with clothes dispose themselves for sweating But this is onely to be done in the beginnings of Feavers and in such bodies as are not full of grosse and corrupt humors otherwise it is more safe to open the passages of the whole body by Emeticks and Catharticks The purified oyl expressed out of the kernels of the berries is commended in strong and lusty bodies one dram or a dram and an half thereof being taken in the broth of flesh for it gently moveth Vomiting and loosneth the Belly The oyl made of the infused flowers and bark of the Elder from one ounce to three provokes Vomit and purgeth the Belly the same alone or in a decoction may be given in a Glister In young ones the syrrup of the juice of the berries of the buds or bark sufficeth There are some which testifie and call experience to witness that if the middle bark of Elder be pulled downward from the tree it purgeth the body downwards but if they be pulled upward it worketh by Vomit In such Feavers which are lengthened from the stopping or fullness of the Meseraick Veins and from the grosseness and toughness of the humor Oxymel Sambucinum dissolved in the distilled water of the flowers or Barly-water and dayly on the intermitting dayes drank an hour or two before supper is commended the Crystallized salt of the Elder taken from half a scruple to a whole one is profitable also six drops of the Spirit of the fame taken in the broth of flesh all these do powerfully open obstructions and cut asunder the grossenesse and roughnesse of the humor they cleanse the Bowells and Vessels and both by Urine and Sweat dissipate the Feaverish matter In the time of the Fit give the patient a spoonful or a dram and a half of the oyle pressed out of the berries-kernells in warm Ale the rob of Elder in greatness of a Walnut being mixed with half a dram of the powder of Carduus benedictus and swallowed and drinking Vinegar above it and afterwards provoking sweat in bed is a very good medicine In continual and hot burning Feavers where the heat is more intense and great drought tormenteth the Patient make this Julap Take of Fountain or river-River-water three pounds of Elder Vinegar three ounces of the finest Sugar two ounces let them boyl together a little in a fit Vessel unto which being warm add an ounce of Cinnamon in powder let them cool of themselves in a close Vessel and strain them for a Julap of which give the Patient oft in a day it extinguisheth the Feaverish heat cuts the grosse and tough matter cleanseth the thin and Bilous opens obstructions it purgeth the peccant humors and by its acidity sharpneth the appetite and refresheth the strength Of Worms The Crystalline salt of the Elder preserveth and freeth from Worms it robs them of their nourishment kills them and purgeth them out the dose is from half a scruple to half a dram or two scruples for those of riper years you may prepare in the Spring time a dish made of Elder-buds freed from their bitter nauseous tast by the infusion of boyling water with Oyl Salt and Vinegar which is to be used as a sallad before supper That this sallad may be the more pleasant you may add some tender leaves of Sorrel Briefly whatsoever I have here said in relating the properties of the Elder the Dwarff-Elder doth more strongly effect in opening and purging Choler Flegm and Water in helping the Gout the Piles and Womens diseases it coloureth the hair black helpeth inflamations in the Eyes and pains in the Eares the biting or stinging of Venemous creatures or a mad Dog the Burnings or Scaldings by fire or water the Wind Chollick the Chollick and Stone difficulty of Urine the cure of old sores and Fistulous Ulcers the Dropsie and Gout and all the other griefs before specified Eglantine Name IT is also called Sweet-bryar Descript Eglantine or Sweet-bryar is much like the Wild Rose plant having very sharp prickles shutes springes and rough branches the leaves also be not much unlike but larger and of a pleasant smell the flowers be single smaller than the flowers of the Wild Rose most commonly white and sometimes red after which there come also little knaps or long red berries like as in the other Roses wherein the seed is contained Place The Eglantine aswell as the manured Roses is planted in Gardens if it be set against a wall under a Window it will cast a most pleasant smell into the room and so will the branches thereof being set in flower-pots in Windows and Chimneys in the Summer Months Time Eglantine flowers in May and June about the time the Garden-Roses doe Government and Vertues It is under the dominion of Venus the fruit is of an astringent quality It stoppeth the Lask Lask and all other issues of blood Bloody-Issues being eaten There is a rough Spongeous ball or Excrescence that groweth on the Wild Rose bush and also on the Eglantine which is of great efficacy and virtue against the Stone Stone and Strangury strangury It bringeth forth the Gravel and Stone and provoketh Urine Vrine White Ellebore Names IT is also called Hellebore and Neese-wort Veratrum album in Latine and Helleborus albus Descript The White Ellebore hath great broad leaves with ribs or Sinews like the leaves of the great Plantain or Gentian the stalk is round two or three foot high at the uppermost part whereof grow along and round about the top the flowers one above another pale of colour divided into six little leaves the which have a green line overthwart the flowers being passed away there cometh in their places small husks wherin the seed is contained the root is round as thick as a mans finger or thumb white both within and without having many threddy strings appending unto it Place White Ellebore or Hellebore groweth in Anticyra neer about the Mountain Octa and in Cappodocia and Syria but the best groweth in Cyrene in this Country the Herbarists plant it in their Gardens Time White Ellebore flowereth in June and July Government and Virtues The root of White Ellebore is hot and dry in the third degree a plant of Mars The root causeth one to Vomit up mightily and with great force all superfluous slimy Venemous and naughty humors Slimy-humors likewise it is good against the Falling-sickness Falling-sickness Frenzies Frenzy Head-ach Melancholy old pains in the Head Melancholy the Gout Gout Sciatica and Sciatica all sorts of Dropsies Poison and against all cold diseases that he hard to cure and will not yield to any medicine But it ought not to be given to any body to be taken inwardly but from a skilful hand and with good advice and due preparation and correcting Galen adviseth not to give of this root in any medicine to be taken into the body but to be used only in outward applications Therefore Outwardly it is good
of the juice of Citrons For preservative you may drink Wormwood-beer or a small quantity of the former Cordials or eat mince and sage with bread and butter and smell to the herbs or you may steep those herbs with Wormwood in white-wine Vinegar which is excellent good in the Plague-time also Seamen and Soldiers are often troubled with Fluxes therefore it will not here be amiss to lay down some convenient remedies for the Cure of the same but being there are several kinds of Fluxes I shall begin first with that which is called Lientery which is when the food received into the body is cast forth in the same substance colour and smell as it was received This proceeds from a weakness of the retaining faculty of the stomach when it cannot keep the meat long enough therein till it be concocted likewise from a cold distemper of the stomach and liver begetting cold and raw humours which fill up the wrinkles of the stomach that it cannot keep the food it receives or else from â—harp humours pricking and twitching the parts by which the stomach and guts are provoked to send forth their meat too soon If this comes from a cold cause you may know it from the sowr belching that follows and phlegmatick excrements that are voided If the humors come from the head the excrements are frothy and after sleep the flux is greater if it come by provocation caused by sharp and pricking humors he will have a great thirst heat in his flanks gnawing in his stomach voiding sharp and chollerick excrements If this disease come from tough phlegmatick humors covering the wrinkles of the stomach you must cut them with honey of Roses Oxymel simplex and Oxymel-squils and the like Then you must give him gentle Purges for which purpose Pills are the best because they stay longest in the stomach of which you may take these for an example Take of Pillulae Cochiae and Pill Ruffi of each half a dram mix them and make them into six Pills of which let him take three at night going to bed and the other three the next morning or night according as you see occasion or else Pills of Hiera with Agrick or Pillulae Alephenginae the same Dose of either a part for Glisters they are here of no great force except the flux be violent and then they must be binding such as shall be spoken of hereafter In a Bloudy-flux after you have purged the humors offending you must then strengthen the stomach wiâ—h cooling Syrrups and Julips if it come from a hot cause mixing therewith some few drops of the Spirit of Viteral or Sulphur also some Marmalet of Quinces will be good or this following Take of the Conserve of Sorrel and Wormwood of each one ounce Conserve of Roses Suckery and Buglas of each half an ounce Diamargariton frigidum and Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one dram one scruple of Troches of Spodium with as much Syrrup of Lemmons as will serve to make them up to the form of an Electuary mix them and let the Patient take the quantity of a Chesnut morning noon and night or this following Take six ounces of old Conserve of Roses six drams of London or Venice Treakle with as much Marmalet of Quinces as will make it into an Electuary mix them and let the Patient take about the quantity of half an ounce in the morning drinking nothing after for the space of three or four hours if from a cold cause let the Patient boyl some Guaiacum or Sassafras in his drink of which take this for a pattern Take of guaiacum Sassafras Sarsaparilla of each two ounces English Liquorice and Cinnamon of each one ounce Coriander-seed an ounce Infuse them in four quarts of spring or running-running-water twenty four hours afterwards boyl it gently to the consumption of half of this Let the Patient drink half a pinte at a time about the quantity of a quart in a day here Mithridate Nutmeg Diatessaron and Diatrion pipirion is good if he wants rest and the flux continue give him three grains of Laudanum Opiatum where note in the taking of all which things if the Flux heing stayed break out again it is a sign ill humours are to be purged away to which purpose Rubarb prepared Infused often in Indiff-water is very excellent The next sort of Fluxes is called Diarrhaea which is a Flux in which excremental cholerick or phlegmatick humours are cast forth without either blood or food and these come either from the whole body or from the brain or stomach Guts Liver Spleen Mesentery and if in women from the womb and the like If the Patient hath had or have at present a feaver or be dropsical or of an ill habit of body or have eaten excessively and not digested his food it is a sign that it comes from the whole body If the excrements be frothy and he void more by night than day and he have some manifest disease in his head as a Catarrh Lethargy Deafness c. then it proceeds from the head If the fault be in the stomach the Patient hath eaten food apt to corrupt and there appear signs that the concoction is injured either from a hot or cold cause if from the first the humours will be sharp cholerick stinking and nature labours to throw it out if from the last then the excrements will be crude and phlegmatick If the Flux proceed from the Liver the excrements are cholerick and you will perceive some distemper of the Liver if from the Spleen they will be blackish and you have signs of a distempered Spleen If from the Dysentery you will have an extension of the humours but they come from the Liver and Spleen if from the Guts there 's worms if from the womb there hath been obstructions of the Courses and now some symptom that vexes and increases the Flux at that time the Courses are wont to flow For to help this Disease first of all open a vein if the body be full of bloud and if it be not it is good to let bloud if the Patient hath a feaver then purge with such things as leave a binding quality behind them such as Rubarb dryed and given in plantane-Plantane-water with syrrup of Quinces or take a dram of Rubarb and half a dram of the yellow Mirobolans and half a scruple of yellow Saunders infuse them in Plantane-water strain it and to the straining add half a dram of Rubarb in powder and one ounce of Syrrup of Roses a potion for one dose or you may add the lenitive Electuary or Catholicon according to the strength and condition of the Patient and humours vomiting is good if the body be strong before and after purging give this or the like glyster Take Wheat-bran and red Rose leaves of each one pugil whole Barley two pugils Liquorice sliced and Raisins of the Sun of each one ounce boyl these in a sufficient quantity of water till they come to a pinte in the straining
Vertues There is a great antipathy between this plant and the benevolent and sociable Venus Mars rules him and makes use of him to check the too much salacious entertainments of Venus Of temperature it is hot and dry in the third degree and of a very astringent quality Agnus Castus is a singular remedy for those whose nature prompts their desires to Venereal sports a procurer of chastity and singular for such who desire to live and preserve themselves in that condition it takes away and abates so much lecherous desires Lust abates as it extinguisheth the thoughts thereof the reason is it dryeth and consumeth the seed of generation in what sort soever it be taken whether in powder or in decoction or as some write the leaves alone laid upon the bed to sleep upon putteth away all unchast thoughts and desires A decoction of the seed being drunk driveth away and dissolveth all windiness in the bowels Wind stomack Stomack mother or any part of the body A dram of the seed in powder drunk in wine cureth hardness and stoppings in the Liver and spleen Liver Spleen and is good in the beginnings of Dropsies It provoketh the Termes Termes being taken by it self or with Penny-royal or used in manner of a Pessary It is profitable to be mixed amongst Oyles or oyntments to heat and mollifie stiff and benummed members Dead members and cures clift or rifts of the great Gut being applied with water Agnus Castus is good against Venemous creatures Venemous bittings it driveth away Serpents and all other Venemous beasts from the place where it is strewed or burned and healeth bitings and stingings of the same if it be laid upon the greived place and the seed therof being drunk with wine A decoction therof is good for women to sit in to help hardness stoppings apostumations and Ulcers of the matrix Vlcers Matrix A Cataplasm made with the leaves thereof and fresh butter and applied doth dissolve and asswage swellings of the Cods and Stones Cods Stones The Almond-tree Names THere are two kinds the bitter and the sweet the fruit of both is called Almonds distinguished by the Epithets sweet or bitter Descript The Almond-tree is in growth and leaves much like unto the peach tree but it groweth to bee much bigger and stronger and is of a longer lasting or continuance Time The Almond-tree floureth betimes in the Spring and the fruit is ripe in June and July Government and Vertues The sweet Almonds are under the dominion of Venus and are temperatly hot the bitter are claimed by Mars and are not only hot but also dry and of a clensing and cutting faculty Almonds eaten before meat stop fluxes of the belly Flux and nourish especially being blanched the sweet oyle new pressed out of them is of a gentle healing quality for any inward sorenesse fretting of the Guts Guts or soreness of the Reines Kidneys or sharpness of Urine Bladder and is good for them that spit bloud Spitting bloud so is the fruit Bitter Almonds do open obstructions of the Liver Liver Lungs Lungs Spleen Spleen Kidneys Kidneys and other inward parts and are good against the Cough Cough and shortnesâ—e of Breath Breath inflamation and exulceration of the Lungs being made into a lohoch with Turpentine and licked in as writeth Dioscorides The bitter Almonds taken with sweet wine provoke Urine Vrine and cure difficulty and pain in making water and are good for them that are troubled with Gravel and Stone Stone Five or six bitter Almonds eaten in the morning fasting preserve from Drunkenness all that day Drunkenness and being applied to the forehead with oyle of Roses and Vinegar they take away Head-ach Headach they are with great profit applied with hony upon corrupt and foul spreading sores and the bitings of mad dogs they clense the skin and face from spots and pimples Ammoniacum Name AMmoniacum is the only name it hath in shops and is generally known by Descript This is a Gum or liquor of a tree called by Dioscorides Agasyllis and of some Ferula growing in Cyrene and nigh unto the place where was the oracle Ammon in Lybia whereof it is supposed to be called Ammoniacum the best sort is that which is close firm and pure free from Gravel or drosse of a bitter tast smelling somewhat neer unto the sent of Câ—storeum and is almost like the true Frankincense Government and Virtues It is under the planetary influence of Mars hot and dry in the second degree the quantity of a dram thereof taken inwardly looseth the Belly Belly and purgeth away cold Slimy flegm â—legm drawing the same unto it self from remote parts of the body it is also good against Asthma Asthma shortness of breath Stoppings of the breast Breast falling sickness Gout pain of the haunch or huckle-bone called the Sciatica Sciatica against the old head-ach Head ach and diseases of the brain Brain sinews and extream parts Sinewes it may be taken in a lohoch with hony or in the decoction of French barley to mundifie and cleanse the breast Breast and ripen flegm Flegm causing the same easily to be spit out It is also good against hardness and stoppings of the Spleen Spleen it provokes Urine expells the dead child Dead Child but then must be but little of it taken at once for if it be takâ—n in too great a quantity or too often it will cause one to pisâ—e bloud it cures swellings Swelling and hardness and abates pain of the Liver and Spleen Liver Spleen if it be steeped in Vinegar and layd upon the place being mingled with hony and pitch and applied it disâ—olveth hard swellings and Tumors Tumors in the joynts and extream parts and consumes all cold Tumors and Scirrhus matter being layd thereon and is good to he put into all oyntments and plaisters that are made to warm mollifie and to asswage pain Being mixed with the oyl of Cyprus and Nitre it is good to be applied to the hip for the Sciatica or hip-gout Sciatica Hip-gout and to be laid upon any part to asswage pain and weariness It is excellent to be put into Collyries and all medecins that are made to cleer the sight and to take away dimness and the web of the eyes Eyes Amber Names IT is called Yellow Amber Ambra Citrina but in Latin more generally Succinum Descript It is of sundry colours some peeces whitish some yellow paler or deeper and some of a very deep red colour and dark all the other being cleer and transparent but much more being polished It is by some taken to be a vegetable as Corall is but more generally to be a kind of liquid Bitumen issuing from springs and fountains in the German Seas and running into peeces greater or lesser is taken up by
it giveth small nourishment though not bad and is withal a little statuâ—ent or windy yet Country-people in divers places of Germany and Italy do feed hereon as almost their onely bread-corn and are strong â—nd lusty Persons following hard Labor for the bread or cakes made â—herof are pleasant but do somwhat presse or lye heavy on the stomack I never knew any bread or cakes made of it for people to eat â—n this Country but it is generally used to fatten Hogs and Poultry of â—ll sorts which it doth very exceedingly and quickly The physical uses of it are these It provoketh Urine Vrine Milk Belly Melancholy Sight increaseth milk loosneth the belly and being taken in wine is good for melancholy persons the juice of the leaves dropped into the eyes cleareth the sight Bane-wort Names IT is also called in some places of England Sperewort Descript This plant hath reddish stalks full of knees or joynts upon which grow long narrow leaves almost like the leaves of Withy but longer and a little snipt or toothed round about especially those that grow lowest the flowers are yellow as Gold somwhat rough in the middle in Fashion and Colour like those of Golden Crowfoot After the flowers be past there succeed knops or heads like those of Crowfoot the reed is threddy Place It groweth in moist medows watry places and standing puddles Time It flowreth in May and yeeldeth his seed soon after Government and Vertues This is an herb of fiery Mars hot and dry in the fourth degree it blistereth the body as Ranunculus doth and is like it in complexion and operation This herb is no way to be given inwardly for it is hurtful both to man and beast the sheep which happen to eat thereof are troubled with a greivous inflamation which burneth up and consumeth their Livers whereof they dye the Dutchmen call it Egelcoolen because sheep that have eaten of it have a disease which they call Egel that is the blistering and inflamation of the Liver Spanish-Broom Names IT is also called Italian-Broom Descript The Spanish-Broom hath woodish stems from which grow up long slender and pliant twiggs which be bare and naked without leaves or at least having very few small leaves set here and there far apart from one another the flowers are yellow not much unlike the flowers of our English Broom after which it hath Cods wherein are contained brown and flat seed Place This Broom groweth in dry places in Spain and Languedoc and is not found in this Countrey but in the Gardens of Herbarists It is plentifull in the Physick Garden at Westminster Time It flowers in this Countrey in June and somwhat after the seed is ripe in August Government and Vertues It is under the planetary influence of Mars hot and dry of temperature the flowers and seed of Spanish Broom the quantity of a dram being drunk in mede or honyed-honyed-water cause strong Vomiting Vomiting but without danger the seed taken alone looseth the belly Belly loosned and bringeth forth great plenty of watry and tough humors out of the twigs or little branches being steeped in water is pressed forth a juice which taken in quantity of a little glass full fasting is good against the Squinancy and also is good against the Sciatica Base-broom Name IT is called also in English Woodwoseen Descript This is not much unlike the common broom saving that it is not so high nor so straight but lieth along almost upon the ground with many small branches proceeding from a woody stem and set with little long small leaves and at the top with small fair yellow flowers not much unlike those of the Common Broom but smaller after them come narrow husks or Cods wherein is a flat seed the root is hard and of a woodish substance Place It groweth in untilled places that lye low and is very frequent in moist clay pasture grounds Time It flowers in July and August and sometimes after and shortly after the seed is ripe Government and Virtues It is hot and dry of temperature and under the same planetary influence as the other Brooms and is in nature and operation like unto the common Broom but not so powerful It is seldom suffered to grow while the seed is ripe in the Country they gather it while it is in flower for the dyers who dye clothes yellow with it Behen Names IT is also called Been-album and Polemonium Descript Behen hath tender stalks with joynts the leaves are meetly broad set two at every Joynt one against another at the highest of the stalks grow white flowers hanging down and joyning one to another like a little nose-gay after the flowers there cometh black seed inclosed in round huskes the root is white plain and long Place Behen groweth upon mountains and rough stony places but is planted here in Gardens Time It flowers in June and July Government and Vertues It is dry in the second degree a Saturnine plant the root being drunk in wine is good against the bloudy Flux flux Venemous bitings Vrine Strangury and the bitings and stingings of Venemous beasts the same drunk in water Provokes Urine and helps the strangury and pains in the huckle bone It is good to be taken with Vinegar against the hardnesse and stoppings of the Spleen Spleen and all pains thereof being chewed in the mouth it helpeth the Tooth-ach Tooth-ach the same being pounded and applied cureth the stingings of Scorpions and is reported to have so great Antepitheticall power against Scorpions that whosoever doth but hold the same in his hand cannot be stung by any Scorpion Black-bind-weed Name IT is also called With-wind Descript Black-bind-weed hath smooth red branches very small like great threds wherewithal it wrappeth and windeth it self about trees hedges staks and all things it can lay hold upon the leaves are like to Ivy but smaller and tenderer the flowers be white and very small the seed is black tryangled or three square small and black growing thick together every seed is enclâ—sed and covered with a little skin the root is also small and tender as a thred Place It groweth in borders of Fields and Gardens and about hedges and ditches and amongst herbs Time It delivereth ' its seed in August and September and afterwards perisheth Government and Virtues Bind-weed is a plant of Mercury of a hot nature and of subtil parts having power to dissolve the juice of the leaves being drunk do loosen and open the belly and being pounded and laid to the grieved place dissolveth wasteth and consumeth hard swellings Rough bind-weed Names IT is also called prickly Bind-weed and commonly known in shops by the name of Sarsa-parilla Descript Rough or prickly Bind-weed groweth with tender stalks and branches garnished or set round about with many sharp prickles or thorns winding it self about trees hedges and bushes like our English Bind-weed taking hold with its clasping branches upon every thing stands near it the leaves be
