of Sope of oile of Tartar Salarmoniacke Brimstone and Verdegrease incorporated all together with white vineger and strong water and rub the cankered eares therewith nine mornings If the dogs after they haue run in frost after raine and such other bad weather or swum the riuers lakes after the game come to take cold presently as soone as they come to their kennell they must be chafed and dried at a great fire and after that their bellies rubbed and wiped with wispes thereby to wipe away the dirt sticking vnto them Oftentimes in coursing ouer the fields rocks dogs come to haue the skin striken off of their feet for the remedying whereof it will bee good first to wash their feet with
the Ouen and taken in the weight of a French crowne with white Wine halfe a quarter of an houre before the fit Furthermore the Liniment made with Mithridate or the oyle of Scorpions applyed to the ridge of the backes soles of the feet palmes of the hands brow and temples some small time before the fit The verie same vertue hath the oyles of Bâ—yes mixed with Aqua vitae Some townesmen doe vse this superstitious rite against such manner of agues that is to say they eat nine dayes together being fasting the leaues of Sage the first day nine the second eight and so consequently they diminish euerie day a leafe vntill the last of the said nine dayes and the confident persuasion that they haue of this medicine doth cure them Some find it verie singular in a Quartane Ague after purging to drinke white wine wherein there hath beene Sage steeped all night if you eat before the fit a head of Garlicke pilled you shall scape the fit of shiuering cold if you drinke one or two ounces of the iuices of the root of Elder stamped and strained some small time before the fit and take the same againe two or three times you shall lose your ague The distilled water of the roots of Sea-Holly or else take a dramme of Myrrhe in powder and drinke it with Malmesey an houre before the fit The distilled water or decoction of Carduâ— Benedictus and taken before the fit Pills made of Myrrhe and of Treacle as big as a â—ich pease taken an houre before the fit For the Thirst of an Ague let him roll to and fro vpon his tongue the three-cornered stone found in the heads of Carpes or the leaues of round Sorrell or a piece of Siluer or Gold or a Snayle stone or a piece of Crystall oftentimes dipt in water or the leaues of Purslâ—ne or of Houseleeke or the husked seeds of Cucumbers For a Tertian Ague steepe in white Wine the bruised root of hearbe Patience for the space of three or foure houres afterward straine it and reserue about a pretie draught to giue the sicke to drinke an houre or two before his fit or else doe the like with the rootes of Plantaine steept in equall quantitie of Wine and Water or take a pretie draught of the iuice of Plantaine or of Purâ—lane or of Pimpernell and drinke them a verie little while before the fit or else drinke with Wine euerie day six leaues of Cinquefoile that is to say three in the morning and three at the euening or the iuice of Smallage of Sage and good strong Vineger of euerie one an ounce three houres before the fit The most soueraigne remedie that some men doe find for it is to drinke fasting fiue houres before the fit two ounces of the iuice of Pomegranats and presently after to lay to the wrists temples and soles of the feet small pills of the bignesse of a Pease made of an ounce of the oyntment of Populeon and two drammes of Spiders webs and there to leaue them vntill such time as that the houre and feare of the fit be past or else a Cataplasme made of Sage Rue Greeke Nettle gathered before Sunne-rise of each a handfull Salt and Soot the quantitie of a Walnut it being all stamped with vineger and applyed to the pulset an houre before the fit Some doe greatly approue of a Liniment of Earthwormes boyled with Goose grease to rub the brow and temples of the sicke partie withall before the fit or else to carrie about his necke the hornes of a swift Hart which is a singular remedie For a Quotidian it is good to drinke somewhat before the fit the iuice drawne out of Betonie and Plantaine or to drinke euerie morning a reasonable draught of the decoction made of the root of Smallage Parsley Radishes Sperage leaues of Betonie and Spleenwort red cich Pease and the middle riâ—de of Elder or to steepe in white wine the roots of Danewort and to drinke a small draught thereof an houre before the fit but after that hee must take heed of sleeping or let him drinke euerie day with Wine two leaues of Cinquefoile one in the morning and another at euening as also let him apply vnto his pulses the Cataplasme that wee haue set downe for the Quartane Ague To take away the paine of the Head comming of great heat namely such as befalleth Mowers during the Summer time there must be applyed vpon the browes slices of Gourds or Linnen Clothes dipped in Rose water or the iuice of Plantaine Nightshade Lettuce Purcelane and Vineger of white Wine or let her beat two whites of egges with Rose water and with Flaxe make a Frontlet or stampe bitter Almonds with Veruaine water and apply them vnto the browes or to wash the head in warme water in which hath beene boyled the leaues of Vines and Willowes the flowers of Water-Lillies and Roses and with the same water to wash the feet and legges and if in case the paine be so great as that there is feare that hee should loose his wits let there be applyed vpon the crowne of his head browes and temples a Cataplasme made of the white of an egge Bole-armoniacke Crabbes throughly boyled and Poppie seed with the water of Betonie and Vineger If the Head complaine it selfe of too much Drinke there may be made a Frontlet with wild Time Maiden haire and Roses or receiue and take the fume of the decoction of Coleworts or by and by after the head beginneth to be ill to eat one or two short-started Apples or some bitter Almonds or else to drinke of the shauings of Harts-horne with Fountaine or Riuer water or if you see that your stomacke be not sicke thou mayst take of the haire of the Beast that hath made thee ill and drinke off a good glasse of Wine If the Head become sicke of some great Cold apply and lay to the Head a bag full of Branne Millet and rubbed Salt or of Sage Marierome Betonie Tyme Annise-seed Fennell-seed Bay-berries and Iuniper-berries as hot as you can endure them or else chafe the temples with the iuice of Nightshade oyle of Roses and Vineger To cure the Frensie that commeth of a hot cause you must apply vpon the head of the patient the lungs of a Sheepe newly killed or the whole Gather or some Henne or Pigeon slit along the backe and applyed vnto the same place or rub his browes and all his head ouer with oyle of Roses Vineger and Populeon or with the iuice of Nightshade oyle of Roses and Vineger To awake those which are giuen to sleepe too soundly it is good to make a Frontlet of Sauorie boyled in Vineger or to make a perfume for the patients nosthrils with strong Vineger or seed of Rue or Nigella or feathers of a Partridge or of old Shooe soles or of the hoofes of an Asse or of mans haire or else to apply vpon the browes a Cataplasme of
make water in Copper Brasse or Latten vessels they swill the vrine round about the Basin and afterward vpon the suddain doe cast it out of the Basin they couer the Basin with a cleane Linnen Cloth and let it stand so couered foure and twentie houres they find rust in the bottome and round about it they gather and dissolue the said rust with Rose water which Rose water they keepe within a Violl well stopped and drop thereof into their eyes euening and morning holding them wide open Many likewise there be which content themselues with Tuthia prepared To take away the filthinesse or gumminesse of the eyes touch them and rub them round about with a Saphire dipt in cold water To preuent that the eye doe not continue blacke or red after a blow there must by and by be dropt into the eye the bloud of the wing of a Pigeon or Turtle doue To take away red spots or blemishes of the eye it is good to vse the like remedie or else to apply to the eye a Cataplasme made of young Wormewood stamped with the milke of a woman and Rose water For an old rednesse in the eye take the bignesse of a small Nut of white Copperas and a scruple of Florence Ireos as much of Roch Allome make a powder which you shall mix with halfe a pint of Fountaine water after the measure of Paris or else boyle them all together vntill the water become cleare and drop into your eye three or foure drops either of the one water or of the other or make a Liniment to apply vpon it with the drosse of oyle of Linseed gumme Arabicke Tragacanth Mastick and Camphire For the inflammation of the Eye it is a singular remedie to apply to the eye the lungs of a Sheepe newly killed or to make a Cataplasme of the pulpe of a sweet apple roasted vnder the embers mingled with Barley meale the milke of a woman Rose water and the white of an egge The water of Marigolâ—s is also soueraigne good in this case A Wolues eye or the stones that are found in the mawes of Swallowes haue the like vertue hanged about the necke Or take with the point of a needle a piece of Frankincense set it on fire with a waxe Candle after quench it in foure ounces of Rose water goe ouer this course thirtie times and straine the Rose water through a white Linnen Cloth and keepe it to drop in some drops of the same into the corners of your eyes at night when you goe to bed and in case you may feele great paine in your eyes mixe together with this water a little of womans milke To restraine teares and all other humors falling vpon the eyes it is good to take a decoction of the leaues of Betonie the roots of Fennell and a little fine Frankincense and to make an eye-â—alue thereof also to wash the weeping eyes oftentimes with the decoction of Cheâ—uile or to drop thereinto sometimes the iuice of Rue mixt with purified Honey Some hold it for a secret remedie to tye behind the head some drops of Amber which also haue the vertue to slay the â—heume falling downe into the throat or else to drop into the eye water distilled of the gall of a man and Celandine or else to annoint the edges of the eye-lids with the soot of Butter burned in a Lampe which is a secret for to drie vp and stay all rheumes of the eyes and to shut vp most speedily all vlcers made in the great corners of the eyes and all rheumes comming of the tendernesse or blearednesse of the eye For the white spots of the Eyes take one or many new egges layd the same day by one or moe blacke Hennes or for want of blacke Hennes by other rost them hard vpon hot embers cut them afterward into equall quarters and take away the yelke and put in place thereof as much Sugar candie made in powder of the whitest you can get strayne all together through a Linnen Cloth verie cleane and doubled that so you may doe it verie strongly the water or liquor that commeth forth is verie good to drop one drop after another into the diseased eye at night when they goe to bed or at any houre of the day There is another water verie good for the same disease which is made of white Copperas Sugar candie Rose water and the hard whites of egges they being all strayned through a Linnen Cloth and of this there must be some put into the eye after dinner and at night going to bed Some doe vse with verie good successe another Water which is this Take of Tuthia prepared and powdered an ounce Mace halfe an ounce infuse them together in Rose water and white Wine of each halfe a pint of Paris measure for the space of sixe weekes in a Glasse well stopped this Glasse you shall set in the Sunne when it shineth and take it in when it shineth not or is Night or Raine stirre the Glasse twice or thrice euerie day These remedies are likewise good for red running and weake eyes For ach in the Eare comming of a hot cause drop thereinto the oyle of Henbane take oyle of Roses and a little Vineger and make thereof an iniection into the eare apply thereto afterward a bag of Camomill Melilote Linseed and Holihocks boyled in milke If the cause be of cold then put therein musked Cotton or a graine of Muske Seribonius doth commend greatly the foot of Pitch dropped warme into the eare which aketh by reason of an inflammation together with a little of the oyle of Roses Against the noyse and sounding of the Eare it is good to drop into the eares of the oyle of Rue or Spike oyle of bitter Almonds or Bayes together with a little Aqua vitae or fat of an Eâ—le or Aqua vitae wherein hath beene steept the seed of Cummin or Aâ—â—ise or else take the scrapings of the wood of Cedar tree made verie small and thereof fill a bag of crimson Taffata verie thin of the greatnesse of an Almond dip it in verie good Aqua vitae in such sort as that the said bagge be throughly drencht with the same put the same bagge well and forward and close into the hole of the eare which bloweth and soundeth and afterward lye downe vpon the same eare Against Deafenesse you must drop into your eares the iuice of an Onion or of Brionie mixed with Honey or Oyle wherein haue beene boyled the roots of Daffodill or of the iuice of the riâ—des of Radishes mixt with oyle of Roses or the fat of an Eele and the oyle of bitter Almonds For the losse of Smelling or when it is corrupted make a perfume with the seed of Nigella the leaues of Aron Rue and other hearbes which haue a strong fauour also smell oft vpon Mints For tumors vnder the eare you must make a Cataplasme of the flower of Barley
with water or the dung of Hennes drunke with Hypocras made of honey and wine or a Clister made of Brine or the heart of a Larke swallowed downe while it is fresh and new or the said heart of a Larke fastened to the thigh As concerning outward remedies some approue greatly to take the skin of a sheepe all new or the kell of the intrailes of a sheepe newly killed to apply it vnto the bellie or to make a bag of Millet Branne Wheat and Salt fried together to lap vpon the bellie A Cataplasme made of Wolues dung is also profitable against the Collicke the same dung drunke with a little wine doth verie much good the bones found in the dung of a Wolfe powned small and drunke with wine haue the like qualitie Some say that if you take ashes comming verie hot from vnder the coales of fire and put the said ashes in a dish or pot and afterward poure thereon a good glasâ—e of Claret wine and afterward couer the said dish with ashes with a linnen cloth foure double and apply it vnto the bellie you shall find release and mitigation of your paine For the â—uâ—orall â—lux of the Bellie it is good to drinke milke wherein hath beene quenched a gad of Steele or of yron or milke boyled with a halfe quantitie of water and that vnto the consumption of the water or hee shall take of a Stags pizzle with Cesâ—â—rue water to vse Rice parched to take a dramme of Masticke powdred with the yolke of an egge to make a Cataplasme with the flower of Wheat to apply all ouer the Nauell but it must be wrought with red Wine and after baked in the Ouen For the bloudie Flux giue to drinke with red wine the bloud of a Hare dried and made in powder or the powder of mens bones or else gather the dung of a dogge which for three dayes hath fed vpon nothing but bones and this you must drie to make into powder of 〈◊〉 powder giue vnto him that is troubled with such Flux twice a day in milke wherein you shall haue quenched manie stones of the Riuer verie throughly heated in a verie hot fire continue this two or three dayes or else giue to drinke the distilled water of the great Burre oâ— the decoction of shepheards Purse or the distilled water of Woodbâ—nd or else giue to drinke the seed of Plantaine in powder or the distilled water of the first buds of the Oake or the powder of Snayles burnt with the powder of Brier-berries and a little white Pepper and Galls or of the Harts and Goats horne burned or rather of the pizzle of a Haâ—t prepared as wee haue taught here aboue in setting downe the remedies for the Pleurisie For to stay the flux of Bloud drinke a reasonable draught of the iuice or decoction of dead Nettle make Clysters with the 〈◊〉 of Plantaâ—ne and Horse-taile vse the broth of Coleworts â—odden vâ—rie tender the iuice of Pomegrants and the substance it selfe Sallads of Plantaine and Sorrell chaw oftentimes some Rubarbe To loosen the Bellie â—ou must eat sweet Cherries or Peaâ—hes Figges or Mulberries fasting to sâ—p the first broths of Coleworts of Beets of Mallowes or Lettuces or of Cich-pease without salt to apply vnto the stomacke a Cataplasme made with Honey the gall of a Bull and the roet of Sow-bread or the leaues of Apples of coloquâ—â—tida to take a Suppositorie made of fat Bacon or the stalke of a Mallow or Beet To kill the wormes of little children it is good to cause them to vse preserued Rubarbe or the câ—nserue of Peach flowers to drinke the distilled water of Gentian or the â—â—ce of Câ—trons the iuice of Mints or Basill of Purcelane Rue or Wormwood or else to cause them to swallow with a verie small draught of Wormewood wine of the powder made of Wormes first dried and after burned on a fire-pan red hot and make it into verâ—e â—ine powder or of the powder of blessed Thistle or of Coralline the weight of a French crowne also to apply vnto the Nauell a cataplasme made of Wormewood Tansie and an Oxe gall and all this must be done toward the later end of the Moone To stay the excessiue paine of outward Hemorrhoids you must make a Liniment of oyle of Roses waâ—â—ed in the water of Violets fresh Butter oyle of Linseed the yolke of an egge and a little waxe or else to make a little cataplasme with the crums of a white loafe sleept in Cowes milke adding thereto two yolkes of egges a little Saffron and a little Populeon There may also a little Liniment be made with fresh butter and the powder of Corke-tree burned In the paine of the Hemorrhoids therâ— is nothing more singular than the perfume made of shauings of Iuorie To stay the excessiue flux of the Hemorrhoids it is a most singular remedie to drinke a dramme of red Corall or of the scumme of yron with the water of Plantain and also to make a fomentation of the decoction of white Henbane or in place of this a Cataplasme made of the powder of burnt Paper or of the shauings of Lead or of Bole Armoniack with the white of an egge or of three Oyster shells finely poudred either raw or burnt and mixt with a little fresh butter For the stone in the Reines you must drinke often of the iuice or water of the bodie of the Beech tree which water must be gathered in the Spring time in as much as then the bodie or the rinde thereof being 〈◊〉 or cut to the qâ—â—cke doth yeeld a great quantitie of water verie singular for this purpose The fruit of the Eglantinâ— preserued before it be ripe after the manner of Marmalate with Sugar hauing first taken the kernels from within taken fasting to the end of the last quarter and first daies of the Moone following in drinking somewhat more than a reasonable draught of white wine or of the water of wild Tansie or such other is verie excellent therefore He must also drinke very oft with white wine the pouder of the pâ—lling of Rest-harrow or Buck-thorne or of the gumme which groweth round about the riâ—des of Vines or of the seed of Goose-grasâ—e finely powdred or to drinke the distilled water of Radish roots and Nettle roots with a little Sugar or the water of Broome or of Dogs-grasse or of wild Tansie the water or iuice of Radish wherein is dissolued the powder of egge-shels burnt or of the stones of Medlars or of the eye of a Partridge or of the braine of a Pie or of the inward skin of thâ—â— stomacke of a Henne or Câ—pon Euerie man prayseth this decoction whereof Aetius maketh mention in his chapter of Sea-Holly Take the roots of Sea-Holly the pith taken out and make them verie cleane steepe them eight houres in Fountaine water after that to boyle them till the halfe of the water be consumed in the end of the boyling cast
into the pot Licorice bruised let this decoction coole at leisure And as for outward meanes it is good to apply a Cataplasme made of Pellitorie of the wall vnto the reines or else a Cataplasme made of the root of Cypres and the leaues of Bell-flower boyled in wine The best and most soueraigne of all the rest is to prepare a Bath wherein haue boyled the leaues of water-Paâ—sley Mallowes Holihocks March Violets Pellitorie flowers of Broome and Camomill and within the Bath vpon the reines a bagge full of Branne and water-Parsley For the Collick caused of Grauell cause to boyle the leaues and flowers of Camomill in an equall quantitie of water and white wine to the wasting of the third part drinke the decoction warme suddenly the paine will be appeased For the difficultie of Vrine drinke the iuice of Winter Cherries or the decoction of Radish roots in white wine or the decoction of hearbe Patience or of the Thistle said to haue an hundred heads or of Bell-flower or of the white prickly Thistle or of Sperage or of Dogs-grasse or of Rest harrow also apply vpon the yard or secret parts a Cataplasme or Liniment of Fleawort Some hold it for a great secret to drinke white wine wherein hath beene brayed Sowes found in caues and hollow places or to make powder of the said Sowes dryed and so to giue the same to drinke in white wine Others doe greatly esteeme the distilled water of the pillings of the root of Rest-harrow first steeped in Malmesey For the stone in the Bladder it is a singular thing to drinke the iuice of Limons with white wine or to make a powder of the stones of Medlars first washed in white wine and after dryed of Broome-seed Burnet-seed and of the seed of Sperage Holihockes Saxifrage Melons Pompions Citruls and of the hearbe good against pearles and to vse these with white wine There is an hearbe growing at the new Towne LeGuyard called in French Crespinette by those that dwell thereabouts and of this the young Ladie of Villeneufue sister to the late deceased Monsieur Cardinall of Bellay caused to be distilled a Water which is singular against the difficultie of Vrine and the stone in the Bladder as I my selfe haue proued diuers times Some hold it also for a singular remedie to make a powder of the stones of Sponges or of the stone which is found in the head of Cray-fishes or of the shells of small Nuts or of the gumme of Cherrie trees and to take it with white Wine or the iuice of Radishes Or else the distilled water of the stalkes of Beanes red Cich-pease and the seed of Holihock The which followeth of Glasse is a great secret which being burned and quenched seuen times in the water of Saxifrage and afterward made into a verie fine powder and giuen with white wine vnto the partie troubled with grauell doth breake the stone in them in any part of the bodie Another secret is that of the shells of egges which haue brought forth Chickens being brayed brewed and drunke with white wine which breaketh the stone as well of the Reines as of the Bladder For all such persons as pisse in their bed whiles they be asleepe and cannot hold their vrine there is nothing better than to eat oftentimes the lungs of a young Kid rosted or to drinke with wine the powder of the braines or stones of a Hare as also the powder of a Cowes bladder or of a Hogs Sheepe or Goats bladder or the powder made of the roots of Bistort or of Tormentill with the iuice of Plantaine or with the milke of Sheepe or the ashes of the flesh of an Hedgehog For the burning of the Vrine let be taken of shell-Snayles and whites of egges of each a pound of the great and small cold feeds of each halfe an ounce halâ—e a pound of the water of Lettuce foure ounces of good Cassia three ounces of Venice Turpentine powne that which may be powned and let it all stand to mix together for the space of a night afterward distill them in a Limbecke in Mariâ—s bath let this water settle some time before that you vse it giue thereof halfe an ounce euerie morning with a dramme of Saccharum Rosatum continue the vse thereof as long as you are able To make a woman fruitfull which is barren let her drinke foure dayes after the purging of her naturall course the iuice of Sage with a verie little salt and let her continue and goe ouer this course diuers times To stay the excessiue flux of the flowers of Women they must drinke with the iuice of Plantaine the powder of the Cuttle bone or the bone of a Sheepes foot burned or the shells which Pilgrims bring home after their pilgrimage to S. Iames or of Corall or of Harts horne or of the shells of burnt egges or of twelue red graines of the seed of Pionie or to swallow with the yolke of an egge the powder of Tezill or the scumme of yron first dipt in vineger and after made into fine powder And as for outward meanes it is good to apply vnto the Nauell shell-Snayles well brayed or the red in the void space of the Nut burnt and powdred and mingled with wine Make a Cataplasme of Soot or of the scraping got from vnder the bottome of a Caulâ—rton mingle it with the white of an egge or the iuice of dead Nettle or white Mulâ—â—â—ne and apply it vnto the loynes and bottome of the belly Or to fill a bag sufficient full of grosâ—e salt to dip in fresh water newly drawne out of the Well and to apply it to the hollow of the Reines Some make great account of Cherry-tree gumme infused in the iuice of Plantaine and cast into the priuie parts with small Siâ—ings 〈◊〉 to apply to the breasts the leaues of Celandine For the white termes of Women after that the bodie is purged it is good to drinke with the iuice of Plantaine or the water of Purcelane the powder of Amber of Corall or of Bole Armoniake or of Terra sigillata or of Steele prepared or of Sponge burnt in a pot or of the Sea-Snayle first burnt and afterward washt in wine And as for outward meanes there must be made a Lee with ashes of Oake wood or of the Figge-tree or of the Osier in which there must be boyled the rind of Pomegranats Gâ—â—â—s pieces of Corke leaues and roots of Bisâ—ort and of Peruincle beyond-sea Roses with a verâ—e small quantitie of Allome and Salt and of this to make a fomentation or a halfe bath For to cause women to haue their termes they must drinke euerie morning two ounces of the water of Mugwort or of the decoction of Dogs-grasse Cich-pease the seed of common or Romane Nigella of the root of Smallage Cinnamon and Saffron the roots of Radish of the Tasell in which one may dissolue as much Mirrhe as the quantitie of a Beane The iuice
of Sea-Holly and of Tasell mixed with white wine is singular in this case A Bath also is verie good and it may be pâ—epared with water of the Riuer in which shall haue boyled Mugwort Mallowes Holâ—hock Camomill Melilot and other such like hearbes and within the Bath to rub the hippes and thighes drawing them downeward with a bagge of Mugwort Celandine Cheruile Smallage Betonie seeds of Nigella and other such like Some esteeme it for a rare remedie for to take the weight of one or two French crownes of the marrow of a Hart to tye it within a little knot of fine and cleane linnen and to put the said knot into the woman her secret place deepe ynough but this to be after the bodie hath beene prepared and purged For the suffocation of the Matrix the legges must be rubbed alwayes drawing downeward and tying them hard to put the partie thereby to great paine put cupping-glasses vpon the thighes rub the stomacke drawing downeward from the pit thereof to the nauell Furthermore she must be made to smell vnto things that stinke and small strong as the feathers of Partridges or shooe soles burnt and below to apply things that are verie sweet smelling as Cloues Marierome Amber Time Lauander Calaminth Penny-ryall Mugwort Ciuer the leaues of white Mulleine which hath his stalke rising verie high you must also giue her to drinke the quantitie of a beane of Mithridate dissolued in the water of Wormewood or fifteene red or black seeds of Pioniâ— bruised and dissolued in wine The onely remedie for this disease is that if it fall out that the sicke partie be with child that then her husband dwell with her for the remedies before spoken of are dangerous for women with child Sume doe much esteeme in this disease the course following that is that the woman euerie weeke to keepe her selfe free should drinke three spoonefuls of white wine wherein hath beene boyled and steept an ounce of the root of Brionie For the falling downe of the Mother the partie must be caused to vomite to haue her armes rubbed and bound hard to moue great paine to set cupping-glasses vpon her breasts and to cause her to smell vnto sweet and odoriferous things and below to apply things that are of a strong and stinking smell There must be giuen her to drinke the powder of Harts horne or of drie Bay leaues with red wine that is verie sharpe In like manner a Cataplasme made of Garlicke stamped and dissolued in water or Nettles newly braied and applied vnto the bellie causeth the Matrix to returne into his place Holihocks boyled with oyle and the fat of Quailes made in forme of an emplaâ—ster and applyed to the bellie are verie profitable Ashes made of egge shâ—lls wherein Chickens haue beene hatched mixed with Pitch and applyed vnto the belly doe put the Matrix againe into the place Some are of opinion that one leafe of Clot-burre put vnder the sole of the womans foot drawech downe the Mother and being applyed vnto the top of the head doth draw it vp on high For the inflammation of the Matrix it is good to make an iniection with the iuice of Plantaine or of Nightshade or of Houseleeke or to apply a Cataplasme made of Barley flower the rinds of Pomegranats and the iuice of Plantaine Houseleeke or Nightshade For the inflammation of a mans yard the same Cataplasme will be very soueraigne if there be added vnto it some quantitie of driered Roses or else take the new dung of a Cow frie it in a panne with the flowers of Camomill Brier and Meâ—â—lot lay it to the cods you shall perceiue the swelling to depart quickly To take away the stinking smell of the feet put within your shooes the scuâ—â—me of yron For to make a woman fruitfull that cannot conceiue take a Doe great with fawne kill 〈◊〉 and draw out of her belly the membrane wherein the fawne lyâ—â—h turne the fawne out of the said membrane and without washing of it drie it in the Ouen after the bread is drawne forth being dried make the inner part and place where the fawne lay into powder giue of this powder three mornings vnto the woman and that by and by after midnight with three or foure spoonefuls of wine 〈◊〉 her not rise of foure houres after and aduise her that her husband may lye with her If a woman with child haue accustomed to lye downe before her time it is good that whiles she is with child she vse with the yolke of a new egge a powder made of the seed of Kermes otherwise called Diers graine and of fine Frankincense of each an equall part or else that she vse oftentimes of the powder of an Oxe pizzle prepared in such sort as we haue set downe among the remedies for the Pleurisie or elsâ— that she weare continually vpon some one or other of her fingers a Diamond for â— Diamond hath the vertue to keepe the infant in the mothers wombe Some say also that the slough of an Adder dried and made into powder and giuen with the 〈◊〉 of bread is singular good for the staying of vntimely birth The Eagles stone is commended for this aboue all other things which being worne vnder the left arâ—epit or hanged at the arme of the left side doth keepe the infant and hindereth vntimely birth To bring to bed the woman which is in trauaile of child you must tye on the inside of her thigh not farre from the place by which the excrement of ordure passeth the Eagles stone and so soone as the child is borne and the woman deliuered to take it away for the same purpose to giue her the decoction of Mugwort Rue Dittaâ—e and Pennyryall or of the iuice of Parsley drawne with a little vineger or of white Wine or Hypocras wherein hath beene dissolued of the powder of the Canes of Cassia of Cinnamon of the stones of Dates of the roots of Cypres of the flowers of Camomill of the root of round Aristolochie or Birthwort or the iuice of Tota bona with white wine or else the leaues of Tota bona stamped layd vpon the secret paâ—â—â— and round about And when a woman is in trauaile of child and looseth all her strength it is good to giue her bread steept in Hypocras or a spoonefull of the water called Claret water which must be prepared in this sort Lay to steepe in halfe a pint of good Aqua vitae according to the measure of Paris about three ounces of Cinnaâ—on well shaued by the space of three dayes in the end whereof let the said water ruâ—ne through a cleane linnen cloth and dissolue therein an ounce of fine Sugar after put thereto about the third part of old red Rose water and let all stand together in a bottle of glasâ—e to vse when need requireth This water is principally good for all the diseases of the Mother as also for Fainting Swowning weakenesse
shaued or scrap 〈…〉 a linnen cloth in manner of a Cataplasme and apply it vnto the pained 〈◊〉 Otherwise take the roots and leaues of Danewort the leaues of Scabious 〈◊〉 Coâ—â—frey and wild Sage boyle all together in wine after let it passe 〈…〉 put thereto oyle of Spike Aqua vitae and the oyle of Neats 〈…〉 take a very fat Goose puld and the garbage taken cleane out after 〈◊〉 her with 〈◊〉 that are well liking and chopped verie small with common 〈◊〉 and roasted at a small fire and looke what droppeth forth let be reserued for 〈◊〉 for the grieued place Some likewise apply for the paines of the ioints 〈◊〉 whelpes vpon the pained places Galen saith That hee was wont to softer 〈◊〉 such hardnesse as is wont to happen about the knees by applying vnto 〈…〉 Cheese all mouldie stamped with the broth wherein a salt Gammon of 〈◊〉 hath been boyled To take away the Swellings procured of Wind you must take fried salt and 〈◊〉 it betwixt two Linnens vpon the Swelling or apply a Cataplasme made of the 〈◊〉 of white Wine the branne of 〈◊〉 and new Oxe dung For such Swellings as are 〈◊〉 make a Cataplasme with the leaues and flowers of Violets flowers of Heâ—â—ane leaues of Nightshade flowers of Camomill and Meliloâ—e all boyled in wine and water strayned through a Searce and applyed vnto the aking place Or else draw the iuice of Houseleeke with a little red Wine and the flower of Barley make an emplayster for the place The dung of Goâ—â—â— hath power to wast spend and consume the hard Swellings how hardly soeuer resolued and wasted especially the old hard Swellings about the Knees mingling the same with Barley flower and water and vineger in forme of a Cataplasme To ripen an Impostume apply vnto it the dung of Goslings which haue 〈◊〉 kept from meat three whole dayes together and after fed with the gobbers of a fresh Eâ—â—e It is good also to apply raw Wheat champed or chawed a long time A Cataplasme made of the leaues and roots of Mallowes Holihocks Onions Lillies crumâ— of white bread all â—od together and after strayned through a Colander adding thereto the volke of an Egge and a little Saffâ—on It is true that if the Aâ—ostâ—me be very cold there may be added to the decoction of the Cataplasme abouesaid the roots of Elacampane Danewort Lilâ—â—es and Brionie flowers of Camomill and Melilot Oâ—ons and Wheat Leauens To ripen a Naile otherwise called a Felloâ— or Cats-haire take raw Wheat a long time chawed or the flower of Wheat the yolke of an Egge Honey and Hogges grease after heat them all together and make a plaister to lay to the sore or else lay vpon it Sheepes dung steept in vineger if in 〈◊〉 you mind to soften and resolue it For Tetters you must vse the iuice of Purcelane Celandine Plantain Nightshaâ—â—eâ— and Limons and if this medicine appeare not to be strong ynough it will be good to mixe some red Tartar amongst and with this composition to rub the spotted places Otherwise infuse for the space of a whole day in strong white vineger the rooâ— of hearbe Patience cut into shiuers rub the place where the Tetter is with one of the shiuers three or foure times a day Or else boyle tenne graines of Sublimate and halfe a dramme of Aloes in equall quantitie of Plantaine and Nightshade water vnto the consumption of the one halfe Or else steepe the powder of a Slaâ—e in very good vineger with salt and rub the place Otherwise take the gumme of Cherrie trâ—e a verie little Brimstone with twice so much salt as Brimstone steepe all together in the strongest vineger you can get and with this composition rub the spotted places Or else rub the place with your fasting spettle or with the guâ—â—â— that groweth about the Vine but before this you must rub them with Salt Nitre or else with the hearbe Nicotiana applying both drosse and iuice together vnto the place To take away the markes and pits of the small pocks take an ounce of Oyle or of the flowers of S. Iohns wort halfe an ounce of Venice Turpentine as much of Sperma coeti melt it all vpon the fire in a dish of earth well glased when it beginneth to boyle and to swell vpward take it from the fire and let it coole rub and chafe the places of blacke spots with this oyntment and continue it so long as till the pits be filled vp For Vlcers and Apostemes which happen about the Nailes lay vpon the soare a little worme which is found in the head of the Tasell when it is drie For hard Swellings take Mallowes Holyhocks the roots of Lillies Pellitorie the leaues of white Mullein seed of Line and Holyhocks flowers of Camomill and Melilot let all be boyled in equall portions of water wine and vineger after passe them through a Colander adding thereto the flower of Barley and Beanes the powder of Camomill and Roses Hennes grease and fresh and new Butter make a playster to lay to the soare Likewise it shall be good to lay hot thereunto a Cataplasme made of the drosse of Bee-hiues dissolued in white wine and fried in a Frying panne For such at are fallen from on high giue the weight of halfe a French crowne of this powder with good wine Mummia Tormentill Rhaponticke Sperma coeti of each a dramme or else giue the weight of a French crowne of the powder of the seed of Garden-Cresses of Mummia of the seed of Houseleeke prepared and Sugar Candie For a greene wound you must take Garden Baulme the great and small Comfrey and a little salt poune them all together and apply them vpon the wound It is good also to drop into the wound the iuice of Nicotian or for the more profitable vse thereof to apply both the drosse as also the iuice thereof stamped and to bind vp the wound by and by and assure your selfe that within three dayes it will be recouered Otherwise take the Elme apples the flowers of S. Iohns wort and of Rosemarie the knops or buttons of Roses put all together in a glasse-bottle full of oyle Oliue stop the bottle diligently and set it to the Sunne so long as till all be so farre consumed as that it may seeme to be rotten afterward let it runne through a linnen cloth diuers times and then keepe it in a violl to drop into wounds The readiest and most soueraigne remedie is the iuice of Nicotiana and the drosse or substance likewise and also the oyntment made thereof which wee will handle hereafter viz. in the seuentie six chapter of the second Booke This oyntment is very singular Take Veruaine Agrimoniâ— Beâ—onie and Pimpernell of each a handfull wash them diligently and being washed swing them well stampe them together in a mortar being stamped put them in an earthen vessell well glased with seuen pints of white wine to boyle till halfe
of it be consumed the vessell in the meane time being close couered and the fire burning cleare and softly after draw the vessell somewhat further from the fire and let it coole vnto the next morning then straine it out a little warme the grosser parts that it may so be forced through some hairie strainer and adde thereto of white Pitch melted by it selfe and also strained through a hairie strainer a pound halfe a pound of white Waxe in graines Masticke and Turpentine of each one ounce make thereof an oyntment of good consistence Likewise there is nothing more singular than to take of Greeke Pitch Brimstone and Olibanum equall parts to bray them together with the whites of egges and after you haue stanched and wiped away the bloud in handsome sort to ioyne and bring together the edges of the wound and to apply it thereto with a linnen cloth and a Cataplasme afterward to bind and roll it vp with double linnen clothes and so to leaue it for certaine dayes or else boyle the leaues of Carduus Benedictus and flower of Wheat in Wine vnto the forme of an Oyntment wash the Vlcers twice a day with Wine afterward lay thereunto this Oyntment Or else wash the wound with the decoction of Dent de lion more easily thus Take the dyrt which you find vnder Buckets Troughes or such like and apply it vnto the cut it closeth it vp incontinently For all wounds as well old as new vlcers and whatsoeuer cuts in the flesh take the leaues of Plantaine Spearewort or small Plantaine Mallowes All-good of each a handfull French Sage about foure and twentie leaues let all the foresaid hearbes be well picked washed and after stamped verie well all together this done take five quarts of old Swines greaâ—e put thereinto a hot pestill and cause it to melt then boyle it with the said hearbes and when you see that the liquor of the hearbes iâ— consumed you shall straine it and put thereunto as much Frankincense as a Nut greene Waxe and Perrosine of each as much as two Nuts melt them that so they may all be brought vnto the forme of an oyntment of which you shall make vse for all sorts of wounds Otherwise take Brimstone most â—inely powdred and searced put it in a Glasse-vessell and powre thereupon so much oyle Oliue as will doe more then couer it by foure or fiue singers set it out vnto all the heat of the Sunne you can for the space of tenne daies and stirring it about manie times with a Spatull of cleane and faire wood and keeping the said vessell close shut continually to the end there may not any dyrt fall thereinto At the end of the tenne dayes emptie out all the oyle by leaning the glasse softly to the one side seeing it hath extracted all the substance or essence of the Brimstone into another Glasse-bottell by the helpe of a funnell and let not any of the drosse or residence goe in withall after which you shall stop the bottell verie carefully and at such times as you would vse it you shall dip Lint white linnen Cloth Cotton or blacke Wooll in it and apply it vnto the parts that are hurt whether by Vlcers or Cuts as also vnto Impostumes and that so long as vntill they be cured You may powre in oyle againe the second time vpon the residence left after the oyle powred out as beforesaid and doe as was done before Make account of these two later Remedies as of those which will not faile you For the Boyle called Anthrax Carbunculus and other such pestilent tumours see that you apply vnto them Rue bruiâ—ed and mixt with verie strong Leauen Figges Cantharides Onions of the Land and Sea vnquencht Lime Sope gumme Ammoniacke and a little Treacle for this emplaster draweth forth such kind of tumours Or else take a Toad drie her either in the Sunne or in the Ouen make her into powder and put of this powder vpon the Carbuncle it will draw forth all the venome Or else apply vnto the Carbuncle a Frog aliue and if she die then another and doâ— this so oft as vntill that one doe liue and so you shall draw out all the venome For vlcers comming of the Pocks and such other maligne ones take tenne pints of water quench therein hot yrons so long as till the tenne pints become but fiue and in these fiue pints infuse for the space of foure and twentie houres a pound of vnquencht Lime after that straine the water when it is strained dissolue therein fifteene graines of Verdegrease and as much of Vitrioll and twentie graines of Camphire this water is singular to mundifie cleanse and drie vp Vlcers Otherwise set to boyle in a new earthen vessell verie cleare water when it beginneth to boyle put into it by and by vnsleckt Lime and presently thereupon powre it out into another vessell all new let it rest there so long as vntill after it be scummed it become cleare the Lime falling to the bottome of the vessell in manner of pap in the end you shall gather the water swimming aloft by leaning the vessell and letting the Lime abide vnstirred in the bottome and this water thus gathered shall be reserued in a cleane violl or other vessell well stopped that so it may serue for your vse in which being warme dip a linnen cloth and apply it in stead of an emplaister vnto the Vlcer and renew it oft To draw out miraculously a Pellet make a tent of a Quince and for want of it of Marmalate of Quinces onely without any addition of Spices or other things annoint it with the oyle of egges and put it into the wound or hole made by the shot of the Pistoll For inward wounds in which there can no tents be put there must be drunke oftentimes the decoction of Auens and the outward wounds washt or else take Mugwort great and small Comfrey whole Betonie Agrimonie the roots of Rubia otherwise called the Diers hearbe the roots of small Plantaine otherwise called Carpenters hearbe Sage the leaues of Brambles Parsley pricking Nettle Marigolds Sanicle Bugula Mouse-eare Burnet Dendelion Plantaine the crops of Hempe female Ferne Buglosse Gentian Veruaine Birds â—oong ground Iuie water Germander Catmint hearbe Robert Cinquefoile Tansie all the Capillar hearbes of each one halfe handfull Damaske Raiâ—ins their stones taken out Licorice the seed and flowers of S. Iohns wort the seed of blessed Thistle of each an ounce the three cordiall flowers of each foure ounces all these being thus carefully pickt and made cleane let be brayed verie throughly after strained through a hairen strainer with one pint of white wine you must cause him which iâ— thrust through to drinke of this drinke a little draught fasting or one houre before he eat and as much before his supper If these iuices displease thee in stead of braying bruising or stamping of the things aforesaid you may make a decoction in common water adding in