seed is long and hairy the root is small and hard Place The true Daucus groweth in Candy in stony places that stand in the Sun the other groweth in this Country about the borders of Fields in stony places and by the way sides Time This last kind floureth in July and August Government and Vertues The seeds of Daucus are hot and dry almost unto the third degree under the influence of Mercury the seed beaten and drunk in Wine is good against the Strangury Strangury and painful making of Water Gravel and Stone it provokes Urine Vrine and Womens Courses and expells the dead child and Secondine Courses Secondine It asswageth the tormenting pains of Gripings in the Guts Gripings-Cuts dissolveth Wind Wind cureth the Cholick and is good to ripen an old Cough Cholick Cough The same drunk in Wine is good against bitings of Venemous beasts and being pounded and applied it scattereth cold swellings and dissolveth Tumors The root of Daucus of Candy drunk in Wine stoppeth the Lask Lask and is a soveraign remedy against Venom and Poyson Poyson Cedar-tree Names THere be two kinds hereof the great Cedar-tree and the small Cedar out of the great tree issueth a white Rozen called in Latine Cedria and Liquor Cedrinus or Liquor of Cedar Descript The great Cedar groweth very tall high great and thick the bark from the foot of the stem unto the first branches is rough and from thence up to the top it is smooth and plain of a dark blew colour out of which there droppeth white Rozen of his own kind which is moist odoriferous or of a sweet smell and by the heat of the Sun it becomes dry and hard the Limbs and branches of this tree be long and parted into many other small branches standing directly or right one against another like those of the Firre-tree the said branches be garnished with many small little leaves thick short and having a sweet savor the fruit is like that of the Firre-tree but that it is greater thicker harder the whole tree groweth strait up like the Firre-tree Of their smaller Cedar there be two kinds the first kind of small Cedar is much like to Juniper but somwhat smaller the stem is crooked or writhed and covered with a rough bark the fruit is round berries like Juniper berries but somewhat greater of colour at the first green then yellow and at last reddish of an indifferent good tast The second kind of small Cedar groweth not high but remaineth small and low like the other the leaves of this are not prickly but somewhat round and mossey at the ends almost like the leaves of Tamarisk and Savin the fruit of this kind beareth also round berries which at first are green afterwards yellow and when they are ripe they become reddish and are bitter in tast Place The great Cedar groweth in Africa and Syria and upon the Mountains of Libanus Amanus and Taurus The second kind groweth in Phoenicia and in certain places of Italy in Calabria and also in Languedoc The third kind groweth in Lycia and is found in certain parts of France as in Provence and Languedoc Time The great Cedar perfecteth his fruit in two years and it is ever without fruit which is ripe at the beginning of Winter the small Cedar-trees be alwayes green and Loaden with fruit having at all times upon them fruit both ripe and unripe as hath Juniper Government and Vertues The great Cedar is under the dominion of the Sun the smaller of Mars the Cedar is hot and dry in the third degree the Rozen or Liquor Cedria which runneth forth of the great Cedar tree is hot and dry almost in the fourth degree and of subtil parts The fruit of the small Cedar is also hot and dry but more moderatly Cedria that is the liquor or Gum of Cedar swageth the Tooth-ach Toothach being put into the hollowness of the same also it cleareth the sight and taketh away spots and scars of the Eyes Eyes Spots Scars being laid thereon the same dropped into the Ears with Vinegar killeth the Worms of the same Worms and with the Wine of the decoction of hysop it cureth the noise and ringing in the Eares Eares and makes the Hearing good Hearing The old Egyptians did use in times past to preserve their dead bodies with this Cedria for it keepeth the same whole and preserveth them from corruption but it consumeth and corrupteth living flesh it killeth Lice Lice Mothes Moths Worms and all such Vermine so that they will not come near it The Fruit of the Cedar is good to be eaten against the Strangury strangury it provokes Urine and brings down Womens Courses Courses Cistus Kinds and Names OF this there be two sorts the first called Cistus non Ladanisera because it beareth no Ladanum the other is a plant of a woody substance upon which is found that fat liquor or gum called Ladanum The first kind which yeeldeth no Ladanum is also of two sorts viz. the Male and Female The Male beareth red flowers the Female white in all things else the one is like the other out of the root of the Female Cistus is drawn forth a sap or liquor called Hippocistis The second kind of Cistus is called also Ledum and Ladum the fat Liquor which is gathered from it is called Ladanum and in shops Lapdanum Descript The first kind of Cistus which beareth no Ladanum hath round hairy stalks and stems with knobbed joints and full of branches the leaves be roundish and covered with a cotton or soft hair not much unlike the leaves of Sage but shorter and rounder the flowers grow at the tops of the stalks of the fashion of a single Rose whereof the Male kind is of colour red and the Female white at the last they change into knops or huskes wherein the seed is contained There is found a certain excrescence or out-growing about the root of this plant which is of colour sometimes yellow sometimes white and sometimes green out of which is artificially drawn a certain juice which in shops is called Hypocistis and is used in medicine The second kind of Cistus which is also called Ledon is a plant of a woody substance growing like a little tree or shrub with soft leaves in figure not much unlike the others but longer and browner upon the leaves of this plant is found that fat substance called Ladanum which is found growing upon the leaves about Midsommer and the hotest daies Place The first kind of Cistus groweth in Italy Cicily Candy Cyprus Languedoc and other hot Countries in rough and untilled places The second kind groweth also in Crete Cyprus and Languedoc Time The first kind of Cistus floureth in June and sometimes sooner The second kind of Cistus floureth and bringeth forth seed in the spring time and immediately after the leaves fall off and about Midsommer there cometh new leaves again upon
shortness of it then with a spoon take up some of the paste which will be almost liquid and so either make it into tablets or rowles or put it into boxes and when it is cold it will be hard To make the Tablets you must put a spoonful of the paste upon a sheet of Paper the Indians put it upon a leaf where being put in the shade it grows hard and then howing the Paper the Tablets fall off by reason of the fatness of the paste but if it be put into any thing of earth or wood it will stick fast and will not come off without scraping or breaking In the Indies they take it two several wayes the one being the common way is to take it hot with Atolle which was the drink of antient Indians they call Atolle pap made of the flower of Maiz and so they mingle it with the Chocholate the other modern way which the Spaniards use is of two sorts the one is that the Chocholate being dissolved with cold water and the scum taken off and put into another Vessel they put the remainder upon the Fire with Sugar and when it is warm then they pour it upon the scum they tooke off before and so drink it the other way is to warm the water and then when you have put into a pot or dish asmuch Chocholate as you think fit put in a little of the warm water and then grind it well with the Molinet and when it is well ground put the rest of the warm water to it and so drink it with Sugar to your tast Besides these former wayes there are others one is put the Chocholate into a pipkin with a little water and let it boyl well until it be dissolved and then put in sufficient water and Sugar according to the quality of the Chocholate and then boyl it again until there comes an oyly scum upon it and then drink it There is another way to drink Chocholate which is cold and takes its name from the principal ingredient and is called Cacao which they use at Feasts to refresh themselves and it is made after this manner The Chocholate being dissolved in water with the Molinet take off the scum or crassy part which riseth in great quantity when the Cacao is older and more putrified the scum is laid aside by it self in a little dish and then put Sugar into that pan from whence you took the scum and pour it from on high upon the scum and so drink it cold but this drink doth not agree with all Stomacks by reason of its coldness There is another way to drink it cold which is called Cacao penali and it is done by adding to the same Chocholate having made the confection as is before set down so much Maiz dried and well grownd and taken from the husk and then well-mingled in the morter with the Chocholat it falls all into flower or dust and so these things being mingled as is said before there riseth the scum and so take it and drink it as before There is another way which is a short and quicker way to make it which is more wholsom that is first to set some water to warm and while it warms throw a Tablet or some Chocholate scraped and mingled with Sugar into a little cup and when the water is hot pour the water to the Chocholate and then dissolve it with the Molinet and then without taking off the scum drink it But in our colder Country most usually it is thus made with milk instead of water and some add yolks of Eggs and a sop of white Bread Such as desire to take it in milk three ounces of Chocolate will be sufficient to a quart of milk scrape the Chocolate very fine and put it into the milk when it boyles work it very well with the Spanish instrument called Molenillo between your hands which instrument must be of wood with a round knob made very round and cut ragged that as you turn it in your hands the milk may froth and dissolve the Chocolate the better then set the milk on the fire again untill it be ready to boyl having the yolk of two eggs well beaten with some of the hot milk then put your eggs into the milk and Chocolate and Sugar asmuch as you like for your tast work it altogether with the Molinet and thus drink it or if you please you may slice a little manchet into a dish and so eat it for a breakfast you may if you please make it also with water instead of milk after this manner Set a pot of conduit-water over the fire untill it boyles then to every person that is to drink put an ounce of Chocolate with asmuch Sugar into every pot whereunto pour a pint of the said water so boyling and therein work together the Chocolate and the Sugar with the Instrument called El-Molenillo until it be throughly incorporated which done pour in as many half pints of the said water as there be ounces of the Chocolate and if you please you may put in the yolks of one or two new-laid eggs which must be beaten untill they froth very much the hotter it is drunk the better it is you may likewise put in a slice of white-bread or bisket and eat that with the Chocolate which will be a very substantial and Cordial breakfast Coffee THis is reported to be the berries of certain shrubs or bushes growing in Arabia and from them into Turkey and other parts it is said of it self to be insipid having neither scent nor tast but being pounded and baked as they do prepare it to make the Coffee-liquor with it then stinks most loathsomly which is an argument of some Saturnine quality in it the propugners for this filthy drink affirm it causeth watchfulness so do both the stinking Hemlock and Henbane in their first operation if unhappily taken into the body but their worse effects soon follow They also say it makes them sober when they are drunk yet they would be alwaies accounted sober persons or at least think themselves so when they can but once sit down in a Coffee-house certainly if there had been any wâ—th in it some of the antient Arabian Physitians or others neer those parts would have recorded it But there is no mention made of any medicinal use thereof by any Author either Antient or Modern neither can it be indued with any such properties as the indulgers of it feed their fancies with but this I may truly say of it Quod Anglorum Corpora quae huic liquori tantopere indulgent in Barbarorum naturam degenerasse videntur But if any one desire to make Coffee after the manner as it is prepared and sold here in Engl. in the publick Coffee-houses it is thus Take a gallon of water and set it in a pot of Tyn or any other Vessel close cover'd set it upon the fire and let it boyl when it throughly boyles put into it a quarter of
coldness therof if the Belly be bathed therewith the same root made into powder closeth up and healeth old running Sores Sores of the Mouth and secret parts Secret parts although they eat and wast the flesh if it be strowed thereon or laid thereupon with Wine It is also a very good ingredient to be put into hot oyntments and maturative plaisters Pliny saith that the seeds of Galangal drunk with water stoppeth the Flux of the Belly Belly the overflowings or immoderat Flux of Womens Flowers Flowers but if it be taken in too great â— quantity it causeth Head-ach Galbanum Names THe plant out of which the Gum Galbanum cometh is called by Pliny Stagonitis Descript Galbanum is a gum or liquor drawn forth of a plant in Syria called Metopium the best is gristly between hard and soft very pure fat close and firm without any stalks and splinters of wood amongst it saving a few seeds of a strong savor not too moist nor too dry Place The plant out of which Galbanum cometh doth grow upon the Mountain called Amanus in Syria Government and Vertues Gum-Galbanum is hot almost in the third degree and dry almost in the second a plant of Jupiter Galbanum is good against an old Cough Cough and for such as are Tissical Tyssick or short-Winded and cannot easily draw their Breath Breath but are subject to panting it is very good for those that are bruised Bruises inwardly and against Cramps Cramps and shrinking of Sinews Sinews-shrunk the same drunken with Wine and Myrrhe is a very good counter-Poison against any Venome taken into the body or shot received by poisoned Poison Darts or Arrows to be taken in the same manner it provokes the Terms Terms and driveth forth the Dead-birth Dead-birth it hath the same vertue if it be conveyed as a Peâ—ary into the secret Parts Secret parts or the fume thereof received up into the Matrix and the quantity of a Nut thereof given in a glass of Wine helpeth the painful travail of Women and causeth easie Delivery Eâ—sie Delivery The perfume of Galbanum doth help Women that are troubled with rising suffocation or Strangling of the Mother and them that have the Falling-sickness and being laid to the Navel it causeth the Matrix that is removed to settle in its proper place Galbanum doâ—h mollifie and soften and draweth forth thorâ—es Thorns Splinters Splinters or slivers and discusseth and disperseth cold humors and is very good to be laid upon cold Tumors Cold Tumors and Swellings Swellings and is a proper substitute in all oyntments oyles and plaisters that have power or vertue to warm digest and dissolve to ripen and break Boyls and Imposthums Boyls Imposthumes and to draw out Thorns and Splinters It is good to be laid upon the side Sides against pains thereof and against hardness and Stoppings of the Spleen Spleen the same mixed with Nitre and Vinegar and applied is very good to take away Spots Spots and Freckles Freckles of the Face or any scurff or Morphew or other discolourings of the skin It is good to stop an hollow Tooth Tooth-ach to take away Ake and pain of the same It is also good to cleanse the Eares Eares of corrupt filth and running Running matter being mixed with oyle of Roses and dropped therein There is likewise by the Antients a more than ordinary yea a miraculous vertue ascribed to this Galbanum as may be found amongst the stupendious wonders of Pliny and the imaginary miracles of Mizaldus Albertus Magnus and many more that is to say that wheresoever this Gum is burned all manner of Serpents noisome and Venemons Creatures will presently fly away and dare not come with in the seent thereof and that no Venemous Creature whether it be a flying Insect creeping Serpent or Poisonous Beast whatsoever that is any wayes inimical to mankind have any power to hurt such as be anointed with this Galbanum And that those Venemous beasts or Serpents as be but touched with Galbanum mingled with oyle and the seed or root of Spondilium or Angelica it will cause them presently to dye The same is truly reported of the New-England and Virginia Snake-weed that it will kill those Rattle-Snakes if touched therewith or come within the scent of it and it is probable that the Galbanum in the Country where is groweth naturally those parts being much subject to be infested with those Venemous Creatures it may there work the same effects upon them Stock-Gillow-flowers Kinds and Names THere are found two kinds of these Gillow-flowers the one is great and called the Castel or Stock-Gillow-flower which may be kept both Winter and Summer the other is not so big and is called the small Stock-Gillow-flower which must be sown newly every Spring and bringeth forth his flower and seed the same year they are called Leucoion and Violae albae or white violets because the leaves be white but the leaves of the flowers for they be of divers colours late writers do call them violae matronâ—les or Dames Violets Descript These two kinds of Gillow-flowers are not much unlike Wall-flowers but that their leaves are whiter and softer The great Castel or Stock-Gillow-flower his leaves be hard and straight at the height of two or three foot with long narrow and soft leaves like Molleyn far greater longer and larger then the leaves of Wall-flowers or Yellow-Gillow-flowers the flowers be of a fragrant or pleasant smell much like to those of Harts-ease or Wall-flowers but much larger of colour sometimes white and sometimes Ash-câ—lour Carnation and sometimes inclining to Scarlet and sometimes purple or violet colour after which flowers there come long husks or Cods wherein the seed is contained being flat and large The small Stock-Gillow-flower is like to the great in his stalks and whitish woolly soft leaves also in the sweet smell and fragrant savor of his flowers in the diversity of colours in his Cods and seed saving that it is smaller in all respects not exceeding the length of a mans foot in height and perisheth every year after his seed is ripe Place These kinds of Gillow-flowers are sown and planted in Gardens in this Country they are hardly sound els-where Time The great Castel Gillow-flower floureth in March and Aprill the second year after it is sown but the smaller Stock-Gillow-flower yeeldeth its flowers in July and August the same year in which it is first sown Government and Virtues The Stock-Gillow-flowers are of temperature hot and dry and of nature somewhat like unto the Yellow-Gillow-flowers or Wall-flowers they are plants of Mercury The flower of the Stock-Gillow-flower boyled in water and drunk is good against difficulty of breathing and the Cough Difficulty of breathing Cough Courses sweat these flowers do likewise drive down Womens Courses and provoke Urine and a bath made of the decoction thereof
almost woody and cutteth blackish within so that it may be very probable that the one sort with the soft white root hath flag-like-leaves and seed also like Iris. The other root which is more slender and black yet of the same fashion may be that which beareth seed like leaves described by Lobel rather to be preserved than for ordinary use with us but both sorts are preserved best while they are fresh and green and the black sort aswel also after it is dryed by steeping it and then boyling it to make it tender but the white sort will not so well serve to be preserved or candied after it is dryed but is best being preserved green Government and Vertues Ginger is a Solar plant it is of excellent use to warm a cold Stomack to help Digestion Digestion and to dissolve Wind Wind both in the Stomack Stomack and Bowels the Indians eat it in Sallads while it is fresh the root being sliced and put among the herbes and it helpeth to mollifie and loosen the Belly while it is moist much of the heat which it hath being dry being abated by the moisture the Candied or Green-ginger is most comfortable to the Stomack and is profitable for all the purposes aforesaid Guiacum Names IT is also called Lignum Sanctum Lignum-vitae and Lignum Indicum Descript The Guiacum that groweth in some parts of the Indies is better than in others yet the wood of all is hard firm close and heavy so that it will sink in water more than Ebony and not swim it is of an hot sharp and resinous tast somewhat burning in the Throat the blacker or browner is better then the yellow being in a manner all heart the yellow being as it were but the sap The tree groweth great with a reasonable thick greenish gummy bark the tree is also spread with sundry Armes and branches great and small and on them winged leaves set by couples one against another which are small thick hard and almost round with divers veines in them and continue always green at the joints and ends of the branches come forth many flowers standing in a tuft together every one on a long footstalk consisting of six small whitish yellow leaves with some threds in the middle which turn into flat yellowish gristly fruit of the fashion of the seed Vessel of Shepherds purse it yeeldeth forth also a gum or Rozen of a dark colour which will easily burn Government and Virtues Mars ownes this tree boâ—h the wood bark and gum are hot and dry and are used for all cold flegmarick and windy humors Flegm Wind Catharrhs Lungs Coughs Teeth and are effectual against the Epilepsie Falling-s ckness Catharrhs Rheums and cold distillations on the Lungs or other parts Coâ—ghs and Consumptions the Gout and all Joint-aches and many other like diseases and to make the Teeth white and firm if they be often washed with the decoction thereof but most particularly it is appropriated to the cure of the French-pox French-Pox by drinking the decoction of the wood and bark which by reason of its heat and dryness is somewhat rough in the Throat it may be mollified by adding Licoris and other proper qualifications There may an extract be made thereof which is not unpleasant to take and most effectual for the French-Pox which is made in this manner Extractum Ligni Guiaci pro morbo Gallico Take of the chips of Guiacum one ounce bark of the same half an ounce let them stand in digestion in Spirit of Wine 15 days separating it so often until all the strength thereof be extracted then evaporate the Spirit by distillation untill it come to the consistence of hony then take this matter while it is hot and cast it into an earthen pan wherein is cold water and it will forthwith coagulate into a substance like Pitch or Aloes This may be formed into pills of the bigness of Pease whereof may given two or three it is a most excellent Sudorifick and Bezo artick remedy which will so mundifie and cleanse the body and whole Mass of blood as that it will suffer no corruption to abide therein it doth wonderfully provoke Sweat and Urine and takes down the great Bellies and Swelling legs of hydropick bodies The dose is from two pills to three or at the most in strong bodies to four drinking after it some water of Carduus Benedictus The ordinary diet drink for the French Disease is thus prepared Take of Guiacum four ounces of the bark thereof one ounce and an half Sarsa-parilla eight ounces Sassafras one ounce China-root sliced three ounces let them stand in infusion hot in Spring water three gallons by the space of 24 hours adding towards the end Raisins of the Sun stoned half a pound Harts-horn and shavings of Ivory of each one ounce fine Cinnamon one ounce and an half Coriander-seeds prepared one ounce strain it and let the patient drink it for an ordinary drink forbearing all other Although this be appropriated chiefly to the cure of the French-Pox yet it is effectual and profitable to be used for the Scurvy Dropsie Jaundies Gout Leprosie old putrified Agues and Feavers and indeed all Chronick diseases An excellent purging Ale may also be here with made effectual not onely for all the purposes before mentioned but for Coughs Consumptions shortness of Breath Tissicks it restores natural heat helps the Memory quickens the senses helps Cramps and Palsies stiches and pains that come of Wind and is good to prevent Miscarriages and opens obstructions of the Liver Reins and Bladder It is thus made Take Guiacum 6 ounces bark of the same one ounce and an half Sarsaparilla half a pound China-root and Sassafras each two ounces Lignum Aloes Coriander-seed Annise and sweet Fennel-seeds of each three ounces Citron peeles two ounces leaves of Colts-foot Ceterach Maiden-hair Sage Rue Harts-tongue Scabious Egremony each one handful Sena and Carthamum-seeds each 6 ounces Rhubarb Hermodactils each four ounces Liquorice three ounces infuse all in 8 gallons of Ale and let it work together adding of the juice of Garden-Scurvy-grasse Water-Cresses and Brook-lime each a pint with two Orenges sliced after it is three daies old drink it a pint in the morning and asmuch at four a Clock in the Afternoon Gum Arabick Names Descript THis Gum cometh forth of a tree called Acacia seu Spina Aegyptia vera the true Acacia Aegyptian thorn or Binding-bean-tree which yeeldeth of its own accord a bright Gum in small curled peeces and greater round peeces if it be wounded which is called Gummi Arabicum and Gum Arabick which being broken is clear pure white and transparent some are very long and large peeces and cleer and transparent but reddish this gum will dissolve of it self in waters and serveth as a glew to stiffen bind and fasten things it distilleth and droppeth out of the tree in bigger or lesser peeces as either issuing forth or helped by slitting the bark and giving it