any thing chewing the cud This disease may be cured at the beginning but hauing once taken deepe root refuseth all maner of cure Whereunto take of Squilla or Sea-Onion small shred three ounces the rootâ— of Melons beaten as much mixe all together with three handfull of grosse Salt and steepe them all in a pine and a halfe of strong vvine and euerie day you shall giue of this vnto the beast the quantitie of a quarter of a pint Vnto the flux of the bellie vvhich sometimes continueth till bloud come and vveakeneth the beast much there must be giuen to drinke in red Wine the stones of Raisons or Galles and Myrtle-berries vvith old Cheese delaied vvith grosse and thicke Wine or the leaues of the vvild Oliue-tree or of the vvild Rose-tree keeping the beast therewithall from eating or drinking any thing for the space of foure or fiue daies And for the last refuge or extreamest remedie it is vsed to burne him is the forehead with a hot burning yrox For to loosen the bellie of an Oxe you must cause him to drinke in vvarme vvaâ—â—â— two ounces of Oliues made into poulder Admit that you would feed and fat him for labour then you must vvash his mouth euerie eighth day vvith his owne vrine and thus you shall draw from him much â—legme vvhich taketh from him his appetite and doth injurie him in his meat And if this â—legme haue caused him to haue the rheume vvhich you shall know vvhen you see him to haue a vveeping eye and therewithall also vvithout any appetite and hanging downe of his â—are then vvash his mouth vvith Thyme stamped in vvhiâ—â— Wine or else rubbe it vvith Garleeke and small Salt and after vvash it vvith Wine Some cleanse away this flegme vvith Bay-leaues stamped vvith the rindes of Pomâ—granets others inject into his nosthrils Wine and Myrtle-berries The Oxe pisseth bloud either by being ouer-heated or too much cooled by hauing eaten â—uill hearbes in the Summer time and especially at such time as the dew lieth vpon the grasse the remedie is not to suffer him to drinke any vvater or other thing to cause him to take downe a drinke made of three ounces of Mustard-feed three ounces of Sea milleâ— both stamped together an ounce of â—reacle all boyled iâ— two pints of white Wine afterward dissolue therin two ounces of Saffron and makeâ— the beast to drinke it Against the rheume and eyes that are swolne and puffed vp it is vsuall to let the â—east bloud vnder the tongue or to make him take the juice of Leekes Rue Smalâ—age and Sauine well purified For the spots in the eyes there is commonly made an eye-salue of Sal-armoniacke â—oistened and soked in Honie some againe vse to annoint the eye all round about â—vith pitch well rempered vvith Oyle because there is danger in the Honie as which â—ight draw Bees and Wasps about the beasts continually If he haue the Barbes which is a fleshie substance growing vnder the tongue â—hey must be cut and afterward rubbed with Salt and bruised Garleeke together â—fter this his mouth must be washed with wine and with a paire of pincers you must â—inch away the Wormes which breed vnder the same tongue To cleanse the inward parts of the sicke beast thoroughly there is nothing more â—oueraigne than to take the drosse of Oliues after the Oyle is pressed out and to vse it â—oft about the beast Vnto an ague which may befall him by ouer-great trauell in hot vveather with â—heauinesse in the head swolne eyes and extraordinarie heat which is felt by touchâ—ing the skin the remedie vsed is to let him bloud vpon the veine of the forehead or of the â—are veine giuing him therewithall cooling meat as Lettuces and others â—nd vvashing his bodie vvith vvhite Wine and then giuing him cold vvater to drinke If the pallate of the beasts mouth beeing heaued and swolne doe cause him to â—forsake his meat and often times to grone it vvill be good to let him bloud vpon the veine of the sayd his pallate and then after his bleeding you shall giue him nothing to eat but Garleeke vvell soked bruised and â—usked with the leaues of the same or other greene thing or verie soft Hay vntill such time as he find himselfe well The disease of the Lungs is so desperate and vnrecouerable both in Oxen and Kine as that there is no other remedie but to vvash the stall wherein they haue stood vvith vvarme vvater and sweet smelling Hearbes before you fasten any other therein which also in the meane time whiles this is in doing must be bestowed in some other house This disease happeneth vnto them by reason of euill hearbes or naughtie Hay which they eat or of the ouer-great aboundance of bloud but most of all through horse pisse and yet more especially by keeping the beasts houses too close and ouer much shut And this is the cause why Mares not Horses yet verie vvell Asses can or ought to be left in Oxe-houses because that the breath of Asses doth preserue cattell from this disease For the Cough there is ordinarily giuen to drinke the decoction of Hyssope and to eat the roots of Leâ—kes stamped with pure Wheat others giue to be drunken seuen daies together the decoction of Mugwort If in drinking he swallow a Horse-leach and that the same doe fasten her selfe by the vvay in his throat then he must be cast downe vpon his backe and warme Oyle poured into his mouth but and if she be got into his stomach there must Vinegar be poured in If he happen to to haue his horne broken or shiuered take sixe ounces of Turpentine and one of Gum Arabecke boyle it all together and with that oyntment rubbe the horne all about euerie day for the space of ten or twelue daies which being expired beat Bole-armoniacke with eight whites of Egges spread this composition vpon plegets which you shal lay vpon the horne leauing them there three whole daies afterward when these plegets shall begin to be drie take them away and in place thereof spread round about the sayd horne Sage made into poulder the horne will heale To fasten a horne which is verie loose and readie to fall off first you shall seâ— close and fast the horne in his place afterward you shall annoint all the vppermost part of the head for the space of fiue or six daies with an oyntment prepared of bruised Cummin-seed Turpentine Honie and Bole-armoniacke all of it being boyled and incorporated together afterward you shall foment the horne vvith a decoction of Wine vvherein haue beene boyled the leaues of Sage and Lauander in sufficient quantitie If the necke be swolne that it causeth some suspition of an Abscesse or Apostume then you must open the Apostume with a hot yron and put in the hole where it was opened the root of Sow-bread or of Nettle and this you shall renew often
it will not be amisse to giue him to drinke a great pot full of the decoction of medicke fodder and in like manner to let him bloud If the neck be chased put vpon the same an emplaister made of the marrow of the thigh bones of an Oxe the seame and grease of a Male-goat and Swines-grease all being mixe in like quantitie and molten altogether It the hinder part of the necke be pilled and growne bald and bare without haire annoint the place with a liniment prepared of sixe ounces of Honie and foure ounces of Masticke all boyled together For the hardnesse of the hinder parts of the necke let him take his rest certayne daies during the which time rubbe the place with Butter Honie Larde of Porke and new Wax in equall quantitie all being molten and mixt together For the swolne Chine make an oyntment of the root of Elecampane well boyled and stampt with Hogs-grease the fat of a Weather or Male-goat raw Honie Frankincense and new Wax with which you shall rubbe the said Chine or hinder part of the necke thrice a day Euening Morning and at Noone tide If he be so leane as that his skinne seeme to cleaue to his ribbes foment his skinne against the haire with Wine and Honie being in some warme place or in the Sun after annoint him with the Lees of Wine and Hogs-grease all mixt together and made in forme of a liniment For the paine of the bellie giue him to drinke Treacle or Mithridate mixt with Wine afterward let him bloud the next Morning vnder the tongue and in the nosthrils or else cause him to drinke the decoction of Rue and Cammomile finely powdred and let him rest at the least seuen or eight daies giuing him but small to eat and keeping him well couered in a warme house foure ounces of Turpentine incorporated with a little Salt finely powdred is a singular remedie for the disease if you make him take it in manner of a bole pill or drinke For the falling out of the Draught-gut take three ounces of Turpentine cause it to be put vp into the draught by some little boy which hath a long arme and leane withall to annoint it diligently and this to be continued for the space of foure or fiue daies in stead of the Turpentine the grease of a Hogge will serue for an oynâ—ment For the loosenesse of the bellie which commeth of hauing eaten Hearbes or such other like things of hard digestion first keepe him from eating of any Grasse or Hearbes for the space of two or three dayes in the which time you shall giue vnto him the leaues of the vvild Oliue-tree Plantaine Horse-taile and sometimes of Nightshade-berries and againe during this said time you shall giue him but little to drinke this is to say just nothing for the most part Otherwise see that he eat no other things for certaine daies than the Leaues of Organe and garden Southernvvod and euerie day you must allow him onely the quantitie of two eawers of water to drinke To loosen his bellie take two ounces of Hiera one ounce of Aloes Hepatica mixe them both vvell in vvarme vvater and cause him to drinke them in the Morning If he haue a broken Legge for to set it draw it your selfe or cause your seruants cunningly to stretch the Legge with a rope right ought not more to the one side than to the other that so the broken bones may be joyned and placed againe in euen sort Afterward let loose the two parts that so they may joyne close together apply aboue the place pleageâ—s dipt in a composition made of the whites of egs bolâ—armenack and dragons bloud then tie vp the member so strong and streight as that the two ends of the bones broken may joyne and grow together againe aboue these â—ands applie yet other moe pleagets vvet in Wine for the comforting of the sinews And to the end that the vpper and lower broken bone may not grow hard or get any other ill disposition or qualitie eyther by reason of the binding or else by reason of the fracture it selfe you shall rubbe both the one and the other part vvith a liniment made of an ounce of Turpentine with as much Butter and the like quantitie of Oyle For a Legge that is out of joynt or by some meanes displaced restore againe the bone into his former place and bind it vp after that you haue annointed it vvith Hogs-grease For a sweld Foot make an emplaster of the leaues of Elder-tree and Hogs-grease vvell boyled and mixt together For a foundred Foot take the roots of Mallows and Hollihocks boyle them in a sufficient quantitie of vvater stampe them and straine them through a strayner to that which is strayned out put halfe a pound of Hogs-grease three small pots of verie strong Wine boyle them altogether vntill the grease be melted then put thereâ—o of Linseed vvell bruised and beaten in a morter and so boyle them altogether to the conâ—umption of the Wine Applie some part of this cataplasme vnto the foot and let it remaine there three vvhole daies and then taking away the same apply the rest for other three daies For Surbâ—tting or Lamenesse you may boyle Honie and Hogs-grease in white Wine applie vnto the Foot this emplaster and there let it remayne three vvhole daies For the Foot pricked vvith a Naile Glasse Thorne or any such other thing that is sharpe cut the horne of the hoofe as neere vnto the prickt place as possibly you can afterward drop into the hole of Turpentine and Oyle both hot and lay a plaister of Honie and sweet Seame melted together all ouer the Foot For the Claw that is clouen or shiuered take Honie new Wax and Turpentine of each an ounce and make an oyntment vvhich you shall applie round about the Claw for the space of fifteene whole daies vvhich being past add vnto this oyntment Aloes Heparica Mel rosatum and Roche-Allome of each halfe an ounce couer therewith the whole Foot after you haue bathed it in warme Wine mixed vvith Honie For the Claw hurt with yron or stone digge and pare away the Claw euen to the bottome of the hurt vvith a Smiths paring knife drop into the sore hot oyntment made of old Swines grease and sewet of the Male-goat melted together and put into thâ—fore tents of tow dipped in the said oyntment When the hoofe is like to goe off you must first salue it with the oyntment spoken of before for the shiuered Foot or Claw and that so long as vntill the horne of the hoofe be somewhat fastned to againe afterward you must foment it for the space of fiue or sixe daies thrice euerie day the whole Foot with Wine or Vinegar wherein haue boyled vnquencht Lime and Honie of each seuen ounces For the pissing of bloud cause him to drinke the juice of Plantaine with verie
good Oyle and afterward take the poulder of Tartar and of vvild Gourds mingle them vvith red Wine and the vvhites of Egges and make him to drinke them vvith a horne And if this doe not stay his pissing of bloud within foure and twentie houres he will die If he stale not but with paine let him bloud of the bladâ—â—er veine and cause him to take a drinke made of Honie Oyle and white wine all boiled together for three Mornings one after another afterward let him rest for eight daies It he haue a stone in his yard first cast the Oxe downe vpon the ground after let him take hold vpon his 〈◊〉 with pincers somewhat higher than the stone lieth theâ— let him make incision in the side of the Oâ—e his pisâ—e to draw out the stone and then lastly consolidate and heale vp the wound with Turpentine washed foure times in the water of Horse-taile If he haue the stone in his bladder take two ounces of Sea Fennell stamped two drams of Cloues and a dram and a halfe of Pepper poune them altogether and make him drinke them in red Wine warme If after you haue continued the 〈◊〉 some certaine daies the stone come not forth then in the end you must cut the bladder and so draw it out If his pisâ—e be hardened annoint it with the oyntment made of the stamped 〈◊〉 of Hollihocks and fresh Butter twice a day For his shoulder out of joynt you must first set it in againe and afterward bind and roll it vp againe with splenters verie close and fast For the strangles or glandules vvhich happen vnder the Oxe his throat and spring from the braine ouer-cooled plucke away their glandules and after couer his head vvith some couering and chafe and annoint vvith Butter his throat oftentimes If his pallate be swolne open the swelling quickly vvith an incision knife or hot yron that so the corrupted bloud may run forth after giue him for his meat somâ— Grasse or soft Hay If he haue the Ranula vnder the tongue much swolne then open it vvith a hot yron or a verie sharpe incision knife afterward rubbe it vvith Salt and Oyle so loâ—â— as till all the corrupt matter be run out then in the end giue him some tender hearâ—â—â— or grasse to eat When the tongue is clouen or chopt vnder neath annoint those clefts vvith aâ— oyntment made of Aloes Roche-Allome and Honie of Roses all being mixt together then vvash them in Wine vvherein Sage hath boyled or some such other dâ—ying herbe If he haue lost his appetite cause him to swallow raw Egges well beat together with Honie and mingle Salt among his meat or giue him in drinke some horehouâ—d fiuely pouldred with Wine and Oyle or stampe the leaues of Rue Leekes Sâ—â—llage and Sage and giue him them to drinke with Wine For the eye that is troubled and darke blow within it of the poulder of Cuâ—â—lebone Sugar candie and Cinnamon verie finely pouldred For the swolne Eye applie thereto a Cataplasme made of the the flower of Wheat mixt vvith Honie or the vvater of Honie after the manner of pappe for children For a vvhite vpon the eye applie thereto a cataplasme made of Sal gemma and Masticke finely pouldred and mixt vvith Honie continue and vse this oftentimes For the Leeke of the Eye or tumour called Porrum growing vpon the Eye-lid foment the place vvith the Gall of any beast vvhatsoeuer it be or vvhich is better snip away the tumour with a paire of Cysers or make it fall away with â— threed tied verie strait afterward annoint the place vvith Salt Vinegar and Aloâ—â— boyled together For the Weeping Eye you may blow into it Tutia and Vitrioll made into fine poulder For the Cataract which is nothing else but an aboundance of vvaterishnessâ— ingendred eyther by ouermuch cold or by too long stay and respite within the Eye of the Oxe in that place where the watrie humour is placed vpon which the glassie humour swimmeth as the Chrystalline againe vpon it For the cure thereof take ground Iuie and stampe it long in a Morter of vvood of the juice 〈◊〉 out of it make a medicine for the eye insteed of this herbe if you cannot recouer it take the berries of Iuie or the leaues and draw the juice of them in manner aforesaid Continue and vse the one medicine or the other for many daies both â—â—â—ning and euening the Cataract will consume and wast away It is certaine that who so insteed of Water shall vse Wine shall seeme to deale more fitly and better to 〈◊〉 purpose Epiphora a disease of the eye called a drie inflammation of choler is when the beast â—eeth not but by halfes whether it be of the one eye or of both bloud taken away from vnder the eye doth correct and amend the sight And further you must continually drop honey into it vntill it be perfectly cured For bleered eyes which come with continuall falling downe of excrements out of the braine take Myrrhe fine Frankincense Saffron of ech two ounces mix them all togither dissolue them in cestern water make therof a Collirie to drop into the eies For the agues of Oxen you shall know it by their being exceeding restlesse and trembling all ouer their bodie by their great heat in the midst of their forehead and towards the roots of their hornes and in their eares their mouth is verie hot and sweat aboundantly and withall eat almost nothing at all the hanging oâ—t and drawing in of his tongue verie drie heauie in his head his eyes distilling and halfe shâ—â— his muzzle filled and all to be driâ—eled with flegmatike water and his taking of his breath long and yet notwithstanding hee doth not without great paine and much distance of time complaine himselfe or turne often The first day that you shall perceiue him thus sicke let him fast all the day long the next day let him bloud in the morning whiles he is fasting and that vnder the taile in small quantitie Fiue daies after you shall feed him with the decoction of Clot-burre with honey and brine at the least you shall offer him this before all other meat either greene or moist as shall be the crops of Lentils and other young sprours and buds which you shall thinke meet and conuenient for the beast wash his mouth thrice a day with a sponge dipt in vineger and after that you shall make him drinke verie cold water 〈◊〉 like manner three times and so you shall let him goe into some pasture ground vntill his Ague haue cleane left him The Cough of an Oxe must likewise be as carefully looked vnto as that of the Horse for it must not be suffered to grow old and endure long vpon him seeing 〈◊〉 is not curable but at the beginning you shall make him take fasting halfe a quarter of a peck of
is cured by being let bloud vpon the veine vvhich is found in 〈◊〉 middest of the thigh to the quantitie of sixe ounces or about the place vvhich is somewhat about the fundament but if in neither of those two places or vvhere they â—annot be found you must take the necke veine toward the vvind-pipe if you perâ—eiue that there is need of a drinke you shall straine a handfull of Purslane and â—â—ingle the juice vvith Gumâ—tragacanth fine Frankincense and a few Prouence Roâ—â—s you shall make him take it all vvith honied vvater in some prettie small quantiâ—ie It is knowne amongst other markes that he hath an ague if he haue the stopping of his vrine and his eares become cold withering and hanging downe In the faintnesse of the heart it is good to keepe the horse verie hot and to giue him this drinke Myrrhe two ounces Gum-tragacanth foure ounces Safron foure drams Mehlot in powder an ounce Mercurie a pound and fine Frankincense so much as shall be sufficient and proportionable all these mixt together and made inâ—o powder shall be reserued for your vse and that shall be in giuing two good spoonfulls thereof with one pinte of water two spoonefulls of Home and two bowles of Oyle of Roses This drinke vvill serue for many daies euen till the horse doe find himselfe better And further know that this drinke is good for those that haue their â—acke or loynes broken and members verie stiffe For the horse that is ouer-heated you shall cause him to swallow with the horne 〈◊〉 Winter three ounces of Oyle vvith one pinte of red vvine and in Sommer two ounces of Oyle onely vvith the like quantitie of Wine that is aboue named In the paine of the bellie vvhich some call the Birth you shall take the seeds of vvild Rue or of the garden Rue you shall poune it well and vvith hot vvine you shall make him a drinke vnto this drinke you may adde Cummine and Fennel-seed in like quantitie and after keepe him hot in some close and vvell couered place before you giue him this drinke you must get vpon his backe and vvalke him a long time and that rather in high places than in low and plaine fields when you are comming homeward if the season be cold you shall cloath him vvith a good vvoollen cloth rubbing his flankes vvith Oyle vntill such time as he be become cold and doe breake wind It vvould be good also to conuey into his fundament some hollow joynt of a Reed or Rose tree sufficient thicke and halfe a foot long annointed vvith common Oyle and let this same hollow Reed be in such sort fastened vnto his taile as that it may not by any meanes come forth and this done then to get vpon the horse and to vvalke him But howsoeuer things goe you must let him haue meat of hot qualitie and to drinke vvater boyled with Cummine and Fennell-seed in equall quantitie mingling vvith it Wheat meale and keeping it verie vvarme in a verie closâ— place For the difficultie 〈◊〉 vrâ—ne it is an approued thing to take fiue or nine of the flies called Cantharides to lap them in a linnen cloth and applie them to the thigh and howsoeuer it fareth with him yet to keepe them there for some time this will procure vrine but in anie case giue him them not in powder clister or drink◠〈…〉 good also to rub his cods with the decoction of Cresses Pellitorie and 〈…〉 Leekes For the sniuell take Orpin and Brimstone cast them vpon burning coales and 〈◊〉 the fume goe vp into the Horses nosthrils that so the humors congealed aboue in 〈◊〉 braine may be resolued and cast forth For the Flying worme take from him some bloud vpon the veines of the 〈…〉 applie a hot â—earing yron verie deepe vnder the throat and in the hole put 〈…〉 plegets vpon them moystened in the white of an egge and after let him stand 〈◊〉 dayes in the stable For the Iauar take Pepper as also the leaues of Coleworts old Swines 〈…〉 make an emplaister to be layd vpon the place For the Figge you must pare the hoofe so farre forward as that you may 〈◊〉 reasonable roome and space betwixt the sole of the foot and the figge then 〈◊〉 Spunge there and tye it verie hard that so the rest of the figge may be 〈…〉 euen to the cleft For the Wenne open it when you shall perceiue it to be full of matter 〈◊〉 make a plaister of Goole-turdes wine salt and vinegar and lay vnto the 〈◊〉 beware in any case that there be not in the bottome of it some strange and 〈◊〉 thing For the galling of the backe that is new done take two great Onions and 〈◊〉 decoction thereof in boyling water afterward you shall applie it to the sore place 〈◊〉 hot as the horse can abide it all the swelling will be gone away in one night Otherwise take salt in powder and wet it in strong vinegar putting thereto the yolke of 〈◊〉 egge with all this together you shall rub the place and you shall see the proofe 〈◊〉 else wash the place with wine or verie strong vinegar lay aloft vpon it Lime made 〈◊〉 powder and mixt with Honie continue this remedie so long as till the flesh be 〈◊〉 againe and the bone couered with it then to cause the haire to grow vpon it yoâ— must poune the shells of small nuts burned and being mingled with oile annoin◠〈◊〉 places wanting haire and it will be ouergrowne in a short time For a Horse â—wayed in the backe or complayning of hauing beene ouerladen â—â—â—plie vnto the reines of his backe an emplaister made of stone-pitch with the 〈◊〉 of Bole-Armoniake Dragons-bloud Olibanum Masticke Galles of each â—quall weight let the plaister be layed somewhat hot vpon the offended part which you shall not take away vntill it easily forsake the place when you touch it for 〈◊〉 the Horse is healed For the swellings caused on the Horse backe by the Saddle open it first with 〈◊〉 Knife afterward lay plegets vpon it wâ—t in the whites of egges three dayes together and the place if it be swolne and hard it will be healed with Coleworts 〈◊〉 Wormewood and Beares-breech bruised together and stamped and boâ—â—led together with sweet Seame applie it vnto the place offended and hurt For the disease called Graps which are moules and scabbes on the heeles 〈◊〉 way the scabbes and them wash the place with the decoction of Mallowes 〈◊〉 and Mutton Sewer put the drosse or thicke substance of this vpon the 〈◊〉 and bind it fast and close thereto afterward take it away and annoint the place 〈◊〉 an oyntment made of vinegar Mutton Sewet the gum of the Firre tree and new 〈◊〉 of all alike and boyle them altogether It is a singular good remedie for the Iaundise vvhich followeth take of â—â—nicke Corne and Smallage of eaâ—h a pound boyle them all vvith
your better choice of the said seed take that which is of the Melons first put foâ—th as I haue alreadie said iâ— so be that your melon plot doe bring forth the fruit somewhat late for otherwise it will be good to take them that come forth last as also that which groweth betwixt the middle and head or crowne of the melon and out of it not that which is on that side whereupon the Melon lieth the best seeded and most rising from the earth being heauie and full and you may make triall of it in water because that such seed will sinke downe to the bottome and it must not be aboue one yeare old for if it be it soone groweth sicke and casteth his fruit in vntimely sort Pompions and Melons must be gathered in the morning before Sunne rise and they must be gathered when as they begin to cast their taile and yeeld a pleasant smel at their ends and then you must beware of and looke to Cats that goe a catterwauling and if you would carrie or send them farre you must gather them a little before they be ripe and with the hand onely without any edge-toole for they will come so their just and perfect ripenesse by this course which the cutting with an yron would keepe them from there must notwitstanding care be had that those which are called Winter Pompions be neuer suffered to ripen vpon their beds but for to ripen them they must be gathered and hung vp vnder the floore of some higher roome and when they are once turned yellow to eat them Furthermore that I may say something of their goodnesse you must vnderstand that there are diuers sorts of Pompions for there are some female and are called pompionets and they are more long than the other and haue not their wrinkles standing vp so high the other be more thick greater bellied and haue their wrinkleâ— more high and stretched out from the taile vnto the eye Some of them are called Turquins as those which haâ—e a verie greene colour and drawing somewhat toward a blacke some other of them haue the shape of a Quince and they are properly called Melons and haue a more fast and solide flesh than the pompions haue which likewise haue not so many wrinkles in their sides nor so much moisture in their nollow parts neither yee are they so thicke but haue a whitish flesh and a great deale more seed than the pompions The other sort may be called citruls as hauing the fashion and colour of a citron and their leaues diueâ—sly drawne with many small lines like vnto the feathers or wings of birds The other are Winter pompions and these are not so thick or great as the common pompions and yet furthermore the one hath a white meat and the other a yellow whereupon the first doe craue more water than the later and the later are better in a strange Countrie But the Melons are best of all as also the blacke coated Pompion and the Muske Melon which become so by hâ—uing their seed steeped in water that is well sweetned with sugar or honie The signe of a good Melon is the bitternesse of the taile the hardnesse of the crowne the heaâ—â—nesse and good smell of the whole As concerning their vse they are somewhat more delicate and pleasant than Câ—cuâ—bers so that they haue a fast meat and their hollownesse drie for otherwise they are fitter to make meat for Cats that goe a catterwauling or for Mules and Asseâ— to make them fat thaâ— for to feed men withall notwithstanding this is a thing wel and sufficiently proued that a slice of a melon or pompion put in a pot with flesh causeth it to boyle the sooner Physitians likewise giue it out for a truth that the seed as well of melons as of Pompions cousred with sugar or without sugar is a soueraigne remedie to prouoke vrine to asewage the heat of the reines and to breake the stone CHAP. XL. Of certaine speciall obseruations for and about Cucumbers Citrons Gourds Melons and such like fruits IF the border whereon you set your Melons be not so fat nor well dunged as that of the Cucumber and Gourd and if it be not watered so soone as it is put forth and sprung it becommeth the faster meat and more 〈◊〉 and sooner ripe To cause Pompions Cucumbers and Gourds to grow without seed you must steepe your seeds in the oile of Sesamum otherwise called Turkie millet three dayes before you sow them To haue Cucumbers of such forme and fashion as one would wish they must be put whiles they be yet young and small together with their stalke into vessells or bottles that haue some figure or shape drawne within them and tie them about them for in time they will fil vp the draughts and prints within the same likewise to make them long you must put their flowers into reeds throughly emptied of their piâ—h for then the Cucumber will grow all along or else to set neere vnto them some vâ—â—sell full of water as namely about halfe a foot off for as I haue said cucumbers 〈◊〉 moisture so well as that vpon the onely standing by of water they will grow the more and become longer in like sort standeth the case with the Gourd For their better and greater growth you must sow them in cases or pots or other great vesselâ— full of sifted and well manured earth which may be carried and rolled or drawne from one place to another into the Sun that so it may haue both the presence of the Sun-shine and absence of the cold winds and frosts and when they begin to grow breake off their ends To free them of vermine and lice sow Organie round about them or else pricâ—â— some boughs amongst their plants To make that a Cucumber or Melon shall haue no water fill the pit that yoâ— haue digged to plant your seeds halfe full of straw or the shutes of vines cut 〈◊〉 small and put vpon the earth and afterward your seed and doe not water them 〈◊〉 all or else verie little To make melons or cucumbers laxatiue sprinkle them fiue dayes together 〈◊〉 fiue times â—uerie day with water wherein hath beene steeped and infused the 〈◊〉 wild Cucumber for the space of three dayes Otherwise vncouer them so soone 〈◊〉 they haue put forth any budd and dung them at the foot with about two ounces of blacke Hellebor steept in water and afterward couer them againe Otherwiâ—â— steepe the seed before you sow it three daies in the infusion off cammonie or 〈◊〉 or Agaricke or some other purging medicine To make Pompions sweet and smell well so soone as you haue taken out the core and wiped and dried the seed put it amongst drie Roses or some graines of Muske and there keâ—pe it vntill you must sow it and if it so like you sow them together or else steepe the seed foure daies before you sow it in
the seed of Gromell to the quantitie of two drammes Ceterach halfe a dramme and Amber two scruples all being powdred with the iuice of Plantaine or Purcelane or Lettuce In like manner two drammes of the seed of Gromell with womens milke doth much comfort and strengthen a woman in her child-birth Hyporicum loueth the like entreatie that Gromell loueth and yet withall it doth refuse a fat and well tilled soyle The iuice of the leaues and flowers healeth cuts and wounds The seed drunke with white wine taketh away the tertian Ague The flowers and crops are principally in vse to make Balmes of for the curing of wounds such like as this is Take of the fruit of the Elme tree the flowers of Hypericum and the buds of Roses put them all together in a Glasse-bottle and set them in the Sunne so long as vntill you see them all so altered and changed as that they may seem to be rotted then straine them all through a linnen cloth and reserue it for your vse See further in the third Booke of the oyle of Hypericum Ground-pine loueth a drie sandie and stonie soyle and groweth better planted than sowne The whole hearbe boyled in honied water doth heale the laundise prouoke the termes in Women prouoke Vrine and is soueraigne against the Sciatica either taken in drinke or applyed vpon the hippe in forme of a Cataplasme for the whole hearbe with the flowers and roots made into powder and taken at the mouth fortie daies with halfe an ounce of Turpentine doth throughly heale the Sciatica The conserue made of the flowers is good for such as are subiect vnto the Palsie The whole hearbe boyled in vineger and taken at the mouth doth minister insinit helpe to a trauailing women when the child is dead in her bodie Agrimonie would be planted in a stonie and drie place and further craueth no great helpe of hand or husbandrie The decoction openeth the obstructions of the Liuer and strengtheneth it and it being boyled and drunke doth helpe against the bitings of venimous beasts The iuice of Agrimonie mixt with vineger and salt in a Liniment doth cure the Itch. Agrimonie is good against the cough of Sheepe and for broken-winded Horses The liquor of the decoction of Agrimonie with fumitorie made like Whay doth prouoke Vrine expell the Termes heale the Itch and Scab of the whole bodie whereupon it is singular in the beginning of the Leprosie The seed mixt with the iuice of Agrimonie and taken in manner of pilles doth kill the Wormes The Stagge being shot and wounded is healed so soone as he hath eaten of this hearbe If you gather good store of this hearbe and steepe it in faire Spring water in a large earthen pot till the water putrifie and then euerie morning wash the face therein it will take away all manner of Morphew Sunne-burning Farn-freckles and other spots or dunnesse of the skinne whatsoeuer making the same also cleare and smooth and filling vp euerie manner of wrinekle Some likewise vse in this case to vse with Agrimonie the like quantitie of Goose-grasse and sure it is not amisse for they haue both one manner of force and working White Mullein groweth euerie where but best in a stonie and sandie ground The white Mullein both leaues flowers rootes and seed is singular good against all manner of venime as also to containe in his place the falling Fundament Good wiues in like manner for this consideration doe make a fume of the seed and flowers of Mullein the flowers of Camomill and Masticke all made into 〈◊〉 The iuice pressed from the root before it put forth his stalke and drunke foureâ—â—â—â— in the quantitie of an ounce with Hippocras or Malmesey in the beginning of a 〈◊〉 of a quartane Feauer doth driue it quite away The iuice pressed out of the floweâ—â— or leaues applyed to Warts doth take them cleane away Likewise Gentlewomâ—n find no better remedie than the iuice of white Mullein flowers to take away the wrinckles and other blemishes in their face The leaues bruised betwixt two stoneâ— and applyed in forme of a Cataplasme vpon the foot of a Horse that hath beene cloyed doth affoord him a singular and present reliefe The water distilled of the flowers quencheth the firinesse of the face if there be a little Camphire added thereâ— unto It doth in like manner with the tumor called Erisipelas the itch burnings 〈◊〉 other diseases of the skin The flowers of white Mullein with the yolke of an eggâ— crummes of bread and the leaues of Leeks applyed vnto the Hemorrhoids doe 〈◊〉 them altogether There groweth about the leaues of white Mullein a whitish 〈◊〉 which is good to make match or tinder to take fire Mercurie craueth one and the same ground with the Vine there to be sowne and grow in great aboundance without anie great care of husbanding and yet thâ—â—â— must care and regard be had not to sow it among Vines because the wine which 〈◊〉 Vines should yeeld amongst whom Mercurie hath beene sowne would retaine the tast of Mercurie and become verie vnpleasant to drinke The iuice of Mercurie being drunke helpeth conception prouoketh womeâ—â— termes and deliuereth them of their after-birth The decoction of Mercurie doâ—â— loose the bellie being drunke or taken in a Clyster Some make a honey of the 〈◊〉 of Mercurie with a halfe quantitie of honey and this is good for laxatiue Clysteâ—â— The iuice of Mercurie taketh away Warts the seed of Mercurie in a decoction with Wormewood doth cure the Iaundise and the iuice thereof with vineger doth ripâ— vp the scab and scurffe Yarrow doth grow in a ground that is indifferent fat and moist The decoctioâ— thereof doth stay all manner of fluxes and especially the red termes of women 〈◊〉 also that which commeth of a wound especially the leaues dried made in powder and drunke with the iuice or water of Comfrey or Plantaine The leafe put into the nose stayeth the bleeding and put into a Clyster it stayeth the bloudie flux Milfoile bearing a white flower being powned with his flower and drunke with 〈◊〉 distilled from the same and Goats milke doth cure the burning of the vrine in 〈◊〉 and the whites in women Danewort groweth better plunted than sowne and craueth a fat ground well â—â—nured and somewhat moist The iuice pressed from the roots of Danewort being drunke for a certaine time preserueth a man from the Gout The seed of Danewort being well washed and drunke in powder to the quantitie of a dramme hauing beene first steeped a whole night in Wine doth helpe the Dropsie because it procureth stooles downward and vomit vpward to the voiding of great store of water Being drunke also with the dâ—coction of ground Pine it asâ—uageth the paine of the Gout and Pocks There is also made a soueraigne Oyntment of the same for the appeasing of the said paines Taâ—â— the iuice of the roots of Danewort the flowers of Rye and
swim aboue the water and so you shall sunder them one after another without breaking of them and thus hauing freed them one of another you shall plant them along thâ— sayd wall some three foot from it and foure foot euerie one from another and if thâ— earth neere vnto the wall be not so good as it ought you shall helpe it by such 〈◊〉 of batteling as hath beene spoken of and shall close vp all your care about thâ— plants so remoued with watering them oâ—t The time to sow them is about 〈◊〉 Aprill or in the beginning or else earlier if the Spring-time begin earlier the Indians and Spaniards sow it in Autumne As concerning his vertues seeing it is hot and drie in the second degree as his biting and sharpe kind of tast doth declare we cannot doubt but that it is good to cleanse and resolue as also good for the effecting of the things which â—t hath beene tried to haue wrought that is to say for the healing of the Noli me tangere all old wounds and inueterate and cancred vlcers hurts ringâ— wormes and exulcerated seabs what maligne qualitie soeuer is in them Kings euill clouds of the eyes conlusions impostumes stingings of liuing creatures rednesâ—e of the face and many other accidents which we will runne ouer hereafter particularly But in respect of the verâ—â—es thereof the best and most to be esteemed part are the leaues and for want of them the seed though it haue no such vertue as the leaues the leaues thereof are vsed either as they are greene at the time of their ripenesse or being kept drie in the time of Winter or in powder when they are dried and made in powder as for the way to keepe them we will speake thereof hereafter And to speake particularly of the effects of Nicotiana The cold and windie paine of the head armes and legges will be holpen if you lay vpon the griefe oftentimes the greene leaues of Petum somewhat dried ouer the fire the tooth-ach is stayed by rubbing the teeth with a linnen cloth that hath beene dipt in the juice of the said shearbe and by putting into the tooth a pill of the leaues of the same hearbe The wounds of the armes legges and other parts of the bodie how old soeuer they be will be throughly siccatrized if you wash them first with white wine or vrine and afterward wipe them verie cleane with a linnen cloth and by and by after put thereupon one or two greene leaues well stamped with the juice or the juice alone and vpon it some fine white Linâ— or white linnen cloth continuing the same daily vnto the end of the cure and if you haue no greene leaues take drie ones and powder them and put of this powder into the wounds after you haue washt them as hath beene said and wiped them with cleane linnen The Indians vse it to comfort the feeble not digesting stomach first rubbing it with oyle oliue and then applying thereupon one or two leaues somewhat dried and made pale ouer the fire it is in vse also among the Indian Canibals against poyson wherewith they vse to annoint their arrows when they go to shoot and this poyson will kill by and by if bloud be but drawne for when they go to warre they carrie in one Harts foot of that poyson and in another of the juice of Petuum to remedie the mischiefe and if they haue no greene they carrie drie with them and so soone as they haue applied it to the wound they account themselues out of all danger of death how great soeuer the wound be This remedie was tried by the Indian Câ—nibals by reason of a battell where they were hurt in a prouince called Sauinam and as their custome was to cure their poysoned wounds with sublimate so they not finding store thereof sufficient were made to applie vnto their wounds the juice drawne out of the leaues of this hearbe which shortly after tooke away the paine and venime thereof and so they became whole the proofe of this thing hath also beene made in Spaine sundrie times and amongst others by the Catholicke King himselfe who to make triall of this hearbe caused the wound of a dogge to be rubbed with sublimate and then presently after to be applied the juice of Petum together with the substance and all This same remedie may serue against the bitings of mad dogges so that it be vsed within a quarter of an houre after The decoction of the leaues boyled in water and made into a syrope with sugar or into a â—uleb or Apozeme and taking euerie morning the quantitie of two or three ounces remedieth the difficultie of breath old â—ough so that the partie before he vse this decoction haue beene vniuersally purged by some purgatiue medicine the â—uice and drosse of the said leaues stamped in a mortar doth open the obstructions of the spleene and softeen the hardnesse of the same applied vnto the region of the â—pleene in the morning for want of the leaues the powder may be applied being 〈◊〉 with some oyntment appropriat vnto such diseases The same remedie serueth â—or the paine of the stomach the paine of the bellie and the colicke as also such other griefes comming of coldnesse and windinesse being applied warme and vsed ofâ—entimes till at length the paines be asswaged It is not of the least seruice for the paynes of the matrix the said leaues applied vnto the nauell in manner aforesayd as also if the fume thereof be put into the nose of a woman grieued with the 〈◊〉 of the Mother This is the reason why the women that are subject vnto the disease of the Mother should haue the same alwaies readie Some hold it for a â—â—â—gular remedie against the gowt to chaw euerie morning fasting the leaues of 〈◊〉 because it voydeth great quantitie of flegme out at the mouth hindering the 〈◊〉 from falling vpon the joynts which is the verie cause of the gowt If you 〈◊〉 the leaues amongst hot embers for some space and alterward taking them forth 〈◊〉 them without shaking off the ashes from them vnto his bellie that hath 〈…〉 drunke much you shall asâ—wâ—ge his swelling fulnesâ—e and keepe him from 〈◊〉 The juice of the leaues of Nicotiana stamped clarified and mixt with 〈◊〉 sugar of the forme of a syrope being taken in the morning killeth and casteth 〈◊〉 wormes but therewithall you must lay vpon the parties nauâ—ll some of the 〈◊〉 bruised stamped in a mortar and wrapped in a linnen cloth and let it be presently after he hath taken a clyster of milke and sugar All aches of the joynes 〈…〉 a cold cause all swellings tumours and impostumes comming likewâ—â—e of cold and windie causes all kiâ—es on childrens heeles as also exceeding great itches are 〈◊〉 led by applying the leaues of Petum The juice of Petum layed vpon a 〈◊〉 carbuncleo how pestilent oâ— venimous