afterwards turn into small soft Cones like to Cypresse Nuts while they are close but longer than they made of many fine scales lying one upon another standing on a short stalk having seed in the inside of every scale formed like a small bird with two wings and a small sweet kernel within them like the Pine kernel the wood is very firm hard and close long in growing and long lasting It yieldeth forth a liquid Rozen being bored veâ—y clear and white which is called Venice Turpentine There is also found upon the bodies and great boughs thereof a kind of hard and dry Mushroom called Agarick Place and Time It groweth plentifully in the Woods by Trent and in many other places of Germany and between Germany and Italy It shooteth forth leaves in the Spring and the blossomes presently after and the fruit is ripe towards the latter end of Summer The Turpentine is gathered in the hottest time of the Summer but the Agarick about November and December Governments and Vertues The Larix-tree is under the dominion of Venus the leaves bark and fruit are of the same temperature as those of the Pine-tree the Turpentine thereof taken to the quantity of an ounce will gently open the belly provoke Urine and cleanse the Reines Kidneys Reines Kidneys and Bladder and helps to dissolve the Stone Bladder Stone and drive forth the Gravel and gives ease to those that have the Gout Gravel Gout if it be rouled up in Sugar and taken it helps the running of the Reins But pills most excellent for the Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins may be made thereof in this manner Turpentine Pills for the Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins Take Turpentine-and wash it in Plaintain and Rose-water then with the powder of white Amber red Corral Mastick and a little Camphire make it into Pills which are to be taken morning and Evening for certain dayes together It is good also for the Tissick and Consumption of the Lungs Tissick Lungs being taken with hony in an Electuary it expectorates tough flegm and helps those that are troubled with a continual Cough it is of excellent use also outwardly to be used as an ingredient amongst salves It doth both draw cleanse and heal all sores or Ulcers whether new or old and green Wounds the Chymical oyl drawn from Turpentine is more drying and consolidating than the Turpentine it self so that it is singular good to be used in Wounds Wounds Vlâ—ers and to warm and ease paines in the joints and sinews caused with cold and being mixed with oyl of St. Johns-wort it is singular good against Sprains Pains Sprains Wrinches and outward Bruises Bruises-freckles caused by falls or otherwise the parts being fomented This oyl being drank the quantity of twenty drops at a time in Ale or white Wine provokes Urine cleanseth and cureth all Ulcers and Sores in the Kidney Kidneys or Bladder Bladder or Uretory passages The water that is distilled with the oyl is good for freckles and spots in the Face A scruple in weight of that water taken in white Wine procureth a Vomit and giveth much ease to those whose Stomacks are overcharged with Flegm Agarick which is the Tuberous substance which groweth upon this tree is a good purging medicine and often used by it self but more commonly is mixed with other medicines of a purging quality to open obstructions of the Liver Spleen Liver Spleen and entrails it purgteh all vitious humors which offend the body It is usually corrected wich Ginger and given with Oxymel that is a sirrup made with Vinegar and Hony otherwise of it self it is apt to trouble the Stomack and cause Vomiting It purgeth thin and rotten tough flegm both yellow hard and black burnt Choller Flegm Choler from the Head and Brain Breast Lungs Head Lungs stomack Liver Stomack Liver and Spleen Spleen Gout and from the Reins joints Sinews and Muscles whereby it helpeth such as are troubled with the Gout Dropsie Falling-sickness Jaundise Chollick Dropsie Chollick Sciatica shortness of Breath Cough Consumption of the Lungs spitting of Blood paines of the Womb Blood Womb sharpness of Urine and the Wormes It is also helpful to cure all sorts of Agues Agues to ease griping pains of the Stomack and Belly and such as have had Falls and Bruises or are bursten-Bellied Half a dram or two scruples being taken in Wine either by the infusion or in powder is good against all poisons and bitings of Serpents The most usual way of preparing it for the other diseases before mentioned is to slice a dram and put it into a gentle purging decoction or an Infusion If it be boyled in Lye with other Cephalicks and the head washed therewith it comforteth the Brain Memory Brain Memory and giddinessof the Head and stayes Rhumes and Catarrhs and cleanseth it from scurff Rhumes Scurff and Dandriff Spurge-Laurel Names IT is also called Wild Laurel and in Latine Laureola Descript The Spurge Laurel springeth up usually but with one stem but sometimes with more very tough and pliant having a whitish thick tough bark branching forth into divers parts towards the tops whereon grow many long thick somewhat broad and shining dark green leaves longer smoother and softer than Bay-leaves and without any veins therein the flowers come forth towards the tops of the stalks and branches and at the joints with the leaves many set together which are somewhat long and hollow having four small leaves of a whitish yellow green colour after which come small round and somewhat long black berries when they are ripe wherein is contained a white kernell the root groweth deep into the ground and spreadeth with long white strings and is somewhat wooddy The leaves flower bark and root are very hot in tast burning the mouth and Throat of any that shall tast them the leaves continue green all the Winter Place Spurge Laurel groweth Wild in many places of this land particularly in Cobham Park in Kent Time It floureth very early as about January if the Winter be mild and the berries are ripe about June Government and Vertues Mars rules this plant both leaves and berries hereof are violent purges of a heating burning quality so that they inflame the throat and Stomack of whosoever shall take thereof yet being given advisedly and prepared by a skilful hand it cleanseth the Stomack of Flegm Flegm Terms both by purge and Vomit it driveth down Womens Courses and being chewed in the Mouth it draweth down much corrupt matter from the Head and brain if the leavs and berries when they are fresh be boyled in oyl and the oyle strained forth this oyle looseneth the belly and helpeth the Chollick the belly being anointed therewith it provokes Urine and helpeth the Piles some give the powder of the leaves in a little broth to ease the pains of the Chollick and purge forth watry humors in the Dropsie The
only planted in Gardens Time The Lupines do flower in July and August and the seed is ripe soon after Government and Vertues Lupines are under the dominion of Mars and have an opening cleansing dissolving and digestive property but if they be steeped in water untill they have lost their bitterness they may be eaten but they are very hard to digest and breed grosse humors and passe slowly through the belly yet do not stop any flux If they be so steeped Appetite Stomack Liver Spleen Vrine Terms Dead-Child Scabbs Morphew cankers Tetters Sores and afterwards dryed and taken with Vinegar they provoke Appetite and help the loathing of the Stomack to meat The decoction of Lupines taken with hony opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen provokes Urine and the Terms and expelleth the Dead-child if it be taken with Myrrhe The decoction of them cleanseth the body of Scabs Morphew Cankers Tetters and soul running Ulcers or Sores It also cleanseth the Face and taketh away the marks or pits which the Pox leaves behind it and cleareth the skin of Marks and black and blew Spots An oyntment of Lupines to beautifie and make the Face Amiable is made after this manner Take the meal of Lupines the gaul of a Goat or Sheep juice of Lemons and a little Alumen Saccharimum mingle them into the form of a soft oyntment The meal of Lupines being boyled in Vinegar and applied taketh away knobs and kernels or pimples The smoak of the shells being burned drives away gnats and flyes which annoy many houses in Summer Madder great and small BEsides the Garden and Wild Madder there are many other kinds hereof sound out Parkinson makes six kinds of the Rubia major or greater Madder and eight sorts of the Rubia minor or little small Madder Rubia Tinctorum is the general name of the manured Madder in Shops not onely so called from the colour of the root but also from its propety to dye a red colour The names of the other kinds follow in their Descriptions Descript 1. Culpepper hath described the Garden or manured Madder therefore I say no more of it Descript 2. Rubia sylvestris wild Madder is very like unto the manured but the stalks are smaller and not so spreading neither are they so rough or hairy the leaves are lesse the flowers are white the root groweth greater but not so red as the Garden-kind Descript 3. Wild Madder with long leaves called Rubia sylvestris longioribus foliis hath divers round jointed stalks two or three foot long or thereabout not so rough as the other wild sort the leaves that stand at the joints are somewhat rough narrower and longer than the other seaven or eight at a distance the flowers are white and stand at the tops of the stalks having four leaves apeece which turn into small round seed like the other the root is red as the former but smaller Descript 4. Smooth-leaved-Madder Rubia levis Taurinensium hath divers round smooth stalks two or three foot long whereon stand leaves not rough at all but smooth larger broader than garden Madder towards the tops of the branches and at the joints with the leaves standing round about the stalks come white flowers consisting of five or six small leaves apeece the roots are smaller then the other and run not far into the ground Descript 5. The 〈◊〉 smooth Candy-Madder called Rubia levis arborescens Cretica It hath a thick short stalk about the thickness of one's singer from whence spring many straight smooth branches with small short leaves standing at distances like the former sorts at the tops of the branches shoot out two or three slender sprigs which bear whitish flowers like those of the ordinary Madder the root is long and reddish and of a bitter harsh tast Descript 6. Sea-Madder Rubia marina hath many square hard and somewhat rough stalks full of joints and spreading round about the root upon the ground the leaves are somewhat rough small and long broadest at the bottom and pointed at the end growing lesser towards the tops the flowers are of a star-like fashion and whitish the root is more red on the outside then within more wooddy and harder then the other Place The first is manured in Gardens and large fields for the profit that is made of it for dyers as well as medicinal uses the second groweth by hedge-sides in many places of Germany and so doth the third which groweth also in many places of our own Land the fourth is found by Turin on the hills of Piemont according as Pena and Lobel say the fift in Candy and the sixt by the Sea-side in Provence and neer Mompelier Time They flower towards the latter end of Summer and the seed of some of them is ripe shortly-after Government and Vertues All the Madders are plants of Mars our Antient and modern writers have controverted each other about the properties of Madder whether it be of an opening or binding quality Galen and Dioscorides say that the root doth open and cleanse the body of thick and tough Flegm Vrine Terms Dead-Child After-Birth Yellow Jaundice Liver Spleen Melancholy Palsie Sciatica that it provoketh Urine bringeth down Womens Courses and expelleth the Dead-child and afterbirth but Dodoneus affirmeth that it is dry and astringent and hath no opening faculty at all but it is sound to have both an opening and an astringent quality even as Rhubarb hath which first opens and then binds and strengthens it turneth the Urine into a red colour as Rhubarb doth colour it yellow it is an excellent remedy for the yellow Jaundies opening obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and cleanseth those parts it abates Melancholy humor it is effectual for those that have the Palsey and Scitica the roots boyled in Ale drunk is good for those that have received any hurts by bruises or falls and for all these purposes the root may be boyled in Wine Ale or Water and some hony or Sugar put thereunto afterwards The seed taken with Vinegar and hony helps swellings and hardness of the Spleen Spleen Freckels Deformity of the skin the decoction of the leaves and branches is good so Women to sit over to drive down their Courses The leaves and roots bâ—â—â—sed and applied cleanse and take away Freckles Morphew white Scurff or any deformity of the skin Small or little Madder Descript 1. Candy-Madder with a spikey head and larger leaves called in Latine Rubia spicata Cretica latiore folio It hath divers square rough slender stalks full of joints from which shoot many branches with four or five small rough leaves compassing them the top-branches end in small long spiked four square heads with many short rough husks set close one above another which send forth small whitish green flowers scarce to be seen after which come small greenish Seed The root is fibrous and wooddy but dyeth every Winter Descript 2. Spiked-Madder with small leaves Rubia spicata angusti-folia This differeth from the former in that
it hath lesser leaves stalkes and branches not growing above a hand breadth high and perisheth every year Descript 3. Small smooth Madder with sharp-pointed leaves Rubia Pratensis levis acuto folio This springeth up with one smooth square jointed stalk about a foot and a half high from the joints grow small branches whereat are set usually four long leaves ending in a small point The flowers come forth at the tops consisting of four leaves and are small and yellow at the first and afterwards become of a pale white colour Descript 4. Small smooth Madder with round pointed leaves Rubia quadrifolia rotunda levis This hath many square stalks about half a foot high which send forth other smaller branches at every joint four small round pointed leaves a little rough and not so smooth as the last the flowers are small and white and stand at the tops upon small threddy footstalks each having four leaves the root is small threddy and reddish Descript 5. Small creeping Madder with purplish blew flowers Rubia minor pratensis Coerulea This hath many small square branches which creep upon the ground divided into other small ones full of joints and at every of them five or six round green leaves smooth or very little rough from the joints and tops of the branches come small flowers consisting of five blewish purple round pointed leaves having some small threds in the middle the seed is small and long the root is small and of a reddish yellow colour it continueth green all the Winter Descript 6. Small rock-Madder Rubia minima Saxatilis Tâ—is groweth not above a hand-breadth in height it hath a small square stalk sending small branches from the joints at which grow seaven or eight small pointed leaves and somewhat rough the flowers are very small of a pale red standing in Vmbells at the tops of the branches the root is small and reddish Descript 7 Small rock-Madder with prickly heads Rubia Echinata Saxatilis This hath a small whitish threddy root which sendeth up many square render branches small and slender below and thicker up higher having many thick and hairy joints whereat grow four small leaves between which and the branches come forth small greenish flowers of four leaves a peece standing together upon a footstalk having small threds in the middle after which come small heads somewhat rough which become sharp and prickly when they are ripe divided into four parts on each side of the head the middle part being also prickly the seed is small and yellow It flowreth at the lower joints first and afterwards at the higher Descript 8. Candy Silver-leaved Madder Rubia argentea Cretica This is like the former small Madder but that the leaves are longer and whiter and the flowers yellow Place The fifth groweth plentifully in many places in England and so doth the sixt as upon the Chalky hills neer Drayton over against the Isle of Wight the others are strangers in our land Time They flower in the Summer Months and perfect their seed shortly after Government and Vertues These small Madders are all likewise plants of Mars and are of the same property and temperature as the former greater Madders are but not so powerfull Mayweed Kinds and Names THere is found three sorts of Mayweed 1. Cotula foetida stinking Mayweed 2. Cotula non foetida Mayweed with no scent Stinking Mayweed groweth more upright then that which sâ—nelleth not or the common Camomile neither of them creep or or run on the ground as Comomile doth the leaves are longer and greater then these of Camomile yet very like unto it but of a paler green colour the one sort hath a very strong smell the other no scent at all the flowers are like those of Camomile but larger there hath also been found of this sort in many places of this Land a Mayweed which hath double flowers almost as large as double Camomile-flowers which is called Cotula flore pleno Place The stinking Mayweed groweth abundantly among Corn and will blister the hands of the reapers that which stinketh not groweth also very plentifully wild in many places and often amongst wild Camomile Time They flower all the Summer-Months some earlier and some later Government and Vertues Mayweed is governed by Mars yet Galen saith The Sophi of the Egyptians consecrated Camomile to the Sun which is much of the same temperature but the stinking Mayweed is more hot and dry and is used for the same purposes that Camomile is to dissolve Tumors and Wind and to ease pains and Aches in the joints and other parts Tumors Wind Paines Aches Matrix Fallen down Suffocations of the Matrix it is also good for Women whose Matrix is fallen down or loosed from one side to another their feet being washed with a decoction thereof made in water It is likewise good to be given to smell unto for such who are troubled with the rising or suffocation of the Matrix Jewes-Mallow Names IT is called Melochia or Molochia and Corchorus Descript It is a small low herb rising up a foot and an half from the stalks shoot forth divers branches on all sides whereon grow many leaves without order up to the tops somewhat longer and broader then the leaves of Basil and some are shorter and broader almost round all of them finely nicked and pointed about the edges having at the bottom of each leaf a small thred as it were on each side which are of a little sourish tast the flowers for the most part come forth singly but one standing at a place every one upon a short footstalk consisting of five broad small pointed leaves of a yellow colour with some threds in the middle which being past there rise up slender long pods somewhat like unto those of Swallow-wort which when they are ripe open into five parts having within them small seed like unto Nigella but lesser and of a blewish green colour the root is long fibrous and perisheth every year Place It groweth in Syria Asia Aegypt and in those places abundantly in the Gardens where it is sown and in many places of Spain and Italy It is so common in Aegypt that they seldom make a meal without a dish therof as saith Alpinus Time It seldom cometh to flower with us and being sown groweth not above a hand high a cold night quickly killeth it Government and Virtues Alpinus assimilateth the faculties hereof unto the Marsh-Mallow that is of a temperature moderate in heat and moisture but this thought to be dryer even in the first degree it is under the government of Venus It is much used to suppurate digest resolve and mollifie all hard Tumors in that the muscilage hereof is more slymy then that of our Marsh-mallows Hard tumors Dry Coughs Hoarseness Throat two drams of the seed he saith is usually taken at a time to purge all sorts of humors the decoction of the leaves is very frequently used against dry Coughs hoarsness of the Throat or voice and
were with blisters in divers places with thorns thereon like a Bryar or wild-Rose the leaves are not many but small like the wild hedge-bryar or rather smaller and turning red in Summer the Roses are single and small of a deep incarnate colour more than the former Descript 4. The Virginia Bryar Rose called in Latine Rosa sylvestris Virginiensis The Virginia Rose hath divers as great stems and branches as any other Rose whose young are green and the elder greyish set with many pricks and a few great thorns among them the leaves are very green and shining small and almost round many set on a middle rib one against another somewhat like unto the single yellow-Rose the flowers stand at the tops of the branches consisting of five small leaves of a pale purple or deep Carnation-colour like unto those of the sweet Bryar Descript 5. The single sweet white Rose called in Latine Rosa Campestris flore albo odora This Rose hath woody stems about three foot high set as thick with sharp thorns as any of the other and hath the like leaves but not so green at the tops of whose branches stand usually but one flower apiece consisting of five white leaves reasonable large and of a sweet smell with divers yellow threads in the middle in their places come such like round and short heads or berries as are in other Roses but are black when they are ripe and not red with white seeds lying in flocks of Down Descript 6. The Vermilion Rose of Austria Rosa sylvestris Austriaca flore phoeniceo The younger branches of this Rose are slender and reddish the elder brownish grey set with divers thorns but not very thick great or sharp the leaves are somewhat sharper than those of the single yellow Rose else not much unlike the flowers are single and as large as those of the yellow-Rose but of an excellent Orange-tawny-colour with an eye of vermilion cast over it and of a paler-yellow on the outside after which the fruit follows Descript 7. The single dwarf red-Rose of Austria Rosa pumila rubra Austriaca This Dwarf-Rose groweth not above half a yard high with slender green stems set with few or no thorns below but having many higher having whitish green leaves upon them like the other roses and greyish underneath five or seven set on a stalk together at the top of the branches come forth very great bearded husks wherein stand large flowers made of five leaves apiece somewhat sweet red at the first but decaying with standing growing much more pale before they fail away with yellow threds in the middle after which come the fruit which are red as the others but greater somewhat more like unto a pease than the others Descript 8. The small Burnet-Rose or Pimpinel-Rose Rosa Pimpinella sive pomifera minor This small Rose seldome riseth above a foot high being of two sorts whereof the one hath but few thorns and the other full of small thorns which is most frequent set with long winged stalks of leaves being many small leaves round and greenish set one against another upon the stalk finely dented about the edges seeming like unto a Burnet leaf for the form and number set together The flowers are single small and white without any scent after which come small round heads black when they are ripe and full of seed as the other Roses Descript 9. Dwarf single white Rose Rosa pumila sylvestris alba This scarce riseth above a foot above ground being set with small thorns and leaves according to the proportion of the Plant and the wildness of the kind the flowers are white and small giving heads and seed like the rest the root creepeth about more than others Descript 10. The single Dwarf-Rose without thorns Rosa simplex pumila sine spina This Dwarf-Rose groweth also very low almost upon the ground with green stalks without any thorn thereon set with small winged leaves the flower is small and of a pale reddish colour and single in some places very sweet and in others little or nothing flowring also in some places both in the Spring and Autumn Place and Time The two first grow in the Hedges of our Land every where almost yet the second not so frequent as the first the third came from Muscovy the fourth from Virginia the fifth from Germany in sundry places the sixth and seventh from Austria the eighth is found in divers places of our own land both in barren Heathy grounds and by Woods and hedges sides the ninth on some of the hills among the Switzers and the last near unto Lyons in France upon Pilates Hill there some of these Roses flower earlier than others some in May and others not until June Government and Vertues The Roses are certainly all under the dominion of Venus I shall first set down the properties of the manured-Roses Both the white and the red are of a cooling binding quality yet the white is taken to exceed the red in both these qualities but is seldom used in any inward medicine The red hath a watry substance and a warm joyned with the other Qualities The yellow threads in the middle do binde and dry more then the Rose it self The Juice of the Roses when they are fresh purgeth Choler and watry Humours Choler watry humors but being dryed they have a stopping and astringent quality The decoction of the red-Rose in wine is very good for the Headach and pains in the Ears Eyes Throat and Gums The Fundament also the lower-bowels and the Matrix being bathed or put into them The same decoction with the Roses remaining therein is profitably applyed to the Region of the Heart to ease the inflamations therein as also St. Anthonies fire and all other diseases of the Stomack and being dryed and beaten to powder and taken in steeled wine or water they stay womens Courses Headach pains in the Ears Eyes Throat Gums Fundament Lower-Bowels and Matrix Inflamation of the Heart St. Anthonies fire stomack Womens Courses Eyes and are good for the eyes being mixed with other medicines for that purpose The yellow threads in the middle of the red Roses being powdered and drunk in the distilled water of Quinces stayeth the abundant flux of womens Courses and helps the defluxions of Rheume upon the Gums and Teeth Womens Courses Rheums Gums and Teeth-loose and preserveth them from corruption and fastneth them if they be loose if they be washed and garbled therewith and some Vinegar of squils added thereto the heads with seed being used in powder or in a decoction stayeth the Laske and the spitting of Blood Red Roses do strengthen the heart the stomack and the Liver and the retentive faculties and mitigate pains that arise of heat asswage Inflamations procure sleep and rest stay womens Courses Gonorrhaea and the fluxes of the belly The husks of the Roses with the beards and the nailes of the Roses are binding and cooling and the distilled water of
fluxes from the head and braine Fluxes Head Brain Rheum Catarrhes cold Stomaks Wind Mother French-disease Aches sinews Joints Sores Swellings tetters ringworms Rheums and Catarrhes as also in all cold griefs of the stomack and expelleth wind very powerfully from the stomack and mother It helpeth not only the French disease but all manner of Aches in the Sinews or Joynts all running sores in the legs all flegmatick swellings Tetters or Ringworms and all manner of spots Spots in the Skin and foulness of the skin It is not proper to be given to those whose Livers are over-hot or to such as have Agues The manner of using it is and hath been divers in former times it was used beaten to powder and so drank others used to boyle it so long until it became tender which being beaten or broken was afterwards strained into the decoction making a kinde of thick drink like cream Some others and that most usually boyled it in water to the half or the consumption of the third part as they would have it stronger or weaker and that either by it self or with other things proper for the disease it was intended for and others also put it amongst other things into drink either Beer or Ale new tunned up to drink after it hath stood three or four dayes for Physick-drink for the remedy of those griefs it is conducible unto as aforesaid A dyet-drink with Sarsaparilla for the French-disease Aches pains or any the diseases before mentioned Take Lignum Vitae which is Guiacum nine ounces bark of the same two ounces Sassafras one ounce Sarsaparilla four ounces Juniper-berries one ounce Boyl them in two ounces of fountain-fountain-water to the Consumption of half add to the strained liquor Coriander-seeds four drams Cinamon Liquorish each two drams for an ordinary drink Saracens Consound Descript and Names There have several plants been mistaken and set forth for the true Saracens Consound The true is called Solidago Saracenica vera Salices Folia the true Saracens Consound with willow leaves This groweth very high sometimes with Brownish stalks and sometimes with green and hollow to a mans height having many long and narrow green Leaves snipt about the edges set thereon somewhat like unto those of the Almond or Peach-tree or Willow-leaves but not of such a white Green-colour The tops of the stalks are furnished with many pale yellow star-like-flowers which stand in â—green-heads which when they are fallen and the seed ripe which is somewhat long small and of a yellowish brown-colour wrapped in down is therewith carryed away with the winde the root is composed of many strings or fibres set together at the head which perish not in winter but abide though the stalks dry away and no leafe appeareth in winter the taste hereof is strong and unpleasant and so is the leaf also Place and Time It groweth in moist and wet Grounds by woods sides and sometimes in the moist-places of the shaddowy-Groves as also by water-sides It is rare to be found in England Gerrard saith it groweth by the high-way sides in Essex I have sought many wayes there but could never yet find it In July it is in flower and the seed is soon ripe and carried away with the wind Government and Vertues This singular Wound herb is a Plant of Mars so that he can sure aswell as kill It is of temperature hot and dry almost in the third degree and somewhat binding In Germany it is preferred before all other Wound-herbs being boyled in wine and drunk it helpeth the indisposition of the Liver and freeth the gall from obstructions Liver Gall obstructed Yellow Jaundise Dropsie Vlcers of the Reins Wounds and bruises and for the dropsie in the beginning thereof as also in all inward Ulcers of the Reins or elsewhere and inward wounds or bruises and being steeped in wine and then distilled the water thereof drunk is singular good to ease all gnawing in the stomach or any other pains or torments in the body as also the pains of the Mother Gnawings on the stomach Pains Mother Agues green wounds Old Sores Vlcers Sores Mouth and throat privy parts and being in wine and drunk it helpeth continual Agues This said water or the simple water of the herb distilled or the juice or decoction are all very effectual to heal any green wound or old Sore or Ulcer whatsoever both cleansing them from any corruption is in them and healing them up quickly afterwards the same also is no less effectual for the Ulcers of the mouth or throat be they never so foul or stinking by washing and gargling the mouth and throat therewith and likewise for such Sores as happen in the privy parts of man or woman and is as effectual to all the purposes as are Bugle or Sanicle Sassafras or Ague-tree Descript Names THis Indian tree is called by some Ind ans Pavame of some Winanke but its general name amongst the French Spaniards and all other Nations is Sassafras The tree groweth great and tall bare of branches unto a reasonable height covered with a greyish brown bark somewhat thick in taste hotter and quicker than the wood or root towards the top it doth spread forth many Armes and branches into a round compass or form having large dark green leaves growing thereon one at a place standing on the contrary side each to other tasting like the root but more weakly some cut into three Divisions somewhat resembling Fig-tree leaves but lesser by the half for the most part with a middle rib running through each Division and two others to the inner cuts with veins besides and some with little or no division at all upon them smooth also and not dented about the edges the flowers are small and yellow made of threads very like to the male Cornel-tree and the fruit small blackish berries set in small cups upon long footstalks many clustring together The roots are not very great neither do they grow deep but are covered with the like brownish bark that the trunk and branches are but somewhat redder which are most in use being of more force and efficacy than any other part of the tree and of a spicy taste Place This is brought unto us from the parts near Florida and other places of the West-Indies Government and Virtues This is a solar plant of temperature hot and dry in the beginning of the third degree the decoction is very useful in all cold diseases of the liver and spleen as also in cold rheums and defluxions of the head Liver Spleen cold Rheums on the teeth defluxions on the teeth eyes or Lungs eyes or lungs warming and drying up the moisture and strengthening the parts It is available in coughs Coughs Breast Stomach and other cold diseases of the breast stomach and lungs restrains castings and helpeth digestion Castings Digestion wind gravel Kidneys Vrine Terms Agues breaketh and expelleth wind the gravel and stone in the kidneys and provoketh Urine and womens
sides 14 15. 97. Strangury 17. 24. 26. 33. 40. 52. 54. 71. 81. Seed to increase 19. Scabs 20. 35. 53. 101. 110. Scurfs 27. 32. 75 76. 97. 104. 148. Scars of wounds 27. 53. 78. Spots 32. 48. 56. 97. Secret members 33. Skin to keep its colour 38. 78. 101. 141. 199. Skin to keep from roughness 72. Swellings to dissolve 49. 74. 76. 95. 127. Splinters to draw 51. Scurvy 56. Scalding by fire or water 57. 61. Sneezing 72. Speech lost p. 75. Small Pox. 78. 116. 171. Sweat 86. Sprains 103. Spiders 149. Sun-burned 209. T. Teeth to make white and firm 89. Teeth loose 127. Tumors hot 1. 19. 24. 29. 78. 93. 112. 121. Terms to provoke 3. 14. 22. 24. 38. 60. 209. 237. Teeth to stop 20 21. 37. 78 79. Toothach 6. 11. 18. 22. 26. 32. 40. 72. 108. 122. 148. 182. 230. Terms to provoke 6. 11. 26. 83. Thirst to stanch 8. 39. 81. 126. Tongue 10. Throat 14. 24. 54. 62. 68. 78. 87. 121. 126. 164. Tetters and Ringworms 32. 78. 97. 149. 228. Temples 40. 93. Tympany 61. Tissick 79. 84. 90. Thorn and Splinters to draw forth 80. 84. The Taste to help 115. Trochis 210. V. Vlcers 141. 160. 213. Vrine to provoke 158. 160. 211. Vrine sharp 206. Venemous beasts 3. 8. 11. 13. 14. 18. 20. 50. 56. 73 74. 85. 104. 171. Vlcers in the Matrix 3. Vlcers in general 10. 20. 48. 54. 56. 62. 94. 103. 107. 123. 133. 136. Vrine to provoke 5 6. 8 11. 13 14. 22 23 24. 34. 60. 71. 83. 102. Venereous Exercises to excite 7. 36. 38. 42. 119. The Vvula falling down 11. Vomiting to stay 29. 33. 39. 99. 169. 209. Vomiting to force 47 48 49 103. Voice to help 42. 68. 195. 209. Vdders of Kyne how to help 115. W. Wind to dissolve 3. 8. 19. 21 25. 38. 61. 89. 93. 129. Womens Courses See Terms Womens delivery to be easie 6. 34. 53. 84. 151. 224. Whites or Reds to stop 6. 8. 13. 34. 108. Womens milk to cause plenty 8. 107. Womens flowers and the After-birth 9. 11. 13. 27. 52. 83. Warts 11. 78. 224 Wounds 13. 27. 50. 52. 82. 94. 107. 162. Worms 22. 29. 38. 52. 70. 81. 104. 108. 115. 138 168. 172. 233. Wasps to kill 72. Women subject to miscarry 91. 204. Wens 122. 168. 227. Womens Longing 168. Wheasing 206. 221. X. Y. Yard to help 36. A new Tract for the Cure of Wounds made by Gun-Shot or otherways fitted for the meanest Capacities exceeding useful in times of War and Peace FIrst How Wounds are to be ordered at the first dressing The first thing to be done in order to the curing of these wounds is to remove whatsoever is within the wound offending it as Linnen Paper Bullets and the like with instruments for that purpose as Forceps Crows-bills Catch-Bullets c. The next thing must be to stanch the flux of blood which is done either by filling the wound with dry Lint or Powders of Bole-armonack Draggons blood Aloes Frankincense the hairs of a Hare cut very small and such like applyed either with the white of an Egg Oyntment of Bole-armonack and such like or without as you shall see cause If the wound be large and you think it will not joyn together by rolling then you must stich it together with needle and silk well waxed for that purpose then at the next days dressing the Contusion or bruising of the part caused by the Gun-shot must be considered to which end you are to use such like medicines as these that follow viz. Oleum Catellorum i. e. Oyl of whelps or Oyl of Turpintine called Oleum Terebinthinae or Arceus his Lineament c. The next dressing proceed as before unless you suspect a Gangreene then mix with the former medicines some Aegyptiacum-oyntment more or less as you shall find cause then the wound with these remedies being come past danger of gangreene with good flesh and matter then you must seek to supply the part with good flesh if there be any wanting which may be done with Vnguentum Basilicon Vnguentum Aureum i. e. golden oyntment And at last wholly to skin it firmly over use desiccativum rubrum the red drying or shining oyntment All this while you must have regard to such other Symptoms as oftentimes are known to follow and accompany these wounds And first for pain which being commonly joyned with Inflamation or great heat is to be asswaged and mitigated with these medicines following Vnguentum album i. e. the white oyntment Vnguentum nutritum oyl of Roses Vnguentum Populeum Id est Oyntment of Poplar-buds and oyl of Lillies Elder Earth-worms Camomile If the Patient shall chance to faint through pain or loss of blood or any other ways administer to him one dram of Confectio Alkermes with the smaller sort of cinamon-Cinamon-water If a Convulsion happen to the part you are to anoint it with oyl of Bayes called Oleum Laurinum Spike and Castor c. The oyntment of Aragon and Agrippa are likewise very good or anoynt the part and all the Back-bone with this Take oyl of Turpentine half an ounce oyl of Cloves six drops the pulp of Bryonie as much as sufficeth to make an oyntment But this following is excellent Take salt Butter and old rusty Bacon of each four ounces the gums of Bdellium and Ammoniacum of each one ounce Myrrhe and Castor of each two drams the flowers of Lavender Cotton and Rosemary-flowers of each a pugil which is as much as you can take up between your thumb and two fingers Nutmegs and Cloves of each one dram a young Kitlen the skin being pulled off and the guts being taken out and bruised and cut in small pieces put all these into the belly of a fat Goose sew them up and so roast the Goose upon a spit the first juice or Liquor that drops from it being waterish may be thrown away but when the fat dripping comes let that be taken in a Pan half full of vinegar and with this anoynt the part troubled with convulsion and all the Back-bone After anoynting keep a Fox or Cats-skin to the part If he be full bodyed he may bleed and purge with a dram of Pillulae Cochiae to which add three grains of Castor if he will not bleed apply Cupping-glasses with scarification to the neck and shoulders if the Arm be troubled but to the hips and loins if the thigh be affected Sometimes a Palsie happens to the wounded through several causes as a cold and moist distemper cutting of the Nerves c. For which you must Purge the Patient every fourth or fifth day or once a week as you find the strength and Constitution of your Patient with these Pills following Take Pillulae foetidae and Pillulae Corticae the lesser of each half a dram Trochise Alhandal four grains make them into six Pills let them be taken in the morning keeping warm afterwards let him use the decoction of Lignum vitae and the Bark
Tisan or Barley-water or Plantane-water wherein you are to dissolve two ounces of brown sugar and an ounce of Honey of Roses mix them and inject them warm with a Syringe if you see symptoms continue you may put in a leaden Pipe till the wound runs little and good matter then take it out and cure it up the manner of dressing such Patients is this having warmed your medicine as before cast it in with a syringe which done let your Patient betake himself to that posture that it may all come forth again after put the Pipe into the wound and lay a sponge dipt in Aqua vitae on it which will keep forth the aire and draw out the matter contained in the wound Instead of the Sponge you may make use of this Take half a pound of the clear and best Rozin and two ounces of Gum-elemy melt them over a gentle fire till they be well mixed together then add to them Oyl of Bays and common Turpentine of each one ounce boyl them a little then strain them through a thick linnen cloath which spread upon leather lay it upon the Pipe which will powerfully draw matter out of the wound Renew it once a day if in winter and twice a day in Summer remembring always to snip your plaister in the middle that the mater may have passage to flow out With this and Artificial Balsom may wounds be cured which are piercing Forget not if you see occasion to bleed first on the contrary side of the wound and if need be and strength permit afterwards in the other arm To dissolve clotted bloud give this medicine inwardly made of half a dram of Rhubarb Madder and Mummy of each one scruple half a scruple of Sealed earth Scabious and Buglos-water and the juice of Lemmons of each one ounce To help difficulty of breathing and ease pain let the Patient take a quarter of a pinte of this Decoction following Four ounces of French barley three ounces of Raisins of the Sun stoned three handfulls of Buglos roots two ounces of Liquorice scraped and bruised twenty Jujubes fifteen pruans and a handful of Parsley-roots Boyl all these in seven quarts of rain or running water to the consumption of the third part and to make it palate-able and pleasant for taste Boyl two or three drams of Cynamon in the straining dissolve three ounces of Pennids Syrup of Roses and Comfrey and of the two opening roots made without vinegar of each two ounces four ounces of Sugar Candy this nourisheth so much that he need no other food for three days unless he drink Tisan wherein you may boyl Fennel and Parsley-roots If the Patient find ease by spitting help him by the using of Vinegar water and sugar for his cough administer this Take Sugar-Candy and Pennids of each one ounce two ounces of Diatragacanthum frigidum syrup of Violets and Juiubs of each as much as is sufficient to make a Linctus or Lohoc which he is to use often with a Liquorish-stick if he spits thick matter then use syrup of Coltsfoot with Oxymel simplex or simple which is thus made Take four pound of the best honey clear water and white-wine vinegar of each one quart boyle the water and honey into a syrup afterwards add the Vinegar then boyl it to the consistance of a syrup scumming it with a wooden scummer But when the matter is coming to suppuration let the patient drink half a pint of this following in the morning which he may sleep after and the like quantity at four of the Clock in the afternoon Take Eupatorie Scabies Sanicle Clove-gilliflower Privets and Colts-foot of each one handful of the root of the greater Comfrey and Burridg of each one ounce boyl the roots first then the herbs according to Art in five quarts of water till one half be consumed afterwards put to it Sugar and Honey of each four ounces which being clarified with the whites of two eggs keep it for use which you may also use for an Injection if you please indeavouring to get out all again for what remains will be of a sharp quality and so may increase if not beget Symptoms A wound made in the lungs if it be on the skirts and without inflammation c. then giving your Patient things to hinder his coughing much and great breathing may be cured while the patient takes those Linctus's or others before described he is to lye on his back for so the medicine will fall by little and little upon the wind-pipe otherwise if they should fall down hastily or in great quantity it might cause the Patient to Cough Cows Asses or Goats-milk if they may be had with a little Honey that they corrupt not in the stomach are very good in these wounds or the mulcians of Almonds which is made by bruising the Almonds being first blanched in a stone-morter and pouring Barley-water upon them and stir them well and strain through a cloth doing this often and it will look like milk Sugar of Roses likewise is excellent in this case because it is of a cleansing and strengthening quality but when you shall think it time to close up the wound after you have cleansed it with the medicines before spoken of The Patient must use in Broths or Linctuses some sealed Earth Boll-Armonack Plantan Knot-grass Shumack Acasia or the Juice of Sloes and such like sharp and binding medicines which being mixed with Honey of Roses may carry away that filth which may hinder the closing up of the wound Wounds happen to divers parts of the Belly some whereof are piercing as you will see the Guts and Caule sometime come forth if the great Guts come out put them up again presently into the Belly But if they have been a good while out and so the cold Air hath injured them and they be full of wind and the like then they must be fomented with medicines that will discuss the wind such as is made of Thyme and Calemint Camomil Mellilot Penni-royal Origanum Wormwood and the like or else prick them with needles if after all this you cannot make it go up there is no other way but to enlarge the wound But if the Gut it self be wounded which you will know by perceiving the excrements come forth at the wound if it be wounded longwayes and little it is easily cured if overthwart-ways and great 't is difficultly cured if black 't is deadly then it must be sowed up so as Glovers use to stitch in making Gloves Then put upon it powder of Mastick Mirrhe Boll Armonack and the like after you have stitched it up you must not put up the Gut into its place all at once but by little and little the patient lying on the side opposite to the wound as if the wound be on the right side the patient shall lie on his left by which means you may more easily restore the Gut fallen down if the lower part of the guts being wounded fall through the wound