may grow faire and haue a more pleasant smell it must be planted â—nder the shadow of a Figge-tree or grafted in the rind of a Figge-tree for the 〈◊〉 and sweetnesse of the Figge-tree doth temper the sharpenesse and acrimoâ—ie of the Rue Some say likewise that Rue will grow fairer if the branches thereof 〈◊〉 set in a Beane or Onion and so put into the ground It is likewise reported that it â—â—oweth fairer if one curse and hurt it when they set and plant it But looke how â—â—iendly and kind it is to the Figge-tree so much it is enemie vnto and hateth the â—â—emlocke likewise Gardiners when they would pull vp Rue for feare of hurting â—â—eir hands rub them with the juice of Hemlocke Wild Rue is of greater force than the garden Rue and of a more vnpleasant â—â—ell and also a more dangerous smell furthermore of so sharpe a vapour as that if 〈◊〉 come neere vnto the face neuer so little it will breed the wild fire in it The feed 〈◊〉 of the one and the other by the hot and drie temperature it hath drieth vp the 〈◊〉 of man and maketh him barren the same seed in decoction is good for distilâ—â—tions and the moisture of the matrix Rue hath a singular vertue and force against all manner of venime Likewise we 〈◊〉 that the king Mithridates was accustomed to vse an opiate made of twentie â—â—ues of Rue two drie Figges two old Walnuts and a little Salt to preserue his state â—gainst all manner of poyson For this cause you must plant in your gardens and 〈◊〉 your sheepecoats houses for your fowle and other cattell great quantitie of â—ue for Adders Lizards and other venimous beasts will not come neere vnto 〈◊〉 by the length of the shadow of it Some also hold it as a tried thing that to 〈◊〉 away Cats and Fulmers from hen-houses and doue-houses there is nothing â—etter than to set Rue at the doores thereof or round about them And that to free a â—ome of fleas and gâ—ats it is good to water that same with water sprinkled about with branch of rue In the plague time it is not good to put rue neere vnto your nose â—ontrarie to that which we see many men practise because by the sharpenesse of the 〈◊〉 there is caused a heat and excoriation of the part which it toucheth notwithâ—â—anding to draw out the venime that is in a bubo or pestilent carbuncle there is noâ—â—ing better than to applie thereto a cataplasme made of the leaues of rue stampt with leauen hogs-grease onions figges vnquencht lime sope cantharides and a 〈◊〉 treacle If a man haue eaten of hemlocke ceruse mandrakes blacke poppie 〈…〉 other hearbes which through their great coldnesse haue caused them to be 〈◊〉 and blockish they may profitably vse the juice of rue to drinke it for the 〈◊〉 of them from such danger or else the wine wherein it hath beene boyled Thâ— distilled water of rue powred into vvine and rose-water of each as much is good 〈◊〉 the weakenesse of the sight It is verie soueraigne for the headach and being 〈◊〉 in wine with fennell and so drunke it easeth all obstructions of the spleene or 〈◊〉 and taketh away the pain of the strangurie and also stoppeth any flux being 〈◊〉 with Cummin-seed it easeth all maner of aches and being stampt with home 〈◊〉 flower and the yolke of an egge it cureth any impostumation whatsoeuer All sorts of mints whether garden or wild doe nothing desire the ground 〈◊〉 dunged fat or lying open vpon the Sunne but rather a moist ground neere 〈◊〉 water for want thereof they must be continually watred for else they die it is 〈◊〉 sowne than set but if it be set then it may be either of roots or branches in 〈◊〉 or in the Spring time especially about the twelfth of March or September 〈◊〉 wanteth the seed to sow it may insteed thereof sow the seed of field mints 〈◊〉 the sharpe point downeward thereby to tame and reclaime the wildnesse of it 〈◊〉 it is growne it must not be toucht with any edge toole because thereupon it 〈◊〉 die Neither need you take care to sow it euerie yeare for it will grow of itselfe 〈◊〉 being sowne of set in great aboundance Mints stampt and applyed to breasts too hard and full of milke doe seften 〈◊〉 and hindreth the curding of the milke stampt with salt it is good against the 〈◊〉 of a mad dog stampt and put into a cataplasme it comforteth a weak 〈◊〉 and strengtheneth digestion two or three sprigs of mints taken with the juice of â—â—pomegranat stayeth the hicket vomiting and surfets It is good to help them 〈◊〉 haue lost their smelling by putting it oft to the nose Then leaues dried made in 〈◊〉 and drunke with white wine doth kill the wormes in yong children Such as 〈◊〉 milke aâ—ter they haue eaten it must by and by chaw of the leaues of mints 〈…〉 the quaâ—ling of the milke in their stomachs for mints haue the speciall 〈…〉 keeping milk from curding as also to keepe cheeâ—e from corruption and 〈◊〉 if it be sprinkled with the juice or decoction of mints being â—pplied vnto the 〈◊〉 it asswageth head-ach commming of cold The water of the whole hearbe distilled 〈◊〉 Maries bath in a glasse Alembecke and taken the quantitie of foure ounces 〈◊〉 stay bleeding at the nose which is very strange thing they that would liue 〈◊〉 must not smell vnto not eat any mints and therefore in auncient time it was 〈◊〉 captaines in warre to eat any mints Calamint otherwise called Mentastrum delighteth in the same ground 〈◊〉 mints we see it likewise grow in vntilled grounds neere vnto high waies and hedgâ— It prouoketh the termes in women whether it be taken at the mouth or in 〈◊〉 and that with such violence as that women may not in any case meddle with 〈◊〉 if they take themselues to be with child it is singular good vsed in formentation 〈◊〉 the paines of the stomach for the colicke and distillations the juice thereof 〈◊〉 the mouth killeth wormes in the bellie and being dropt into the eare it killeth 〈◊〉 there also Of this Calamint there are three kinds as the stone Calamint the 〈◊〉 Calamint and the water Calamint the water Calamint is excellent to make 〈…〉 the earth Calamint is verie good against leprosie helpeth paine in the 〈◊〉 and comforteth the stomach lastly the stone Calamint is soueraigne against 〈◊〉 and strengtheneth the heart if it be bruised and made into a plaiâ—ter with 〈…〉 sewet it healeth any venimous wounds and to drinke it three or foure daies 〈◊〉 either in ale or wine it cureth the jaundise Thyme as well of Candie as the common doth grow better planted than 〈◊〉 and craueth a place open vpon the Sunne neere vnto the sea and leane and it 〈◊〉 be planted at mid-March in a well â—illed ground that so it may the sooner
picked and the leaues pulled off euen from the lowest part of them vnto where you perceiue the leaues to grow tender and these stalkes you must salt in a little Trough or Tray and so let them continue a day and a night vntill that they haue turned the â—alt into brine after this they must be washed in the same brine of salt and after that they haue beene spraind they are layed abroad vpon hurdles vntill they be well dried afterward there must be put vpon them dried Dill â—ennell a little Rue and Lâ—â—kes chopped small after all this the said stalkes are put vp in a pot thus dried and there is powred in vpon them a pickle which is made of two parts of vineger and one of salt brine after this in stead of a double Linnen cloth to couer it there must be thrust in good store of drie Fennell vpon them in such sort as that the pickle may swell vp and ouer-couer them And euermore in all confections it must be a speciall great care that they remaine not drie and to that end to powre in pickle oftentimes â—f by turning them aside you see they haue need After this fashion may Succorie Scariole Harts-horne the tender shoots of Brambles the young and tender croppes of Thyme Sauorie Organie and Radishes be preâ—erued and such preserues must be made in the beginning of Summer The hearbes preserued with salt and vineger are chiefely ordained for Salads but these that are made with sugar and honey doe serue for the vse of Physicke such are those which follow hereafter There is but verie seldome any preserues made of the flowers and leaues of herbes I vnderstand by this preserue taken properly the preseruing of things whole and not stampt and beaten into one bodie notwithstanding who so is disposed to preserue the flowers or leaueâ— of hearbes may doe it in this fashion Take the leaues or flowers of such herbes as you will preserue make them very cleane afterward without anie manner of stamping of them put them all whole into some vessell wherein 〈◊〉 will keepe them cast vpon them a sufficient competencie of fine Sugar made in pâ—â—der and so â—et them to Sunning in the vessell Also in this â—ort boyle them at a 〈◊〉 fire with Sugar so long as till the Sugar become as thicke as a syrrup and 〈…〉 them in a vessell Otherwise after that you haue diligently cleansed the leaues or the flowers of the hearbes put them in an earthen pot or glasse and after poure into them of boyled Sugar of the consistence of a syrrup and well clarified Thus may Roses leaues of Mines Spleenewort Maiden-haire Sorrell Ceterach Buglosse and such like be preserued the flowers of Marigolds Succorie Violets Broome Sage and other such like and such preserues are more acceptable than conserues because the flowers and leaues doe in better sort retaine and keepe their naturall smell thus than in conserues for in conserues they are powned with Sugar which doth rebate verie much the naturall smell of the leaues or flowers Now as concerning making of conserues of leaues or flowers of hearbes you 〈◊〉 keepâ— this course Take the tendrest parts of the flowers or leaues and cast away the hardest such as are the white tailes of Rose leaues the stalkes of Mints Spleenwort Maiden-haire and such like make them verie cleane and bray them afterward in a Marble Mortar or of other Stone with a pestle hard and solide ynough and that so long as till they become in manner of a past and then put vnto them twice or thrice as much Sugar or Honey And if it fall out that the leaues or flowers so â—â—amped be of themselues somewhat too moist as the leaues of Violets water Lillies and Bugloâ—â—e be then put thereto great quantitie of the powder of Sugar When you haue thus done put them into an earthen Vessell and set them abroad a Sunning a whole moneth that so their superfluous moisture may be spent by the heat of the Sunne but they must be stirred euerie day Or if you had rather doe thus Set the Vessels vpon hot ashes to the end they may take a little boyle but this is not so good as the setting of them in the Sunne After this manner may the flowers of Rosemarie Marâ—golds Beâ—onie Pionie Marierome Balme Scabâ—oâ—s Elder tree Mints fuâ—â—itorie Eye-bright Succorie of the flowers of the Peach-tree Sage Broome Oranges Mâ—â—lowes Hollyhocke and other such like the toppes of Thyme Hysope and Worme wood the conserue whereof we haue said before to be verie soueraigne in the Dropsie as also the conserue of Peach-tree flowers and that of Broome flowers for the obstructions of the reines and spleene And for as much as the conserues of Violets and Roses are in great vse and request we will speake particularly of them To make conserue of Roses you must take the leaues of Roses white or red which are not as yet open and blowne you must make them cleane and stampe them without being dried before in a Stone Mortar and after put thereto thrice their weight in Sugar and then put it vp in a Glasse-vessell well couered with Parchment and set in the Sunne the space of three moneths and stirring it almost euerie day If you would make conserues of drie Roses boile in halfe a pound of Rosewater one whole pound or thereabout of fine Sugar afterward when you see that all the water is conâ—â—â—med cast into the Sugar an ounce of drie Roses made into powder boyle them altogether reasonably and after with a spatule of wood you shall make your conserue into morsels or cakes Otherwise make three infusions of Roses in Rosewater let the third settle the bottome whereof you shall let alone as being the earthie and grosse part taking that onely that is aboue and in it you shall boyle fine Sugar and after that you shall cast thereinto halfe an ounce or thereabout of dried Roses in powder and doe in like manner afterward as hath beene alreadie said To make conserues of Violets you must take the fresh and new flowers of Violets and take from them their taile and the little greene cup by which they hang and after drie them some small time in the shadow of the Sunne to take from them their superfluous moisture which they haue after that bray them in a Stone Mortar with twicâ— so much Sugar and put them in a Glasâ—e vessell which shall be set to Sunne for the space of three moneths and stirred verie oft during the said tâ—â—e as hath beene alreadie said of the conserue of Roses If you would make conserue of drie Violets make one or two infusions of Violets and in them boyle fine Sugar afterward casting halfe an ounce of powdred Violets to one pound of Sugar then boyling them a little together you shall with a spatule make your conserue into morsels or cakes For to make Mustard you must picke and cleanse your seed verie
colour pleasant smell pure neat and shining in euerie part sweet and verie pleasant to the tast and yet notwithstanding this hauing a certaine kind of acrimonie or sharpenesâ—e of an indifferent consistence betwixt thicke and thinne hanging together in it selfe in such sort as that being lifted vp with the fingers end it keepeth together in â—aner of a direct line without any breaking asunder for it should argue it selfe to be either too thick or too thinne if it should not hang together but breake or else to haue some other vnequall mixture It must not be long in boyling and yeelding but small store of scum when it doth boyle aboue all it may not exceedingly smell of Thyme though some as I my selfe doe know doe greatly esteeme of such And that which is gathered in the Spring or Summer is much better than that which is gathered in Winter White Honey is not of lesse goodnesse than that which is of a golden yellow so that there accompanie it the other marks of goodnes such as that is which the Spaniards and men about Narbona doâ— send vnto vs being verie white and 〈◊〉 firme and hard and therefore better without all comparison than anie other 〈◊〉 of Honey Honey the newer it is the better it is cleane contrarie to Wine which is more commended when it is old than when it is new This also is to be marked in Honey 〈◊〉 as Wine is best at the mid-Caske and Oyle in the â—op so Honey is best towards the bottome for by how much Honey is more firme and heauie so much it is the 〈◊〉 as being the sweeter The vse of Honey serueth for manie things it prolongeth life in old folkâ—s and in them which are of cold complexion that it is so we see that the Bee which is 〈◊〉 little creature â—eeble and weake liueth nine or tenne yeares by herâ—eeding vpon Honey The nature of Honey is to resist corruption and puâ—â—ifaction and this is the cause why Gargarismes to cleanse and mundifie the vlcers of the mouth are 〈◊〉 therewith Some make a distilled water of Honey which causeth the 〈◊〉 is fallen away to grow againe in what part of the bodie soeuer it be CHAP. LXX The manner of preparing diuers sorts and diuers compositions of Honey THere is such excellent vertue in Honey as that is preserueth and defendeth things from puâ—â—ifaction and corruption which is the cause that when anie are disposed to keepe Rootes Fruits Hearbes and especially Iuices it is ordinarily accustomed to conserue them is Honey whereupon it commeth that wee vse these names Honey of 〈◊〉 Roses Rosemarie-slowers Damaske-Raiâ—â—â—â— Myrtles Anacardâ—â— Buglosse and such like which are made with iuice and Honey of which onely we will 〈◊〉 in this place The Honey of Violets Roses Buglosse Mercurie and Rosemariâ—â—flowers 〈◊〉 all prepared after one sort Take of the iuice of new Roses a pound of pure 〈◊〉 Honey first boyled and 〈◊〉 tenne pounds boyle them all together in a Caldron vpon a cleere fire when these boyle adde vnto them of new Roses yet 〈◊〉 cut in sunder with Scizars of Sheares foure pound boyle them all vntill the iuice be wasted stirring them often with a sticke this being done straine them and put 〈◊〉 in an earthen vessell for to be kept for it is better and better after some time Otherwise and better and ofter vsed Stampe in a Mortar new Roses adde like 〈◊〉 of Honey and set them in the Sunne the space of three moneths afterward straine them and boyle the liquor strained out to the thicknesse of Honey Otherwise 〈◊〉 equall parts of Honey and of the manifold infusion of new Roses boyle them all 〈◊〉 the consistence of a Syrrup looke how manie times the more double the inâ—usion of the Roses is by so much the Honey of Roses will be the better and this same is 〈◊〉 most fit to be taken at the mouth as the first and second are for Clysters Or 〈◊〉 take new raw Honey before it euer boyle or hauing but lightly boyled and 〈◊〉 thereto some quantitiâ— of sweet water red Roses that are new and newly 〈◊〉 in the shadow their white taken away and a third part of Honey put them all together in a glasse-vessell or earthen one well glassed which being close stopped shall be set in the Sunne and stirred euerie third day and thus you may fitly prepare Honey of Roses and Rosemarie-flowers a great deale better than after anie of the 〈◊〉 waies Honey of Myrtles is made with a pound of the iuice of Myrtle-tree and 〈◊〉 pound of Honey all boyled together vpon a small fire The honie of damaskes raisons is thus made Take damaske raisons cleansed from their stones steepe them foure and twentie houres in warme water and after boyle them to perfection when they haue thus boyled straine them through a strainer verie strongly and after that boyle them againe to the thicknesse of 〈◊〉 Mel Anacardinum is thus made Stampe a certaine number of the fruit Anacardia and after let them lye to steepe for the space of seuen daies in vinegar but on the eight boile them to the consumption of the one halfe afterward straine them through a linnen cloth the juice that is strained out must be boyled with like quantitie of honie The manner of making honied water Take one part of honie and sixe parts of raine water put all together in a little barrell well pitcht and sâ—opt aboue that 〈◊〉 no 〈◊〉 at all may enter in at it afterward set it out in the hottest weather that is as in Iulie but out of all raine and leaue it so about 〈◊〉 daies but with such prouâ—â—o as that you turne the barrell euerie eight daies to the end that the Sunne may worke on all sides of it To make it more effectuall and of greater vertue it will be good in quincetime to mixe therewith the juice of quinces in such quantitie as that there may be for eâ—erie pound of honie a quarter of a pound of juice of quinces Some before they put the honie and water together into the barrell boyle them together vpon a cleare fire or vpon coales without smoake they scum the honâ—e and boyle it to perfection which they gather by casting an egge into it which if it swim aboue then the honie is sufficiently boyled but and if it sinke then it is not boyled ynough The Polonians Muscoâ—â—es and Englishmen doe make a drinke hauing the 〈◊〉 of a honied water which is farre more pleasant and more wholesome than many mightie wines and it is called Mede They take one part of honie and six parts of raine riuer or fountaine water they boyle them together and in boyling them take off the seum very diligently and continue the boyling till the halfe of the whole be consumed being cooled they put it vp in a wine vessell and after adde vnto it â—ix ounces of the barme of ale or beere to