Seamen or others is chiefly or almost the very same used to those troubled with Hypochondriack melancholy so that you are first to begin the Cure with general evacuations as Bloud-letting Purging and sutable to the nature of the disease strength and constitution of the Patient for Bloud-letting you must do it in the Liver-vein little and often that you cool not the body too much at once the next thing to be looked after is good dyet which because often wanting at Sea in long Voyages they are to carry with them some such comfortable things as may be useful as Wine Sugar c. Then you are to administer Glisters or Suppositories such as formerly has been spoken of in the Cure of Wounds and afterwards such a Bolus or Morsel as this following Take of Diacatholicon and lenitive Electuary of each half an ounce Cream of Tartar half a dram with three or four drops of Spirit of Viteral make a Bolus to be taken in the morning fasting you may if you see the Patient weak open the Hemrod-veins with Leeches you may repeat Bloud-letting in the Arm if you see occasion the gentle purges are the best often given such as common Pills of Ruffus called Pillulae Ruffi communes Pillulae Macri Mercurii dulcis one scruple two scruples or a dram are enough for a dose Barley-water is good the juice or syrrup of Lemmons to which you may if you will add some few drops of Cinnamon-water or Oyl of Viteral and Sugar then you may make use of specifical medicines which are such as have a peculiar faculty against the Scurvy such as Dutch or Sea-scurvy-grass Brook-lime and Water-Cresses Worm-wood Fumitory Turnips Lemmons juice or syrrup of Oranges Limes Tamarinds those which have not so great force against the Scurvy are these that follow viz. Agrimony Maiden-hair Betony Borrage Bugloss Ceterach Elecampane Germander Hysop Polypody of the Oak the Bark of Ash Capers and Tamarisk the flowers of Alder dodder of Time and Tamarisks but alwayes observe that if the Patient be feaverish or inclining to a Feaver you must be sparing of the hotter things and give them in a smaller quantity adding to them Endive Succory Sorrel c. with some few drops of Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol Of all which you may make several sorts of medicines as Decoctions Apozems Syrrups c. Or else this following Take the juice of Scurvey-grass and Brook-lime of each three pound two pound of powdered Sugar boyl them together till they come to the consistence of a Syrrup Or thus Take two pound of the juice of Scurvy-grass one pound and three quarters of the juice of Lemons and three-quarters of a pint of the spirit of Wine or Brandy to which adding a sufficient quantity of Sugar is made a syrup of which you may take three or four spoonfulls fasting two hours after To your juice of Lemmons alone you may add a spoonful of Aquavitae As much spirit of Vitriol as will sharpen a cup of Beer water or wine is very good also Diatrium piperium taken from a scruple to half a dram in some convenient liquor as Wine Beer or Ale first and last is good Theriaca Diatessaron from half a dram to two and Theriaca Londinensis two drams taken in the morning are good so are conserve of Roses Conserve of Wormwood with a few drops of the spirit of Viteral Likewise green Ginger Rosa-Solis and Wormwood water also it will not be amiss to sweat after purging which you may do by giving him a dram of Venice Treacle or Mithridate or half a dram of Antimonium diafreticum more or less as you find the constitution of your Patient There is commonly accompanying the Scurvy swellings and putrefaction of the gums for which you may take Bistert and Tormentil-roots boyled in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half to which add some drops of Vitriol to make it sharp or else take this following of Roman or white Viteral two ounces one pint of water and two spoonfuls of Honey being boyled to the consumption of the third part add to it half an ounce of Salâ—prunella for your use To conclude when you come to any place on shore you may make use of these following Receipts Take a pint of the decoction of Barley four ounces of white-wine Horse-raddish root but thin and bruised two ounces three handfuls of Scurvy-grass leaves strain them through a Cloth mingle them and take a spoonful of this morning and evening Or else take of Wormwood and Juniper-Berries bruised of each one handful Goats-milk if to be had or in want of it Cows-milk or Sheeps-milk two quarts Boyl them till the third part be consumed strain them and to the straining put one dram of Saffron in powder let them boyle a walm or two then strain it again give of this morning noon and evening Or Take three pints of white-wine a quart of small Ale four ounces of the juice of Scabies Brook-lime and water-Cresses of each two ounces half a handfull of Rosa solis boyl them to the Consumption of one pint to which add half a pint of the juice of Scurvy-grass let them boyl a little in a pint of this steep three spoonfuls of Horse-dung let them stand all night strain them in the morning and let the Patient take half a pint thereof being sweetned with Sugar-Candy For a Beer to drink constantly of Take a pound of Scurvy-grass a little dryed Brooklime and water-Cresses of each four handfuls a handful of Sage an ounce of Saxifrage six ounces of Sarsaparilla six drams of Nutmegs Let the Herbs Roots and Spice be bruised a part then mix them hang them in a bag in four gallons of beer after it hath stood nine days the Patient may drink thereof Half a pint of this following-drink every morning for fourteen dayes hath been often tryed and approved and hath cured divers Take Scurvy-grass stamp it and strain it with posset-drink made of thin skim-milk turned with just as much white-wine Vinegar as will serve to turn it during all the time of your cure you must forbear salt meat strong-drink fruits and old Cheese drinking whey at your Meals if you can get it if not instead thereof small Ale and you must chew Brook-lime for three mornings together if your teeth be loose In Voyages at Sea there happen to Sea-men the disease Called the Callenture It is a kind of contagious Fever sometimes with fits sometimes without the Patients being often possessed with a Frenzy for they oft think the Sea to be a Meddow and so make an offer to go into it on some the fits are very violent which are hot and cold in some This Disease happens through great obstructions caused by ill dyet and intemperature of the Climate which aire being somewhat Contagious causeth an ill habit of the Body For the Cure of this Distemper you are first to begin with Cordials which strengthen and defend the faculties from the venemous quality of the
Calefar and in some place Chanque Government and Virtues The Cloves are under the solar influence of temperature hot dry in the third degree they comfort the Head â—nd Heart Head Heart Liver stomack Wind Vrine strengthen the Liver and Stomack and all â—nward parts that want heat they help digestion â—reak Wind and provoke Urine the Portugal Women use to distill the Cloves while they are fresh which make a sweet and delicate water profitable for â—ll passions of the Heart and weakness of the Stomack China-root Descript THe root called China-root is like to the root of a great Reed some flattish others round not smooth but bunched and knotty reddish for the most part on the outside and whitish and sometimes a little reddish in the inside the best is solid and firm and somewhat waighty fresh and not worm-eaten and without any tast but as it were drying the plant of the root groweth up with many prickly branches like unto Sarsaparilla or the prickly Bind-weed winding it self about trees and hath many leavs growing on them like broad Plantain leavs the roots grow sometimes many together and while they are fresh the Indians eat them as we do Turneps or Carrots Place This plant groweth not only in China but also in Mallabar Cochin and divers other places there Government and Vertues It is a plant of Jupiter and the properties therof are many and of great use with us in divers cases in diet drinks for the French-Pox French-pox it is profitable in all Agues Agues Heckticks Quotidian Intermittent or pestilential Heckticks and Consumptions Consumptions it helps the evil disposition of the Liver pains of Head Head and Stomack Stomack and strengthneth it It dryes up the defluxions of Rheums helps the Jaundies Jaundies and burstings Burstings in Children or others by drying up the humor which is the cause therof It also helps the Palsie Palsie Gout and all other diseases of the joints and bladder the Gout Sciatica Sciatica Nods Pocky-nods and Ulcers of the Yard Yard Lust and is good in all cold and Melancholy diseases It stirreth up Venery it may be taken several wayes as being boyled first slic'd thin and steeped a good while in water onely or with Wine and water some boyl it in the broth of a chicken tyed up in Linnen cloth and to take from a quarter to half an ounce or more at a time as the quantity of drink oâ— broth is or as the party can bear Cinnamon and Cassia Lignea Descript THe Cinnamon-tree is described to be a great Tree about the bigness of the Olive-tree with many straight branches without knots covered with a double bark like the Cork whose inner rind is to Cinnamon and is so barked every third year and being cut in long peeces oâ— if it were the bark of the whole tree is cast on the ground wherein dry it it is rouled together as we see it and is better or worse blacker or betteâ— coloured by the greater or lesser heat of the Sun the leaves are of a fresâ— green colour like those of the Cittron-tree the flowers are white and the fruit black and round like hasel-nuts or small Olives the best groweth in Zeland having leaves like Willowes and fruit like unto bay-berries whereof there is made an oyl As concerning the Cassia several Authors do write that Cinnamon and Cassia is one and the same tree and that the variety and difference of the Soyl where they grow makes the difference onely but we daily see that the Cassia which cometh to us is the bark of a tree and either roul'd together like Cinnamon or not roul'd but in small or great smooth peeces and therefore may be conceived to be a sort of Cinnamon yet the tast being Glutinous lesse sharp and quick and more stiptick then Cinnamon argueth it to be the bark of another sort of tree although of the same kind and nature Pliny lib. 12 cap. 29. saith that Cassia which groweth where Cinnamon doth is a shrub of three cubits high but on the hills whose thick branches have their bark unto leather which must be emptied or hollowed in a contrary manner unto that of Cinnamon for being cut into sticks of two cubits long they are sewed into fresh beasts skins that the worms may eat out the wood and leave the bark whole by reason of the sharpness and bitterness the three sorts of colour therein sheweth their goodness That which is white for a foot high next the ground is the worst the next thereunto for half a foot is reddish which is next in goodness from thence upward which is blackish and the best and is to be chosen fresh of a mild scent and of a very sharp tast rather than biting of a purplish colour light in waight and with a short pipe not easily broken so that we may see plainly that Cassia differeth not much from Cinnamon and yet that it is differing from it Government and Virtues Cinnamon is under the dominion of Jupiter it is of temperature hot and dry in the second degree of very subtile parts and very Aromatical it is very Cordial it comforteth the Heart and strengthneth a weak Stomack Heart stomack it easeth the pains of the Cholick Cholick Vrine especially the distilled water of it the stopping of Urine and it stayes the superabounding flux of Womens Courses Terms Face it causeth a good colour in the Face makes a sweet breath Breath Poison and good against the poison of venemous beasts it is much used to stay looseness Looseness and binde the body the distilled water thereof is most effectual but the Chymical oyle thereof is much more hot and piercing Cocculus Indus Names Description and Vertues THe Italians call these berries or round seed Cocco di levante and the French call them so likewise they are of a blackish Ash-colour on the outside having a thick white kernel within them of a hot tast drawing water into the mouth and grow many together like Ivy-berries yet each by it self on a stalk some thinking them to grow upon a kind of night shade others on a kind of Tithymal or Spurge they are used either to make bates to catch fish with things for that purpose or the powder thereof used to kill Lice and Vermine in in Childrens Heads Costus THere are to be had in our Druggists and Apothecaries Shops two sorts of Costus far differing the one from the other both in form and substance the vertues of the true Costus are these It provokes Urine Vrine Courses and Womens Courses and helps diseases of the Mother Mother Convulsions aswel by bathing as suming two ounces thereof being drunk helpeth the biting of Vipers and is good against pains of the Breast Convulsions or the windy Stirches Stitches Stomack swellings in the Stomack Sides or Body being taken in Wormwood-Wine sciatica sinews and being taken with sweet Wine
by cutting and extenuating and digesting the grosse and tough Flegm therein all the properties before-said of the Elder the Walwort doth perform more strongly and is more effectual in opening and purging Choler Flegm Choler Flegm and Water in helping the Gout Water Gout the Piles Piles and Womens diseases coloureth the Hair black helpeth the Inflamations of the Eyes and pains in the Eares Womens courses hair Eyes ears the stinging or biting of Serpents Serpents Mad-dog Burning or a Mad-dog the Burnings or Scaldings Scaldings by Fire or Water Wind Cholick Wind Cholick and Stone and Stone the cure of all old sores and fistulous Ulcers Vlcers and all other the griefs and maladies before of the Elder specified Thus in general Terms I have given the species nature and vertues of the Elder and Dwarff-Elder with their excellent operations deducted from the Testimony of the best Authors and late admired experience I shall now lay down some more particular and late experienced medicaments composed of some parts of the Elder and appropriated to several diseases in several parts of Mans body For pain in the Head Take the Cake of the flowers of Elder left in the Still after the distillation and sprinkle upon it the Vinegar of the flowers and apply it to the Temples renewing it with sprinkling on fresh Vinegar or you may use Rose cakes be sprinkled with the Vinegar of Elder which is far better for the brain where the heat is more vehement and the brain more sensible Or Take of fresh Elder leaves two handfuls of Roses and waterlilly-flowers of each one handful being cut and pounded pour upon them of Elder Vinegar the water distilled out of the flowers of each a like quantity presse the juice out strongly and mix with it two whites of Eggs well beaten in which dip a double Linnen cloth and apply it to the Head repeating it often This decoction is excellent to dispell the Vapours of the brain and make one sleep soundly if the Legs and Arms be soundly rubbed therewith when you go to bed Take six Umbells of the Elder flowers when they are full of Annise Umbells four of Roman Camomil flowers one handful six poppy Heads with their seeds being cut together beat them in rain water and so apply them The Elder 's remedies again Hypochondriack and flatulent Melancholy In these diseases if the Patient be subject to Vomit it is expedient first of all to provoke it by the oyl of the infusion of the flowers and bark of the Elder lest by preparing and purging medecines those crude and Excrementitious humours which often are gathered in the Stomack be carried to the more principal parts of the body and augment the obstructions Or give of the syrrup made of the juice of the buds and berries an ounce with some grains of the extract of Scammony and three drops of the oyl of Elder-flowers distilled in the distilled water of the flowers thereof Or use this clyster following which will mitigate pain expell wind and loosen the belly Take of Elder leaves two handfulls of Elder flowers and Roman Cammomil-flowers of each an handful of the stones of Elder-berries dryed two drams which being cut and pounded boyl them in good Wine or Wine of the Elder till the colature come to eight ounces add the oyl of the infused flowers three ounces of Elder-honey two ounces the yolk of one egg mix them and make a clyster and inject it hot After this the Wine which is drawn out of the berries and flowers is very profitable for it opens obstructions cuts grosse humors and by degrees carries them off It doth likewise refresh the vital and animal Spirits drink a cupful thereof each morning for a Month taking before a spoonful or two of flesh broth or a soft Egg with these you may also mix once or twice a week the powder of the buds of Elder which is thus prepared Take of Elder-buds dryed in the shade half an ounce of Elder-kernels trochiscated of Sene leaves of Crystalized Elder Salt of each three dams of the extract of Scammony two drams of Galingale and Mace each half a dram being all subtilly powdered distill upon them of the oyl of Cloves and Fennel of each six drops of Cinnamon and Caraway of each three drops let them be mixed exactly in a marble Morter for a powder whose dose is from a scruple to a dram The Trochiscation or preparation of the seeds of Elder is thus Take one ounce of the lesser Esula prepared in infusion in Vinegar and pulverized grossly put it into Spanish Wine and let them macerate eight daies in the Sun or in the Winter in the Chimney-corner the mouth of the glass being well stopt after strain them through gray Paper and purifie them take the clean Arilla's of the Elder-berries dry them pulverize them and with a sufficient quantity of the powder of Esula make them in paste dry it and then sprinkle them with the same infusion and again work it into paste of which form your Troches dry them and keep them for your use The specifick cure of the Epilepsie or Falling sickness from the Elder The Cure of Children To Infants new born before you give them any thing to swallow you may give them with great profit a spoonful of the syrrup of the flowers or juice of the Elder-berries to carry off that putrid yellowish and sometimes blackish water gathered in the Stomack and parts about while the Infant is in the Mothers womb for these syrrups do not only change and evacuate but they also preserve from and resist malignities Macerate a handfull of Elder-flowers well dryed in Wine with which wash the new born babe it consumes the humors gathered about the joints and comforts the members this also is profitable Take of the powder of the buds one dram of the berries of herb Paris Numb 6. powder them very finely of which give half a scruple for 9 daies together in the water of Elder-flowers or in any other convenient Liquor In the Fit the least spoonful of the spirit of the flowers given with three or five of the seeds of Peony excorticated is much commended or of Peony-seeds excorticated of the best Water of Elder-flowers one ounce and an half of the flowers of Linden half an ounce The cure of those that are of age and grieved with the Falling-sickness In the cure of such persons first purge the body very well In the Spring time macerate the bark of the roots of Elder in the Whey of Cows milk which being sweetned with Sugar let him each morning drink an hearty draught thereof or take of the compound powder of the buds two scruples or a dram or take of the new rob of the Elder well thickned with Sugar asmuch as will make a Bolus The Spirit of the flowers and berries of the Elder in and out of the fit is very effectual but it may be made more efficacious in this
manner Take of the middle bark of the Elder of Peony-roots each 6 drams of dried Elder-leaves and buds of Linden tree-flowers of each one handful of the seeds of Rue two drams of the berries of herb Paris Number 20. of Jews-Ears numb 6. This being cut and pounded put asmuch of the Spirit of Elder-flowers thereon as will be a hand broad high above them let them stand eight days in a hot place and in a vessel close stopped distill them in glasse Vessels in Balneo Mariae till they be dry with them mix the distilled Spirits the salt drawn out of its dregs and keep it for the Anti-Epileptick Spirit of the Elder whereof you may give a spoonful to the patient in the time of his fit afterwards using it every quarter of the Moon to dissipate the Epileptick corruption by sweating or insensible transpiration and to strengthen the brain with this same in the time of the fit rub the nostrills Gums and Palate adding thereto a grain or two of Castor The Water of the flowers drawn up into the Nose prevails much against the Epilepsie and Vertigo in the same affects the Eyes and Face are to be washed often with this water in the time of the Fit anoint gently the contracted members with the oyle of the flowers of the first description the oyl of the second sort is much commended to anoint the palms of the Hands and Soles of Feet the Temples and nape of the Neck Of the Apoplexy and Palsie The salt of the Spirit of Elder is much commended as a preservative against these grievous diseases if it be mixed with a third part of the volatile Spirit of Amber and given in the time of the new Moon or full Moon in a convenient liquor in the weight of a scruple or half a dram the salt of the Elder must be first excellently crystaliz'd in the water of Sage Oximel Sambuci is likewise useful in these cold distempers of the Brain whereof give often in Sage water a little before purging for the cutting and preparing that grosse matter The Spirit likewise distilled from the Berries is excellent if once a week or at least each Quarter of the Moon a spoonfull thereof be taken mixt with crums of Wheat-bread and a little Sugar or you may prepare it new in what quantity you please Thus. Take Sage Marjoram Ivy of each two drams Cowslip-flowers Lilly of the Valley-flowers of each one dram and an half of Rocket-seeds two drams which being cut and grossely powdered infuse them in a sufficient quantity of the Spirit of Elder and after eight dayes distil them in Balneo dissolve a little Castoreum in it and strain it of this give the Patient a spoonful in the time of the Fit and with the same rub the Crown of the Head Temples Nape of the Neck and Nostrills But if the Apoplexy end in a Palsey of the sides or other Members as usually it doth or in death 't is necessary to provoke sweat which may be done with two drams of the spirit before mentioned or two drams of the Rob of the berries in Sage water or of the extract of the rob of the Elder five drams and an half of which every morning give to the patient being exactly mixed one dram in two or three ounces of the decoction of the great Burdock and keep him warm to sweat in his bed for half an hour Of Catharrs In this the Wine prepared of the flowers and berries is much commended drink a cupful in the morning after you have taken a litle broth For diseases of the Eares and Hearing For to ease and mitigate pains of the Eares use Fomentations of Elder and Camomile-flowers and anoint the place with the oyl of the infusion of the flowers of Elder To take away the tingling sounding and other noises of the Eares drop in a drop or two of the oyl of the flowers and stop the Eares with Bombace dipped therein and with the decoction of the roots and leaves of the Elder with some Originanum let the Eares be often washed therein and receive the hot sume thereof Of the defects of the Nose and Smelling Water of Elder-flowers often snuffed up into the Nose helpeth the Smelling when it is lost or diminished by any great Cold or sickness and if you wash the Face often with the distilled water of the leaves and flower of the Elder it cleanseth and dryeth up all pimples and pustules of the Face For diseases of the Throat and Mouth The expressed juice of the leaves mixed with Simple or Elder hony doth cleanse and dry very much all the Ulcers of the Gums and Throat they being gargled therewith and outwardly anoint them with the oyl of Elder-flowers by infusion For Hoarseness The new Rob of the Elder-berries which is liquid is with good successe given to Coughing and unquiet Children for older people a Lohoch of the oyl of Elder-Sugar is profitable but where there is much matter and corruption feared this medicament following is profitable Take of fresh Elder-leaves a little dryed in the shadow one handful boyl them in a quart of Fountain water to the Consumption of a third part strain it and sweeten it with Sugar-Candy or clarified hony of which every day morning and evening drink a draught warm To make the Voice clear Take of Elder-flowers dryed in the Sun and pulverized of which drink a little every morning in white Wine fasting if the Cough and Hoarseness proceed from heat in Feavers the syrrup made of the juice of Elder-berries with equal parts of the syrrup of violets is an excellent remedy Or you may make Elder-Sugar in imitation of violet Sugar-Candy Cinnamon or Rose Sugar of which in these pectorall diseases hold some still to be dissolved in your mouth that it may gradatim descend into the Wind-pipe 't is thus made Take of the best Sugar 6 pound let it dissolve and boyle in the fragrant water of the flowers till it come to a fit thickness to be made into tablets then infuse the fresh juice made from the berries well clarified or the frequent infusion of the flowers as you please to have the colour on a soft fire boyl to the consistency of a syrrup then in a glasse or earthen pot put sticks in order two fingers breadth asâ—under and pour the Liquor hot thereon and in a warmed shop the vessel being bound up in a thick Cotton-cloth let it stand to congeal For Swooning and Faintness The Vinegar of Elder-berries imbibed in a Sponge recovers those as it were from death that are subject to Swoonings and Faintings it excellently refresheth the vital Spirits in this also dip Linnen cloaths and apply them to the pulses of the Temples Wrists and near the Ankles Of Agues and Feavers As soon as any one finds a Feaver at first begin to approach let them take of the Rob of the Elder in the Vinegar Spirit or water of the flowers thereof and so in their beds being well covered