small branches for in these they greatly reioyce and profit mightily â—â—uing them in stead of dung You may either digge the kernell into the ground and burie it or else plant of the siences neere the tops of hills and mountaines whether 〈◊〉 be in a high or low place in October Nouember December and Ianuarie You may graft them in Nouember or according to Palladius from the twelfth day of December vnto the first of Februarie The best is to graft them in Februarie and in March albeit that it be the best cutting of all trees that yeeld gumme when the gumme is not yet rising or after it is quite gone downe and returned from whence it rise Lastly Cherrie-trees neuer thriue so well being nothing done vnto but planted as when they are graâ—â—ed they delight to haue their dried branches often weeded out from themselues and the siences growing at their foot they delight also to be set in holeâ— and pits that are digged and cast and to be often digged about And if you would hasteâ— and cause them to bring forth their fruit sooner you must lay Quicke lime to the foot of them or else water their roots often with warme water but then such fruit is 〈◊〉 altered and made worse retaining but little of his naturally goodnesse euen as 〈◊〉 will proue and find by the hastie Cherries which the inhabitants of Poictiou send 〈◊〉 vpon horsebacke They may be grafted vpon the Plum-tree and Corneile-tree but best vpon one of their owne kind in such sort as that sweet Cherrie-trees being grafted vpon 〈◊〉 Cherrie-trees doe beare a more soft Cherrie than those are which grow vpon sweet Cherrie-trees grafted into sweet Cherrie-trees Cherries grow fairest vpon small Cherrie-trees and more plentifully also than they doe vpon high and tall ones Wherefore who so shall graft the small Cherrie-tree vpon the great shall procure greater store of fruit and more thicke ones such as are the wild Cherries and also 〈◊〉 haue more store of great boughs than those trees haue which doe but as it were 〈◊〉 on the earth In like manner if when you graft them you set the bud and the 〈◊〉 of the graft below the boughes that grow forth thereupon will fall out after 〈◊〉 like manner The Coeurs and Agriots may be grafted vpon the common sweet Cherrie-tree but better vpon wild ones than vpon garden ones We must therefore acknowledge eight sorts of Cherries growing vpon Cherrie-trees that is to say those which are properly Cherries hauing a verie short stalke round apple being also red fleshiâ—â— full of iuice sharpe and hauing a sweet kernell wild Cherries which haue but a liâ—tle flesh on them but are red also on that side toward the Sunne and white on the other side the stone cleaâ—ing to the flesh blacke Cherries whose iuice is so blacke as that it coloureth the hands and lippes bitter Cherries which are somewhat of a bitter tast whereof they haue their name Guyens Cherries so called because their first originall was in Guyenne they are long ones and manie hanging together at one stalke they are also verie sweet Piugarres and these are grosse thicke ones white hauing a hard flesh but sweet and cleauing vnto the kernell Coeurs which are like vnto a mans heart as well without as within their kernall some doe call these Cherries Heaumes and the Cherry-tree Heaumier especially in the Countrey of Aniou Agriâ—ts which are ripe last of all are sharpe relished and endure carriage farre off and they are also the same which are wont to be preserued Of the speciall properties and vertues of the Cherry and Cherry-tree see the nineâ—â—enth chapter of this Booke wherein is declared how the Cherry may be made to grow without anie stone If the Cherry-tree be hurt of Pisâ—â—ires you must rubbe his stocke with the iuice of Purcelane if it be too full of sappe you must make a hole in the principall root Cherries how faire soeuer they be yet they are of small nourishment beget â—uill humours in the stomack and wormes in the bodie and such are those especially which â—re called Coeurs The sharpe sweet Cherries are verie delicate fit to preserue with Sugar as well for such as are found as for them which are sicke The bitter Cherries â—re good raw but better drie and in sawces pastes and tart stuffe The sweet Cherâ—ies are chiefely commended in that they make the bodie soluble as the sharpe or â—ager ones doe bind it coole it and temper the heat of choler The gumme of Cherry-tree drunke with white wine doth breake the stone as well of the reines as of the â—ladder The water of Cherries newly gathered being distilled with a gentle fire and taken at the mouth in the quantitie of halfe an ounce doth put off the fit of the â—alling sicknesse a thing verie happily and with good successe tryed in manie as Manardus assureth vs. CHAP. XXV Of the Quince-tree ALl Quince-trees as well that of the Garden as the wild one and of the Garden ones as well the male as the female desireth a cold ground and especially that which is moist withall notwithstanding that we haue seene them as well to grow in the places lying open to the Sunne as at Conâ—lans a place belonging to Monsieur de Ville-roy neere vnto Paris but yet indeed not farre off from a Riuer and this kind of tree doth so much craue to haue the companie of moisture as that if the time fall out drie the necessitie thereof must be â—upplyed by watering of it and if for want of moist and waterish ground it be set 〈◊〉 a drie ground or in a stonie or clayie ground it must then also be often refreshed with water and must also be vnder-digged and laboured about the foot that so the â—â—â—et of the night may pierce and sinke downe vnto the roots that so it may bring â—orth good fruit and good store thereof When it is planted of rootes it growâ—â—th so well as that the second yeare it beareth fruit but it beareth not so soone when it is planted of branches It would be planted during the encrease of the Moone in the moneths of Februarie or Nouember This tree is verie commonly vsed to graft other trees vpon because they being grafted thereupon doe continue and endure longer and beare a more delicate fruit than if they were grafted vpon trees of their owne kind The best time for the gathering of this fruit is in the moneth of October when that blasting comes and it groweth to be of a golden colour for this is a signe that it is ripe and this must bee in cleare and faire weather and in the decrease of the Moone and then you must cleanse it from the mossie hoarinesse that is vpon it and lay them out orderly in the Sunne vpon hurdles If the Quince-tree make anie shew of being sicke you must water it with the â—â—â—lings of oyle mingled with equall quantitie of water or else with Quicke lime
make candles in such countries as where the oyle is much in request as in Mirebalois and thereabout it affordeth a gristle betwixt the two halfes of the kernell which being dried in the shadow after that the kernell is once perfected and afterward made into powder and drunke with a 〈◊〉 draught of red vvine doth by and by assuage the paine of the colicke as also the fruit comming of it when it is worth nothing but to make refuse and outcastings of as the nut growne old and all hoarie ceasâ—th not notwithstanding to doe good seruice for and if you burne it lightly or squeese it out easily with a hot yrâ—â— the oyle that then wil come forth of it is singular good to take away blewnesse of strokes whether about the eyes or elsewhere in the face or other part of the bodie the old 〈◊〉 serueth also for other vses as shall be said by and by The wood of the walnut tree is good and handsome to put in worke when you would make any faire and 〈◊〉 worke because it is listed and smooth of his owne nature The small buds of the walnut-tree called of he Latins Iuli appearing in March being dried and after powdred and drunke with white vvine the weight of a French crowne are exceedingly good in the suffocation of the matrix The oyle of the nut drunke to the quantitie of fiue or sixe ounces doth cure the colicke if you mixe a little quicke lime amongst the oyle of nuts it will make a singular liniment for the swellings and shortnesse of the sinews The old oyle of walnuts cureth the falling of the haire called Tinea If you pill off the greene pillings of the walnuts and cast them into water and after cast this vvater vpon the ground there will grow from thence great store of wormes good for fishers if you boyle the pillings in a câ—ldron after they be fallâ—â— from the Tree as opening of themselues and rubbe any kind of white wood whatsoeuer with this water it will turne to the colour of the Walnut-tree but more faire and beautifull Some steepe the barke of the roots of Walnut-trees in vinegar and after lay it vpon the wrests of such as haue the ague This draweth out all the heat of the ague but it swelleth the skin of the wrest Some make a soueraigne mithridate against the plague as we haue said in the chapter of rue with two old walnuts three figges twentie leaues of rue and one graine of salt The walnut closed vp in a hen or capon set to the fire to roast causeth the said hen or capon to be the sooner roasted The distilled vvater of vnripe Walnuts gathered about Midsommer is singular good to driue away tertian agues if one take about some foure or fiue ounces of it The Walnut either new or drie but yet the drie somewhat lesse is of hard digestion causeth head-ach and hurteth the cough and short breath and therefore it must be vsed sparingly steepe whole walnuts pillings and shells and all in a sufficient quantitie of water vntill such time as that their shell be sufficiently softned and moistened and that the kernell may be pilled easily from the thin filme that couereth it ouer as it falleth out in greene walnuts this done take the kernells so pilled and let them steepe in a pot vvell couered in verie good Aqua-vitae giue two daies after two or three of these kernells whole to a woman that cannot haue her termes for the space of eight or nine daies before her accustomed time of hauing her termes and that in the morning and after that she hath purged This medicine hath neuer a match in prouoking of the termes that are stayed and it is a thing well proued And as for the manner of keeping and preseruing of them we will speake in his fit place If the same day that you haue beene bitten of a dogge which you doubt to haue beene madde you put vpon the biting an old nut well brayed and after take it away and cast it to a hungrie cock or hen if the same eating it die not it is a signe that the dogge which did bite you was not madde but and if it die then it is a signe that he was madde and therefore the sore must be looked vnto as is meet within three daies CHAP. XXXIIII Of the Oliue-tree NOw we come to speak of the Oliue-tree which is for the most part small thicke of leaues and round for there are some sorts also that haue great branches dispersed here and there out of order both the one and the other sort are contented with a shallow ground for in many places they grow vpon the thin green swarth or turfe that couereth the rocks vpon the ground hanging vpon the sides of some great steeres thus you may see how the oliue-tree disposeth of it selfe euerie where how vnfitting and vnlikely soeuer that the ground be prouided that it haue a warme ayre and Easterly or Southerly wind at command He that would carefully appoint it out such a plot as the vine would require might erre in many places for the oliue-tree is not so much to be regarded in respect of his soyle and seat at the vine for it contenteth it selfe with a great deale lesse than the vine vvill If you giue it ground that is good and fat earth and the Sunne and Winds which it delighteth in in other places doubt not but it will doe as the Spaniard who pleaseth himselfe with as good as nothing when he knoweth not how to amend himselfe or do better and performeth his seruice therewithall but if he come where he may but haue the smell of it he is stuffed as full as the greatest 〈◊〉 in all Lymosin so the Oliue-tree being once seised in his tallance of a good piece of ground contenteth it selfe and beareth fruit handsomely As concerning the planting of it vpon the North in hot Countries and there searing it vpon the toppes of mountaines or lesser hills or vpon the South in cold Countries these are but troubles and paines without anie great foundation for as concerning cold Countries there is no talke to be had of growing of Oliue-trees in them and as concerning hot Coâ—â—tries there is neither taking nor leauing of quarters or coasts in respect of this tree The Oliue-tree doth encrease it selfe by shoots which it putteth forth at the sootâ— for being pulled vp vnhurt and planted elsewhere they grow vp verie speedily And to prepare them a faire place to grow in you must digge them pits where you mind to set them a yeare before hand of foure foot depth and if you cannot haue holes made readie for them so long before but must be constrained to set them downe in new digged ones then you must season and purifie the said holes by burning of the leaues and some small branches of the Oliue-tree therein or else some straw at the least for the fire
about it and to wax old which it casteth forth or else by reason of the mosâ—e which it gathereth and for that cause it would haue his gumme taken away at the beginning of cold weather and the mosâ—e rubbed off with a rough Linnen cloth or a mosâ—e rubber of Horse-haire and this at all times There happeneth likewise vnto it an vindisposedesse through the fault of the Gardiner not casting the ground about the foot or cutting off the rotten and corrupt wood whereupon it turneth in and rowleth it selfe vp into small balls sometimes in one place sometimes in moe and this is a disease which being neglected doth spread it selfe in the end all ouer the tree from one end to another and bringeth it wholly to distruction and therefore so soone as you shall see the sicke tree in this sort to crumple and runne vpon heapes you must cut off verie cleane all the boughes thus diseased whereof it would be murdered and killed euen to the sound and whole branches and withall to order husband it in all good sort about the foot to the taking away of this euili humor which in this maner crooketh and causeth to turne round his wood There happeneth also sometimes by reason of some secret cause that it so languisheth as that it giueth ouer to beare fruit for the putting of it in heart againe you must lay open his roots and cast vpon them the lees of oyle mingled with water or else the stale of oxen or mans vâ—ine or cast vpon the roots the ashes of Vine branches throughly boyled All Plums in generall are cold and moist more or lesse the sweet ones lesse the sowre and sharpe ones more The sweet Plums haue vertue to loosen the belly and yet they will purge more strongly if at such time as when the Plum-tree is young there be taken from it some part of the pith of the stocke or else one of his boughes and the place filled vp againe with Scammonie They will in like manner procure sleepe if you put into the said emptied places the iuice of Mandrakes or Opium Sharpe and tart Plums are giuen to stay the belly There is great account made in Prouence of the Plums of Brignoles by reason of their pleasant tast In France throughout and euerie where else there is a speciall account made of Damaske Plums which are of three sorts the black red and violet colour all of them prouing verie excellent in the Countrey of Tourraine for from thence are sent throughout all France of them dried which are vsed at all times The Plums of Pardigoine are likewise greatly esteemed by reason of their plumpenesse and pleasant tast Furthermore Dates are verie rare and scarce in this Country namely those which come neere to the Dates of other strange Countries which are more pleasant relished than anie other Some likewise make account of Rhemish Plums dried by reason of the pleasant tartnesse and sharpnesse which they haue CHAP. XXXIX Of the Pomegranate-tree COncerning the Pomegranate-tree it requireth little husbanding 〈◊〉 yeeldeth small delight to the sight by reason of his ill-fauored branches and boughs saue so long as it is bearing his fruit before it come to perfect ripenesse and yet put out quartered and as it were laid open to thâ— shew out of his coat and couering this tree is the most delightsome to behold of all others the frame and fashion of whose flower and fruit being well considered iâ—â— worke of Nature right admirable there is not that raine that scorching heat of thâ— Sunne nor yet almost that fading and decaying old age which can cause it to forgoe his goodly shew of Rubies and yet notwithstanding how famous a thing soeâ—er it be it groweth without anie daintie or delicate handling and looking to and that sometimes at the foot of a wall sometimes in the midst of a heape of stones and sometimes amongst the hedges by high waies sides It is true that it craueth a hot Countrey and where it may not be debarred of the Sunne and if it happen to be set at any time in a fat ground it maketh his best aduantage of it being in this respect like vnto the Oliue-tree whereof we haue spoken before And if it be in such a Countrey as iâ— fit for it you need not to thinke either of the digging or vnder-digging of it for it reckoneth not of seeing it selfe set in a great heape of stones as neither to breake crosse-wise through a ruinous wall neither ceaseth â—t for anie such thing from bringing forth his good and pleasant fruit but in cold Countries where it hardly groweth it would be digged and husbanded about the foot twice a yeare that is to say in Autumne and in the Spring It will grow either vpon roots or of grafting in the cleft and that vpon it selfe about March or Aprill but and if you will plant it vpon somâ— branch that hath roots you must chuse such a one as is a handfull thicke and make it a delightsome and fine moulded pit Some would haue it thrust into the earth with a stake by it as is vsuall in setting Willow plants but I cannot find that this way of thrusting it downe thus into the earth doth proue to anie good The Pomegranate-tree will not loose his flower if when as it is flowred you compasse the flocke about with a ring or hoope of Lead or with the old slough of an Adder The wine of Pomegranats is made of this sort You must take the ripe kernels cleane and free from their skins and put them in the presse where they must be pressed by and by Some straine them through bagges made for the purpose some 〈◊〉 them to be put into vessels vntill it be well fined in the end they powre oyle vpoâ— them that they may not corrupt or grow sowre The Pomegranate Apple put in a pot of new earth well couered and 〈◊〉 with clay set in an Ouen and in the end so well parched as that it may be made into powder then such powder taken the weight of halfe a crowne with red wine doth helpe thâ— partie maruellously that hath the bloudie flux The innermost flowers of thâ— Pomegranate made vp in conserue with Sugar haue an incredible force to stay 〈◊〉 manner of fluxes of the Matrix whether white or red taken in the quantitie of 〈◊〉 an ounce with the iuice of sowre Pomegranates or red wine or water wherein 〈◊〉 hath beene quenched as also to stay the bloudie flux the shedding of nature thâ— flux of the guts or of the stomacke The kernels of sowre Pomegranates dâ—ied made into powder and after mingled the weight of an ounce with a 〈◊〉 of fine powdred Frankincense and two drammes of this powder taken euerie morning doe stay the whites CHAP. XL. Of the Ceruise-tree THe Ceruise-tree as well the male as the female delighteth in a cold moist and mountainous place but in a hot and plaine
and transparent which is a signe of their sufficient watering afterward boyle them in a vessel of brasse that is cleane or in a leaden vesâ—el so long as til they be tender vvhen they haue cast out all their waterishnesse put them to steepe in a Iuâ—lep made of one part of sugar and three of water for the space of foure and twentie houres afterward make them to boyle at a little fire so much as is sufficient take them out of the Iulep and put them in a glasse vessell and putting vpon them the Iulep of Rose-vvater thicke ynough of consistence that so it may affoord them as it vvere a crust you may if you vvill aromatize them with a little Amber and Muske To preserue whole Peaches you must pill them and cleanse them as carefully as may be and after boyle them whole or cut in quarters in a sufficient thin Iulep not to boile them to the full but onely to boile out their waterishnesse wherewith they abound and then after this in a better boiled Iulep to boile them vp to the full till they be become through tender and soft and finally to put them vp into some eaâ—then vessell and to couer them with the sirrup wherein they haue boyled For their longer keeping you may aromatize them with Cinnamon or Muske This manner of preseruing of whole Peaches is generall for the preseruing of all other grosse fruits as Peares Quinces Apples Abricots small Peaches and timely Peaches To preserue Cherries you must chuse the fairest sowre Cherries that you can full ripe for if they be not full ripe in boiling them toward the end you shall find nothing but skinne and bone cutting off their starts at the halfe and afterward boile them in their owne iuice with sugar in such proportion as that for euerie pound of Cherries you haue halfe a pound of sugar taking away the sâ—umme still as it shall rise in boiling of them when they shall be sufficiently boiled you must put them in glasse vessels and powre vpon them the sirrup wherein they haue boiled notwithstanding if the sirrup should still seeme waterish boile it more perfectly Otherwise and better put apart some quantitie of your said sowre Cherries which you shall presse to haue a sufficient quantitie of iuice in this iuice so soone as you haue pressed it out melt your sugar and not in anie other liquor boile them together presently and in boiling scumme them when the iuice is well scummed clarified and become red without taking it from the fire or making it loose his boiling put the Cherries thereinto to boile as long as needeth without anie stirring of them but looking well to the scumming of them with a spatule stirre them not from off the fire vntill they be perfectly boiled and that you shall discerne if you see the sirrup dropt vpon a trencher to fall into drops that doe not spread abroad for then it is exactly boiled and you must put vp your Cherries into their glasse vessels good and hot for to be kept In this manner you shall preserue Plums Ceruises Gooseberries and such other small fruits For the preseruing of Barberries you shall take the fairest and goodliest bunches of Barberries that you can find being gotten verie drie from the tops of the trees and as neere as you can from the Sunne side thereof being fully ripe and of one entire colour then with a pinne or needle you shall open the side and pick out all the stones or kernels from the same then to euerie bare pound of these Barberries thus stoned you shall take a pound downe weight of fine sugar well beaten and searced and so boile them on a gentle charcoale fire till the sirrup be thicke then let them coole and afterward pot them vp being sure to couer them all ouer with the sirrup But if you intend to make Conserue of them then you shall not need to stone them but onely picke them cleane from their branches taking all the sound berries and casting away all that are vnsound or spotted and so boile them in their sugar ouer a hot fire vntill they burst stirring them continually with a spatule of wood or steele made for the purpose and then straine them through a strainer not exceeding fine and squeese them so soone as is possible then being cooled pot it vp and vse it as you shall haue necessarie occasion This Conserue is most excellent against burning feauers or other pestilent diseases growing from inflammation or corruption of the bloud it comforteth the stomack and begets an appetite it cheareth all the spirits and being drunke in Iuleps bringeth the bloud to his true qualitie and taketh away all thirst inflammation or roughnesse in the throat or mouth it is also good for anie heat in the liuer For to haue paste of Plums first boile the Plums with a little water stirring them oftentimes that they may not burne too afterward straine and force them through a sâ—arce and weigh them that so you may put thereto for euerie pound foure ounces of sugar set all vpon the fire to boile againe and stirre them well not giuing ouer vntill all the scumme be consumed and spent which done make them readie as they are where you will afterward lay them in the Sunne to drie three daies and then shut them vp and in case that they grow moist or that there spring forth anie water out of them you must lay them in the Sunne againe This patterne of making this paste may serue generally for the making of paste of anie other fruits as Peares Apples Cherries and Peaches saue that you must haue respect vnto the quantitie of Sugar which shall be more or lesse according to the more or lesse moistnesse of the fruits which you are determined to make vp in paste To keepe Peaches or other fruits take Peaches or other fruits which you would keepe when it is faire weather and drie and opening them in the middest take out the stone then lay them all one day to drie in the Sunne or in an Ouen after that the bread is drawne out afterward take sugar well boiled and purified and annoint them ouer and lay them againe the day following in the Sunne and so annoint them ouer againe and so oft as they shall drie and vntill they haue gotten a sufficient crust and after keepe them at your pleasure To make Oliues readie against a day Take greene Oliues and cut off a little from the one side after lay them in water with lime and good sifted ashes but take withall that you must haue twice so manie ashes as lime and let them steepe in that sort the space of 24. houres after you shall take them out and wash them foure or fiue times in warme water afterward you shal put them in a stone or glasse vessell with salt water and this you shall change euerie three moneths and mingle amongst them common