humors wherefore they may very well be given to young Children that are sick of the Small-pox Small-Pox and Wheals or Measels Measells for they bring them quickly forth without any danger they be good also for the Throat Throat Lungs Lungs and Cough Cough and those that are short Winded they ripen Flegm Flegm and cause the same to be easily spit out whether they be eaten raw or rosted or sodden with Hysop and Licoris and the decoction drunk The decoction of Figs in water is good to be drunk of those that have taken hurt by squats or bruises Bruises of or by falls Falls from high they disperse and scatter clotted Clotted and congealed blood bloud and asswage or slake the pain An Electuary made with Figs Salt Rue and Walnuts is an Antidote against all Poison and corruption of the Air. This was the preservative which Mithridates King of Pontus used against the Plague Plague Pestilence and against all Poison Poison Venome Venome The decoction of Figs gargariz'd or holden in the mouth is good against the sharpness and hoarseness Hoarseness of the Throat and also against Swellings swellings and Impostumations Imposthumes of the Mouth Throat Almonds of the Throat and Jawes and Swelling of the Tongue Figs are also good to be kept in the Mouth against Swellings and Ach and pain of the Teeth Teeth Gums Gums and Jawes Jaws being outwardly applied with Wheaten-Meal they do soften and ripen boiles Boiles Imposthumes and Phlegmons that is hot and angry Swellings Swellings and Tumors Tumors behind the Eares especially if there be put to it Linsâ—ed and Fenugreek and if Lilly roots be mixed with it and applied pultis-wise it will ripen and break Plague-Sores Plague Sores Imposthumes Buboes Buboes and Botches Botches Figs sodden in Wormwood Wine with Barly-meal is good to be applied as a Pultis or Plaister upon the Bellies of those that have the Dropsie Dropsie Figs and Mustard-seed being pounded very well together and outwardly applied amend the Hearing Hearing help Deafness and take away the ringing noise Noise or sound in the Eares Eares the dry Figs have power to dissolve consume and make subtill and may very well be used both inwardly and outwardly the leaves of the Fig-tree do wast and consume way the Kings-Evill Kings-Evil or Swelling kernels in the Throat and mollisie and wast all other Tumors being beaten small and applied thereunto The milky juice of Figs is good against all roughness of the skin Skin Leprosies Leprosie spreading Sores Sores Tetters Tetters Small-pox Measells Pushes Freckles Lentiles and other such like spots Spots and Scurviness both of the body and Face being laid thereto with parched Barly-meal and being mixed with sat or grease it taketh away Warts Warts if they be anointed therewith It cureth the Tooth-ach Tooth-ach if you dip a little Cotton in the said Milk and lay it to the Tooth or make a pellet thereof and put it into the Tooth if it be hollow It openeth the Veins of the Hemerrhoids Hemerrhoids and looseth the Belly being laid to the fundament the leaves have the same vertue being used for a suppository being mixed with the Meal of Fenugreek and Vinegar it giveth ease in the hot Gout the same juice is good to pour into Wounds made by the biting of Mad-dogs Mad-dog the Ashes of the Fig-tree mixed with oyle of Roses and Wax cureth burnings Burnings and the Lye that is made of the ashes of the fig healeth festred and foul fretting Sores Sores if they be washed therewith Fistick-Nuts Names THese Nuts are called in shops Pistacia Pistacies Fistici and Fistick-nuts Descript The Tree that heareth the Fistick-nuts hath long great leaves spread abroad consisting of five seven or more leaves growing one against another all along a reddish rib or sinew whereof the last which is alone at the top of the leaf is the greatest and largest the fruit of this tree is much like to small Hazel-nuts and like the kernells of the Pine-apple in which lyeth the kernel or nut Place This tree is a stranger in this Country it groweth in Syria and other hot Eastern Countries Government and Virtues Fistick-nuts are under the influence of Jupiter they are of a mean or temperate heat and somewhat astringent Fisticks are good to open stoppings and obstructions of the Liver and also they strengthen the same they he also good for the Stomack they also open the pipes of the Lungs Liver Lungs and Breast Breast stomack and are good against shortness of Breath Lungs Breath the Tissick Tissick and painful fetching of Breath to be eaten either alone or with Sugar Dioscorides saith that Fistick nuts given in Wine are a good medecine against the bitings or stingings of Venemous beasts Flax. Names IT is called Linum in Latine by which name it is well known in shops it is called also Lin whence the Cloth that is made thereof is called Linnen-cloth and the seed is called Linseed the oyl which is pressed out of the same seed is called Linseed-oyle Descript Flax hath a tender stalk covered with sharp narrow leaves parted at the top into small short branches the which bringeth forth fair blew flowers when the flowers are fallen away there cometh in their stead round knaps or buttons in which is contained a blackish seed large fat and shining Place Flax is sown in this Couuntry in fat and fine Ground and in low moist fields it delights to grow in Time Flax floureth in May and June and is ripe soon after Government and Vertues It is under the dominion of Venus the seed of Flax which is onely used in medecine is of temperature hot in the first degree and temperate in moisture and driness The seed called Linseed being boyled in water and applied in manner of a pultis or plaister asswageth all pains softneth cold Tumors or Swellings the Imposthumes of the Eares and Neck and of other parts of the body Linseed pounded with Figs doth ripen and break Imposthumes and boyles Pains Imposthumes swelling Eares Boyles being laid thereon and draweth forth thorns and all other things that stick fast in the body iâ— it be mingled with the root of Wild Cucumer The same seed mingled with hony and Cresses and laid unto rough rugged and il-favored Nailes aswell of the hands as the Feet cleanseth them that be corrupt and cureth the party Nailes Spots in the Face Old Sores Vlcers Sight Belly Gripings Bowells Matrix Cough Heckick Feavers the same seed being pounded and laid to the Face cleanseth and taketh away all Spots and Freckles thereof The Wine wherein Linseed hath been boyled preserveth old Sores and Ulcers from corruption if they be washed therewith and from festering and inward rankling the water wherein Linseed hath been
and Spleen strengthneth the Stomach and corroborates the inward parts after purging and opening the obstructions of them It helpeth also all diseases proceeding from them as Dropsie Jaundice it rectifieth the evil constitution of the Liver openeth and dissolveth the hardness thereof as also of the Spleen and Stomach and expelleth wind It helpeth and taketh away all old and inveterate pains in the head by cleansing the brain and the nerves and purging those Rheumatick distillations and humours that are in them It helpeth also Joynt-Aches or Gout-pains in the bladder and Reins provokes Urine It helps the Chollick powerfully expelling the wind It also helps pains and windiness of the Mother shortness of breath and an old Cough It is also effectual in the French disease by taking it as often as there is cause purging old peccant humours especially if the disease be not of any long continuance It takes away also the cause of old and long lingring Agues The Jalap is in operation and purging somewhat like unto the Mechoacan but worketh more strongly and somewhat more churlishly both upon Flegmatick and watry humours yet it strengthens both the Liver and Stomach The manner to take it is being made into powder to drink it in White wine fasting or in the distilled water of Cichory or Borrage or else in broth made with cold herbs and some use to drink it in Posset-drink Millet Names Kinds THere are three sorts growing in Europe they are generally all called by the name of Millium with their Adjectives for distinction Gesner calleth it Panicum Indicum Descript 1. Common white Millet Millium vulgare album This groweth with many hard joynted tall stalks full of white pith yet soft and a little hairy or downy on the outside with long and large Reed-like Leaves compassing one another The tops of the stalks are furnished with a great many whitish yellow long Sprigs like feathers bowing down their heads set all along with small seeds inclosed in whitish husks of a shining pale yellowish colour somewhat hard little bigger than the Seed of Fleawort the Root spreadeth much in the ground but perisheth every year Descript 2. Black Millet Millium nigrum differeth from the other but little being somewhat less saving that as the tuft is brownish so is the seed blackish and shining else it is very like to the other Descript 3. Indian Millet called also Melica sive Forghium and higher than the former rising to be five or six foot high or more the stalks are full of joynts and large long leaves at them the juba or Tuft standeth upright and doth not hang down the head as the others whereon stand somewhat round seed as big but not as flat as Lentils and is either whitish yellow red or blackish hard and shining the root busheth more than the other yet endureth all Winter Place All the sorts of Millet came first into Europe out of the Eastern Countries and require a strong well watered ground they soon will impoverish a ground that is not still inriched it will not prosper in dry or hungry ground Time It is to be sown in April and the grain in the hotter Countries will be ripe in August or September Government and Vertues It is Mercurial of a cooling temperature in the first degree and dry almost in the third according to Galen and is also endued with a little tenuity of parts Theophrastus saith that if the grain be kept from wind and weather it will last always It is sometimes made into bread but it is very brittle it dryeth up moist humours In Germany they much use it boyled in milk and some sugar put to it Mathiolus saith that at Verona they eat the bread thereof with great delight while it is hot by reason of the sweetness but being cold it is hard and unpleasant Dioscorides saith that Gruel or Pottage made with it Binding of the belly Vrine Feavers thirst Chollick Sides Pains Joynts Sinews bindeth the belly and provoketh Urine the Apozeme made thereof called Syrupus Ambrosianus or Syrupus Ambrosii taken warm with white wine procureth sweat very much the party being covered in bed and is effectual to cool hot Feavers and to quench thirst Being put into a bag and fryed and applyed hot it easeth the griping pains of the Chollick and of the sides and pains in the Joynts and Sinews in Italy and other places they fat their Poultry with the grain Mathiolus saith that the Indian Millet-stalks are good to help those that are troubled with kernels under the ears or else where to be used in this manner For Kernels under the Ears or elsewhere TAke ten of the joynts of the Indian Millet of the Stalks thereof take out the pyth of them which burn with a new red Sponge take the powder of them with twelve grains of pepper and an ounce of Wheat Paste or Dowe make it up into a Cake with a new-layd egg and let it be baked under the Embers this Cake divide into six parts and let the Patients take one part of it every other night when the Moon is decreasing as they go to bed and not drink after it that night This must be repeated two or three Moons and by this he saith he hath known many to have been cured He also saith that the red flowers taken in red wine to the quantity of a dram cureth women of the Reds as the white flowers doth the Whites It is also good for all Fluxes of the belly Myrtle Names and Kinds THere are several kinds hereof whose names shall follow with their descriptions The Druggists and Apothecaries in their Shops call the berries Myrillus and we in english Myrtle-berries Descript 1. The greatest open Lawrel Myrtle Myrtus latifolia maxima This greatest Myrtle hath great and thick woody branches set with a double row of large leaves coming near unto the smaller leaves of the Baytree but of a paler green colour abiding always green and very â—weet Clusius saith that this sort in Spain seldome beareth either flowers or fruit because they prune it often being kept in Hedges for pleasure Descript 2. The strange broad-leaved close Myrtle Myrtus Latifolia Exotica This doth grow up higher than the former and shooteth from the root many strong thick stemmes more pleasantly stored with large leaves yet not fully so large as the first sort but closer set together that they almost touch one another sometimes in a double rowe and sometimes in a treble and very sweet The flowers are white like unto others but larger the fruit is somewhat longer than in the small sorts green at the first purplish before it be ripe and black when it is full ripe with many crooked white seeds in them Descript 3. The usual broad-leafed Myrtle Myrtus latifolia vulgaris This Myrtle groweth to be four or five foot high with us and in the hot Countries to be a little Tree full of branches and leaves like a small Bush the leaves are somewhat
are drawn from it The branches and leaves Sarmenta Folia The leaves and branches are cooling and binding and good to be put into Lotions for sore mouths Sore mouths Feavers head-ach coming by heat Stomach Inflamations and in drinks against Feavers being bruised and with Barley-meal applyed to the temples easeth the headach coming by heat and applyed to the stomach easeth the Inflamations and heat thereof the juice of them being drunk stayeth the lask inflamations spitting of blood and womens immoderate longings Vine-ashes and the Lye of them Cineres clavellatae eorum Lixivium The Ashes of the burnt branches or pressing made into a lye and drunk is very effectual for the gravel and stone in the Kidneys Gravel Stone Kidneys warts and Inflamations of the Fundament being mixed with a little vinegar it consumeth the warts of the Fundament and inflamation thereof being bathed therewith it doth marvellously ease the pains and take away the swelling The said Lye of Vine-ashes is good to wash places out of joynt or burnt with fire Places out of joynt Burning Spleen hard tumors Fistulaes Vlcers Shrinking Sinews Falls Wens Warts and used with Rue and Vinegar is good for the swelling of the Spleen The ashes made up with axungia is good against hard tumors cleanseth Fistulaes and hollow Ulcers healeth them up afterwards helpeth the pains and shrinking of the sinews and being mixed with oyl easeth those places that are bruised by Falls or otherwise and cureth the bitings of Scorpions and dogs used with vinegar and nitre it washeth away Wens Warts and other excrescencies in the flesh The Vine-tears or bleeding Lachrymae Vitis The water that droppeth out of the grape when it is cut out of due time that is too late in the Spring when the Sap is â—un up being drunk helpeth to expell wash down â—he gravel and Stone in the kidneys And it taketh away Sun-burning and Freckles out of the face Gravel Stone Kidneys Sun-burnings Freckles being washed therewith The gum of the Vine Gummi Vitis The Gum that issueth out it self sticking to the bark being drunk in wine doth the same but that we seldome see any such in our Countrey we may safely use the water in the stead thereof and being bathed on the skin taketh away Scabs Tetters the Morphew Scabs Tetters the Morphew Leprous Scurf Hairs Warts and the leprous Scurf if the places be first washed with nitre The said Gum or the water that droppeth from the green branches when they are burned being used with a little oyl taketh away hairs and warts Grapes and Raisins Vvae Passulae The fresh Grapes being eaten do breed a little windiness which is incident unto all sorts of raw fruit but stir up the Appetite Appetite Spittings of blood Head Bladder Agues loosen the belly and are pleasant to the stomach help to stay spittings of blood but affect the head and the bladder and are forbidden in Agues being hung up and dryed a little or made into Raisins they do help to loosen the belly especially if they be taken without the kernels which are more drying and binding to be taken in Powder of themselves than any other part of the vine The Raisins of the Sun are the best for this purpose with us and for any other use in physick And herewith are made Tisane drinks to help Coughs hoarsness of the throat shortness of wind Coughs Hoarsness of the throat Shortness of breath Stomach Obstructions Liver Spleen Bladder toughness of phlegm causing it the more easily to be expectorated and do lenifie sharp and nauseous humors that offend the mouth of the stomach They serve likewise to open obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Bladder and taken by themselves they nourish much by reason of their thick sweet and temperate substance whereby they stay not long nor putrifie in the Stomach Currans Passulae Corinthiacae The small Raisins or Currans are very nourishing likewise and somewhat opening the belly especially being stewed with some other things conducible thereunto as with a decoction of Sena Rubarb and other such like things as long as occasion shall need Pssulae Damascenae or Damasco-Raisins The Damasco-Raisins have a little tartness in them whereby they are most grateful to the stomach and excell the Raisins of the Sun for all the purposes aforesaid Sapa agresta sive Omphiacum the Juice of the Grape The juice of the grape is of two sorts That is made of unripe grapes which is called varjuice or of the ripe grapes called wine The varjuice is a fine tart liquor fit to be used in broths meats or sawces to sharpen the stomach to get an Appetite and to refresh and quicken fainting spirits of this juice is made a Syrrup of especial use in the same causes the wine is of so many sundry sorts as not only the grapes but the sundry Climates and Soyls wherein they grow are The weak wines are very Rhumatick and cleanse much the strong wines are very heady and inflame the bloud very much those of a middle temper are most proper for our bodies and most wholsome for our health and most useful in physick both to boyl in drinks and to serve as the vehiculum to extract the virtues of whatsoever shall be steeped in it And is distributed into many parts for of it is made both Sapa and defrutum in English Cuite that is to say boyled wine and both made of mustum new wine the later boyled to the half the former to the third part Then there is Acetum vinegar that is sowr wine which is made by setting it in the Sun which exhaling the purer spirits and the heat causeth the other to grow acide and is of great use both in health and sickness both in meat and medicine The Sapa and defrutum differing but only in the manner of boyling they may be both comprehended under Cuite It helpeth the cough and shortness of breath Cough Shortness of breath Phlegm Chest Lungs and to expectorate tough phlegm from the Chest and Lungs It also easily passeth through the belly and maketh it soluble Vinegar contrariwise is cooling and drying as the Cuite is heating and moistning and therefore serveth to correct the heat in Feavers and to resist putrefaction it cutteth tough phlegm that is hard baked and not easily spit up and brought forth It is very sharp and penetrating and very useful in scabs Itches tetters ringworms Tough phlegm Scabs Itches Tetters Ring-worms and fretting and creeping Ulcers to correct their malignity and extirpate their corroding quality but is offensive to the sinews by its piercing and drying quality causeth them to shrink but the distilled Vinegar is of a more fiery and penetrating quality which it gaineth by the distillation thereof the manner and order in this being quite different from the distilling of wine wherein the purest and strongest spirits do first rise and come forth when as in vinegar almost two third parts
thereof for his ordinary drink till he be well If he chance to be burnt with Gun-powder then presently take common salt half an ounce Juice of onyons four ounces mix them together and anoynt the Patient therewith but where the skin is burnt off then use this following oyntment Take two pound of Linseed oyl one pound and a half of oyl of Roses Violet-leaves Mallows Water-Lillies of the Bark of the green Alder-tree House-leek each one handful Porks greese first well washed in waters of Roses and Nightshade as much as is sufficient Infuse all these for the space of six days then boyl them over a gentle fire till the vertue of the herbs be drawn out then strain them and add thereunto white wax as much as is sufficient to make them into an oyntment and if in the boyling you put in one pound of Shoomakers peece greese it will be the better But if the eyes chance to be burnt apply this Remedy red Rose-water four ounces Womens milk if to be had two ounces two whites of eggs and a little Sugar-candy mix them together apply it to the eye or anoynt the Eyelids with this excellent oyntment Take four ounces of Oyl of Roses one ounce of Cerus wash'd in red Rose-water two whites of Eggs one ounce of white wax one dram of Camphire mix them for use But beware in any case you apply not Soap or any such like medicines to any part where the skin is off and if there follow any swelling then apply this Pultis following made of two handfuls of Mallows and two handfuls of Violet-leaves Camomile-flowers and Rose-leaves of each one handful boyl these in new milk or Barley-water till they be soft then stamp them in a Mortar and add thereto the oyntment of Roses and Unguentum Populeum or oyntment of Poplar-buds of each one ounce and a half two yolks of Eggs two ounces of Barley-meal the roots of Marsh-mallows and the seeds of Flea-bane of each half an ounce sometimes you may put in the pulps of these of each two ounces and half an ounce of oyl of Roses with the Crums of white bread You are in the mean time to have regard the Patients body be in good order either naturally or by Art if not naturally administer this Glyster or the like as often as you see occasion Take of Mallows Violet-leaves Pellitory Beets and Mercury Camomile-flowers of each one handful half an ounce of sweet Fennel-seeds two drams of Linseed boyl them in a sufficient quantity of common water to a pint in which dissolve one ounce or six drams or half an ounce according to the nature of your Patient of Diaphenicon or lenitive Electuary or Diacatholicon with butter or oyls with about a dram of common salt Bloud-letting is not to be forgotten you may likewise make the Patient a drink after this manner taking of Egrimony Mugwort Angelica St. Johns wort Mouse-ears of each two handfull Wormwood half a handful Southernwood Bettony Buglos Comfrey the greater and lesser roots and all her Avens both sorts of Plantane Sanacle Tormentil with the roots the buds of Barbery and Oak of each a handful take of all these herbs mixed together three handful boyl them in two quarts of water and a quart of white-wine gently till the third part or one half be consumed strain it and add one pound of Honey being scummed and let the Patient drink of it or you may sweeten it to make it pleasant with boyling Reasons of the Sun stoned pruans or the like with Sugar Now when you meet with any wounded in the head apply a playster of the white of an Egg Bolarmonack and Aloes next day dress it with Arceus his Lineament and lay upon it Emplastrum de Janua or else de Gratia Dei which will perfectly heal the wound But if it be deep you may apply either the above-mentioned or this medicin following which will bring the wound to run with good matter which is made with Venus Turpentine the yolk of an egg oyl of Roses and a little Saffron afterwards you must add honey of Roses and Barley-flower to the former medicine till the wound be perfectly cured But if you find the former medicines not to answer your expectation then make use of this that follows viz. Take two ounces of Venice Turpentine one ounce of Syrrup of Roses Powder of Myrrhe and Mastich of each half a dram mix them together for your use Lastly wholly to close and dry up the wound use this following powder which is made of Burnt Allum and the rindes of Pomgranates burnt of each one dram mix them apply it either alone or mixed with Unguentum desiccativum rubrum But if the wound be very large stich it up first washing the wound with some warm wine then dressing it with Venice Turpentine mixed with a little Aqua vitae dissolving therein some sanguis Draconis i. e. Dragons-bloud Mastich and Aloes let not your stiches be too streight or close together for fear of pain and Inflammations which may happen till the wound comes to maturity or suppuration but only to keep out the air and put somewhat a broad-like tent into the lowest part of the wound that the Matter may have passage forth then apply this following Cataplasm above the other dressing Take Barley and Bean-meal of each six ounces oyl of Roses three drams as much vinegar as will serve to make it a Pultis which doth cool dry repell or drive back and mitigate and asswage pain and inflammation and stayes bleeding If you suspect or fear that the Patient have a feaver let bloud forthwith according to the strength and ability of your Patient daily administring cooling glysters made of Barley-water wherein may be boyled Violet-leaves Mallows and Mercury and such like dissolving syrrup of Violets and Roses pulp of Cassia and such like therein or you may give him a gentle Purge of Electuarium Diacatholicon Electuarium lenitivum or the like an ounce more or less for a Dose according to the strength of your Patient or if he like Pills rather give him Pillulae Cochiae and Pillulae Ruffi of each half a dram mix'd well together let the Patient take three over night and three the next morning if he have a foul body and you see need you may continue them every other day for a week or more as you see cause likewise you may administer suppositories made of honey boyl'd to a due hardness with common salt But if you meet with only a bruised head without a wound then the head is to be shaved applying this following Oyl of Myrtle and the powder of the same of each one ounce the white of an Egg mix it and apply it Or this Pultis instead thereof consisting of flower of Barley and Beans with vinegar and oyl of Roses Dress it twice a day till the part comes to its former temperature if you were not at the beginning then first anoynting it with oyl of wax lay on
Emplastrum Cuminum or the plaister of Cummin-seed But if after all this there remain a tumor or swelling apply Emplastrum de Betonica or plaister of Betony or de Minio or the Red-lead Plaister or take two ounces of Emplastrum de Mucilaginibus or Emplaister of the Muscilages Oxicroceum Emplastrum Meleloti or the Melilot plaister of each one ounce oyl of Camomile and Dill of each two ounces of these make a Cerat or Cerecloath as they call it Or this Three pintes of red-wine commonly such as loches are wash'd with a quart twenty cypress nuts and Myrtle-berries both bruised one ounce of red rose leaves Wormwood Sage-leaves Sweet Mariorum Camomile and Melilot-flowers of each half a handful make a water of them being boyled together dipping flannel cloaths in it wrung hot out and applyed then apply one of the plaisters above The Melilot plaister alone hath been found of admirable effect in Contusions or bruisings If these remove not the tumor then you must see to ripen it asâ—oon as you can which may be done by this medicine made of two parts of water one of oyl with as much wheat-flower as will make it to a Pultis of a good body adding thereto the yolk of an egg Now having brought it to matter it must be opened in the most declining part then if the skul be found dress it with this Syrup of dryed Roses and Wormwood of each an ounce half an ounce of Turpentine Orrice-roots Aloes Myrrhe Mastich and Bean-flower of each one dram mix them according to art If the skul be foul then smooth it with an Instrument called a Raspatory made for that purpose apply this powder thereto Take of Orrice-root Gentian round Birthwort Dittany Barley-flower of each half an ounce Aloes Draggons bloud Myrrhe Mastich Sarcocol of each two drams make a powder for your use After the bone is scaled cure it as ordinary wounds if from a Bruise or Contusion a gangreen should follow which you may know by the hardness of the part when it looks black then you are to Scarrifie or cut the flesh with your Incision-knife or Rasor and apply Cupping-glasses dressing it with Aegyptiacum Spirit of wine and such like till you have secured it from going further then cure it as in other wounds If a wound happen upon the muscles of the Temple either by pricking or thrusting over thwart ways or long ways the two first if deep are dangerous being accompanied with vomi ing convulsion and deep sleeping if it be by a thrust the hair being shaven away dress it with oyl of St. Johns wort compound oyl and Earth-worms upon that apply Paracelsus plaister if over thwart ways stich it dressing it with Arceus his Liniament upon that Paracelsus plaister if the wound be long ways stay the bloud and stich it and apply the foresaid Lineament of Arceus with plaister of Paracelsus If the membranes of the brain be hurt with the brain which seldom falls out without the skul be broken the first Membran being wounded cal'd Piamater the bloud flows with much pain the next to that call'd Dura mater cleavs close to the brain which is under it that they always suffer together There follows foaming at the mouth darkness of sight loss of Reason and Palsey and flux of bloud To stay bleeding use the powders before mentioned and to swage pain use Oil of Roses warm till matter be procured after use equal parts of honey of Roses and Spirit of wine or oyl of Roses till it be digested then to procure new flesh use Syrrup of dryed Roses if there happen an Inflamation joyned with the swelling then open a vein use slender dyet and bathe the part with the decoction of Marsh mallows Linseed Fenugreek Violet leaves and such like after apply oyl of Roses Myrtles or Quinces if the tumor increase open the passage wider in the skul if it come to be fully ripe then open it warily that you touch not the brain after apply honey of Roses and Syrrup of dry Roses if this swelling come from a bruise then use oyl of Roses Honey of Roses or oyl of eggs with Aqua vitae and powder of Orrice root Gentian round Birthwort and the like if congealed bloud be the cause use this Aqua vitae two ounces and a half Saffron in powder one scruple Honey of Roses two ounces and a half Sarcocol three drams mix them over a gentle fire and so use it till blackness be gone if from improper medicines applyed cure it as in a Bruise if from Putrefaction or rottenness which is known by the ill scent of the matter use this medicine Take an ounce and half of Aqua vitae Syrrup of Wormwood and honey of Roses of each two drams oyntment of Aegyptiacum one dram and half Sarcocol myrrhe and Alloes of each one dram White wine one ounce and half boyl all together gently strain them and keep them for your use or take Plantane water one ounce and a half Egyptian oyntment one dram and a half Mercury precipitated one scruple mix them and apply it warm If you shall imagine that the skul of any Patient is broken not touching the membrane of the brain which you shall gather either by sense or reason the first is found out either by the finger of Probe by both which you will feel it rugged only have a care that the Sutures in the head do not deceive you The rational signs are taken diversly as if he fell from on high the person strong or the weapon great that caused the wound its probable the skul is broken if they bleed at nose ears or mouth if they swoon or vomit if he often touch the wound if he raves or falter in his speech be dull weak of judgment and understanding all these are signs of a broken skul If a Feaver happen to the Patient before the thirteenth day in Winter and seventh in Summer it will go ill with him If the skul be blackish most commonly deadly but if the flesh be red the membran called dura mater be of its right colour and he move well his neck and jaws there is hope of his Recovery If the Patient be old if the fracture be upon the fore part of the head called Sinciput or the Temples or Sutures then the case is doubtful Then the first thing you are to do having prepared your Patients body by blood-letting Suppositers glysters and gentle Purges as you shal see cause and your judgment shall direct you is to shave the head an Incision being made after the maner of a cross or letter X take up all to the skul either with a Chisel or your fingers but make not your Incision on the Temporal muscles that done keep it open with pledgets armed with the astringent powders then roll it up the next day if a flux of blood be not feared or upon the skul about the fourth day after wounding if ill symptoms hinder not then upon the
seventh or ninth some think it may be prolonged till the fourteenth day but the sooner the better The Instruments for this purpose first are Raspatories the next is the Trepan or Trasin in the use of which when you are come to the second table take out the Pin and moisten the Trafine with oyl and cold water then wipe away the blood to see if it be cut equal when it begins to shake lift it up with a levatory then smooth it with a Scalper the Gimlet or Terebra serves to raise the depressed part first making way in the skul with the pin of the Trafin after screw it in and draw up the depression the Head-sawe is used either to give vent in fractures or to take off some ragged peece of the skul While you are using the Trafine you are to stop the Patients ear close with cottons having a good fire by you all the while his head being held firmly After you have done your work apply a peece of Sarsenet or Taffety dipped in honey of Roses or oyl of Roses Spirit of wine conveying it betwixt the membrane called dura mater and the skul then fill the whole wound with Arceus his Liniment or else with this medicine Take one ounce of Turpentine wash'd in Sage or betony-Betony-water one ounce and half of oyl of Roses two ounces of the oyl of yolks of eggs Gum-elemy and Mastich dissolved over a gentle fire in the aforesaid oyls of each half an ounce Saffron in powder one scruple the yolks of two eggs make of them an oyntment upon them apply Emplast de Janua Gratia Dei or the Betony-plaister you may use the honey of Roses and Spirit of wine till the seventh day after dressing anoynt the parts adjoyning with oyl of Roses and in the neck where the veins of the throat are whereby pain is asswaged and heat of bloud mitigated if there happen flux of bloud in applying the Trafin use some of the astringent powders beforementioned If you have a simple fracture called a fissure if it be apparent it is either to or through the second table which are to be enlarged or widened as far as they will go with a Raspatory leaving a way for the matter and bloud in the depending part That which is not apparent if you cannot find it by the Patients holding his breath or a multiplying glass apply Ink to the respective part if it leave any print the next day being made clean then follow it as far as it goes with the abovenamed Instrument afterwards dress it as after Trafining If you meet with a fracture in the skul called Sedes or seat which is when the weapon so falls upon the skul that the fracture retaining the print thereof is neither stretched forth nor contracted thereby if this pass through both the tables and the membrans not hurt by any splinter the matter may be made to be discharged dressing it as before will suffice But if the membran called dura mater be offended or the passage be too narrow to discharge the matter remove what offends and enlarge the other with the Raspatory For a Contusion or Bruise on the skul if it shall be so great that the skin be separated from the skul you shall make Incision whereby the bloud may be emptied and so by depressing of the part and drying medicines with Emplastrum Opodoldock may be perfectly cured The Fracture called depression hath the shivers either quite separated or cleaving to the rest or both if the last happen remove the loose shivers and with a levatory raise the rest after dress it with honey of Roses and Spirit of wine and if the levatory fail you use the Trafine as near the fracture as you can When you shall happen to see the skul pulled upward leaving a cavity beneath like a vault if it go only to the second table smooth the skul and cure the wound as before according to art if it pass through the second table open the skul with the Trafine in the depending part then cure it according to art When the part of the skul wounded is altogether separated from the whole which is double First when the first table is parted from the second and cleaves to the Masculous skin then take it away and cure the wound either by medicines that close the lips of the wounds and bring them to perfect union such as before mentioned or the powders of the roots of Lung-wort Tormentil Cinquefoyl leavs of hounds tongue Karrow Vervin Mouse-ear Sanicle Scabious Myrrhe Frankincense Aloes c. Or such medicines which procure the generation of flesh wanting in any wound such as Frankincense Turpentine Pitch Aloes myrrhe Burnt Lead Cerus which may be most fit remember you must use no unctuous or oily medicines to the bones The second is when a portion of the whole skul is divided so that the dura mater is seen this is to be put in its proper place and there kept by bringing the brims of the wound together with as many strong and deep stitches as suffice first washing the wound well with wine or Spirit of wine Sometimes the skul is broken in the part near or opposite to that which received the blow as if the right side be struck the left is cloven if it be nigh the wound the sides of the wound near the fracture will not cicatrize although the other doth there will slow a thin waterish matter more than the wound can seem to afford rhe flesh near to the part is spongy you may find the skin separated from the skul with your Probe and you will perceive some swelling above the fracture if it be opposite it is either in the opposite part or when the second table being broken the other is whole These are hard to find but by conjecture or these signs If the Patient vomit choler have a Feaver with other symptoms belonging to a fracture the Patient will put his hands to it often if there appear a Swelling there is assuredly a fracture if no swelling appear in the opposite part shave it and apply this viz. Take Ship-puchand wax of each three ounces one ounce of Turpentine Mastick and Powder of Orrice-root of each two drams make a Plaister of them spread it upon leather and being applyed let it lie twenty four hours if after you have taken it away the flesh appear in any place more moist soft and swelled then the rest its probable the fracture is there In these fractures the skul must be opened with the Trafine and cured according to art if such Patients die the Chirurgeon is not to be blamed The skul being broken without a wound if in children having shaven the head apply oyl of Roses the white of an egg and a little vinegar apply it cold in Summer but warm in winter with a cloath four double let it lie for twenty four hours afterwards till the eleventh day apply this Take of red Roses and Myrtle berries of each
any happens to come under your hands is this Let the Mate Assistant or some other body hold the tongue very firmly in his hand with a soft Linnen cloath lest it should slip from between his fingers whilst the other stitch it together which when he hath done let him cut off the thread as near the knot as he can lest it be tangled by the teeth as he eats or otherwise and so put the Patient to pain by pulling and tearing the stitches wherewith the part was sewed The parts of the neck which happen to be wounded are the Wind-pipe and Gullet veins of the throat called the jugular veins sleepy arteries called also the soporal arteries and the recurrent Nerves A transverse or overthwart wound of the Trachea Arteria called the Wind-pipe is dangerous by reason of a feaver Gangreen or often following thereon If the wound be between the rings it is cureable if holding a Candle before it whilst the Patient speaks it be either blown out or moved then it is wounded quite through if not stitch it up as neatly as you can dressing it with Arceus's Linement and Oyl of St. Johns wort compound and let not the Patient swallow any hard solid thing but liquid broaths Gellies and such like when you shall have occasion to use Gargarismes then this and the following may be used with profit to the Patient Take a handful of French barley a pugil of Rosemary flowers Raisins of the Sun stoned Jujubes of each half an ounce one ounce of Liquorice let them be boyled all together adding thereto when you have strained them honey of Roses and Julep of Roses of each two ounces The other is this take three spoonfuls of French barley one pugil of the flowers of red Roses Sumach Pomgranate-flowers of each two drams Raisins of the Sun stoned and Jujubes of each half an ounce one ounce of Liquorice boyl these together according to art in three pintes of running water to the consumption of half strain them to which add honey of Roses and syrrup of myrtles of each two ounces for a Gargarism either of these moisten the mouth and throat will mitigate the harshness of the part asswage pain cleanse and agglutinate and cause a more free and easie breathing If the veins of the throat or Jugular veins sleepy or soporal arteries be deeply wounded 't is mortal if not first stanch the bloud which is done by several means as with Pledgets dipt in a medicine made of the white of an egg vinegar and water being well mixt together and applyed or by astringent powders whereof you have had choice often before which you may apply thus Touch the vessels with your finger then wipe away the bloud with lint or a sponge dipt in red wine then put some powder with your fingers to the vessel after that apply the same medicine upon Pledgets to the place where your fingers were and keeping them close down fill the wound with pledgets armed with the same and last of all a four-doubled cloath wet in Red wine or some astringent liquor as of the decoction of the roots of Lungwort Ciniquefoil the leaves of Knot-grass Burnet Hors-tail Plantane and the like either boyled in water or red wine and water or red wine alone In other places where you may use rowling you must rowl below the wound upward and when you come to the wound rowl three or four times about but if you cannot make use of rolling the part then if you can come at the mouth of the vessel with your finger or thumb press it so long till the bloud shall be so thick as a clot about it and so stop its passage or use this powder following Take two drams of Frankincense Aloes Dragons bloud Cobwebs Mastich Sarcocol Vmber of each one dram and make them into a fine powder if this prevail not notnigh a noble part some add sublimate and auripigmentum of each half a dram to two drams of these powders If you fear an Aneurisma known by the beating of the Arterie apply this following Take of the leaves of Nightshade Henbane Mandrakes bruised of each one handfull as much Barley-flower as will serve to make it a Poultis without boyling if it be deep To incarn use this Take of oyl of St. Johns wort four ounces three ounces of Gum-elemy half a pound of Venus Turpentine melt them all together and strain them when they begin to be cold add to it Boll Armanack and Dragons bloud of each one ounce Orrice-roots Aloes Myrrhe Mastich of each one dram with two ounces of Aqua vitae mix them and apply them warm and over them a Diapalma-Plaister moistned with Oyl of Roses to hinder Inflammation so dressing till the end of the cure as in other wounds If the Gullet be wounded and wholly divided or over-thwart it is then incureable if not it is to be stitched leaving a passage in the lowermost part and cure as in the Cure of the Wind-pipe aforesaid using the Gargarisms as aforesaid outwardly use this Take half an ounce of the Syrrup of dryed Roses one dram of Bolarmanack Gum Mastich and Dragons bloud of each one scruple half the yolk of an egg with as much Cyprus Turpentine as is sufficient incorporate them if wounds do not pierce to the Wind-pipe veins of the throat soporal Arteries and be not very deep they are to be cured after the manner of ordinary wounds If the recurrent Nerves be wounded without hurt of any other notable vessel it is easily cured dressing it with a sufficient quantity of Venus Turpentine with Boll Armanack or the Balsome mentioned in the cure of wounds of the veins and arteries In wounds of the nerves to hinder pain and Inflamation Bleeding and purging are to be used or suppositories and glysters outwardly Embrocate with oyl of earth-worms Dill and Roses to the wound it self apply with Lint Wax Colophony of each one ounce Gum-Elemy and Venus Turpentine of each half an ounce Oyl of Earthworms Oyl of sweet Almonds and the oyl of the yolks of eggs oyl of Roses of each two drams with one dram of Saffron make therewith an oyntment according to art If you take the yolk of one egg and put two ounces of this unguent it will be the more anodyne i. e. ease pain the better and if to the aforesaid oyntment you shall add of each a dram of myrrhe and Sarcocol it will be a good sarcotick medicine i. e. procure good flesh to grow in the wound If you have occasion to use tents take heed they touch not the Nerve if you see it necessary and convenient lay this Poultis or Cataplasm upon the part Take half an ounce of Marsh-mallow roots Camomile-flowers Melilot and Bettony of each one ounce of the powder of Linseed and Fenugreek of each one ounce and a half Bean-flower one ounce boyl them in Lixivium i. e. Washing-lee or water and salt then put to them Oyl of Earthworms and Roses of each one ounce two