the space of two or three houres vvhen the oyle hath boyled and wasted one part of the moisture that was in it it will be conuenient to straine it through a strong strayner and thicke linnen cloth and after to put into it new Roses againe doing as you did before and that for three seuerall times in the end after it hath beene strayned some put into it as much water of the infusion or other Roses infused in water as there is Oyle then you shall set it in the Sunne for the space of fortie dayes which infusion may be seuered from the oyle afterward as the water wherewith the oyle was vvashed Notwithstanding it may be sufficient to take the infusion of the Roses in oyle onely vvithout the putting of other vvater in the infusion Some mingle now and then in the decoction of Roses a little vvine or juice of fresh Roses to keepe the oyle from burning or that in boyling it should not get any loathsome smell You must further note that some prepare and make two sorts of oyle of Roses one oyle of ripe oliues and roses all opened and spred vvhich are the better if they be red the other oyle it made of roses being yet in the bâ—d with the oyle of greene and vnripe oliues or if you haue not any of this oyle Omphacine you shall make it with common oyle and verjuice boyled together to the consumption of the juice This is more cooling astringent and repercussiue the other more digestiue dicussiue and anodine or assuaging of paynes Some there are which sometimes make this oyle or Roses without oyle of oliues putting red carnation or muske roses to putrifie in a vessell set in dung for one whole moneth being close couered And this kind of oyle is verie fragrant and sweet This manner of making of oyles may be followed in the compounding of oyles either cold or temperate and simple such as are the oyle of violets cammomile meliâ—â—te yellow or red violets of the leaues and flowers of dill lillies the yellow taken away of corneflag flowers of elder tree flowers white mulleine flowers jesamine flowers poppie flowers or of the leaues and heads of poppie of lettuse leaues and white water lillie flowers to the compounding of which oyles you must note that for want of oyle of greene oliues you may take the oyle of sweet almonds newly drawn or of â—â—â—berds if it haue beene first washt Oyle of Quinces Take whole Quinces with the rindes when they are verie ripe but cast away their kernells then stampe them and infuse them in oyle Omphatine in the Sunne fiue dayes or else in oyle washed as vve haue said before afterward boyle them with equall portion of the juice of Quinces in double vessell the space of foure houres renew the flesh and juice of Quinces three or foure times the old being made away set them in the Sunne againe and boyle them afterward strayne all and keepe it in a vessell for your vse you shall draw greater store of the juice of your Quinces if you crush them well and bruise them rather than if you cut them in peecâ—s Oyle of Masticke you must take oyle of Roses or oyle Omphacine or of Quinces three pound of good wine eight ounces of masticke powdred and put vnto the rest toward the end for it will not endure much boyling three ounces boyle them alltogether to the consumption of the vvine in stirring it oft to the end that the masticke may be melted and mixt with the oyle Oyle of the flowers of the Elder-tree Fill a glasse bottle full of vvashed oyle or oyle Omphacine put therein a sufficient quantitie of Elder-tree flowers set the bottle in the hot Sunne sixe dayes after that presse them out and put in others new continue this all the time of Sommer vvhiles the flowers of Elder-tree are in force this oyle is singular to comfort the sinews assuage the paine of the ioynts and to cleanse the skinne Oyle of S. Iohns-wort Infuse for three dayes the crops of S. Iohns-wort in verie fragrant Wine after that boyle all in a soft and gentle sort in Maries-bath and after this some small space strayne them out lightly infuse againe in the same Wine as many dayes as nights the like quantitie of the tops of S. Iohns-wort boyle them and straine them as before afterward put vnto the liquor of Venice-Turpentinâ— three ounces of old oyle sixe ounces of saffron a scruple mixe them and in the said Maries-bath boyle them vnto the consumption of the Wine you shall keepe that which remaineth in a glasse or lead vessell for to vse as hot as you can applie it in maligne vlcers especially those of the sinewes and in the leane and cold parts in the prickes of the sinews paine of the teeth conâ—ulsions tumours and distillations Some doe make this oyle after the simplest and singlest sort making onely the flowers of Hypericum vvhich they infuse all the Sommer in washt oyle in a glasse vessell and setting it in the hot Sunne keepe it Oyle of Rhue Take the leaues of Rhue somewhat dried because they are subject to a superâ—lous kind of moisture set them to infuse in oyle a whole Sommer Or better change and renew them euerie eight dayes strayning and pressing them out at euerie change Sommer being gone boyle them not but straine presse out and keepe them in a vessell after this manner are made the oyles of the Myrtle-tree Wormewood Marierom Southernwood Thyme Cammomile and such like vnto which there is sometimes added the like quantitie of juice or flowers or leaues mingled with oyle â—nd so they are set in the Sunne Oyle of Spike Take true Spike or for want of it lauander to the quantitie of three ounces of marierom and baye-tree leaues two ounces of the rooâ—s of Cypres Elicampaine and Zyloaloâ—â— of each an ounce and a halfe of nuâ—megs three ounces infuse euerie thing by it selfe in an equall quantitie of Wine and vvater the infusion accomplished boyle the whole together in a sufficient quantitie of oyle in a double vessell the space of foure or fiue houres this done strayne it all and keep the oyle for your vse that is to say for the cold ach of the stomacke reines bellie matrix and other parts Oyle of Foxes Take a liue Fox of a middle age of a full bodie well fed and fâ—â— such as Foxes be after vintage kill him bowell him and skinne him some take not out his bowells but onely the excrements in his guts because his guts haue much grease about them breake his bones small that so you may haue all their â—â—rrow this done set him a boyling in salt brine salt water and sea vvater of each a pine and a halfe of oyle three pints of salt three ounces in the end of the decoction put thereto the leaues of sage rosemarie dill organie marierom and Iuniper-berries after that he shall be roâ—ten sodden
ounce then take three or foure Citrons and cut them in sufficient thicke slices which done infuse all this in a sufficient quantitie of Rose-water for the space of three daies distilling it all afterward in Maries bath at a small fire the distillation done put thereto a scruple of Muske Water of Roses musked Take the buds of Roses and cutting out the white put them into the Stillitorie and in the middest thereof vpon your Roses put a little knot of Muske and so distill them Water of Spike Take Spike before the flower be altogether blowne and taking away all the wood from it lay it on a bed within the Stillitorie afterward lay vpon that bed a bed of Roses almost blowne and thereupon some dozen of Cloues but and if you haue not Spike then you may put Lauander in his place distill it at a moderate fire and with as little ayre as possibly you can giue it And when the distillation shall be as good as finished beâ—prinkle the matter with a little verie good white Wine and so finishing your distillation keepe your water in viols well stopped Damaske water Take two handfuls and a halfe of red Roses Rosemarie flowers Lauander and Spike flowers of each a Pugill of the sprigges of Thyme flowers of Cammomile flowers of small Sage of Penyryall and Marierome of each a handfull infuse them all in white Wine the space of foure and twentie houres then put them into the Stillitorie sprinkling it with verie good white Wine and scatter thereupon this powder following take an ounce and a halfe of well chosen Cloues an ounce of Nutmegs of Beniouin and Styrax calamiâ—a of each two drammes make them in powder The water that shall be distilled must be kept in a vessell verie well stopped There is also made a verie sweet water of cleare Myrrhe if it be new guâ—mie and diuided into small gobbets and set to steepe in the iuice of Roses six times as much in quantitie as the Myrrhe It must be distilled vpon hot ashes at a small fire for and if you should encrease it there would come forth oyle with the water Such water being dropped but onely one drop of it into an hundred of well or foâ—â—taine water maketh it all to smell most sweetly Rose-water sweetened with Muske Take a Glasse-vessell of the fashion of an Vrinall that is to say wide below and straight aboue therein put twelue graines of Muske or more and stop it close with good Parchment setting it in the Sunne for foure or fiue daies then take another vessell of the fashion of the first which you shall fill with Roses dried a verie little and stamped then stop that vessell also with a verie thinne Linnen cloth or with a Strainer afterward put the mouth of the vessell wherein the Roses be into the mouth of the other wherein the Muske is luâ—e them well together and set them in the Sunne in such sort as that the vessell with the Roses may stand aboue that wherein the Muske is and that in some window or such other place where the Sunne shineth verie hot and by this meanes there willâ— water distill downe vpon the Muske which will be good either to be vsed aboue or mingled with some other Otherwise Take twentie graines of Muske 〈◊〉 Cloues Galingall Schaenanthum graines of Paradise Mace and Cinnamome of each an ounce bray them all together and put them into a Stillitorie with a 〈◊〉 and a halfe of rose-Rose-water then let them stand so foure or fiue daies and afterward distill them Water of Oranges Take the pilles of Oranges and Citrons when they are greene of each halfe an ounce of Cloues fiue or sixe of the flowers of Spike or Lauander newly gathered six ounces infuse all together in six pound of Rose-water the space of foure or fiue daies afterward distill them Water of Orange flowers Take flowers of Oranges and distill them in a Glasse-Stillitorie or in an earthen one verie well baked and glased hauing but a small fire you may also put vnto them the flowers of Citrons if you thinke good The water must be kept in Glasse-bottles couered with fiâ—e Mats and well stopped The counterfeit water of Orange flowers Take the buds of red Roses the most double that can be found but take their yellow from them make a bed thereof in the Stillitorie and aboue it another bed of the flowers of Lillies afterward againe another of Roses and then another of the flowers of Lauander and then another bed of Roses againe and betwixt euerie one of these beds cast and sow some bruised Cloues and in the middest of all make a little pit in which you shall put certaine graines of Muske or Ciuet or Ambergreece or some sort of perfume afterward distill them all at a little fire Reserue the water in little bottles couered with fine Mats and well stopped A sweet smelling water Take Marierome Thyme Lauander Rosemarie small Penyryall red Roses flowers of Violets Gilloflowers Sauorie and pilles of Oranges steepe them all in white Wine so much as will swimme aboue the said hearbeâ—â— afterward distill them in a Stillitorie twice or thrice keepe the water in bottles well stopped and the drosse or residence to make perfumes CHAP. LXXI The fashion of distilling water for Fukes NOw albeit that a good Farmers wife must not be too bufie with Fukes and such things as are for the decking and painting of the bodie because her care must wholly be imployed in the keeping and encrease of her household-stuffe notwithstanding I would not haue her ignorant of the manner of distilling of waters for Fukes not that shee should make vse of them for her selfe but that shee may make some profit and benefit by the sale thereof vnto great Lords and Ladies and other persons that may attend to be curious and paint vp themselues Now all such waters in generall serue for three purposes The one is to smooth and keepe neat the skinne as well of the face as of the other parts of the bodie The other is to colour the haire of the head and beard and the third to make white the teeth Some of these are simple as the water of the flowers of Beanes of Strawberries the water of the Vine of Goats milke of Asses milke of whites of egges of the flowers of Lillies of Dragons and of Calues feet others are compounded of maine ingredients as you shall know by the briefe collection that wee shall make of them Water of Strawberries Take ripe Strawberries set them to putrifie some certaine time in an earthen vessell putting thereto a little salt or sugar and afterward distill them This water will cleaâ—se away the spots of the face and the spots of the eies caused either of hot or cold humours it will be more effectuall if you infuse the Strawberries in Aqua-vitae before that you doe distill them Water of Beane-flowers Take the flowers of
liquors is auaileable for the beautifying of the face Another water Take two Calues feet boyle them in Riuer water to the consumption of the one halfe of the water put thereunto a pound of Rice of the crummie part of one white loafe kneaded with Goats milke two pound of fresh Butter the whites of tenne new layd egges with their shells and skinnes distill it all and in the distilled water put a little Camphire and Roch Allome this water maketh the face verie faire Water of Lard Take such quantitie of Lard as you shall thinke good and scrape it as cleane as possibly you can afterward stampe it in a Marble Mortar so long as that it become like paste and then distill it in a Glasse-Sillitorie The water will be white and it is singular to make the haire of a Straw-colour and glistening Water of Honey distilled as were haue said before maketh the haire beautifull and long Water of Capers Take greene Capers and distill them This water dyeth haire greene if after they haue beene washed with this water they be dried in the Sunne Another water Take a pound of verie good Honey and of the leaues of male Sothernewood two handfuls mingle them and distill them This water is good to 〈◊〉 the haire of the head and beard faire and beautifull A water to cleanse the teeth Take Sage Organie wild Marierome Rosemarie and Pennyryall of each a handfull of Pellitorie Ginger Cloues and Nutmegs of each the weight of two French crownes put all together and water them with white Wine afterward distill them Another water for the same effect Take long Pepper the weight of two French crownes of Pellitorie and Stauesacre the weight of one French crowne sprinkle them all ouer with halfe and ounce of Aqua-vitae after put an ounce and a halfe of white Honey thereunto and so distill them CHAP. LXXII The manner of distilling per ascensum and per descensum ALl manner of distillation which is made by vertue and force of fire and such like heat is of two sorts the one is made by raising vp of vapours vp on high which the Alchymists call per ascensum and there is another which is after the manner of falling of sweat or defluxion of humors descending downeward and this is commonly called per descensum Waters are for the most part distilled by the way called per ascensum as Oyles are for the most part distilled per descensum I say for the most part because that certaine Waters are sometimes distilled per descensum as also some Oyles per ascensum such as are the Oyles drawne of leaues flowers fruits seeds and other such like matter The waters that are distilled per descensum are chiefely sweet waters such as are made of flowers and leaues of a good smell which being so distilled doe not euaporate or spend their best vapour so quickly by distillation and thereupon they retaine in better sort and for a longer time their naturall smell The way is this Take new Roses or other such flowers and put them in a Linnen cloth spread and stretcht ouer a bason of Brasse or earth well glased aboue this bason set another vessell of Brasse or of earth in manner of a round Frying-panne hauing the bottome couered with hot coales but therewithall you must looke that you let not the fire remaine anie long time vpon the vessell for feare it should grow too hot and that the water should smell of burning Thus way is better than anie other to make a great deale of water in a short time and without great charges of flowerâ— and all sweet smelling cooling and astringent matter After such sort is the Sea-Onion distilled Cut in slices the Sea-Onion put it into an earthen vessell which shall haue manie small holes in the bottome let the bottome of this vessell goe into the mouth of another vessell made of earth and lute them both together verie well and let the earthen vessell be set in the earth vp vnto the throat and then lay it round about with coales of fire thus giue fire vnto the vpper vessell for the space of tenne or twelue houres it will distill his water downeward which if you mixe with flower or bread you shall make Pastils which will be good to kill Rats or Mice and that quickly if you mixe therewith a small quantitie of Litarge You may make your distillation of flowers per descensum otherwise without the heat of anie fire Take two vessels of Glasse one like vnto another both of them being made large in the bottome and narrow at the top after the manner of an Vrinall and see that the mouth of the one will fit and goe into the mouth of the other and then lute them well and close together hauing put betwixt them a fine thinne Linnen cloth the vppermost must be full of Roses or other flowers somewhat bruised the other must be emptie set them in the South Sunne where it is very hot and so it will distill a water that is very pleasant and sweet Thus is Rose-water sweetened with Muske distilled whereof wee haue spokeâ— before in the Chapter of sweet waters And thus are the yellow parts of Violâ—â—â—â— stilled and the water thereof is verie singular for the rednesse of the eyes And 〈◊〉 are the tender buds and shoots of Fennell distilled being gathered before the Fennell doe put forth his flowers the water wthereof is very soueraigne for to cleanse away the filth of the eyes and to comfort and amend the sight CHAP. LXXIII Of the manner of distilling by the Filtre THe causes of distilling by the Filtre we haue before declared as namely that they are either the separation of liquors in generall or else the separation of liquors of such or such qualities as the separating of muddie and earthie from the finer and subtle parts which is the proper and ordinarie way to distill iuices which haue a thicke consistence presently vpon their cooling after their first pressing out as namely the iuices of Citrons Limons and Oranges againe the prudent and expert Apothe carie when he maketh syâ—â—ups of the iuices of Citrons or Limons doth first distill and straine the iuices by a Fittre before the goe about to dispense the syrrups But the manner to distill by a Filtre is to haue three dishes bowles or basons or other vessels of such fashion as the matter or liquor that you would distill doth require and so placed and seated as that they may either stand higher and higher or lower and lower euerie one aboue or vnder another and the highest to containe that which is to be distilled and the lower that which is distilled In the vppermost shall be one or moe pieces of Cloth or of a Felt of sufficient length and dipt into the iâ—ices and these must be broad at the one end and sharpe at the other the broad end shall lye in the