then the Patient shall lie low with his head down and his buttocks raised higher putting a pillow under him If the Cawl fall out of the wound it is to be put into his place as soon as may be because it is subject to putrefie but if it be putrified before it can be restored to its place which is when it looks black and is cold then bind it near the warm and sound parts and cut off that which is corrupt leaving the string hanging out if the colour of it be not altered and it be warm put it in and stitch up the wound after this manner putting your needle first through the skin and muscles to the Peritoneum not touching it on that side and then putting the needle from within outwards on the other-side thrust through all and after tye it an inch further make another stitch contrary to the former and remember that you leave an Orifice for a Tent For more security you may strengthen it if you please with a dry stitch to the wound it self use Arceus his Liniment with oyl of St. Johns wort compound or some artificial Balsom and the like before often prescribed In summer lay over all the Diapalma plaister moystned in oyl of Roses in the winter Paracelsus anointing the part if it be painful with this following Oyle of Roses and Mirtles of each half an ounce oyl of Lillies and Earthworms of each one ounce oyl of Cammomil and Dill of each six ounces oyntment of Marsh-mallows and poplar buds of each three drams mix them and make a Liniment according to Art Those wounds which pierce into the Belly onely require to be joyned together and so to be cured as simple wounds If the stomach be wounded there follows vomiting of Choler and Hickets sometimes meat and drink comes forth as it is taken If the wound be quite through the stomach or near the mouth of the stomach or if in the bottom of the stomach and very great then no hopes if not if the Patient be full bodyed then let him be let blood making him wound-drinks as before prescribed if the wound be large stitch it up leaving only a place in the depending part for a tent to be applyed with Balsomes of which you have several laid down before in the cure of wounds let the Region of the stomach be annointed with the oyles of Mint Mirtles Roses and Quinces giving them first cleansing glisters afterwards nourishing ones likewise Broths wherein wound-herbs have been boyled You may know the Liver is wounded if the wound be on the right side and there hath followed a flux of blood sometimes he vomits Choler sometimes casting forth blood by stool and urine and his face grow pale and wan If the wounds of this part be not very great having not bled much but little they are curable as one says if a peece be cut off For cure inwardly Take Troches of spodium or burnt Ivory in Plantaine water or the decoction of Red Rose leaves To which add syrup of dryed Roses and Mirtles two scruples of the powder of red Roses is very good if blood fall down into the cavity of the Belly and clots dissolve it by medicines before mentioned in wounds of the Breasts if you perceive that Nature hath a mind to cast out the matter by urine assist it by boyling Smallidg Parsley Fennel and Radish in his Drinks or Broths If the wound be on the left side and blackish blood issues out there and he be very thirsty then the Spleen is wounded if the wound be small it is Cureable if deep deadly and it is Cured as in wounds of the Liver If the small Guts be wounded there ensues Vomiting of Choler pain joyned with a Feaver and meat and drink and Chile comes forth the flanks will swell and be hard and the patient will be troubled with Hickets and ringing pains in the Belly apt to have some cold-sweats and the outward-parts wax cold These wounds are very difficultly Cured especially if in the Gut called Jejunum in English the empty Gut by reason many vessels which run to it are in danger and it self is of a Nervy substance they are to be stitcht with a Glovers stitch after put them up fomenting them first with red Wine then upon them apply this powder Mastick Sarcocol of each one dram Borax and Myrrhe of each half a dram make a powder of them for use then stitch up the outward parts For inward means you have several medicines prescribed before Mastick is good to be taken in all things especially in the wounds of the stomach Difficulty of making water or it is altogether stopt in those that are wounded in the Kidneys pissing blood with his urine paine stretched about the groines if the wound be but slight and superficial and in the fleshy part then much blood flows and his water is stopt if it pass to the cavity or hollowness of the Kidneys then blood passeth with the urine If Urine be stopt anoynt the Pecten with the oyle of Scorpions and bitter Almonds apply a pultis made of Pellitory Mallows and Saxifrage for Injections use Trochisces of Amber called Trochisci de Carabe dissolved in Horsetailer Plantain-water When the bladder is wounded there comes but little urine and that bloody if the wound be in the bottom of the bladder the urine will fal in the lower part of the Belly and as if there were a seeming dropsie pain will reach as farr as the Groin and Stones in men For help let him use this following inwardly Shumack Mirtle-berries of each three ounces red-Rose leaves dryed one pugil Pomgranate-flowers half an ounce boyl them in six quarts of Rain running or fountain-fountain-water strain it and therein dissolve syrup of dryed Roses and honey of Roses of each six ounces syrup of Myrtles three ounces gum dragon half an ounce drink of this decoction ten days if you cut in four Quinces it will be the better outwardly use some Anoâ—ine unguent as before or else Turpentine with oyle of St. Johns-wort with the yolk of an egg and a little Saffron powdered mixed together and applyed inebricating the part with oyl of Roses Lillies and Scorpions Wounds of the Limbs as Arms Thighs Leggs if they peirce the great Vesâ—els within-side sometimes cause death or else are very difficult to cure if they peirce not the vessels they are to be cured as other ordinary wounds For the wounds of the long Tendon which goes near the Heel suffer not your Patient to goe except with Crutches for it is very requisite that he rest as much as possible may be for fear if he go too much upon it before the Cicatrize and Scar of the wound be drawn very hard the wound break out again Likewise you are to take notice that great and deep wounds in the Limbs require often bleeding and purging especially if it be near the joynts and then you are to apply fit and convenient Bolsters for the purpose The most Material
half an ounce Gypsum one ounce and a half two ounces of prepared frogs one ounce of the moss of a dead mans skull two drams of the Hairs of a Hare cut very small the white of an egg dryed in the Sun finely powdered and spunge being dryed or burnt and powdered of each one ounce mix them all finely powdered together Arm four great Buttons made of Tow and moistned in Vinegar and Water with these powders and apply them to the great Vessels upon which apply presently a thick bed made of Tow fit for the dismembred part covered over with the Restrictive then upon that lay on another made after the same manner but made as much larger as will reach an inch or two over round on every side over all these you must draw a bladder binding it near the top with a Ligature an inch broad lay a double linnen-cloth over all these remembring allwayes to have buttons ready to apply to the places where blood appears especially if you doe not use the bladder then bind up the member with Rowllers by which means the flux of blood will be stayed some after they have loosed the Ligature above the Incision apply onely the beds first dipt in water and vinegar after in the whites of Eggs then strowing them over very thick with powder after all apply this Desensative Take Bolarmonack Dragons-blood Mastick Gypsum of each one ounce oyl of Roses and Myrtles of each 1 ounce a half the whites of two Eggs mix all together in a mortar with as much Vinegar as will serve to make it into an Oyntment if the leg be to cut off apply it above knee if the hand then apply it to the Elbow you must remember that your Rollers be all wet in water and Vinegar they must not be stirred unless to renew the defensative till the second or third day The second dressing moysten the dressings which were applied before with stuphs of white wine that they may be removed with more ease then besprinkle the Vessels with restrictive powders laying upon them three or four pledgets dipt in the whites of Eggs armed with the powder then use to the rest of the wound this digestive unguent Take an ounce and half of wax gum Elemie and Turpentine of each one ounce half an ounce of Colophony oyle of sweet almonds oyl of Roses oyl of the yolks of Eggs of each one ounce dissolve them all over a gentle fire and strain them to the straining add a dram of Saffron finely powdered mix the yolk of an Egg with one ounce of this and as much oyl of Roses as will serve to moysten it for your use This is also good in all wounds made by Gun-shot especially as also in all wounds whether bruised or cut or else make use of this following Take three ounces of Turpentine washed in Plantain-water oyl of Roses and oyl of sweet Almonds of each one ounce half an ounce of Gum Elemy dissolved in the foresaid oyles and strained a scruple of Saffron finely powdered mix them well together to which add the yolk of one Egg for your use you must observe that you are not to dress it until the third day unless pain be much then you must remove your dressings gently if the bed next to the wound stick let it alone to the third dressing you may remove the defensitive every day and annoint the whole part with oyle of Roses or Mirtles using the former oyntments till there be perfect digestion by sprinkling the Vessels to prevent bleeding with the restrictive powders after it is deiested cleanse it with this Take three ounces of Turpentine washed in white-wine powder of the root of round Birth-wort Orrace-root Barley-flower of each half an ounce one ounce of the honey of Roses half an ounce of Aquavitae with two drams of Treacle mix them up for your use You may every dressing endeavor to draw by degrees the skin and muscles together by usesing the dry-stitch that so the bone may be covered sometimes the plaister is loosened by the much flowing of the matter for which use this remedy following Take the roots of round Birthwort hog-fennel and Orrace-root the bark of the Pine-tree and the bark of Lignum vitae of each half an ounce being all finely powdered mix them together strowing it upon the wound once or twice a day as you see occasion This will also cause the bone to scale within thirty or forty dayes if there grow proud flesh either use this following Medicine made of two drams of burnt Allom Lapis Calaminaris burnt-Lead Sereus of each one dram with half a dram of Calcined Viteral make a powder of them or else apply Vnguentum Aegyptiacum hot lay another pledget upon it and dress it up use onely dry lint the next dressing by which means the sensibleness of the wound will be taken away also afterwards siccatrize or skin the wound with red deficcative oyntment called Vnguentum desiccativum rubrum or Diapompholeges or the like if the Fingers and Toes are to be taken away it is best done with Chisels or cutting mullets so cure them up as before according to Art OF FRACTURES AND Broken-bones THus much for wounds may suffice Now I think it convenient to say something of Fractures or Broken-bones the which are known by comparing the parts together you finding them unequal and the Patient cannot move in the Members in handling the part you will hear a noise there sometimes happens that they are broken overthwart which you may know by the distance between the ends of the broken-bone and where they are broken you may perceive a hollowness more then ordinary sometimes the bones are shattered into many pieces then there follows a pricking pain and in handling of it you will hear as it were a crackling but if the part be very much thicker than ordinary then the bone is broken length-wayes Lastly somtimes it is broken obliquely in curing of all which the first thing you are to doe is to restore the bone as exactly as you can to its natural form which may be performed if the bone be broken but little by the Chirurgion himself otherwise there will be need of two for extending the member which must be done by little and little with as little pain as possibly can be so reducing it to its natural place the Mate or Assistant extending the member the Chirurgion with his fingers shall put the broken bones in its right place which being done lay a plaister upon the place about six inches or so broad as will cover more then the Fracture three fingers breadth both above and below afterwards apply your Splints being well armed with Linnen or Tow so near one another as may be the space of a Splint between every one which must not be too long lest it gaul the joints then you are to tye the splints on gently with tape not too hard which besides the Patients complaint may produce sad accidents as Gangreens and
Disease and so may either be said to Preserve or Cure therefore you are to adminster them before evacuating Medicines for a Cordial take this for an example made of one scruple of Mithridate half a dram of London-Treacle or that called Diatessaron one ounce of Syrup of Lemons three ounces Of Plantane or Rose-water and six drops of Spirit of Viâ—riol for one dose about three hours after give an other dose Or this following Take of Confectio Alchermes burnt Harts-horn of each two scruples syrup of Lemons one ounce as much spirit of Vitriol as will give it a sharp taste after this first administer a Suppositer or Glister of which you have several examples before then after they have done working let him blood plentifully if he be of a strong and gross body as you see occasion his dyet is to be but thin broth water-grewel ponadoes or such like two or three dayes together for purges give him about a scruple of Mercurius dulcis or else this Take six drams or an ounce of Lenitive Electuary two scruples of the Cream of Tarter and one scruple of Confectio Alchermes with Sugar make it into a boll for a dose if it should be convenient to give them a Vomit then give him six drams one ounce or ten drams more or less as you see occasion of the infusion of Crocus Metallorum if sweating be to be procured give him from a scruple to half a dram of Antimonium Di afreticum in a little London or Venice Treacle or Mithridate if he want rest give him from two grains to four of Laudanum Opiatum or else Syrup of wild Poppy six drams of Frogs-spawn and poppy-poppy-water of each one ounce and a half with three drams of Treacle make a potion and give the Patient at night to cause him to rest let his ordinary drink be either a decoction of Barley with Liquorish or else this following Take three quarts of fountain-water put an ounce of Harts-horn burnt and prepared into it let it boyl to the consumption of the third part then take it from the fire and put to it four ounces of Rose-water two ounces of syrup of Lemons as much Sugar as will serve to sweeten it and as much spâ—rit of Vitriol as will make it sharp this is an excellent drink in all feavors and for all sorts of persons Remember too much purging bleeding and thin dyet is dangerous in all diseases at Sea and will bring your Patient into the Scurvy which is usually the end of most diseases at Sea and then if your Patient be too much weakned the Scurvy discharging it self by a flux is often mortal If you shall have occasion to be concerned with Armies by Land or in Garrisons there will sometimes a continual malign and contagious Fever called the Camp-Disease seize upon the Souldiers which will be seconded by a great pain in the head and his stomach will be clogged with many foul humours sometimes there will follow swooning and often faintings the Patient grows very weak without manifest cause his pulse will be sometimes weak but quick and sometimes strong there will appear oftentimes many large spots of several colours he complains of a pain in his stomach and joints little or no appetite oft-times troubled with vomiting and sometimes difficulty of breathing and singing in the ears all which proceeds from putrefaction or corruption of the humours in the veins or from contagion the corruption or putrefaction of the humours comes from ill dyet ill vapours arising from the earth corrupted naughty air dirty foul apparrel and such like for the cure if there be an inclination to vomit which you may perceive by pain and fulness of the stomach then provoke it with this made of six drams of the infusion of the glass of Antimony two ounces of Barly-water Oxymel of squils and syrup of the 5 opening-Roots of each six drams mix it and give the Patient The manner of infusing your Antimony is this Take two drams of the glass of Antimony put it into a pint of white-wine Cloves and Ginger of each one dram infuse all these together when you have occasion administer it from two drams to an ounce after that you have used all the wine you may put more to the ingredients adding to them the same quantity of fresh ingredients as before after you may bleed if the Patient be not very weak or if you see your Patient of a strong constitution you may begin with blood-letting not forgetting glysters or suppositories with cordials made of the Carduus benedictus Scabious Sorrel angelica-Angelica-waters with Venice or London Treacle and burnt Harts-horn Mithridate Dioscordium confection of Alchermes bezoar root of contrayervae as for example Take of the wild Poppies and sorrel-Sorrel-water of each one ounce and a half London Treacle and burnt Harts-horn of each two scruples one scruple of Mithridate one dram of Dioscordium and three drams of Treacle-water with some syrup of Lemons and as many drops of the spirit of Vitriol as will give it a sharp taste make a potion and give it at one dose or take two scruples of Dioscordium and one scruple of burnt Harts-horn mix them and dissolve them in Mace-ale a little Sack or in Beer and Ale wherein Harts-horn and Marigold flowers have been boyled to cause him to sleep Take syrup of Dioscordium and syrup of wild-poppies of each half an ounce of Angelica and wild-poppy-wild-poppy-water of each one ounce and an half and a dram of Diascordium mix them and give it going to sleep Take notice that Cordials are to be given often For purges they must be somewhat strong as one dram of Pulvis astrictionis one ounce of syrup of Roses solutive Diaphrenicon Electuarii three drams dissolve all in three ounces of Endive-water For bleeding in this Disease if the veins be full and stretching out and be burthensom to nature let it then be plentiful for the blood is corrupted in all putrid Feavers it is very safe to let blood which may be done til the fourth day and if your occasion require till the seventh day though spots appear As for vomiting that removes nauseousness pain bitterness and sadness by freeing the stomach from the abundance of naughty humors Vesicatories or blisters may be good applyed to the wrists any time but on a Critical day The form of a blister-plaister may be this Take half an ounce of Cantharides call'd Spanish-flies two drams of Turpentine Olibanum Myrrhe Mastick and Camphire of each half a dram oyl of Roses and Bees-wax as much as will be sufficient to make it to the consistence of a Plaister The Patient is to keep a spare dyet not to eat any flesh but brothes wherein is boyled the shavings of Harts-horn the opening roots with Sorrel and Borrage and Panadoes water-grewel c. And posset-drink with Harts-horn boyld in it dropping a little spirit of Vitriol into it and burnt Harts-horn boild in the Calenture is good to which you may add the syrup
dissolve one ounce of white sugar and the yolks of two eggs for a glyster After the body is sufficiently emptied then give binding Glysters such as you shall find next in the cure of the Bloudy-flux at the mouth likewise you shall there be directed If the Patient have not a feaver boyl new milk if you can get it and scum off the foam then quench red hot steel in it often drink it warm it is a present remedy Unripe Blackberries and Mulberries dryed and powdered is good to stay this Flux likewise this Opiat is excellent Take of the juice of Quinces Conserve of Roses of each one ounce Dragons bloud sealed-earth and fine Bolearmonack of each one dram Bloud-stone and the Troches of Amber of each half a dram with syrrup of comphry make an Opiat take a little often Or take one ounce of the powder of Rheubarb two drams of the Troches of Sanders mix them and give the Patient two drams thereof twice a day this purgeth away the ill humours and strengtheneth the bowels Or this Take half an ounce of the old Conserve of Roses one dram of Marmalet of Quinces a scruple of Tormentil-root in fine powder half a scruple of fine Bolearmonack with sugar make a bole for one dose which is to be given often if the Flux continue long and strength much decay give Laudanum a grain or two amongst your other medicines you may for ordinary drink use one made of three pintes of water wherein two drams of Mastich hath been boyled Plantane boyled in broth is good and for fear it turn to a Bloudy-flux give an Emulsion of Barley-water and the four cold seeds The last of the Fluxes of the belly is called Dysenteria or the Bloudy-flux which is known by the Patients voiding of bloud with tormenting pains from the ulceration of the guts by sharp and salt phlegmatick and cholerick humours which is cured by removing those sharp humours asswaging pain cleansing and consolidating the ulcer and stopping the Flux To evacuate the humours you must purge with Rubarb every second third or fourth day according to the strength of your Patient season of the year and the like the Dose from half a dram to two drams being dryed as before or made into a Potion thus Take Liquorice scraped and sliced Raisins of the Sun of each three drams Tamarinds and yellow myrobolans of each two drams boyl them in Barley and Plantane-water to three ounces in the straining infuse a dram of Rubarb thin-sliced then add an ounce of the syrrup of Roses solutive and make a potion This following is excellent in desperate fluxes Take two ounces of the bark of Guiacum bruised and beaten boyl it in a sufficient quantity of water til half be wasted then add red Rose leaves Pomgranate-flowers and Plantane-seed of each two drams let them boyl an hour then to the straining add a dram of Rubarb in powder and three drams of Catholicon for a Potion Mechoacan with Cinnamon is good If with the Dysentery there be a seaver and inflamation of the bowels let the Patient bloud according to strength sometimes vomiting is profitable to intercept those sharp salt humours that fall from the stomach to the Guts omit it not if you see a loathing and perceive the stomach stuft full of humours your vomiting may be this Take from half a dram to a dram of salt of Vitriol syrrup of Quinces and Bettony-water of each one ounce with ten drams of Cinnamon-water give it for one Dose In the mean time you must give mild and cleansing Glysters first as this made of the roots of Marsh-mallows and Butter-burr of each one handful one pugil of Camomile-flowers Fleabane-seed and Flux-seed of each two drams Boyl them in Barley-water or milk or water wherein steel or Iron hath often been quenched or mutton or sheeps-head-broath to a pinte strain it and dissolve therein the yolks of four eggs well beaten oyl of Roses and syrrup of Quinces of each one ounce and make a glyster At Sea instead of milk use the decoction of Bran boyling in it such of these following herbs as have virtue to cleanse the ulcer such as Centory Wormwood St. Johns wort to the straining of which add Turpentine dissolved in the yolk of an Egg and the chymical oyl of wax of each one dram for excoriations or fretting of the guts a glyster of the decoction of bran with Deer-suet the yolk of an egg if to be had is good you may add some Anniseed Fennel-seeds Comin-seeds and Dill-seeds when there is need of more binding then make a Glyster thus Take of the Roots of Comfrey Tormentil and Bistort of each one ounce Plantane Shepherd-Purse Knot-grass and Mouse-ear of each one handful Pumpranet-flowers Acorn-cups Cyprus-nuts of each one dram parched Rice French Barley and red Roses of each one pugil boyl them in Smiths water or water wherein Iron hath often been quenched To a pinte of the straining add of the juice of Plantane and Yarrow of each one ounce and the yolks of two roasted eggs Or instead of the juices you may use the muscilage of Gum Draganth made with Rose or Plantane-water and Goats or Deer-suet of each one dram All this while you must not forget internal remedies to stay the flux nutmegs are excellent if desperate dryed and burnt to powder Rice pottage or this Take of sealed-Earth Harts-horn prepared with Plantane and Knot-grass-water prepared Corral Crocus Martis of each one dram mix them the Dose is from a scruple to one dram in Knot-grass or plantane-Plantane-water one dram of crude Allum given in the said waters doth in a manner charm the flux Or take a pinte of syrrup of Prunes without Sugar a spoonful and half of Tormentil-root in powder boyl them a little together and drink a quarter of a pinte first and last Lastly the Body being well cleansed before make this binding Decoction to compleat the Cure Take the roots of Bistort Comfrey and Tormentil the leaves of Plantane Tarrow Shepherds purse Horse-tail Mouse-ear and Agrimony of each one handful Seeds of Sorrel Grape-stones and Sumach of each one ounce boyl them in four quarts of water till half be consumed then strain it and sweeten it with syrrup of Comfrey Quinces Mirtles dryed Roses and Corral or else make use of this following Opiat Take of Conserve of Quinces and Conserve of old Roses of each one ounce half an ounce of the Conserves of Comfrey-roots prepared Corral Dragons-bloud Bolarmenick sealed-earth Conserve of Slowes Acatia of each one dram Spodium burnt Ivory of each one scruple with as much of any of the Syrrups aforesaid as will make it to an Opiat Give thereof the quantity of a Chesnut morning noon and night Narcoticks do wonders especially if they be mixed with Strengtheners and Binders as this Take of the old Conserves of Roses and Services of each one dram half a scruple of Confectio Alkermes three granes of Laudanum make thereof a Bolus four ounces of the juice of