you cast into the said retort some little lumpâ— of lead to the quantitie of an ounce and that by the orifice of the first part of the retort which must be verie well fitted and luted againe with the other part as it was before for the lead being molten doth resolue the gum remaining in such sort as that whatsoeuer is oylie will distill as oyle and you shall gather it in another receiuer All vvhich â—inished you shall take the retort handsomely out of the furnace reseruing the same to serue you againe in like time of need CHAP. LXXXIIII Of the manner of extracting Oyles out of hard gums YOur hard gums such as is frankincense benjouin masticke and waxe seeing they are of a more earthie substance haue a faster and 〈◊〉 consistence and are resolued more hardly than the liquid ones and so aske not onely more labour to haue their oyles drawne from them but stand in need also to haue some sort of oyle and a reasonable fire to â—ollifie and soften them to the end that afterward they may the more freely yeeld their owne Oyle It is true that euen of these there are some of them more tedious and sâ—iâ—â—yer resisting to be dissolued as Frankincense and Benjouin and othersome more easie to be molten as Wax and there are others that are indifferent betwixt both as masticke So as that all these gums according as they are more or lesse hard to be resolued must be more or lesse mollified and melted before hand by the meanes aforenamed in the distilling of liquid gums the vvater only excepted which must neuer be put into the retort with any thing to be distilled It is also to be considered and vveighed how that hard gums doe verie hardly indure and abide any vvater vvhiles inclosed vvithin the retort they sustaine the violence of the fire but in steed of fire one may put thereto of oyle of Turpentine to the quantitie of three ounces as well because this oyle is most pure and distilled with a reasonable heat as we haue said before as because it hath a property drawing neere vnto the nature of these gums whereupon it seemeth the more fit to be vsed in the distilling of these gums as seruing notably to correct their hardnesse againe this vvay more oyle will be drawne than by vsing of vvashed sand and grauell cast vpon the matter and according as vve see commonly practised of Oyles of all sorts of gums And in case you haue not oyle of Turpentine in readinesse you may vse some other sort of oyle prouided as much as possibly may be that it incline not notably either vnto any colour of smell notwithstanding by this meanes you shall not doe more good than by the former For there is some kind of gum so troublesome to be resolued as frankincense as that you must be faine to draw the oyle thereof after the same manner that you vsed in the extracting of oyles from the drosse and residence of Turpentine that is to say by casting into the retort amongst it small morsells or lumps of lead and vvith raising of the necke of the retort a little higher than is vsuall in the distilling of Turpentine and oylie vvoods By this meanes vvithout all doubt you shall see some ounces of oyle swimming on the top of the water within the receiuer after that the matter hath growne hot vvhich for as much as they would be tainted with some ill smell and vnpleasant taste because of such qualitie as they haue gotten through the vehementnesse of the fire then inclosed with the retort must be corrected by the changing of the water in the receiuer that so you may keepe them for the vses which shall hereafter be declared These things aforesaid well vnderstood when you desire greater quantitie of oile and that more cleare and excellent you shall take two pound of the said maâ—ter and gums vvhereof your reseâ—ued oyles were made you shall put them in a cleane retort vvhich you shall set ouer the fire hauing the necke hanging downe somewhat more low and in a short time and that vvithout any great force of fire there vvill be wrought a certaine kind of butter vvhich will run out in great plentiâ— being as it were of a middle consistence betwixt the gum and the oyle before distilled Againe you shall take this butter-like matter and put it into the retort hauing first made it verie cleane and then set it vpon the furnace the second time with certaine ounces of purged oyle vvhich you shall haue drawne before from the same kind of gum By these meanes and the helpe of a reasonable fire giuen vnto it you shall draw as much oyle and that most exquisite as Art and Nature could joyntly giue together And thus much for the sure and certaine way of extracting of oyles of hard gums which though it be costly ought notwithstanding for the excellencie thereof be rather practised than the other common way which is by grauell ashes or washed sand cast into the retort with the matter By such meanes you shall make oyle of amber jet brimstone and other such kind of things being first made into powder and putting thereunto common oyle which hath beene first cleansed and purged in a leaden vessel or warme water Oyle of Waxe is thus prepared after the common manner Take a pound of new Waxe you shall wash it thus melting it at the fire you shall cast it by and by into a vessell full of vvhite Wine worke it well with your hand after the manner of pasâ—e sometimes drawing it out at length sometimes breaking of it and sometimes doubling of it melt it once againe and cast it into the same Wine then also worke it with your hands as before and thus you shall doe three or foure times till you see the wax to haue spent about the quantitie of a pint of vvine this done put it thus prepared into a retort and cast vpon it grauell washed sand or powder of brickes notwithstanding that it may be distilled without grauell sand or brickes as is tried by experâ—ence lute the retort all about euen vnto the middest of the necke and set in an earthen pan full of small ashes vpon the fire which must be but soft and gentle at the beginning but augmented and made greater afterward from degree to degree the oyle will distill and come forth verie cleare Others prepare it after this manner They set an earthen vessell full of white or red wine vpon the fire whereinto after that the Wine is become hote they cast the Wax diuided into many morsells after they cause the vessell to boyle being close couered and when the wine is spent they powre in other vntill that euerie pound of waxe haue wasted ten pound of Wine and when they see that there is yet a little wine with the Waxe they take away the Wax from the fire that so it may not burn and presently cast the Waxe into another vessell wherein
Penyriall Sauorie Marierome Garlick and the lees of wine of ech alike of the greases of the same beasts so much as you shall see to be enough stampe euerie thing by it selfe after mixe them together and make pills thereof to cast into the place whither you would haue the fish to â—locke and that an houre before you cast in your net Otherwise take the bloud of a blacke Goat and Barly flower of each alike bray them both with the lungs of the Goat cut very small and make pillâ— thereof to vse after the manner aforesaid Otherwise take Garlicke halfe a pound burnt Sesamum as much Penyryall Organie Thyme Marierome Sauorie and wild 〈◊〉 of each foure ounces of Barly flower a pound of the dough thereof as much and of the barke of Frankincense-tree two ounces mingle all together with Bran and giue it vnto the fishes To catch Pearches The Pearch is not easily taken with Nets neither yet at the Weyres but rather with a proper bait and that in a puddlie and troubled water wherefore you must make a bait with the liuer of a Goat and bait your hooke therewith Or else take yellow Butterflies and Cheese of Goats milke of each halfe an ounce of Opopanax the weight of two French crownes of Swines bloud halâ—e an ounce and of Galbanum as much then powne them all verie well and â—â—â—gle them together powring vpon them near red Wine and make thereof such little loaues as you vse to make perfumes into and afterward drie them in the shadow For to take Salmons as well of the Riuer as of the Sea Take of the testicles or stones of a Cocke one ounce of Pine-apple kernels burned two ounces bray them both together till they come to the forme of a powder Otherwise Take wild Ruâ— seed and the fat of a Calâ—e of each an ounce of Sesamum two ounces stampe them all and make little loaâ—es which you shall vse The Trouts which are a kind of Salmon are taken with the hand hauing betaken themselues into their holes or with Nets or at Weyres and sometimes with the light of a candle The Gudgeon is taken with a hooke or the little Net called a Truble The Carpe is taken with the Net hooke or engines laid at Weyres but shee oftentimes deceiueth the Net shoouing her head downe into the mud or myre wherein shee delighteth The end of the fourth Booke THE FIFTH BOOKE OF THE COVNTRIE HOVSE Of Arable Grounds The measuring of Lands of what sort or forme soeuer they be CHAP. I. Of the common Measures whereby things are measured NOtwithstanding that the Art of measuring Grounds doth more properly belong vnto the Geometrician than vnto the Husbandman and euen as chiefe Masons and Master-builders who ought to haue the skill of Measuring doe not vouchsafe at anie time to measure the Workes and Buildings which they haue set vp and finished but leaue the same for such as make profession of Measuring So likewise it may seeme that this is no dutie of the Husbandmans to measure out his grounds but rather appertaining and therefore to be expected of them which practise such art and skill Notwithstanding being desirous that the Master of this our Countrey Farme should not be ignorant of anie thing which may serue for the enriching of his house and encrease of his wealth I haue thought it meete and reasonable before I passe anie further vnto my purposed discourse of the husbanding and tilling of Corne-ground familiarly to vnfold certaine rules of Measuring which are verie common with vs here in Francâ— and wherewith the Farmer in case of necessitie and for his commoditie may helpe himselfe To begin therefore with the matter all Grounds and Lands whether they be Medowes Vineyards Woods Isles of Water Courts Gardens Corne-ground places fields and others whatsoeuer are measured in France by the foot fadome and pole The foot according to the Kings measure containeth throughout all France twelue ynches the ynch twelue-lines and â—uerie-line must be of equall length to the thicknesse of a barly corne that is full and well fedde A â—iâ—rce or third part of a foot is called a Dour and the fourth part is called a Quarter The fadome and the pole are measured by the foot but how manie â—oot the one and the other should containe there is not anie so sure and certaine a rule which holdeth through all France as there is for the foot by reason of the variâ—tie of Measures and those not in diuers Countries of France onely as in Britaine Normandie Gascoine Poictou and others but also euen in places situate within some one Isle of France and standing hard together as may easily be seene neere vnto Paris in such sort as that the fadome of some Countries containeth sixe foot and eight ynches and the pole twentie foot elsewhere the fadome containeth seuen foot and foure ynches and the pole two and twentie foot In manie places the fadome containeth sixe foot and the pole eighteene foot In others againe the fadome containeth sixe foot fiue ynches and halfe an ynch or there about and the pole nineteene foot and one dour which is foure ynches True it is that as the rule is certaine through all France that a foot containeth twelue ynches so it is as sure and inuâ—olable that a pole containeth three fadome Wherefore without standing much vpon the fadome which in truth is a measure more fit for Masons and Carpenters than for measurers of ground for the well measuring of all sorts of grounds you must content your selfe with two principall measures the foot and the pole not forgetting or omitting your yncheâ— quarters and thirds which are parts of a foot Which more is in as much as feet fadomes and poles are but small measures and such as whereof might rise as it were an infinite number or at the least a verie troublesome number and such a one as the reckoning whereof could hardly be kept especially when there is need of measuring a Wood Medowes Places Isles arable ground and other places of great compasse besides the foot fadome and pole there is vsed another measure which the Frenchmen call an Arpent but of the people of Burgundie and Chaâ—paigne and manie others it is called Iournax deriued from the Latine word Iâ—gerum which containeth as much ground as two Oxen or Horse coupled or yoaked together can tyll in one day The Normans call it an Acre taken from the Romane word Actus This measure ariseth of manie poles being put one vnto another or else multiplied together as the poles doe rise of manie feet multiplied It is verie true that euen as the pole doth not hold throughout all Fraunce one measure of feet so neither doth the Arpent consist infallibly of one number of poles but looke almost how manie Countries there are euen so manie differences of sorts of Arpents there are likewise And that it is so there are to be
annoint the cods withall twice or thrice a day For a Fistula make the hole wider seare it cast into it a salue made of vnquenche Lime so long as till the core or dead flesh within doe fall out For the canker wash it with strong vinegar afterward sprinkle vpon it the 〈◊〉 powder of the root Daffodils Rats-bane and Vnquencht-lime put together into â— pot and burnt to ashes For the Iauar in the houghs or hams seare the places along and ouerthwart with a hot yron afterward applie thereto a cataplasme made of verie new Oxe dung 〈◊〉 vpon the fire vvith Oyle If the horse be cloyed you must take out the naile and pare him to the quicke and till bloud come then making verie cleane the pared place to drop into it 〈◊〉 Brimstone or to fill it vp with an oyntment made of Turpentine Waxe Oyle Hâ—nie and Salt all being made verie hot and a little Cotton also dipped in the same oyntment Or else which is an approued thing to put vpon the hurt place on thâ— inside of the hoose of the horse the leaues of white female Mullein bruised betwâ—â—â— two stones And in case the maladie be a day or two old then you must hold the horse focâ— in warme water well salted and lay and bind aloft vpon the foot a 〈◊〉 of Bran Swines-grease and Salt-water or with small Salt and strong Vinegar or the powder of gals or mittles or of the masticke tree and then to seare him aboue 〈◊〉 to fill vp all the hollow of the foot with Porkes-grease and hauing thus dressed it so much and so oft as it shall be needfull let it be made vp filling notwithstanding the hoofe on the inside with pitch and annointing it oftentimes with swines-grease as iâ— abouesaid And to preserue the hoofe in his soundnesse and strength apply vnto 〈…〉 lost a cataplasme made of boyled mallows stampt and mixt with hony and bran put in the hollow of the hoofe the sewet of a sheepe and aboue the hoofe his owne dung 〈◊〉 For the horse which halteth because of some stroake giuen him by some other horse vpon his sinews take of the sewet of a Male-goat a pound Molibdenâ— halfes pound Resin a pound and Copperas halfe a pound make an oyntment The 〈◊〉 â—â—roken or wounded or hauing receiued any other kind of wrench in the Knee or â—oynt by the horse his setting of his foot in some bad and inconuenient place is heaâ—ed by taking an ounce of Fenugreeke as much of Linseed foure ounces of Swines-grease all this being boyled together so long as till it be thicke and much dimiâ—shed If the horse interfering doe wound himselfe vpon his hinder feet you must cut away the haire verie short and bare from the place that is hurt and rub it with common salt tying vpon it some prettie plate of thin Lead afterward taking that away â—o wash it with Wine For the spauin in the hammes you must raising the thigh vp on high tie the veine called Fontanella and giue it a wound with a flemme to let it bleed and after to applie the actuall cauterie or hot yron vpon the spauin and to burne it long wise and ouerthwart and to heale vp the seared place as in the Iauar The chaps are healed if you burne them at either end with a round hot yron for his burne will keepe the chaps from going further and then afterward rubbe them with washed Lard in diuers waters or with oyle of Bayes mixt with Masticke Franâ—incense Vinegar and the yolke of an Egge The grapes would when the haire is once taken away be washed with the decoction of Mallows of Brimstone and Mutton-sewet afterward applying the drossie parts vnto the places which being taken away there shall an oyntment be made of new Wax Turpentine and Gum-arabecke equally mingled For the hornie swelling in the circle of the houghs or hams you must shaue the disease and put vpon it the drossie parts of the decoction of hollihocke roots stamped and after that a plaister of Mustard-seed the roots of Mallows and Oxe dung all boyled together with Vinegar Cut the head and the taile from a snake and deuide the rest of the bodie into gobbets roast them on a spit gather the fat which droppeth and applie it to the sore or wound The disease of the hoofe or the corne stampe Coleworts that are greene with old Swines-grease lay it vnto the disease and get vpon the horse and ride him indifferently to the end that the medicine may pearce into it For the garrot plucke away the flesh that is dead with a sharpe instrument and wash the place with warme Wine afterward applie plegets thereto moistened in the white of an Egge The disease of the necke pearce the flesh in fiue places on both sides the necke with an yron sharpe like a Naule put a Seton through eâ—erie hole and let them abide there fifteene daies For the palamie take away the flesh from the palate of his mouth with a very fine instrument and that in such quantitie as that the humour may easily come forth afterward cleanse and rub his palaâ—e with honie of Roses juice of Chibolâ—s Scallions and burned Wheat The courbe cut the skin alongst the haire acording to the bignesse of the courbe applie thereto a linnen cloth wet in warme Wine straw vpon it the powder of Verdegrease and thus continue vnto the end of the cure For the Knee swollen take a pinte of strong vinegar wherein you shall temper a little Salt of burnt Copper halfe a pound and of Sinople so much as shall be needfull and necessarie For the Knees that are broken and chapt take common Oyle Linseed ashes of Rie-straw and all being put together make an oyntment thereof to annoint the sore place euening and morning vntill it be whâ—le For the chafings which most commonly happen vnto the necke or backe of a horse carrying Saddle-packs or Saddle lay vpon the place the leaues of wild blacke â—ine In old and hard tumours make this cerote Galbanum two ounces Rosin and Waxe of each a pound Gum-ammoniacke and blacke Pitch of each halfe a pound and of oyle so much as shall be needfull to incorporate and make vp all the rest 〈◊〉 good forme But if the tumor be broake and hollow and hath beene an old 〈…〉 verie long continuance then you shall dissolue a quarter of a pound of Allome 〈…〉 pinte of running water and with it first wash the sore verie vvell and the take Vâ—guentum Aegyptiacum and lay it vpon the sore vvith flax hurds doe thus once 〈◊〉 twice a day and the cure will soone be made perfect Against the bots or vvormes make him drinke vvater vvherein Rye hath boyled or mingle amongst his bran some Brimstone or make ashes of the wood of 〈◊〉 Oliue-tree or powder of dried Wormewood together with the cornes of raw â—â—pines
and Centaurie alike much of all two ounces of the seed of turneps harts 〈◊〉 one ounce and vvith vvhite vvine it will serue to take at three times the day after the three aboue named you shall make him a clyster of the decoction of Wormewood and Rue putting thereto in the strayned liquor two Oxe-galls and an 〈◊〉 of Aloes Against the flux of the bellie which some vse to call the current there is made a drinke of great seruice and vse of the powder of gals with red vvine and the flower of starch tempered together or else iâ— the flux come of taking cold giue him 〈◊〉 dipt in sweet Red vvine and Rose-water and rub his reines and bellie with 〈◊〉 vvine Oyle of Roses and a little Salt For the flux of bloud passing by vrine you must let him bloud of the veine of 〈◊〉 breast afterward make a decoction of Wheat with sweet Seame and the powder of the rinds of drie Pomegranats straine them all to make a drinke for to giue him euerie morning not putting him to any trauell at all Likewise you shall applie a 〈◊〉 plasme vnto his backe and reines made vvith Knoâ—grasse Boleâ—armoniacke and the bloud of the beast mingled together with strong vinegar or thicke red vvine which may also serue for them that haue their reines relaxed or haue beene pricked vvith 〈◊〉 Lancet A restie horse for to make him goe forward must haue a coarde tyed vnto 〈◊〉 cods and it must be so long as that reaching betwixt his forelegs it doe come vp 〈◊〉 high as that the rider may hold it in his hands and so may pull it hard wheâ—as the horse should offer to goe backward but if it be in a Gelding you must bumbast 〈◊〉 buttocks with a good long sticke taken hot out of the fire and burnt at the end for 〈◊〉 will make him goe and likewise if you vse the same course in his rearings it will â—â—â—rect him and make him leaue them If the horse at any time vvith eating of his hay doe eat any venimous beast as Scâ—â—pion Spider or the venimous flie called Buprestis he must be couered till he 〈◊〉 and then in all hast let him bloud in the roofe of his mouth which so soone as it is 〈◊〉 forth shall be giuen him againe to drinke warme and in such quantitie as it 〈◊〉 forth for his meat giue him leekes and wheat boyled together Looke more aboâ—â— in the Chapter of the Neat-heard or Oxe-keeper For the stinging of Vipers a liue Cocke slit through the middest and applied warme vnto the vvound is much worth and presently after this a powder of the 〈◊〉 of yellow Daffodill with strong vvine and Salt made all in a drinke for him or 〈◊〉 the root leaues and fruit of vvild vine made in ashes and drunke with good 〈◊〉 or else take presently that kind of buglosse called Echium and draw out of it a good pint of juice hauing first watered it vvith vvhite vvine or vvater of Cardâ—us 〈◊〉 It you perceiue that the leafe vvill not yeeld you juice ynough of it selfe 〈◊〉 the horse first to drinke that vvhich you haue and after applie the substance of 〈◊〉 hearbe vpon and about the stung place and couer it The Shrew by her biting of the Horse maketh him oftentimes to dye as 〈◊〉 haue oftentimes seene both in Horse and Oxen this is a beast as bigge as a 〈◊〉 of the colour of a Weâ—ill vvith a long snout and a short tayle she fasteneth vpon 〈◊〉 infecteth most chiefly the cods and maketh foure small vvounds for to heal◠〈◊〉 venimous biting you must cause him presently to take downe through the â—â—ose â—â—â—â—leaues stamped or powdred with vvater and to applie vnto the place that is 〈◊〉 â—ummin and Garleeke stamped together and in case there be any vlcer you must â—ment the place with Brine or with the decoction of the Mirtle-tree and to scatter â—nd sprinkle thereupon the powder of burned Barley or of a Pomegranat rinde â—ooke more in the chapter of the Ox-keeper The biting of a madde dogge hath for a singular remedie if it be vsed before it be 〈◊〉 daies the flowers of Medicke fodder burned and mixed with old Swinesâ—rease and applied vnto the wound or else to stampe it with old white Wine and â—â—use him to drinke it Also the root of the Eglantine-tree made in powder and put â—pon the wound or giuen him to drinke with good old Wine Likewise the Berâ—ies of Elder-tree or the juice of the leaues thereof or of Ashe-tree Hens dung swallowed by hap bringeth frets and wrings in the bellie for which â—â—ke of old Smallage and drie two ounces and cause him to drinke them with Wine â—nd Honie afterward walke him vntill his bellie rumble and that he begin to dung The leane horse may be made fat if you giue him to eat Fasels or long Pease boyâ—ed in vvater and mixt amongst his prouender but and if he should be so weake as â—hat he could not swallow them downe you must strengthen and get him into couâ—age againe making him sup egge-yolkes with sugar in verie good quantitie warme vvater mixt with Salt and meale of Millet and giuen to the horse doth greatly fat him Also Panicke Rice and Millet boyled and mixt with Beane-meale and Salt â—are excellent good and it would be giuen him foure times a day but not much at a time least the horse should cast it vp againe It commeth to passe sometimes that Mares are troubled with a kind of rage that is to say vvhen they see their owne pictures in the vvater they are taken with loue and hereupon they forget to eat and drinke and drie vp their heat or signe of desiring the horse The signes of this madnesse are manifested by their running thrâ—â—gh the pastures as if they were spurred oftentimes looking round about them as if they sought and desired something They are cured of this madnesse by being brought vnto the water for when they see by their shadows how ill fauoured they be they will forget the first shape which they had beheld before For a Horse that is troubled with the Yellowes you shall first let him bloud in the necke veine and in the roofe of the mouth then take a quart of Ale a handfull of Celandine fine spoonefuls of Honey three ounces of Cummin seed beaten to pouder a little Saffron and a handfull of Tyme boile these together then straine it and giue it the Horse to drinke luke warme If your Horse be troubled with the Staggers you shall first let him bloud in the necke veine and take from him great store of bloud then take Veriâ—ice and Bay salt beaten together with a good prettie quantitie of Assafetida and dip in Flax hurds therein stop it hard into the Horses eares and then bind them vp so as the medicine may by no meanes fall out and doe thus diuers daies together and if need